Faces of Stone

"Faces of Stone" is a single by English rock musician and former Pink Floyd member David Gilmour, and the third track on his fourth solo studio album, Rattle That Lock. It was released as a single on 6 November 2015, with the album being released on 18 September 2015 by Columbia Records. The song lyrics and music composed by Gilmour.

Music Video
On 27 October 2015, the song released an official music video on mortality and the cycle of life, through Gilmour's official YouTube channel that was directed by Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis, combines footage of David filmed at his Medina studio with archive footage from the 1944 silent experimental short At Land featuring surrealist filmmaker Maya Deren.

Personnel
Musicians
 David Gilmour – vocals, guitars, keyboard, piano
 Phil Manzanera – hammond organ, acoustic guitar, keyboard elements
 Damon Iddins – Accordion, calliope elements
 Steve DiStanislao – drum kit, percussion
 Danny Cummings – percussion
 Eira Owen – horn
 Zbigniew Preisner – orchestration and orchestral arrangements
 Robert Ziegler – conducting orchestra
 Rolf Wilson – orchestra leader

Production
 David Gilmour – producer, acoustical engineering, mixing
 Phil Manzanera – production
 Andy Jackson – engineering, mixing, choir registration
 Damon Iddins – technical assistance, choir registration
 Mike Boddy – additional sound engineering at Gallery Studios
 Andres Mesa – technical assistance
 Geoff Foster – engineering orchestral parts
 Laurence Anslow, John Prestage – technical assistance
 James Guthrie – mastering

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Richardson Memorial Stadium

There have been three versions of George Taylor Richardson Memorial Stadium, a Canadian football stadium located on the campus of the Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. All three have been the home of the Golden Gaels/Gaels football team. The facilities are named in memory of George Taylor Richardson, a Queen's graduate renowned for his athleticism and sportsmanship who died in the First World War.

The original stadium built in 1921 was funded by George's brother, James Armstrong Richardson, graduate and Chancellor of Queen's.

The second stadium was built in 1971. The stadium's bleachers (which recycled steel from the first facility) were deemed structurally unsafe in May 2013, causing 6,500 seats to be removed. Renovations were completed in July 2013, with a new seat capacity of 8,500 with two new end zone seating sections.

In December 2014, a $20.27 million revitalization was announced that was completed for September 17, 2016 for its inaugural football game. According to the university the facility has "over 8,000" seats, but no specific number is provided by the institution.

History

Original field (1921–1971)

The original field was located on Union Street at the present site of Mackintosh-Corry Hall and its parking lot. It was opened in 1921 on a piece of land bought from a community of nuns. This field hosted the 1922 Grey Cup, where the Golden Gaels defeated the Edmonton Elks 13–1, for their first of three Grey Cups. The official attendance was listed at 4,700. According to Michael Januska's book, Grey Cup Century there were more spectators on hand than the original grandstand could accommodate. "The 10th Grey Cup was the only final played in Kingston, Ontario. The stands at Richardson Stadium were filled to capacity, just under 5,000, with the overflow standing around the field." - Grey Cup Century, pg. 46Franklin Delano Roosevelt received his honorary degree from Queen's on August 18, 1938 at Richardson, where he made a historic speech that was seen as a departure from American isolationism.

Second stadium (1971–2016)

When a new social sciences complex, Mackintosh-Corry Hall was planned, the original stadium was torn down and relocated to the newly acquired West Campus. Many staff, students, and alumni were very upset about the move, feeling that the stadium belonged in the heart of campus, but the project went ahead anyway and the stadium was built on West Campus in 1971.

In 2013, seating capacity was reduced to 8,500, down from 10,200, because of the temporary bleachers due to construction.

Third stadium (2016–)
Plans to reconstruct the 40-year-old stadium at the same location were approved in December 2014, with $20.27 million of funding needed. Principal Daniel Woolf stated that the stadium was "desperately in need of revitalization". $17 million was raised from donations, including $10 million from former Gaels football player and current Guelph Gryphons head coach Stu Lang. Construction began on December 5, 2015 and the stadium re-opened for the beginning of the 2016 football season on September 17, 2016.

Soccer
Richardson played host to two World Cup 2006 qualifiers between Canada and Belize in 2004. Canada won both matches 4–0 and progressed to the semifinal stage after Belize had forfeited their right to play a home match due to a lack of infrastructure.

Rugby league
It hosted the Colonial Cup match between the U.S. Tomahawks and Canada Wolverines on September 19, 2010 which was the first international rugby league match played in Canada since 1995.

Rugby union
On June 9, 2012, Canada played the United States in a friendly match.  Canada won 28–25 in front of 7,521 spectators.

References

External links

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Denise Lim

Denise Lim (born September 14, 1991) is a Singaporean sailor. She and Justin Liu placed 19th in the Nacra 17 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Brzeźno Stare

Brzeźno Stare  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wągrowiec, within Wągrowiec County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Wągrowiec and  north-east of the regional capital Poznań.

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Tupelče

Tupelče () is a small village west of Štanjel in the Municipality of Komen in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

References

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Grenoble station

Grenoble is a defunct station on the Reading Company's New Hope Branch.  The station is currently on the line used by the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad.  The station was built in 1891 and closed in 1954.

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Lizzie Lape

Lizzie Lape (August 15, 1853 – sometime after Thanksgiving 1917) was a mid-Ohio madam who owned and operated multiple bordellos at the end of the 19th century and early into the 20th.

Biography

Lizzie Lape was born Amy Elizabeth Rogers in Whitley County, Kentucky before the Civil War.  She was the daughter of Prior and Cynthia (Whitman) Rogers of Williamsburg, Kentucky and granddaughter of a Revolutionary War veteran named James Rogers of Laurel and Whitley Counties, Kentucky.

In the late 1970s, family oral history revealed these details to Lizzie’s descendants: she came from the South, was a lady of the evening, had a business in Chicago, and became a madam who ran a house of ill repute in Stow, Ohio.

A great-great-granddaughter, Debra Lape, discovered much more of Lizzie’s purposely-obscured story over the next forty years, publishing a book in 2014 titled, Looking For Lizzie – The True Story of an Ohio Madam, Her Sporting Life and Hidden Legacy.

U.S. Presidential and literary links

Lizzie Rogers married eight times, to Jeremiah Lape, George Huffman, Jack Larzelere, Harry DeWitt (son), Jack DeWitt (father), Charles Veon, James Shetler, and John France.

She owned and/or operated brothels and saloons in Dayton, Lima, Marion, Akron, Stow, and Shelby covering five counties, some simultaneously, including the "White Pigeon" of both Marion and Shelby, Ohio.

Local newspapers such as the Akron Beacon Journal and the Marion Daily Star capitalized on the sensational and disreputable nature of her businesses, both public and private, providing a useful trail for her great-great-granddaughter to follow when historic newspapers were digitized one hundred years later.

One of the interesting historic revelations in the genealogical biography included an account involving the Marion Daily Star'''s young editor Warren G. Harding and a hoax staged by him upon a competing newspaper editor at Lizzie's White Pigeon.Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz Age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (1998) p. 59

Madam Lizzie and her second White Pigeon bordello in Shelby may have helped set a small but intriguing part of the stage for Ohio author and neighbor, Dawn Powell in her thinly-veiled Shelby-centric novel, Dance Night.

 Antebellum madams

Lizzie Lape had something in common with several other enterprising madams of her generation, that is, she was raised in Kentucky prior to the Civil War. Belle Brezing, the celebrated madam of Lexington, Kentucky upon whom it is believed author Margaret Mitchell based her fictional madam Belle Watling in Gone With The Wind is another.  Two other highly successful Chicago-based madams sisters, Minna and Ada Simms aka the Everleigh Sisters of the Everleigh Club, were born in Charlottesville, Kentucky.  Whether any of these Kentuckians knew or inspired each other is not known.

 Lizzie and the law

As obscure as she would become, Lizzie Rogers Lape Huffman Larzelere DeWitt DeWitt Veon Shetler France set an early precedent in the U.S. court system in behalf of entrepreneurial women.  She was sued in Akron, Ohio for child support, a rarity at the time.  Her son’s trust included the White Pigeon property and proceeds and his trustee was the ex-Mayor of Akron, Lorenzo Dow Watters Later, she would hire him as her own attorney.

Lizzie Lape was the first brothel owner in Marion County, Ohio to be sued by the State of Ohio as a test of the new Winn Law which targeted liquor sales in houses of ill repute.  With an aggressive legal defense, she won this and many other court cases.  Lizzie Lape owned and directed the operations of her White Pigeon of Marion, Ohio for a full 20 years.  Through her many divorces, she was sued by husbands who wanted to take ownership of the property she was accumulating, testing again and again the recently enacted Married Women’s Property Act.

