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texts: kids he would throw rocks and cans at white pedestrians and threw bricks off of roofs and onto police cars.However, his new school put a lot of pressure on him to convert to Catholicism, with his Protestantism becoming a "great issue" by the 6th grade. Being the only Protestant at an all-Catholic school put <mask> through "great emotional turmoil." He decided to transfer to the local public school, the Betsy Ross Grammar School. He did so well there that he was allowed to skip the first semester of the seventh grade. From the age of seven onward, <mask> earned a small amount from selling issues of the Chicago Defender. He would often read these papers which helped develop a "strong sense of protest." He read the works of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B.Du Bois and was heavily influenced by Du Bois. He called Washington an "apologist" and often quoted Du Bois and his call for advancing blacks through education. He had yet to enter high school but for <mask> the "race issue was on my mind, before my eyes, and in my blood." After finishing his primary education, Forman enrolled in Englewood Technical Prep Academy. He started his high school career by taking vocational courses instead of the general, pre-college coursework. This led to a poor performance and eventually a suspension from school. He was sent to a continuation school, Washburne High, he got a job as a paper roller at Cuneo Press, and joined a gang known as the "Sixty-first Raiders."His gang activity was very limited in scope and he said he thought using drugs was "a waste of time." Around the age of fourteen <mask>, who had been going under the name of <mask>, found out that his step-father was not his real father by happening upon his

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 studying, a police car stopped in front of him. They called him out and said that a robbery had occurred and Forman looked suspicious. Forman denied any wrongdoing but was apprehended anyway. He demanded a phone call and various other civil rights but instead was locked up for three days while being beaten and interrogated.This caused him severe trauma, for which he sought therapy. Forman overcame his trauma and returned to Chicago in 1954. His step-father died that summer and he enrolled at Roosevelt University that fall. He became president of the student body at Roosevelt and graduated in three years. Forman then went to graduate school at Boston University where he began to develop the ideas of a successful social movement. He wanted blacks to come together and start a visible movement. He knew the movement had to use nonviolent direct action, students, and it had to be started in the South.He was also against monolithic, charismatic leaders because he wanted whatever was created to not die along with the leader. In 1958 he visited Little Rock, Arkansas because he was tired of being an "armchair revolutionary." He taught in Chicago's public schools and worked with dispossessed tenant farmers in Tennessee before joining SNCC. National organizing with SNCC

In 1961, <mask> joined the  newly formed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick"). From 1961 to 1966, <mask>, a decade older and more experienced than most of the other members of SNCC, became responsible for providing organizational support to the young, loosely affiliated activists by paying bills, radically expanding the institutional staff and planning the logistics for programs. Under the leadership of <mask>

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texts: and others, SNCC became an important political player at the height of the civil rights movement. SNCC began as an affiliate of another direct action group of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.At times, <mask>'s more confrontational and radical style of activism clashed with King's Christian pacifist approach. In August 1961, Forman was jailed with other freedom riders protesting segregated facilities in Monroe, North Carolina. This episode brought him into contact with Robert F. Williams who won Forman's admiration. During a visit to Williams' home in Monroe, Forman discussed the positive role of using armed self-defense in the struggle against white oppression. After his sentence was suspended, Forman agreed to become executive secretary of SNCC. Forman's occasional criticism of Dr. King was not simply a political exercise, but reflected a genuine concern about the direction King was leading the movement in. He specifically questioned King's top-down leadership style, which he saw as undermining the development of local grassroots movements.For example, following W. G. Anderson's invitation to King to join the Albany Movement, <mask> criticized the move because he felt much harm could be done by interjecting the Messiah complex. He recognized that King's presence would detract from, rather than intensify, the focus on local people's leadership in the movement. Forman echoed the concerns of those in SNCC and the broader civil rights movement who saw the potential dangers of relying too heavily upon one dynamic leader. In an interview with Robert Penn Warren for the book Who Speaks for the Negro?, <mask> laid out many of his ideologies concerning SNCC,


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 commenting that it is "the one movement in this country that has within its spheres of activity room for intellectuals." Years before the famous Selma marches of 1965, Forman and other SNCC organizers visited the city to assist the voter registration work of Amelia Boynton and J. L. Chestnut. In addition to frontline organizing, Forman facilitated a visit by celebrities <mask> and Dick Gregory for Selma's first "Freedom Day" in October 1963—a day of mass African-American voter registration in a Jim Crow area. Forman did significant work for SNCC in the cultural community.For instance, Forman recruited the young folk star Bob Dylan  to play benefits and rallies for SNCC ( One of these rallies in Mississippi makes an appearance in the classic documentary Don't Look Back). When Dylan received an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee  he said the honor really belonged to "<mask> and SNCC." Selma and Montgomery

When the second march out of Selma was turned around by Martin Luther King, Tuskegee Institute students decided to open a "Second Front" by marching to the Alabama State Capitol and delivering a petition to Governor George Wallace. They were quickly joined by <mask> and much of the SNCC staff from Selma. The SNCC members distrusted King more than ever after the "turnaround Tuesday," and were eager to take a separate course. On March 11, SNCC began a series of demonstrations in Montgomery, and put out a national call for others to join them. <mask>, SCLC's Selma leader, followed them and discouraged their activities, bringing him and SCLC into conflict with <mask> and SNCC.Bevel accused <mask> of trying to divert people from the Selma campaign and of abandoning nonviolent discipline.

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 Forman accused Bevel of driving a wedge between the student movement and the local black churches. The argument was resolved only when both were arrested. On March 15 and 16, SNCC led several hundred demonstrators, including Alabama students, Northern students, and local adults, in protests near the capitol complex. The Montgomery County sheriff's posse met them on horseback and drove them back, whipping them. Against the objections of <mask>, some protesters threw bricks and bottles at police. At a mass meeting on the night of the 16th, Forman "whipped the crowd into a frenzy" demanding that the President act to protect demonstrators, and warned, "If we can't sit at the table of democracy, we'll knock the fucking legs off."The New York Times featured the Montgomery confrontations on the front page the next day. Although Dr. King was concerned by Forman's violent rhetoric, he joined him in leading a march of 2000 people in Montgomery to the Montgomery County courthouse. According to historian Gary May, "City officials, also worried by the violent turn of events… apologized for the assault on SNCC protesters and invited King and Forman to discuss how to handle future protests in the city." In the negotiations, Montgomery officials agreed to stop using the county posse against protesters, and to issue march permits to blacks for the first time. Post-SNCC work
After being replaced by Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson as executive secretary, <mask> remained close to the leadership of SNCC helping to negotiate the ill-fated "merger" of SNCC and the Black Panther Party in 1967 and even briefly taking a leadership position within the Panthers. In 1969, after the failure of the merger and the decline of SNCC as an

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 effective political organization, <mask> began associating with other Black political radical groups. In Detroit he participated in the Black Economic Development Conference, where his Black Manifesto was adopted.He also founded a nonprofit organization called the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee. As a part of his "Black Manifesto", on a Sunday morning in May 1969, <mask> interrupted services at New York City's Riverside Church to demand $500 million in reparations from white churches to make up for injustices African Americans had suffered over the centuries. Although Riverside's preaching minister, the Rev. Ernest T. Campbell, termed the demands "exorbitant and fanciful," he was in sympathy with the impulse, if not the tactic. Later, the church agreed to donate a fixed percentage of its annual income to anti-poverty efforts. On May 30, 1969, <mask> made plans to pursue a similar course at a Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. Members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, showed up carrying chains and clubs promising to confront Forman if he attempted to enter the synagogue.Kahane and the JDL forewarned <mask> and the public about their intended actions and <mask> never showed up at the synagogue. Later life and death
During the 1970s and 1980s, <mask> completed graduate work at Cornell University in African and African-American Studies and in 1982, he received a Ph.D. from the Union of Experimental Colleges and Universities, in cooperation with the Institute for Policy Studies. Forman spent the rest of his adult life organizing black and disenfranchised people around issues of progressive economic and social development and equality.

