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Jeff Sackmann is an author and software developer who has worked in the fields of sports statistics and test preparation. In 2007, he and Kent Bonham founded College Splits, the primary provider of collegiate baseball data for MLB clubs. Jeff also spends a lot of time thinking about tennis. He created and maintains the online encyclopedia Tennis Abstract and publishes tennis research at Heavy Topspin. He was a regular contributor to The Economist's Game Theory blog, and his work has also appeared at FiveThirtyEight, Tennis Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and ESPN.com. In 2015, he spoke about tennis analytics at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and subsequently published an extensive database of tennis results, rankings, and stats. He founded and maintains the Match Charting Project, which is relied upon by everyone from broadcasters to the coaching staff of Iga Swiatek. It could always use your help. In 2022, Jeff published The Tennis 128, a 300,000-word series of biographical essays counting down the 128 best players of the last century. This year's writing project celebrates the 50th anniversary of 1973, one of the most consequential seasons in the sport's history. (From : https://www.jeffsackmann.com/).

Pat Byrnes is an American cartoonist best known for his work for The New Yorker. He created the comic strip Monkeyhouse, which ran for three years. He received the National Cartoonists Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 2001, with an additional nomination for 2000, and nominations for their Gag Cartoon Award for 1999 and 2000. He also draws cartoons for other magazines and illustrates for a variety of ads and publications, and his work is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Byrnes). 

Dan Schneider (born February 2, 1965) is an American poet and critic of literature and film who runs the criticism and literary website Cosmoetica. Schneider founded his website, Cosmoetica, in 2001. In 2007, Ranking.com ranked Cosmoetica in the top half million literary websites. In 2004, Schneider's Cosmoetica website was discussed in a New York Times article, "The Widening Web of Digital Lit" by David Orr. Schneider was quoted as describing his own poems as "better than Walt Whitman" while T.S. Eliot was assessed as "1 of the most grossly overrated writers in the history of the world, & the English language". Schneider and Cosmoetica has been cited in a number of academic and related books including The Creative Writing MfA Handbook, Contemporary Fiction: The Novel Since 1990, and a number of other books including Best of the Web 2009.In late 2006 Schneider further expanded his website to include an all film subsite called Cinemension. Schneider has published his film reviews in a number of online publications. His reviews are also aggregated on Rotten Tomatoes.Schneider's film criticism was praised by Roger Ebert, who called him a "considerable critic".(Source: wikiipedia).

Author of a Healthy Journey which “reflects Dr. Bisci fifty plus years of experience working with more than 35,000 patients in the areas of nutritional prevention of illness and healing. As a true pioneer, teacher, and practitioner, Dr. Bisci walks the walk. As an accomplished athlete, he gained first hand, true life experience of how to be the best one can be both physically and spiritually through lifestyle and nutrition. He is one of the earliest promoters of the body, mind, and spirit connection. As an educated and trained nutritionist, he has selected the principle of a dominant raw food lifestyle, proper food combining, and acceptance of divine order in our lives as a formula for health, recovery and longevity.” (From A Healthy Journey).

Halberstadt’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, GQ, Travel + Leisure, Saveur, Food & Wine, New York Magazine, Grand Street, The Washington Post, Lucky Peach, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.Young Heroes of the Soviet Union, his family memoir, was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and excerpted in The New Yorker. Writing in The New York Times, critic Jennifer Szalai called it "a loving and mournful account that’s also skeptical, surprising and often very funny," adding, "it’s the unexpected specificity of Halberstadt’s observations that ultimately make this memoir as lush and moving as it is.“ Halberstadt's critically acclaimed biography, Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus, was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a Best Book of 2007 by The Times (London). Ben Folds and Nick Hornby cited it as an inspiration for their collaborative album Lonely Avenue. [1] Halberstadt’s magazine writing was anthologized in Best Food Writing 2014 and Best American Food Writing 2018. In 2013 and 2014 he was nominated for a James Beard Award, and he appeared at the 2013 New Yorker Festival. He has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Art OMI at Ledig House. He teaches at New York University. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Halberstadt).

Samantha Hill is a Canadian singer and actress who is most known for having starred in the Broadway shows Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. Samantha began her career early by participating in musical and theatrical projects at her church. As a teenager, she was trained in ballet, jazz, theatre, and musical theatre. She trained as an actor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, where she graduated with the Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, and at the University of Winnipeg, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Film in 2008. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Hill_(actress)).