Lizzie's trail ran cold when she purposefully and possibly strategically made a publicity-laden religious conversion in two city newspapers. Her business retirement made it much harder for anyone to discover the rest of her story.

 Legacy

Due to the publication of her biography, Lizzie is now being recognized as she would never have been in life by genealogy groups and libraries in the Ohio cities and towns where she once lived and ran bawdy houses and saloons.  Post Civil War Ohio was her historical home.
In March 2014, actress Mary Kathleen Tripp portrayed Madam Lizzie for the first time, in a local history event called "Night at Heritage Hall" in Marion, Ohio, sponsored annually by the Marion County Historical Society.

The forty-year genealogical unearthing of Lizzie Lape's story is one that resonates with many who have embraced the search for family history, "black sheep" notwithstanding.  Television shows such as the PBS-sponsored Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Finding Your Roots and the successful series Who Do You Think You Are? fuel a new generation of seekers, long after Alex Haley's acclaimed book and movie series Roots'' galvanized a nation of family tree research.

Descendants

One of Lizzie Lape's descendants and the author's father is American broadcast journalist Bob Lape. Debra Lape's step-mother and author, Joanna Pruess, encouraged and inspired the writer.

References

External links
NPR Radio Interview Ideastream 90.3FM Sound of Applause with Dee Perry, July 16, 2014 interviews Debra Lape, author of Looking For Lizzie
 http://www.ideastream.org/applause/entry/63102
Marion Daily Star, Jan. 28, 2014 by Michelle Rotuno-Johnson, Resident Finds Madam in the Family
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140201125432/http://www.marionstar.com/article/20140127/NEWS01/301270010/Author-finds-Marion-madam-family
Mansfield News Journal, Feb. 16, 2014 by Ron Simon, Family Tree Can Branch in Strange Way
Akron Beacon Journal, Feb. 22-23, 2014 by Barbara McIntyre, Book Talk: Looking For Lizzie
 http://barberton.ohio.com/book-talk-looking-for-lizzie-why-cows-need-names-1.468297
West Life News, Feb. 27, 2014 by Sue Botos – Westlake Writer Finds Tale of Family Madam Not Too Ticklish to Tell
 http://westlife.northcoastnow.com/westlake-writer-finds-tale-of-family-madam-not-too-ticklish-to-tell/
Lima News, March 3, 2014, by Merri Hanjora, Lape Publishes Novel with Lima Roots
 http://www.limaohio.com/news/news/803542/Regional-Roundup:-The-American-Bombshells-to-perform-at-Charity-Car-Show

Authors share written words at Hudson Library & Historical Society, July 19, 2014
http://www.mytownneo.com/news/20140713/authors-share-written-words-at-hudson-library--historical-society
Author Talk, Shelby, Ohio, Richland County Genealogical Society, Oct. 2, 2014
 https://debralape.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/author-talk-sponsored-by-shelby-richland-county-ohio-genealogy-society-at-first-church-of-god-3616-ohio-rt-39-shelby-ohio-44875-700-pm-tonight/
Actress Mary Kathleen Tripp will portray Lizzie Lape with author Debra Lape, Marion County Historical Society, Dec. 6, 2014.
http://www.marionhistory.com/book-signing/
Warren G. Harding and the Marion Daily Star: How Newspapering Shaped a President, 2014 by Sherry Hall
https://books.google.com/books?id=0QB3CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT50
Looking for Lizzie - book talk with Mary Tripp portraying Madam Lizzie, Ashland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, April 21, 2015.
http://www.times-gazette.com/article/20150418/ENTERTAINMENT/304189466
"RA For All - Sisters in Crime", April 23, 2015.
http://raforall.blogspot.com/2015/04/sisters-in-crime-handout-with-tons-of.html
Debra Lape, author of "Looking for Lizzie" with Mary Tripp portraying Madam Lizzie, Olmsted Falls Library, Sept. 22, 2015.
https://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2015/08/serial_podcasts_sarah_koenig_j.html
Looking for Lizzie - A True Story of an Ohio Madam, Summit County Genealogical Society, Talmadge Library, April 16, 2016.
 https://summitogs.org/eventListings.php?nm=68&page=1&nr=50&ec=4&tf=P
Lorain County genealogical group to hear from ‘Looking for Lizzie’ author, Sept. 12, 2016
 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-81UK0TXOoUJ:www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20160903/NEWS/160909998+&cd=87&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
The Akronist, September 18, 2017, by Chris Miller
 http://akronist.com/1800s-akron-serves-backdrop-cascade-locks-murder-mystery-event/
Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society is Looking for Lizzie! (Oct. 11, 2017)
 https://allevents.in/cuyahoga%20falls/cuyahoga-falls-historical-society-is-looking-for-lizzie/478860972506188
Author to hold book signing at Plain City Bicentennial, July 21, 2018.
 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yEETcIHwpzYJ:crystallod56.rssing.com/of-Q/tcsrbpAwtocetrMwemh--akwr/ocadh.i7oanettn0lrdsthd8-dhhpei2s-r/:ba9ccaw/e.+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
 http://www.topix.com/city/plain-city-oh/2018/07/author-to-hold-signing-at-bicentennial?fromrss=1
Wicked Women of Ohio, Jane Ann Turzillo, 2018.
 https://books.google.com/books?id=iC1mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=wicked+women+of+ohio+Lizzie+lape&source=bl&ots=CSNS_lzDMT&sig=uDD4Muro0X9WGjN9YFzdp3C8VQE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOn7a4j-HdAhUNSK0KHT3vCG8Q6AEwDHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=wicked%20women%20of%20ohio%20Lizzie%20lape&f=false
Morrow County [OH] Genealogical Society, September 22, 2018, 2 p.m., “Looking for Lizzie” book talk and presentation, open to the public.
 https://www.morrowcountysentinel.com/news/21677/community-calendar-30

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Francis Coker

Francis William Coker (November 1, 1878 – May 26, 1963) was an American political scientist and the chairman of the Department of Government at Yale University from 1937 to 1945.  Coker's work focused on political theory, particularly theories of the state and the nature of democracy.

Biography
Coker was born in Society Hill, South Carolina.  He received an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1899 and a second A.B. from Harvard in 1902.  In 1910, he received his PhD from Columbia University under William Archibald Dunning, and began teaching at Ohio State University, where he remained until 1929.

In 1916, Coker married Helene Ruth Patton with whom he had two children, including Francis William Coker, Jr., who later became a noted lawyer.  In 1929, Coker left Ohio State to become the Cowles Professor of Government at Yale.  In 1937, he was appointed chairman of the government department at Yale, and held that position until his retirement in 1945.  In 1947, he was named an emeritus professor at Yale, and he retired in 1949.  Coker's students at Yale included Robert Dahl, Miriam Irish, and Dwight Waldo, all of whom cited him as an important influence.

Coker died on May 26, 1963 at his home in Hamden, Connecticut and was buried in his hometown of Society Hill.

Academic work
Coker published his first book, Organismic Theories of the State in 1910.  In the work, Coker criticized contemporary theories of the state as a unitary actor, and argued that "such theories ultimately failed."  The book drew a somewhat frosty response, and L.L. Bernard wrote in the American Journal of Sociology that Coker "missed the point".  Nonetheless, the book gained a following and is still cited today.

Coker's other major theoretical work was Recent Political Thought published in 1934.  The book examined the development of political ideas from the mid-nineteenth century until the early 1930s.  The book primarily focused on liberal democracy and both leftist and rightist challenges to it.  Without firmly taking a position on democracy in the book, Coker did conclude that liberal democracy "was a more reasonable political alternative than critics on either side of the political spectrum appreciate."   Recent Political Thought was generally well received and one reviewer in the American Journal of International Law called the work "a service to all teachers of political theory".  Similarly, Francis Wilson, writing in the American Political Science Review called the book "the best of the works on current political thinking."

Coker also edited several works on political theory, which became "standard anthologies in political theory courses," and wrote numerous articles in journals and other publications.  The central themes in all of his work were theories of the state, and the nature of liberal democracy.

References

External links
 Full text of Organismic Theories of the State available from Google books.

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Lisha Kill, New York

Lisha Kill is a hamlet in the town of Colonie, Albany County, New York. Lisha Kill lies on New York Route 5 (Central Avenue) in the western section of the town. The hamlet received its name from the creek of the same name, Lisha Kill, kill being Dutch for creek or stream. The stream is also referred to as Lisha's Kill and received its name from a local legend about a Native American woman who is buried along its banks.

