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<mask> (; born 21 October 1930) is a former Soviet and Russian politician. He served as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union through the offices of chairman of the Committee on the Operational Management of the Soviet economy (28 August – 25 December 1991) and chairman of the Inter-republican Economic Committee (20 September – 14 November 1991). Responsible for overseeing the economy of the Soviet Union during the late Gorbachev Era, he was the last head of government of the Soviet Union, succeeding Valentin Pavlov. After graduating in the 1950s, <mask> began his political career in the Ministry of Aviation Industry in the 1970s. During the Brezhnev Era he became Minister of Aviation Industry, a Central Committee member, and Minister of Machine-Tool and Tool Building Industry. When Nikolai Tikhonov's Second Government was dissolved, Mikhail Gorbachev appointed him deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers in Nikolai Ryzhkov's Ryzhkov's First Government. He left all posts in the central government in 1990 to focus in his post as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR.He faced several cabinet difficulties during his tenure, and supported the majority of Boris Yeltsin's policies. Having opposed Yeltsin's secessionist policies during his tenure as Soviet Premier, he was removed from his post as Russian SFSR Premier and succeeded in his post by acting Premier Oleg Lobov. When he became Premier of the Soviet Union on 28 August 1991, <mask> opposed some of Yeltsin's policies which led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. After <mask> resigned as Soviet Premier, he continued to work for the Yeltsin administration as the Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Community until his resignation in 1994. During the 2007 legislative election <mask> ran as a candidate for the Agrarian Party of Russia. Early life and career
<mask> was born on 21 October 1930 in Baktyzino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and graduated from the Kazan Aviation Institute in 1954 as a mechanical engineer. In 1959 <mask> became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).During his tenure at the Gorky Aviation Plant (Gorky is now Nizhny Novgorod), where he started in 1954, he advanced from the lowest level to become the plant's foreman from 1971 to 1974. <mask> then served as Deputy Minister of Aviation Industry, and was later appointed Minister of Aviation Industry in 1981 in Nikolai Tikhonov's first government. He served briefly as Minister of Machine-Tool and Tool Building Industry of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1981. At the 26th Congress <mask> was elected to the Central Committee (CPSU). In 1985, during Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, <mask> was appointed deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Machine-Building Bureau of the Council of Ministers in Nikolai Ryzhkov's first and second government. He served in these posts until he was appointed Premier of the Russian SFSR in 1990. In 1986, he served as head of a government commission into the Chernobyl Disaster

Russian premiership

Appointment
The election of a Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), literally Premier of the Russian SFSR, was not considered a very important event; the Premier was elected following the election of the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, the Supreme Soviet's deputy chairman, and after a debate on Russian agriculture.Boris Yeltsin, the chairman of the Russian SFSR Supreme Soviet, was ordered to select candidates for the post of Premier to the Supreme Soviet. Mikhail Bocharov, a successful businessman and leader of the cooperative movement, rector of the Moscow Aviation Institute Yuri Ryzhkov, and <mask> were chosen as the candidates. Ryzhkov withdrew his candidacy before the first round of voting was finished. During the election Bocharov revealed his radical economic reform plan to the Supreme Soviet deputies; in it industry would be privatised, and subsidies to unprofitable enterprises would cease in a 100 Days reform package. <mask> did not have any similar economic reform plans, but was widely considered to be Yeltsin's favourite for the post. In the first round of voting <mask> earned 119 votes, while Bocharov earned 86 votes. To be elected to the post, a candidate needed to win over half of the vote; neither <mask> or Bocharov succeeded in this.Seeing that <mask> was Yeltsin's favourite, and had won more votes than Bocharov, <mask> ran unchallenged in the second election round, and was thus elected by a large margin. Gorbachev tried to break the <mask>–Yeltsin alliance but to no avail. In 1989, Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from 14 January to 28 August 1991, had gathered together enough information on the errors and omissions of <mask> to weaken his position as Deputy Premier. <mask> never forgave Pavlov and relations between the two grew colder when Pavlov became the Prime Minister. <mask>'s government

Silayev repeatedly opined that if he ever was given conflicting instructions by the Premier of the Soviet Union and Yeltsin, he would always "observe the laws of the RSFSR", meaning he would obey Yeltsin. During his tenure as Premier, <mask> was never the de facto leader of the government cabinet, and was loyal to Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet. In contrast to his predecessor, Aleksandr Vlasov, <mask> tried to modernise the Russian Government.<mask> decided to break with the old Soviet nomenklatura system of electing cabinet members by electing members using an "objective" and "scientific" basis. To accomplish this, <mask> asked professional psychologists to interview candidate cabinet members. Only 14 of the 200 cabinet candidates were recommended for a post in the government cabinet; even so, several of the candidates were given a post in the new government. All candidate members were selected by either <mask>, Yeltsin, or the Supreme Soviet. <mask>'s government lacked ideological unity, and several conservative members were elected to the cabinet in July 1990, among them Oleg Lobov and Gennadii Kulik. In November 1990 Grigory Yavlinsky resigned from his cabinet post, citing the failure of the 500 Days Programme. However, some commentators believe Yavlinsky resigned because of frequent conflict between him and other cabinet members.RSFSR Minister of Finance Boris Fyodorov resigned on 5 December 1990, and accused the First Deputy Premiers of taking important financial decisions on behalf of the ministry and him as minister behind his back. Lobov, the First Deputy Premier in charge of regional development, had become a de facto leader of the cabinet. Lobov was Yeltsin's favourite, and tried to weaken <mask>'s position within the cabinet. With the consent of the Supreme Soviet <mask> established a 16-member Presidium for the cabinet. Another problem facing <mask> was that the Supreme Soviet was usurping the power of the executive branch by strengthening the legislative branch. To accomplish this the Supreme Soviet established duplicated entities, such as the Committee for Mass Media, which duplicated the functions of the Ministry of Mass Media. Viktor Kisin, the Minister of Industry, told the press that the only employee of his ministry was in fact himself.In July 1990 <mask> agreed to create parallel executive-legislative administrative bodies. In December 1990 the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR entrusted <mask> and his government to create a new plan for economic reform. The plan was finished in April 1991, and was referred to as the "Yeltsin–Silayev Plan". The plan was heavily influenced by the 500 Days Programme, and supported privatisation and the marketisation of the economy. The reform plan was criticised by an official from the State Committee on Economic Reform of the central government; he called the plan "a statement of intents"; instead of an economic reform, he called it a "manifesto". A Supreme Soviet deputy noted the proposed reform lacked real statistical insight. Even so, the proposed reform received a majority in a Supreme Soviet vote; Yeltsin's supporters knew that his economic reform proposal had to be accepted before the July presidential election.Following the July presidential election the Russian government resigned, and the post of premier was once again up for election. <mask> had strong competitors for the post, such as Yurii Skokov, but won the election. Soviet premiership

The State Committee for the State of Emergency failed to arrest <mask> or any other high-standing Russian state officials during the August Coup. <mask> was one of several leading Russian SFSR politicians who flew to Gorbachev's summer house in the immediate aftermath of the failed coup. On 24 August the Russian SFSR Council of Ministers issued a decree transferring central government authority over economic and communications ministries to the RSFSR Government, and took control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and KGB archives. With the central government's authority greatly weakened, Gorbachev established a four-man committee, led by <mask>, that included Grigory Yavlinsky, Arkady Volsky, and Yuri Luzhkov, to elect a new Cabinet of Ministers. This committee was later transformed into the Committee on the Operational Management of the Soviet economy (COMSE), also chaired by <mask>, to manage the Soviet economy.On 28 August 1991 a Supreme Soviet temporarily gave the COMSE the same authority as the Cabinet of Ministers, and <mask> became the Soviet Union's de facto Premier. COMSE was quickly surpassed in authority by the Inter-republican Economic Committee (IEC). Its function was to coordinate economic policy across the Soviet Union. As Chairman of both COMSE and the IEC, <mask> presided over a quickly disintegrating Soviet Union. Further disintegration of the USSR led to the transformation of the IEC into the  (coordinates relations between the union republics and the republics that seceded from the USSR). On November 14 Silaev was appointed Chairman of the IEC - Prime Minister of the Economic Community. When he first took office, <mask> wanted to reduce the powers of the central government and give more powers to the Soviet Republics.This view changed; he demanded that Yeltsin give back much of the authority of the central government which he had usurped following the August Coup. In this he failed, and his position as Russian SFSR Premier was severely weakened as a result. Oleg Lobov, <mask>'s First Deputy Premier, led the anti-<mask> faction in the Russian SFSR Council of Ministers and managed to oust him on 26 September 1991; Lobov succeeded <mask> as acting Premier of the Russian SFSR. <mask>, as overseer of the economy, was given the task of initiating economic reforms in the Soviet Union in a way that suited both the central government and the Soviet republics. <mask> tried to maintain an integrated economy while initiating the marketisation of the economy. On 19 December COMSE was dissolved by a presidential Russian SFSR decree. Оn 25 December 1991 Gorbachev announced his resignation from the post of President of the USSR in connection with the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States and accordingly, the union government ceased to exist.Post-Soviet Russia
On 18 December 1991 <mask> became the Permanent Representative of Russia to the European Community in Brussels; he resigned from this post on 7 February 1994. In late 1994 <mask> became the President of the Machine-Building Association of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which consisted of more than a hundred civilian and military enterprises and associations, mostly of Russian origin. He became a member of the Ecological Movement "Cedar" in 1995. Since 1998, he has been President of Industrial Machine, an industrial and financial group; he has simultaneously headed the National Committee, which promotes economic cooperation with Latin America. On 26 September 2002 <mask> became Chairman of the Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers. His wife died on 18 March 2006. During the 2007 legislative election <mask> ran as a candidate for the Agrarian Party, but failed to get elected.Recognition
<mask> has been awarded an Order of Lenin on two different occasions—one in 1971, and another during a closed session of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1975, when he was also awarded a Hero of Socialist Labour. He was awarded a Lenin Prize in 1972. In 1981 he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution and in 2002 the National Prize of Peter the Great. On 19 October 2000 and on 21 October 2005 <mask> was awarded the Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation. References

