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 according to Scheuer. The U.S. is faced with an insurgency, rather than mere terrorism. Speaking on the BBC News on November 9, 2012, Scheuer criticized what he called the Obama administration's deceit about the threat from Islamic militants, and misleading the American people in his first administration by claiming that the word "jihad" had nothing to do with military affairs, and that it had to do with "self reform and community improvement", which <mask> claims was a blatant lie.Clinton and Bush administrations
<mask> has been critical of the Clinton and Bush administrations for not having killed bin Laden, for costly and disastrous policy missteps, and for not taking decisive measures to defend the country. He states that Clinton had eight to ten opportunities to kill bin Laden prior to September 11, and Bush had one opportunity thereafter. Richard A. Clarke and the Clinton administration, according to <mask>, thwarted the CIA's ambitions to kidnap or kill bin Laden when they had the chance. According to <mask>,

Clarke's book Against All Enemies is also a crucial complement to the September 11 panel's failure to condemn Mr. Clinton's failure to capture or kill bin Laden on any of the eight to 10 chances afforded by CIA reporting. Mr. Clarke never mentions that President Bush had no chances to kill bin Laden before September 11 and leaves readers with the false impression that he, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, did their best to end the bin Laden threat. That trio, in my view, abetted al Qaeda, and if the September 11 families were smart they would focus on the dereliction of Dick [Clarke], Bill [Clinton] and Sandy [Berger] and not the antics of convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Of the Bush administration, <mask> warns against assigning it full responsibility for the nation's troubles since September 11, 2001.Although the "unprovoked attack of Iraq" will forever be remembered as "infamous", as will Dick Cheney's "reptilian

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 contention that Americans who criticize U.S. foreign policy are 'validating the strategy of the terrorists'", according to Scheuer, a "bipartisan governing elite", both Democratic and Republican, is to blame for the nation's woes. (Notwithstanding the bipartisan responsibility, <mask> comments, "the thought of what history will say about Donald Rumsfeld's tenure at the Department of Defense ought to make his relatives shudder down to their latest generation.") Pending threats
In 2007, Scheuer said "The Iranians are no threat to the United States unless we provoke them. They may be a threat to the Israelis. They're not a threat to the United States. The threat to the United States, inside the United States, comes from al Qaeda. ...These people are going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States, and we're going to have absolutely nothing to respond against." Israel and the Lobby
Scheuer has stated that the Mearsheimer and Walt paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is essentially correct. Israel, according to Scheuer, has engaged in one of the most successful campaigns to influence public opinion in the United States ever conducted by a foreign government. Scheuer said to NPR that "They [Mearsheimer and Walt] should be credited for the courage they have had to actually present a paper on the subject. I hope they move on and do the Saudi lobby, which is probably more dangerous to the United States than the Israeli lobby." In Marching Toward Hell, Scheuer laments "the war in Iraq that was instigated by U.S. citizen Israel-firsters and their evangelical Christian allies". He continues,

Because both U.S. political parties are wholly owned subsidiaries of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Israeli government, there is no large-scale U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq in the cards ...If you doubt this, keep in mind the name Rahm Emanuel. Slated to be the president-elect's chief of staff, Mr. Emanuel has labored as a volunteer for AIPAC's various


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 anti-U.S. causes, strove to ensure the defeat of anti-Iraq War Democratic congressional candidates in 2006, and in 1991, as a 32-year-old U.S. citizen, chose to serve with the Israeli Defense Forces rather than volunteer to fight for the United States in the war against Saddam's Iraq. The Doha Debates
In April 2009, <mask> participated in the Doha Debates at Georgetown University, where he debated for the motion "This house believes that it is time for the USA to get tough on Israel" with fellow speaker Avraham Burg. Speakers against the motion were Dore Gold and Alan Dershowitz. Burg and Scheuer won the debate, with 63% of the audience voting for the motion. During the debate, Scheuer suggested that "the war in Iraq is the responsibility of the American fifth column that supports Israel" and accused Dershowitz of being part of this "fifth column". Dershowitz responded that he opposed the war in Iraq, that "more Jews than any other ethnic group in America opposed the war in Iraq" and that <mask> was engaging in "bigotry."Iraq and al-Qaeda
Thomas Joscelyn of Weekly Standard wrote a critical piece on <mask> and an interview <mask> did on Hardball with Chris Matthews. According to Joscelyn, <mask>'s claims that "there was no evidence of a relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al Qaeda", in various interviews, "directly contradicted" <mask>'s earlier assertions, in his first book, in which Scheuer "cited numerous pieces of evidence showing that there was, in fact, a working relationship between Saddam and al Qaeda." <mask> wrote about a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in his 2002 book. Yet when interviewed in 2004 he stated that he had found no evidence of a Saddam/al-Qaeda connection. Tim Russert asked Scheuer to explain the seeming contradiction on Meet the Press (30 November 2004):
MR. SCHEUER: I certainly saw a link when I was writing the books in terms of the open-source literature, unclassified literature, but I had nothing to do with Iraq during my professional

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 career until the run-up to the war. What I was talking about on "Hardball" was, I was assigned the duty of going back about nine or 10 years in the classified archives of the CIA. I went through roughly 19,000 documents, probably totaling 50,000 to 60,000 pages, and within that corpus of material, there was absolutely no connection in the terms of a—in the terms of a relationship.MR. RUSSERT: But your [2002] book did point out some contacts? MR. SCHEUER: Certainly it was available in the open-source material, yes, sir. <mask> explains more fully in the revised edition of his 2002 book the exhaustive study of the evidence of the alleged Iraq-al-Qaeda cooperation that eventually led him to the conclusion that there was no relationship between the two forces:

For a number of reasons, I was available to perform the review of Agency files on Iraq and al Qaeda, and the chief of the bin Laden unit handed me the assignment. I was delighted with the task, eager to begin, and sure that my research would support the analysis I had presented in Through Our Enemies' Eyes. For about four weeks in late 2002 and early 2003, I and several others were engaged full time in searching CIA files—seven days a week, often far more than eight hours a day. At the end of the effort, we had gone back ten years in the files and had reviewed nearly twenty thousand documents that amounted to well over fifty thousand pages of materials. I was both pleased and embarrassed by the results of the research.I was pleased because CIA's position was reaffirmed and the analysis of Mr. Feith's unit was discredited. There was no information that remotely supported the analysis that claimed there was a strong working relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. I was embarrassed because this reality invalidated the analysis I had presented on the subject in my book. Libyan insurgency
<mask> has stated his objection to any involvement by the U.S. in the Libyan insurgency, being particularly critical of the work of United States' UN

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 representative Susan E. Rice, calling the whole affair "none of our business" and essentially a "recruiting tool for terrorists." His overall view is that the interests of U.S. foreign policy are far better served by the current status quo, whereby the existing autocratic regimes are better able to suppress the threat he perceives from Al-Qaeda incursion than Western-style democratic systems. Scheuer believes that, irrespective of NATO ostensibly leading the bombing operations, "in the Muslim world, this is Americans killing Muslims again, and it looks like it's for oil." 2012 endorsement of Ron Paul
<mask> penned an editorial in late December 2011 endorsing U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul.He said, "Dr. Paul's precise use of history and common sense exposes the exorbitantly costly effort to build democracies in the Islamic world for what it is; namely, Washington throwing money down the drain for a cause that is impossibly lost from the start and one that will involve us in wars where we have no interests." 2016 endorsement of Donald Trump
Scheuer expressed his support for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in multiple blog postings on non-intervention.com. <mask> based his support on, in his view, Trump's strong support of the Second Amendment, Trump's proposed wall along the Southern Border, Trump's skepticism of NATO and military intervention in the Muslim World, and Trump's unpopularity with neoconservatives and their media outlets such as The Weekly Standard, National Review, and also much of the mainstream media. <mask> also likes Trump's "America First" talk towards American statecraft. Advocacy of killing Trump's opponents

On December 23, 2013, Scheuer endorsed the extrajudicial killing of then-Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron and President Barack Obama, endorsing the view of Algernon Sidney that "by an established law among the most virtuous nations, every man might kill a tyrant; and no names are recorded in history with more honor, than of those who did it." "In

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 2014, he [<mask>] suggested that assassinating Barack Obama was legitimate." In July 2018, <mask> called upon "those millions of well-armed citizens who voted for Trump" to be ready to kill "a long and very precise list" of those who oppose Trump.His list included the entire mainstream media and two former Presidents. "If Trump does not act soon to erase" his opponents, he wrote, "the armed citizenry must step in and eliminate them." Scheuer referred to Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged with murder for shooting people demonstrating in George Floyd protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin a “young hero”, hoping that “Rittenhouse’s necessary, patriotic, and constitutional actions will power the formation of militias across the United States.” In July 2020, he wrote that “loyal Americans know their domestic enemies, as well as their locations, in detail, and will be able to act swiftly to eliminate them and the threat they pose.”