History
Lisha Kill's history is intimately tied to the creek of the same name. Originally called Lysiens Kill, local legend says Lisha's Kill is named for a Native American woman who was buried along its banks. Some of the earliest settlers were of the Lansing family, a family long associated with nearby Albany, Cohoes, and Lansingburgh; Jacob Lansing is considered the first to have settled in the area and John V.A. Lansing, another early settler, arrived in 1792. His house still stands and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985. Henry O. Lansing owned a saw mill powered by water or steam from the Lisha Kill in 1875. Several Lansings in the late 19th century were deacons, elders, and officers of the (Dutch) Reformed Church of Lisha's Kill. Colonel Jon T. A. Lansing and his four sons owned four farms consisting of  bounded by Central Avenue, and Lisha Kill, Lansing and Consaul roads, the Town of Colonie Golf Course is built on over half of this acreage.

The Albany and Schenectady Turnpike, built in 1799, connecting those two cities ran through the middle of Lisha Kill and had a toll-gate here. The hamlet quickly became thickly settled and well developed in the 19th century. There was a black smith, hotel, stores, a tavern run by Josiah Stanford (father of California Governor Leland Stanford); and a post office that was established in 1830. Two school houses served the local children, Watervliet School House (WSH) 7 (to the east on Consaul Road); and WSH 8 (in Stanford Heights). Today the children of Lisha Kill attend Veeder Elementary School and Lisha Kill Middle School (since 1959) east of the hamlet and then Colonie High as part of the South Colonie Central School District.

The residents of Lisha Kill for the most part were of Dutch ancestry and belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church, they worshiped at the Niskayuna Reformed Church until 1852 when they petitioned the Classis of Schenectady for their own church. This was granted and the Dutch Reformed Church of Lisha's Kill began meeting in Watervliet School 8 until 1854 when a new church building was dedicated. The church still is in use as the second oldest Reformed Church in Colonie.

Geography
Lisha Kill is centered along Central Avenue (NY Route 5) in the western part of Colonie, between the cities of Albany and Schenectady. Lisha Kill is also the name of a creek that runs perpendicular to Central Avenue.

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Geovani Faria da Silva

Geovani Faria da Silva (born 6 April 1964 in Vitória), referred to simply as Geovani Silva or Geovani, is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a midfielder.

He began his career at 16 in Desportiva Ferroviária. In 1983, he was transferred to Vasco da Gama, where he became famous, playing alongside the likes of Romário and Roberto Dinamite. He represented Brazil at the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship, where he became the top scorer, and was also elected as the best player of the tournament. He scored the only goal in the final, where Brazil beat Argentina 1–0.

He received 24 senior international caps, from May 1985 to September 1991, and was a member of the Brazilian team in the 1988 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal.  He also played for the Brazilian team which won the Copa América in 1989.  Geovani was not selected for Brazil at the World Cup.

Between 1989 and 1991 he played in Europe at Bologna F.C. 1909 and Karlsruher SC, before moving back to Vasco da Gama. For the rest of his career he played for various Brazilian clubs, with a brief stint at Tigres UANL in Mexico. He ended his career in 2002.

In 2006, he was elected as State Deputy of the state of Espirito Santo.

Honours

Club
 Rio de Janeiro State Championship: 1982, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993
 Espírito Santo State Championship: 1980, 1981, 1998, 1999, 2000

International
Brazil
 Summer Olympics:  1988
 Copa América: 1989
 FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1983

Individual
 FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Ball: 1983
 FIFA U-20 World Cup Golden Shoe: 1983
 South American Player of the Year (El Mundo): 1988 (3rd place)
 South American Team of the Year: 1988

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France–Haiti relations

France–Haiti relations are foreign relations between France and Haiti. Both nations are members of the Francophonie, United Nations, and the World Trade Organization.

History

The first French to arrive to Haiti were pirates who began to use the island of Tortuga (northern Haiti) in 1625 as a base and settlement for raids against Spanish ships. In 1663, French settlers founded a colony in Léogâne, on the western portion of Hispaniola. After the Nine Years' War in 1697, Spain ceded the western portion of Hispaniola  with the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick that same year and France named the colony Saint-Domingue. The colony was France's most productive and richest colony and was made to grow primarily tobacco, indigo, sugar, cotton, and cacao using the labor of slaves from Africa as a result of the near extinction of the Taíno people.

Independence

From 1789-1799, France underwent a revolution. The revolution in France had great implications in Haiti. In August 1791, slaves in the northern region of Haiti staged a revolt which would be known as the Haitian Revolution. In 1793, France sent as an envoy Léger-Félicité Sonthonax to maintain control and stabilize the colony from the revolution. In February 1793, Haitian leader Toussaint Louverture joined Spanish forces in fighting the French. In October 1793, Sonthonax emancipated the slaves in all of Haiti. In May 1794, Louverture left the Spanish army after they refused to free their slaves in the eastern part of Hispaniola.

In 1801, Louverture defeated the Spanish in Santo Domingo and emancipated the slaves of the territory. In 1802, General Napoleon Bonaparte sent 40,000 French and Polish troops to Hispaniola. Soon afterwards, Napoleon's brother-in-law General Charles Leclerc asked to meet Louverture to discuss terms. It was a deception and Louverture was seized and deported to France where he died in April 1803. After the death of Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines stood as leader of the independence struggle and continued battling French forces. After the battle of Battle of Vertières in November 1803, France abandoned all hope of retaining control over the colony. On 1 January 1804, Dessalines declared independence for Saint-Domingue and renamed the new nation 'Haiti'.

France officially acknowledged Haitian independence in 1824.

Post Independence
In 1825, French King Charles X demanded Haiti reimburse and compensate France for the loss of money and trade from Haiti's independence. France threatened to invade Haiti and sent 12 war ships to the island nation. On 17 April 1825 an agreement was made between the two nations. France renounced all attempts to re-conquer Haiti and recognized Haiti as an independent nation after Haiti agreed to pay France 150 million gold francs in indemnity to the former colonists within five years. In November 1825 the first French consul presented his credentials to President Jean-Pierre Boyer. On 12 February 1838, a 'Treaty of Peace and Friendship' was signed between both nations.

Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between, both nations have signed several agreements and treaties, such as an agreement on commerce (1958); treaty on trade (1959); agreement on air transportation between both nations (1965); agreement on cultural, scientific and technical cooperation (1972); convention on the protection of investments (1973); cooperation on tourism (2007) and an agreement on joint research and of professional training (2015).

Since independence, France continued to play an important role in Haitian affairs. Several Haitian Presidents ousted from power sought refuge in France, such as Presidents Jean-Pierre Boyer, Lysius Salomon, Franck Lavaud and Jean-Claude Duvalier. In December 1993, France asked the United Nations to tighten sanctions on Haiti after the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power by the military in September 1991.

In February 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid a visit to Haiti, the first by a French President. During his visit, President Sarkozy promised Haiti €230 million Euros in aid after the island nation suffered its worst earthquake in its history. President Sarkozy also announced the cancellation of €56 million Euros debt owed by Haiti to France. In May 2015, French President François Hollande paid an official visit to Haiti and promised $145 million USD in development projects within the island nation.

Trade
In 2014, trade between both France and Haiti totaled €57million Euros. French exports to Haiti total €48 million Euros and include mechanical equipment, agricultural machinery

Resident diplomatic missions
 France has an embassy in Port-au-Prince.
 Haiti has an embassy in Paris and consulates-general in Cayenne, French Guiana and in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe .

See also
 French Haitians
 Haitians in France
 Haiti indemnity controversy

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Paterno

Paterno may refer to:

Places
 Paterno, Basilicata, Italy
 Paternò, Catania, Sicily, Italy
 Paterno Calabro, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
 The Paterno, a Manhattan apartment building
 Monte Paterno, a mountain
 Paterno Castle, in Albaladejo, Spain
 Paterno Castle, a ruin in Civita Castellana, Italy, deathplace of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor
 Paterno Castle (New York City), a former castle in upper Manhattan

People
Paterno (surname)

Other
A.S.D. Paternò 1908, Italian football club
Paterno (film), a 2018 film about the American football coach

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Mump and Smoot

Mump and Smoot are a Canadian clown duo created by Michael Kennard and John Turner, and directed by Karen Hines. Also referred to as 'clowns of horror', they've produced interactive, improvisational plays aimed squarely at adult audiences.

History

Kennard and Turner met in Toronto in 1986 in Second City workshops, where they discovered a mutual talent for improvising with gibberish dialogue. While at Second City, they met Karen Hines, who has directed all their shows. Kennard and Turner also studied under Richard Pochinko in a new field of what he called Canadian clowning. On May 13, 1988, Mump and Smoot presented their first show, Jump the Gun. Since then they have played fringe theatres throughout Canada, regional theatres and festivals, the American Repertory Theater, associate artist positions at the Yale Repertory Theater, and Israeli and Palestinian festivals culminating with a joint workshop for Israelis and Palestinians together. In addition to theatre, Mump and Smoot have made numerous television appearances and two short films, including Laurie Lynd's The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore.

