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<mask> (, ; born January 1, 1959), alternatively spelled Panayiotis Yiannakis or Yannakis, is a retired Greek professional basketball player and coach. As a player, he was primarily a point guard, but he could also play at the shooting guard position. During his playing career, <mask> was also widely-known under his nickname of "O Drákos" (), or "The Dragon" in English. A true floor general, <mask> began his club basketball playing career in Greece, with Ionikos Nikaias. After that, he before moved to the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki, where he spent the most important part of his pro playing career. In Thessaloniki, he helped to lead "The Yellows" (Aris) to three consecutive EuroLeague Final Four appearances between 1988 and 1990, as well as to a FIBA European Cup (later renamed to Saporta Cup) title in 1993. In the summer of 1993, he was transferred to the Greek club Panionios Athens, and finally a year later, to the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, with whom he won a EuroLeague championship in 1996.On February 3, 2008, <mask> was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors over the previous half-century by EuroLeague Basketball's Experts Committee. <mask> was, along with Nikos Galis, <mask> Fasoulas, and Fanis Christodoulou, one of the four main stars of the legendary late 1980s Greek National Team that put Greece on the world basketball map. He was Greece's team captain, when they won the gold medal at the EuroBasket of 1987, and were the silver-medalists at the same championship two years later. Furthermore, <mask> was also an important member of the Greek national team, when they reached the EuroBasket's semifinals in 1993 and 1995, as well as the FIBA World Cup's semifinals in 1994. After his playing career ended, <mask> was the head coach of the Athenian professional club team, Maroussi Athens, which he led to the forefront of the Greek League. <mask> was also the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague powerhouse Olympiacos Piraeus, which he led to the 2010 EuroLeague Final, and of the senior Greek national team. Under <mask>' guidance, the Greek national team won the gold medal at the 2005 EuroBasket, and the silver medal at the 2006 FIBA World Cup in Japan, where Greece upset Team USA, by a score of 101–95.He was also the head coach of the senior Chinese national team. Early years
<mask> was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Nikaia, Athens. Ηis parents, Dimitris, owner of a motorbike workshop, and Kalliope, a weaver, gave birth to five boys. Panagiotis was the youngest child of the family. <mask> started playing football around his neighborhood. He showed an early inclination to sports, and also tried the sport of basketball. He began watching the games of a local basketball club, and he was later approached by the head coach of the youth team of Ionikos Nikaias, who asked him to join their team.Club playing career

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<mask> began his club career with the youth teams of Ionikos Nikaias, in 1971. His first Head coach, George Vassilakopoulos, moved <mask> up to the club's senior men's first team, from the youth squad, in 1972, when he was at the age of just 13. The club was playing in the Greek 2nd Division at the time. In 1975, the club was promoted up to the top-tier level Greek First Division. <mask>' exceptional play with Ionikos Nikaias, at such a young age, drew the eyes of pro basketball experts on him. On January 24, 1981, Ionikos Nikaias, led by a then 22-year-old <mask>, played against Aris Thessaloniki, which was led by Nikos Galis. Aris won in a tight game, by a score of 114–113.The game is memorable in the history of Greek pro club basketball, because in the game, <mask> scored 73 points, and Galis scored 62 points, as they achieved the second and fourth most points ever scored in a single game of the Greek League basketball championship. Boston Celtics
In 1981, the American basketball coach Dick Dukeshire, who had coached <mask> with the senior Greek national team, asked <mask> to move to the USA, to play college basketball at the Hellenic College. Dukeshire believed that <mask> was good enough to play in the NBA. At that time, the Boston Celtics used the facilities of the Hellenic College's campus in Brookline, Massachusetts, for their training camp and practices. Dukeshire believed that if Gianankis was training with the school's team at the same time that the Celtics were there, that he had a chance to make the Celtics roster. <mask> eventually agreed to move to the USA, and joined the Hellenic College Owls team. While at training at Hellenic College, <mask> was eventually noticed by the Celtics, and they invited him to join the team's 1981 summer league camp.However, during the summer training camp, <mask> suffered a career-threatening knee injury that required multiple knee surgeries, and a lot of rehab time. After recovering from his knee surgery, <mask> averaged 25 points per game with the Hellenic College Owls. <mask> then went back to Greece, where he finished the season with his previous club team Ionikos Nikaias, in order to help them avoid a league relegation. <mask> was ultimately selected by the Boston Celtics, in the 9th round of the 1982 NBA Draft, with the 205th overall draft pick. <mask> then took part in the team's 1982–83 preseason training camp. About a week before the start of the regular season, the Celtics traded center Dave Cowens to the Milwaukee Bucks, in exchange for point guard Quinn Buckner, and due to that, they no longer had the need for another point guard. The Celtics then asked <mask> to join their CBA affiliate team, as a way to test how he could adjust to the American style of basketball, with the chance for him to earn an NBA contract with the main team later on.However, <mask> declined the offer, and returned to Greece, where he would play for the rest of his career. Aris Thessaloniki
On August 3, 1984, <mask> transferred to the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki, after the club paid a transfer fee contract buyout to Ionikos Nikaias for his player rights, in the amount of 42 million Greek Drachmas, which was considered a huge amount of money for a transfer buyout at that time. <mask> also personally received a BMW car, a sporting goods store, and an 8 million drachmas signing bonus from Aris. With Aris, <mask> teamed up with Nikos Galis, to form one half of an historic "tag-team", that took both Greek and European basketball by storm, for the years to come. From the 6th of March 1985, to the 5th of November 1988, the backcourt duo of Galis and <mask>, led Aris Thessaloniki to an 80-game  winning streak in the Greek League. <mask>' first season with Aris Thessaloniki, the 1984–85 season, was a great success. He won both the Greek League championship, and the Greek Cup title.In the final of the latter, <mask> made 8-out-of-12 three-pointers, and led his team to victory over Panathinaikos Athens. And that was only the beginning, as six more consecutive Greek League championships, and five more Greek Cup titles with Aris were to follow. With Aris Thessaloniki, <mask> also took part in three consecutive EuroLeague Final Fours. He played at the 1988 Ghent Final Four, at the 1989 Munich Final Four, and at the 1990 Zaragoza Final Four. Aris Thessloniki joined the elite of European basketball clubs at that time, but a European-wide title did not come for <mask> and his team until a few years later. In June of 1991, <mask> was chosen as a member of The Balkans Selection All-Star Team that played against The European Selection All-Star Team, at the 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee. The 1991 FIBA Jubilee event was held in order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball in 1891, by the Canadian James Naismith.The FIBA Jubilee All-Star Game took place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, and it included numerous legends of European basketball. The Balkans' All-Star Selection won the game, by a score of 103–102. In the 1992–93 season, Aris and <mask> won the championship of the European-wide secondary-level FIBA European Cup competition, which later became known as the FIBA Saporta Cup. Aris beat the Turkish Super League club Efes Istanbul, by a score of 50–48 in the final, which was held in Turin. By then, Nikos Galis had already previously left Aris Thessaloniki, and joined Panathinaikos Athens, and <mask> had become the de facto leader and franchise player of Aris. Panionios Athens
In 1993, after spending nine seasons with Aris Thessaloniki, <mask> moved to the Greek club Panionios Athens. With Panionios Athens, he averaged 14.0 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 1.4 steals per game, in the Greek Basket League's 1993–94 season.In that same season, he also competed with the club in the European-wide third level competition, the FIBA Korać Cup. During the Korać Cup season, he averaged 17.0 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 2.0 steals per game. Panathinaikos Athens
After spending a season with Panionios Athens, <mask> then moved to the Greek club Panathinaikos Athens, where he played from 1994 to 1996. It was with Panathinaikos Athens that he finished his club playing career. With Panathinaikos Athens, <mask> finally won the championship of the top-level European-wide club competition, the FIBA EuroLeague. Panathinaikos and <mask> won the title at the 1996 Paris Final Four. He also won the Greek Cup title with Panathinaikos Athens that same year.It was the seventh Greek Cup title that he had won in his playing career, to go along with his seven Greek League championships. <mask> ended his pro club playing career in 1996. During his club playing career he competed in a total of five EuroLeague Final Fours, as he played in three with Aris Thessaloniki, and two with Panathinaikos Athens. Overall, during his pro club career, <mask> scored a total of 9,291 points, in 493 games played in the Greek Basket League, for a career scoring average of 18.8 points per game. While in the EuroLeague, he scored a total of 1,514 points, in 119 games played, for a career scoring average of 12.7 points per game. National team playing

