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 "Abortion", "AIDS", "Homosexuality", and "Iran". His other sermons included "It's a Sin to Build a Nuclear Weapon", and during the Iran hostage crisis, "And Pray for the Iranians, Too".<mask> openly and vocally supported gay rights when many liberals still were uncomfortable with homosexuality. Some of the congregation's socially conservative members openly disagreed with his position on sexuality. Nuclear disarmament
<mask> started a strong nuclear disarmament program at Riverside, and hired Cora Weiss (a secular Jew he had worked with during the Vietnam War and had traveled with to North Vietnam in 1972 to accompany three released U.S. prisoners of war), an action which was uncomfortable for some parishioners. Broadening his reach to an international audience, he met with numerous world leaders and traveled abroad. His visits included going to Iran to perform Christmas services for hostages being held in the U.S. embassy during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and to Nicaragua to protest U.S. military intervention there. In 1987, he resigned from Riverside Church to pursue disarmament activism full-time, saying then that there was no issue more important for a man of faith. He became president of SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action), the largest peace and justice organization in the United States.He retired with the title president emeritus in the early 1990s, and then taught and lectured across the United States and overseas. <mask> also wrote several books. He cautioned that we are all living in "the shadow of Doomsday", and urged that people turn away from isolationism and become more globally aware. Shortly before his death, <mask> founded Faithful Security, a coalition for people of faith committed to working for a world free of nuclear weapons. Personal life
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 Randolph Wilson (called "Randy").Eva Rubinstein, his first wife and the mother of his children, was a daughter of pianist Arthur Rubinstein. The loss of their son Alexander in a car accident in 1983 inspired one of <mask>'s most requested sermons. His son is folk musician <mask>. He was given only six months to live in early 2004 due to a weakened heart. <mask> and his wife lived in the small town of Strafford, Vermont, a few houses away from his brother Ned, until his death nearly two years later at age 81. Military awards
American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal with "Germany" clasp

Books

By Coffin
 Letters to a Young Doubter, Westminster John Knox Press, July 2005,
 Credo, Westminster John Knox Press, December 2003,
 The Heart Is a Little to the Left: Essays on Public Morality, Dartmouth College, 1st edition, October 1999,
 The Courage to Love, sermons, Harper & Row, 1982,
 Once to Every Man: A Memoir, autobiography, Athenaeum Press, 1977,

About Coffin
 <mask> <mask>, Jr.: A Holy Impatience, by Warren Goldstein, Yale University Press, March 2004,
 The Trial of Dr. Spock, <mask> <mask>, Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin, by Jessica Mitford, New York, Knopf, 1969

In popular culture
The Doonesbury character Reverend Scot Sloan is named (in part) for <mask> <mask>. See also
 List of peace activists

References

Sources
 Once to Every Man: A Memoir (1977)
 <mask> <mask>, Jr.: A Holy Impatience (2004)
 Passion for the Possible: A Message to U.S.Churches

External links

 Interview from 1982 with <mask> <mask> on Vietnam and the Anti-War movement WGBH Educational Foundation
 A Politically Engaged Spirituality Video and transcript of <mask>'s April 2005 speech at Yale Divinity School
 Interview with <mask> <mask> from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, August 2004
 <mask> Coffin: A Lover's Quarrel With America Video

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 Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze, the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign)
 Faithful Security
 www.williamsloanecoffin.org This is the complete digital collection of <mask> <mask>'s sermons preached from the pulpit of New York City's Riverside Church 1977–1987. Speech "Who Is the Enemy?" delivered April 8, 1983 at a symposium in Kansas City. Memorials
Obituary from the New York Times
Obituary from the Los Angeles Times
Obituary from The Guardian
Obituary from the Associated Press
Remembrance from the United Church of Christ (article and video)
Remembrance from The Nation
Remembrance by <mask>. Buckley Jr. in the Yale Daily News
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Tribute of Yale Class of 1968 to its "Permanent Chaplain "
Obituary on Commondreams.org
Photo gallery of <mask> from The Washington Post

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Ritchie Boys
Union Theological Seminary (New York City) alumni
United Church of Christ ministers
United Church of Christ
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United States Army officers
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<mask> (born October 5, 1987) is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football at North Carolina. Early years and family
<mask> attended Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, North Carolina, where he played football as a wide receiver, kick returner, and defensive back and basketball as a guard. In basketball, he won a state title in his junior season. In his 2004 senior football season, <mask> had 66 receptions and 18 touchdowns, earning All-Conference honors. <mask>'s brother, Barry, was a four-year letterwinner for Lenoir-Rhyne University in football.College career
After high school, <mask> attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <mask> was one of seven true freshman to see game time. <mask> played in all eleven games as a kick returner. In the Tar Heels game against the Utah Utes, <mask> returned the opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. <mask> finished the season with 21 kick returns for 542 yards, and 29 punt returns for 267 yards. <mask> finished 22nd in the country in kick off returns. In his freshman season, <mask> finished second in the Atlantic Coast Conference in kick returns and third in punt returns.In his sophomore season, <mask> was one of only three players in the country to return two kickoffs for touchdowns. <mask> caught his first pass from Cameron Sexton, in the Tar Heels game against the Virginia Tech Hokies. The pass was for 13 yards, with the catch happening just before the end of the first half. In the Tar Heels' game against Notre Dame, <mask> returned a kick off 90 yards for a touchdown. <mask> faked a pitch to teammate

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 all-purpose yards; he also led his team with seven touchdowns. <mask> caught 25 passes for 479 yards, averaging 19.2 yards per catch. In addition to that, <mask> caught five touchdown passes. <mask> averaged 24.1 for kick off returns and 9.4 yards for punt

In <mask>'s senior year, the Tar Heels were pitted against the McNeese State for their opening game of the collegiate football season. <mask> dominated the game. In the first quarter of the game, <mask> returned a punt 82 yards for a touchdown. Shortly after the start of the second quarter, <mask> rushed 54 yards, being tackled just three yards shy of the end zone.In the third quarter of the game, <mask> caught a 57-yard pass from T. J. Yates and ran for a touchdown. <mask> ended up rushing for 106 yards, becoming the first North Carolina wide receiver to have a hundred-yard rushing game. <mask> set a school record for most all-purpose yards in a game with 397 yards on just eleven touches. <mask> also set the school record for highest punt return average in a game, with 47.3 yards per return (3 returns for 142 yards). In the Tar Heels' game against Miami, <mask> set the NCAA record for most combined kick off and punt return yards in a career. He would finish the season with 3,523 total career return yards to his name. Before the Tar Heels' game against Notre Dame, <mask> needed only 165 yards to become the eleventh player in NCAA history to reach 1,000 kick off return yards and 1,000 punt return yards.<mask> returned a single punt for 9 yards, before leaving the game with a knee injury. <mask> ended up tearing his ACL and MCL in his knee and missed the final seven games of the season. <mask> also the ACC's all-time leader in

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New England Patriots

2009 season
<mask> was drafted by the Patriots in the third round (83rd overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft. On July 16, he was signed to a four-year contract with a $755,000 signing bonus. He began the 2009 season on the non-football injury list, still recovering from his knee injury from the prior season. He was activated on October 24, in Week 7.He played that week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a reserve, recording one rush (an end-around) for 11 yards. Two weeks later, following the team's bye week, <mask> started against the Miami Dolphins but did not have any catches in the game. <mask> suffered another knee injury in the game and was placed on injured reserve on November 14, ending his season. He finished the season with 106 kickoff return yards. 2010 season
On September 12, 2010, in the Patriots' season-opening game against the Cincinnati Bengals, <mask> ran the opening second-half kickoff back 97 yards for a touchdown. On October 4, 2010, <mask> repeated the feat against the Miami Dolphins, this time returning the ball 103 yards. <mask> scored his first career receiving touchdown on a 65-yard catch against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 8.<mask> played in 16 games, of which he started 10. He caught 24 passes for 432 yards and three touchdowns, and had 41 kick returns for 1,057 yards (25.8 yard average) and two touchdowns. On September 3, 2011, the New England Patriots released <mask>. Cincinnati Bengals
On September 4, 2011, the Cincinnati Bengals claimed <mask> off waivers. On October 30, 2011, <mask> returned a punt for a 56-yard touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks, his

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 first touchdown with the Bengals. On March 11, 2014 <mask> re-signed with the Bengals. <mask> was re-signed by the Bengals on April 1, 2015, on a one-year contract.He recorded his first reception as a Bengal in a Week 1 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, he subsequently recorded his first receiving touchdown as a Bengal on a 44-yard reception from Andy Dalton in a Week Two 34–27 victory against the Cleveland Browns. The Bengals re-signed <mask> to another one-year contract on March 4, 2016. During the season, <mask> surpassed Mike Martin to become the Bengals all-time punt return yard leader. <mask> was released by the Bengals on August 30, 2016, having been beaten out for the primary return man role by undrafted rookie Alex Erickson. He left the team as the all-time leader in combined kick and punt return yards with 4,928 yards. Buffalo Bills
<mask> signed with the Buffalo Bills on September 6, 2016. On March 20, 2017, <mask> re-signed with the Bills.New Orleans Saints
On July 31, 2018, <mask> signed with the New Orleans Saints. He was released on September 1, 2018, as part of final roster cuts. He was re-signed on September 26, 2018, but was released six days later. References

