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<mask> (born 1940) is a former American football running back. He played college football at West Chester State University from 1960 to 1962 where he was twice named a Little All-America and All-East fullback. He was the leading rusher in NCAA Division II as a sophomore and set career and single-season Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rushing and scoring records that remained unbroken for two to three decades. He averaged 139.5 yards per game over his three years at West Chester, which ranked second all-time in NCAA Division II history at the time. Early years
<mask> was born in 1940. He attended Radnor High School in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, where he earned high school All-American honors in football, and also participated in track and basketball. In 2003, he was part of the first group of athletes inducted into the Radnor High School Hall of Fame.West Chester University
Iacone played college football at West Chester State University from 1960 to 1962. He was twice named as one of 11 small college players selected by the Associated Press for its Little All-America team. He received the honor in 1961 and 1962, and was also selected to the All-East team in 1960 and 1961. He also became the third player in Pennsylvania State College Football Conference history to be selected as a first-team all-conference player in three consecutive years: 1960, 1961, and 1962. Iacone earned the nickname the "Radno Ripper" while playing football at West Chester. He was able to play fullback on both offense and defense. However, he played principally on offense.West Chester coach, Jim Bonder, told reporters in 1962: "We could use <mask> both ways, but you can't expect a boy to run the ball 30 times a game and still play defense." <mask> was later inducted into the West Chester University Athletic Hall of Fame. 1960 season
As a sophomore in 1960, Iacone rushed for a school record 1,438 yards in nine games, an average of 160 yards per game. In November 1960, he rushed for 201 yards and scored three touchdowns against Bloomsburg State. <mask>'s season rushing total gave him the 1960 NCAA Division II rushing championship. 1961 season
As a junior in 1961, Iacone rushed for 1,059 yards. In November 1961, he rushed for 239 yards and two touchdowns in a 21–0 victory over Slippery Rock to lead West Chester to the Pennsylvania State College Football Conference championship.In a story about the game, The New York Times focused on <mask>'s performance: "Iacone, a 185-pound junior, carried the ball thirty-three times as West Chester wore down Slippery Rock in the last three quarters." That same month, Sports Illustrated cited Iacone as a small college player who was "good enough to play on any football team." The article stated: "West Chester (Pa.) State Fullback <mask>e, for instance, the stubby, broad-armed young man shown above. As a sophomore Iacone crushed the bid of Northeast Missouri's Dale Mills to win his third straight national rushing crown. Last fall he gained nearly a mile (1,438 yards, to be exact), finishing the season with a wild, 199-yard day against Lock Haven." 1962 season
As a senior, Iacone broke his own West Chester record with 1,486 rushing yards. In November 1962, the Associated Press reported: "They have a saying at West Chester State College: 'As Iacone goes so will the football team.'"In the December 1962 Cement Bowl, he gained 190 yards and scored two touchdowns to lead West Chester to a 46–12 upset victory over Hofstra University. Prior to the Cement Bowl, The New York Times wrote: "Coach Howdy Myers of Hofstra was chiefly concerned with his team's ability to contain West Chester's mercurial <mask>e. This fleet, shifty 185-pound fullback gained 1,270 yards on 196 rushes and scored 16 touchdowns this season." At the end of his playing career at West Chester, Iacone noted that he regretted that many of the eastern schools refused to play West Chester: "That really bothers me. I wished they played us. Possibly they are just afraid of being beaten." Records set
Iacone was West Chester's leading rusher for three straight years.His 1960 rushing yardage was good for the NCAA Division II rushing title, and his 1962 total was a single-season West Chester rushing record that stood for 40 years. His 1960 and 1962 totals still rank as the second and fourth highest total in the school's history. His career total of 3,983 yards was the West Chester record until 1990 and still ranks second best in the school's history. Iacone also set the Pennsylvania State College Football Conference, now known as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC), scoring record with 288 points in three seasons, a record that was not broken until 1993. He also tied the conference's single-game scoring record by scoring five touchdowns for 30 points in his final regular season game for West Chester. His 1960 and 1962 rushing totals stood as the best two single-season totals in PSAC history for more than 25 years, finally being exceeded in 1989. He also held the PSAC record for career rushing yardage until 1984.<mask> averaged 139.5 yards per game over his three years at West Chester, which ranked second all-time in NCAA Division II history at the time. Professional football
He was drafted in the 13th round of the 1963 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He played with the Eagles during the pre-season, but was cut by the team in August 1963. Iacone said at the time, "I was just too small. And I was very nervous and tight. I was just starting to get over my nervousness and I was on my way home." He added, "I think they gave me a fair chance.I just wish I had had more time. ... I'm glad I had the chance because I learned so much more about football." He spent the fall of 1963 playing semi pro football and working in a sporting good store. Iacone signed with the Boston Patriots of the American Football League in 1964, but was released during training camp

Teacher and coach
In October 1963, Iacone was hired as a physical education teacher in the Penn-Delco School District. In 1967, Iacone became a teacher and football coach at The Haverford School, an all-boys preparatory school in Haverford, Pennsylvania. After several years, he left teaching to enter the business world.He returned to Haverford in approximately 1988. He retired in June 2008. References

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<mask> (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. <mask> fled first to Zürich and later to London. Later he returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries. <mask> wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece. <mask> designed works at all scales, from major urban interventions like the re-design of the Ringstraße in Vienna, to a baton for Richard Wagner. His unrealised design for an opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.Life

Early life (to 1834)
<mask> was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in Altona. The fifth of eight children, he attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg before starting his university education at Göttingen in 1823, where he studied historiography and mathematics. He subsequently studied architecture in 1825 at the University of Munich under Friedrich von Gärtner. In 1826, <mask> travelled to Paris in order to work for the architect Franz Christian Gau, and he was present when the July Revolution of 1830 broke out. Between 1830 and 1833 he travelled to Italy and Greece in order to study the architecture and designs of antiquity. In 1832, he participated for four months in archaeological research at the Acropolis in Athens. During this period he became very interested in the Biedermeier-inspired polychromy debate, which centered on the question whether buildings in Ancient Greece and Rome had been colorfully painted or not.The drawn reconstructions of the painterly decorations of ancient villas he created in Athens inspired his later designs for the painted decorations in Dresden and Vienna. His 1834 publication Vorläufige Bemerkungen über bemalte Architectur und Plastik bei den Alten (Preliminary Remarks on Polychrome Architecture and Sculpture in Antiquity), in which he took a strong position in favor of polychromy - supported by his investigation of pigments on the Trajan's column in Rome - brought him sudden recognition in architectural and aesthetic circles across Europe . Dresden period (1834–1849)

On September 30, 1834, <mask> obtained a post as Professor of Architecture at the Königlichen Akademie der bildenden Künste (today called the Hochschule) in Dresden thanks largely to the efforts and support of his former teacher Franz Christian Gau and swore an oath of allegiance to the King (formerly Elector) of Saxony, Anthony Clement. The flourishing growth of Dresden during this period provided the young architect with considerable creative opportunities. In 1838-40 a synagogue was built in Dresden to <mask>'s design, it was ever afterward called the Semper Synagogue and is noted for its  Moorish Revival interior style. The Synagogue's exterior was built in romanesque style so as not to call attention to itself. The interior design included not only the Moorish inspired wall decorations but furnishings: specifically, a silver lamp of eternal light, which caught Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima's fancy.They gave a great deal of effort to have a copy of this lamp. <mask>'s student, Otto Simonson would construct the magnificent Moorish Revival Leipzig synagogue in 1855. Certain civic structures remain today, such as the Elbe-facing gallery of the Zwinger Palace complex. His first building for the Dresden Hoftheater burnt down, and the second, today called the Semperoper, was built in 1841. Other buildings also remain indelibly attached to his name, such as the Maternity Hospital, the Synagogue (destroyed during the Third Reich), the Oppenheim Palace, and the Villa Rosa built for the banker Martin Wilhelm Oppenheim. This last construction stands as a prototype of German villa architecture. On September 1, 1835, <mask> married Bertha Thimmig.The marriage ultimately produced six children. A convinced Republican, <mask> took a leading role, along with his friend Richard Wagner, in the May 1849 uprising which swept over the city. He was a member of the Civic Guard (Kommunalgarde) and helped to erect barricades in the streets. When the rebellion collapsed, <mask> was considered a leading agitator for democratic change and a ringleader against government authority and he was forced to flee the city. He was destined never to return to the city that would, ironically, become most associated with his architectural (and political) legacy. The Saxon government maintained a warrant for his arrest until 1863. When the Semper-designed Hoftheater burnt down in 1869, King John, on the urging of the citizenry, commissioned <mask> to build a new one.<mask> produced the plans but left the actual construction to his son, Manfred. "What must I have done in 48, that one persecutes me forever? One single barricade did I construct - it held, because it was practical, and as it was practical, it was beautiful", wrote <mask> in dismay. Post-revolutionary period (1849–1855)

After stays in Zwickau, Hof, Karlsruhe and Strasbourg, <mask> eventually ended up back in Paris, like many other disillusioned Republicans from the 1848 Revolutions (such as Heinrich Heine and Ludwig Börne). In the fall of 1850, he travelled to London, England. But while he was able to pick up occasional contracts — including participation in the design of the funeral carriage for the Duke of Wellington and the designs of the Canadian, Danish, Swedish, and Ottoman sections of the 1851 Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace — he found no steady employment. If his stay in London was disappointing professionally, however, it proved a fertile period for <mask>'s theoretical, creative and academic development.He published Die vier Elemente der Baukunst (The Four Elements of Architecture) in 1851 and Wissenschaft, Industrie und Kunst (Science, Industry and Art) in 1852. These works would ultimately provide the groundwork for his most widely regarded publication, Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten oder Praktische Ästhetik, which was published in two volumes in 1861 and 1863. Zürich period (1855–1871)

