texts: September 1839, <mask> became head of the Stillwater Academy in Stillwater, New York.During his nine years at this academy, <mask> also organized normal schools in Saratoga County, New York, and at the request of Governor Horace Eaton, in Vermont. These training grounds for educators was considered innovative at the time. He and his wife moved to Washington, D.C. in 1848 where he became principal of the preparatory department of Columbian College (present-day George Washington University), a position he held for three years. In 1852, <mask> founded a private school, Union Academy, which was successful until Southern students left at the outbreak of the Civil War. The school was located on the northwest corner of 14th Street and New York Avenue NW. He helped organize the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Washington in 1852. It was the third association of its type in the United States and <mask> was its first president.He remained president for two years and continued having an active role with the organization for the remainder of his life. <mask> was one of thirty-eight delegates who met at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 1857 and founded the National Teachers Association (NTA), renamed the National Education Association (NEA) in 1870. He was elected the NTA's first president and presided over the organization's first annual meeting in 1858. He played an active role in the NTA/NEA the rest of his life and attended annual meetings until 1896. In reference to the NEA, <mask> said: "There is not a state, county, city or town in all our country where the influence of our associational work is not more or less felt." During the Civil War, <mask> was involved with the Christian Commission, visiting sick and wounded soldiers in local hospitals. He was elected to the Common Council (precursor to the Council of the District of Columbia), representing the Second Ward, while his brother Almarin represented Ward Three.In 1861, he was appointed to work in the Treasury Department as a clerk. <mask> was later transferred to the Bureau of Statistics and worked there until 1867. That same year he was once again elected to the Common Council

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 and became its president. During his time on the Council he returned to his work with education by managing a normal school for Washington, D.C. public school teachers and by being largely responsible for Congress establishing the Office of Education in 1867. <mask> worked at the new agency until it became a bureau of the Interior Department in 1869. He helped pass a Council ordinance which created the Office of Superintendent of Public Schools and served as the first superintendent of Washington, D.C.'s public schools for one year. In 1871, <mask> was appointed auditor for the government of the District of Columbia and served that position until 1874.Later years
<mask>' wife, Minerva, died on July 15, 1873. The following August he married his second wife, Mary Frances Mather, a direct descendant of Puritan minister Cotton Mather. In 1880, <mask> published Teachers' Manual for primary school instructors, and in 1885, he published The Natural Arithmetic. <mask> and Mary moved to 1301 Corcoran Street NW in 1882. <mask> lost most of his property when loans he had co-signed for close friends defaulted. He supported himself during his last years by teaching a small private school in his home. Mary died in 1896 and <mask> died three years later on November 1, 1899.He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in a family plot, next to his two wives. <mask>' former Second Empire residence on Corcoran Street, the Zalmon <mask> House, was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 21, 1965. The home is also designated a contributing property to the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Bibliography
Teachers' Manual, A.S. Barnes & Company, New York, 1880,
The Natural Arithmetic, S.R. Winchell & Co., Chicago, 1885,

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The Reverend <mask> (9 October 1847 – 29 May 1911) was a controversial South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and failed politician. In his younger years <mask> did much to promote the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner nationalism. Apart from the years 1882-8 when he was Superintendent of Education in the South African Republic, he lived in or near the town of Paarl in the Cape Colony. Disillusionment with the Kruger regime led him, in later years, to moderate his views. He was instrumental in initiating the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans and was a proponent of the Afrikaans language. He died an outcast. Early years
He was born in 1847 near Paarl in the Cape Colony at Plaas Kleinbos, a farm that had been in the family's possession since their arrival in the Cape as Huguenot refugees in 1688.He was educated at Paarl Gimnasium and studied theology at the Theological Seminary at Stellenbosch, completing his studies in 1872 and was ordained as a minister in the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) (NGK) the same year. Theologically his view were much influenced by the Abraham Kuyper the Dutch Neo-Calvinist thinker. This made many congregations reluctant to invite him to be their minister. In 1875, he became the minister of a new congregation based close to the family farm – that of North Paarl, a post that he held until 1881. Promoting the Afrikaans language

At the time, the better-educated Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony regarded the Afrikaans language as a patois that was used by the less-educated. <mask> however regarded the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner Nationalism. In the early 1870s two Dutch schoolteachers, <mask> Pannevis and C.P.Hoogenhout made a number of pleas in De Zuid-Afrikaan newspaper that, for the benefit of the Cape Coloured community and also for the lesser-educated Afrikaner community, the Bible should be translated into Afrikaans. In 1874, Pannevis addressed his concerns to the British and Foreign Bible Society while <mask>'s articles in De Zuid-Afrikaan

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 added support to Pannevis and Hoogenhout. On 14 August 1875, Hoogenhout, <mask> and others established the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners) which has as its objectives the promotion of the Afrikaans language, nation and country. Initially this was to be achieved by the publication of a monthly journal and as soon as was possible, a dictionary and grammatical rules (spraakkuns). <mask> was elected president of the association and within a year had compiled a set of grammatical rules. In 1876, he launched the first Afrikaans language newspaper Die Afrikaanse Patriot. Initially the paper, a monthly publication, had 50 subscribers, in its second year of publication 400 and by 1881 3000 subscribers, having in 1877 become a weekly publication.Although Du Toit could not openly control Die Afrikaanse Patriot without the consent of his church council, he was the driving force behind the paper, while his brother D.F<mask> <mask> (known as Oom Lokomotief) was officially the paper's editor. The British annexation of the Transvaal in 1877 caused considerable anger among the Dutch community in all of Southern Africa. Die Afrikaanse Patriot published a scathing attack and Du Toit proposed a boycott of British goods and services, and in October 1880 Die Patriot argued that the time had come for decisive action-—many Transvaal leaders state that this was the trigger for the start of the First Boer War which led, in 1881, to the Transvaal regaining its independence. In 1879, <mask> proposed the formation of the Afrikaner Bond, an anti-British organisation in which all Afrikaners could feel at home. Die Patriot urged a boycott of British products. Jan Hofmeyr, who had founded the Zuidafrikaansche Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging (South African Farmers' Protection Association) as a vehicle of protest against a proposed excise duty on wine agreed to merge the two organisations and by skilful manoeuvring gained control of the merged organization.Later years

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texts: independence, its president Paul Kruger invited <mask> to become Superintendent of Education, a post that he held until 1889. He assisted in drawing up the Republic's education law of 1882 which embodied Christian national principles. While he was secretary of state both the number of schools and the number of children attending school increased substantially. In 1883–4, he was part of Kruger's delegation to Europe and helped negotiate the London Convention. In 1875, while in the Transvaal, he was appointed official translator of the Bible by the GRA, a task for which he received official encouragement from the government of the South African Republic. He resigned in 1888 due to a personality clash with Willem Johannes Leyds, a newly appointed advisor to Kruger. After his resignation, he returned to the Cape Colony and publicly took over the post of editor of Die Patriot, breaking with his brother and other members of the Afrikaner Bond.He was personally bankrupt, having lost money in speculation while in the Transvaal. Under his editorship Die Patriot adopted a much more conciliatory stance towards the British Government, possibly as a result of financial backing he received from Cecil Rhodes, though this is disputed. He continued his translation of the Bible into Afrikaans, following the principals of translation laid down by the Synod of Dordrecht requiring the use of the original Hebrew or Greek where appropriate. He succeeded in translating the Book of Genesis, the Psalms, the Songs of Solomon, Book of Joshua, the Gospel according to Matthew, the Gospel according to Mark, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation. Du Toit's translation program was not well received—neither the synod of the NGK in Orange Free State in 1885 nor the synod of the NGK in the South African Republic in 1886 supported <mask>'s efforts. By 1890 the Eerste Taalbeweging (first language movement) was all but dead. His son Jakob Daniël <mask>, known by the pen name Totius, a member of the Tweede Taalbeweging (second language movement), completed the

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 translation in 1933 with assistance from his own son <mask> <mask>it (1905–1982).The Jameson Raid of 1896 caused the Afrikaner Bond to break with Rhodes. <mask> broke with the Afrikaner Bond and through Die Afrikaanse Patriot backed Rhodes both in the Jameson Raid and in the Second Anglo-Boer War. He stood for the Cape Parliament in 1898 but failed to get elected. In 1904, following financial problems DF du Toit & Co, the company that owned Die Afrikaanse Patriot was sold and the paper was succeeded by the Paarl Post. <mask> died on 25 May 1911 as a result of injuries sustained in August the previous year when the cart in which he was travelling overturned while he was journeying to Calvinia to visit one of his congregations. Legacy
<mask> was a prolific writer – the anonymous author of the epitaph on his tombstone described him as "The father of the Afrikaans language", though this honour has also be given to Pannevis, to Hoogenhout or to all three. His contributions to Afrikaans literature included:
 1876 – Erste Beginsels van die Afrikaanse Taal [Fundamentals of the Afrikaans language] (A joint work of which <mask> was the main contributor).1877 – (With Hoogenhout and Malherbe) Die Geskiedenis van ons Land in die Taal van ons Volk [The history of our country and the language of our people]. 1889 – Die Bybel in Afrikaans [The Bible in Afrikaans] (A brochure with a translation of the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis). 1893 – Genesis (translation of the Book of Genesis)
 1895 – Mattheus (translation of the Gospel according to St Mathew)
 1898 – Openbaring (translation of the Book of Revelation)
 1902 – Patriot woordeboek: Afrikaans-Engels [Patriot dictionary: Afrikaans-English]
 1907 – Die Psalms (translation of the Psalms)