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 Cincinnati Bengals bio
 North Carolina Tar Heels bio

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<mask> (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech politician and diplomat as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in space. As the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, and with the entry of the Czech Republic and Slovakia into the European Union, <mask> is considered to be the first astronaut from the European Union. He remains the only Czech to have travelled into space. <mask> was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2013 for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia. From 2014 to 2018 he was the Czech Ambassador to Russia. Early life and military career
Remek was born on 26 September 1948 in the city of České Budějovice.He spent two years studying at the observatory in Kraví hora, Brno between 1962 and 1964. <mask> was influenced by his father, Jozef <mask>, himself a military pilot. <mask> was an active member both in the Pioneers and the Czechoslovak Union of Youth. He studied mathematics and physics at middle school in Čáslav where he earned awards in track running the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1,500-meter events. <mask> graduated in 1966 and proceeded to Vyšší Letecké Učiliště, an aviation school in Košice, where he trained in an Aero L-29 Delfín. <mask> graduated in 1970 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Czechoslovak Air Force. <mask> served as a fighter pilot, flying MiG-21s in the 1st Fighter Air Regiment.In the 1970s <mask> married his first wife, Czech actress Hana Davidová, the daughter of politician Václav David. They had a daughter together, Anna, in 1980. He had a second daughter, Jana, three years after the first, with his second wife, also called Jana. From 1972 to 1976, <mask> studied at the

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 Gagarin Air Force Academy. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia in 1976, he was promoted to captain and appointed deputy commander of his fighter regiment, after which <mask> went back to Russia to train for the Soviet-led space program. Following his return from space in March 1978, <mask> spent time in the Czechoslovak People's Army (ČSLA) staff as the deputy director of the Flight Research Institute in Prague. In 1986, <mask> became the deputy commander of a flight division based in Čáslav.In 1988 he graduated from Voroshilov-Staff Academy of Soviet Air Force and was appointed to his highest command, as deputy of the 2nd Air Defense Division stationed in Moravia. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, <mask> was relegated to a role as Director of the Museum for Aviation and Astronautics in Prague. Following his retirement from the air force in 1995, <mask> represented Czech firm CZ Strakonice and joint venture CZ–Turbo-GAZ in Moscow. Intercosmos program

<mask> (then a Captain) joined the Interkosmos program in 1976; his backup was Oldřich Pelčák, the other Czechoslovak cosmonaut selected to participate with the program. During the flight, Remek experimented with the Kristall furnace on board the capsule. The mission, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Soviet-backed 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, and including <mask>, the son of a Czech mother and Slovak father, had propaganda value in stressing Czechoslovak-Soviet cooperation. <mask> himself has not denied this although he retains pride in his voyage regardless of the circumstances.On the Soyuz 28 mission that launched 2 March 1978, he became the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, and with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union, <mask> is considered

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 to be the first astronaut from the European Union. After <mask>'s flight, he was celebrated in his home country with a series of receptions at factories and other civil workplaces. He was also recognized at a ceremony at Prague Castle as a guest of Gustáv Husák, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. On 16 March, <mask> and Aleksei Gubarev, the other member of the crew, were awarded the medal Hero of the Soviet Union. Czechoslovak reaction to <mask>'s flight included comments about the media's inundation focused on Remek and the fact that he was only able to journey with a Soviet cosmonaut as if Remek needed a minder. One joke went: "Why didn't the Soviets send up two Czechoslovak cosmonauts? Because they would've landed in West Germany."<mask> himself joked that his Soviet counterpart would slap <mask>'s hands off of controls if he touched anything without permission. French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien experienced this same behavior onboard Soyuz TM-7 in 1988. Political career
Due in part to his previous business contacts in Russia, <mask> was appointed to the Czech Embassy in Moscow as a Trade and Economic Counselor. During the 2004 European Parliament election, <mask> was a candidate for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and, being second on the list behind Miloslav Ransdorf, was elected into the European Parliament. During his first term (20 July 2004 to 13 July 2009), <mask> was a member of the Confederal Group of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament. He was a vocal proponent of the EU's Galileo satellite constellation, warning that bureaucratic delay could cede opportunity to the BeiDou, a Chinese competitor. He was reelected in 2009.When Petr Kolář resigned as the Czech Ambassador to Russia in

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Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos discovered an asteroid in September 1978 and named it 2552 Remek after the cosmonaut. Remek is featured in a 2009 independent comedy film called Osadne about three residents from Osadné that seek out Remek at his office in Brussels to help tourism in their town. Sculptor Jan Bartoš created a statue of Remek and Gubarev, which is located at Háje metro station, formerly known as Kosmonautů (meaning [station of] the astronauts) until 1990, in Prague. Another statue of Remek is located in Košice, Slovakia.Bibliography

See also
 Astronaut-politician
 Ivan Bella, the first Slovak in space (1999)

Citations

References

External links

 Biography of <mask> <mask> at the European Parliament
 Short biography (in Czech)
 Spacefacts biography of <mask> <mask>

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<mask> (January 2, 1948 – January 14, 1992) was a broadcast journalist and sports commentator in Washington, D.C., in the United States from 1977 to 1991. He was best known as the sports anchor for WUSA-TV from 1977 until 1991. At the time of his death in 1992 from a brain tumor, he was not only the most highly paid broadcast journalist in Washington but also the most popular broadcaster in the D.C. metropolitan area. Life and career

Early life
<mask> was born on January 2, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Bill and <mask>. At the age of four, he wanted to be a major league baseball player. Brenner attended Abraham Lincoln High School. By the time he was in his senior year, however, basketball seemed to be in Brenner's future, as he was already  tall.He led his high school basketball team to 26 straight victories. In his senior year in 1965, Lincoln High School lost the city championship game to Bishop Neumann High School, 75 to 66. Baseball remained Brenner's dream, however. Even though he only had one good pitch (a fastball), the New York Mets signed him to a minor league contract after he graduated from high school. He played for the Marion Mets in the Appalachian League, and eventually was brought up to play Class AA baseball. But in 1969, Brenner hurt his arm while playing in the Florida Instructional League, and the Mets sold him to the Philadelphia Phillies. He played Class AAA baseball in the Mexican League, but continuing problems with his throwing arm forced him to quit baseball in 1972.Brenner knew early that he was not going to have much of a career in professional baseball. While still playing with the Mets, coach Birdie Tebbetts watched him pitch a terrible game. When Tebbetts came out to the mound, Brenner asked him what was wrong. Tebbetts replied, "Horse-spit pitcher"—and Brenner knew his time in the big leagues was finished. While playing minor league baseball, Brenner

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 attended Temple University and then Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He graduated from Saint Joseph's with a bachelor's degree in political science and Communication studies. Early broadcasting career
Brenner sold cars for a few months before turning to sports broadcasting after leaving the Phillies.His first job was with radio station WMVB in Millville, New Jersey. He read an advertisement for the position, and applied. He later said, "I lied so bad to get that first job. I told the boss I was an announcer from Philadelphia, and he took that to mean I was a Philadelphia announcer. I had never even been inside a radio station." Brenner was paid $79 a week, and commuted from Philadelphia to Millville very day. The lasted only a short period of time, and Brenner moved to New Haven, Connecticut, to seek work.After living there only a short time, he returned to Philadelphia and joined radio station WFIL, where he worked for two years as a news reporter and in promotions. Brenner turned to sportscasting in 1975, and took a position at WOWK-TV in Huntington, West Virginia. Brenner's big break came in 1976, when he joined KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Brenner developed his on-air personality during his stint at KYW, becoming well known for his humor and irreverence. He often called the scoreboard the "boreboard", and made jokes about himself, sports teams, and athletes on the air (much to management's discomfort). In one well-known incident, KYW introduced a flashy, high-technology set that resembled the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. When the news anchor turned to Brenner to ask for the sports report, Brenner stood and announced, "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty!"The angry news director resolved to fire Brenner as soon as a replacement could be found. Career at WUSA
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texts: Washington, D.C. He mentioned Brenner's on-air stunt, and told Snyder that Brenner would be let go in a short time. Intrigued with Brenner's on-air personality, Snyder reviewed tapes of Brenner's work and liked what he saw. WTOP-TV was seeking a new sports anchor to replace local sports broadcaster Warner Wolf, who had left the WTOP-TV for a job with ABC Sports. The station had hired Mike Wolfe as the weeknight sportscaster, while weekend duties were held by Klaus Wagner. But Wagner wasn't working out, and WTOP-TV declined to renew his one-year contract.<mask> made his D.C. debut on March 4, 1977. Wolfe was fired on March 22, and <mask> appointed his replacement. Wolfe adopted a very macho and aggressive style on the air, including an unbuttoned dress shirt and a "take it or shove it" attitude towards fans and athletes that grated on many viewers. When evening news ratings began to decline, the station dismissed Wolfe with nine months left in his contract. <mask> was named the weeknight sportscaster. Brenner's on-air style was to mix humor with sports. He told The Washington Post, "I'm talking to a group of people who are not that interested in what I have to say.They've proven that statistically. So what I want to do is keep their interest. And the way I can best do that is to relate to them." One of his signature bits included the "Weenie of the Week", in which he poked fun at bombastic professional athletes or unsportsmanlike behavior. When egotistical athletes did things which embarrassed others, Brenner often took them to task during the "Weenie of the Week" segment. In November 1987, Washington Redskins football players Clarence Verdin and Ricky Sanders performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Madison Square Garden (forgetting the words and singing off-key) on Veterans Day; Brenner mixed footage of their performance with footage of actress Pia Zadora similarly mangling the national