Their early press defined them as horror clowns, a title they appreciated. Turner and Kennard had been horror fans before they had met, and used that genre's techniques to make their clowning more exciting. In their writer's credo of the beliefs which informed their work, the strongest concept was fear, which they've tried to explore throughout their partnership. This visceral excitement is balanced with comedy and naiveté, so that audiences are repeatedly moved from laughter to disgust to sorrow.

Their early shows often featured Debbie Tidy as Wog, an evil stage manager who served as a foil for the duo, while later shows replaced Wog with Zug, a ringmaster figure played by Rick Kunst.

Outside their Mump and Smoot personae, Kennard and Turner ran The SPACE (Studio for Physical and Clown Exploration) in Toronto from 1997 through 2002, where they not only worked on their shows, but also taught clown and presented workshops, student theater, and other productions. Along with Hines, they continue to present workshops and courses in clown, movement, and physical comedy.

Following the successful tour of Flux in 2002, the duo retired the act for several years. They each taught clown, Turner at his "Clown Farm" on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario, and Kennard at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. They began working on Cracked with Hines and Morrison around 2007, collaborating during vacations and through long-distance phone calls.

Turner's home was destroyed by a fire on January 4, 2014, which also destroyed his clown costumes, props, and records of past performances.

Background

Mump and Smoot live on the planet Ummo and worship the deity Ummo, as long as he might be responsive to their prayers. Their dialogue is in their native language of Ummonian, which is nevertheless clear to the audience (who often play a part in the performance). They combine influences from sources including Monty Python, the Three Stooges, I Love Lucy, Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, and Antonin Artaud to elicit in their audience the peculiar mix of sympathy, empathy, schadenfreude, and horror that stem from watching flawed individuals alternately fail and succeed at their petty but all too human schemes.  Mump and Smoot shows are said to seem so spontaneous that people sometimes forget that they are scripted. To obtain this effect, Kennard and Turner use an improvisational technique rooted in an art called Canadian clown, developed by Richard Pochinko in the 1980s. Pochinko's style borrowed from many traditions including First Nations, American and European clowning.

Kennard and Turner have also trained with movement coach Fiona Griffiths and clown teacher Ian Wallace. Workshops with Philippe Gaulier in Bouffon and John Towsen in physical comedy have also been influential.

Mump (the Joey), played by Kennard, is the natural leader; authoritative, pompous, bullying, scheming and manipulative, alternately erupting in towering violent rages and completely collapsing from terror. Smoot (the Auguste), played by Turner, is the perpetual innocent; playful, childlike, silly, bullied by Mump but occasionally standing up to him.

The plays occur in a world of surrealistic set design, with simple props combined with haunting and evocative music (by Greg Morrison) and sound effects providing an overall impression of a vast and uncaring universe inhabited by powers beyond the scale of mere Ummonians.

The characters draw the audience in by directly interacting with them in a responsive manner, which may underline their haplessness at the whims of social pressure.

Productions
Jump the Gun (1988)
The Dentist (1989)
Something (1989)
Caged (1990)
Ferno (1992)
Pitooey (1995)
Tense (1997)
Something Else (1998)
Mump and Smoot in Flux (2002)
Cracked (2010)
Anything (2014)

Awards

At the 1st Canadian Comedy Awards in 2000, Mump and Smoot won the award for Best Live Performance for Inferno.

Their 2002 production Mump and Smoot in Flux won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2003, for Outstanding Production and Best Direction (Hines) in the independent theatre division, and was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Comedic Play.

Mump and Smoot won for Best Variety Act at the 2015 Canadian Comedy Awards, where Anything was nominated for Best Comedic Play.

See also
Bouffon
Evil clown
Theatre of the Absurd

References

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Iosif Kryvelev

Iosif Aronovich Kryvelev (, 1906–1991) was a Soviet scholar of religion and historian of Judaism and Christianity. From 1959 until his death Kryvelev was affiliated with the Ethnography Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (now Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography). By the end of the 1980s Kryvelev remained as virtually the only proponent of Christ myth theory in Soviet academia.

Life
Kryvelev was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow Institute of History and Philosophy in 1934. From 1932 he taught philosophy. Kryvelev was affiliated with Soviet atheism propaganda, having worked in the Central Museum of Irreligion in 1936–39. During World War II he fought in the military. In 1947–49 Kryvelev worked in the Philosophy Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He attained the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Professor. In the academic career Kryvelev declared his adherence to the Marxist-Leninist worldview, being convinced that "the objective elucidation of historico-religious problems leads to the revealing of those aspects of religion which characterise it as the opium of the people, as a reactionary ideology acting against the interests of mankind". Along with Soviet Armenian philosopher Suren Kaltakhchyan, Kryvelev published antireligious articles in Komsomolskaya Pravda. In July 1986, Kryvelev criticised Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Place of the Skull, believing that to reject principled, logical atheism was to reject the "very foundations of a scientific and materialist worldview". Kryvelev's critical article spurred a reply from Soviet poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko in December 1986. Yevtushenko argued that Kryvelev had made a mistake by confusing the opinions of the novel's hero with those of Aitmatov himself. Kryvelev died in Moscow in 1991.

Selected publications

Christ--Myth or Reality? (Religious studies in the USSR, 1987)

References

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Rozina Ali

Rozina Shahzady Ali (born 21 October 1967) is an English microvascular reconstructive plastic surgeon and consultant with a specialist interest in breast reconstruction, and television presenter.

Education
Ali was born and brought up in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. She attended Liverpool Girls College, and at the age of 16 she moved to London.

In 1989, Ali graduated from the University of London with a first class degree in BSc Anatomy. In 1992, she graduated from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, University of London with first class MBBS honours in her thesis included studies on osteoarcheology and she worked in the Natural History Museum for a year. Which led to further work on bones and leprosy, and spend four months in a leper colony in South America contributing to a World Health Organisation study on the ocular effects of leprosy.

In 1996, Ali graduated from Royal College of Surgeons of England with a FRCS. In 2004, she won the 'Stephen Kroll Scholarship' to study microvascular breast reconstruction in Gent, Belgium. In 2006, she won an International Microvascular Fellowship to study microvascular reconstructive surgery in Taiwan for a year. She has also been awarded a British Association of Plastic Surgeons European Travelling Scholarship and a Surgical Fellowship from the Worshipful Company of Cutlers.

Ali has been awarded a BAPS (British Association of Plastic Surgeons) European scholarship and in 2007 was awarded the Cutler's Surgical Fellowship. Ali is a highly trained and experienced microvascular reconstructive surgeon with a specialist interest in all aspects of breast surgery.

Medical career
In 2001, Ali was one of only three people from the United Kingdom to attend the inaugural world society of reconstructive microsurgery conference. Since August 2007, she has been based at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

Her Postgraduate surgical training was undertaken in specialist units such as Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and St Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns.

Ali has conducted research into innate skin defense mechanisms at the Centre for Cutaneous Research (St Barts and The Royal London RFC) and was awarded her doctorate in 2007.

Ali has devoted considerable time to gaining expertise in correcting congenital breast abnormalities, breast symmetrising surgery and enhancing breast aesthetics. She is experienced in minimal scar techniques and favours single scar breast surgery and the use of natural tissues. Increasing demand for her services has led to the addition of gynaecological reconstruction to her practice.

Writing career
Ali is widely published and a presenter and teacher. She has been active in contributing to some of the major international plastic surgery and breast surgery texts. These include: Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art (2nd Ed); Grabb's Encyclopedia of Flaps (3rd Ed); Perforator Flaps: Anatomy, Technique and Clinical applications (1st Ed). She has collaborated with some of the world's leading authorities on breast reconstruction and microvascular surgery to write editorials and supplements as well as original papers.

Ali has a specialist interest in all aspects of breast surgery and has published and presented nationally and internationally, including the United States, China, Taiwan, Australia and Europe. She has been active in writing and editing books on breast surgery as well as specialist literature on microvascular surgery and has collaborated with many of the world's leading authorities on breast reconstruction and microvascular surgery.

Television career
Ali has presented her data in the United Kingdom and United States and was a scientific advisor to the BBC Q.E.D. documentary on antimicrobial peptides and appeared in the BBC Open University Blue Sky series.