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 He also taught at American University in Washington, D.C. He wrote several books documenting his experiences within the movement and his evolving political philosophy including Sammy Younge Jr.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement (1969), The Making of Black Revolutionaries (1972 and 1997) and Self Determination: An Examination of the Question and Its Application to the African American People (1984). <mask> died on January 10, 2005, of colon cancer, aged 76, at the Washington House, a hospice in Washington, DC. Personal life
<mask>'s marriages to <mask> and Mildred Thompson ended in divorce.He was married to Mildred <mask> (now Mildred Page) from 1959 to 1965, during the most active period of SNCC. Mildred <mask> moved to Atlanta with <mask> and worked at the Atlanta SNCC office as well as working as coordinator for tours of The Freedom Singers. During the 1960s and 1970s, Forman lived with Constancia "Dinky" Romilly, the second and only surviving child of the British-born journalist, anti-fascist activist and aristocrat, the Hon. Jessica Mitford, and her first husband, Esmond Romilly, who was a nephew-by-marriage of Sir Winston Churchill. Though obituaries and other posthumous articles about <mask> have stated that he and Romilly were married, correspondence between Romilly's mother and aunts state that the couple were not legally husband and wife. <mask> and Romilly had two sons: Chaka <mask> and <mask> Jr., who is a professor at Yale Law School. Atheism
In his autobiography The Making Of Black Revolutionaries <mask> devoted an entire chapter to explaining his atheism.He believed that "belief in God hurts my people." He also received the African American

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<mask> (born February 3, 1950)  is an American musician, who was the lead singer of Christian rock band Petra from 1986 until the band's retirement in late 2005. Prior to joining Petra in 1986, <mask> was the lead vocalist for Head East until retiring from the band in 1980. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born in Lincoln, Illinois. Shortly after, his family moved to Mt. Pulaski where he grew up. <mask> began singing and showing interest in music from a very young age. When he was 13 years old, he joined a band called Vinegar Hills Hometown Band Something Different.He went to Mt. Pulaski High School in his hometown graduating in 1968. It was during his high school years that he would meet future wife, Dorla Froelich. After graduating from high school, <mask> enrolled in the University of Illinois for a degree in Civil Engineering. However, his main interest was still music. In 1972, he joined the rock band Head East as lead singer with some fellow students of the university. Juggling his musical career and college studies, Schlitt finally graduated from college in 1974 and dedicated full-time to his career in music.Head-East era and aftermath

During the following years with Head East, <mask> enjoyed the success of the band that produced several hits during the 70s. They released five studio and one live album. However, during the time, Schlitt also developed a dependency on cocaine and alcohol. His dependency reached a peak when he was fired from the band in March 1980. After leaving Head East, <mask> formed a short-lived band, "<mask>", with brother <mask>, Don Colluci, Jim McNeely, Troy Tipton and Burk Burkhardt, but the band quickly

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 ended as his addiction intensified in a six-month depression during which he "came very close to suicide". During that same period, however, his wife became a born-again Christian and subsequently convinced Schlitt to see her pastor. <mask> confesses that he had already decided to end his life and agreed to the meeting only "so my wife would be able to say ‘he tried’ after I was gone".<mask> also became a born-again Christian. Following this, <mask> decided to leave the music scene and rededicate his life to his family. After that, he started cleaning the floors at a factory, and slowly rose through the ranks until he became a mining engineer for a mining construction company and finally their cost and scheduling engineer. During this time, <mask> attended Gethsemane Church in Evansville, Indiana, where he sang with the praise and worship team. 31 years after being kicked out of Head East, <mask> appeared with the band once again to mark the band's 2011 induction into the Iowa Rock N Roll Music Association Hall of Fame. <mask> was also joined by former Head East drummer Steve Huston, along with the band's keyboardist Roger Boyd. Petra era

Five years after <mask>'s departure from Head East, he received a call from Bob Hartman and was invited to audition for Christian rock band Petra.The band had just lost its lead singer Greg X. Volz, who had left to pursue a solo career. After a session with Hartman (band's co-founder and guitarist), he was asked to join the band. He sang his first show on February 3, 1986, beginning a career that would span nearly two decades. His first album with the band was the 1986 release Back to the Street. During

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 his career with Petra, the band released two RIAA certified Gold albums (Beyond Belief and Petra Praise: The Rock Cries Out) and earned four Grammy and numerous Dove Awards. His travels and performances with the group reached all 50 American states as well as over 35 countries. Solo career
During breaks from Petra, Schlitt recorded and released two solo albums: Shake in 1995, and Unfit For Swine in 1996.Both albums were moderately successful and received positive reviews. After Petra's retirement in 2005, Schlitt and  Petra guitarist and founder, Bob Hartman started working on an album together as II Guys From Petra. An album was released on January 26, 2007 titled Vertical Expressions. Hartman and Schlitt have performed several shows to promote the album. In addition, <mask> released his third solo project, titled The Grafting on 2008-01-22. Dan Needham, <mask>'s son-in-law, produced the album. The album was released with premier performances of the tracks "The Grafting" and "Only Men" by Schlitt on the program Celebrations.The telecast was aired internationally by the Daystar Television Network. In May 2008, <mask> toured India, playing eight dates in six cities with an all-new backing band, StoneJava. With this new backing group, <mask> played songs from his solo CDs, along with many Petra favorites, to positive reviews. In 2012, <mask> released his fourth solo project, titled The Greater Cause, on 4K Records. Dan Needham, <mask>'s son-in-law, once again produced the album. Hope That Saves The World made the top 30 on the Billboard and Christian Weekly charts in July 2012. In 2019 <mask> released his sixth studio album, Go.<mask> has

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 earned multiple Gold Records, Grammys and Dove Awards. He has toured all over the world and has been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame as the lead singer of Petra. <mask> was recently named the best rock singer in Christian music history by GospelMusicChannel.com. According to the website, <mask> "remains one of the most distinctive and impactful men to ever stand behind a microphone." Post-Petra era

<mask> is still active today lending his vocals to various projects and band, including to Project Damage Control, a Christian progressive hard rock band. <mask> is the lead vocalist of a band, The Union of Sinners and Saints, with White Heart founder, guitarist and songwriter Billy Smiley. He also lends his vocals to the Jay Sekulow Band.<mask> also released a single, "Fighting the Fight", in February 2019, that he wrote with Ryan Horn and was produced by <mask>. Personal life
<mask> has been married to wife Dorla since August 28, 1971. They have four children together and reside in Franklin, Tennessee. Discography

Solo

with The Union of Sinners & Saints

with II Guys From Petra

with Petra

with Head East

Other contributions
 Geoff Moore & The Distance - "A Place to Stand" (1988)
 Steve Camp - "Justice" (1988)
 <mask> - "Media Alert" (1990)
 Carman - "Our Turn Now" (1991)
 4 Him - "The Ride Comes Alive" (1995)
 Morgan Cryar - "What Sin?" (1998)
 Silers Bald - "Real Life" (2003)
 Everlife (2004)
 <mask> - "SALT" (2018)

References

External links

1950 births
Living people
American performers of Christian music
American male singers
Converts to Christianity
Performers of Christian rock music
Petra (band) members
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<mask>  (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer. As of March 2015, he is a senior clinical research fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, part of the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is a founder of the AllTrials campaign and OpenTrials to require open science practices in clinical trials. Goldacre is known in particular for his Bad Science column in The Guardian, which he wrote between 2003 and 2011, and is the author of four books: Bad Science (2008), a critique of irrationality and certain forms of alternative medicine; Bad Pharma (2012), an examination of the pharmaceutical industry, its publishing and marketing practices, and its relationship with the medical profession; I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That, a collection of his journalism; and Statins, about evidence-based medicine. Goldacre frequently delivers free talks about bad science; he describes himself as a "nerd evangelist". <mask> has also appeared on Geoff Marshall's YouTube channel expressing his love for railways during an episode about the least used station in Oxfordshire - Finstock. Early life and education
Goldacre is the son of Michael Goldacre, a professor of public health at the University of Oxford, and Susan Traynor (stage name Noosha Fox) lead singer of 1970s pop band Fox, both of whom are Australian.He is the nephew of Robyn Williams, a science journalist, and the great-great-grandson of Henry Parkes, politician and journalist who is considered the father of the Australian Federation. He has three children. Goldacre was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. He studied medicine at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class Bachelor of Arts honours degree during his preclinical studies in 1995 in Physiological Sciences. He edited the Oxford student magazine, Isis. Goldacre was a visiting researcher in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Milan, working on fMRI brain scans of language and executive

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 2018.Awards and honours
Goldacre has won several awards including:
 Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) award for Best Feature 2003 for his article "Never mind the facts". Association of British Science Writers award for Best Feature 2005 for his article "Don't dumb me down". Freelance of 2006 at the Medical Journalism Awards. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) presented in 2006 the Balles Prize in Critical Thinking award for his column in The Guardian U.K. newspaper, Bad Science Columns include "Dyslexia 'cure' fails to pass the tests", "Bring me a God helmet, and bring it now", "Kick the habit with wacky wave energy", "Brain Gym exercises do pupils no favors" and "Magnetic attraction? Shhhh. It's a secret"
 The inaugural Statistical Excellence In Journalism Award of the Royal Statistical Society for his article "When the facts get in the way of a story". The HealthWatch Award from HealthWatch.Honorary Doctor of Science at Heriot-Watt University (June 2009). Honorary Doctor of Science at Loughborough University (July 2010). Member of the Order of the British Empire (New Year's Honours List 2018). References

