texts: character's relationship with Detective Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) became a hit with viewers. In this role, she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, winning at the 1997 Emmy Awards. In 2001, NYPD Blue producer Steven Bochco chose <mask> for the lead in the new television series Philly and she was written out of NYPD Blue. Despite critical acclaim, the show lasted only one season. In 2002, <mask> was the female lead on the new CBS drama series CSI: Miami, a spin-off of sorts from the hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She was written off the series after just 10 episodes; Entertainment Weekly suggested that it had been due to a lack of chemistry between <mask> and star David Caruso. After briefly returning in 5 episodes of NYPD Blue (one at the end of season 10 and a four-episode story arc mid-way through Season 11), <mask> starred in the 2004 NBC miniseries 10.5, and its 2006 sequel, 10.5: Apocalypse.The following year, she began a recurring role on The O.C. In 2006, <mask> starred in an episode of Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King titled "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band," about Rock and Roll Heaven. <mask> next appeared twice on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in early 2007, guest-starring on the episodes "Philadelphia" and "Florida". <mask> played the main role of Claudia Joy Holden on the Lifetime Television series Army Wives. In November 2012, a few weeks after the end of season six, it was announced that <mask> would not be returning for the show's seventh season, with a short storyline that her character had died. In early 2016, <mask> was cast in God Bless the Broken Road, a feature film based on the song of the same

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 name. It was released in the United States on September 7, 2018.In September 2020, <mask> joined the cast of General Hospital in the role of Jackie Templeton; she made her first appearance on October 6. Personal life
<mask> has been married and divorced twice. She married actor Charles Grant, also known as Charles Flohe, on July 22, 1984. Her second marriage, to actor Joseph Cortese from 1989 to 1994, produced a son named Jack, born circa 1990. She was engaged for a time to producer Alan Barnette. Like her character in her breakout role on the television series NYPD Blue, <mask> has struggled with alcoholism. In 2002, <mask> was arrested in Malibu, California, for suspicion of drunk driving after she refused to take a breathalyzer test.She subsequently pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years' probation, fined, and ordered to take a defensive driving course. In 2003, after being dropped from the cast of CSI: Miami, <mask> checked herself into an alcohol rehab center. In 2005, she lost custody of her then 15-year-old son after endangering his life by forcing him to ride with her when she drove while intoxicated, which her son testified was not the first such incident. In 2011, <mask> was pulled from the stage before finishing a long, slurred, odd speech at an award ceremony recognizing the work of former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Filmography

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<mask> is an American doctor, lecturer, researcher, professor, and consultant on genetic information. His major research interests include the impact of genomic information and biotechnology on society, the integration of genomics and diagnostics in to health and medical care and individualized genomic medicine. Dr. <mask> is the author of more than 250 publications and books on genomic medicine, has spoken at numerous medical conferences, and appeared on talk shows such as The Oprah Show and 60 Minutes. He is currently the chief medical officer of Natera, chairman of Biological Dynamics, Inc. and Plumcare LLC, and CEO of Synergenz Bioscience, Inc. Biography
Board certified internist and clinical geneticist, Dr. <mask><mask> is a chairman of Biological Dynamics, Inc. and Plumcare LLC, and CEO of Synergenz Bioscience, Inc. He has completed an Executive-in-Residence at the California Innovation Center of Johnson & Johnson and was the medical director of the IMPACT Cancer Care Program Thermo Fisher Scientific (TFS). Recently, Dr. <mask> was the chief medical officer of Life Technologies Inc. (LIFE) and then the CMO (consulting) of the Genetic Sciences Division of TFS both unique positions aimed at improving patient care through expanding the use of medically relevant genomic technologies in clinical settings.Dr. <mask> has extensive expertise and health care experience in the areas of genomics and molecular medicine. He has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration and the Genomic Medicine Advisory

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texts: Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He currently is a director of the Personalized Medicine Coalition and a member of the IOM Genomics Roundtable. Prior to the appointments at Lifetech and TFS, Dr. <mask> was the director and chief scientific officer of the Genomic Medicine Institute at El Camino Hospital, the largest community hospital in the Silicon Valley. He was also a member of the United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's advisory committee on Genetics, Health and Society before it was disbanded. Dr. <mask> has had a distinguished career as a physician and researcher. He has been a founder or chief executive officer of companies involved in genetic and diagnostic medicine including GeneSage Inc., Omicia Inc., CELLective Dx Corporation and was senior vice president for corporate development at Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (NYSE; LH).He has held academic appointments at some of the most prestigious universities in the United States including Harvard University, U.C. San Francisco, Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley, and has served as a physician at a number of leading medical centers. He is the author of nearly 200 publications and books on experimental and clinical medicine. His work on genetic discrimination was instrumental in the creation and passage of the federal Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008. Dr. <mask> holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in immunology from Harvard University.Prior to their recent transactions, Dr. <mask> was a

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 director of Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), the executive chairman of Signature Genomics Inc., and a founder of the Cordblood Registry, Inc. He is currently a board director of Trovagene Inc. and CollabRX Inc., both publicly traded personalized medicine companies in the United States. He also acts as the chief medical officer of Omicia, Inc. He serves on many other for profit and not for profit Boards including the Council for Responsible Genetics, the country's oldest independent biotechnology “watchdog” organization. Background

<mask> has a varied background. His education began at the Webb School of California in the 1960s. He then continued his undergraduate education at UC Santa Cruz in 1970 and transferred to UC San Diego in 1972.While at UCSD, <mask> worked with adviser Martin Kagnoff as a student fellow at the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences and spent the summer of 1973 as a student summer fellow at American Gastroenterology Association advised by Morton Grossman. He graduated summa cum laude from UC San Diego in 1974 with an Artium Baccalaureatus (AB) Degree in History. After his undergraduate degree, <mask> went on to study medicine and immunology at Harvard University with a Medical Scientist Training Grant Fellowship from NIH and Harvard University. He won Harvard Medical School's James Tolbert Shipley Prize for best published research in 1979. <mask>' MD adviser at Harvard was Baruj Benacerraf, who went on to win a Nobel Prize the following year. <mask> graduated in 1979 with both a PhD in immunology and an M.D.

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texts: degree.<mask> went from medical school into his residency at University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, which he finished in 1982. After his residency, <mask> stayed on as a fellow in medical genetics until 1984 under the advisement of Dr. Arno Motulsky. After a winter as acting assistant professor in the Department of Genetics, still at University of Washington, he returned to the Boston area to begin a series of clinical and research fellowships. By 1985, <mask> was diplomat and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. <mask> went on to teach and tutor at a university level while conducting research and practicing medicine. <mask> has been on the faculties of University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University. His research focuses on ethics and medicine.Specifically, he is interested in the impact of genetic information and biotechnology on society, the integration of genomics into healthcare, post-genomic health and identity, molecular biology and immunogenetics, their relationship to cellular differentiation, and their application in cancer care, and human stem cell research and its relationship to clinical medicine. <mask>' research on genetic discrimination provided academic support for the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act. He has received research grants for his work from various organizations, including National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Council for Responsible Genetics. Government

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A partial list of <mask>' government positions:

Former Board Member of Scientific Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration
Former Board Member of Genomic Medicine Advisory Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress:
Contractor 1989 ("Genetic Testing in the Workplace")
Reviewer 1989 ("DNA Identification Systems"), 1990 ("Genetic Testing in the Workplace"), 1991 ("CF Screening"), 1994 ("DNA Patenting")

National Institutes of Health (NIH):
Special Study Section 1989 ("The Human Genome Initiative")
Member of Study Section on Cystic Fibrosis Screening for NIH Genome Center 1991
Member of the Special Insurance Task Force on Insurance and Genetics 1991-1993 (NIH/DOE)
Chair of NIH Special Task Force on Insurance and Genetic Information's Subcommittee on "Genetic Discrimination" 1991-1993
Consultant for NIH/Food and Drug Administration Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee 1999
Reviewer for NIH Special Study on Salivary Diagnostics for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research 2007–present

Videos

 <mask> speaking at the PMWC 2016 Conference https://vimeo.com/156680740
 Paul speaking about regulatory issues at the PMWC 2016 Conference https://vimeo.com/60355499