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<mask> led the Greek under-16 junior national team to the silver medal at the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship of 1975. A year later, he debuted with the senior men's Greek national team, as a 17-year-old, versus the Czechoslovakian national team.With Greece's junior national teams, he also played at the 1976 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, and at the 1978 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. <mask>' first appearance with Greece at a major FIBA international tournament, was at the 1979 EuroBasket. He won gold medals at the 1979 Balkan Championship, and at the 1979 Mediterranean Games. <mask> also represented Greece at the 1980 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1981 EuroBasket, the 1983 EuroBasket, the 1984 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and at the 1986 FIBA World Cup. With Greece, he won the gold medal at the 1986 Balkan Championship. <mask> was the team captain of the senior men's Greek national team that won the gold medal at the 1987 EuroBasket. He also played with Greece at the 1988 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament.He won the silver medal at the 1989 EuroBasket, and he also represented Greece at the 1990 FIBA World Cup. <mask> also represented Greece at the 1991 FIBA Centennial Jubilee, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the creation of the sport of basketball, by the Canadian James Naismith. The Jubilee tournament took place at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, in Piraeus, Athens, Greece. In three games played during the tournament, <mask> averaged 14.3 points per game. Galis also played with Greece at the following major tournaments: the 1991 EuroBasket, the 1992 FIBA European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1993 EuroBasket, the 1994 FIBA World Cup, and the 1995 EuroBasket. Gianankis retired from the Greek national team as a player, on August 2nd, 1996, after competing with Greece at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. During his playing time with the senior Greek national team, <mask> participated in 29 official FIBA international competitions, and in 40 official international competitions overall.<mask> holds the all-time career record for the most caps with the senior Greek national team, with 351. That is also the all-time career record for any European national team. He also holds the all-time career record for the most total points scored with the senior Greek national team, with 5,301 points. That is also the all-time career record for any European national team. Career as a head coach

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Unconventionally, the very next year after he retired from playing with the Greek national team, <mask> started his coaching career as the head coach of the senior Greek National Team, in 1997. He stayed the head coach of the Greek national team for two years. He led the team to a fourth-place finish at the 1997 EuroBasket, and to a fourth-place finish at the 1998 FIBA World Cup.<mask> returned to the head coach position of the Greek national team in 2004, for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, where he led the Greek team to a fifth-place finish. In the next year, under his coaching guidance, Greece won the 2005 EuroBasket gold medal, which marked the second time that Greece had won the EuroBasket title, and the first time they had won it since 1987. <mask> became the first person to win the EuroBasket, both as a player (1987), and as a head coach (2005). In 2006, he coached the national team of Greece to a second-place finish at the 2006 FIBA World Cup. In the World Cup's semifinals, which were held on September 1, 2006, <mask>' Greek team, beat the heavily favored Team USA, for the first time, by a score of 101–95. After 2006, <mask> no longer simultaneously coached on both the professional club and national team levels, as he decided to focus his full attention on the Greek national team only. <mask>' salary with the Greek national team, eventually reached an annual rate of €1.2 million net income.At the 2007 EuroBasket, <mask> led Greece to a fourth-place finish. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he led Greece to a fifth-place finish. In December 2008, <mask> ended his tenure as the head coach of Greece's senior national team. He was succeeded in that role by Jonas Kazlauskas. China
<mask> was also the head coach of the senior men's Chinese national team. He coached China at the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship. China finished the tournament in fifth place.Pro clubs
After starting his coaching career as the head coach of the senior Greek national team, <mask> also moved into coaching in the professional club level. He coached the Greek League club Panionios Athens, until 2002, when he was then named the head coach of the Greek club Maroussi Athens. He stayed with Maroussi Athens until 2006. During his time with Maroussi Athens, along with the help of his young star point guard, named Vassilis Spanoulis, whose playing style and player attributes were often compared to <mask>', he took the club from relative obscurity, and turned it into the third most prominent team in the Greek League, during that era. On 3 February 2008, <mask> signed on to be the head coach of the Greek EuroLeague power Olympiacos Piraeus. He signed a two-and-a-half year contract with the team, at an annual salary of €1.1 million net income. In June 2010, Olympiacos Piraeus announced that <mask> would not coach their team in the next season.During the two-and-a-half year period that he coached Olympiacos Piraeus, <mask> had led the team to the 2010 Greek Cup title, which was the team's first title won in eight years, and to three consecutive Greek League Finals appearances (2008, 2009, 2010). He also led the team to two consecutive EuroLeague Final Four appearances (2009 and 2010), which were the club's first EuroLeague Final Four appearances since the 1999 Final Four. Those two Final Four appearances also included a EuroLeague Finals appearance (2010). After that, <mask> worked as the head coach of the French League club Limoges, during the 2012–13 season. He became the head coach of the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki, in 2017. Personal life
<mask> is married to Eugenia, and he has two children, Kalliope and Dimitris. In 2010, he lost his brother (all four of his brothers died during a 10-year span) before an Olympiacos Piraeus rivalry derby with Panathinaikos Athens.Awards and accomplishments
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 Greek 2nd Division Champion: (1975)
 Greek League Top Scorer: (1980)
3× FIBA European Selection: (1980, 1987, 1990)
2× Greek Cup Finals Top Scorer: (1985, 1988)
Greek League MVP: (1987)
Greek League Assist leader: (1989)
 His personal best for points scored in a single game was 73 points scored, in 1981, as a player of Ionikos Nikaias (which ironically occurred against Aris, his future team). Selected by the NBA professional club the Boston Celtics, in the 1982 NBA draft. 7× Greek Cup Winner: (1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1996)
 7× consecutive Greek League Champion: (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)
 Along with Nikos Galis, he led Aris to an 80-game winning streak in the Greek League, in the 1980s. FIBA European Cup (Saporta Cup) Champion: (1993)
 EuroLeague Champion: (1996)
 In total, he won 16 first tier championships in his pro club career as a player. When he retired from his club playing career, he held the record for the most games played in the Greek League (493). He scored 9,291 points in the Greek Basketball Championship (counting all league formats since the 1963–64 season) (3rd all-time). Member of the Eurobasket.com website's European Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted as a player.EuroLeague's 50th anniversary 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors List: (2008)

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 He holds the record for national team caps, with 351, with the senior men's Greek National Basketball Team, which is also a record for any European player. He holds the record for total Greek national team caps, men's and boy's, with 402. He holds the record, with 5,301 points scored with the senior men's Greek National Team. He holds the record, with 6,202 points scored in total, with the Greek National Team (men's and boy's). (As a head coach):

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He is the only person to win the EuroBasket, both as a player (1987 EuroBasket), and as a head coach (2005 EuroBasket). See also
 List of FIBA EuroBasket winning head coaches

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Euroleague.net Head Coach Profile
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<mask> is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker and essayist. He is best known for his 2015 documentary Notfilm, his work with the Bruce Conner Family Trust and as Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where he restored numerous independent and avant-garde works. Lipman was the 2008 recipient of Anthology Film Archives' Preservation Honors, and is a three-time winner of the National Society of Film Critics' Heritage Award. Lipman's essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and in numerous academic books and journals and his films have been screened internationally and have been collected by museums and archives. His 2015 feature-length documentary Notfilm about Samuel Beckett's Film was produced and distributed by Milestone Films and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival. The documentary was prompted by the discovery of long-missing footage from the original production of Film, which Lipman discovered amid reels of outtakes in the apartment of Grove Press publisher and Film producer, <mask>. Publications
Known for his contributions to the theory of film restoration, particularly the ethics involved in restoring independent and experimental film, <mask>an has contributed numerous essays on the subject, beginning with “Problems of Independent Film Preservation” in 1996 and consolidated in “The Gray Zone: A Restorationist’s Travel Guide” in 2009.Lipman's conceptualization of restoration theory has developed from years of practice within the field. His ideas have been controversial in acknowledging a subjectivity inherent in the process of restoration itself, a position once considered taboo from art conservation orthodoxy, but gaining increasing credence in recent years as museum conservators have been confronted with the transient nature of many post-war and contemporary artworks. Lipman is also the author of several historical analytical essays, including a definitive history of John Cassavetes and his collaboration with Charles Mingus on the score for Shadows, as well as an analysis of the ground-breaking production techniques used in Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961). Filmmaking and Performance Essays
<mask>'s early works span across a multiplicity of forms. Of his films, Doug Cummings of LA Weekly wrote, "Lipman's repertoire often highlights unique social groups with whom he has lived", and his earlier films frequently explore themes of cultural decay and renewal. With the completed prologue for the in-progress documentary feature Keep Warm, Burn Britain!, Lipman uses still images to remember squatters he encountered in Thatcherite mid-1980s London. His more recent films continue in this essayistic vein, integrating visual artwork and scholarship.<mask>an's performance essays are often concerned with the intersection of cinema history and lived experience. His best known performance is The Book of Paradise Has No Author, which premiered Aug. 2011 at the Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic, a cross-disciplinary event at piXel (+) freQuency, hosted by Los Angeles Filmforum and presented by the Disembodied Theater Corporation. The piece explores notions of "first encounters" with lost cultures, viewed through the prism of the Tasaday tribe, who were, according to a 1972 episode of 20/20, a primitive tribe that had only recently encountered contemporary civilization. The performance essay The Exploding Digital Inevitable premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2017. The essay concerns the process of restoring Bruce Conner's classic avant-garde short Crossroads (1976 film), for which several versions existed. Restoration
<mask>an was mentored by and worked under Robert Gitt, well-known UCLA Film & Television Archive restorationist who restored or supervised the restoration of over 360 films. Lipman adapted and developed methods of applying these principles to the restoration of independent and experimental film, where the primary concept is that moving image restoration is a form of interdisciplinary art practice that differs from other visual art forms in its production for mass duplication.Lipman has theorized and elaborated on this concept in numerous publications. Restored Narrative Films
 Spring Night, Summer Night (1967) - J.L. Anderson
 Brandy in the Wilderness (1969) - Stanton Kaye
 Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) - Billy Woodberry
 Wanda (1970) - Barbara Loden
 The Connection (1961) - Shirley Clarke
 The Exiles (1961) - Kent Mackenzie
 Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) - Robert Altman
 A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - John Cassavetes
 Faces (1968) - John Cassavetes
 Shadows (1959) - John Cassavetes
 Matewan (1987) - John Sayles
 Lianna (1981) - John Sayles
 Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) - John Sayles
 Killer of Sheep (1977) - Charles Burnett
 The Horse (1973) - Charles Burnett
 Several Friends (1969) - Charles Burnett
 Please! Don't Bury Me Alive! (1964) - Emile de Antonio
 USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg (1965/75) - WNET
 USA Poetry: Anne Sexton (1965/75) - WNET
 São Paulo de Ontem, São Paulo de Hoje (1943) - Anonymous
 Native Land (1942) - Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
 It's All True (1941) - Orson Welles
 Tri pesni o Lenine (Three Songs of Lenin) (1938) - Dziga Vertov

