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State of the State address

The State of the State Address is a speech customarily given once each year by the governors of each of the states of the United States, although the terminology for this speech differs for some states: in Iowa, the speech is called the Condition of the State Address; in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia it is called the State of the Commonwealth Address. The speech is customarily delivered before both houses of the state legislature sitting in joint session, with the exception of the Nebraska Legislature, which is a unicameral body.  The speech is given to satisfy a constitutional stipulation that a governor must report annually, or in older constitutions described as being "from time to time", on the state or condition of a state. 

The potentially unclear name reflects the dual meanings of the word "state"; the first refers to the general condition of a thing, and the second refers to the political conception of a state. 

The mayor of the District of Columbia gives a State of the District address. There are also many cities in the United States in which the mayor gives a State of the City address. Some American counties have county executives give a State of the County or Parish address, though these are much more rare.

The analogous address given by the president of the United States is known as the State of the Union address.

References

 Nuquist, Andrew E. and Edith W. Nuquist. Vermont State Government and Administration. Government Research Center, The University of Vermont: 1966. Library of Congress Card Number 65-29199.
 Tarr, G. Alan. Understanding State Constitutions. Princeton University Press: 2000. .
 Wolin, Sheldon. The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1990. .

External links

A Decade of State of the State Speeches – a year-by-year analysis of Stateline’s archive of State of the State speeches from all 50 states and links to speeches, from 2002 to 2011, organized by state.

Speeches by type
Speed-dating

Speed-dating may refer to:

 Speed dating, activity
 Speed Dating, a 2007 film by Tony Herbert
 Speed-Dating, a 2010 film by Joseph A. Elmore Jr.
Private hospital

A private hospital is a hospital not owned by the government, including for-profits and non-profits. Funding is by patients themselves ("self-pay"), by insurers, or by foreign embassies. Private hospitals are commonly part, albeit in varying degrees, of the majority of healthcare systems around the world.

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom private hospitals are distinguished from National Health Service (NHS) institutions. However, many National Health Service hospitals provide some privately funded care in Private Patient Units (PPUs), and are included as private hospitals for competition law purposes. As of December 2018, there were an estimated 556 hospitals with over 9,000 beds providing privately funded care in the UK, in addition to many more private clinics providing outpatient services. Around 812,000 privately funded admissions occurred in 2017, comprising same-day treatment ("day-case") or overnight stays ("inpatient"). Of these, 714,000 took place in independent hospitals, and 97,000 in NHS facilities. Additionally, some 546,000 NHS-funded admissions were conducted at independent (private) hospitals. Privately funded care, and private hospitals, are most prevalent in London and the South East of England. In 1979 there were about 4,000 beds in UK private hospitals

United States
According to the 2014 American Hospital Association Annual Survey, there are 5,686 hospitals in the United States. Of that total, 2,904 are public hospitals, and 1,060 are private. There are a total of 795,603 staffed beds in public hospitals and 118,910 staffed beds in private hospitals. 

Public hospitals had about 33.6 million admissions annually while private hospitals had about 1.8 million admissions annually.

There are 126 hospitals in New York City aside from specialized state and Federal institutions. Of these, 32, with a total of 4,401 beds, are proprietary, or profit-making, hospitals; 75 are voluntary hospitals operated by private groups on a nonprofit basis, and 19 are municipal hospitals operated by the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation.

China
A network of 8,000 medical facilities named Putian was described in 2018 as having "little government oversight." "American financial firms like Sequoia Capital and Morgan Stanley have invested billions of dollars" in this network.

See also
 For-profit hospital
 Non-profit hospital
 Public hospital
 Walk-in clinic, also a private medical-type institution, but a much less advanced form of it.

References
Pierre Richard-Willm

Pierre Richard-Willm (3 November 1895 – 12 April 1983) was a French stage and film actor during the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography
Pierre Richard-Willm (originally Alexandre-Pierre Richard) was born in south-western France in the city of Bayonne. He was brought up at first in Barcelona and then, after the death of his mother Elisabeth-Fanny Willm, in Paris.  In 1916 he joined the army, and fought during World War I.

After the war he became a sculptor, and in 1921 he started playing bit roles on stage. In 1924 he took part of in the sculpturing art competition of the Games of the VIII Olympiad, making a group of sculptures on rugby and skating.

In 1925 he was chosen by Ida Rubinstein to appear with her in a stage production of La Dame aux camélias at the Odéon in Paris, and other leading roles at that theatre followed. His film debut came in Toute sa vie (1930, under the direction of Alberto Cavalcanti, and in 1934 he found one of his most successful film roles in Jacques Feyder's Le Grand Jeu. Throughout the 1930s he made several films each year, often appearing as military or aristocratic characters, and he became a very popular star despite feeling sometimes ill at ease with his romantic screen persona.

One of Richard-Willm's frequent co-stars was Edwige Feuillère, and it was with her that he returned to the stage in Paris and on tour in La Dame aux Camélias in 1940/41. He also continued acting in films during World War II, including the role of Edmond Dantes in Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.

In 1946 he decided to give up working in the cinema and he went to the Théâtre du Peuple in Bussang in the Vosges, a theatre with which he had maintained a close connection ever since his first visit there as a teenager in 1911. He became its artistic director from 1946 until 1971 and in numerous new productions he worked extensively on the design of sets and costumes.