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<mask> a.k.a. "El Niño Prodigio de Guayama" and "<mask>" (August 4, 1942 – March 3, 1983), was a Puerto Rican musician, singer, actor and composer of Boleros. Among the singers who have interpreted his musical compositions are Johnny Albino, Héctor Lavoe and Daniel Santos. Early years

Poventud was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, to <mask>, a law enforcement officer in the San Juan Police Department, and Concepción Aponte, a seamstress. A descendant of Carlos Armstrong and Eulalia Pou, Poventud was the youngest of five siblings. From the age of five Poventud looked forward to trips to the town Plaza accompanied by his mother, dressed in clothes that she herself had sewn. While he was a student at the Escuela Parada Guamani, he suffered a spinal cord injury caused by a biking accident and was hospitalized for two years, which left him immobile at the age of 10.His mother was stricken by TB and died shortly after he was discharged from the hospital. When <mask>'s father gave him a guitar, he taught himself to play it. He re-arranged the guitar strings upside down since he was left handed. Soon <mask> was performing in his hometown of Guayama, winning awards, and singing before large audiences at the local radio station WHOM. He became known as El Niño Prodigio de Guayama (The Child Prodigy of Guayama). After his mother's death, <mask>'s father remarried. The young boy resented this, and resented his father's opposition to his musical career.Musical career
Victor Alonso of Spanoramic records became interested in <mask>'s musical work. Before his mother died, Alonso promised her that he would give Poventud a career opportunity. He made Poventud an offer that included the recording of Poventud's first record album titled Pobre Huerfanito (Poor Little Orphan) in New York City. At this point, <mask>'s father again resisted the boy's musical career, and his older brother Carlos argued with the father about <mask>'s future. After this argument, Carlos took young Poventud to live with him in New York City, and became his legal guardian. New York City

In New York, Poventud continued his primary and secondary education at P.S. 93 Elementary School, then at Joan of Arc High School.<mask> wrote his first composition at age 14 titled Ya No Soy Un Niño. (I'm Not a Child Anymore). His primary inspirations were his deceased mother, his new reality in New York, a growing romanticism, and the melancholy of diaspora - a nostalgia for the island and the people that he'd left behind. In 1956, still at the age of 14, <mask> was invited to sing in the wedding of Grace Kelly and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. <mask> made his professional debut in El Teatro Puerto Rico, where he sang the songs he'd written in his mother's memory: Soy un Huerfanito (I'm a Little Orphan), De Que Me Sirve la Vida (What's the Use of Living), and Hechame a Mi la Culpa (Blame Me). <mask> continued to make further presentations at the theater with Yomo Toro y su Conjunto playing Rock 'n Roll in English, and singing Boleros in Spanish. His also sang Rock 'n Roll songs such as  "Prometo Recordarte" (I Promise to Remember You).He made two appearances in a local New York television show, in which he sang "De Boca a Boca" (Mouth to Mouth) and several other Rock 'n Roll numbers. <mask> participated in a comedy sketch with Mexican comedian Tin Tan and was invited by the comedian to join his act in Mexico, which he did, and there they recorded an album based on their act. While in Mexico, he appeared and sang in Around the World in 80 Days, a movie based on a Jules Verne novel. Also in Mexico, he participated in five recordings with the musical trio El Trio Los Panchos. In 1961, he returned to New York and married his high school sweetheart Norma Iris Guzman, with whom he had two children. In 1964, <mask> filled in for Johnny Albino as a CBS musician with El Trio Los Panchos, when Albino could not sing because of a voice ailment. This occurred during the recording of "More Amor" with Eydie Gorme.<mask> went on to record the album Los Panchos by Special Request, a compilation of love songs recorded in English for CBS, with Albino. He also, participated as the main guitarist and voice accompaniment in the recording of "Grandes Exitos de Johnny Albino con Los Panchos" with Albino. In 1965 the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a Puerto Rican named José "Chegui" Torres, went to see one of <mask>'s performances at Mexico's El Teatro Lirico and they became friends. Eventually they were both invited to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, where Torres sang "Un Poco Mas" accompanied by <mask> and his guitar. <mask> returned to New York, attended Boricua College in the Bronx, and became politically involved in the Puerto Rican independence movement around this time. Together with his trio the <mask>ud y Su Trío, succeeded as a bolerista. He tried his hand at singing Salsa and Ballads in the late sixties and early seventies, working with various "guitar trios" throughout New York.In 1974 he agreed to participate in the album The Mambo Boys Classics together with Al Abreu (sax), Manny Duran (trumpet), Manny Corchado (percussion), Tito Puente (timbales), Ozzie Torrens (conga), Charlie Palmieri (piano) and Louie Ramirez (vibes). Louie Ramirez and Chico Mendoza arranged the Salsa session, while Hector Garrido arranged the ballads. <mask> and Bobby Capó sang "Tan Felices". Poventud also recorded with Capo in "El Bardo" and with Tito Puente in the Al Ladito Tuyo albums. Che Guevara Speaks
In 1975, <mask> and José Glóro provided the musical background for Che Guevara Speaks, a recording of an interview with Ernesto "Che" Guevarra before Guevara was sent to Bolivia. Poventud had an accident two days before the recording and showed up with and injured thumb that was held in place with a metal pin and stitches. Despite this injury, Poventud played an accordion for the occasion.In 1976, <mask> made the arrangements and was the first guitarist in Pepe and Flora's album En La Lucha. That same year, he also participated in the protests in favor of Puerto Rican independence in front of the United Nations Building in New York. In 1978 Gilberto Monroig, a member of Tito Puente's Orchestra, and <mask> recorded various songs. Among them were Que Chevere and Malcriada. Que Chevere was often played on Radio WADO. Niegalo
<mask>'s interpretation of the song Niegalo (Deny it) resulted he being invited to appear at Mexico's El Teatro Lirico. The song Niegalo was also interpreted by Chago Alvarado in Peru.In 1978, Poventud also recorded Alvarado's Me Cansó tu Historia (I'm Tired of your Story). Another song that received international recognition was Tite Curet Alonso's Tu Mente (Your Mind) interpreted by Poventud. Tu Mente won the Billboard Award for Best Latin Artist in 1977. Another Puerto Rican singer, Daniel Santos, recorded Poventud's Si Yo Fuera Millonario (If I Were a Millionaire). The jibaro song, Joven Contra Viejo (Young Against Old) featured Héctor Lavoe and Daniel Santos settling their age-based differences on-stage, but not without a heavy dose of humor and (yet again) Yomo Toro's cuatro music as a backdrop. It included a song from Poventud Una Pena en La Navidad. (A Pain in Christmas).Later years

Poventud lived in TriBeCa, a neighborhood in lower Manhattan, New York. During his last years he performed at the Chibcha Restaurant in Queens. One of his songs, Eres todo para Mi was released in 1983. He died on March 3, 1983 at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York and was buried in Guayama, the place of his birth. He is survived by his wife Norma Iris Guzman and his daughters Kaluska and Yolanda <mask>. Selected compositions

Among <mask>'s many musical compositions, which can be found in libraries, are the following:
Che Guevara Speaks - (Poventud provided the musical background)- 2 editions published between 1973 and re-leased in 2000 in Spanish and held by 17 libraries worldwide. <mask> <mask>, Tu Mente; <mask> <mask>, Tu Mente and El Bardo-Recorded at Orfeon in Mexico
<mask>, Al Ladito Tuyo - Recorded at Milly Latino
Miguel Poventud, Eres Todo En mi - Recorded at WS Latino
Have a Good Time - Recorded at Mapa records
De Parranda - Recorded at Orfeon in NYC

