title: Tony Laubach

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<mask> is an American storm chaser and meteorologist. He has participated in several field research projects and is one of the surviving members of TWISTEX. He has been contracted as a severe weather photojournalist for various major television networks, and has starred in several television shows, including Seasons 3 through 5 of Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel. <mask> is a field Meteorologist and storm chaser for AccuWeather. <mask> made his debut on the network on June 7, 2021 after witnessing a tornado from their new house the day they closed. On August 9 in northern Illinois, Laubach aired the Sycamore, IL tornado live on the network in the middle of a tornado outbreak. <mask> was the weekend morning meteorologist and storm chaser for KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas.He joined the team on March 19, 2018 and debuted on-air a week later on March 25. Three years later on March 25, 2021, <mask> announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving KAKE with his last day being May 2. Prior to KAKE, <mask> worked for nearly five years as a meteorologist and the "Weather Warrior" for WSIL-TV in Carterville, Illinois. He worked at WSIL from July 31, 2013 until March 11, 2018. Prior to that, <mask> was the primary storm chaser and a weather producer at KMGH, 7News in Denver, Colorado. At WSIL, <mask> created and produced a nine-part segment that aired every Wednesday from May 3 to July 8, 2015 called "Weather Warrior Wednesday". This weekly package detailed his storm chasing, and he produced it from the field.He did a second season of the "Weather Warrior" segment in 2016, which aired from May 4 to July 13, and featured eight packages and two narratives. In August 2016, <mask> debuted as a broadcast meteorologist, filling in to do weathercasts on weekend mornings. He was promoted to full-time weekend mornings starting on September 3, 2017. He created another storm chasing segment called "Storm Story Sunday", which featured highlights of his storm-chasing career and aired every Sunday for his tenure as the full-time weekend meteorologist. His final "Storm Story Sunday" aired on March 4, 2018 and included his official announcement that he was leaving WSIL to pursue his career in Kansas. <mask> was the contributing producer, a videographers, and featured talent in KMGH 7News's 2011 television news special, "Tracking Twisters". The special was named "Best Single Program Including News Magazine Programs" in 2011 by the Colorado Broadcast Association, and received a 2012 regional Emmy award from the National Television Academy Heartland Chapter for "Magazine Program/Weather Program".<mask>'s images and footage have been used by networks and programs including CNN, ABC News, Good Morning America, Fox News, The Weather Channel, The National Geographic Channel, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel, Associated Press, Univision, Women's Entertainment, and local media news outlets nationwide. In July 2017, The Scioto Post named <mask> as the 10th most famous person from Pickaway County, Ohio, owing to his well publicized storm-chasing career. Education
Prior to college, he graduated high school in 1999 from John F Kennedy High School in Denver, Colorado after relocating from Ohio where he attended Circleville High School in Circleville, Ohio. In 2016 he earned a Master's of Science in Professional Media and Media Management Studies, with a concentration in New Media and Journalism, from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. In 2009, he earned a Bachelor's of Science in Meteorology and Technical Communications, with a minor in Mathematics and a concentration in Interactive Media, from Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado. Storm chase career
<mask>'s first chase was in May 1997 where he documented a small tornado near Clarksburg, Ohio. After moving to Colorado, he began his professional career in 2002 and has since been featured on several television specials, with his video work appearing nationally across various major networks.From 2007 through 2011, <mask> was a permanent participant in the field research project TWISTEX, headed up by engineer Tim Samaras. He was in charge of operations in a mesonet vehicle, taking measurements of RFD in supercell and tornado-producing storms. From 2009 through 2011, he was part featured on Storm Chasers. In 2008, <mask> took part in the filming of shows for the National Geographic Channel and Women's Entertainment, both shows airing in early/mid-2009. In 2011, he was part of the filming for the KMGH special "Tracking Twisters", airing in July 2011. On May 24, 2011, Laubach saw his 200th career tornado in Fairview, Oklahoma. In 2012, he returned to solo chasing.On May 31, 2013, Laubach documented the largest tornado on record near El Reno, Oklahoma. That tornado took the lives of his fellow TWISTEX teammates Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young of South Lake Tahoe, California. Laubach escaped the storm by less than a minute early in its life-cycle as it was quickly growing to its record width and was three miles south of his TWISTEX teammates when the storm struck them. On May 24, 2016, near Dodge City, Kansas, Laubach saw his 300th career tornado. On August 8, 2021, <mask> broke his Iowa curse, documenting his first confirmed tornado in the state of his career. On August 16, 2021, Laubach chased his first tropical storm, Fred in Florida. Two weeks later on August 29, he chased his first hurricane, Category 4 Ida, in Louisiana.Credited television appearances
Twister Sisters - Episode 6, Women's Entertainment (aired January 15, 2009)
Disaster Labs - "Into the Tornado", National Geographic Channel (aired May 14, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 13, "Storm Catchers", Discovery Channel (aired October 18, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 14, "Bigger In Texas", Discovery Channel (aired October 25, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 16, "Inside The Tornado", Discovery Channel (aired November 8, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 17, "Not In Kansas Anymore", Discovery Channel (aired November 15, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 19, "Sean Casey At The Bat", Discovery Channel (aired November 29, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 20, "EF-3 Strikes You're Out", Discovery Channel (aired November 29, 2009)
Storm Chasers - Ep.21, "What Goes Around", Discovery Channel (aired October 13, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Storm Chasers 2010 Greatest Storms, Discovery Channel (aired October 14, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 22, "Why We Chase", Discovery Channel (aired October 20, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 24, "Dedication", Discovery Channel (aired November 3, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 25, "Smoke Monster", Discovery Channel (aired November 10, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 26, "Perfect Storm", Discovery Channel (aired November 17, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 27, "Twilight Zone", Discovery Channel (aired November 24, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Ep. 28, "Judgment Day", Discovery Channel (aired December 1, 2010)
Storm Chasers - Behind The Storms, Discovery Channel (aired December 8, 2010)
"Tracking Twisters" - KMGH ABC 7News (aired July 31, 2011), also credited as photographer
Storm Stories, The Next Chapter - Ep.1, "Twin Twisters", The Weather Channel (aired August 8, 2019)

Laubach was featured in the opening credits of Storm Chasers in season 5, but never appeared in an episode. Awards
Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) First Place, 2019 "Weathercast: Severe Weather Alert Day" (won with Meteorologists Jay Prater and Cat Taylor)
National Television Academy Heartland Chapter Regional Emmy Nomination, 2019 "Talent, Weather Anchor"
National Television Academy Heartland Chapter Regional Emmy Award, 2012 "Magazine Program/Weather Program" for "Tracking Twisters" (contributing producer/videographer/featured talent)
Colorado Broadcast Association, 2011 "Best Single Program Including News Magazine Programs" for "Tracking Twisters" (contributing producer/videographer/featured talent)
Weatherwise, 2012 photo contest, third prize, for "The sun sets through a supercell featuring arc clouds and a banded underside of an anvil cloud, photographed near Tryon, Nebraska, on August 17, 2011". Weatherwise, 2012 photo contest, honorable mention, for "The sun sets at the end of a stormy day near Pratt, Kansas, on May 20, 2011"
303 Magazine, 2009 "Odd Job of the Year" Award

Academic publications
2012/03/01 - Continuous Upper Air Profiling Near an EF3 Tornado
2008/10/27 - TWISTEX 2008: In situ and mobile mesonet observations of tornadoeshttp://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/141974.pdf

References

External links
 <mask>'s Facebook page

Storm chasers
American meteorologists
Amateur radio people
1980 births
Living people
People from Oxnard, California
People from Jackson County, Illinois
People from Carterville, Illinois