In December, [2019] he endorsed the increasingly violent QAnon conspiracy movement, which the FBI has called a potential wellspring of domestic terrorism. Those who deny QAnon’s unhinged hallucinations are, to Scheuer, “coup-ists [and] insurrectionists.” Last month, Scheuer claimed vindication against critics when Trump seemed to acknowledge QAnon. Scheuer has long been comfortable with violence." "Scheuer blogged that “those who do not believe QAnon will be mighty surprised.” It made him the senior-most former intelligence official to embrace a social media-born cult that portrays Trump’s political enemies as a pedophile conspiracy. “There is so much accuracy, and well-proven accuracy,” he wrote of a theory holding John F. Kennedy Jr. is alive and secret indictments will soon imprison Obama and others at Guantanamo.European Union
In March 2018, <mask> claimed that the European Union was in the process of "falling apart", saying that British Prime Minister Theresa May was "siding with the EU" during the future relation talks of the UK leaving the European Union. <mask> has called

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 for the public execution of European politicians, saying that "all European rulers are tyrants" adding that "they are a despicable bunch, the people that head the European Union, and they really deserve to be hung." He is critical of the EU's abolition of the death penalty and the implications it has on the deportation of terrorist suspects, saying that "the EU's policy of easily obtainable political asylum and its prohibition against deporting wanted or convicted terrorists to a country with a death penalty have made Europe a major, consistent and invulnerable source of terrorist threat to the United States." Scheuer sees the extraordinary renditions carried out by the U.S. government as being hindered by the European Union: "The extraordinary rendition programme should not be destroyed because of "venal and prize hungry reporters, grandstanding politicians and sanctimonious Europeans." Portrayals
In the Hulu miniseries, The Looming Tower (2018), <mask> is the basis for the character of Martin Schmidt (portrayed by Peter Sarsgaard), depicted as one of two people primarily responsible for the lack of intelligence sharing between the CIA and the FBI in the lead up to 9/11. Bibliography

Books
 Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama Bin Laden, Radical Islam & the Future of America. Brassey's Inc. . (2003)
 Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.Brassey's Inc. . (2004)
 Marching Towards Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. Free Press, Simon & Schuster. . (2008)
 Osama Bin Laden. Oxford University Press. . (2011)
 Introduction to Inside the Jihad by Omar Nasiri

Articles
 "Battling the terrorists" Washington Times 26 December 2004
 "Unraveling the Saga of Zarqawi's Injury", Terrorism Focus, 2:11, 10 June 2005
 "Embracing a Lethal Tar Baby", Antiwar.com February 27, 2006
 "How Bush Helps Jihadists", Washington Times, 13 March 2006
 "Al-Qaeda Doctrine: Training the Individual Warrior", Terrorism Focus, 28 March 2006
 "Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America? You Bet it Does",


title: Sylvia Blyden

texts: <mask> (born 1 October 1971 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean  journalist, political commentator, newspaper publisher, and former Sierra Leone minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs under erstwhile President Ernest Bai-Koroma from 2016 to 2017. She served as Special Executive Assistant to Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma from 2013 to 2015. Blyden is the founder, CEO, and publisher of Sierra Leonean newspaper Awerness Times. She is the only female news publisher in Sierra Leone, and "one of the most recognisable names in the country." She has spoken of her interest to eventually run for the presidency of Sierra Leone. Born and raised in the capital Freetown, into a prominent political family, Blyden is widely considered one of the most powerful and highly influential female political figures in Sierra Leone. She was a close ally of Sierra Leone's former president Ernest Bai Koroma, and a prominent supporter and public defender of Koroma's presidency.But sadly despicable, former president Ernest Bai-Koroma and his ventriloquist puppets in the APC continue to show ingratitude to her for all that she did to publicly defend the legacy of former President Koroma. Blyden is a Christian and a member of the Creole ethnic group. Blyden is the great-great-granddaughter of Edward Wilmot <mask>, the "father of Pan-Africanism". Her maternal grandfather is a Sierra Leonean politician Solomon A. J. Pratt, and her paternal grandfather is the late Sierra Leonean diplomat Edward Wilmot <mask> III. Political Advocacy. Dr. <mask> Blyden was on May 1, 2020, arrested by the paramilitary dictatorship of current president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone's People Party and charged for seditious libel for untiring advocacy in exposing the excesses of the government that have subjected Sierra Leoneans to unbearable cost of living. She was arrested and placed behind bars for 21 days without any charges - violating her constitutional rights.After 21 days in jail, the government of

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 retired brigadier general and former junta leader, Julius Maada Bio, brought down trumped-up and cooked charges against newspaper publisher and social justice bulwark, Dr. <mask> Blyden. Whilst at the court, she was refused a bill through the influence of President Bio and his SLPP which caused a total of 51 days behind rusty bars. After six months of hearing into the case in court, the cooked charges against Dr. Blyden was thrown out of court on November 18, 2020, because of no proof to justify the government's flimsy charges against her. After the election that brought President Bio to the helm of power, she was one of the few who challenged the results of the election by filing a petition before the high court of Sierra Leone praying the court to nullify the election of President Bio for the re-conduct of fresh election as the 2018 March election was fraudulent. After two years and a half since her petition was filed, the court finally started a hearing into her case in January 2021. During the hearing into the case in the hallowed chambers of the Supreme Court, Dr. Blyden, as the first respondent, represented herself without a lawyer and profoundly and eloquently presented her arguments on why the high court should nullify the election that brought Julius Maada Bio to the nation's presidency. During such presentation, lawyers and non-lawyers in the chambers of the high court nulled their heads in thunderous applause and thrill by the eloquent display of extreme brilliance by Dr. <mask> Blyden in the hallowed chambers of Sierra Leone's high court.But after months of deliberations from both parties, the high court couldn't grant the request of Dr. Blyden to invalidate the election of President Bio. Biography
<mask>a Walmina Oreshola Blyden was born on 1 October 1971 in Freetown, Sierra Leone to Creole parents. She entered the Annie Walsh School with the best Selective Entrance results of entrants in 1982 and left with the best GCE O'Levels for the school in 1987; she was to graduate with the best

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 B.Sc. results from Medical School in 1993 and again graduate with proficiency in 1996 with an M.D in Medicine during which period she emerged as Sierra Leone's first woman to be elected as University students' leader in 1994. Blyden is the great-great-granddaughter of Edward Wilmot <mask>, the "father of Pan-Africanism". Her maternal grandfather was the Sierra Leonean politician Solomon A. J. Pratt, and her paternal grandfather was the late Sierra Leonean diplomat Edward Wilmot <mask> III. Career
A Child-Appointed International Goodwill Ambassador for Sierra Leone's Children, <mask>lyden has been a Youths and Women's Rights Activist.She represented Sierra Leone's Female Youths in Beijing during the 1995 United Nations Women's Confab, and was chosen by her African peers to deliver the Female Youths of Africa Speech on 11 August 1995. In early 2002, she became Sierra Leone's youngest National Political Party Leader at the age of 30, and the third Sierra Leone woman to lead a fully registered political party (the first being Presidential Candidate, the late Mrs. Jeridine Williams-Sarho in 1996). Founded own newspaper
Following her 24-Hours Internet Cafes, she launched a news media in 2005 known as Awareness Times, which is generally considered critical of the excesses of Government and State Institutions including the President, Ernest Bai Koroma. Awards and honours
Blyden remains the youngest ever Sierra Leonean to be nationally honoured with an Officer of the Rokel insignia in recognition of her meritorious service to the Nation, on 27 April 2007 Independence Day. References

External links
 Exclusive Press website
 Panafrican Press website
 Awareness Times website
 Children's Agenda International website
 Sierra Leone Web
 AllAfrica.Com

Living people
Sierra Leone Creole people
Sierra Leonean people of African-American descent
Sierra Leonean people of Caribbean descent
People from Freetown
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<mask> (born 23 January 1986) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Early career
<mask> was born in Greenwich, London to a family from Newcastle upon Tyne and moved back to the North East weeks later. He was raised in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside and attended Valley Gardens Middle School with future teammate Peter Ramage. Despite being based in the North-East, <mask> traveled south to the Midlands twice a week, to train on a Wednesday and play for Leicestershire-based junior side Anstey Nomads, until leaving the side at the age of fourteen under strict orders from members of Newcastle's youth staff. <mask>, then a striker, joined the Newcastle United youth academy after being scouted at Cramlington Juniors, where he played alongside Peter Ramage, and Wallsend Boys Club. At age thirteen, he was switched to defence. He played a key part in helping the U-17's win the old Premier Academy League U-17 title for the 2001–02 season.After finishing his GCSEs at Monkseaton High School, <mask> capped a fine season by joining the academy on a first-year scholarship and signed professional terms when he turned seventeen. The following season, he was sent on a month-long loan to Wycombe Wanderers where he played under his childhood hero Tony Adams and made his league debut in the old Second Division against Notts County in December 2003. Club career

Newcastle United
Upon returning to Newcastle in the latter half of the season, the teenager was mostly shifting back and forth between the first team and reserves. On 25 March 2004, in the UEFA Cup Fourth Round second leg tie against Mallorca, he came on as a substitute for Andy O'Brien to make his first team debut and held the record as the Magpies'