External links
 "Bad Science", Goldacre's column for The Guardian
 <mask>re part 1 on ABC Radio National's The Science Show], 1 November 2008 (with audio and transcript)
 Pulse Project podcast, 12 May 2009, Skeptics in the Pub Oxford (radio show with Goldacre)
 Standup on the placebo effect at Nerdstock, December 2009 (video)
 <mask> biography, phc.ox.ac.uk; accessed 27 July 2015. 1974 births
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the UCL Medical School
Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
British male journalists
British people of Australian descent
British psychiatrists
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English columnists
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<mask> is a saint in the tradition of Sant Mat.He was usually known as 'Gurumaharaj'. He was the guru of 'Akhil Bhartiye Santmat Satsang'. He studied Vedas, main Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible, different sutras of Buddhism, the Quran, saint's literature and from this assessed that the essential teaching contained in all of these is one and the same. He gave one and easiest method to get 'Moksha'. They are 'Satsang' and 'Dhyan'(Meditation). <mask> was a direct disciple of Baba Devi Sahab of Muradabad, Uttar Pradesh. Early life
<mask> was born on  in a small village of Bihar, Majhua (Khoskhsi Shyam), India.He studied from early age alone and then with  Baba Devi Sahab, in 1909. As directed by his teacher, Mehi spent many years in intense meditation in an ashram located in Manihari of the Katihar district. Life
Maharshi <mask> was born in  at his maternal grandparents’ home in Khokhsi Shyam Village, in Saharsa, Bihar, India. His grandmother's home was in Shikli garh Dharahara, Banmankhi, in the Purnia district. There was a cave in which he used to go there for meditation. His father was called Babujan Lal Das. The family astrologer named him as Ramanugrah Lal Das based on his astrological charts, a name that is also found in Mehi's school records.His adopted name Mehi means lean and thin and also sharp or subtle. About two decades later when Ramanugrah La Das came into contact with his guru, Baba Devi Sahab, the latter, impressed by his exceptionally sharp intellect, also started calling him "Mehi". <mask>'s mother, Janakwati Devi, died

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texts: when he was four years old. His elder sister was very kind to him and she and his father took a very good care of him. He was admitted to the village school, when he turned eight. At this school learning was imparted in the local Kaithi script. At home he saw his father reciting regularly from the great epic the Ramcharitmanas composed by the poet sant Goswami Tulsidas ji.His father often turned very emotional while reciting and at times burst into tears. This made <mask> curious to know the contents of the epic. As the epic was printed in the Devanagari script he could not read it at first. However, he labored to correlate the alphabets of Devanagri from those of Kaithi and soon he could learn Devanagri script as well. The Ram charit manas left a deep impact on his mind and several of its quartets and couplets became known to him by heart. He also learnt English, Urdu and Persian languages at the secondary school. In his childhood days Maharshi <mask> Paramhans was a worshipper of Lord Shiva, but his method of worshipping was unique: he would drive a nail into the ground, make it an offering of water and then sit in its front in meditation.As a teenager, he was a very good player of soccer. Impressed with his skills at dabbling the ball, his friends made him the team captain. However, very soon he began to lose interest in playing as well as formal studies even as he developed an intense fondness for study of religious scriptures like the Sukhsagar and the Mahabharat apart from the Ramcharitmanas. He would very often retire into solitude while

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 his friends were busy playing and study these books. His disinterest for schooling and formal studies kept waxing progressively and reached its climax on 3 July 1904. Half yearly exams of Class X were on and it was the second paper – English. The first question read: "Quote from memory the poem ‘Builders’ and explain it in your own English."Answering the question, he quoted the first four lines, as reproduced below, and began to explain these. The lines of the poem were:

"For the structure that we raise,
time is with material's field,
our todays and yesterdays,
are the blocks with which we build." - Maharshi Mehi

While explaining the central message of the above lines he got overwhelmed with such a strong surge of emotion of renunciation that he stood up and asked the invigilator, "May I go out, Sir?" Thinking that he wanted to go to toilet, the invigilator granted the permission but little did he know that this young lad was not merely going out of the examination hall briefly but had decided to bid adieu to the very household life for good. In fact, <mask> had made already three unsuccessful attempts to flee home, but this time his determination was rock solid and he was never ever to look back again. Gurus
Baba Devi Sahab was the main spiritual Guru of <mask>. However, before he met Baba Devi Sahab, his intense yearning for true emancipation had led him to three other gurus (spiritual teacher).In accordance with his family tradition, <mask> was initiated by Mr Ram Jha, a Brahmin priest from Darbhanga district of the state of Bihar, in

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texts: 1902. Mr Jha was a worshipper of Lord Shiva and Mother Goddess Kali and was very fond of hunting. He, in his later years, lost his eyesight and just had a feeling that this (loss of vision) was the consequence of his previous acts of killing birds & animals. He, therefore, preached Mehi never to commit violence. Ramanand Swami, a sadhu of Dariyapanth (a sect named after Sant Dariya Sahab of Bihar), was Mehi's second guru. Ramanand Swami taught Mehi to practice 'Manas Jap' (internally chanting or repeatedly reciting a sacred mantra), 'Manas Dhyan' (trying to concentrate internally on the form of a sacred deity or Guru) and 'Bahya Drishti Sadahan' (stilling gaze at a target in the outside, not within ). However, through a study of saintly literature and relevant spiritual Scriptures Mehi had come to realise that the knowledge of Sound/Word Meditation (Surat Shabda Yoga) was a must for total liberation – a domain Ramanand Swami was not conversant with.Curious questioning about the 'sara shabda'(Quintessential Unstruck Sound) by <mask> often irritated or even infuriated his guru Ramanand Swami ji which left <mask> dissatisfied and fully convinced that he would have to find another suitable guru. He, thus, remained restless and on the look out for a complete Guru. He would rush to several places wherever he heard of the possibility of seeing a person who could guide him in Sound Meditation. It was his incessant search, that was far and wide, that led Mehi to a disciple of Baba Devi Sahab named Mr Dhiraj Lal from Jotramrai, the very same village


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texts: where <mask> had been staying in attendance upon Ramanand Swami. <mask> was deeply satisfied with the clarifications offered by Mr. Dhiraj Lal on a number of topics that had been puzzling Mehi for a long time. It was difficult to find free time during the day for he had to attend to various duties instructed by his erstwhile guru. So, after getting free from his duties towards Ramanand Swami Ji in the night he would approach Mr Dhiraj Lal and the two had absorbing discussions from midnight to about 3 AM and this went on for about three months (May – July 1909) till <mask> became finally convinced that he had landed in the right spot and that Baba Devi Sahab was indeed the true Guru he had been looking for.However, since Baba Devi Sahab lived at Moradabad of U.P., Mr Dhiraj Lal advised <mask> to approach, in the meanwhile, and have initiation from Mr. Rajendra Nath Singh of Bhagalpur, a place that was relatively nearer. Mr Rajendra Nath, an initiate of Baba Devi Sahab, was an advocate by profession. He had some preliminary discussions with <mask> and saw in him a genuine seeker thirsting for freedom from the bondage of BMI (Body-Mind-Intellect-Ego Complex). He gladly gave initiation to <mask>, teaching him the art of 'drishti sadhan'(the Yoga of Inner Light – a technique to still one's gaze in the inner sky in front of the centre of the two eyes, called variously as the Sushumna, Sukhamana, the Ajna Chakra, the Third Eye, the Tenth Door, the Shiva Netra etc. )aimed at transcending the Gross Sphere, the Realm of Darkness and, thus, moving into

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 the Realm of Light, the Astral Plane. As the grateful <mask> tried to touch Mr. Rajendra Nath's feet in reverence, the latter forcibly stopped him and told, "Look, I am not your Guru. I have only explained you the method as authorised by Sadguru Baba Devi Sahab.Baba Devi Sahab, not I, is your Guru." <mask> replied, "Yes, of course, he is my Guru and your Guru also, but since you have taught me this (drishti Sadahn), you are also like my Guru." Thus, Mr Rajendra Nath Singh may be treated to be his third Guru. After having been initiated into Santmat and becoming fully satisfied, <mask>, as advised by his friends, returned to where his father (who became ecstatic to see his son back home) lived and waited to see Baba Devi Sahab. The momentous occasion finally came during the festival of Dashahara (celebrated generally in the month of October) when Baba Devi Sahab arrived at Bhagalpur. When Mr Dhiraj Lal informed <mask> of the programme of Baba Devi Sahab's visit to Bhagalpur, <mask> got excited like a child and rushed to see his Guru. It was on the auspicious day of Vijayadashami of 1909 that he got to have his first glimpse of his Guru – a true Guru had got a true disciple and successor who was to take Santmat to the dizzier pinnacles of glory.Literature

List of Books Authored by or About Maharshi <mask> Paramhans:
 Moksha Darshan (Philosophy of Liberation), Translated into English from Hindi by Professor Veena Howard, University of Oregon Eugene
 Excerpt of the Biography of Maharshi <mask> in English
 Santmat-Siddhant aur Guru-Kirtan
 Satsang

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<mask><mask> (born January 21, 1950) is an attorney and partner in the Washington office of the international law firm of Paul Hastings, LLP. He specializes in White-collar crime and federal and state government investigations. <mask> is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a course in Global Anti-Corruption. Formerly, <mask> taught Advanced Criminal Law and Labor Racketeering at the University of Virginia School of Law. <mask> is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A. degree) and Harvard Law School (J.D. degree), and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.Before attending Harvard Law School, <mask> worked as the Deputy Chief of the Washington Bureau for the Providence Journal. <mask> took a leave of absence in 1984 to work as Senior Speechwriter for the campaign of Geraldine Ferraro. He worked in the US Department of Justice, specializing in Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) enforcement, and helped supervise the ABSCAM investigation of the early 1980s. Since entering private practice, he has represented both witnesses and investigative targets in independent counsel, criminal, and congressional investigations, foreign corporations under FCPA investigation, In the course of his career, <mask> has argued not only in federal District Courts and numerous Courts of Appeal, but has also appeared before the United States Supreme Court. <mask> is admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th,7th, 8th, 9th, 11th Circuits, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Practice

