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<mask> (born 13 August 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Widely regarded as one of Australian football's greatest players, Nicholls was the first Carlton footballer to play 300 games for the Blues, and was declared the club's greatest player. He represented Victoria a record 31 times in interstate football, and was inducted as one of the inaugural Legends when the Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996. Nicholls played most of his football as a ruckman, and although at 189 centimetres he was not especially tall, he compensated his lack of height with his intelligence and imposing physical presence, which earned him the nickname 'Big Nick'. His rivalry with fellow Australian football legend Graham Farmer raised the standard of ruck play during the 1960s. Carlton career
The Carlton Football Club recruited Nicholls from the Maryborough Football Club in 1957 after recruiting his elder brother, Don, the previous year their father ensured that both brothers would play together at one club. Don played 77 senior games as a centreman for Carlton from 1956, when he was Carlton's best first-year player, to 1961.<mask> enjoyed an outstanding season in 1966, winning his second consecutive Robert Reynolds Trophy, and finishing second in the Brownlow Medal count, four votes behind St Kilda champion Ian Stewart. Success as captain-coach
In his first year as captain-coach, Nicholls led the Blues to the minor premiership with 18 wins and a draw, followed by  with 18 wins. 1972 was the first season in which the McIntyre "Final Five" system was used, and so because Carlton finished on top of the ladder, this meant that they had a week's break before facing Richmond in the Second Semi-final. The match was drawn, which in those days meant that a replay was required the following week, thus shifting every other match back another week. Richmond won the replay by 41 points, but in the post-match interviews Nicholls refused to panic:
Carlton has not hit a form slump. We just had a dismal day – our worst for the season. [...] There'll be no panic just because we went down by 41 points.There won't be more than one or two changes. [...] We will be sticking to the same players because it was they who put us where we finished at the end of the home-and-away games. [...] I know the players will redeem themselves next week. We just won't beat St. Kilda – we will win well. And if we team together as I know we can I know we are good enough to take the premiership. Robert Walls, who was serving as vice-captain, recalled that the day after the semi-final defeat, the players arrived at training feeling flat, but Nicholls revealed to them the outline of his plan to win the premiership with all-out attacking football. But first, Carlton had to defeat  in the Preliminary Final.The Saints had played in the previous year's Grand Final and still boasted a strong team. <mask> chose not to implement his plan, trusting that his players would get the job done. The Blues prevailed by 16 points and earned the right to redeem themselves against their arch-rival. Richmond went into the Grand Final as clear favourites, but this would be the day when Nicholls established once and for all his reputation as one of the greats of the game. The element of surprise in Nicholls' plan lay in his team selection; he handed the rucking responsibilities to "Percy" Jones, whilst stationing himself in the forward pocket with the intent of kicking goals. He also deployed Barry Armstrong in the centre while Vin Waite was given the task of minding Barry Richardson. Finally, in the lead-up to the match, Nicholls had given his players three simple instructions: get to the ball first, kick long into attack and contest for 100 minutes.The plan succeeded in the most spectacular fashion possible. In an enthralling spectacle of attacking football from both teams, Carlton piled on the goals to lead at half time with an incredible score of 18.6 (114) to 10.9 (69). The shell-shocked Tigers tried to claw their way back into the game, but every goal they scored was met with a Carlton reply. When the final siren sounded, Carlton had registered a record score of 28.9 (177) while Richmond's score of 22.18 (150), enough to win most games, remains the highest losing score in a Grand Final. While every Carlton player contributed, <mask> himself had a field day, kicking six goals on Ray Boyanich. He said afterwards that had he not kicked six, he felt he would have failed in the position. Walls, who also kicked six goals, was nominated best on ground.Stung by their defeat, Richmond didn't have to wait long to avenge their humiliation as the two rivals squared off again in the following season's Grand Final. On a hot and blustery day, Richmond prevailed in a match that would be remembered for two major incidents. The first occurred at the three-minute mark of the first quarter, when Nicholls was sensationally felled by Richmond back pocket Laurie Fowler while juggling a mark. Both players had their eyes on the ball and didn't see each other until it was too late. Fowler, who was airborne, hit Nicholls with his shoulder and emerged from the collision unscathed, but Nicholls went to ground and had to be helped to his feet by the club trainers. The sight of their fallen leader stunned the Carlton players; Robert Walls recalled that "[t]here was a bit of disbelief when Nicholls went down because we'd never seen the big bloke hurt like that before." Nicholls was awarded a 15-metre penalty, and goaled from the free kick, but suffered double vision from the collision, and had little further impact on the game.The second incident came in the second quarter, when Ian Stewart kicked the ball deep into Richmond's attacking zone to a contest involving Carlton full-back Geoff Southby and Richmond forward Neil Balme. What happened next would sour Carlton's already bitter relations with Richmond for many years. Going for the ball after it spilled off a pack contest, Southby was floored by a round-arm punch from Balme. The hit broke Southby's jaw, and he would not return to the field after half time. Just moments later, Balme would lash out again, this time at Vin Waite. Reflecting on the incident many years later, <mask> angrily labelled Balme a "cheat":
I didn't respect him as a player because I reckon he was a cheat. He used to dwell on players and with his big, strong frame, he should have been doing more courageous things.People over the years say Balmey knocked a couple out, but he basically king-hit people. Controversies
While playing for Carlton, Nicholls served a three-month jail term at Pentridge Prison in 1960, having been found guilty of embezzling £5,558 from the Collins Street Branch of the ES&A Bank and larceny as a servant. He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment (with an eligibility for parole after three months), he missed the first eleven games of the 1960 season, returning to play against Richmond on 16 July 1960. Retirement and Further coaching
Nicholls finished his VFL career with a then-record 331 games (three state games played during Carlton games were added to his 328 Carlton games). Following his retirement, he served as non-playing coach at Carlton in 1975, but then resigned three days before the start of the 1976 VFL season, citing mental and physical exhaustion. Nicholls then went to South Australia, where he coached Glenelg Football Club, from 1977 to 1978, and then returned to Melbourne to coach Coburg Football Club in 1981. Life after Football
Nicholls has remained loyal to Carlton, even through the recent lean years.In August 2010, at a function to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Carlton's memorable 1970 premiership, <mask> took the opportunity to voice his displeasure at the way Carlton had been run by previous administrators since the 1995 premiership, which eventually led, among other things, to the club's first wooden spoon in 2002:
The thing that annoys me more at the moment about Carlton is our lack of respect, generally, in the footballing public. I know that, without going right through all the 50-odd years, I have seen a lot of good committees come and go. I have seen a lot of good players come and go, but there is a lack of respect and, to me, a trashing of the Carlton brand in the past 10 or 15 years. During Carlton's 150th anniversary celebration in June 2014, at which he was named the club's greatest player, <mask> went further, saying that the club needed to lose its arrogant image:
But I must say, if I have one regret about the image of Carlton, who I love, it is the fact that we have probably taken over from Collingwood as being the most hated side in the league. I say that because people think we were arrogant, which we were – thanks to a couple of presidents. Without mentioning any names, they were arrogant. When we won, they didn’t know how to win properly.I believe that's the thing about sport – you have got to know how to win and how to lose and do both properly. We were arrogant. I think that helped create an image of the club, being an arrogant club, which I don’t think we are. Honours and Tributes
<mask> won the Robert Reynolds Trophy for Carlton's best and fairest player on five occasions: 1959, only his third season, and then in 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1967. In the eleven seasons from 1959 to 1969, Nicholls never placed outside the top three for the award. The trophy was renamed in Nicholls' honour in 2004. He was also named in Carlton's Team of the Century in the first ruck.Besides being named as one of the twelve inaugural "Legends of the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996, Nicholls was also named in the AFL Team of the Century, as the resting ruckman in the back pocket, with Graham Farmer taking the first ruck position. He is depicted contesting a boundary throw-in against Farmer in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport. Teammate and fellow Hall of Fame Legend Alex Jesaulenko rated Nicholls the best he had seen or played with, "because he could have two marks and four kicks and still win a game." Former Collingwood captain Des Tuddenham said that Nicholls had the best football brain of anyone he had met. Carlton rover Rod Ashman recounted the impact Nicholls had during his early years at the club:
Playing alongside "Big Nick" was an absolute godsend. I got him at the end of his career, but I'll never forget one day at Carlton at a boundary throw-in, right in front of the social club in the forward pocket. He looked at me and motioned towards a spot; it was clear he wanted me to get there.Sure enough, he palms it straight to me and I kick a goal. He was that good. Opposition ruckmen just couldn't get around him. I couldn't believe the size of his legs; they were enormous. He could manoeuvre around blokes like Polly Farmer, even though he stood only six feet two. that's shorter than Chris Judd. He was just a sensational player.References

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<mask> (born October 19, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2014. He did not play in the major leagues after 2015 until he pitched for the Braves in 2020. Career