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<mask> (born 16 August 1990) is a German boxer. As a professional, she has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO female middleweight title from 2010 to 2019, becoming the youngest boxer to win a WBO world title; the WBC female middleweight title between 2016 and 2018; and the WBO female super-middleweight title in 2013. She also challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019. In February 2021, she returned to the amateur ranks with the intention of competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Since <mask>'s victory against Zita Zatyko, she has earned Fighter of the Year by the WBF and WBO; she was awarded BDB's Female Boxer of the Year; and the WBO awarded her with the WBO Diamond Ring for exceptional performance. As of February 2019, <mask> is ranked as the world's second best active female middleweight by The Ring and BoxRec, and the seventh best active female, pound-for-pound, by ESPN. <mask> is known for her patient and methodical boxing style, wearing her opponents down with jabs and increasingly aggressive follow-up rights.Early life
<mask> was born 16 August 1990 in Nowodolinka, Kazakh SSR, before emigrating with her parents to Sontra, Germany in 1991. Her parents left Kazakhstan as they saw a better future for the whole family in Germany, with the quality of education and quality of life, while <mask> spoke of being raised to never give up. She developed a passion for sports through football, running, swimming, and at the age of 13, she was introduced to boxing after her uncles allowed her to

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 accompany them to boxing gyms. She trained in Eschwege under Robert Staar, while going on to become a junior champion three years later. At the age of 18, <mask> was discovered by her coach and trainer, Dimitri Kirnos, to which she stated: "Although I grew up in a small town, at age 18 I decided to become a professional boxer and moved away from home [...] Of course, it was not easy at first, but I knew I could do it if I pulled it off." When <mask> was growing up, she admired Gennady Golovkin and Wladimir Klitschko as athletes, while stating she too admired "strong women like Jennifer Lopez who built their own empire". Amateur career
<mask> competed for Eschwege Boxing Club at a number of German tournaments, in which she defeated the 2007 German junior champion, receiving a unanimous victory over former German champion Manon Rohrbach at 63 kg, and winning the International German Junior Championships in Berlin by defeating Madelyn Cibis (BC Oberhavel) RSC–1 at 75 kg.In August 2008, she went to Eichstätt in which she competed in the German Women's Championships, where she won silver after defeating Silke Huenecke 28–7 and Janine Hoffmann 19–12, however, once proceeding to the final she lost by one point against Nikolina Orlovic 13–14. She finished her amateur career with a record of 22 wins and 1 loss. International German Junior Championships
2007
Defeated Madelyn Cibis (Germany) RSC–1

German National Championships
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Defeated Silke Huenecke (Germany) (27–2)
Defeated Janine Hoffmann (Germany) (19–12)
Lost to Nikolina Orlovic (Croatia) (13–14)

Professional career

Early career
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 Championships, <mask> had briefly considered competing in the 2012 London Olympics, but her ambition to become a super champion was greater. <mask> made her professional debut at the age of 19 on 12 September 2009 at the Gewerbehof Schlutius in Magdeburg against German fighter Melisa Koktar, whom <mask> defeated via technical knockout (TKO) in the second round. On 24 October 2009 at the Anhalt Arena in Dessau, <mask> won a four-round unanimous decision over Czech fighter Sarka Stoklaskova, who fell to 2-8 (1 KO) with the loss. Until 23 October 2010, she went on to have five more fights in the space of eleven months, defeating Marija Pejakovic, Daniela Bickei, Patricia Braesick, Marie Riederer, and Mihaela Dragan all via knockout within five rounds. <mask> vs. Perozzi
On 23 October 2010, <mask> stepped up her level of competition and faced Teresa Perozzi for the vacant WBO middleweight title at Erdgas Arena in Riesa, Germany, with the fight shown on Sport1.Southpaw Perozzi began the fight by applying a lot of pressure and setting a fast pace which forced <mask> to think more about defense than in her previous fights. The action was even at first, however, <mask> began to score repeatedly to the head of Perozzi in the later rounds. Perozzi kept trying to press her offense but <mask>'s right delivered the better shots in a fight that often looked closer than the scorecards suggested. <mask> won a ten-round unanimous decision 98–92, 97–93, and 97–93 to become the youngest German boxing world champion, and the youngest boxer in history to win a WBO title. <mask> vs. Kiss
On 18 February 2011, <mask> added the vacant WBF middleweight title to her

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 belt collection, on the undercard of Jan Zaveck defending his IBF welterweight title against Paul Delgado at the Stožice Sports Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia, when Kiss retired in her corner between the seventh and eighth rounds of a scheduled ten-rounder. <mask> started aggressively and used her reach to control the action.In the second half of the fight <mask> increased the pressure and Kiss began to bleed from her nose. During the round break, Kiss signaled to her trainer that she was no longer willing to continue, thus <mask> winning by a TKO. <mask> vs. Lindberg, Living
On 27 May 2011, at Zlatopramen Arena in the Czech Republic, <mask> defended her WBO and WBF middleweight titles in a ten-round contest against the reigning undefeated WIBA & WIBF light-middleweight champion Maria Lindberg, which <mask> won by unanimous decision, however, Lindberg spoke to WBAN of how she felt the fight was much closer than the official scores 97–93, 97–93, and 98–92. On 21 October 2011, at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany, <mask> won a ten-round unanimous decision over American Vashon Living, defending her the WBO and WBF middleweight titles. Living, who was at a significant size disadvantage, was mobile and agile as she attempted to get to close quarters and work inside, but <mask> was still able use her reach advantage to control the pace. <mask> landed two accurate uppercuts in the seventh and Living appeared to be worn down by the taller <mask>'s blows in the closing rounds. <mask> vs. Tshabalala, Hernandez
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texts: titles, in which she impressively dominated the proceedings to retain her titles with a unanimous decision win over Julie Tshabalala of South Africa.<mask> had predicted a knockout victory, with Tshabalala taking the fight on the inside to avoid the long range and hard straight shots from <mask>, who adjusted nicely and countered with hooks and uppercuts. Tshabalala had her best moments in rounds six and seven, and seemed to be catching her second wind, but <mask> was back on top in the final three rounds, making Tshabalala miss and pay for her mistakes. The judges Zoltan Enyedi, Manuel Oliver Palomo, and Andre Van Grootenbruel scored the fight 99–91, 100–90, and 100–90 all in favour of the defending WBF and WBO middleweight champion. After <mask> beat Tshabalala, it was announced that <mask> would defend her titles at the RWE Rhein-Ruhr Sporthalle in Muelheim, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany against Yahaira Hernandez on 7 September 2012. <mask> came in at 70.3 kilograms, while Hernandez weighed a few grams too much in first gear, to which her manager, Daniel Born, acted resolutely and cut off the boxer's pigtails, which resulted in the weight being corrected to the point. <mask> won an overwhelming ten-round unanimous decision over Yahaira Hernandez. <mask>'s technical superiority was clear despite a game effort by Hernandez, who was knocked down in the fourth, ninth, and tenth rounds.Hernandez, who had two points deducted for holding as well as 10–8 losing rounds because of the three knockdowns. Afterwards, <mask> spoke of her intention to knock Hernandez out, but she could not do so, though she stated she was happy with her performance.