<mask> currently specializes in complex criminal and civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.Over the course of his career, he has represented foreign corporations, financial institutions, cabinet secretaries, federal judges and members of Congress. In 1995, <mask> successfully represented a sitting federal judge in a criminal appeal to the Supreme Court,

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 resulting in a landmark case narrowing the construction of the general perjury statute. In 2004, <mask> successfully represented the Assessor for Orange County, California in a Constitutional tax case involving $5–8 billion. In 2011, <mask> represented White House senior advisor and chief political strategist Karl Rove, representing Rove in the special investigations into the outing of covert operative Valerie Plame's position within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) specialist. <mask> was lead counsel for Lance Armstrong after the June 2012 allegations of blood doping by the US Anti-Doping Agency, a quasi-official American sports governing entity. Since 2012, <mask> has focused on civil and criminal investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and has represented foreign corporations in three of the five largest FCPA investigations ever resolved by the DOJ and SEC: the settlement agreements in the investigations of Alstom, Total and Technip. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart singled out <mask> as a lawyer who, unlike most criminal lawyers, was prepared to be candid with prosecutors, not permit his client to lie, and come forward with information.Stewart wrote further: "These cases also illustrate that criminal defense lawyers have much to answer for. To his credit, Rove's lawyer <mask> promptly revealed a damaging e-mail and had Rove amend his earlier testimiony that he didn't speak to Time's Matt Cooper. But other defense lawyers allowed their clients to lie in circumstances where they knew or should have known they were doing so." Fee Forfeiture

In 1997, US Attorney Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island accused <mask> of "willful blindness" for accepting $505,125 in gold bars as well as Swiss Wire transfers of $169,000 from Stephen Saccoccia, after <mask> represented Saccoccia post-conviction. Whitehouse argued that Saccoccia's payments to <mask> were related to Saccoccia's broad money-laundering scheme and that the money should be returned to the government. The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered

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 Whitehouse's forfeiture claims in two separate opinions and both times ruled that there was no basis to seek forfeitures from Saccoccia's attorneys. William Moffitt, VP of the National Association of Defense Lawyers, supported <mask>: "if the case gets a high profile [or] they don't like the lawyer in it, they can immediately open this kind of assault," adding  "if you plead your client guilty, they're never going to go after your fee.So there's an incentive here to give the government what it wants." In 1998, <mask> settled with the government, forfeiting $245,000 in fees. Whitehouse, on the other hand, went on to lose his 2002 gubernatorial bid due to civil rights controversies  during his tenure as State Attorney General. Personal life

Despite representing President Bush's top political advisor Karl Rove, <mask> is a proud Democrat and has donated to numerous Democratic causes. A Washington Post profile in 2011 described him as a "man of somewhat Neiman-Marxist tastes". In 1995, <mask> was surprised to find himself described as the first male lawyer to wear an earring while arguing a case before the Supreme Court, before clarifying that if he believed that the earring would ever adversely affect his client's interests, then it would be "out in a flash." <mask> splits his time between West Tisbury, and Washington, D.C.. <mask> often rides his motorcycle to work when in Washington.For longer trips, <mask>, a pilot, will fly his Cirrus SR-20 airplane. <mask> is married and has two sons and two step daughters. <mask>'s step-daughters are currently in college, while his sons are working: one is based in the Middle East; the other is a public defender in Lafayette, Louisiana. See also
 Plame affair
 RICO
 FCPA

References

External links
Official Biography at Patton Boggs
The Liberal on Karl Rove's Case
<mask> Receives 45 Gold Bars From Stolen Assets

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Harvard University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
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title: Paddy Phelan

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<mask> (16 September 1910 – 7 December 1971) was an Irish hurler who played as a left wing-back for the Kilkenny senior team. Born in Freshford, County Kilkenny, Phelan arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-one when he first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team. He made his debut in the 1931 championship. Phelan went on to play a key part for more than a decade, and won four All-Ireland medals, eight Leinster medals and one National Hurling League medal. Phelan was an All-Ireland runner-up on four occasions. Phelan represented the Leinster inter-provincial team for a remarkable thirteen years, winning four Railway Cup medals in 1932, 1933, 1936 and 1941. At club level he won three championship medals with Tullaroan.Throughout his career, Phelan made 42 championship appearances for Kilkenny. His retirement came following Kilkenny's defeat in the 1942 championship. His grandnephew, D. J. Carey, was a five-time All-Ireland medallist with Kilkenny. Phelan has been repeatedly voted onto teams made up of the sport's greats, including as wing-back on the Hurling Team of the Century in 1984 and the Hurling Team of the Millennium in 2000. Playing career

Club

Phelan played his club hurling with Tullaroan and enjoyed much success during a lengthy career. In 1930 he lined out in his first championship decider, as Tullaroan fought back after a period of decline. A 4–4 to 0–3 trouncing of senior hurling novices Urlingford gave Phelan a first championship medal.Tullaroan surrendered their championship crown the following year, but returned to the decider again in 1933. A high-scoring 6–5 to 5–4 defeat of Carrickshock gave Phelan a second championship medal. Carrickshock stood


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texts: broken ribs sustained in the first replay. Such was the esteem in which he was held the game was virtually conceded to Cork. In spite of fielding a younger team, Kilkenny were defeated by Cork on a score line of 5–8 to 3–4.Kilkenny retained their provincial crown in 1932, with <mask> adding a second Leinster medal to his collection following a 4–6 to 3–5 defeat of Dublin. The All-Ireland final on 4 September 1932 saw Clare provide the opposition for the first time in almost twenty years. In a low-scoring game, Clare's Tull Considine scored two goals and was foiled for what would almost certainly have been a third. These goals were negated by Kilkenny's three goal-scoring heroes Matty Power, Martin White and Lory Meagher, who scored a remarkable goal from a line ball. The final score of 3–3 to 2–3 gave victory to Kilkenny and gave Phelan an All-Ireland medal. 1933 saw Phelan add a National Hurling League medal to his collection following a 3–8 to 1–3 defeat of Limerick. He later won a third successive Leinster medal following a stunning comeback against Dublin and a 7–5 to 2–5 victory.The All-Ireland final on 3 September 1933 saw a record crowd of 45,176 travel to Croke Park to see Kilkenny face and up-and-coming Limerick. After being level at the interval, the game remained close in the second half until a solo-run goal by Johnny Dunne sealed a 1–7 to 0–6 victory. It was Phelan's second consecutive All-Ireland medal. After surrendering their provincial crown to Dublin in 1934, Kilkenny faced Laois in the decider again the following year. A 3–8 to 0–6 victory gave Phelan a fourth Leinster medal. Another record crowd gathered at Croke Park for the All-Ireland final between Kilkenny and


title: Vanessa Porto

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<mask> (born March 16, 1984) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and amateur boxer who competes in the Bellator MMA flyweight division. As of February 1, 2022, she is #8 in the Bellator Women's Flyweight Rankings. Background
<mask> grew up in Jaú, São Paulo in a family of soccer players. She had an appreciation for martial arts from a young age and started to practice Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2004. She is currently married to her trainer Pedro Iglesias. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> began her professional MMA career in 2005. She initially fought only for Brazilian promotions such as Storm Samurai and Champions Night and faced opponents including Carina Damm, Cris Cyborg and Brazilian kickboxing champion Juliana Werner Aguiar.She defeated Aguiar on three occasions. With a record of five wins and two losses, <mask> signed with the U.S.-based Fatal Femmes Fighting promotion. Fatal Femmes Fighting and Revolution Fight Club
<mask> made her FFF debut against Tonya Evinger on July 14, 2007 at Fatal Femmes Fighting 2. She defeated Evinger via submission due to an armbar in the first round. <mask> was expected to face FFF bantamweight champion Roxanne Modafferi on November 3, 2007 at Fatal Femmes Fighting 3. However, Modafferi was removed from the event due to a shoulder injury and was replaced by Hitomi Akano. <mask> defeated Akano via split decision after five rounds.Her match for the FFF bantamweight title against Modafferi happened on April 3, 2008 at Fatal Femmes Fighting 4. <mask> lost via TKO for the first time in her MMA career. <mask> faced Germaine de Randamie on December 19, 2008 at Revolution Fight Club 2. She won via submission due to an armbar in the first round. Return to Brazilian promotions
Between December 2008

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 and March 2011, <mask> amassed five victories and suffered a single loss against Amanda Nunes. On October 28, 2011, <mask> defeated Jennifer Maia via technical submission due to an armbar at Kumite MMA Combate. <mask> became the first Pink Fight champion at 132 pounds on March 10, 2012 when she knocked out Luana Teixeira at Pink Fight 2.In mid-2012, after a long time away from American promotions, <mask> signed with Invicta Fighting Championships. Invicta Fighting Championships
<mask> was expected to make her Invicta FC debut against Kelly Kobold on July 28, 2012 at Invicta FC 2: Baszler vs. McMann. However, Kobold suffered a shoulder injury and Porto instead faced Sarah D'Alelio. Porto lost the fight via submission due to a reverse triangle armbar in the first round. <mask> dropped down to 125 pounds and faced Tara LaRosa on October 6, 2012 at Invicta FC 3: Penne vs. Sugiyama. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Porto then fought against Barb Honchak on April 5, 2013 at Invicta FC 5: Penne vs. Waterson in a five-round match to determine the first-ever Invicta FC flyweight champion.She lost the fight via unanimous decision. Porto faced Zoila Frausto Gurgel on December 7, 2013 at Invicta FC 7. She won the fight via unanimous decision. Porto was expected to face Roxanne Modafferi at Invicta FC 10: Waterson vs. Tiburcioon December 5, 2014. However she was replaced by Andrea Lee  due to visa issue. Porto the fought Roxanne Modafferi at Invicta FC 12: Kankaanpää vs. Souza on Friday, April 24, 2015. She won the fight via unanimous decision.On March 11, 2016, Porto face Jennifer Maia second time at Invicta FC 16: Hamasaki vs. Brown. She lost the fight via unanimous decision. At her next fight, she faced Agnieszka Niedźwiedź at Invicta FC