See also
 Life Technologies

Publications

Partial list of publications:
Billings P.  Alert on Genetic Discrimination. Medical Tribune 1990; 31(12):15. Billings P.  Biotechnology: Ethical Dilemmas. Biotech Monitor  1991; 1(2):2,4-6.Billings P.  Rising Cost of Private Health

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 (letter)". HMS Beagle: The BioMedNet Magazine 1998; 42; Nov 13. <mask> P.  DNA data banks would taint justice. Boston Globe 1999; Jan 14 (A):19.Billings P.  "Iceland, blood and the role of science". Am Sci 1999; 87(3):199-00. <mask> P.  Perspective on medicine: does life as a patient begin even before patient is born? Los Angeles Times 1999; Mar 11 (B):9. <mask> P.  Modified foods are like drugs. Boston Globe 1999; Aug 28 (A):19. Nadar C, Herbert M, <mask> P, Bereano P, Hubbard R, King J, Newman S, and Stabinsky D. Resdesigning Evolution?(letter). Science 1999; 285 (3):1491. Spinard P. with <mask> P.  ReadMe. Wired 2001; 9(12): 98. <mask> P, Rothstein M, Faigman D and Jones R.  Cutting edges issues in law and science. Proceedings of a 9th circuit judicial conference panel presentation. In: Scientific Evidence Review Monograph 3 (Cwik C and North J, eds)  2001 ABA Publishing, Chicago, IL.pp1–52. Beeson D, <mask> P, Darnofsky M, and C Weiner. Ethics, genetic technologies and social responsibility in the 21st century. 2001 Proceedings of a Townsend Center panel. .
Worthy K., Strohman R., <mask> P.  Conflicts around a study of Mexican crops. Nature 2002; 417:897. <mask> P.  A medical geneticist's view. World Watch 2002; 15(4):16.<mask>, P.  Your DNA computer: When machines and humans blend. IHealthBeat 2002: Sept. 6. .
<mask> P.  Iron revisited. Annals of Family Medicine 2004 Invited online commentary posted 4/1/04 at . P.R. <mask> and M.P. Brown. The future of clinical laboratory genomics.M.L.O. Dec (2004). 8-15. (Published online

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 Dec 1, 2004 at . <mask>, P. CRG History A Chapter in Non Governmental Politics, “Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information”, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality, January 12, 2005, available online at . Billings P.  Stem cell research:  Dangerous territory? New Scientist.2006;2576. <mask> P.  Personalized management of cancer using circulating tumor cells. The Personalized Medicine Report 2008; 11:18-21. <mask> on "Genetics news (www.geneletter.com)":
Homecooked eugenics. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Feb; 1)
New heights of compatibility. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Feb; 1)
Understanding the EEC split. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Feb; 1)
Thinking in neurofibromatosis type 1.GeneLetter 2000; 1(Feb; 1)
Constructing a new genetics. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Feb; 1)
Wherefore art thou disease genes? GeneLetter 2000; 1(Mar; 2)
Genetic for all. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Apr; 3)
Following up. GeneLetter 2000; 1(May; 4)
A gene therapy death. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Jun; 5)
Gene therapists beware: lessons from GM food. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Jun; 5)
Mutation: the good, the bad and the ugly.GeneLetter 2000; 1(Jul; 6)
Biotechnology's albatross. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Aug; 7)
A genomic failure. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Aug; 7)
Warp speed genetics. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Sep; 8)
Questioning the question: the role of opposites. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Sep; 8)
On crooks, adverse selection and insurance genetics. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Oct; 9)
Art and genetics: asking the right questions. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Oct; 9)
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 responsible genetic medicine.GeneLetter 2000; 1(Nov; 10)
Genetic hygiene: public health anew? GeneLetter 2000; 1(Dec; 11)
Applying genetic advances: where do we go from here. A report from GeneSage's “Genetic issues survey of managed care executives”. GeneLetter 2000; 1(Dec; 11)
Paying for the genetic revolution. GeneLetter 2001; 1(Jan; 12)
Hemochromatosis imbroglio. GeneLetter 2001; 1(Jan; 12)
Happy Birthday, GeneLetter. GeneLetter 2001; 2(Feb; 1)
The disappearing gene.GeneLetter 2001; 2(Mar; 2)
Where things stand. GeneLetter 2001; 2(Apr; 3)
Human genetic complexity. GeneLetter 2001; 2(May; 4)
Genetic screening anew. GeneLetter 2001; 2(Aug; 5)

Books published:
Billings P (ed). DNA on Trial: Genetic Identification and Criminal Justice. Cold Spring Harbor Pubs, 1992. See also
 Genetic privacy

References

External links
"Expert Consultants page on Billings"
"1990 interview with <mask>"
"Genetic Privacy and Confidentiality, testimony by <mask>"
"Nature article on <mask>"
"American Scientist bio of <mask>"
"Radio Interview with <mask> on Smoking Prevention(audio)"

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<mask> (January 25, 1938 – January 7, 2009), also known by the pseudonym Cash Flagg, was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor best known as the low-budget auteur of such cult films as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. In addition to Cash Flagg, <mask> was also known by the pseudonyms Sven Christian, Sven Hellstrom, Harry Nixon, Michael J. Rogers, Michel J. Rogers, Wolfgang Schmidt, <mask>, R.D<mask>, <mask>, and Cindy Lou Sutters—the last being his "porn name". Early life and career
<mask> was born in Reading, Pennsylvania where his grandmother, who largely raised him, nurtured his love of movies. At 15, upon receiving an 8mm home movie camera from his stepfather, Steckler shot an amateur pirate film with friends. <mask> served three years in the United States Army from 1956 to 1959, being discharged as a Sergeant. He was an Army photographer, and served in Korea and spent a year at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens with the Army Pictorial Service of the Signal Corps.In 1959, <mask> and a friend drove to Hollywood, California to enter the film industry. <mask> worked as a prop man before becoming assistant cameraman on the film, The World's Greatest Sinner, directed by and starring Timothy Carey. When the initial director of photography was fired, <mask> replaced him. Continuing to work in cinematography in the Los Angeles area, <mask> acquired a union card and established himself at major studios, including Universal Studios. When he was reportedly fired for almost knocking an A-frame onto Alfred Hitchcock, <mask> turned to the  B-movie circuit. Working with Arch Hall Sr.'s Fairway

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In 1963 he co-produced his second film, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, co-starring his then wife, Carolyn Brandt. Filmed for a budget of $38,000, the film was photographed by cinematographer Joseph V. Mascelli with then newcomers László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond as camera operators. Initially distributed on the lower half of a double-bill by Fairway, <mask> took Creatures on the road himself and made it a success under a number of titles, including Diabolical Dr. Voodoo and The Teenage Psycho Meets Bloody Mary. <mask>'s next film was his answer to Psycho, entitled The Thrill Killers, released in 1964. The film marked the first effort between <mask> and Ron Haydock, who would be <mask>'s creative partner up until the latter's death in the 1970s. It also notably features Gary Kent as a blood-thirsty killer. Steckler continued to produce a number of low-budget but fanciful films which soon attained cult status, including Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (a spoof of Batman) and Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (an homage to the East Side Kids films).By the late 1960s, he also directed the music video for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", as well as promos for Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Later life and career
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 decline of drive-in horror films of the nature <mask> was producing in the 1960s, and following his divorce from Brandt, with whom he had daughters Linda and Laura, Steckler produced hardcore adult films during the 1970s and 1980s. Circa 1986, he married his second wife, Katherine, with whom he had daughters Morgan and Bailey. Steckler named daughter Morgan after his partner George Morgan who financed The Incredibly Strange Creatures. The Thrill Killers, Rat-Pfink a Boo-Boo, The Incredibly Strange Creatures and Las Vegas Serial Killer were first released on home video in 1986–1987 by CAMP Home Video, a small independent company based in Los Angeles, CA. In the late 1980s, Steckler opened Mascot Video in Las Vegas and sold it in 1995 to local businessman Dan Wayman. Up until his death in 2009, Steckler continued to sell videos of his works via the web, including six volumes of young actresses and dancers in nude auditions for Steckler's camera.<mask> says these auditions were shot in 1991 for The Hollywood Strangler in Las Vegas (a.k.a. Las Vegas Serial Killer), but that film was finished by 1987. In 2008, <mask> announced production of his new film One More Time, which he described as an "extension" (as opposed to a "sequel") to The Incredibly Strange Creatures, and launched two MySpace pages and a website for casting actresses for his upcoming films. <mask> completed post-production of One More Time shortly before his death. It was filmed on location on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and Las Vegas on a budget of $3,800 using two Digital 8 cameras. The film was released direct-to-DVD via his website in 2009. Death
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 been fighting heart disease for several years, died of cardiac arrest on January 7, 2009, aged 70.He was buried at the Palm Mortuary and Cemetery Green Valley. Legacy
Wild Guitar was restored by director/fan Nicolas Winding Refn and featured at the Black Deer Festival in 2019. Mixed Up Zombies had since become a cult classic as being one of the worst movies ever made and has been celebrated by fans of B movies, camp or kitsch films. The rock critic Lester Bangs wrote an appreciative 1973 essay about Incredibly Strange Creatures in which he tries to explain and justify the movie's value:

Falling into semi-obscurity past its eccentric title (as it was also the inspiration for the documentary series The Incredibly Strange Film Show which interviewed <mask> himself in one episode), the film gained notoriety once again in 1997, when it was featured on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000. <mask>'s low-budget often meant working for little to nothing, but his comradeship was often reflected in his productions. In his 1969 film Body Fever, <mask> created a bit part for then destitute fellow director Coleman Francis, who, by coincidence, also achieved belated fame via Mystery Science Theater 3000. Francis died not long after the making of the

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<mask> is a Romanian human rights activist and political scientist born on 8 April 1952 in Buzău. He is one of the few Romanian dissidents who openly opposed Nicolae Ceaușescu and the Communist regime in Romania. At present, he is professor in the Department of Political Science at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, and an active member of several Romanian human rights organizations. He is also a prodigious journalist, writing and lecturing on topics such as multiculturalism, national minorities, religious freedom and secularism, the ethics and politics of memory and others. He is editor of the Romanian-language New Journal of Human Rights (Noua Revista de Drepturile Omului, formerly Revista Romana de Drepturile Omului). Biography
<mask> attended the BP Hasdeu high school in his hometown, then obtained a BA in Physics from the University of Bucharest. He taught high school physics (1976–1980), then moved to Bucharest where he worked as a researcher for the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (1980–1989).During this period he published academic papers on linguistics, logics, and mathematical poetics among others. After the December 1989 anti-Communist revolution, <mask> abandoned his career as a physicist to continue his activism for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. His work as a human rights activist, political analyst, journalist, and writer blended with academic teaching and research. Dissidence under Communism
Between 1983 and 1987 <mask>

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 dispatched clandestine information on human rights abuses in Romania to Radio Free Europe and wrote several anti-communist articles and studies, some of which he managed to send and publish abroad. He was investigated by the Securitate (the Romanian communist-era political police) starting with 1979. He was arrested for his anti-communist activities in December 1987 and indicted for treason (but freed in January 1988 as result of international protests, and put under surveillance till the fall of the Communist regime). Nevertheless, he continued to write and dispatch letters of protest to the Western media (1988–1989).Some of them (e.g., Lettre à la Conférence de Cracovie (1988) and Le devoir d'ingérence (1989)) were published in the Western press (L'Autre Europe and Libération). In June 1989 he went on a hunger strike as a protest against the continuous violation of human rights in Romania. He was demoted and placed by the Securitate under house arrest in Buzău, then again arrested, to be released after the revolution of December 1989. Activity after December 1989
After the anti-Communist revolution <mask> became a member of the Council of the National Salvation Front, the first post-Communist governmental body after the revolution in 1989 (he soon resigned). He also initiated and was co-president of the Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Romanian Helsinki Committee (APADOR-CH), where he also worked as expert on national minorities and freedom of conscience and religion. He co-founded and was


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 president of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), as well as founding member and vice-president of the Civic Alliance (AC). <mask> founded and headed other organizations developing strategies and projects in support of human rights, among them the Ombudspersons for National Minorities, the Center for International Studies, the Center of Inquiry-affiliated Center for Critical Conscience, and the Solidarity for Freedom of Conscience.He was a board member of several other organizations (Hungarian Europe Society, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center, Partnership for Equality, Open Society Foundation Expert Teams, Foundation for the Development of Civil Society), as well as a member of the scientific boards of other organizations. <mask> also participated in international programs and research, including
Near neighborhood at the Eastern frontiers of the future European Union (The Centre for Policy Applied Research / Europe Team / Bonn)
Managing Multi-Ethnic Communities: Textbook for schools of public administration in Central and Eastern Europe (Local Government Initiative / Open Society Institute / Budapest)
Improving Hungarian-Romanian Relations (Teleki Foundation / Budapest & Center for International Studies / Bucharest)
International Mission of the Community of Democracies to Georgia
Community Action Programme to Combat Discrimination: Preparatory Work to Establish Transnational Actions for the Development of Policy and/or Legal Responses to the Fight Against Discrimination on Grounds of Racial or Ethnic Origin,

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 Religion or Beliefs, Disability, Age, And Sexual Orientation (EU Commission – Directorate-General Employment and Social Affairs). As a journalist and political analyst, he contributed to several Romanian newspapers and magazines (Ziua, Timpul, Observator cultural, Revista 22, Opinia, Altera, Cotidianul etc. ); between 1994 and 2004 he wrote for Radio Free Europe. Awards
In recognition of his human rights activism and contribution to the development of Romanian civil society, <mask> received several awards from Romanian institutions and organizations:
Award from the magazine "Contemporanul" (2015)
Award from the magazine "Observatorul Cultural" for his book "Cărturari, opozanți și documente. Manipularea Arhivei Securității" (2013)
"C. Rădulescu-Motru” Award, in recognition for the contribution to the field of cultural ideology (2012)
Prize of the National Council for Combating Discrimination (2007)
Prize of the Civic Alliance of Roma from Romania (2006 and 2007)
Pro Minoritate (Diaspora Foundation, Timişoara, 2003)
National Order "Star of Romania”, knight (Presidency of Romania, President Emil Constantinescu, 2000)
First Prize for the study "A Romanian Conception of Federal Europe", co-authored with Adrian Severin (Open Society Foundation, 2000)
The Third Millennium Prize (Partida Romilor, 1999)
Pro Amicitia (Association of Magyar Journalists in Romania, 1994 and 1998)
International awards
JSRI Award (Field: Religion and Politics, 2012)
Petofi Sandor Award (21st Century Institute, Budapest, 2009)
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Pro Minoritate (from the Hungarian Government, 1995)
Human Rights Monitor Award (Human Rights Watch, 1990)

Publications
Gabriel Andreescu published more than 1000 articles, 150 studies, 28 books, and contributed to several collective volumes. Some of his works were translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian.Books
 Existenţa prin cultură. Represiune, colaboraţionism şi rezistenţă intelectuală sub regimul communist, Polirom, Iaşi, 2015
 MISA. Radiografia unei represiuni, Polirom, Iași, 2013
 Cărturari, opozanți și documente. Manipularea Arhivei Securității, Polirom, Iași, 2013
 L-am urât pe Ceauşescu. Ani, oameni, dissidenţă, Polirom, Iaşi, 2009
 Reprimarea mişcării yoga în anii '80, Polirom, Iaşi, 2008
 Schimbări ale hărţii etnice a României, Centrul pentru Diversitate Etnoculturală, Cluj, 2005
 Naţiuni şi minorităţi, Polirom, Iaşi, 2004
 Extremismul de dreapta în România / Right-Wing Extremism in Romania, Centrul pentru Diversitate Etnoculturală, Cluj 2003 [Romanian and English]
 Pages from the Romanian-Hungarian Reconciliation: 1989–1999. The Role of Civic Organizations, Institute of International Education, Washington, 2001
 Polemici neortodoxe, Noesis, Bucharest, 2001
 Ruleta. Români şi maghiari, 1990–2000, Polirom, Iaşi, 2001
 Locurile unde se construieşte Europa.Adrian Severin în Dialog cu <mask>, Polirom, Iaşi, 2000
 Solidaritatea alergătorilor de cursã lungã, Polirom, Iaşi, 1998
 Patru ani de Revoluţie, Litera, Bucureşţi, 1994
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 iubit dintre ambasadori. Coen Stork în dialog cu <mask>, All, București, 1993
 Spre o filozofie a dissidenţei, Litera, București, 1992
 Sistemele axiomatice ale logicii limbajului natural. Funcţii şi operaţionalizare, All, București, 1992