Concurrently with the onset of the industrial revolution, the Swiss Federation planned to establish a polytechnical school. As the principal judge for the competition held to select a design for the new building, <mask> deemed the submitted entries unsatisfactory and, ultimately, designed the building himself. Proudly situated (where fortified walls once stood), visible from all sides on a terrace overlooking the core of Zurich, the new school became a symbol of a new epoch. The building (1853–1864), which despite frequent remodeling continues to evoke <mask>'s concept, was initially required to accommodate not only the new school (known today as the ETH Zurich), but the existing University of Zurich, as well. In 1855, <mask> became a professor of architecture at the new school and the success of many of his students who attained success and renown served to ensure his legacy.The Swiss architect Emil Schmid was one such student. With his income as a professor, <mask> was able to reunite his family, bringing them to Zurich from Saxony. The City Hall in Winterthur is among other buildings designed by <mask> in Switzerland. <mask> provided Bavaria's King Ludwig II with a conceptual design for a theatre dedicated to the work of Richard Wagner to be built in Munich. The project, developed from 1864 to 1866, was never realized, although Wagner 'borrowed' many of its features for his own later theatre at Bayreuth. Later life (from 1871)

Already in 1833, there were first plans in Vienna for the public presentation of the Imperial Art Collections. With the planning of the Vienna Ring Road, the museum question became pressing again.Works forming the imperial art collection were scattered among several buildings. <mask> was assigned to submit a proposal for locating new buildings in conjunction with redevelopment of the Ring Road. In 1869, he designed a gigantic 'Imperial Forum' which was not realized. The National Museum of Art History and the National Museum of Natural History were erected, however, opposite the Palace according to his plan, as was the Burgtheater. In 1871, <mask> moved to Vienna to undertake the projects. During construction, repeated disagreements with his appointed associate architect (Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer), led <mask> to resign from the project in 1876. In the following year, his health began to deteriorate.He died two years later while on a visit to Italy and is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. Legacy

 Semperdepot, Lehargasse, Vienna

Works (selected)

Dresden
Hoftheater – 1838-1841 (destroyed by fire in 1869)
Villa Rosa – 1839 (destroyed in the Second World War)
Semper Synagogue – 1839-1840 (destroyed on November 9, 1938 - Kristallnacht)
Oppenheim-Palace – 1845-1848
Semper Gallery (Dresden Gemäldegalerie)– 1847-1855
Neues Hoftheater (Semperoper) – 1871-1878
Zürich
City Hall – 1858 (only concept for competition; not built)
Polytechnical School, (ETH Zurich) – 1858-1864
Observatory - 1861-1864
Winterthur
City Hall – 1865-1869
Vienna
Municipal Theater (Burgtheater) – 1873 - 1888
Museum of Art History (Kunsthistorisches Museum) (1872–1881, finished 1889)
Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum) (1872–1881, finished 1891)

See also
 Dresden school
 Architectural theory

Notes

References

Berry, J. Duncan. The Legacy of Gottfried <mask>. Studies in Späthistorismus (Ph. D. Diss., Brown University, 1989). Hvattum, Mari.<mask> <mask> and the Problem of Historicism (Cambridge, 2004). Herrmann, Wolfgang. <mask> <mask>: In Search of Architecture (Cambridge, MA/London, 1984). Karge, Henrik (ed.). <mask> <mask>. Die moderne Renaissance der Künste (Berlin, 2006). Mallgrave, Harry Francis.<mask> <mask> - Architect of the Nineteenth Century (New Haven/London, 1996). Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968 (Cambridge, 2005). Mallgrave, Harry Francis. Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 1870 (Malden, MA/Oxford, 2006). Muecke, Mikesch W. <mask> <mask> in Zurich - An Intersection of Theory and Practice (Ames, IA, 2005). Nerdinger, Winfried and Werner Oechslin (eds.).<mask> <mask> 1803-1879 (Munich/Zurich, 2003). <mask>, <mask>. The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings. Trans. Harry F. Mallgrave and Wolfgang Herrmann (Cambridge, 1989). <mask>, <mask>. Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts; or, Practical Aesthetics.Trans. Harry F. Mallgrave (Santa Monica, 2004). External links

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Semper, Gottfried at Deutsche Biographie (in German)
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title: Tyzen Hsiao

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<mask> (; 1 January 1938 – 24 February 2015) was a Taiwanese composer of the neo-Romantic school. Many of his vocal works set poems written in Taiwanese Hokkien, the mother tongue of the majority of the island's residents at the time. His compositions stand as a musical manifestation of the Taiwanese literature movement that revitalized the island's literary and performing arts in the 1970s and 1980s. <mask>'s career in music included additional success as a pianist and conductor. Music
<mask>noff". His compositions include works for solo instruments and chamber ensembles, many works for solo voice, and large-scale pieces for orchestras and choirs with soloists. Hsiao's most widely performed large-scale pieces include:
Formosa Symphony, opus 49 (1987)
Violin Concerto in D, opus 50 (1988)
Cello Concerto in C, opus 52 (1990)
Piano Concerto in C minor, opus 53 (1992)
1947 Overture for soprano, chorus and orchestra (1993)
Ode to Yu-Shan (Jade Mountain) (1999)
Ilha Formosa: Requiem for Formosa's Martyrs (2001)

<mask>'s art songs have become standard repertory in Taiwan."Taiwan the Formosa" or "Taiwan the Green" has achieved status as the Taiwan's unofficial national anthem. The song appears as well in the 1947 Overture. Other well-known art songs include "The Fairest Flower", "Eternal Hometown", a Taiwanese-language setting of Psalm 23, and "I Love Taiwan." He has also won acclaim for his folk song settings, such as "Brother Andon Goes to Market" and "The Grasshopper and the Rooster." Many of <mask>'s songs also exist in orchestral song versions. Hsiao's chamber music includes works for piano four hands, string quartets, piano quintets. The art songs formed the basis of serenades for solo violin and piano as well as other chamber combinations.<mask>'s music for solo piano was less well known in Taiwan until performances by Lina Yeh and others began to bring this repertoire into prominence around the turn of the millennium. Works for solo piano include suites, multi-movement "poetic echoes," études, toccatas, and instrumental settings of art songs and hymns. <mask> remarked in his comments for the recording Memories of Home: "For me it is more than a musical instrument. Introduced to me by my Japanese-educated mother, it has become my guide, my companion for life, my most beloved instrument." <mask> credited Rachmaninov, Bartók and Frédéric Chopin as important influences on his style, along with Presbyterian hymnody and, above all, Taiwanese folk music. <mask>'s fusion of Taiwanese and international music traditions has influenced a number of Taiwanese composers. Enthusiasm for his music runs particularly strong at institutions where Hsiao has served in the past as a teacher, such as the National Taiwan Normal University, the Tainan University of Technology and the National Kaohsiung Normal University.<mask>'s compositions have been the subject of graduate research at the National Sun Yat-sen University in his hometown of Kaohsiung, the Florida State University in Tallahassee (USA), and other institutions. Life and career

Early years
<mask> <mask> was born in Hōzan Town (modern-day Fongshan District) in Taiwan's southern port city of Takao (Kaohsiung) on 1 January 1938. His father, a dentist, served as an elder in the Presbyterian church. His mother, a church pianist, began teaching him piano at an early age. As a teen at the  he studied with Kao Ya-mei, a singer, and Kao Chin-hwa (), a pianist trained in Japan. From 1959 to 1963 Hsiao majored in music at the National Taiwan Normal University (then named the Taiwan Provincial Normal Institute), taking a leave of absence midway through his studies to serve as music instructor and administrator for Pai-Sha Junior High School in Penghu. His teachers included two pianists, Kao Tsu-Mei and Li Fu-Mei (), and Paris-trained composer .Upon graduation Hsiao served as __ and Kaohsiung before moving to Japan in 1965 for two years of study at Musashino Academia Musicae. His teachers in Japan included Fujimoto Hideo (; composition) and Nakane Nobue (; piano). Hsiao married Gao Jen-ci upon his return to Taiwan in 1967. Schools where he served on the faculty during this period include the Wenzao Women's Institute of Foreign Language (Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages), Kaohsiung Women's Normal College (National Kaohsiung Normal University), the Tainan Junior College of Home Economics (Tainan University of Technology) and the Tainan Theological College and Seminary. He was appointed professor at the National Taiwan Normal University in 1973. The first "Hsiao Tyzen Night" featuring performances of his music took place in 1975 at Zhongshan Hall in the Ximen District of Taipei. During this time Hsiao continued studies with Miss Isabel Taylor, a Canadian missionary, and Robert Scholz, an Austrian pianist and composer.Compositions dating from this period include the opera Jesus Christ (1971) on a libretto by his father and the Fantasy Waltz for Two Pianos, opus 38 (1973). Life in America