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 23: Porto vs. Niedźwiedź. She lost the fight after three round with the judges handed down a win to Niedzwiedz via a unanimous decision. Porta was expected to face Jessica-Rose Clark on December 8, 2018 at Invicta FC 26: Maia vs. Niedwiedz; however, Clark was replaced byd Milana Dudieva. At the weight-ins, Porta weight 127.6 Ibs, misse weight by 2.6 Ibs of the upper flyweight limit of 125 Ibs, and was fined twenty five percent of her purse. The bout proceeded at catchweight.Porta won the fight via technical knocked out on round three. One month later, she fought against Mariana Morais on January 13, 2018 at Invicta FC 27: Kaufman vs. Kianzad. She won the fight via a rear-naked choke on round one. Porto faced Pearl Gonzalez for the vacant Invicta FC Flyweight World Championship at Invicta FC 34 on February 15, 2019. She won the fight via technical decision after an eye poke rendered Porto unable to continue. Porto was supposed to make her first title defense against Karina Rodríguez at Invicta FC 38: Murato vs. Ducote on November 1, 2019. However, Rodríguez missed weight by a pound and she was unable to compete for the title.She won the bout via unanimous decision. Bellator MMA

On September 2, 2020 it was announced that <mask> was vacating her Invicta title and signing with Bellator MMA. As the first bout of her four-fight contract, <mask> made her promotional debut against Liz Carmouche on April 9, 2021 at Bellator 256. She lost the bout via unanimous decision. <mask> was scheduled to face Ilara Joanne on June 11, 2021 at Bellator 260. However, after weigh-ins, she was deemed unfit to compete by the commission and the bout was scrapped. The bout was rescheduled for July 31, 2021 at Bellator 263.Porto won the close bout via split

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title: Stephen Mulhern

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<mask> (born 4 April 1977) is an English television presenter, magician, and comedian. He began his television career on CITV, appearing in the children's shows Finger Tips (2001–2008) and Tricky TV (2005–2010). Mulhern has presented various television shows for ITV, including Britain's Got More Talent (2007–2019), Animals Do the Funniest Things (2007–2011), This Morning's Hub (2011–2014), Catchphrase (2013–present), Big Star's Little Star (2013–2018), In for a Penny (2019–present) and Rolling In It (2020–present). He also co-hosted the Sunday breakfast show on Heart Radio, alongside Emma Willis, and the 'Ant vs Dec' segment on Saturday Night Takeaway. Early life and education
Mulhern's parents were market traders. He attended Rokeby Secondary School in Canning Town, East London. Career

Magic
Mulhern gained his interest in comedy and magic from his father, who taught him tricks when he was 11 years old.The family spent their holidays at Butlin's Minehead in Somerset, where Mulhern began performing in public. He became the youngest member of The Magic Circle, which brought about an appearance on Blue Peter in a piece about Harry Houdini. Mulhern was later suspended from The Magic Circle for revealing a magic trick on the children's  television programme Finger Tips. The suspension was eventually lifted. After leaving school, he created a magic show under the title <mask>'s Mega Mad Magic Show. Turned down at age 18 by Michael Barrymore for My Kind of People, he won another television talent show called The Big Big Talent Show which was hosted by Jonathan Ross, and as a result, in 1997 whas invited to take part in the Royal Variety Performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre. Mulhern has appeared on the Disney

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 ITV. On 14 September 2014, Mulhern guest hosted an episode of Sunday Night at the Palladium. In early 2015, Mulhern presented the primetime ITV reality series Get Your Act Together. On 5 February 2015, he began presenting ITV2 panel show Reality Bites . In 2015, he presented The Magic Show Story a one-off special for ITV and The Saturday Night Story, a two-part series focusing on Saturday night television. In 2015, Mulhern presented Pick Me!, a daytime game show for ITV as well as ITV's annual charity telethon Text Santa.In March 2015, Mulhern became a victim of the Ant & Dec Undercover segment on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. In February 2016, <mask> became the presenter of the 'Ant vs Dec' segment on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway after replacing Ashley Roberts. In 2016, Mulhern presented Go for It, and co-hosted The Next Great Magician alongside Rochelle Humes for ITV. On 12 April 2018, it was announced that Mulhern would host The National Lottery Draws on ITV. In 2019, Mulhern presented In For A Penny, which is based on a segment he presents on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway of the same name. In August 2020, Mulhern began presenting a new game show on ITV, Rolling In It, featuring both contestants and celebrities. In February 2022, Mulhern guest presented Dancing On Ice whilst Phillip Schofield self-isolates from COVID-19.Filmography
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title: Kwame Thomas

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<mask> (born 28 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays for National League club Wrexham. A tall and physical player, he represented England at under-16, under-17 and under-20 level and was part of England's Under-20 Four Nations Tournament success in October 2014. At club level he came through the Derby County Academy to make his professional debut in the Championship in November 2014. He spent time on loan at Notts County and Blackpool, before leaving Derby for Coventry City in July 2016. He spent the first half of the 2016–17 season injured and Coventry went on to be relegated out of League One. He spent the next season on loan at National League sides Sutton United and Solihull Moors, before he was allowed to join Solihull on a permanent basis in February 2018. He was released by the Moors at the end of the 2018–19 campaign, following a brief loan spell at Kidderminster Harriers.Club career

Derby County
Having made progress through Derby County academy following his two years as a scholar, <mask> signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2014, just months after receiving the club's Under-21s Player of the Year award. On 29 November 2014, <mask> made his debut as a 66th-minute substitute in a Championship defeat to Leeds United, missing a good chance to score with ten minutes left to play. On 12 January 2015, <mask> joined League One club Notts County on a one-month youth loan. On 20 January, he was sent off for a second bookable offence in a 0–0 draw at Doncaster Rovers after showing a delayed response to being substituted – "Magpies" manager Shaun Derry was also dismissed for protesting the decision; assistant manager Greg Abbott theorised that referee Richard Clark had not realised <mask> had already been booked when he initially showed the yellow card. He made his return to Derby after one month at Meadow Lane as "Rams"

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 striker Chris Martin was injured and manager Steve McClaren needed cover up front. On 29 July 2015, <mask> joined League One side Blackpool on a six-month loan deal. He made 22 appearances for the "Tangerines", which included six starts.He was recalled early from his loan in November, much to "Pool" manager Neil McDonald's disappointment, despite <mask>'s failure to score at Bloomfield Road. Back with Derby he helped Rory Delap's under-21 side to win the 2015–16 Professional Development League 2 title, but left Pride Park after he was released in the summer. Coventry City
On 1 July 2016, <mask> signed a two-year contract with Coventry City. Manager Tony Mowbray said that "he has a lot of assets and it's a question of moulding him in the right way because I think he's got the potential to be a really good footballer". However he was hit with an abdominal injury five minutes into his second substitute appearance for the "Sky Blues" and spent the next six months in recovery. He marked his recovery with his first goal for Russell Slade's side in a 3–2 defeat at Oldham Athletic on 11 February. Seven days later he proved to be a "revelation" after helping Coventry to record their first win in 16 games, as he and namesake <mask> shared City's two goals in a 2–1 victory over Gillingham at the Ricoh Arena.He ended the 2016–17 season with three goals in 14 games as Coventry were relegated out of League One. Having struggled again with injury problems in the 2017–18 pre-season, he found himself low down on new manager Mark Robins's pecking order following the arrivals of Duckens Nazon and Tony Andreu, and was limited to a single start in the EFL Trophy. Robins said that "he has got to go out and try to get some football because his history at the moment is he hasn't played enough games and he breaks down with injuries". On 8 September, he joined National League side Sutton United

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 on a one-month loan deal. However the loan spell at Gander Green Lane was described as a "disappointing" one as he was limited to just two league starts, featuring in the full 90 minutes only once. Solihull Moors
Thomas returned to the National League on a one-month loan at Solihull Moors on 17 November 2017. He scored on his Moors debut on 18 November, to salvage a 1–1 draw at Maidstone United in Mark Yates's first game as manager; assistant manager Tim Flowers said that <mask> was "unplayable" and well worthy of his one-yard tap-in goal.The loan deal was extended by a further month on 5 January. He left Coventry after his contract was terminated by mutual consent on 1 February 2018. He made an immediate return to Damson Park and ended the 2017–18 campaign with four goals in 27 appearances for Solihull. He failed to score in 19 matches throughout the 2018–19 campaign and was sent off during a 5–0 win over Bromley on 22 September. On 15 March, he joined National League North side Kidderminster Harriers on loan. He started one game for the Harriers, making four further substitute appearances, before being recalled early from his loan spell at Aggborough by Solihull manager Tim Flowers. He left the club upon the expiry of his contract in the summer.Doncaster Rovers
After having trials at Port Vale and Carlisle United in July 2019, <mask> was signed by Doncaster Rovers on 4 October 2019 on a short-term contract till January 2020. On 22 October 2019 he scored his first two goals for the club in a 1–7 win over Southend. Burton Albion

On 4 February 2020, <mask> signed for Burton Albion on a six-month deal. Wrexham
Kwame signed for Wrexham on 29th August 2020 on a one-year deal. After a ruptured achilles injury ended his 2020/2021 season, he was retained by Wrexham who stood by <mask> with another one-year deal. He returned in mid-December 2021, scoring on his return.

