title: Bad Boy Bill

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<mask> Boy <mask> (born William Renkosik) is a disc jockey (DJ) from Chicago, Illinois, U.S. who plays an assortment of house music. While only in his teens, <mask> Boy <mask> began his DJ career in 1985 during the Chicago house music movement of the mid to late 1980s. He worked with Mike "Hitman" Wilson and Julian "Jumpin" Perez of the WBMX DJ mixing team, known then as the Hot Mix 5. <mask>'s popularity grew out of DJing parties throughout the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as opening for the Hot Mix 5. <mask> Boy <mask> was a regular DJ on the popular house mixes on WBMX 102.7 FM in Chicago, WGCI 107.5 FM and then on the B96 96.3 FM a top pop station. As a remixer, he landed his first Top Five Billboard Dance Chart hit at the age of 19 – Dada Nada's "Deep Love" which also featured remixes by House music legends Frankie Knuckles & David Morales, Robert Ozn and Steve Wight. Currently, <mask> Boy <mask> plays music ranging from House to Electro, and is known for playing six separate turntables at once.In 1988 and 1989, he was placed within the top three at the Disco Mix Club championships. <mask> Boy <mask> also made an uncredited appearance as the club DJ in the opening scene of the 1998 film Blade. History

Street DJ Promotions era (1987–1995)
Between 1987 and 1995, <mask> produced a series of promotional mixtapes under the name "Street DJ Promotions." These tapes were distributed out of <mask>'s car to local Chicago area record shops, flea markets, and DJ gigs. These mixes included: Hot Mix #1–17, Non-Stop Hip-Hop, Flashbacks Vol. 1 & 2, Classics Vol. 1–3, Street Style 1 & 2, and Gettin' Wicked.<mask> has been credited with the idea of mass-producing mix tapes unlike before, and was apparently inspired by Andre Lopez, owner of the Hot Jams record store. This caught the attention of the Recording Industry Association of America and music publishing houses who were not paid any royalties from the use of copyrighted music on the vast number of mixtapes being produced and sold throughout Chicago by these many DJs. <mask> then became a part of the licensed-mix movement and started Mix Connection Multimedia (MCM). He has been generally credited with being the first Chicago DJ to produce legally licensed mixes. Mix Connection Multimedia era (1995–2001)
<mask> created MCM in 1995 to produce legally licensed mixes, and as an umbrella company for several side projects and record labels such as International House Records (IHR), Moody Recordings, Contaminated Muzik, Canvas Recordings, and Motus Music. MCM has most notably produced Bangin' The Box Vol. 1–5, The House Connection (w/ Richard "Humpty" Vission) Vol.1–3, and The B-96 Mixmaster Throwdown Vol. 1–5. House Connection (1997–1998)
Bad Boy Bill teamed up with Richard Vission to form a house DJ supergroup called The House Connection. They have released three mix albums, the last in 2013. In May 2006, <mask> reunited with Vission in Dallas and Detroit for a two-day reunion show. Behind The Decks (2003–2006)
In 2003, <mask> released a CD/DVD mixtape titled Behind the Decks. In May 2006, to support the Behind the Decks mixtape, <mask> embarked on a three-day tour called "BTD Live".<mask> performed in clubs like The Church in Denver and The Avalon in Los Angeles. Audio and video were recorded at all three shows and released as the BTD Live concert film in October 2006. On August 5, 2013, The Official Bad Boy Bill YouTube page released House Connection 3, a free mixtape available to download on Richard Vission's SoundCloud page. Awards
2006 Ranked 1st as America's Favorite House DJ by BPM Magazine
2005 Best Dance DJ by URB Magazine MSSV Contributors' Poll
2003 Ranked 1st as America's Favorite House DJ according to BPM Magazine
2002 Ranked 4th as America's Favorite House DJ according to BPM Magazine
2001 Ranked 40th best DJ in the world according to DJ Magazine
2000 Ranked 84th best DJ in the world according to DJ Magazine
1999 URB Magazine Readers Poll 2nd Place DJ of the Year
1998 Winter Music Conference Mixshow DJ of the Year
1989 DMC US Finals (3rd Place)
1988 DMC US Finals (2nd Place)
1988 DMC Midwest Finals (1st Place)
1987 Hot 105 (Miami) Battle of the DJ's (1st Place)

Discography

Albums
 July 28, 2009 – The Album

Continuous DJ Mixes
August 2013 – House Connection Vol. 3 (with Richard Vission)
October 17, 2006 – Behind The Decks Live CD/DVD
September 2003 – Behind the Decks CD/DVD
September 2001 – Bangin' The Box Vol. 5
May 2000 – Bangin' in London
August 1999 – Bangin' The Box Vol. 4
October 1998 – House Connection Vol.2 (with Richard Vission)
September 1998 – Mixmaster Throwdown Vol. 3 (with B96 WBBM-FM DJs)
April 1998 – Bangin' The Box Vol. 3
October 1997 – Global House Culture Vol. 4
July 1997 – Mixmaster Throwdown Vol. 2 (with B96 WBBM-FM DJs)
May 1997 – The House Connection (with Richard Vission)
October 1996 – Bangin' The Box Vol. 2
June 1996 – Mixmaster Throwdown Vol. 1 (with B96 WBBM-FM DJs)
October 1995 – Bangin' The Box Vol.1
1994 – Gettin' Wicked Vol. 1
1994 – Street Style 1 & 2
1993 – Non-Stop Hip-Hop
1988–1994 Hot Mix series 1–17

Singles
2017 "Bang Them Walls" with Gettoblaster featuring Benjamin Paper
2017 "Do What You're Told" with Matthew Anthony
2017 "Pimpin Hoes" with Gettoblaster featuring DJ Dagwood
2017 "Balls & Lick" with Gettoblaster
2017 "Hustling For Horns" with Gettoblaster
2016 "Do Your Thing" with J Paul Getto and Milty Evans
2016 "White Girl" featuring Benjamin Paper
2015 "Shawty Want That Cake" with Gettoblaster
2010 "Fast Life" featuring Alex Peace
2009 "Do What You Like" featuring Alyssa Palmer
2009 "Falling Anthem" featuring Alyssa Palmer
2003 "Illicit Activities" EP with Hatiras
2003 "Happy" featuring Kevin Irving
2002 "Costa Del Sol" featuring Nadine Renee
2001 "Everybody" featuring Alex Peace
1988 "The First Revelation" EP
1988 "How Do Ya Feel"
1987 "Are You The One?" 1987 "Jack It All Night Long"

Remixes
2007 Shock Stars – End Of Chicago – Bad Boy Bill Remix
2007 Nelly Furtado – Say It Right – Menage Music Remix / Menage Acid Mix
2006 Steve Smooth & JJ Flores – Time For Love – Bad Boy Bill Remix
2005 Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds – Smooth & J & Bad Boy Bill Remix
2003 Harrison Crump – The Talk 2 – Bad Boy Bill Remix
 1991 Dada Nada – "Give It All I Got" House Remix – (two-sided release w/"Good Thing) # 3 Cool Cuts Record Mirror U.K. Chart, # 25 Record Mirror Commercial Dance Chart
 1990 Dada Nada – "Deep Love" – Hip House Remix – Top 5 Billboard Club

Mix Details

Bangin’ The Box Volume 1

Bangin’ The Box Volume 2

Bangin’ The Box Volume 3

Bangin’ In London

Bangin’ The Box Volume 4

Behind The Decks Live
20 Tracks Selectable
29 Tracks Mixed
1 hour 12 minutes

Behind The Decks
36 Tracks Selectable

References

External links
Official website
Behind The Decks

1989 DMC Battle

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American DJs
Club DJs
Electronic dance music DJs
Nettwerk Music Group artists