In July 2012, she presented BBC2's Horizon series episode, The Truth about Looking Young. She discovers the latest research about how the foods we eat can protect our skin from damage, and how a chemical found in a squid's eye is at the forefront of a new sun protection cream. She also finds out how sugar in our blood can make us look older, and explores a new science called glycobiology, which promises a breakthrough in making us look younger. She also examines why some people appear to age better than others, and explores scientific innovations including a pill that manufacturers claim has rejuvenating properties, and a cream that replaces skin sugar, and so reduces wrinkles.

Since 2012, Ali has regularly appeared on Channel 4's How Not To Get Old as an advisory aesthetic surgeon.

Personal life
Ali divides her time between Norwich and London.

See also
British Pakistanis
List of British Pakistanis

References

External links

Rozina Ali on Salon
Rozina Ali on Cadogan Clinic

Rozina Ali, the UK's most exciting plastic surgeons launches stylish new website www.rozinaali.com. 12 November 2009
Top Plastic Surgeon, Rozina Ali offers FREE 15 Minute Consultations in Lead up to Christmas. PR Web. 18 November 2010
 NNUH Plastic Surgeon to feature in BBC Horizon documentary. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals. 18 July 2012

Healthy lifestyle and the science of good skin care. BBC News. 23 July 2012
Horizon: The Truth About Looking Younger – TV review. Shropshire Star. 24 July 2012
Cadogan Clinic Consultant Miss Rozina Ali Explores the Frontiers of Skin Science in a New Episode of the BBC Horizon Series. PR Web. 30 July 2012
Horizon – The Truth About Looking Young. BBC

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X16

X16 may refer to:

Bell X-16, high altitude reconnaissance jet aircraft designed in the United States in the 1950s
Jaguar C-X16, concept hybrid electric sports car unveiled by Jaguar Cars at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show
Rolls-Royce Eagle (X-16) or Rolls-Royce Eagle XVI, a 1925 British experimental 16 cylinder aero engine
SJ X16 and X17, a series of electric railcars operated by Statens Järnvägar (SJ) of Sweden
X16 (New York City bus), former New York City Transit bus route

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Jean Milhau

Jean Milhau (born 18 December 1929 in Castelfranc, Lot) was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Lot Département.  He is a member of the Radical Party of the Left (, PRG).

Biography
A retired pharmacist, Milhau became a member of the Senate of France for the Lot Département on 25 September 2008, after the death of André Boyer, for whom he was deputy.

Current positions
 Senator for Lot
 Town councillor in Cazals, Lot
 President of SYMICTOM for Gourdon, Lot

Previous positions
 1994–2004 : President of the General Council of Lot
 1982–1994 : Vice. President of the General Council of Lot
 1973–2004 : General Council of Lot for the canton of Cazals
 1965–1995 : Mayor of Cazals
 1959–1965 : Deputy mayor of Cazals.

Awards
 Knight of the Ordre national du Mérite, 1979
 Knight of the Légion d'honneur, 1988
 Officer of the Légion d'honneur, 1997.

Notes and references

See also
 Cazals, Lot

External links
  Milhau's page on the Senate website

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Khartoum Stock Exchange

The Khartoum Stock Exchange is the principal stock exchange of Sudan.  It is located in Khartoum and its name is abbreviated to KSE.  The principal stock index of the KSE is the Khartoum Index.

The idea of KSE started in 1962 by Ministry of finance, bank of Sudan and International Finance Corporation (IFC). On 1964 a department for government bonds was established within the Bank of Sudan for issuing bonds. In 1966 the first government bonds were issued with a par value of 15 million Sudanese pounds and ten years life.
The 1982 Act to establish KSE did not succeed. However, a serious step was taken in 1992 to establish KSE which led to the formation of KSE’s board. It was in 1994 that KSE gained its independent legal entity after the endorsement of KSE Act. In 1994 the primary market activities started and the secondary market stated early in 1995.
The classifications of listed companies began in 1999. In 2001 Shahama certificates were introduced in KSE. Khartoum index was declared in 2003. In 2007, KSE joined Africa Market Union.

While the KSE has been growing rapidly over the last few years and has 53 listed companies worth around 5 Billion dollars, the stock exchange is open only one hour per day, Sunday through Thursday.

See also
Economy of Sudan
List of African stock exchanges
List of Mideast stock exchanges
List of stock exchanges

External links
Khartoum Stock Exchange

References

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Saint-Christophe, Charente

Saint-Christophe  is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Population

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References
INSEE

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Constable Burton

Constable Burton is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located about  east of Leyburn. Its main attraction is the gardens of Constable Burton Hall. It takes its name from Burton meaning a fortified settlement in Old English and Conestable as it was granted in 1100 to Roald who was the Chief Constable for the Earl of Richmond.

The Wyvill Arms hotel stands opposite the entrance to the Constable Burton caravan site. The establishment is named for the Wyvill family of Constable Burton Hall.

From 1856 to 1954 Constable Burton railway station on the Wensleydale Railway served the village, hall and the rural community. A passing loop is located at the site.

See also
Unthank, North Yorkshire

References

External links

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José de la Torre (sport shooter)

José de la Torre (born 3 April 1913) was a Mexican sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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Allegiance (company)

Allegiance, Inc is a voice of customer (VoC) and enterprise feedback management (EFM) technology platform that let organizations collect and analyze consumer data in real time. The company was recognized for providing large companies and government agencies with a range of big data mining tools, and it was listed as one of the GSA’s approved vendors. Allegiance’s clients include VMware, Citi, AeroMexico, Nalco, Ameriprise, Adobe and Dell, and it was ranked as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies.

The company was headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

History

Allegiance was founded in 2005 when the ethics compliance firm SilentWhistle merged with Allegiance Technologies (founded in 2000), a provider of online feedback tools. Adam Edmunds founded the company to provide organizations with more advanced tools for analyzing customer data in real time.

In 2009, Allegiance acquired Inquisite, a provider of online survey software. In 2012, the company raised $12 million in a Series B round of venture financing, which included investors El Dorado Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and Allegis Capital.

In December 2012, Allegiance announced its appointment of Carine Clark as President and CEO. Formerly SVP and CMO for Symantec, Clark has a long career of building successful software companies.

In November 2014, Allegiance announced it would be acquired by Maritz Holdings, Inc. and merged with Maritz Research to form a new independent company called MaritzCX. MaritzCX announced the closing of the deal on January 14, 2015.

Products

Allegiance provided large organizations with tools for collecting and analyzing customer feedback and translating it into business insights in real-time. The company’s flagship product, the Engage platform, is a feedback management platform that generates "customer intelligence" by drawing insights from multiple channels a client organization uses to connect with customers. The Engage platform is used by several organizations with large customer feedback databases, including JetBlue and AT&T. MaritzCX still offers this platform though it's now simply referred to as the MaritzCX platform.

Now as MaritzCX, the company continues to provide several other products and services, including text analytics, survey engines, online feedback forms, social media feedback, as well as those services offered by Maritz Research including market research and consulting services.

Awards and recognition

Allegiance claims to have won or been nominated for several awards, including:
 Ranked as a 2013 Service leader by CRM Magazine
 Won the TMC Innovation Labs award for the Allegiance Spotlight platform in 2012
 Won the Communications Solutions Product of the Year award for the Engage platform in 2011
 CEO Adam Edmunds was selected as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010
 Ranked as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest-growing companies in 2009
 Won the Communications Solutions Product of the Year award in 2009

See also
 Voice of Customer (VoC)
 Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM)
 Customer Experience (CX)
 Customer Feedback Management Services
 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
 Customer Satisfaction
 Loyalty Business Model
 Net Promoter Score (NPS)

References

External links
 Allegiance Official Site
 MaritzCX Official Site

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Cyphoma signatum

Cyphoma signatum, common name: the fingerprint flamingo tongue,  is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.This species was recently synonymised with Cyphoma gibbosum.

Distribution
This species is distributed in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles, along Eastern Florida and northern Haiti.

Description
The size of the shell varies between 24 mm and 45 mm.

The maximum recorded shell length is 45 mm.

Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0.3 m. Maximum recorded depth is 90 m.

References

Further reading
 Cate, C. N. 1973. A systematic revision of the recent Cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger 15 (supplement): 1-117.
 Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
 Lorenz F. & Fehse D. (2009). The Living Ovulidae - A manual of the families of Allied Cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim, Germany.
 Reijnen B.T. & van der Meij S.E.T. (2017). "Coat of many colours—DNA reveals polymorphism of mantle patterns and colouration in Caribbean Cyphoma Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda, Ovulidae)". PeerJ5:e3018 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3018

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Victoria Lovelady

Victoria Lovelady  (born 29 November 1986) is a Brazilian professional golfer.

Lovelady qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Early life and amateur golf career
Victoria Alimonda, now known as Victoria Lovelady after marriage, began playing golf at the age of 12. She also enjoys playing the guitar, composing music and surfing.