In 1977 difficult personal circumstances arising from the failure of his wife's business obliged <mask>, now the father of four children, to relocate to the United States. It was to be an eighteen-year stay. Initially <mask>, depressed and homesick, composed nothing. His musical activity during his first year in America, spent in Atlanta, was limited entirely to the occasional playing of piano in a gift shop for his own entertainment. One day an elderly woman in the shop took time to listen. "Young man," she said."You are so talented. Why are you here?" Her question re-awakened the composer's creative passion. The following year <mask> moved to Los Angeles where he began fruitful collaborations with friends and colleagues in California's Taiwanese community. Compositions flowed from his pen. Art songs included The Vagabond (1978) on his own Taiwanese text, "March of Democracy" (1980), and "What a Beautiful Taiwan" (1984). Chamber music included the Highlander's Suite for piano quintet.<mask>'s creative activity carried political consequences, though, when the Kuomintang government, displeased with "March of Democracy," suppressed performance of <mask>'s music in Taiwan and forbade his re-entry. From 1985 to 1987 <mask> earned a master's in composition at the California State University, Los Angeles. His teachers included Byong Kon Kim (composition) and Milton Stern (piano). Creative activity increased in subsequent years. 1987 saw: composition of  the Symphony Opus 49 "Formosa" and the art song "Never Disregard Taiwan" on a text by Yang-Min Lin; the release of a recording, Psalms of the Taiwanese: Tyzen Hsiao's Compositions by the North American Taiwanese Professors Association. In 1988 <mask> composed the Violin Concerto in D, opus 50. Violinist Ingrid Chun (formerly Ingrid Kuo) was the first to promote this piece in concerts throughout the US with pianist Melody Kuo.1988 was also the year <mask> composed the anthem "Taiwan the Formosa" setting a text by Rev. Er-Yu Cheng. More compositions followed: the Cello Concerto in C, opus 52 (1990); The Prelude for Pipe Organ (1990); and the song "Mother's Hair" (1990). The Prelude for Pipe Organ won the California Music Teachers Association Composition Competition in 1991. The Taiwanese American Foundation named <mask> a Humanity Award Laureate in 1989. The Wild Lily student movement of 1990 marked the beginning of rapid progress toward democracy in Taiwan. In 1992 Taiwan's government lifted its ban on <mask>'s return.That same year <mask> completed the Piano Concerto in C minor, opus 53 and the songs "The Fairest Flower" and "Eternal Homeland." Lin Cho-Liang and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (USA) gave the premier of his Violin Concerto, while Carol Ou and the Taipei County Cultural Center Orchestra gave the Cello Concerto its premier in Taiwan. In 1993 <mask> suffered a heart attack while composing the 1947 Overture. He recovered and completed the work. In 1994 Jonathan Tang and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Canada) gave the premier of the Piano Concerto. Return to Taiwan

<mask> returned to Taiwan in 1995 as part of a wave of Taiwanese living abroad who moved back in response to democratic reforms. His new residence in Tamsui faced the sea and offered work space and inspiration.Compositions after this return included: Nocturne for Violin and Piano, Fantasia for Flute and Piano, and Toccata for solo piano (1995); Formosa Trio for piano trio and Dragon Boat Festival for solo piano (1996); Angel from Formosa and Ode to Yu-Shan (Jade Mountain) for choir with piano or orchestra (1999); the cantata "The Prodigal Son" (2000). This period was a time of growing recognition of his achievements as a composer at home and abroad. The American premier of the Cello Concerto took place in 1995 with a performance by Felix Fan and the San Diego Symphony. The premier of 1947 Overture took place the same year with a performance by the Oakland Youth Orchestra featuring soprano Huang Mei-Hsing and Taiwanese-American choir. 1997 saw the formation of the Tyzen Hsiao Music Association in Taiwan. The same year saw Russian premiers of Formosa Symphony (Russian Federal Symphony), The Angel of Formosa and Violin Concerto (Moscow Symphony). Ode to Yu-Shan (Jade Mountain) was performed as part of the 2000 Presidential Inauguration in Taipei.The Russian premier of the Cello Concerto and 1947 Overture took place in 2000 in a program that included the Violin Concerto. 2001 marked the premier of Ilha Formosa: Requiem for Formosa's Martyrs (poetry by Min-Yung Lee) in Taipei. The American premiere took place soon after in Lincoln Center, New York. Retirement

In 2002 <mask> suffered a stroke while composing the Love River Symphony. He moved back to Los Angeles to better enable his recovery and suspended most of his composition activities. The Love River Symphony remains unfinished. <mask>'s music continues to be performed and recognized.The Japanese premiere of "Ilha Formosa!" took place in 2004. In 2007 Formosa Dreaming, a concert of works for orchestra and voices by <mask> and Fan-Long Ko, toured the United States after a sendoff concert in Taipei's Zhongshan Hall, the historic venue that the served as the site of the first "Tyzen Hsiao Night" in 1975. The concert features the NTNU Symphony orchestra, the Formosa Festival Choir, and four vocal soloists from Taiwan conducted by Apo Hsu. Hsiao was awarded Taiwan's National Art Prize (2004), the Wu Sam-lien Musical Contribution Award (2005), the Kaohsiung City Prize for the Arts (2006) and the National Cultural Award (2009). Death

Hsiao died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California on 24 February 2015 at the age of 77. Recordings

Audio
The Voices of Taiwan 05 – Tyzen Hsiao (2011), a double-disc recorded by the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan under their own label of "Taiwan Philharmonic".Memories of Home: <mask> Hsiao Piano Solo Works (2009), a two-disc set featuring pianist Lina Yeh. Recorded in 2007 and 2008. Includes Poetic Echoes opus 37, 38, and 40; "Memories of Home" suite, opus 49; single-movement works. Muse Art and Culture Management. Tzen Hsiao Choral Music: Love and Hope 蕭泰然: 愛與希望-蕭泰然合唱作品集. (2001) 1 CD. Conductor: Su Ching-Juin.Soprano: Fu Shang-Jen. Pianist: Tsai Yi-Shan. Formosa Singers (蘇慶俊指揮 / 傅上珍女高音 / 蔡昱姍鋼琴 / 福爾摩沙合唱團). Includes "Ode to Yu-Shan", "Taiwan the Green/Taiwan the Formosa" and sacred choral works. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association. Tel:886.2.3393.2100 Fax:886.2.2321.0136
Tyzen Hsiao Orchestral Music (2003), a two-disc set by Vakhtang Jordania and Russian Federal Orchestra with Moscow State Chorus. Includes Formosa Symphony, Violin Concerto (Alexander Trostiansky, soloist), Cello Concerto (Kiril Rodin, soloist), Piano Concerto (Anatoly Sheludyakov, soloist), tone poem Angel from Formosa, and 1947 Overture.Angelok 9912/13
Tyzen Hsiao Chamber Music (2004). 1 CD. Includes piano trio "The Formosa" and string quartet "Homeland st Dusk" with art songs and works for solo violin. Soprano: Chiong-Jong Lu. 1 Violin and Soloist: Shien-Ta Su. 2 Violin: Yu-Yuan Chen. Viola: Chan-Hang Ho.Cello: Su-Chu Tseng. Piano: Lina Yeh, <mask> Hsiao. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association. Taiwan Affection, Tyzen Heart: Tyzen Hsiao Works for Solo Violin and Piano (1999). 1 CD. Violin: Shien-Ta Su. Piano: Lina Yeh.Winner of Best Composer and Album of the Year prizes at the Taiwanese Golden Song Awards. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association. Eternal Homeland: Tyzen Hsiao Choral Works (1999). 1 CD. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association. Tyzen Hsiao Works for Solo Voice and Piano (1998), a two-disc set featuring soprano Li-Chan Chen and pianist <mask> Hsiao. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association.Tyzen Hsiao Choral Music (1995), a two-disc compilation. Tyzen Hsiao Music Association. Psalms of the Taiwanese: <mask> Hsiao's Compositions (1987). North American Taiwanese Professors Association. "The Voices of Taiwan 05: HSIAO, Tyzen: Three Concertos" (2-CD set): Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto (Hsiung, Lana 熊士蘭, cello • Ling, Jahja, Conductor • Chien, Wen-Pin, Conductor • Ensemble • Taiwan Philharmonic, NSO • Chang, Chiao-Ying, piano • Lin, Joseph, violin)

Video
Formosa Dreaming (2007). 1 DVD. Concert given 9 September  2007 by Apo Ching-Hsin Hsu conducting the National Taiwan Normal University Symphony Orchestra and Formosa Festival Chorus.Soprano: Meng-Chieh Hsieh. Alto: Yu Lee. Tenor: Ying-Tung Hsieh. Bass: Yu-Hsin Chang. Venue: San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. Repertoire by Hsiao includes the Ilha Formosa Requiem and songs "The Most Beautiful Flower", "Brother Andon Goes to Market", "The Grasshopper and the Rooster", and "Eternal Home". Also features works by Fan-Long Ko.Tyzen Hsiao Music Association with National Taiwan Normal University. , Kaohsiung Chamber Choir (蕭泰然)

See also
Composition: "Taiwan the Formosa"
Composition: Ilha Formosa: Requiem for the Formosan Martyrs
Taiwanese literature movement
Taiwanization
Presbyterian Church in Taiwan

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Printed program, The 28th National Cultural Award Ceremony and Exhibition, Executive Yuan and National Council of Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, 2009-01-07. <mask>. Composer's comments, liner notes. *Memories of Home: Tyzen Hsiao Piano Solo Works. 2 CD. Lina Yeh, pianist.Muse Art and Culture Management, 2009. Nancy T Lu. "Big Outdoor Concert of Taiwanese Music commemorates 2-28 Incident." Taiwan Culture Portal (Culture.tw). Retrieved 2008-03-25. Printed program, Formosa Dreaming, Taiwan International Culture Association,  Taipei, 2007-09-04. Fred Flaxman."Compact Discoveries Program 52: <mask> Hsiao," 2003. Retrieved 2007-09-05. Lan-Fang Lin. Thesis Abstract: "The Study of Hsiao Tyzen's Piano Music with an Analysis of Piano Concerto in C Minor Op.53" NSYSU, Kaohsiung (Taiwan), 2002. Retrieved 2007-09-06. Yuh-En Wang. Thesis Abstract: "<mask> Hsiao's Cantata The Prodigal Son."NSYSU, Kaohsiung (Taiwan), 2004. Retrieved 2007-09-06. Wan-Chi Chang, Thesis: "The Social Concept behind <mask> Hsiao's 1947 Overture." Institute of Art Studies (Taiwan), 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-25. Albums information. "<mask> Hsiao: 1947 Overture; Piano Concerto in C minor, Op.53; Symphony Formosa". All Media Guide, 2006. Retrieved 2007-09-06. Hui-Ting Yang. Dissertation abstract: "Selected Taiwanese Art Songs of Hsiao Tyzen." Analysis of "Eternal Hometown," "The Fairest Flower," "Mother's Hair," and "Never Disregard Taiwan." Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2006.Retrieved 2007-09-06. External links