Amateur career
Matzek played baseball at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo, California, where he was a teammate of future big leaguer Kyle Hendricks. He struck out 102 in  innings pitched with an 0.97 earned run average (ERA) his senior year, leading his team to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) championship and earning the CIF Orange County Player of the Year. He was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the first round, 11th overall, in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft. Colorado Rockies
On August 17, 2009, Matzek agreed to a $3.9 million signing bonus to join the Colorado Rockies organization.He did not pitch professionally in 2009. Prior to the 2010 season he was ranked by Baseball America as the 23rd best prospect in baseball. Playing for the Single-A Asheville Tourists, he compiled a win-loss record of 5-1 with a 2.92 ERA and 88 strikeouts in  innings of work over 18 starts. However, he struggled with control, walking 62 and hitting 4 batters. Prior to 2011 Baseball America ranked him as the 32nd best prospect. He started the season with the High-A Modesto Nuts, but struggled mightily, going 0-3 with a 9.82 ERA with 46 walks in 33 innings. He was demoted back to Asheville, where he made three rather unsuccessful starts before going on a "little mental break" after his start on June 17.He returned to Asheville on July 20 to finish the season. He went 5-4 with a 4.36 ERA with the Tourists in 2011, striking out 74 and walking 50 in 64 innings. Matzek started the 2012 season with Modesto. He was a mid-season All-Star in the California League, going 4-3 with a 3.24 ERA before the break, striking out 83 and walking 52 in 75 innings. His second half was slightly worse than the first, and he finished 2012 going 6-8 with a 4.62 ERA, striking out a league-leading 153 and walking a league-leading 95. In 2013, he pitched for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers. He was also a mid-season All-Star in the Texas League, going 3-6 with a 4.04 ERA before the break, striking out 55 and walking 40 in  innings.His second half was slightly better this year, and he finished 2013 with the Drillers 8-9 with a 3.79 ERA, striking out 95 and walking 76 in  innings. After the year, <mask> pitched for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, where in 10 games of relief, he went 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA and a 1.457 WHIP, earning him a selection to the AFL Fall Stars Game. <mask> was added to the Rockies 40-man roster on November 20, 2013. He started the 2014 season with the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox. He made 12 starts for the SkySox before earning his first promotion to the major leagues, going 5-4 with a 4.05 ERA, striking out 61 and walking 31 in  innings. <mask> was promoted to the Colorado Rockies on June 11, 2014, to replace Eddie Butler, who went on the disabled-list after his major league debut. <mask> made his major league debut that day, giving up two runs on five hits with seven strikeouts and no walks in seven innings in an 8-2 victory against the Atlanta Braves.He also recorded his first hit off of Julio Teherán, an infield-single in the 7th inning, and he later scored. <mask> got his first career complete game shutout September 5, 2014 vs the San Diego Padres. In the game, he gave up three hits and the Rockies won the game 3-0. At the end of the season, <mask> won 6 games while losing 11 in 19 starts. <mask> began the 2015 season in the Rockies rotation, but after experiencing control problems he was sent down to Triple-A. He would spend the rest of the season in Triple-A. After having surgery towards the end of the 2015 season, Matzek began the 2016 season on the disabled list.He was outrighted off the roster at midseason and was released at the end of the season. Chicago White Sox
In 2017, Matzek signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox. He was released on March 28, 2017. After leaving the White Sox organization, Matzek did not play that year. Seattle Mariners
In 2018, he signed a minor league contract with the Seattle Mariners. He was released on March 30, 2018. Texas AirHogs
On April 12, 2018, <mask> signed with the Texas AirHogs of the independent American Association.In  innings, he struck out 93 batters but walked 66 batters. Arizona Diamondbacks
On January 15, 2019, Matzek signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks following a showcase with Driveline baseball. He was released on May 16, 2019. Second stint with AirHogs
On June 9, 2019, Matzek signed with the Texas AirHogs of the American Association. He had a 2.64 ERA and 53 strikeouts in  innings pitched. Atlanta Braves
On August 14, 2019, <mask>'s contract was purchased by the Atlanta Braves. Matzek began his stint with the Mississippi Braves, their AA affiliate.After just one appearance in which he pitched  innings and had five strikeouts, Matzek was promoted to the Braves AAA affiliate, the Gwinnett Stripers. For the 2020 season, Matzek made the Opening day roster, marking his first appearance in the majors since 2015. In 2020 he was 4-3 with a 2.79 ERA in 21 relief appearances covering 29 innings in which he struck out 43 batters. In 2021 he was 0–4 with a 2.57 ERA in 69 relief appearances in which he pitched 63 innings and struck out 77 batters. In Game 6 of the 2021 NLCS against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Matzek picked up the win with two perfect innings and four strikeouts. Matzek entered the game in a no-out jam with runners on second and third and struck out the side as the Braves clinched their first pennant since 1999. Matzek was a relief pitcher in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, which Atlanta won to clinch the title.Personal life
Matzek is married to Lauren, whom he met in high school. She underwent cancer treatment in 2017, while convincing <mask> to continue his professional baseball career, despite the yips that frustrated both Matzek and his catching partner, his younger brother Kyle. Through Michael McKenry, Matzek met Jason Kuhn, a former collegiate baseball player and Navy SEAL who trained Matzek. References

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<mask> (née Bueten; born January 28, 1959), better known by her air name <mask>, is an American progressive political commentator, activist and talk radio host. The <mask> Show is live streamed having been previously broadcast nationally on Air America Radio, Nova M Radio, and Premiere Radio Networks. Early life
<mask> was born <mask> in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. Randi grew up in the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of New York City, her father was a mechanical engineer and World War II veteran and her mother was a dress shop worker; they divorced by the time <mask> was 15 years old. <mask> has described her adolescence as mischievous and cites it as why she enlisted in the United States Air Force. Her married name is <mask>. <mask> is a radio name chosen to honor Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player Randy Rhoads, whom <mask> describes as "a consummate professional ... but he always practiced.I mean, he practiced eight hours a day. He lived to be the best." Military experience

<mask> enlisted in the United States Air Force and worked stateside at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey as an aircraft mechanic, achieving the rank of Airman first class (E-3). She served two years in the Air Force and one year in the reserves. <mask> went through basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. From there she went to Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas and was being trained as a flight engineer. After she transferred to what would be her permanent station in New Jersey, she decided to leave the active-duty Air Force through the Palace Chase program and was honorably discharged after three years service (two active duty and one reserve) at the age of 21.In the 1980 presidential election, <mask> voted for Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, explaining: "I was young and stupid and sick of the gas lines", but never voted Republican again. Radio career

Early work
<mask>' radio career began in Seminole, Texas at a country music station. Her next job was in a larger market, Mobile, Alabama. While in Mobile, she was paired briefly with a male DJ (also named Randy) for the "Randy and Randi" morning show. This was her first experience with extemporaneous dialogue other than reading cue cards between records. She used this experience as a spring-board to larger markets. In the late 1980s, she was hired out of that medium market directly to New York City by WAPP "The Apple", owned at the time by Doubleday Broadcasting.While working for WAPP, she took the name "<mask> <mask>," having previously used "Randi St. John". While teaming with host Perry Stone at Milwaukee's WQFM, <mask> was suspended in 1987 when their program offended the gay community and led several businesses to cancel ads. In late September 1992, <mask> started on WIOD in Miami, working the 8P-11P night shift. The Miami Herald described her as "a chain-smoking bottle blond, ... part Joan Rivers, part shock jock Howard Stern and part Saturday Night Live'''s 'Coffee Talk' lady. But mostly, she's her rude, crude, loud, brazen, gleeful self." Air America Radio (2004–2008)