Co-authored volumes
 Comentarii la Constituţia României, Polirom, Iaşi, 2010
 Accesul la informaţie în România / Access to Information in Romania, Centrul pentru Drepturile Omului, Bucharest, 1996 [Romanian and English]
 Evoluţia concepţiei U.D.M.R. privind drepturile minoritãţii maghiare, Centrul pentru Drepturile Omului / Evolutions in the D.AH.R. Conception on Hungarian Minority Rights, Bucharest, 1995 [Romanian and English]
 Concepţia U.D.M.R. privind drepturile minoritãţilor naţionale / Study on the Conception of D.A.H.R. on the Rights of National Minorities, Centrul pentru Drepturile Omului, Bucharest, 1994 [Romanian and English]

Edited volumes
 (co-editor) Doctrina internaţională a tratării trecutului communist, C.H.Beck, București, 2016
 (co-editor) Ultimul deceniu communist. Scrisori către radio Europa liberă. Vol. II.1986-1989, Polirom, Iaşi, 2014
 (co-editor) Ultimul deceniu communist. Scrisori către radio Europa liberă. Vol. I.1979-1985, Polirom, Iaşi, 2010 (L`ultimo decennio comunista, Ed.Pavesiana, 2014)
 Tătarii din România: teme identitare / Tartars in Romania: Problems of Identity, Center for Human Rights, Bucharest, 2005 [Romanian and English]
 (co-editor) Problema transilvană, Polirom, Iaşi, 1999
 Naţionalişti, antinaţionalişti. O polemicã în publicistica româneascã,


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 Polirom, Iaşi, 1996
 România versus România, Clavis, București, 1996

Selected articles in books
 "The emergence of a new radical right power: the Romanian Orthodox Church", in Michael Minkenberg (ed. ), Transforming the Transformation? The East European Radical Right in the Political Process, Routledge, London, 2015
 "The Romanian State on State-Church Relations", in Natalia Vlas and Vasile Boari (eds. ), Religion and Politics in the 21st Century: Global and Local Reflections, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2013, pp. 236–274
 "Passive / aggressive symbols in the public school: religious displays in the Council of Europe and the United States, with a special focus on Romania" in Jeroen Temperman, The Lautsi Papers: Multidisciplinary Reflections on Religious Symbols in the Public School Classroom, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Hotei, 2012, pp. 267–299."Multiculturalismul", în Mihaela Miroiu (coord. ), Ideologii politice actuale. Semnificații, evoluții și impact, Polirom, Iași, 2012, pp. 261–304. "Melodrama forului. Documentele Securității despre identitatea și rezistența intelectualilor", Vasile Boari, Natalia Vlas, Radu Murea (coord. ), Intelectualii și puterea, Institutul European, Iași, 2012, pp.167–209. "Douăzeci de ani de democrație anarhică", în Vasile Boari, Natalia Vas, Radu Murea (coord. ), România după douăzeci de ani, Institutul European, Iași, 2011. "20 de ani de războaie culturale. Victoria junk-conservatorismului", in Sorin Adam Matei, Mona Momescu (eds. ), Idolii forului. De ce o clasă de mjloc a


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 spiritului e de preferat "elitei" intelectualilor publici?, Corint, București, 2010
 "The Paradox of National Identity: Its Cultural-Political Power vs. Its Theoretical Poverty", in Vasile Boari and Sergiu Gherghina (eds.), Weighting Differences: Romanian Identity in the Wider European Context, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2009
 "Ellenzéki lét Romániában", in Dimenziók Éve (eds. ), 1968, XX. Század Intézet, Budapest, 2008
 "Campaniile de presă: cum ajung adversarii la consens", in Ilie Rad (ed. ), Forme ale manipulării prin presă, Tribuna, Cluj-Napoca, 2008
 "Raportul: ansamblul şi detaliile", in Vasile Ernu, Costi Rogozanu, Ciprian Şiulea, Ovidiu Ţichindelean (eds. ), Iluzia anticomunismului. Lecturi critice ale Raportului Tismăneanu, Cartier, Chişinău, 2008
 "A Functional Approach. Collective and Individual Rights", in Stanisław Parzymies, OSCE and Minorities.Assessment and Prospects, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw, 2007
 "Romania", in Cas Mudde (ed.) Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, London and New York, 2005
 "Necesitatea şi detaliile unei legi privind regimul cultelor şi libertatea de conştiinţă", in Sandu Frunză (ed.) Paşi spre integare. Religie şi drepturile omului în România, Limes, Cluj, 2004
 "A múltfeldolgozás modelljei", ("Access to the Securitate archives in Romania") in Gábor Halmai (ed. ), Űgynőkők és akták, SOROS Alopétráy, Budapest, 2003
 “Multiculturalismul normativ”, in Rudolf Polenda, François Ruegg, Călin Rus (eds. ), Interculturalitate. Cercetări şi


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 perspective româneşti, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj, 2002
 “Paths of Secularisation in Eastern Europe: The Church-State Dispute in Romania“, in T.Lipovatz, N. Demertzis, V. Georgiadou (eds.), Religions and Politics in the Age of Modernity, Kritiki, Athens, 2002
 “Universal Thought, Eastern Facts: Scrutinizing National Minority Rights in Romania”, in Will Kymlicka, Magda Opalski (eds. ), Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? Western Political Theory and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001
 “Un concept românesc al Europei Federale“, in Un concept al viitorului Uniunii Europene, Polirom, Iaşi, 2001
 “Die Beziehungen zu Moldova und Ukraine aus der Perspektive einer zukunftigen Schengen-Grenze“, in Iris Kempe, Wim van Meurs, Barbara von Ow (eds. ), Die EU-Beitrittsstaaten und ihre ostlichen Nachbarn, Bertelsmann Stiftung, 1999

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Captain <mask> (6 January 189218 March 1963) was a pioneer of British broadcasting, the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company Limited from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation until 1929. Some sources incorrectly give his middle name as Prothero. Early life
<mask> was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1892. His father, Alfred (d. 1895 of yellow fever), was a railway engineer then in charge of building the Grand Mexican Railway. His elder brother was the physicist <mask>; and his cousin, Aldous Huxley. In the 1911 census, he is recorded as a resident of the Bedales School-Co-Educational Proprietary Boarding School, Petersfield, Hampshire. He attended Manchester Municipal College of Technology (later UMIST) in 1912.He joining the Royal Flying Corps as a wireless equipment officer in 1915, where he obtained the rank of captain. He was stationed mainly in Egypt and at Salonika. Later in the War, he was sent to the Wireless Experimental Station at Biggin Hill where he conducted experimental work on duplex telephony for aircraft. He Joined Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co as the Head of the Experimental Section, Aircraft Department where he designed the Croydon Airport ground station transmitter. 1920 to 1929
By 1920 <mask> had become an announcer, broadcaster (he recited poetry and sang songs) and engineer of 2MT, the first licensed radio station in Britain, located in Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex, England, where Guglielmo Marconi had built his wireless telegraphy factories. He was the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company Limited from 1922 to 1927 and then Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Between World War I and World War II the General Electric Company of the United States became a

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 giant cartel which had growing commercial interests in Britain and several not entirely successful steps were undertaken to prevent the Americanisation of Britain.Links between the UK and US had been pioneered by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company. During World War I General Electric, with help from the US Navy, had taken over the ship-to-shore radio business Marconi had established in America. In 1919 this was transferred to a new GE subsidiary, the Radio Corporation of America. The British military declared a  two years' moratorium on further commercial radio experiments by Marconi's employees. In 1922 the General Post Office agreed to license one commercial monopoly, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company, which would derive some income from a broadcast receiver licence and the rest from the manufacture and sale of receiving sets. Under the terms of the exclusive licence, the company could not sell air time. In 1923 Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes headed a committee to review this arrangement, which concluded that the GPO should stop licensing the British Broadcasting Company.It went out of business in December 1926. In 1927 the British Crown granted a charter to a non-commercial British Broadcasting Corporation and the GPO licensed this. John Reith was appointed to take control of the Crown corporation. In 1925, Captain P.P<mask>, MIEE was made 'Life Vice-President' of the Radio Society of Great Britain, along with Major Basil Binyon (a BBC director). Dorothy "Dolly" Clark, later Eckersley
In 1929 <mask> began an affair with Dorothy "Dolly" Clark, estranged wife of the BBC programme planner and conductor Edward Clark, and then divorced his own wife. Lord Reith, a deeply religious man, forced him out of his job.Dolly had separated from Edward Clark in