In 1975 Richard-Willm published his autobiography under the title Loin des étoiles. He died in Paris, and is buried at the cemetery in Bussang.

Filmography

References

External links
 
 
 Pierre Richard-Willm website

1895 births
1983 deaths
People from Bayonne
French male film actors
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Olympic competitors in art competitions
 French theatre directors
French military personnel of World War I
Willow Tree, New South Wales

Willow Tree is a village composed of about 308 people, located in New South Wales, Australia. It is situated in the Liverpool Plains, 14 kilometres south of Quirindi near the junction of the Kamilaroi and New England Highways. The town itself is small but the farms extend southwest out to the township of Warrah. It is a service centre to the rural areas of Warrah and Mount Parry.

History
Willow Tree is located at the north-eastern corner of the enormous Warrah grant which was made out to the Australian Agricultural Company in 1833. An inn was established on the future town site, at the junction of the roads north to Quirindi and north-east to Wallabadah in the mid-19th century. It was, however, the arrival of the railway in the 1870s that led to settlement. Willow Tree Post Office opened on 1 August 1872 (though known as Warrah for a few weeks in 1877).

The village was surveyed when part of the Warrah grant was subdivided and sold in 1908.

Demographics
According to the , the village comprises 308 people, excluding impermanent residents. 
Of these, 159 (52.5%) were male and 144 (47.5%) were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 6.2% of the population.
Their median age was 46 years, compared to the national median age of 38.  Children aged under 15 years made up 16.6% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 22.2% of the population.

83.4% of people living in Willow Tree were born in Australia. The only other response for country of birth was England 1.0%.
86.3% of people only spoke English at home. The only other response for language spoken at home was Punjabi 1.0%..

The Census question about religion is optional; of the people who answered it, the most common responses were Anglican 36.7%, Catholic 20.9%, No Religion 25.1% and Uniting Church 3.5% 

53.8% of the residents over fifteen years old were in a registered marriage and 4.3% in a de facto marriage.

Education
Education is provided by  a public preschool and a public primary school, Willow Tree Public School.

Transportation
Willow Tree station is on the Main North railway line, 375 km from Sydney. The station opened in 1877 as Warrah, and was renamed Willow Tree in 1879.
It continues to be served by a daily rail service operated by a NSW TrainLink Xplorer train to and from Sydney and Armidale/Moree. The train to Armidale/Moree stops at 3:02pm and the train to Sydney stops at 12:03pm. They only stop on request.

References

External links

Towns in New England (New South Wales)
Liverpool Plains Shire
Etta

Etta may refer to:

Places in the United States
Etta, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
Etta, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
Etta, South Dakota, a ghost town
Etta, Virginia, an unincorporated community

Other uses
Etta (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, nickname or stage name
ETTA, an abbreviation for the English Table Tennis Association, now Table Tennis England

See also

 
 ETA (disambiguation)
 Ette (disambiguation)
 Etty and Etti, a surname and given name
Paulina Kernberg

Paulina F. Kernberg (January 10, 1935 – April 12, 2006) was a Chilean American child psychiatrist, an authority on personality disorders, and a professor at Cornell University.

Early life 

Kernberg was born in Santiago, Chile. She was married to Otto F. Kernberg, a professor of psychiatry at Cornell University. She earned a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Chile.

Career 
After earning her medical degree, Kernberg moved to Topeka, Kansas, where she trained in psychiatry at the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital. She became a U.S. citizen in 1968 and joined the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1969.

Kernberg's work included studies on the emotional effects of divorce, where she noted the trauma from divorce was second only to a parent's death in the perception of children involved. Following this work, she helped found a clinical program for children of divorced families at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She was the director of the Residency Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Westchester-Weill Cornell Medical Center since 1978, until her death. She was a teacher at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she was a supervising and training analyst in Psychoanalysis and Child Psychoanalysis. She authored over 100 articles and chapters in child psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and presented internationally and in multiple languages. 

Kernberg was noted for her work evaluating Elián González, the six-year-old Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle in 2000 in what quickly became an inflammatory issue among Cuban-Americans and in the United States Congress. She described and proved that children show specific patterns of behavior in the playroom and repeat certain play themes according to their diagnosis. She also developed a questionnaire that the child psychiatrist uses during an assessment interview to measure the level of personality integration in adolescents, depending on their capacity to relate to peers and friends. She developed a standardized interview that is done to the mother and child when they are in front of a mirror, and also developed a similar instrument to assess the personality integration of adolescents. Kernberg was the first who described and studied with statistical analysis the early signs of personality disorders, which she said were already present and treatable in children and adolescents.

Personal life 
She died of cancer in New York City at age 71.

See also 

 Dynamite, a children's magazine to which Kernberg contributed an advice column

References

External links 

 Video of Dr. Peter Wilson's interview of Paulina Kernberg for the History of the Department of Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital

1935 births
2006 deaths
American psychoanalysts
Chilean emigrants to the United States
Cornell University faculty
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Paul Hecht

Paul Hecht (born August 16, 1941) is an English-born Canadian stage, film, and television actor known for playing radio newsman Ross Buckingham in Howard Stern's Private Parts.