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title: Robert Barron

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<mask> (born November 19, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church serving as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of the TV series Catholicism, an award-winning documentary about the Catholic faith which aired on PBS. Previously, he served as rector at Mundelein Seminary in the Archdiocese of Chicago. <mask> has published numerous books, essays, and articles on theology and spirituality. He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN. <mask>'s website, WordOnFire.org, is viewed by millions of people each year. As one of the world's most followed Catholics on social media, he has been informally called the "bishop of social media" and the "bishop of the Internet"., his regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 97 million times; he has over 3 million followers on Facebook, 340,000 on Instagram, and 186,000 on Twitter. In addition, has been invited to speak about religion at the headquarters of Amazon, Facebook, and Google. He has keynoted several conferences and events over the world, including the 2016 World Youth Day in Kraków, Poland, and the 2015 World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, which marked Pope Francis's visit to the United States. His 2016 film series, Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, debuting in September of that year, was syndicated for national television in the United States. <mask> is a proponent of Hans Urs von Balthasar's “dare we hope” theory, declaring there is "objective ground" for a "hope that all men may be saved". Early life
<mask> <mask> was born on November 19, 1959, in Chicago. He is of Irish descent.He spent his childhood first in Detroit, then in the Chicago suburb of Western Springs. His mother was a homemaker, and his father, who died in 1987, was a national sales manager for John Sexton & Company, a national food distributor. He has a sister and a brother, <mask>, who is the Sun-Times Media Group's publisher and senior vice-president of news and editorial operations. Formation
<mask> discovered the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas when he was a freshman at Fenwick High School, a private Dominican high school. Aquinas's teaching was formative for <mask> and continues to be influential in his theology. He transferred to Benet Academy, a private Benedictine high school, where he graduated in 1977. <mask> attended the University of Notre Dame for a year before transferring to Mundelein Seminary in Chicago.One year later, he was accepted as a Basselin Scholar at the School of Theology of the Catholic University of America, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 1981 and a Master of Arts in philosophy in 1982; his master's thesis was on the political philosophy of Karl Marx. <mask> earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from Mundelein Seminary in 1986 and was ordained on May 24, 1986, by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. After serving as an associate pastor of St. Paul of the Cross Catholic Church in Park Ridge from 1986 to 1989, he was sent to France and earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992. His dissertation was titled "Creation as Discipleship: A Study of the De potentia of Thomas Aquinas in Light of the Dogmatik of Paul Tillich". In addition to his native English, <mask> is fluent in French, Spanish, German, and Latin. Priestly ministry
From 1992 until 2015, <mask> was a professor of systematic theology at University of St. Mary of the Lake, where he was also named the inaugural Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture in 2008. He also served as president-rector from 2012 to 2015.He lectured extensively in the United States and internationally, including the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The late Cardinal Francis George called <mask> "one of the Church's best messengers". He started his Word On Fire platform in the year 2000. In 2002 he was a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2007. He was also twice scholar in residence at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, in 2007 and 2010. Episcopate
On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis appointed <mask> an auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and titular Bishop of Macriana in Mauritania. Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles gave each of the three forthcoming auxiliary bishops pectoral crosses modeled after the one Pope Francis wears, noting that <mask>'s media talent and rapport with young people, as well as his outreach to other faiths and to the world of culture (including with non-believers and non-practicing or fallen away Catholics) and education, would be good for the archdiocese.Archbishop Cupich said he would be of great benefit to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, citing his work with Word on Fire, his doctoral training in theology and parish service in Chicago, his social media presence, and his administrative service to him and his two predecessors, Cardinal George and Cardinal Bernardin, especially since his appointment as rector and president of the seminary. On September 8, 2015, <mask> was consecrated as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels by Archbishop José H. Gomez. Media works
In 2000, <mask> launched Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, a non-profit organization, that supports his evangelistic endeavors. Word on Fire programs, featuring <mask>, have been broadcast regularly on WGN America, EWTN, Telecare, Relevant Radio and the Word on Fire YouTube Channel. Barron's Word on Fire website offers daily blogs, articles, commentaries and over ten years of weekly sermon podcasts. In September 2015, <mask> and Word on Fire content director Brandon Vogt started a weekly podcast called The Word on Fire Show. <mask> lectures extensively in the United States and internationally and he has published numerous books, essays and DVD programs.He is a frequent commentator on faith and culture for The Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel, Our Sunday Visitor, the Catholic Herald (London, UK) and The Catholic New World. Internet
Barron's website reaches millions of people each year. The site hosts daily blog posts, weekly articles and video commentaries, and an extensive audio archive of over 500 homilies. His homilies are heard by tens of thousands of listeners each week, and over 400,000 people receive his daily email reflections. <mask> is one of the most-followed Catholics in the world on social media. His work has garnered:

 3.1 million+ Facebook followers
 486,000+ YouTube subscribers
 342,000+ Instagram followers
 188,600+ Twitter followers

Videos
<mask> has produced over 1,000 online video commentaries, which have attracted over 84 million views. His weekly, high-quality productions include brief and lively theological reviews of contemporary culture, including movies, books, music, current events, and more.Television

<mask>'s videos are aired on CatholicTV, EWTN, Telecare, NET TV, and Salt + Light Television. He created a 10-part documentary, Catholicism, filmed in 16 countries, which aired on nearly every public television station in America beginning in 2011. A sequel was released in September 2013, titled Catholicism: The New Evangelization. In October 2010, he began presenting a half-hour television show, Word on Fire with <mask>, on WGN America on Sundays. <mask> is the first priest since Archbishop Fulton Sheen in the 1950s to have a regular national program on a commercial television network. Radio/podcast
<mask> produces a weekly conversational podcast on faith and culture titled The Word on Fire Show which has been downloaded over ten million times. His weekly homilies and podcasts air on multiple radio stations to millions of listeners.

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title: Dick Stockton

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Richard Edward Stokvis (born November 22, 1942) is an American retired sportscaster. <mask> began his career in Philadelphia, then moved to Pittsburgh, where he worked as the sports director for KDKA-TV. In Boston, he called Celtics games for WBZ-TV and Red Sox games for WSBK-TV before transitioning to national broadcasting, which included calling the 1975 World Series for NBC and later, the NBA Finals for CBS. In a career that spanned over five decades, <mask> worked for several different networks, most prominently CBS Sports, Fox Sports, and Turner Sports. Biography

Early life and career
<mask> was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Beatrice Stokvis. He has one older sister, Irene. He attended Forest Hills High School in Queens, New York, graduating in 1960.He went on to college at Syracuse University, where he received his degree in political science in 1964. At Syracuse, he was sports director at WAER. He was inducted into the WAER Hall of Fame on October 12, 2016. In 1965, he began his sportscasting career at local radio and television stations in Philadelphia. He became sports director at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh in 1967, and moved to WBZ-TV and WBZ radio in Boston in 1971. Three years later, he began calling Boston Celtics telecasts for WBZ, and the following year he became the lead announcer for Boston Red Sox games on WSBK-TV. <mask> was part of the broadcast crew for NBC Sports' coverage of the 1975 World Series, and on television called Carlton Fisk's famous, game-winning home run in Game 6 of that series as follows:

There it goes!A long drive. . . . if it stays fair. . . . home run! <mask> stayed silent as Fisk rounded the bases, waiting until he made his way into the Red Sox dugout before proclaiming: "We will have a seventh game in this 1975 World Series." Broadcasting career

CBS Sports
<mask> started freelancing for CBS Sports in the late 1960s, while still doing local television at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. In 1978 (following a two-year stint calling NFL games for NBC), he joined CBS full-time, and from then until 1994 covered a variety of sports for that network, including the NFL, the NBA (for which <mask> was the lead play-by-play man from 1981 to 1990), Major League Baseball and NCAA Basketball, including ten years as a play-by-play broadcaster of the NCAA Regional Finals. <mask> also was the host at the famous upset of Villanova over Georgetown in 1985. On January 23, 1972, Jim Gordon was not in Boston for the Buffalo-Boston NHL game on CBS. Therefore, <mask> filled in and did the game with Dan Kelly.As previously mentioned, although <mask> was doing some work for The NFL on CBS, was also at the time a sports anchor for WBZ-TV in Boston. Also while at CBS Sports, he called nine NBA Finals, including the 1984, 1985 and 1987 finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. <mask> partnered with Bill Russell to call the finals from 1982 to 1983, Tom Heinsohn for the finals from 1984 to 1987, Billy Cunningham for the 1988 finals, and Hubie Brown for the 1989 and 1990 finals. On May 7, 1989, <mask> and Hubie Brown, were behind the microphone for the fifth and decisive game for the NBA's Eastern Conference First Round playoff series between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers. The game was highlighted by a buzzer-beater shot by Michael Jordan to give the Bulls a 101–100 win and clinch a series victory. CBS would lose their broadcasting rights to the NBA to NBC following the 1989–90 season. At the end of CBS' coverage of Game 5 of the 1990 NBA Finals, <mask> signed off with the following message:

In 2001, <mask> was inducted as a broadcaster into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.As previously mentioned, <mask> called Major League Baseball for CBS from 1990–1992. Working alongside Jim Kaat, <mask> was the number #2 play-by-play man behind Jack Buck and subsequently Sean McDonough. He and Kaat also called the American League Championship Series during that time period. It was initially speculated that <mask> would not have been available to contribute as the secondary play-by-play announcer due to his football and basketball commitments for CBS. <mask> would however, be replaced by Greg Gumbel in 1993. For the Game 5 of the 1991 ALCS between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays, <mask> called the final out by saying "And the Minnesota Twins have gone from the cellar to the penthouse in the American League." The following year in Game 4 of the ALCS between Toronto and the Oakland Athletics, <mask> described Roberto Alomar's game-tying home run off of Oakland closer Dennis Eckersley by saying “A drive to right field, Sierra going back, looking up and this game is tied!Roberto Alomar!”