In 2004, <mask> joined Air America Radio, bringing The <mask> <mask> Show to a national audience for the first time. <mask>' show on Air America consisted principally of monologue and listener calls, with a short comedic segment at the beginning of the show's second and third hours.Only occasionally did she do interviews. The show was punctuated with musical interludes, including the show's unofficial theme song, Pain by Stereomud. On Fridays, <mask> opened the show with the song "Bounce Your Boobies" by Rusty Warren. With her distinctive Brooklyn-Queens accent, she would take calls spanning the political spectrum, aggressively promoting her views. In 2007, <mask> was recognized by the radio industry's well known periodical, Talkers Magazine as Woman of the Year. Reports of mugging
In October 2007, rumors of <mask> having been mugged in New York were fueled by Air America host Jon Elliott, who had said she was attacked at 39th and Park Avenue while walking her dog, Simon on October 14. Elliott also said <mask> lost several teeth, and speculated the attack could have been part of a right-wing conspiracy.On October 17, the New York Daily News reported <mask> never filed a police report, nor did she claim to be the victim of a mugging. <mask>' attorney confirmed <mask> was injured in a fall while walking her dog, and said <mask> wasn't sure how it had happened. Elliott issued an apology for his on-air comments. Departure from Air America
Air America suspended <mask> from the network on April 3, 2008, after an event in San Francisco for Air America affiliate KKGN. While doing a stand-up comedy act, <mask> said on March 22, 2008:"Geraldine Ferraro turned out to be the David Duke in drag ... What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is! She's such a fucking whore! I wanna see her have to stand beside her husband at one of those mandatory 'I have sinned against you; I'm a whore' kind of a press conference.Mr. Ferraro should have to stand next to his whore of a wife ... Hillary is a big fucking whore, too. You know why she's a big fucking whore? Because her deal is always, 'Read the fine print, asshole!'" When a video of the event was made public the following week, Air America suspended her for "inappropriate comments". The event was billed as "An Evening with <mask> <mask>" and promoted on KKGN's website. Geraldine Ferraro called for <mask>' employment to be terminated when the personal attacks directed towards her and Clinton began circulating through the media. <mask> claimed that Air America breached its contract with her, and questioned the network's commitment to free speech.On April 10, 2008, <mask> went on Larry King Live to clarify her suspension from the network. Later that evening, she conducted an interview on The Mike Malloy Show in which <mask> went into greater detail concerning the suspension. Air America had recently been sold. The new owner read her existing contract and wanted to amend two details: <mask>' right to terminate at any time, and a clause that said Air America could not terminate <mask> for any reason without paying her. <mask> refused to amend the contract, which she said took "seven months to negotiate with the previous owners." Air America suspended her until a settlement could be reached concerning the contract which was still in place and had an additional year to run. In the interim, Air America management decided to conduct market research to assess her value to the company.According to <mask>, it was Air America which released the press release that called attention to the video of her performance in San Francisco simply as a way to gauge her audience loyalty and her value to the network. She also claimed Air America soon asked her to return to the air, with an offer of more money but still holding to the condition that she had to change her contract "in order to get her mic back". <mask> refused and left Air America because of the stalemate over the new contract. Mark Green, President of Air America Radio, said, "Her abusive, obscene comments obviously crossed the line of what talent at a media company could say," and added that the comments "were in the Imus league", referring to radio host Don Imus, who was fired by CBS Radio in 2007 after making racial remarks about female basketball players. According to a published account, Green said the company had asked <mask> to apologize for the remarks. In the same account, <mask> said she did not refuse to apologize for the comment. Air America Media informed <mask> on April 9 that the contract was terminated.Air America president Mark Green issued a statement wishing <mask> well, and thanking her for her work with Air America. Meanwhile, KKGN announced on its website that The <mask> <mask> <mask> Show web site, redirecting it to a statement by the chairman and president on the Air America site. <mask> stated at 3:42pm, EDT on April 14 that she, not Air America, owns the URL name. The message board was reinstated on May 5, 2008. Nova M Radio (2008–2009)
On April 10, 2008, Nova M Radio announced <mask> would join its radio network, which also syndicated The Mike Malloy Show. During the show's first Nova M broadcast on April 14, 2008, <mask> went into detail concerning the events surrounding her suspension.She described what happened as "a great radio story and I've heard some great radio stories in my day." The <mask> <mask> show returned to the airwaves on April 21, 2008, on 23 affiliate stations, compared to Air America's 60 affiliates. As of May 5, 2008, the show was heard on 28 stations, including XM 167. On her program's inaugural Nova M Radio broadcast she also said that she had objected to Air America's new owners demanding her contract be amended to remove her walk-away clause. She said her salary was also an issue. <mask>' last show on Nova M was February 3, 2009. Political commentator and one-time Congressional candidate Nancy Skinner hosted the show in <mask>' absence beginning February 5.Following this, Anita Drobny of Nova M Radio posted a message on the Nova M site saying that they were unable to disclose details of what was going on due to <mask>' having complete control of the show and that <mask> "now has to make her decisions as to what she must do with her career". Drobny also said, "People are saying it's about money. It's not about money at all. I just could not fulfill one of her requirements." She did, however, note the financial impact of <mask>' departure: "I looked at [our] site, and I see that because <mask> <mask> isn't on, there are so many people leaving the Founders Club [which involved a fee that was paid to Nova M]. And you can't operate without people's participation. "Additionally, <mask>' own website was taken down and replaced with a letter from <mask> to her supporters stating that the entire situation was within Nova M's control and any implication that <mask> was responsible for the disruption was false, and that <mask>' show would be "seeking a new home" in light of those developments.According to an individual familiar with the issue, Nova M agreed to provide certain standard legal protections for the popular radio host, but <mask> had to leave the air and discovered that Nova M had not lived up to its contractual promise. Subsequently, on February 19, 2009, Nova M Radio announced that it would be filing for bankruptcy liquidation. The Nova M Radio website was taken down in April 2009. Premiere Radio Networks (2009–2014)
On April 23, 2009, Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, announced the addition of <mask> <mask> to their syndicated lineup with her show returning to airways across the country May 11, 2009. Her eponymous program, The <mask> <mask> Show, aired live Monday through Friday from 3pm to 6pm Eastern Time. Her show ended on May 16, 2014.Radioink.com A statement from a Premiere spokesperson said:  "I can confirm <mask> <mask> has decided to end her national radio program." Dark Horse Broadcasting (2016)
In 2016, <mask> <mask> initiated a Kickstarter campaign to return The <mask> <mask> Show from which she received 1,951 pledges in the amount of $152,063.The show began live streaming publicly on July 5, 2016, four days after it was streamed privately to supporters of the Kickstarter campaign. Present day
Randi is now on from 3 to 5 pm ET on Free Speech TV [33] - DishTV ch. 9415, DirecTV ch. 348, Roku, AppleTV & Sling, and online via RandiRhodes.com/Live, YouTube, Facebook, TuneIt and Periscope. The following radio stations have the <mask> <mask> Show:
Minneapolis, MN: 950 KTFN (10p-Mid.)[34.] San Bernardino: 102.3/1050 KCAA (2-3p) [35.] Santa Fe, NM: 103.7/1260 KTRC (6-8p) [36.]San Francisco, CA: 910 KKSF (5-7p) [37.] Personal life
In 1994 <mask> married Jim Robertson, an independent television producer and cameraman. They had been together for ten years before marrying. <mask> and Robertson divorced in April 2004 but have remained friends. <mask> took the name Robertson when she married, but continued to use her professionally known name on the air. In 1998, <mask>' sister Ellen died of breast cancer at age 44. <mask> and Robertson raised Ellen's daughter Jessica as their own.<mask>' partner is Howard Vine, a former partner in the Public Policy practice of Dickstein Shapiro. Previously, he was founder and managing shareholder of the Greenberg Traurig Washington DC office. Now retired, he is a board member of Faith in America, a group working to end harm to LGBT youth caused by religious teachings. He was an adviser to the Clinton/Gore transition team. In 2007, Washingtonian magazine named Mr. Vine one of Washington, DC's "50 Top Lobbyists." References

33. https://freespeech.org/shows/the-randi-rhodes-show/

34. https://www.am950radio.com/events/the-randi-rhodes-show/

35. https://santafe.com/shows/the-randi-rhodes-show/

36. http://www.kcaaradio.com/fullschedule.html

37. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/178028/randi-rhodes-takes-afternoons-at-kksf/

Further reading
 The Big Encyclopedia of Republican Hypocrites'', (2006) ()
 Interview with <mask> <mask>. (Cover story)  Talkers magazine, December 2005/January 2006, pp.16, 34, 40, 44. External links

 Transcript of <mask> <mask> appearance on Larry King Live

Press
C-SPAN Q&A interview with <mask>, December 18, 2005
 They Look Nothing Like Rush Limbaugh; Susan Brenna, The New York Times; November 13, 2005
 South Florida Radio History: <mask> <mask>, Goddess of Gab: "Wicked humor of WJNO's newest radio personality woos Treasure Coast"; Lana Sumpter, Port St. Lucie Tribune and Fort Pierce Tribune
 Talk-show host <mask> <mask> joined a new liberal network hoping to advance her career while shaking up this election season; Paula Span, The Washington Post Magazine; September 12, 2004
 The Liberal Rush Limbaugh? (follow up article); Paula Span, The Washington Post Magazine; (September 13, 2004)
 Transcript and video of <mask> <mask> on the Larry King Live show, May 12, 2006
 <mask> <mask> is the Victim of a Violent Attack 10/14/2007, Talking Radio, October 14, 2007
<mask> <mask> Suspended by Air America Radio for "Ad Hominem" Comments Made Regarding Hillary Clinton, Air America Radio, April 3, 2008
Air America Host <mask> <mask> Suspended For Calling Hillary A "Big F*****g Whore" (with video), The Huffington Post, April 3, 2008

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<mask> (born 1966 in Washington, D.C., United States) is an American, New York-based, record producer and curator working in recordings, films and live events