Professional career
Lovelady played on the Symetra Tour in 2012 and 2013 and has played on the Ladies European Tour since 2014.

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Neil Ogden

Neil Ogden (born 29 November 1975 in Higher End, England) is an English former footballer.

Club career
Ogden was an apprentice at hometown club Wigan Athletic and made his Football League debut at Vetch Field on the 4 May 1993. After three seasons Ogden briefly played in the Football Conference and the Premier Soccer League before moving to Sligo Rovers in the summer of 1997 under Nicky Reid. He made his League of Ireland debut on the 30 August 1997. During that 1997-98 League of Ireland season, Sligo won their first ever FAI League Cup.

Ogden signed to the Shelbourne for the 1999-2000 League of Ireland season under Dermot Keely, and made his debut in the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup tie against Neuchâtel Xamax at the Stade de la Maladière (1924). However, after only 5 league appearances he moved to Galway United in November 1999. In January 2000, the Tribesmen knocked the defending League champions out of the FAI Cup and beat Sligo 5-0 with Ogden scoring.

Ogden signed for Portadown F.C. in the summer of 2000 and in his second season won the IFA Premiership. He made two appearances in the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League against FC Belshina Bobruisk  At the end of the 2002–03 Irish League season, Ogden signed to Larne F.C.. Under Jimmy McGeough, Larne reached the 2004–05 Irish Cup Final, where Ogden opened the scoring in a 5–1 loss. In November 2005, Ogden's contract at Inver Park was terminated by Kenny Shiels.

Honours
Irish League
 Portadown 2001/2002
Mid-Ulster Cup: 2
 Portadown 2001/2002, 2002/2003
League Cup
Sligo Rovers 1997/98

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Liederkranz

Liederkranz may refer to:

A German-language choir, formerly for men only
Liederkranz (Grand Island, Nebraska), U.S., a historic building
Liederkranz cheese, an  American variety of Limburger cheese
Liederkranz of the City of New York, a German-American cultural society


William Findley House

The William Findley House, also known as the Davis County Historical Society Museum, is a historic residence located in Bloomfield, Iowa, United States.  Dr. William M. Findley was the first owner of this house.  A native of Dayton, Ohio, he settled in Bloomfield in 1843, where he practiced medicine. He was a surgeon for the 4th Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War.  The T-shaped, vernacular structure is one of a very few brick houses in town, as the vast majority are frame construction.  While it does not conform to any specific style, the wide, bracketed cornice does suggest the Italianate style.  The frame summer kitchen that sat behind the house was torn down when the frame addition was built onto the back of the house in 1917.  The addition contained the kitchen of a boarding house that occupied the building at that time.  The William Findley House is now part of a museum complex that includes a Mormon log cabin, a livery barn, the Wheeler Ridge School, and the Savannah Christian Church.  The other buildings were moved here.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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2016–17 Sydney Thunder WBBL season

The 2016–17 Sydney Thunder WBBL season was the second in the team's history. Coached by Joanne Broadbent and captained by Alex Blackwell, the team competed in the WBBL02 tournament.

At the conclusion of the group stage, the Thunder team was sixth on the table, and therefore did not qualify for the knockout phase.

Squad
The following is the Thunder women squad for WBBL|02.  Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Sources

Ladder

Fixtures

Group stage

References

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Dwight Foster (politician, born 1757)

Dwight Foster (December 7, 1757 – April 29, 1823) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Early life
Foster was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and attended the common schools in Brookfield. He graduated from the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the former name of Brown University) at Providence in 1774. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar association in 1778. He remained in Rhode Island to practice law, beginning his law practice in Providence. He received his Master's degree from Harvard University in 1784.

Career
After returning to Massachusetts, Foster held various positions in the government. He served as justice of the peace for Worcester County from 1781 to 1823, as special justice of the court of common pleas in 1792, and as sheriff of Worcester County in 1792. In 1791, he was elected as a Federalist candidate to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

He was elected as a United States House of Representatives to the 3rd United States Congress in 1793, and was reelected to the three  succeeding Congresses. He served in Congress from March 4, 1793, until his resignation on June 6, 1800. While in Congress, he was Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Claims.

In 1799, he was a delegate to the State constitutional convention  and on June 6, 1800, he was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by Samuel Dexter's resignation. He served in the Senate until his resignation on March 2, 1803. He was a member of the State House from 1808 to 1809 and a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council in 1818.

In 1813 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Foster died in Brookfield on April 29, 1823, aged 65, and is interred in Brookfield Cemetery there.

Family life
Foster's father was Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Jedediah Foster,  who graduated from Harvard University in 1744. Foster married Rebecca Faulkner on May 7, 1783, and they had one son, Alfred Dwight Foster.

He was the brother of U.S. Senator Theodore Foster, and was the grandfather and namesake of Massachusetts Attorney General and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Dwight Foster MA.

References

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Results of the 2015 Queensland state election

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This is a list of electoral district results for the Queensland 2015 election.

Results by electoral district

Albert

Algester

Ashgrove

Aspley

Barron River

Beaudesert

Brisbane Central

Broadwater

Buderim

Bulimba

Bundaberg

Bundamba

Burdekin

Burleigh

Burnett

Cairns

Callide

Caloundra

Capalaba

Chatsworth

Clayfield

Cleveland

Condamine

Cook

Coomera

Currumbin

Dalrymple

Everton

Ferny Grove

Gaven

Gladstone

Glass House

Greenslopes

Gregory

Gympie

Hervey Bay

Hinchinbrook

Inala

Indooroopilly

Ipswich

Ipswich West

Kallangur

Kawana

Keppel

Lockyer

Logan

Lytton

Mackay

Mansfield

Maroochydore

Maryborough

Mermaid Beach

Mirani

Moggill

Morayfield

Mount Coot-tha

Mount Isa

Mount Ommaney

Mudgeeraba

Mulgrave

Mundingburra

Murrumba

Nanango

Nicklin

Noosa

Nudgee

Pine Rivers

Pumicestone

Redcliffe

Redlands

Rockhampton

Sandgate

South Brisbane

Southern Downs

Southport

Springwood

Stafford

Stretton

Sunnybank

Surfers Paradise

Thuringowa

Toowoomba North

Toowoomba South

Townsville

Warrego

Waterford

Whitsunday

Woodridge

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Susan Deacy

Susan Deacy is a classical scholar who has been Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton since January 2018. She researches the history and literature of the ancient Greek world, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality, ancient Greek mythology and religion, and disability studies. She is also an expert on the teaching of subjects which are potentially sensitive, including sexual violence, domestic violence, and infanticide; she was project leader on the initiative 'Teaching Sensitive Subjects in the Classics Classroom'. She is also series editor of Routledge's Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, and has been editor of the Bulletin of the Council of University Classical Departments since 2011.

Career
Susan Deacy was educated at the University of Wales, where she took a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies and Theology in 1991 and a PhD in Classics in 2000. She has held teaching posts at the Universities of Wales (Aberystwyth and Lampeter), Keele, Leeds and Manchester. In 2005 she left the University of Manchester to become Lecturer in Greek History and Literature at the University of Roehampton. She held the Käthe-Leichter visiting professorship for gender studies at the University of Vienna in 2010/11, where she gave the Käthe-Leichter Lecture on 'A traitor to her sex? Athena the trickster'. Deacy became a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015 and was promoted to Professor in January 2018.

She is a team member on the 'Our Mythical Childhood' project, which is based in Warsaw and funded by the European Research Council; it examines classical reception in children's and young adults' culture. In relation to this she also researches the autistic connection and reception of myth.

Selected publications
2001 (ed., with Alexandra Villing). Athena in the Classical World. Brill. .
2002 (ed., with Karen F. Pierce). Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds. Bloomsbury.
2008. Athena (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World). Routledge.
2012 (with Fiona McHardy). 'Teaching sensitive subjects in the classical classroom: challenges, advice, and strategies.' CUCD Bulletin 41: 28-31.
2013. 'From "flowery tales" to "heroic rapes": virginal subjectivity in the mythological meadow', Arethusa 46.3: 395-413.
2013 (with Fiona McHardy). 'Uxoricide in pregnancy: ancient Greek domestic violence in evolutionary perspective', Evolutionary Psychology 11.5: 994-1010.

External links
Opening Presentation, 'Violence, Power and Beyond', for the Conference Rape in Antiquity, University of Roehampton, 22 June 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4c2Or15Dng&list=PL30WcGmTm90kkCQC-DUbjpr5Rpt50yOVZ

Staff Profile Page, University of Roehampton: https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/susan-deacy(0f04e992-e726-491c-b5aa-4c0b82fe725a).html/

Advance Higher Education Profile Page: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/person/dr-susan-deacy

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Jimmy John's Field

Jimmy John's Field is a baseball field in Utica, Michigan, home to four teams that play in the United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL), an independent baseball league. It opened on May 30, 2016 where the Utica Unicorns defeated the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers, 5–1.