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 some embarrassing question. Later at WTOP-TV, Brenner invented "Encore Wednesday". Since sports news was slow during mid-week, Brenner decided to highlight great sports moments each Wednesday night as a means of filling time and giving sports fans knowledge about their sport's great moments.Brenner also moved beyond nightly news. In the early 1980s, Brenner teamed with former Redskins quarterback Sonny Jurgensen to host the popular Redskins Sidelines Sunday afternoon sports show, which focused on the Redskins football team. Brenner became one of the city's most popular broadcasters. His fans included President Ronald Reagan (himself a former sportscaster), Reagan's successor as president, George H. W. Bush, his wife Barbara, and CBS News anchor Dan Rather. In 1981, Brenner signed a contract with what was by then WDVM-TV (which WTOP-TV had changed its call letters to on June 26, 1978) that paid him $750,000 a year, paid his children's college tuition, and included a $1 million life insurance policy. The long-term contract was believed by The Washington Post to be a record for both the high level of pay and benefits as well as the long number of years it covered. On July 4, 1986, WDVM-TV changed its call letters to WUSA.Brenner signed a five-year contract with WUSA in 1991 which paid him almost $1 million a year. The contract included a deferred salary, and paid his children's college tuition. Brenner was nominated for and won numerous Associated Press and United Press International local broadcasting awards. The National Association of Sportswriters and Sportscasters named him "Washington Sportscaster of the Year" in 1989 and 1990. Death
On November 3, 1991, Brenner participated in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. He fell ill after crossing the finish line, and his physicians diagnosed a "vascular event". Two blood vessels in his head had ruptured and he had numbness on his left


texts: side, slight slurring of speech, and double vision.His doctors at George Washington University Hospital ruled out a stroke, however. Brenner began physical therapy. But on November 17, 1991, The Washington Post reported that Brenner's doctor, Arthur I. Kobrine, confirmed the broadcaster had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He underwent an MR angiogram and a radiographical angiogram, but neither showed anything abnormal. Brenner's physical condition initially improved. He was released from the hospital after Thanskgiving. He began to regain use of his left arm, he was walking again, and the double vision had largely gone away.Although he was expected to return to the air in early January, Brenner began suffering from vomiting and dizziness. WUSA said he would not return to the air for another four to six weeks. On Friday, January 10, 1992, Brenner's physical condition declined rapidly and he was taken to George Washington University Hospital. An MRI later that day revealed a large mass in the brainstem. At 9:30 a.m. on January 11, surgeons operated on Brenner for four hours and discovered an inoperable malignant brain tumor. Bleeding in the brain had masked the tumor in previous exams. His prognosis was "poor," and he was listed in critical condition.On Sunday, January 12, the Washington Redskins dedicated their NFC Championship game to Brenner. The Redskins handily defeated the Detroit Lions, 41-to-10, and went on to win Super Bowl XXVI two weeks later. Redskins coach Joe Gibbs brought the Championship game ball to Brenner in the hospital. <mask> died at 7:58 a.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 1992 (just 12 days after his 44th birthday) at George Washington University Hospital. WUSA aired a half-hour special that night covering his career. Many citizens in the D.C. area were in shock for several days. President George H. W. Bush issued a statement upon Brenner's death, which said, "Barbara and I are


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 greatly saddened by the untimely death of <mask>, a man whose wit and ability has endeared him to so many Washingtonians.The suddenness of his death, and the warmth of his personality, leave all of us with a painful emptiness." Former President Ronald Reagan also issued a statement, in which he said, "Today the entire Washington community mourns the loss of <mask>, a dear friend to all of us who knew him. He truly was a broadcasting great, bringing sports to life with his talent and dedication. <mask> set a wonderful example by his constant involvement in local causes and displayed a real concern for his community." Brenner's funeral was held at National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. on January 17, 1992. More than 1,500 mourners attended. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of the city.Legacy
In a 2010 retrospective, former WTTG and WUSA sportscaster Brett Haber noted that Brenner was well known outside the mid-Atlantic region. Brenner also continued to be the standard to which all regional sports broadcasters aspired, even 18 years after his death. The Washington City Paper said that sportscaster George Michael might have been better-known nationwide due to his George Michael's Sports Machine, but that Michael remained the Salieri to Brenner's Mozart. The newspaper's Dave McKenna noted, "I worshipped Brenner. Everybody I knew around here when Brenner was on the air worshipped the guy." The Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences named its <mask>ner Award for Excellence in Sportscasting after him. References
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<mask> (February 18, 1919October 1, 1994), also known as <mask>, Mo, <mask>, <mask>, Dad, or Grandpa to followers, was the founder and leader of the new religious movement currently known as The Family International. <mask>'s group, founded in 1968 among the counterculture youth in Southern California, gained notoriety for incorporating sexuality into its spiritual message and recruitment methods. <mask> and his organization have subsequently been accused of a broad range of sexual misconduct, including child sexual abuse. Life

Family heritage
<mask> often said that his rich heritage played a key role in shaping his character and religious convictions. Many of his forefathers, as well as both of his parents, were deeply committed Christians. Some of them were members of the Dunkards, a conservative offshoot of the Church of the Brethren. State persecution of the sect drove the Brandt family from Germany to America, where they settled in Pennsylvania and Ohio around 1750.His maternal grandfather was Rev. John Lincoln Brandt (1860–1946), a Disciples of Christ minister, author, and lecturer of Muskogee, Oklahoma. John Lincoln Brandt, <mask>'s grandfather, had a dramatic conversion in his mid-twenties and immediately entered full-time Christian service. For years he was a Methodist circuit rider. He later became a leader of the Alexander Campbell movement of the Disciples of Christ, a restoration movement that developed into the current Protestant denomination Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Early years (1919–1969)
<mask> was born on February 18, 1919 in Oakland, California. He was the youngest of three children of Hjalmer <mask> and Rev.Virginia Lee Brandt, both parents were Christian evangelists. His

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texts: father was Swedish. <mask>'s mother Virginia Brandt <mask>, is the individual whom he credited for influencing him the most. Although raised in a Christian home, Virginia became an atheist and wild society girl during her college years. However, shortly after the birth of her first child, she broke her back in an accident and spent the next five years disabled and bedridden, often hovering near death. Eventually she recovered and spent the rest of her life with her husband, Hjalmer, in active Christian service as a pastor and evangelist. Virginia and Hjalmer were no strangers to controversy.They were expelled from the Disciples of Christ after publicly testifying of her "divine healing", which was contrary to church doctrine. They subsequently joined a new denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, shortly before <mask>'s birth. In later years, their missionary zeal and disdain for denominational politicking often set them at variance with the conservative faction of that church's hierarchy, causing them to work largely as independent pastors and evangelists. <mask> wrote that he was physically abused by a German nurse and sexually abused by a Mexican babysitter when he was age three. <mask> spent his early years traveling with his parents, who pursued their evangelical mission with a passion. In 1924, they settled in Miami, Florida, after Virginia successfully led a series of large revivals at the Miami Gospel Tabernacle. This became <mask>'s home for the next 14 years, while his mother and father were pastors at a number of Miami churches.As is the case with many pastors and their dependents, the <mask> family depended entirely on the generosity of their parishioners for their support, and often had

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 difficulty making ends meet. This instilled in <mask> a lifelong habit of frugality, which he encouraged his followers to adopt. In the late 1930s, <mask> returned to her favorite ministry, that of a traveling evangelist. <mask> accompanied her, and for most of the next 10 years acted as her chauffeur, song leader, and general assistant. <mask> graduated from Monterey High School in 1935 and later attended Elliott School of Business Administration. Like his father, <mask> became a minister in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and was placed at Valley Farms, Arizona. <mask> was eventually expelled from the organization for differences in teachings and for alleged sexual misconduct with a church employee.In <mask>'s writings he claimed the expulsion was due to his support for greater racial diversity among his congregation. Fred Jordan, <mask>'s friend and boss, allowed <mask> and his personal family to open and run a branch of his Soul Clinic in Miami, Florida as a missionary training school. After running into trouble with local authorities for his aggressive disapproval with evolution being taught as fact in public schools, <mask> moved his family to Fred Jordan's Texas Soul Clinic, in Western Texas. The Children of God/The Family (1968–1994)
<mask>, along with his wife and children, founded the organization known as the Teens for Christ in Huntington Beach, California in 1968. While in California, after receiving strong resistance from local churches due to his followers picketing them, he took the whole group of about 40 people "on the road." It was while they were camped in Louis and Clark Park that a news reporter first called them "The Children of God." In January of 1970, <mask> went to his former