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title: Bonnie Pink

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, known by her stage name <mask>, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. She writes and composes all her songs, and plays guitar and piano. Asada has said that the name <mask> is random and has no special meaning; she chose it because it was easy to remember and because she thought the words were cute together. Aside from her native Japanese, she is also fluent in speaking English, Korean and Chinese. History
<mask> debuted in 1995 with the single "Orenji", under her real name, Asada Kaori. Her first album, Blue Jam, was released that same year under the Pony Canyon record label. She described it as a "mixture of bitter honey, blues music, momentary silence, irresistible madness, teardrops, sour grapes, hopeful bombs, big big love, and a few green apples" in the jacket.It introduced her unique style of music that has been defined as an off-beat mix between jazz, blues, pop, and rock. The next year she met Tore Johansson, Swedish producer for The Cardigans, who became her good friend and produced much of her work. The song "It's Gonna Rain!" was the fifth ending of the popular Rurouni Kenshin anime. She wrote her third album, Evil & Flowers (1998), while in isolation in the Swedish countryside. She hoped to find inspiration there, but became depressed. She put her feelings of frustration into the songs.She went to New York alone to take a vacation and to study music after having released her third album in 1998. She went back in 1999 and contracted with Warner Music Japan. Let Go
On her fourth album, Let Go, she worked with Mitchell Froom, New York producer of Elvis Costello, Cibo Matto, and Suzanne Vega. He gave her co-production credit for the album because he was so impressed with her. Her fifth album, Just a Girl, came out in 2001. The next year she collaborated with other artists and released Re-Pink, a remix album. Present came out in 2003 and Even So in 2004.Golden Tears, which features the single "So Wonderful", came out in 2005, and she performed at SXSW that same year as part of Japan Nite. Love is Bubble
<mask> released a new single "Love is Bubble" in May 2006. Her June 2006 single "A Perfect Sky", featured in an Anessa makeup commercial with popular model Yuri Ebihara, reached number 2 on the Oricon singles charts, making it the most successful single in <mask>'s career. Her "best of" album sold out quickly on Amazon Japan and reached number two on the Oricon charts and continued to chart in the top 30 becoming one of the top selling albums of the year. In November 2006, she was featured in M-Flo's single "Love Song". The single was a hit for both M-Flo and <mask>, and debuted at number 7 on the Oricon charts, which is a big leap from M-Flo's previous singles and gained <mask> another top 10 single. So Wonderful
Her song "Cotton Candy" was used as the ending theme for the anime Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor in 2005, and "Love is Bubble" was the theme song for the Japanese movie Memories of Matsuko, in which she also featured.Her single "Last Kiss", which appears as the last song on her greatest hits album, was the ending theme to the popular Gantz anime. Anything for you
<mask>'s single "Anything for You", although not as successful as "A Perfect Sky", still reached number 9 on the Oricon charts, achieving moderate success. <mask>, shortly after releasing her previous single, began performing on popular TV music shows and promoting her latest single, "Water Me", which was the theme song for the popular TV drama Watashitachi no Kyōkasho ("Our Textbooks") a dark, melancholy drama about a young girl's suicide and the effect on her school. The single "Water Me" reached number 6 on Oricon on its release date and number 8 on the weekly charts. On 7 July 2007, <mask> performed at Live Earth in Kyoto. Thinking Out Loud
<mask>'s album Thinking Out Loud was released on 25 July 2007, her first album to be sold in both CD and CD+DVD formats. The first press of both editions came with an access ticket containing the AD/Password to reserve tickets for her tour, "Bonnie Pink Tour 2007 'Thinking Out Loud' Final at Nippon Budokan" on a special designated website.The CD pre-orders made the album number 1 on the Amazon.com Japan Top Sellers. The album debuted at number 4 on the Oricon Daily Charts and number 5 on the weekly charts selling approximately 53,605 copies. As of 5 September 2007, her album had sold approximately 90,000 copies. <mask> was on her "Thinking Out Loud Tour" from late 2007 to early 2008. I and Ai
In April 2008, <mask> made a guest performances for Domoto Tsuyoshi's solo project 244 Endli-x album I and Ai. She was featured on the last track, "Say Anything", which she wrote the lyrics to with Domoto. Ring a Bell
The English version of <mask>'s single "Ring a Bell" is only available through digital download."Ring a Bell" was used as the theme song for the American release of the Xbox 360 game Tales of Vesperia. The single was released in Japan and America on iTunes to celebrate <mask>'s 35th birthday. Its Japanese counterpart, "Kane o Narashite", was released on 6 August 2008. <mask>'s thirtieth single, "Joy / Happy Ending", was released on 8 April 2009. One, her 10th studio album, followed on 13 May 2009. Discography

 Blue Jam (1995)
 Heaven's Kitchen (1997)
 Evil and Flowers (1998)
 Let Go (2000)
 Just a Girl (2001)
 Present (2003)
 Even So (2004)
 Golden Tears (2005)
 Thinking Out Loud (2007)
 One (2009)
 Dear Diary (2010)
 Chasing Hope (2012)

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Pony Canyon artists
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title: Ding Liren

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<mask> (born 24 October 1992) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. He is the highest rated Chinese chess player in history and is also a three-time Chinese Chess Champion. He was the winner of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, beating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the finals and winning the 2019 Sinquefield Cup, as the first player since 2007 to beat Magnus Carlsen in a playoff. <mask> is the first Chinese player ever to play in a Candidates Tournament and pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE world rankings. In July 2016, with a Blitz rating of 2875, he was the highest rated Blitz player in the world. <mask> was undefeated in classical chess from August 2017 to November 2018, recording 29 victories and 71 draws. This 100-game unbeaten streak was the longest in top-level chess history, until Magnus Carlsen surpassed it in 2019.Education
<mask> attended Chant Garden Elementary School and is a graduate of Zhejiang Wenzhou High School and Peking University Law School. <mask> is a three-time Chinese Chess Champion (2009, 2011, 2012) and has represented China at all four Chess Olympiads from 2012 to 2018, winning team gold medals in 2014 and 2018 and individual bronze and gold medals in 2014 and 2018 respectively. He also won team gold and individual silver at the World Team Championships in 2015. In August 2015, he became the second Chinese player after Wang Yue to break into the top 10 of the FIDE world rankings. In July 2016, with a Blitz rating of 2875, he was the highest rated Blitz player in the world. In September 2017, he became the first Chinese player to qualify for a Candidates Tournament, the penultimate stage in the World Championship. At the Candidates Tournament 2018 he placed clear 4th with +1−0=13, the only candidate without a loss at the event.In September 2018, <mask> became the first Chinese player to pass the 2800 Elo mark on the FIDE world rankings, and in November he reached a rating of 2816, the joint-tenth highest rating in history. In August 2019, he won the Sinquefield Cup 2019 with 2 wins and 9 draws, beating reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the playoffs. In October of the same year, <mask> qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2020–21 by finishing 2nd place in the World Cup for the second time in a row. However, he had a poor start to the Candidates tournament, and finished in a tie for 5th and 6th. Along with Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian, he was a 2019 Grand Chess Tour finalist. <mask> went on to win the Grand Chess Tour final, beating Aronian in the semifinals and Vachier-Lagrave in the finals, becoming the 2019 Grand Chess Tour Champion. April 2011: Chinese Individual Championship in Xinghua, Jiangsu, 1st with 9/11
Chess World Cup 2011: knocked out by Wesley So
April 2012: Chinese Individual Championship in Xinghua, Jiangsu, 1st with 8/11
October 2012: SPICE Cup in St. Louis, tied for 2nd with 5½/10
In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May, Liren finished ninth, with +1−3=5.March - April 2017: Won the Longgang Shenzhen Grandmaster Tournament. May 2017: Won the Moscow Grand Prix with 6/9
September 2017: Reached the final of the 2017 Chess World Cup. This qualified him for the Candidates Tournament, the first Chinese player to do so. He subsequently lost on tiebreak in the final to Levon Aronian. March 2018: Candidates Tournament 2018, Berlin. Placed clear 4th with +1−0=13, the only candidate without a loss at the event. April 2018: Shamkir Chess 2018, finished 2nd with 5½/9 (+2–0=7).August 2019: He finished second place in the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz event with a score of 21½/36. The second place was tied and shared with Yu Yangyi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. August 2019: <mask> <mask> won the 2019 Sinquefield Cup by beating Magnus Carlsen in both blitz tiebreak games after drawing both rapid tiebreak games; both <mask> and Carlsen scored 6½/11 (+2–0=9) in the classical games. December 2019: <mask> <mask> won the Grand Chess Tour Finals by beating Levon Aronian in the semifinals and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the finals. March 2020 and April 2021: <mask> <mask> played in the Candidates Tournament for the right to face Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship. He got off to a slow start, losing his first two games but finished the tournament with three straight wins to finish in 5th place. His final win was with the white pieces over the tournament winner, Ian Nepomniachtchi.June-July 2021: Finished in 4th place in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament. He was one of eight players to advance to the knockout stage of the tournament after a 3rd place finish in the round-robin phase of the tournament. Defeated Jan-Krzysztof Duda 1½-½ in the quarterfinals before losing to Vladislav Artemiev in the semifinals 2-1. He lost to Magnus Carlsen in the 3rd place match. December 2021: <mask> was a semi-finalist at the 2021 Speed Chess Championship, where he had already knocked out GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and GM Levon Aronian. In what was dubbed as the most epic Speed Chess Championship match ever, <mask> faced GM Hikaru Nakamura in the semi-finals, where Nakamura was only able to defeat <mask> in the Armaggedon after a four hour back-and-forth struggle. During the post-match interview, Nakamura himself admitted that this was the hardest Speed Chess Championship match he had ever played.References

Further reading
16-year-old <mask> Liren Wins Chinese Ch
<mask> <mask> wins the Chinese Chess Championship  (Chessdom)
<mask> <mask> (16) new Chinese Champion after surreal finish (ChessVibes)
Chinese Championship – a closer look at <mask> <mask> (ChessBase)
The Chess Mind (Dennis Monokroussos)
Ding Liren champion de Chine! (Europe Echecs)
Feedback and facts on FIDE's 'zero tolerance' rule
Chinese Championship – decision by default
http://zhuyue.blog.sohu.com/38398465.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110724130530/http://www.wems.net/View.asp?id=443
https://web.archive.org/web/20120214052848/http://www.wems.net/View.asp?id=1269%0D%0A
https://web.archive.org/web/20110707033601/http://www.dbt.gov.cn/show.asp?id=360

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1992 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Wenzhou
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Zhejiang

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title: Sonia O'Sullivan

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<mask>'Sullivan (born 28 November 1969) is an Irish former track and field athlete. She won a gold medal in the 5000 metres at the 1995 World Championships, and a silver medal in the 5000 metres at the 2000 Olympic Games. Her 2000 m world record of 5:25.36, set in 1994 stood until 2017. O'Sullivan first came to prominence when winning the 1500 m at the 1991 Universiade, before going on to finish fourth in the 3000 m final at the 1992 Olympic Games. She then won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 1993 World Championships. She was the favourite for the 5000 m title at the 1996 Olympic Games but dropped out of the final due to illness. As well as her 1995 World title, she won three gold medals at the European Championships, in the 3000 m (1994), 5000 m (1998) and 10,000 m (1998), and is a two-time World Cross Country Champion.O'Sullivan won silver medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m at the 2002 European Championships, and competed at her fourth Olympic Games in 2004. She is known for her dramatic kick, clocking 28-second final 200 m splits in some of her races. She is the one of two women (the other Tirunesh Dibaba) who won the short and long course World Cross Country title at the same championship (1998 in Marrakesh). Early career