Naming rights were purchased by Jimmy John's, a sandwich restaurant chain.

History
The ballpark is located in downtown Utica, just outside of Detroit. Jimmy John's Field is owned by General Sports Entertainment (GSE), however Utica's Downtown Development Authority will own the land it sits on and lease it to them for $1 per year for 30 years. The property was the site of a capped brownfield landfill that served as an unlicensed dump for household waste, that sat vacant the last 80 years.

General Sports created the USPBL. The USPBL is the first independent professional baseball league in the metropolitan Detroit area.

Construction began in June 2015 and the venue opened on May 30, 2016. The cost of the field was $15 million.

In the park's first season it served all three teams as their home field, averaging 3,200 fans per game with over 200,000 fans total. Since its second season, it has also served as the home field for the Westside Woolly Mammoths.

The field served as the home of the NAIA Marygrove College Mustangs baseball team until athletics were dropped in December 2017.  In addition, the park hosted an NCAA game in April 2017.

Venue
The stadium has a total capacity of 4,500 fans, with 2,000 box seats between first and third base. It features 7 founder's level suites, 5 dugout suites, 12 patio suites, 4 picnic areas, and a grass berm. The ballpark also features a restaurant and bar on the concourse behind home plate.

In the right field corner there is a wiffle ball field and a playground.

The field has extremely wide foul territories, and a concert quality speaker system, allowing it to host other sports and events in the future.

Before the USPBL's second season, the stadium added 3 new bars, a concert stage in right field, and many new menu items.

Awards
In September 2016, Jimmy John's Field won the CREW Detroit Impact Award in the special impact award category for its transformation of landfill parcels along the Clinton River.

In March 2017, the stadium project won the Engineering Eminent Conceptor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Michigan.

References

External links
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 General Sports Entertainment Official Website

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Musamus Merauke University

Musamus Merauke University (Indonesian: Universitas Musamus Merauke, often abbreviated UNMUS) is a public university in Merauke, Indonesia. The third public university (Perguruan Tinggi Negeri) on Indonesian Papua and the second on the Papua province, it is located at the southeastern corner of the Merauke main town and next to its airport.

The university was founded in 2006, after having been a technological academy for 5 years. Later on, it was absorbed by the Ministry of Education and became a public university.

History
The university was initially founded as Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Merauke (Merauke Technological Academy) on 26 January 2001. Their first cohort of 99 earned diploma degrees in 2005, and in the same year feasibility studies began for its conversion into a university. Following an investigation by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, the institute received its operational permit as a university on 16 August 2006, officially making it into a private university. On April the same year, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stated that "there shall be a public university in Merauke within the next two years". Following further investigations, the university handed its assets to the central government on 23 May 2009, and was officially made a public university on 22 November 2010.

More recently, there have been complaints about the underrepresentation of native Papuan people in the university's teaching staff. In 2016, the rectorate election of UNMUS was postponed by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti) due to irregularities in the voting university senate. In 2016, it was placed 251st in rank from 3,244 universities and other higher education institutes in Indonesia by Kemenristekdikti.

Faculties and students
The university accepts students through the SNMPTN and SBMPTN, as with other public universities in Indonesia. The university provided 260 slots across all programs for the latter's exam-based selection for 2017 intake.

The university has the following faculties:
 Faculty of Agriculture
 Faculty of Engineering
 Faculty of Economy and Business
 Faculty of Education
 Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
 Faculty of Law

See also
Education in Indonesia
MIFEE

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Popiel I

Popiel I was a legendary ruler of Poland, member of the Popielids dynasty. According to the legends reported by Wincenty Kadłubek in his Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae, he was the son of Leszko III. Father of Popiel II.

Bibliography
 Jerzy Strzelczyk: Mity, podania i wierzenia dawnych Słowian. Poznań: Rebis, 2007. .
 Jerzy Strzelczyk: Od Prasłowian do Polaków. Kraków: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1987. .

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Todd Greene

Todd Anthony Greene (born May 8, 1971) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. In an 11-year career, he played for the Anaheim Angels (-), Toronto Blue Jays (2000), New York Yankees (), Texas Rangers (-), Colorado Rockies (-), and San Francisco Giants (). He batted and threw right-handed.

Amateur career
Greene was born in Augusta, Georgia, and attended Evans High School in Evans, GA and went on to attend Georgia Southern University. While playing for the Eagles, he was named the TAAC Player of the Year in 1990. In 1992, he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, where he won the league's annual all-star game home run hitting contest. Greene finished his college career 3rd on the all-time home run list at 88. He was selected by the Angels in the 12th round of the 1993 MLB Draft.

Professional career
Greene made his major league debut for the Angels in 1996. His most productive season with the Angels came in 1999, when he played in 97 games for the big league club.

With the Yankees in 2001, he caught the ceremonial first pitch thrown by President George W. Bush prior to Game 3 of the 2001 World Series, only the third instance of a sitting President throwing the first pitch of the World Series.

On May 4, 2006, while playing for the Giants in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Greene was seriously injured in a home-plate collision with Brewers' first baseman Prince Fielder.  While Greene continued to play for the rest of the season, his shoulder had suffered serious structural damage.  During spring training the next season, while with the San Diego Padres, Greene tore two muscles in his weakened rotator cuff while attempting a throw to second base.  He never returned to the majors following the injury.

Coaching, scouting and front office career
In , he was a scout for the San Diego Padres. In January , he was named a quality assurance coach for the Tampa Bay Rays.

On November 23, 2009, Greene joined the Seattle Mariners as a Major League scout. In  he then became the Special Assistant to the General Manager, handling trades and acquisitions for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Dumitru Prunariu

Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (; born 27 September 1952) is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He was in team with the Russian cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was formed by the Romanian candidate cosmonaut called Dumitru Dediu and the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.

Also Disney Romania choose the cosmonaut to dubbed BURN-E in the Disney Pixar short.

Biography

Early life and career

Born on 27 September 1952 in Braşov, Romania, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu graduated in 1971 from the Physics and Mathematics high school in Braşov and in 1976 from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, obtaining a degree in Aerospace Engineering.

Prunariu worked as a Diploma Engineer at Industria Aeronautică Română, an aircraft industry facility, prior to enrolling in the Romanian Air Force Officers Training School in 1977.

Intercosmos program

He was selected for spaceflight training in 1978 as a part of the Intercosmos Program. Having obtained the highest marks during three years of preparation, he was then selected for a joint space flight with the Russian cosmonaut Leonid Popov. In May 1981 they completed an eight-day space mission on board Soyuz 40 and the Salyut 6 space laboratory where they completed scientific experiments in the fields of astrophysics, space radiation, space technology, space medicine and biology.

Prunariu is the 103rd human being to fly into space.

Career after Intercosmos

Since 1978 Prunariu was an active officer of the Romanian Air Force. For different periods of time Prunariu was detached within other ministries to perform civil functions. In 2007 he completely retired from the Air Force with the military rank of major general, continuing his professional activity as a civil servant. At the end of 2015, by a decree of the President of Romania, Prunariu received the 3rd star, becoming a lieutenant-general (ret.).

In January 1990 Prunariu was assigned the position of Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Transportation and Chief of the Romanian Civil Aviation Department, exercising this position for 1.5 years. In 1991 Prunariu graduated from the International Aviation Management Training Institute (IAMTI/IIFGA) located in Montreal, Canada – being after 1989 the first Romanian accomplishing a two-month training for higher managers of civil aviation institutions.

Between 1992 and 1993 Prunariu was a Co-leader of the World Bank Project on reorganization of the higher education and research system in Romania.

Since 1995 Prunariu is the Vice-President of the International Institute for Risk, Security and Communication Management (EURISC), Bucharest.
Between 1998 and 2004 Prunariu was the President of the Romanian Space Agency, and since 2000 an Associate Professor on Geopolitics within the Faculty of International Business and Economics, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania.
For almost two years, starting with May 2004, he was the itinerary Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the Russian Federation.

In 2002 Prunariu was elected as the Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the UN COPUOS for the period February 2004 – February 2006, and in 2009 he was elected the Chairman of the UN COPUOS for the period of June 2010 – June 2012, accomplishing successfully his duties.
Between 2006 and 2008 Prunariu accomplished the duties of the Director of the Romanian Office for Science and Technology to the European Commission (ROST) in Brussels.

Currently, Prunariu is working for the Romanian Space Agency as an expert within the Romanian Association for Space Technology and Industry – ROMSPACE.