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 International career
Born in England, <mask> is of Jamaican descent.<mask> has represented England at under-16, under-17, and under-20 levels. He scored two goals for the under-20s, in friendlies against Romania and the United States. He played in all three of England's games in the Under-20 Four Nations Tournament in October 2014, which England won after finishing ahead of Germany, Netherlands and Turkey. He was named in Aidy Boothroyd's squad for the 2015 Toulon Tournament in France and was an unused substitute up until the third-place play-off match at Stade Mayol, which he started; England finished fourth after losing 2–1 to the United States. Style of play
A powerful forward, he is a threat in the air and on the ground. Former Derby youth coach Darren Wassall described him as a "model professional". Before being released by Coventry, Academy coach Jason Farndon said that "his physicality has always been his main threat but now everyone is catching up with his physicality so he has got to reinvent himself."Personal life
<mask> grew up supporting Arsenal and idolizing Thierry Henry. He is a devout Christian. He went to school with Offrande Zanzala and the two remained good friends into adulthood. Career statistics

Honours
England U20
Under-20 Four Nations Tournament: October 2014

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Anne-Josèphe Théroigne <mask> (born Anne-Josèphe Terwagne; 13 August 1762 – 8 June 1817) was a Belgian singer, orator and organizer in the French Revolution. She was born at Marcourt, in Prince-Bishopric of Liège (from which comes the appellation "de Méricourt"), a small town in the modern Belgian province of Luxembourg. She was active in the French Revolution and worked within the Austrian Low Countries to also foster revolution. She was held in an Austrian prison from 1791 to 1792 for being an agent provocateur in Belgium. She was a cofounder of a Parisian revolutionary club and had warrants for her arrest issued in France for her alleged participation in the October Days uprising. She is known both for her portrayal in the French Revolutionary press and for her subsequent mental breakdown and institutionalization. Early life (1767–1789)

She was born Anne-Josèphe Terwagne in Marcourt, Rendeux, to Pierre Terwagne (b.1731) and Anne-Élisabeth Lahaye (1732–1767). Her mother died after giving birth to her third child, leaving Anne-Josèphe alone with her father and two brothers; Pierre-Josèphe (b. 1764) and Josèphe (b. 1767). After her mother died, she was sent to live with her aunt in Liège and was put into a convent school where she learned how to sew. About a year after Anne-Josèphe began school, her aunt married and stopped paying for her school. Anne-Josèphe fled back to her father after he remarried because she was forced to be a house maid and tend to her aunt's children.Life at her father's was no better, her stepmother treated her just as poorly as her aunt did. Her eldest brother went to Germany to stay with relatives by the name of Campinados. At the age of 13, Anne-Josèphe and her younger brother went to Xhoris to stay with some of their father's relatives. While in Xhoris, she constantly was


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 Anne-Joseph operated under the alias <mask>moiselle Campinado whenever she worked as a courtesan. After meeting renowned Italian tenor Giacomo David for the first time, she was inspired her to break away from <mask> Persan and pursue her singing career.She found a noteworthy castrato teacher named Giusto Fernando Tenducci and because she could not afford the full cost of the lessons with the help of Tenducci's attorney they drafted up an agreement. She had no idea of Tenducci's plan to scam her out of money so he could pay off his debts. While traveling towards her father, she got news that her father had died and so she was forced to change her plans. Tenducci was not able to execute his plan because she no longer had a reason to visit and drop off a large sum of money. Tenducci proceeded to convince her to travel to Italy with him, her two brothers, and her half brother Pierrot. She was under the impression that she was going to be reimbursed for the travel expenses. They left to Genoa, Italy at some point between May 1787 and February 1788.After recognizing his true intentions, she sought help from friends and lawyers who assured her that the contract was invalid. In order to go to Rome like she now desired, Anne-Josèphe needed money. In March 1789, she wrote to Jean-Frédéric Perregaux, a Swiss banker, thanking him for his assistance in acquiring payment from Marquis <mask>, asking for a loan to buy her eldest brother a managership, and requesting letters of recommendation for Rome and Naples. Rumors about the revolution began surfacing in Rome. In May 1789, after her younger brother was situated in Rome, she traveled from Italy to Paris, where she became swept up in the early stirrings of the revolution. Role in French Revolution (1789–1790)

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 first involvement in the revolution was on 17 July 1789 when King Louis XVI was at the Hôtel de Ville, sanctifying the revolution while wearing a tricolored cockade. She dressed in a man's riding habit and a round hat in order to appear as a man to avoid the discrimination faced by women.On 4 August 1789 she attended an important National Assembly meeting discussing the rapidly spreading revolution. By the end of the month the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was passed. She decided to move to Rue de Noailles in Versailles to ensure that she make it to all of the National Assembly meetings. She learned as much as she could about the unfolding events like the Women's March on Versailles so she could understand the issues and begin to help. In October 1789, she moved to Paris so she could continue to attend the National Assembly meetings which took place in there. Society of Friends of the Law
In January 1790 she founded, along with Gilbert Romme, the Société des amis de la loi ("Society of Friends of the Law"), a club that sought to encourage and assist patriotic work in the provinces. The club was short-lived, and Anne-Josèphe turned her revolutionary zeal into oratory at the Club des Cordeliers and the terraces of the National Assembly.Frustrated by the minimal opportunities available to female patriots, she supported the formation of mixed-sex and women's patriotic clubs. Around this time is when she became known as Théroigne <mask>t. Rumors from the press
Théroigne was beginning to realize that the majority of the supporters of the revolution were interested in the rights of men and not in the rights of women. Beginning in November 1789, the Parisian royalist press began to construct a flamboyant and infamous caricature of Théroigne as a "patriots' whore" and "female war chief."


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 According to the pages of these pamphlets, she assaulted the Bastille and led the October Days march on Versailles; she fought soldiers and was "ever to be found where the unrest was greatest," attired in a "scarlet riding-habit and... black plume." She was portrayed as a shameless libertine who was sexually involved with "Deputy Populus" ("the people") and one tabloid wrote that "every representative [of the National Assembly] may fairly claim to be the father of her child." Austrian imprisonment (1790–1792)

In May 1790, impoverished and much affected by the libels of the royalist press, Théroigne left Paris for Marcourt.After a short stay, she proceeded to Liège, in which town she was seized by warrant of the Austrian Government, and conveyed first to Tyrol and thereafter to the Kufstein Fortress, where she was interrogated about her revolutionary activities. She was taken by mercenaries on a 10-day journey to Austria during which she was bullied and nearly raped by her three captors. The Austrians, influenced by Théroigne's portrayal in the Paris tabloids, attributed to her an exaggerated role in the Revolution. They portrayed her as a subversive "Pythia," a possible spy who had corrupted soldiers with inflammatory rhetoric, threatened the royal family, and instigated the October Days. <mask> Blanc was appointed by  Prince Kaunitz, the Imperial Chancellor, to be Thèroigne's interrogator. After about a month of heavy interrogation, Blanc found that she had no useful information to offer and that many of the rumors regarding her were false. Eventually Blanc grew an affection to her and arranged for her release after he discovered that she had many health issues, including depression, insomnia, migraines, and coughing of blood.Role in the French Revolution cont. (1792–1793)

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 Salpêtrière Hospital in 1807, where she lived for 10 years, intermittently lucid and speaking constantly about the revolution. Following a short illness, she died there on 8 June 1817. Fact and fiction in the French Revolution
The history of this fictional Théroigne came to overshadow and confuse her actual actions during this time. By her own account, she was not present at the fall of the Bastille, nor did she march on Versailles during the October Days; rather, she had lived at Versailles throughout the summer of 1789, attending debates at the National Assembly and meeting with political figures such as Jérôme Pétion, Camille Desmoulins, and the Abbé Sieyès. She did indeed, while at Versailles, dress in a man's riding habit, but she did not lead any insurrectionary actions.In popular culture

Literature
 <mask> <mask>t appears as a minor character in Hillary Mantel's 1992 novel A Place of Greater Safety. The play Théroigne de Mericourt by Paul Hervieu was written in 1902 and was performed by Sarah Bernhardt on 23 September 1902. Video games
 In Assassin's Creed Unity (2014), Théroigne <mask>t appears in several side missions. She is voiced by Natalia Payne. References