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texts: employer, Fred Jordan, to beg for the use of his training camp near Thurber, Texas, about 100 miles west of Dallas.The group grew and began to spread as news stations reported the activity and many came to the camp to see the spectacle. In the mid-70's, <mask> began preparing his followers for a "revelation" he had about "Flirty Fishing" or winning important, influential men through prostitution. In 1975, after letting everyone know via one of his letters that his mistress, Maria, gave birth to a Jesus baby, <mask> changed the name to "The Family of Love" or "The Family." Eventually, this was changed to "The Family International." <mask> called on his followers to devote their full-time to spreading the message of Jesus' love and salvation as far and wide as possible, unfettered by convention or tradition, and to teach others to do the same. In the early 1970s, he sent out a letter saying all members should tithe. His reasoning was that all pastors receive tithes from their church and since he was providing them with his "Wonder Working Words," that group members were obligated to read, that they should tithe to his office.<mask> decried what he described as the deadness of America's churches and decay of moral values in Western society. He viewed the trend towards a New World Order as setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist. <mask> lived in seclusion, communicating with his followers and the public via nearly 3,000 "Mo Letters" ("Mo" from his pseudonym "<mask>") that he wrote on a wide variety of subjects. These typically covered spiritual or practical subjects and were used as a way of disseminating and introducing policy and religious doctrine to his followers. <mask>'s letters admonished the reader

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 to "love the sinner but hate the sin." His writings were often extreme and uncompromising in their denunciation of what he believed to be evil, such as mainstream churches, pedophilia laws, capitalism, and Jews. A core message to The Family's doctrine of sexual sharing was expressed in a 1980 Mo Letter - "The Devil Hates Sex!- But God Loves It!". This attitude was supported and made easier to digest by the counterculture and sexual liberation of the time, but was defined in The Family by <mask>'s pedophilia. He espoused doctrines that mainstream Christians denounce as heretical, including encouraging adultery as being what he called "revolutionary." Death and legacy
<mask> had been in hiding since 1971 and died in November 1994 in Portugal. He was buried in Costa de Caparica and his remains have since been cremated. After his death in 1994, his wife Karen Zerby (aka <mask>) led The Family, and there were 6,000 adults and 3,000 children as members of The Family worldwide, in 50 countries. There were investigations of The Family for child abuse, and prostitution in Argentina, France, Spain, Australia, Venezuela, and Peru.Controversy
<mask> has been accused of leading a cult which promoted assaults on children and sexual abuse of women and children for decades. Former members have told their stories in widely disseminated media reports, though official inquiries at the time found no evidence of child abuse. <mask> was also personally accused of pedophilia. He recalled in his letters how he was taught to masturbate in church by another boy his age. When his mother caught him, he was forced to masturbate in front of his father. Oftentimes <mask> would explicitly describe his sexual preferences and recalled that one

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texts: thing he regretted was that he never slept with his mother. In a child custody case in the United Kingdom <mask>'s granddaughter, <mask>, testified that <mask> sexually molested her when she was a young teenager.Another of <mask>'s granddaughters, Joyanne Treadwell <mask>, spoke on American television about being sexually abused by <mask>. <mask>'s adopted son, Ricky Rodriguez, wrote an article on the web site MovingOn.org in which he describes <mask>'s sexual activity involving a number of women and children. <mask> Kelley, the daughter of Rodriguez's nanny, Sarah Kelley, accused <mask> of molesting her in a June 2005 Rolling Stone article. In the same article, a woman identified as Armendria alleged that <mask> sexually abused her when she was 13 years old. <mask>'s pedophillic actions extended beyond his personal victims, affecting many children in The Family as child sexual abuse became organised with child sexual abuse material (child pornography) created in alignment with <mask>'s instructions. <mask>'s institutionalisation of pedophilia and sexual abuse was also described in Not Without My Sister, an autobiographical recount of the sexual abuse of three sisters who eventually escaped The Family. The book describes videos being taken of very young children engaging in sexually explicit activities for <mask>'s consumption, even as a method for his choosing of child brides.Serena Kelley was one of <mask>'s child brides and was presented by her mother at age 3 to be selected. His distant Jewish ancestry notwithstanding—in 1745, one of his mother's forebears, Jewish by birth but a Christian convert, moved to the American colonies and lived as a Mennonite—<mask> was outspokenly anti-Semitic, believing that the

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 Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, as well as all persecution of Christians in the world. In support of his views of an international Jewish conspiracy, he cited the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but disclaimed the label "anti-Semitic". <mask> predicted several apocalyptic events that did not occur. His best-known prediction was that the comet Kohoutek (1974) would wreak havoc and possible destruction. This prediction was shared by others outside The Family, such as Joseph F. Goodavage in the January 1974 issue of SAGA magazine. He also predicted that California would imminently fall into the ocean, the Great Tribulation would begin in 1989, and the Second Coming of Jesus would happen in 1993.<mask> lived in seclusion and apart from the main body of his followers. Due to his obsession with secrecy, until his death, any photos of him appearing in the group's publications had his face covered with pencil drawings, often depicting him as an anthropomorphic lion. Personal family
<mask> married his first wife, Jane Miller (known as "Mother Eve" in the Children of God), on July 22, 1944 in Glendale, California. They had four children together: Linda (known as "Deborah" in the Children of God); Paul, d. April 1973 (known as "Aaron" in the Children of God); Jonathan Emanuel (known as "Hosea" in the Children of God); and Faith. <mask> married his second wife Karen Zerby, who also went by the name <mask>. <mask> informally adopted Ricky Rodriguez, the son of his second wife (and present leader of The Family) Karen Zerby. In the 1970s and 1980s, sexually suggestive photographic depictions of Rodriguez (aka "<mask>") with adult caretakers were disseminated throughout the group by <mask> and Zerby in a

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 childrearing handbook known as The Story of Davidito.In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez murdered one of the female caretakers shown in the handbook before taking his own life several hours later. Sociological views
The sociologist Thomas Robbins argued that <mask>'s leadership of the Children of God was based on charismatic authority. Media featuring <mask>
 Children of God, Documentary, Directed by John Smithson, 1994
Cult Killer, documentary on Ricky Rodriguez and child abuse within The Family International
A&E's Cults and Extreme Belief, episode 3 (2018) is about <mask>, the Children of God, its victims, and the survivors. References

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Gisele Marie "<mask>" <mask>  (born March 7, 1987) is an American ice hockey player for the Boston Pride of the National Women's Hockey League. As a member of the United States national women's ice hockey team, <mask> won a silver medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the 2014 Winter Olympics, and a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Her grandfather is <mask>, the coach of the 1958 United States Men's National Ice Hockey Team and the manager of the 1965 United States Men's National Ice Hockey Team, is a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. She hails from Warroad, Minnesota, in Roseau County, the same small northern Minnesota town as 1960 gold medalists Bill and Roger Christian and 1980 gold medalist Dave Christian and 2018 Stanley Cup champion T. J. Oshie. Playing career

High school
<mask> attended Warroad High School and was named the 2005 recipient of the Let's Play Hockey Ms. Hockey Award. During her freshman, junior, and senior seasons, she was an All-state honoree. As a senior, she helped the Warroad Warriors to an 18–5–1 record.Statistically, her greatest year was as a senior, when she accumulated 112 points, including 55 goals. She finished her high school career ranking fifth in Minnesota state career scoring (196 goals and 229 assists for 425 points). She earned four letters in hockey, and five letters in both cross-country and softball. Minnesota Golden Gophers
While playing for the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program, <mask> was twice in the top 10 for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award (2008 and

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texts: 2009). She finished her Minnesota career sixth on the school's all-time scoring list with 195 points (87 goals and 108 assists). As a freshman, she appeared in 41 games and scored 16 goals and 30 assists for 46 points. She tied for fourth in the WCHA in overall scoring and second in assists.She had seven power-play goals, three game-winning goals, and one short-handed goal. In addition, she was named the WCHA Rookie of the Week five times. On October 7, 2005, she earned her first career goal on her first career shot in a 3–0 win over Connecticut. In the 2006 WCHA playoffs, <mask> made several contributions. She notched three goals and two assists in the WCHA first round against Minnesota State. On March 11, <mask> set up Jenelle Philipczyk for the game-winning goal in the 2–1 win over Minnesota Duluth. She would assist on Allie Sanchez' power-play goal in the WCHA Championship game against Wisconsin.For her efforts, she was named to the WCHA All-Tournament Team. She led WCHA Rookies in scoring and was named WCHA Rookie of the Year. For her efforts, she was named to the All-WHCA Rookie Team and was an All-WCHA third team selection. In her sophomore year (2006–07), <mask> led the team with 38 points (18 goals, 20 assists) in 35 games. For her efforts, she earned All-WCHA First Team honors. During her junior year <mask> led the team with 23 goals, 31 assists and 54 points and earned an All-WCHA First Team honoree. She was an RBK All-America Second Team selection and was named to the WCHA All-Tournament Team.As a senior (2008–09), she helped the