In addition, he was the host of the Pan American Games in San Juan in 1979, and covered swimming and diving at the Pan American Games in Edmonton and Caracas. <mask> also broadcast the World Swimming and Diving Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the World Basketball Championships in Cali, Colombia, and the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki in the first year that CBS acquired the rights. When CBS began covering the Winter Olympics, <mask> was assigned to cover skiing in France in 1992 and two years later, he called the speed skating events in the 1994 Norway Games including Dan Jansen's record-breaking triumph of the 1000 meter gold medal as well as the gold medal victories of Bonnie Blair. Fox Sports
Stockton left CBS in 1994 for the newly formed Fox Sports, who continued to employ him on NFL broadcasts up until <mask> announced his retirement in March 2021. <mask> called Major League Baseball telecasts for the Fox broadcast network/FX in some shape or form from 1997 through 2013. From the time he was hired until 2006, he was Fox's second-team announcer for NFL games (behind Pat Summerall and later, Joe Buck), working alongside Matt Millen and then Troy Aikman, Daryl Johnston, and Tony Siragusa. For Fox's MLB coverage, he has partnered with Eric Karros, Joe Girardi, Mark Grace and Tim McCarver and others.He most recently worked with Mark Schlereth for football. Turner Sports
From 1995 to 2015, <mask> called NBA telecasts for Turner's TNT channel. From  to 2013, <mask> called postseason Major League Baseball games on TBS. In 2007, he partnered with Ron Darling to call the National League Division Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chicago Cubs for the network. In , he called the AL Central tiebreaker game between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox with Darling and Harold Reynolds, followed by the NLDS between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers with Darling and Tony Gwynn. In , he teamed with Bob Brenly to call the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals for TBS, and the two worked the NLDS every year until 2014. <mask> split play-by-play duties during the  regular season on TBS with NBA on TNT studio host Ernie Johnson Jr. and Milwaukee Brewers announcer Brian Anderson.In , he partnered with Ron Darling and John Smoltz to call Game 5 of the National League Division Series between the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals when his regular partner Brenly was away. <mask>'s performance on TBS' baseball telecasts hasn't been without criticism. For instance, during the 2013 NLDS (St. Louis vs. Pittsburgh), he was cited as often misidentifying players, generally appearing confused at times, and never having hosting chemistry with his analyst Bob Brenly. Other
From 1993 to 1995, <mask> also called local TV broadcasts of the Oakland Athletics. In 2004, he began doing part-time local television work for the San Antonio Spurs, this role lasted three seasons until 2007. <mask> called Super Bowl XXXVIII alongside Daryl Johnston and Super Bowl XLII alongside Sterling Sharpe on the international feed, provided by the NFL Network. This is the feed used by the BBC and certain other English-language broadcasters outside North America.Starting in 2010, <mask> assumed play-by-play duties for Miami Dolphins preseason games on WFOR; he substituted for Jimmy Cefalo as play-by-play on the Dolphins' radio call of the team's Monday Night Football game against the New England Patriots on October 4, 2010. <mask> did the play-by-play commentary for NFL Fever 2000 alongside Matt Millen. In 2017, <mask> launched his own podcast entitled Stockton!, where he interviewed famous athletes. On March 25, 2021, <mask> announced his retirement from broadcasting. Personal life
<mask> is wed to Jamie Drinkwater. The couple were married on July 31, 2014, at her family's home in New York on the St. Lawrence River. They divide their time between homes in Boca Raton, Florida and Carefree, Arizona.<mask>'s previous marriage to sportscaster Lesley Visser ended in divorce in 2010.

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title: John Marie Durst

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<mask> (1797–1851) was born on the frontier in Arkansas, and was an early American settler, military veteran, and politician in Louisiana and Texas. As a youth, he learned the mercantile trade from his godfather Peter Samuel Davenport in Texas, where he also became fluent in several languages. French, Spanish and various Native American languages were spoken in this region in addition to English, reflecting its different colonial history. At the age of 18, <mask> fought in the Battle of New Orleans with a Louisiana militia. He was a legislative representative under Coahuila y Tejas, during which he became involved in a land speculation controversy. <mask> became a large land holder, due in part to an inheritance from Davenport. Because he rode in 1835 to warn settlers of Mexican troop movements, when Texas was seeking independence, he is sometimes called the Paul Revere of Texas.<mask> also served with the Republic of Texas militia under Major General Thomas J. Rusk in actions against the Kickapoo and Cherokee peoples in the region. He founded the settlement of Mount Sterling, Texas in Nacogdoches County after the Republic of Texas gained independence. Early life
<mask> <mask> was born in Arkansas Post on February 4, 1797. He was one of eight children, four boys and four girls, born to Jacob and Anna Agnes (Schesser) <mask>. His brother Isaac was also given the first name of <mask>, which was a custom among many ethnic Germans. His father Jacob was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia in 1754 as the first generation in North America. Jacob's father Abraham Derst had spelled the family name with an "e".Paternal grandfather Abraham Derst was born in Worms-Pfeddersheim, Germany in 1725, and was the immigrant ancestor to Virginia. Abraham's own father, Abraham Jacob Derst, was born and died in Germany. When <mask> was two years old, his mother died. In 1803 the widower <mask> moved the entire family to Natchitoches, Louisiana. That year the region and much more former French territory west of the Mississippi River was acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. Move to Texas
In 1806, <mask> moved to Nacogdoches, Texas, then part of Spanish Mexico, with son <mask> and two of his older brothers. After Jacob died in 1814, local merchant Peter Samuel Davenport, known to friends as Samuel, became Durst's godfather and legal guardian.His two older brothers had already reached adulthood and were making their way. Nacogdoches merchants William Barr, Luther Smith, Edward Murphy, and Davenport had established the mercantile House of Barr and Davenport in 1798. During Spanish Texas, the distribution center was an importer and exporter of merchandise between Louisiana and Texas, serving both the Spanish troops and the area Indian tribes. Under Davenport's guardianship, the young <mask> learned the mercantile trade and became fluent in several languages, including those of Indian tribes among whom the House of Barr and Davenport maintained resident traders. When the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition captured Nacogdoches on August 12, 1812, Davenport became the quartermaster for the filibuster, supplying both arms and materiel, as well as rallying volunteers to join the cause. With the expedition defeated the next year, the Spanish government offered a reward for Davenport's capture. Davenport fled with 16-year-old <mask> to Natchitoches, Louisiana.On January 8, 1815, <mask> fought in the Battle of New Orleans, as part of the Louisiana militia, second division. Afterward, <mask> returned to Natchitoches. Land owner
Davenport died in 1824. He bequeathed  acres in Louisiana to <mask>. Davenport's son Juan Benigno swapped <mask> the Louisiana acreage for acreage on the west side of the Sabine River in Texas. Part of the property included the Old Stone Fort in Nacogdoches, which <mask> owned until 1834. That year he sold it to Juan Mora and Vicente Córdova.The land transactions took time to complete. As a result of his swap with Benigno, in April 1834 <mask> received a Mexican land grant for five leagues, which was surveyed in three separate tracts in Houston, Nacogdoches and Anderson counties. <mask> had originally petitioned for land to be located on the eastern margin of the Trinity River. He was likely trying to recover the Barr Rancho, a large tract lost by his adoptive father Samuel Davenport. [<mask> was the successor to the landholdings of the only official Indian trading establishment licensed by the Spanish government in the Province of Texas, known as the House of Barr and Davenport]. Davenport's lands had been confiscated by the government in 1813 due to Davenport's participation in the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition. But the Alcalde of Nacogdoches, Juan Maria Mora, said that available lands on the east bank of the river were limited to those "two leagues below [downriver from] the Old Presidio [Trinidad de Salcedo] and two leagues above [upriver from] the same."<mask> chose a tract "above" the former location of Trinidad de Salcedo. It was on both sides of the road to Bexar [Old San Antonio Road] and surveyed out to three leagues, plus 18 labors. The fieldnotes of this survey stipulated that the northern corner should fall on the Arroyo de las Ruinas [Ruins Creek]. This was likely known for the ruins of the old Barr Rancho headquarters, burnt by order of Col. Ignacio Elizondo of the Spanish Royal Army, during his operations in the aftermath of the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition and the rout of insurgents at the Battle of Medina on 18 August 1813. Province of Coahuila y Tejas
After Mexico gained independence from Spain, from 1829 to 1834 <mask> served in many capacities as an interpreter. He also became active in local politics. In 1835, <mask> became a legislative representative of Coahuila y Tejas from Nacogdoches.He became involved in a controversy over land speculation. While at the legislature, <mask> learned of Mexican troop movement into Texas, and became known as the Paul Revere of Texas for his ride warning American settlers of the troop movement. Republic of Texas
Texas achieved independence in 1836. The following year, in 1837 <mask> founded the town of Mount Sterling in Nacogdoches County. In 1838, <mask> was commissioned as a captain in the Republic of Texas militia, serving under Major General Thomas J. Rusk. Rusk was campaigning against the Kickapoo and Cherokee tribes of the area. In 1844, <mask> moved with his family to Leon County.Personal life and death

<mask> married Harriet Matilda Jamison on February 15, 1821. The young <mask> Reagan, at the time a deputy surveyor, also served as a private tutor in the 1830s to the <mask> children. Planters usually hired private tutors to educate their children. <mask> <mask> died in Galveston on February 9, 1851. He is buried in the family cemetery established on his property in Leon County. His wife Harriet died September 23, 1885, and is buried next to him. References

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title: Duncan Scott-Ford

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<mask> (4 September 1921 – 3 November 1942) was a British merchant seaman who was hanged for treachery after giving information to an enemy agent during the Second World War. Early life
Scott-Ford was born in Plymouth, Devon, with the name <mask>, the son of <mask> who worked as a sick bed orderly in the Royal Navy. His father died on 23 March 1933 after catching pneumonia from the effects of taking an overdose of morphine in a suicide attempt, and Scott-Ford changed his surname in an attempt to improve his social status. He was educated at the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook from 1933 to 1937, and then on turning 16, enlisted in the Royal Navy and joined the shore establishment HMS Impregnable in Devonport in December 1937. Service career