In 2012 Prunariu was appointed as one of the 15 experts of the Group of Governmental Experts on outer space transparency and confidence-building measures, established by the UN General Assembly Resolution 65/68.
Since 1992 Prunariu is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, being one of the trustees of the Academy, and since 1994 a member of the Romanian National COSPAR Committee. Since 1992 he has represented the Government of Romania to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) sessions. In 2014 Prunariu was elected for a three years term as the vice-chairman of the International Relations Committee of ESA.

Prunariu was also a member of the task force elaborating a report on Space Security for Europe in the framework of the European Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), issued in 2016.

Association of Space Explorers

In 1985 Prunariu joined, as one of the founding members, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) which (as of 2015) has over 400 members flown into outer space from 36 countries.

Between 1993 and 2004 he has been the permanent representative of ASE at United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) sessions.

Since 1996 Prunariu has been a member of the Executive Committee of ASE for two terms of tree years each. Since 2005 Prunariu has been a member of the ASE NEO Committee, taking part in several important activities connected with the subject, and organizing in 2007 in Romania one of the four international workshops of the ASE International Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation. Prunariu was the main interface in promoting the ASE International Panel’s Report Asteroid Threats: A Call For Global Response at the level of the UN COPUOS as a working document for the specialized bodies of this UN Committee.

In 2016, at the 53rd session of UN STS COPUOS, on behalf of the Association of Space Explorers, Prunariu proposed the proclamation by the UN General Assembly of the International Asteroid Day to observe each year at the international level the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908 and to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard. The proposal was adopted by the UN General Assembly at its 71st session in October 2016.

Asteroid Day co-founders declared Prunariu as the 1st Official Asteroid Day Ambassador for his great service and for helping protect Planet Earth from asteroid impacts.

In October 2010, at the XXIII Congress of the ASE, D. Prunariu was elected the President of the new organized Chapter of the association, ASE Europe, holding this position for 6 years. At the XXIV Congress of ASE, in September 2011 D. Prunariu was elected for a three years term the President of ASE International.

Publications

Prunariu is a co-author of several books regarding space technology and space flight and has presented/published numerous scientific papers. His PhD thesis produced new developments in the field of space flight dynamics.

Personal life

Prunariu is married to Crina Prunariu, a retired diplomat from the Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has two sons and three grandchildren.

Awards and honors
 In 1981, after completing the Soyuz 40 mission, Prunariu received the awards of Hero of Romania and Hero of the Soviet Union.
 In 1982 Prunariu was awarded the Yuri Gagarin medal of the International Astronautic Federation.
 In 1984 he was awarded the Hermann Oberth Gold Medal by the German Rocket Society Hermann Oberth – Wernher von Braun.
 On 1 December 2000, Prunariu was appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania.
 On 1 December 2010 he was awarded by the President of Romania the Order Aeronautical virtue.
 On 12 April 2011 Prunariu was awarded by the President of the Russian Federation the Medal for Merits in Space Exploration.
 On 15 November 2011, Prunariu was elected as an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy.
 Prunariu is a Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities from Romania, Republic of Moldova and USA.
 Prunariu is an honorary citizen of several cities in Romania.
 The inner main-belt asteroid 10707 Prunariu, discovered by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Californian Palomar Observatory in 1981, was named in his honor on 13 April 2017 ().

See also
 Dumitru Dediu

References

External links

 Website of the Romanian Space Agency
Spacefacts biography of Dumitru Prunariu
 Cosmonautul Prunariu, trimis în rezervă ("Cosmonaut Prunariu, discharged from active duty"), in Adevărul, 7 February 2007
 O cariera cosmica: Dumitru Prunariu , in Cariere, Mai 6, 2003

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Michele Boldrin

Michele Boldrin (; 20 August 1956) is an Italian-born politician and economist, expert in economic growth, business cycles, technological progress and intellectual property.  He is currently the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Along with his colleague and coauthor David Levine, he was part of the group of 200 economists publicly opposing the 2009 Stimulus bill.  He later publicly defended his position on the issue in various international media, including a public debate with Brad DeLong.

Biography
Boldrin was born and raised in Padua, Italy, and later moved to Venice.  He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Venice. He then received his M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) in economics from the University of Rochester in New York, under the supervision of Lionel McKenzie.  Before moving to St. Louis in the Fall of 2006, he worked at University of Chicago (1986–87), UCLA (1987–94), Kellogg School of Management (1990–94), Charles III University of Madrid (1994–99), and University of Minnesota (1999–2006). He is a research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis since 2006.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a past Associate Editor of Econometrica and (past) Editor and (current) Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, among other academic journals. He (co-)wrote four books and was a visiting professor in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Tokyo, and a number of other places. He is affiliated with CEPR and director of FEDEA. He is one of the founding editors of the (Italian) blog noiseFromAmerika and he contributes regularly to Against Monopoly and Nada es Gratis, which are respectively in English and Spanish. His two most recent books are Against Intellectual Monopoly, coauthored with David K. Levine (CUP, 2008) and Tremonti, istruzioni per il disuso, coauthored with Alberto Bisin, Sandro Brusco, Andrea Moro and Giulio Zanella (Ancora, 2010), in Italian.

Before 2013 Italian general election he co-founded with economist Luigi Zingales and journalist Oscar Giannino the centrist political movement Act to Stop the Decline. After the failure of the 2014 European Parliament election, he resigned. Later on he focused on his own Youtube channel and founded in late 2018 a libertarian left think-tank called "Liberioltre" ("Free over the illusions").
Boldrin is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council of Foundation IMDEA Social Sciences.

Political and scientific views
He has been an outspoken critic of Modern Monetary Theory, debating with american economist Warren Mosler and italian journalist Paolo Barnard.
He was a GOP supporter , but later on switched to more left-wing positions, endorsing italian left-wing activist Marco Cappato. He compared Trump-led GOP to the italian right-wing party Lega Nord, as well as to Berlusconism.
He criticized Nassim Taleb, as well as Econophysics in general, debating with italian physicist Francesco Sylos Labini.

Research
Michele Boldrin conducts ongoing research in dynamic general equilibrium theory, focusing specifically on the sources of business fluctuations, growth and development, technological innovation, and intellectual property. Collaborating with David K. Levine, Boldrin examines the role played by competitive versus monopolistic markets in growth and innovation. They posit that little evidence exists for the presence of increasing returns at the aggregate level, and thus argue that there is no reason to believe that increasing returns play an important role in actual economic growth. This implies that, in theory as in practice, competitive markets favor and promote continued growth and innovation, whereas monopoly power is not necessary and probably harmful to technological change and economic development. Their theory concludes that existing claims for the necessity of intellectual property in the process of growth and innovation are greatly exaggerated.

Books
 Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

References

External links

 Michele Boldrin's biography
 Publications, from the Open Library.
 Blog on il Fatto Quotidiano
 NoiseFromAmerika

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1756 in Denmark

Events from the year 1756 in Denmark.

Incumbents
 Monarch – Frederick V
 Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events
 October 14 - An Agreement of Friendship and Trade between Denmark and the Ottoman Empire is signed by  King Frederick V and Sultan Osman III.

Undated

Births
 February 9 – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast (died 1795)
 February 29 – Christian Frederik Hansen, architect 1845)
 March 1 – Johan Frederik Schultz, printer and publisher (died 1817)
 October 17 – Isaac Abraham Euchel, author and founder of the "Haskalah movement" (died 1804)

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John Ruckdeschel

John C. Ruckdeschel is an American oncologist who has written 160 peer reviewed articles.

He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and later on got his medical degree from Albany Medical College. He received training at Johns Hopkins University and Beth Israel Hospital where he was a resident. He was a fellow of the National Cancer Institute and a decade later became faculty member of the second alma mater. In 1991 he became the director and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa where he worked with Terrance Albrecht. and ten years later held the same position at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan. In 2009, he tried to do the same thing at the Nevada Cancer Institute and three years later became medical director at the Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. During the same years he was a chairman of both Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and the executive officer of the Lung Cancer Study Group.

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Brown v Mbhense

Brown v Mbhense and Another (2008) is an important case in the South African law of lease.

The respondent instituted an action in the Land Claims Court for an order declaring her to be a "labour tenant" as defined in the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act.

The appellant was the owner of the farm in question and did not oppose the plaintiff's action.

The plaintiff's claim succeeded in the court a quo, and the defendant appealed against that decision to the Supreme Court of Appeal, which held that to gauge the existence of a labour-tenancy agreement in the technical and precise manner akin to that applicable to usual residential or commercial tenancies was far too restrictive an approach, and one that went against the objective and general tenor of the Act.

See also
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