Early life
Spelman was educated at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the New England Conservatory, where he was selected as one of the one-hundred most distinguished alumni, as part of the Centenary Celebration of Jordan Hall. At the Peabody Institute he studied renaissance lute with Ronn McFarlane, and performed in the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble. At the New England Conservatory he was a student of classical guitarists <mask> and Robert Paul Sullivan. In a 2009 interview, with Allan Kozinn, published in the New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure, Spelman discussed the influence of classical guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery, whom he had first encountered in a master class in Santa Cruz, California. In the 1980s, Spelman trained in acoustic guitar design and construction under Jeff Trougott, the Santa Cruz-based  luthier known for making custom acoustic guitars for musicians including Charlie Hunter and John Mayer. Spelman is the son of Seymour J<mask>,  a labor lawyer and government attorney who ran for Congress in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1966 as a peace candidate. He is the brother of <mask>, an R.N.and health care advocate, who has authored several legislative bills including “Cal-Care,” a universal health care proposal. He is the cousin of Ron Balin, who co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., in 1961, one of the nation’s  first homosexual civil rights organizations. New York Guitar Festival
Together with author and WNYC Radio host John Schaefer, Spelman founded the New York Guitar Festival in 1999. The festival's first season included just three concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, but in later years expanded to include venues throughout the city, including Carnegie Hall, The World Financial Center Winter Garden, The 92nd Street Y, Joe's Pub, The Jazz Standard, Le Poisson Rogue, Flushing Town Hall, Makor, BB King Blues Club, The Monkey, Barbes, The Apple Store theater in SoHo, and various pop-up venues. The festival attracts recognition in the international media, has built partnerships with leading NPR stations for live radio broadcasts, and assisted in the launch of sister festivals in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia[2]. Spelman serves as the festival's Artistic Director. Film projects
In 2010, Spelman served as music supervisor for Vidal Sassoon The Movie, a feature-length documentary about revolutionary hairstylist Vidal Sassoon.The soundtrack features music by American Music Club's Mark Eitzel (who contributed a cover of the Ira Gershwin song 'S Wonderful), post-rock chamber ensembles Clogs (featuring Padma Newsome and Bryce Dessner of The National), Redhooker, and Arcade Fire side project Bell Orchestre. The film had its premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival. Spelman has commissioned scores by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, James Blackshaw, Gyan Riley, <mask>, Steve Kimock, Alex de Grassi, and Chicha Libra, for classic silent films by Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harry Everett Smith, Yasujirō Ozu, Wu Yonggang, and Georges Méliès. Luminato – Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity
Luminato, Canada’s largest multi-disciplinary arts festival, hired Spelman in 2009 as Guest Curator. The Globe and Mail's James Bradshaw wrote: "to attract top-flight talent, Luminato tapped into the mind and rolodex of <mask>pelman." Programing highlights included outdoor concerts by Goran Bregovic, The Derek Trucks Band, Daniel Lanois, Taj Mahal, Randy Bachman, Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, an all-day Brazilian Guitar Marathon (co-curated by The Assad Duo), and a sold-out tribute to Neil Young at Massey Hall, featuring the Cowboy Junkies; Holly Cole; Danny Michel; Steven Page; Carole Pope; Bill Frisell Trio; Issa (formerly Jane Siberry); Colin Linden; Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian); Harry Manx; Jason Collett; Sarah Slean and musical director Kevin Breit. The Neil Young tribute attracted front page coverage in local and national newspapers, and was broadcast on CBC Radio.Multimedia projects
Spelman has presented a number of large-scale multimedia projects, including the world premieres of Phil Kline’s World on a String, Bill Frisell’s The Great Flood, Daniel Lanois’ Silvio, Aaron and Bryce Dessner’s The Long Count, and The Apollo Project a 30th anniversary live re-imagining of Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, featuring members of Phish, Tortoise, the Brooklyn ambient ensemble Itsnotyouitsme, and filmmaker Craig Teper. The Great Flood, a collaboration between Bill Frisell and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison, was based on the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the ensuing transformation of American society and music. It had its premiere at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and has since been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and throughout Europe, including venues in Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, England, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Greece. The critic John Fordman, writing in The Guardian, called The Great Flood "one of the highlights of the 2012 London Jazz Festival." The project was the third collaboration between Frisell and filmmaker Bill Morrison, who has worked with some of the most important composers of our time, including John Adams, Gavin Bryars, Henryk Gorecki, <mask>, Harry Partch, and Steve Reich. The Long Count had its premiere on September 11, 2009 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and was a collaboration between visual artist Matthew Ritchie and twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, best known as members of the indie rock band The National. The multimedia work was loosely based on the Mayan creation story Popol Vuh and included a 12 piece orchestra and four guest singers; Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Matt Berninger, and Shara Worden.Following the Krannert Center performance, the work had its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and traveled to London's Barbican Center, and Amsterdam as part of the Holland Festival. In 2006, Spelman partnered with Carnegie Hall to co-commission the guitarist-composer Bill Frisell to present a program of new works featuring the world premiere of a multimedia piece created in collaboration with visual artist Jim Woodring. Woodring is an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer, best known for the dream-based comics be published in his magazine Jim, and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels. The evening featured Bill Frisell's 858 Quartet and with Jenny Scheinman (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola), Hank Roberts (cello), and special guests Ron Miles (trumpet), and Greg Tardy (tenor sax and clarinet). Literary events
In April 2009, for National Poetry Month, Arts World Financial Center enlisted <mask> to curate and produce a tribute to Pablo Neruda, the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature winner. The event, Songs of Love & Despair: A Musical Tribute to Pablo Neruda,  featured performances and readings by Clogs, the Czech experimental musician Irene & Vojtech Havel, Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña, Colin Stetson (Sway Machinery, Bell Orchestre, Arcade Fire), Pedro Soler with Basque vocal improviser Beñat Achiary, poet and Bowery Poetry Club founder Bob Holman, experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson, and rock musician Lou Reed. In 2005 and 2006 Spelman was appointed curator of Other Words/Other Worlds, a festival celebrating National Jazz and Poetry Month at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York.The festival featured workshops, film screenings, musical performances, and a 24-hour poetry jam session. Musicians who performed included Matthew Shipp, The Nat Jones Trio, Peter Apfelbaum, Chris Cheek, as well as local high-school jazz ensembles. Readings included Spanish, Russian, Korean and Chinese poets, a second grade poetry club, and poets Everton Sylverton, Bob Holman, and Hal Sirowitz. In the early 1990s Spelman served as music director and co-producer of Third Friday Respite, a series of literary readings and classical music performances at Manhattan's Church of the Advent Hope. Highlights included a reading of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters as well as a year-long, complete reading of John Milton's epic 17th century poem Paradise Lost. Visual arts
As a visual arts curator, Spelman has organized gallery exhibits in New York and Toronto by photographers Ralph Gibson, Danny Clinch, Andy Summers, Jack Vartoogian, Steve Sherman, Rahav Segev, and Hank O’Neal.He has also organized an exhibition of vintage music posters by Milton Glaser. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
In 2005 Spelman was invited to launch and oversee a biannual guitar festival in Urbana, Illinois, modeled on the New York Guitar Festival. The three-day festival attracts more than 15 thousand patrons, and has received praise in Chicago, Guitar Player, and Down Beat. Initially called The Wall To Wall Guitar Festival, the festival's name was changed in 2009 to Ellnora, The Guitar Festival, in honor of Ellnora Krannert, one of the founders of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. On September 11, 2009, the festival presented the world premiere of The Long Count, a 70-minute multi-media work described as "twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner, best known as members of The National, join their musicianship with the narrative, set, and film work of visual artist Matthew Ritchie for an hour-long phenomenon that weaves the colors and cardinal directions of Mayan myth with the layout of a baseball diamond in an exploration of time and space commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Singers Matt Berninger (of The National), Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond), and sisters Kim and Kelley Deal (of The Breeders) will perform original compositions by the Dessners that will fuse with the continuous soundscape of a 12-person orchestra for a condensed visual epic brought to life through projected images and a mirrored stage surface." Following the Krannert Center performance, the work had its New York premiere in October 2009 at the Brookylyn Academy of Music, travels to Amsterdam in June 2011 as part of the Holland Festival, and there are plans for an album release.The 2011 Ellnora festival took place September 8–10 and the line-up included Luther Dickinson as Artist-in-Residence, the world premiere of a multimedia work about the 1927 Mississippi River flood by Bill Frisell and filmmaker Bill Morrison, and performances by Calexico, Lee Ranaldo, My Brightest Diamond, Richard Thompson, Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub, Sharon Isbin, Taj Mahal, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Adrian Belew, Robert Randolph, The Tony Rice Unit, Cindy Cashdollar, and Marc Ribot. Adelaide Festival Centre, Australia
In 2007, Spelman was recruited by the Adelaide Festival Centre to launch and oversee artistic direction of a major international music festival. The ten-day Adelaide International Guitar Festival was modeled on the New York Guitar Festival, and drew 30 thousand people in the first year. The event had a three-million dollar budget and received a four-year grant from the South Australian Government. The Adelaide Review wrote that "never before have we had a festival like this... the Guitar Festival was a roaring success and an unqualified winner." Rolling Stone called it "a genuinely international event." Live concert tributes
Spelman has created a number of concert tributes to landmark record albums.In 2004 he produced the Blood on the Tracks Project, a concert at New York City's Merkin Concert Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Bob Dylan album. The event was broadcast live on WFUV and as a two-hour radio special, syndicated to more than fifty NPR affiliates. His 2006 Nebraska Project, featured a diverse set of performers, including Dan Zanes, Michelle Shocked, The National, Chocolate Genius, Martha Wainwright, and Bruce Springsteen, and received extensive press coverage, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard, and Pitchfork. The concert was filmed, with Fugazi's Brendan Canty directing, for future DVD release. In 2007 his two-night American Beauty Project included performances by Jay Farrar, The Holmes Brothers, Sex Mob, Jim Lauderdale, Ollabelle, Dar Williams, and The Klezmatics, drew capacity crowds at New York's Winter Garden, has toured to several cities in North America, and in January 2009 had a repeat performance at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the American Songbook series. Other multi-artist tributes produced by Spelman include New York concerts celebrating the musical legacies of Andrés Segovia, Jimi Hendrix, Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, John Fahey, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Elizabeth Cotten, Neil Young, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Lefty Frizzell, the Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, and Terry Riley. Sonic Garden Arts Collective
In 2011, Spelman and a group of friends launched an arts collective called Sonic Garden.The organization's mission statement, posted on their blog, states: "Based in the micro-urban beach community of Springsteen lore, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Sonic Garden is an association of musos, writers, architects, baristas, painters, surfers and winos committed to pursuing artistic development through residences, exhibitions, and education programs which foster dialogue across disciplines and barstools." The first public series coincided with the alternative-music festival All Tomorrow's Parties, and included performances and talks featuring award-winning filmmakers, cartoonists, musicians and visual artists. The TriCity News' Dan Jacobson wrote that: "This is serious stuff. What Spelman is initiating is among the most promising events we've seen for Asbury Park, If it catches on, it could be big. And it could spin off in all different and promising ways for our city." Record production, session work, discography
Vidal Sassoon The Movie, (feature documentary soundtrack, 2010): Music Supervisor/Producer. Bunker Fallout,  Elija B Torn (theycontrol.us, 2009): guitarist.Highway Dancing, The Yearlings (Mixmasters, 2008): Producer. The third full-length recording by The Yearlings, a roots/alternative country duo, from Australia. The album featured contributions by Larry Campbell (pedal steel, dobro, mandolin, fiddle), as well as Glenn Patscha, Byron Isaacs, and Tony Leone, members of the Brooklyn-based band Ollabelle. The Virginia EP, The National, (Brassland, 2008). Mixing Engineer, for "Mansion on the Hill", originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen. Guitar Harvest (Solid Air, 2005): Co-producer. A two-CD compilation, featuring Andy Summers, Bill Frisell, Vernon Reid, Ralph Towner, Henry Kaiser, Alex de Grassi and other artists.Mojo gave it a four-star review, saying "This largely acoustic set is guaranteed to leave guitar buffs drooling," while Total Guitar noted that "Not only does it feature some of the most astonishing guitar playing we’ve heard all year... but all proceeds go to buying guitars and guitar lessons for inner city kids." Various releases on the Artemis/Vanguard label (2003–2005): Compilation Producer. The Telemark Movie, (documentary soundtrack, 1990) arranger/guitarist. References