Born in Cobh, County Cork, O'Sullivan was educated in Cobh Community College. She completed her leaving certificate in 1987. O'Sullivan's first major international competition was the 1990 European Championships at Split, where she finished 11th in the 3000 m. However, O'Sullivan improved quickly after that, and on 26 January the following year, at Boston, she set a new world indoor record in the 5000 m of 15:17.28, taking more than 5 seconds off the old record. At the time, O'Sullivan (who attained a sporting scholarship) was studying accountancy at the Villanova University in the US, and at the World Student Games at Sheffield in July 1991, she won the 1500 m Gold Medal in 4:12.14, and the silver medal in the 3000 m in 8:56.55.At the start of 1992, she finished 7th in the World Cross Country Championships. She won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female cross country runner in 1991–92. In 1992, O'Sullivan improved her personal bests in a number of distances between 800 m and 5000 m, setting six Irish national records in the process, including five in the space of 11 days in mid-August following the Barcelona Olympic Games. At Barcelona, in the 3000 m final, O'Sullivan was always in contention, and hit the lead in the back straight on the final lap, but she was eventually outsprinted and finished fourth. Narrowly missing out on an Olympic medal was made all the more frustrating when the silver medalist from the race Tatyana Dorovskikh tested positive for a banned substance the following year. In the 1500 m, she finished only 11th in her semi-final and did not qualify for the final. She finished 1992 by winning the Grand Prix Final for the 5000 m.

1993–1995

1993

During 1993, O'Sullivan established herself as one of the world's top middle-distance runners.By the time the World Championships came around, she was the clear favourite for both the 3000 m and 1500 m. However her hopes in the 3000 m were dashed by the performances of three Chinese athletes who would later in the year go on to smash the world record multiple times. The winner, Qu Yunxia, finished in a championship record of 8:28.71, with Zhang Linli and Zhang Lirong following in second and third respectively. A month later Qu would go on to set a 1500 m world record of 3:50.46. O'Sullivan finished the race 4th in a time of 8:33.8. Six days later she won the silver medal in the 1500 m in a time of 4:03.48, again behind a Chinese athlete. Five days after the championships, at the ISTAF meet in Berlin, O'Sullivan recorded the season's best time over 5000 m of 14:45.92, which moved her to third on the all-time world list. Soon afterwards she closed the year by winning the Grand Prix Final for the 3000 m and finished 2nd in the Mile.She finished the Grand Prix season in 2nd place in the Woman's Overall competition. 1994

During 1994, O'Sullivan dominated international distance running. She set the fastest time of the year in four events, the 1500 m, 1 mile, 2000 m and 3000 m, and the second fastest time in the 5000 m. On 8 July, at Edinburgh, she broke the 2000 m world record, setting a new time of 5:25.36. This record stood until Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia broke it on 7 February 2017. The next week, in London, she broke the European record for the 3000 m, beating Britain's Yvonne Murray, and setting the year's fastest time of 8:21.64. This moved her to fifth on the all-time world list, behind the four Chinese runners who had set their personal bests at the 1993 National Championships in Beijing. This record lasted until 2002, when Gabriela Szabo bettered it.Only three days later, at Nice, O'Sullivan recorded the year's fastest 1500 m, a personal best, of 3:59.10, and only four days after that, she won the mile at the Bislett Games in Oslo, in a time of 4:17.25. This was the season's best, and it moved O'Sullivan to fourth on the all-time world list. All four of these times were also new Irish records, and after this two-week period of record breaking, O'Sullivan became a clear favourite to win any event she chose to compete in at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in August. At Helsinki, O'Sullivan elected to only contest the 3000 m, with her main opposition expected to come from Yvonne Murray. In the final, on 10 August, Murray set the pace with O'Sullivan on her shoulder. With 200 m to go, O'Sullivan surged past Murray to win easily in 8:31.84. O'Sullivan followed this with a win over 5000 m in the Grand Prix final in Paris on 3 September.She finished the Grand Prix season in 3rd place in the Woman's Overall standings. At the end of a long season, on 9 September, the tired O'Sullivan finished only fifth in the 1500 m at the World Cup in London. 1995

O'Sullivan continued to dominate international distance running in 1995. As she had done in 1994, O'Sullivan set the fastest time of the year in four events, the 1500 m, 1 mile, 2000 m and 3000 m, and the second fastest time in the 5000 m. O'Sullivan was the winner of 11 of the 12 races in which she competed over 1500 m or 1 mile during 1995. These victories included the only sub-4-minute 1500 m time recorded during the year, a new Irish record of 3:58.85 set at the Herculis meet in Monaco on 25 July. In the 3000 m, O'Sullivan was clearly in a class above her rivals, winning all five of her races, and producing four of the six fastest times, including the year's fastest time of 8:27.57 at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich on 16 August. Her other 3000 m victories included the Bislett Games in Oslo on 21 July, and the Grand Prix final in Monaco on 9 September.O'Sullivan was left with the dilemma leading up to the World Championships at Gothenburg, of whether to compete in the 1500 m or the 5000 m. She had been unbeaten at 5000 m before Gothenburg, although the fastest time of the year, a new world record, had been set by Portugal's Fernanda Ribeiro. In the end, O'Sullivan chose the 5000 m, and, after easily winning her heat on 10 August, she kicked clear of Ribeiro in the final two days later, to win the world title in 14:46.47. Three weeks later, on 1 September, at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin, O'Sullivan again battled over 5000 m with the new world record holder Ribeiro, and again O'Sullivan was victorious, winning in a time of 14:41.40, a new Irish record, and the third fastest 5000 m of all time. For the fourth year in a row, she won the Grand Prix Final, this time over 3000 m.

1996–1997
Although she was not as dominant as she had been in 1994 and 1995, <mask>'Sullivan continued to be a major force in 1996 at the distances between 1500 m and 5000 m. Her best event in 1996 was the 3000 m, where she was unbeaten for the third successive year, winning all five of her races. O'Sullivan produced the early season leading time of 8:42.40 in Eugene on 26 May, and then at Nice, on 10 July, she recorded the year's fastest time of 8:35.42. In the 1500 m, only two women broke 4 minutes during the year, one of whom was O'Sullivan, who clocked her best time of 3:59.91 when winning at the Bislett Games in Oslo on 5 July. In terms of preparation for the Olympic Games held later that year in Atlanta, O'Sullivan's best event appeared to be the 5000  m, the distance at which she was the reigning world champion.On 5 June, at the Golden Gala meet in Rome, O'Sullivan won in 14:54.75. A month later, on 12 July, at the Securicor Games in London, she beat a strong field to win in 14:48.36. The program at the Olympic Games in Atlanta was sufficiently scheduled to allow O'Sullivan to contest both the 5000 m and 1500 m events. Her early season form and world title the previous year had made her one of the favourites for the 5000 m; however, news of double-world record holder Wang Junxia competing made many observers revise their opinion. In the heats everything seemed on track when she easily won her heat in 15:15.80. However, in the final on 28 July, she was badly affected by a stomach upset, and after starting well gradually faded away and failed to finish. The race was won by 3000 and 10,000 m world record holder Wang Junxia of China.Her disappointment continued in the 1500 m, where, still weakened, she came

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 second last in her heat and failed to qualify for the semi-finals. O'Sullivan competed in her first indoor competition for five years at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics in Paris in March 1997. Prior to that meeting, O'Sullivan had travelled to Australia to get some early season competition in the Australian domestic outdoor season. O'Sullivan recorded her best result in Canberra, on 11 January, where she won a 5000 m race in 15:10.98. She had entered both the 1500 m and 3000 m at the World Indoors, but eventually she chose to only contest the 3000 m event. In the final, on 8 March, O'Sullivan hit the lead in the last lap, but she was overtaken by Romanian Gabriela Szabo who went on to narrowly defeat O'Sullivan in 8:45.75 compared to the Irishwoman's second place time of 8:46.19. At the World Cross Country Championships she finished 9th but helped Ireland win the bronze medal in the Team Event.O'Sullivan had an indifferent outdoor season in 1997, and her best time of 8:53.53 over 3000 m, which she achieved in Paris on 25 June, was 7 seconds slower than the time she had set indoors in March. Similarly, her best performance at 5000 m for the year remained the time she had set in Australia in January. At the World Championships held in Athens, O'Sullivan produced her best 1500 m time of the year of 4:05.31 when she finished fourth in her semi-final on 3 August. In the final, held two days later, O'Sullivan was never a serious threat, and she finished 8th in 4:07.81. O'Sullivan had even greater disappointment in the 5000 m where she was the defending world champion, finishing only 7th in her heat and failing to qualify for the final. 1998–1999