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 Hernandez was complimentary of <mask>, in which she stated "I was surprised by the toughness of <mask>, and she really hits hard. Her punches felt as if she had rocks in her gloves." Super middleweight

<mask> vs. Zatyko
In April 2013, <mask> announced that she would fight 32 year old undefeated Zita Zatyko, who was considered the best female super-middleweight boxer in the world, on 4 May 2013 for the WBF and vacant WBO female super-middleweight titles. Of the scheduled encounter, <mask> stated that "My goal is to become the best champion in boxing, pound-for-pound, and winning my second world title in two weight classes by beating Zatyko will be another step towards realizing that goal." The date set for the return would mean <mask> would be fighting on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko defending his WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring, and lineal heavyweight titles against Francesco Pianeta at the SAP Arena in Mannheim.<mask> put on a dominant performance and used her superior boxing skills to outbox the heavier Zatyko. In round four, <mask> scored a knockdown, and only the bell saved the visibly hurt, but brave, Zatyko. In the following rounds <mask> went on the attack, but Zatyko weathered the storm and after ten rounds of top-class boxing, judges Patricia Morse Jarman, Zoltan Enyedi, and Oliver Brien scored the fight 100–89, 99–90, and 99–90 all in favour of the new super-middleweight champion. Return to middleweight

<mask> vs. Lauren
It was announced on 14 June 2013, <mask> was to drop the extra five and a half pounds to 157 and challenge Mikaela Laurén from Sweden on 13 July 2013, on the undercard of Robert Stieglitz's defense of

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 his WBO super-middleweight title against Yuzo Kiyota at the EnergieVerbund Arena in Dresden. The fight was fought against a backdrop of antagonism displayed by the contender Lauren kissing <mask> at the weigh in, though <mask> laughed off the behavior stating "I have never witnessed anything like this. I hope I could punish her a bit for the kiss." Lauren adopted a particularly aggressive style and by no means hid herself, to which a violent exchange in blows ensued.While it was a tough battle between two world class boxers it was clear that <mask> was the better fighter in almost every round. Lauren tried everything she could to get the upper hand, but <mask> was effective with hard counter combinations and rarely let her opponent get the better of the exchanges. After ten entertaining rounds of boxing, judges Frank Michael Maass, Terry O'Connor, and Alejandro Lopez scored the bout 100–90, 99–91, and 98–92 all in favour of the defending champion, who improved her spotless record to 15–0. As <mask> made her fifth defense of the WBO title by defeating Lauren, the WBO President Francisco Varcarcel awarded her with the WBO Diamond Ring for her exceptional performance. <mask> vs. Toscano
Following <mask>'s middleweight comeback win against Mikaela Laurén in June 2013, <mask> spoke of her desire to fight Nikki Adler next at 168 pounds, albeit excuses on Adler's part, as well as possibly facing Cecilia Brækhus at a catchweight. <mask> remarked that both fighters are in her sights whilst stating "[...] I want to be the considered best female fighter around! I had my step up to super-middleweight and show I can be successful in more than one division


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It was announced on 27 January 2014, that <mask> was set to make her seventh title-defense against challenger Jessica Balogun on 1 March 2014, at the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg. Balogun will be moving up from 147 pounds, but she insisted that the added weight will only make her stronger, that <mask> has never faced anybody with her style, while having full of confidence that she has what it takes to cause an upset. The fight would take place as an undercard fight to the WBO super-middleweight title fight between Robert Stieglitz and Arthur Abraham. <mask> enjoyed a four-inch height advantage over Balogun, a trait which she exploited over the course of the ten-round fight. <mask> appeared relaxed

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 throughout keeping her hard-charging opponent at arm's distance landing at will with straight punches from the outside. Balogun tried to take the fight to the inside against <mask>, but ran into uppercuts and hooks when <mask> adjusted to her tactics, resulting in a one-sided unanimous decision victory 100–90 on all three judges' scorecards. <mask> spoke highly of Balogun's will to fight, whilst remarking "I've shown what I can do, it's not made it easy for me.But I was able to take advantage of my strengths, especially my height. ", and Balogun was complimentary of <mask>'s boxing ability. With the win, <mask> improved her record to (17-0, 8 KOs), while essentially cleaning out the middleweight division. The match up was promoted by SES Boxing and televised live in Germany on Sat.1, which averaged 4.20 million viewers while obtaining 23.9% of the market share. Light middleweight

<mask> vs. Mathis
On 8 June 2014, <mask> was on Cecilia Brækhus' list as a possible opponent, alongside Alejandra Oliveras and Ivana Habazin, to which Brækhus stated "[...] she also want me in the ring. She has said she will not box outside Germany, now I boxed in Germany, so maybe she will be more interested now." In June 2014, it was announced that <mask> would face the former multiple world and European champion Anne Sophie Mathis (27-3-0, 23 KOs) for the WBF and vacant WBO junior-middleweight titles on 26 July 2014 at the Anhalt Arena in Dessau.On 23 June 2014, at the SES Boxing Gala, <mask> spoke of her of love challenges and to set new standards in women's boxing, while also speaking of Mathis "I want to set new standards in women's boxing. Mathis is, of


texts: course, in this new weight class for me a real size with a huge knockout ratio. I put out the challenge to fight the best. There are enough women who runaway repeatedly in front of me." <mask> moved her training camp from Germany to the mountains of Tyrol, Austria, for a few days to engage in high-altitude training with coach Dimitri Kirnos in preparation. In a relatively balanced fight between <mask> and Mathis, <mask> was clinching after an exchange in the fifth round, to which Mathis landed several blows with her right hand to <mask>s left ear. Suddenly, <mask> went down to the canvas and struggled to come back to her feet.The assigned referee, Manfred Kuechler, failed to count <mask> out who required 25 seconds to erect herself properly from the canvas. Instead, Kuechler ruled the punch that knocked <mask> down an illegal blow to the back of the head and disqualified Mathis. <mask> won the WBF and vacant WBO junior-middleweight titles via a controversial DQ over Mathis. Due to <mask>'s excessive clinching, Mathis legally used her free hand to land blows to the side of <mask>'s head, sending her to the canvas. The slow motion replay showed that it was <mask> who was fouling by holding Mathis' left arm and still got knocked out. Fans were outraged and declared that Mathis had been robbed of a KO victory. Mathis herself was very upset about being disqualified, as she knew that her punches were legal."It's shameful! I never imagined it could end like this [...] For me, I won this fight. I won it by knockout! I began to build up and I felt that she was out of breath. She spent the first four rounds hanging her arm and she was not notified.


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<mask> vs. Reis, Lazar
On 23 January 2015, it was announced that SES Boxing will present its milestone 100th boxing event on 7 March at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg, with <mask> being included on the card.On 27 January 2015, it was

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texts: announced that <mask> would make her eighth defense of her WBO title at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg against world No. 2 Kali Reis. In March 2015, the flu epidemic in Germany had caused <mask> and several other fighters to cancel their scheduled fights at the Maritim Hotel for 7 March, which was later changed to 5 May. At the weigh-in, Reiz, 29 at the time of the fight, weighed in at 155 and a half pounds, the heaviest she had weighed professionally; <mask>, 24, came in heavier at 157 and three-quarter pounds. After the weigh-in, <mask> spoke of Reis' habit of "[going] forward, is aggressive and usually wants to take the fight in. But she will not succeed with me, I'm better and I'm number 1 [...] I'm merciless." <mask> dominated Reis in all respects for nine rounds, being much faster on her feet.And she took advantage of her greater range, built with the grueling left-hand guide, with which she kept her opponent at a distance, being a significant advantage round after round. However, just before the end of the tenth round, a right hook from Reis hit the temple of <mask> and she went down. <mask> came to her feet quickly, bringing the fight controlled to an end, with Jose Ignacio Martinez Antunez, Frank Michael Maass, and Matteo Montella scoring the bout 98–91 to secure <mask> a unanimous decision victory. After the fight, of her knockdown, <mask> stated: "That's how it is in boxing, one second of inattention, and it's all over. You can only learn from it." In February 2016, at the Dortmund Sportsman of the Year awards, <mask> spoke of her intention of fighting for the WBC title, as well as possibly moving up to super-middleweight, with


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 conformation in June 2016 that <mask> will have an eight-round bout and within October a world title fight. Hungarian Melinda Lazar became a front runner to challenge <mask>, to which, on 20 June, it was confirmed to take place at the Ballhaus Forum in Munich on 15 July.This would make <mask>'s first time fighting at the arena and her first fight in fourteen months. Lazar already sent <mask> to the canvas in round two, though otherwise Lazar struggled against the better technique, greater range and strength of <mask>, to whom moved through the ring dynamically and aesthetically, but ultimately Lazar could not keep up. In the sixth round, Lazar's trainer threw in the towel to protect his fighter. Speaking after the fight, <mask> said, "It was not that big of an opponent, but everything was going according to plan for me and now it can only go up and now I want to fight Nikki Adler and become world champion again." Unified world middleweight champion

<mask> vs. Reis II
In September 2016, <mask> mentioned possible opponents for her next bout being WBC Silver champion Kelly Morgan, while mentioning a rematch with WBC champion Kali Reis to unify the WBO and the WBC titles. On 20 October 2016, it was announced that <mask> would face WBC champion Kali Reis at the Ballhaus Forum in Munich on 5 November. The smaller Reis was very aggressive from the opening to the final bell, kept moving forward and had her moments landing hard hooks to <mask>'s head and body.But for most of the ten rounds <mask> managed to keep the distance, establish her jab and fight well from the outside. After ten entertaining rounds judges Ed Pearson, Fernando Laguna, and


