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 the band had in mind. In 1970, when the band was back in New York City to play an entire summer's engagement at Max's Kansas City, <mask> seized the opportunity to complete his undergraduate degree at the City College of New York. He remained in the Velvet Underground as lead guitarist after Reed left the band in acrimonious circumstances in August 1970. In 1971, however, he began graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he would earn a PhD in medieval literature (with a dissertation on the four signed poems of Cynewulf) in 1986. <mask>'s last performance with the band was on August 21, 1971, at Liberty Hall (Houston, Texas). When it was time for the band to return to New York, <mask> packed an empty suitcase and accompanied them to the gate of their departing plane, before finally telling them he was staying in Texas and leaving the band, the last founding member to quit. Post-Velvet Underground life (1971–1990)

<mask> began to work on Houston tugboats as a deckhand to supplement his income in the mid-1970s; when he was forced to relinquish his teaching assistantship some years later, he was licensed as a master mariner and became the captain of a Houston tugboat, a vocation he pursued throughout the 1980s.After leaving the Velvet Underground, <mask>'s musical career was primarily limited to informal sessions for personal enjoyment, though he played in a few bands around Austin, Texas, most notably the Bizarros. <mask>'s tenure in the capital of Texas made him a well-loved and admired member of the local music community as well as an influential voice. During John Cale's renaissance in the late 1970s, <mask> occasionally sat in with his former bandmate on stages such as the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin. From the

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 mid-1980s on, he occasionally recorded or performed with Cale, Reed, and particularly Tucker, who had by then started a solo career of her own. <mask> was part of her touring band for most of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Velvet Underground reunion
In 1992, the core Velvet Underground line-up of Reed, Cale, <mask> and Tucker decided to reform for a tour and possible album. <mask> argued that Doug Yule, who had replaced Cale in 1968, should be included to fill out the sound, but Reed and Cale vetoed him.The band extensively toured Europe in 1993, alternatively as headline act or supporting U2. <mask>'s playing held up well, and his performances were generally agreed to be top-notch. But by the end of the tour, relationships had soured again and plans for a US tour and MTV Unplugged album were scrapped and as a result, the European tour turned out to be the last for the Velvet Underground. <mask> joined Maureen Tucker's band for a tour in 1994. Death
In late 1994, <mask> was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and as his health deteriorated, he could no longer play guitar. He was visited by his former bandmates Reed and Tucker and according to Reed, when he visited <mask> for the last time, he was bedridden, had lost weight and his hair, but never complained about his lymphoma and described it as "leaves in the fall". <mask> died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on August 30, 1995, one day after his 53rd birthday.Legacy
Upon their induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, Reed, Cale and Tucker performed a song titled "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend", which was dedicated to <mask>. In March 2001, <mask> was remembered through a tribute set at the Austin Music Awards during the South by Southwest Festival. John Cale performed "Some

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 Friends", a song he had composed in <mask>'s memory, with Alejandro Escovedo, who played the Galaxie 500 song "Tugboat", also written for <mask>. An SXSW panel on Sterling successfully convened that year, with Cale and others remembering their fallen friend. <mask> was also the subject of an oral history, Velvet Underdog, in The Austin Chronicle that year. The story utilised quotes by Cale, Reed, Tucker, and other <mask> associates. The Galaxie 500 song "Tugboat" alludes to <mask>'s post-Velvet Underground career.<mask> was a major influence on Dean Wareham. Personal life
<mask>'s surviving family includes his widow, Martha (whom he married in 1971), his son, Thomas, and his daughter, Mary Anne, all of whom reside in Poughkeepsie, New York. Guitar style
During the Cale era, there was no established "lead" or "rhythm" guitar hierarchy in the Velvet Underground; both Reed and <mask> traded roles regularly. From the third album on though, <mask> almost always took the role of lead guitarist as Reed concentrated more on his singing and rhythm playing. <mask> and Reed's guitars were essentially duelling guitars that complemented each other, alternating between lead lines and rhythm parts interchangeably and with no assigned roles on who was lead or rhythm. Relative to Reed's improvisational and experimental guitar style, <mask>'s guitar style was generally syncopated and more percussive with cleaner melodic lead parts. Praising his late bandmate's guitar playing, Reed told David Fricke, "Sometimes, I think his guitar playing is very much like his first name – sterling.It's involved. And yet it has a grace and elegance to it, even in the fast-note runs. You could play me a hundred guitars, and I could spot <mask>." Doug Yule, who joined the Velvet

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Whilst Reed was the main writer, there has been some conjecture that both <mask> and Cale made more songwriting contributions than is specified in the credits as <mask> later told Victor Bockris, "Lou really did want to have a whole lot of credit for the songs, so on nearly all of the albums we gave it to him. It kept him happy. He got the rights to all the songs on Loaded so now he's credited for being the absolute and singular genius of the Underground, which is not true.There are a lot of songs I should have coauthorship on, and the same holds true for John Cale. The publishing company was called Three Prong because there were three of us involved. I'm the last person to deny Lou's immense contribution and he's the best songwriter of the three of us. But he wanted all the credit, he wanted it more than we did, and he got it, to keep the peace." Nevertheless, <mask> got co-writing credits on "European Son", "Here She Comes Now", "The Gift", "Sister Ray", "Hey Mr. Rain", "Ride into the Sun", "Foggy Notion", "Ferryboat Bill", "I'm Gonna Move Right In", "Coney Island Steeplechase" and "Guess I'm Falling in Love". He also co-wrote "Chelsea Girls" with Reed, the title track to Nico's debut solo album.Discography with the Velvet Underground
Only recordings with <mask> are listed. For the band's full discography, please see the Velvet Underground article. Singles
"All Tomorrow's Parties" / "I'll Be Your Mirror" (1966)
"Sunday Morning" / "Femme Fatale" (1966)
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<mask> (, born February 20, 1984) is an Egyptian-Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist, fighting out of the Vos Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He held the It's Showtime World Heavyweight title between 2010 and 2012. <mask> has competed in the K-1, It's Showtime, SUPERKOMBAT and GLORY promotions. <mask> was convicted and sentenced to 54 months in prison for drug-trafficking, but didn't had to do any jail time on the condition that he wouldn't commit a crime in Belgium over the next five years. Biography and career
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he began training in kickboxing in 2001. He joined the Chakuriki Gym and trained under Thom Harinck who has also trained Badr Hari. <mask> was a notorious delinquent outside of the ring who, according to Harinck, was even worse than Badr Hari.On October 17, 2009, at Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights in Amsterdam he defeated Ruslan Karaev by unanimous decision. On May 29, 2010, at It's Showtime 2010 Amsterdam he won the It's Showtime Heavyweight title after being fouled by Badr Hari. On October 2 Gerges was a fan voted fighter to fight at the K-1 Final 16 in Seoul, South Korea. He fought

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texts: World Grand Prix 2012 Final in Bucharest, Romania on December 22, 2012, and won by a third-round knockout.At the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final on March 15, 2013, in Zagreb, Croatia, he faced Ismael Londt in the quarter-finals and bowed out from a broken nose in round three after receiving a flying knee from Londt. He defeated Pavel Zhuravlev by unanimous decision at Final Fight Championship 6 in Poreč, Croatia on June 14, 2013. He joined Glory in July 2013. He lost to Errol Zimmerman by third-round TKO in the tournament reserve match at Glory 11: Chicago - Heavyweight World Championship Tournament in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States on October 12, 2013. He defeated Ewerton Teixeira by unanimous decision at Glory 13: Tokyo - Welterweight World Championship Tournament in Tokyo, Japan on December 21, 2013. He defeated Jhonata Diniz via second-round TKO at Glory 15: Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey on April 12, 2014. <mask> won via disqualification when he was attacked while downed by Jamal Ben Saddik just seconds into their bout at Qabala Fight Series #1 in Qabala, Azerbaijan on June 29, 2014.In June 2018, <mask> announced that

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 he had signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator and that he would compete both as a Bellator mixed martial artist and kickboxer. <mask> will make his kickboxing return during Enfusion 98, when he will face Mohamed El Bouchaibi. <mask> defeated El Bouchaibi by a first-round TKO due to low kicks. <mask> will fight Rico Verhoeven in the semifinals of a four-man heavyweight tournament, held at Glory 77. <mask> lost the semifinal bout against Rico Verhoeven by unanimous decision. Personal life
<mask> was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to an Egyptian father and a Dutch mother. He is married to women's MMA fighter Denise Kielholtz.Drug-trafficking conviction
On February 15, 2011, <mask> <mask> was arrested in Amsterdam under suspicion of being part of a drug deal involving  of cocaine. His half-brother was arrested May 2010 in a warehouse in Belgium that contained 128 kg of cocaine. <mask> was already out of the picture in the investigation of 2010, but for some reason the investigation had stalled and he was put back in the picture on February 15, 2011. There was no cocaine or any weapons found in Hesdy residence. His trainer, Thom Harinck