Early life and education
Born in London, England, Hecht graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963.

Career 
Hecht made his Broadway debut in 1968 in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Additional Broadway credits include 1776 (as John Dickinson), The Rothschilds, The Great God Brown, Herzl, Caesar and Cleopatra, Noises Off, and The Invention of Love. He received the Obie Award for his performance in the off-Broadway production of Enrico IV in 1989.

Hecht voiced a role in the 2010 animated film My Dog Tulip. He played Emperor Palpatine for the radio drama adaptions of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Hecht was a regular performer on Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater between 1974 and 1982.

Hecht's extensive television credits include the recurring role of Allie's ex-husband Charles on Kate & Allie, frequent guest shots on Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, As the World Turns, Starsky & Hutch, Remington Steele, Miami Vice, and Queer as Folk.

Hecht has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Allentown Symphony, at the 92nd Street Y, and performs a program of John Donne sonnets with the early music group Parthenia. He has recorded many books for Recorded Books and Audible. Hecht was president of the New York chapter of the Screen Actors Guild from 1991 to 1995.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

www.recordedbooks.com

1941 births
Audiobook narrators
English emigrants to Canada
Canadian male musical theatre actors
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from London
National Theatre School of Canada alumni
Canadian expatriates in the United States
City Academy Bristol

The City Academy Bristol is a mixed gender secondary school with Academy status, located in the Easton area of Bristol, England.

History
The school opened in September 2003. It formed part of the Labour government's scheme for schools in deprived areas, and was the first Academy in South West England.

Built on the site of St George Community College which closed in 2003, it is housed in buildings within a new £25 million complex designed by architects Fielden Clegg Bradley. The school also provides adult education to about 1,200 people.

Both the University of the West of England and Bristol City Football Club are partners with the school and helped fund the school's buildings and equipment.

The school operates a house system for pupils, with four houses: Leopards, Lions, Panthers and Tigers. The school is designated as a specialist Sports College, and runs a Performance Sport programme for netball, basketball, football, boxing and cricket.

In October 2013 One World Learning Trust, the academy's operator, was issued with a "pre-warning notice letter" by the Department for Education because the academic performance of the academy was unacceptably low.

In 2014 the school lost a racial discrimination employment tribunal case for repeatedly overlooking a black employee for promotion. Investigation showed that other black staff had been overlooked when appointing three white managers. The academy said "We are deeply sorry and extending our sense of sorrow to those involved".

During 2014 the school had two incidents of losing or failing to submit coursework required for external exams, causing pupils to have to retake a year of their education.
In March 2015 the school announced a partnership with the Cabot Learning Federation, a major operator of Academies in Bristol, after Ofsted had issued an inadequate rating in an inspection report in January 2015, and the school was placed into special measures status.

In 2016 the Cabot Learning Federation, a multi-academy trust, took over as the operator of the school. The school remained in special measures.

Following an inspection in April 2019, the school is now rated as 'Good' in all areas, with Ofsted noting that "strong leadership" had "led to rapid improvement over the past three years".

Academic achievement
The table below shows the percentage of students hitting the key measure of 5+ A*-C GCSEs including English and Mathematics.

References

External links

The City Academy Bristol - Performance Sport
The City Academy Bristol - Sports Centre

Academies in Bristol
Sports venues in Bristol
Secondary schools in Bristol
Educational institutions established in 2003
2003 establishments in England
1673 in music

The year 1673 in music involved some significant events.

Events
John Blow becomes organist of Westminster Abbey.
Agostino Steffani begins his studies in Rome under Ercole Bernabei.
Johann Michael Bach becomes organist and town clerk of Gehren.
Robert Cambert arrives in Britain.
Giovanni Maria Bononcini publishes his treatise, .
Henry Purcell is apprenticed to the organist John Hingeston.

Publications
Giovanni Maria Bononcini – Musico prattico, Op.8
Erasmus Gruber – Synopsis musica
Matthew Locke – The Present Practice of Musick

Classical music
 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Battalia à 10 chamber music
Giovanni-Battista Agneletti – Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
Heinrich Biber – Battalia à 10
Cristofaro Caresana – La Tarentella
 Marc-Antoine Charpentier 
 Ouverture et intermèdes, H.494
 Symphonie devant Regina, H.509
 Prélude, H.510
 Prélude, H.512
Agostino Guerrieri – 13 Sonatas, Op. 1
Sebastien Knüpfer – Erforsche mich, Gott (May 14)
Giovanni Legrenzi
Violin Duo and continuo
La Cetra (Op. 10), a collection of sonatas
 Matthew Locke – Melothesia
 Jean-Baptiste Lully – La pastorale comique, LWV 33

Opera
Wolfgang Carl Briegel – 
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Cadmus et Hermione
Alceste
Antonio Sartorio – Orfeo
Pietro Andrea Ziani – Marcello in Siracuse
Matthew Locke – Psyche

Births
January 30 – Marc-Antoine Legrand, lyricist (died 1728)
February 1 – Alessandro Marcello, composer (d. 1747)
April 16 – Francesco Feroci, composer (d. 1750)
June 18 – Antonio de Literes, composer of zarzuelas (died 1747)
July 25 – Santiago de Murcia, guitarist and composer (died 1739)
August 28 – Conrad Michael Schneider, composer (died 1752)
September 29 – Jacques Hotteterre, composer (d. 1763)
October 26 – Dimitrie Cantemir, composer, musicologist and polymath (d. 1723)
date unknown – Johannes Kelpius, the first Pennsylvanian composer (died 1708)

Deaths
February 2 – Kaspar Förster, composer and musician (born by 1616)
February 17 – Molière, opera librettist (born 1622)
date unknown – Lemme Rossi, music theorist

References 

 
17th century in music
Music by year
Chèvre chaud

Chèvre chaud ( means 'hot') is a French dish, consisting of Chèvre cheese served hot. It is usually made by broiling the Chèvre cheese on French bread, and is often served with a green salad, and accompanied by vinaigrette, olive oil or balsamic vinegar.