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<mask> is a three-time participant in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's Championships. She won gold in 2008 and 2009, while winning the silver in 2007. Prior to the IIHF championships, she was a participant on the United States Women's Select Team for the Four Nations Cup. (The team finished first in 2008 and second in both 2006 and 2007.) In addition, <mask> was a four-time USA Hockey Women's National Festival participant (2006–09).Minnesota Whitecaps
After the 2010 Winter Games, <mask> joined the Whitecaps for their 2010–11 season. On October 8, against former WCHA rival, St. Cloud State, <mask> scored a goal. Boston Blades
For the 2012–13 season, <mask> joined the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League and helped the squad claim the 2013 Clarkson Cup. Boston Pride
On September 25, 2015, it was announced that <mask> had signed a contract to play for the Boston Pride of the National Women's Hockey League. Participating in the 2016 NWHL All-Star Game, <mask> would compete in the Isobel Cup finals. She would score the second goal in Cup history, during the second period of Game 1 against the Buffalo Beauts.She would end her season by winning the 2016 NWHL Defensive Player of the Year Award. <mask> was selected for the 2017 All-Star Game in February 2017 via a fan vote. Awards and honors
USA Hockey
Seven-time member of the U.S. Women's National Team for the

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 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's Championship (gold-2008,09,11,13,17 silver-2007,12) ... Three-time member of the U.S. Women's Select Team for the Four Nations Cup (1st-2008, 2nd-2006-07). Led the team with four assists in 2008 ... Three-time member of the U.S. Women's Under-22 Select Team for the Under-22 Series with Canada. Led the team with four points (1–3) in 2008 ... Four-time USA Hockey Women's National Festival participant (2006–09) ... Four-time USA Hockey Player Development Camp attendee (2002–05). College
She played four seasons at the University of Minnesota of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, where she was twice in the top 10 for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award (2008–09) ... Finished her career sixth on the school's all-time scoring list with 195 points (87–108).As a Senior (2008–09): Helped the Gophers advance to the NCAA Women's Frozen Four ... Earned All-WCHA Second Team honors ... Named WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year. As a Junior (2007–08): Led the team with 23 goals, 31 assists and 54 points ... All-WCHA First Team honoree ... RBK All-America Second Team selection ... Named to the WCHA All-Tournament Team. As a Sophomore (2006–07): Led the team with 38 points (18–20) in 35 games ... Earned All-WCHA First Team honors. As a Freshman (2005–06): Second on the team with 46 points (30–16) ... WCHA Rookie of the Year ... All-WCHA Third Team selection ... Led the WCHA in rookie scoring ... Finished fourth in the WCHA in points and second in assists ... Named to the WCHA All-Tournament


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<mask> (24 January 1444 – 26 December 1476) was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until his assassination a decade later. He was notorious for being lustful, cruel and tyrannical. He was born to <mask>, a popular condottiero and ally of Cosimo de' Medici who would gain the Duchy of Milan in 1450, and <mask>. He married into the Gonzaga family; on the death of his first wife Dorotea Gonzaga, he married Bona of Savoy. Cruel and vengeful, he was "a man who did great follies and dishonest things not to write." Life
<mask>  was born in Fermo, near the family's castle of Girifalco, the first son of <mask> and <mask>. At the death of his father (8 March 1466), <mask> was in France at the head of a military expedition to help King Louis XI of France against Charles I of Burgundy.Called back home by his mother, <mask> returned to Italy by an adventurous trip under a false name. The false identity was necessary as he had to pass by the territories of the family enemy, the Duke of Savoy, who made an unsuccessful attempt on <mask>'s life. He entered Milan on 20 March, acclaimed by the populace. In his first years <mask> and his mother ruled jointly, but later his ruthless character pushed him to oust <mask> from Milan. Patronage
<mask> was famous as a patron of music. Under his direction, financial backing and encouragement, his chapel grew into one of the most famous and historically significant musical ensembles in Europe. Composers from the north, especially the Franco-Flemish composers from the present-day Low Countries, came to sing in his chapel and write masses, motets and secular music for him.Some of the figures associated with the Sforza chapel include Alexander Agricola, Johannes Martini, Loyset Compère, and Gaspar van Weerbeke. However, most of the singers at the Sforza chapel fled after <mask>'s murder and took positions elsewhere; as a result, there was

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<mask> <mask> is also known to have had a cruel streak. Bernardino Corio describes him as cruel: he tells him capable of torturing even his friends to the point of madness, as he did with Giovanni Veronese, his favorite, to whom he cut off a testicle. The twenty-two-year-old Ambrogio instead, in order to escape his flattery (Galeazzo was in fact bisexual), castrated himself. He had the young Pietro Drego buried alive and out of jealousy he had both hands amputated by Pietrino da Castello, slandering him as a forger, since he had caught him conversing with his mistress. When he surprised a farmer who had caught a hare against the hunting ban, he forced him to swallow it whole with all his skin until he suffocated.Since an astrologer priest had predicted the date of his death, <mask> had him walled up alive and wanted to see him starve. He had the habit of raping both men and women, and of appropriating the wives of others, and even worse, once he had finished, he had them raped in turn by his favorites, reason that was the basis of the conspiracy that crushed him in 1476. The lightest punishment of all went instead to his barber, the Travaglino, who, having cut it by mistake, received four lashes. The Corio also describes him as greedy, and imposer of unusual taxes. When, in 1471, his sister Ippolyta asked a Franciscan friar holy man in Naples - perhaps Giovanni della Marca - to pray for <mask> <mask>, the friar refused to do so, saying: ""What do you want, madonna, that I pray to God for the Lord your brother, who fears God as much as that wall does?"" Assassination

There were three principal assassins involved in Sforza's death: Carlo Visconti, Gerolamo Olgiati and Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, all fairly high-ranking officials at the Milanese court. Lampugnani, descended from

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 Milanese nobility, is recognized as the leader of the conspiracy.His motives were based primarily on a land dispute, in which <mask> had failed to intervene in a matter which saw the Lampugnani family lose considerable properties. Visconti and Olgiati also bore the duke enmity - Olgiati was a Republican idealist, whereas Visconti believed Sforza to have taken his sister's virginity. After carefully studying Sforza's movements, the conspirators made their move on the day after Christmas, 1476, feast day of Saint Stephen, patron saint of Santo Stefano, the church where the deed was to be committed. Supported by about thirty friends, the three men waited in the church for the duke to arrive for mass. When <mask> Sforza arrived, Lampugnani knelt before him; after some words were exchanged, Lampugnani rose suddenly and stabbed Sforza in the groin and breast. Olgiati and Visconti soon joined in, as did a servant of Lampugnani's. Sforza was dead within a matter of seconds.All the assassins quickly escaped in the ensuing mayhem save for Lampugnani, who became entangled in some of the church's cloth and was killed by a guard. His body soon fell into the hands of a mob, which dragged the corpse through the streets, slashing and beating at it; finally, they hung the body upside-down outside Lampugnani's house. The beheaded corpse was cut down the next day and, in an act of symbolism, the "sinning" right hand was removed, burnt and put on display. Aftermath of the assassination
Despite the initial public reaction, the government brought swift justice, soon encouraged by the public as well. The conspirators had given little thought to the repercussions of their crime, and were apprehended within days. Visconti and Olgiati were soon found and executed, as was the servant of Lampugnani who had participated in the slaying. The executions took place in a public ceremony that

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 culminated in the display of their corpses as a warning to others.Evidence from the conspirators' confessions indicated that the assassins had been encouraged by the humanist Cola Montano, who had left Milan some months before, and who bore malice against the duke for a public whipping some years before. While being tortured, Olgiati also uttered the famous words, "Mors acerba, fama perpetua, stabit vetus memoria facti" (Death is bitter, but glory is eternal, the memory of my deed will endure). Similar elements indicate that this assassination was likely influential in the Pazzi Conspiracy, a subsequent attempt to dethrone the Medici family in Florence and to replace them with Girolamo Riario. Children
With his second wife, Bona of Savoy, Sforza had four children:
 Gian <mask> Sforza (1469–1494), who became duke upon his father's death; he married his cousin Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan and had issue
 Hermes <mask> (1470–1503), Marquis of Tortona
 <mask> Sforza (1472–1510), who married Philibert I, Duke of Savoy and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
 Anna Sforza (1476–1497), who married Alfonso I d'Este

With his mistress Lucrezia Landriani, he had several illegitimate children:

 Carlo (born 1461)
 Caterina Sforza, (1462-1509) who married 3 times: Girolamo Riario; Giacomo Feo; and Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano
 2 more children

By his mistress Lucia Marliani
 Ottaviano <mask> (1475-1548) Bishop of Lodi

Other children by unknown women, including
 Chiara, who married Count Pietro dal Verme in 1480

References

Sources

Belotti Bortolo. Il Dramma di Gerolamo Olgiati; Milano; 1929

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Biographical notes to Galazzo Maria Sforza

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<mask> (born 1963) is an American artist whose works consist of paintings, photographs, collages, prints, artist's books, and large-scale installations. His pieces are included in major public and private collections worldwide. Early life and education

<mask> was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He earned his BA at Yale University. He works in multiple media, ranging from paintings and photography to large-scale installations and wall works. Themes
Critics and scholars have identified at least four major themes in Wegner's work. Systems
The first theme is the idea of systems and their hidden inadequacies.As architectural scholar Noah Chasin wrote in a 2007 essay, "Systems often make appearances in Wegner's work to suggest the potential for order, yet the artist continually exposes them as means of introducing disorder… [H]e systematically questions their foundations from within so that the very integrity of each system's signifying capacity is compromised…. "Wagner'ss official bio states that "[h]e often works between conventional categories, creating sculpting, paintings, painterly installations, and architectural photographs." However, Chasin advises viewers to see this aspect of the artist's approach as a constructive rather than a destructive one: “We should not conclude that Wegner’s subversion eliminates meaning but instead that it draws our attention to the way that meaning is created and naturalized.”