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On 27 February 2017, it was announced that <mask> would rematch Maria Lindberg (15-2-2, 8 KO) to make her first defense of both the WBO and WBC unified middleweight titles, on the undercard of Marco Huck's defense of his IBO and vacant WBC cruiserweight titles against Mairis Briedis at the Westfalenhallen in Dortmund on 1 April.Of the encounter, Lindberg stated that "<mask> is difficult to box. But I'm a better boxer than 2011 and I think I'll have a good chance against her. This is my last chance for a big title and I'm ready to use it." While <mask> also noted that Lindberg is indeed a tough opponent "[...] And of course I know that I can not rely only on the support of the audience. I'm going to work so hard like never before and get ready to get in the ring." At the weigh-in, Lindberg, 29 at the time of the fight, weighed in at 154 and a quarter pounds, the heaviest she had weighed since 2015; <mask>, 24, came in heavier at 158 and three-quarter

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 [...] I am very well prepared, I know what I have to do, I am in my area in the ring, I feel good there." <mask> brutally stopped Ankrah with a brutal right at the end of the fourth round, which sent her to the canvas. Ankrah stood up, trying to continue in the contest, but her legs were shaking and the fight was suspended by referee Juergen Langos. In the post-fight interview, <mask> praised Ankrah's toughness by stating, "[Ankrah] is a very tough boxer, I've never felt a head harder than hers. My hands hurt, it was a good test and a good warm-up for my trip to the United States. ", while hoping that Shields watches fight tape to know what is coming for her.<mask> vs. Nelson
On 14 December 2017, The Ring reported that <mask> will make her U.S. debut on 12 January, against Lisa Noel Garland (15-9, 8 KOs), with the fight to take place at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino, in Verona, New York, with <mask> stating: "The U.S. debut is very important for me; I want to show that I'm the real deal in female boxing. Ever since I won my first title, it has always been a dream of mine to fight in the U.S.A [...] I want to fight both Cornejo and Shields in the future. I train hard and I'm ready to fight everyone." On 18 December 2017, Dmitriy Salita announced of <mask> to a multi-fight promotional contract with Salita Promotions, with <mask> making her US debut 12 January 2018 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. In January 2018, The Ring reported that <mask> was due to appear on the undercard of Claressa Shields vs Tori Nelson on 12 January, however, due to a delay in her work via, <mask> will have to wait to the spring for her United


texts: States debut. On 24 April 2018, The Guardian announced that <mask> was set to defend her WBO and WBC middleweight titles against former champion Tori Nelson at the Detroit Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan on 22 June, with the fight shown on Showtime. After the announcement, <mask> had revealed she spent much of her camp in Tyrol, Austria, to engage in high-altitude training in preparation for Nelson.At the official weigh-in, a day before the fight, <mask> tipped the scales at 159.5 lbs, while Nelson weighed 157.5 lbs. <mask> smartly exploited her height and reach advantages by keeping the fight at long range but moving inside just often enough to win the majority of the exchanges. Her typically excellent jab landed with frequency, and with heavier force than in past fights, and her right hand connected with enough impact to make the point but not enough to upend Nelson, ultimately resulting in judges Katealia Chambers, Benoit Roussel, and Pasquale Procopio scoring the fight 99–91, 99–91, and 100–90 all in favour of the defending WBO and WBC champion. <mask>'s defeat of Nelson made her the first German fighter to successfully defend a world title in the US since Max Schmeling successfully defended his heavyweight title against Young Stribling at the Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. Statistically speaking, according to The Ring, <mask> was superb: Averaging 46.6 punches per round, while limiting Nelson to 31.8, she prevailed 103-56 overall, 44-18 jabs and 59-38 power. The accuracy figures were sub-par (22% overall, 19% jabs, 26% power) but her defensive skills limited Nelson to just 18% overall, 16% jabs and 19% power. Also with

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<mask> vs. Shields
From March 2017 up until the end of August 2018, both camps of <mask> and Shields were in deep talks around the super fight to finally take place. On 25 September 2018, The Ring announced that <mask> and Shields will fight for undisputed middleweight championship at the Adrian Phillips Theater at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 17 November, with the winner becoming the second woman of the four-belt era to hold all the titles in one division. Of the announcement, <mask> remarked: "I am the best middleweight in the world and will make that point very clear when we get in the ring.It's been my dream to fight in the biggest women's fight of all time and raise women's boxing to an all-time high. I will be crowned the undisputed middleweight queen [...]" On 2 October 2018, Dan Rafael of ESPN reported that an undisclosed medical condition had forced <mask> to postpone her fight with Shields for the undisputed championship. On 5 October the WBC


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<mask> has lived in Dortmund, Germany since 2009. In July 2012, <mask> received her certificate of having passed her Abitur, which allowed her to study


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 sports science at the University of Applied Management in Unna.While in her sixth-semester at the University of Hagen, in 2016, she stated she makes a great effort to complete her studies while boxing. She is a brand ambassador for the underwear line Anita, for which she occasionally models, while also being a part of Movement130, which encourages females of all shapes, sizes, and lifestyles to embrace their own distinctive beauty. <mask> is a patron of Vive Žene, a facility for refugees, threatened girls, and young women at the Ossenbrink in Herdecke, with the Dortmund Equality Office suggesting that "a female boxer is just right to express power and power." While becoming the first female boxer to own an online casino, she donates 5% of her online casino income to World Boxing Cares and to the Jose Sulaiman Relief Fund for needy boxers, to which she became a WBC Ambassador, whereby she stated: "My Casino will use its popularity also as a platform for good works. I am very impressed with WBC Cares and their work for global good, particularly children [...] it's my privilege to give back." Professional boxing record

References

External links

 Official website

 Shields vs <mask>: All Eyes On Women's Boxing

1990 births
Living people
People from Karaganda Region
Middleweight boxers
Light-middleweight boxers
Super-middleweight boxers
German women boxers
Kazakhstani women boxers
Russian and Soviet-German people
Citizens of Germany through descent
German people of Kazakhstani descent
Kazakhstani people of German descent
Kazakhstani emigrants to Germany
World boxing champions
World middleweight boxing champions
World super-middleweight boxing

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<mask> (June 15, 1944 – September 27, 2015) was an American investor and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $3 billion, he ranked 211th on the Forbes 400 in 2015. His investing style was described as "analytically rigorous but opportunistic and Texas-sized in its audacity." <mask> was a mentor and early backer of investors including Eddie Lampert, Roger Staubach, and David Bonderman. Between 2009 and his death in 2015, he suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare disease involving neurodegeneration. During his lifetime, <mask> donated over $380 million to charitable causes and left nearly all of his estate to his charitable foundation. Early life
<mask> grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.His father owned a wholesale grocery business and his mother was a clerk at J.C. Penney. He is of Lebanese roots. <mask> graduated from R. L. Paschal High School. In 1963, he was initiated as a member of the Tau chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Texas at Austin and in 1966, he graduated with a degree in mathematics. In 1996, he was recognized as Kappa Sigma Man of the Year. In 1968, he earned a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Career
From 1968 to 1970, <mask> worked for Goldman Sachs.In 1970, Sid Bass, a classmate of <mask>, invited him, then 26 years old, to manage the Bass family investments. From 1970 to July 1986, <mask> served as the chief investment advisor to the Bass family. He was given $5 million to invest during his first year and managed to lose it all. Rainwater then sought a more methodical investment strategy by studying investors including Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, and David Dodd. <mask> eventually transformed the Bass family fortune from $50 million into $5 billion, amassing $100 million for himself by the time he went on his own in 1986. Investments
Notable investments by Rainwater included:
 1969 - General American Oil Company
 1984 - On behalf of the Bass family, <mask> made $400 million when Texaco bought back shares to avoid a

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 hostile takeover. 1984 - On behalf of the Bass family, <mask> invested $478 million in Walt Disney Company and hired Michael Eisner to turn the company around
 1986 - Ensco (now Valaris plc)
 1988 - HCA Healthcare
 1989 - Along with Rusty Rose and George W. Bush, bought the Texas Rangers.Bush turned his initial $606,000 investment into more than $15 million. 1989 - Acquired 20% of the Staubach Company for $1 million
 1992 - Mid Ocean Limited, a provider of casualty re-insurance
 1994 - Crescent Real Estate, 15 million square feet of office space in Houston
 1996 - Acquired control of Mesa Petroleum. In 1997, after <mask>'s wife fired T. Boone Pickens, the company merged with Parker & Parsley to form Pioneer Natural Resources
 Late 1990s - When oil was trading at $12/barrel, <mask> invested $100 million in energy stocks and $200 million in oil futures. He saw the peak oil phenomenon as an investment opportunity after reading Beyond the Limits, a 1992 book that detailed the consequences of a rapidly growing world population. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, <mask> lost $400 million on paper, which prompted him to reread the book. Personal life
<mask>'s first marriage, to his high school sweetheart, Karen, ended in divorce in October 1991, after 25 years. They had three children: Matthew, Todd, and Courtney.In December 1991, 2 months after his divorce was finalized, <mask> married financier Darla Moore and moved to Manhattan. At that time, he took a year off. Most of the time, he lived apart from his wife. <mask> often visited Canyon Ranch and acquired the spa via Crescent Real Estate. <mask> owned a mansion in Montecito, California. He also invested in the Pebble Beach Golf Links along with Clint Eastwood. <mask> was a fan of The Road Less Traveled, a spiritual book by M. Scott Peck.<mask> was a self-described "fitness fanatic" and ran marathons. He loved motorsports and sponsored cars in competitions. He owned a souped-up 1970 Chevrolet Camaro that a professional friend would race. George W. Bush invested along with <mask> and