O'Sullivan made an impressive comeback in 1998. At the World Cross-Country Championships at Marrakech in March, she entered both the short course (4 km) and long course (8 km) events.On successive days, O'Sullivan won both events, and her 4 km time of 12:20 was 14 seconds ahead of her nearest rival. O'Sullivan continued this form into the track season, where her performances in the 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m were close to those she had produced at her peak in 1994 and 1995. At the European Athletics Championships in Budapest, the 1500 m and 5000 m finals, events at which O'Sullivan usually doubled at major championships, were scheduled to be run on the same day, thus denying her the opportunity of competing in both events. Undeterred, O'Sullivan entered the 5000 m and 10,000 m, having never run the latter event before on the track. In the 10,000 m final, on 19 August, she shadowed the leaders, and then produced an astonishing 28.1 second final 200 metres to win the gold medal in 31:29.33 in her debut at the distance. Four days later, in the more familiar territory of the 5000 m, the pace was set by Romanian Gabriela Szabo, but again, O'Sullivan produced an explosive finishing sprint to defeat Szabo in 15:06.50. At the World Cup held the following month in Johannesburg, O'Sullivan won her second major international 5000 m competition of the year, again sprinting clear of the opposition following a very slow pace.She concluded her year by winning the BUPA Great North Run. O'Sullivan took a break from competition for most of 1999, during which time she gave birth to her daughter, Ciara, on 10 July 1999. O'Sullivan returned to training 10 days after her daughter's birth, and on 10 October, finished a half marathon in 70:05. 2000–2002
With the prospect of competing at her third Olympic Games in September 2000 in Sydney, O'Sullivan competed in the Australian domestic outdoor season during the European winter, recording a fastest time over 5000 m of 15:10.24 at Sydney on 13 February 2000. Back in Europe, she won the Dublin Women's Mini Marathon in June, before producing a number of quality performances on the track in her preparation for the Olympics. The Weltklasse meet in Zurich on 11 August produced the finest 3000 m race of the year, with the first six placings registering the six fastest times of 2000. O'Sullivan finished a close second in this race to Romanian Gabriela Szabo in a time of 8:27.58.At Sydney, on 22 September, O'Sullivan won her 5000 m heat with a season's best of 15:07.91. In the final three days later, after an enthralling sprint finish, O'Sullivan won the silver medal behind Szabo in a National Record 14:41.02. She became only the second Irish woman to win an Olympic Medal, after Michelle Smith and the first Irish Track and Field Olympic Medalist since John Treacy took silver in Los Angeles in 1984. In the 10,000 m final, held on 30 September, O'Sullivan set another personal best and national record when finishing sixth in 30:53.37 performance. Shortly after the Olympics, she won the Grand Prix Final 5000 m. Following the Olympics, O'Sullivan made her marathon debut, winning the Dublin marathon in a time of 2:35:42 on 30 October. In March 2001, O'Sullivan decided to compete in the World Indoor Championships. She finished 7th in the 3000 m and 9th in the 1500 m. After this she took a break from athletics to give birth to her second daughter, Sophie.O'Sullivan returned in March 2002 for the World Cross Country Championships, being held in Dublin. She finished a respectable 7th in the Short Race, and led Ireland to Team Bronze. At the European Championships in Munich later that year, O'Sullivan attempted a defence of the two European golds she had won in 1998. In the 10,000 m she won silver in a national record of 30:47.59. O'Sullivan admitted she had been outclassed in the race by Paula Radcliffe, saying that only world record holder Wang Junxia could have beaten the British girl on the night. A few days later, O'Sullivan added a second silver in the 5000 m as she was beaten into second place by Marta Dominguez of Spain in a time of 15:14.85. Shortly afterwards she set a season's best for the 3000 m in Zurich as she finished third in a time of 8:33.62.A week later, she ran her fastest 5000 m time since her Olympic silver in London in a time of 14:46.97, as she finished third. She ended an excellent season by winning her second BUPA Great North Run title in a national record time of 67:19. 2003–2009
After an impressive 2002 season, O'Sullivan had a disappointing 2003. She started well with a win at the newly inaugurated Great Ireland Run, but she struggled during the summer Grand Prix races. However, she appeared to be finding her form at the right time when she ran a season's best in the 3000 m in Zurich in a time of 8:37.55 on 15 August. At the World Championships in Paris later that month she was considered a possible medalist. She qualified very comfortably from her heat.However, in the final she finished last of the 15 starters. In December she finished an impressive fourth at the European Cross-Country Championships, and lead Ireland to silver in the team event. 2004 was to be an even more disappointing season for O'Sullivan. She struggled to find her best form throughout the year. At the Olympic Games in Athens, she qualified for the final of the 5000 m. However, in the final, O'Sullivan, who was suffering from an illness, finished last of the 14 finishers, well over a lap behind the winner Meseret Defar. She was given a hero's reception by the Crowd as she completed her last lap. It was one of the more poignant moments of the 2004 Games.In November, O'Sullivan finished an impressive 4th in the World Half-Marathon Championship in Delhi. In April 2005, O'Sullivan ran the London Marathon for the first time and finished 8th in a personal best time of 2:29:01. In June she won Dublin's Women's Mini Marathon for the second time. However an injury kept her out of the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. In January 2006, O'Sullivan applied for dual citizenship, which would allow her to compete for both Ireland and Australia. This request was granted and she intended to represent Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, but to represent Ireland in all other competitions. She was chosen for the Australian Commonwealth team for the 5000 m. However, she wasn't able to compete due to a hamstring injury.On 14 February 2007, O'Sullivan said she planned to retire after the Great Ireland Run on 15 April, having said the previous year that she planned to run competitively until the 2012 Olympics in London. She later confirmed that she would retire at the end of the 2007 season. In March 2008, O'Sullivan was appointed team manager of the Australian team for the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2009, she ran the Cork City Marathon,

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In 2012, O'Sullivan carried the Olympic flame when it arrived in Dublin on 6 June. She carried the flame onto St Stephen's Green and lit an Olympic cauldron. O'Sullivan was made chef de mission for Team Ireland at the 2012 Olympic Games. O'Sullivan completed the 2013 Ealing Half Marathon in 1:27:28.Personal life
<mask>'s father John played as a goalkeeper for Cobh Ramblers football team. He had been in the Irish Navy. <mask> is married to Nic Bideau

, together they have two daughters, Ciara, and Sophie. Sophie won a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr, Hungary. <mask> has written two books "Running To Stand Still" published in 2001 and "Sonia My Story" in 2008. <mask> frequently commentates for RTÉ during World & European Championship

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title: Mladen Bestvina

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<mask> (born 1959) is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. Biographical info
<mask> is a three-time medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad (two silver medals in 1976 and 1978 and a bronze medal in 1977). He received a B. Sc. in 1982 from the University of Zagreb. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics in 1984 at the University of Tennessee under the direction of John Walsh. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1987-88 and again in 1990–91.<mask> had been a faculty member at UCLA, and joined the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah in 1993. He was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah in 2008. <mask> received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1988–89 and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1988–91. <mask> gave an invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002. He also gave a Unni Namboodiri Lecture in Geometry and Topology at the University of Chicago. <mask> served as an Editorial Board member for the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and as an associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics. Currently he is an editorial board member for Duke Mathematical Journal, Geometric and Functional Analysis, Geometry and Topology, the Journal of Topology and Analysis, Groups, Geometry and Dynamics, Michigan Mathematical Journal, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, and Glasnik Matematicki.In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Mathematical contributions
A 1988 monograph of Bestvina gave an abstract topological characterization of universal Menger compacta in all dimensions; previously only the cases of dimension 0 and 1 were well understood. John Walsh wrote in a review of <mask>'s monograph: 'This work, which formed the author's Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tennessee, represents a monumental step forward, having moved the status of the topological structure of higher-dimensional Menger compacta from one of "close to total ignorance" to one of "complete understanding".' In a 1992 paper <mask> and Feighn obtained a Combination Theorem for word-hyperbolic groups. The theorem provides a set of sufficient conditions for amalgamated free products and HNN extensions of word-hyperbolic groups to again be word-hyperbolic. The Bestvina–Feighn Combination Theorem became a standard tool in geometric group theory and has had many applications and generalizations (e.g.). <mask> and Feighn also gave the first published treatment of Rips' theory of stable group actions on R-trees (the Rips machine) In particular their paper gives a proof of the Morgan–Shalen conjecture that a finitely generated group G admits a free isometric action on an  R-tree if and only if G is a free product of surface groups, free groups and free abelian groups.A 1992 paper of <mask> and Handel introduced the notion of a train track map for representing elements of Out(Fn). In the same paper they introduced the notion of a relative train track and applied train track methods to solve the Scott conjecture which says that for every automorphism α of a finitely generated free group Fn the fixed subgroup of α is free of rank at most n.  Since then train tracks became a standard tool in the study of algebraic, geometric and dynamical properties of automorphisms of free groups and of subgroups of Out(Fn). Examples of applications of train tracks include: a theorem of Brinkmann proving that for an automorphism α of Fn the mapping torus group of α is word-hyperbolic if and only if α has no periodic conjugacy classes; a theorem of Bridson and Groves that for every automorphism α of Fn the mapping torus group of α satisfies a quadratic isoperimetric inequality; a proof of algorithmic solvability of the conjugacy problem for free-by-cyclic groups; and others. <mask>, Feighn and Handel later proved that the group Out(Fn) satisfies the Tits alternative, settling a long-standing open problem. In a 1997 paper <mask> and Brady developed a version of discrete Morse theory for cubical complexes and applied it to study homological finiteness properties of subgroups of right-angled Artin groups. In particular, they constructed an example of a group which provides a counter-example to either the Whitehead asphericity conjecture or to the Eilenberg−Ganea conjecture, thus showing that at least one of these conjectures must be false. Brady subsequently used their Morse theory technique to construct the first example of a finitely presented subgroup of a word-hyperbolic group that is not itself word-hyperbolic.Selected publications
<mask>, Mladen, Characterizing k-dimensional universal Menger compacta. Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 71 (1988), no. 380
<mask>, Mladen; Feighn, Mark, Bounding the complexity of simplicial group actions on trees. Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 103 (1991), no. 3, pp.449–469
<mask>, Mladen; Mess, Geoffrey, The boundary of negatively curved groups. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 4 (1991), no. 3, pp. 469–481
<mask> <mask>, and Michael Handel, Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 135  (1992),  no.1, pp. 1–51
M<mask> and M. Feighn, A combination theorem for negatively curved groups. Journal of Differential Geometry, Volume 35 (1992), pp. 85–101
M. <mask> and M. Feighn. Stable actions of groups on real trees. Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 121 (1995), no.2, pp. 287 321
<mask>, <mask> and Brady, Noel, Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups. Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 129 (1997), no. 3, pp. 445–470
<mask> <mask>, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn).I. Dynamics of exponentially-growing automorphisms. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 151  (2000),  no. 2, pp. 517–623
<mask> <mask>, Mark Feighn, and Michael Handel. The Tits alternative for Out(Fn). II.A Kolchin type theorem. Annals of Mathematics (2), vol. 161  (2005),  no. 1, pp. 1–59
<mask>, Mladen; Bux, Kai-Uwe; Margalit, Dan, The dimension of the Torelli group. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 23 (2010), no.1, pp. 61–105