References

French cuisine
Cheese dishes
Christian Compton

Asbury Christian Compton (October 24, 1929 – April 9, 2006) was an American attorney and judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 1974 until 2000, and as a Senior justice until his death.

Compton was a native of Ashland in Hanover County, Virginia, and graduated from Ashland High School in 1946. Compton earned his B.A. in history and politics from Washington and Lee in 1950 and his LL.B. from the Washington and Lee University School of Law in 1953.  While at Washington and Lee, Compton served as president of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, class officer and captain of the basketball team. He was also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, the lacrosse team, Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, the University Glee Club and the Cotillion Club.

Compton served in the U.S. Navy from 1953 to 1956 and the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1953 to 1961. He practiced law in Richmond with May, Garrett, Miller, Newman and Compton from 1957 to 1966.

In 1966, Gov. Mills Godwin appointed Compton to the Law & Equity Court of the City of Richmond and then to the Supreme Court of Virginia in 1974. The General Assembly re-elected him to another term in 1987. He retired from the Supreme Court in February 2000 and began service as a senior justice.

Compton maintained strong ties to Washington and Lee throughout his career.  He served as president of the Alumni Association from 1972 to 1973.  He received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from his alma mater in 1975. He served member of the Board of Trustees from 1978 to 1989.  He selected most of his law clerks from the top graduates of Washington and Lee School of Law.

Compton was married to Betty Stephenson Compton for 52 years until his death.  They had three daughters—Leigh Compton Kiczales, Mary Compton Psyllos, Melissa Compton Patterson; and eight grandsons-Nicholas Kiczales, Luke Kiczales, Noah Stephenson Kiczales, Thomas Psyllos, Christian Psyllos, Daniel Patterson, James Patterson, and Henry Patterson.

Resolution of the Virginia General Assembly on the Death of A. Christian Compton

Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Virginia lawyers
United States Navy officers
1929 births
2006 deaths
Washington and Lee University School of Law alumni
Washington and Lee University alumni
People from Ashland, Virginia
Debbie Jones

Debbie Jones may refer to:

 Debbie Dingle, previously Debbie Jones, fictional character in Emmerdale
Debbie Jones, fictional character in the film Babel
Debbie Jones (athlete) (born 1958), Bermudian Olympic sprinter
Debbie Jones (civil rights activist) in Montgomery Improvement Association
Debbie Jones (curler) in 1985 H&M World Women's Curling Championship

See also
Deborah Jones (disambiguation)
Kadanwari gas field

Kadanwari Gas Field (), located in the Middle Indus Basin of Pakistan, was discovered in 1989 and is currently operated by OMV Pakistan.

OMV Pakistan took over the operator-ship of the Kadanwari Gas Processing Plant on 1 January 2003 from Lasmo, currently ENI. Kadanwari plant gas processing capacity has been enhanced to  per day at standard conditions 

Sui Southern Gas Company buys  per day of gas from this Gas Field, while it has the capacity of supplying  per day of gas. 

It has an air link to Karachi via Kadanwari Airport.

See also 
 Sawan Gas Field

Populated places in Sindh
Natural gas fields in Pakistan
Peter Nordström

Hans Peter Nordström (born July 26, 1974, in Munkfors, Sweden) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He played his last seasons for Leksands IF. He also played two games for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League during the 1998–99 season. Internationally Nordström played for the Swedish national team at five World Championships

Playing career
Nordström started his professional ice hockey career in the Swedish elite club Leksands IF in 1994. But after only one year he left Leksand IF and signed with its rivals Färjestads BK. Nordström played with Färjetad until 1998, winning the Swedish Championship in both 1997 and 1998. Then he was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft (3rd round, 78th pick overall).

In 1998 he signed with the Bruins. But after the training camp he became assigned to the AHL club Providence Bruins. After only playing 13 games with Providence and two games with Boston Nordström went back home to Sweden and Färjestad and playing the rest of the 1998–99 season there.

In 2002, he won his third Swedish championship with Färjestad. In 2006, he won his fourth championship, also with Färjestad.

Retirement
On May 26, 2011, Nordström announced his retirement from hockey due to injuries and said he intends to become a coach.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

International play

Nordström represented Sweden at five World Championships: 1998 (gold), 1999 (bronze), 2000 (7th place), 2003 (silver) and 2005 (4 place).