In 1997, Yomo Toro re-released Fuikiti and Una Pena en la Navidad with original compositions by <mask> in an album titled Celebremos Navidad (Let us Celebrate Christmas), produced by Rachel Faro and Sammy Figueroa.The album won the "Indie Award Best Latin Album" and the "Paoli Prize Best Christmas Album" award. In 2009, Toro once more released the album Fuikiti, which included Poventud's compositions Esta Navidad (This Christmas); Otra Navidad Sin Ti (Another Christmas Without You); Despierta, Despierta (Wake Up, Wake Up); and
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<mask> (born September 22, 1957) is an American ice hockey coach for the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team. He is a former National Hockey League (NHL) player who appeared in 669 NHL regular season games between 1980 and 1990. He also played for the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic team. Amateur career
As a teenager, <mask> attended James Madison Memorial High School, where he was on the hockey team. He then played for the University of Wisconsin–Madison ice hockey team for three years under his father, legendary coach <mask>. In 1977, during his first year at the university, he helped the Badgers win the NCAA national championship. He was the first Badger to win the WCHA Rookie of the year.He went on to become the school's leading goal scorer and second all-time scorer. <mask> was also a two time All-American. His younger brother, Peter, also played at the university. International and professional career
<mask> made his international debut with the United States national team as an 18-year-old in 1976, when he played in 11 training games for the 1976 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team coached by his father. He represented the United States in 13 international tournaments (including the 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments and the 1981, 1984 and 1987 Canada Cup). He was a star player on the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic Hockey team at the 1980 Lake Placid winter games. Playing for the United States against the Soviet Union, <mask> scored two of the four goals in the Team USA 4–3 victory.His first goal, scored with one second left in the game's first period, led to the Soviet coach taking out his goalie, Vladislav Tretiak, who was considered the best goalie in the world at the time; years later, when <mask> asked Soviet defenseman Slava Fetisov, now an NHL teammate, about the decision, he was simply told, "Coach crazy". He also scored in the third period to tie the game at 3–3. The team then defeated Finland to capture the gold medal, with <mask> assisting on the game-winning goal and scoring the insurance goal with less than four minutes remaining in the game. <mask> was named team MVP. <mask> went on to play professional hockey in the NHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, St. Louis Blues, and New Jersey Devils. He played in the 1984 NHL All Star game as the Whalers representative and served as the Whalers' captain in 1983–85. He also played two seasons with Milan Saima SG in Italy and a final season in Austria before retiring in 1992.He briefly came out of retirement to play two games for Team USA in the 1998 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships qualifying tournament at the age of 41, where he helped Team USA retain its position in the World Championships' Pool A. In 2010, thirty years after winning the Olympic gold medal as a player, <mask> coached the United States women's national ice hockey team, which won a silver medal in the Vancouver games. On February 9, 2019, the University of Wisconsin retired #10 during a pre-game presentation at the Kohl Center. <mask> was the first player to have his number retired. Coaching career
<mask> is the head coach of the University of Wisconsin–Madison women's ice hockey team, a position he has held since 2002. The team won its first NCAA national championship on March 26, 2006. They repeated as national champions in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2019 and 2021.Prior to coaching the women's team, <mask> was an assistant coach for the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team from 1996 until 2002. <mask> has won the following awards and championships as head coach:
 6× National Champion (2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2018–19, 2020–21)
 8× WCHA Regular Season Champion (2005–06, 2006–07, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20)
 8× WCHA Tournament Champion (2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2018-19)
 4× AHCA Coach of the Year (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011)
He served as an assistant coach for the American national men's hockey team in 2000 and 2002. On July 6, 2006, he was named head coach of the American women's team as part of a general reorganization of the program, leading the women's hockey team to a silver medal at the 2010 Olympics. <mask> coached the Madison Monsters minor league hockey team during their inaugural 1995–96 season. *<mask> spent the 2009–10 season coaching the US Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team, finishing with a silver medal at XXI Winter Games. NCAA National Title Game Appearances
 2006 - Wisconsin 3 vs. Minnesota 0
 2007 - Wisconsin 4 vs. Minnesota-Duluth 1
 2008 - Wisconsin 0 vs. Minnesota-Duluth 4
 2009 - Wisconsin 5 vs. Mercyhurst 0
 2011 - Wisconsin 4 vs. Boston University 1
 2012 - Wisconsin 2 vs. Minnesota 4
 2017 - Wisconsin 0 vs. Clarkson 3
2019 - Wisconsin 2 vs. Minnesota 0
2021 - Wisconsin 2 vs. Northeastern 1 OT

In popular culture
Michael Cummings played <mask> in the 1981 TV movie Miracle on Ice. <mask>'s son, <mask>, played for the men's hockey team at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.He coaches his daughter, Mikayla, who plays for the women's hockey team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His other son, <mask>, played for the men's hockey team at Augsburg College, and now serves as an assistant coach on the Augsburg men's hockey team. His other daughter, Megan, also plays hockey for the women's team at Augsburg College. Eric Peter-Kaiser portrayed him in the 2004 Disney film Miracle. Peter-Kaiser was playing college hockey for SUNY Potsdam when he got the part. Awards and achievements
 2011 Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to hockey in the United States. <mask> was inducted into the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001 and the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004.He completed his B.A. degree in kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin in 1994. Played in NHL All-Star Game (1984)
 WCHA Freshman of the Year (1977)
 WCHA Most Valuable Player (1979)
United States National Team Coach
 2000 Men’s World Championship (Assistant)
 2002 Men’s World Championship (Assistant)
 2006 Women’s Four Nations Cup (Head)
 2007 Women’s World Championship (Head)
 2007 Women’s Under-22 Select Team (Head)
 2008 Women’s Under-18 Select Team (Head)
 2010 Women's Olympic Team (Head)

He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003. Career statistics

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See also
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External links

 <mask>'s hockeydraftcentral.com profile
 Profile at Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame

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<mask> (; born April 3, 1938) is a Romanian jurist and politician. A former member of the Democratic Party (PD) and of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest in 1990 and from 1992 to 1996, and for Brașov County from 1996 to 2004. In the Petre Roman cabinet, he was Ministry of Justice from 1990 to 1991. In the Theodor Stolojan cabinet, he was Minister of the Interior from 1991 to 1992. In the <mask>, Radu Vasile and Mugur Isărescu cabinets, he was Minister of National Defense from 1996 to 2000. Biography

Legal career and entry into politics
Born in Răchiți, Botoșani County, into a family of teachers, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1958, earning his doctorate there in 1979. From 1958 to 1963, <mask> was a consulting arbitrator at the Brașov Arbitration Court.From 1963 to 1965 and from 1966 to 1968, he was legal adviser at a Brașov tractor factory. In the interim, he was a judge at the city's courthouse. From 1968 to 1971, he was a consulting and then counselling arbitrator at the central arbitration court in Bucharest. From 1971 to 1977, he was legal adviser at the Foreign Trade Ministry, rising to chief legal adviser during that period. From 1977 to 1990, he was a research associate at the Romanian Academy's Institute of World Economy. From 1980 to 1987, he was associate professor at the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy and the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. From 1985 to 1989, he was a temporary adviser to the Legislative Council.He is the author of over 150 published works. <mask> was never a member of the ruling Romanian Communist Party. Entering politics after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, from March to June 1990, he was an expert to the constitutional committee of the Provisional National Unity Council, the country's temporary legislative body. Elected to the Chamber in May as a National Salvation Front member, he served there from mid-June until the end of July, when he resigned. This was followed over the next two years by two ministerial stints: Justice under Prime Minister Petre Roman and Interior under PM Theodor Stolojan. It was during his time at the Interior Ministry that debates about its demilitarisation began. Meanwhile, in 1992 he became university professor, teaching international commercial law, and the following year he became president of the commercial arbitration court within the Defense Ministry.Joining the new Democratic Party, he returned to the Chamber in 1992, where he was on the defense, public order and national security committee (1992), and president of the committee for investigating abuses, corruption and for petitions (1992–1996). In 1995 he rose to vice president of the PD. As Defense Minister and subsequently
Again elected in 1996, he was on the following committees: investigating abuses, corruption and petitions (1996–2000); culture, art and mass media (1998); European integration (1998–2000); and defense, public order and national security (2000). During this period, the Romanian Democratic Convention governed Romania, and he was Defense Minister in three successive cabinets, from December 1996 to March 2000 (with a hiatus in February–April 1998), and was also interim Reform Minister in December 1998. <mask>, who had no military experience or expertise, managed the Romanian Army as part of his political intrigues, granting promotions to lower-ranking officers on political criteria. Two crises marked his tenure as Defense Minister. The first came at the beginning of 1999, when the third Mineriad saw Jiu Valley miners march toward Bucharest.Reversing a differentiation of police and military roles that had begun to take shape prior to 1996, <mask> announced that the army was available to intervene domestically, leading to serious strain between him and the officer corps. The second occurred shortly thereafter, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Despite widespread domestic criticism, Parliament approved NATO's demand for unlimited use of Romanian airspace, with <mask> asserting Romania's determination "to be alongside and together with NATO". The period also coincided with a renewed effort to bring to justice those who had fired on unarmed civilians during the Revolution. On the one hand, <mask> encouraged the 1997 opening of army files relating to the event, saying it would free them from the stigma of suspicion and that investigations should proceed unhampered. On the other hand, following the 1999 conviction of Generals <mask> and Mihai Chițac for ordering shooting while repressing the uprising in Timișoara, he stressed that the two personally "did not harm anybody" and "played a decisive role" in turning the army to the side of the Revolution. This was characteristic of the PD's attempts to find extenuating circumstances and prevent justice from taking its course.When he left the PD in early 2000, he also resigned from his ministerial post, and sat in the Chamber as an independent until the end of the year. <mask> was elected to a final term in 2000. He sat as a PNL member until April 2002, then as an independent until January 2003, when he returned to the PD. He was on the human rights, religious affairs, and national minorities committee. In 2008, prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Directorate opened a criminal case against <mask>, charging him with bribery and abuse of office for a 1999 sale of land in Pipera at well below the market rate from the Defense Ministry to businessman Gigi Becali. In May 2013, the High Court of Cassation and Justice convicted <mask>, Becali, and  in the case, with Babiuc sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the maximum-security Rahova Prison. Following a court ruling, he was freed in February 2014.He is married and has one child. See also
 List of corruption scandals in Romania