See also
Real tree
Artin group
Out(Fn)
Train track map
Pseudo-Anosov map
Word-hyperbolic group
Mapping class group
Whitehead conjecture

References

External links
<mask> <mask>, personal webpage, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

Living people
1959 births
Group theorists
Topologists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century mathematicians
University of Utah faculty
Yugoslav emigrants to the United States
Croatian mathematicians
University of Tennessee alumni
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
People from Osijek
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Sloan Research Fellows

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title: Swin Cash

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<mask> "<mask>" <mask> (born September 22, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played professionally for 15 seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She currently serves as vice president of basketball operations and team development for the New Orleans Pelicans. A prolific scorer and rebounder, as well as a capable ball handler and defender, she helped lead the University of Connecticut women's basketball team to national titles in 2000 and 2002. In her second WNBA season, she led the Detroit Shock to their first ever WNBA title. In 2015, she was named a studio analyst for MSG Networks covering the New York Knicks pre-games and post-games as well as the weekly coaches show. In 2017, <mask> was named the Director of franchise development for the New York Liberty. Although <mask> was intended to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in June 2020, the induction ceremony was postponed to August 21, 2021, as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.Personal life
<mask> was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport and raised by her mother, Cynthia. She has two brothers named Stephen and Kevin Menifee and one sister, Angelique Menifee. She holds basketball camps and clinics under her company, Swin Cash Enterprise LLC, and is involved in charity events through the WNBA. <mask> married longtime boyfriend Steve Canal in Atlanta, Georgia. High school
<mask> attended McKeesport Area High School in McKeesport, where she participated in many activities. She "tried her hands at" baseball, track, and cheerleading, but her true passion was entertainment, which she expressed in school plays and drama class. <mask> is best known for her basketball skills, which earned her a place on the national WBCA All-American team.She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game where she scored fourteen points, and earned MVP honors. <mask> was an All-American at the University of Connecticut (UConn). She won the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship with the UConn Huskies in 2000 and 2002. She also helped lead UConn to an undefeated 39–0 season in 2002. Swin was a member of the inaugural class (2006) of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program. Professional career
<mask> was selected by the Detroit Shock in the 2002 WNBA Draft, second overall. After leading the Shock's resurgence in the second half of her rookie season, she then led the Detroit Shock to their first WNBA Championship title in 2003.She played in the 2003 WNBA All-Star Game and won the gold medal with the U.S. women's basketball team at the 2004 Olympic Games. In the off-season, <mask> has appeared as a studio analyst on ESPN's NBA Fastbreak  (according to ESPN.com) and during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, she alternated with Teresa Edwards in presenting in-game commentary for NBC's presentation of the women's basketball tournament from the network's New York broadcast studios. <mask> appeared (as herself) in the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing. <mask> received the Dapper Dan Sportswoman of the Year award given to someone who shows excellence to the Pittsburgh area. She was also honored with Sidney Crosby and Dan Rooney. <mask> left Detroit for the 2008 season after "struggling to build a consistent relationship with Detroit Shock head coach Bill Laimbeer". On February 19, 2008, <mask> was traded to the Seattle Storm for the draft rights of No.4 pick in the 2008 WNBA draft. The Shock selected Alexis Hornbuckle with their draft pick. <mask> along with Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson helped the Storm win their second championship in 2010. On January 2, 2012, in perhaps the WNBA's biggest blockbuster trade news thus far, <mask> was traded, along with Le'Coe Willingham, to the Chicago Sky joining All- Star Sylvia Fowles. <mask> has been suffering from a herniated disk for more than two years, an injury suffered while helping the Detroit Shock win the WNBA championship in 2006. In 2009, she came back to Connecticut to lead the Western Conference over the Eastern Conference at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. She led all scorers with an All-Star record of 22 points in a 130–118 win.The previous high was 20 by <mask>'s former Detroit teammate, Deanna Nolan, in 2005. <mask> was invited to the USA Basketball Women's National Team training camp in the fall of 2009. The team selected to play for the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Olympics is usually chosen from these participants. At the conclusion of the training camp, the team will travel to Ekaterinburg, Russia, where they compete in the 2009 UMMC Ekaterinburg International Invitational. <mask> was one of twenty players named to the national team pool. Twelve of this group will be chosen to represent the US in the 2010 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics. <mask> was selected to be a member of the National team representing the US at the World Championships held in September and October 2010.The team was coached by Geno Auriemma. Because many team members were still playing in the WNBA until just prior to the event, the team had only one day of practice with the entire team before leaving for Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Even with limited practice, the team managed to win its first games against Greece by 26 points. The team continued to dominate with victory margins exceeding 20 points in the first five games. Several players shared scoring  honors, with <mask>, Angel McCoughtry, Maya Moore, Diana Taurasi, Lindsay Whalen, and Sylvia Fowles all ending as high scorer in the first few games. The sixth game was against undefeated Australia — the USA jumped out to a 24-point lead and the USA prevailed 83–75. The USA won its next two games by over 30 points, then faced the host team, the Czech Republic, in the championship game.The USA team had only a five-point lead at halftime, which was cut to three points, but the Czechs never got closer. Team USA went on to win the championship and gold medal. <mask> averaged 8.6 points per game. <mask> was named as one of the  National team members to represent the USA Basketball team in the WNBA versus USA Basketball. This game replaces the normal WNBA All-Star game with WNBA All-Stars versus USA Basketball, as part of the preparation for the FIBA World Championship for Women to be held in the Czech Republic during September and October 2010. <mask> was one of 21 finalists for the U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team Roster. The 20 professional women's basketball players, plus one collegiate player (Brittney Griner), were selected by the USA Basketball Women's National Team Player Selection Committee to compete for the final roster which will represent the US at the 2012 Olympics in London.<mask> made the final roster and played for the U.S. team that won the 2012 Olympic gold medal. Washington and Jefferson College awarded <mask> with an honorary degree in Doctorate of Public Service at their commencement ceremonies in May 2011 to honor her charity work. <mask> is the founder of the Pennsylvania-based Cash for Kids charitable organization. <mask> was waived by New York Liberty on May 11, 2016. On May 24, 2016, it was reported that <mask> re-signed with the Liberty for the remainder of the season. She was immediately eligible for their game versus the Atlanta Dream on that day. On June 7, 2016, <mask> announced that she would retire at the end of the 2016 season.Anti-racism and anti-violence activism
<mask> is an advocate against gun violence and police brutality. In 2016, she was fined $500 by the Association, along with her teammates and players from two other WNBA teams, for wearing warm up shirts that read "#BlackLivesMatter" and "#Dallas5", both serving as references to gun violence. In a post-game debriefing following the incident, <mask> stated:I think it’s a shame that we keep seeing people that want to make this movement as something that’s violent. Five cops gave their lives up trying to protect a peaceful movement. And in this country, I do believe that you can assemble peacefully and protest against injustice. So until the system transforms, we cannot sit here and act like there is not a problem here in America.She said that part of what motivated her to take a stance against police violence was the Civil Rights Movement era stories her grandmother told her. She recognizes that police brutality is an aspect of racial activism, and she fears that because police are able to kill unarmed people without facing arrests, a regression to pre-Civil Rights laws and practices may occur for black people.In addition, her brother, Kevin Menifee, was allegedly beaten by police officers, who broke his nose.

