title: Yizhou

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Yi Prefecture or Yizhou may refer to:

 Yizhou (Southwest China) (), a historical province of China covering Southwest China
 Yi Prefecture (Shandong) (), active between the 7th and 18th centuries
 Yi Prefecture (Guangxi) (), active between the 7th and 13th centuries
 Yi Prefecture (Hebei)
 Yi Prefecture (Korea), now known as Uiju or Uiju County
 Yizhou District, Hechi (), district of Hechi, Guangxi named after the historical prefecture
 Yizhou District, Hami (), district of Hami, Xinjiang
 Yizhou (island) (), an island described in historical texts that is possibly Taiwan

See also
 Yi (disambiguation)


title: Jazz Impressions of Folk Music

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Jazz Impressions of Folk Music is an album recorded by American saxophonist Harold Land in 1963 for the Imperial label.

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Released at the commercial apex of the folk revival, Jazz Impressions of Folk Music far transcends its cash-grab origins. Harold Land reinvents traditional favorites...  And although Land's name sits above the title, Jazz Impressions of Folk Music is first and foremost a showcase for Jones, who turns in some of the most imaginative and vibrant work of his career".

Track listing
All compositions by Traditional except as indicated
 "Tom Dooley" - 6:56
 "Scarlet Ribbons (Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal) - 4:07
 "Foggy, Foggy Dew" - 4:19
 "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" - 3:52
 "On Top of Old Smokey" - 2:57
 "Take This Hammer" - 6:45
 "Blue Tail Fly" - 3:45
 "Hava Nagila" - 5:13

Personnel
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Carmell Jones - trumpet
John Houston - piano
Jimmy Bond - bass
Mel Lee - drums

References

1963 albums
Harold Land albums
Imperial Records albums


title: Aldair Neto

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Aldair Sapalo Amaro Neto (born 22 July 1994) simply Aldair or Aldair Neto, is an Angolan footballer who plays for Torpedo Kutaisi as a forward.

Football career
Born in Luanda, Neto spent his youth career in Portugal, with G.D. Rio de Mouro, Sporting CP, Real SC, C.F. União de Coimbra and S.C. Braga. He made his senior debut in 2013 with A.D. Oeiras of the Lisbon Football Association's first district league, and in the new year joined C.D. Fátima in the third tier.

On 8 August 2014, Neto signed a five-year contract with C.S. Marítimo B in Segunda Liga. He made his professional debut the next day in a 2–1 loss at C.D. Aves, as a 61st-minute substitute for Gonçalo Reyes. He became a regular in the third tier following the Madeirans' relegation, and in August 2018 he transferred across the league to G.D. Gafanha. He scored on his debut, a 1–1 home draw with U.S.C. Paredes on 12 August.

In August 2019, after a successful trial following his release from Marítimo, Neto joined Bangor City in the Cymru North, the second tier of Welsh football. He and Yalany Baio were released in December.

References

External links

1994 births
Footballers from Luanda
Angolan men's footballers
Living people
Men's association football forwards
AD Oeiras players
C.D. Fátima players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Bangor City F.C. players
Cymru Alliance players
Angolan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Wales
Angolan expatriates in the United Kingdom
G.D. Gafanha players


title: Karen Khachanov

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Karen Abgarovich Khachanov (; born 21 May 1996) is a Russian-Armenian professional tennis player. Khachanov has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the 2018 Paris Masters, has claimed an Olympic silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and has reached two Major semifinals at the 2022 US Open and 2023 Australian Open. He has also won one doubles Masters 1000 title at the 2023 Madrid Open partnering Andrey Rublev. He achieved his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 on 15 July 2019.

Early life and background
Khachanov started playing tennis at the age of three in kindergarten when his parents put him into the tennis group. His father Abgar, an Armenian from Yerevan, played volleyball before studying medicine, while his mother, Nataliya, a Russian, also studied medicine. Khachanov's maternal grandfather was also half Armenian. Despite having been born in Russia, Khachanov tweeted: "I always say that I have Armenian roots."

He has a sister and a brother. His idols growing up were Marat Safin and Juan Martín del Potro, and favourite sports teams are Real Madrid and the Miami Heat. He decided to become a professional player at 12.

After Khachanov turned 15, he moved to Split, Croatia, where he trained under Vedran Martić, Goran Ivanišević's former coach. Later, he moved to Barcelona and was coached by Galo Blanco.

Junior career
Khachanov won the Under-18 European Championship title in Switzerland in July 2013. Together with Andrey Rublev he won a silver medal in doubles at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. They lost in the final to Brazilian players Orlando Luz and Marcelo Zormann.

Professional career

2013–15: Davis Cup debut, first Future & Challenger titles

Still as under 18, Khachanov made his ITF Circuit debut at the $15K event in Russia, losing his first match against compatriot Alexey Vatutin. In September of the following year, he got a wildcard for his first ATP Tour participation at the St. Petersburg Open. There he recorded his first win by defeating Victor Hănescu in the first round. He then faced Lukáš Rosol, but lost in straight sets. A month later he got another wildcard, for the Kremlin Cup. Things got even better there, as he defeated Albert Ramos Vinolas and top 30 Janko Tipsarević. In the next round he lost to Ivo Karlović. The following week he made his debut for Russia at the Davis Cup, and at age 17 years and 157 days he became the youngest Russian tennis player in the pro series, surpassing Mikhail Youzhny. There, he defeated Dean O'Brien of South Africa to help Russia advance in the 2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. He finished the season by playing at the two Challengers, reaching the quarterfinal in Geneva and then the first round in Helsinki.

After a slow start at the Chennai Open and two lower-ITF tournaments, Khachanov then played at the Davis Cup. He lost to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland in the first round of the 2014 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. He then continued with no success at one ITF event and Challenger events in Kazakhstan. However, he then made his Masters debut, after receiving a wildcard entry to the 2014 Miami Open, but lost in the first round to Daniel Gimeno Traver. In August, he achieved his first significant result, winning his first ITF title at the $15K event in Kaohsiung. Two weeks later, he won another ITF title at the $15K event in Mulhouse. For the second year in a row, he got a wildcard for the Kremlin Cup, but again lost in the first round.

Despite playing at a few ATP Tour events in previous years, in 2015 Khachanov played mostly at ITF and Challenger tournaments. In the first half of the year, he won two $10K/15K events in France, both in March. In April he reached the semifinal and won the title at the $15K events in Uzbekistan.  After that at the Challengers, in June, he advanced to the quarterfinal in Fergana and then the semifinal in Marburg. His next step was Wimbledon, in his first Grand Slam qualification appearance. He lost in the first round of qualifications. Later, at the US Open, he also failed to qualify for the main draw, this time losing in the second round of qualifications. In mid-July, he faced Pablo Andújar in the second round of the 2015 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. He lost that match in three sets. In September, Khachanov won his first ATP Challenger Tour title in Istanbul, where he was unseeded. In the final he defeated top seed Sergiy Stakhovsky. He followed up this performance and finished the year with four consecutive Challenger quarterfinals, in Mons, Rennes, Brest and Mouilleron-le-Captif.

2016: First ATP title, Major debut
Khachanov had a slow start in 2016 with only a first round at the Chennai Open and the final stage of Australian Open qualifications, as well as failing to reach the main draw at Open Sud de France and Open 13. His following matches were on the Challenger Tour, making it to the quarterfinal in Cherbourg and later the final of Jönköping and the quarterfinal in Kazan. He then entered the qualifications for Monte Carlo as his first clay Masters 1000 appearance. He lost to Taro Daniel in the first round. The following week he qualified for the Barcelona Open, beating Ramkumar Ramanathan and Marco Trungelliti. In his first-round match he came back from a set down to beat Aljaž Bedene. In the second round he beat fifth seed Roberto Bautista Agut, also in three sets. He eventually lost in the third round to the eleventh seed Alexandr Dolgopolov. After that he played at the Istanbul Open as a wildcard player. In his first match, he beat Aljaž Bedene for the second time in the month. In the following round, he lost to Albert Ramos Vinolas, despite winning the first set. He then at Challengers reached the quarterfinal in Qarshi and won the title in Samarkand the following week.

Playing in the qualification of the French Open, Khachanov completed his appearances at all four Grand Slams, but with no qualifications into the main draw. Two Challenger semifinals in Prostějov and Moscow followed, as well as another loss in the qualifications of Wimbledon. In July, at the Kitzbühel Open, he defeated Filippo Volandri and Philipp Kohlscreiber to reach his first ATP Tour quarterfinal since the 2013 Kremlin Cup, before losing to Dušan Lajović.

At the US Open, he made his main draw debut after passing the qualifications. In the first round he recorded his first Grand Slam win, over Thomas Fabbiano, but lost in the second round to Kei Nishikori. After that, he lost in the first round of the St. Petersburg Open to Alexander Zverev. However, he progressed further the following week at the 2016 Chengdu Open. He defeated João Sousa, Adrian Mannarino, Feliciano López and Victor Troicki to reach his first ATP Tour final. By reaching an ATP singles final, Khachanov became the first Russian in an ATP Tour final since Mikhail Youzhny, who beat David Ferrer in the final at the 2013 Valencia Open 500. Khachanov won his first ATP tournament there, beating Albert Ramos Viñolas in three sets. He finished the year with his first ATP 500 quarterfinal run at the Vienna Open, where he recorded wins over Andreas Seppi and Nikoloz Basilashvili, before Ivo Karlović defeated him.

2017: First top 10 win, first Major fourth round

Thanks to big progress in the past, he was now able to avoid qualifications. He started the year with a win at the Qatar Open, but then lost to Ivo Karlović in two tie breaks. He performed no better at the following Auckland Open, losing in the first round to Yen-Hsun Lu. He then made his main-draw debut at the Australian Open. His first opponent was Adrian Mannarino, whom Khachanov defeated in four sets. Against Jack Sock in the following round, he attempted to reach his first Grand Slam third round, but without success. His next step was participating at the Davis Cup against Serbia in the World Group. He lost his match against Viktor Troicki in five sets. Losses then continued for the next four tournaments: Open Sud de France, Rotterdam Open, Open 13 and Dubai Championships. At the Indian Wells, he passed the first round after defeating Tommy Robredo. In the following round, he lost to David Goffin.

In late April, he reached his first quarterfinal of the year, at the ATP 500 Barcelona. There he defeated Thomaz Bellucci, Pablo Cuevas and top 10 David Goffin before losing to Horacio Zeballos. A month later he advanced to another quarterfinal, at the Lyon Open. He followed up this win with another great performance at the French Open. Wins over Nicolas Jarry and top 30 players, Tomáš Berdych and John Isner, brought him to the fourth round at a Grand Slam for the first time in his career. He failed to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal, losing to Andy Murray.

He continued with good performances, reaching the semifinal of the Halle Open. There he achieved his first win on grass over Gilles Simon, and then recorded his second career top 10 win, after defeating Kei Nishikori. He lost to Roger Federer and failed to reach the final. This result ensured him a first Grand Slam seed place at the following Grand Slam at Wimbledon. There, he also had another great result, reaching his first third round, after wins over Andrey Kuznetsov and Thiago Monteiro. He then lost to Rafael Nadal. His successful journey then continued with two consecutive quarterfinals at the Båstad Open and the Hamburg Open. However, he then started to struggle with form. He was eliminated in the first round at both the Canadian Open and the US Open, but reached the third round of the Cincinnati Open. In September he played in the Davis Cup for the second time in a year. He played against Hungarian players, winning against Attila Balázs and losing to Márton Fucsovics. He then went to China, reaching the second round of the Chengdu Open and the China Open and losing in the first round of the Shanghai Masters. He then returned to Europe, but still with no success, with only first rounds of the Vienna Open and the Paris Mastes. He finished the year with his debut at the Next Gen ATP Finals. He overcame Jared Donaldson, but lost to Daniil Medvedev and Borna Ćorić, so failed to pass the round robin group.

2018: First Masters 1000 title

Khachanov started the year at the Auckland Open, reaching the quarterfinal after wins over Yūichi Sugita and Pablo Cuevas, but then lost to Juan Martín del Potro. Next, he participated in the Australian Open, where he lost to del Potro in the second round. In February he first reached the quarterfinal of Open Sud de France, followed up with only a first round at the Rotterdam Open, but then he won his second ATP title at Open 13 in Marseille, France. In the semifinal he defeated former top 10 player Tomáš Berdych to reach final. To get the title, he needed to defeat Frenchman Lucas Pouille.

In the next three months he showed average results.  In Dubai he reached the second round, then only the first round of Indian Wells and the third round of the Miami Open.
However, he reached the final of the Miami Open in the doubles event, alongside Andrey Rublev, but they lost to Bob and Mike Bryan. Then the clay court season came, but he was still not showing good form. He reached the third rounds of Monte Carlo and the Barcelona Open, but only the first rounds of Madrid and Rome.
However, his form peaked on time for the French Open, where he again reached the fourth round, defeating  top 20 player Lucas Pouille in the third round, before losing to Alexander Zverev.

During the grass season, he played only two tournaments. First, he advanced to the quarterfinal of the Halle Open for the second year in a row. Second, he reached the fourth round of Wimbledon, but then lost to Novak Djokovic.