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texts: youngest debutant in European competition in the 2000s until it was broken by Andy Carroll in November 2006. Three days later, he made his Premier League debut against Bolton Wanderers and was in the starting eleven as in a less familiar right back role. His debut ended disappointingly as he was out-muscled by Henrik Pedersen in the build up that led to Bolton's match-winning goal. This was his only other appearance for the rest of the season, although he did make the bench on several occasions.The start of the 2004–05 season was disappointing, as <mask> had a long injury lay-off. He eventually came back to play 22 games for the club, starting 17. During this season, the teenager was largely remembered for a bizarre incident in the 2 April match against Aston Villa where he "saved" Darius Vassell's shot and went down clutching his chest. The referee promptly dismissed him for "deliberate handball" but it was overshadowed by the heated on-pitch argument between Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer which led to their dismissals and Newcastle going down to eight men. Because his dive was inconsequential (the game was beyond Newcastle as both Bowyer and Dyer had been sent off), he achieved cult/comical status with Newcastle fans and many neutrals. <mask>'s first few seasons were marred by various injuries. He missed the latter half of the 2005–06 season after aggravating a shoulder injury sustained while on international duty.Following surgery he was effectively ruled out for entire second half of the season but managed to make a substitute appearance in Alan Shearer's testimonial match on 11 May. The 2006–07 season was considered the breakthrough season for <mask>. He scored his debut senior goal in a UEFA Cup tie against Celta de

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texts: Vigo on 23 November 2006. The two sides were deadlocked at 1–1 before his header won the game. He earned the nickname "Forrest Gump" for celebrating by running the length of the pitch. He then scored his first league goal in a 3–1 victory against Blackburn Rovers on 9 December 2006, and began to play more regularly, making 12 starts for Newcastle in defence. Under Sam Allardyce, <mask> was in and out of the starting eleven and there were fears that he would leave after he had rejected the contract extension offered Nevertheless, in November 2007, he was voted the North East FWA Young Player of the Year for his achievements.With the installation of Kevin Keegan as Allardyce's successor, he won back his place and signed the contract at the end of the season. After several months of first-team starts, an injury caused <mask> lose his place to Sébastien Bassong, who formed an impressive partnership with Fabricio Coloccini. He put some strong performances in vital matches, including scoring a goal and setting up another to earn a hard-fought draw away at Everton, and was back into the team, mostly at right-back due to injury problems. On 24 May 2009, he notched up his 150th appearance for the club in the ultimate game of the 2008–09 season, a loss against Aston Villa. Despite his strong performances, his season ended on a low note as Newcastle were relegated after failing to defeat Villa and an injury forced him to miss the U21 European Championships taking place in June. He came in second in The Journals player of the season poll, behind Bassong. With Newcastle relegated, there were question marks over <mask>'s future.Rumours began circulating in newspapers about a possible move back to the Premier League, including a


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texts: possible replacement for Chelsea captain John Terry who was attracting strong interest from Manchester City and Everton rumoured to be interested as well. <mask> himself made no move to secure a transfer request and made no comment until the transfer window closed. In the end, he announced his decision to stay in a bid to help Newcastle regain Premier League status even though it meant that he would have to put his dreams of a senior international debut on hold. <mask> remained first-choice alongside Coloccini, starting all games when fit. On 19 September 2009, he scored the first and only goal of the season in a 3–1 win over Plymouth Argyle. He missed four games in October due to an hamstring injury sustained during training, but was back in the starting eleven for the first game in November against Peterborough United. On 22 September, he captained the Magpies for the first time in the League Cup away loss at Peterborough.His partnership with Coloccini proved vital as the Magpies embarked on an unbeaten streak at home, until a knee injury sustained against West Brom in January ended their partnership. Though he missed the rest of the season through injury, Newcastle finished at the top of the table with an unbeaten home record, winning direct promotion back to the Premier League. His contribution was recognised as he was selected as Sport Newcastle's Sports Personality of the Year. However, during pre-season for the 2010–11 season, <mask> dislocated his shoulder in a friendly against Carlisle United, ruling him out for up to four months. In August, it was reported that he was transfer-listed due to unresolved contract issues but no transfer was made. In an interview after Newcastle's cup tie with Accrington Stanley,


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texts: manager Chris Hughton said he was still hopeful a contract could be negotiated. On 28 November, <mask> marked his return by putting in a solid performance in a 1–1 home draw against Chelsea, partnering with Sol Campbell as stand-ins for the suspended Coloccini and Mike Williamson.Under new manager Alan Pardew, <mask> was a regular part of the team, rekindling his partnership with Coloccini. At the end of December, he signed an improved contract extension that ties him to Newcastle until 2016. <mask>'s spell in the team was ended on 5 January 2011, having to come off at half time in a 5–0 win over West Ham with a hamstring injury. The injury ruled him out for six weeks. With Williamson out injured towards the end of the season, <mask> returned to the starting eleven in May. Although a succession of injuries limited him to just fourteen appearances, he ended the season on a high by scoring crucial goals in each of the last three matches of the season including the winner against Birmingham City, and a late equaliser against Chelsea to salvage a point. <mask> ruptured his achilles tendon in a 3–0 defeat to Chelsea on 3 December 2011.Initially ruled out for nine months, he made a recovery in seven. <mask> credited his surgeon and Newcastle's physiotherapy team for his early return to football. He scored on his 27 July 2012 return, helping Newcastle to a 1–1 draw against Olympiakos in the Trofeo Guadiana. The next day, he was an unused substitute as Newcastle defeated Braga 2–1 to win the competition. To help welcome Newcastle's influx of signings from Ligue 1, <mask> began working on his French from the end of 2012. <mask> was sent off on the opening weekend of the 2013–14 Premier League season away to Manchester City for

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 swinging an arm at Sergio Agüero in the first half of a 4–0 defeat. <mask> suffered a head injury colliding with the post in his side's 1–0 defeat at home to rivals Sunderland.<mask> scored the first goal in a 3–3 draw with Burnley on 1 January 2015. On 3 June 2016, <mask> was released by the club. Portland Timbers
On 1 August 2016, <mask> signed for Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers. On 6 August, <mask> turned out for their reserve side Portland Timbers 2 (aka T2) against LA Galaxy II, but scored an own goal and was substituted at half-time, in what was an eventual 4–3 win for T2. <mask> was made captain in his second appearance for T2, opening the scoring against Orange County Blues; heading in from a Blake Bodily cross. On 21 August 2016, <mask> made his debut for the Timbers in a 3–1 loss to Seattle Sounders. Ipswich Town
The Timbers and <mask> mutually agreed to part ways on 15 December 2016.He subsequently signed for Ipswich Town on 25 January 2017 after a brief trial as cover for injured Adam Webster. Due to being registered to play in the MLS he would not be available to play for the next two games. During his second game for Ipswich he was injured in a 1–0 win away at Aston Villa with a serious hamstring injury leaving him out for four weeks. Peterborough United
On 25 July 2017, <mask> joined League One side Peterborough United, signing a two-year deal. Wellington Phoenix
On 10 July 2018, <mask> joined A-League side Wellington Phoenix signing a one-year deal with a club option for a second. <mask> renewed his contract with the club taking him until the end of the 2019–20 A-League season. Before the beginning of the 2019–20 season, <mask> was appointed as captain of the Wellington team, succeeding

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 Andrew Durante.On 23 November 2019, <mask> scored from a header after a short corner, against Brisbane Roar, his first as captain of the Phoenix. Wellington went on to win the match 2–1. On 14 September 2020, <mask> agreed with the club to terminate his contract by mutual consent despite signing a 2-year contract extension earlier in the year. Odisha FC
On 16 September 2020, <mask> joined Indian Super League side Odisha signing a one-year deal with a club option for a second. Return to the Phoenix & retirement
On 5 March 2021, the Wellington Phoenix announced that <mask> had rejoined the club after terminating his contract with Odisha  <mask> announced his shock retirement from playing in September 2021, just days after being named captain of Wellington Phoenix ahead of the 2021–22 A-League Men season. International career
In November 2001, <mask> captained the England Under-16 team at the Walkers International Tournament and was voted the player of the tournament. The following summer, he captained the U-17's to win the Nationwide Tournament, his first international title.In March 2003, the England Under-17 team qualified for the European Championships, and in the match against Slovakia, <mask> scored his first two goals for England. He also played in 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship along with future under-21 teammates James Milner, <mask> and Martin Cranie and started in all the group matches despite being one of the youngest squad members at age seventeen. Following a good showing in Dubai despite England's dismal results, <mask> made his England under-21 debut on 17 February the next year in a 3–2 win over the Netherlands. In June 2005, <mask> represented England Under-20 at the Toulon International Tournament,

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texts: where England finished in third place. On 6 September 2005, he scored his first under-21 goal, against the German side. He also scored two goals against the Poland Under-21s in October 2005. During the 2007 U-21 European Championship qualifying, <mask> began to establish himself as a regular and played a key role in their run to the semifinals at the tournament.He missed the first match through suspension due to his red card in the play-offs against Germany but played the other two group games and the semi-final where he was unable to stop the late equaliser after going down injured. With England down to ten men after fellow defender Nedum Onuoha left the field injured and all three substitutions had been used, <mask> was forced to play through the pain barrier as the game went into extra-time and converted his penalty in a dramatic penalty shoot-out that ended 13–12 to the Dutch. <mask> was called up to the senior team on 17 August 2007 for the friendly against Germany though he did not play in the match and also made an appearance for the B team. He was appointed captain of the under-21 side on 5 September, having previously been vice-captain to Nigel Reo-Coker, and captained them to a place 2009 European Championships, playing in all qualifiers. During the second leg of the play-offs against Wales, his header from Jamie O'Hara's corner caused a Sam Vokes own-goal which levelled the score to send England through to the tournament. He was due to lead them through the European Championships but a recurring injury forced him to withdraw, ending his under-21 career and Mark Noble captained the team in his absence. On 19 March 2013, <mask> was once again called up to the England national team senior squad for the World