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For a time <mask> was engaged in working to build a broadcasting station based in continental Europe which could be received in the United Kingdom. Captain Leonard Plugge, who became a Member of Parliament, also set about building his own International Broadcasting Company by leasing transmitters in France and other countries to beam commercial radio into Britain. The venture was very successful and, because Reith had banned Sunday light

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 entertainment on the BBC, the IBC stations gained as much as 80 per cent of the Sunday listening audience by 1938.Meanwhile, <mask> had sought other ways to bring the signals of the IBC stations into the living rooms of Britain. Rather than relying upon a receiving set licensed by the General Post Office, he began to wire parts of England for an early form of cable radio but was stopped by the intervention of the GPO. The IBC stations were eventually silenced when Adolf Hitler's troops captured the transmitters. From 1937 onwards <mask> worked for British Military Intelligence MI6 to help combat propaganda coming from Nazi Germany with British propaganda stations. He was turned down for war work. The <mask>s took holidays in Germany a number of times and attended the Nuremberg rallies of 1937 and 1938. They appear to have separated between then and the start of World War II.Dolly worked for the German broadcasting service during the war (as did James Clark, her teenage son by her first husband Edward Clark), and recruited William Joyce. Dorothy and James were tried in 1945 for providing support to the enemy: she was sent to prison for a year and James was bound over for two years. She died in 1971. <mask> died, aged 71, on 18 March 1963 at the West London Hospital in Hammersmith. References

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<mask>, P.P. (1941). The Power Behind the Microphone.London, Jonathan Cape. <mask>, Myles, Prospero's Wireless, Myles Books 1997, , A biography of <mask> <mask> - pioneer of radio and the art of broadcasting. 1892 births
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<mask> (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-American officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. He has been  credited as "The Father of the American Navy" (and shares that moniker with <mask> and <mask>) and was appointed a captain in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775. He was the first captain placed in command of a U.S. warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag. After the war, he became the first commissioned U.S. naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797. Early life and education
<mask> was born on March 25, 1745, in Ballysampson, Tacumshane, County Wexford, Ireland to a Catholic family. When <mask>'s family was evicted from their home by their English landlord, they moved to Rosslare on the coast, where his uncle worked a fishing skiff. As a young man, <mask> determined upon a life as a seaman, and he started out as a cabin boy.Career

<mask> received his first captain's commission in the Continental Navy on March 14, 1776, signed by <mask>, president of the Continental Congress. <mask> was a religious man and began each day at sea with a reading from the Bible. He had great regard for his crew and their well-being and always made sure they were properly provisioned while at sea. During his naval career <mask> commanded the U.S. warships Delaware, Lexington, Raleigh, Alliance and United States. Command of Lexington
Captain <mask> was given command of , of 14 guns, on December 7, 1775. It was the first commission issued by the Continental Congress. The Lexington sailed March 31, 1776.On April 7, 1776, off the Capes of Virginia, he fell in with the Edward, tender to the British man-of-war ,

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 and after a desperate fight of one hour and twenty minutes captured her and brought her into Philadelphia. On June 28, Pennsylvania's brig Nancy arrived in the area with 386 barrels of powder in her hold and ran aground while attempting to elude British blockader . <mask> ordered the precious powder rowed ashore during the night, leaving only 100 barrels in Nancy at dawn. A delayed action fuse was left inside the brig, which exploded the powder just as a boatload of British seamen boarded Nancy. This engagement became known as the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet. <mask> retained command of Lexington until October 18, 1776, and captured several private armed vessels during that time. Command of Delaware
In 1777, <mask> commanded the ship , a brig sailing under a letter of marque and capturing British vessels in the Delaware River.Command of Raleigh
In 1778, <mask> assumed command of , capturing three prizes before being run aground in action on September 27, 1778. Her crew scuttled her, but she was raised by the British, who refloated her for further use in the Royal Navy. <mask> authored a signal book published in 1780 to improve communications at sea among vessels traveling in formation. Command of Alliance
He was seriously wounded on May 29, 1781, while in command of Alliance during her capture of HMS Atalanta and Trepassey. He and his crew of the USS Alliance fought and won the final naval battle of the American Revolution  south of Cape Canaveral on March 10, 1783. <mask> was successful in suppressing three mutinies during his career as an officer in the Continental Navy. Commodore commission

On February 22, 1797, he was issued Commission Number 1 by President George Washington, backdated to June 4, 1794.His title was thereafter "commodore". He is

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 recognized as not only the first American commissioned naval officer but also as its first flag officer. Command of United States
Appointed senior captain upon the establishment of the U.S. Navy, he commanded the frigate United States in the Quasi-War with France. This ship transported commissioners William Richardson Davie and Oliver Ellsworth to France to negotiate a new Franco-American alliance. <mask>'s last day of active duty was March 6, 1801, when he brought  into port, but he remained head of the Navy until his death on September 13, 1803, from asthma. <mask> died childless. Later life and death
<mask> died at Strawberry Hill, in present-day Philadelphia on September 13, 1803, and was buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.The executors of his estate were his wife Sarah, his nephew Patrick Hayes and his friend <mask>. Personal life
On October 24, 1768, <mask> married Mary Cleary, who died in 1774. On July 7, 1777, he married Sarah Austin, daughter of Samuel Austin and Sarah Keen of New Jersey. <mask> had no children, but he helped raise Patrick and Michael Hayes, children of his sister, Eleanor, and her husband, Thomas Hayes, who both died in the 1780s. Commemorations
 The U.S. Revenue Cutter Commodore <mask>, captured off Maine in the War of 1812
 Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn, New York. It is the oldest park in the borough. It was renamed for <mask> in 1951, due to its location next to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which <mask> helped found.Four U.S. Navy ships
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 <mask> (DD-248) (1921–1945)
 <mask> (DD-933) (1956–1983)
 USS <mask> (DDG-52) (1992–present)

 There is a large portrait of <mask> at the Rhode Island State House in Providence; and Title 16 of the Rhode Island Statutes (§ 16-20-3 – Days of

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 special observance) requires observing September 13 as Commodore <mask> Day. Commodore Barry Bridge, which crosses the Delaware River from Chester, Pennsylvania to Bridgeport, New Jersey. <mask> Hall at Villanova University
 Commodore <mask> Club (Philadelphia Irish Center) Emlen Street and Carpenter Lane, Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
 Commodore <mask> Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 Commodore <mask> Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois
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 Commodore <mask> Memorial Plaque at Staten Island Borough Hall
 A new plaque with a cannon was dedicated on March 10, 2007, in Port Canaveral. A plaque stands in the city of Boston on Boston Common. A plaque commemorating <mask> and his crew of the Alliance for the final naval battle of the American Revolution is located at Jetty Park in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A stone plaque commemorating his grave site is located at Old St. Mary's Church in Philadelphia, PA.
 A six-foot bronze statue of Commodore <mask> stands in Franklin Square (between I and K streets on 14th St. N.W.)in Washington, D.C.
 Barry Hall is one of six military barracks facilities at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in commemoration of him. The visitor entrance to the United States Naval Academy, from Downtown Annapolis to the Visitor's Center, commemorates Commodore <mask>. Inside the entrance is a monument to Commodore <mask> with a plaque with an image of his commission, Number 1 in the United

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 A large statue of <mask> stands directly in front of the formal entrance to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA.
 A statue of <mask> overlooks the Crescent Quay in Wexford town in Ireland. It was a gift to the town from the United States and was delivered by a United States Navy destroyer, USS John R. Pierce (DD-753). The statue was unveiled in 1956, and each year a parade and wreath-laying ceremony takes place at the statue to celebrate "Barry Day", commemorated by the Irish Naval Service and the Minister for Defence. A statue of <mask> by Eugene Kormendi is placed in the west court of Dillon Hall at the University of Notre Dame.See also