Notes

References
Henry F. Carey, Romania since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society. Lexington Books, 2004. Tom Gallagher, Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform, and the Theft of a Nation. New York University Press, 2005. . Living people
1938 births
University of Bucharest alumni
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Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies faculty
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Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians
Romanian Ministers of Justice
Romanian Ministers of Interior
Romanian Ministers of Defence
Romanian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Romania
Romanian politicians convicted of corruption

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title: Colin Linden

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<mask> (born 16 April 1960) is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter and record producer. <mask> plays acoustic and electric guitar, specializing in slide guitar, country blues, and ragtime fingerpicking. He frequently collaborates with country and folk performers. He is a member of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings with Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson. He has worked with Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, T-Bone Burnett, Kevin Gordon, <mask>, Emmylou Harris, Leon Redbone, Rita Chiarelli, Chris Thomas King, The Band, Keb' Mo', Charles Esten and Bob Dylan. Career

Early years
<mask> was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. When he was still an infant, his family moved to White Plains, New York.The ten-year-old <mask> heard rock performers in New York venues, such as Van Morrison, the Flying Burrito Brothers, James Taylor, John Mayall, Johnny Winter and Taj Mahal. 1970s
When the family moved back to Toronto, <mask> became interested in performers such as Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell and Howlin' Wolf. When Howlin' Wolf played at Toronto's Colonial Tavern, the then-11-year-old <mask> spent three hours talking with the elder bluesman. He began performing at a local coffee house, the Fiddler's Green Coffee House, singing and strumming a guitar alongside his two older brothers Jay and Harley. By 1973, <mask> began learning how to fingerpick. When <mask> met David Wilcox, <mask> decided to learn how to play slide guitar. Wilcox gave 140 blues albums to young <mask>, to help <mask> to learn about blues styles.Paul Mills, the producer of Sylvia Tyson's Touch the Earth show, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival and an outlet on CBC Radio for acoustic roots music, booked <mask> in 1975 . At the Winnipeg Folk Festival, <mask> met Mississippi bluesman Sam Chatmon, and later that year made a pilgrimage to the U.S. to meet South Detroit's Sippie Wallace. North Carolina's Peg Leg Sam, and Mississippi's Son House. In 1976 Wilcox had asked <mask> to join his band, the Teddy Bears, which meant that <mask> had to learn to play the electric guitar. In 1977, he played solo gigs and did his first western Canadian tour, which was booked by Holger Petersen. In Edmonton, he met then 13-year-old <mask>, also a budding blues performer. In the late 1970s, <mask> formed his own group, the Group du Jour, which played a mix of covers and a few <mask> originals, and a group called the Lucky Charms, which was featured on his first album "<mask> Live!!!!!"(1980) . In 1979, <mask> recorded the Sam Chatmon album. 1980s
In August 1980, <mask> recorded his album <mask> Live! He also played as a sideman for Joe Mendelson, Willie P. Bennett, Gwen Swick and Amos Garrett. His second album, <mask> and the Immortals was released by Stony Plain Records in 1986. <mask> has acknowledged the influence of the Band; in the early 1980s, <mask> met three of its original members, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm. Members of the Band contributed to <mask>'s recordings, and songs like "When the Spirit Comes" got radio airplay and "Miles Away from You" made the rock charts.When the Spirit Comes was released by A & M in 1987. <mask> signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and did producing for Mendelson Joe, Morgan Davis, Jackson Delta and Hans Thessink. 1990s

In 1991, Bruce Cockburn recruited <mask> as a sideman, and for three-and-a-half years, <mask> played guitar for Cockburn. Subsequently, <mask> became his co-producer. <mask>'s blues album of 1993, entitled South at Eight, North at Nine, distributed by Sony Music Entertainment in Canada, won a Juno Award in the blues and gospel category. Guests on the album included Bruce Cockburn and Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm of the Band. As <mask> got more interested in gospel records, he began taking vocal lessons from Bourbon Tabernacle Choir singer Dave Wall, such as breathing and warm-up exercises.In 1996, <mask> won a Juno in the blues and gospel category for his producing Lennie Gallant's The Open Window. <mask> co-wrote <mask>'s hit song "Real Stuff". That same year, he joined with Tom Wilson of Junkhouse and Stephen Fearing to form Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. This band was a tribute to Canadian singer-songwriter Willie P. Bennett. After the album High or Hurtin''', on True North Records, their second album, Kings of Love, won a Juno. In February 1998 <mask> shared the Maple Blues Producer of the Year award with <mask>. A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf was released by Telarc Records in 1998.In 1999, A Tribute to Howlin' Wolf was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Traditional Blues Album. In 1999, <mask> received the Toronto Arts Award. 2000s
In 2000 <mask> won three Juno awards: in the category "Blues", as the producer of Ray Bonneville's Gust of Wind; in the category "Roots and Traditional: Solo Artist", as the producer of Bruce Cockburn's Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu; And in the "Roots and Traditional: Group" category, as a member of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. In 2000, <mask> produced Sue Foley's Love Comin' Down and Paul Reddick and the Sidemen's Rattle Bag. For the album Big Mouth, a more acoustic recording, <mask> recruited Keb' Mo', Bruce Cockburn, and other musicians. In 2002 Big Mouth won a Juno for Best Blues Album. In 2002, an album <mask> worked on, Timeless, won the Grammy for Country Album of the Year.In 2002, he co-produced Stephen Fearing's That's How I Walk and Bruce Cockburn's You've Never Seen Everything. In 2003, a third Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album, BARK, was released, and in 2006 they released Let's Frolic and Let's Frolic Again. In 2003, he had a minor role in the film "Intolerable Cruelty" as a singing, guitar playing minister and was featured performing Paul Simon's "The Boxer" during the closing credits. 2010s
On 15 July 2013 <mask> joined Bob Dylan's band for eleven dates until 3 August 2013 [when Charlie Sexton rejoined Dylan's band], playing the first show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was featured on Diana Krall's album Glad Rag Doll in 2012 and Rhiannon Giddens's Tomorrow Is My Turn in 2014. <mask> has been a main musician, music producer, music director and songwriter for the ABC television show "Nashville" since its inception in 2012. He has performed electric, acoustic and slide guitar on most of the show's recorded musical numbers and appears regularly on screen in many of the live performance scenes.His primary residence has been in Nashville since the late 1990s. <mask> performed as part of the house band for a T Bone Burnett–produced gospel music concert at the White House on 14 April 2015. Following the end of Nashville, <mask> has been a member of star Charles Esten's band and has toured both the US and the UK with him. Personal life
<mask> married Janice Powers on 14 February 1988. Discography
Solo
 <mask> Live (1980)
 The Immortals (1986)
 When the Spirit Comes (1988)
 South at Eight, North at Nine (1993)
 Through the Storm, Through the Night (1995)
 Raised by Wolves (1997)
 Sad and Beautiful World (1975–1999) (1999)
 Big Mouth (2001)
 Southern Jumbo (2005)
 Easin' Back to Tennessee (2006)
 From the Water (2009)
 Still Live (2012)
 Rich in Love (2015)

 Compilation inclusions
 Orphans of God: A Tribute to Mark Heard (Fingerprint, 1996). <mask> contributed his version of "Dry Bones Dance", originally released as the title track of a 1990 Mark Heard album.Johnny's Blues: A Tribute to Johnny Cash'' (Northern Blues, 2003). <mask> contributed his version of "Big River".References

External links
 Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

1960 births
Living people
Canadian blues singers
Canadian blues guitarists
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Jewish Canadian musicians
Canadian male guitarists
Canadian record producers
Canadian songwriters
Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year winners
Musicians from Toronto
Writers from Toronto
Canadian folk rock musicians
Yellow Dog Records artists
Stony Plain Records artists