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<mask> (1877–1957) was a Carpathian German social democratic politician in Slovakia (then part of Austria-Hungary and later Czechoslovakia). He was a prominent labour leader in Pressburg (today known as Bratislava). During a few days around New Year's Eve 1919, he led a workers militia that vied for control of the city. After the integration of Pressburg into Czechoslovakia, he sat in the national parliament. Volkstimme editor
<mask> emerged as the main leader of the social democratic movement in Pressburg following the departure of Heinrich Kalmár to Budapest. <mask> was the editor of the weekly newspaper Westungarische Volkstimme (a regional organ of the Social Democratic Party of Hungary) between July 1905 and May 1914, and then again from September 1914 to 1918. In 1907 <mask> was imprisoned after having called for reform of the electoral system.Town Council member
In November 1914 <mask> was elected to the Pressburg town council, being the first social democrat to be able to win a seat in that body. His constituency was the Theresienstadt ward, an urban working class and multi-cultural district with a large Jewish population. <mask>'s campaign had three main themes; the introduction of a progressive income and property tax, autonomy from central and county government control and electoral reform (seeking to scrap the system that automatically accorded seats to the 'virilists'). Militia leader
At the end of the First World War, <mask> emerged as a key political leader in the city. In the first week of November 1918, the German-Hungarian Workers Council was formed, with <mask> as its leader. Soon thereafter, <mask> represented the Pressburg National Council and Pressburg at a

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 meeting with the Hungarian National Council in Budapest. On 9 November 1918 <mask> was part of a delegation that met with the Czechoslovak envoy Vlastimil Tusar in Vienna, to discuss the future of Pressburg.On 15 December 1918, <mask> was one of the key speakers at a mass meeting of ethnic Germans, held in connection with the launching of the German Volksrat of Pressburg (a national platform of the German population of the city). On 19 December 1918, <mask> was elected to the presidium of the Volksrat, representing the Workers Council. On the same day, the Volksrat Presidium adopted a unanimous resolution, appealing to the population of Pressburg not to resist the imminent Czechoslovak occupation of the city. <mask> was reported to have opposed this position, seeing it as too defeatist, but nevertheless signed it. <mask> also travelled to Prague to negotiate the terms of the Czechoslovak occupation. Around Christmas Eve 1918, chaos engulfed Pressburg. <mask> was approached by the vice-mayor Richard Kánya and some police officers, asking him to take charge of security in the city.On 30 December 1918 Wittich assumed the title of People's Commissar, supported by the Workers Council and the Volksrat. An Arbeitergarde ('Workers Guard') was formed under his command, with a few hundred men. Around New Year's Eve Wittich's Arbeitergarde clashed with Red Guards over the control of the city. Whilst the social democratic press sought to present Wittich as the saviour of the town, the rival Christian Social press tried to portray the Arbeitergarde as a band of looters. Czechoslovak occupation
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 the Italian Colonel Barreca, at the Pressburg railway station. Wittich demanded that Barreca respect civil liberties. An agreement was reached that Czechoslovak troops, Arbeitergarde and police would control the city jointly.On 2 January 1919, after Pressburg had been seized by Czechoslovak troops, <mask> (in his function as People's Commissar) and the acting mayor Kánya issued a joint appeal. The appeal, in German and Hungarian, was distributed throughout the city. It called on the citizenry to remain calm, that the population of the city had protested occupation and that the status of the city would be solved through diplomacy. On 4 January 1919 <mask> resigned as People's Commissar at a Pressburg town council meeting. February Strike
In the following February Strike of 1919, <mask> played a leading role, as the main leader of the German-Hungarian labour movement in the city. Initially, condemned the policies of the Czechoslovak government as 'imperialist' and 'militarist'. Soon thereafter, he came to project the strike as solely related to economic issues, and appealed to the Slovak social democrats to join the strike.He led the worker's delegation in negotiations with the Czechoslovak government on 9–10 February 1919. <mask> was later arrested by the Pressburg police, accused of being an 'Bolshevik' agent and preparing an armed putsch. <mask> was released. On 23 February 1919, he addressed a mass meeting of unemployed people in Pressburg. Political prisoner
On 25 March 1919, following the proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, martial law was introduced in Slovakia. <mask> was amongst the social democratic leaders arrested, accused of being a Bolshevik agent. He was

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 detained at the Ilava prison.He was released on 15 May 1919. Parliamentarian
<mask> became a leading figure in the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party, founded in Czechoslovakia in 1919. He was elected to the Czechoslovak National Assembly in the 1920 election. He became the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Hungarian-German Social Democratic Party. Cracks in the party
The socialist movement in Bratislava was radicalized, as Hungarian revolutionaries settled in Czechoslovakia in large numbers. A party meeting was held on 11 and 18 July 1920. The meeting approved a proposal by F. Pfifferling to adhere to the Communist International.<mask>, who had denounced the Hungarian Soviet Republic at the meeting, was deposed from his leadership position in the party. This was <mask>'s first mayor political setback. A party congress was convened on 24 September 1920, <mask> was expelled for not having supported the Communist International. The Marxist grouping eventually merged with the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The social democratic minority re-organized the party. <mask> did however break with the party in late 1920. References

Bibliography
Karl Bosl, Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany).Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. München: Oldenbourg, 1979. Pieter van Duin. Central European Crossroads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867–1921. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009

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<mask>. (December 18, 1836 – April 11, 1903) served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles  of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1899 until his death. His tenure was interrupted for one week in 1901 when Joseph F. Smith was the president of the Quorum. Early life
<mask> was born in Kirtland, Ohio, the son of <mask> and Mary Ann Angell. <mask>'s twin sister, Mary, died at age seven from the effects of injuries received at age two in a wagon accident. At age twelve, <mask> drove an ox cart along the Mormon Trail, reaching Salt Lake City in 1848. <mask> served as a guard and scout in the following years, operating in Salt Lake Valley and the surrounding canyons. On November 15, 1855, <mask> married Catherine Curtis Spencer, a daughter of Orson Spencer, with exactly the same name as her mother.In Utah Territory, <mask> became a member of the reconstituted Nauvoo Legion. He was involved in the rescue of the Willie and Martin companies of Mormon handcart pioneers. He also served in the Utah War with the troops that worked to halt the advance of Johnston's Army. In 1861, <mask> was made a member of the Salt Lake Stake high council. Early years as a general authority

<mask> Sr. ordained three of his sons, <mask> Jr., Joseph Angell <mask> and John Willard <mask>, as apostles in 1864, without public announcement or adding them to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Unlike his brothers, <mask> Jr. would later become part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles four years later in 1868, after the death of Heber C. Kimball and George A. Smith joining the First Presidency. In 1868, he was also a Representative to the Territory of Utah Legislative Assembly.<mask>. also served as a counselor to his father in the First Presidency of the church from April 8, 1873, until his father's death on August 29, 1877. Missions to Europe
From 1862 to 1863, <mask> served as a church missionary in England,

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 spending most of the time in London. During this time, he also accompanied Joseph F. Smith on a trip to Paris, France. In 1864, <mask> returned to Europe, this time with his wife, Catherine (Orson Spencer's daughter), as his companion. He was an assistant to mission president Daniel H. Wells. In 1865, when Wells left for Utah, <mask> succeeded him as president of the European Mission. <mask> and Catherine's son, Joseph Angel <mask>, was born in England in 1866 while he was still serving as mission president.As president of the church's European Mission in 1866 and 1867, <mask> preached in France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. <mask> also oversaw the emigration of British Latter-day Saints to Utah Territory. It was from a conversation as <mask> was about to return to Utah at the end of his time as mission president that Charles W. Penrose wrote the hymn, "Beautiful Zion For Me". From October 1890 until February 1893 <mask> served for a second time as president of the European Mission. The mission was headquartered in Liverpool, and <mask> directly supervised missionary work in the British Isles, while also serving as a leader over the mission presidents of the various missions on the European continent. Colonization and church assignment in America
In the western United States, <mask> was involved in the colonization of Cache Valley, southern Utah and the extension of Mormon settlements into New Mexico and Arizona. <mask> was also involved at times with the Mormon colonies in Mexico.In 1867, <mask> was involved with the formation of the Deseret Sunday School Union to provide centralized direction to the Sunday schools of the church. During 1868, <mask> acted as his father's agent in finding workers for the Utah portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. From 1869 until 1877, <mask> presided over the Latter-day Saints in Cache Valley, closely assisted by