Color
Professor, author, and critic Eve Meltzer noted in a 2002 review that “color may be the… center” of his entire practice. Poet and essayist John Koethe also described Wegner as "obsessed with color." The artist first began deconstructing the subject in the late 1990s with his

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 "Remarks on Color" series, which used commercial paint chip samples as their starting point. Wagner's color-based "D65" series, begun in 2014, takes its title from "the standard scientific shorthand for the color of daylight, roughly 6500 degrees Kelvin" and is "inspired by sunlight in California," according to Wegner. More than a decade earlier, Meltzer linked his use of color with market mechanisms.She wrote of the paint chip works that "...there is always the problem of capital and its ideological effects. After all the paint chip is an advertising tool—a ploy to make a buck on a dream. Wegner's work makes these systems palpable, not through barefaced institutional critique, but by quietly elbowing some room into their rigid structures or—as he says in his book The Other Today Is the One You Want (2002) by opening up the space between the lines’ and  pushing back the horizon.’"

Language
A third theme identified in Wegner's work is language. Meltzer writes that Wegner's paint chip pieces beg the question: “How can so many shades of red claim the same name when, clearly, language’s system of difference can’t fracture fast enough or splinter small enough to cover the range?”

In a 2007 essay, Henriette Huldisch observed that Wegner “repeatedly invokes language specifically to create associations, to link his works back to the world of ideas and things from which they originated: systems of classification, names of places, and the incidental items of our daily lives (rulers, billboards, contracts, and so on).” Huldisch goes on to describe how “Wegner also work[s] as a bibliophile collagist, appropriating snippets of marketing jargon, then cutting and pasting the functional epithets into


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 semi-accidental verse he terms ‘poetry written by commerce.’"

Architecture
A fourth theme identified by experts is Wegner's engagement with architecture. For example, in his photography series "Buildings Made of Sky," Wegner reverses urban streetscapes to reveal how skyscrapers shape the open-air spaces between one another into skyscraper-like forms of their own. Chasin described a 2004 piece from the series in these terms: “A magical reversal thereby takes place: the physical buildings read visually as a darkened background offset by architectural contours from startling blue-hued visions of skyscrapers carved from atmosphere. Sky becomes building; building, sky—or to invoke K. Michael Hays in a different context, ‘not architecture but evidence that it exists.’” Wegner has also often pushed the construction of his works in an architectural direction, presenting paintings in the form of leaning columns, complex lattices, and multi-layered scrims.Huldisch noted that “[h]is stacks, grids, and lattice structures reveal both an interest in the forms of Minimalism and a rejection of the stringent doctrine that predicated them." As Wagner states in a 2007 interview, "I’d like the humor of the work to make itself available to you slowly, so that maybe a couple hours after you’ve been exposed to it, it's still sinking in. You’re not actually laughing until the second or third day, and by that time, you can't quite remember what was funny." Key works
Wegner's early work focuses on everyday artifacts embedded in popular culture, including typography specimens (the basis for the "American Types" series), commercial paint chips (in the "Remarks on Color" series), and security envelopes (in the


texts: "Security" series). When asked in an interview about his interest in such mundane subjects, he answered, "The world is ravishing. Even when you’re focused on nothing, it's almost too much." From roughly the mid-1990s to early 2000s, he gave used these ideas in paintings, works on paper, and artist's books.In the mid-2000s, Wegner's practice expanded to include large-scale site-specific art installations. The first of these was "COMPLETE & FINAL COLOR THEORY SUPERSEDING ALL PREVIOUS THEORIES & PRE-EMPTING ALL FUTURE THEORIES WITH ADD’L THOUGHTS ON THE POETRY OF COMMERCE, THE CRUELTY OF SYSTEMS & THE BANALITY OF THE GRID, ACCOMPANIED BY A FOOTNOTE RE: ARCHITECTURE” at New York's Bohen Foundation in 2004. The installation included monumental paint chip-based paintings and sculptures made from colored paper, either stacked vertically or arrayed in horizontal, hedge-like rows. Wegner followed in 2005 with "Lever Labyrinth," a human-scale maze composed of 2.2 million sheets of stacked paper––all in various shades of green, creating columns of subtly gradating color––constructed inside the Lever House building. In 2008, Wegner executed the major paper installation "GUILLOTINE OF SUNLIGHT, GUILLOTINE OF SHADE" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The piece consisted of 1.4 millions sheets of die-cut paper in 40 hues, arranged to create two 12’ x 26.5’ x 7" color gradations inside the museum: a wall progressing from blue to yellow in one gallery, and a wall progressing from yellow to red in another. Around this same time, Wegner introduced two new elements into his work: time and neon.He combined both in 2007 to create “THE UNITED STATES OF NOTHING,” which included time-controlled neon signage


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 showing the name, latitude, and longitude of every U.S. city that invokes the concept of nothingness. Wegner arranged each neon unit according to its relative geography on a midnight blue-painted wall meant to stand in for the continental U.S.

Stanford University commission
Stanford University commissioned Wegner to create four permanent installations on the campus of its Graduate School of Business. In a Los Angeles Times feature on the works, arts writer Jori Finkel noted, that it was "...an unusual project in many ways. Most public art is inserted into a landscape after the fact, but Wegner's artworks were integrated into the campus… And though most university art tends to be committee-sanctioned or boring, Wegner's suite of works for Stanford are thought-provoking in ways that his supporters have come to expect." Kinetic works at Stanford
Completed in 2011, the quartet includes two kinetic works and two static works. The kinetic pieces include "WAYS TO CHANGE" and "MONUMENT TO CHANGE AS IT CHANGES." The former is a wall-sized (171" x 216" x 8") glass, steel, and LED display depicting hundreds of adverbs programmed to illuminate in pre-determined groupings on a continuous 90-minute loop.Finkel mentions that it was "built into the façade of an auditorium that had to be redesigned and re-permitted to accommodate its weight and behind-the-scenes apparatus," and that the work "could be seen to question the business school's—or business world's—emphasis on productivity. ‘It raises the question not of what you are doing, but how you are doing it,’ says the artist." “MONUMENT TO CHANGE AS IT CHANGES" is an enormous (108" x 384" x 3") array of "flip-digit" modules of the variety used to announce


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 arrivals and departures in European train stations––except instead of digits, each module contains 80 cards individually screen printed a different solid color. Wegner then programmed the entire array to animate through a continuous eight-hour cycle of constantly changing patterns. Wegner tells Finkel in the Times feature, "The train signage arrives at a particular destination [visually], just as you would in a train, somewhere that's specific and recognizable. The way I've programmed the board there's never a moment of stasis or arrival—it's perpetual arrival." Static works at Stanford
The two works static works in the commission are both

 "MONUMENT TO THE UNKNOWN VARIABLES" consists of the bracketed variables "[x]" and "[y]" formed into sets of wood and steel benches measuring 216" x 200" x 30" each.Finkel notes that "[t]hey could be read as a very short concrete poem about uncertainty. They are also for sitting on." , "MONUMENT TO THE FUTURE OF DREAMS," is a large (32" x 44" x 4") upright stone tablet placed at the campus's entrance and inscribed with the message, "DEDICATED TO THE THINGS THAT HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DREAM THEM UP…." Describing the genesis of the piece, Wegner tells Finkel that he "started thinking about what cornerstones signify—usually the moment of completion for a project. But what if instead of looking back over your shoulder, you were looking ahead?" Later works
Wegner's next permanent installation was "HELL-WHISKEY-GUNS-MUD-MICHIGAN," completed in 2014 for Michigan State University. Similar to "THE UNITED STATES
OF NOTHING" and "WAYS TO CHANGE," it uses an LED display to continuously cycle through pre-programmed groupings of


