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<mask> (born July 9, 1973) is a former American football quarterback. He is the director of community relations and fundraising for the University of Washington football program, his alma mater. <mask> was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent in 1996, and played twelve seasons in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, and Kansas City Chiefs. While with the Patriots, he won two Super Bowl rings. Early years
Born in Yakima, Washington, <mask> was raised southeast of Tacoma in Puyallup, where his father Mike was a high school teacher and head football  He was the first to hold a snap for kicker Ryan Longwell when they played for Aylen Junior High. <mask> attended Puyallup High School, where he was a letterman for the Vikings in football and basketball. He played tight end as a sophomore, as the quarterback was senior Billy Joe Hobert.As a senior in 1990, <mask> was named the Powerade State Player of the Year and won All-America honors. College career
After graduation from high school, <mask> attended the University of Washington in Seattle, where he redshirted in 1991, the Huskies' national championship season. Wearing jersey number 7, he started for the first time in 1993 under first-year head coach Jim Lambright, and continued as a starter through 1995. That season, he passed for 2,415 yards and 11 touchdowns; he finished his career as the Huskies' all-time passing leader with 5,692 yards. As a junior in 1994, <mask> led the Dawgs to an 18-point victory over the Miami Hurricanes at the Orange Bowl, halting their nine-year home winning streak at 58 games. Professional career

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After going undrafted in the 1996 NFL Draft, <mask> was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals as an undrafted free agent, but was waived on August 19. Miami Dolphins
After spending the 1996 season out of football, <mask> signed with the Miami Dolphins on April 24, 1997.He was released during final cuts on August 24, but was re-signed to the team's practice squad two days later. He was promoted to the active roster on September 6 and spent the remainder of the season as the Dolphins' third quarterback. Following the season, <mask> played in NFL Europe for the Frankfurt Galaxy. In 1998, <mask> saw action in two games for the Dolphins as a reserve, while acting as the team's third quarterback in eight games. He finished the season six-of-nine for 85 yards and an interception. <mask> began the 1999 season as the Dolphins' holder on the field goal unit, but following an injury to starter Dan Marino, in the future Hall of Famer's final season, <mask> started his first NFL game on October 24 after replacing Marino on October 17. He won his first three games that he started, tying a Dolphins record set by Earl Morrall in 1972.<mask> posted a  record before Marino returned in November, finishing the regular season with eight touchdowns, four interceptions, and 1,288 passing yards. <mask> also saw time in the playoffs, replacing Marino for the second half of a  loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Several weeks earlier on December 3, he signed a two-year contract extension with the Dolphins. Despite <mask>'s performance in 1999, Jay Fiedler was signed to be the Dolphins' starter in 2000. <mask> started one game in Fiedler's place, a  win over the Colts on November 26. On that day, <mask> and his brother Brock became the NFL's first set of brothers to start at QB on the same weekend in league history. <mask> made his only start that year against the Colts, while Brock started against the Denver Broncos for the Seahawks.New England Patriots
A free agent after the 2000 season, <mask> signed with the New England Patriots. At training camp, he competed with second-year Tom Brady and third-year Michael Bishop for the backup job behind long-time starter Drew Bledsoe; In 2001 Brady became the team's second quarterback and <mask> the third for the start of the season. When Bledsoe was injured in Week 2, Brady became the Patriots' starter for the remainder of the season, while <mask> was the backup until Bledsoe returned in Week 10. As the third quarterback, <mask> won his first Super Bowl ring in February 2002 when the Patriots beat the St. Louis Rams. <mask> appeared in his first game as a Patriot in 2002, leading a touchdown drive in a blowout win over the New York Jets on September 15. Later in the season, he entered a game in a punt formation and ran a successful quarterback sneak for a first down. While a backup for the Patriots in 2003, <mask> saw time in two more games while also seeing time on the team's scout team during practice.Before the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts, he mimicked the line calls and audibles of Colts quarterback Peyton Manning for the Patriots' defense during practice. Kansas City Chiefs

After 2003, <mask> signed with the Kansas City Chiefs as a free agent. As the team's third quarterback, he did not see any action for his first two seasons (2004 and 2005). In the 2006 opener, starter Trent Green suffered a concussion and was replaced by <mask>. He started the next seven games, posting a  record until suffering a groin injury. Green returned and started the remainder of the season and the team's playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts. After the season, the Chiefs signed <mask> to a three-year contract extension, and Green was traded to the Miami Dolphins.During the 2006 season, <mask> set the NFL record for lowest percentage passes intercepted in a season among qualified players, with only one of his 244 attempts being intercepted. In the Chiefs' 2007 training camp, <mask> competed with second-year Brodie Croyle, the team's third-round  draft choice in 2006. <mask> was named the starter on August 25, and started the first nine games of the season, going  In his final start, <mask> suffered a back injury and was replaced by Croyle, but Croyle himself was injured after his second start, both losses, and <mask> returned as the starter in Week 13. He suffered a hand injury in the game and Croyle started the Chiefs' next two games. In Week 16, Croyle was injured again and <mask> saw time in a reserve before Croyle returned to start the last game of the season. The Chiefs ended the season on a nine-game losing streak. Croyle started the opener in 2008, but again suffered an injury and was replaced by <mask>.In Week 2, <mask> started but suffered a concussion and was replaced by Tyler Thigpen, a seventh-round draft pick in 2007. Thigpen started the Chiefs' Week 3 game before <mask> returned for Weeks 4 and 5. Croyle returned after the bye week in Week 7 to start, was injured again, and replaced by <mask>, who suffered a thumb injury. He was placed on injured reserve the next week, ending his season. The same week, Croyle was also placed on injured reserve, leaving Thigpen as the Chiefs' starter for the remainder of the season. Following the season, Scott Pioli, the Patriots' director of player personnel during <mask>'s tenure in New England, was hired to be the Chiefs' general manager. <mask> was released by the Chiefs on February 24, roughly a week before Pioli traded for Matt Cassel, a Patriots backup who replaced an injured Brady in 2008, to be the Chiefs' starter in 2009.San Francisco 49ers
Huard signed with the San Francisco 49ers on March 4, 2009, and competed for a job behind Alex Smith with Shaun Hill and 2009 fifth-round pick Nate Davis, he was released on September 1, and retired. After football
The University of Washington announced in June 2013 that former Husky quarterback <mask> had taken a new role as Chief Administrative Officer of the football program. Huard had been a fundraiser for the previous three seasons in the athletic department. Under new head coach Chris Petersen, <mask> became director of external relations. Since 2010, he has been the analyst on Husky radio broadcasts, alongside Bob Rondeau. <mask> and former teammate Dan Marino have a winemaking venture in Woodinville called

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Huard and his wife Julie Ann have three children. His younger brothers were also quarterbacks at Puyallup: Brock also started at Washington and in the NFL, and Luke played at

His son, <mask>, is a left handed quarterback in the class of 2021 who attends the University of Washington.Sam started his first game in the 2021 Apple Cup. See also

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<mask> OIH (; born 4 November 1972) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a winger for Sporting CP, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Inter Milan. He won 127 caps for the Portugal national team, a one-time record that has since been bettered by Cristiano Ronaldo and João Moutinho. He is considered one of the best Portuguese football players of all time. Renowned for his creativity and ability to get past defenders as a winger, <mask> is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation. His 106 assists are the second-most in La Liga history, behind Lionel Messi. He won the 2000 Ballon d'Or, 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, and in 2004 Pelé named him in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. <mask> is one of the few football players to have played for both Spanish rival clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid.His controversial transfer in 2000 from Barcelona to bitter rivals Real Madrid set a world record fee of €62 million. <mask> had a successful career highlighted by several trophy wins, including the Portuguese Cup, four La Liga titles, two Spanish Cups, three Spanish Super Cups, one UEFA Champions League title, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, two UEFA Super Cups, one Intercontinental Cup, four Serie A titles, one Italian Cup and three Italian Super Cups. At international level, he scored 32 goals for Portugal, representing the nation at three European Championships and two World Cups, helping them reach the final but finish as runners-up at Euro 2004. Early years
The only child of António Caeiro <mask> and Maria Joana Pestana Madeira who moved from Alentejo to Lisbon in the early 1970s, <mask> grew up in the working-class district of Cova da Piedade, Almada. He began his career as a street footballer at U.F.C. Os Pastilhas, before joining the academy of Sporting Clube de Portugal at the age of 12. In his youth, <mask> played futsal from which he learned a lot of skills that helped him later in his career.Club career

Sporting CP
Figo started his career at Sporting CP, making his league debut on 1 April 1990 during the 1989–90 season as a substitute for Marlon Brandão in a 1–0 home win against Marítimo. On 7 December 1991, <mask> scored his first goal against Torreense in the 1991–92 season, equalising as Sporting won 2–1. He won his first senior international cap in 1991. Prior to that, he won the 1991 FIFA Under-20 World Championships and Under-16 European Championships with Portugal junior sides alongside Rui Costa and João Pinto. He was also a significant part of Portugal's "Golden Generation". In his final season at Sporting he won the 1994–95 Portuguese Cup. Barcelona
In 1995, <mask> looked poised to join one of the big clubs of Europe, but a dispute between Italian clubs Juventus and Parma, with <mask> having signed contracts with both clubs, resulted in an Italian two-year transfer ban on him.Eventually, <mask> made a move to Spanish giants Barcelona for a £2.25 million fee, being loaned back for the remainder of the season due to a rule prohibiting Portuguese players from signing for foreign clubs outside a fixed period. This rule had prevented <mask> from joining English club Manchester City, where he had been recommended by his former Sporting manager Malcolm Allison for a fee of around £1.2 million. It was with Barcelona that <mask>'s career really took off, winning the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, starring alongside Ronaldo, followed by successive Primera División titles where he was part of a formidable attack which included Rivaldo and Patrick Kluivert. In total, <mask> appeared 172 times in the league for Barcelona, scoring 30 goals. He was revered in Barcelona because his presence in a Barcelona shirt had given to Catalonia a sense of external approval. Real Madrid

In July 2000, <mask> made a surprising and controversial €62 million move to Barcelona's bitter rivals Real Madrid. Real Madrid met the buy out clause in <mask>'s contract at Barcelona, a new world record fee, and his arrival at Madrid signalled the beginning of Florentino Pérez's Galáctico era of global stars signed by the club every year.<mask> became the new focus of the Barcelona–Real Madrid rivalry, with Barcelona fans feeling betrayed by his transfer and turned against him. His move to Madrid was significant due to his status as a star player at Barcelona, reliable and always committed to the cause as a team leader. One of his Barcelona teammates stated, "Our plan was simple: give the ball to <mask>. He never, ever hid". Although now wearing the white shirt of Real Madrid, he won the Ballon d'Or award in November 2000, largely for what he did for Barcelona where he became the best in the world. When <mask> returned to Barcelona for the first time in a Real Madrid shirt on 21 October 2000, the noise at Camp Nou was deafening. There were banners hung around the stadium with words like "Traitor", "Judas", "Scum", and "Mercenary".<mask> was mercilessly taunted throughout, and when he came out of the tunnel and ran onto the field the jeers of almost 98,000 Barcelona fans escalated, with a visibly shocked <mask> putting his fingers to his ears. When El Clásico started, each time <mask> got the ball the noise rose with insults and missiles flying such as oranges, bottles, cigarette lighters and mobile phones. The regular corner taker for Madrid, <mask> did not take any corners at the Camp Nou to avoid being in close proximity to the fans. Barcelona were victorious, winning 2–0, and Real Madrid President Florentino Pérez stated after the match, "The atmosphere got to us all." Madrid defender Iván Campo commented,

In his first season with Madrid, <mask> won the 2001 La Liga title, scoring 14 goals in all competitions. For his performances at Real, he received the 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year. He would be joined at the club by Zinedine Zidane in the middle of 2001, and in the following season Madrid won the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League.He missed two fixtures against Barcelona through injury and suspension. <mask>'s second game back at the Camp Nou, on 23 November 2002, produced one of the defining images of the Barcelona–Real Madrid rivalry. There was no sign of the hatred or the hurt subsiding, and every time he came within range of the Barcelona fans, beer cans, lighters, bottles and golf balls flew. <mask> commented, "I was worried that some madman might lose his head." This time, <mask> had decided that he would take corners, as well as throw-ins, and midway through the second half Madrid won a corner. Amid a shower of flying objects, it took Figo two minutes to take it. Another corner followed on the other side, and as <mask> walked across, he slowed to pick up the missiles and as he prepared to take the corner he moved away some of the debris while giving an ironic thumbs-up and smiling.Every time he began his run-up to take the corner, another missile would land which was repeated over and over, until the referee Luis Medina Cantalejo suspended the game for almost 20 minutes. During the break in play, the defining image of the rivalry, a pig's head, was picked up on camera, which was in among the debris near the corner flag. <mask> would spend five seasons at Madrid, with his final success being the 2003 La Liga title. In April 2013, <mask> was named by the sports newspaper Marca as a member of the "Best foreign eleven in Real Madrid's history". Inter Milan

<mask> left Real Madrid to join the Italian club Inter Milan in the middle of 2005 on a free transfer after his contract with Madrid had expired. This meant that <mask> would finally be able to play for a club in Italy, something he had the chance to do before his move to Barcelona, but was scuppered due to a dispute between the two clubs interested, Juventus and Parma. During the middle of 2008, <mask>'s compatriot José Mourinho joined Inter as manager.This has been said to please <mask>, as he would have several Portuguese teammates during the remainder of his stay at Inter. On 16 May 2009, <mask> announced his retirement from football, the same day Inter won the 2008–09 title, and re-confirmed this on 30 May; his final game was on 31 May against Atalanta at the San Siro. At Javier Zanetti's insistence, <mask> captained the side for his last match. He received a standing ovation from the crowd as he was substituted by Davide Santon. The free-kick he scored in extra time against Roma during the Supercoppa Italiana was his most memorable moment in Italy. <mask> said, "I am leaving football, not Inter." He was interviewed by Inter Channel after his last game against Atalanta and also said, "I hope to be able to help this club to become even greater also after my retirement.I will certainly work for Inter in the future on the club board. I never imagined that I was going to remain here for such a long time. What I will never forget is the love that I have received since my first day here from my teammates and president Massimo Moratti. I will never forget it; Inter has given me the chance to start a winning cycle with some extraordinary people." <mask> was on the sidelines when Inter won the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League on 22 May 2010.

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Early international career

The leader of Portugal's "Golden Generation", <mask> won a FIFA World Youth Championship in 1991, the same year he made his senior debut against Luxembourg on 16 October 1991, in a friendly match that ended 1–1 when he was only 18 years old. His first goal equalised in a 2–1 friendly victory over Bulgaria in Paris on 11 November 1992. Figo scored three goals in eight qualifying games for UEFA Euro 1996, as his country reached the continental tournament for the first time in 12 years.In the final group game at the tournament, against Croatia at the City Ground in Nottingham, <mask> opened a 3–0 victory with a fourth-minute strike; the result sent Portugal into the quarter-finals as group winners ahead of their opponents. Euro 2000 and 2002 World Cup
<mask> featured in all ten of Portugal's qualifiers for the next European Championship, scoring three times in the process. On 12 June 2000, in their opening game of the tournament in Eindhoven, he scored Portugal's first goal as they came from behind to beat England 3–2, again advancing as group winners to be eliminated in the semi-finals. He was rested by Humberto Coelho for the final group match against Germany in Rotterdam, breaking a chain of 32 consecutive international appearances. His only hat-trick for the national team came on 15 August 2001, when he netted all of the goals in a 3–0 friendly victory over Moldova at the Estádio de São Luís in Faro. With six goals in nine matches, <mask> helped Portugal qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup; on 2 June 2001, in the qualifier against the Republic of Ireland at Lansdowne Road, he served as captain for the first time on his 74th cap and scored the equaliser for a 1–1 draw. In their first World Cup since 1986, Portugal suffered group stage elimination while <mask> failed to score a goal.Euro 2004 and 2006 World Cup
On 18 February 2004, <mask> earned his 100th cap in a 1–1 friendly draw with England at the Estádio Algarve, playing as captain despite regular skipper Fernando Couto being in the starting line-up. Later that year at the European Championship on home soil, he captained the side after Couto was dropped. He announced his retirement from international football following the Euro 2004 final upset-defeat by Greece due to an alleged rift between him and national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, although this was denied. In June 2005, he reversed his decision and returned for the 2006 World Cup qualifying wins against Slovakia and Estonia under Scolari. <mask> captained the squad during the 2006 World Cup, leading the team to the semi-finals. With three wins, Portugal finished top of their group and qualified for the knock-out rounds with Mexico. They advanced past the Netherlands in the last 16, and defeated England on penalties in the quarter-final.<mask> did not take part in the shootout, having been substituted for Hélder Postiga. In the semi-final, Portugal was beaten by France courtesy of a penalty from his former club-mate and French captain Zinedine Zidane. This was Portugal's best finish in 40 years. The third-place playoff caused some controversy as <mask> did not start; Pauleta captained the team in his place. However, Portugal fell behind 2–0 to hosts Germany and <mask> replaced Pauleta in the 77th minute, who handed him back the captain's armband to cheers from both Portuguese and German fans. Although Germany scored another goal shortly after <mask>'s entrance, he ended his final cap for his country on a high note by setting up Nuno Gomes to head in an 88th-minute consolation goal, thus passing his number 7 jersey down to his successor, Cristiano Ronaldo. Despite having no trophies to show for the "Golden Generation", <mask> managed to captain the team to their best World Cup performance since the Eusébio era in 1966, as well as helping Portugal to their best-ever result in the UEFA European Championship until they won it in 2016.He finished his international career with 127 caps and scoring 32 goals, and held the record until June 2016 for most appearances with the Portugal national team; he is also Portugal's fourth-highest all-time goalscorer. Style of play
<mask> is regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation, and one of the greatest Portuguese players of all time. At his physical peak, <mask> was a quick, elegant, highly skillful player with close control, acceleration, and a dribbling ability that allowed him to frequently take on and beat defenders in one on one situations. He would often employ feints to beat opponents, such as stepovers. Although naturally right-footed, he was capable of using either foot. <mask> was usually deployed as a winger in his early career, where he was capable of providing several assists, due to his ability to provide curling crosses to teammates from the right flank, or cut inside, drift onto the left, or link-up with midfielders, and create goalscoring opportunities. He has made the second-most assists in La Liga history behind Lionel Messi.As he lost pace and mobility with age as his career advanced, he was deployed in a playmaking role as an attacking midfielder, in particular during his time with Inter, where he excelled with his vision, intelligence and varied passing ability. Although he primarily served as a creative player, he was also capable of contributing offensively with goals due to his powerful striking ability from distance, as well as his accuracy from free-kicks and penalties. In addition to his football ability, <mask> was also highly regarded for his leadership throughout his career. Media

<mask> has appeared in commercials for the sportswear company Nike. In 1996, he starred in a Nike commercial titled "Good vs Evil" in a gladiatorial game set in a Roman amphitheatre. Appearing alongside football players from around the world, including Ronaldo, Paolo Maldini, Ian Wright, Eric Cantona, Patrick Kluivert and Jorge Campos, they defend "the beautiful game" against a team of demonic warriors, before it culminates with Cantona striking the ball and destroying evil. In a global Nike advertising campaign in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, <mask> starred in a "Secret Tournament" commercial (branded by Nike as "Scorpion KO") directed by Terry Gilliam, appearing alongside football players such as Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Roberto Carlos and Japanese star Hidetoshi Nakata, with former player Eric Cantona the tournament "referee".<mask> features in EA Sports' FIFA video game series; he was named in the Ultimate Team Legends in FIFA 14. In 2015, the arcade game company Konami announced that <mask> would feature in their football video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 as one of the new myClub Legends. In 2018, <mask> was added as an icon to the Ultimate Team in FIFA 19. He has also taken part in several Iranian television shows such as Navad TV during the 2018 World Cup draw, together with Hamid Estili and former Hamburg player Mehdi Mahdavikia. FIFA presidency campaign
On 28 January 2015, <mask> announced his intention to run against incumbent Sepp Blatter for the position of FIFA president. His endorsers included José Mourinho and David Beckham. In his manifesto, <mask> mentioned his support for expanding the World Cup to 48-team finals tournaments, and promised greater investment in grassroots football and national federations.Considered an outsider compared to Blatter and the other two candidates – Michael van Praag and Prince Ali of Jordan – <mask> withdrew from the election campaign on 21 May, stating that he did not want to be given "absolute power". Personal life

<mask> is married to Swedish model Helen Svedin. They have three daughters – Daniela (born in 1999), Martina (born in 2002), and Stella (born in 2004). Along with his countryman, former Portugal national team manager and former youth team coach Carlos Queiroz, <mask> was briefly joint seat holder for A1 Team Portugal, in A1 Grand Prix, during the 2005–06 season. He owns an upscale bar in the Algarve region of Portugal. <mask> is an ambassador for the Stop TB Partnership in the fight against tuberculosis. He works closely with Inter Milan, serving as an ambassador for the club at functions across Europe.He is also a board member of the Inter Campus charity project run by Inter Milan. <mask> is the founder of Network90, a private members' networking site for the Professional Football Industry. <mask> is fluent in five languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian and French. He has also congratulated his wife on her birthday on Instagram in Swedish, although he has never spoken the language in media appearances. Career statistics

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<mask> "Jake" <mask> (25 September 1980 – 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm. He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations. A military inquiry found Private <mask> accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol. This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was "irresponsibly self-inflicted", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he "disregarded the possible consequences of danger". Early life
<mask> grew up in Briagolong in Victoria's Gippsland region, east of Melbourne, and completed the Victorian Certificate of Education at Maffra Secondary College in 1998. Before enlisting in the army, he worked in a knackery processing dead livestock. He was a keen mountain bike rider and also raced motorcycles.He was married to Shelley and they had two children, Tyrie and Alana. Military career
<mask> enlisted in the Australian Army in March 2002 and was posted to the School of Infantry, Singleton, in May 2002. After completing his Initial Employment Training as a rifleman, he served in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, Australia's airborne battalion. After being posted to the 3rd Battalion, he was trained as a heavy weapons operator before training to become a sniper. <mask> was deployed to Iraq as part of an ongoing 110-person Security Detachment Iraq protecting Australian officials at the embassy in Baghdad. Death
Private <mask> died from a single bullet wound to the head while he was in the accommodation barracks shared with two other soldiers soon after he returned from an observation/ guard duty. <mask> was immediately taken to a nearby US military hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.It was initially reported by Australian Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, that <mask> had shot himself accidentally while cleaning his weapon, a Browning Hi-Power Mk. III pistol. This story was later changed to suggest the pistol discharged spontaneously. Standard weapons handling procedures for ADF personnel on deployment, require all weapons to be unloaded on entering the perimeter of a fortified barracks such as Kovco's. The possibility of the pistol discharging by itself was discredited by the former head of Australia's military, General Peter Cosgrove. When asked on radio whether he had seen a pistol such as Private <mask>'s self-discharge during his 40 years of military service, he replied, "Weapons tend not to self-detonate." In the days after <mask>'s death Nelson spoke widely to the media, making a variety of claims, including:

"[H]e might not have been actually handling the weapon but it was very close to him," "There was obviously a live round in it, which there should not have been," "He was doing something other than handling his firearm and in the process of fiddling about with the other equipment he had, it would appear that in some way he knocked the gun and it discharged," and, "There is no suggestion it was anything other than an accident."In a media release of 29 April, Nelson asked for speculation on the death to cease, stating "I think what's most important now is that Australians appreciate that speculation, much of which is wild and ill-informed, is as unhelpful to getting to the bottom of the death of PTE Kovco as it is hurtful to the family." Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, made a statement that two other soldiers (<mask>'s roommates) were in the room with <mask> but "it appeared that neither of them was looking at PTE Kovco when the weapon discharged. Essentially when they looked up he had clearly been shot," he said. Suggestions of suicide were vehemently rejected by <mask>'s mother, who suggested that senior military officials knew what happened to her son but refused to tell the truth. Although the ADF refused to respond officially pending inquiries, a "senior military source" said <mask> was "emailing when the gun fired", and that it appeared the computer had slipped off his lap and landed on the pistol, causing it to discharge. Repatriation
Private <mask>'s body was originally scheduled to be returned to Australia on 26 April 2006. It was apparently misplaced during its return to Melbourne, and the body of 47-year-old Bosnian civilian contractor Juso Sinanovic was sent to Australia in its place – a mistake Brendan Nelson blamed on a mortuary attached to the Al-Sabah General Hospital in Kuwait and the private contractor Kenyon International.Kenyon International, a privately owned company, was exonerated of any wrongdoing. According to Military Board of Inquiry's final report, Kenyon was contracted to return Private Kovko's remains, but at no stage was Kenyon International required to identify Kovko. His company sergeant major in Iraq, Warrant Officer Tim Cuming, accompanied Kovco's body back to Australia. Cuming claimed privilege against self-incrimination during the coronial inquest into Kovco's fatal shooting, against allegations that he intimidated military witnesses before the military inquiry. Sinanovic's death was investigated by Victorian coroner Graeme Johnstone, and his body was returned to Kuwait and the care of his former employers Kellogg, Brown and Root on 11 May. During this time his family were not contacted by Australian authorities. Continued delays in repatriating Sinanovic's body to his home village outside Tuzla led to the involvement on 17 May of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who undertook to "see if there is anything we can do".Shadow Defence spokesman Robert McClelland said it seemed American personnel had transported <mask>'s body via a US military mortuary and then to the private mortuary, after it arrived in Kuwait on an Australian C130 Hercules transport aircraft. "There was some identification before the body was treated in the morgue but none when it came out, certainly contrary to what would be standard coronial procedures," he said. Military Board of Inquiry
Because <mask>'s battalion was based at Holsworthy, New South Wales, his widow asked that his body be returned to Australia from Kuwait via Sydney Airport, where it arrived around 7a.m. on 29 April 2006. The coffin was met by <mask>'s widow, Shelley, his children, parents Judy and Martin, other family members, and an honour guard of 300 3rd Battalion personnel wearing black armbands and dress uniform. Chief of the Defence Force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, Chief of Army Lieutenant-General Peter Leahy, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson and Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock. <mask>'s family later formally identified his body at the mortuary in Glebe.New South Wales coroner John Abernethy, assumed "jurisdiction in relation to any inquiry into his identity, the date and place of his death and the manner and cause of his death", and organised for homicide investigators at the State Crime Command to coordinate the investigation with the army's special investigations branch. An autopsy conducted on 1 May 2006 determined the cause of death to have been a single bullet wound to the head. The shot left no powder burn, and passed straight through the soldier's body, close to his temple. The bullet itself was not passed to the coroner, and is apparently missing. A military board of inquiry, headed by former NSW coroner, Group Captain Warren Cook, and including former Queensland police commissioner Jim O'Sullivan and Colonel Michael Charles, was established to be conducted out of Sydney's Victoria Barracks, and Brigadier Elizabeth Cosson was appointed to investigate the repatriation. Cosson's team travelled to Kuwait on 30 April to investigate the circumstances which led to the "casket bungle". Coroner Abernethy was reported to have questioned Defence Minister Nelson on his three conflicting public statements about <mask>'s death.Military board of inquiry
The military board of inquiry led by Warren Cook convened to investigate issues surrounding the death and the repatriation to Sydney. The opening statement of council assisting Colonel Michael Griffin – via video link from Baghdad – included the revelation that on 21 March, just 14 days into his tour of duty, Private Kovko had dreamt of and written in his journal about his death by a shot to the head from his own pistol:

"I dreamt I was sitting in our room (here) by myself and for some unknown reason I pulled out my 9 mm pistol and shot myself in the head!? I have no idea why but it seemed I wanted to see what it felt like." <mask> described hearing "the click of the hammer" as he shot himself, but he wrote, instead of a loud crack, "the sound went dull as the bullet entered my skull. It was like I could feel the bullet inside…a few seconds later I went limp and started gushing blood from the wounds, nose, ears and mouth. I then seemed to die and woke up and said, fuck, that hurts." <mask> went on to write that night that he was not suicidal, but believed the dream was a premonition."I have no intention of shooting myself," he wrote. "I know it wasn't about killing myself so I'm a bit worried that it might be a premonition about a bullet hitting me in the head but not killing me." According to Private Ray Johnson, one of the two soldiers with <mask> at the time of the shooting, "Dreams" by The Cranberries was playing on an mp3 player and <mask> stood at his bunk bed typing on his laptop while the men laughed and mimicked the lead singer Dolores O'Riordan. But the 23-year-old private did not see <mask> place his gun, which had been hanging holstered from the bed, to his head. In a written statement, Johnson said:

On 1 December 2006, Defence Chief Angus Houston announced that the board of inquiry had determined that <mask> died as a result of the inappropriate handling of his personal weapon while engaging in skylarking behaviour. <mask>'s mother, Judy, was dissatisfied with the findings and sought an independent coronial inquiry. Funeral
A funeral service was held on 2 May 2006 in the town hall of his home town of Briagolong.It was attended by several hundred mourners including the Prime Minister and Defence Minister, a large 3rd Battalion presence led by its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mick Mumford, and a significant media contingent. Australian soldiers in Baghdad held a pre-dawn ceremony, led by Brigadier Paul Symon, to coincide with the funeral. <mask> was buried with full military honours, including a three-volley gun salute and flypast, at the cemetery at nearby Sale later that day. There was some criticism of the addition of <mask>'s name to the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on 11 November 2006. The former president of the New South Wales Vietnam Veterans Association, Barry Billing, criticised the inclusion on the grounds that <mask> did not die as a result of hostile action. The inclusion was consistent with standard practice, however, as the names of all members of the Australian military who have died as the result of service in a war zone are included on the Roll of Honor without regard to their cause of death. Draft report misplaced
On 15 May 2006, a CD-ROM containing a confidential draft copy of the Defence Department's report detailing the body repatriation "bungle" was accidentally left in the drive of an airline lounge computer at Melbourne Airport by the investigating officer, Brigadier Elizabeth Cosson.Subsequently, Melbourne radio journalist Derryn Hinch, who claims to have received the CD from the person who found it, broadcast some of the details of the report:

"I'm deeply embarrassed about it and I deeply regret the circumstances," Air Chief Marshal Houston told a conference on 17 May, and appealed to the media to treat the material sensitively. The draft report appears to stop short of finding anyone at fault for the problems with <mask>'s repatriation. Coronial inquiry
After lobbying by Jake Kovko's mother, <mask>, a Coronial inquest opened 11 February 2008 at the Glebe Coroner's Court. After eight weeks of evidence, including controversial elements of <mask>'s personal history that it was thought may have contributed to his death, the Coronial Jury found it could not determine <mask>'s state of mind or whether he knew the weapon was loaded. It did find that "on the balance of probabilities" it was likely that he had not intended to take his own life. Before the verdict was handed down, counsel assisting the coroner, John Agius, told the jury the theory that <mask> had been shot by another soldier was "no more than the last grasp of a loving mother who cannot bring herself to accept that her son was less than perfect". Although numerous witnesses were excused from those originally summoned, the inquest ran longer than expected due to the re-ordering of witnesses and the possibility of recalling several witnesses late in the inquiry.A request was made by counsel representing Kovco's parents to recall several witnesses after Private Kovco's company sergeant-major in Iraq, Warrant Officer Tim Cuming, was questioned. A report submitted as evidence by Major Kyle Tyrell stated that several soldiers had made allegations that Cuming had intimidated them and attempted to influence their evidence before the military board of inquiry was convened. Asked about these allegations, Warrant Officer Cuming said " I claim privilege against self-incrimination". Requests by legal counsel to recall witnesses who were potentially affected by Warrant Officer Cuming's actions were denied. The coronial inquiry concluded on 2 April 2008. References

External links
 Board of Inquiry Report into the death of Private Jake Kovco
 Defence Response to the Board of Inquiry Report
 Cosson Report Executive Summary

1980 births
2006 deaths
Australian military personnel of the Iraq War
Australian Army soldiers
Australian military personnel killed in the Iraq War
Deaths by firearm in Iraq
Military personnel from Melbourne

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Jacob Bruce
Kovco
Kovco
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Kovco
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<mask> (1887–1981) was a socialist, trade unionist, educator, peace campaigner and politician from the English town of Reading. She was continuously active between the 1910s and the 1970s, and was a leading citizen of Reading over the middle part of the twentieth century. Particularly notable was that her local campaigning developed into an effort to broaden her own and her fellow citizens' awareness of issues of international peace and progress. She was a pioneer of local authority nursery education, and a founder of the post-war twin towns movement. Most significantly she developed a twin-town link enabling aid and practical assistance to the German city of Düsseldorf while it was still recovering from the devastation of World War II bombing. The link survives to this day. Early career and activity

<mask> was born in Reading in 1887, the daughter of a farrier and publican and his devout Anglican wife.Originally an Anglican herself, <mask> in later life became a Quaker. Beginning work in the Reading Post Office in about 1901, she was an active trade unionist, and became a leading member of the Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association. Early influences on <mask> were John Rabson, a socialist councillor and fellow trade unionist, and Edith Morley of Reading University, the first female professor in the country. The Reading branch was a pioneer of the Workers' Educational Association, and <mask> enrolled on Morley's WEA classes in English Literature. "Morley was a socialist, a suffragette, and a member of the Fabian Women's Group. Her ideas had a great influence on <mask>, and the two became life-long friends" (quoted in Stout 1997 p 12). During the First World War, <mask> was a pacifist, and left the Anglican Church over the issue.Her pacifism made her unenthusiastic about the idea of a Bolshevik-style revolution in Britain. During the war she began her freelance journalism career, and was a writer all her life (Stout 1997, Chapter 1). Her first public role was on the local Profiteering Committee in 1919. She had already led a protest march the previous Christmas, with women at the head, against profiteering by food suppliers. The "Reading Worker" describes <mask> addressing the crowd: "Miss Blackall tells of the women of her class who have to leave their household duties to stand in queues for hours, only to be turned away unable to buy the necessary food for their families. She protests against such indignities being inflicted on her sex and class". Also in 1919 she was elected to the Reading Board of Guardians together with <mask>, whom she married in 1922.Albert had been a teacher of English in Germany, and had been interned there during the First World War. He remained a remarkably supportive and selfless partner until his death in 1953. They had one daughter. As a Poor Law Guardian, <mask> gained first-hand experience of poverty and the administration of the rudimentary welfare system in the town, including the workhouse provision. Political career

In 1923 <mask> was an unsuccessful Labour parliamentary candidate in South Berks, and was also active in the General Strike of 1926. The Cusdens and others took in 70 striking miners' children from South Wales. She established the Reading Women's branch of the Labour Party, and in 1931, after three failed attempts was elected to Reading Council, as only the second female councillor in its history.Her principal interest on the Council was education, particularly nursery schools, but she was also involved in housing, town planning, health and related issues. She had begun editing the "Reading Citizen", a Labour Party newspaper, in 1924, and continued for nearly 30 years. <mask> was the printer. Her journalism was also significant and long-lasting after World War II in the international peace movement. Cusden was communicating with Daisy Solomon, secretary of the Commonwealth League about participation in the League of Nations in Geneva in 1932. Cusden also became organising secretary of the Nursery Schools Association in 1933, and turned it into a high-profile campaigning body. She wrote "The English Nursery School" (1938), for many years the standard work on the subject.She also became a magistrate, and remained a strong pacifist. During the Second World War, <mask> organised youth camps, served on the Reading Famine Committee, and was involved with evacuees from London. <mask> was chosen as Mayor of Reading in November 1946, when Labour took control of the council for the first time. As mayor she had a secretary for the first and last time in her life. During her year she organised relief when the Thames flooded in Reading following the severe winter of 1947, and was involved with her husband in the foundation of the Progress Theatre, which is still active and successful in Reading. After her period as mayor she was an alderman on the council for several years until displaced by the Conservatives. From 1949 on she concentrated on international work.The Reading-Düsseldorf initiative
In 1946, with information, support and assistance from people such as the publisher Victor Gollancz, General Robert Collins of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the junior government minister Frank Pakenham (later Lord Longford), <mask> led a local appeal for help for people in Düsseldorf and visited the city to find out the conditions under British occupation. The city was suffering extreme privation. By concentrating on the plight of its children, <mask> was able to overcome potential prejudice against helping the recent foe. She wrote to the Berkshire Chronicle in November 1946: "It might be difficult for any one family to send an entire parcel, whereas they would be willing to contribute one or two articles. Therefore, a collection of foodstuffs is being organised under the title 'The Mayor's Winter Collection for German children.' I appeal most earnestly for the utmost generosity, which will create a feeling of goodwill between ourselves and the recipients, so necessary to future peace." Victor Gollancz had in November written to the national press saying that people in Düsseldorf were living on between 400 and 1000 calories per day, and that 400 was "half the Belsen rate".By 17 January 1947, the collection had raised £79 12s 2d, 1000 pounds (about half a ton) of food, 150 parcels and 12 sacks of clothing and shoes. The final total in March was over £93. She wrote "The condition of the poorest family in Reading is many times better than the average family in Germany...it would surely be disastrous to any hope of rebuilding Europe... if we allowed the German people to believe (as they are already beginning to believe) that we are deliberately starving them". 56,000 people in Düsseldorf were living in bunkers, cellars and ruins. In the year after her mayoralty she invited six Düsseldorf children to stay in Reading for three months, and set up the Reading-Düsseldorf Association to continue the connection. Many children and groups paid exchange visits over subsequent decades. A nursery school was set up in Aachen, and in July 1949 the entire Reading Youth Orchestra received a rapturous welcome in a concert in Düsseldorf.Reading was the first British town to form a link with the "enemy". <mask> was the Chair of the Association from 1949 to 1970, and visited Düsseldorf many times, receiving various honours from the city. Later life

In 1948 <mask> founded the Women's Peace Movement, but this was short-lived and she continued to work through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which she was an International Vice-President and for many years editor of its British magazine. She helped to set up a home for international students in Reading at Foley Hall. In 1951, George VI awarded <mask> the MBE. By 1958 she was helping to organise support in Reading for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the second Aldermaston March (ill-health had prevented her from joining the first). The University of Reading gave <mask> an honorary doctorate in 1976, and in 1977 she made her last visit to Germany, when Düsseldorf awarded her its Verdienstplakette, the city's highest honour.She was active in the Reading Civic Society and, in 1977, she published Coley: Portrait of an Urban Village, a history of the Reading suburb of Coley in which she lived all her life. A short pedestrian route in Reading is named Cusden Way, and the Reading-Düsseldorf link is commemorated by a brick and aluminium sculpture. In November 2017 a blue plaque honouring <mask> was unveiled at her former home, 55 Castle Street Reading, a listed building. The ceremony was performed by the Mayor, Councillor Rose Williams, in the presence of <mask>'s grandchildren and some sixty-five supporters. The plaque was paid for jointly by the Reading-Dusseldorf Association, the Reading Civic Society, and <mask>'s grandchildren. Work on the Phoebe Cusden Supported Living Scheme was completed in 2017. Phoebe Cusden House provides 11 much-needed supported living flats for residents with disabilities and is owned and managed by Reading Borough Council.<mask> died a few weeks short of her 94th birthday in January 1981. Burgermeister Bruno Recht of Düsseldorf attended her funeral service. The Reading-Düsseldorf Association, as of 2016, is still active, and is <mask> Cusden's chief memorial. <mask>'s significance

"a life-long local, national and international campaigner....<mask> holds an important place in the history of "bottom-up" labour activism, and is a symbol of female emancipation during a century of women's struggle.... <mask> demonstrated that it was possible for a committed individual of humble origins to make a significant impact in diverse areas of politics. The fact that she achieved this as a woman, and on occasions as the first female activist, makes her achievements all the more remarkable". References

Bibliography

External links
 Reading-Dusseldorf Association

Labour Party (UK) politicians
English socialists
People from Reading, Berkshire
English Quakers
English socialist feminists
Converts to Quakerism
1887 births
1981 deaths
Mayors of Reading, Berkshire
Women mayors of places in England
Quaker feminists
Councillors in Berkshire
Women councillors in England

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Phoebe Cusden
Annie Phoebe Ellen Blackall
Phoebe
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Phoebe
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Albert Cusden
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<mask> (born 1960) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining MSR's lab in Silicon Valley in 2013, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, where he led the Internet Algorithms Lab and also worked with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology. He is the author of the textbook Network Algorithmics published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2004. Education
<mask> received his B.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981, his M.S. in computer studies from NCSU in 1983 and his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1993, where his advisor was Nancy Lynch. He is a Fellow of the ACM since 2002. Research

Transparent bridge architecture
Before his Ph.D., <mask> spent several years as part of the network architecture and advanced development group at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he wrote the first specification for the first transparent bridge architecture (based on the inventions of Mark Kempf and Radia Perlman).After several iterations and other authors, this became the IEEE 802 bridge specification, a widely implemented standard that is the basis of the billion dollar transparent bridging industry. He was also part of the DEC team that invented the Gigaswitch and the Giganet (a precursor to Gigabit Ethernet). Network algorithmics
<mask> is best known for helping define network algorithmics, a field of study which resolves networking bottlenecks using interdisciplinary techniques that include changes to hardware and operating systems as well as efficient algorithms. Among his contributions to network algorithmics are Deficit Round Robin (co-invented with M. Shreedhar), a scheduling algorithm that is widely used in routers, and timing wheels (with Tony Lauck), an algorithm for fast timers that is used as the basis of fast timers in Linux and FreeBSD. IP lookup and packet classification
Varghese has also worked extensively on fast IP lookup and packet classification. His work with G. Chandranmenon on Threaded indexes predates the work done at Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks on tag switching. His work on multibit tries (with V. Srinivasan) has been used by a number of companies including Microsoft.His work on scalable IP packet lookup (with Waldvogel and Turner) for longer addresses such as IPv6 is being considered for use by Linux. <mask> also worked with Eatherton and Dittia on the Tree bitmap IP lookup algorithm that is used in Cisco's CRS-1 router, which many believe to be the fastest router in the world. Tree bitmap and hypercuts (with Sumeet Singh and Florin Baboescu) appear to be among the best algorithms (excluding CAMs) for IP lookup and packet classification today. Self stabilization
<mask> is also known for his contributions to the theoretical field of self-stabilization (a form of fault-tolerance), where he has helped (with various colleagues) pioneer several general techniques such as local checking, local correction, and counter flushing. NetSift
Varghese co-founded NetSift Inc. (with Sumeet Singh) in 2004, serving as president and CTO. NetSift helped pioneer the notion of automated signature extraction for security and helped to introduce the use of streaming algorithms for network measurement and security at speeds greater than 10 Gbit/s. His work with Cristian Estan on multistage filters has been widely used in industry.NetSift was acquired in June 2005 by Cisco Systems as part of the Modular Switching Group. Awards and honors
 Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
 2014 Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communications for "Contributions to the field of network algorithmics and its applications to high-speed packet networks"
 ACM Fellow, 2002
 Best Teacher Award in Computer Science, UCSD, 2001, voted by graduating undergraduate students
 Best Tutorial Award, SIGMETRICS 98. Big Fish, Mentor of the Year Award, Association for Graduate Engineering Students (AGES),Washington University 1997. ONR Young Investigator Award 1996 (34 awarded out of 416 applications across the sciences, among 2 computer scientists chosen in 1996)
 Best Student Paper, PODC 96, for a paper jointly written with student Mahesh Jayaram. Joint winner of the Sproull Prize for best MIT Thesis in Computer Science (1993) and nominated by MIT for ACM Thesis Prize. DEC Graduate Education Program (GEEP) Scholar, 1989–1991. Selected publications
 Sumeet Singh, Cristian Estan, <mask>, and Stefan Savage,  Automated Worm Fingerprinting, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI).This paper was the basis of NetSift, which see above.

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George Varghese
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<mask> (born <mask>,  – ) was a French accordionist, pianist and composer known for performing with the Tour de France during the 1950s and 1960s. During her 70-year long career, she gave more than two thousand concerts and released around 150 records, selling a total of 30 million copies. Horner won the Coupe mondiale de l'accordéon in 1948, and the Grand Prix du Disque in 1950 for Le Jardin secret d'Yvette Horner, a recital of classical works performed on piano and accordion. Biography

Early life
<mask> (who later adopted the surname <mask>, at her mother's suggestion), spent a few years of her childhood in Rabastens-de-Bigorre, where her father, Louis Hornère, was a property developer. She was an only child. Her mother encouraged her to play music, and her teacher, Marguerite Lacoste, taught her her first notes on the piano. She studied music at the conservatory of Tarbes, then at the conservatory of Toulouse where, at the age of 11, she obtained a first prize in piano.Her mother convinced her to abandon her instrument for the chromatic accordion, explaining to her that there were no female accordionists, and that she would then be able to sustain herself. Throughout her life, <mask> Horner remained nostalgic for her first instrument, with which she her prize-winning recital of classical works Le Jardin secret d'<mask> Horner, and performed many times as a pianist on TV shows. However, she made her débuts at the "Théâtre Impérial" in Tarbes (later renamed "Théâtre des Nouveautés"), which belonged to her paternal grandmother. She played in Pyrenean casinos before moving to Paris, where she was a student of Robert Bréard. First awards
In 1938, <mask> <mask> participated, with Freddy Balta and André Lips, in the first accordion world championships organized in Paris, at the Moulin de la Galette, by the Confédération internationale des accordéonistes. She finished second after Freddy Balta. She gave her first concert in 1947 in Paris and, in 1948, she was the first woman to win the Coupe mondiale de l'accordéon.She was awarded the Grand Prix International d'Accordion de Paris in 1953. Artistic career

In 1950, she was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque de l'académie Charles-Cros for her album Le Jardin secret d'Yvette Horner, a recital of classical works performed on piano and accordion. In 1952, the Calor company, sponsor of the Tour de France, offered her the opportunity to join the race, launching her career. She played on a podium at the finish of each stage. Wearing a sombrero and perched on the roof of a Citroën Traction Avant in the Suze brand colours, she repeated this in the following years, accompanying the Tour de France a total of eleven times, from 1952 to 1963. She was also the queen of the Six Days of Paris in 1954. In the 1980s, she died her hair from brown to red and started wearing more extravagant stage outfits (such as the famous "Eiffel Tower Dress") created by fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, who made her one of his muses.In 1987, she became the godmother of the Doudeville Accordion Club, the Cany-Accordeon-Club, directed by its founder, Annie Lacour, who worked at the Schola Cantorum de Paris for five years. In 1989, she took part in the celebrations of the bicentenary of the French Revolution by performing on the Place de la Bastille. The following year she starred in a revue at the Casino de Paris. In the 1990s, she appeared on stage with Marcel Azzola, then collaborated with choreographer Maurice Béjart when he staged Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1999. In 2005 her autobiography, Le Biscuit dans la poche, was published. In June 2006, the musician began a documentary on her life with Canadian director Damian Pettigrew. Her album Double d'Or was released in 2007.In 2009, she went on to take part in her La plus grande guinguette du monde tour. In 2011, the accordionist is invited by singer Julien Doré to participate in the recording of his album Bichon. She also gave her last concert the same year. Her last album, called Hors Norme, is released in May 2012. It is produced by Patrick Brugalières. Guest artists include Lio, Didier Lockwood, Richard Galliano and Marcel Amont. The cover is illustrated by Jean-Paul Gaultier.Death and burial
<mask> Horner died on 11 June 2018, at the age of 95. "She was not ill. She died after a full life," said her agent, Jean-Pierre Brun. She is buried in the Saint-Jean cemetery in Tarbes. Nine months after her death, a bronze statue of <mask> Horner is placed on her funerary monument. She asked sculptor Yves Lacoste in 1994 to create this piece as a tribute to her public, her parents, her husband and those who helped her achieve fame. The final piece is life-size (1.54 m), with a <mask> Horner carried by applauding hands, emerging from a cocoon and grasping an accordion, a direct replica of the one she used for one of her favourite pieces. Private life
The musician married René Droesch, hailing from Belfort, a footballer with the Girondins de Bordeaux, whom she met in 1936.Droesch interrupted her career to become her manager, her husband and to relieve her of "material worries". <mask> Horner expressed her regret at not having had children with her husband, who died in 1986. In 2005, the accordionist sold her house in Nogent-sur-Marne, where she had lived for about fifty years. She auctioned off personal items at the Hôtel Drouot, including her collection of Jean Paul Gaultier dresses. The sale was held for the benefit of the Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) and an association for the fight against cancer. After the sale of her Nogent house, the artist lived in an elderly people's residence in Paris. Musical style
According to Maurice Béjart, <mask> Horner "stands between the scholar and the popular".During her career, she has explored many musical styles, which led her to collaborate with classical pianist Samson François, jazz trumpeter Jac Berrocal, American harmonica player Charlie McCoy, with whom she recorded a country-inspired album in Nashville, and Culture Club lead singer Boy George, on a 1994 appearance on Taratata. In 1990, she even released a Eurodance-inspired single, Play Yvette, which she performed with DJ Andy Shafte. Tributes
<mask> <mask> is an honorary citizen of Tarbes and Nogent-sur-Marne. The Yvette-Horner-Île-de-Beauté boardwalk, which runs along the Marne as part of a long-distance hiking trail, has been named after her in 2007. The foyer of the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Tarbes, a replica of Opéra Garnier's foyer, is named in her honour. In 2008, the musical show La Madone des dancings, les mille vies d'Yvette Horner, adapted by Eudes Labrusse and staged by Dominique Verrier, was presented at Avignon as part of the "off" festival. It is inspired by the radio series Les Grandes Histoires d'Yvette, produced by Sylvie Gasteau and broadcast in 2005 by France Culture.The character of <mask> Horner is portrayed by the actress Antoinette Moya. Awards

Decorations
<mask> Horner received the commandeur de l'ordre national du Mérite necklet on April 17, 2002, given by the Minister of Culture and Communication Catherine Tasca. She was named commandeur de la Légion d'honneur on 22 April 2011 in the portfolio of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, decorated on 28 September 2011 by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (2011); officier (1996); chevalier (1986)
 Commandeur de l'ordre national du Mérite (2002)

Prizes

 Coupe mondiale de l'accordéon (1948)
 Grand prix de l'Académie Charles-Cros (1950)
 Grand prix international d'accordéon de Paris (1953)

Autobiography

References

External links

Illustrated discography from 1947 to 2012 on Encyclopédisque

1922 births
2018 deaths
People from Tarbes
Burials in Occitania (administrative region)
Women accordionists
French accordionists
20th-century accordionists
21st-century accordionists
21st-century French women musicians
Tour de France people
Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur
Commanders of the National Order of Merit (France)

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Yvette Horner
Yvette Hornère
Yvette Hornère
Horner
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<mask> was the stage name of <mask> (25 March 1854 – 2 November 1926), an English singer and actor known for his portrayal of the comic baritone roles in the Savoy Operas. He also appeared in non-musical plays, adaptations of French comic operas and opérettes, and in Edwardian musical comedy, usually in comic roles, though sometimes in more serious character parts. As a skilled ventriloquist he appeared before royalty, and periodically he presented his own one-man entertainment during his half-century long stage career. Life and career

Early years
<mask> was born in Bethnal Green, London, although later he would say that he had been born in Ireland. His parents were <mask> (1820–1901) and his wife Sophia Elizabeth Mackway (1823– 1886), both Londoners. He had a younger brother, Joseph (1858–1931). His father worked as a manager in a pawnshop, where <mask> began his working life.As a young actor he made his first stage appearance at the King's Cross Theatre in London and then travelled with a minstrel troupe, where he developed his gift for ventriloquism. He was engaged in 1879 at the Royalty Theatre, London, where he worked as an understudy and appeared in the chorus of a revival of Stephenson and Sullivan's The Zoo. Later that year he joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, serving in the chorus on tour. In July 1879, he survived a boating accident on the River Avon at Bathampton in which two other members of the touring company drowned. He appeared in the single copyright performance of The Pirates of Penzance in Paignton on 30 December 1879, as James, a role that was included in the libretto only for that performance. During 1880 and 1881, he continued in the chorus and also appeared as Mr. Liverby in In the Sulks, and Benjamin Walker in Four by Honours, curtain-raisers that accompanied H.M.S. Pinafore.<mask> married Marian Lowry (1854–1940), also a member of the D'Oyly Carte company, who performed under the stage name of Marian May for about a decade. The couple had three daughters and a son; two of these, Norah Sophia (1884–1970) and Millicent Marian Rylance (1888–1966), became actresses. From 1881 to 1883, <mask> served as the principal comedian with a D'Oyly Carte touring company, playing J. W. Wells in The Sorcerer, Sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore, and Major General Stanley in Pirates. He also appeared briefly in the tenor role of Ralph Rackstraw in Pinafore and filled in as Frederic in Pirates on one occasion. The Western Mail praised his performance in H.M.S. Pinafore:

<mask> left the D'Oyly Carte company in 1884; he toured as Dick in Vice-Versa and Coombes in the Victorian burlesque Silver Guilt.and played in pantomime, in low comedies with Cooper Cole's Strand Company, and, for a year, was a member of the company headed by Edward Terry at the Gaiety Theatre in London. In 1886 he created the part of Tom Strutt in Alfred Cellier's comic opera Dorothy, and played it throughout its run of 931 performances, which ended on 6 April 1889. A fortnight later he created the role of Crook in Cellier's next opera, Doris. Over the following years, among other roles, he created or played leading roles in various other West End musicals and operettas: Private Smith in The Red Hussar (1889) Jacob in The Black Rover (1890), a revival of the comic opera Les cloches de Corneville alongside <mask> Braham (1890), and Prince Bulbo in Augustus Harris's production of a musical adaptation of The Rose and the Ring (1890–1891). In 1891 <mask> played Sir Guy of Gisborne in Maid Marian by Harry B. Smith and Reginald De Koven, after which he rejoined D'Oyly Carte for a year. Initially he was a member of a touring company, playing Punka, Rajah of Chutneypore, in The Nautch Girl. In November Richard D'Oyly Carte brought him to London to play Master Guillot in the British premiere of Messager's The Basoche at the Royal English Opera House; The Era judged it his best performance to date.When The Basoche closed in early 1892 <mask> rejoined the Nautch Girl company, playing Punka for the remainder of the tour. Later in 1892 <mask> played Sacrovir in The Wedding Eve, an adaptation of an opérette by Frédéric Toulmouche, with Decima Moore as its leading lady, after which he recreated his original role of Tom Strutt in a revival of Dorothy. In 1893 he was in The Black Domino, a melodrama starring Mrs. Patrick Campbell, in which <mask> played a character role, and Arthur Williams provided the principal comic relief. The piece was preceded by a curtain-raiser, billed as an "Entertainment", given by <mask>. He rejoined D'Oyly Carte for the last time in late 1893, creating the part of Phantis in Utopia, Limited at the Savoy Theatre, and playing it until the end of the run in June 1894. Later years
Later in 1894 <mask> appeared with Lillian Russell in The Queen of Brilliants, and then as Mats Munck in Gilbert and Carr's comic opera His Excellency. He later played the same part in New York, with a George Edwardes touring company.In 1896, he played Alexander McGregor in the musical comedy My Girl, an Edwardes production written by James T. Tanner, Carr and Adrian Ross, in a West End cast that also included Ellaline Terriss, Willie Warde and Connie Ediss. In September 1897 <mask> starred with Florence St<mask> in a new production of Offenbach's La Périchole at the Garrick Theatre. Both performers received excellent notices: The Era described her performance as "a complete triumph", and his as "inimitable"; the critic in The Pall Mall Gazette wrote, "Mr <mask> <mask> as the Viceroy was simply admirable. Not only have we not seen this part better rendered, but we can hardly imagine it so. … pure comedy". <mask> appeared in New York as Hassan in Hood and Sullivan's The Rose of Persia (1900, opposite Ruth Vincent as the Sultana), and as Coquenard in the American premiere of Messager's Véronique (1905). He toured America three times and South Africa once.His talents as a ventriloquist were in demand, and he appeared in that capacity on several occasions before King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace and Sandringham. From time to time <mask> appeared solo or with his own small company in sketches at music halls. One of his later theatrical parts was in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles in 1925, with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in the title role. The reviewer in Punch wrote, "Mr <mask> <mask> gave us a superb little study of an old countryman which richly deserved the enthusiastic applause that rewarded it". On 1 November 1926 <mask> was struck by a car on his way home from the Lyceum Theatre in London, where he had been appearing as Florent, the butler, in The Padre. He died the next day at the age of 77. He was survived by his wife, Marian May, a former D'Oyly Carte performer.References

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<mask> (born 3 March 1947) is an Australian professional golfer. Although <mask> spent most of his career as a club professional and golf course designer he had success as a touring professional, notably winning the 1977 Victorian Open over Greg Norman and Johnny Miller. By the late 1970s he was considered "undoubtedly the best Australian club professional." Professional career
<mask> turned professional in 1964. He had success as a young professional, winning the 1964 and 1965 Australian Trainee Championships. Overall he won 19 young professional events during this era. In 1966, he began to play in bigger events.In March and April he played on the Asia Golf Circuit. In October he had some success at the West End Tournament in New Zealand, finishing only two behind Walter Godfrey after the second round. In 1969, <mask> began to have serious success as a touring professional. He won the Victorian PGA Championship that year. In February 1970, he opened 69-66 (−11) to find himself only one shot back of Englishman Guy Wolstenholme at the Victorian Open (though he would end up finishing well behind David Graham). For most of career, however, <mask> worked primarily as a club professional and golf course architect. As of August 1972, <mask> was the club pro at Yarra Yarra Golf Club in Bentleigh East, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.In 1973, he started the golf architecture company Edward & Geoff Parslow and Associates (EGP) with his brother Ted. <mask>, however, would intermittently play in professional tournaments as a touring professional throughout the 1970s. He finished runner-up at New Zealand's 1975 Southland Charity Golf Classic, four shots behind Bill Brask. <mask> also received much media attention for his performance at the 1977 Victorian Open. The event was played at his home club, Yarra Yarra, where he would open the club shop in the morning at 9 am. <mask> opened with a two-under-par round. During the second round, three hours after opening the club shop, he went out to play at noon and shot a 63 (−9) to take a 5-shot lead over amateur Kevin Hartley.He tied Tony Jacklin's course record. This was followed by a third round even-par 72 to maintain the five shot lead, this time over Greg Norman. Professionals Johnny Miller, Kel Nagle, and Barry Burgess were a further shot back. In the final round, he recorded a 70 to defeat Norman by four. Alan Cooper finished a shot back in solo third and Nagle and Miller another shot back in a tie for fourth. His performance received much media attention, including from the New York Times. As a club pro, he defeated some of the world's best, in particular reigning Open champion Miller.On 4 July 1977, he qualified for the 1977 Open Championship. However he played poorly at Turnberry, opening with a 79 and missing the cut. Three weeks later, he played in the Callers of Newcastle tournament, a European Tour event. He played well, finishing in a tie for 13th, three out of a playoff. By 1979 he was considered by a golf journalist for the Canberra Times as "undoubtedly the best Australian club professional not playing the circuit full time." Two years after his victory, <mask> again played excellently at the Victorian Open, this time held at Kingston Heath Golf Club. He opened with a one-under-par 71 and then a 72 to tie for the lead.He then shot 75 and 73 over the final two rounds to finish at 291 (+3). Though an "unusually high score" for a good result it was enough to get into a playoff. <mask> played against Rodger Davis and defending Masters champion Gary Player. Player had a five-foot putt to win on the first hole but missed. Davis made a five-metre birdie putt on the next hole to win. <mask> won A$5,900 in the defeat. Later in the year, <mask> qualified for the 1979 Open Championship.He finished T-54 in the event. The following week, he played in the Dutch Open. He shot a course record 66 (−6) in the third round to place himself in a tie for third, just three back. However, amidst the "wet, windy conditions" he fell well back in the final round, losing to compatriot Graham Marsh. In July the following year <mask> won the Australian Four-ball, a team event, with partner Paul Foley. During the ensuing decades <mask> focused mainly on his work as a club pro and golf course designer. In January 1980, <mask> transitioned as a club professional from Yarra Yarra Golf Club to Tweed Heads Golf Club.In 1988, he and his brother designed Murray Downs Golf and Country Club. In the early 1990s, his company expanded into Asia. In 1992, he formed Edward & Geoff Parslow (M) Sdn Bhd to serve clients in Malaysia and ultimately moved offices to Kuala Lumpur. Later that year, they completed their design of the Golf Club Datai Bay in Malaysia. The company has also designed Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, a course that has hosted the PGA Tour. In 1994, they formed the subsidiary Edward & Geoff Parslow (Fareast) Ltd. to serve clients in China. Senior career
In middle of 1997, when he turned 50, <mask> decided to play on the international senior circuit.In 1998, his first full season on the European Seniors Tour, he recorded one top-10 in 18 events and finished 45th on the Order of Merit. Two years later, in 2000, he recorded his second top−10, a third place tie at the Belfry PGA Seniors Championship with Kurt Cox, one out of a playoff. He was never able to break through and win, however, or finish within the top-30 of the Order of Merit. His top-10 at the Belfry was his second and final top-10 on the tour. After 2002, he did not play again on tour. He has also played some Asian and Australian senior events. Personal life
<mask> has a brother, Ted.Like <mask>, Ted was a very talented amateur golfer. In addition, Ted holds degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He dovetailed these skills to be a golf course designer. He has teamed up with <mask>, working together on a golf course design company. As of 1979 <mask> was married. In his spare time he enjoys gardening and surfing. Professional wins (5)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (1)

PGA Tour of Australasia playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (4)
1964 Australia Trainee Championship
1965 Australia Trainee Championship
1969 Victorian PGA Championship
1980 Australian Four-Ball (with Paul Foley)

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Sarah Margaret "<mask>" <mask> (born 21 May 1963) is a British Green politician, economist and activist. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England from 2014 to 2020. From 2012, until her election as an MEP, she was Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Roehampton. <mask> speaks for the Green Party on finance and the EU, and is known for her work in the field of co-operative studies. She has published on green economics, localism and anti-capitalism, and has contributed to works on the risks of nuclear power, the use of which she strongly opposes. Early life and education
<mask> was born on 21 May 1963 and was educated at Bath High School for Girls, before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford. After working in the publishing industry, in 2001 she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) with a thesis on employment policy in the South Wales Valleys, including research into the Tower Colliery workers' co-operative.Her book, The Pit and the Pendulum, is based on this research. She holds an MSc in advanced social research methods from the Open University. Academic career
After working for the Oxford University Press from 1987 to 1998, <mask> tutored at Aberystwyth University in 2000, then, from 2001 to 2012, was Senior lecturer and Reader in green economics at Cardiff Metropolitan University (known for most of that period as the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, or UWIC for short). In 2007 she was appointed Director of the Cardiff Institute for Co-operative Studies. In 2012 she became Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the University of Roehampton. <mask>'s academic work covers three main areas: firstly the green economy, that is, one which recognises planetary limits and achieves social justice; secondly the economics of co-operatives and social enterprises, and finally critical analysis of the existing monetary system, and alternatives which might replace it. Publications
She has published widely on green economics, localism and anti-capitalism.She wrote Seven Myths About Work in 1996, updating it in 2002 under the title Arbeit Macht Frei and Other Lies about Work. She co-edited Green Economics: Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs in 1999 with Miriam Kennet. Her report, co-authored with Christopher Busby and Richard Bramhall, on the structure of government specialist science advice committees, I Don't Know Much About Science, apparently "influenced the structure of the government's new committee examining the effects of low-level radiation". In 2009 she published Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice, where she argues that society should be embedded within the ecosystem, and that markets and economies are social structures that should respond to social and environmental priorities. She includes examples of effective green policies that are already being implemented across the world policy prescriptions for issues including climate change, localization, citizens' income, economic measurement, ecotaxes and trade. In his review of the book in the Journal of Economic Geography Danny Dorling called it "a serious book written by the grown-up version of the kinds of people who are currently invading airports, chaining themselves to those coal trucks on the way to power stations and populating climate camps". Her 2011 book Environment and Economy describes the main academic responses to the need to resolve the tension between economy and environment: environmental economics, ecological economics, green economics, and anti-capitalist economics.It covers topics including an introduction to economic instruments such as taxes and regulation; pollution and resource depletion; growth; globalization vs. localization and climate change. Political career

<mask> joined the UK Green Party in 1988, before it became three separate parties for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1990. She has been Co-Chair of the Green Party Regional Council and served on the Green Party Executive as Campaigns Co-ordinator. She wrote Seven Myths About Work as part of a Green Party campaign, Why Work?. She speaks for the Green Party on finance and the EU. Candidate for the UK Parliament
<mask> stood as the Green Party candidate for the Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency at the 1997 and 2005 general elections, coming sixth. For 2017, <mask> was selected by the party to stand for the constituency which saw its greatest-swing result in 2015, Bristol West, where the party had been placed second – a seat with a high student and academic contingent to its electorate.She was endorsed by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. She finished in third place in the 2017 election, with the Green share of the vote dropping from 26.8% to 12.9%. In the 2019 election, she stood in Stroud, with the Liberal Democrats standing down in the constituency and endorsing her as the Unite to Remain candidate. She came third, with 4,954 votes, 7.5% of the total and up 5.3% from 2017. Local council
In May 2011, <mask> was elected to represent Valley Ward on Stroud District Council. In May 2012, she became leader of the Green Group on the council and made an agreement with the Labour and Liberal Democrat groups to take overall control of the council, calling for "constructive co-operation" and rejecting the "tribalism of party politics" in favour of a "more inclusive" approach. She said, "We believe that no one party has a monopoly on good ideas and we will seek co-operation to achieve advances of our policy platform on an issue-by-issue basis."She became chairman of the council's Audit and Standards Committee in May 2013. At the council's AGM in June 2014, <mask> announced her resignation, to take effect from 1 July, the start of her mandate in the European Parliament. European Parliament

In the May 2014 elections for the European Parliament, she was elected as an MEP in South West England for the Green Party, being the lead candidate on the party's list. The Green Party's share of the vote in her region was, at 11.1%, the highest of any electoral region. She had stood for the European Parliament on the Green Party list for the South West region at the previous election in 2009; in 1999 and 2004 she had been on the Green Party list in Wales. She stated, after her election, that her priorities as an MEP would be finance and farming: "I'm from the South West – it's vital to our region, and I hope to get farming working in a more socially and environmentally friendly way". On 1 July 2014, the start of her mandate, she was appointed a full member of the Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.In her first speech, also on 1 July, she expressed her opposition to the UK government's attempt to take away from her region control of £450 million EU convergence funding, saying: "Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have a long history of using these funds efficiently and effectively". In May 2019, <mask> was re-elected in the 2019 European elections. She was the only Green MEP in the South West England constituency and was elected on a vote share of 18.1% (up 7% from 2014). Localism and community involvement
In addition to her work on Stroud District Council, <mask> <mask> has, since 2007, been a director of Stroud Common Wealth, a not-for-profit private company, limited by guarantee, which owns and develops property "for community benefit and to enable social enterprise development." She was a director from 2009 to 2012 of Transition Stroud, which aims to strengthen the community's local economy, to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and to prepare for climate change. Transition Stroud is part of the Transition Towns network. Shortly after she moved to Stroud in 2006, she joined Stroud Community Agriculture (SCA), and was elected to its "core group" of members.SCA is a community-supported agriculture project, organised as a co-operative, which provides locally produced organic food for its members. In 2009, <mask> was one of the founders of the Stroud pound. In 2012, she had an article about local currency published in the International Journal of Community Currency Research. Other activities
<mask> <mask> was a member of the Management Committee of the Association for Heterodox Economics from 2010 to 2014 and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Co-operative Studies, published by the UK Society for Co-operative Studies. She formerly served as a member of the Advisory Group of the Equality Trust. She was, from November 2010 to September 2013, a director and trustee of Meadow Prospect, the charitable branch of RCT Homes, a large social housing provider based in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT), and itself an Industrial and provident society with charitable rules. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute.Together with Patrick Adams and her then partner, Christopher Busby, she founded Green Audit, an environmental consultancy and publishing organisation, in 1992, but later left the organisation, which continues to be run under Busby's direction. <mask> supports the EU boycott of goods from illegal Israeli settlements beyond the Green Line, thinks that this boycott should be widened, and supports measures to ensure that the illegal settlements should be excluded from EU relations with Israel. Her sympathy for the Palestinians dates back to time spent teaching in the West Bank when she was a student. In October 2018, she signed the call to action supporting Extinction Rebellion. Personal life
<mask> is a Quaker. She has three children and lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Bibliography
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 Papers and articles
 List of scholarly papers at SSRN
 List of recent articles

See also
 List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom, 2019–20
 List of members of the European Parliament for the United Kingdom, 2014–2019
 Energiewende in Germany
 List of peace activists

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 Profile at the European Parliament site

 "Gaian Economics" blog
 "Green Economist" personal website
 Academic profile at academia.edu
 Stroud green party blog

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Alumni of the University of Oxford
British anti–nuclear power activists
British anti–nuclear weapons activists
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British environmentalists
British political writers
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Critics of work and the work ethic
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