Saeid Baghvardani is a retired Iranian-American soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, United Soccer League and SISL.
Baghvardani attended Southern Methodist University where he was a 1979 and 1980 soccer player.
He played one game for the Chicago Sting during the 1983-1984 North American Soccer League indoor season. In the summer of 1984, he played for the Dallas Americans of the United Soccer League. In 1989, he played for the Richardson Rockets in the Southwest Independent Soccer League.
Baghvardani coached the SMU Mustangs men's soccer team in 1989 and 1990. He compiled a 10-12-1 record. He also coached the Cistercian Preparatory School soccer team and the Dallas Texans U17 boys team which went to the semifinals of the 1995 U.S. Youth Soccer Championship.
He is now currently teaching at Saint Joseph Catholic School.
Baghvardani attended Southern Methodist University where he was a 1979 and 1980 soccer player.
He played one game for the Chicago Sting during the 1983-1984 North American Soccer League indoor season. In the summer of 1984, he played for the Dallas Americans of the United Soccer League. In 1989, he played for the Richardson Rockets in the Southwest Independent Soccer League.
Baghvardani coached the SMU Mustangs men's soccer team in 1989 and 1990. He compiled a 10-12-1 record. He also coached the Cistercian Preparatory School soccer team and the Dallas Texans U17 boys team which went to the semifinals of the 1995 U.S. Youth Soccer Championship.
He is now currently teaching at Saint Joseph Catholic School.
William Bagrou (born June 19, 1996) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward.
Career
Bagrou played four years of college soccer at Mercer University between 2014 and 2017, making 84 appearances, scoring 37 goals and tallying 16 assists. While at college, Bagrou played for USL PDL side Seattle Sounders FC U-23 in 2017.
On January 21, 2018, Bagrou was selected 75th overall in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft by Sporting Kansas City. However, he was not signed by the club, instead spending 2018 with PDL sides Northern Virginia United and Birmingham Hammers.
Bagrou signed professional terms with USL League One side Orlando City B in February 2019. He made his debut for the team on March 30, 2019, in the season-opening 3-1 defeat to FC Tucson.
In February 2020, Bagrou signed with Austrian third division club Stadl-Paura.
Career
Bagrou played four years of college soccer at Mercer University between 2014 and 2017, making 84 appearances, scoring 37 goals and tallying 16 assists. While at college, Bagrou played for USL PDL side Seattle Sounders FC U-23 in 2017.
On January 21, 2018, Bagrou was selected 75th overall in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft by Sporting Kansas City. However, he was not signed by the club, instead spending 2018 with PDL sides Northern Virginia United and Birmingham Hammers.
Bagrou signed professional terms with USL League One side Orlando City B in February 2019. He made his debut for the team on March 30, 2019, in the season-opening 3-1 defeat to FC Tucson.
In February 2020, Bagrou signed with Austrian third division club Stadl-Paura.
SDF
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* PYD (alleged political oversight, per Amnesty
Allegations
Displacement and property destruction
* Amnesty International documented the YPG using bulldozers to demolish Arab homes in Tal Abyad, preventing civilian returns. Witnesses reported Kurdish fighters stating, "If you come back, we’ll demolish your home again."
* Al Jazeera reported widespread Arab displacement, with villages burned or looted after YPG takeovers.
Killings
* The Telegraph cited Syrian opposition claims of YPG executing Arab detainees, though no mass graves or systematic killings were independently verified.<ref name="Telegraph2016"/>
Responses
* YPG/SDF officials denied all allegations, calling them "Turkish propaganda" and stating displacements were temporary security measures against ISIL sleeper cells.<ref name="AlJazeera2016"/>
* Amnesty International confirmed property destruction but noted it lacked evidence to characterize the campaign as ethnic cleansing.<ref name="Amnesty2015"/>
* The U.S. (which supported the SDF) stated it saw "no evidence of systematic ethnic cleansing" but urged investigations into individual abuses.<ref name="Telegraph2016"/>
Aftermath
As of 2017, many displaced Arabs remained unable to return to villages in YPG-controlled areas due to destroyed infrastructure and security restrictions.<ref name="Amnesty2015"/>
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* PYD (alleged political oversight, per Amnesty
Allegations
Displacement and property destruction
* Amnesty International documented the YPG using bulldozers to demolish Arab homes in Tal Abyad, preventing civilian returns. Witnesses reported Kurdish fighters stating, "If you come back, we’ll demolish your home again."