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title: Moncure D. Conway

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<mask> (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland but spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine and his own autobiography. He led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel, now Conway Hall. <mask>'s parents descended from the First Families of Virginia. His father, <mask>, was a wealthy slave-holding gentleman farmer, county judge, and state representative; his home, known as the Conway House, still stands at 305 King Street (also known as River Road), along the Rappahannock River. <mask>'s mother, <mask>, was the granddaughter of Thomas Stone of Maryland (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), and in addition to running the household, also practiced homeopathy, learned from her doctor father. Both parents were Methodists, his father having left the Episcopal church, his mother the Presbyterian, and they hosted Methodist meetings in their home until a suitable church was finally built in Fredericksburg.An uncle, Judge Eustace <mask>, advocated states' rights in Virginia's General Assembly (as did <mask>). Another uncle, Richard C.L<mask>, served on what later became the Virginia Supreme Court, was a layman in the Episcopal Church, and became known for his integrity and hatred of intolerance. His great-uncle, Peter Vivian <mask>, served on the United States Supreme Court, where he upheld slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, including in the Dred Scott Decision of 1857. Two of his three brothers later fought for the Confederacy. His opposition to slavery reportedly came from his mother's side of the family, including his great-grandfather Travers <mask> (justice of the Stafford Court, died 1824) and his mother herself (who fled to Easton, Pennsylvania and lived with her daughter and son-in-law Professor Marsh after the Civil War broke out) as well as from his boyhood experiences. Nonetheless, during his youth, <mask> <mask> briefly took a pro-slavery position under the influence of a cousin, Richmond editor <mask> <mask>, himself a protege of <mask>.Early life
<mask> was born in Falmouth, Virginia. After attending the Fredericksburg Classical and Mathematical Academy (alma mater of George Washington and other famous Virginians), <mask> followed his elder brother to Methodist-affiliated Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1849. During his time at Dickinson, <mask> helped found the college's first student publication and was influenced by Professor John McClintock, which caused him to embrace Methodism as well as an anti-slavery position, although that controversy was starting to split the denomination. In Fredericksburg, uncle Eustace funded the pro-slavery Southern Conference faction and his father the at-least-theoretically anti-slavery Baltimore Conference faction. While in Cincinnati as discussed below, <mask> married <mask> <mask>. She was a fellow Unitarian, feminist, and abolitionist. The couple had three sons (two of whom survived childhood) and a daughter during their long marriage, which ended with her death from cancer in 1898.Despite the previous tension with his own family over his opposition to slavery, <mask> <mask> nevertheless brought his bride to meet them, during which Ellen broke a Southern social constraint by hugging and kissing a young slave girl in front of family members; after this, it would take 17 years before <mask> reconciled with his family. Career
After studying law for a year in Warrenton, Virginia, partly out of a moral crisis caused by seeing a lynching of a black man whose retrial had been ordered by the Court of Appeals, <mask> became a circuit-riding Methodist minister. <mask> had self-published his first pamphlet in 1850, "Free Schools in Virginia: A Plea of Education, Virtue and Thrift, vs. Ignorance, Vice and Poverty", but had been unable to convince local politicians to follow his recommendations, particularly as the pro-slavery faction believed such universal education influenced by Northern mores. His Rockville Circuit included his native state and Washington, D.C. through Rockville, Maryland, where he became acquainted with the Quaker Roger Brooke, whom he considered his first avowed abolitionist, despite his familial relation to the jurist Roger Brooke Taney. In 1853, after being reassigned to a circuit around Frederick, Maryland and shortly after his beloved elder brother Peyton died of typhoid fever and his assistant Becky of another, <mask> <mask> left the Methodist church and entered the Harvard University school of divinity to continue his spiritual journey. Before graduating in 1854, he met Ralph Waldo Emerson and fell under the influence of Transcendentalism, as well as became an outspoken abolitionist after discussions with Theodore Parker, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Wendell Phillips.In America
After graduating from Harvard, <mask> accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church of Washington, D.C., but he was invited to seek another position after enunciating abolitionist views. Moreover, when <mask> returned to his native Virginia, his rumored connection with an attempt to rescue the fugitive slave Anthony Burns in Boston, Massachusetts (whose master <mask> had known in Stafford, Virginia, before their move to Alexandria and was ultimately purchased by an abolitionist and set free) aroused bitter hostility among his old neighbors and friends and family. <mask> fled being tarred and feathered in 1854. Nonetheless, almost at once, <mask> was invited to preach sermons at the Unitarian congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served as minister at that anti-slavery congregation from late 1855 until after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. However, when in 1859, he announced to the congregation that he no longer believed in miracles or Christ's divinity, a third of the congregation left, but the "Free Church" survived. <mask> also edited a short-lived liberal periodical, The Dial, in 1860-1861, linking his emerging spiritual views to his Transcendentalist background.In Cincinnati, he became more acquainted with Jews and Catholics, and counseled against discriminating against them because of their religions. However, not all his abolitionist friends agreed with his pacificism, especially his condemnation of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry (though he also expressed disappointment at Virginia's bellicose response). Civil War
<mask> had become editor of the anti-slavery weekly Commonwealth in Boston, and in 1861, <mask> published semi-anonymously The Rejected Stone; or Insurrection vs. Resurrection in America, identifying himself only as a "Native of Virginia". The book was published in three editions and ultimately handed out to Union soldiers after the start of the American Civil War. During the next year, <mask> advocated abolition, including in a Smithsonian lecture series in Washington, DC, which earned him and the more moderate Unitarian minister William Henry Channing a meeting with President Abraham Lincoln to discuss his argument that announcing abolition would weaken the Confederacy. While in Washington, DC, <mask> located several dozen of his father's slaves who had fled from Virginia into Georgetown. <mask> secured train tickets and safe-conduct passes for them and escorted them on a dangerous trip through Maryland to safety in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he believed they would be safe because of the town's accepting culture.During the Union occupation before the devastating Battle of Fredericksburg, <mask> also returned home to Falmouth in 1862 and learned that his family's house had been spared from destruction because of its association with him although it was commandeered for use as a hospital for wounded soldiers (at which Walt Whitman would nurse). That year, <mask> published another powerful plea for emancipation, The Golden Hour (1862). On New Year's Day, 1863 (also called Emancipation Day, because President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, news of which reached Boston by telegraph), <mask> with fellow abolitionists Julia Ward Howe, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., George Luther Stearns and Wendell Phillips unveiled a marble bust of John Brown at Stearns' home. Also in 1862, after spending more and more time away from his church advancing the abolitionist cause, and growing dissatisfied with the theological, liturgical, and social conservatism of mainstream Unitarianism, <mask> left that denomination's ministry, and he maintained an uneasy and uncertain relationship with Unitarianism in America and subsequently in England until he and Ellen made a clean break. London
In April 1863, fellow American abolitionists sent <mask> to London to convince the United Kingdom that the American Civil War was primarily a war of abolition and to not support the Confederacy. Under English influence, <mask> eventually contacted James Murray Mason, representative of the Confederate States of America to Britain "on behalf of the leading antislavery men of America," offering withdrawal of support for prosecution of the war in exchange for emancipation of the slaves. Mason publicly rejected the overture, embarrassing <mask>'s sponsors, who quickly and angrily withdrew support.Moreover, <mask> had to apologize to US Secretary of State William H. Seward, who could have caused revocation of his passport for attempting to speak as a private citizen for the US government. Rather than go back to America, where <mask> no longer felt welcome as a suspected traitor to his childhood Virginia friends and neighbors and he paid someone to take his place after being drafted to serve in the Union army, <mask> traveled to Italy. There, he reunited with his wife and children in Venice before moving back to London. There, in 1864, he became minister of the South Place Chapel (serving in 1864–65 and 1893–97) as well as leader of the then named South Place Religious Society in Finsbury, London. <mask> continued writing and publishing, including articles in both British and American magazines and traveled to Paris and even Russia. He also served as a war correspondent during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. <mask> published biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine, as well as acted as the American agent for Robert Browning and the London literary agent for Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.<mask> also abandoned theism after his son Emerson died in 1864. His thinking continued to move from Emersonian transcendentalism toward a more humanistic Freethought. He conducted funeral services for his friend Artemus Ward and preached memorial at memorial services for many other famous literary figures. Moreover, women were allowed to preach at South Place Chapel, among them Annie Besant, whom Mrs. <mask> had befriended. However, the South Place congregation and <mask> soon left fellowship with the Unitarian Church. For a year from November 1865 Cleveland Hall was leased for Sunday evenings so <mask> could "address the working classes." However, the audience consisted of well-dressed lower-middle-class people.<mask> remained the leader of South Place until 1886, when Stanton Coit took his place. Under Coit's leadership, South Place was renamed to the South Place Ethical Society. However Coit's tenure ended in 1892 in a losing power struggle, and <mask> resumed leadership until his death. <mask> attended the salon of radicals Peter and Clementia Taylor at Aubrey House in Campden Hill, West London. He also was a member of Clementia's "Pen and Pencil Club", at which young writers and artists read and exhibited their works. <mask> moved to Notting Hill to be near the Taylors at Aubrey House. In 1868, <mask> was one of four speakers at the first open public meeting in support of women's suffrage in Great Britain.His many literary and intellectual friends included <mask>, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Lyell, and <mask>. In 1878, he attempted to personally endow a new, non-denominational women's college at the University of Oxford; frightened at this prospect, Anglicans made haste to instead create Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, which was the first women's college at Oxford. In the 1870s and the 1880s, <mask> returned occasionally to the United States, where he reconciled with his Virginia family in 1875 and toured in the West about Demonology and the famous Englishmen he knew. In 1897 <mask> and his terminally-ill (from cancer) wife Ellen returned from London to New York City to fulfill her wish of dying on American soil; she died on Christmas Day; their son <mask> also died that year. As the Spanish–American War approached, <mask> turned toward pacifism and became disaffected with his countrymen, moving to France to devote much of the rest of his life to the peace movement and writing. However, he occasionally returned to Fredericksburg, which had come to admire his cultural accomplishments. <mask> also traveled to India and wrote about it shortly before his death.India
<mask> visited India and described his experiences in My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East, 1906. He visited Helena Blavatsky in 1884 and denounced the Mahatma letters as fraudulent. He suggested that Koot Hoomi was a fictitious creation of Blavatsky. <mask> wrote that Blavatsky "created the imaginary Koothoomi (originally Kothume) by piecing together parts of the names of her two chief disciples, Olcott and Hume." Death
<mask> died alone, at 75, in his apartment in Paris. His corpse was found on November 15, 1907 and was ultimately returned to Westchester County, New York, for burial in Kensico cemetery. Legacy
Conway Hall in Holborn, London is named in his honor.In 2004, Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner proclaimed <mask> the only descendant of a Founding Father of the nation to physically lead slaves to freedom. Both Ohio and Virginia have erected historical markers in his honor, and <mask>'s childhood home was designated a U.S. and Virginia landmark. <mask> <mask>, 1832-1907. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1952.
d'Entremont, John. Southern Emancipator: <mask> <mask>: The American Years, 1832-1865. Oxford University Press, 1987. Easton, Loyd D. Hegel's First American Followers: The Ohio Hegelians: J.D.Stallo, Peter Kaufmann, <mask> <mask>, August Willich. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1966. Good, James A., ed. <mask> <mask>: Autobiography and Miscellaneous Writings. 3 volumes. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2003. Good, James A., ed.The Ohio Hegelians. 3 volumes. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Press, 2004. Walker, Peter. Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Abolition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. External links