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<mask>, FBA (16 August 1864 – 6 August 1937), usually cited as F. C. S<mask>, was a German-British philosopher. Born in Altona, Holstein (at that time member of the German Confederation, but under Danish administration), <mask>er studied at the University of Oxford, later was a professor there, after being invited back after a brief time at Cornell University. Later in his life he taught at the University of Southern California. In his lifetime he was well known as a philosopher; after his death his work was largely forgotten. <mask>er's philosophy was very similar to and often aligned with the pragmatism of William James, although <mask>er referred to it as "humanism". He argued vigorously against both logical positivism and associated philosophers (for example, Bertrand Russell) as well as absolute idealism (such as F. H. Bradley). <mask>er was an early supporter of evolution and a founding member of the English Eugenics Society.Life
Born in 1864, one of three brothers and the son of <mask> (a Calcutta merchant), <mask>er's family home was in Switzerland. <mask>er grew up in Rugby. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, and graduated in the first class of Literae Humaniores, winning later the Taylorian scholarship for German in 1887. <mask>er's first book, Riddles of the Sphinx (1891), was an immediate success despite his use of a pseudonym because of his fears concerning how the book would be received. Between the years 1893 and 1897 he was an instructor in philosophy at Cornell University. In 1897 he returned to Oxford and became fellow and tutor of Corpus Christi for more than thirty years. <mask>er was president of

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 the Aristotelian Society in 1921, and was for many years treasurer of the Mind Association.In 1926 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy. In 1929 he was appointed visiting professor in the University of Southern California, and spent half of each year in the United States and half in England. <mask>er died in Los Angeles either 6, 7 or 9 August 1937 after a long and lingering illness. <mask>er was a founding member of the English Eugenics Society and published three books on the subject; Tantalus or the Future of Man (1924), Eugenics and Politics (1926), and Social Decay and Eugenic Reform (1932). Philosophy

In 1891, F.C.S<mask> made his first contribution to philosophy anonymously. <mask>er feared that in his time of high naturalism, the metaphysical speculations of his Riddles of the Sphinx were likely to hurt his professional prospects (p. xi, Riddles).However, <mask>er's fear of reprisal from his anti-metaphysical colleagues should not suggest that <mask>er was a friend of metaphysics. Like his fellow pragmatists across the ocean, <mask>er was attempting to stake out an intermediate position between both the spartan landscape of naturalism and the speculative excesses of the metaphysics of his time. In Riddles <mask>er both,
(1) accuses naturalism (which he also sometimes calls "pseudometaphysics" or "positivism") of ignoring the fact that metaphysics is required to justify our natural description of the world, and
(2) accuses "abstract metaphysics" of losing sight of the world we actually live in and constructing grand, disconnected imaginary worlds. The result, <mask>er contends, is that naturalism cannot make sense

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 pragmatism of William James. <mask>er's focus became his opposition to formal logic.To understand <mask>er's opposition to formal logic, consider the following inference:
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(3) Therefore, Cerebos is not a salt. From the formal characteristics of this inference alone (All As are Bs; c is not a B; Therefore, c is not an A), formal logic would judge this to be a valid inference. <mask>er, however, refused to evaluate the validity of this inference merely on its formal characteristics. <mask>er argued that unless we look to the contextual fact regarding what specific problem first prompted this inference to actually occur, we can not determine whether the inference was successful (i.e. pragmatically successful). In the case of this inference, since "Cerebos is 'salt' for culinary, but not for chemical purposes", without knowing whether the purpose for this piece of reasoning was culinary or chemical we cannot determine whether this is valid or not. In another example, <mask>er discusses the truth of formal mathematics "1+1=2" and points out that this equation does not hold if one is discussing drops of water.<mask>er's attack on formal logic and formal mathematics never gained much attention from philosophers, however it does share some weak similarities to the contextualist view in contemporary epistemology as well as the views of ordinary language philosophers. Opposition to naturalism and metaphysics

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 offender: "Hegelianism never anywhere gets within sight of a fact, or within touch of reality. And the reason is simple: you cannot, without paying the penalty, substitute abstractions for realities; the thought-symbol cannot do duty for the thing symbolized". <mask>er argued that the flaw in Hegel's system, as with all systems of abstract metaphysics, is that the world it constructs always proves to be unhelpful in guiding our imperfect, changing, particular, and physical lives to the achievement of the "higher" universal Ideals and Ends. For example, <mask>er argues that the reality of time and change is intrinsically opposed to the very modus operandi of all systems of abstract metaphysics. He says that the possibility to change is a precondition of any moral action (or action generally), and so any system of abstract metaphysics is bound to lead us into a moral scepticism. The problem lies in the aim of abstract metaphysics for "interpreting the world in terms of conceptions, which should be true not here and now, but "eternally" and independently of Time and Change."The result is that metaphysics must use conceptions that have the "time-aspect of Reality" abstracted away. Of course, "[o]nce abstracted from,"

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 place in the world as unimportant and purposeless. Where abstractions take priority, our concrete lives collapse into scepticism and pessimism. He also makes a case against the alternative naturalist method, saying that this too results in an epistemological and moral scepticism. <mask>er looks to show this method's inadequacy at moving from the cold, lifeless lower world of atoms to the higher world of ethics, meanings, and minds.As with abstract metaphysics, <mask>er attacks naturalism on many fronts: (1) the naturalist method is unable to reduce universals to particulars, (2) the naturalist method is unable to reduce freewill to determinist movements, (3) the naturalist method is unable to reduce emergent properties like consciousness to brain activity, (4) the naturalist method is unable to reduce God into a pantheism, and so on. Just as the abstract method cannot find a place for the lower elements of our world inside the higher, the naturalist method cannot find a place for the higher elements of our world inside the lower. In a reversal of abstract metaphysics, naturalism denies the reality of the higher elements to save the lower. <mask>er uses the term "pseudo-metaphysical" here instead of naturalism—as he sometimes does—because he is accusing these naturalist philosophers of trying to solve metaphysical problems while sticking to the non-metaphysical "lower" aspects of the world (i.e. without engaging in real metaphysics):

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Taken as the type of the pseudo-metaphysical method, which explains the higher by the lower ... it does not explain the genesis of consciousness out of unconscious matter, because we cannot, or do not, attribute potential consciousness to matter. ... the theory of Evolution derives the [end result] from its germ, i.e., from that which was, what it became, potentially. Unable to either reduce or explain the evolution of the higher elements of our world, naturalism is left to explain away the higher elements as mere illusions. In doing this, naturalism condemns us to scepticism in both epistemology and ethics.It is worth noting, that while <mask>'s work

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 has been largely neglected since his death, <mask>er's arguments against a naturalistic account of evolution have been recently cited by advocates of intelligent design to establish the existence of a longer history for the view due to legal concerns in the United States (See: Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District). Humanist alternative to metaphysics and naturalism

<mask>er argued that both abstract metaphysics and naturalism portray man as holding an intolerable position in the world. He proposed a method that not only recognises the lower world we interact with, but takes into account the higher world of purposes, ideals and abstractions. <mask>er:

We require, then, a method which combines the excellencies of both the pseudo-metaphysical and the abstract metaphysical, if philosophy is to be possible at all. <mask>er was demanding a course correction in field of metaphysics, putting it at the service of science. For example, to explain the creation of the world out of nothing, or to explain the emergence or evolution of the "higher" parts of the world, <mask>er introduces a divine being who might generate the end (i.e. Final Cause) which gives nothingness, lifelessness, and unconscious matter the purpose (and thus potential) of evolving into higher forms:

And thus, so far from dispensing with the need for a Divine First Cause, the theory of evolution, if only we have the faith in science to carry it to its conclusion, and the courage to interpret it, proves irrefragably that no evolution was possible without a pre-existent Deity, and a Deity, moreover, transcendent, non-material and non-phenomenal.... [T]he world process is

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 the working out of an anterior purpose or idea in the divine consciousness. This re-introduction of teleology (which <mask>er sometimes calls a re-anthropomorphizing of the world) is what <mask>er says the naturalist has become afraid to do. <mask>er's method of concrete metaphysics (i.e. his humanism) allows for an appeal to metaphysics when science demands it. However:

<mask>er finally reveals what this "End" is which "all things tend":