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title: George Henry Boughton

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This page is about the painter, for the New York politician see <mask><mask>. <mask>  (4 December 1833 – 19 January 1905) was an Anglo-American landscape and genre painter, illustrator and writer. Life and work
Boughton was born in Norwich in Norfolk, England, the son of farmer <mask>. The family immigrated to the United States in 1835, and he grew up in Albany, New York where he started his career as a self-taught artist. At this early stage he was influenced by the artists of the Hudson River School. By the age of 19 he was recognised as a landscape painter and opened his first studio in 1852. In 1853, the American Art Union purchased one of his early pictures which financed six months of studying art in England.He concluded this period of his training with a sketching tour of the Lake District, Scotland and Ireland. After coming back to the USA, <mask> exhibited his works in Washington, D.C. and New York, but in the late 1850s he finally made a decision to move to Europe. From 1859–61 he studied art in France under Pierre Edouard Frère (1819–1886) and Edward Harrison May (1824–1887). In 1861 <mask> opened a studio in London, and, although living in England, nevertheless focused on subjects of early American Colonial history, and an American critic noticed that "for early history of this country his talents seems to be peculiarly fitted." His subject-pictures, such as the Early Puritans of New England Going to Church (1867), were especially popular. The Return of the Mayflower (shown at the Goupil Gallery, New York in 1871) was praised as "a picture which will live as long as the memory of the Mayflower itself lasts." Vincent van Gogh, who lived London in 1873–75, was much impressed by <mask>’s painting Godspeed!Pilgrims Setting Out for Canterbury. Then working as a minister, he gave a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and  <mask> Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Sleepy Hollow was published in London with 53 illustrations by Boughton (see bibliography). A London critic once declared that he "has learnt the secret of putting natural feelings into rustic figures, which has been almost entirely wanting to English painters." Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and USA, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Design in New York in 1871.He was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1879, and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1896. "He was a useful and popular member of this body, and worked well as member of the council, as a 'hanger', and as a teacher in the schools." After the death of John Callcott Horsley, <mask> was elected a Director of the "Fine Art and General Insurance Company". Among his landscape paintings - views of England and Brittany in France. In 1883, he travelled to Holland. His illustrated account of that journey was published in the Harper's Magazine as 'Artist Strolls in Holland', and published next year in London as Sketching Rambles in Holland (see bibliography). Boughton obviously took pleasure in writing: later he would participate in the publication of the 'English Art in the Public Galleries of London' providing the overview of <mask>'s biography and work.Boughton easily socialised in London artistic circles and was a member of the Arts Club (1869–96), of the Reform Club, the Athenaeum Club, the Burlington Fine Arts Club and the Grolier and Lotos Clubs in New York. In 1865, Boughton married Katherine Louise Cullen (1845-after 1901), and they had an adopted daughter, Florence. Along with John Callcott Horsley, he was one of the early clients of architect Richard Norman Shaw who built a house for the Boughtons on Campden Hill, London. "The parties given here by Mr and Mrs Boughton were celebrated among artistic and literary people and in the Anglo-American section of the society." It was noticed that Boughton was influenced by works of British painter and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840–1875). In the 1870s in London he met James Whistler. In 1878, an American reviewer praised them as "shining lights in the art world" of London.<mask> published vivid recollections about Whistler, particularly mentioning his work on the famous ‘Peacock Room'. In 1877 he made an acquaintance with <mask> (1843–1916). The female novelist Violet Hunt (1862–1942) based her novels Their Lives (1916) and Their Hearts (1921) on her early love affair with Boughton. The novel Christina Chard (1894) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed (1851–1935), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book. In the 1880s-1890s, he was associated with several artistic colonies in countryside, namely with the village of Broadway in Worcestershire, the rustic beauty of which was recognised by many American artists. Along with <mask>, Edwin Abbey, John Singer Sargent and others, he frequently visited Broadway. Through Horsley and Shaw he also was associated with the Cranbrook Colony of artists, visiting them in the late 1860s-1880s.<mask> died of heart disease, on 19 January 1905, in his studio at Campden Hill, north London. His obituary stated that "he was kindly, genial, humorous, a lover of a good story, the essence of hospitality, and wholly free from jealousy, malice, and incharitable judgments." His paintings are now represented in many museums in the United States and Europe. Works

References

Further reading
<mask>, <mask>. Sketching rambles in Holland (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1885). Records of The Arts Club, London;

<mask>, G. H. 'A Few of the Various Whistlers I have Known' (Studio, vol. 30, December 1903) pp.208–18. Baldry, Alfred Lys. G. H. <mask>, R. A. His Life and Work (Virtue & Co, London, 1904). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design (New York, 2004. Vol.1) pp. 59–61.Books Illustrated by <mask>
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle and, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (London: New York : Macmillan, 1893)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1908)

External links

G H Boughton online (ArtCyclopedia)
G H Boughton - short biography (Turak Gallery)
G H Boughton - short biography ("The vault at PFAFFs")
paintings by Boughton (The Athaenaeum)
G H Boughton pictures (ArtMagick)
Hudson River school visions: the landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Boughton (see index)

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American male painters
20th-century American painters
American genre painters
19th-century English painters
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English illustrators
Royal Academicians
Artists from Norwich
Artists from Albany, New York
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Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours

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title: María Ángeles Ferrer Forés

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<mask> is a Spanish music education pedagogue and musicologist, awarded the Premio Acción Magistral (Master Action Prize) 2010 by UNESCO, as best professor of Spain. Her books, discs, and interactive software for young students and teachers are published in Spain by Pearson Education (27 books and 18 CD in 2010, 2009) and Oxford University Press (9 books and 8 CD in 2005, 2004, 2003). She is member of the organization and Jury in Ibiza International Piano Competition. Studies and professional activity

Born in Palma de Majorca, Spain, she has the Musicology Ph.D. awarded by the University of Salamanca (2005). She made her postgraduate academic degree at University of Salamanca and University of London, Royal Holloway College (1996-1998). She has the Musicology Degree (1996) and History of Art Degree (1996) at University of Salamanca. She also has the Master's Degrees of piano (1992), singing (2000), music composition (2000) and music theory (2001), with the highest qualifications, at the Balearic Islands, Salamanca and Seville Conservatories of Music.She is Music Teacher in Secondary Education at Madrid (1998-current), Didactic of Music Associated Professor at University of Valladolid (2008-2012), Didactic of Music Associated Professor at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja UNIR (2012-current) and Didactic of Music Associated Professor at Universidad a distancia de Madrid UDIMA (2012-current) . This collection, for music students and teachers in Spanish and English, published also in the Catala, and Valencian languages. Another work is “Música. Proyecto Exedra” (Music. Exedra Project) published by Oxford University Press (9 books and 8 CD in 2005, 2004, 2003). She also wrote Tosca by Giacomo Puccini published by University of Salamanca (2007) and more than 100 articles in magazines, books, and notes for concerts and recitals. Singer and pianist

She gave recitals as singer and pianist at festivals including “Classics of XXIst Century” at Juan March Institute, Ibiza International Music Festival, Mozart Festival with the Balearics Symphony Orchestra at Auditorium of Palma de Majorca, Contemporary Scene Festival Círculo de Bellas Artes at Madrid, Salamanca Contemporary Music International Festival, Seville Opera Festival, Cordoba Sensxperiment Festival, Valencia Nits d’Art d’Aielo, Alcalá de Henares Cathedral International Organ Festival, Siena Accademia dei Rozzi (Italy), Würzburg Residence (Germany), Esztergom Summer University Festival (Hungary).Since 1985 and every Christmas Eve Mass she performed El Cant de la Sibil·la (The Song of the Sibyl, UNESCO World Heritage Site) at Sant James church in Palma de Majorca (Spain). Membership and investigation groups

She is a member of Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE, General Association for Authors and Publishers), Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (ACE, Professional Association of Spanish Writers), CEDRO (Spanish Association for Copyright) and, since 1987, of the organization of Ibiza International Piano Competition (President of Honour Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark). She was a member of research groups: “System of management of the learning in platforms VLE” (“Sistema de gestión del aprendizaje en plataformas VLE”) (University of Valladolid), in the INNPACTO program sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (2010-2012); “Festival of the Knowledge” (“Festival del Conocimiento”) inside ARCE program sponsored by Spanish Ministry of Education (2010-2011) and “Music and philosophy. The interdisciplinary nature of the postvanguard” (“Música y filosofía. La interdisciplinariedad de la postvanguardia”) inside the Teachers Resources Program of Seville sponsored by Andalusia Government, Spain (1999-2001). External links
 Ibiza International Piano Competition
 Salamanca University Press
 Pearson
 Centro Transdisciplinar de Investigación en Educación de la Universidad de Valladolid
 Librería Rayuela
 Unesco-Fad Prize
 Women Composers Catalogue

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title: Liam Mellows

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<mask> (, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, being raised in Cork, Dublin and his mother's native Wexford. He was active with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers, and participated in the Easter Rising in County Galway and the War of Independence. Elected as a TD to the First Dáil, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty. During the Irish Civil War <mask> was captured by Pro-Treaty forces after the surrender of the Four Courts in June 1922. On 8 December 1922 he was one of four senior IRA men executed by the Provisional Government. Early life
<mask> was born at the Hartshead Military Barracks in Ashton-under-Lyne on 25 May 1892, the son of <mask>, an English man who worked as an NCO in the British Army, and Sarah Jordan, an Irish woman from Inch, County Wexford.His family moved to 10 Annadale Avenue in the Fairview area of Dublin in February 1895, when his father was transferred there; <mask> remained in Wexford with his grandfather, Patrick Jordan, due to ill health. He attended the military school in Wellington Barracks in Cork and the Portobello garrison school in Dublin, but ultimately refused a military career much to his father's disappointment, instead working as a clerk in several Dublin firms, including the Junior Army & Navy Stores on D'Olier Street. Career