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title: Greg Wyatt

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<mask> is an American representational sculptor who works primarily in cast bronze, and is the sculptor-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City. <mask> was born and raised in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York. His father was <mask>, a painter and professor of fine arts at Columbia University, Rockland Community College and the City College of New York. <mask> graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History. He attended the National Academy of Design for three years, where he studied classical sculpture, and received his certificate in sculpture, and earned a master's degree in Ceramic Arts from Columbia Teachers College in 1974. <mask> has taught at New York University and at Jersey City State College. <mask>, who considers himself to be part of a "representational art underground" along with artists such as Kent Ullberg, Anthony Pandovano and Fredrick Hart, bases his work on the philosophy of "spiritual realism," merging realistic images and abstract masses of form, space and energy.Stanley Wells, a Shakespearian scholar and chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, says, "I compare <mask> to Rodin. He's that good." "<mask> emulates the sculpture of the western world with contemporary vision." His works have been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University, among other institutions and collections, and can be seen in more than 20 public spaces in cities from New York to Beijing. In 1972, <mask> was involved in an accident in his garage studio in Yonkers, New York which he says "defined [his] career", when he poured 150 pounds of melted bronze at 2100 degrees Fahrenheit (1148 degrees Celsius) into a home-made crucible intending to make a casting from the wax mold of the upper torso of a female model named Helaine. The resulting blast blew up the floor, sending molten bronze and pellets of the wax mold flying and injured the artist's left arm. <mask> has refused to sell the remains of the attempted casting, which he dubbed Volcanus.A <mask> sculpture can cost as much as $2.4 million, and his corporate commissions have included a bronze statue of J.C. Penney founder James Penney which weighs 3 tons and cost $250,000. Notable works
 Fantasy Fountain (1983) – Gramercy Park, New York City
 Peace Fountain (1985) – The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City
 "Baryshnikov" (1981), Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
 " Two Sculptures" (1994), Newington Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
 Two Sculptors (1999) – Georgetown University Medical School
 Victory Eagle (1998) and Hippomenes (1999) – Hofstra University
 Bill of Rights Eagle – (1998) Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Arlington, VA
 Tree of Learning (2000) – Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
 The Tempest (1999), Hamlet (2000), King Lear (2001), Julius Caesar (2002), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2005), Falstaff/Henry IV (2006), Macbeth (2007) and The Winter’s Tale {2008} – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, England
 Soaring American Eagle (2000) – bronze, courtyard of the State Department in Washington, D.C. The Price of Freedom (2003) – Visitors Center, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
 "Soul of the Arts", "Baryshnikov/Spirit of Dance", "Two Peacocks" (2004); La Schola Cantorum de Paris, Paris, France
 The Tempest, Julius Caesar, King Lear and Hamlet (2003), Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV, Part 2, and Macbeth (2004) – Elizabethan Garden of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
 'Scholars' Lion' (2004) – Columbia University
 "Folger Shakespeare Library" (four study model series), 2005; Beijing University, People's Republic of China
 "Aspire" (2005) Quees Tabe Commission for the Academic and Performing Arts Center, CPCC, Charlotte, NC
 "Novation" (2007), Giardino, Bardini, Florence, Italy
 "Heaven and Hell", "Mitosis", "Dante Among the Flames", "Dante's Inferno" (2008); Casa di Dante, Florence, Italy. "Empedocles Bronze Monument Courtyard: Air, Wind, Fire and Water" (2008), Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Sicily
 "Moon Face" (2010), Museo Civico di San Gimignano, Siena, Italy
 "Two Rivers" (2010) Museo dell Opera del Duomo di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
 "Beatrice", Tall Torch of Liberty", "Egyptian Fish" (2011) Giardino Scotto, Comune di Pisa, Italy
 "Bathsheba" (2011) Piazza San Agostino, Comune di Arezzo. Eagle" (1978)
EXHIBITIONS
 The Cathedral of St John the Divine (Jun-Sept 2017),  "The Peace Fountain and Animals of Freedom" A Summer of Sculpture at the Cathedral
 U.S. Senate Russel Building Rotunda, United States Congress, Washington, DC. "Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Sanford Robinson Gifford" 2016
 Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC. "Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Sanford Robinson Gifford" 2016
 Schola Cantorum, Paris France."Volcanus", "Arnaud d'Hautrives portrait" 2015
 "Artwalk" Highland Falls, NY. "All Services Guardian Angel" 2015
 Columbus Citizens Foundation, NY/ Waldorf Astoria; "Baryshnikov-in-flight", 2015
 Columbus Citizens Foundation, NY/ Waldorf Astoria; "Luna" 2014
 Organization of American States, Washington, DC; "Luna", "Baryshnikov", "Soul of the Arts" 2014
 Embassy of Canada, Washington, DC; "Homage to Hudson River School of Painting: Four Masters" 2016
 Rayburn Building Foyer, United States Congress, Washington, DC; "Homage to Hudson River School of Painting: Four Masters" 2016
 Porto Empedocle, Sicily. "Empedocle's Water, Earth" 2013
 Rayburn Building Foyer, United States Congress, Washington, DC; "Anger and the Dying Unknown", "World War II Memorial" 2012
 Ft. Monroe, Hamilton, VA; "Anger and the Dying Unknown", "World War II Memorial" 2012
 America Legion Headquarters, Washington,DC; "Angel and the Dying Unknown", "World War II Memorial" 2012
 Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra, Italy; "Four Empedocles Urns" 2012
 Brookgreen Gardens, Murrels Inlet, SC; " 2011 Rainey Master Sculptor"
 Columbus Citizens Foundation, New York, NY; "Eternal Spring" 2011
 Piazza Signoria, Florence. Italy; "Two Rivers" 2009
 Santuario del Beato Giacomo, Ex Convento del Dominicani. Bitetto, Bari, Italy; "Origini", 2009
 Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Sicily; "Empedocles" 2008
 Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy. "Burnham Wood" 2007
 Regione Toscana, Florence, Italy; "Burnham Wood" 2007
 Istituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze, Florence, Italy; "Transatlantic Bridges Through Sculpture", 2006
 United States Consulate General, Florence, Italy; "Transatlantic Bridges Through Sculpture", 2004
 Institute of Directors, London, UK; Great Garden of Sculpture Education Program, 2004
 American Embassy International Marketing Center, London, UK ; "Global Gardens of Shakespeare Sculpture" 2003
 The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY; "From Model to Monument"
 Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC; "Shakespeare Bronze Models" 2002
 U.S. Senate Russel Building Rotunda, United States Congress, Washington, DC; "Bill of Rights Eagle" 1995
 Supreme Court, Office of the Chief Justice, Washington, DC; "Bill of Rights Eagle"1995
 U.S. House of Representatives, House Intelligence Committee Anteroom, Washington, DC;  "Bill of Rights Eagle" 1995
 National Academy f Design, New York, NY; "Centennial Samuel B. Morse" 1992
 Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Wing, New York, NY. "Bronze Castings" 1991
 Harvard University, Dudley House Gallery and Courtyard, Cambridge, MA; "Novation" 1991
 Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ;  "Solo Exhibition"