External links
Official Site

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1966 births
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<mask>-lun MH (; born 23 August 1950) is a Hong Kong singer and actor. He played a major role in developing the Cantopop scene in the 1980s as he was known for singing romantic ballads with modern arrangements. From 1983 to 1987, <mask> received numerous music awards and won Most Popular Male Artist and IFPI Award for successive four years, which made him the most famous superstar singer of Hong Kong in 1980s. In early 1988, he publicly quit all pop music award ceremonies and put most efforts in searching new direction for Cantopop music. Today, he is still active in the music and film industry, releasing new albums on a regular basis. Since the late 1980s, he has served as a mentor for the cantopop music industry, earning the nickname the "Principal" or "<mask>". Today he is regularly seen across the media in Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, and various parts of East Asia participating in all types of entertainment-related events and charity activities.As of 2013, <mask> has launched a total of 115 solo albums and has sold over 35 million records worldwide; he also holds the record for having held the most concerts in Hong Kong as a solo artist. Biography

Early life
<mask> was born in 1950 to football player <mask> (譚江柏), who represented the Republic of China national team during the 1936 summer olympics. He attended Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School and Chi Lin Buddhist Secondary School. Then, he majored in Economics while attending Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. Personal life
<mask> wed Sally Yeung Kit-mei in 1981. They have no children. <mask> met his partner Wendy Chu in 1991; a son was born to them in 1995.Career

Early years
<mask> developed a passion for music in his secondary school years in Hong Kong. He formed a band called "The Wynners" (溫拿樂隊) with his friends. They subsequently entered an amateur singing contest and took the first prize to begin a career in the entertainment industry, appearing in a number of TVB variety shows. The group disbanded, and he later reformed into the band The Wynners with Kenny Bee in 1973. The Wynners performed mostly in English. <mask> was one of the two lead singers in the band until it split in 1978. His first album as a solo artist was 'Naughty Boy' (反斗星) in 1979.An early success was the song 'Love in Autumn' (愛在深秋), first performed in 1984. As a solo singer
<mask>'s first album as a solo artist was "Naughty Boy" (反斗星) in 1979. He later releases such as "Love in Autumn" (愛在深秋) in 1984 or "Embrace" (擁抱), "Flower in Water" (水中花) or "Half Dazed, Half Awoken" (半夢半醒) achieved commercial success. In the 1981 RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, he also won his first major individual song award. His 1984 albums of (愛的根源), (霧之戀) and 1985 (愛情陷阱) formed a successful trilogy of albums. In 1988, he made an announcement that he would not accept any more awards with competition involved. He continued to release albums for the next 30+ years.From 1981 to 1988, he won a top 10 song award every year. This was in addition to his winning a top 10 song award every year from 1983 to 1987 for the Jade solid gold awards. In 1993, he released the English album "My Love", in collaboration with Korean singer Kim Wan-Sun. The Hong Kong press frequently reported a fierce rivalry between <mask> and fellow singer Leslie Cheung. Although both artists were at peace with each other, it was the fans who created the spectacle of a musical feud. In the late 90s, the singers brushed aside any doubts about their friendship, and even appeared together in galas and other special programmes. In 1999, Leslie Cheung, together with other 17 singers, participated in the Album "Paying Tribute to <mask> Tam" (誰可改變15週年紀念集) and collaborated to produce the single remix of <mask>'s popular songs "Illusion" (幻影) and "Foggy Love" (霧之戀).In 2003, he teamed up with fellow artist Hacken Lee for a major world tour entitled Alan & Hacken (, also translated as ""Left Alan Right Hacken"). The name is a play on a Chinese idiom which means "neighbours" (左鄰右里). Up to 2013, they have performed around the world in countries like China, United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, Taiwan, Macau, Malaysia, and Japan with over 100 concerts. Since 2006, he has been helping his godson Kelvin Kwan establish a career in the Hong Kong pop industry. One of his signature fast songs "Love Trap" (愛情陷阱) earned him the 25th Anniversary Jade Solid Gold song honour award in 2006. By 1995, he had already sold more than 20 million albums. By 2005, he had launched more than 104 albums, and 800 songs.He has taken part in 264 concerts, of which 189 were individual concerts. In 2007, he was the recipient of the 30th Hall of Fame Award from the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH) for his 30+ years of contributions to the Hong Kong and Chinese music industry (以表揚他三十多年來對香港音樂創作及華人樂壇的貢獻). Actor

In the 1970s, <mask> hosted the variety show The Wynners Show and took part in the television drama Over the Rainbow. He decided to pursue opportunities in Taiwan in 1980, and starred in renowned director Pai Ching-jui's A Girl Without Sorrow. He subsequently starred in more than ten films in Taiwan including The Funny Couple and Part Time Job. He later starred in a number of films like Armour of God with Jackie Chan and Master Wong v. Master Wong which is a parody of legendary Canton kung fu fighter Wong Fei Hung. In 1981, <mask> won the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Awards for his role in If I Were for Real.He has virtually retired from acting since Age of Miracles (1996) and Aces Going Places (1997). However, he makes a comeback for Here Comes Fortune in 2010. President of Artistes Guild
On 11 January 2008, <mask> was elected as president of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild. Just a month after he was elected, the Edison Chen photo scandal caused a media storm. The Guild condemned the increasing circulation and uploading of obscene photos on the Internet. <mask> was interviewed daily by different media on the handling of the case. He stated, "The circulation of such obscene photos has created a bad atmosphere in society."After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, <mask> helped set up a relief committee to look after the livelihood and schooling of orphaned children. He was on a HK committee along with Eric Tsang, Jackie Chan, and Eason Chan. Entrepreneur
In 1997, an announcement was made in Admiralty, Hong Kong to launch a Star East Entertainment restaurant concept boasting 40 celebrity investors. It was one of the most publicised investments made by <mask> in collaboration with his best friends Natalis Chan and Eric Tsang. In 2000, a merger was made between Star East and Planet Hollywood. Politics

During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, and after "worldwide coverage for Hong Kong’s police force utilizing heavy-handed tactics against student demonstrators", <mask> sided with the police and attended a pro-police rally, saying "No one in the world has ever seen law enforcement officers attacked like that". A backlash from fans followed quickly, with fans smashing his records in public.References

External links
<mask> Dot Com
TAMWINGLUN.Com (譚詠麟.COM)
Profile at HKCuk.co.uk

Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017
Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026
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<mask> (; born 1950) is an Israeli architect, researcher, and professor at the Technion Institute in Haifa. Her research interests are related to design and computation, including digital architecture and methods, and exploring their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms of architectural design and practice. Life and career
<mask> graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1966. She received graduate and undergraduate degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where she later became a professor and Vice Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. She has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and Delft University of Technology and held research appointments at MIT and Berkeley. She has worked at the University of Sydney and Kaiserslautern University. She married fellow architect <mask>, and they have two daughters, Neri and Keren.In 2006 she was elected as a Fellow of the Design Research Society (DRS) for her work in design research. She is an Associate Editor of Design Studies, and on the editorial board of other journals on design theory and on digital design. In 2010 she and her husband co-edited a special issue of the journal Architectural Design on “New Structuralism" – the convergence of new design, engineering and architectural technology to a new mode of synthesizing materials and creating space. In 2014 they edited the book Theories of the Digital in Architecture (2014), an overview of the field with chapters from dozens of contributors. <mask> <mask> also edited special issues of Design Studies on Digital Design (2006) and Parametric Design Thinking (2017). In November 2017 <mask> was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causas) for her research on theories of digital design and exploring the contribution of digital technologies to novel paradigms in design and architecture by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona). Publications

Academic papers
Oxman has published papers in scientific journals, conference books, and as invited chapters in books.<mask> <mask> (1990). "Design Shells: A Formalism for Prototype Refinement in Knowledge-Based Design Systems". Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Vol. 5, No. 9
 <mask> <mask> (1990). "Prior Knowledge in Design, A Dynamic Knowledge-Based Model of Design and Creativity" Design Studies, Butterworth-Heinemann. Vol.11, No.1
 <mask> <mask> (1994)."Precedents in Design: a Computational Model for the Organization of Precedent Knowledge", Design Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2
 <mask> Rivka (1997). "Design by Re-Representation: A Model of Visual Reasoning in Design" in Akin <mask> Rivka (1999) "Educating the Designerly Thinker” in W.M. McCracken, C.M. Eastman and W. Newsletter (eds.) special issue on Cognition in Design Education, Design Studies Vol. 20, No.2
 <mask> Rivka (2001). “The Mind in Design - A Conceptual Framework for Cognition in Design Education” in C. Eastman, W.M. McCracken and W. Newsletter (Eds.)Knowing and Learning to Design: Cognition in Design Education, Elsevier, Oxford
 Bar-On D.* and <mask> R. (2002) “Context Over content: ICPD, A Conceptual Schema for the Building Technology Domain” Automation in Construction, Vol 11, No.4
 <mask> <mask> (2002). “The Thinking Eye: Visual Re-Cognition in Design Emergence”. Design Studies, Vol. 23 No. 2
 This paper received the Annual Design Studies Best Paper Award, granted by the Design Research Society and Elsevier Science. <mask> <mask> (2003) “Think-Maps: Teaching Design Thinking in Design Education”. Design Studies, Vol.25 No. 1
 <mask> <mask>, Palmon O. * Shahar M. and Weiss P. T. (2004). "Beyond the Reality Syndrome: Designing Presence in Virtual Environments" in Architecture in the Network Society, ECAADE 2004, European Computer Aided Architectural Design in Education,  Copenhagen, Denmark
 <mask> <mask> (2006) “Theory and Design in the First Digital Age” Design Studies, Vol. 27  No. 3
 Sass L. and <mask> <mask> (2006) “Materializing Design” Design Studies, Vol. 27 No.3
 <mask> <mask> (2007) "Digital Architecture: Re-thinking Theory, Knowledge, Models and Medium – Challenge to Digital Design and Design Pedagogy"
 <mask> <mask> (2008) “Performance based Design: Current Practices and Research Issues” IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing Vol. 6 Issue 1
 <mask> <mask> (2010) “Morphogenesis in the theory and methodology of digital tectonics“ in a special issue on Morphogenesis, IASS: Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, 51(3)
 Oxman <mask> and <mask> Robert (2010) Guest Editors, “The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies”, a special issue of Architectural Design. Wiley Publications, July 2010,

Books
 Theories of the Digital in Architecture (2014) – <mask> <mask> and <mask>, Editors,

Lectures and presentations
Oxman's public lectures and keynotes tend to be on digital design, education, computation, and design cognition.

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Harold Foss "<mask>" <mask> (born August 13, 1955) is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997. In 1998 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. <mask>'s criticism focuses on the role of the avant-garde within postmodernism. In 1983, he edited The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, a seminal text in postmodernism. In Recodings (1985), he promoted a vision of postmodernism that simultaneously engaged its avant-garde history and commented on contemporary society.In The Return of the Real (1996), he proposed a model of historical recurrence of the avant-garde in which each cycle would improve upon the inevitable failures of previous cycles. He views his roles as critic and historian of art as complementary rather than mutually opposed. Early life and education
<mask> was born Aug. 13, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His father was a partner in the law firm of Foster, Pepper & Shefelman. He attended Lakeside School in Seattle, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was a classmate. He graduated with an A.B. in English from Princeton University in 1977 after completing a 106-page long senior thesis titled "Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill: Two Poets in a Tradition."He received a Master of Arts in English from Columbia University in 1979. He received his Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York in 1990, writing his dissertation on Surrealism under Rosalind Krauss. Career
After graduating from Princeton, <mask> moved to New York City, where he worked for Artforum from 1977 to 1981. He was then an editor at Art in America until 1987, when he became Director of Critical and Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Museum. In 1982, a friend from Lakeside School founded Bay Press to publish The Mink's Cry, a children's book written by <mask>. In the following year Bay Press published The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, a collection of essays on postmodernism edited by <mask> that became a seminal text of postmodernism. In 1985, Bay Press published Recodings, <mask>'s first collection of essays.The Anti-Aesthetic and Recordings were, respectively, Bay Press's best and second best selling titles. <mask> founded Zone in 1985 and was its editor until 1992. In 1991, <mask> left the Whitney to join the faculty of Cornell University's Department of the History of Art. That same year, <mask> became an editor of the journal October; he was still on the board as of 2011. In 1997 he joined the faculty of his undergraduate alma mater, Princeton University, in the Department of Art and Archaeology. In 2000 he became the <mask> Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton. He chaired the Department of Art and Archaeology from 2005 to 2009.In September 2011 he was appointed to the search committee to find a new dean for Princeton's School of Architecture. He is a faculty fellow of Wilson College. <mask> received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998. In 2010 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing by the Clark Art Institute. Spring 2011 he won a Berlin Prize fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin. In 2013-14 he was appointed practitioner in residence at Camberwell College of Arts in London. Criticism
In his introduction to The Anti-Aesthetic (1983), <mask> described a distinction between complicity with and resistance to capitalism within postmodernism.The book included contributions by Jean Baudrillard, Douglas Crimp, Kenneth Frampton, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Edward Saïd, and Gregory Ulmer. In Recodings 1985, <mask> focused on the role of the avant-garde within postmodernism. He advocated a postmodernism that engages in both a continuation of its historical roots in the avant-garde and contemporary social and political critique, in opposition to what he saw as a "pluralistic" impulse to abandon the avant-garde in favor of more aesthetically traditional and commercially viable modes. He promoted artists he saw as exemplifying this vision, among them Dara Birnbaum, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, <mask>, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. <mask> favored expansion of the scope of postmodernist art from galleries and museums to a broader class of public locations and from painting and sculpture to other media. He saw postmodernism's acknowledgment of differences in viewers' backgrounds and lack of deference to expertise as important contributions to the avant-garde. By the mid-1990s, <mask> had come to believe that the dialectic within the avant-garde between historical engagement and contemporary critique had broken down.In his view, the latter came to be preferred over the former as interest was elevated over quality. In The Return of the Real (1996), taking as his model Karl Marx's reaction against G. W. F. Hegel, he sought to rebut Peter Bürger's assertion – which he made in Theory of the Avant-Garde (1974) – that the neo-avant-garde largely represented a repetition of the projects and achievements of the historical avant-garde, and therefore it was a failure. <mask>'s model was based on a notion of "deferred action" inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud. He conceded the failure of the initial avant-garde wave (which included such figures as Marcel Duchamp) but argued that future waves could redeem earlier ones by incorporating through historical reference those aspects that had not been comprehended the first time around. Gordon Hughes compares this theory with Jean-François Lyotard's. <mask> has been critical of the field of visual culture, accusing it of "looseness". In a 1999 article in Social Text, Crimp rebutted <mask>, criticizing his notion of the avant-garde and his treatment in The Return of the Real of sexual identity in Andy Warhol's work.Furthermore, this criticality spreads to both the practice and the field of design in his book Design and Crime (2002). <mask> views his roles as art critic and art historian as complementary rather than mutually opposed, in accordance with his adherence to postmodernism. In an interview published in the Journal of Visual Culture, he said, "I've never seen critical work in opposition to historical work: like many others I try to hold the two in tandem, in tension. History without critique is inert; criticism without history is aimless". Bibliography