Royal Navy
In June 1939 Scott-Ford was serving on HMS Gloucester which had called at Dar-es-Salaam on a goodwill visit. He met and became infatuated by a German girl; the Security Service later came to believe that he may have told her secret naval codes. Later in 1940 his ship was stationed in Egypt and Scott-Ford became obsessed with a prostitute whom he often visited; he was discovered to have altered the book of his Post Office Savings account and sent to a court martial which convicted him.He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and dismissed from the service with ignominy but, after a successful appeal by his mother, the sentence was remitted to six months' imprisonment and an honourable discharge. Merchant Navy
Repatriated to Britain to serve his sentence, Scott-Ford was released in July 1941 and stayed briefly with his mother. They quarrelled over his mother's use of the allowance from his Royal Navy pay which he sent home, with Scott-Ford accusing his mother of using it to buy a fur coat. Shortly afterwards he joined the Merchant Navy. He was on board the SS Finland, which arrived in Lisbon on 10 May 1942. Espionage
Soon after his arrival in Lisbon, he was met in a bar by a man who told him that his name was Rithman and that he could get a letter to the girl he had known in Dar-es-Salaam. Rithman offered Scott-Ford 1,000 Portuguese escudos if he would confirm the rumour that all British ships had been ordered to be in port on 28 June.Scott-Ford undertook to try to find out and to meet again the following day. Although unable to find confirmation, Scott-Ford met with Rithman and a man who called himself Captain Henley and appeared to be Rithman's superior. Confessing to not having supplied the information wanted, the group nevertheless discussed issues such as the state of morale in Britain, public opinion of Winston Churchill, and the extent of air raid damage. Henley gave him a 1,000-escudo note and arranged another meeting a few days later. At this meeting, Scott-Ford was driven around in a car to disorient him and then taken to a room where he was asked to obtain more information about the location of British minefields, the arrival of American servicemen in Britain, and up-to-date copies of Jane's Fighting Ships and Jane's All the World's Aircraft. Henley asked Scott-Ford to sign a receipt for the 1,000 escudos, which Scott-Ford did, using his real name. His ship sailed the next day; all the crew were interrogated on arrival at Liverpool to ask if they had been approached by German agents.Scott-Ford stated that he had been approached but had not cooperated. Blackmail
The Finland sailed for Lisbon again in July, arriving on 26 July. Scott-Ford again met up with the Germans, receiving another 500 escudos for expenses (again signing a receipt) although he had been unable to get the books which they had requested. The Germans threatened to give the receipts to the British Embassy. Scott-Ford did give details of the convoy he had sailed in and its protection, the location of an aircraft factory, and the training of troops for an invasion of Europe. At the end of the meeting, he was told to keep a record of the movement and speed of the convoy and given another 100 escudos. Another meeting was arranged, but Scott-Ford was unable to keep it as the Finland sailed for Manchester.Confession
On arriving at Salford Docks on 18 August, Scott-Ford was again routinely asked about approach attempts from German intelligence, and this time described a man who had asked him about communism in Britain. The authorities had already had word from Lisbon that an agent codenamed 'RUTHERFORD' by the Germans had been talking and therefore arranged to see him again the next day. Scott-Ford admitted that he had received 1,600 escudos (about £18 in 1942, or £ in ) for information. He was taken into custody and sent to the 'London Reception Centre', where refugees were routinely screened for German agents. The notes which Scott-Ford had made about the convoy were found in a search of his quarters on the Finland. Trial and execution
In order to keep Scott-Ford in custody, an order was issued under Defence Regulation 18B for him to be detained. He was sent to Camp 020, an interrogation centre based at Latchmere House on Ham Common in southwest London where he complied with the authorities, although he became increasingly alarmed as he began to understand the seriousness of his situation.Professor A. W. B. Simpson, a historian of detention without trial, has speculated that Scott-Ford was offered his life in return for additional information on the Germans' intelligence system, but had no more to give. Scott-Ford was charged under the Treachery Act 1940, and after an in camera trial before Mr Justice Birkett, was convicted on 16 October. The only sentence on conviction under the Treachery Act was death; it was the first occasion on which Birkett had found himself pronouncing a death sentence. Interviewed in 1959 by John Freeman on Face to Face, Birkett said that he "had always rather dreaded it, but when the actual moment came, I did it without the slightest trace of emotion". Camp 020 were asked for their recommendation on whether Scott-Ford should be reprieved. The commandant wrote that there were no reasons for a reprieve: "Indeed, there may well be many who will agree that death by hanging is almost too good for a sailor who will encompass the death of thousands of his shipmates without qualm." Scott-Ford was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at 9:00 am on 3 November 1942 at Wandsworth Prison.The details of his trial had been kept secret until Scott-Ford was dead. The next day's papers reported that he had betrayed his country for £18, and lost his life in consequence, as a warning to other Merchant Navy sailors who might have been approached. References

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title: Slobodan Trkulja

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<mask> (; born May 29, 1977) is a Serbian multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer in traditional and Byzantium style. <mask> is one of the first artists who composed, performed, and popularized Balkan Traditional Music with a modern approach in arrangements. He is the founder of the Modern Balkan Tradition music genre, although he is most famous for his collaboration with Metropole Orchestra from Netherlands in 2008. Aside from playing 13 instruments, Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad called him "one of the most beautiful male voices of the Balkan." He had no formal music training until 1997, but attended a public high school in Sremski Karlovci. <mask> moved to Netherlands in 1997, and returned to Serbia in 2008, where he has been since. Biography

Early life

<mask> was born in Odžaci on May 29, 1977.At the age of 10 he taught himself to play the clarinet. After clarinet, <mask> learned to play dozen more instruments in the next eight years. At the age of 14, he started playing in the professional folk ensemble Kolo in Belgrade. In less than a year he was announced the best instrumentalist at the "Festival of Music Societies of Vojvodina". He spent the next four years focusing on his high school education and performing with Kolo. In 1998 <mask> went to Amsterdam, where he studied at Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Saxophone Department, an instrument which he had played less than a year and a half at that point. In 1999, right before the NATO bombing of Serbia, he returned to his homeland and postponed his education until the end of the war.<mask> continued with his studies in February 2000. In 2004 he graduated, and three years later he received his Master’s Degree of Arts with honors and an award for his MA concert. Religious influences
Slobodan claims to have recognized the true gist of music upon entering his religion, when suddenly he experienced a revelation of different and unknown musical views and fields. The feedback that he got from religion was reciprocal, because he entered faith through music. “One day, I went to the Kovilj Monastery and experienced a great temblor inside my soul the moment I heard monks chanting. For me it was an out-of-body experience, an un-earthy feeling… something that shook me to that extent that I felt physical changes inside." Slobodan was threading deeper into the faith and realized that in great part Serbian traditional singing and traditional songs were immensely based on Byzantine chants.“Many melodies in old Serbian songs are almost exactly the same as Orthodox Christian music”, says Trkulja. "The predominant emotion in our tradition is an emotion weaved with spirituality, because our people couldn’t make music that was not close to their souls. What I personally as a musician like the most about these melodies is that they are infinite. They start and keep on going, they are endless as a prayer. At one moment it overwhelms you and you forget about yourself, about your ego, about your problems, about all the things that make you feel bad. It’s like you're bathing your soul in a pure, beautiful energy that nurtures you from inside." Music career

Balkanopolis
In 1997, in the clubs of Novi Sad, Trkulja started playing music that was inspired by Serbian music and Balkan tradition, but had strong modern influences from the west.Pursuing his dream further, he founded the group Balkanopolis, with whom he held many concerts and published an independent album titled Let Iznad Balkana (One Flew Over the Balkans). Western musicologists consider his sound a new genre that they call “Modern Balkan Tradition.” Ever since, under the Balkanopolis influence, many musical groups ensued and continued to weave the Modern Tradition into the Serbian music scene. This exposure brought him a lecturing invitation for the "International Ethno Camp" in Sweden. <mask> was featured as an artistic leader, representing the Balkan countries in the "mix of world music" in Stockholm. Today <mask> plays 13 instruments in total. Clarinet since he was 10; bagpipes, diple, double, kaval, flute, acoustic guitar since he was 15; flute since age of 18 and tenor saxophone since 19. Today, besides all of these, he plays the drums, Armenian duduk, ocarina, alto and soprano saxophone.In addition to his talent for playing, <mask> Trkulja also has impressive singing abilities, which he developed by listening to traditional Serbian throat-singers. The most respected Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad called him "one of the most beautiful male voices of the Balkan." In 2005 he played at the neo-Balkan music concert “Večiti most” ("Eternal Bridge") at the exhibition Expo in Japan. He performed at Exit 2006th, completely alone on stage, in front of three thousand people. On North Sea Jazz Festival in 2002. - he participated with "Balkanopolis", and reached the finals, where he won the award "Best New Talent." On September 15,  the same year, he participated in a charity concert of ethnic music "Kuća na putu” (“House on the road”) in Belgrade's Sava Center, with blessings of the Serbian Patriarch Pavle.In 2003 he was one of the main soloists in the prestigious project of Theo Hook and “Metropole Orchestra”, called “Mixed Nuts”. At the benefit concert “Dar za Hilandar” ("A gift for Hilandar"), April 13, 2004 in the Sava Center, Trkulja performed his song Lepe moje crne oči (Beautiful black eyes of mine). In December, same year – same place, with Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and “Balkanopolis”, Trkulja held a groundbreaking concert, conducted by Arjan Tien, called Prizivanje kiše (Invocation of rain) where he singlehandedly introduced Serbian traditional instruments to contemporary music. This concert was held on the occasion of the completion of the Dutch presidency of the European Union organized by the Netherlands Embassy in Belgrade. Currently Balkanopolis consists of:
 Slobodan Trkulja - lead vocal, composer (bagpipes, kaval, frula, guitar, tambura, clarinet etc.) Arie den Boer - drums
 Leonid Pilipović - punk tambura
 Jurre Hogervorst - bass guitar
 Dragutin Jakovljević - rock guitar
 Miloš Jakovljević - kaval flute
 Marko Milatović - keyboards, programming, piano
 Goran Milošević - traditional vocals, traditional percussions
 with guest appearances of Byzantine chanter from Chilandar monastery on Mountain Athos Aleksandar Jovanović   On February 22, 2008, they had a notable appearance on the 15th Celtic Connections festival in Scotland. With attendances reaching 120,000 and events taking place across 14 venues throughout Glasgow they had great feedback from this visit.Metropole Orchestra
In 2008, April and May marked collaboration with Metropole orchestra. On April 17, in Hilversum, Netherlands,  Balkanopolis and Metropole Orchestra started their collaboration by recording the program for the interval act of Eurovision. This session was conducted by Jules Buckley. The next day Balkanopolis and Metropole Orchestra had a rehearsal in MCO Studios on which Richard Evans, producer and musician in the Peter Gabriel Band that was due to record and produce new Balkanopolis album, talked with Slobodan about future sound of Balkanopolis. Albums