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Columbia College Today    https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/summer16/article/scholarly-artist

External links
"Art Lovers: Sculpture - George Wyatt" images of Peace Fountain, Fantasy Fountain and Scholar's Lion

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<mask> (19 May 1933 – 9 June 2021) was a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor, philosopher, and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats, and was a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools. Life and career
<mask> was born in Malta on 19 May 1933. Educated at St. Edward's College, Malta, he then gained a medical degree from the University of Malta. Following this, he proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained an MA in psychology and physiology. He represented Oxford in polo and set two canoeing records. He then gained a PhD degree in medicine from Trinity College, Cambridge, an honorary DDes (Doctor of Design) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and an honorary LLD from the University of Dundee.<mask> held faculty appointments at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge (where he helped to establish the university's medical school), London and Harvard. He was a professor at the University of Malta, the University of Pretoria, the University of Central England (now called Birmingham City University) and Dublin City University. <mask> held the Da Vinci Professor of Thinking chair at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona, US. He was one of the 27 Ambassadors for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009. The originator of the term 'Lateral Thinking', <mask> wrote 85 books with translations into 46 languages. He taught his thinking methods to government agencies, corporate clients, organizations and individuals, privately or publicly in group sessions. He promoted the World Center for New Thinking (2004-2011), based in Malta, which applied Thinking Tools to solution and policy design on the geopolitical level.In 1976, <mask> took part in a radio debate for the BBC with British philosopher A.J. Ayer, on the subject of effective democracy. Starting on Wednesday 8 September 1982, the BBC ran a series of 10 weekly programmes entitled "<mask>o's Thinking Course". In the shows, Dr <mask> <mask> explained how thinking skills could be improved by attention and practice. The series was repeated the following year. A book with the same title accompanied the series. In May 1994, he gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in The Independent as "Thinking Hats On".In 1995, he created the futuristic documentary film, 2040: Possibilities by <mask> <mask>, depicting a lecture to an audience of viewers released from a cryogenic freeze for contemporary society in the year 2040. In 2005, he was nominated (and reached the shortlist) for the Nobel Prize in Economics. Schools from over 20 countries have included <mask>o's thinking tools into their curriculum, and he has advised and lectured at the board level at many of the world's leading corporations. Convinced that a key way forward for humanity is a better language, he published The Edward de Bono Code Book in 2000. In this book, he proposed a suite of new words based on numbers, where each number combination represents a useful idea or situation that currently does not have a single-word representation. For example, <mask>o code 6/2 means "Give me my point of view and I will give you your point of view." Such a code might be used in situations where one or both of the two parties in a dispute are making insufficient effort to understand the other's perspective.Asteroid 2541 Edebono discovered by Luboš Kohoutek is named after him. Personal life
In 1971 he married Josephine Hall-White. They had two sons, Caspar and Charlie, and later divorced. Other ideas
<mask> invented the L game, which he introduced in his book The Five-Day Course in Thinking. In 2000, <mask> advised a UK Foreign Office committee that the Arab–Israeli conflict might be due, in part, to low levels of zinc found in people who eat unleavened bread (e.g. pita flatbread). <mask> argued that low zinc levels leads to heightened aggression.He suggested shipping out jars of Marmite to compensate. <mask> <mask> argued that companies could raise money just as governments now do – by printing it. He put forward the idea of private currency as a claim on products or services produced by the issuer. So IBM might issue "IBM Dollars" – theoretically redeemable for IBM equipment, but also practically tradable for other vouchers or cash. To make such a scheme work, IBM would have to learn to manage the supply of money to ensure that—with too many vouchers chasing too few goods—inflation does not destroy the value of their creations. But companies should be able to manage that trick at least as easily as governments do, particularly as they don't have voters to cope with. Critiques
The following three published critiques of <mask>'s work emphasize the lack of evidence to support his proposals.In the Handbook of Creativity, Robert J. Sternberg writes, Equally damaging to the scientific study of creativity, in our view, has been the takeover of the field, in the popular mind, by those who follow what might be referred to as a pragmatic approach. Those taking this approach have been concerned primarily with developing creativity, secondarily with understanding it, but almost not at all with testing the validity of their ideas about it. [...] Perhaps the foremost proponent of this approach is <mask> <mask>, whose work on lateral thinking and other aspects of creativity has had what appears to be considerable commercial success. Frameworks For Thinking is an evaluation of 42 popular thinking frameworks conducted by a team of researchers. Regarding <mask> <mask> they write, [he] is more interested in the usefulness of developing ideas than proving the reliability or efficacy of his approach. There is sparse research evidence to show that generalised improvements in thinking performance can be attributed to training in the use of CoRT [Cognitive Research Trust] or Thinking Hats tools. An early evaluation of CoRT reported significant benefits for Special Educational Needs (SEN) pupils...However, in a more recent study with Australian aboriginal children (Ritchie and <mask>, 1996), little evidence of generalisation was found other than in the area of creative thinking. Summarising <mask>'s 1985 work in Conflicts: A Better Way to Resolve Them, M. Afzalur Rahim, distinguished professor of management at Western Kentucky University with a particular focus on conflict management in organizations, gives his view that, as pertains to Rahim's own field of research, "<mask>'s approach to total elimination of conflict is no different from the approaches of the classicists. This approach to dealing with conflict is completely out of tune with modern thinking and, therefore, unsatisfactory." Published works

A partial list of books by <mask> includes:
 The Use of Lateral Thinking (1967) , introduced the term "lateral thinking"
 New Think (1967, 1968)
 The Five-Day Course in Thinking (1968), introduced the L game
 The Mechanism of Mind (1969), Intl Center for Creative Thinking 1992 reprint:
 Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step, (1970), Harper & Row 1973 paperback:
 The Dog-Exercising Machine (1970)
 Technology Today (1971)
 Practical Thinking (1971)
 Lateral Thinking for Management (1971)
 Po: A Device for Successful Thinking (1972), , introduced the term Po
 Children Solve Problems (1972) ,  (1974 reprint)
 Po: Beyond Yes and No (1973),
 Eureka! : Are Americans Really Free? (2007)
 Intelligence, Information, Thinking (2007)
 Six Frames For Thinking About Information (2008)
 The Love of Two Cockroaches (2009)
 Think! Before It's Too Late (2009)
 Lateral Thinking - An Introduction (2014)
 Bonting - Thinking to Create Value (2016)
De Bono also wrote numerous articles published in refereed and other journals, including The Lancet and Clinical Science.See also
 Lateral thinking
 Parallel thinking
 Six Thinking Hats

References

Further reading
 Piers Dudgeon: Breaking Out of the Box: The Biography of <mask> <mask>. London: Headline, 2001. External links

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<mask> is a Russian-born cellist, living in the United States. In 2007 he was the gold prize winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Biography

Born in Moscow in 1983 to two cellists, one a teacher at the Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory, the other a Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra cellist, <mask> began studying the cello at age five. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, he studied at an advanced level with, among others, the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich. He is currently an Artist Diploma student at Boston's Longy School of Music. In 2008, he inaugurated, together with pianist Constantine Finehouse, the Trieste Chamber Music Association's Salotto Cameristico to great acclaim. Hailed as “…a brilliant cellist…” (M. Rostropovich) and “… a complete artist,
both from the point of view of his unimpeachable technique and musically, with a
cantabile quality and an energy that merge in a harmonious whole...” (Alberto Coda,
Vita Nuova, Catholic Weekly of Trieste, Italy.May 2, 2008). Cellist <mask>
“… literally spellbound the rapt audience ... with an expressive mastery of
extraordinary maturity, realized through a technical skill exhibited without glitz but
with the naturalness that characterizes a genial interpreter…” (Patrizia Ferialdi, Il
Piccolo, Trieste, Italy. May 30, 2008). In the summer of 2007, <mask> became one of the youngest cellists to win a Gold
medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has circled the globe, performing concerts in Japan, Korea, Bulgaria, Poland,
Russia, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, United Arab Emirates and the
US. He performs extensively with the most prominent orchestras, in the most
prestigious halls of Russia, his home country, under the management of the Moscow
Philharmony with whom he holds a five-year soloist contract. In the summer of 2008, <mask> had made his American debut at the Newport
Music Festival followed by solo recitals at Estivales de musique en medoc 2008 in
Bordeaux, France, concerts in Savonlinna, Finland as well as in St. Petersburg, Russia.In July, he performed a live concert on the Boston’s radio show “Classics in the Morning” with Cathy Fuller on WGBH 89.7 FM. Highlights of his 2008 season included a 10-concert tour of Japan and Korea in
January/February, culminating with performances of the Brahms Double Concerto in
Moscow's Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Other performances included
appearances with the Petrozavodsk Symphony, chamber music collaborations with the
Lyrica Chamber Music Series as their "Young Artist of the Year", and the Chamber
Music Foundation of New England. He gave solo concerts in Trieste, Italy and chamber
music concerts in Dubai, that  were followed by concerts at the Great Hall of the
Moscow Conservatory in performance of the Schumann cello concerto with Moscow
Conservatory Symphony Orchestra . After his performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto
with the Moscow Philharmonic in its "Stars of The 21st Century” series, a critic wrote “…[Antonov] is …unique…from a different world...a musician who has his own inner space…a performer, who turns each phrase, every deeply felt sound into an event of his own inner monologue…with such consciously developed nuances, sensitivity, such
concentration in combination with the feeling of drama…” (Marina Borisova, Daily
Telegraph, No.91, Moscow, Russian Federation. May 20, 2008). This season brought <mask> to Switzerland, Russia, Hungary and back to the U.S.
to perform Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra in
the Lane series in Vermont and Longy Chamber Orchestra in Cambridge, Mass.In
January 2009, <mask> has opened a new music series in Boston called “Great Russian
Years” dedicated to the Great Russian composers. In Spring 2009 he is scheduled to
perform extensively in Russia (January, February, March, April), Spain (March), Italy, Sweden (April), and Serbia (May) with summer engagements in the United States  at Newport and New Hampshire music festivals in July. <mask> was born in 1983 into a family of cellists. His parents guided his
first years, especially his mother, Maria Zhuravleva, a leading cello pedagogue at the prestigious Central Music School at the Moscow Conservatory. His late father, Boris, was a gifted cellist and a member of the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Natalia Schakhovskaya and chamber music with Alexander Bonduryansky. Presently <mask> is an Artist Diploma
candidate working with the Grammy nominated cellist Terry King at the Longy School
of Music.<mask> won top prizes in the Dotzauer and David Popper Competitions, was
named “Favorite Artist in the Cello Division” at the Tchaikovsky Competition by Toyota Corp., as well as a recipient of the “2008 Golden Talent Award “ by the Russian Performing Art Foundation. He has triumphed in many other competitions including first prizes at the Swedish Duo Competition, the International Chamber Music Competition of the Chamber Music Foundation of New England and the National ASTA Competition in Detroit (2007). A great influence on the cellist was his work with the late Mstislav Rostropovich. <mask> was a frequent participant in his master classes at the Moscow Conservatory,
which led to the maestro's invitation to join him on tours of Europe and Russia. He has collaborated with such artists as Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Simonov, Justus Franz, Dora
Schwartzberg, Vadim Rudenko, Bernadene Blaha, John Lenehan. Spring 2009 will
bring new collaborations with Maxim Vengerov, David Geringas, Eugene Bushkov and
Mikhail Pletnev. “There are few musicians this talented, with this esoteric ability, being able to
touch the listener so deeply and put them in another dimension.<mask> is
playing with intuition, he breathes and lives in music; the instrument is a natural
extension of him.” (Sven Bertilsson, Katrineholm Kuriren, Sweden. July 2008)
“…this musician has a serious artistic future.” (Marina Borisova, Daily Telegraph, No.91, Moscow, Russian Federation. May 20, 2008). References
 www.sergeyantonov.com
 www.sergeyantonov.com: Press kit
 www.sergeyantonov.com: Press kit, full biography
 cdbaby.com: <mask>
 www.digstation.com: Album details