Filmography
 The Case of the Vanishing Gods (2020 - in progress)
 In the Middle of the Nights:  From Arthouse to Grindhouse and Back Again (2020)
 Between Two Cinemas (2018)
 Billy and Charles (2018)
 Notfilm (2015)
 Keep Warm, Burn Britain! Personal Ethnographies (2007 - 2013)
 Dr. Bish Remedies
 Afternoon in Bottle Village
 Clean MRF / Dirty MRF
 Transmissions From The Link
 At the Dolores
 Nora Keyes in the Ghost City
 Claire's Dream
 Self-portrait in Mausoleum
 Death Valley Story
 The Perfect Heart of Flux (2007 - 2013)
 Ocean Beach / Point Lobos I, II, III. Afternoon in Bottle Village
 Clean MRF / Dirty MRF
 Curva Peligrosa
 Casa Loma (Dignity and Impudence)
 Tracy, California
 Cheonggye Stream Renovation
 In The Treeless Forest
 Self-portrait in Mausoleum
 Found Sand Mandala
 Rhythm 06 (2008)
 The Interview (2004)
 Michael Barrish Screen Test (1997)
 Rhythm 93 (1993-94)
 Rhythm 92 (1992-93)
 Kino-i (1991)
 10-17-88 (1989)

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<mask> (; born August 13, 1959) is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his work on nonlinear systems, including contributions to the study of synchronization in dynamical systems, for his research in a variety of areas of applied mathematics, including mathematical biology and complex network theory. <mask> is the host of Quanta Magazine's The Joy of x podcast, named after his book of the same name. Education
<mask> attended high school at Loomis Chaffee from 1972–1976. He then attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in mathematics. Strogatz completed his senior thesis, titled "The mathematics of supercoiled DNA: an essay in geometric biology", under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. <mask> then studied as a Marshall Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1980–1982, and then received a Ph.D in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1986 for his research on the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle.He completed his postdoc under Nancy Kopell. Career
After spending three years as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and Boston University, Strogatz joined the faculty of the department of mathematics at MIT in 1989. His research on dynamical systems was recognized with a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1990. In 1994 he moved to Cornell where he is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, as well as a professor of mathematics. From 2004–2010, he was on the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. Research
Early in his career, Strogatz worked on a variety of problems in mathematical biology, including the geometry of supercoiled DNA, the topology of three-dimensional chemical waves, and the collective behavior of biological oscillators, such as swarms of synchronously flashing fireflies. In the 1990s, his work focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaos applied to physics, engineering, and biology.Several of these projects dealt with coupled oscillators, such as lasers, superconducting Josephson junctions, and crickets that chirp in unison. His more recent work examines complex systems and their consequences in everyday life, such as the role of crowd synchronization in the wobbling of London's Millennium Bridge on its opening day, and the dynamics of structural balance in social systems. Perhaps his best-known research contribution is his 1998 Nature paper with Duncan Watts, entitled "Collective dynamics of small-world networks". This paper is widely regarded as a seminal contribution to the interdisciplinary field of complex networks, whose applications reach from graph theory and statistical physics to sociology, business, epidemiology, and neuroscience. As one measure of its importance, it was the most highly cited article about networks between 1998 and 2008, and the sixth most highly cited paper in all of physics. It has now been cited more than 40,000 times, according to Google Scholar; as of 17 October 2014, it was the 63rd most highly cited research article of all time. Writing and outreach
Strogatz's writing for the general public includes four books and frequent newspaper articles.His book Sync was chosen as a Best Book of 2003 by Discover Magazine. His 2009 book The Calculus of Friendship was called "a genuine tearjerker" and "part biography, part autobiography and part off-the-beaten-path guide to calculus". His 2012 book, The Joy of x, won the 2014 Euler Book Prize. It grew out of his series of New York Times columns on the elements of mathematics. These columns were described by the Harvard Business Review as "a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized" and as "must reads for entrepreneurs and executives who grasp that mathematics is now the lingua franca of serious business analysis.". <mask>'s second New York Times series, "Me, Myself and Math" appeared in the fall of 2012. His most recent book, Infinite Powers, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize and was a New York Times Best Seller.Published in 2019, it "evocatively conveys how calculus illuminates the patterns of the Universe, large and small," according to a review in Nature. In 2020 Strogatz began hosting a podcast for Quanta Magazine called “The Joy of x” in which he chats “with a wide range of scientists about their lives and work.”

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Strogatz is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Mathematical Society. Strogatz has been lauded for his ability as a teacher and communicator. In 1991 he was honored with the E. M. Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, MIT's only institute-wide teaching award selected and awarded solely by students. He has also won several teaching awards at Cornell, including Cornell's highest undergraduate teaching prize, the Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship (2016). At the national level, Strogatz received the JPBM Communications Award in 2007. Presented annually, this award recognizes outstanding achievement in communicating about mathematics to nonmathematicians.The JPBM represents the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 2013 he received the AAAS Public Engagement with Science Award for "his exceptional commitment to and passion for conveying the beauty and importance of mathematics to the general public." Strogatz was selected to be the 2009 Rouse Ball Lecturer at Cambridge and an MIT Mathematics 2011 Simons lecturer. In 2014 he was awarded the Euler Book Prize by The Mathematical Association of America for "The Joy of x". The award citation describes the book as "a masterpiece of expository writing" and remarks that it is "directed to the millions of readers who claim they never really understood what the mathematics they studied was all about, for whom math was a series of techniques to be mastered for no apparent reason." Along with Ian Stewart, Strogatz was awarded the 2015 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. References

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<mask> – <mask> ( – 16 October 1992) was a prominent Lithuanian traveler and anthropologist, as well as an active member of the Esperanto movement in Lithuania. He is best known for his journey to India in 1929–36. In India, he studied Sanskrit and received bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Bombay and wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Calcutta on the Shina-speaking people but was unable to defend it. He interacted with India's intellectual elite and participated in anthropological expeditions. He met with Rabindranath Tagore and translated some of his works into Lithuanian. <mask> returned to Lithuania in 1936 and worked as a journalist. He was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations for hiding three Lithuanian Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania.After the Soviet takeover in 1945, he refused to destroy books deemed unacceptable to the Soviet regime and was imprisoned in a Gulag. Unable to return to Lithuania, <mask> later worked at several museums in Central Asia. He was allowed to return to Lithuania in 1959 and worked as a lecturer and journalist and continued his anthropological studies, but his past as a political prisoner prevented him from taking a more prominent position. By age 60, he had visited 75 countries and 120 nations. <mask> was a prolific writer contributing articles to Lithuanian and foreign press. His bibliography, published in 2006, has 3,756 entries, but his main work, the eight-volume Nuo Baltijos iki Bengalijos (From the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Bengal) on his experiences in India, was published only in 2002–12, a decade after his death. Biography