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 text.Their subject matter is the place names and GPS coordinates of various locations in Michigan, which Wegner divides into categories such as verbs, colors, and historical figures; the program lasts two full hours before repeating, and the LEDs are partially covered by glass and wood veneer. In 2014, Wegner also began concentrating on creating individual paintings again. His "Color Wheel" and "D65" series focus on color relationships played out over ring-shaped, wall mounted MDF in various diameters. Adrian Lobe, "I Explore the Urban Maze," Wiener Zeitung, Vienna, Austria, May 26, 2014
 Liz Stinson, "The Secret Cities Hidden Between NYC Skyscrapers," Wired, February 20, 2014 (illus.) Mark Byrnes, "These Mind-Bending Pictures Turn Manhattan's Sky into Skyscrapers," The Atlantic: City Lab, February 10, 2014 (feature, illus.) Paul Petrunia, "In Focus: <mask>," Archinect, February 3, 2014 (interview, illus.) "Buildings Made of Sky: Photographer <mask>r Inverts New York Skyline," Huffington Post (UK), January 25, 2014 (illus.)Alexi Drosu, "Exhibitions: Architecture in Photographs," Form Magazine, October 14, 2013
 Julie Grahame, "<mask>'s Building Made of Sky," Magical Urbanism, March 13, 2012
 Fanny L'Eglise, "<mask>r: Buildings Made of Sky," L'architecture D'aujourd'hui, March 2012
 Jori Finkel, "<mask>r at Stanford: The Art of Innovation," The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2011
 ON, OFF, VIA, VERSUS, BESIDE, BEYOND, DESPITE, CONCERNING & UP AGAINST: THE WALL, Essay by Lisa Tamiris Becker. Published by Cu Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2010
 Bill Wyman, "Installing a Major New Work at the Phoenix Art Museum", Phxated.com, November 25, 2009
 Leah Ollman, "<mask>r at Griffin," Art in

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 Ara H. Merjian, "Cut:  Revealing the Section", ArtForum, April 2008
 Cynthia Houng, "10 Questions for <mask>r," KQED Interview, May 30, 2008
 Glen Helfand, "Spatial Explorations," The Architect's Newspaper, April 30, 2008
 Ken Johnson, "<mask>r: ‘Lever Labyrinth,’" The New York Times, September 2, 2005
 Susan Cross, "<mask>r at Lever House," The New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2005
 Noah Chasin, "Reading Room," ArtReview, July 2005
 Tanja Dückers, "To See in the Middle of Yellow," Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2005 (illus.) Andrea Scott, "<mask> Wegner at Henry Urbach Architecture," The New Yorker, December 6, 2004
 Matthew Guy Nichols, "<mask> Wegner at The Bohen Foundation," Art in America, October 2004
 Noah Chasin, "<mask> Wegner at The Bohen Foundation," Time Out New York, May 26, 2004
 Christopher Knight, "Mass, Volume and Air, by Wegner," Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2004
 Kim Levin, "<mask> Wegner at The Bohen Foundation," Village Voice, May 6, 2004
 Martha Schwendener, "Peter Wegner at the Bohen Foundation," The New Yorker, April 19–26, 2004
 Cathy Lang Ho, "Color-Coded," The Architect's Newspaper, April 6, 2004
 Eve Meltzer, "Peter Wegner," Frieze, September 2002 (illus.) Charles Merewether, Sabine Fehlemann (eds. ), Sammlung Rosenkranz, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Exhibition catalog. 2002

Personal life
He currently lives and works in Berkeley, California.References

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 "Nix, Nada, Nameless" (TEDxEast lecture)
 <mask>r at the Galerie m Bochum

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20th-century American painters
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<mask> (11 February 190516 March 1985), was a United States Coast Guard admiral and served as the twelfth Commandant of the Coast Guard from 1962 to 1966. During his tenure, <mask> oversaw the replacement of many World War II era cutters under fleet modernization programs. He also assisted the U.S. Navy with operations in Vietnam by supplying crews and cutters for Operation Market Time. <mask> was noted for his support in efforts to bring international safety standards to merchant shipping. Although <mask> was already retired when the Coast Guard was transferred from the Department of Treasury to the newly formed Department of Transportation in 1967, he was largely responsible for the planning for the move and the Coast Guard retaining its military responsibilities along with its transportation related functions. Early life and education
He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Growing up in Buffalo, he attended Canisius High School and later Canisius College in the city.He was accepted as a cadet at the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1926. While at the academy, he served as captain of the award-winning football squad, also playing on the baseball and basketball squads. He graduated from the Coast Guard Academy and was commissioned as an ensign on 15 May 1929. Career

United States Coast Guard
Following graduation from the academy, he reported aboard USCGC Shaw to serve as gunnery officer from 1929–1930 and as gunnery officer aboard USCGC Wilkes in 1930–1931. Shaw and Wilkes were a part of the destroyer force home-ported out of New London, Connecticut, and assigned the Rum Patrol. <mask> was promoted 15 May 1931 to lieutenant (junior grade) and under his leadership, both cutters won gunnery trophies and he won a commendation for his contribution to the awards. In addition to his duties on the cutters, he was captain of the Coast Guard football squad that won the President's Cup in competition with teams from the Army, Navy and Marines in 1931.The President's Cup trophy was presented by Lou Henry Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover and accepted by

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 <mask> on behalf of the Coast Guard. In early 1932, he was in charge of target observation and repair for Destroyer Force cutters in the Gulf of Mexico and off Norfolk, Virginia. From September 1932 to 1934, he served as gunnery officer and navigator aboard , based out of Grand Haven, Michigan. While serving aboard the Escanaba, <mask> was promoted to lieutenant 15 May 1933. Returning to the Coast Guard Academy in 1934, he served until 1938 as an instructor in physics and mathematics, and as assistant coach of the football, basketball, and baseball teams. During the summer of 1936, he participated in the summer practice cruise aboard , assisting in the evacuation of Spanish Civil War refugees. In September 1938, <mask> was assigned as the executive officer of  home-ported at St. Petersburg, Florida.He was later assigned duties as the commanding officer. In January 1940, he was transferred to New Orleans, Louisiana, to serve as the communications officer for the Eighth Coast Guard District and while serving in this capacity, he was promoted to lieutenant commander on 1 January 1942. World War II
In May 1942, <mask> was assigned to U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters as the Chief of the Enlisted Personnel Division at a time when the U.S. Coast Guard was expanding, growing from a small service of 25,000 men to a peak of over 175,000 personnel in 1944. While in this capacity <mask> was promoted to commander. In October 1943, he was transferred to Task Force 60, a naval unit tasked with escorting convoys from the United States to Mediterranean ports; where he served as commander of the Escort Division. His flagship was the Coast Guard-crewed . <mask> was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon for meritorious service as commander.From December 1944 to March 1946, he served as the first commanding officer of the newly commissioned , the first heavy-duty icebreaker built for Great Lakes service. For his meritorious service while commanding Mackinaw, he was awarded a Coast Guard Commendation Letter that cited him for icebreaking on an unprecedented scale while keeping shipping lanes

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 open for both military and merchant vessels carrying urgently needed war supplies. Post-war service
In April 1946, <mask> moved to Cleveland, Ohio, as the Chief of Staff and Chief of the Operations Division of the Ninth Coast Guard District. He served in that capacity until June 1949 when he was named as commanding officer of  home-ported in San Francisco, California. While assigned to  Taney, <mask> was promoted to captain on 5 August 1949. In August 1950 he was transferred to the Coast Guard Academy as Commandant of Cadets where he served for the next four years. After a year of study at the National War College, <mask> was assigned to Coast Guard Headquarters in the office of Chief of Staff in June 1955.On 16 March 1956 he assumed the position of Deputy Chief of Staff. <mask> was nominated by President Dwight Eisenhower to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral. With confirmation by the Senate, he was promoted to flag rank effective 1 July 1956 and promptly assigned duties as Commander, First Coast Guard District in Boston, Massachusetts. On 1 July 1960, <mask> was assigned as both Commander, Eastern Area; and Commander, Third Coast Guard District at New York City. On 1 February 1962, he received orders to report to Coast Guard Headquarters and on 12 February he was confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Commandant and promoted to vice admiral. New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner presented <mask> with the City of New York Medallion on 21 March for distinguished service as Commander, Third Coast Guard District. On 23 April <mask> was appointed by President <mask>. Kennedy as Commandant of the Coast Guard and was promoted to the rank of admiral, both of which were confirmed by the Senate and made effective on 1 June 1962.On 1 June 1962 Admiral <mask><mask> relieved Admiral Alfred C. Richmond as Commandant at change-of-command ceremonies held aboard  moored in the Washington Navy Yard. Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard

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 Coast Guard roles and missions that was ordered by Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon. The implementation of the study required many changes in assets and personnel during his tenure as Commandant. As international air traffic increased during the 1950s and 1960s, the requirement for ocean station cutters and more efficient operation of AMVER required increases in personnel and spurred the service to invest in better cutters and aircraft that could be used in search and rescue work. The U.S. Coast Guard acquired additional responsibilities in March 1963 with an agreement with the Navy relating to icebreaking duties in Arctic and Antarctic research missions. In May 1965 the U.S. Coast Guard acquired the Navy's five icebreakers, but the requirements for additional personnel recruiting to man the icebreakers delayed the actual transfer of the ships. The first icebreaker could not be crewed until July and the last was not transferred until November 1966.On 9 July 1963, <mask> received the Legion of Merit from Secretary Dillon in recognition of his outstanding record in maintaining a military readiness posture "unparalleled in the peacetime history of the Coast Guard". During <mask>'s tour as Commandant the U.S. Coast Guard plan for modernization of its fleet of medium and high endurance cutters was realized with the launching of the first acquisition of a major cutter since World War II. The medium endurance cutter  was commissioned 20 June 1964. Vietnam War
<mask> served as Commandant during the time that the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) requested greater U.S. Navy involvement in interdiction of North Vietnamese troops and equipment into South Vietnam under Operation Market Time. The Navy did not have the patrol craft that would serve MACV's purposes and they requested assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard. <mask> agreed to supply Point-class cutters and their crews to the operation, fearing that if the U.S. Coast Guard were left out of the Vietnam War that its standing as an armed service would be jeopardized. Coast Guard Squadron One was