If our speculations have not entirely missed their mark, the world-process will come to an end when all the spirits whom it is designed to harmonise [by its Divine Creator] have been united in a perfect society. Now, while by today's philosophic standards <mask>er's speculations would be considered wildly metaphysical and disconnected from the sciences, compared with the metaphysicians of his day (Hegel, McTaggart, etc. ), <mask>er saw himself as radically scientific.<mask>er gave his philosophy a number of labels during his career. Early on he used the names "Concrete Metaphysics" and "Anthropomorphism", while later in life tending towards "Pragmatism" and particularly "Humanism". The Will to Believe

<mask>er also developed a method of philosophy intended to mix elements of both naturalism and abstract metaphysics in a way that allows us to avoid the twin scepticisms each method collapses into when followed on its own. However, <mask>er does not assume that this is enough to justify his humanism over the other two methods. He accepts the possibility that both scepticism and pessimism are true. To justify his attempt to occupy the middle ground between naturalism and abstract metaphysics,

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And in action especially we are often forced to act upon slight possibilities. Hence, if it can be shown that our solution is a possible answer, and the only possible alternative to pessimism, to a complete despair of life, it would deserve acceptance, even though it were but a bare possibility.<mask>er contends that in light of the other methods' failure to provide humans with a role and place in the universe, we ought avoid the adoption of these methods. By the end of Riddles, <mask>er offers his method of humanism as the only possible method that results in a world where we can navigate our lower existence to the achievement of our higher purpose. He asserts that it is the method we ought to adopt regardless of the evidence against it ("even though it were but a bare possibility"). While <mask>er's will to believe is a central theme of Riddle of the Sphinx (appearing mainly in the introduction and conclusion of his text), in 1891 the doctrine held a limited role in <mask>er's philosophy. In Riddles, <mask>er only employs his version of the will to believe doctrine when he is faced with overcoming sceptic and pessimistic methods of philosophy. In 1897, William James published his essay "The Will to Believe" and this influenced <mask>er to drastically expanded his application of the doctrine. For a 1903 volume titled Personal Idealism, <mask>er contributed a widely read essay titled "Axioms as Postulates" in which he sets out to justify the "axioms of logic" as postulates adopted on the basis of the will to believe doctrine.In this essay <mask>er extends the will to


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[O]ut of the hurly-burly of events in time and space [we] extract[ ] changeless formulas whose chaste abstraction soars above all reference to any 'where' or 'when,' and thereby renders them blank cheques to be filled up at our pleasure with any figures of the sort. The only question is—Will Nature honour the cheque? Audentes Natura juvat—let us take our life in our hands and try! If we fail, our blood will be on our own hands (or, more probably, in some one else's stomach), but though we fail, we are in no worse case than those who dared not postulate ... Our assumption, therefore, is at least a methodological necessity; it may turn out to be (or be near) a fundamental fact in nature [an axiom]. <mask>er stresses that doctrines like the uniformity of nature must first be postulated on the basis of need (not evidence) and only then "justified by the evidence of their practical working." He attacks both empiricists like <mask> Mill, who try to conclude that nature is uniform from previous experience, as well as Kantians who conclude that nature is uniform from the preconditions on our understanding.<mask>er argues that preconditions are not conclusions, but demands made on our experience that may or may not work. On this success hinges our continued acceptance of the postulate and its eventual promotion to axiom status. In

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The abstractions of metaphysics, then, exist as explanations of the concrete facts of life, and not the latter as illustrations of the former ... Science [along with humanism] does not refuse to interpret the symbols with which it operates; on the contrary, it is only their applicability to the concrete facts originally abstracted from that is held to justify their use and to establish their 'truth.'<mask>er's accusations against the metaphysician in Riddles now appear in a more pragmatic light. His objection is similar to one we might make against a worker who constructs a flat-head screwdriver to help him build a home, and who then accuses a screw of unreality when he comes upon a Phillips-screw that his flat-head screwdriver won't fit. In his works after Riddles, <mask>er's attack takes the form of reminding the abstract metaphysician that abstractions are meant as tools for dealing

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 with the "lower" world of particulars and physicality, and that after constructing abstractions we cannot simply drop the un-abstracted world out of our account. The un-abstracted world is the entire reason for making abstractions in the first place. We did not abstract to reach the unchanging and eternal truths; we abstract to construct an imperfect and rough tool for dealing with life in our particular and concrete world. It is the working of the higher in "making predictions about the future behavior of things for the purpose of shaping the future behavior of things for the purpose of shaping our own conduct accordingly" that justifies the higher. To assert this methodological character of eternal truths is not, of course, to deny their validity ... To say that we assume the truth of abstraction because we wish to attain certain ends, is to subordinate theoretic 'truth' to a teleological implication; to say that, the assumption once made, its truth is 'proved' by its practical working ... For the question of the 'practical' working of a truth will always ultimately be found to resolve itself into the question whether we can live by it.A few lines down from this passage <mask>er adds the following footnote in a 1903 reprint of the essay: "All this seems a very fairly definite anticipation of modern pragmatism." Indeed, it resembles the pragmatist theory of truth. However, <mask>er's pragmatism was still very different from both that of William James and that of <mask> Peirce. Opposition to logic

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This passage of <mask>er was worth quoting at length because of the insight this chapter offers into <mask>er's philosophy. In the passage, <mask>er makes the claim that thought only occurs when our unthinking habits prove themselves inadequate for handling a particular situation. <mask>er's stressing of the genesis of limited occurrences of thought sets <mask>er up for his account of meaning and truth. <mask>er asserts that when a person utters a statement in a situation they are doing so for a specific purpose: to solve the problem that habit could not handle alone.The meaning of such a statement is whatever contribution it makes to accomplishing the purpose of this particular occurrence of thought. The truth of the statement will be if it helps accomplishes that purpose. No utterance or thought can be given a meaning or a truth valuation outside the context of one of these particular occurrences of thought. This account of <mask>er's is a much more extreme view than even James took. At first glance, <mask>er appears very similar to James. However, <mask>er's more stringent requirement that meaningful statements have consequences "to some one for some purpose" makes <mask>er's position more extreme than James'. For <mask>er, it is not a sufficient condition for meaningfulness that a statement entail experiential consequences (as it is for both Peirce and James).<mask>er requires that the consequences of a statement make the statement relevant to some particular person's goals at a specific moment in time if it is to be meaningful. Therefore, it is not simply enough that the statement "diamonds are hard" and the

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The impossibility of answering truly the question whether the 100th (or 10,000th) decimal in the evaluation of Pi is or is not a 9, splendidly illustrates how impossible it is to predicate truth in abstraction from actual knowing and actual purpose. For the question cannot be answered until the decimal is calculated.Until then no one knows what it is, or rather will turn out to be. And no one will calculate it, until it serves some purpose to do so, and some one therefore interests himself in the calculation. And so until then the truth remains uncertain: there is no 'true' answer, because there is no actual context in which the question has really been raised. We have merely a number of conflicting possibilities, not even claims to truth, and there is no decision. Yet a decision is possible if an experiment is performed. But his experiment presupposes a desire to know. It will only be made if the point becomes one which it is practically important to decide.Normally no doubt it does not become such, because for the actual purposes of the sciences it makes no difference whether we suppose the figure to be 9 or something else. I.e. the truth to, say, the 99th decimal, is ' true enough ' for our purposes, and the 100th is a matter of indifference. But let that indifference cease, and the question become important, and the ' truth ' will at once become ' useful '. Prof. Taylor's illustration therefore conclusively proves that in an actual context and as an actual question there is no true


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For to say that a [statement] has consequences and that what has none is meaningless, must surely mean that it has a bearing upon some human interest; they must be consequences to some one for some purpose.<mask>er believes his pragmatism to be more developed because of its attention to the fact that the "consequences" which make up the meaning and truth of a statement, must always be consequences for someone's particular purposes at some particular time. Continuing his condemnation of the abstract, <mask>er contends that the meaning of a concept is not the consequences of some abstract proposition, but what consequences an actual thinker hopes its use will bring about in an actual situation. The meaning of a thought is what consequences one means to bring about when they employ the thought. To <mask>er, this is what a more