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 <mask> donated $100,000 to Bush for the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election. Bush was criticized for favoring policies that benefited Rainwater's investments. <mask> also donated $100,000 to the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election campaign of Rick Scott, who oversaw HCA Healthcare, a major Rainwater investment. In 2009, he was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, with a few years to live.<mask> spent over $20 million on research trying to fight the disease. In 2010, he was awarded the Arbuckle Award at Stanford University. In accepting the award, he began to cry, showing the effect of his disease on his emotions. That year, he made his last public appearance. In March 2011, a court declared him incapacitated, and his youngest child, Matthew, became his legal guardian. <mask> died on September 27, 2015. By the time he died, <mask> had donated more than $380 million to organizations working for the benefit of higher education, at-risk children, and research associated with neurodegeneration.He left nearly all of his estate for charitable purposes, primarily through the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. In 2019, the Rainwater Charitable awarded its two first prizes: one for outstanding innovation in neurodegenerative disease research to Dr. Michel Goedert (MRC, Cambridge, UK) and one for innovative early-career scientist to Dr. Patrick Hsu (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA). <mask> also left $5 million to UT Austin for the study of American music. His will and testament also provided $60 million to his wife, Darla Moore. Awards and Honors
1992 - Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
2010 - GSB Alumni Association's 2010 Arbuckle Award

References

External links
 Rainwater Charitable Foundation

1944 births
2015 deaths
American financial businesspeople
American investors
American money managers
American billionaires
American people of Lebanese descent
People from Fort Worth, Texas
University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
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<mask> (born 25 March 1946) is an Indian theoretical physicist currently working as Professor of Eminence at the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics of Bharathidasan University. Presently he is the DST-SERB National Science Chair awarded by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology. He has held several research fellowships which included Raja Rammanna fellowship of Department of Atomic Energy, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship, Royal Society Nuffield Foundation fellowship, and NASI-Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellowship. In the year 2021, on August 15, he was conferred with Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam Award awarded by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Known for his research on nonlinear dynamics and for the development of Murali-Lakshmanan-Chua (MLC) Circuit, <mask>warup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 1989. Biography
<mask> was born on 25 March 1946 in Pollachi, in the Coimbatore district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.He graduated in science from NGM College in Pollachi in 1966 and earned his master's degree in physics (MSc) at Madras Christian College of the University of Madras in 1969. His post-MSc studies in theoretical physics were also at the University of Madras, completed with a first rank in 1970. He joined the university as a research assistant the same year. Simultaneously, he pursued his doctoral studies, supervised by P. M. Mathews, to secure a PhD in nonlinear dynamics in 1974. Taking a sabbatical from university service, he did his post-doctoral studies first at the University of Tübingen as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow during 1976–77, and then at the Eindhoven University of Technology from 1977 to 1978. On his return to India, he rejoined University of Madras at their Post-Graduate Centre at Tiruchirapalli as a

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 reader of physics, and held this post until 1982 when he moved to the physics department of Bharathidasan University as a reader. He was promoted as a professor in 1984, after which he headed the department of physics (1994–2006) as well as the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics (CNLD) (1992–2006).In between, he served as an honorary professor at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences from 1989 to 1994. During his university service, <mask> had several stints abroad: at the Institute of Science and Technology of the University of Manchester during 1979–80 as Royal Society Nuffield Foundation fellow, as a guest scientist at Uppsala University in 1981, and as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellow at Kyoto University from 1984 to 1985. He also filled short-term assignments at
institutions such as the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1975 and 1986), Utrecht University (1975), Indian Institute of Science (1976), NATO Advanced Study Institute (1980), University of Melbourne (1980), University of Adelaide (1980), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1982), Pondicherry University (1988), Centro di cultura scientifica Alessandro Volta (1988), Fudan University (1989), Russian Academy of Sciences (1990), Polish Academy of Sciences (as an INSA exchange fellow – 1991), Royal Society (as an INSA exchange visitor – 1996), University of Turku (1997), and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (as an INSA exchange visitor – 1996). He superannuated from service in 2006. Post-retirement, he was nominated as a professor of eminence by Bharathidasan University and continued his association with the university as a Raja Ramanna fellow of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) during 2006–07. After the expiry of the tenure of the fellowship, the Department of Science and Technology selected him as a Ramanna fellow in 2007.In 2011, DAE offered him the Raja


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<mask> has done extensive research in the field of nonlinear dynamics, especially on solitons and chaos theory. One of the first Indian theoretical physicists to use differential geometrical methods such as Painlevé transcendents and Lie theory for studying the integrability of chaotic systems, he demonstrated unsuspected transformations and proposed variables for exposing hidden nonlinear structures. Collaborating with K. Murali and Leon O. Chua, he developed a non-autonomous chaotic circuit, Murali—Lakshmanan-Chua (MLC) Circuit which they detailed in an article, Controlling and Synchronization of Chaos in the Simplest Dissipative Non-autonomous Circuit, published in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in 1995. He studied Heisenberg spin chains with respect to its solitons and elucidated the collision of optical solitons in multimode fibres as well as demonstrated the energy sharing between them.The body of his work is reported to have assisted in the development applications based on ferromagnetism and nonlinear optics. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 256 of them. Besides, he has published nine books which include "Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability, Chaos and Patterns", "Chaos in Nonlinear Oscillators: Controlling and Synchronization", "Symmetries and singularity structures", "Dynamics of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems"  and "Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Integrability and Spectral Methods". His work has drawn citations from other scientists and he has mentored over 25 doctoral and many master's scholars, which has helped develop a school of research on nonlinear dynamics. <mask> founded the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics of

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texts: Bharathidasan University and served as the head of the centre for almost a decade and half from 1992 to 2006. He is a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos and has been associated with many other journals such as Advances in Mathematical Physics, Physics News, Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, Indian Journal of Physics and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A. He also served as the guest editor-in-chief of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals when they published a special issue on solitons in 1995.He has been involved in the organization of the international conferences, workshops and winter schools and is a member of the organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on Symmetries, Differential Equations and Applications (SDEA-III) scheduled to be held at Istanbul Technical University in August 2017. He delivered the keynote address as the chief guest at the workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications organized by Indian Academy of Sciences and Bharathidasan University in 2003 and was the session chair of the Physics and Applied Mathematics Researchers' Meet (PAAMRM-2015) held at Indian Statistical Institute in March 2015. He was also an invited speaker at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NW08) in July 2008, at the international conference on Nonlinear Evolution  Equations and Dynamical Systems-2009 in Italy in May 2009, at the Robin Bullough Memorial Meeting of the University of  Manchester in June 2009,at the Symmetry plus Integrability conference in Texas in June 2011, at Physcon-2011 in Spain in September 2011 and at the international conference on Frontiers in Mathematics at Guwahati University in March, 2015. When National Academy of Sciences, India organized a national symposium on "New Materials" in 1987, he was among the organizers of the event and he served in the councils


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 of the other two major Indian science academies, at Indian National Science Academy during 2005–07 and at Indian Academy of Sciences from 2010 to 2012; He also sat in the National Board for Higher Mathematics from 1989 to 1992. Awards and honors
<mask> Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1989. The UGC honored him again in 1990 with the Hari Om Trust Meghnad Saha Award and he received the Tamil Nadu Scientists Award in 1994, followed by Hari Om Ashram Prerit Shri Hari Vallabhdas Chunilal Shah Research Endowment Prize in 1996. He was selected as a Distinguished Scientist by the Indian Science Congress Association in 2004 and Kurukshetra University awarded him the Goyal Prize in Physics the next year. He received the R. D. Birla Award Award of the Indian Physics Association in 2014. <mask> has received seven major research or academic fellowships and five elected fellowships during his career. He has received two research fellowships in the name of Raja Ramanna, from the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology respectively. The other research fellowships were Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (1976–77), Royal Society Nuffield Foundation fellowship (1979–80), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship (1984–85), International Centre for Theoretical Physics Senior Associate Fellowship (2002–8) and the NASI-Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellowship (2016–).The National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 1989 and he became a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy in 1991 and 1992 respectively. In 1999, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow and a decade later, The World Academy of Sciences made him their fellow. The year 2009 brought him another honor by way of honoris causa degree of Doctor of Science from University of Burdwan. The award orations delivered by him