Attribution

Further reading
 Desan, Suzanne. "Théroigne de Méricourt, Gender, and International Politics in Revolutionary Europe." Journal of Modern History 92.2 (2020): 274–310.Jackie Pigeaud (ed. ), Théroigne <mask>t, La Lettre-mélancolie, Lettre adressée en 1801 à Danton (mort en... 1794), transcribe par Jean-Pierre Ghersenzon, Verdier / L’Éther Vague, 2005. Elisabeth Roudinesco, Théroigne <mask>,Une femme mélancolique sous la Révolution, Préface d'Elisabeth Badinter, Albin Michel, Mars 2010. External links

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<mask> (née <mask>. Tabak; born 1930) is an American sculptor. Her work addresses the themes of sexuality, war, and the persistent anxiety of the industrial age. <mask> is known for pioneering the use of glass with steel. Her work has affinities with Surrealism, Post-Minimalism, and the Feminist art movement, although she has no formal affiliation with these. She is a Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts. <mask> lives and works in Oakland, California and in London, England. Early life and career

<mask>. Tabak was born in 1930 in New York City, to a family of working-class Jewish immigrants from Poland.She grew up in the Bronx tenements. She attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan during World War II. Students were required to visit museums and galleries as part of the curriculum. When Feldman was thirteen, she visited her first art museum, the Museum of Modern Art. There, she saw Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936), the fur-lined cup and saucer, and was struck by her strong psychological response to this work. Other early influences included Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 am (1932) and the sculpture of David Smith. One of Feldman's earliest sculptures Warrior (1952) pays tribute to Giacometti.During the Holocaust, Feldman lost numerous family members who remained in Poland, an experience that helped shape her worldview. This includes her lifelong preoccupation with war, and the overwhelming effects of the military–industrial complex. Feldman received a BA degree from Queens College, City University of New York. She married <mask> at age 18, and moved to California with him in 1951 where they both accepted teaching positions. Feldman has two children, <mask>, born 1954 and

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 <mask>, born 1956. Teaching
In 1965, Feldman started teaching at the California College of the Arts (CCA). In 1971 she and her family moved to Uganda, East Africa on a grant from the E. L. Cabot Trust Fund at Harvard University.Feldman spent two years teaching art in Uganda prior to the genocidal war in that country. Upon her return to CCA, she faced gender discrimination and a threat to her job. Her successful fight to retain her position prompted her to later become an advocate for other women faculty, who she helped to achieve equity and job security. Feldman was awarded an MA degree in 1973 from San Jose State University. Her teachers were Sam Richardson, John Battenberg, and Fletcher Benton. Work

Metamorphosis
In the 1970s, Feldman completed several installations portraying different stages of animal metamorphosis. These featured hybrid, mutant creatures, reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights—rats transformed into fish, and turtles with human features.The small-scale sculptures were displayed in large clusters, their multitude invoking aggression and infestation. Birds (1970), a cast metal flock of dead birds, preceded Kiki Smith's Jersey Crows (1995) while Metamorphic Turtles (1973–75) anticipated Smith's Sirens and Harpies (2002). War Toys and War Toys Redux
War Toys (1992) is a series created in response to the first Gulf War. Feldman was incensed by the tone of admiration she heard in President George Bush's voice when he referred to the Patriot missile. These works mocked the allure of weaponry and perceived glory in violence. The War Toys series relates to Magdalena Abakanowicz's War Games''' sculptures (1989), giant monstrous weapons made of metal and wood.


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 aggression and vulnerability, such works as Dyad (2003) and Jacob's Ladder (2011) refer to Martin Puryear in scale and to Louise Bourgeois in psychic intensity. Exhibitions, collections, awards

Feldman has won numerous awards for her work, and her sculpture is featured in private and museum collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA, and the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at museums and galleries including The Oakland Museum of California; the Berkeley Art Museum; Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; the Alternative Museum, New York; the Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco; Habatat Galleries, Chicago and Royal Oaks, MI; and Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles. Feldman was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts' Individual Artists award in 1986 and received Distinguished Artist Awards from Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA (2004), and Women's Caucus for Art (2005). A fifty-year survey of her work took place at the Richmond Art Center in 2013.References

 Further reading
 Selz, Peter. Solidity is Always Undermined, Sculpture Magazine, October 2014
 Whitney, Kathleen. <mask> at Habatat Gallery, World Sculpture News, Summer 2000. Porges, Maria. <mask>man'', Sculpture Magazine, October 1998. External links

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American women sculptors
21st-century American sculptors
21st-century American women artists
20th-century American sculptors
20th-century American women artists
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Queens College, City University of New York alumni
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California College of the Arts faculty
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<mask> (June 23, 1951 – May 24, 2018) was a Puerto Rican political scientist best known for starting the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR) in New York City in the early 1980s, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy center that focuses on Latino issues in the United States. It is now known as the National Institute for Latino Policy and <mask> served as its president until his death. He was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs (S.I.P.A.). <mask> was able to combine academic and policy research with an aggressive advocacy style based on broad coalition-building and community organizing. Noted for his caustic sense of humor and his progressive politics, he became one of the longest-serving chief executives of a Latino nonprofit in the country. Early years

<mask> (birth name: <mask>) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 23, 1951, the only son of Dominga "Minga" Cordero and Angel Manuel "Mel" <mask>. He lived in New York City since the age of six months and grew up in the Los Sures (Southside) section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<mask> attended Public School 17 in Williamsburg, where his first grade teacher unilaterally changed his name to "<mask>" from "Angel," thinking it was a typo. He went on to attend the citywide specialized Brooklyn Technical High School (1965–1969) in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, where he graduated with a specialization in architecture. In high school, he joined with other Puerto Rican and Latino students to organize the El Nuevo Mundo Aspira Club, which began his involvement in community affairs. He went on to attend Columbia College of Columbia University (Class of 1973) where he continued his activism as Chair of the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) and helping to establish the first HEOP, or Higher Education Opportunity Program, at the college. In 1976, he attended the State University of New York at Albany, where he did his graduate work in political science. He completed a master of science degree and most  requirements for his doctorate, returning to New York City as an ABD (all but dissertation)

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 in 1980 to write his dissertation. He was awarded the Nelson A. Rockefeller Distinguished Alumni Award from the SUNY-Albany in 1983.In the early 1970s he worked with ASPIRA of New York, first as a Club Organizer and rising to the position of the Director of their Manhattan Center. This was during the period when Aspira of New York sued the NYC Board of Education, resulting the historic Aspira Consent Decree (1974) mandating transitional bilingual education programs for eligible Puerto Rican and other Latino students. During his graduate studies in Albany in the late 1970s, he worked as a teaching assistant and as a technical researcher with the Capitol District Regional Planning Commission. He helped organize a graduate student organization as a result of a fight he led to overturn unfair plagiarism rules adopted by the faculty. During this period, he often visited his high school friend and collaborator, Jose Ramon Sanchez, who attended the University of Michigan as a graduate student in the Political Science Department. They engaged in long discussions about what they were learning and what it meant for the Puerto Rican and Latino community. It was during this 1975 to 1977 period that they agreed that their academic studies had given them new and useful skills that had to be put to use to lift the economic, political, and cultural plight for their community.They decided that they had to find a way to take their research “off the shelf” and put to practical use once they were both back in New York City. Institute for Puerto Rican Policy

Upon his return to New York City in 1980, he began teaching part-time to start work on his doctoral dissertation. He taught at Queens College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 1981, while at John Jay, he began organizing, along with Jose Ramon Sanchez, what became the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (IPR), as a volunteer organization. <mask> and Jose were both working at John Jay College. <mask> worked as an adjunct professor in the Puerto Rican Studies program. Jose worked at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies - El Centro.<mask> and Jose decided

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 to realize their dreams of taking research “off the shelves.”

<mask> and Jose put together a proposal to create an institute that would identify how public policy decisions and programs had a distinct impact on the Puerto Rican community. They also wanted to shape how public policy could be better shaped to provide the Puerto Rican community with more benefits and development. They submitted the proposal to El Centro, then being directed by the eminent scholar Frank Bonilla. He rejected the idea and the proposal. <mask> and Jose took the proposal to other organizations. But they all rejected the idea that there could ever be a way to separate a Puerto Rican centered public policy. Undaunted, they decided to go at it on their own.They created an iPR advisory board and began making plans to begin their work. At one point, Josie Nieves, an iPR Advisory Board member, granted iPR a small grant of about $3000 dollars. <mask> and Jose decided to use that money to buy a computer to begin parsing through available data and identify a Puerto Rican focus to public policy research. That computer was a Radio Shack TRS 80 model with a cassette data drive. June 1982, the Institute became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and received its first foundation grant from the New World Foundation. The distinguished scholar and policy activist Marilyn Aquirre became the first Chair of the iPR Board. Jose served on the board as well.<mask> became Executive Director. Since that point, <mask> headed the Institute continuously for close to 30 years. During this period, despite its small size, the Institute developed a national reputation as one of the most innovative policy centers addressing Latino issues in the country. The first major impact of iPR’s policy research activism was in 1982 when they published a report that revealed that the newly elected governor of New York State, Mario Cuomo, had lied and failed to deliver on his promise to address the extremely low employment of Puerto Ricans and Latinos in State government. During 1986-1990 he also served as one of the Co-Principal Researchers (along with Rodolfo O. de la