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title: David Sirota

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<mask><mask> (born November 2, 1975) is an American journalist, columnist at The Guardian, editor for Jacobin, author, television writer, and screenwriter. He is also a political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, political spokesperson, and blogger. In March 2019, he began working as the senior advisor and speechwriter on the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. In 2022, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for conceiving the story for Netflix's Don't Look Up alongside co-writer and director Adam McKay. Early life and education
<mask> was born in New Haven, Connecticut, but grew up in the Montgomery County suburbs outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After being educated at the William Penn Charter School, he went to Northwestern University, where he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in journalism and political science.He has lived in various cities around the country including Philadelphia, Chicago, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Helena, and Denver. Career

Politics
<mask>'s career in political campaigns began when he was a research director for Illinois State Senator Howard W. Carroll's unsuccessful run for U.S. Representative in Illinois's 9th congressional district in the 1998 election; Carroll lost in the Democratic primary to Illinois State Representative Jan Schakowsky. In 1999, <mask> served as Dwight Evans's deputy mayoral campaign manager in Philadelphia, but was let go for "overzealous behavior" related to the creation of a fake website with damaging racial comments attributed to their opponent John White, Jr. Evans said he believed that <mask> had not created the bogus page, but had discussed it with the person who created it who was his friend and former college roommate. <mask> then became a fundraiser for Joe Hoeffel in his first successful campaign for the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. Later he moved to Washington, D.C. and worked in the political department of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). His next job was as press aide and spokesperson for Bernie Sanders while he was serving as the at-large U.S. Representative from Vermont. <mask> worked as spokesperson for the House Appropriations Committee.While a fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research and advocacy group, he created its Progress Report. In 2003 Newsweek profiled <mask> as a "political operative" skilled at "hacking out a daily barrage of anti-Bush media clips, commentary, and snappy quotes" who made "guerrilla attacks on the Bush administration", and who was "well schooled in the art of Washington warfare." According to the article, <mask>'s main weapons were computer emails. <mask> was described as the "Internet child of the Clinton War Room generation." Former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta said of <mask>: "I just saw he had an eye for critique and the instinct for the jugular." For example, <mask> unearthed a two-year-old comment that Colin Powell had made to the effect that "Iraq posed no threat to its neighbors, and possessed no 'significant capability' in weapons of mass destruction." <mask> made Powell's statements more widely known.Reporters pounced, and it became a public relations blow to the Bush administration. <mask> was credited with having revealed that $87 billion for Iraq could have been used to erase huge state deficits at home, a fact that was repeated by Democrats nationwide. He served as a senior strategist for Brian Schweitzer's unsuccessful 2000 Senate campaign and successful 2004 gubernatorial campaign. In September 2006, <mask> worked as a political consultant for Ned Lamont's U.S. Senate campaign. Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in the primary, but Lieberman ran as an independent and defeated Lamont in the November election. In 2008, <mask> was co-chair of the Progressive Legislative Action Network (now renamed the Progressive States Network). He was a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future.Sanders campaign
On March 19, 2019, the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign announced it had hired <mask> to work as a senior advisor and speechwriter. <mask> was accused of launching attacks against Sanders's Democratic opponents on Twitter and through articles for The Guardian on behalf of the campaign as early as December. However, according to <mask> and The Guardian, the Sanders campaign did not engage in conversations related to his hiring until January. The Guardian spokeswoman Deepal Patadia said after they were informed about the conversations <mask> quit filing columns for The Guardian. <mask> continued to contribute to Capital & Main and interviewed Washington Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat who launched a 2020 presidential campaign. They talked about how Inslee planned to address the issue of climate change through his campaign. On Twitter, Capital & Main stated on March 20, 2019,