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title: Wassana Winatho

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<mask> (; born 30 June 1980, in Prachinburi), also known as <mask> and Vassanee Vinatho, is a Thai track and field athlete who specialises in the heptathlon and the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Thailand at the 2008 Summer Olympics and competed at five consecutive editions of the Asian Games (1998 to 2014). Having won medals internationally in combined events, sprints, hurdles and relays, she is widely regarded as the most versatile athlete in Southeast Asia. She is the current Thai record holder in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon, as well as having a share in the 4×400 metres relay record. <mask> has been particularly successful at the Southeast Asian Games, where her achievement include three heptathlon titles, three 400 m hurdles title, and a haul of three golds at the 2007 Games (with a heptathlon Games record of 5889 points). At the continental level, she has won pentathlon medals at the Asian Indoor Games and the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. Career
Winatho won her first junior medals at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships, twice finishing as runner-up to Irina Naumenko in 1997 and 1999 in the heptathlon.She made her senior debut at the 1998 Asian Games and she narrowly missed out on a medal, scoring 5630 points for fourth place. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 1999 Southeast Asian Games and won a 400 metres/400 m hurdles double at the following edition in 2001. She was fifth in the 400 m hurdles at the 2002 Asian Games. The 2003 Afro-Asian Games provided her an opportunity to compete against top African opposition. <mask> was her region's best performer in the 400 m – taking the bronze medal behind Estie Wittstock and Doris Jacob – and won a second bronze in the 400 m hurdles. Another hurdles bronze came at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships in Manila. Her final competition of the year was the 2003 Southeast Asian Games.Her attempt to retain her titles failed as she did not start the 400 m final, but she won silver in the 400 m hurdles behind Malaysia's Noraseela Mohd Khalid and anchored the Thai women's 4×400 metres relay team to the bronze medal. Making her fourth straight appearance at the regional event, <mask> took a clear victory in the 400 m hurdles at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games in November. She also helped the Thai women to second place in the relay. The following February she entered the indoor pentathlon at the 2006 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on home turf in Pattaya. She saw off challenges from Olga Rypakova and Liu Haili to claim the title with a competition record of 4431 points. The 2006 Asian Games saw her come fourth in the 400 m hurdles, beaten to the bronze by Mohd Khalid. She failed to finish the pentathlon at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games, but still won a medal in the relay, anchoring home the Thai team to a national indoor record of 3:38.25 minutes.<mask> won an unprecedented triple at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games held in Nakhon Ratchasima. She won golds for Thailand in the 400 m hurdles and the 400 m relay, but her best performance came in the heptathlon. Setting personal bests in every discipline but the 100 metres hurdles, she significantly improved upon her best with a total of 5889 points for a Thai and Games record. This was also the Olympic "B" standard, enabling her to compete at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. <mask> produced a pentathlon best and national record of 4184 points at the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, but she was pushed into second place in the final 800 metres event, ending up with the silver behind Irina Naumenko. She made her debut on the world stage at the Beijing Olympics in August, but she did not manage to finish the event and dropped out in the third round. She returned to regional success the year after, taking the pentathlon title at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games.She also came close to a triple defence at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games, taking the heptathlon and relay titles, but she was outrun by her Malaysian rival Mohd Khalid in the hurdles. Her appearance in the heptathlon at the 2010 Asian Games was cut short after she fell in the 100 m hurdles and did not finish the competition. In addition to her international medals, she has won numerous times at the Thailand National Games, including a heptathlon and 400 m hurdles double at the 2006 Thailand National Games, a 100 m hurdles/400 m hurdles/heptathlon triple at the 2007 Thailand National Games, and an individual title in the long jump in 2010. In 2011 SEA Games in Palembang, Winatho clinched her tenth gold medal after winning the heptathlon, scoring 5448 points. However, an attempt to add another gold in 400 meter hurdles was prevented by the event specialist Noraseela Mohd Khalid of Malaysia. She clocked a season best of 58.97s. At the 2013 SEA Games in Myanmar, Winatho won the gold in the 400 meter hurdles in dramatic fashion, overtaking Quach Thi Lan in the final 5 meters, and also won another heptathlon gold.However, her final attempt to win a medal in the Asian Games women's heptathlon, at the 2014 Games in Incheon, was also cut short, this time withdrawing between the shot put and the 200 meters events due to a knee injury. Winatho returned to winning ways at the 2017 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur, by claiming a bronze medal in the heptathlon, before retiring. References

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1980 births
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title: Charles Graddick

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<mask>. (born December 10, 1944 in Mobile), was the 42nd Attorney General of Alabama from 1979-1987. He later served as a Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of the U.S. state of Alabama. Background

<mask> graduated in 1963 from the all-male University Military School in Mobile. The institution was the forerunner of UMS-Wright Preparatory School. In 1967, he received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1970, <mask> obtained his Juris Doctor from the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, having been chosen the class president. In 1975, at the age of twenty-eight,  he was elected District Attorney of Mobile County.<mask>, who served as Alabama’s Attorney General from 1979 to 1987, has always been a proponent of the tough on crime mindset and lengthy sentences. Under his watch, Alabama's prison system became known as one of the harshest in the United States. He wrote Alabama’s infamous habitual offender law, which punishes people with a life sentence for drug and property crimes. He justified it by referring to all offenders as “career criminals”. However, those “career criminals” were mostly poor and Afro-american young males, who were sentenced in their late teens or early twenties to a mandatory life without parole for crimes like robbery, theft and burglary In 2019, the DOJ released a scathing report, citing overcrowding, widespread violence and corruption in Alabama’s prisons, and gave leaders a deadline to implement changes. Graddick made a career using inflammatory rhetoric about people in the criminal justice system. He infamously promised to “fry them until their eyeballs pop out and smoke comes out of their ears.” He maintains a zealous support for executions, despite known wrongful convictions and an appalling racial disparity on Alabama’s death row.As Attorney General, he blocked efforts to reduce the prison population and fought against rehabilitative programs. When he ran unsuccessfully for Governor, he promised to make sure Alabama prisons remained brutal for people serving time. “The next Governor needs to make sure our prisons look more like prisons and less like welcome centers,” he told a crowd of supporters. After almost 20 years in the private practice of law, he was appointed as circuit judge in 2004 and was elected twice thereafter without opposition. He Served as Presiding Judge for 10 years. After retirement from the State Court Bench, Judge <mask> was appointed Senior Judicial Advisor to the Mayor of Mobile and Director of Courts. In 1966, <mask> married the former Corinne Whiting.The couple has three children, <mask> Jr., Herndon Whiting, and Corinne and six grandchildren. 1986 gubernatorial race

The 1986 Alabama Democratic primary for governor featured Attorney General <mask> in a heated runoff with then Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley. <mask> won by a almost ten thousand votes, but the state Democratic party ruled that he had violated a party rule by encouraging Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary. The court later  instructed the Democratic Party either to hold another election or determine whether the crossover votes affected the outcome of the election. After a Party meeting the Party nominated Baxley. Like Texas, Georgia, and Arkansas, Alabama does not register voters by party. At that time, the Democratic party had never enforced such a rule in any election because Alabama was a one-party state.Many Alabama voters opposed the democratic party hierarchy action and therefore voted in protest against Baxley and for H. Guy Hunt, the Republican nominee. Though he was previously considered a token candidate, Hunt won easily and became the first Alabama Republican governor since Reconstruction. Hunt's election surprised many, since no living person had witnessed a Republican winning the election for governor of Alabama. The media had paid little attention to the Republican gubernatorial primaries, fully expecting that the GOP nominee would be the next loser in the general election. After the campaign for governor in 1986, <mask> established a statewide law practice. At the request of Governor Hunt in 1991 filled an unexpired one year term as district attorney for Montgomery County. He returned to private practice in 1992.Subsequently, Republican Governor Bob Riley appointed <mask> to fill the post left vacant when Judge William McDermott of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court died in office in May 2004. <mask> was elected in January 2005 to serve a six-year term in the same post. He was selected by his fellow circuit judges to serve as the presiding judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit until his retirement in 2017. Switching parties

In 2011, <mask> declared his candidacy for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, in the Republican primary held on March 13, 2012. Graddick opposed current chief justice, <mask>Chuck" Malone, and former Chief Justice Roy Moore. Both <mask> and Malone had lobbied Governor Robert J. Bentley for his appointment to replace then Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb, who stepped down before her term expired. Roy Moore held the chief justiceship from 2001 to 2003, when he was removed from office over the Ten Commandments dispute which received national attention.In a bid to return to his former position, in spite of all the pre-election day polls showing <mask> leading, Moore won nearly 51 percent of the ballots in the 2012 primary, having defeated both Malone and <mask>. Moore faced the Democrat Harry Lyon in the general election scheduled for November 6, 2012, only to be kicked off the ballot by the Democratic Party to be replaced by their hand-picked nominee, Robert Vance. Moore won the seat in the general election. In September of 2019, <mask> was appointed by Governor Kay Ivey to lead the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles as the Director of the agency. This was the first gubernatorial appointment to the directorship. Prior to <mask>'s appointment, directors were appointed by the three members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. References