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 spoke with the Dutch Metro News on February 21, and outright said, "<mask> has been framed. He wakes up at 7:30, at 10:00am he trains with me, rests in the afternoon, then in the evening does strength and conditioning and is in bed by 10:00 PM. I cannot imagine that he still would have time for things like this."On February 25, 2011, <mask> <mask> was released from Belgium police. At the beginning of May 2011, <mask> was extradited to Belgium to be dealt with as the Belgian authorities suspected that the trafficking ring was going through Belgium. On May 13, 2011, <mask> was released again and stays with his claim that he is 100% innocent." At a later trial <mask> was convicted and sentenced to 54 months in prison for drug-trafficking, but didn't had to do any jail time on the condition that he wouldn't commit a crime in Belgium over the next five years. Failed drug test

GLORY 51
On April 20, 2019, it was announced that <mask> failed a drug test prior to Glory 51: Rotterdam. He was issued with an official reprimand. Badr Hari, who faced Gerges at the event, also failed the drug test and was issued with a 19-month suspension after

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 tests on samples provided indicated a violation of Doping Autoriteit Netherlands rules regarding prohibited substances for competitive athletes.Titles
 It's Showtime
 2010 It's Showtime World Heavyweight Champion
 World Full Contact Association
 2009 W.F.C.A. Super Heavyweight Champion
 2008 W.F.C.A. European Super Heavyweight Champion
 2008 W.F.C.A. Benelux Super Heavyweight Champion
 2007 W.F.C.A. Dutch Super Heavyweight Champion

Kickboxing record

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| 2021-01-30 || Loss ||align=left| Rico Verhoeven || Glory 77: Rotterdam Semi Final || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2020-10-3|| Win ||align=left| Mohamed El Bouchaibi || Enfusion 98 || Alkmaar, Netherlands || TKO (Low kicks) || 1 ||  1:58
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| 2018-03-03 || NC ||align=left| Badr Hari || Glory 51: Rotterdam || Rotterdam, Netherlands || No contest || 3 || 3:00
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| 2015-02-01 || Win ||align=left| Igor Bugaenko || Kunlun Fight 18: The Return of the King - Super Heavyweight Tournament, Final 16 || Guangzhou, China ||TKO (low kicks)|| 2 ||
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| 2010-03-13 || Loss ||align=left| Brice Guidon || Oktagon presents: It's Showtime 2010 || Milan, Italy || Ext.R Decision || 4 || 3:00
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| 2010-02-27|| Win ||align=left| Ashwin Balrak || Amsterdam Fightclub presents: Amsterdam vs Rotterdam || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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 Championship: Uprising 12 || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-12-12|| Win ||align=left| Sebastian van Thielen || Backstreet Fights II || Cologne, Germany || KO || 2 ||
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| 2009-10-17 || Win ||align=left| Ruslan Karaev || Ultimate Glory 11: A Decade of Fights || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-05-31 || Win ||align=left| Mo Boubkari || Next Generation Warriors || Utrecht, Netherlands || TKO (referee stoppage) || 2 || 1:28
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| 2009-03-28 || Loss ||align=left| Semmy Schilt || K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 in Yokohama || Yokohama, Japan || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-03-21 || Loss ||align=left| Anderson Silva || VIP Fight Night 2009 || Neuss, Germany || TKO (doctor stoppage/leg injury) || 1 || 2:28
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| 2009-03-21 || Win ||align=left| Aytac Yahsi || VIP Fight Night 2009 || Neuss, Germany || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2009-03-08 || Win ||align=left| Brian Douwes || Beatdown || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-11-08 || Win ||align=left| Jan Muller || Ice Cold Assassins ||  || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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| 2008-10-05 || Win ||align=left| Jerrel Venetiaan || Tough Is Not Enough || Rotterdam, Netherlands || Decision (split) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2008-09-21 || Win ||align=left| Mutlu Karabulut || SLAMM Events presents "Back to the Old School" || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-09-23 || Win ||align=left| Wendell Roche || Rings Holland: Risky Business || Utrecht, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-06-02 || Win ||align=left| Bob van Boxmeer || Gentleman Fight Night 2007 || Tilburg, Netherlands || TKO (doctor stoppage/injury) || 1 || 3:00
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| 2007-06-02 || Win ||align=left| Mo Boubkari || Next Generation Warriors || Tilburg, Netherlands || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
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| 2007-03-12 || Loss ||align=left| Ginty Vrede || Rings "The Chosen Ones" || Utrecht, Netherlands  || TKO (referee stoppage) || 1 ||
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| 2006-09-17 || Draw ||align=left| Rick van Soest || Rings Kickboxing Gala in Amsterveen || Amstelveen, Netherlands || Decision || 3 || 3:00
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<mask>, known as <mask> (born 11 March 1950)
was a physician from Greenville, Texas, who a former Republican member of the Texas Senate. He entered office in 2003 and represented the ten counties of Senate District 2 in the northeastern portion of the state. His term ended in 2015. <mask> was narrowly unseated in the runoff election held on May 27, 2014; he polled 17,930 (49.6 percent) to intraparty challenger <mask>'s 18,230 (50.4 percent). Deuell had led a three-candidate field in the primary on March 4, with 23,847 votes (48.5 percent). Because he fell short of a majority, he was placed in the runoff with the number-two candidate, <mask>, who in the primary polled 19,085 votes (38.8 percent). The remaining 6,240 votes (12.7 percent) went to the third candidate, Mark Thompson.Background

<mask>, was educated at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, and the Medical College of Virginia. He is a partner in Primary Care Associates in Greenville, Texas. He is a member of the American Medical Association and Texas Medical Association. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. Deuell and his wife, Marilyn, reside in Greenville in Hunt County. They have three children, Paul, Brian, and Jennifer. Legislative history
During the Seventy-ninth Texas Legislature (2005), Deuell passed legislation to help ensure firefighters and other first responders who contract diseases in the line of duty receive the benefits they deserve (Senate Bill 310), created a statewide stroke emergency plan with the Texas Stroke Act (Senate Bill 330), authorized a medical dispatch program for rural areas (Senate Bill 523) and set up a Medicaid buy-in program for the working disabled (Senate Bill 565).Deuell also worked to ensure passage of bills dealing with issues such as education, transportation, lawsuit reform and family issues. In the Eightieth

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 Texas Legislature Senator Deuell was tapped by Lt. Governor David Dewhurst to carry Jessica's Law legislation, aimed at protecting society's most vulnerable population from child predators. Governor Rick Perry signed this bill into law on July 17, 2007. Deuell also worked to advance issues as diverse as Medicaid reform and incentives programs to attract film and television production to Texas. For his work in this Session, Deuell was named as one of Texas Monthly's Best Legislators. In 2013, Deuell co-authored legislation that would require abortion providers to abide by the same regulations as ambulatory surgical centers.Critics characterized the bill as a TRAP law that would enact a "virtual ban on abortion in Texas." During the 83rd Legislative Session, which was his first as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Deuell worked for passage of several bills to help ensure the Texas economy continues to lead the nation. Key measures include:

Renewal of the Texas Economic Development Act (SB 1647 by Sen. Deuell / HB 3390 by Representative Harvey Hilderbran) - this successful state program has brought over $60 billion in capital investment, over 6,500 jobs, and almost $600 million in direct payments to school districts since 2001. In renewing the act, Deuell added strong taxpayer protections such as an annual ongoing audit and monetary penalties for failure to meet job-creation requirements (any penalties collected will go to Foundation School Fund). Research and Development Incentives (SB 859 by Sen. Deuell / HB 800 by Rep. Murphy) - A study by Texans for Innovation indicates that this legislation could result in $13 billion in increased economic activity, $4.5 billion in increased wages and income, and 97,000 new permanent jobs. Current District 113 state Representative Cindy Burkett of Sunnyvale is a former legislative aide


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 and deputy regional director for Senator Deuell. Honors

From early on in his legislative career Deuell received recognition for his service through awards and accolades such as the “Fighter for Free Enterprise Award,” from the Texas Association of Business, the “CLEAT Legislative Award” from the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, being named “Outstanding Senator”' by the Texas State Association of Fire Fighters, receipt of the “Patient Advocacy Award” from the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, being named “Freshman Senator of the Year” by the Texas Young Republican Federation, and receiving an “A++” rating from the Texas Right to Life Committee.In addition, Deuell was honored with the “Patient Protectorate Award’ and was named one of “Texas Medicine’s Best” by the Texas Medical Association. In February 2005 Deuell was honored by Goodwill Industries of Texas for advocacy in support of Texans with disabilities. The “Goodwill Distinguished Service Award,” the first of its kind to be awarded to a member of the Texas Legislature, is presented for “exemplary service and outstanding advocacy on behalf of persons with disabilities.”