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and Professor Vishnu Vasudeva Narlikar Memorial lecture (2006) of Indian National Science Academy, Professor M. M. Thomas Endowment Lectures of Bishop Moore College (2001) and Prof. A. C. Banerji Memorial lecture of National Academy of Sciences, India (2007). An article was published in Chaos Solitons and Fractals in 1998 in honor of <mask> on the occasion of his 50th birthday, written by K.Porsezian, one of his co-authors. Lakshmanan has been selected for the prestigious fellowship of the National Science Chairs instituted by Department of Science and Technology-Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) for 2021. Selected bibliography

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Articles
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See also
 Schrödinger equation
 Minkowski space
 Soliton (optics)
 Lyapunov stability

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People from Coimbatore district
Indian theoretical physicists
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
Indian technology writers
Madras Christian College alumni
University of Madras alumni
University of Tübingen alumni
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
University of Madras faculty
Academics of the University of Manchester
Kyoto University faculty
Uppsala University faculty
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<mask> (born 13 June 1962) is a former Australian international football player who most recently worked as head coach of Malaysian Premier League club Kedah FA. A powerful striker, <mask> is remembered as one of the pioneers for Australian players in Europe, appearing in the German Bundesliga, Dutch Eredivisie, Scottish Premier League, Turkish Super Lig, as well as the top-flight and second tier in England. In Asia, he played for clubs in Hong Kong and Malaysia. He played 44 times for the national team, scoring a total of 14 goals and a number of assists, and appearing in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul. <mask> was born in Glasgow, but moved to Adelaide as a young child. <mask> played for overseas clubs for more than a dozen years before returning to Australia to coach Sydney Olympic, Sydney United and Parramatta Power in the National Soccer League. He was the assistant manager to Ron Smith at A-League club Perth Glory before taking the top position after Smith's sacking, helping the club end its winless streak.Playing career
As a player, <mask> bought out his own contract at Adelaide City so he could join Rangers, the club that his family supported, in 1983. He broke into the first team at the same time as acclaimed Scotland striker Ally McCoist. Both he and McCoist scored their first goals for the club in the same Scottish League Cup game and he also represented the Glasgow club on the European stage. In 1985, <mask> became the first Australian to feature in the Bundesliga, playing for two seasons for Eintracht Frankfurt. He also played for Dutch football club Feyenoord—appearing in the UEFA Cup—before securing a move to Chelsea in the top flight of English football. He also played - and scored - on-loan for Newcastle United becoming first Aussie to play and score for the famous North-East club. Playing in the

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 second-tier of English football, he had spells at Swindon Town where he played with Glenn Hoddle and helped them earn promotion to the English Premier League and Millwall where he scored 15 league goals in 55 games.He then moved to Malaysia and scored the winner in the 1995 Malaysia Cup final; this was a golden goal, the first golden goal to be scored in a Malaysia Cup final. <mask> finished his career with Australian clubs Sydney Olympic and Sydney United as he transitioned into coaching. Managerial career

<mask>'s coaching career in the NSL spanned six seasons and 154 matches, in which he recorded 68 wins, 31 draws and 55 losses. When he returned from playing in Europe he was a player/coach for clubs Sydney Olympic and Sydney United. Some of his coaching achievements include a Grand Final appearance in 1998–99 with Sydney United and also being the inaugural coach of Parramatta Power in 1999–2000. <mask> was appointed interim head coach of Perth Glory after the sacking of Ron Smith in November 2007 and was then given a contract until March 2009. It was further extended to the end of the 2010–11 season in November 2008.Some of his major achievements while manager of Perth Glory was to sign key international players including Robbie Fowler and Andy Todd. <mask> stepped down as Perth Glory coach during the 2010–11 A-League season after an unbeaten run of five games until his side conceded four consecutive losses. He decided to move to the role of Director of Football. <mask> then moved Ian Ferguson to the head coaching role to replace himself. Both positions were for the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons. On 4 March 2011, <mask> was released from his contract from the club after the role was deemed redundant after an independent review of football operations at Perth Glory. In November 2013, Malaysian Premier League club Kedah FA

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 announced on its website that <mask> had been appointed head coach and was preparing for the 2014 Premier League season.But despite the Red Eagles' solid start to the 2014 campaign and a Malaysia FA Cup quarterfinal appearance, he was sacked in April due to political in-fighting within the club. 2014 worked as a pundit for Astro TV for the EPL in Malaysia and also for the Brazil World cup 2014

2015 he was engaged by Mike Charlsworth the owner of Central Coast Mariners FC in the Australian A League as GM of Asia. This was for possible connections and joint ventures in the growing Asia market. Worked with Frenz United in Malaysia with ex Liverpool legend Steve McMahon to help bring the under 19's of Frenz United to the final of the Asian Championship trophy where they were defeated by a robust and tough Japanese team Kashima Antlers in the final. 2015 - 2016 In the past <mask> has also work as a scout for Feyenoord Rotterdam and is currently their Asian Ambassador for the club. 2016 worked for Astro TV as a pundit for the EPL

2017 worked for ESPNFC as a pundit for Australia's 2018 World Cup playoff against Syria. Managerial statistics

International goals
Scores and results list goal tally first.Honours

Player
Rangers
 Scottish League Cup: 1984–85

Seiko
Hong Kong League: 1984–85
Hong Kong Cup: 1984–85

Swindon Town
 First Division Play-Off Final: 1993

Selangor
 Malaysia Cup: 1995

Australia
Trans-Tasman: 1983
Merlion Cup: 1982

Individual
 FFA Hall of Champions: 2006 Inductee
NSL U21 Player of the Year: 1980–81 (Papasavas Medal)

Manager
 Sydney United
NSL Premiership: 1998–99

 Individual
NSL Coach of the Year: 1998–99

References

External links

 OZ Football profile

1962 births
Living people
Australian soccer players
Australian soccer coaches
Rangers F.C. players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Feyenoord players
Chelsea

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Newcastle United F.C. players
Swindon Town F.C. players
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Millwall F.C. players
Seiko SA players
Sydney Olympic FC players
Sydney United 58 FC players
Perth Glory FC managers
Scottish footballers
Scottish Football League players
Eredivisie players
Bundesliga players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Australia international soccer players
Olympic soccer players of Australia
Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Sydney Olympic FC managers
Central Coast Mariners FC non-playing staff
British expatriates in Hong Kong
Australian expatriate soccer players
Australian expatriate sportspeople in England
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Germany
Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
Expatriate footballers in England
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong
Australian expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia
Expatriate footballers in Malaysia
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<mask> (born March 27, 1953) is a language and communication scientist known for her work on language development in children with specific language impairment (SLI, also known as developmental language disorder) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). She is the Oros Family Chair and Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is a Principal Investigator and Director of the Language Processes Lab. She has also served as the Associate Dean for Research, College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. <mask> received the Alfred K. Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2017. Previously, in 2013, she received ASHA Honors of the Association, which is their highest honor for contributions to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders. <mask> has served as Language Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Biography

<mask> received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing Science and a PhD in Language Development and Disorders from Indiana University, and also completed requirements for her CCC-SLP (Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathologist).As a graduate student, <mask> studied under the mentorship of Judith Johnston, who provided guidance for her dissertation, Constructive comprehension abilities exhibited by language-disordered children. Her dissertation examined children's ability to draw interferences based on information contained in short stories presented verbally or through pictures. Children (second graders) with language disorders were less likely to make appropriate spatial and causal inferences based on story

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 content, even when they remembered the relevant information from the story, when compared to peers of the same age who were matched in terms of nonverbal abilities. The children with language disorders performed similarly to younger children (kindergarteners) matched on language comprehension. <mask>'s research article based on the dissertation won the Language Editor's Award from the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research in 1986. <mask>er's research program has been funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Research
<mask>er is known for longitudinal studies of language development and for designing interventions to support communicative development in different clinical populations.One of her goals has been to assist in early identification of toddlers at risk for language disorders. She and her students conducted a five-year study of lexical (vocabulary) and grammatical development in late talking toddlers with the aim of determining whether the evaluation methods used to assess language processing in late talkers were reliable indicators of future language delays. They found close links between vocabulary and syntactic knowledge in both late talkers and toddlers with typical language development, but also found less reliance on syntactic bootstrapping in support of vocabulary development among late talkers. The researchers provided public access to their language corpus through the CHILDES database. <mask> and her colleagues have examined overlapping language profiles of different populations of children with language delay, which has led to improvements in early