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 William B. Preston, who was serving as the regional presiding bishop. During this time, <mask> co-owned a feed and livery stable in Soda Springs, Idaho, with Solomon Hale. In 1877, <mask>, Erastus Snow and Wilford Woodruff dedicated parts of the St. George Temple. From 1877 to 1880, <mask> and George Q. Cannon served as editors of the Deseret News. In 1878, <mask> and Moses Thatcher selected the site for the Latter-day Saint settlement in the Star Valley of Wyoming.In August 1878, <mask> dedicated the valley as a place for the gathering of the Latter-day Saints. In February 1883, <mask> went on a tour among the Navajo and Hopi peoples with many other church leaders, including Heber J. Grant. In 1883, <mask> convinced the residents of Jonesville, Arizona, to rename it Lehi. It is today part of Mesa, Arizona. <mask> practiced plural marriage. His first wife was Catherine Curtis Spencer.Among their children was <mask> <mask>, who would later serve as president of the Northwestern States Mission of the church. In 1857, <mask> married his second wife, Jane Carrington, a daughter of Albert Carrington. <mask>'s wife Abigail Stevens was one of his younger wives. Their daughter Klara <mask>, born in Fruitland, New Mexico, in 1894, turned 100 years old in 1994. Abigail and <mask>.'s last daughter, <mask>, was also born at Fruitland on January 25, 1899. She died on November 22, 2004, less than two months short of her 106th birthday. She was the last grandchild of <mask> to die.Politics
<mask> served several terms in the Utah Territorial Legislature. President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

<mask> was ordained an apostle before Joseph F. Smith but was not placed in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after Joseph F. Smith. It was not until 1900 that a clear decision was made which gave Smith seniority in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles over <mask>, since Smith had been a member of the First Presidency since becoming

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 an apostle. <mask> had served as the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since the previous president, Franklin D. Richards, had died on December 9, 1899. When church president Lorenzo Snow died on October 10, 1901, Smith served as President of the Quorum until he was made church president on October 17, 1901. The death of Snow dissolved the First Presidency, returning First Counselor Joseph F. Smith to the Quorum of the Twelve as President of the Quorum. The LDS Church at that time did not draw a distinction between President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.In that time, the person who in the modern church would be called the Acting President was set apart as the President of the Quorum. The second-most senior apostle was not set apart as the President of the Quorum if they were a member of the First Presidency, which Smith was. One week later, Smith was made President of the Church and <mask> again became President of the Quorum. Therefore, when Smith became president, <mask> again assumed the position of President of the Quorum of the Twelve. <mask> is the only person to have served two non-consecutive terms as President of the Quorum. Death

<mask> died in Salt Lake City, Utah at age 66. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.References

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<mask> (15 June 1862 – 18 January 1927) was a German physicist. Life and work
<mask> was a son of <mask> and Pauline Hausrath. Orphan of mother at the age of 3, he married Lina Fenner at 32. He was a pupil of August Kundt at the University of Strasbourg, where he received his doctorate in 1887 with a thesis on the phase change of light upon reflection, and methods to determine the thickness of thin films. Wiener is known for the experimental proof of standing light waves. In 1890 he succeeded in determining the wavelength of light. He was professor at the University of Giessen from 1895.In 1899 he became professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Leipzig, where he succeeded Gustav Wiedemann. Together with Theodor des Coudres, he built an excellent physical institute there, and appointed Peter Debye and Gregor Wentzel. In his academic inaugural lecture at Leipzig of 1900 on The Extension of our Senses, he presented the theory of physical education in the context of evolutionary theory. He took up Heinrich Hertz's theory that separates internal images —a conceptualization of reality— from descriptions of experiment(Principles of Mechanics, 1894). It was the dawn of media technology. Wiener added to Hertz's work, and theorized cinematography as an extension of our senses (1900). The Standing Lightwaves Experiment
 <mask>er's fame is mostly due to the experiment where he visualized light waves in steady conditions.Although it could be considered equivalent to Hertz's detection of radio waves, their intent differed. Hertz aimed at validating Maxwell's theory, while Wiener's purpose was to determine the plane of vibration of light waves, as they were conceived in mechanical theory. Note that both

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 meeting of the two main groups on 24 September 1908, in: Verh. der Ges. Dt. Naturforscher und Ärzte.80. Vers. zu Köln. Tl. 1. Vogel, Leipzig 1909. Vogelflug, Luftfahrt und Zukunft, mit einem Anhang über Krieg und Völkerfriede.Barth, Leipzig 1911. Die Theorie des Mischkörpers für das Feld der stationären Strömung. 1. Abhandlung: Die Mittelwertsätze für Kraft, Polarisation und Energie. Transactions of the mathematical-physical class of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, Volume 32, No. 6, Leipzig 1912. Physik und Kulturentwicklung durch technische und wissenschaftliche Erweiterung der menschlichen Naturanlagen, Leipzig, Berlin 1919.Fliegerkraftlehre, Hirzel, Leipzig 1920. (Works on aeronautical problems, introduction to aviation and aerodynamics for aspiring pilots.) Das Grundgesetz der Natur und die Erhaltung der absoluten Geschwindigkeit im Äther, Transactions of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Mathematics and Physical Class IV, Teubner, Leipzig 1921. Schwingungen elastischer Art im kräftefreien Strömungsäther, in: Phys. Zeitschrift, vol. 25, 1924, pp. 552–559.Weiten, Zeiten, Geschwindigkeiten. Ein Gespräch über grundlegende naturwissenschaftliche Fragen, Düsseldorf 1925. Natur und Mensch. Die Naturwissenschaften und ihre Anwendungen. 4 vols. Edited by CW Schmidt Edit. by HH Kritzinger, CW Schmidt, <mask>, Hugo Kauffmann, K. Keilhack, G. Kraitschek, F. Cappeller, C. Schäffer including de Gruyter, Berlin 1926–1931.Zur Theorie des Strömungsäthers. In: Phys. Zeitschrift, vol. 26. 1928, S. 73–78. References

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<mask> (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. Biography
<mask> was born in Kinard, Florida, United States but grew up in Kissimmee. He taught himself to play the fiddle at age 7, learning "There's an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor" as his first song. Soon, he joined with two first cousins, Red and Gerald, to form a local string band. In his early teens Clements met Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys when they came to Florida to visit Clements' stepfather, a friend of fiddler Chubby Wise. Clements was impressed with his playing.In late 1949, Wise left Monroe's group, and the 21 year-old Clements traveled by bus to ask for an audition. When told he would have to return the next day, Clements was crestfallen, lacking the money for either a hotel room or return bus trip. Monroe gave him some money to a night's lodging, and the next day Clements auditioned and was hired. He remained with Monroe for seven years, recording with the band in 1950 and 1951. He soon became one of the most distinctive, inventive, and popular fiddlers in bluegrass music. His virtuosity and ability to blend several different genres, including swing and hot jazz, made him a pioneer in country music and much sought-after session musician. Between 1957 and 1962, he was a member of the bluegrass band Jim and Jesse & the Virginia Boys.He also gained recognition joining with the popular bluegrass duo of Flatt and Scruggs on the popular theme to the hit television sitcom The Beverly

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texts: In his 50-year career he played with artists ranging from Woody Herman and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to the Grateful Dead, Linda Ronstadt, and Paul McCartney, and earned at least five Grammy Award nominations and numerous professional accolades. He once recorded with the pop group the Monkees by happenstance, when he stayed behind after an earlier recording session. He also appeared in Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville and Alan Rudolph's 1976 film, Welcome to L.A..He made a duet album with Stéphane Grappelli Together at Last in 1987. In 2004, he performed in concert with jazz quartet Third Stream – in which a video documentary of the concert was done with Jim Easton (guitar), Tom Strohman (sax), Jim Miller (bass), and John Peifer (drums). Though he played numerous instruments, Clements indicated that he chose the fiddle over guitar recalling that, "I picked up a guitar and fiddle and tried them both out. The guitar was pretty easy, but I couldn't get nothing out of the fiddle. So every time I'd see those instruments sitting side by side, I'd grab that fiddle." Big band and swing music were considerable influences upon his style and musical development, and he said that, "Bands like Glenn Miller, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and Artie Shaw were very popular when I was a kid. I always loved rhythm, so I guess in the back of my mind the swing and jazz subconsciously comes out when I play, because when I was learning I was always trying to emulate the big-band sounds I heard on my fiddle."<mask> Clements played on over 200 albums, including nearly 40 on which he starred or was featured. His albums often featured newgrass style music and what Clements called "Hillbilly Jazz". His last album,


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Sir <mask>  (14 May 193529 January 2018) was a British educator and social entrepreneur, who founded the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) in 1964. He served as an education reformer and adviser to successive elected British Governments from 1987 to 2007 and founded the City Technology Colleges Trust, subsequently the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT). <mask> founded Richmond University the American International University in London in 1971. The University is accredited in the United States and designated by the Department of Education of HM Government in the UK. <mask> was Chancellor of the university which has 1,200 students from 100 countries. <mask> was appointed a director of Margaret Thatcher’s Think Tank, the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and began his political career on the Greater London Council (GLC) as the member for Ruislip-Northwood. Following the abolition of the GLC in 1986, <mask> was called upon by Thatcher, Prime Minister, to assist with the emerging problem of rising youth unemployment.It was during this time that <mask> founded the City Technology Colleges Trust (CTCT), subsequently renamed the Specialist Schools Trust, and renamed again as the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) where he remained Chairman until 2007. Between 1987 until 2007, <mask> served as Education Adviser to ten successive Secretaries of State for Education on the Specialist Schools and Academies initiative. <mask> was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1989 Birthday Honours for services to education in recognition of the success of the CTC initiative. He was also made a Knight Grand Cross of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE) for services to education in 2004. In 1996, <mask>, was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II as High Sheriff of Greater London. Early years

<mask> was born 14 May 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire to parents who were both missionaries in Africa. By the time of <mask>'s birth, his father, the Reverend <mask> <mask> had died leaving his wife Marjorie to bring up <mask>, his brother and four sisters.<mask> was 6 months old when his mother returned to the Congo, with one

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 sister. <mask>'s formative years were spent in the Belgian Congo now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he learnt to speak the local language Kiluba before he learnt to speak English. The outbreak of the Second World War brought <mask>'s years in Africa to an end and he returned to England with his mother in 1941. Education & National Service

St Marylebone Grammar School

Six years after returning from Africa, <mask> and his mother moved to London where he was accepted at St Marylebone Grammar School, where he stayed until 1954. Whilst at St Marylebone Grammar, <mask> was taught by Dr Thomas Kingston Derry, a distinguished historian who was to become a major influence on his life. <mask>'s mother returned to Yorkshire in 1951 leaving <mask> in London, at his request, where he stayed at the Methodist International House. Kenya (National Service)

<mask> was called up for his two years National Service in 1954 where he applied for a commission and was trained as an officer.<mask> was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and was granted a secondment to the King's African Rifles in Kenya during the Mau Mau emergency. He spent eighteen months as the Commander of Number 8 Platoon, C Company, in the 3rd Battalion of the King’s African Rifles. Trinity Hall, Cambridge University

<mask> left the army in March 1956, just prior to going up to Cambridge University and took a teaching job for a term at a private boarding school. In October 1956, <mask> took his place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge to read History. During his time at Cambridge, <mask> became good friends with reporter Mark Tully and Parviz C. Radji. <mask>'s personal tutor was The Reverend Robert Runcie, who became Archbishop of Canterbury and who encouraged and supported <mask>'s application to Harvard Business School and who would later recommend <mask> to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. United States

Harvard Business School

In 1957 <mask> assisted a friend at Cambridge, Miles Halford, who had chartered
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 of 1957 in Temiscaming, Quebec where his brother Stacey was the Anglican vicar  <mask> ended his trip with a visit to Harvard Business School which influenced his decision to apply to study at Harvard and join the Harvard MBA programme. After graduating from Cambridge with a second-class honours degree, he was accepted onto the MBA programme by Harvard Business School in September 1959, majoring in Entrepreneurial studies in his final year. After graduation, <mask> was offered a job by Procter & Gamble in the Marketing Department where he worked from 1961 to 1964. Procter & Gamble

Whilst working at Procter & Gamble, <mask> met and later married, French language teacher, Judy Denman. It was when <mask> helped Denman to organise an educational trip for her pupils to France, to learn French, that he came up with the idea of the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS). <mask> saw there was an untapped market for school trips abroad led by teachers and so spent his two-week Procter & Gamble vacation in August 1964 setting up summer study abroad programmes for high school students at universities in European cities. This led to <mask> leaving Procter & Gamble in September 1964 to focus on this new enterprise and together with Roger Walther and Doug Burck, two other Brand Managers from Procter & Gamble, the AIFS was established.American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS)

Foundation of AIFS

<mask> founded the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) in 1964. From 1965 to 1968 the AIFS high school programme grew rapidly to nearly 5,000 students with many new summer campuses opening including, in the United Kingdom, at universities such as St Andrews University, Durham University and even Oxford University and Cambridge University. In 1969, <mask> and his two partners sold AIFS to the National Student Marketing Corporation (NSMC). NSMC went public in the 1970s and <mask> and his partners bought back AIFS from NSMC in 1977. As part of the purchase Camp America was acquired, originally called Rural Britannia. This led to thousands of British and other foreign students travelling to the USA to work as camp counsellors during

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 their summer vacations. Au Pair in America was formed in 1986, and signed into statute by President Bill Clinton.There have since that time been over 90,000 participants. AIFS was floated on the American Stock Exchange in 1986 but was later re-acquired by <mask> and his partner Roger Walther in 1990. In 1993, AIFS was split as Walther wished to concentrate on other business ventures on the West Coast, with the ELS becoming a separate company under Walther’s direction. <mask> remained actively involved with AIFS as its chairman. AIFS recently celebrated the enrollment of its 1,500,000th student and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2014

Political career

Starting out in politics

<mask> was drawn towards the UK's Conservative Party) politics. <mask> chaired Trinity Hall’s Conservative Association and he participated in the Cambridge Union Society. In April 1970, <mask> joined the Kensington Conservative Association and was elected deputy chairman of the new combined Kensington and Chelsea (UK Parliament constituency) on the recommendation of the then chairman, Cllr George Pole.<mask> helped Conservative Spencer Le Marchant win the Labour held marginal High Peak seat in Derbyshire in the 1970 General Election. The experiences of the Derbyshire campaign helped him to become the Conservative's candidate to contest the Huddersfield East seat in 1973. <mask> lost to Labour who regained power in 1974, but as Harold Wilson did not have a working majority in parliament, he called another election for October 1974 which he lost narrowly. <mask> had the opportunity to stand for another Labour marginal seat in Keighley which he lost by 3,081 votes. However, <mask> wanted was a safer seat near to London that would work well with his professional career and also to fit with his family life and so he resigned as the candidate for Keighley after the election. Greater London Council (GLC)

<mask> began to look at other ways to serve in a public capacity. In 1977 he was given the opportunity to stand as the Greater London Council (GLC) Conservative candidate for Ruislip-Northwood and won a significant victory.From 1977 until 1986, <mask>

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 served as the member of the GLC for Ruislip-Northwood. Sir Horace Cutler, appointed <mask> to be the chairman of the council’s Professional and General Services Committee, which supervised the employment of 25,000 GLC staff. During his time at the GLC, <mask> was concerned with getting better value from public spending and wrote a paper called The Elected Member’s Guide to Reducing Public Expenditure. The Conservatives lost power to Ken Livingstone, Labour, in 1981. However, under Ken Livingstone’s leadership, Margaret Thatcher abolished the GLC in 1986, together with <mask>'s role as a Conservative councillor. <mask> did not agree with Margaret Thatcher’s decision to abolish the GLC and made his views public in a Bow Group paper "London Preserved". Margaret Thatcher referred to <mask> as a ‘wet’, which was seen as one of the strongest forms of abuse for a Conservative at the time.<mask> was elected deputy leader of the Conservative Councillors in 1985. However, Margaret Thatcher later called upon <mask> to assist her with the growing youth unemployment problem of the 1980s. Specialist schools and academies

City Technology Colleges (CTCs)
In 1986 <mask> was still a director of Margaret Thatcher’s Think Tank, the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and regardless of her views on <mask>'s opposition to her abolition of the GLC, he was asked to organise an all day CPS conference at the House of Lords to discuss the growing youth unemployment issue. It was from this conference that the idea of City Technology College (CTC) was born with the intention of using private sector and state support to set up the colleges to provide free education to children in urban areas, focused on modern technology. The idea was announced by Education Secretary, Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, at the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth October 1986. <mask> was then appointed as special adviser to organise the project and in May 1987 established the City Technology Colleges Trust (CTCT). The Trust gathered together leading figures from both industry and education as sponsors and between 1987 and 1993, £44 million of sponsorship was

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 raised.The CTCT model was expensive for sponsors and so had to be changed as it was being developed. <mask> suggested an alternative, less expensive option involving converting existing comprehensive schools to specialist technology colleges. There was still an element of industry sponsorship, but at £100,000 this was much less than the £2 million previously required. The government would also provide match industry funding. The new CTCs needed to show how they would raise standards using their new technology specialisms. This new option was strongly supported by the new prime minister, John Major, who had succeeded Margaret Thatcher in 1990. Special adviser to ten successive Secretaries of State for Education
<mask> remained specialist adviser to Kenneth Baker’s four Conservative successors: John MacGregor; Kenneth Clarke; John Patten and Gillian Shepherd.It was through Gillian Shepherd’s enthusiasm and support that <mask> met with Prime Minister John Major to discuss how to include all schools as potential CTCs rather than remain limited to technology colleges who, on hearing the ideas being put forward, backed <mask>'s proposals. The Conservatives lost the 1997 General Election to Labour after seventeen years in power. <mask> sought the support of the Labour Government so that his educational reforms  through CTCs and the raising of standards in specialist schools could continue. David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education from 1997 to 2001, supported <mask>'s ideas and together with Conor Ryan, who was David Blunkett’s key adviser on schools, the specialist schools programme continued. In 1997, Labour was re-elected and <mask> was reappointed as specialist adviser by David Blunkett, who was promoted to Home Secretary in 2001. Estelle Morris became Education Secretary, who was then succeeded by Charles Clarke when she stepped down. Charles Clarke then became Home Secretary and Ruth Kelly took his place as Education Secretary, Alan Johnson reappointed <mask> in 2006.All supported the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) programme, as it was now known, which had grown rapidly from 245 in 1997 to 700 by 2001

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 and by 2009 the number stood at over 3,000. <mask> remained at the helm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) as a special adviser for education from 1987 until 2007 where he served ten Education Secretaries from both Conservative and Labour governments. Awards

Knighthoods

<mask> was honoured in 1989 when Lord Baker recommended <mask> be made a Knight Bachelor in the 1989 Birthday Honours for services to education in recognition of the success of the CTC initiative. In 2004, Tony Blair recommended that <mask> be given the honour of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE) for services to education. High Sheriff of Greater London

After the abolition of the GLC in 1986, <mask> was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as High Sheriff of Greater London for one year. During this time, <mask>'s interest in the welfare and education of young people, led him to focus his attention on how to improve the treatment of young offenders as well as looking at how to reduce crime committed by young people especially by those who had been children in care. Honorary citizenship

Awarded Honorary citizenship by the Mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 2009 for services to education.Honorary doctorates

Honorary Degrees

Fellowships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Personal life

Family

<mask> married Judy Denman, whom he met whilst he was working in the US. They had one daughter. Lexham Gardens, London

<mask> purchased the freehold of a one-acre garden square, near to his London home, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, by auction in 1989. With the assistance of designer Wilf Simms, he redesigned and replanted the garden. This saved it from the hands of property developers who wanted to build a car park underneath. In the garden’s first summer of 1991, it was awarded first prize in the All London Garden Squares Competition, competing against entries from 100 other squares. Books and publications

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title: James Edwards (basketball)

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<mask> (born November 22, 1955) is a former American basketball center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Los Angeles Lakers, Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers, and Chicago Bulls. Though he never appeared in an All-Star Game, he was a reliable low-post scorer, averaging 12.7 points per game over his career. He played college basketball at the University of Washington. Early years
Born in Seattle, Washington, <mask> starred at Roosevelt High School. As a senior in 1973, he led the Roughriders to the big-school state basketball title, while receiving All-State and All-Metro honors at center. He also practiced cross country running as a sophomore. College career
<mask> accepted a basketball scholarship from the hometown University of Washington, to play under coach Marv Harshman.As a freshman, he took over the starting duties at center, averaging 6.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per contest. As a sophomore, he registered 12.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. As a junior in the 1975–76 season, he averaged 17.6 points (led the team) and 7.1 rebounds (second on the team) per game. He also contributed to the

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 team having a 22–6 record, qualifying for the school's first NCAA Basketball Tournament appearance since 1953 and finishing the regular season ranked No. 11. This was also the last team to defeat (103–81) a John Wooden squad, as the legendary coach would retire after the season, having won his 10th National Championship. As a senior in the 1976–1977 season, he led the team with 20.9 points and 10.4 rebounds, but the squad failed to qualify for the NCAA Basketball Tournament with a 17–10 overall record.He received All-American honors. He finished his college career with an average of 14.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. In 1990, he was inducted into the University of Washington Husky Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame. Professional career

Los Angeles Lakers
<mask> was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 3rd round (46th overall) of the 1977 NBA Draft. As a rookie, he was forced to become the team's starting center just a few minutes into the season opener against the Milwaukee Bucks, when starter Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke his right hand in a fight with rookie Kent Benson. He led the team with averages of 17.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per


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 game, until Abdul-Jabbar returned after missing the first 21 contests of the season.On December 13, the Lakers needed to find a replacement for suspended power forward Kermit Washington, so <mask> was traded along with shooting guard Earl Tatum and cash considerations to the Indiana Pacers, in exchange for small forward Adrian Dantley and center Dave Robisch. Indiana Pacers
<mask> enjoyed arguably his most productive years with the Indiana Pacers. He became the franchise's highest-scoring center, averaging 15.9 points over four seasons and also posted 7.5 rebounds per contest. The Pacers reached the playoffs for the first time in the 1980–81, under rookie head coach Jack McKinney, and were swept 0–2 by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round. Cleveland Cavaliers
On May 26, 1981, he was signed as a veteran free agent by the Cleveland Cavaliers, with the Pacers receiving a 1981 second round draft pick (#36-Ray Blume) and a 1982 second round draft choice (#40-Guy Morgan) as compensation. He spent parts of two seasons, averaging 16.0 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. On February 7, 1983, cavaliers owner Ted Stepien desperately needed money to pay the team's payroll, so <mask> was traded along with

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 a 1983 1st round draft pick (#21-Greg Kite) to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for power forward Jeff Cook, a 1983 1st round draft pick (#20-Roy Hinson), a 1983 3rd round draft choice (#67-Derrick Hord) and $425,000 dollars in cash.Phoenix Suns
<mask> was a key contributor with the Phoenix Suns, averaging 14.7 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. On February 24, 1988, he was traded to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for center Ron Moore and a 1991 second-round draft pick (#46-Richard Dumas). Detroit Pistons
<mask> played four seasons with the Detroit Pistons. He was a key reserve of the consecutive champion in 1989 and 1990 Detroit Pistons' Bad Boys squads, starting most of the team's games in 1990. He averaged 11.2 points and 3.6 rebounds as a Piston. His Fu Manchu mustache and stoic demeanor, inspired his nickname of Buddha. On August 13, 1991, he was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for shooting guard Jeff Martin and a 1995 2nd round draft pick (#30-Lou Roe).Later career
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 as an unrestricted free agent with the Portland Trail Blazers. He was released on September 29, 1995. On October 26, 1995, he signed as a free agent with the Chicago Bulls, where he won a third championship in the 19th and final season of his career in 1996, seeing limited playing time off the bench. <mask> retired after playing 19 years at the center and power forward positions, with 14,862 career points and 6,004 career rebounds. NBA career statistics

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<mask> (17 November 1587 – 19 June 1652) was a Dutch-Swedish entrepreneur, banker, industrialist and slave trader, who was part of the prominent <mask>r family. A pioneer of foreign direct investment in the early modern period, <mask>r is considered to be both the father of Swedish industry for introducing Wallonian blast furnaces to Sweden and the father of the Swedish slave trade for pioneering Sweden's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Furnaces owned by <mask>r produced cannons for German Protestants and the Dutch navy and the Dutch East and West India companies. Early life
<mask> was born in Liège, a city in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. He was the son of the industrialist and merchant <mask> (1535–1602), and his wife Jeanne de Neille (1557–1641). His family was of Walloon origin and his father came from Liège. His father had previously been married to Maria de Jalhéa in 1563, though the marriage ended when Maria died in 1578.In 1592, one of <mask>'s half-sisters, Marie de <mask> (1574–1609) married  (1569–1636), a Dutch merchant and a director of the Dutch East India Company who lived in Dordrecht. Presumably due to ongoing turmoil in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège as well as his conversion to Protestantism, de Gaillarmont sold his properties in Liège in 1595 and followed his daughter to Dordrecht, where since 1589 a neighborhood populated by merchants from Liège had existed. In 1603, <mask>'s sister, Margaretha <mask> (1583–1672) married Jacob Trip (1575–1661), brother and partner of Elias, further cementing the relationship between the two merchant families. Early career

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 time in Dordrecht, <mask>r studied under Dutch Calvinist theologian Johannes Polyander. From 1605 to 1608, <mask>r trained as coppersmith in Roanne in France, after which he started his first business in La Rochelle. Returning to Dordrecht in 1611 he associated himself with his brothers-in-law. In 1612, he married Adrienne Gérard (c. 1590–1634), also originally from Liège, with whom he had 16 children.Having earned a fortune as a banker and industrialist he moved his family to Amsterdam in 1615. Owing to his extensive travels he received a good education in business. Later career and death

With the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, the demand for weapons in Europe increased enormously. In 1618, <mask>r delivered weapons to Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus. Impressed by his business instincts, the Swedish government allowed him to lease estates near Finspång in the province of Östergötland. Before long, <mask>r had established a profitable workshop industry there. In 1623 he was active in a Swedish trading company.The Swedish government continued to support him and <mask>r received the official monopoly on the copper and iron trade in Sweden. <mask>r, due to his businesses in the country, eventually immigrated to Sweden in 1627. By doing so, he hoped to avoid paying the Dano-Norwegian Sound Tolls on all foreign merchantmen crossing the Sound. In 1634, <mask>r bought the Huis met de Hoofden, a canal house on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. His wife died after giving birth to their sixteenth child. In 1640, <mask>r moved to Sweden again and was ennobled by the Swedish Crown. Thanks to his accrued

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 wealth and status as a noble, <mask>r was able to purchase three-quarters of leased farmlands on his Östergötland estates.his estate in Stockholm houses the Dutch embassy in Sweden. In the employ of Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, <mask>r travelled to Amsterdam to support the Swedish war effort in the Torstenson War against Denmark–Norway. Upon the outbreak of war in 1644, <mask>r singlehandedly outfitted a fleet of Swedish ships for use against the Danish navy. The fleet contained thirty-two fully manned ships each with a full marine complement, with which Sweden was able to capture the island of Fehmarn. A year after the war ended in 1646, <mask>r organized a Swedish trading expedition to Africa. The following year the expedition returned to Sweden, bringing home sugar, gold, ivory and enslaved Africans, which had been purchased from the Gold Coast; <mask>r gifted four enslaved Africans to Oxenstierna. After <mask>'s monopoly on the Swedish copper trade expired in 1648, he founded the Swedish Africa Company the next year, which led outraged citizens in Amsterdam to riot.The company was founded to engage in the triangular trade and traded in plate copper, iron, gold, ivory, slaves, tobacco, sugar, silver and salt, representing Sweden's first foray into the Atlantic slave trade. In 1650, an expedition by slave trader Hendrik Carloff on behalf of the company founded the Swedish Gold Coast to conduct trade with local African kingdoms. In 1652, <mask>r fell ill during a voyage to Sweden, and returned to Amsterdam, where he died. He was buried in the family grave in the  in Dordrecht. Legacy

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 2014, Swedish artist Carl Johan <mask> (a direct descendant of <mask>) organized an exhibition about him in the city of Norrköping, Sweden, titled "Reflections on the barbaric 17th century". The exhibition focused on <mask>' involvement in Swedish industry and slave trading. In an Norrköpings Tidningar article, Carl noted how the legacy of his ancestor had impacted him, noting that he had been publicly confronted about <mask>' involvement in slave trading in addition to receiving a phone call asking whether or not he would be interested in renovating Fort Carolusborg, a Ghanaian slave castle constructed by the Swedish Africa Company.Carl also received a phone call from a Brazilian man with the <mask>r surname whose ancestors had been enslaved and transported by the Swedish Africa Company to Brazil. In response to these developments, Carl publicly made plans to construct a miniature model of Fort Carolusborg in Norrköping, as part of an effort to overturn a "romanticized view of the Swedish 17th-century". References

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title: Chris Husbands

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Professor Sir <mask> is a British academic, educationist, university leader and public servant, who has been Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since January 2016. Education
He was educated at King Edward VI College, Nuneaton,  Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA, PhD) and the Institute of Education, London University (PGCE). He was Reader in Education (1995–1998), Professor of Education (1998–2003) and Director of the Institute of Education (2000–2003) at the University of Warwick, Professor of Research in Education and Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia (2003–2007), and Professor of Education Policy (2007–2015) and Director (2011–2016) of the Institute of Education, University of London, which he led into merger with University College London in 2014, becoming Vice Provost for Academic Development at UCL. The Institute of Education was rated first in the world for education in the QS university rankings in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2015. Career
He began his working life as a teacher in urban comprehensive high schools before his career in higher education. His academic expertise lies in education policy and improvement, and particularly in policy in relation to teachers and teaching in schools. His academic work has been disseminated in fifteen books and over four hundred conference presentations and papers.He chaired the independent Skills Taskforce on UK vocational education and training policy between 2012 and 2014 and was a member of the Academies Commission (2012-3) examining the future of schools policy in England. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011, was Visiting Professor in Global Education Policy at East China Normal University and is an


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 Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of University College London and of the City and Guilds of London Institute. His public service includes board memberships at the Training and Development Agency for Schools (2005–2012), Edexcel (2000-2003), the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (2003–2007), Universities UK (2012–2013, 2018-), Sheffield College (2016–2018) and the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Board (2017–). In July 2016, he was appointed by the UK government to chair the Teaching Excellence Framework for UK higher education, and was appointed to a second term in 2018. In 2017 he became chair of the UK Higher Education Statistics Agency. He was chair of Yorkshire Universities between 2017 and 2020and was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education to chair the Doncaster Opportunity Area Board in 2017. In 2019 he joined the Hong Kong University Grants Committee's Quality Assurance Board.He was knighted for services to higher education in the 2018 Birthday Honours. Eight perspectives, (London, Education and Employers’ Taskforce)

2015	‘Lessons from London: what can London Challenge tell us about urban school reform’, in D Woods and T Brighouse, eds., The Story of London Challenge (London, London Leadership Strategy)

2013	(with David Woods and <mask>) Transforming education for all: the Tower Hamlets story London Borough of Tower Hamlets

2013	(with <mask>, Becky Francis and Brett Wigdortz) Unleashing greatness: getting the best from an academy system,  Pearson/RSA

2012	(with Jo Pearce) What makes great pedagogy? Nine claims from research: a literature review for the National College of School Leadership (NCSL)

2012	Teaching and learning in the twenty-first century: what is an Institute of Education for? Inaugural directorial lecture, Institute of Education (IOE

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title: Curtis Guild Jr.

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<mask>. (February 2, 1860 – April 6, 1915) was an American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician from Massachusetts. He was the 43rd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1906 to 1909. Prior to his election as governor, <mask> served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, seeing active duty in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. He was publisher of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, a trade publication started by his father. Educated at Harvard, where he became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt, <mask> was like Roosevelt a progressive Republican, active in the party organization from 1881. During his tenure as governor, a number of social, labor, and government reforms were enacted. After leaving that office, he was considered a potential candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1908, and served for two years as United States Ambassador to Russia.Early life and education
<mask> Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 2, 1860 to <mask> Sr. and Sarah Crocker (Cobb) <mask>. <mask>'s family had deep colonial roots, descending from <mask>, who settled Dedham in 1636. His mother was descended from David Cobb, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. <mask>'s father was the founder and publisher of the Commercial Bulletin, a Boston trade publication. <mask> was educated at Chauncy Hall, a private day school in Boston, and then attended Harvard University. At both schools he was involved in military organizations, rising to become a lieutenant in Harvard's rifle corps in 1879. He was also a good fencer, twice winning the university fencing championship, and worked as a writer on both The Harvard Crimson and The Harvard Lampoon.He graduated from Harvard in 1881 with high honors, and was the orator of his class. During his years at Harvard he became friends with Theodore Roosevelt. Business and military activities
After graduation from college, <mask> undertook a short tour of Europe before beginning employment at his father's newspaper. He rose through the ranks of the business, making rounds of local woolen manufacturers weekly for news, and developing the Bulletin into an authoritative journal of the trade. He took over proprietorship of the publication in 1902. <mask> also continued the

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 military activities he had begun during his school years. In 1891, <mask> joined the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, earning the rank of brigadier general by 1898.During these years of service he researched the latest techniques in the use and handling of rifles, and was appointed the militia's Inspector General of Rifle Practice by Governor Roger Wolcott. Following the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898, <mask> immediately volunteered for service in the Spanish–American War that followed and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and inspector general in May. He served as Inspector General of Havana during the American occupation. He was mustered out of the Army in May 1899. He officially retired from the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1909 with the rank of major general. Political career
Guild was, along with Roger Wolcott, one of the organizers of the "Young Republican Club" (later just the "Republican Club"), founded in 1891 to inject new life into the Republican Party in Massachusetts. It was established to counter a similar organization founded by Democrats, and to promote the career of Henry Cabot Lodge.The club was instrumental in gaining the 1891 party nomination for Charles H. Allen as Governor of Massachusetts; he ended up losing to incumbent William Russell. <mask> entered politics in 1881, serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He became a member of the state Republican Party Committee in 1894 and became nationally prominent when he served as vice-president of the 1896 Republican National Convention. In 1900 he worked on Roosevelt's vice presidential campaign, and toured with Roosevelt after President William McKinley's assassination elevated Roosevelt to the presidency. Lieutenant governor

In 1899, <mask> was put forward as the party leadership's (in particular Lodge's) choice as the next Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. In the state convention, he was somewhat unexpectedly upset in this bid by John L. Bates, who won the nomination without significant party leadership support. The party closed ranks and supported Bates, who served as lieutenant governor 1900-03 and then governor 1903-05.Given the party's escalator-style management of potential officeholders, <mask> was

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 not again tapped for the lieutenant governor's nomination until the 1902 election. In that election, he garnered more votes for his office than Bates did for the governorship, although both were victorious. In 1904 Bates was defeated for reelection by Democrat William L. Douglas, while <mask> was reelected to the second chair. Governor

Following the party process, <mask> received the nomination for governor in 1905. The major issue within the party that year was reciprocity, or tariff reform equalizing trade with neighboring Canada. <mask> stood in favor of reciprocity, but much of the more conservative party leadership did not, and the lieutenant governor nomination went to Eben Sumner Draper, a wealthy businessman and strong protectionist. The Republicans won a comfortable victory against a disorganized Democratic opposition.<mask> served three one-year terms, before stepping back in favor of Draper. As governor, <mask> was one of the most progressive of period, seeing enaction of a significant body of reform legislation. The state required medical inspections of school children, and passed a corrupt practices bill banning corporate contributions to political campaigns. Night work for women and children was banned, a state-run employment service was started, and regulations governing inspection of factories for health and labor violations were strengthened. Communications companies and natural gas distributors were also placed under state regulation. <mask> also made a number of distinctive appointments. He appointed the state's first Italian-American judges, as well as two Jewish judges, and an African-American court clerk.The provision of state-funded care for the state's mental patients, mandated by the state legislature in 1900 and introduced in 1904, had caused a significant expansion of the state budget (by more than $1 million, about 10% of the budget), without an accompanying increase in revenue. <mask>, who inherited this funding problem from his predecessors, called unsuccessfully for increases in corporate taxes in a bid to close the gap, but was only able to secure the introduction of an inheritance tax. <mask> would, after he left office, chair the founding meeting of the National Tax Association, and

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