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 commissioned on 27 May 1965 and 17 cutters with their crews were assigned to Navy control and sent to Vietnam to assist with the mission of interdicting Communist vessels at sea and preventing personnel and supplies from entering South Vietnam.An additional nine Point-class cutters were assigned to Squadron One on 29 October at the request of MACV. The increased operations in Vietnam during <mask>'s time as Commandant included buoy tenders to service Vietnamese aids to navigation. U.S. Coast Guard port security personnel were assigned at MACV's request after a visit to Vietnam by <mask> in July 1965. There were additional manning requirements for new Loran-C radio stations for radio navigation of ships and aircraft. During the time of the Vietnam preparations he also managed the U.S. Coast Guard's response to the Camarioca boatlift operations in the Straits of Florida. In all, <mask> oversaw the increase of over 3,500 additional personnel in 1966. Department of Transportation transfer
During <mask>'s tenure as Commandant, U.S. President Lyndon B. <mask> announced the formation of the Department of Transportation and its new role as overseer of all federal transportation related activities.<mask> was informed that the U.S. Coast Guard would be one of the agencies transferred to the new department. Although <mask> initially opposed the move, <mask> made it clear that he had the executive power to split the U.S. Coast Guard into two separate agencies and move all transportation responsibilities to the Department of Transportation and leave a much smaller U.S. Coast Guard within the Department of the Treasury. <mask> withdrew his opposition to the proposed move and asked only that the U.S. Coast Guard not be stripped of its identity as an armed service. International conferences and civilian honors
On 15 January 1965, <mask> received Italy's highest award, the Commendatore (Knight Commander) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, for the U.S. Coast Guard's many years of assistance to Centro-Internazionale Radio-Medico, a humanitarian organization which arranges

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 medical first-aid at sea for injured and sick seamen. In March 1966, <mask> represented the United States to the Load Line Conference on merchant ships held at London, England. In May he served as a delegate to the Maritime Safety Committee of International Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO). The committee meeting reviewed merchant ship standards to prevent fires as occurred on board SS Yarmouth Castle.On 6 November 1965, he received the American Legion Distinguished Service Medal in which he was cited for outstanding contributions in chairing the Safety of Life at Sea subcommittee of the American Merchant Marine at the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), as well as his contributions to IMCO and the establishment and expansion of AMVER to both Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Awards and decorations
In addition to the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Service Medal, Commandant's Letter of Commendation, and the Navy Commendation Ribbon, <mask> received the American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal as well as the Expert Rifle and Expert Pistol Medals. Dates of rank

Later life and death
At change of command ceremonies held on 1 June 1966, Admiral <mask> was relieved by the new Commandant, Admiral Willard J. Smith, and <mask> retired from the Coast Guard the same day. He was married to the former <mask> Fitch and had two sons, <mask><mask> <mask>. and William F. <mask>. Following his retirement as Coast Guard Commandant, he moved to Old Lyme, Connecticut, and died at the age of 80 while vacationing in St. Petersburg, Florida. See also

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Lieutenant General <mask> (born 27 May 1958) is the former director of the Air National Guard. He previously served as The Adjutant General (TAG) and Commander of the Massachusetts National Guard and as an assistant to Gen Mark A. Welsh III, former commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe. <mask> has also served as commander of USAF Forces deployed for United States Central Command in the Middle East Area of Operations. He is a Boeing 777 first officer flying for United Airlines (though currently on a military leave of absence) in Washington Dulles International Airport. On 3 April 2012 he was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick as The Adjutant General (TAG) of the Massachusetts National Guard and reappointed as The Adjutant General by Governor Charles Baker on 12 May 2015. <mask> retired from the U.S. Air Force on 1 August 2020 after over 40 years of service. Early life
<mask> was born 27 May 1958 to <mask> (1919–2002) and Margery Ann (Miller<mask> (1918–2005) in Bedford, New Hampshire; a military family with his mother serving as a captain during WWII in the Army Nurse Corps, and eventually becoming in 1990 a Commander of the Department of New Hampshire Veterans of Foreign Wars.<mask> is a direct descendant of <mask>, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. <mask> attended local public schools and earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1972. Career
<mask> was the director of the Air National Guard, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C. He is responsible for formulating, developing and coordinating all policies, plans and programs affecting more than 105,500 Guard members and civilians in more than 90 wings and 175 geographically separated units across 213 locations throughout the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. <mask> was commissioned in 1980 through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and graduated from undergraduate pilot

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 training at Reese Air Force Base, Texas in 1982. He is a command pilot with more than 4,300 hours in the F-111 and A-10. Before assuming his current position, General <mask> served as The Adjutant General of the Massachusetts National Guard, responsible for commanding units of the Air and Army National Guard.He has served in various operational and staff assignments, including commander of US Air Force Forces deployed to Middle East locations under the United States Central Command; where, from 1995 to 2006, he was mobilized and deployed to Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, and Pakistan. He has commanded a squadron, operations group, and fighter wing. He previously served as the assistant adjutant general for air, and commander of Massachusetts Air National Guard, chairman of the Air Guard Force Structure and Modernization committee of the Adjutants General Association of the United States (AGAUS), as the association's secretary, as a member of the Reserve Forces Policy Board for the Department of Defense, and has served on several General Officer Steering Committees for the National Guard. <mask> was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as director of the Air National Guard by Barack Obama on 4 April 2016. This nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on 28 April 2016. He assumed the position of Director of the Air National Guard on 10 May 2016. In August 2020, Colorado National Guard Adjutant General Michael A<mask> succeeded <mask> as director.Awards and decorations

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 1972 Eagle Scout
 2005 George W. Bush Award for Leadership in the Guard/Reserve

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<mask> (born June 19, 1977) is an American professional stock car racing driver. Early career
<mask> was born in South Bend, Indiana. His racing roots can be traced back to Midwestern short track racing, where he followed in the footsteps originally cast by his Great Uncle in the 1950s. Stremme’s first stock car victory came in the early 1990s at New Paris Speedway, while behind the wheel of his mother’s street stock ride. Once track officials realized that he was only 15 years old however, he was forced to temporarily give up driving. Once he reached legal driving age, Stremme moved to the Midwestern short tracks scene. <mask> is an avid race car builder and has a great understanding of the cars he races.Being part of a racing family (father, mother, and brother) racing is his life. During his career, he earned 24 feature wins, two Rookie of the Year titles and two track championships in just four years. From the local tracks, Stremme became a winner in the Kendall Late Model Series and soon joined American Speed Association (ASA), where he was named the 2002 ASA Rookie of the Year. During 1998, 1999, and 2000, Stremme raced for the ISES Performance Group, Inc. The team was made up of Stremme's racing friends and sponsored by Industrial Safety and Environmental Services, Inc.  New cars were purchased and Stremme initiated alliances with top suppliers of engines, chassis, and shock manufacturers. In only his first start in a Kendall Late Model Series car completely assembled by Stremme at Winchester Speedway, he set a new track record and finished 4th in the race. Subsequent to this event an even larger strategy was set forth.Under the direction of Tris Gour, President, Industrial Safety and Environmental Services, Inc. a new car was purchased to compete in the NASCAR November Phoenix International Raceway race. The new car was completely built by <mask> with help from friends. It was the first

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 time the team had ventured significantly far away from home. As a budget did not allow for crew chiefs or fabricators, Gour and Stremme formed an alliance with Robert Hamke. Hamke is a well renowned chassis builder, racer, and crew chief. Although the car built was not a Hamke Chassis, Hamke accepted the opportunity to work with Stremme and the crew, and accepted the challenge based upon reference from Performance Technologies (engine builders) and the owner of LeftHander Chassis. Hamke had a great respect for the owner of LeftHander.In addition, Performance Technologies had built several engines for both chassis builders (Hamke and Lefthander) clients. While at Phoenix, the team qualified fourth and led several laps during the race. Stremme led the majority of the race and was passed on the last lap coming out of turn three by Scott Hansen. Subsequent to the race, it was found that Hansen was disqualified as his car was equipped with an illegal carburetor spacer plate giving him an unfair horsepower advantage. The local news media reported on this issue but only a financial penalty was given to Hansen. Although upset by the loss, the ISES Performance Group, Inc. and Stremme had gained the respect of the Hansen Group. Hansen later called upon Stremme to race his car at Winchester due to a conflict with his racing schedule.NASCAR career

2003–2005

After signing a driver development contract with Chip Ganassi Racing, <mask> started 15th in his Busch Series debut at Nashville Superspeedway in April 2003, driving the No. 1 Dodge for Phoenix Racing, and finished 7th in the race. He finished 14th in both of his next two starts, before coming to 6th at Nazareth Speedway. He led 32 laps in that race, which were the first in his career. He finished 4th after starting 3rd at Nashville in June, and duplicated the result at the Milwaukee Mile. He had a 10th at Kentucky and a 9th at Memphis. Stremme's