Entry into politics
<mask> was an Irish nationalist from an early age. In 1911, he purchased a copy of Irish Freedom, which began, "We stand for Ireland..." He approached Thomas Clarke in his shop, who recruited him into Fianna Éireann, an organisation of young republicans. He also met Secretary Patrick O'Ryan, Con Colbert, and Eamon Martin, who would be a lifelong friend. At the next meeting, <mask>' brothers all signed up. On 7 April 1911 he was sworn to secrecy by the Irish Republican Brotherhood.<mask> was proposed for the post of Organiser and travelling instructor. He founded the Sluagh at Dolphins Barn, Co Wexford, which was a success. He established more Sluagdste at Ferns and Enniscorthy in Easter 1912. <mask> cycled everywhere, which was cheap and convenient; he was promoted Captain by Ard Choisde. In June 1913, <mask> stayed at Waterford IRB Centre with <mask> in the Gaelic League Room, Williams street. <mask> was organising sports in Tuam in September 1913 when he was introduced to socialist James Connolly at Countess Markievicz's residence, where Connolly was recuperating after his hunger strike. Connolly was deeply impressed and told his daughter Nora 'I have found a real man'.<mask> was called back to Dublin on 25 November 1913. He was active in the IRB and was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers, being brought onto its Organising Committee to strengthen the Fianna representation. He was given a full-time job on 30 s. p/wk. He joined forces with Éamonn Ceannt and Sir Horace Plunkett at the Provisional Committee choosing to support the parliamentary route taken by  Roger Casement. But as an employee he was compelled to agree with Redmondite candidates; although he had voted against the Nationalists pro-British policy. He was arrested and jailed on several occasions under the Defence of the Realm Act. On 1 August his company were taking an arms shipment from Howth to Dublin, when they fired on RIC at Clontarf.That evening De Valera took him by car to Kilcoole. Guns were loaded on a charabanc in Bray at night and then distributed in Dublin from a fleet of taxis. He was sent to Galway, and made his base at Athenry. There he met Seán Mac Diarmada and was appointed as election scrutineer at Tuam. On Sunday 18 May 1915, they were at an anti-enlistment rally, when arrested by Inspector Comerford with a gun in his back. Mac Diarmada was searched: they found a note book of IRB lists on his person. He was sentenced to 6 months.<mask> got away. He started a training group at Kynoch's Fort, south Galway recruiting men from miles around. On 1 July he was arrested at Courttown Harbour. He was sentenced to 3 months. Both men were sent to Mountjoy Prison. Months later he was with volunteers at Tullamore, when they were attacked by machine-guns, and fleeing the Hall over rooftops, made off by motor-bike; <mask> returned to post a letter to protect comrades. A week later he was arrested at Julia Morrissey's house.The British took him by train to Arbour Hill Prison, before he was shipped to England, and Leek. 1916 Easter Rising
Eventually escaping from Reading Jail he returned to Ireland to command the "Western Division" (forces operating in the West of Ireland) of the IRA during the Easter Rising of 1916. He led roughly 700 Volunteers in abortive attacks on Royal Irish Constabulary stations at Oranmore, and Clarinbridge in county Galway taking over the town of Athenry. However, his men were very badly armed and supplied and they dispersed after a week, when British troops and the cruiser  were sent west to attack them. In the aftermath of the Uprising over three hundred Galway Volunteers were deported to jails across England and Scotland. <mask> and a number of other local IRA leaders were able to evade capture after the station master of Athenry, James Miggins, delayed a detachment of incoming British troops. After this insurrection failed, <mask> escaped to the United States, where he was arrested and detained without trial in the "Tombs" prison, New York, on a charge of attempting to aid the German side in the First World War.This was in the context of incidents like the Black Tom and Kingsland explosions, where German agents had bombed neutral American ports and industrial facilities. After his release in 1918, he worked with John Devoy and helped to organise Éamon de Valera's fund raising visit to America in 1919–1920. He returned to Ireland to become Irish Republican Army "Director of Supplies" during the Irish War of Independence, responsible for buying arms. At the 1918 general election, he was elected to the First Dáil as a Sinn Féin candidate for both Galway East and for Meath North. (According to United Kingdom law, these were Westminster constituencies but Sinn Féin did not recognise them as such, but rather took them as de facto Dáil constituencies). Opponent of the Treaty
<mask> considered the Anglo-Irish Treaty as signed to be a betrayal of the Irish Republic, saying, in the Treaty Debates of 1921–22:

A conference of nine TDs was deputed to meet privately on 5 January 1922 to resolve the dispute and to achieve a unified front by compromise. The four other anti-Treaty TDs said there was agreement but <mask> did not, and was seen thereafter by pro-Treaty TDs as one of their most implacable opponents.The following day the Dáil voted to approve the Treaty by a majority of 64 to 57. Details on the private conference and the private Dáil session debate were not made public until the 1970s. He wrote a social programme based on the Dáil's Democratic Programme of 1919 aimed at winning popular support for the anti-Treaty cause. Civil war and execution
<mask> was one of the more strident TDs on the approach to the Irish Civil War. On 28 April 1922 he told the Dáil:

<mask> was one of a number of senior figures in the Anti-Treaty IRA faction that had occupied the Four Courts since April. However, on 28 June the building was bombarded by pro-Treaty Free State forces, and the IRA garrison was forced to surrender after two days. <mask> had a chance to escape along with Ernie O'Malley, but did not take it (see also Battle of Dublin).Imprisoned in Mountjoy Gaol in the Phibsborough area of Dublin, <mask> (along with Rory O'Connor, Joe McKelvey and Dick Barrett) was executed by firing squad on 8 December 1922, in reprisal for the shooting of Pro-Treaty TD Seán Hales (see executions during the Irish Civil War). These executions, and their effects on their fellow prisoners, are described in Peadar O'Donnell's Irish Civil War memoir The Gates Flew Open. Ideology
In 1922 The Irish Labour Party posthumously published a document entitled "<mask>'s Jail Programme", based on notes <mask> had smuggled out of jail after being captured by the Irish Free State. In this document, <mask> outlines a 10 point programme he proposed that the Anti-Treaty IRA adopt in 1922:
 Ownership and control of all heavy industries by the state for the benefit of all the people
 Complete ownership of the transport system by the state
 State ownership of all banks
 Confiscation of all the large ranches and estates, without compensation to the landed aristocracy, and the distribution of the land among the landless farmers and agricultural labourers. Election of joint councils representatives of these two classes to distribute and manage the land. Abolition of all forms of tenure and indebtedness either to private owners or to the state. Cancellation of all debts and mortgages.Establishment of an all-around shorter working day
 Control of workshop conditions, to be vested in a joint council representing the workers' Trade Unions concerned and the state
 Municipalisation of all public services: Trams, light, heat, water, etc and free use by the workers
 Compulsory rationing of all available household accommodation and the abolishing of all rents
 Full maintenance for the unemployed at full Trade Union rates until useful work at Trade Union rates of wages can be provided
 The universal arming of all workers in the town and country to defend their rights

Dr. Pat Walsh opines that <mask> was not a Communist nor a Marxist, but simply a nationalist who, in a situation of desperation for the Republican forces who looked set to lose the Civil War, thought that only by bringing workers into the national struggle could the Republican forces survive. "It was with great reluctance," Walsh writes, "that Mellows advocated this course." Writing for An Phoblacht in January 2010, Sinn Fein's Eoin Ó Broin also discussed <mask>' Marxist political positions. In the article, Ó Broin quotes <mask>' "Jail notes", in which <mask>' applies Marxist theory to Ireland and advocates for a "People's Republic". Ó Broin concludes the article by suggesting that Sinn Féin should take up these positions. Commemoration

Mellows is commemorated by statues in Eyre Square in Galway, in the official name of the Irish Defence Forces army barracks at Renmore (Dún Úi Maoilíosa) and in the naming of Mellows Bridge in Dublin. He is also commemorated in the names of two GAA clubs (one in Galway, and Castletown Liam Mellows GAA Club  in Wexford), and by Unidare RFC in Ballymun and their "Liam Mellows Perpetual Cup".<mask> is buried in Castletown cemetery, County Wexford, a few miles from Arklow. An annual commemoration ceremony is held at his grave site, in which a wreath is laid by a member of the <mask>lows Commemoration committee. "<mask> Avenue" in Arklow is named in his honour, as is "<mask> Street" in Tuam, County Galway, "Liam Mellows Park" in Renmore, Galway, Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre "Mellows Campus", Athenry, Galway and Wexford town, and Mellowes (sic) Road in Finglas, Dublin. In 2016, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin TD unveiled a new gravestone for <mask>. In December 2019, a memorial statue was unveiled in Finglas. References

Further reading
Conor McNamara, '<mask>, Soldier of the Irish Republic, Selected Writings 1914-22' (Irish Academic Press, 2019). Greaves, C. Desmond.2004 [New edition]. <mask> and the Irish Revolution. Belfast: Foilseacháin an Ghlór Gafa. .
Dáil Treaty Debates
Photo of Mellowes 1922
'Fleshpots of Empire' speech (see above) 4 January 1922

External links
1911 census return
1901 census return

 <mask>, DP10200 in Ireland's Military Service Pensions Collection
 file relating to military service pension (1)
 file relating to military service pension (2)
 file relating to military service pension (3)
 file relating to military service pension (4)