References

1974 births
Boston Bruins draft picks
Boston Bruins players
Färjestad BK players
Leksands IF players
Living people
People from Munkfors Municipality
Providence Bruins players
Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Swedish ice hockey left wingers
Sportspeople from Värmland County
Falko Zandstra

Falko Zandstra (born 27 December 1971) is a former Dutch speed skater. Because of his thin legs he was also called de Gespierde Spijker which translates to the Muscular Nail.

Biography
Zandstra was born in Heerenveen, Friesland. He was a natural talent who had his career peak at a very young age. In 1990 and 1991 he became junior world champion. In 1991 he won with a world record in the small combination. In his international debut year 1992 he became European Champion Allround and finished second in the World Allround Championships, after Roberto Sighel. In that season he also won the World Cup at the 1500 meters and a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in the 5000 meters. A year later, in 1993 he became World champion and European champion again.

From 1994 on, his career went downwards. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he won the bronze medal in the 1500 meters and finished fourth in the 5000 and 10000 meters. He also won the 1500 meters World Cup again. In 1995 he finished second in the European championships. At the World championships that year, he fell during the 1500 meters when he threw his arm band (which is used to indicate in which lane a skater has started) over his own skate. Because of this he didn't qualify for the 10,000 meters.

For 49 days, from 23 January until 13 March 1993, Falko Zandstra was the leader in the Adelskalender.

After his career, Zandstra switched to marathon skating with little success and he quit skating in 1999. Today he runs his own company in roof and wall plating called Falko Dak & Wand in Heerenveen. He is married to former Dutch speed skater Ellen Linnenbank.

World records
In the course of his career, Zandstra skated nine world records, of which six were junior world records:

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Personal records 

Source: www.isu.org

Tournament overview

 DNQ = Did not qualify for the final event
 NC = No classification
source:

Medals won

References

External links
 Falko Zandstra at SpeedSkatingStats.com
 Website of Falko Zandstra's company

1971 births
Dutch male speed skaters
Living people
Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Heerenveen
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Medalists at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Dutch speed skating coaches
Dutch sports coaches
21st-century Dutch people
20th-century Dutch people
Levent Kazak

Levent Kazak (born 5 May 1967) is a Turkish screenwriter and actor.

Biography
Levent Kazak was born in Ankara in 1967. He finished Beşiktaş Atatürk High School in 1985. He studied at several universities such as Boğaziçi University (English Language and Literature Department), Mimar Sinan University (Painting Department, Sculpture Department and the Department of Theater Decoration and Costume), Marmara University Conservatory (Theater Department) and Istanbul University (Italian Language and Literature Department and Greek Language and Literature Department). In 1986, Kazak began performing in theater professionally. He has performed on over thirty stages with famous actors like Altan Erbulak, Ali Poyrazoğlu, Alpay İzer, Bülent Kayabaş, Savaş Dinçel and İsmet Ay. In addition, Kazak has written scenarios, translated and adapted scripts. In 1989, he prepared a TV drama “Kim Bunlar” with Peker Açıkalın, Nilüfer Açıkalın, Pelinsu Pir, and Levent Tülek. Kazak has also written scenarios for Children’s theaters and TV programs. In 2000, he wrote scenarios for films such as “O Şimdi Asker” (2000), “Neredesin Firuze” (2002) and “O Şimdi Mahkum” (2003). In 2005, Kazak wrote scenario for the film “Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü”. He won the best scenarist with this film in the 13th Altın Koza Film Festival. Kazak is one of the founders of the Senaryo Stüdyosu.

Works
Films as a screenwriter
 O Şimdi Asker, 2003 
 Neredesin Firuze, 2004 
 O Şimdi Mahkum, 2005 
 Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü, 2006

Films as an actor
 Yolun Sonundaki Karanlık, 1985 
 Hemşo, 1999 
 O Şimdi Asker, 2002 
 O Şimdi Mahkum, 2003 
 Hacivat Karagöz Neden Öldürüldü, 2005

Theater as an actor / screenwriter / translator
 Aş Bunları Aş, 1985 
 Hamam (Steaming), 1987 
 Hoşçakal İstanbul, 1988 
 Seçimler, 1989 
 Dünyalar, 1990 
 Sevimli Hayalet Pufidik 
 Babam 9 Doğurdu, 1991 
 Çehov Yalta′da, 1992 
 Kelebekler Özgürdür, 1993 
 Çılgınlar Klübü, 1990

TV dramas as an actor / scenarist / director
 Kim Bunlar TRT, 1988 
 Bol Bol Futbol TRT, 1990 
 Gülen Ayva Ağlayan Nar Star, 1992

External links 
 

1967 births
Living people
Turkish people of Circassian descent
Turkish male screenwriters
Best Screenplay Golden Boll Award winners
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male stage actors
Turkish male television actors
Male actors from Ankara
Boğaziçi University alumni
S.C.I.F.I. World

S.C.I.F.I. World was a daytime programming schedule for the Sci Fi Channel that started on July 17, 2000 and ended on December 21, 2001. It aired reruns of science fiction series blocked in mini-marathons through the week.

Format
Divided into five different segments in accordance with the days of the week, each day centred on a particular science fiction theme, which the marathons followed, airing from 10 AM to 4 PM. These themes were named in such a way that, when assembled, they formed an acronym matching the SCI FI of the channel's name.