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title: Damien Alamos

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<mask> (born July 30, 1990) is a French Muay Thai kickboxer. He is the WPMF European and World Muaythai Champion & Lumpinee stadium champion 140 lb. For his professional fighting career he is jointly managed by Numnoi and <mask>. He is a member of Singpatong Sitnumnoi and Impacts Bordeaux Clubs. Biography and career
At Lumpinee Stadium, Alamos became WPMF World Champion winning his bout against Iranian Abat Muaythaiacademy. He had a recent bout with Orono Wor Petchpun (World Champion, Lumpinee Champion, Thailand Champion, It's Showtime Champion), in which he was unsuccessful although he has plenty to offer in the future as one of France's rising stars in Muaythai. He became the first non-Thai to defend a Lumpinee title in September 2012.He was scheduled to rematch Houcine Bennoui at Time Fight 2 in Tours, France on October 6, 2012 but the fight was cancelled in order for Alamos to face Diesellek Aoodonmuang at Lumpinee on October 12, 2012. He lost to Diesellek via decision in a non-title fight. He lost a decision to the legendary Saenchai PKSaenchaimuaythaigym at Best of Siam 2 in Paris on November 22, 2012. <mask> rematched Lampard Sor. Khamsing in southern Thailand on February 8, 2013 and won with a second round high kick KO. He lost to Thongchai Sitthongsak via TKO at Lumpinee on March 8, 2013 in a non-title fight. He defeated Kongbeng Mor Ratanabandit by unanimous decision to win the WMC World Lightweight title (-135 lb) at Bangla Stadium on April 28, 2013.Alamos rematched Singsuriya Mor.Ratanabandit at Lumpinee on July 16, 2013 and won by KO in round two to make the second defence of his lightweight title. <mask> won the -65 kg/143 lb Thai Max tournament in Meyreul, France on October 19, 2013, defeating Crice Boussoukou and Tim Thomas by unanimous decision in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, before beating Houcine Bennoui by TKO due to a cut in the final. He was set fight Liam Harrison at Yokkao 8 in Bolton, England on March 8, 2014 but withdrew from the fight, claiming to have a hand injury, and was replaced by Houcine Bennoui. In 2014 <mask> has retired from the rings. Residing in Thailand he converted to Islam. On August 28, 2020, Alamos returned from retirement and signed up with ARENA FIGHT Championship to fight at AFC2 on December 12. Titles and accomplishments

Professional:
2013 THAI MAX Tournament champion
2013 WMC World Muaythai title (135 lbs)
2012 Lumpinee Stadium Super Lightweight Champion 140 lbs (1st title defence)
2012 W.P.M.F.World Muaythai Champion 63.500 kg (2nd title defence)
2012 Lumpinee Stadium Super Lightweight Champion 140 lbs
2011 W.P.M.F. World Muaythai Champion 63.500 kg (1st title defence)
2010 W.P.M.F. European Muaythai Champion 63.500 kg
2010 W.P.M.F. World Muaythai Champion 63.500 kg
2009 FFSCDA French Muay Thai Class A Champion (63.500 kg)

Muay Thai record

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| 2014-01-04 || Win ||align=left| Daoprakai Nor.Sripueng ||  Suk Singpatong + Sit Numnoi  || Phuket, Thailand || KO (Right Highkick) || 2 ||
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| 2013-10-19 || Win ||align=left| Houcine Bennoui || THAI MAX Tournament, Final || Meyreuil, France || TKO (cut) || 2 ||
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| 2013-10-19 || Win ||align=left| Tim Thomas || THAI MAX Tournament, Semi Final   || Meyreuil, France || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2013-10-19 || Win ||align=left| Crice Boussoukou || THAI MAX Tournament, Quarter Final   || Meyreuil, France || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2013-09-06 || Win ||align=left| Farmongkon Sor Jor Danrayong ||  Lumpinee Stadium  || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2013-07-16 || Win ||align=left| Singsuriya Mor Ratanabandit || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || KO (Left Hook) || 2 ||
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| 2013-05-17 || Win ||align=left| Singsuriya Mor Ratanabandit || Impacts Fight Night 3: Premium series || Bordeaux, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2013-04-28 || Win ||align=left| Kongbeng Mor Ratanabandit ||  Bangla Stadium 9th Birthday  || Phuket, Thailand || Decision (unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
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| 2013-03-08 || Loss ||align=left| Thongchai Sitsongpeenong || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || TKO (elbow) || 2 ||
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| 2013-02-08 || Win ||align=left| Lampard Sor.Khamsing || Muaythai Gala || Thailand || KO (high kick) || 2 ||
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| 2013-01-04 || Win ||align=left| Lamtong Tor.Ponchai ||  Bangla Stadium || Phuket, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-12-02 || Win ||align=left| Saksongkram Poptheeratum || Muaythai Gala  || Songkhla, Thailand || TKO (cut) || 2 ||
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2012-11-22 ||Loss ||align=left| Saenchai PKSaenchaimuaythaigym || Best of Siam 2 || Paris, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2012-10-12 || Loss ||align=left| Diesellek Aoodonmuang || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-09-07 || Win ||align=left| Aranchai Pran 26 || Lumpinee Champion Krikkrai Fight || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2012-08-11 || Win ||align=left| Tanachai Chor.Pradit || Muaythai Gala || Phattalung, Thailand || KO (Highkick) || 2 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-07-21 || Win ||align=left| Lampard Sor Khamsing ||Impacts Fights Night: Bangkok sur bassin || Bordeaux, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2012-06-01 || Win ||align=left| Alessio D'Angelo ||Impacts Fights Night || Bordeaux, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2012-04-30 || Win ||align=left| Chok Eminentair || Muaythai Gala - WPMF Championship || Surat Thani, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2012-03-30 || Loss ||align=left| Chok Eminentair || Muaythai Gala || Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-02-10 || Win ||align=left| Kongfah Uddonmuang || Kiatpet promotions, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2012-01-18 || Win ||align=left| Phet Sa Nguan || Muaythai Gala in Phuket || Phuket, Thailand || KO (Left Hook) || 3 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-10-23 || Win ||align=left| Fahmonkon Kor Chaiprayom || Gala Suk Kiatpech - Bangla Stadium || Phuket, Thailand || KO (Left Highkick) || 1 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-09-23 || Win ||align=left| Diesellek Aoodonmuang || Kiatphet Fight, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-07-12 || Win ||align=left| Seemanut Sor. Sarinya || Gala Suk Kiatpech || Phatthalung Province || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-04-14 || Win ||align=left| Dejsuriya Pumphanmuang || Siam Omnoi Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || KO (Highkick) || 4 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2011-03-06 || Win ||align=left| Apisak K.T Gym || TV7 Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2010-11-26 || Loss ||align=left| Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong || La Nuit des Champions 2010 || Marseilles, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2010-08-20 || Loss ||align=left| Pongsaklek Sitmorlambat || Eminentair Fight, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2010-04-24 || Win ||align=left| Niko Barbera Rocamora || Fight Night 1 || Bordeaux, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2010-04-10 || Loss ||align=left| Orono Wor Petchpun || Sherdana K-1 Gala || Sardinia, Italy || KO (Left elbow)|| 2 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2010-02-26 || Win ||align=left| Abass Ahmadi || Kiatphet Fight, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2009-12-04 || Win ||align=left| Petchbangpung Sakchatri || Kings Birthday || Bangkok, Thailand || KO || 3 ||
|-  style="background:#cfc;"
| 2009-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Thomas Adamandopoulos || La Nuit des Champions 2009 || Marseille, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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title: Cao Zhen

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<mask> (died April or May 231), courtesy name Zidan, was a military general of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was an adopted son of <mask>, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundation for Wei. After <mask>'s death and the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, <mask> served under <mask> and <mask>, the first two emperors of Wei. He is best known for leading a successful defence of Wei from the first two of a series of invasions by Wei's rival state, Shu Han, between 228 and 229. Family background
There are two accounts of <mask>'s origins. The first, from the Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) and Wei Shu (魏書; by Wang Chen), claimed that <mask> was a distant younger relative of <mask>, a warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and controlled the Han central government. <mask>'s father, <mask> (曹邵), was a close aide to <mask> and was known for his intelligence and loyalty.Around 190, when <mask> was raising an army to join the Guandong Coalition, he sent <mask> to recruit soldiers from the various commanderies. Huang Wan (黃琬), the Inspector of Yu Province at the time, plotted to assassinate <mask>. <mask> sacrificed his life to save <mask>. The second account, from the Weilue, mentioned that <mask>'s original family name was Qin (秦), and that he was adopted into the <mask> family. In this account, <mask>'s father was one Qin Bonan (秦伯南), who was a close friend of <mask>. Around 195, when <mask> was being attacked by soldiers under a rival warlord Yuan Shu, he took shelter in Qin Bonan's house. When the soldiers showed up and asked him where <mask> was, Qin Bonan claimed that he was <mask> and was killed by the soldiers.Out of gratitude to Qin Bonan for saving his life, <mask> adopted his children and allowed them to bear his family name. Service under <mask>
In any case, <mask> took pity on <mask>, adopted him and allowed him to live with one of his own sons, <mask>. One day, while <mask> was out hunting, he encountered a ferocious tiger which started chasing him. <mask> turned back and killed the tiger with a single arrow shot. <mask> was so impressed with <mask>'s bravery that he appointed his adopted son as an officer in the elite "Tiger and Leopard Cavalry" (虎豹騎) of his army. <mask> scored his first victory in battle when he defeated bandits in Lingqiu County (靈丘縣; east of present-day Lingqiu County, Shanxi). In recognition of his achievement, the Han imperial court enfeoffed him as the Marquis of Lingshou Village (靈壽亭侯).Hanzhong Campaign