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But now, we may ask, how are these 'consequences' to test the 'truth' claimed by the assertion? Only by satisfying or thwarting that purpose, by forwarding or baffling that interest. If they do the one, the assertion is 'good' and pro tanto 'true' ; if they do the other, 'bad' and 'false'.Its 'consequences,' therefore, when investigated, always turn out to involve the 'practical' predicates 'good ' or 'bad,' and to contain a reference to ' practice' in the sense in which we have used that term. So soon as therefore we go beyond an abstract statement of the narrower pragmatism, and ask what in the concrete, and in actual knowing, 'having consequences ' may mean, we develop inevitably the fullblown pragmatism in the wider sense. Given <mask>er's view that the meaning of a thought amounts to the consequences one means to bring about by the thought, <mask>er further concluded that the truth of a thought depends on whether it actually brings about the consequences one intended. For example, if while following a cooking recipe that called for salt I were to think to myself, "Cerebos is salt", my thought will be true if it consequently leads me to add Cerebos and produce a dish with the intended taste. However, if while working in a chemistry lab to produce a certain mixture I were to think to myself, "Cerebos is salt", my thought would both have a different meaning than before (since my intent now

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 Riddles of the Sphinx (1891)
 "Axioms as Postulates" (published in the collection Personal Idealism, 1902)
  "Useless 'Knowledge': A Discourse Concerning Pragmatism", January 1902)
 Humanism (1903)
 "The Ethical Basis of Metaphysics" (July 1903)
 "The Definition of 'Pragmatism' and 'Humanism'" (January 1905)
 Studies in Humanism (1907)
 Plato or Protagoras? (1908)
 Riddles of the Sphinx (1910, revised edition)
 Humanism (1912, second edition)
 Formal Logic (1912)
 Problems of Belief (1924, second edition)
 Logic for Use (1929)
 Our Human Truths (1939, published posthumously)

Notes and references

Further reading
 Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S. Schiller by Rueben Abel (1955)
 Humanistic Pragmatism: The Philosophy of F.C.S. Schiller edited by Rueben Abel (1966)
 "The Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S. Schiller" in <mask> De Waal's On Pragmatism (2005)

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<mask> (born 28 July 1956) is an Italian luthier who specializes in classical guitar making. Biography
Born and raised in Florence, Italy, <mask> took an interest in creating musical instruments from an early age, building his first guitar at age 15. In 1977, he began studying guitar making with Argentinian luthier Ricardo Brané. After Brané’s death, <mask> traveled to Spain, England, France, and the United States to study with various masters, going in 1981 to Spain to meet with many Spanish luthiers including Paulino Bernabe Senior, José Ramírez, Francisco and Gabriel Fleta to get their critical opinions and advice on his guitar making. With the same goal in mind, he went twice to England to consult with José Romanillos. Most importantly, during the early 1980s, <mask> went several times to Paris to visit with Robert Bouchet and Daniel Friederich in their workshops, always with the objective in mind of growing as a luthier through their advice. In Castres, France in 1985, <mask> competed in the "Concours International des Facteurs de Guitare" organized by Robert Vidal of Radio France.There, he won first prize for Aesthetic Qualities and second general prize for Acoustic Qualities. Experienced in the restoration of guitars and other antique string instruments, <mask> has carried out such restorations as the Pagés guitar of Jacob Lindberg, string basses for musicians of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, and a classical guitar built by Hermann Hauser. <mask> has built over 350 guitars, some owned by guitarists including Filomena Moretti, Flavio Cucchi, Carlo Marchione, Antigoni Goni, Robert Gruca, Colin Davin, Minoru Inagaki, and Marcelo Kayath, while others belong to important private

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<mask> is well known for a guitar he began building in 1989, the Coclea, which possesses unusually resonant acoustic properties. The name refers to the "cochlea" of the inner ear (coclea in Latin), the physiological place where noise is perceived as sound. The Coclea is designed on precise geometrical principles, of which its main characteristic is having top and back conceived of as portions of spheres of different radii.<mask> explains his inspiration for the Coclea: "From the early 80s on, I became interested in understanding the rules adopted by luthiers of the 19th century for designing the form of their instruments, a series of circles and triangles in a mathematical relation to the length of the body. Then I developed a system of spheres of differing diameters and planes in such a way so that these tangents would compose the Coclea." While he originally created two versions of the Coclea, one with a spruce top and another with a cedar top, it was in 1997 that <mask> began to develop the idea for the Coclea Thucea, so named because of the combination of the two woods of which the sound board is composed: thuja plicata (western redcedar) and picea excelsa (spruce). <mask>'s Thucea design was partially inspired by a concept applied by  Antonio Torres who created guitar soundboards with three strips of spruce of differing densities. He produced the first Coclea Thucea in 2000. In 2012, <mask> created a special model of the Coclea Thucea named "Cerulea." Destined for China, the predominant color of the decoration is cerulean blue, inspired by the

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 image of the celestial empire.In the rosette there is a square tile of blue lapis lazuli and as 2012 was the year of the Dragon there is another tile representing a dragon carved from an antique piece of bone. Bouchet Homage

In honor of his former teacher, in 1994 <mask> created his first reproduction of a Bouchet guitar, the Bouchet Homage. Following the Cahier d’atelier (workshop notebook) of Bouchet, later published by the Conservatoire de Paris, <mask> created what is generally recognized as a personalized replica of the master’s instrument. In 1998 the Florentine luthier was invited to exhibit this guitar in Shibuya, Tokyo at the celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Bouchet’s birth. Concerning Bouchet, <mask> has written: "He linked the 'gesture' with the material, a characteristic typical of sculptors, and one ought not to forget that Bouchet started out as both a painter and a sculptor." García & Simplicio Replicas

In 1999 after intense study of Catalan lutherie, <mask> began to make replicas of García and Simplicio Guitars. Concerning the task of creating replicas of guitars by these two masters <mask> García, my state of mind is quite different from the great white canvas ready to be filled with colors that Simplicio represents for me.I feel freer, more tranquil, and more self-confident. Simplicio is more severe. During the period in which I was assiduously studying his work I dreamed of him often and I always felt intimidated and embarrassed before him." Skrjabin Homage

Inspired by the piano works of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, Tacchi created a unique Coclea Thucea named the Skrjabin Homage in 2010. This guitar was unveiled on 23 May 2010 at the

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 Cleveland Institute of Music, played by Jason Vieaux for an encore. Articles and lectures by <mask>

"Una strada da seguire" in Francisco Simplicio luthier: Note di viaggio sulle tracce di Francisco e Miguel Simplicio nella Barcellona fra Modernismo e Seconda Republica Diego Milanese and Umberto Piazza, eds. Il Dialogo, Milan 2010 pp.180–190

"Inside the Tacchi Workshop" at the Classical Guitar Weekend, Cleveland, Ohio 22 May 2010

"Rue de la Guitare" in Guitar Salon Blog, 26 August 2013

<mask> Interviews Daniel Friederich in Guitar Salon Blog, 25 August 2013 (reprinted from Il Fronimo vol. 101, 1998)

"Tacchi Workshop Firenze" at Corde Factum Guitar Festival, Puurs, Belgium 16 May 2010

"Robert Bouchet in Paris" Lecture for Media Calm Co., Ochanomizu, Tokyo, May 2010

"Robert Bouchet chez les japonais" trans. Fabio Ragghianti Les Cahiers de la Guitar et de la Musique  n.70, 1999, p. 11

Simplicio Biography for Rodgers Tuning Machines 1999

"Masaru Kohno: Intervista esclusiva" in Guitart V, n. XX, Oct-Dec 2000 pp. 4–7

"Meet the Maker: Masaru Kohno" in American Lutherie #62 Summer 2000

"Intervista a Daniel Friederich" in Il Fronimo rivista di chitarra n.101 Jan 1998 pp. 9–14

Discography

Flavio Cucchi Presents Works by Castelnuovo Tedesco (ARC Music) 1996

Flavio Cucchi From Dowland to Chick Corea (GuitArt) 2002

Flavio Cucchi Guitar Favourites (Oxmedia) 2003

Flavio Cucchi I maestri della chitarra (Compilation Seicorde) 2003

Flavio Cucchi (DVD) GMC 2009

Colin Davin The Infinite Fabric of Dreams 2011

Robert Gruca  "Handel Guitar Arrangements"

Filomena Moretti recordings on Tacchi guitar

References

People from Florence
Italian luthiers
Classical guitar makers
1956

masks:
Andrea Tacchi
Andrea Tacchi