Following the conclusion of the 79th Legislative Session, Deuell received the American Heart Association's “Heart of Honor” award for contributions in reducing the death and disability of heart disease and stroke in Texas. The “Heart of Honor” is the top honor given by the American Heart Association. In July 2005 Deuell received the “Legislative Crimefighter of the Year” Award from the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas for his work on behalf of the law enforcement community in the 79th Legislature. Leadership while in Senate
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 Health and Human Services and State Affairs committees. In addition, Deuell was selected by Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst to serve on the Senate Select Committee on Water Policy.He was a vice-chair of the Rural Caucus. Senator Deuell is a former chair of the Senate Republican Caucus. Music
 Before entering medical school in the late 1970s, Deuell enjoyed a career as a professional drummer and played behind such disparate artists as Ike & Tina Turner and <mask>. He sat in with the veteran Western Swing band Asleep at the Wheel at an inaugural ball for George W. Bush in January 2005. While much of his time today is taken up by his official duties and his medical practice, Deuell still plays the drums whenever asked for charitable events. In addition, his appreciation for music is such that he is known as the “Senator for Texas Music” because of legislation authored such as Senate Resolution 292, which made March 3, 2005 “Bob Wills Day” at the Texas Capitol, and Senate Bill 1100 which would have created the "Texas Music History Tour" to promote Texas Tourism and the state's rich musical heritage. Deuell currently plays drums for the worship band at the non-denominational Aldersgate Church in Greenville.Election history

Most recent elections

2014

2010

2006

Previous elections

2002

2000

References

External links
Senate of Texas - Senator <mask>l official TX Senate website
bobdeuell.org official campaign website
Project Vote Smart - Senator Robert E. '<mask>' <mask> (TX) profile
Follow the Money - <mask>l
2006 2004 2002 2000 campaign contributions
Texas Monthly's 10 Best and Worst Belo Blog, June 2007
Bois d'Arc Dixieland Band

1950 births
Living people
People from Greenville, Texas
Texas state senators
Texas Republicans
George Mason University alumni
Medical College of Virginia alumni
Physicians from Texas
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<mask> (23 April 1925 – 13 April 2021), better known as R. W<mask> or <mask>, was a British historian, writer and professor of Soviet Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham. Obtaining his PhD in 1954, <mask> was promoted to full professor and made chair of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham in 1965. He retired from active teaching in 1989. A collaborator and co-author with historian E. H. Carr on two volumes of his 14-volume History of Soviet Russia, <mask> is best known for having carried Carr's work forward into the 1930s with seven additional volumes of economic history under the general title The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia. Biography

Early years
During World War II, <mask> served in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1946. He was stationed in the Middle East from 1945 to 1946. Academic career
<mask> obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London in 1950.He subsequently attended the University of Birmingham, where he obtained his PhD in 1954 in Commerce and Social Science under the supervision of historian Alexander Baykov. After completing his PhD, <mask> was appointed to a post as assistant lecturer at the Institute of Soviet Studies at the University of Glasgow, where he would remain until his return to the University of Birmingham in 1956. At Birmingham <mask> held a succession of academic titles, including Research Fellow, Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer. <mask> was appointed a professor of Soviet Economic Studies by the University of Birmingham in 1965. In 1963, <mask> was named the first director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) at the University of Birmingham — a post which he would retain until 1978. <mask> retired in 1989 and was named Senior Fellow and Emeritus Professor by the university upon his departure from active teaching. His research contributions in the history of the Soviet Union are recognized by the peers.<mask>' papers are housed in the Special Collections department of the

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 University of Birmingham. A temporary register of the <mask>' collection, contained in 70 archival boxes, is available. <mask> died in April 2021 at the age of 95. Works

Monographs
 The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958. Science and the Soviet Economy: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Birmingham on 18th January 1967. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1967.A History of Soviet Russia: Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926—1929: Volume 1. In Two Parts. With E.H. Carr. London: Macmillan, 1969. The Soviet Economic Crisis of 1931—1933. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1976. The Emergence of the Soviet Economic System, 1927—1934.Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1977. The Soviet Union. Co-Editor, with Denis J.B. Shaw. London:George Allen & Unwin, 1978
 Soviet Industrial Production, 1928—1937: The Rival Estimates. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1978. Capital Investment and Capital Stock in the USSR, 1928—1940: Soviet and Western Estimates. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1982.The Socialist Market: A Debate in Soviet Industry, 1932-33. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1982. Edward Hallett Carr, 1892—1982. London: British Academy, 1984. Materials for a Balance of the Soviet National Economy, 1928—1930. Co-Editor, with Stephen G<mask>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.Soviet Defence Industries During the First Five-Year Plan: Supplement. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1987. Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution: The First Phase. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1987. Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989 ISBN 0-253-31604-9
 Soviet official statistics on industrial production, capital stock and capital investment, 1928-41. With J.M.Cooper and M.J. Ilič. Birmingham: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1991. From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy:

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 Continuity and Change in the Economy of the USSR. Editor. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913—1945. Co-Editor, with Stephen G<mask>.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-45152-3
 Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. London: Macmillan, 1997. Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-62260-3
 The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia
 The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 1: The Socialist Offensive: The Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, 1929—1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 2: The Soviet Collective Farm, 1929—1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil, 1929—1930. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 4: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931—1933. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931—1933.With <mask>. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 6: The Years of Progress: The Soviet Economy, 1934—1936. With Oleg Khlevniuk and Stephen G<mask>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 7: The Soviet Economy and the Approach of War, 1937–1939. With Oleg Khlevniuk, <mask>. Harrison and Stephen G<mask>.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36. Co-Editor. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN в 0-300-09367-5

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 "Papers of <mask><mask>: Preliminary Handlist," University of Birmingham, Special Collections. 1925 births
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Admiral <mask> (10 October 1855 – 23 February 1931) was a German Imperial Navy officer from Celle. He served in the navy from 1872 until his retirement in October, 1918. During his career, <mask> served in the Reichsmarineamt (Imperial Navy Office), where he was primarily responsible for writing the Fleet Laws that funded the expansion of the High Seas Fleet. By the time he retired, <mask> had risen to the rank of admiral, and had served at the post of state secretary for the Reichsmarineamt. From this post, he oversaw the German naval war during the latter three years of World War I. <mask> retired to Wiesbaden, where he died on 23 February 1931. Early career
<mask> was born on 10 October 1855, in Celle, in what was then the Kingdom of Hanover. His father, <mask> (1832–1897), was a factory owner, and his mother was Emilie Kraus (1831–1903); the younger <mask> had a brother, Hans (1864–1948), a physicist who served as President of the German Naval Observatory.<mask> joined the Imperial German Navy in 1872, as a naval cadet. He served in various capacities in the fleet, including in the Torpedowesen (Torpedo Department) with <mask> Tirpitz. In December 1894, he was serving as the executive officer of the battleship . He was later assigned to the Reichsmarineamt (RMA), the Imperial Navy Office, as the chief of the administrative department. In this capacity, he began to work closely with now-Admiral <mask>, who had been promoted to become the State Secretary for the Navy. <mask> was responsible for drafting the legislation that became the Flottengesetz, the Fleet Laws, and the

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 supplementary laws in 1906, 1908, and 1912. During this period, he and other senior members of the naval command worked repeatedly to break monopolies in the shipbuilding industry, as a means to keep costs low and stable.The only firm that proved resistant to their efforts was Krupp, which held a near monopoly on armor plating and large-caliber guns, and proved to be too powerful for the RMA to effectively pressure. <mask> was promoted to konteradmiral (rear admiral) in 1906, and to vizeadmiral (vice admiral) three years later. In 1912, <mask> was elevated to the nobility, which allowed him to add "<mask>" to his name. He rose to the rank of admiral in 1913, and by 1914, he was Tirpitz's deputy. During the July Crisis that instigated World War I, <mask> was temporarily the acting state secretary, as Tirpitz was away at his summer home. In this capacity, he endorsed the "blank check" Kaiser Wilhelm II had extended to Austria-Hungary in the aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian terrorists the previous month. With regard to the deepening crisis, <mask> stated that while "many swords will be rattled and much poisonous ink spilled, Europe will not tear itself to pieces over Serbia.World War I
By late August 1915, <mask> had fallen ill, and so requested retirement from the navy, though he agreed to remain in the post until 1 November. In March, 1916, <mask> was recalled to service and replaced Tirpitz, whose views on the naval war had become unpopular, as the State Secretary for the Navy. Tirpitz had by this point pushed for unrestricted submarine warfare in

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texts: order to break the deadlock on the Western Front; Chancellor Theobald <mask>-Hollweg, fearing war with the United States, maneuvered to have Tirpitz relieved of command. He meanwhile secured the support of <mask> and brought him out of retirement. <mask>'s position as state secretary was decidedly weaker than under Tirpitz's tenure; this was in large part due to the course of the war and the discrediting of the surface fleet policy advocated at first by Tirpitz and then by Capelle. Admiral Paul Behncke, who would later serve as Capelle's deputy, stated that, "In the Navy, the position of the RMA has become purely administrative, it no longer plays a leading role." Though Capelle was initially opposed to unrestricted submarine warfare, a group of senior officers led by the commander of the High Seas Fleet, Admiral Reinhard Scheer, convinced <mask> to change his mind, who in turn worked to convince Wilhelm II to permit a return to unrestricted submarine warfare.By January 1917, Wilhelm II had consented, and Germany resumed the U-boat campaign against Britain on 1 February. The US Congress voted to declare war with Germany on April 6, 1917. Even though he agreed to resume the U-boat campaign, <mask> did not believe that submarines had replaced the battleship as the decisive naval weapon, arguing in February 1917 that new battleship construction—that of the L 20e α design—should not be stopped. In order to keep costs down, <mask> announced that the Navy would not build any ships over  displacement or with a draft in excess of ; these were the maximum dimensions of the existing harbors and

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 Alexander <mask>, the head of the Naval Cabinet.<mask> resigned from the Navy in October 1918, shortly before the end of the war. His deputy, Paul Behnke, briefly replaced him but was also forced out due to his opposition to Scheer, who had by this time been promoted to the Seekriegsleitung (Chief of Naval Staff). In 1919, <mask> testified before the Reichstag War Failures Committee about his tenure as State Secretary during the war, particularly relating to the U-boat campaign against Britain. <mask> died in Wiesbaden on 23 February 1931. Decorations and awards
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 Order of the Red Eagle, 1st class with Oak Leaves and Swords
 Order of the Crown, 1st class
 Pour le Mérite (9 January 1918)
 Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
 Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class
 Service Award
Other German states
 : Military Merit Order, 1st class with Swords
 , , and : Hanseatic Cross
 : Commander Second Class of the Order of Philip
 : Commander of the Order of the Griffon
 : Honorary Grand Cross of the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis
 : Friedrich August Cross, 1st class
 : Grand Cross of the Albert Order with golden star and swords

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<mask>  (born 6 September 1992) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for  club Chesterfield. <mask> began his senior career in England with Birmingham City. He made his first-team debut in the Europa League play-off round second leg against C.D. Nacional in August 2011, and made his debut in the Football League while on loan at Northampton Town in January 2012. He had spells on loan at Shrewsbury Town in both 2012–13 and 2013–14, but injury disrupted his progress, and he left Birmingham when his contract expired. Without a club while recovering from injury, he spent the latter part of the 2014–15 season with Kidderminster Harriers before moving on to Solihull Moors, with whom he won the National League North title. <mask> signed for Grimsby Town in January 2017, after missing the first couple of months of 2017–18 recovering from injury, he went on loan to Solihull Moors, however, he left Grimsby by mutual consent in February 2018.He completed the season with Tamworth, and after a short spell on loan at Chester, he joined them permanently in January 2019. In June 2020 he signed for Gloucester City, and joined Chesterfield in November. Club career

Early life and career
<mask> was born in Amsterdam to Ghanaian parents. He played at amateur club Neerlandia, which then merged with two other clubs to form Blauw-Wit Amsterdam. As a youngster he had interested Ajax, but he chose to join HFC Haarlem's youth academy, where he spent three years before the family moved to the UK when he was 13. He played for Wednesbury Sports Union in the Walsall Junior Youth League before joining Birmingham City F.C. 's Academy, where he began a two-year scholarship in July 2009.In the 2010–11 season, Birmingham chose not

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 to enter a reserve team in a competitive league, but <mask> was a regular member of the under-18 Academy team and played in the Birmingham Senior Cup. In October 2010 he scored five goals as the under-18s beat Tottenham Hotspur's under-18s 6–0. This performance contributed to his first competitive involvement with the first team a few days later, when he was named among the substitutes for the League Cup fourth-round tie against Brentford. <mask> signed his first professional contract, of two-and-a-half years, in January 2011. Injury kept him out for four months, but he was an unused substitute for Birmingham's last two Premier League games of the season, against Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur. Senior football
He was part of the Birmingham squad for their 2011 pre-season visit to Ireland, and came close to scoring in the second half of the friendly against Cork City, when he appeared to be brought down after touching the ball past the goalkeeper, but no penalty was awarded. In the absence through injury of strikers Cameron Jerome, Marlon King and Nikola Žigić, <mask> was named in the 20-man squad for Birmingham's Europa League match against Nacional in Madeira in August.An unused substitute in the first leg, he made his first-team debut in the second leg on 25 August, replacing Chris Burke in the 88th minute as Birmingham won 3–0 to qualify for the group stage. On 1 January 2012, <mask> moved to Northampton Town of League Two on a one-month loan deal. He went straight into the starting eleven for their match the following day, away to Shrewsbury Town, and after 22 minutes he collected a cross from Lewis Young and rounded the goalkeeper to set up the opening goal for Saido Berahino. The match finished as

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 with four goals in a development squad match against Huddersfield Town, leading manager Lee Clark to suggest he might still have a future at the club, but it was later confirmed that he would leave when his contract expired at the end of the season. Kidderminster Harriers
Asante was without a club for some months while recovering from injury. On 16 December 2014, he signed for Conference Premier club Kidderminster Harriers until the end of the season. He made his debut as a second-half substitute as Kidderminster beat Lincoln City with a goal in stoppage time, and finished his spell with 11 appearances without scoring.Solihull Moors
He then moved on to National League North club Solihull Moors, for whom he appeared regularly, as starter or substitute in about equal measure. <mask> was part of the Solihull Moors team during the 2015–16 season that secured promotion to the National League for the first time in their history, clinching the National League North title. In May 2016, <mask> played in the Birmingham Senior Cup final as Solihull Moors won the competition for the first time, beating Birmingham City 2–1 at St Andrew's. Grimsby Town
On 18 January 2017, <mask> signed an 18-month contract with newly promoted League Two club Grimsby Town. Injury meant <mask> missed the last few weeks of the season and the first couple of months of 2017–18. To regain match fitness, he returned to Solihull Moors in mid-October on loan until January 2018. On 7 February 2018, <mask> left Grimsby by mutual consent.Tamworth
On 9 February 2018, <mask> was unveiled as a Tamworth player, signing an 18-month contract under new caretaker manager Mike Fowler, who suggested that <mask> could help fill the void left by the

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 that took Chester second in the table. By the time the season was abandoned because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he had 19 goals from 29 matches in all competitions.Gloucester City
On 5 June 2020, <mask> signed for National League North club Gloucester City. He scored eight goals in the first nine league matches of the season. Chesterfield
Manager James Rowe left Gloucester for National League club Chesterfield on 26 November 2020. The following day, having met a clause in the player's contract that allowed him to move to a higher-level club, <mask> became Rowe's first signing. <mask> made his debut for the club that weekend, and scored his side's first goal as they came back from 1–0 down to beat Weymouth 2–1. After scoring nine goals in fifteen appearances in all competitions for the club since joining, <mask> signed a new contract on 5 March 2021 that would keep him at the club until 2024, rewarding the club's decision with his tenth goal the following day in a 3–0 victory over Yeovil Town. Five weeks later, he ruptured an ACL and was ruled out for an estimated nine months.<mask> returned to first-team action on 28 December 2021, playing the first hour of a 1–1 draw with FC Halifax Town. During his third appearance, he scored Chesterfield's goal in a 5–1 loss to 2021 Champions League winners Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup. Career statistics

Honours
Solihull Moors
National League North: 2015–16
Birmingham Senior Cup: 2015–16

References

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<mask> <mask> profile at the Grimsby Town F.C. website

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<mask> (August 21, 1913 – January 1, 2006) was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication Monthly Review. Early life
A child of Russian-Jewish immigrants, Magdoff grew up in the Bronx. In 1929, at age 15, Magdoff first started reading Karl Marx when he picked up a copy of A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy in a used-book store. "It blew my mind," recalled Magdoff in 2003. "His view of history was a revelation....that got me started reading about economics. We were going into the Depression then and I wanted to figure out what it all meant."His interest in Marx led him to embrace socialism. <mask> studied mathematics and physics from 1930 to 1933 at the City College of New York taking engineering, math and physics courses; he was active in the Social Problems Club with many schoolmates who later joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a Comintern organization that fought in the Spanish Civil War, many also joined the US Armed Forces. <mask> attended New York University after 1933, where he studied economics and statistics, receiving a B.Sc in Economics in 1935. He was suspended and later expelled from City College for activities related to editing Frontiers (a radical student magazine not sanctioned by the school), including participation in a mock trial of the school's President and its Director. Government service
After college, David Weintraub Head of the WPA's National Research Project assisted him to get a job  with the Works Progress Administration measuring the productivity of various manufacturing industries. By 1940 <mask> was the WPA's Principal Statistician. During World War II Magdoff worked on the National Defense and Advisory Board and the War Production Board, in the Statistical and Tools Divisions.He left the

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<mask> was happy to leave his position with the United States Department of Commerce, on December 30, 1946, and went to work for the New Council on American Business in New York until 1948, at which time he began employment with Trubeck Laboratories in New Jersey. He was an economic adviser and speechwriter to former Vice-President and then unsuccessful Presidential candidate Henry Wallace, who ran as the Progressive Party candidate in 1948. Unable to be reemployed in government because of security concerns, he found a career in academia beginning in the 1950s. After the Cuban Revolution, <mask> traveled to Cuba and had an all-night meeting with Che Guevara, whom he later described as a "sweet and polite man". This long brainstorming session on the potential obstacles the new revolution would face, sparked a mutual camaraderie that led to <mask> also meeting with Guevara during his 1964 visit to the United Nations in New York City. The Age of Imperialism, his first and arguably most influential book, came out in 1969.The book sold over 100,000 copies and was translated into fifteen languages. Two years later after the death of Leo Huberman, <mask> began co-editing the Monthly Review with Paul Sweezy, and continued to edit the magazine into his 90th year. <mask> and Sweezy together produced five books, as well as many years of Monthly Review. One of <mask>'s last books was Imperialism without Colonies, published at age 89. Under <mask>'s direction, the Monthly Review increasing focused on imperialism as the key unit of analysis for global development and the forces challenging neocolonialism in the Third World. This perspective put the magazine and its press squarely on the New Left intellectual agenda since the late 1960s. The Great Depression left a strong impact on <mask>'s perspective on capitalism, as Magdoff recalled a sense

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 of doom felt in the 20th mid-century by pro-capitalists, holding that nothing since 1929 led him to believe that the economy has become immune to cycles of severe crisis.Until his death, <mask> co-edited the Monthly Review with John Bellamy Foster. Personal life
<mask> had two sons, one of whom, <mask>, is an expert in plant and soil science. His wife of almost 70 years, Beatrice, died in 2002. Accusations of espionage

<mask> has been accused by a number of authors as having been complicit in Soviet espionage activity during his time in US government. He was accused of passing information to Soviet intelligence networks in the United States, primarily through what the FBI called the "Perlo Group." <mask> was never indicted, but after the end of the Cold War, a number of scholars have inspected declassified documents (including those of the Venona project) from U.S. and Soviet archives. They cite these documents to support the claim that <mask> was involved in espionage.Other authors have taken issue with some of the broader interpretations of such materials which implicate many Americans in espionage for the Soviet Union, and the allegation that <mask> was an information source for the Soviets is disputed by several academics and historians asserting that Magdoff probably had no malicious intentions and committed no crimes. Publications

 The Age of Imperialism (1969)
 The Dynamics of U.S. Capitalism (1970) with Paul M. Sweezy
 The End of Prosperity (1977) with Paul M. Sweezy
 Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present (1978)
 The Deepening Crisis of U.S. Capitalism (1980) with Paul M. Sweezy
 Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (1987) with Paul M. Sweezy
 The Irreversible Crisis (1988) with Paul M. Sweezy
 Imperialism without Colonies (2003)

References

Further reading
 Rafalko, Frank J., ed., A Counterintelligence Reader. United States. National Counterintelligence Center, no

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<mask>, 1st Baron <mask> of Culmore (1564 – 18 April 1631) was a leading English-born soldier and statesman in early seventeenth-century Ireland. He is often   called  "the founder of Derry",  due to his role in   establishing the city. Background
He was born at Chamberhouse Castle, Crookham, near Thatcham, Berkshire, into a minor gentry family, the Docwras, who  came originally from Yorkshire. He was the only son of Edmund Docwra MP and his wife Dorothy Golding,  daughter of John Golding  of Halstead, Essex, and sister of the noted translator  Arthur Golding. His father was a prominent local politician, who sat in the House of Commons as MP for Aylesbury in the Parliament of  1571. He was later obliged by financial difficulties to sell Chamberhouse. The family's money  troubles may be the reason why his son pursued a military career.The Docwras seem to have  lacked influential relatives,  and this was to be a considerable difficulty to <mask>  throughout his career, in an age when family  connections were of great importance. <mask> did inherit some lands in Berkshire, which he sold around 1615 to finance his hoped-for return to Ireland and public office. Military career
After serving for some years as a professional soldier in the Netherlands and France, Docwra, who was  still only in his early twenties, was sent by the  English Crown to Ireland in about 1584. He was made the constable of Dungarvan Castle, and served under Sir Richard Bingham, the governor of Connaught, in 1586. Bingham besieged Annis Castle near Ballinrobe, and used Ballinrobe as a base from which to attempt to pacify County Mayo. He was unable to subdue the  Burke clan, the dominant political force in Mayo, and   the campaign ended inconclusively. Service with Essex and Vere

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 the royal favourite, and fought beside him in the war against Spain. He took part in the Siege of Rouen in 1591-2, and in the Capture of Cadiz in 1596 where he was knighted by Essex in person for his "acts of valour". The following year he saw military service under Sir Francis Vere in Maurice of Nassau's campaigns in Brabant, and spent much of the late 1590s in the Netherlands where he distinguished himself at the Battle of Turnhout. He did not take part in Essex's ill-fated Islands Voyage expedition to the Azores in 1597. Return to Ireland

In 1599, to his "unspeakable contentment", he was sent back to Ireland to serve with Essex during the Nine Years War, acting as his chief adviser on Irish military affairs. During Essex's disastrous attempts to pacify Ireland, Docwra was mainly occupied with attempting to subdue the O'Byrne clan in County Wicklow. He took no part in Essex's controversial negotiations with Hugh O'Neill, who was the overall Irish leader during the Nine Years' War.These negotiations  produced a set of terms called the  Cessation, which was attacked by Essex's enemies as a total English capitulation to the Irish. The Queen's reaction was to tell Essex sharply that if she had wanted to abandon Ireland altogether, it would hardly have been necessary to send him there. Docwra had returned to England with Essex in the autumn of 1599. In 1600 he was sent back to Ireland as commander of an army of 4000 men and captured the ruined site of Derry in May 1600. Fighting continued until 1603. The Cessation led quickly to Essex's disgrace, and this in turn caused his rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I, which ended with his execution as a traitor in February 1601. Docwra, who had prudently remained in Ireland throughout the crisis, was not suspected of any part in Essex's plotting, and he quickly gained the confidence of Essex's successor as Lord Deputy of Ireland,


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In April 1600 Docwra was given  an army of 4200 men to subdue Ulster. He landed at Carrickfergus, and proceeded to Culmore, where he fortified both the ruined castle there  and Flogh, near Inishowen, Donegal. Proceeding to what is now Derry, he fortified the hill, and laid out the first streets of the new city. Further up the River Foyle he fortified Dunnalong, a position dividing Donegal and Tyrone, in July 1600. He constructed Dutch-inspired star-shaped bastion forts, each with a strong earthen rampart, surrounded by a ditch, at the three sites of Culmore, Derry and Dunnalong. He engaged in several skirmishes with the Irish, reportedly winning their admiration for his courage and cunning, and was severely wounded by Black Hugh O'Donnell, a cousin of Red Hugh O'Donnell, chief of the  O'Donnell Clan.However in his early months in Ulster he showed a certain timidity, which damaged his reputation with the English government. In particular he was criticised for concentrating his men at Derry, where an epidemic was raging: so many fell sick that his effective force was reduced to 800 men. Throughout his career in Ulster, he showed  remarkable skill in fostering divisions in the leading Irish clans, and he gained the support of several prominent Irish chieftains, including members of the dominant O'Neill and O'Donnell clans. His most notable diplomatic coup was to win for the Crown, at least for a time, the loyalty of Niall Garve O'Donnell, cousin and brother-in-law of Red Hugh. A  charge  often levelled against Docwra by his enemies was of his gullibility in believing in the promises of loyalty made by the Gaelic chieftains, and


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 differences over this policy  of conciliation later  led to a quarrel between Docwra and Mountjoy. In fact, Docwra,  who was a sensible man, had no expectation of any of the chieftains remaining loyal "if the Spaniards should approach these shores", or if the English suffered any decisive military defeat at the hands of the Irish. His  attitude was simply that, so long as it lasted, the support of men like Niall Garve was a political asset which the English should  exploit to its fullest extent.The winter of 1600/1601 was spent in further military expeditions, and in negotiations with the Irish. In 1602 he secured Dungiven Castle from Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan, the principal vassal or 'uriaght' of Hugh O'Neill. This gave him control of most of what is now County Londonderry, and led O'Cahan to switch sides, depriving O'Neill of a large portion of his remaining force. He joined forces with Mountjoy to finally crush Hugh O'Neill, who made his submission to Mountjoy at Mellifont in March 1603. The military campaign is said to have been one of exceptional savagery, resulting in the death of thousands of Irish civilians. On the death of Queen Elizabeth I, it was Docwra's firm action which prevented a rising in the north of Ireland by his chief Irish ally, Niall Garve O'Donnell, who was infuriated at not having been made Earl of Tyrconnell, a title which was instead conferred on his cousin Rory O'Donnell. Niall was, in the short term, persuaded to trust in the promise of further rewards from the Crown.Clearly his loyalty could not be depended on for much longer, but then Docwra had never had any trust in the permanent loyalty of the Gaelic chiefs. Founder of Derry

Docwra's reputation as "the founder of Derry" rests on his early attempts to develop Derry as a city, although in the short term his efforts came to nothing, as it was burnt to the ground in 1608. Docwra had hoped that


texts: his services to the Crown in the Nine Years' War would produce rich rewards, and he seems to have set his heart on being created Lord President of Ulster; but he had never been popular, even it seems  with his own soldiers. His career was further damaged by a quarrel with Sir Arthur Chichester, the strong- minded Lord Deputy of Ireland. Also,  he lacked powerful friends  at court, where he was regarded as something of a nuisance. It was said that there was nothing which the Queen and her Council dreaded more than yet another verbose letter from Docwra, angrily replying to any criticism of his conduct; and despite his later success  a reputation for timidity and indecision remained with him. The old  closeness to Essex was held against him,    quite unfairly since it was agreed that he had played no part in the rebellion.Sir Robert Cecil eventually decided not to trouble the Queen with his letters, and so far as possible he was simply ignored. He took the appointment of  a Muster Master for  Derry as a personal insult    quarrelling bitterly with Humphrey Covet, the first Master, and even more sharply with his successor Reynolds. He had to be content with being appointed the first governor and provost of Derry. The city's first charter empowered him to hold markets and a fair. It was his duty to appoint the sheriffs,  the recorder and the justices of the peace and to hold a county court. Docwra was beginning to tire of life in Ireland, although he did not return to England until 1608. In 1606 he was bought out of his public offices by Sir George Paulet, whose relations with the Irish leaders of Ulster, and particularly the ruler of Inishowen, Sir Cahir O'Doherty, whose loyalty Docwra had sought to win, were far less amicable.During O'Doherty's subsequent rising in 1608, O'Doherty's foster-father Phelim Reagh MacDavitt killed Paulet in battle and Derry was burned. Docwra's


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 policy of seeking to conciliate the leading Gaelic nobles of Ulster was now utterly discredited. He was accused of neglect of duty and undue leniency towards the native Irish, and retired to England in temporary disgrace. Following the Flight of the Earls, and the O'Doherty rebellion, the English Crown no longer saw any advantage in conciliating the chieftains of Ulster: Docwra's Irish allies were ruined, and many of them, including Donnell O'Cahan, Niall Garve O'Donnell,  and his son Neachtain, died as prisoners in the Tower of London. Later career

During  his  retirement in England, Docwra protested bitterly to King James I that he had been unfairly accused of incompetence, and of his   meagre rewards for his services to the Crown: in particular he complained of the failure to make him Lord President of Ulster. In 1614 he published his Narrative, which is both a description of, and a justification for, his military actions in Ireland. While obviously  self-serving, the Narrative is a valuable source of information for the period.His decade-long campaign to return to government employment, preferably in Ireland,  finally bore fruit. In 1616, following the recall of Lord  Deputy Chichester, with whom he had been on bad terms,  he was made Treasurer of War for Ireland and returned to live there. In 1621 he was raised to the peerage, with a modest grant of land at Ranelagh, now a suburb but then a village on the south side of  Dublin city, and  another estate at Donnybrook, also in south Dublin. Despite his title, he was a comparatively poor man, partly because he had not been given the office of Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, which had previously been associated with the office of Treasurer of War, so that Docrwa's income was half what he might have expected. Assurances of a grant
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 Wicklow. After his death all his colleagues praised him as "an honest man who died poor". As Treasurer he avoided the temptation, to which so many of his contemporaries succumbed, of using his office to enrich himself; in 1618 the Privy Council of England commended him to the Lord Deputy for his care and diligence in carrying out his duties.His one serious fault as Treasurer, it was generally  agreed, was his exceptional slowness in compiling his accounts. In his last years he admitted to finding the burden of office almost unbearable, and he was willing to sell his office for £4000. In 1628 he was one of 15 peers empanelled to try Edmond Butler, Lord Dunboyne for manslaughter after Butler had killed his  cousin, James Prendergast,  in a quarrel over  the  right of inheritance to an Irish feudal barony. Docwra  was the only one to vote  "guilty", and Dunboyne was duly acquitted by 14 votes to 1. Docwra died on 18 April 1631 in Dublin, shortly after retiring from his public offices, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. His fellow Irish councillors sent a petition to their English colleagues, praising him as "an excellent civil servant", who died (relatively)  poor, and recommended his widow and surviving children to their care. Family
He married Anne Vaughan, daughter of Sir Francis  Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire  and his wife Anne Boynton, daughter of Sir Thomas Boynton of Barmston, East Riding of Yorkshire and Frances Frobisher.They had two sons, Theodore and <mask>. Theodore, the elder son, succeeded to the barony but died without issue. Little is known of him except that he was obliged to sell his Ranelagh estate and was  living in  poverty when he died in England in 1647: since his brother <mask> had predeceased him, the title became extinct. The 1st Baron also had three daughters, Anne, Frances, who died young, and Elizabeth; Anne married

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 Captain Shore of Fermanagh, and Elizabeth married  as his  third wife <mask> Brooke of Brookeborough and had issue, including George. Lady Docwra outlived her husband and both of her sons, and survived till 1648: like her  elder son she was  living
in  a state of some poverty in her later years, despite receiving a legacy from Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, who had been a close  friend and ally of her late husband in his last years. Character
As a soldier Docwra was brave, skilful and ruthless; even  the Irish  reportedly  admired him as "an illustrious  knight of wisdom and prudence, a pillar of battle and conflict". He showed considerable skill in negotiating  with the Irish clans of Ulster, and was known for fomenting quarrels among them to strengthen the Crown's position.Historians have remarked that the accusations made against Docwra by his political enemies  of excessive "leniency"  towards the Irish would have astonished the Irish themselves,  thousands of whom  are said to have  died directly or indirectly as a result of his actions. As Treasurer of War, he had his critics, but   he also enjoyed  an enviable reputation for being diligent, conscientious and upright, if  rather slow in conducting business. In private life he had a reputation for being honest, public-spirited,  and a man of independent judgment. In religious matters  he is said, by the standards of the  time,  to have been tolerant enough. While there is no doubt that  English troops who were under his command killed a number of priests, his biographer argues that Docwra neither ordered nor approved of these killings. References

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<mask> ( ) is an American journalist. Described by Newsweek as Silicon Valley's "most powerful tech journalist", she is an opinion writer for The New York Times, a contributing editor at New York, the host of the podcast Sway, and the co-host of the podcast Pivot. <mask>, who previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post,  co-founded  Recode, the  All Things Digital conference and the online publication All Things D.  She has covered the internet since 1994. Early life and education
Swisher went to Princeton Day School from 1976 to 1980. She graduated from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with a BS degree in 1984. She wrote for The Hoya, Georgetown's school newspaper, and later left that paper to write for The Georgetown Voice, the university's news magazine. In 1985, she earned an MS in journalism from Columbia University.Career
<mask> worked at the Washington City Paper in Washington, D.C. She interned at The Washington Post in 1986 and was later hired full-time. The Wall Street Journal
Swisher joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, working from its bureau in San Francisco. She created and wrote Boom Town, a column devoted to the companies, personalities and culture of Silicon Valley which appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section and online. During that period, she was cited as the most influential reporter covering the Internet by Industry Standard magazine. In 2003, with her colleague Walt Mossberg, she launched the All Things Digital conference and later expanded it into a daily blog called AllThingsD.com. The conference featured interviews by <mask> and Mossberg of top technology executives, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison, all of whom appeared on stage without prepared remarks or slides. Books
She is the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War

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 for the Web, published by Times Business Print Books in July 1998.The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Print Books. In 2021, it was announced that she signed a two-book memoir deal with Simon & Schuster. Recode
On January 1, 2014, <mask> and Mossberg struck out on their own with the Recode website, based in San Francisco. In the spring of 2014 they held the inaugural Code Conference near Los Angeles. Vox Media acquired the website in May 2015. A month later in June 2015, they launched Recode Decode, a weekly podcast in which <mask> interviews prominent figures in the technology space with Stewart Butterfield featured as the first guest. In September 2018, Recode and Vox Media launched  Pivot, a semi-weekly news commentary podcast co-hosted by <mask> and Scott Galloway.In April 2020, New York Magazine announced Pivot would be joining the magazine's properties, subsequently dropping the Recode branding, and <mask> would also be joining as editor-at-large. In May 2020, <mask> Musk, Kevin Systrom's departure from Instagram, Google and censorship, and an internet Bill of Rights. She also answers questions weekly during live videos on Twitter. In September 2020, the Times premiered Sway, a semiweekly podcast hosted by <mask> focused on the subject of power and those who wield it, with Nancy Pelosi featured as her first guest. Other guests have included Georgia politician and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, actor Sacha Baron Cohen, Apple CEO Tim Cook, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, former Presidential candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, film director Spike Lee, Parler CEO John Matze, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, USSF CSO Gen. John W. Raymond,

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 and social activist and celebrity Monica Lewinsky.Other activities
<mask> has also served as a judge for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in New York. Alexander Nazaryan in Newsweek has said "many regard [<mask>] as Silicon Valley's premier journalist". In a New York Magazine profile headlined "<mask> is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? ", Benjamin Wallace described <mask> as one of the "major power brokers of tech reporting" whose "combination of access and toughness has made [her] a preeminent arbiter of status in a Silicon Valley". <mask> told Rolling Stone writer Claire Hoffman:  "A lot of these people I cover are babies", <mask> says. "I always call them papier-mâché – they just wilt."In 2016, <mask> announced she planned to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2023. <mask> wrote of her experiences working for The McLaughlin Group in a 2018 Slate article, in which she alleged that host John McLaughlin abused staff and sexually harassed women. Reflecting on his death from prostate cancer in 2016, she wrote, "I’m so glad he’s dead. Seriously, I’m glad he’s dead. He was a jackass. He deserved it." In January 2019, <mask> told people who disapproved of a Gillette advertisement, following the January 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation "And to all you aggrieved folks who thought this Gillette ad was too much bad-men-shaming, after we just saw it come to life with those awful kids and their fetid smirking harassing that elderly man on the Mall: Go fuck yourselves."Citing <mask>'s comment as an example of how inaccurate many media accounts of the story had been, Caitlin Flanagan of The Atlantic Monthly observed, "You know the left has really changed in this country when you find its denizens ... lionizing the social attitudes of the corporate monolith Procter & Gamble." <mask> apologized in a follow-up tweet two days later. In 2021, <mask> hosted the official

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 companion podcast for the third season of HBO's TV series Succession. Bibliography
 aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads, and Made Millions in the War for the Web. New York: Random House International, 1999. ,
 <mask>; Lisa Dickey There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for the Digital Future New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003. ,

Personal life
<mask> has two sons. In 2018 she divorced her wife, former U.S. CTO and Google executive Megan Smith. She married Amanda Katz in 2020.In 2011 <mask> suffered a "mini-stroke" while on a flight to Hong Kong, where she was subsequently hospitalized and put on anticoagulant medication. She wrote about the experience in a remembrance of Luke Perry, after a stroke led to his death in 2019. <mask> is known for wearing dark aviator sunglasses even while indoors, explaining "I have light sensitivity a little; I just don’t like bright lights." <mask>, who was raised Catholic, identifies as agnostic. Awards

 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Blogging for "Liveblogging Yahoo Earnings Calls in 2010 (They're Funny!)" 2020 Fast Company Queer 50
2021 Fast Company Queer 50

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<mask> (born <mask>, 29 September 1962) is a Maltese politician serving as European Commissioner for Equality since 1 December 2019. She is a member of the Labour Party. Career

Parliamentary Secretary

In 1996, <mask> was elected to the Parliament of Malta and appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Women's Rights in the Office of the Prime Minister. She was re-elected during the five subsequent elections, making her the second most elected woman in Maltese political history. During her two-year tenure, she put forwards a Childcare Bill to provide for regulations of childcare services both in the public and the private sector, and took care of the drafting of the Gender Equality Bill with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme. <mask> also launched Malta's first white paper on domestic violence. Minister

During the 2013-2017 legislature, Dr <mask> was Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties.Under her direction, the Maltese Government introduced several laws and policies to strengthen the equality and human rights framework, including a Civil Unions Act as well as the widening of the anti-discrimination protections in the Maltese constitution to cover the grounds of gender identity and sexual orientation. In April 2015, she presented a law establishing wide-ranging rights for transgender and intersex people. The Gender Identity Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act provides for a right to gender identity and the recognition of one's self-determined gender on official documents, and recognises a right to bodily integrity and physical autonomy. During the same legislature, <mask> introduced a national maternity leave fund to which all employers contribute regardless of the gender of their employees, in order to protect women against discrimination during the recruitment process. In 2015, <mask> led the process for the establishment of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, which the UN now commemorates annually on 11 February. <mask> was also instrumental for the restructuring of the Malta Medicines Authority. <mask> was re-elected from two districts in the 2017 general election.At the start of the new

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 session, she presented  to Parliament  a Bill to introduce marriage equality (same-sex marriage). <mask>'s work in the equality sector led Malta to become the country affording the best legal protection and equality for LGBTIQ people. As a result, Malta has retained the top spot of the ILGA-Europe country index for four consecutive years. During both terms as a Minister, <mask> worked to enhance Malta's human rights and equality structures and their independence, as well as dialogue with civil society and social partners. In view of this, she set up a Human Rights and Equality Directorate that is responsible for Government policy on gender equality and gender mainstreaming, LGBTIQ equality, and migrant integration and anti-racism. She also set up an LGBTIQ Consultative Council, a Consultative Council for Women's Rights and a Forum on Integration Affairs. Following a long and multi-step consultation process, she presented an Equality Bill and a Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill that aim to instil the highest standards in terms of anti-discrimination and equality in all spheres of life, and the setting up of an independent national human rights institution in line with the Paris Principles of the United Nations and European Union equality directives.Following the 2019 European elections, <mask> was nominated by the government of Prime Minister Muscat as Malta's candidate for the subsequent European Commission. Commissioner
In 2019, <mask> was made the European Commissioner for Equality in the von der Leyen Commission. Her Portfolio included leading on EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, developing a European 'gender strategy' to further improve women's rights by improving pay transparency and ensuring implementation of the Women on Boards Directive, ensuring implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive, exploring the addition of 'violence against women' to the list of EU crimes and supporting EU accession to the Istanbul Convention. In November 2021, <mask> launched internal EU guidelines for inclusive language, including saying "holiday season" instead of Christmas, avoiding gendered phrases such as "ladies

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 and gentlemen", and to use names such as "Malika and Julio" for fictional people rather than "Maria and John". The guidelines were criticised by politicians including Antonio Tajani of Forza Italia and former Democratic Party Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi, and were eventually withdrawn. Pope Francis compared the measures to anti-Christian dictatorships in revolutionary France, Nazi Germany and the communist world. In the same month, French ministers Marlène Schiappa and Clément Beaune criticised Dalli for meeting representatives of FEMYSO, a youth group that France considers to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.Academia

<mask> holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the University of Nottingham, and lectures in Economic and Political Sociology, Public Policy, and Sociology of Law at the University of Malta. Recognition

In 2016, <mask> was the first Maltese nominee and winner of the European Diversity Award for her work in human rights and equality at the local and international level. In 2019, <mask> was presented, on behalf of Malta, with the Diversa Internacional award by the Spanish Association of Lawyers and Lawyers against Hate Crimes, in recognition of her work for equality on both the domestic and international fronts. In 2021, <mask> was presented an award by the Spanish Government in recognition of the robustness of the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025. Months later, she received an award on behalf of the European Commission from PROUD, an organisation working for LGBTIQ equality in Czechia, for the same strategy. Literature
Uwe Jens Rudolf: Historical Dictionary of Malta, 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield 2018, , page 75 (Online)

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<mask>, Baroness <mask>,  ( Heyhoe; 11 June 1939 – 18 January 2017) was an English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series: in total, she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. <mask> was captain when her team won the inaugural 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, which England hosted. She was also the first female cricketer to hit a six in a Test match, and one of the first ten women to become a member of the MCC. She also played as goalkeeper for the England national field hockey team in 1964. According to Scyld Berry: "She was, among other achievements, the Dr WG Grace of women's cricket – the pioneer without whom the game would not be what it is." Early life
<mask> was born in Wolverhampton.Her parents Roma Crocker and <mask> were teachers of physical education who met at a college in Denmark. They both taught in Wolverhampton. She was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School from 1950 to 1957, and then attended Dartford College of Physical Education (now part of University of Greenwich) until 1960. Cricket career
<mask> <mask> was chiefly a right-handed batter, and occasional leg spin bowler. She played in 22 Women's Test cricket matches from 1960 to 1979, with a batting average of 45.54 in 38 innings. She took 3 Test wickets and scored three Test centuries, including her highest score of 179 not out, a world record when she scored it in 1976 also against Australia at the Oval, earning a draw to save the series by batting for more than 8½ hours. She also played in 23 Women's One Day Internationals, with a batting average of 58.45 and a top score of

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 114.She was captain of the England women's cricket team for 12 years, 1966 to 1978; while the captain, she never lost a match. She hit the first six in a women's Test match in 1963, at the Oval against Australia. She was instrumental in the effort to hold the first Women's World Cup, securing funding from her friend Jack Hayward. She captained the England team in the tournament, and scored a half-century in the final, which England won against Australia at Edgbaston on 28 July 1973. The women led the men: first men's Cricket World Cup was not held for another two years. In 1970 she was one of those who set up a fund to pay for police protection for the planned South African tour. and she was one of the many who argued that sport and politics should be kept separate.Unequivocally in her 1978 autobiography she said "Who are we... to tell the South Africans how to run their country?" It was, she said, "... their country, and hardly the place of any English people to criticise". This was also the position of the British Women's Cricket Association in which she played a leading part. She was captain of the first England women's team to play at Lord's in the 1976 Women's Ashes series. After being replaced as England captain in 1978, she played her last Test match in the 1979 series against West Indies, but went on to play in the 1982 World Cup. Her final WODI appearance was in the final of the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup. She primarily played domestic cricket for West Midlands, whilst also making appearances for West of England, East Midlands, Warwickshire and various composite XIs.International centuries

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 goalkeeper for the England national field hockey team in 1964 and was a single-figure handicap golfer. She played hockey, squash and golf for Staffordshire. She served on the board of directors of Wolverhampton Wanderers(football club) from 1997 to 2003 and was then a vice-president. Outside sport
She was a teacher of physical education from 1960 to 1964, at Wolverhampton Grammar School and then Northicote School also in Wolverhampton. She then became a journalist with the Wolverhampton Chronicle. She was a sports writer on a freelance basis for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. She also worked as a broadcaster, and in 1973 she was appointed TV's first woman sports presenter with ITV's World of Sport.After retiring from cricket, she continued to work as a journalist and broadcaster and also became an award-winning after-dinner speaker, businesswoman and board director. In 1973, she was selected by the Guild of Professional Toastmasters as the Best After Dinner Speaker. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1972, and was one of the first ten women admitted to the MCC in 1999, as an honorary life member. In 2004, she was the first woman elected to the full committee of the MCC and latterly became a Trustee. She was made a director of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in 1997, later becoming an ex officio Vice-President. She was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands in 1997, and was President of the Lady Taverners charity from 2001 to 2011.She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours, and in October 2010 was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, the first woman to achieve this


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 accolade. She became one of the first female directors of the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2010. On 19 November 2010, it was announced that she was to be ennobled to sit in the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer. "I was completely taken by surprise when I took the call from the Prime Minister in September", <mask> <mask> said. "Obviously I am really thrilled at my appointment but still very humbled at the thought of joining such a historic institution ... My background in sport, journalism, charity and community work will I hope stand me in good stead, and I hope I can make a positive contribution as a working peer. I will certainly look forward to the commute from one Lord's to another Lords." She was subsequently invested as a life peer on 21 January 2011 taking the title Baroness <mask> <mask>, of Wolverhampton in the County of West Midlands.The formal designation of her title without a hyphen broke a rule that peerage titles could only have one word, previously observed by the likes of Lord Lloyd-George, Lord Alanbrooke and Lord Lloyd-Webber. In April 2011, <mask> <mask> was granted the freedom of Wolverhampton. In 2021, it was announced that Marylebone Cricket Club will name a gate at Lords after <mask> <mask> <mask>. Private life
On 1 November 1971, <mask> <mask> married <mask> (1924–2018). Her husband had a first-class cricket career comprising 10 matches for Warwickshire CCC in 1948–1949 playing as a leg-spin and googly bowler. She adopted a double-barrelled surname, becoming <mask> <mask> <mask> (erroneously hyphenated in many sources as "<mask>-<mask>"). Their son Ben (born 1974) also played cricket.He emigrated to Singapore in 2001 where he runs businesses

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 related to sports and entertainment. She was also stepmother to <mask>'s children: Simon, Hazel and <mask>. Death
Her death, after a short illness, was announced by Lord's on 18 January 2017. She was remembered during the in memoriam at the 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. In memory of <mask> <mask> Heyhoe Flint Award. In 2020, the women's domestic 50-over competition was named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Bibliography
With Netta Rheinberg, she co-authored a history of women's cricket: Fair Play: The Story of Women's Cricket, Angus & Robertson, 1976, ().She also wrote an instructional guide to field hockey called, <mask> Heyhoe <mask>: Field Hockey with Barron's Sports Books () in 1978. She authored her autobiography Heyhoe () in 1978, published by Pelham Books with a foreword from comedian and cricket-lover Eric Morecambe. See also
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Derrick Flint
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<mask> (born July 2, 1966 in San Francisco, CA) is a business executive, fashion guru, and philanthropist. He is best known as a former high-ranking executive at online shoe retailer Zappos, where he played a significant role in the company’s growth, as well as being the founder of Las Vegas-centric investment fund Honus Capital, LLC and co-founder of luxury fashion brand Ross and Snow. Business
After graduating with a business degree from Southern Oregon University in 1990, <mask> moved to Seattle and joined Nordstrom in 1991. He spent the next eight years at Nordstrom, living in Sacramento, Hawaii, and San Francisco. In 1999, while working for Nordstrom in San Francisco, <mask> was contacted by Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn to join his new company, then known as ShoeSite.com. Initially the Senior Vice President of Merchandising at Zappos, <mask>’s responsibilities expanded to overseeing a variety of departments, including the Customer Loyalty Team, Human Resources, Recruiting, Benefits, and Marketing. His wide range of duties led to his official position with the company to be known as “No Title”.During <mask>'s tenure at Zappos, the company abolished its traditional hierarchy and adopted holacracy. In April 2016, <mask> announced his departure from Zappos after nearly 17 years at the company, citing his desire to pursue full-time entrepreneurship. In the email announcing his departure, <mask> stated that he would remain with the company until June 3, 2016, to aid with the transition, and would remain in Las Vegas to focus on several projects in the area, including the Downtown Project (a downtown revitalization project started by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh), Mexican restaurant chain Nacho Daddy, area cultural festival Life is Beautiful and “close air support” training

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Fred Mossler
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