On their debut album, "Prizivanje Kiše" ("Invocation of Rain", published in 2006 by PGP RTS), Trkulja build a fusion of modern jazz and original folklore. Album features several popular traditional folk song covers, a jazz standard, and six original compositions in which they combine traditional music, jazz, pop and ambiental music. Second album "Kingdom of Balkanopolis" (published in 2010) was produced in four countries on two continents.Slobodan Trkulja worked on this album with his colleagues and friends for a couple of years. David Rhodes, John Giblin and Tony Levin were featured as guest musicians on 8 compositions. Producers of this album are world-renowned Richard Evans (UK) and Tchad Blake (USA). It was recorded in Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the UK. Metropole Orchestra recorded the orchestral sections in Netherlands. Album went through the final stage of post-production in Gateway mastering studio in USA. The sound engineer Adam Ayan said: "Sound that Trkulja creates is a unique combination of tradition and modern sound that has emerged as a real refreshment at a time when all the bands are more like each other."Involvement in Jazz
Trkulja collaborated with numerous jazz bands and philharmonic orchestras. He joined the multinational groove-jazz band "Turqumstances,” in Amsterdam. On their common appearances, his solo sections had a special place as well as duets with clarinetist Oguz Buyukberber. After this, he easily made his way through the Latin jazz scene, traveling through Benelux with the Latino big band of Eddie Martinez from Colombia. At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, in a traditional New Year’s concert, January 2002, he performed his Pythagora Oro, together with Dutch Brass Ensemble. The performance at this concert (which was directly transmitted by the Dutch television) was the high point of Trkulja’s career, which gained him admiring reviews and earned him recognition in the Netherlands. On February 6, 2005 he won the Dutch Erasmus Prize for performing jazz saxophone and clarinet pieces for 45 minutes with drummer Arie Den Boer as his only accompaniment.Other than a sum of money from Rotterdam Conservatory, the prize included a number of concerts at the renowned jazz clubs in the Netherlands. Concert for Babies
In 2011 Slobodan performed a concert he specially designed for babies and children. This concert was followed by a workshop in which the audience could musically interact and play the instruments with Slobodan. This concert took place in SKC Novi Beograd, Belgrade and, as part of the Pokreni Se (Move) project, it was done in collaboration with the students of the Belgrade Academy of Music and Center for Culture and Information Kissaro. This was one of 33 projects that were supported by Center for the Promotion of Science of Serbia. ARENA CONCERT

Slobodan Trkulja organised a humanitarian concert "Balkanopolis & friends" in Belgrade Arena on 15 May 2015. Special guests were fado diva Mariza, soul singer/composer Oleta Adams, Lebanese young star Mayssa Karaa and renown singer from Senegal Baaba Maal.In front of the 10.000 people in the audience, Balkanopolis was the first neo-traditional group to perform their own concert in a venue of that scale, marking their 18th birthday. Summary
Trkulja’s music is described as contemporary art and intelligent synthesis of traditional Serbian music and modern jazz and fusion, asymmetric bars of Balkan rhythms and grooving beats of modern funk, which entail unprecedented examples of rhythmic fireworks. He does not hesitate to use exotic, almost delirious time signatures like 25/8. He employs vocal counterpoint parts in which he plays with different textures, which produce a powerful effect in his melancholic ballads. He claims that he is not narrowed by genre. Trkulja once said that for him music making is not subject to any kind of classification. On Beovizija 2007 Slobodan Trkulja and “Balkanopolis” competed with his composition ”Nebo” (“Sky”), which combines traditional and Byzantine ecclesiastical chant.They won second place with 10/12 points of TV audience votes and 7/12 points of votes of the jury as well as the prize for best interpretation assigned by the Eurovision Fan Club (OGAE Serbia). The song “Nebo” also was a representative at the annual OGAE Serbia OGAE “Second chance” contest 2007 in Slovenia. Slobodan Trkulja and Balkanopolis took 14th place at the Eurovision Contest 2007. References

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title: Bob Caruthers

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<mask> (January 5, 1864 – August 5, 1911), nicknamed "Parisian <mask>", was an American right-handed pitcher and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Bridegrooms. The star pitcher on five league champions in a ten-year career, he was the top pitcher in the American Association, leading that league in wins and shutouts twice each, winning percentage three times, and earned run average once. His 175 wins in the Association were the second most of any pitcher, and his league ERA of 2.62 was the lowest of any pitcher with at least 2,000 innings in the league; he was also the only pitcher to have 40-win seasons for two different Association teams. His career winning percentage was the highest of any pitcher prior to 1950 with at least 250 decisions; some sources recognize him as having compiled the highest winning percentage of any pitcher with at least 200 decisions (and retired ) in major league history. St. Louis

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Caruthers debuted with a four-hitter for the Browns in late 1884. Caruthers, who stood 5'7" and weighed 138 pounds, led the team to its first pennant the following year. He led the league in wins (40), ERA (2.07), shutouts (6) and winning percentage (.755) in 1885, and was 30–14 for the 1886 champions after a lengthy contract dispute which he conducted from Paris, earning him his nickname.In 1886, he also played right field when not pitching, batting .334 to place him among the league's top five hitters, and leading the league in on-base percentage. On August 16 of that year, he became the fourth pitcher to hit two home runs in a game, while also getting a double and a triple; after the last he was thrown out at the plate, ending the game, in trying for a third home run. In 1887, despite battling malaria, he again led the league in winning percentage with a 29–9 record as the Browns won their third consecutive title; he also batted .357 with 73 runs batted in, while finishing second in the league in slugging percentage for the second consecutive year. After the team's 1887 postseason loss, during which the team was criticized for its recreational activities, his contract was sold to Brooklyn by team owner Chris von der Ahe, who largely blamed Caruthers, an expert billiards and poker player, for the failure. Brooklyn
Caruthers posted a record of 29–15 in 1888, though his batting average dropped to .230; in 1889 he again led the league in wins (40), shutouts (7) and winning percentage (.784) as the team captured its first title, but rarely played in the field when not pitching. Brooklyn changed leagues following the 1889 season, joining the National League. Caruthers' 175 wins during six Association seasons would stand as the second-best total in the league's ten-year existence, behind Tony Mullane's 203 wins in seven seasons; Caruthers' league ERA of 2.62 was the best of any pitcher with at least 2,000 innings, and put him behind only Ed Morris and Will White among those with 1,500 innings.In 1890, <mask> posted a record of 23–11 as Brooklyn won the NL title in their first season in the league; he also saw considerable playing time in left field and batted .265. In 1891 his record slipped to 18–14, and he played only occasionally in right field though he hit .281. Later career
In 1892 <mask> returned to the Browns, who had joined the NL that season in a league merger; it marked his last season as a pitcher as he earned only two victories, though he played regularly in right field, hitting .277 with 69 RBI. He also managed the team for the final third of the season, compiling a 16–32 record. In 1893 the pitching distance was increased from 50 feet to 60 feet 6 inches, and after playing one game in center field with the Chicago Colts, he ended his Major League career with several games in right field for the Cincinnati Reds. He continued to play in the minor leagues until 1898, and later became an American League umpire in 1902 and 1903. Legacy
During his career Caruthers threw 298 career complete games among his 310 starts, including 24 shutouts, and had a career ERA of 2.83 in 2,828 innings pitched.He also batted .282 lifetime with 29 home runs and 359 RBI. He was the only 19th-century pitcher to lead the league in winning percentage three times. <mask> is often considered one of the most deserving candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Many sources recognize him as having compiled 218 wins and 99 losses, making his .688 winning percentage third all-time behind only Whitey Ford, and Dave Foutz (his teammate for eight seasons) among pitchers with at least 200 major league decisions. However, that is based on a total of 10 losses in the 1892 season (his last as a pitcher), a total revised from the contemporary record; the official league records for that year, which are recognized by Major League Baseball, charged him with only 8 losses, a figure which some other sources also recognize. The reduction of two losses would increase his career winning percentage to .691, placing him behind only Spud Chandler who compiled a record of .717 over 150 decisions. On August 5, 1911, <mask> died after a month-long illness in Peoria, Illinois, where he had lived for three years.He was 47 years old. Caruthers was under a minor league baseball umpiring contract with the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League at the time of his death. See also
 List of St. Louis Cardinals team records
 List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
 List of Major League Baseball career ERA leaders
 List of Major League Baseball annual wins leaders
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title: Svetozar Vlajković