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<mask> was born in 1903 in the family of farmers in northern Lithuania, in the village of Gripkeliai of Pasvalys district.His interest in Esperanto emerged as early as 1913, when he received his first Esperanto textbook as a gift. He learned the language independently and in 1917, during World War I, a German soldier noticed him reading an Esperanto book. The soldier shared addresses of Esperantists and Poška began corresponding with many intellectuals. These connections proved vital in his later travels. <mask> became an active member of an Esperantist group in Saločiai. Still a schoolboy, <mask> began submitting articles to the Lithuanian press. His parents disapproved the various activities and he moved out to Kaunas in 1921.In Kaunas, <mask> lived in a dormitory maintained by Žiburėlis society and worked odd jobs, including construction, while attending an evening school. In 1922, he visited Veisiejai and collected memories of locals about L. L. Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto. In 1923, he attended the World Esperanto Congress in Nuremberg, Germany, and a year later received an Esperanto teacher certificate from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education. In 1926, when the first Lithuanian radio station opened in Kaunas, <mask> hosted a regular Esperanto-language program Nia anguleto. In 1926–29, <mask> studied medicine at Kaunas University. <mask> started traveling in Lithuania and abroad rather early. In July 1925, he completed his first bike tour across Lithuania with three friends.Three years later, he procured a motorbike and set off on a trip around the Baltic Sea visiting 12 countries. With its completion an ambitious idea to reach India was conceived. Journey to India (1929–36)

Intrigued by linguistic similarities between the Lithuanian and Sanskrit languages, <mask> decided to travel to India to study Sanskrit, research Indian culture, and explore Lithuania's cultural links with India. He chose to travel on a motorbike, which he obtained from the Belgian manufacturer FN for free in exchange for publicity. While preparing for the journey, he got acquainted with another dedicated traveler Matas Šalčius, a journalist by profession, who was much older and already an experienced traveler. The duo started their motorbike trip on 20 November 1929 from Kaunas. The travelers first reached Constantinople then Cairo and continued via the Middle East.They took very little money, 69 U.S. dollars combined, and had to find ways of making money along the way. They financed the trip by giving lectures on Esperanto, Lithuania, and other topics as well as submitting articles and photos to Lithuanian and foreign press. However, the relationship between Šalčius and Poška deteriorated as they faced financial troubles and mechanical problems. While in Tehran, <mask> became severely ill. Šalčius abandoned <mask> and later did not mention him in his memoirs. <mask> received help from local Esperantists and spent about half a year recovering. He then boarded a ship in Bushire and arrived in Bombay on 23 March 1931. With the help of local Esperantists and intellectuals, including Jivanji Jamshedji Modi and N. A. Thooti, he enrolled into the University of Bombay.In 1931, he visited the University of Varanasi for 42 days to study Sanskrit and begin his translations of Bhagavad Gita and Rigveda into Lithuanian (manuscript of Bhagavad Gita was lost; translation of Rigveda is kept at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania). In 1933, <mask> completed bachelor's degree in anthropology with thesis on the Aryans, their origin and migration. After graduation, <mask> moved to Calcutta and enrolled in the University of Calcutta. While visiting Mohenjo-daro, he met professor Biraja Sankar Guha who invited him to work at the Anthropological Laboratory of the Indian Museum. The Lithuanian press widely reports that in 1933, <mask> accompanied Oxford University professor Aurel Stein on an anthropological expedition to the Taklamakan Desert in Central Asia. However, in 1932–36, Stein explored Persia. In 1933–36, he participated in anthropological expeditions in Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, where he collected data about Shina-language speaking peoples of northwestern Himalayas.In 1935, Poška with a team of young scholars from the Indian Museum went for a three-month expedition to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands led by the Australian scholar Dr. M. E. Smith. They traveled to various parts of the archipelago and studied the local aboriginal tribes. <mask> and his team gathered somatometric measurements and other anthropological data on the lifestyle, habits, and customs of the local inhabitants. While in Bengal, <mask> actively interacted  with Calcutta's intellectual elite, university professors, and young researchers: Biraja Sankar Guha, Himangshu Kumar Bose, Achyuta Kumar Mitra, Bajra Kumar Chatterji and others. He also befriended Suniti Kumar Chatterji who later embarked on a comparative study The Balts and the Aryans, exploring the commonalities between India's Vedic and the Baltic pagan rites. Published as a monograph by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in 1968, this Chatterji's book is dedicated to, among others, <mask> Poška. Friendship with the renowned Indian Esperantist Sinha Laksmiswar led Poška to Shantiniketan where he had a chance to interact with Rabindranath Tagore.Under Tagore's personal supervision, <mask> translated some of Tagore's poems into Lithuanian; some of these manuscripts reemerged in 2013 when a woman gave them to <mask>'s daughter after years of safekeeping from Soviet censors. <mask> met Mahatma Gandhi twice (in Bombay and Allahabad) and conveyed the support of the Lithuanian people to India's independence struggle; Gandhi presented <mask> with a decorative hand-made cloth that he preserved despite various hardships. In 1936, <mask> submitted his PhD thesis in physical anthropology under professor Biraja Sankar Guha, titled Physical Affinities of Shina-speaking People of the Western Himalayas. However, he did not have a chance to defend it and the dissertation was lost. He was awarded posthumously an honorary degree in 2014. Later life (1936–92)
<mask> left India in 1936. On his way back to Lithuania, he covered Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkish Kurdistan.In Turkey, he wrote an article on the Kurds and their aspirations for which he was arrested and escorted  in chains to Bulgaria in June 1936. He was released, but most of his possessions and research materials, including the translation of Bhagavad Gita, were confiscated and never recovered. He spent some time in Bulgaria, where he collected accounts of the locals on Dr. Jonas Basanavičius, one of the founding fathers of independent Lithuania, who had lived in Bulgaria at the end of the 19th century. <mask> returned to Lithuania just before Christmas 1936. In 1937–40, <mask> worked as a journalist with the newspapers and magazines Akademikas, Lietuvos aidas, Trimitas, and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper Darbas. In 1937–40, he served as the Chairman of the Lithuanian Union of Esperantists. After his return to Lithuania, <mask> started writing his account of the Indian journey.Two volumes of his book From the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Bengal were published just before the Soviet invasion of Lithuania in June 1940; the third volume, in the works at a press, was destroyed. During the Nazi occupation (1941–44) <mask> started working as a manager of Vilnius Public Library No. 3. Despite the dangers, <mask> saved at least three Lithuanian Jews by hiding them from the SS in his house. <mask> was awarded the Life Saving Cross by the President of Lithuania in 1998 and was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations by the Government of Israel in 2000. Despite Nazi orders to destroy Jewish books he concealed and preserved over 1,000 publications which were later transferred to the Jewish Museum. After the Soviets returned to Lithuania in mid-1944, <mask> was appointed as the head of the Library Department of Soviet Lithuania's Education Commissariat.For refusing the orders from Juozas Žiugžda to destroy books published before the Soviet occupation, <mask> was arrested in June 1945 and sentenced to imprisonment in a forced labor camp in Siberia. He was first sent to a prison near Velsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, and later to a forced labor camp in the Komi Republic. In 1948, his forced-labor sentence was replaced with a forced relocation to Central Asia without the right to ever return to Lithuania. His academic nature won him positions at several ethnographic museums of Central Asia in 1949–59, but due to his status of a political prisoner he could not assume leading posts and had trouble publishing his works. He worked at a museum of Petropavl in Kazakhstan (1949–53), the Museum of Osh in Kyrgyzstan (1953–57), Andijan Museum in Uzbekistan, and the State Museum of Dushanbe in Tajikistan (1958–59). He also took part in various archaeological expeditions in Central Asia. While in Osh, Poška studied caves, particularly the Rusha-Unkur Cave or the Eagle Cave, of the Sulayman Mountain and their petroglyphs.During archaeological excavations in the cave, Poška found an inventory of microliths dated to the Neolithic. After Stalin's death in 1953, many cases of the Soviet political prisoners were re-examined by the Soviet authorities during the de-Stalinization campaign and <mask> was allowed to return to Lithuania in 1959. After his return home <mask> worked as a lecturer, a correspondent of several newspapers, and the chairman of the reestablished Vilnius Esperantist Club in 1964–69. As a former political prisoner, he remained suspect to Soviet authorities and was not allowed to continue academic activities or publish his books until the Perestroika reforms in 1985. <mask> continued to travel. For example, in 1960, together with biologist Tadas Ivanauskas, he visited the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve in Tajikistan and later hitchhiked to Leningrad and Moldova. In summer 1972, at age 70, he went on the last large journey.It was a five-week motorbike ride to the Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains, via the Georgian Military Road to Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Sukhumi on the Black sea. The last decade of his life Poška spent under the piles of his rescued archive, trying and failing to publish it. His major work, the eight-volume book on his journey to India From the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Bengal, was published by his supporters already after his death. Honorary doctorate by the University of Calcutta