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title: Diego Brandão

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<mask> (born 27 May 1987) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently competing in the Lightweight division. A professional since 2005, he formerly competed for the UFC, RIZIN, and Fight Nights Global. He was the winner of Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> made his MMA debut against Michel Bastos, winning via submission. He went 3-1 before fighting against UFC veteran Ronys Torres. He lost the fight by TKO due to punches.He then fought longtime UFC veteran Brian Foster and won via KO in the first round. Following the contest he won 6 and lost four of his next ten fights, with 3 wins by KO, 2 by submission and 1 by decision, before signing with the UFC. <mask> later became a member of Jackson's MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Ultimate Fighter
In 2011, <mask> signed with the UFC to compete on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs. Team Miller. In the first episode, <mask> fought Jesse Newell to gain entry into the Ultimate Fighter house. <mask> quickly defeated Newell via first round knockout.He was the number one featherweight pick for Team Bisping. <mask> proved to be a loose cannon with confrontations with Marcus Brimage and Steven Siler. In the fifth episode it was announced that he would fight Siler on episode six. In this fight <mask> charged out of the gate with a flying knee and knocked Siler unconscious 30 seconds into the first round with a left hook. With this win he advanced to the semi finals to fight former WEC fighter, Bryan Caraway. <mask> defeated Caraway via KO due to a flying knee and follow up punches late in the first round. With the win over Caraway, <mask> moved on to the finale against Dennis Bermudez.Ultimate Fighting Championship
<mask> officially made his UFC debut on 3 December 2011, at The Ultimate Fighter 14 Finale against Dennis Bermudez to determine the first ever featherweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 14. After a back-and-forth first round <mask> was knocked down and hit with heavy shots on the ground until he caught Bermudez with an armbar, and quickly forced the tapout. With his performance, <mask> was awarded Fight of the Night andSubmission of the Night honors, giving him a total of $80,000 in bonuses. During the post-fight interview <mask> proclaimed of his mother; "The only thing on my mind [is to] buy her [a] house". <mask> fought Darren Elkins on 26 May 2012, at UFC 146. <mask> lost the fight via unanimous decision. <mask> fought and defeated Joey Gambino on 13 October 2012, at UFC 153 via unanimous decision.<mask> faced Pablo Garza on 6 April 2013, at UFC on Fuel TV 9. <mask> faced Daniel Pineda on 17 August 2013, at UFC Fight Night 26. He won the back-and-forth fight via unanimous decision. <mask> faced Dustin Poirier on 28 December 2013, at UFC 168. There was some bad blood between the two that was evident during the staredown at the weigh-in, with Poirier claiming <mask> had threatened to "stab me in the neck." <mask> weighed in at 153 pounds, seven pounds over the accepted 146-pound limit for a featherweight non-title fight. <mask> would continue to cut weight and weighed in an hour later, but could only get down to 151.5 pounds.He was fined 25 percent of his purse, but the bout went on as scheduled. He lost the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> was expected to face Will Chope on 23 March 2014, at UFC Fight Night 38. However, Chope was released from UFC when documents were released that showed Chope was discharged from the U.S. Air Force for domestic violence towards his ex-wife. <mask> was expected to face promotional newcomer Brian Ortega on 31 May 2014, at The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale. However, <mask> pulled out of the bout in the days leading up to the event citing an injury. Due to the late nature of the change, officials did not try to find a replacement and Ortega was pulled from the card as well.<mask> faced Conor McGregor on 19 July 2014, at UFC Fight Night 46, replacing an injured Cole Miller. <mask> lost the fight via TKO in the first round. <mask> was expected to face Jimy Hettes on 31 January 2015, at UFC 183. However, the fight was canceled right before the event started, as Hettes passed out backstage. He was taken to a local hospital for precautionary reasons. Subsequently, the bout with Hettes was rescheduled for 18 April 2015, at UFC on Fox 15. <mask> won the fight due to a doctor stoppage between the first and second round.<mask> faced Katsunori Kikuno on 27 September 2015, at UFC Fight Night 75. He dropped his opponent in the bout's opening seconds and followed up with a flurry of punches earning a TKO stoppage. The win also earned him his first Performance of the Night bonus award. <mask> faced Brian Ortega on 2 January 2016, at UFC 195. After controlling the first two rounds with his striking, <mask> lost the fight via submission in the third round. On 15 January 2016, it was announced that Brandao had tested positive for marijuana stemming from an in-competition test on 2 January. On 28 April 2016, Brandao was released from the UFC on account of a felony arrest.In ten fights under the promotion, he held a record of 6-4. Fight Nights Global
On 20 October 2016, <mask> signed a contract to fight Russian mixed martial artist Rasul Mirzaev. However, on 3 December, Mirzaev pulled out of the bout for unknown reason. <mask> defeated Murad Machaev on 28 January 2017, at Fight Nights 58. Absolute Championship Akhmat

<mask> faced Salman Zhamaldaev on 26 March 2021 at ACA 120: Oliveira vs. Bibulatov. After tripping Salman in the second round, <mask> delivered an illegal soccer kick to the head of Salman while his knee was on the ground. Salman couldn't continue, hence it was announced as an DQ loss for <mask>.<mask> rematched Salman Zhamaldaev at ACA 127: Kerefov vs. Albaskhanov on 28 August 2021. <mask> lost the bout via majority decision. <mask> faced Alexey Polpudnikov at ACA 134: Bagov vs. Koshkin on December 17, 2021. <mask> lost the bout via TKO in the third round. Omielańczuk faced Bibert Tumenov on February 26, 2022 at ACA 136: Bukuev vs Akopyan. He lost the bout via body shot KO in the second round. Team Miller
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See also
 List of male mixed martial artists

References

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title: Joe Bauman

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<mask> (April 16, 1922 – September 20, 2005) was an American first baseman in professional baseball who played primarily in the low minor leagues. He is best remembered for his time with the Roswell Rockets of the Class C Longhorn League, for whom he hit 72 home runs in 1954, setting a professional baseball record that stood until 2001. Born in Welch, Oklahoma, he threw and batted left-handed, stood  tall and weighed . Early life
<mask> was born in Welch, Oklahoma, in 1922 to his father <mask>. and his mother Tennessee. He grew up in Oklahoma City and graduated from Capitol Hill High School in 1941. Professional baseball career
<mask> debuted in professional baseball with the Newport Dodgers in the Northeast Arkansas League in 1941. Hitting only three home runs in 59 games, he also went 0–10 as a pitcher when he was called up to the Little Rock Travelers in the Southern Association.During the winter of 1942, he played semi-professional ball. He served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1945, and was stationed at Naval Air Station Norman, where he taught physical fitness and played baseball. During that time, he married his high school sweetheart Dorothy and lived in Oklahoma. Upon his return in 1946, <mask> settled in with the Amarillo Gold Sox in the West Texas–New Mexico League. He led the circuit with 48 home runs, 159 runs batted in, and a .301 batting average. The following season, his home run totals went down, though his production went up. He hit just 38 homers, but batted .350 and drew 151 walks, and was signed by the Boston Braves.In 1948, <mask> played in the Braves organization, going 0 for 1 in Class AAA with the Milwaukee Brewers, and posting fair stats with the Class AA  Hartford Chiefs (.275, 55 BB, 10 HR in 276 AB), while splitting time with Ray Sanders . It was <mask>'s only time outside the low minors, and left it inconclusive as to whether he could play in the majors or not. The Braves tried to send him to the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association but wanted to cut his salary. After four years in the U.S. Navy, <mask> was tired of taking orders and walked away. "I told them that I could make more money selling 24-inch shoestrings on any corner in Oklahoma City", he said. During this era in baseball, most major leaguers did not make much money. <mask> returned to Oklahoma in 1949, signing on for three seasons with the semi-pro Elk City Elks.He also opened a service station on busy U.S. Highway 66 with business partner Jack Riley. The Elks did well, especially in 1949 and 1950, and <mask> was a crowd favorite, known simply as "<mask>." Fans from western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle flocked to watch him knock home runs over the unique red rock wall of Ackley Park. By 1951, the oil-boom economy and the team had begun to lag, though, and <mask> decided to move on. At 30, <mask> joined up with the Class C Longhorn League for 1952, signing with the Artesia Drillers. During that year, his triple crown stats were .375-50-157, good enough to lead the league in homers, RBI, and walks (148). The next year, he led the league in walks (130), runs scored (135), and home runs (53), while maintaining a high average.After the season, he moved to Roswell. The Roswell Rockets' ballpark had a right field wall that was 329 feet from home. It was a prime target for <mask>, who was a left-handed pull hitter with an uppercut swing. In 1954, <mask> won the triple crown and also led the league in runs and walks for Roswell. In 138 games, he had 199 hits in 498 at bats for a .400 average. He also drove in 228 runs and walked 150 times. He hit 35 doubles, 3 triples, and 72 home runs – the latter, a professional baseball record that stood until Barry Bonds topped it in 2001.The previous record had been 69, and <mask> hit 13 home runs in the last 14 games to break the mark. He also became the first professional player to hit 50 homers in three straight seasons. "That summer the ball looked this big," he later said, circling an area the size of a ripe cantaloupe with his hands. Roswell was a small town, and Bauman was the biggest local attraction since the 1947 crash and suspected alien landing. After each home run fans pushed dollar bills through the fence at which the game would be stopped for a few minutes to collect all the money. <mask> could not duplicate his 1954 season in 1955, hitting 46 home runs with a batting average of .336. The following season, he played just 52 games and hit 17 homers.He retired in 1956 at age 34. For his professional baseball career, <mask>'s statistics were: 1,019 games, 982 runs scored, 1,166 hits, 337 home runs, 1,057 runs batted in, 974 walks, and a .337 batting average. Between his contracts, his business, and the cash fans gave him for home runs, <mask> made more money than some major league players. However, he always wondered if he could have made the majors himself if he had not spent three years of his career playing semi-pro ball. Later life and legacy
After his baseball career, <mask> continued to run the service station which he had started operating during the last years of his playing career. He lived in Roswell and died there on September 20, 2005. He was survived by his wife Dorothy.The <mask> Home Run Award is given out annually since 2002 to the minor league baseball player with the most home runs. Science fiction writer Harry Turtledove made <mask> the central character of his humorous short story "The Star and the Rockets". The longtime ballpark in Roswell, in which Bauman played, is now named <mask> Bauman Baseball Stadium. The address is 900 Block East Poe
Roswell, New Mexico, 88201. References

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