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<mask> (, ; born 5 January 1938) is a Serbian radio journalist, writer, screenwriter, playwright and laureate of the Isidora Sekulić Award in 1971. Biography
<mask> grew up in Belgrade city quarter Čubura of Vračar municipality. He attended the XIV Belgrade Gymnasium, graduating with maturity diploma in 1956. After that, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Belgrade University and graduated with diploma in 1962. After completion of his academic education, he worked as court reporter of the newspaper Borba until 1963, there he realized that he was not living in a society of justice, that theory taught at university and judicial practice are two different things. Leaving his despised job, he started his professional career as radio journalist and contributing editor of cultural program of Radio Belgrade in the same year, but after six years, he was demoted in his job and restricted in his activities, because his views were inappropriate in ideological way of thinking. He left his job again, got a scholarship for going abroad and took the opportunity to study at Sorbonne in Paris, where he listened to lectures of theater studies and became assistant of Antoine Vitez from 1971-72.Back in Belgrade again, he continued working at Radio Belgrade until retirement, in spite of numerous conflicts with the staff members who were refusing to apply new tendencies and ideas in the domain of radio program. In the meantime, he wrote twenty-five books of fiction and fifty plays of various genres. <mask> <mask> spent a big part of his professional life during Titoism, and he retrospectively describes the cultural atmosphere of this period as follows: Tito was an uneducated man, he became ruler thanks to a group of uneducated people. At the same time, these nations were also people of little faith and needed a strong leader. Tito surrounded himself with rude, arrogant, but obedient people. They chose their audience on the basis of a kinship decision, creating a pyramid of power that conquered the entire population. Only a few educated people were either exiled, liquidated or taken up into the pyramid.I have written a lot about influencing the suppression of our language, the decay of the family as the foundation of good education and spirituality, but what good is it if there's a well-established technique of silence. Works

Prose
At the beginning of his literary work, he was discovered by Serbian surrealists such as Marko Ristić and Dušan Matić and praised for his overflowing poetic fantasy and excessive power of imagination. Čedomir Mirković wrote a comment about his work in concise and short style: Vlajkovic's stories are characterized by a strong need to be skeptical, melancholy and lonely, the dominant feelings of today's city dwellers, reserved and disguised by irony, humor, curiosity, erotic enthusiasm in harmony with the Zeitgeist. <mask> even distanced himself from the public marketing of literature in the positive as well as the negative sense and still expressed it with a certain sarcasm: manipulation by the media has attracted so much attention that even our thin readership in this country is completely confused. If the tabloid repeats five thousand times that someone is a genius, even if he is an idiot, he will penetrate as a certain significance in the consciousness of the readership. The crowd is ashamed to say that they do not like the official greatness. Luckily my readers are not part of this crowd.Šta bi učinio Zobec (What Zobec Would Do), short stories (novellas), Matica srpska, Novi Sad 1969. Šuma čudnovata (Miracle Forest), novel, Prosveta, Belgrade 1969. Neko drugo leto (Some Other Summer), novel, Prosveta, Belgrade 1971. Čubura, negde u Kaliforniji (Čubura, Somewhere in California), novel, Belgrade 1976. Večernji trkači (Evening Chasers), novel , Beogradski izdavačko-grafički zavod, 1980. Vera, novel, Nolit, Belgrade 1981. Pokretne stepenice (Moving Steps), novel, Nolit, Belgrade 1987, .Ružičasti arhipelag (Pink Archipelago), novel, Altera, Belgrade 1991, . Najslabiji učenik škole igranja (Worst Disciple Of Dancing School), novel, Rad, Belgrade 1992, . Uzletanje (Taking Off), short stories, Rad, Belgrade 1997, . Karamfla (Soldier Karamfla), novel, BMG, Belgrade 1998, . Imenik (Phone Directory), novel, BMG, Belgrade 1998, . Skladište uzdaha (Storeroom of Sighs), novel, Verzal press, Belgrade 1998, . Tajanstvo spajanja (Mystery of Reunion), novel, Prosveta, Belgrade 2000, .Rajska ptica: jazz priče (Bird of Paradise: Jazz Novellas), Bogdanović, Belgrade 2005, . Sanja, novel, LOM, Belgrade 2006, . Duga na sajmu knjiga (Rainbow At Book Fair), short stories, Nolit 2009, . Stranac (The Stranger), novel, Artos, Belgrade 2012, . Vlajković wrote two books of essayistic memoirs:
 Don Žuan beogradski u šumi čudnovatoj (Don Juan Of Belgrade In Miracle Forest), Prosveta 2005, . Pustinja u prašumi (Desert In The Jungle), Prosveta 2008, . Radio
Svetozar Vlajković has written dozens of radio dramas, dedicated a special attention in writing for and about children and received several radio awards.Poziv (Phone Call), 1976. Pesak u cipeli (Sand In The Shoe), 1981. Theatre
Five plays by <mask> <mask> have been put on stage:
 Grejalica (The Heater), premiere at Atelje 212 Theatre, 1968. Stvari u vrtu (Objects in the Garden), Theatre Levo, Belgrade 1970. Seksualni horoskop (Sexual Horoscope), Omladinski dramski studio at Youth Theatre Novi Sad, 1972. Rastanak (Parting), premiere at Belgrade Drama Theatre, 1977. Zidanje (Construction Works), Yugoslav Drama Theatre (premiere of the performance was cancelled with no explanation), 1977.The following theatre plays have been published in several magazines specialized in theatre:
 Večernji trkači (Evening Chasers), Scena (Stage), 1983
 Don Žuan beogradski (Don Juan Of Belgrade), Scena (Stage), 1986
 Ponavljač (Failure), Scena (Stage), 1991
 Marko&Musa, Savremena srpska drama (Contemporary Serbian Drama), 2006
 More u liftu (A Sea in the Elevator), Savremena srpska drama, 2008
 I nevidljivi voli vatromet (The Invisible Likes Fireworks Too), Savremena srpska drama, 2011. Film
Džangrizalo (Nagger), screenwriter, TV film 1976, directed by Zdravko Šotra. Džek-pot (Jackpot), screenwriter, TV film 1985. Zasluge (Merits), screenwriter, TV film 1972,  based on a novel by Aleksandar Vučo. Prvo ubistvo (First Murder), TV film 1972, based on his novella Šta bi učinio Zobec. Bez reči (Without A Word), co-screenwriter, feature film 1972, directed by Miloš Radivojević. Kvar (Malfunction), co-screenwriter,  feature film 1978, directed by Miloš Radivojević.Čavka (Jackdaw), co-screenwriter, children's film 1988, directed by Miloš Radivojević. Kako su me ukrali Nemci (How I Was Stolen By The Germans), co-screenwriter, feature film 2011. Dok su oni leteli na mesec (While They Were Flying To The Moon), short film 2015, based on his novella. References

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title: Kendrick Frazier

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<mask> (born March 19, 1942) is a science writer and longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. He is also a former editor of Science News, author or editor of ten books, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a fellow and a member of the executive council of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), an international organization which promotes scientific inquiry. He has written extensively about a variety of science topics including astronomy, space exploration, the earth and planetary sciences, archaeology, technology, the history and philosophy of science, public issues of science, and the critical examination of pseudoscience and fringe-science. Personal life
Frazier received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Colorado and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Geophysical Union. He lives with his wife, Ruth, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is an international consultant in community development and a former president (1974-1997) of Futures for Children, an organization which works with American Indians of the Southwest. They have a son, Chris; their daughter, Michele aka Lady Ganga, died February 5, 2012, from cervical cancer, two-and-a-half months after completing a 700-mile expedition (called Starry Ganga) standup paddleboarding down the Ganges River in India to spread awareness about cervical cancer and its preventability and treatment. Career
Frazier was the earth sciences editor of Science News in 1969–70. He was named managing editor in 1970–71, then editor from 1971 to 1977, and remained a contributing editor until 1981. In December 1973 he traveled to Antarctica and the South Pole and wrote a series of articles reporting on the historic U.S. research into the continent's geologic and climatic history and the environmental impact of such research.In 1976 Frazier reported on the organizing conference at which the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP, was founded. In a discussion with James Randi at CSICon 2016 regarding the founding of CSICOP, Frazier said that Isaac Asimov being associated with the organization "gave it immense status and authority" in his eyes. The committee published a journal called The Zetetic featuring articles examining the claims of occultism and pseudoscientific theories. In August 1977 Frazier became the editor of the journal, and with the first issue of 1978 its name was changed to the Skeptical Inquirer. Frazier has written articles in every issue for thirty-five years and participated in every national and international conference of the organization since 1977. Examples of his recent editor's columns and reports that feature popular science topics include "The Winter of Our Discontent" (about attacks on climate science), "Why the Bem Experiments Are Not Parapschology's Next Big Thing", "Getting People Emotionally Invested", and "The Roswell Syndrome....and Pseudoskepticism". His comprehensive history of CSICOP was published in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal.From 1983 to 2006, he concurrently worked as a full-time staff member at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he wrote about its research projects and for the last 11 years edited its award-winning newspaper, the Sandia Lab News. He retired as a Principal Member of Laboratory Staff. Frazier's most recent book Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience was featured by Science News for its "engaging, insightful, and often surprising essays by researchers and journalists" about "what science is and is not, and what happens when the facts get twisted." Three prominent scientists gave testimonials about the book. Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote "Science Under Siege is a welcome antidote to the profound science illiteracy that, today, permeates American pop culture and the press." Harvard University cognitive scientist and author Steven Pinker called the book "An entertaining and eye-opening collection of essays that advance the battle against ignorance and superstition." Williams College astronomer Jay M. Pasachoff said "<mask>'s collection brings a well-chosen selection of logical and well-reasoned pieces before a general audience that would enjoy and benefit from their analyses and exposés."Frazier has also hosted panels and made presentations at many other conferences. They include