Before leaving Calcutta in 1936, <mask> prepared and submitted his PhD thesis in physical anthropology under professor Biraja Sankar Guha, titled Physical Affinities of Shina-speaking People of the Western Himalayas. According to <mask>'s diary, his thesis was sent to the British Museum in London in 1936, and he himself was planning to travel to London to defend his thesis there. However, financial troubles delayed in his departure and the outbreak of World War II prevented him from completing this task. After his visit to Lithuania in 1966, Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji agreed to help Poška recover his PhD dissertation from London and secure his degree.Later, <mask> wrote in his diary that he received a letter from Dr. Chatterji informing that the University of Calcutta has granted Poška the PhD. However, this could not be confirmed by the archives of University of Calcutta. In 2014, the Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi took the initiative of approaching the University of Calcutta with a proposal to posthumously award Poška with a doctoral degree. On 28 November 2014, <mask> was conferred honorary D.Litt. by Keshari Nath Tripathi, Governor of West Bengal and Chancellor of the University of Calcutta ex officio. Pranab Mukherjee, President of India, was also present at the occasion. The regalia were received by Laimutė <mask>, Antanas <mask>'s daughter.To commemorate <mask>'s connection with the University of Calcutta, a memorial board was unveiled at the university's library on 16 January 2015. Publications
Poška's bibliography, published in 2006, numbers 3,756 entries. Most of these are articles published in the press of Lithuania and other countries (India, USSR, Poland, UK) as well as in international Esperanto magazines. He wrote at least 30 articles in the Indian press between 1932–35. Over 100 articles on India were published in the Lithuanian press. <mask>'s articles on his archaeological research in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were published in several newspapers and magazines of Central Asia and the archaeological journals in USSR, sometimes using an assumed name. <mask> wrote numerous books, but only a handful was published:
Esperanto raktas (A Key to Esperanto), 1929 (Kaunas), republished in 1969 (Vilnius) and 2003 (Vilnius) – translation of a 1925 booklet published in Geneva
Nuo Baltijos iki Bengalijos (From the Baltic Sea to the Bay of Bengal), first two volumes in 1939 (Kaunas), complete set of 8 volumes published in 2002–2012 (Klaipėda)
Indoeuropiečių istorijos pėdsakais (Tracing the Footsteps of the Indo-European History), 1988 (Vilnius)
Requiem, poetic miniatures, 1989 and 2004 (Vilnius) and 2005 (Kaunas) – written while in prison on pieces of birch barks
Mano gyvenimo pasaka (The Tale of My Life), 2003 (Vilnius)

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<mask> (born January 1955) is a former U.S. Ambassador/peace mediator who is currently a professor of diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert, a London-based independent peacebuilding organization. He had a twenty-two year Foreign Service career focused on conflict resolution, arms control, and humanitarian issues. This included diplomatic postings in Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi, Rome, and Bern, as well as Washington assignments in the State Department, the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. Upon leaving government service, he took a full professorship at the University of Kentucky and became director of its Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He remains active in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, working with several leading British and European non-governmental organizations on civil society initiatives and track-two diplomatic efforts. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Jacksonville and grew up in the Jacksonville Beaches (primarily Atlantic Beach). His mother—<mask>—was an artist and a writer; his father was a U.S. Navy non-commissioned officer.After his parents' divorce, he moved with his mother to Italy for two years before the family returned to Florida. He began studying Russian in ninth grade at Duncan U. Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach and put his language skills to work helping HIAS assist Jewish refugee families from the USSR resettle in North Florida and Jacksonville's Sister City Association build a relationship with the Russian naval port of Murmansk. After briefly starting with nuclear engineering, <mask> majored in Russian at the University of Florida. There he was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. In 1975 he also studied briefly at Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in 1976. He went on to graduate study in government and international affairs at the University of Notre Dame, receiving a Master of Arts degree in 1978.He continued work toward a Ph.D, but left before completion in 1981 to accept a tenure-track position teaching international affairs and Soviet and East European studies at Youngstown State University in Ohio. In the summer of 1982 he was a research intern and in 1983 a visiting researcher at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich. <mask> later attended the U.S. Army Russian Institute (today the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany in 1988 - 1989 and was a fellow of MIT's Center for International Studies' Seminar XXI in 1994-1995. In 2001-2002, he was a member of the Department of State's 44th Senior Seminar. At the Foreign Service Institute, he also studied German and Italian. Government service
Entering the Foreign Service in 1984, <mask> rose to the diplomatic rank of Minister-Counselor (equivalent to the military rank of Major General). His first tour of duty was at the U.S. Mission Berlin (West) where he worked primarily on consular affairs and political reporting on Iran.This was followed by assignment to the Office of Soviet Affairs in Washington to handle bilateral relations and some arms control issues, including implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Afterwards, as a political officer at the American Embassy in Moscow, he was responsible for covering Soviet relations towards Europe (in particular the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Two Plus Four Agreement on German unification), arms control issues (the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe), and the new USSR Supreme Soviet Defense and State Security Committee. He worked directly with Chairman Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) and House Committee on Armed Services members to instruct their Supreme Soviet counterparts on how to perform legislative oversight. In 1991-92, he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, working with Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) on nuclear weapons issues. When Eduard Shevardnadze became President of the Republic of Georgia in 1992, <mask> was sent to Tbilisi as Chargé d'affaires, leading the team that established the U.S. embassy to that new independent state. After Tbilisi, <mask> was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Rome to cover the communist (PDS) and socialist parties (PSI), the Lega Nord, as well as European policy issues. The State Department cut short this assignment to return him to Washington to help with the multibillion-dollar assistance program for the post-Soviet states and shortly thereafter to support U.S. and international efforts to advance peace in the Caucasus, working with Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson and Finnish diplomat (and later European Union Special Representative) Heikki Talvitie.Under the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, <mask> spearheaded or helped advance peace efforts involving Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Selected by Richard Holbrooke to serve as Director of Southern European Affairs, he  was part of the team that helped prevent – via telephone – a potential military confrontation between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean Sea over the disputed islets of Imia/Kardak. Later, serving also as Acting Special Cyprus Coordinator, he received the State Department's James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence for defusing the crisis that arose when Cyprus purchased a Russian S-300 (missile) system capable of striking Turkey. He later dealt with the issue of the handling by Swiss banks of Holocaust-era bank accounts which held deposits made by victims of Nazi persecution, while serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland. In 2000, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be Ambassador/Special Negotiator responsible for conflicts in Eurasia and concurrently U.S. Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group. This assignment culminated in OSCE peace talks on Nagorno-Karabakh with the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliev and the President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan at the Harry S Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida. <mask> was president of the Department of State's 44th Senior Seminar in 2001-2002.Afterwards, he worked for three years as a senior inspector/team leader in State's Office of the Inspector General. <mask>'s final official assignment was foreign policy/political advisor to Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Since leaving government service, he has also carried out special assignments for the State Department's Inspector General in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Brazil. Academic work
<mask> was appointed tenured full professor at the University of Kentucky and director of its Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce in August 2006. The Patterson School is a highly ranked, selective graduate program (established in 1959) that prepares students for professional careers in international affairs. The school's hallmarks are its intimate size, low cost, and combined focus on diplomacy and business/trade. <mask> held the position of director for a decade before taking academic sabbatical to be executive-in-residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge's Clare College.His policy writing and research focus primarily on peace efforts in the South Caucasus, in particular the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. Under <mask>'s leadership, the size of this master's degree program was capped at 35 new students each year. He grew the program's co-curricular activities so that during their studies each Patterson School student would have the opportunity — at no additional cost — to visit the headquarters or manufacturing operations of 12-15 major corporations in the Midwest and South (such as Aflac, AGCO, Boeing, Brown-Forman, CME, Coca-Cola, Conagra, First Solar, General Dynamics, Eli Lilly, Invesco, Link-Belt, MillerCoors, P&G, Toyota, UPS, and U.S. Steel), US government agencies and foreign diplomatic missions. This includes exposing students directly to the U.S. armed forces with visits to Fort Benning, Fort Knox, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and to the work of non-governmental organizations such as the Carter Center, The Task Force for Global Health, Save the Children, and CARE. <mask> also established greater engagement with defense/security entities such as the Department of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and the United States Army War College. He also fostered a focus on Mideast politics that has included regular student attendance at the Middle East Institute's annual conference in Washington, DC and participation in the annual Doha Forum in Qatar. His teaching focuses on diplomacy, negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution; the diplomacy of nuclear weapons; and international ethics.<mask> has served repeatedly as a senior scholar for IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board). He was a founding board member of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship (HCCS) in 2007 and until 2013 developed the curriculum for its annual student congress. From 2012-2016, he was a member of the advisory council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute. He works frequently with the United States Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership, helping conduct negotiation and conflict resolution exercises at select American universities. From 2014-2017, <mask> was involved in a multi-year effort to address the problem of fraternity hazing on college and university campuses in the United States and Canada, serving on a presidential commission for the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) The commissioners' report impacted more than 5,500 fraternity chapters on more than 800 campuses with approximately 350,000 members. Engagement with Peacebuilding Organizations
Since leaving the Foreign Service, <mask> has engaged with international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in a variety of dialogue and peacebuilding initiatives. From 2006-2008, he participated in high-level mediation retreats in Europe and Asia co-hosted by the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the China Institute of International Studies.These fora were designed to improve the mediation of armed conflict by providing a discrete venue for practitioners to share expertise and promote best practices. In 2007, he joined Dame Margaret Anstee and Elizabeth Rehn in an effort to encourage the appointment of more women to senior international mediation and special envoy positions at the United Nations, European Union and OSCE. He also assisted the former World Security Institute with its Caucasus project, engaging scholars from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia to build cross-cultural understanding. In 2009, <mask> took part in Conciliation Resources' "Karabakh 2014" project which commissioned papers from Armenian and Azerbaijani analysts to explore scenarios for the state of the conflict five years hence. Afterwards, he has worked through 2019 with the Karabakh Contact Group. This civil society effort, funded by the European Partnership for the Peaceful Settlement of the Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, has brought together activists and experts representative of all the parties to the conflict (along with outside specialists), giving them the opportunity to exchange information face-to-face, share perspectives, and jointly think through key issues impeding the peace process. He has also been part of other Track 1.5 & Track 2 diplomacy efforts related to the countries formed following the collapse of the Soviet Union.<mask> served as a director and trustee of Conciliation Resources from 2014-2018. This London-based international NGO was then engaged in supporting peace efforts in Colombia, the South Caucasus, Kashmir, the Philippines, Liberia and Sierra Leone (Mano River), Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Uganda, and Fiji. In 2018, <mask> was appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of International Alert. This major peacebuilding NGO was established in 1986, with Martin Ennals (former Secretary General of Amnesty International) as Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Vice Chairman. Headquartered in London, with a European office in The Hague, International Alert has staff based in 19 countries partnering with over 800 organizations on projects designed to shape policies and practices to advance peace and working with people directly affected by international conflict. Alert's principal geographic areas of operation are Africa, Asia and the Middle East, but it is also currently supporting peace activities in Colombia, the South Caucasus and Ukraine. Additional affiliations and activities
Cavanaugh is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and the American Foreign Service Association (Washington).For more than a decade, he has been a regular speaker in cities across the United States for the American Committees on Foreign Relations. He also sits on the Kentucky advisory committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (Washington), a grouping of businesses and non-profits that encourages greater support and funding for diplomacy and development. Awards and honors
<mask> is the recipient of a number of State Department awards, including two individual Superior Honor awards and the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence. In 2015, <mask> was named by Delta Chi International fraternity as one of two Distinguished Delta Chis based upon his outstanding civic service in higher education and his past and continuing engagement toward advancing international peace. He was tapped as an honorary member of Florida Blue Key (the University of Florida's leadership honor society) in 2017. In 2018, <mask> received the University of Florida's Distinguished Alumnus Award.Personal life