Superhero Land, which, on Mondays focused on superheroes featuring marathons of such shows as Batman, The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, and The Incredible Hulk. The first marathon aired thereon was The Six Million Dollar Man.
Creature Land, which, on Tuesdays focused primarily on monsters, otherworldly, nonhumanoid or otherwise, that included marathons of such shows as Land of the Giants, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Earth 2, and SeaQuest DSV. The first marathon aired thereon was of The Incredible Hulk.
Intergalactic Land, which centred attention towards space-driven shows as Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek, and Lost in Space. The first marathon aired thereon was of the original Battlestar Galactica. These shows were seen on Wednesdays.
Fantastic Land, which deviated from the usual science-fiction focus unto more fantasy-based shows like Night Gallery, Otherworld, and Darkroom. The first marathon aired thereon was of Quantum Leap. These shows could be seen on Thursdays.
Inhuman Land, akin to Creatureland's theme, every Friday focused on monsters but more along the lines of  a conspiratorial scope and concerned the humanoid kind as was depicted in an animation of Carl Kolchak trying to evade a werewolf in the shadowy alleys of Inhumanland. Shows aired included Dark Skies, Alien Nation, and Something is Out There. The first marathon aired thereon was of Manimal.

To reinforce this novelty, the programming schedule was advertised by way of animations depicting it as a theme-park which various science-fiction characters such as James T. Kirk, Duncan MacLeod, and RoboCop inhabited. Aside from this, graphic teasers, trivia, and on-air questions were aired to amuse and inform the viewer and promote the SciFi.com website.

List of S.C.I.F.I. World shows

Superhero Land Mondays

Creature Land Tuesdays

Intergalactic Land Wednesdays

Fantastic Land Thursdays

Inhuman Land Fridays

Reception and influence
Despite criticisms made by viewers in favour of reverting to a more varied programming schedule, this format of airing marathons five times a week continues to this very day although, since then, S.C.I.F.I. World has ceased to be as is much of Sci Fi Channel's second-run programming.

See also
 Cartoon Quest
 The Animation Station

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2000 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
Television programming blocks in the United States
Syfy original programming
Colin Jones (artist)

Colin Herbert Beyne Jones (1928–1967) was a Welsh artist who was 38 years old when he died.
 
Jones was born in Newport, South Wales and studied for an Art Teachers’ Diploma at Cardiff School of Art. He became part of the Merthyr Tydfil art scene. He was described by Professor Tony Curtis as one of the most promising artists of his generation. A decade before his death he converted to Catholicism; he was deeply proud of his Welsh roots and was a passionate Francophile. These three facets of his life were major influences in his work.

Most well known as a painter, his bold, arguably brutal depictions of the South Wales valleys are his most powerful legacy.  ‘Pithead Funeral’, a response to the Aberfan disaster that affected him so deeply, stands out amongst his work together with 'Fallen Figure'.  Also the series of miner’s paintings produced following the week he spent sketching underground in a Welsh coal mine.  In sharp contrast are the paintings and drawings produced as a result of the considerable time he spent in the Languedoc region of France.

Four of his paintings are in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Wales. Other examples of his work are held by Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea's Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Cardiff and Aberystwyth Universities and Liverpool Museum.

His pictures have been widely exhibited throughout England and Wales both during his lifetime and also in recent years (see artist's website).

References

External links
 Jones's estate

1928 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Welsh painters
20th-century British male artists
Welsh male painters
20th-century Welsh male artists
Royal Calcutta Golf Club

Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC) in Kolkata, India was  established in 1829 and is the oldest golf club in India and the first outside Great Britain.

RCGC has an 18-hole golf course with the following detail:  
Yardage: 7195/6871
Par: 72
Rating: 73.6/72.1
Mostly flat terrain, with many natural water hazards with water lilies and largish greens.

The Royal Calcutta Golf Club is the oldest golf club outside the United Kingdom. The oldest club outside Scotland is the Royal Blackheath Golf Club in London, established in 1766.

King George V and Queen Mary conferred the title "Royal" to the Club to commemorate their visit to Calcutta in 1911. Apart from golf, it offers tennis courts and a swimming pool. The Club also maintains a Lawn Bowls Pavilion in the Kolkata Maidan.

The golf course is a green oasis in the city, and is home to foxes, snakes and mongoose as well as many birds.

Shiv Chawrasia is a member, his father was a greenkeeper and he started out as a caddie, but he currently plays on the European Tour.

Scorecard

See also
 List of golf clubs granted Royal status
 List of India's gentlemen's clubs

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Sport in Kolkata
Golf clubs and courses in India
Sports clubs and teams in Kolkata
Sports clubs and teams established in the 1820s
1829 establishments in India
Royal golf clubs
Organisations based in India with royal patronage
Mikael Johansson (ice hockey, born 1985)

Mikael Johansson (born June 27, 1985) is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre, currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played under contract with the SCL Tigers of the Swiss National League (NL). He was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 9th round (289th overall) of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career 
Johansson came through the youth ranks of Arvika HC. During the 2004–05 season, he played his first minutes in the Swedish second division HockeyAllsvenskan with Bofors IK and made his debut with Färjestad BK in the top-flight Swedish Hockey League (SHL) one year later. He spent eight years with the club, winning the Swedish championship three times (2006, 2009, 2011), interrupted by a stint with Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League in 2009-10 after signing with NHL's Montreal Canadiens who sent him to their AHL affiliate.