* Al Jazeera reported widespread Arab displacement, with villages burned or looted after YPG takeovers.
Killings
* The Telegraph cited Syrian opposition claims of YPG executing Arab detainees, though no mass graves or systematic killings were independently verified.<ref name="Telegraph2016"/>
Responses
* YPG/SDF officials denied all allegations, calling them "Turkish propaganda" and stating displacements were temporary security measures against ISIL sleeper cells.<ref name="AlJazeera2016"/>
* Amnesty International confirmed property destruction but noted it lacked evidence to characterize the campaign as ethnic cleansing.<ref name="Amnesty2015"/>
* The U.S. (which supported the SDF) stated it saw "no evidence of systematic ethnic cleansing" but urged investigations into individual abuses.<ref name="Telegraph2016"/>
Aftermath
As of 2017, many displaced Arabs remained unable to return to villages in YPG-controlled areas due to destroyed infrastructure and security restrictions.<ref name="Amnesty2015"/>
Martin Tajmar is a physicist and professor for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology. He has research interests in advanced space propulsion systems, FEEP thrusters, breakthrough propulsion physics and possible connections between gravity and superconductivity. He also published the textbook Advanced Space Propulsion Systems in 2003.
Gravitomagnetism research
In a 2003 paper, Tajmar proposed that a gravitational effect may explain the long-standing discrepancy between the mass of Cooper pairs first measured in superconductors by Janet Tate et al. and the theoretically-expected value.
In 2006 Tajmar and several coworkers announced their claim to have measured a gravitomagnetic version of the frame-dragging effect caused by a superconductor with an accelerating or decelerating spin. As of April 2008, the effect has not yet been observed independently.
In February 2008 Tajmar filed an international patent application for a "Method for generating a gravitational field and gravitational field generator."
In June 2008, Tajmar reported a new phenomenon suggesting that signals could be induced in a gyroscope resulting from a new property of rotating low-temperature helium. He also reported that because the rings in the experiment were accelerated pneumatically, and not with high acceleration, the earlier reported results could not be discounted. His further research suggests the anomaly may indeed be coming from liquid helium in the setup.
Awards
* 2001: ARC-Award of the Austrian Research Centers, first prize in the category Science
* 2001 and 2000: “Window on Science” Award of the US Air Force
* 1999: Promotion through the program „International Communication“ of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Gravitomagnetism research
In a 2003 paper, Tajmar proposed that a gravitational effect may explain the long-standing discrepancy between the mass of Cooper pairs first measured in superconductors by Janet Tate et al. and the theoretically-expected value.
In 2006 Tajmar and several coworkers announced their claim to have measured a gravitomagnetic version of the frame-dragging effect caused by a superconductor with an accelerating or decelerating spin. As of April 2008, the effect has not yet been observed independently.
In February 2008 Tajmar filed an international patent application for a "Method for generating a gravitational field and gravitational field generator."
In June 2008, Tajmar reported a new phenomenon suggesting that signals could be induced in a gyroscope resulting from a new property of rotating low-temperature helium. He also reported that because the rings in the experiment were accelerated pneumatically, and not with high acceleration, the earlier reported results could not be discounted. His further research suggests the anomaly may indeed be coming from liquid helium in the setup.
Awards
* 2001: ARC-Award of the Austrian Research Centers, first prize in the category Science
* 2001 and 2000: “Window on Science” Award of the US Air Force
* 1999: Promotion through the program „International Communication“ of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency