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The Democratic Ecologists (Ecologisti Democratici, EcoDem) are an Italian political association formed in 2007 by former members of the Federation of the Greens, then members either of the Democrats of the Left (DS) or of Democracy is Freedom – Daisy (DL), as a faction within the future Democratic Party.

Its leading members include Ermete Realacci (DL, former President of Legambiente), Roberto Della Seta (DL, current President of Legambiente), Edo Ronchi (DS, former Minister of the Environment), Francesco Ferrante (DL, editor of Legambiente's magazine), Gianni Francesco Mattioli (DS, former Minister of Public Works), Massimo Scalia (DS), Fabrizio Vigni (DS, former member of PCI), Franco Corleone (DS), Luigi Manconi (DS), Sergio Gentili (DS) and Stefano Semenzato (DS).


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Tara Mata (born Laurie Virginia Pratt) (August 16, 1900–January 18, 1971) was a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship.

Pratt was born in San Francisco, California. She came from an intellectual family related to both Orson Pratt and Joseph Smith, Jr., leaders in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her family is also related to Mitt Romney.

Pratt met Paramhansa Yogananda in 1924 and was immediately drawn to him, joining his organization, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF Inc). She took monastic vows and became known as Tara Mata, one of a group of women with Latter Day Saint backgrounds, headed by Daya Mata, the current SRF Inc. President.

In 1929, while handling SRF's New York operations, she became pregnant and had a daughter, Mona Pratt.

She was Yogananda's Chief Editor, notably edited during Yogananda's lifetime both Swami Sri Yukteswar's and Yogananda's .

Yogananda's Autobiography has been continuously in print since 1946 and translated into tens of languages. It was voted in 2000 one of the top 100 spiritual books of the last century.

However, later works were so heavily edited that originals were later produced without the edits. One draft was found to be pages and pages of nonsense, supposedly in Hindi.

She was very close to Edgar Cayce and almost joined his ARE group. Her life reading is on file with that organization. In her own right, she wrote Astrological World Cycles and A Forerunner of a New Race, the latter recounting her own spiritual experiences.

She died in Los Angeles, California.

Interest in her has resurged in recent years along with general interest in Dwapara Yuga and the predictions made by Swami Sri Yukteswar in 1894, repeated by Tara in 1933, Yogananda in 1946 and more recently in the book/DVD "The Great Year".

Konstakuten is an artist-run organisation in Södermalm district in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1996 by four contemporary artists.

Its name meaning "The Art Emergency Room," Konstakuten is a melting pot for young cultural projects and exhibitions of contemporary art and created a platform for art alongside the established commercial galleries in Stockholm. Per Hüttner and Arni Gudmundsson, two of its founders, remained its artistic directors from the inauguration in 1996 to 2001.

The gallery was an important influence for creating a scene for artist-run spaces in Sweden in the late 1990's and early years of the 3rd millennium. The gallery gained international recognition in 1999 when it launched The First European Seminar for Artist Run Spaces (FESARS), which brought together over 70 representatives from 36 organisations from 18 countries. The speakers included David Wilson of The Museum of Jurassic Technology and Phil Collins of The Catalyst Gallery in Belfast. The gallery was also invited to participate in the 48 Venice Biennale and has shown a great deal of important contemporary artists early in their career, such as Brian Jungen, Annika von Hausswolff, Brian Griffiths and Fred Tomaselli.