Johannson signed with fellow SHL side Leksands IF for the 2013–14 season, followed by one season in Switzerland with NLA club Rapperswil-Jona. He then returned to Färjestad BK in 2015.

In May 2016, he agreed to terms with HC Lada Togliatti of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Career statistics

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1985 births
Arvika HC players
BIK Karlskoga players
Brynäs IF players
Detroit Red Wings draft picks
Dizel Penza players
Färjestad BK players
Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players
HC Davos players
HC Lada Togliatti players
HIFK (ice hockey) players
Leksands IF players
Living people
People from Arvika Municipality
SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers players
SCL Tigers players
Swedish ice hockey left wingers
Sportspeople from Värmland County
Pradeep Jayaprakashdaran

Pradeep Sri Jayaprakashdaran (born 13 January 1984) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer from the city of Colombo.

School times
Educated at the Royal College, Colombohe played in the Royal–Thomian and went on to play club level for the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club.

International career
He has played one One Day International, against India in the group stage of the 2005 Indian Oil Cup.

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Sri Lanka One Day International cricketers
Sri Lankan Tamil sportspeople
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club cricketers
Living people
1984 births
Tollygunge Club

The Tollygunge Club (Bengali: টালিগঞ্জ ক্লাব), popularly called Tolly Club, is a country club in India, located in Tollygunge in south Kolkata.

Sir William Cruikshank established the club as an equestrian sports facility in 1895 to "promote all manner of sports". It is spread over , with a clubhouse that is over 200 years old.

History

The extensive grounds of the club were originally an indigo plantation laid out in 1781 by the Johnson family, who were amongst the pioneers of the plantation industry in India.

Later the grounds were to become a royal park at the heart of the princely estate established by the exiled family of Tipu Sultan, the deposed ruler of Mysore and the house which the Johnsons had built as their home became the garden house of the new Mysore Estate.

In 1895, the entire property was acquired from the Mysore family by the Tollygunge Club Limited and the old Johnson home is today the club's clubhouse.

Natural surroundings

The club grounds boast an enviable collection of flowering trees and tropical plants, many of which have been brought from far afield as Australia and South America. These provide a natural sanctuary for a variety of exotic birds. Birds & Trees of Tolly, written by Kushal Mookherjee, explores these in greater detail.

Facilities

Sporting Facilities

 Golf - 18 holes, par 70, .
 Squash - 4 glass backed indoor courts.
 Tennis - 4 clay courts; 2 hard courts (all outdoor).
 Swimming - 1 Covered pool; 1 outdoor pool; 1 outdoor Jacuzzi
 Riding - Horses and children's ponies available. Riding classes are conducted twice a day.
 Billiards - 2 tables. Also, 1 pool table.
 Health Club - Health and fitness centre with sauna and steam bath.

Other Facilities

 Bar & Catering - Airconditioned and Outdoor Bars. Indian, Chinese and Continental Cuisine.
 Bridge - Regular Bridge sessions in Bridge Room.
 Cyber Cafe, Conferencing and Banqueting facilities.
 Transcend at the Tolly - A salon in collaboration with L'Oréal Professional, Paris.
 Ayurvedic Spa
 Accommodation - 70 Air-conditioned double suites in Grand Stand, Tolly Towers & Tolly Terrace.
 Food & Beverages - 4 restaurants, 5 bars, Wills Lounge, 3 banquet halls, Kwality Walls ice-cream parlour.
 Spencers Convenience store

See also 
 List of India's gentlemen's clubs

External links
Golf courses in India
The Tollygunge Club

Sport in Kolkata
Golf clubs and courses in India
1895 establishments in India
Sports venues completed in 1895
Brest FEZ

The Brest Free Economic Zone was created in Brest, the gateway city at the border of Belarus and Poland in 1996. It has been a crossroads for trade and transit for centuries. Now it is a primary transit hub in Belarus. The Brest Free Economic Zone covers the total area of 71 km2, comprising 3 big sites. The biggest site is located in a northern suburb of Brest, bordered by Poland to the west. The site is intersected by a motorway with heavy freight traffic from Europe to Russia. Here the border crossing  “Kozlovichi-Kukuryki”, the biggest crossing point at the border of  the EU and the CIS, is handling exclusively freight traffic day and night.  An international airport handles and services even heavy aircraft.  
Trains are transferred to the European gauge rails in Brest.   
There is a river port in Brest, and the cargoes reloaded here onto river vessels can travel further on along the waterway that includes the Dnieper-Bug Canal, as far as the Black Sea ports.

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Brest FEZ

Economy of Belarus
Free economic zones of Belarus
Bellata

Bellata (postcode 2397) is a small village in north-central New South Wales, Australia, in Narrabri Shire. At the , Bellata had a population of 529. The place name Bellata could be derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning "kangaroo" or possibly "home of belar trees".

Overview 
It is  north of Narrabri, around halfway between Narrabri and Moree when travelling along the Newell Highway. The village's area is known for its array of mineral deposits, and fossickers will find high quality agate, jasper, carnelian, petrified opal and petrified wood in the vicinity. Located on the rich black soil basalt plains of north western New South Wales, it is an important agricultural region and the area is known for some of the best "primehard" wheat production in Australia. There is a large array of grain storage and handling facilities in the town.