<mask> married Laura Kokx of Hart, Michigan in 1981. The couple resides in Lexington, Kentucky. They have two adult sons, Chase (a career Foreign Service officer with the Department of State) and Keith (a software developer for US Bancorp in Atlanta, Georgia). Cavanaugh has a strong interest in modern art and collects folk art – in particular the works of Kentucky painter Jim Gary Phillips. Cavanaugh has two brothers: <mask> (an associate professor of education at the University of North Florida) and James Ponti (author of the "City Spies", "Framed" and "Dead City" mystery book series for young adults). References

External links

 <mask>augh's Official Website
 University of Kentucky faculty profile
 Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce

 Conciliation Resources
 International Alert

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<mask>, born May 14, 1956, is a French photojournalist and artivist. Biography
<mask> spent his early years in Touraine where his father painted watercolors. Thus he learned to appreciate nature and then, to take pictures of it. At age 7, his grandfather offered him his first camera. Young teenager, he observed wildlife in the forest of Villandry. Later on, he had to reconcile his passion for naturalistic image and his profession as dental technician. He then made his reputation thanks to his book about dragonflies, La Vie secrète des filles de l'air (published by La Martinière), he decided to dedicate himself entirely to nature photography.Since then, he published a dozen of books, amongst them : Photographier la nature, La Macrophotographie, Les Oiseaux du monde, Les Papillons du monde (published by La Martinière). Distributed in agencies, his pictures are regularly published by magazines such as GEO, Le Figaro Magazine, Terre sauvage, Life, National Geographic... He has been working for several years on the creation of a "global photographic arch", which consists of taking pictures of all rare or threatened species on the IUCN Red List. 1982 : Laureate of the Guilde européenne du raid, which finances his first great report on the Aldabra atoll. 1986 : First publication of the report on the massacre of sea turtles in the magazine Le Courrier de la Nature. 1989 : First prize of the Kodak Grand reportage allowance for the exploration Expédition Thylacine in Australia. His pictures were shown in numerous exhibitions notably at the Senate in Paris in 2008 and in great festivals of natural and environmental photography.2005 : <mask> creates « L'Arche photographique » which aims to realize a global photographic inventory of endangered species. In this context, he launched five actions in support of biodiversity. The goal is to raise people awareness on threats on wildlife and encourage each and everyone of us to act for its preservation. To this day, he has travelled in 90 countries on all six continents to feed his ambitious project. 2013 : <mask> creates the happening Mémoires d'un dos argenté (English : Memoirs of a Silverback) in the context of the international festival of wildlife and nature photography of Montier-en-Der. 2015 : He launches the photo/video agency Biospher Pictures. 2016 : <mask> gets into artivism which depicts a new way to campaign for a cause.This activity allows him to paint his dreams on walls, to take pictures of his claims, to act out his beliefs. During the same year, he creates the studio/gallery called Top floor studio. 2017 : He organizes a street art campaign in New York to alert the general public of the United States to the disappearance of primates. This campaign is followed by an exhibition of street art at the Gabillet gallery in the context of Ateliers mode d'emploi, and later on by a publication of a report on street art in the magazine TMV Tours. 2018 : <mask> publishes a portfolio on the work of artivists in the magazine Chasseur d'Images. Happening
Allan Kaprow, abstract painter, invented the term happening in 1957. It is described as an event or performance art which involves an active participation of the audience.2013 : Production du happening 2027 - Mémoires d'un dos argenté (English : 2027 - Memoirs of a Silverback), dans le cadre du festival international de la photo animalière et de nature de Montier-en-Der. Books

 1994 : Les libellules . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Emmanuel Thévenon. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière. 1995 : Australie continent sauvage. Photographs : <mask>.Text : Houria Arhab et <mask>. Publisher : Solar. 1996 : Australien Der fünfte Kontinent. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Houria Arhab et <mask>. Publisher : Karl Müller Verlag. 2000 : Le Poitou & Les Charentes.Photographs : <mask>. Publisher : Éditions Larousse. 2000 : Photographier la nature dans tous ses milieux. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Denis Boyard. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière. 2002 : La macrophotographie.Photographs : <mask>. Text : Ronan Loaëc. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière. 2003 : Nature Photography . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Denis Boyard. Publisher : Abrams.2003 : Natur fotografie . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Denis Boyard. Publisher : Christian Verlag. 2003 : Természetfotózás. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Denis Boyard.Publisher : Alexandra Kiadó. 2003 : Macrophotography . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Ronan Loaëc. Publisher : Abrams. 2003 : Makro fotografie . Photographs : <mask>.Text : Ronan Loaëc. Publisher : Christian Verlag. 2003 : Les oiseaux du Monde . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière. 2003 : Les oiseaux du Monde.Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran. Publisher : Hurtubise HMH. 2004 : Les oiseaux du monde racontés aux enfants. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Philippe J. Dubois et Valérie Guidoux. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière jeunesse.2005 : Birds of the World . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran. Publisher : Abrams. 2005 : A Világ Madarai . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran.Publisher : Alexandra Kiadó. 2005 : Birds. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Philippe J. Dubois et Valérie Guidoux. Publisher : Abrams. 2005 : Die Welt der Vögel für Kinder erzählt. Photographs : <mask>.Text : Philippe J. Dubois et Valérie Guidoux. Publisher : Knesebeck. 2005 : Gli uccelli raccontati ai ragazzi. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Philippe J. Dubois et Valérie Guidoux. Publisher : L’ippocampo. 2005 : Vogels aan kinderen verteld.Photographs : <mask>. Text : Philippe J. Dubois et Valérie Guidoux. Publisher : Lannoo. 2006 : Papillons du monde . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran. Publisher : Éditions de La Martinière.2008 : Butterflies of the World . Photographs : <mask>. Text : Myriam Baran. Publisher : Abrams. 2009 : Les oiseaux. Photographs : <mask>. Text : Catherine Levesque.Publisher : Éditions Milan. Movies