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In May 2005, <mask> became a contributor to The Huffington Post while writing his own blog.He was a regular guest on The Al Franken Show and makes guest appearances on The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NOW, Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNBC, and NPR. He is a senior editor at In These Times, a regular columnist for The Nation and the Intermountain Jewish News, and a past contributor to The American Prospect. He has been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and the San Francisco Chronicle. <mask> was a contributor to OpenLeft, a now-defunct progressive political blog. In June 2007, he replaced the late progressive columnist Molly Ivins with a column to be syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate. <mask> became a contributing writer for Salon in May 2011. From 2009 to 2012, <mask> was the morning host at the Denver progressive talk station KKZN.<mask> was initially filling in for Jay Marvin on his eponymous program; but Marvin was ultimately unable to return, and <mask> became the permanent host in 2010. <mask> also guest hosted for Thom Hartmann and Norman Goldman. On July 16, 2012, <mask> moved to sister station KHOW to co-host an afternoon drive program with former George W. Bush administration FEMA director Michael D. Brown, The Rundown with <mask> and Brown. In January 2013, after nearly four years in radio, <mask> parted ways with KHOW/Clear Channel. Insiders speculate the reason for the abrupt departure was friction between the two co-hosts; it left Brown with his own show. In March 2017, <mask> joined The Young Turks online broadcast network as a contributor, providing periodic investigative reports. In early 2018, after four years of reporting for the International Business Times as senior editor of investigations, <mask> left that publication.In May 2020, some weeks after ending his work with Bernie Sanders's 2020 campaign, <mask> joined Jacobin as editor-at-large. Hostile Takeover
In May 2006, Random House's Crown Publishers released <mask>'s book Hostile Takeover. The first chapter of the book was published in The New York Times in July 2006. <mask> read sections of his book in public. In the book, <mask> argued that corporate interests are driving U.S. economic policy. The book became a The New York Times bestseller on July 9, 2006, entering at #23 on the nonfiction list. The paperback edition came out a year later.<mask>'s Hostile Takeover (2006) was reviewed by The New York Times critic Tobin Harshaw who described <mask> as a "Montana-based blogger with a take-no-prisoners mind-set" with "an admirably organized mind". Harshaw applauded some <mask> suggestions as "admirably specific, occasionally realistic and arguably on the side of the angels" and capable of bipartisan support, such as his recommendations for "regulating malpractice insurance for doctors... restoring state control over class-action laws... (and) forcing chief executives to certify corporate tax returns so they face liability for fraud." He felt <mask> was critical of "mainstream Democratic centrists". Harshaw criticized the writing style as "cliched" and "oppressive" and too lengthy and needing an editor, but admitted <mask> presented a "creditable analysis." <mask> responded to Harshaw's review in a letter to the editor. <mask> denied his book was critical of mainstream Democrats, but aimed squarely at "exposing Republican hypocrisy." He described his position as a "centrist exploration of the corruption of the entire system" that "isn't the fault of just one party or another."There was controversy in Washington, D.C., in 2007 about whether <mask> was a "journalist" or an "activist". While the Washington press corps tends to see him as an "activist", at one point he was criticized for skirting the rules about access to Congress, which would on some occasions deny activists access, by getting a "temporary intern's ID"; this gave him access to the Senate chamber, but he was criticized in The Washington Post afterward. He was described as having "pulled an end-run around the press galleries." Sirota denied he got "special access" and that such a claim was "just bizarre". He added: "I think a lot of reporters on the Hill want to monopolize access to our government as a way to preserve their monopoly on news I guess." Some analysts observed that conservative journalists were activists as well; one noted "(Weekly Standard columnist) Fred Barnes has credentials, he espouses political views." The Uprising
<mask>'s book The Uprising was released in June 2008.It was ranked 20th on The New York Times bestseller list on June 15, 2008. The book was also listed on The New York Times Political Bestseller list for the month of July 2008. <mask> made speeches about his book at venues such as Hofstra University. A mostly positive review of The Uprising from Publishers Weekly described the book as chronicling "how ordinary citizens on the right and the left are marshaling their frustrations with the government into uprisings across the country." The reviewer cited "entertaining case studies" with a "conversational" tone and a fast-paced narrative with "numerous high notes." <mask> gave a "fine elucidation of continuing Democratic support for the Iraq War" and examined the "echo chamber qualities of beltway television shows like Hardball." The book presents "a rousing account of the local uprisings already in effect."A Newark Star-Ledger political critic reviewing the book described <mask> as an "enterprising" reporter who used "resourceful" tactics to get entry into such venues as Capitol Hill, the Microsoft campus, an ExxonMobil stockholders meeting, and the Mexican border. In the book, <mask> attacks CNN star Lou Dobbs less for his "endless broadcasts on illegal immigration" but more for the way he "browbeats his staff and runs roughshod over the CNN management." The critic felt the book's "search for a national uprising is somewhat out of focus" but was a "lively read." Political views
<mask> is a critic of neoliberal economic policies, and has leveled criticism at the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama administrations. <mask> supported John Edwards in the 2008 Democratic party primaries. He has criticized the Democratic Leadership Council and other Democrats, who he claims have "sold out" to corporate interests, and has argued that the term "centrist" is a misnomer in that these politicians are out of touch with public opinion. <mask>'s article "The Democrats' Da Vinci Code" argues that leftist politicians are more successful in so-called "red states" than the mainstream media have previously reported.He is an opponent of free trade policies, a supporter of fair trade, and an advocate of workers' rights and organized labor. His May 2007 speech at the Montana AFL-CIO Convention in Butte articulated many of his views. <mask> supported Sherrod Brown over Paul Hackett for the 2006 Senate election in Ohio and criticized Hackett's claims that he was "forced out" of the race by party elders as disingenuous. In 2008, <mask> stated on radio program Democracy Now! that he had cast an early vote for Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama. <mask> has been a strong supporter of the economic stimulus efforts of the Obama administration. However, he has criticized such efforts as insufficient and has strongly supported further stimulus efforts.<mask> was criticized by Fox News hosts and commentators Mark Steyn, Bill O'Reilly, Greg Gutfeld, and Robert Spencer in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing for an article he wrote for Salon entitled "Let's Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American." Some other journalists and political analysts have criticized <mask>. In his article comparing two approaches to progressive politics, statistician Nate Silver disparaged <mask>'s approach as "playing fast and loose with the truth and using some of the same demagogic precepts that the right wing does." Regarding <mask>'s political analysis and projections, including his predictions during the 2008 presidential election, Al Giordano derided him as "an inverted compass: when Sirota says 'heads,' you can make a lot of money betting on 'tails.'" In 2016, right-wing commentators at the conservative National Review and libertarian Reason upbraided <mask> for his 2013 Salon article entitled "Hugo Chavez's economic miracle". <mask> wrote in 2013 that Chavez was "no saint", but also that his socialist and redistributionist policies had led to Venezuela's GDP more than doubling and reduced poverty to the third-lowest level in South America. His detractors charge that <mask> overlooked that Venezuela's economic gains were based almost entirely on petroleum exports, and with the worldwide drop in oil prices Venezuela's economy has been in shambles, with shortages and rationing of food, electricity, and toilet paper.In 2018, <mask> argued immediate action must be taken against the influence and power of oil and gas corporations to fight climate change, and Democrats must choose a side. "Will our political class behold the fossil fuel industry's sociopathy and realize that we face an existential choice between profits and ecological survival?" asked <mask>. Family
In January 2018, <mask>'s wife, Emily, announced candidacy for a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, promising a "bold, progressive agenda." In June, she won the Democratic primary in District 9, based in southeastern Denver. In November, she won the general election, with 72 percent of the vote to Republican Bob Lane's 28. Depiction in fiction
<mask> was a schoolmate of television producer and writer Adam F. Goldberg.<mask> is a recurring minor character in the ABC television comedy The Goldbergs, which is based on Goldberg's childhood, portrayed by Sam Kindseth. The episode "Van People" was dedicated to <mask> and uses archive footage of <mask> during his time at William Penn Charter School. The episode also briefly featured his appearance on The Colbert Report. Bibliography
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back, 2006
The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington, 2008
Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, 2011

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References

External links

<mask>'s home page
<mask>'s syndicate website

1975 births
American bloggers
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American political consultants
Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign
HuffPost writers and columnists
Jewish American writers
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Northwestern University alumni
People from Helena, Montana
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The Young Turks people
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title: Chris Rapley

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<mask>  (born 8 April 1947) is a British scientist. He is Professor of Climate Science at University College London, a Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, a member of the Academia Europaea, Chair of the European Science Foundation's European Space Sciences Committee, Patron of the Surrey Climate Commission, a member of the scientific advisory board of Scientists Warning, a member of the UK Clean Growth Fund Advisory Board, and a member of the UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. His previous posts include Director of the Science Museum (London), Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Chairman of the London Climate Change Partnership, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Vice President of the European Science Foundation's European Polar Board, executive director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, founder and leader of UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory's (MSSL) Remote Sensing Group. In the 1970s he was instrument scientist on two Skylark sounding rocket payloads flown from Woomera, Australia to study the Soft X-ray Diffuse Background, on four Aerobee flights from White Sands, New Mexico in collaboration with the Lockheed Missile and Space Co's (LMSC) Palo Alto research laboratory to test a new design of solar X-ray spectrometer. He was instrument scientist for the Bent Crystal Spectrometer and Flat Crystal Spectrometer detector package flown on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission as part of the X-Ray Polychromator provided by UCL MSSL, LMSC and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 1994 whilst on a sabbatical at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory he contributed to the design of the Cassini RADAR instrument to study Saturn's moon, Titan. He led numerous ESA-funded studies on the use of radar altimeters to study Earth's polar ice, land and inland water, underpinning the ESA Earth Observation satellite series ERS-1, ERS-2, and Envisat.The MSSL group provided the on-board calibration sources for the UK Along-Track Scanning Radiometer flown on the same spacecraft. He was Chair of the International Council of Science - World Meteorological Organisation's International Planning Group for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 and a member of the IPY Steering Committee. From 2012 to 2016 he was a member, then chair, of the European Space Agency Director General's High-Level Science Policy Advisory Committee. His current interests are in the role of climate scientists in society, the communication of climate science and the need to better balance the discovery of new facts about the climate system and the delivery of benefit to society. He is Chair of the UCL Policy Commission on Communicating Climate Science and chair of the advisory board to the UCL Climate Action Unit. In 2014 Rapley and the playwright Duncan Macmillan wrote the acclaimed play 2071 which Rapley performed in 2014/15 at the Royal Court Theatre and in Hamburg and Brussels. The book '2071 - The World We'll Leave Our Grandchildren' is available from John Murray.More recently <mask> was the Science Consultant on BBC1's ‘Climate Change – The Facts’ presented by Sir David Attenborough, and on the BBC1 three-part series 'Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World'. In 2003 <mask> was appointed CBE by Her Majesty the Queen. In 2008 he was awarded the Edinburgh Science Medal for having made 'a significant contribution to the understanding and wellbeing of humanity'. Life and career
Born on 8 April 1947, <mask> was educated at King Edward's School, Bath, Jesus College, Oxford (obtaining a BA in Physics in 1969), Manchester University (obtaining a MSc in Radio Astronomy in 1976) and University College, London (obtaining a PhD in X-ray Astronomy in 1976). <mask> married Norma Khan in 1970 and they have twin daughters, Emma Jane and Charlotte Anne. Between 1975 and 1981, <mask> was a scientist on NASA's Solar Maximum Mission, and was then a lecturer at the Department of Space and Climate Physics of University College London from 1981 to 1987. He was professor of Remote Sensing Science at University College London from 1991 to 1997, during which time (1994 to 1997) he was executive director of the International Geosphere-Bisophere Programme, heading up the Secretariat hosted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.He was Director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1998 to 2007. During his time as Director, he helped Al Gore with the "Live Earth" concert (7 July 2007) by arranging for the Rothera Research Station's in-house band, Nunatak, to perform in Antarctica as part of the event. <mask> became a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge in 1999. He was awarded the CBE in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed as Director of the Science Museum. Theatre
<mask> co-wrote a one-man play 2071 with playwright Duncan Macmillan, which he performed at London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2014. The play was published by John Murray in June 2015.Portrait
Rapley agreed to sit for Jon Edgar in Fittleworth during 2009 as part of the sculptor's environmental series of heads. Museum Oil and Gas Sponsorship
In October 2021 <mask> resigned from the Science Museum Group's Scientific Advisory Board over the issue of gallery and exhibit sponsorship by oil and gas companies, citing; "The reality of the climate crisis, the need to abolish fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and analyses such as the recent Carbon Tracker Report which bring into question the commitment of the oil and gas companies to do so". References

External links
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences/people/academic/prof-chris-rapley
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/<mask>ley
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cMmZZmoAAAAJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prr_XUkE7qs
Rapley's profile, Science Museum
2017 talk by <mask>ley on climate change
Interview with <mask>ley on anniversary of Climate Change Act and preparedness for impacts

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Chris Rap
Chris Rap
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