 The Second World Skeptic's Congress at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1998 where he spoke on a panel alongside Sergei Kapitza and Vern Bullough
 The World Congress on Scientific Inquiry and Human Well-Being organized by Center for Inquiry and China Research Institute for Science Popularization, Beijing, China, October 2007
 The Northeast Conference of Skeptical Societies (NECSS), New York City, April 2011 which was the basis for this Skeptical inquirer article "Who Really Wants Reliable Scientific Information?". The Amazing Meeting 8, Las Vegas, July 2010, where he participated in a panel titled "The Origins of the Modern Skeptic Movement" alongside James Randi, Ray Hyman, and Paul Kurtz
 The World Conference of Science Journalists, Doha, Qatar, June 2011 which became the focus of two articles "The Age of Denialism: When Beliefs Trump Scientific Facts" and "Pseudoscience, Mythbusting, Evolution Gain Attention of World's Top Science Journalists". CSICon New Orleans, October 2011 where he gave opening remarks and also moderated a panel on Science and Public Policy at which Ron Lindsay spoke on the subject of Food Fears -- The Need for Appropriate Risk Assessment. The Australian Skeptics National Convention in November 2014. He spoke on organized skepticism of the past 40 years and of today. Awards and honors
In 1985 the University of Colorado presented him with the George Norlin Award for outstanding achievement by an alumnus.The American Humanist Association awarded Frazier the Humanist Pioneer Award in 1995 for his "effective worldwide advancement of rational skepticism". He received the In Praise of Reason Award, the highest honor from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal in 2001. The award is given in recognition of distinguished contributions in the use of critical inquiry, scientific evidence, and reason in evaluating claims to knowledge. Other recipients of this award include Carl Sagan, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman and Nobel laureate physicist Leon Lederman. Frazier was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2005 for his "distinguished contributions to the public understanding of science through writing for and editing popular science magazines that emphasize science news and scientific reasoning and methods." Books
 The Violent Face of Nature: Severe Phenomena and Natural Disasters, by <mask> <mask>, William Morrow, New York, 1979,
 Paranormal Borderlands of Science, edited by <mask> <mask>, Prometheus Books, 1981, . Our Turbulent Sun, by <mask> <mask>.Prentice Hall, 1982,
 Solar System. By <mask> <mask> and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Planet Earth Series. Time-Life Books, 1985,
 Science Confronts the Paranormal edited by <mask> <mask>, Prometheus Books, 1986, . The Hundredth Monkey: And Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, edited by <mask> <mask>well Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups, edited by <mask> <mask>, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell, Prometheus Books, 1997, . Encounters With the Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, edited by <mask> <mask>, 1998, Prometheus Books, .People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture, by <mask> <mask>. Updated and Revised Edition, 2005, W.W. Norton, New York. Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience, by <mask> <mask>, 2009, Prometheus Books,

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title: Aljoscha Pause

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<mask> is a German filmmaker, director, TV journalist, writer and producer. He is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie and the German Academy for Football Culture. Childhood, education and early career
<mask> grew up in Bonn. After completing high school he studied Romance philology at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. He received training as a narrator at Deutsche Welle between 1998 and 2002. <mask>, his wife and two daughters live in Bonn. During his school and college years, a worked at the cabaret theater "Pantheon" of his father <mask>, while also working as a reporter for a local city magazine and a private radio broadcaster (Radio Bonn/Rhein-Sieg).At the age of 24 he began a career in television, initially from 1996 to 1999 as a sports reporter at German Sports Television (now called Sport1) and later from 1999 to 2003 at the main sports desk of Kirch Media Group, Sat.1 (with the flagship program "Ran") and Premiere, where he worked as a filmmaker, presenter, commentator and field reporter. From 2009 to 2011 <mask> <mask> also served as a reporter for the Bundesliga broadcaster of Deutsche Telekom, "LIGA total!" Cinematic works
<mask> has worked as a self-employed producer and filmmaker since 2003, focusing on longer documentary films. His film projects often deal with socio-political aspects of sports (e.g. homophobia in football, hooligans, alcohol consumption and football, the German Football League for the Blind). An additional topic of emphasis is personal portraits, mostly about football players but also about actor Michael Jäger (an ex-hooligan who for ten years played a role on the early-evening soap opera "Marienhof"). His first full-length cinematic releases were two well-received, long-term documentaries, "Tom meets Zizou" (2011) and "Trainer!"(2013). <mask> has received numerous prizes and awards for his work, including the leading television award in Germany, the Grimme Prize (2010, for "Breaking the taboo"). Trilogy – Homophobia in Football (2008–2011)
Produced in 2008 for DSF, "The Great Taboo – Homosexuality and Football" was an "honest, dispassionate stock-taking" of the conditions facing homosexual soccer athletes in Germany. lt was the first extensive TV documentary to deal with the topic, and for this reason was honored by the Association of Lesbian and Gay Journalists (Bund Lesbischer und Schwuler Journalistlnnen, BLSJ) with the 2008 Felix Rexhausen Prize. (Statement by the panel of judges: "Outstandingly researched and with a broad scope, this is an immensely enlightening report [...] lt shows the entire spectrum – from the fans in the stadiums to lesbian ex-professionals such as Tanja Walther and Anouschka Bernhard and the transsexual referee Marie Karsten. Spectacular is the misguided statement by Cologne coach Christoph Daum, which made national headlines. The 45-minute documentary is as informative as it is sober, and subtly reveals how widespread anti-gay feeling is in the world of football – on every level."In the second part of the trilogy "Breaking the Taboo – The New Progress of Homosexuality in Football" (2009), <mask> devotes another 12 months to the topic and films ongoing developments. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, "<mask> has bequeathed a journalistic exclamation mark to the private broadcasting company DSF. He lives up to the expectations that the big publicly funded broadcasters have as yet failed to fulfill in even the most perfunctory way." One year after his first documentary, he investigates whether there were indeed any actual developments in the German Football Association and league following the "initial spark" and discussion in 2008. For this film, <mask> received the 2010 "Alternative Media Prize" and the Grimme Prize in the category Information & Culture/Special. Following the productions of "The Great Taboo – Homosexuality and Football" (2008) and "Breaking the Taboo – The New Progress of Homosexuality in Football" (2009), <mask> returned in March 2011 with the third part of his trilogy on the subject of "Homosexuality in Football" with a documentary for Sport 1 called "Football ls Everything - Even Gay" in which he asks just how difficult it really is to make long-term attitude changes about a taboo topic. The filmmaker monitored developments over 18 months to prepare this documentary.All three films were created in cooperation with the "German Academy for Football Culture". Tom Meets Zizou (2011)

<mask> <mask> spent eight years working on this long-term documentary about former professional Bundesliga athlete Thomas Broich. The film traces Broich's career in the Bundesliga, which began auspiciously but ended following numerous athletic and personal setbacks and disappointments with a transfer to Australian club Brisbane Roar in 2010. The result of some 40 meetings and interviews over eight years, the 135-minute cinema documentary entitled "Tom meets Zizou – Not a Midsummer Night's Dream" debuted as the opening film of the 8th International Football Film Festival 11mm in Berlin on 25 March 2011. The state-run rating authority German Film and Media Evaluation (Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung, formerly FiImbewertungssteIIe Wiesbaden rated the film as "especially worthwhile". lt was distributed nationwide by mindjazz pictures with an opening date of 28 July 2011. The project enjoyed the support of the DFB Cultural Foundation.The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in late 2011 and was screened at international festivals including the International Young Audience Film Festival  in Posen, the Thinking Football Film Festival  in Bilbao, The ClNEfoot Festival in Rio de Janeiro and the Flutlicht Film Festival in Basel (on 1 February 2014 in a double feature with "TRAINER!" on the topic of Failure). "Tom meets Zizou" has been translated into English, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. German broadcaster WDR showed a 90-minute TV version on 21 August 2012, and the film was awarded the 2012 VDS Television Prize. ln addition, it was nominated by the 11mm Football Film Festival for the award "Best Football Film of All Time". Mesut, 17 (2013)
The short film "Mesut, 17" was premiered at the 11mm Film Festival in Berlin in March, 2013. The nine-and-a-half-minute film about Mesut Özil, who was 17 at the time, was made from footage (some of it never before used) recorded for a broadcast report about a youth soccer tournament that Pause produced in early 2006. ln addition to Özil himself, who gave his first-ever TV interview, the film also features a statement by Joachim Löw, who at the time was assistant to Jürgen Klinsmann.Originally intended solely for use at the 10th anniversary of the 11mm Football Film Festival, the film made such a good impression on Mesut Özil that he posted it to his Facebook page which now boasts more than 20 million fans. Due to the subsequent widespread reporting in the media and the more than one million hits it received on YouTube alone, the film became an Internet phenomenon that was reported on in the main evening news on RTL. Trainer! (2013)
Released in early June 2013, "Trainer!" is <mask>'s second full-length documentary film, for which the filmmaker observed three young professional coaches (Frank Schmidt, André Schubert, Stephan Schmidt) over the course of a football season. The film also takes a look behind the scenes at the football teachers' training program of the German Football Association (DFB) led by Frank Wormuth. Established coaches like Jürgen Klopp, Hans Meyer, Armin Veh, Mirko Slomka, Peter Neururer, Thomas Schaaf and Michael Oenning also provide extensive insights.Altogether, <mask> spent six months researching and one year filming and editing. The film is a Pausefilm production commissioned by WDR (editor WDR: Steffen Simon). The television premiere of the 90-minute cut was broadcast on WDR on 3 June 2013, and the theater premiere of the 138-minute "director's cut" premiered on 11 June at the Babylon cinema in Berlin-Mitte. The film then toured Germany with the support of the DFB Cultural Foundation and distributor mindjazz pictures, garnering enthusiastic praise from the press. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 28, 2013. ln early 2014 <mask> received the VDS Television Prize, having already-been nominated for the 2014 Adolf Grimme Prize. "Trainer!" will be featured at the 2014 Flutlicht Film Festival in Basel and at the Joga Bonito!Festival in Vienna. 2018: Being Mario Götze
 2018: Inside Borussia Dortmund