 2009 : Les Secrets des photographes animaliers 2. Director : Ronan Fournier-Christol. Production : Songes de Moaï. 2012 : Portrait de <mask>. Director : Patrice Grange. Production : Déclic & Clac !2014 : 2027 - Mémoires d'un dos argenté. Director : <mask>. Production : L'Arche photographique. References

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<mask> (born January 24, 1984) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2019. He held world championships in two weight classes, including the IBF light welterweight title between 2011 and 2015, and the WBA (Regular) welterweight title in 2017. Early life
<mask> and his younger brother <mask> have been regularly featured on ESPN boxing telecasts and their story has been frequently discussed on the show. The <mask>s were left without parents at an early age, with their father in prison and their mother suffering personal issues. The brothers were reportedly homeless on the streets of Washington, DC for several years. While homeless at age 10, they were noticed by Barry Hunter, a boxing coach. Over time, Hunter developed their boxing skills while mentoring them and both brothers morphed into amateur boxing stars.They have said that their toughest bout were against a pair of brothers from Virginia, Ordano and Orazio Robinson

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2001 National Golden Gloves Lightweight Champion. He became 141 lbs US champion in 2003. He holds wins over Rock Allen in 2003, who beat him twice 2004 in the Olympic box-offs, Mike Alvarado and Andre Dirrell, as well as 2003 amateur world champion Willy Blain (in 2003). Professional career

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<mask> <mask> made his professional debut on September 25, 2004 on the undercard of Glenn Johnson vs. Roy Jones Jr. at the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. <mask>'s brother Anthony also made his debut on the same card, winning via 1st-round knockout. <mask> fought 18 year old Nicholas Dean, who at the time had only one fight on his record, which was a loss. <mask> stopped Dean after just 22 seconds into his debut.<mask> went on to fight a further 3 times in 2004, remaining undefeated. In 2005, <mask> won all his 11 bouts, with 5 coming via stoppage. At this time, <mask> had racked up 15 wins, with 7 inside the distance and no losses. On February 17, 2006 <mask> saw himself fighting for the Vacant WBC United States light welterweight title at the FedEx Forum against Jose Leo Moreno (12-1, 10 KOs). The fight took place on a Friday night live on ESPN2. <mask> was taken the 10 round distance for a second time winning the vacant title. Two judges scored the fight 100-90, whilst the third had it 99-91, all in favour of <mask>.He never made a defence of the title. On April 28, <mask> took on his biggest challenge, a fight against Mario Ramos (16-2-1, 3 KOs). Ramos was coming off a wide 12 round unanimous decision loss against top contender Demetrius Hopkins a month earlier. <mask> won the fight via unanimous decision after 10 rounds. Two judges scored the fight clear for <mask>, whilst the third judge awarded Ramos with three rounds. After four wins, <mask> received another title opportunity, this time the vacant WBO NABO super lightweight title against Frankie Santos. <mask> dominated the opening six rounds of the fight.Santos failed to get up off his stool for the start of round 7, retiring on his stool, giving <mask> the win and the title. In November 2007, <mask> fought his first fight outside of the United States, knocking out Ecuadorian boxer Humberto Toledo (31-4-2, 18 KOs) in round 1. The fight took place at the Casablanca Casino in Providenciales International Airport on the Turks And Caicos Islands. Pearson dropped Toledo to a quick knee with combinations to the head and body. Toledo took the mandatory eight-count. He would be knocked down again, this time with a left to the body. An unsteady Toledo made it to his feet as the referee approached the ten count.The fight was stopped. On November 1, 2008 <mask> challenged fringe contender Lanardo Tyner (19-1, 11 KOs) for the Interim NABF title. The fight took place at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino In Paradise, Nevada. <mask> was docked a point for repeated low blows in round 4, but did enough to secure a wide decision win. The three judges' scored the fight 99-90, 99-87 and 98-91 in favour of <mask>. <mask> vs. Bradley
In April 2009, <mask> defeated French boxer Willy Blain for the vacant WBO Interim title, making him mandatory to full titleholder and The Ring No. 1 light welterweight Timothy Bradley (24-0, 11 KOs).The fight took place at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California on December 12, 2009. Bradley dropped <mask> with an overhand right in the third round. However, <mask> got up and landed hard left hooks to the body. <mask> cut under the left eye from an accidental headbutt in round 12. After 12 rounds, the judges scored the fight 120-107, 119-108 and 118-110 in favour of Bradley, retaining his title and handing <mask> his first professional loss. The bout was televised as a main event on Showtime Championship Boxing. After the bout, <mask> told Showtime, "My game plan was to win the first round, but in the middle of the first round, I got hit real hard by a couple of right hands.It really bothered me. I lost the round, I fell behind, I got reckless. I couldn't make it up. I gave it all I had. He's a great champion." Following his first loss, <mask> returned to the ring on April 10, 2010 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada against 32 year old boxer Damian Fuller at 143 pound catchweight. <mask> won the fight via 7th-round TKO.<mask> vs. Ortiz
On October 12, 2010 it was reported by LA Times that <mask> would fight on the undercard of Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana, against The Ring No. 9 light welterweight Victor Ortiz (28-2-1, 22 KOs) on December 11 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Ortiz started the fight strong by knocking <mask> down twice in the third round, but many felt <mask> took the middle and late rounds of the fight, doing enough to earn the decision. The fight was officially declared a majority draw. One judge scored the fight 95-93 in favour of <mask>, however the remaining judges scored the fight 94-94. In the post-fight, Ortiz said, "I thought I pulled it off. He didn't even hit that hard."When the fight was over, Ortiz jumped on the top ropes and began celebrating. Ortiz landed 96 of 457 punches thrown (21%), while <mask> was more accurate, landing a total of 111 of 331 shots (33%). Many observers believed Ortiz had won the fight. ESPN's Dan Rafael and HBO's unofficial scorer, scored the bout 97-91 for Ortiz. <mask> vs. Khan

In September 2011, it was announced that Amir Khan would defend his WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles in Washington DC on 10 December against <mask> at the Convention Center. In front of a near sell out crowd of 8,647, <mask> defeated Khan for the by split decision in a very controversial affair. Khan was docked 2 points in rounds 7 and 12 by the referee Joe Cooper for pushing, although illegal pushing is not usually met with such harsh consequences, the HBO team picked up on this.<mask> was dropped to the canvas twice, although the first time was counted as a slip instead of a legitimate knockdown. Both fighters boxed well and two judges scored it 113–112 to <mask>, with the other 115–110 to Khan (originally announced as 114–111 to Khan). Some observers felt it was a hometown robbery as <mask> is from Washington DC, while many felt that Khan wasn't treated fairly. Khan landed 238 punches out of 757 thrown (31%) and <mask> connected on 226 of 573 blows (39%). (
ESPN's Dan Rafael score the fight 114-111 in favour of Khan. HBO's unofficial scorer, Harold Lederman, scored it 113-112, also for Khan. After the fight Khan said, "It was like I was against two people, the referee and <mask> himself.I was the cleaner fighter; he was so wild. The referee wasn't giving me a chance. I heard the referee give me a warning [for pushing], but there was nothing I could do. He kept coming in with his head. There hasn't been [HBO] boxing in D.C. for the last [18] years because this is what happens." Khan earned a base purse of  $1.1 million, while <mask> earned a career-high $650,000 purse. A rematch was due to take place on 19 May.It was later found that <mask> had tested positive for PEDs and was stripped of the WBA title. He admitted to the use of steroids shortly after. Khan was then reinstated as the WBA champion. <mask> vs. Holt
On December 20, 2012 it was reported that <mask> would fight Timothy Bradley (29-0, 12 KO's) in a rematch, which would take place on March 30, 2013. The issue with the fight being made was due to <mask>'s title defence against Kendall Holt which was due to take place in early 2013. In December, Holt's promoter Gary Shaw won the purse bid with an off offer of $50,000. This meant <mask>, as the titleholder would earn $37,500, while Holt would earn $12,500.Shaw told ESPN, although he won the bid, he still worked closely with <mask>'s manager Barry Hunter to organise the fight. On January 2, 2013 it was announced that <mask> would mark his first fight in 14 months defending his IBF title at the Armory in Washington D.C. against Holt (28-5, 16 KOs) on February 22. Hunter stated that both fighters would earn more than their announced purses for the fight. The fight aired live on ESPN Friday Night Fights. <mask> overcame a sluggish start, floored Holt two times, and forced a stoppage in round 8 to successfully defend his IBF title in front of his home crowd. <mask> sealed the win in the eighth when a barrage with Holt against the ropes caused referee Tony Weeks to step in and end it. Holt opened the fourth round looking to step up the pace, but seemed to tire by the midway point and the champion took advantage.A right hand to the side of the head sent Holt down to all fours in the final minute of the round. He remained down on a knee before getting to his feet at the count of eight. <mask> controlled the action from then on. A series of punches from <mask> late in round 6 caused Holt to take a knee for another eight count. Holt admitted he struggled to make the 140 pound limit and considered a move to welterweight. <mask> vs. Matthysse
On March 23, 2013 Golden Boy Promotions announced that interim WBC light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (33-2, 31 KOs) would meet <mask> at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on May 18, in the main event, live on Showtime. Matthysse was waiting to fight full WBC titleholder Danny Garcia, who at the time, had a defence scheduled against Zab Judah.Richard Schaefer, of Golden Boy, had hoped the winner of the two fights would eventually meet in the fall 2013. Matthysse, whose two losses came in his two opponents' hometowns, did not want the fight to take place in Washington D.C., home of <mask>. Matthysse initially wanted the fight to take place in

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On November 19, 2013 Golden Boy announced a deal was in place for <mask> to make a defence in his home town against undefeated contender Dierry Jean (25-0, 17 KOs). On December 16, an official press release confirmed the fight would take place at the D.C. Armory on January 25, 2014. In a statement, <mask> said, "This is the perfect way for me to kick off 2014, with a great fight against a tough opponent in my hometown.Fights like these bring out the best in me and I'm going to give my fans a performance to remember." A fight between Jermell Charlo and Gabriel Rosado was announced as a co-feature, with Peteron-Jean scheduled to headline the Showtime card.In front of a hometown of 5,668, <mask> won the fight by unanimous decision, handing Jean his first career loss, with the judges scores of 118-111, 116-112 and 115-113. Jean started the fight off more patient than <mask>. Midway through the fight <mask> became the aggressor and a few rounds later, started to outwork and outland Jean using his speed and combinations. After the fight, speaking about the Matthysse loss, <mask> said, "Everybody try to make a big deal out of one loss. But if the best fight the best, sometimes it's going to be a knockout. I always prepare myself to win, but I know you can lose. My whole life it's never been easy, so why would it be easy now?"According to CompuBox stats, <mask> landed 230 of 622 punches thrown (37%), while Jean landed on 123 of his 556 total thrown (22%). Former world champion Paulie Malignaggi, who was working as an analyst for Showtime praised <mask>, stating he still has a huge claim at light welterweight. <mask> vs. García
On January 14, 2015, NBC announced a partnership with Premier Boxing Champions to air premium fights on network television. It was announced that Danny García and <mask> <mask> would fight April 11, 2015 on NBC primetime. The fight was at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The highly anticipated bout between García and <mask> took place at a 143-pound catch weight and was a non-title bout. Both fighters had something to prove as García was coming off an extremely tough fight with Mauricio Herrera and <mask> was still reeling from a knockout loss to Lucas Matthysse in 2013.The fight was held at a catchweight of 143 pounds, with neither boxers titles at stake. A crowd of 12,300 turned up at the Barclays Center. In the early rounds <mask> was very defensive and attempted to frustrate García with his awkward style. García was the busier fighter the first four or five rounds throwing and landing more punches although having trouble landing clean punches on <mask>. <mask>'s size and athleticism allowed him to stay in the fight even in the face of waves of serious García body blows. <mask> looked strong going into rounds 10, 11, 12. García maintained a steady attack in the last three rounds of the fight while <mask> began coming forward and throwing everything he had.Despite a very strong showing by <mask>, García was awarded a majority decision by scores of 114-114, 115-113, 115-113. For the fight, Garcia earned $1.5 million compared to <mask>, who earned a $1.2 million purse. CompuBox stats showed that both fighters stayed busy, with Garcia landing 173 of 589 punches (29%), with <mask> more accurate, landing 170 of his 494 thrown (34%). Welterweight

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On October 17, 2015 <mask> fought at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia against undefeated welterweight prospect and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Félix Díaz (17-0, 8 KOs) in a scheduled 12 round fight. <mask> won a close 12 round majority decision over Diaz. The final judges’ scores were 114-114, 117-111 and 116-112. <mask> was effective with his body punching in most round, but gave away a lot of the rounds to Diaz by not throwing enough punches, and getting hit on the inside.Some observers had Diaz the winner, with ESPN scoring it 116-112 for Diaz. <mask> voiced his opinion in believing he won the fight in the post fight interview, "I started out strong and faded in the middle rounds because I started to cramp, and it lasted for the rest of the fight, but I knew I had done enough to win the fight." <mask> vs. Avanesyan
In December 2016, early reports suggested there was a fight in the works, for David Avanesyan to defend the interim championship against <mask>. A venue in the United States was being discussed for February 2017. On January 11, 2017 a spokesperson for Avanesyan announced the fight would take place on February 18 at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio on the undercard of Adrien Broner vs. Adrian Granados on Showtime. <mask> became a two-weight division champion after defeating Avanesyan via a 12-round unanimous decision. The fight was described as 'highly competitive and entertaining' by ESPN.Two judges scored it 116-112 and the third had it closer at 115-113, all in favor of <mask>. <mask> earned a purse of $250,000 whilst Avanesyan had a purse of $75,000 and winning the fight put <mask> in position to fight the winner of Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia. <mask> vs. Spence Jr.
On October 3, 2017 <mask> wrote to the WBA, officially vacating the WBA 'Regular' title. This was believed to be done as part of <mask> challenging IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (22-0, 19 KOs) later in the year. On October 13, Boxing Scene reported that terms would be finalised in a week which would see Spence make his first defence on January 13, 2018 against <mask>. Spence, was last in action when he dethroned British boxer Kell Brook in May 2017. On November 5, it was reported the fight was confirmed to take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on January 20, 2018.On fight night, in front of 12,107, Spence broke <mask> down mentally and physically eventually forcing <mask>'s trainer Barry Hunter to stop the fight a second into round 8. <mask> was dropped in round 5 from a left hand by Spence. <mask> beat the count and looked unsteady, surviving the round. <mask> took a lot of punishment, but managed to fire back some offence of his own before the round ended. <mask>'s face looked swollen and his eyes were puffy from Spence's hard shots. Spence also worked the body from the opening bell. After round 6, <mask> knew he was behind on the scorecards and indicated to his trainer, who said he would give him a few more rounds.In the post-fight interviews, Spence said, "I want to thank <mask>. A lot guys turned down the fight, and he took like a real warrior, and I commend him for that. My coach [Derrick James] came with a great game plan, and I just followed through with it. Keep my range, keep my composure." Spence admitted he would need to work on his defence a little. When interviewer Jim Gray asked Hunter about the stoppage, he replied, "It was really hard [to stop the fight], but if you know <mask>, you know he was not going to give up. So I had to stop it.At the end of the day this is my son right here. And there's nothing more valuable than his well being. If it comes to him or winning, I pick him. I care about him." At the time of stoppage, all three judges had their scorecards at 70-62 for Spence. According to CompuBox stats, Spence landed 161 of 526 punches thrown (31%), and <mask> landed only 45 of his 158 thrown (28%). For the fight, Spence had an official purse of $1.2 million and <mask>'s purse was $600,000.<mask> vs. Lipinets
On 24 March 2019, <mask> faced Sergey Lipinets. Things went downhill for <mask> in the seventh, after Lipinets caught him with a clean right hand that had him on wobbly legs for the rest of the round. <mask> tried his best, but never fully recovered from the blow. Lipinets ended the fight by dropping <mask> in the tenth round, after which his corner immediately threw in the towel. After the fight <mask> announced his retirement. Professional boxing record

See also
List of light-welterweight boxing champions
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References

External links

 <mask> <mask> profile at Premier Boxing Champions
<mask> <mask> - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live

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