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texts: Garza of the University of Texas at Austin, F. Chris Garcia of the University of New Mexico, and John Garcia of the University of Arizona) of the Latino National Political Survey (LNPS), one of the largest privately funded social surveys of Latino political attitudes and behavior ever conducted in the United States. In the mid-1990s he was one of the key organizers of the Boricua First! march on Washington, DC and in the early 2000s of the Encuentro Boricua Conference in New York City, among other national initiatives.In 1999, the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy joined in a strategic alliance with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) at the Fund's invitation, where the institute was renamed the PRLDEF Institute for Puerto Rican Policy and functioned as PRLDEF's Policy Division. During this period he served as PRLDEF's  Senior Policy Executive and Director of the PRLDEF Institute for Puerto Rican Policy. On November 18, 2005, the Institute became independent once again and in 2006 changed its name to the National Institute for Latino Policy (NiLP), with <mask> as its president. Since 2000, <mask> also co-chaired the New York Chapter of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. In 2001, he was profiled in a "Public Lives" column in the New York Times ("A 20-Year Battler for Puerto Rican Political Pull" by John Kifner, June 20, 2001, Section B, page 2). In 2004, he wrote the Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans for the government of Puerto Rico and also co-edited the book, Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York. He was named as one of the top 25 "New York Latino movers and shakers" in 2006 by the New York Post (November 28, 2006), and was the recipient of the "Little Flower" Award for Outstanding Community Service from LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) in 2007.Also in 2007, he was elected to the National Steering Committee of the Census Information Centers (CIC) program of the Census Bureau. In 2008, he was appointed by the U.S. Commerce Secretary to the 9-member Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population of the Census Bureau's Race and Ethnic Advisory

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 Committees (REAC) program. In 2009 he was elected Chair of both the Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population and of the Steering Committee of the Census Information Centers Program. In 2006, Falcón created the Latino Policy Network (currently called The NiLP Network) to diffuse policy and political information of importance to the Latino community online. The NiLP Network, with more than 8,000 members, has become possibly the most influential online community of Latino political civic and academic leaders in the United States. Through this network, NiLP has also created the Latino Census Network and the Latino Voting Rights Network. Besides timely information dissemination, the network members have also been polled from time to time on critical Latino policy issues through its National Latino Opinion Leaders Survey (NLOLS).<mask> lived in his childhood neighborhood of "the Sures" in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. A diabetic, Falcón suffered a fatal heart attack in front of his home on May 24, 2018. Contributions

<mask>'s research on Puerto Rican and Latino politics and policy issues has made a number of important contributions to these fields. These include:

 In his 1978 study, “The Puerto Rican Activist Stratum in New York City,<mask>, using elite sample survey methods, provided one of the earliest most in-depth analyses of the nature and attitudes ever conducted of Puerto Rican political and community leaders in New York City. His founding and work with the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (1981-2005) has resulted in a number of critical developments in the area of Latino politics and policy. This includes: the first consistent nonpartisan studies of the Puerto Rican and Latino vote at the local and national levels; groundbreaking studies on public sector employment and other access issues for Latinos with government and the private sectors; and the development of the “guerrilla research” approach of aggressive action-research from the perspective of the poor and that held the Puerto Rican/Latino political leadership accountable as well as non-Latinos. During the 1980s and

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texts: 1990s, the Institute was credited with bringing back the advocacy role of Latino community-based organizations and the value of policy analysis as part of their ongoing missions.The Institute’s projects on promoting greater Latino participation in the 2000 Census and in the political redistricting process have introduced new participatory approaches to these civic participation issues that are new in the Latino community. His 1983 paper, “Puerto Rican Political Participation: New York City and Puerto Rico,” was the first systematic examination of the contrast in voting levels between Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, which have been high, and New York City which have been extremely low. He demonstrated the role that social and political structure plays in affecting levels of political participation. His 1985 discussion paper, “Black and Puerto Rican Politics in New York City: Race and Ethnicity in a Changing Urban Context,” was the first systematic examination of the implications of New York becoming a “majority minority” city and one of the first analyses of the relationship between Black and Latino politics. As one of the principal investigators with the 1989-90 Latino National Political Survey (LNPS), <mask> was part of a team of political scientists that conducted this landmark $2 million household survey of Latino political attitudes and behavior in the United States. This was the largest privately funded survey of its kind ever conducted and generated important baseline data on the Latino political experience still in use today. His publication of the monthly "Crítica: A Journal of Puerto Rican Policy & Politics" in 1994-1997 created a unique forum for the discussion of Puerto Rican community issues.This controversial monthly became an important vehicle for holding public official, Latino and non-Latino alike, accountable to community interests. There are plans to bring this publication back as a journal focusing on Latino policy and political issues in 2007. His 2000 report, Opening the Courthouse Doors: The Need for More Hispanic Judges, had the impact of raising consciousness of this issue in the


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texts: the United States and its territories in preparation for the 2010 Census.In 2008, he was appointed by the US Commerce Secretary to the Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic population, to which he was elected Chair in 2009. In 2009, he was also elected Chair of the Steering Committee of the Census Information Centers (CIC) Program of the Census Bureau. In these roles, <mask> has become a major advisor to the Census Bureau on issues affecting Latinos and other communities of color. In 2008, <mask> was one of the founders of the New York City Collaborative for Fairness and Equity in Philanthropy (CFEP), becoming its founding Chair. This is a unique coalition of nonprofits of color and foundations working to give greater voice to communities of color in discussions and policies regarding increasing diversity in the foundation sector. In 2010, his work with the Latino Census Network and role as a volunteer Census Bureau advisor contributed to one of the best counts of the Latino population in the 2010 Census. <mask> serves as Chair of the Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population, and Chair of the Census Information Centers (CIC) Program of the US Census Bureau.His February 2010 report, Data Dissemination in Communities of Color: The Role of the Census Information Centers (New York, National Institute for Latino Policy, 2010), outlines issues in increasing access to Census data by Latinos and other communities of color. In 2011, he coordinated a major Northeast Latino Regional Redistricting Meeting in New York City that brought together more than 100 Latino voting rights advocates from throughout the region. This was the major kick-off activity for redistricting work on behalf of Latino communities in New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Massachusetts and other Northeastern states. His coordination of The NiLP Network on Latino Issues continued to make this the most influential online community of Latino opinion leaders in the United States. In 2012, Falcón generated much debate with the publication fa series of NiLP i Reports, which included: The Vanishing Puerto Rican Student at the City

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texts: University of New York (CUNY), NiLP Latino Policy iReport  (August 14, 2012); A Boricua Game of Thrones? A Critical Review of the Rise of Puerto Rican Political Families in New York City, NiLP Latino Policy iReport (July 29, 2012); Latinos and NYC Council Districting, 2012: An Introduction (New York: National Institute for Latino Policy, March 2012); and NYC Council Discretionary Funding of Latino Organizations, Fiscal Year 2013, NiLP Latino Datanote (July 8, 2012). As part of NiLP's media advocacy efforts, he also compiled the NYC Latino Experts Media Directory (New York: National Institute for Latino Policy, June 2012).During the period 2012 to 2016 <mask>’s research continued to promote widespread discussion on the Latino community nationally on key issues. The Latino Policy Network was renamed The NiLP Report on Latino Policy & Politics and became the principal vehicle for promoting Falcón research and analyses. During the 2016 Presidential election, <mask> conducted the National Latino Opinion Leaders Survey more frequently as the only polling of Latino elites conducted on this important election. He also wrote a number of commentaries prompting a debate on new directions for the discussion of the future of comprehensive immigration reform. He also wrote extensively on the Puerto Rico debt crisis and the role of the Puerto Rican Diaspora in addressing this problem. Falcón also served as technical advisor to the Campaign for Fair Latino Representation, a citywide coalition formed in 2014, Its purpose is to promote the greater participation of Latinos in NYC government and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio,  based on research conducted by Falcón on the underrepresentation of Latinos in city government appointments. He also wrote a series of analyses on the state of Latino politics in New York City from a citywide perspective.<mask> collaborated with political scientist Sherrie Baver and historian Gabriel Haslip-Viera in co-editing and contributing to the second edition of the popular reader, Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, to be published by the University of Notre Dame


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<mask> (born 19 May 1969) is a Spanish jurist, university professor, and politician who has served as the Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain since 2018, after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez coming into power following the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy. In 2020, she was appointed Fourth Deputy Prime Minister and in 2021 she was promoted to Third Deputy Prime Minister. Between 2008 and 2011 she held the position of Secretary of State for Climate Change in the second administration of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Between 2014 and 2018, she was director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, based in Paris. Early years and education
Ribera graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a degree in legal studies, with further studies at the Center for Constitutional Studies attaining her another degree in constitutional law and political science. Early career
Ribera belongs to the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State of which she has been a surplus official since 2012. Ribera has been an associate professor of the Department of Public Law and Philosophy of Law at the Autonomous University of Madrid.Ribera has held various technical positions in public administration, such as the position of Chief of Coordination of the Ministry of Development and of Technical Adviser in the Cabinet of the Assistant Secretary for the Environment and Head of the Compliance and Development area. Between 2004 and 2008 she was general director of the Office of Climate Change and between 2008 and 2011 she assumed the Secretary of State for Climate Change (in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment) during the government of president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. International work
<mask> is also a member of several advisory councils, including the Global Leadership Council of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

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