Buildings
A turn-of-the-century, two-storey colonial style hotel, the Nandewar Inn Hotel, constructed in 1902, was a well-loved local landmark until it was destroyed by fire in April 2006. Once a thriving rural center, Bellata, in the early to mid-20th century, boasted a post office, two general stores, two stock and station agencies, two garages, a café, a telephone exchange, a fully operational railway station with a station master and a doctor. Bellata still has a road house, a police station, primary school, nine-hole sand green golf course and Golf Club, tennis courts, Anglican and Catholic churches, a memorial hall where movies were once shown, caravan park and several community groups.

Woolabra Post Office opened on 1 September 1899 and was renamed Bellata in 1909.

Railway station 
Bellata railway station is situated on the Mungindi line,  from Sydney. The station opened in 1897 as Woolabra however was renamed Bellata in 1909. It consists of a platform and unstaffed basic passenger waiting shed, and is currently served by a single daily Xplorer diesel railmotor between Moree and Sydney in the morning and by another Xplorer heading in the opposite direction to Moree in the evening.

The station is optional, and sometimes trains do not stop at it.

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Towns in New South Wales
Newell Highway
Narrabri Shire
Mañjuśrīmitra

Mañjuśrīmitra (d. 740 CE) () was an Indian Buddhist scholar. He became the main student of Garab Dorje and a teacher of Dzogchen.

Nomenclature and etymology
Mañjuśrī-mitra was his ordination-name—before ordination he was named "Siddhi-garbha" and "Samvara-garbha" His mother's name was Kuhanā.

Birth and early life
The exact location of Mañjuśrīmitra's birth is unknown. Mañjuśrīmitra, the son of an upper class Brahmin from a village to the west of Bodh Gaya, was initially schooled at home. Later he was a resident at Nalanda University where he became a respected Yogācāra scholar and practitioner.

Works
Many of Mañjuśrīmitra's works deal with a tantric text Mañjuśrīnāmasamgīti.

He was the person who divided the Dzogchen teachings into three series of Semde, Longdé and Manngagde.

In the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition, Mañjuśrīmitra is held to have transmitted the Dzogchen teachings to Sri Singha. The "Six Meditation Experiences" (Tibetan: Gomnyam Drukpa) concealed in a jewelled casket was Mañjuśrīmitra's "quintessential testament" to Sri Singha, his principal disciple.

One of the main works of Mañjuśrīmitra is Gold refined from ore.

Manjushrimitra discusses the Mindstream (Sanskrit: citta-santana) in the Bodhicittabhavana, a seminal early text of Ati Yoga:  "The mental-continuum (citta-santana) is without boundaries or extension; it is not one thing, nor supported by anything."  In this work, Manjushrimistra counters and tempers the Madhyamaka of Nagarjuna into what developed into the Mindstream Doctrine.  Manjushrimitra makes it clear that intellectualism, philosophy and logic do not lead to realization and that "Those who seek the Truth must turn to direct yogic experience, should they hope to acquire realization."

Vajranatha (2007) contextualises Manjushrimitra and mentions Dzogchen, Chittamatra, Yogachara, Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma, and Garab Dorje:

See also
 Padmasambhava
 Vimalamitra

Notes

References
 

Dzogchen lamas
Nyingma lamas
Tibetan Buddhists from India
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Indian Buddhists
Tuyoq valley

Tuyoq or Tuyugou or Tuyuk (; ) is an ancient oasis-village in the Taklamakan desert, 70 km  east of Turpan in Shanshan County in a lush valley cutting into the Flaming Mountains, with a well preserved old Uyghur style village, and few tourists. It is famous for its seedless grapes and a number of ancient Buddhist grottoes meditation caves nearby containing Buddhist murals and frescos.

Footnotes

References
 Bonavia, Judy (2004). The Silk Road: Xi'an to Kashgar. Revised by Christoph Baumer. Odyssey Guides. Hong Kong. .

Oases of China
Turpan
Villages in China
Calcutta South Club

Calcutta South Club is a historic lawn tennis club and tennis training centre in Kolkata, India. The Club is on Woodburn Park Road beside Woodburn Park, located adjacent to the Bhawanipur Education Society College.

History
The Club was established in 1920 to provide a tennis venue for all communities within the city. In 1959, it was made into a Ltd. company where the members are its shareholders. In addition to its six historic grass (lawn) courts, over time the Club added six clay (1985) and five asphalt-based rubberized courts (2004), making it one of the few clubs worldwide providing all three surfaces for play. 

The club is known as "the cradle of the game (lawn tennis) in the country (India)," as it nurtured many talents, including Dilip Bose, Jaidip Mukherjee, Premjit Lal, Naresh Kumar, Akhtar Ali, Zeeshan Ali, Leander Paes, and Syed Fazaluddin, all of whom were Davis Cup players for the country of India.

The first National Lawn Tennis Championships of India was held at the Club in 1946, and was won by Dilip Bose.

Notable tournaments
 East India Championships
 Indian International Championships
 National Lawn Tennis Championships of India

References
Cited sources

Further reading
 

Sport in Kolkata
Clubs and societies in India
1920 establishments in India