Between 217 and 219, <mask> fought in Hanzhong Commandery against <mask>'s rival Liu Bei, who had launched a campaign to seize control of Hanzhong Commandery from <mask>. When Liu Bei sent Wu Lan (吳蘭), one of his officers, to lead troops to garrison at Xiabian County (下辯縣; northwest of present-day Cheng County, Gansu), <mask> ordered his cousin <mask> to lead an army to attack the enemy. Along with <mask> and <mask>, <mask> fought at Xiabian County and defeated Wu Lan. He was promoted to Central Resolute General (中堅將軍) for his achievement. When <mask> returned to Chang'an, <mask> appointed him as Commandant of the Central Army (中領軍). At the time, as his general Xiahou Yuan had been killed in action against Liu Bei's forces at the Battle of Mount Dingjun, <mask> was worried that Liu Bei would press on the attack at Yangping Pass (陽平關; in present-day Ningqiang County, Shaanxi). He commissioned <mask> as Army Protector Who Attacks Shu (征蜀護軍) and ordered him and Xu Huang to lead troops to attack Gao Xiang, an officer under Liu Bei, at Yangping Pass.<mask> and Xu Huang defeated Gao Xiang and drove him back. In 219, after a prolonged war against Liu Bei, <mask> eventually decided to give up defending Hanzhong Commandery so he withdrew all his forces. During the retreat, he sent <mask> to Wudu Commandery (武都郡; around present-day Cheng County, Gansu) to meet up with <mask> and relay his order for them to retreat to Chencang (陳倉; east of present-day Baoji, Shaanxi). Service under <mask>
Following <mask>'s death in March 220, his son <mask> succeeded him as the (vassal) King of Wei (魏王) and Imperial Chancellor (丞相) of the Eastern Han dynasty. <mask> appointed <mask> as General Who Guards the West (鎮西將軍) and ordered him to supervise military operations in Yong and Liang provinces in western China. He also elevated <mask> from the status of a village marquis to a district marquis under the title "Marquis of Dong District" (東鄉侯). During <mask>'s tenure, when one Zhang Jin (張進) started a rebellion in Jiuquan Commandery, <mask> ordered his subordinate Fei Yao to lead troops to quell the rebellion.Fei Yao succeeded in his mission and killed Zhang Jin. In late 220, <mask> usurped the throne from Emperor Xian, ended the Eastern Han dynasty, and established the state of Cao Wei with himself as the new emperor. Two years later, <mask> summoned <mask> to the Wei imperial capital, Luoyang, where he reassigned <mask> to be Senior General of the Upper Army (上軍大將軍), awarded him a ceremonial axe, and put him in charge of supervising military affairs throughout Wei. Battle of Jiangling

In 223, <mask> ordered <mask>, Xiahou Shang, Zhang He and others to lead Wei forces to attack Wei's rival state, Eastern Wu, while he personally stationed at Wan (宛; in present-day Nanyang, Henan) to provide backup. The Wei forces attacked and besieged Jiangling (江陵; present-day Jiangling County, Hubei), which was defended by the Wu general Zhu Ran and some 5,000 soldiers. The Wei forces managed to defeat Wu reinforcements led by Sun Sheng (孫盛), Pan Zhang and Yang Can (楊粲), who were trying to help Zhu Ran. During the siege, <mask> ordered his troops to dig tunnels, pile up earth to form small mounds, and build watchtowers to rain arrows on the defenders in Jiangling.Zhu Ran and his men managed to hold their ground and even found a small opportunity to counterattack and destroy two Wei camps. After some six months of siege, the Wei forces could not breach Jiangling's walls so they retreated. During the campaign, <mask> and Xiahou Shang managed to destroy a Wu garrison at Niuzhu (牛渚; northwest of present-day Dangtu County, Anhui). After he returned from the campaign, <mask> was reassigned to be Senior General of the Central Army (中軍大將軍) and given an additional appointment as an Official Who Concurrently Serves in the Palace (給事中). Incident with Wu Zhi
In 224, <mask> ordered Wu Zhi to host a banquet in his residence to celebrate <mask>'s return from a campaign. In <mask>'s imperial edict, all officers holding the rank of Senior General (上將軍) with "Specially Advanced" (特進) status and below had to attend. During the banquet, Wu Zhi instructed actors to put up a skit to make fun of <mask> and Zhu Shuo (朱鑠), who were fat and thin respectively.<mask> turned furious and he shouted at Wu Zhi, "Are you and your men seeking a fight with me and my men?" <mask> and Wang Zhong egged Wu Zhi on by saying, "If you want to make the General (<mask>) admit that he is fat, you have to show that you're thin." <mask> drew his sword, glared at them and said, "I'll kill whoever dares to mock me." Wu Zhi also drew his sword and insulted <mask> by saying, "<mask>n, you're not meat under a butcher's cleaver. My throat won't tremble when I swallow you and my teeth won't chatter when I chew on you. How dare you behave so rudely!" Zhu Shuo stood up and tried to reduce tensions by telling Wu Zhi, "His Majesty ordered you to host entertainment for everyone.Do you have to do this?" Wu Zhi then shouted at Zhu Shuo, "Zhu Shuo, how dare you leave your seat!" Everyone then returned to their seats. Zhu Shuo felt outraged but did not say anything, and returned to his seat and used his sword to hit the ground. Service under <mask>
In 226, when <mask> became critically ill, he ordered <mask>, Chen Qun, Sima Yi and others to assist his son, <mask>, who later succeeded him as the second emperor of Wei. After his coronation, <mask> elevated <mask> from the status of a district marquis to a county marquis under the title "Marquis of Shaoling" (邵陵侯), and promoted him to the position of General-in-Chief (大將軍) in January or February 227. Tianshui revolts

In the spring of 228, Zhuge Liang, the Imperial Chancellor (丞相) of Wei's rival state Shu Han, launched the first of a series of military campaigns against Wei and led the Shu forces to attack Mount

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 Qi (祁山; the mountainous regions around present-day Li County, Gansu).At the same time, he also ordered Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi to lead a detachment of troops to Ji Valley (箕谷) and pretend to be preparing to attack Mei County (郿縣; southeast of present-day Fufeng County, Shaanxi), so as to draw the Wei forces' attention away from Mount Qi. Three Wei-controlled commanderies – Nan'an (南安; around present-day Longxi County, Gansu), Tianshui and Anding (安定; around present-day Zhenyuan County, Gansu) – responded to the Shu invasion by defecting to the Shu side. When the Wei imperial court received news of the invasion, <mask> ordered <mask> to lead Wei forces to resist the invaders. At Ji Valley, <mask> easily defeated Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi, who had been given command of the weaker soldiers in the Shu army. (Zhuge Liang had reserved the better soldiers for his own army to attack Mount Qi.) In the meantime, the Wei general Zhang He attacked and defeated the Shu general Ma Su at the Battle of Jieting. Around the time, one Yang Tiao (楊條) from Anding Commandery had rallied some followers, taken the commandery officials hostage and captured the revenue office.When <mask> and his troops besieged Anding Commandery, Yang Tiao tied himself up and surrendered. Zhuge Liang and the Shu forces retreated upon learning of Ma Su’s defeat. The Wei forces under <mask> and Zhang He then used the opportunity to quell the rebellions in the three commanderies and restore peace. Siege of Chencang

After repelling the first Shu invasion, <mask> observed that if Shu were to invade Wei again, they would attack via Chencang (陳倉; east of present-day Baoji, Shaanxi). He then put Hao Zhao and Wang Sheng (王生) in charge of defending Chencang and ordered them to strengthen the fortress's defences. As <mask> foresaw, Zhuge Liang indeed led Shu forces to attack Chencang in the spring of 229. However, as Hao Zhao and the Wei defenders were well-prepared, they managed to hold their ground against the second Shu invasion.Zhuge Liang ordered a retreat after failing to breach Chencang's walls. As a reward for <mask>'s contributions, <mask> increased the number of taxable households in his marquisate, bringing it up to a total of 2,900. Campaign against Shu