Awards
 2008: Felix Rexhausen Prize for The great taboo
 2010: Adolf Grimme Prize for Tabubruch – Breaking the taboo
 2010: Alternative Media Prize for Tabubruch – Breaking the taboo
 2011: Rated "especially worthwhile" for Tom meets Zizou
 2012: VDS Television Prize for Tom meets Zizou
 2013: Best Football Film of all time: Nomination for Tom meets Zizou
 2013: VDS Television Prize for Trainer! 2014: Adolf Grimme Prize: Nomination for Trainer! 2018: Rated "worthwhile" for Being Mario Götze
 2019: AIPS – International Sport Media Award: Nomination for Being Mario Götze
2019: Best German Sport Film (Being Mario Götze)

Other Engagements
 Member of the Deutsche Filmakademie. Member of the German Academy for Football Culture. Cooperation with DFB - Committees fighting discrimination and racism in soccer. Co-author of the DFB brochure about Football and Homosexuality.Co-author of the book My First Trip to the Stadium. References

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 Website pausefilm
 Website Tom meets Zizou
 Website Trainer! Living people
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title: Gerald Guterman

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<mask> is an international real estate developer and investor. He is one of the largest multi-family apartment owner/operators (78,000+- apartments) and condominium converters in the United States, converting through 2017, 16,028 rental apartments to cooperative and condominium ownership throughout the United States. He also served as Operations Adviser to the Minister of Privatization, Government of Romania; Chairman, Committee on Romanian Banking & Finance Operations, United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC;
Co-Chairman, Committee for Romanian Enterprise Development and Operations, United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Operations Advisor to the Interior Minister, Government of Austria; Operations and Financial Advisor to the President, Government of Romania. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Guterman Partners, LLC. <mask> was born on June 13, 1942. He began a career in real estate at the age of 18 as a night porter for Fred Trump, father of famed developer  Donald Trump. The Brooklyn-born son of a beverage wholesaler, Guterman amassed a fortune with over 18,600 rental apartments purchased for his own account as well as an additional 16,028 apartments which he purchased and  converted to condominium and co-ops in sixteen states and separately, operated more than 60,000 rental apartments in fourteen states for unaffiliated, third-party owners.Guterman also purchased, rehabilitated and resold 605 single family houses in 7 states and purchased and operated more than 3,250,000 net rentable square feet of office properties in eight states, as well as large-scale housing and commercial developments throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Beginning in the 1980s, he became one of the largest owner/operators and property managers in the United States, owning and operating over 18,600 rental apartments in 55 residential communities for his own long term interests, together with an additional 16,000 apartments which he purchased and operated for condominium and cooperative conversion in 21 residential communities in sixteen states. He also operated more than 60,000 apartments in over 250 third party owned rental communities nationwide. Guterman's companies were also the original builder/developer of Roosevelt Island's residential housing as well as the developer of Harris Branch, the 1808 acre planned unit development in Austin, Texas and several developments in Europe and the Middle East. Additionally and in order to enhance is firm's construction capabilities, Guterman acquired two nationwide construction companies known as the Titan Group, Ltd and Sovereign Construction Co. Ltd. Historical projects include:

 New York's Roosevelt Island Development and Housing, New York, New York. United States Gold Depository, Fort Knox, Kentucky,
 United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
 Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Cleveland, Ohio,

Beginning in the 1990s through 2016, Guterman planned, organized and directly negotiated the acquisition of the largest single, direct purchase of office properties (Patriot American Investors) in the history of The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, hereafter known as Mack-Cali Real Estate Investment Trust as well as thirty-one multiple tenant office buildings containing more than 3,250,000 net rentable square feet of office space located in Eight States

Additionally, during the same period in the 1990s, Guterman also directly negotiated and completed the purchase of the original hotel properties together known as the “Patriot American Hospitality Portfolio” from The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”).Thereafter known as Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. Through 2016, Guterman has also acquired 14 luxury hotels containing approximately 2,366 keys, located in New York, New Orleans, London, Europe and the Middle East, as well the purchasing the only magnetic monorail system in the United States. Guterman continues to develop condominium housing, with recent communities in Chicago, Illinois;  Fort Myers, Florida;   Fort Pierce, Florida;  Naples, Florida;  Ocean Springs, Mississippi;  Biloxi, Mississippi;  St. Paul, Minnesota and Phoenix, Arizona and Houston, Texas

A bar mitzvah aboard the QE2

In September 1986, Guterman drew media attention when he chartered the famed ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 along with a crew of over 1,000, for his 13-year-old son's bar mitzvah party. Although the QE2 had been chartered for cruises by corporations, the Guterman family party was a first of its kind, said a spokesman for the Cunard line. The guests were mostly relatives, friends and neighbors of Gutermans who lived in Bedford, N.Y., in Westchester County, or friends of the children from camp or school. In attendance were numerous politicians and real estate figures including New York City Council, President Andrew J. Stein, Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin. The ship set sail at 6 p.m. though helicopters continued to touch down on the sports deck to drop off late-comers, including Ivan F. Boesky, the stock and investment speculator.When asked about the cruise in a recent interview for his upcoming biography, Guterman remarks that he maintains mixed feelings about the event. "On the one hand, it was a fantastic and extraordinary celebration for my family. As a father, I was proud of my children and wanted to give them the things I never had growing up as a poor kid in Brooklyn. On the other hand, when you wind up on the front page Leisure Section of New York Times, you leave yourself open for backlash, especially in those rare times of financial struggle." The Guterman Collection

Beginning in the 1970s, Guterman acquired a collection of 17th-century, Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings. The collection was referred to by experts as one of the very best in America. The paintings were housed in a  gallery (created in the image of Manhattan's famous Frick Gallery) in a wing of Guterman's Bedford Estate.Artists in Guterman's collection included Rembrandt,  Renoir, Barent Fabritius, Solomon van Ruysdael, Frans Hals, Hendrick Avercamp, Jan Lievens, Govaert Flinck, and Jan van Goyen, to name a few. 1988 tax law reversal

In 1988, a new tax law eliminated the tax shelter aspect of the co-op conversion model, making them less desirable and resulting in heavy financial setbacks for Guterman and his Companies. Having already taken financial losses in the "Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987,  Guterman placed his Stanhope Hotel (purchased in 1985 for $19,600,000) into Chapter 11 and immediately sold the hotel to Tobishima (a property company from Japan) for over $76,000,000. Further setbacks were created by a divorce decree that forced Guterman to sell his renowned art collection, considered at the time to be the most valuable such selection of Old Master paintings ever auctioned in New York. While the sale of Guterman's paintings brought "the highest total ever for an Old Master sale in America" and set 11 artist's records for price, to some it was disappointing. Describing the buying as "very selective", John L. Marion, Sotheby's chairman, said: "On the one hand, it is the highest total ever for an Old Master sale in America and there were 11 artist's records set. On the other hand, you could observe the fact that there was little or no bidding from dealers.I think this means these were not the kind of pictures they buy for stock." Guterman's active support of some New York politicians, such as Ed Koch and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin also brought repeated scrutiny from the New York news media. A new law was passed in 1988 that limited private campaign contributions and drew scrutiny to both Donald Trump and <mask>. While their contributions were discussed at the hearings, the new law did not prohibit their practices that drew so much attention:

For example, the developer Donald Trump told the commission that in 1985 he spread tens of thousands of dollars in contributions to City Council President Andrew J. Stein among 18 subsidiary companies to skirt the state's limits of $50,000 for individual and $5,000 for corporate contributions. Another developer, <mask>, contributed $100,000 in one month to Mr. Goldin by parceling the gifts among 21 companies. The Patriot deal drew criticism from congress in a report that called the RTC model for disposing of savings and loan properties in bulk "wasteful" and "uncompetitive." Further, the report criticized the RTC for negotiating with Guterman while he was under investigation, though it was also noted that Guterman had been falsely accused and that all charges had been withdrawn or dismissed.Trusteeships and charitable participation
Guterman served as a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Adelphi University, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Young Men's Philanthropic League, Rippowam Cisqua School, and Harvey School. He also served as a commissioner of the United States Romania Action Commission under the sponsorship of the United States Center for Strategic and International Studies, as well as Chairman of its banking and financing committees. Guterman served as personal financial advisor to the Minister of Privatization, Government of Romania. Guterman is a founder of Albert Einstein College of Medicine as well as a member of the Society of Founders of Miami University College of Medicine  He was awarded "Humanitarian of the Year" by the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Guterman is a founding benefactor of Research Laboratory for the Study of Tumor Cell Biology and Research Laboratory for the Study of Immunodeficiency Disease at the National Asthma Center. He also established a joint Research Chair in Medical Engineering at Harvard University and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. References

Further reading
 Hirschman, Elizabeth C. 1990."Secular Immortality and the American Ideology of Affluence," The Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jun., 1990), pp. 31–42. External links
 Guterman Partners LLC
 New York Times Article: Managing Those Occupied Apartments
 New York Times Article:  A King's Fall: Tax Changes Reverse Rise Of Developer
 New York Times Article: Guterman's Troubles Jolt Client Co-ops

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Adelphi University people
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