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 differential diagnosis of language disorders. One of her studies focused on distinguishing the lexical and grammatical abilities of children with ASD as compared to children identified as late talkers who are not on the autism spectrum. This study revealed that toddlers with autism had more severe receptive than expressive language delays in comparison to a group described as developmentally delayed.Other work, with Hugh Catts and colleagues, examined overlapping language profiles of children identified with dyslexia and those identified with SLI; their research identified a high rate of comorbidity between these developmental disorders. In another study, they compared the language development trajectories of 8th graders identified as having impairments in either reading comprehension or decoding skills, which include the ability to recognize the basic sounds that make up words and map sounds onto letters. At kindergarten, 2nd, and 4th grade, the children with poor reading comprehension had shown deficits in linguistic comprehension whereas the children with poor decoding skills had shown deficits in phonological processing. The distinct patterns of impaired skills in the two groups provided support for the simple view of reading, which proposes that reading is dependent on separable skills of decoding and linguistic comprehension. <mask> also collaborated with J. Bruce Tomblin and others on studies of verbal working memory in children with SLI, and the impact of working memory deficits on language abilities. One of their studies used fMRI to explore brain-behavior relationships in adolescents with SLI and documented atypical attentional and memory processes while the youth performed verbal tasks. Representative publications

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 W., Adlof, S. M., Hogan, T. P., & <mask>, S. (2005).Are specific language impairment and dyslexia distinct disorders? Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48(6), 1378–1396. Catts, H. W., Adlof, S. M., & <mask>, S. (2006). Language deficits in poor comprehenders: A case for the simple view of reading. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(2), 278–293. <mask>, S., Evans, J., & Hesketh, L. J. (1999).An examination of verbal working memory capacity in children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42(5), 1249–1260. <mask>, S., & Hesketh, L. J. (1996). Lexical learning by children with specific language impairment: Effects of linguistic input presented at varying speaking rates. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 39(1), 177–190. <mask>, S., Tomblin, J.B., Zhang, X., Buckwalter, P., Chynoweth, J. G., & Jones, M. (2000). Nonword repetition performance in school-age children with and without language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43(4), 865–878. References

External links

Faculty Home Page
Language Processes Lab
Little Listeners Project

Ellis Weismer Corpus in TalkBank

Living people
American people in health professions
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Indiana University alumni
1953

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<mask> (born 22 August 1945) is a Dutch tenor. His repertoire includes the great oratorios, baroque operas, ensemble music and Lieder, especially in the field of Renaissance and Baroque music. Life
Born in Utrecht, Geraerts attended school in Utrecht and sang in the boys' choir of St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht. In 1972, he became the first private student of Max van Egmond in Amsterdam, as at that time there were no courses of study for early music majoring in singing. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of the baroque ensemble "De Egelentier". For about three decades he performed at the major early music festivals. He regularly held master classes at the University of Michigan in the US.Geraerts has an international reputation and has performed in almost all European countries, as well as in the US and Israel. In the field of early music, he has appeared as a singer in baroque operas, oratorios and in ensemble music. As a lieder singer, he has recorded the Winterreise by Franz Schubert with Ludger Rémy on the fortepiano. His numerous radio performances and recordings include important works by Johann Sebastian Bach such as some of his cantatas, the St. John Passion and the St. Matthew Passion with Johan van der Meer. His clear voice is appreciated "without vocal equalization and without vibrato, i.e. always razor sharp on the tone", and his lively declamation, which is strongly influenced by the musical rhetoric


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 of the Baroque. Konrad Klek praises Geraerts as the oratorio singer of Bach's great vocal works: "I have never experienced such German linguistic power with any German singer.As a singer he has worked with well-known European ensembles such as the Groningse Bachvereniging, the Fiori musicali, the Musicalische Compagney, the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Leonhardt-Consort and the Alsfelder Vokalensemble. In 2003, he moved from his hometown Utrecht to the South of France, where he had the dilapidated St.-Guiraud Castle restored in Castelnau-Barbarens near Auch. In the Auch Cathedral he gave several concerts with the titular organist Anton Stiller on the local baroque organ from 1694 and the vocal ensemble Capella Auscitensis. Recordings
 Heinrich Schütz: Symphoniae sacrae. Eigenproduktion 6810 167, 1972 (with Groningse Bachvereniging, Berliner Ensemble für Alte Musik, Johan van der Meer). Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Auszüge). 1973 (with Solisten des Tölzer Knabenchors, René Jacobs, Marius van Altena, Michiel ten Houte de Lange, Max van Egmond, <mask> der Kamp, Frits van Erven Dorens, Groningse Bachvereniging, Leonhardt-Consort, Alarius Ensemble, musica da camera).Johann Sebastian Bach: Kreuzstab Cantata, BWV 56 / Ich habe genug, BWV 82. Philips 6575 093 [61], 1977 (with Max van Egmond, Baroque Orchestra, Frans Brüggen). Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion. 1979 (with Marjanne Kweksilber, Charles Brett, Marius


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 van Altena, Max van Egmond, <mask> der Kamp, Groningse Bachvereniging, Fiori musicali). Gilles Binchois: Chansons. Alpha Brussels MBM 40, 1979 (with Ensemble Kaproen). Heinrich Schütz: Symphoniæ Sacræ I (Venedig 1629).Arion 38604, 1980 (with Musicalische Compagney). Aus den Tagebüchern des Orlando di Lasso. Musique En Wallonie MW 84524, 1982 (with Ensemble Dialogo Musicale, Hans Ludwig Hirsch). Henry Desmarest: Deux grands motets lorrains. Erato STU 71511 REC 350, 1983 (with Barbara Schlick, Mieke van der Sluis, <mask> der Kamp, Fiori musicali). Heinrich Schütz / Johann Seb. Bach: Musikalische Exequien / Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit.Teldec 66.23335-0, 1983 with Staats- Und Domchor Berlin, Christian Grube)
 Heinrich Schütz and Giovanni Gabrieli: Psalmen, Concerti und Motetten. Musikproduktion Ambitus amb 97843, 1985 (with Musicalische Compagney). Heinrich Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie. MD+G L 3229, 1986 (with Musicalische Compagney). Heinrich Schütz: Liebe und Klage. Hochzeits-Concerti, Dialoge und Hohe-Lied-Kompositionen. MD+G L 3230, 1986 (with Musicalische Compagney).Vincent Lübeck: Sämtliche Kantaten. Motette CD 50181, 1986 (with David Cordier, Graham Pushee, <mask> der Kamp, New College Choir Oxford). François Couperin: Mis voor orgel, „Messe propre pour les couvents de religieux et de religieuses“. 1990 (with Pierre-Yves Asselin). Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise. MD+G L 3391, 1991 (with Ludger Rémy). Palestrina/Bach: Missa

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 In Terra Pax. Fest-Concerte zum Westfälischen Frieden. Ambitus, amb 97 920, 1998 (with Musicalische Conmpagney).Ludwig Senfl: Deutsche Lieder / Carmina. CPO, 1999 (with Weser-Renaissance). Hans Leo Hassler: Motets and Organ Works. CPO 999 723–2, 2000 (with Weser-Renaissance). Lieder/lustick zu syngen/zu fleiten und schwegelen. Cornetto, 2000 (with Columna Sonans). Festive Hanseatic Music.CPO 999 782–2, 2000 (with Weser-Renaissance). Gabrieli Superiore. Motetten und Canzonen von Giovanni Gabrieli. Querstand VKJK 0019, 2001 (with Musicalische Compagney). Orlando di Lasso: Bußpsalmen Nr. 1–3. Capriccio 67018, 2003 (with Tölzer Knabenchor).Orlando di Lasso. Bußpsalmen Nr. 4–7. Capriccio 67130; Bayerischer Rundfunk, LC 67130, 2004 (with Tölzer Knabenchor). Johann Sebastian Bach: Stil'Antico-Motetten à 4. Rondeau-LC 06690, 2008 (with Musicalische Compagney). Further reading
 : Der geistliche Hörer.In Michael Heinemann, Bernhard Hentrich (ed. ): Erfahrungen mit Bach. Ein Dresdner Bach-Buch (Bach nach Bach. Vol. 3). Dohr, Cologne 2020, , . Konrad Klek: Wie Bach zum Europäer wurde.In Peter Bubmann, Eckart Liebau (ed. ): Die Ästhetik Europas. Ideen und Illusionen. transcript, Bielefeld 2016, , , . References

External links

 www.bach-cantatas.com: Kurzvita auf Bach Cantatas
 Einspielungen von <mask> auf WorldCat

Dutch operatic tenors
1945 births
Living people
People from Utrecht (province)
University of Michigan


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<mask> (born 23 September 1988 in Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships three times. Reade is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Irish mother. Early years
Reade was primarily raised by her grandparents after her mother gave birth to her at the age of 17. She has credited her grandfather with giving her the self-confidence to achieve success in her cycling career. Reade began racing in 1998 at the age of 10, at Tipkinder Park in Crewe. A local track operator named Bob Field, whose son also raced at the time, became her mentor.She was previously a Track & Field enthusiast but apparently got bored with 100-metre sprint running and the Shot Put after five years in those sports before discovering BMX. BMX career to 2007
In 2005, she raced the National series with the men all year, despite being only 17 years old. She commented on racing against men in a Descent World interview:

Reade fractured her knee two weeks before the UCI World Championships in July 2005 at a national event in England. She raced the World Championships with her knee wrapped up and on pain killers but crashed in the quarter finals. Known for her power, she developed her strength racing against boys and older amateurs, including men up to the present time. She won her first professional race in the Girls Pro at the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Winternationals in Phoenix, Arizona on 1 April 2006. She also won the following day.In 2006, she became British National No.1 in 19 & Over Elite Men after racing the National series with men all


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 year, despite being only 17 at the time, 1.72 metres tall and 76 kg. In June 2006, Reade broke a metatarsal bone in practice. Her first race back was the 2006 European Championships where she competed only in the last two race events before the final Event. The cast came off four days before the European Championships Final Event. She won the World Championships in Brazil in August 2006 despite an earlier injury to her foot. Her BMX victories at junior level include three World, eight European and five British BMX championships. Reade is also a champion track racer, riding on Velodromes.In July 2007 she became the Women's Senior UCI BMX World Champion and at the 2007 UCI Track World Championships, she won the gold in the women's team sprint with Victoria Pendleton. It was only her second track race ever. Not only was she the first ever to win a track championship in her rookie year, she completed the feat after only six weeks of training. She had originally taken up the sport to keep her fit for BMX competition. Track racing
Reade started track racing on 24 February 2007, her first ever competition on the velodrome was in the Manchester round of the 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. She took second place with Anna Blyth in the Team Sprint in a time of 34.294 seconds. The Gold Medal-winning Dutch team of Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis' time was 33.966 seconds.Like <mask>, Kanis is also a champion BMX racer. <mask> and Blyth's qualifying time was the fastest of the event at 33.802 seconds. In the final round, the Dutch team made a false start, however, Reade didn't notice the call back to the start and completed a lap at full sprint. In a post race

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A month later, on 29 March, Reade went on to take first place in Team Sprint at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Palma de Mallorca along with Victoria Pendleton. It was also the first ever Women's Team Sprint Gold Medal title in that event. Their winning time was 33.631 seconds. Reade was a last minute replacement for Anna Blyth, Reade's partner at her first track racing event a month prior.This success in Velodrome racing follows the example of the former professional BMX racer, Jamie Staff, who had a successful career both in Velodrome track racing and BMX racing. At the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, she again won the gold in the women's team sprint with Pendleton. On 20 November 2007 Reade was named The Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the Year. Olympic Games
Reade is still active in track racing but concentrated on BMX for the event's first inclusion in the Olympic Games in 2008. Having successfully defended her crown at the 2008 world championships, Reade was named the sole woman member of the United Kingdom BMX Olympic team by British Cycling on 9 July 2008. She was the favourite to win the gold medal in the women's BMX event. She crashed in the first qualifying heat time trial, but the second heat saw Reade set second fastest time.As the best of both times was counted; she advanced to the semi-finals. They were run in three heats, with riders accumulating points dependendent on placings. Despite crashing in the first heat, Reade gained enough points to put her through to the final. The final round saw Reade ride slightly more conservatively conceding the lead to Anne-Caroline Chausson on the


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 first berm. She crashed again on the final berm when she clipped Chausson's rear wheel, conceding the chance of a medal. She did not finish the race. Return to the track
On 16 March 2009, <mask> was selected in the British squad for the World Track Cycling Championships in Pruszków, Poland, where she once again competed alongside Victoria Pendleton in the Women's Sprint and Team Sprint events.In 2009 however <mask> and Pendleton failed to retain their team crown, winning only a silver after losing out to Kaarle McCulloch and Anna Meares of Australia. Reade was philosophical after this setback telling BBC Sport "I did the best possible ride I could do on the day so I'm really happy." In April 2015 it was announced that Reade was re-joining the Great Britain track squad after a period based in the United States competing in BMX. Subsequently, in August 2015 the  team announced that Reade would ride for them during the 2015–16 track cycling season as part of her preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Olympics 2012
Reade again represented Great Britain in the women's BMX event for the London 2012 Olympics. Having placed second, first and second in the three heat semi-final she finished a disappointing sixth in the final. Retirement and comeback
In April 2017 Reade announced her retirement from competition, after she had been dropped from British Cycling's elite squad: in a 2021 interview she said this had forced her into retirement as British Cycling's medical team believed that she would not be able to compete at the Tokyo Olympics as she had had her shoulder operated on five times.After her retirement she became a fitness coach. However, the period after her


texts: retirement was marked by a bout of alcoholism and weight gain, which she was able to recover from after joining Alcoholics Anonymous. In August 2018 she returned to training at British Cycling, after being invited several times by performance director Stephen Park. In a January 2019 interview, Reade explained that she was returning to competition for "closure" after feeling that her physical and mental condition were sub-optimal at the time of her retirement, adding that she was now treating the sport as a hobby and not accepting funding for her cycling. That month she won the British National Team Sprint Championships alongside Blaine Ridge-Davis - her first national title in any discipline. However, a few days afterwards she was ruled out of selection for the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships due to a rule changed which required competitors at the world championships to have competed in that season's World Cup: the team sprint squad that Team GB sent to the world championships was unable to secure qualification for the Olympics in the event. Reade subsequently retired from competition for a second time.She has stated that she was subsequently approached by the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association to enquire whether she would consider competing in bobsleigh with a view to being part of the British squad at the 2022 Winter Olympics, but that she had turned them down. Aside from fitness coaching, she also serves as West Midlands cycling and walking ambassador, and also acts as a brand ambassador for a number of companies including HSBC. In 2020 she was appointed as a co-opted member of the Board of Directors for the 2023 UCI Cycling World


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BMX titles

Amateur
British Cycling
2000
11–12 Girls and 12 Girls Cruiser BCFBMX National Champion. She also came in 4th in 12 cruiser against the boys that year
2001
Senior Women's Champion
13 Girls European Champion
2003
15 Girls European Champion
2004
16 Girls European Champion
16 Girls and 18 & Under Women's Cruiser World Champion
2005
18 & Under Women's Cruiser European Champion
17 Expert European Champion
2006
Junior Elite Women European Champion

Professional
British Cycling
2002
Superclass girl National Champion
2003
Superclass girl National Champion
2006
19 & Over Elite Men British National No.1

Union Cycliste Internationale
2006
 Junior Women World Champion
2007
 Elite Women World Champion
Elite Women European Champion
Elite Women Supercross World Cup Champion – This was the "Good Luck, Beijing" race held on 22 August 2007 on the Olympic track in Beijing, China exactly 362 days before BMX Olympic competition started in Beijing. 2008
 Elite Women World Champion
Elite Women Supercross World Cup Champion
2010
 Elite Women World Champion
2013
1st UCI BMX Supercross World Cup – Round 1
1st UCI BMX Supercross World Cup – Round 2

Track results

2007
1st  Team Sprint, World Championships, with Victoria Pendleton
2nd Team Sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Cup, with Anna Blyth
5th 500 m TT, World Championships
2008
1st  Team Sprint, World Championships, with Victoria Pendleton
2015
2nd British National Team Sprint Championships, with Victoria Williamson
2019
1st  British National Team Sprint Championships, with Blaine


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References

External links
Profile at British Cycling

Living people
1988 births
Black British sportswomen
BMX riders
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
English female cyclists
English people of Jamaican descent
English track cyclists
Lesbian sportswomen
LGBT Black British people
LGBT cyclists
LGBT sportspeople from England
Sportspeople from Crewe
UCI Track Cycling World Champions


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<mask>-al-<mask> (born <mask>, November 3, 1929 – March 16, 2012) was an American linguist who was professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies and created one of the first roleplaying games, Empire of the Petal Throne. He also wrote several fantasy/science fantasy novels based in his associated world setting of Tékumel. Early life
Born in Spokane, Washington, descended from ancestors who had originally settled in America in 1626, <mask>'s childhood was spent around Washington and Idaho. As a youth he had an interest in "fairy stories, history and literature" which would be further influenced by such films as The Thief of Bagdad; all of which helped to turn his casual "wargames" with toy soldiers more towards fantasy. From this his fictional lands of Tsolyanu and others, in what was later to become Tékumel, emerged and were embellished further in middle and high school years during which time he commenced construction of armies of hand-carved figures to represent his creations. Also at an early age, <mask>'s interest in languages was piqued by neighboring children of Basque origin who were able to exclude others from their secret conversations in their native tongue. Academic life and creative networking
In, and just before 1950, while <mask> was studying at the University of Washington under <mask>, he became involved with small press publications, writing articles, short stories and contributing reviews to Fanscient and the local clubzine Sinisterra, the latter of which contained his review of, and content from, Jack Vance relating to his recently published book, The Dying Earth.Also at this time, <mask> corresponded with other authors who contributed to those same publications, including Lin Carter in whose writings and linguistic experiments he took an interest and with whom he finally put to

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