In 230, <mask> summoned <mask> to the imperial capital Luoyang, where he promoted him to Grand Marshal (大司馬) and awarded him the ceremonial privileges of carrying a sword and wearing shoes into the imperial court, as well as not having to walk in briskly during imperial court sessions. During this meeting with <mask>, <mask> proposed launching a large-scale invasion of Shu from multiple directions to eliminate the threat once and for all. <mask> approved his proposal and personally saw him off from Luoyang. In August 230, <mask> led an army from Chang'an to attack Shu via the Ziwu Valley (子午谷). At the same time, another Wei army led by Sima Yi, acting on <mask>'s order, advanced towards Shu from Jing Province by sailing along the Han River.The rendezvous point for <mask> and Sima Yi's armies was at Nanzheng County (南鄭縣; in present-day Hanzhong, Shaanxi). Other Wei armies also prepared to attack Shu from the Xie Valley (斜谷) or Wuwei Commandery. However, the campaign eventually had to be aborted in October 230 because the gallery roads leading into Shu were too damaged for the troops to pass through, and also because of rainy weather lasting more than 30 days. Death
<mask> fell sick on the journey back to Luoyang and became bedridden in the subsequent months. During this time, <mask> personally visited <mask> to check on his condition. <mask> eventually died of illness in April or May 231. <mask> honoured him with the posthumous title "Marquis Yuan" (元侯).Appraisal
<mask> was known for being generous with his personal wealth. In his younger days, he served under his foster father <mask> along with <mask> (曹遵), a distant relative of his, and Zhu Zan (朱讚), who was from the same hometown as him. Both <mask> and Zhu Zan died early. <mask> took pity on their families so he requested permission from <mask> to give away parts of his marquisate to <mask> and Zhu Zan's sons. <mask> issued an imperial decree to praise <mask> for his kindness, and award secondary marquis titles to <mask> and Zhu Zan's sons and give them each 100 taxable households. <mask> was also known for sharing weal and woe with his troops whenever he led them into battle. Every time after a battle, if there were insufficient rewards to be given out to all his men, he would use his personal wealth to make up for the difference.His men gladly accepted his kindness. Family
<mask> had a younger brother, <mask> (曹彬), who received a marquis title and a marquisate of 200 taxable households by <mask>'s decree. He also had a younger sister who married Xiahou Shang and bore Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Hui; her personal name is unknown and she was referred to as the Lady of Deyang District (德陽鄉主). <mask> had six sons: <mask>, <mask> (曹羲), <mask> (曹訓), <mask> (曹則), <mask> (曹彥) and <mask> (曹皚). Among them, <mask> inherited his father's peerage and marquisate as the Marquis of Shaoling (邵陵侯), while the other five also had their own marquis titles and marquisates. In 239, before <mask> died, he appointed <mask> and Sima Yi as regents for his underage adopted son, <mask>, who succeeded him as the third emperor of Wei. In 249, Sima Yi staged a coup d'état against <mask> and successfully seized power from him.After the coup d'état, <mask> and his brothers were convicted of treason and executed along with their entire families. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms
<mask> appears as a character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises the historical figures and events before and during the Three Kingdoms period. He makes a late first appearance in Chapter 84 when he accompanies <mask> on a campaign against Eastern Wu. <mask> starts to play a more important role from Chapter 91 onwards when the Shu regent Zhuge Liang launches the Northern Expeditions against Wei. His contributions in the series of battles against Shu are largely downplayed because the author, Luo Guanzhong, wanted to accentuate Sima Yi's resourcefulness and effectively portray him as Zhuge Liang's nemesis. Luo Guanzhong even attributed <mask>'s death to his failure to heed Sima Yi's forewarning of a Shu offensive. In Chapter 100, Sima Yi warns <mask> that Shu forces will, within the next ten days, launch an attack on Mount Qi (祁山; the mountainous regions around present-day Li County, Gansu), a strategic location which would allow further incursions into the Wei heartland.After <mask> refuses to believe Sima Yi, the two make a bet and each of them leads half of the Wei army to guard the valleys to the east and west of Mount Qi. <mask> prepares for battle halfheartedly as he thinks that he is right. Seven days later, when his scouts report that a small number of Shu soldiers are approaching the valley, <mask> sends his subordinate Qin Liang (秦良) to lead 5,000 men to survey the terrain. As Qin Liang and his men travel deeper into the valley, they fall into an ambush by Shu forces led by Liao Hua and Guan Xing and are completely destroyed. The Shu forces then disguise themselves by wearing the Wei soldiers' armour and uniform and infiltrate <mask>hen's camp. In the meantime, Sima Yi encounters and defeats Shu forces led by Wei Yan. When he learns that no enemy forces have been spotted at <mask>'s side, he immediately leads his troops to <mask>'s camp.By then, the Shu infiltrators have launched a surprise attack within <mask>'s camp. Sima Yi shows up in time, drives back the Shu forces, and saves <mask>. <mask> feels so ashamed of himself that he falls sick. Zhuge Liang writes a letter to <mask> to taunt and insult him. <mask> becomes so angry after reading the letter that he coughs blood and dies that night in his camp. Sima Yi sends his dead body back to Luoyang, where he receives a proper burial. See also
 Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

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References

 Chen, Shou (3rd century).Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi). Fang, Xuanling (648). Book of Jin (Jin Shu). Luo, Guanzhong (14th century). Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi). Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).Sima, Guang (1084). Zizhi Tongjian. Year of birth unknown
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<mask> (born 17 July 1987) is an Australian water polo centre forward. She has had scholarships for water polo from the Australian Institute of Sport and the Western Australian Institute of Sport. She plays for the Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League. She has represented Australia on a junior and national level. She won bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, and was chosen as a member of the 2012 Summer Olympics Australia women's national water polo training team. She has also won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championship, a gold medal at the 2006 World Cup and a silver medal at the 2010 World Cup. Personal
<mask> was born on 17 July 1987 in Perth, Western Australia.She attended St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls, and helped officially open an Olympic size pool at the school in August 2011. She has a brother, <mask>, who also represented Australia in water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics as centre forward. Water polo

Beadsworth plays water polo and is centre forward. , she is a member of the Australia women's national water polo team, of which she was the team captain in 2011. She has had a water polo scholarship from the Western Australian Institute of Sport. She currently holds a water polo scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. Club water polo
In 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2012, she played for the Fremantle Marlins in the National Water Polo League.During 2010, she was coached by Wendy Arancini, the mother of fellow senior national team member Zoe Arancini. In March 2012, she became the third woman in the National Water Polo League to play two hundred games in the league when her team played the Sydney University side. Junior national team
Beadsworth has represented Australia on the junior national level. In 2004, she was a member of the team that toured Europe in July and August. In 2005, she was on the junior side that competed in the VI FINA World Junior Championships in Perth, in January. She was a member of the junior national side at the 2007 FINA U20 World Championships in Porto, Portugal, one of only two Western Australians on the team and the team captain. Australia won the Championship.Olympics

As a 20-year-old, <mask> was one of four women from Western Australia who were members of the 2008 Summer Olympics squad. In the opening game of pool play, in which Australia beat Greece 8–6, she scored four goals. Her team ended up in the bronze medal match after losing 8–9 to the United States in the semi finals and playing against Hungary for the bronze. Earlier in the Olympics, her team had tied the Hungarians. In February 2012, she was named to the final training squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics, and attended training camp that started on 20 February 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport. The team of seventeen players will be cut to thirteen before the team departs for the Olympic games, with the announcement being made on 13 June. Other national team appearances

<mask> represented Australia at the 2005 World Championships held in Canada.She scored a goal in Australia 9–2 semi-final win over the Netherlands. She competed for Australia in the 2007 FINA World League Asia-Oceania qualifiers. In Australia's 16–8 defeat of New Zealand, she scored four goals. She was named to the team that competed in 2008 at the FINA world league preliminary round in Tianjin, China. In a 2008 Asia-Oceania qualifier against China for the World League Super Finals, she played in the 11–9 win that went to a penalty shoot out. In the match, she scored three goals for Australia. In 2008, prior to the Olympics, she competed in the World League Finals, and was named the player of the tournament for Australia.In February 2010, she attended a national team training camp in the Gold Coast in preparation for the team's appearance at the April Commonwealth Championships. In May 2010, she was a member of the team that competed at the FINA World League Asia-Oceania zone held in Osaka, Japan and Tianjin, China. She was a member of the Stingers squad that competed in the 2010 FINA World Cup, and competed in the Kirishi Cup in Russia in June 2011. In the first round, the team played the United States to a 7–7 draw. In that game, she scored two unanswered goals in the final ninety seconds of the match. In April 2011, she attended a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport where the coach was "selecting a team for the major championships over winter." In July 2011, she was a member of the Australian Stingers that competed in the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai.In preparation for this tournament, she attended a team training camp in Perth, Western Australia. She competed in the pool play match against Uzbekistan, which Australia won 27–2. In that match, she again scored four goals. <mask> competed in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Stingers. She played in the round robin match against the Australian Barbarians and was an important factor for the team during the second and third periods, helping the team to be 6–1 at the end of the third period. She played in the game where the Stingers beat Brazil 20–2, and scored three goals in the Stingers' 8–7 win over the United States. She was part of the Stingers squad that competed in a five-game test against Great Britain at the Australian Institute of Sport aquatic centre in Canberra in late February 2012.These were the team's first matches against Great Britain's national team in six years. In the first game of the test series on 21 February 2012 she scored one of the goals in Australia's 13–5 victory. The Australian team went on to win all five of the matches in the test. See also
 Australia women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women)
 List of players who have appeared in multiple women's Olympic water polo tournaments
 List of women's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

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1987 births
Living people
Australian female water polo players
Sportswomen from Western Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic water polo players of Australia
Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in water polo
Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
People educated at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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