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 Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics, 1985. Bay Press. Compulsive Beauty, 1995.MIT Press. The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, 1996. MIT Press. Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), 2002. 2nd. ed, 2011. Verso Books.Art Since 1900: Modernism, Anti-Modernism, Postmodernism, 2005. With Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin Buchloh. Thames & Hudson. Pop (Themes & Movements), 2006. With Mark Francis. Phaidon Press. Prosthetic Gods, 2006.MIT Press. The Art-Architecture Complex, 2011. Verso Books. The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, 2011. Princeton University Press. Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, 2015. Verso Books.What Comes after Farce? Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle, 2020. Verso Books. Brutal Aesthetics, 2020. Princeton University Press. Reprints

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<mask> (June 24, 1909 – July 21, 1994) was an American athlete, coach and athletic director. He played college football and competed in track and field at the University of Pennsylvania from 1930 to 1933. He returned to Penn as head coach of the football team from 1938 to 1953 and as director of physical education from 1954 to 1974. His 1945 and 1947 teams finished ranked among the top ten college football teams in the United States, and he coached five players who were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and three who received the Maxwell Award as the best player in college football. <mask> was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976. The Maxwell Football Club has present the <mask> Award each year since 1989 to the national college football coach of the year. Biography

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<mask> was born in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania in 1909.His father, Herbert N<mask>, was the co-owner of the Munger & Long department store in Camden, New Jersey. <mask> received his early education at the Friends School in Camden. He received his preparatory education at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania and the Episcopal Academy in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia. He was the captain of the football team at Episcopal Academy in 1928 and 1929. He led Episcopal to two undefeated seasons in football and once scored eight touchdowns in a game. He also helped lead Episcopal to two basketball championships and a baseball championship. He also set school records in the pole vault, high jump, discus and javelin.Athlete at Penn
He later attended the University of Pennsylvania where he played at the halfback for the Penn Quakers football team from 1930 to 1932. He also competed for Penn in track and field and won the decathlon at the 1932 Penn Relays. With the Penn Relays being comparable to the Olympic Trials, Munger should have been a lock for the 1932 Olympics. But citing a lack of depth in the 1932 Relays field, another Olympics Trials were held in Chicago. Munger failed to clear a starting 12-foot height in the pole vault, finished ninth, and was named an alternate to the squad. Teacher and coach at Episcopal Academy
After graduating from Penn in 1933, Munger taught mathematics and religion and coached football at the Episcopal Academy. In September 1935, he married Louise Laycock Smith in the Chapel of the Episcopal Academy.Coach and administrator at Penn
<mask> was hired by Penn as the freshman football and track coach in 1936 and held that position during the 1936 and 1937 football seasons. In January 1938, the 28-year-old <mask> took over as the head coach of the Penn football team. He also became an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Education effective July 1, 1938. He served as the head football coach at Penn for 16 years from 1938 to 1953, compiling a record of 82–42–10 for a .649 winning percentage. His Penn teams finished ranked among the top ten college football teams in the United States on three occasions, including a No. 7 ranking in 1947 and a No. 8 ranking in 1945.<mask>'s 1947 team finished with an undefeated 7–0–1 record and outscored opponents 219 to 35. The 1947 team shut out both Navy and Cornell by identical scores of 21–0, and its only setback was a 7–7 tie with Army. Munger coached 16 All-American football players at Penn, and three of his players, Robert H. Odell (1943), Chuck Bednarik (1948) and Reds Bagnell (1950), won the Maxwell Award as the best college football player in the United States. Five of his players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Odell, Bednarik, Bagnell, Skip Minisi, and <mask>. During the Munger era, Penn regularly drew crowds of 75,000 to home games at Franklin Field. <mask>'s teams led the nation in attendance between 1938 and 1942 with 1.78 million fans. The Daily Pennsylvanian later wrote, "The Munger era represented the heyday of Quaker football."After resigning as the football coach, <mask> served as the director of physical education at Penn from 1954 to 1974. He was also a vice-president of the National Football Foundation and the Maxwell Club, president of the American Football Coaches Association, and a member of the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Committee and physical fitness committees under Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. During the summers from 1952 to 1976, he was Director of Camp Tecumseh, a boy's camp in Center Harbor, N.H. founded by three former Olympians in 1903. Honors and awards
Munger was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976. <mask>'s biography at the Hall of Fame describes him as "a superb, relaxed athlete, an innovative coach, and a meticulous administrator." The University of Pennsylvania also named its football training complex, the <mask> Training Complex, after him, and the <mask> Award is given each year to the most valuable player on the Penn football team. In 1989, the Maxwell Football Club began awarding the <mask> Award to the college football coach of the year.In its description of the award, the Maxwell Club says of <mask>, "His devotion to ethics in athletics, and his commitment to education is the standard for which all college coaches should strive." Recipients of the award include Bo Schembechler, Joe Paterno, Lloyd Carr, Bob Stoops, Pete Carroll, and Urban Meyer. In March 2010, the club announced that the award would be renamed the Joseph V. Paterno Award. After Joe Paterno's involvement in a child sex abuse scandal, the Maxwell Club returned the award to its former name. It continues to be awarded to a promising college football coach every year. <mask> died from heart failure in July 1994 at age 84. He was survived by his wife Viola, daughter Carol Ober and four grandchildren.At the time of <mask>'s death, Chuck Bednarik told The Philadelphia Inquirer, "[Munger] taught me a secret – the secret of how to approach life. He was a jovial man who would always laugh and act young. When I saw him a few years ago, it was like he had never changed, like he was in his '40s." Head coaching record

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Ivan Lawrence Blieden (June 23, 1925 – June 6, 1975), known as <mask>, was an American actor, stage producer and director, and game show host. He made his Broadway stage debut in 1948 and went on to appear in numerous productions on and off Broadway. In 1972, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum which he also produced. That same year, he became the host of the syndicated revival version of What's My Line? At the time of his death, Blyden was slated to host a new game show, Showoffs. He died of injuries sustained in a single-car accident while vacationing in Morocco on June 6, 1975. Early life
Blyden was born to Adolph and Marian (née Davidson) Blieden in Houston, Texas, and raised in the Jewish faith.As a child, he attended Wharton Elementary School and Sidney Lanier Junior High School. Blyden became interested in acting at a young age and made his stage debut in a production headed by Margo Jones when he was 14 years old. After graduating from Lamar High School, Blyden attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute for a year before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, rising to the rank of second lieutenant. After leaving the service in 1946, he enrolled at the University of Houston. While in college, Blyden worked as an announcer for KPRC radio and performed at the Alley Theatre and Houston Little Theater. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1948, Blyden moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Career

Stage and films
While in New York, Blyden again worked in radio and studied acting at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting for eighteen months.While starring in a showcase of The Importance of Being Earnest, he was spotted by director Joshua Logan who cast him in a small role in the Broadway production of Mister Roberts. He was then cast in the larger role of "Ensign Pulver", and remained with the production until 1951. His second Broadway role was that of "Schmutz" in the original production of Wish You Wish Here. In 1958, Blyden replaced <mask> as "Sammy Fong" in the out-of-town tryouts for the musical Flower Drum Song. He remained in the role during the show's original Broadway run for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The show was choreographed by his then-wife, Carol Haney. That same year, he appeared in You Can't Take It with You, at Expo 58 (also known as Brussels World's Fair).In November 1962, Blyden tried his hand at stage directing in the Broadway production of Harold, starring Anthony Perkins and Don Adams. The production closed after twenty performances. In February 1967, Blyden replaced Martin Balsam in the Broadway production of You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running. Blyden's second stage directing effort was the play The Mother Lover, in which he also starred. The production also featured Eileen Heckart and Valerie French and premiered at the Booth Theatre on February 1, 1969. In March 1972, he portrayed the role of "Hysterium" in the revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, starring Phil Silvers, which Blyden also produced. He won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in the play.In 1974, Blyden appeared as "Dionysos" with the Yale Repertory Theatre in the musical comedy The Frogs, in New Haven, Connecticut. The play was written by Burt Shevelove, and based on a play written by Aristophanes in 405 B.C. The play's music and lyrics were composed by Stephen Sondheim. Blyden's final stage role was that of "Sidney" in Alan Ayckbourn's comedy Absurd Person Singular, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He remained with the production for 250 performances. Over the course of his career, Blyden appeared in three feature films. He made his film debut in a supporting role in the 1957 drama The Bachelor Party, starring Don Murray.He also had supporting roles in Kiss Them for Me (1957) and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970). Television

In addition to stage and occasional film work, Blyden also appeared in guest spots for television shows. In the 1950s, he made guest performances on several dramatic anthology shows including Playhouse 90, Omnibus, The Loretta Young Show and The United States Steel Hour. In May 1955, CBS announced that Blyden was set to star opposite Nita Talbot in the sitcom Joe and Mabel. The series, which was based on the radio series of the same name that had aired on the NBC Red Network from February 1941 to September 1942, was scheduled to premiere on September 20, 1955. Production began that summer but was hampered by the Screen Actors Guild strike that began on August 5, 1955. Although the strike lasted just ten days, production on the series ceased.Production eventually resumed but the series was plagued with various issues and, upon being previewed for critics, was poorly received. CBS eventually decided to burn off the series' thirteen completed episodes during the summer of 1956 after which it was canceled. After the cancellation of Joe and Mabel, Blyden returned to stage work (replacing Ray Walston in the Philadelphia and Broadway runs of Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? and Flower Drum Song). He returned to television in 1959 as "Sammy Glick" in the television adaptation of Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run? The two-part special aired on the NBC Sunday Showcase on September 27 and October 4, 1959, and also starred John Forsythe, Dina Merrill and Barbara Rush. In the early 1960s, Blyden returned to television with guest starring roles in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: "A Nice Place to Visit" in April 1960 and "Showdown with Rance McGrew" in February 1962 in which he starred as the title character.In 1963, Blyden was cast to star in a second sitcom, NBC's Harry's Girls. Produced by MGM Television, the series was an adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play Idiot's Delight, with Blyden starring as Harry, a vaudeville style performer constantly getting into trouble and falling in love. The series received a great deal of publicity before it aired because it was being filmed on location in Europe (interiors were filmed at the Victorine Studios in France while exteriors were shot on location in Rome, Paris and other European locations). Upon its debut, Harry's Girls was also not well received and was canceled after one season. For the remainder of the decade, Blyden continued with guest roles on television including spots on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Defenders,  The Fugitive, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In the late 1960s, Blyden began working as a game show host and master of ceremonies starting with Personality in June 1967. In 1969, he hosted You're Putting Me On and The Movie Game.In 1972, Blyden took over hosting duties for the syndicated revival of the game show What's My Line? Blyden remained the show's host until it was canceled in 1975. Blyden also made a week of appearances on the CBS game show Match Game '74. In the weeks before his death, Blyden was involved in several major projects. He co-hosted the 29th Tony Awards telecast that aired on ABC on April 20, 1975. On May 2, Blyden reprised his role as Ensign Pulver opposite Henry Fonda at a gala tribute to director Joshua Logan at Broadway's Imperial Theatre (which was recorded and eventually released on a privately distributed LP album). He also narrated a segment of CBS's Bicentennial Minute which aired during primetime the evening of May 30.Personal life
Blyden married actress and dancer Carol Haney on April 17, 1955, in Las Vegas. The couple had two children: Joshua and Ellen Rachel. <mask> and Haney were divorced in 1962. During their marriage, <mask> and Haney purchased the historic Achenbach House in Saddle River, New Jersey, which they believed to be haunted by the spirit of its builder. After Haney's death in 1964, Blyden inherited the home and became convinced that her spirit was haunting the house. Blyden later told a friend that in the months after Haney's death, the house was filled with the smell of brownies baking which had been Haney's favorite. Blyden told his friend that after he yelled at Haney to leave him alone, the smell instantly vanished.The house was later sold to tour operator Mario Perillo and was destroyed by fire in 2004. Death
On May 6, 1975, Blyden left the production of Absurd Person Singular after he was hired to host a new game show entitled Showoffs. He videotaped the pilot episode on May 24. Before production was set to begin, Blyden was granted a two-week vacation and decided to fly to Marrakesh, Morocco. While he was driving near Agadir on May 31, Blyden's rental car reportedly went off the road and overturned. According to Blyden's manager, Blyden suffered injuries to the chest, head and abdomen. He underwent surgery, but died of his injuries on June 6, 1975.Blyden's body was flown back to the United States on June 13. A memorial was held on June 20, after which he was buried at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston. Broadway appearances

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<mask> (1891–1942) was an Austrian economist. He was considered by his colleagues one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As a professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on F. A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup, <mask>, Oskar Morgenstern and other fourth-generation Austrian economists. Early life
He was born on former Moravia (which is today a part of the Czech Republic). He studied at the University of Vienna and was admitted as a very young man to the famous private seminar of <mask>k, which had produced a whole generation of promising economists, such as Otto Bauer, Nicolai Bukharin, <mask>, Otto Neurath, and Joseph Schumpeter. After World War I, Strigl continued his research and wrote an important book on economic theory for which, in 1923, he received his Habilitation – the traditional professors' diploma of the universities of Central Europe. Five years later he acceded to the rank of titular extraordinary professor.However, like Mises, Machlup, Haberler, and other Viennese economists of the time, he had to earn his living outside of academia eventually becoming a high official at the Austrian Unemployment Insurance Board. Strigl was described as a modest, humane, cultured, and very bright man who impressed both his students and impartial colleagues. As one of his pupils, Josef Steindl stated after his death, "There were few of his pupils or of the foreign economists who would visit Vienna and sojourn in his circle of those days who did not very much like him." He had extraordinary gifts for systematic exposition and step-by-step argument, which made for great success in the classroom. Due to these personal and intellectual talents, Strigl had a considerable influence on the generation of young economists graduating from the University of Vienna after World War I. More than any other teacher he shaped the minds of Friedrich Hayek, Gottfried Haberler, Fritz Machlup, Oskar Morgenstern and influenced other future great Viennese economists. Strigl convinced his students that economic theory could be studied in its own right, that is, without engaging in previous empirical field studies.And this theory could be used to both explain economic phenomena and to direct political action. Despite the rise of the Austrian economics in the 1920s and 1930s, the dominating intellectual force in the economics departments of Germany and Austria was the so-called Historical School. The representatives of this school of thought despised economic theory for its advocacy of universally valid economic laws. They argued that laws could only be as universal as the conditions to which they referred. Since history was a process of constant transformation of the conditions of human existence, there could be no such thing as general economic law. At best, there could only be "laws" describing the economy of a more or less unique period and, at any rate, all insights about this economy had to be derived from studies of concrete households, firms, administrations, towns, etc. Moreover, Strigl's department at the University of Vienna was a stronghold of antirationalist "organic" economics.This contrasted sharply with the approach of the Austrian economists who sought to explain economic phenomena as resulting from individual action and from the social interaction of individuals (the principle of methodological individualist). Single-handedly, Strigl made an effective case for economic theory and methodological individualism in this intellectually hostile environment. Strigl was primarily interested in the scientific foundation of policy proposals, an interest he shared with <mask> Mises. This concern for practical questions incited him to take particular care of methodological problems, and he was very effective in integrating methodological studies into his research. All in all, Bohm-Bawerk had the most lasting impact on Strigl, but the ideas of Walras, Wieser, Schumpeter, and Mises also found their way into his writings. Work
Strigl was the author of pioneering studies on economic theory, applied economics, capital theory, and the relationship between theoretical and historical research. His work Capital and Production was as a key contribution to technical economic theory.It was first published in 1934 by the former Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research in its series "Contributions to Business Cycle Research." In his book Capital and production, he links Eugen <mask>öhm-Bawerk production theory and <mask> Mises business cycle theory, and gives a pathbreaking account of the role of consumer goods within the structure of production. Strigl seeks to come to grips with the causes and possible cures for the Great Depression that Plagued the Western world in the aftermath of 1929. Although many other Austrian economists of the time were engaged in similar projects, Strigl's work stands out for its analysis of time-consuming roundabout production processes and their relevance for the Great Depression. Strigl combined William Stanley Jevons and Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk theory of capital into genuinely Austrian theory of the economy as a whole; and he carefully analyzed the impact of credit expansion on the workings of this macroeconomy. His treatment of these issues in even more systematic, rigorous, and clear than the well-known works by Hayek which covered the same ground. In fact, Hayek hailed Strigl's work "for the simplicity and clarity of exposition of a notoriously difficult subject."Later years
Strigl's works later fell into obscurity. Mises left for Switzerland where he found a prestigious position that would allow him to write his magnum opus. Hayek, Machlup, and Haberler departed for the United Kingdom or the United States, where they could obtain academic positions foreclosed to them back home. And after the 1939 Anschluß, many others left because Nazi Austria made life unbearable for Jews like Morgenstern and for all non-Jews who could not find or accept any modus vivendi with the National Socialist German Workers Party. Although Strigl had remained as the last member of this group at the original home of the School, for him too, life and work had become unbearable. His health was gravely affected and he was disgusted by the opportunistic behavior of many of his countrymen. Josef Steindl wrote at the time: "Since the invasion of Austria he has been silent; we have not heard of any further publication of his.This is not surprising to those who knew him, and it is probably not only due to an illness which befell him in 1930. The spectacle of the conversion overnight of so many to a new creed was not congenial to him who had so conspicuously lacked the talents of a careerist in all his professional life." Works

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