In the North American summer hard-court swing, Khachanov reached the semifinals of a Masters 1000 tournament for the first time in his career at the Canadian Open, losing to Nadal. He again lost to Nadal at the US Open in a marathon third round match.

Khachanov then helped Team Russia to progress through the 1st Round play-off of the Europe/Africa Zone Group I by winning both matches and securing Russia a place in the World Group. In Asia, Khachanov struggled to find form. He reached only the second rounds of Beijing and Shanghai. He then rebounded at the Kremlin Cup, winning his second ATP title of the season by defeating Adrian Mannarino in the final. In the semifinal he defeated his compatriot Daniil Medvedev.

Khachanov finished the year by claiming his first ATP Masters 1000 title at the Rolex Paris Masters, defeating Filip Krajinović, Matthew Ebden, world No. 9 John Isner (saving two match points), world No. 5 Alexander Zverev, world No. 8 Dominic Thiem and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. He was the first tennis player representing Russia to win a Masters 1000 final since Nikolay Davydenko, who won the inaugural 2009 Shanghai Masters. No. 18 Khachanov was the lowest-ranked player to win a Masters 1000 title since Ivan Ljubičić took the 2010 Indian Wells Masters. As a result, Khachanov climbed to world No. 11 and was an alternate at the 2018 ATP Finals. He became the fifth Russian tennis player to win a Masters tournament after Marat Safin, Andrei Chesnokov, Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Nikolay Davydenko.

2019: French Open quarterfinal, top 10

Despite starting the season as the 11th ranked player in the world, Khachanov struggled to achieve any notable results for the first five months of the season. Leading up to the French Open, Khachanov's record for the year was ten wins and twelve losses, and he had failed to reach a single tournament semifinal.

At the French Open, Khachanov won his first three rounds to set up a last-16 encounter with Juan Martín del Potro. Khachanov beat del Potro for the first time to reach his first major quarterfinal, where he lost to Dominic Thiem. Khachanov's maiden Slam quarterfinal saw him enter the top-10 for the first time as world No. 9.

In August, Khachanov reached his first tournament semifinal of the year after beating Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals of the Montreal Masters. In the semifinals, he was defeated by compatriot Daniil Medvedev.

After the Rogers Cup, Khachanov reached the semifinals of the China Open. He failed to defend his title at the Paris Masters, losing in the second round to Jan-Lennard Struff, and dropped out of the top 10.

2020: ATP Cup semifinals, French Open fourth round
Khachanov entered the Auckland Open as third-seeded, losing the first match against John Millman.

He then joined team Russia, also consisting of Medvedev, Gabashvili and Kravchuk, at the ATP Cup. He beat four out of five players, with team Russia progressing to the semifinals, where they lost to eventual champion Serbia.

At the 2020 US Open, Khachanov beat Jannik Sinner, coming back from 2 sets down, then beat Andrey Kuznetsov, before losing to Alex de Minaur in the third round. In Rome, Khachanov lost in the first round to Casper Ruud. He came back to form in time for the French Open, where he reached the fourth round for a fourth consecutive year, beating Kamil Majchrzak, Jiří Veselý and Cristian Garín, before losing to world No. 1 Novak Djokovic.

2021: Wimbledon quarterfinal, Olympic silver medalist

At the 2021 Australian Open, Khachanov progressed to the third round for the third year in a row. He reached two semifinals, at the lead-up event to the AO at the 2021 Great Ocean Road Open, where he was defeated by eventual champion Jannik Sinner, and at the clay warm-up event to the French Open at the 2021 Lyon Open, where he was defeated by Cameron Norrie.

At the 2021 Wimbledon Championships he reached the fourth round for the second time. This marked the first time three Russian players reached the fourth round at the All England Club since 2006, when Elena Dementieva, Anastasia Myskina and Maria Sharapova made their run. He continued by reaching the quarterfinals for the first time in his career, defeating Sebastian Korda in a tight match that finished in a fifth set tiebreak. He then lost in another five-set match, against Denis Shapovalov.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Khachanov defeated Yoshihito Nishioka, James Duckworth, Diego Schwartzman and Ugo Humbert to reach the semi-finals. There, he defeated Pablo Carreño Busta in straight sets, to guarantee himself at least a silver medal. He lost to Alexander Zverev in the gold medal match.

2022: US Open semifinal & back to top 20
Khachanov started his 2022 season at the Adelaide International 1. Seeded second, he beat third seed, Marin Čilić, in the semifinals to reach his sixth ATP singles final. He lost in the final to top seed Gaël Monfils. Seeded third at the Adelaide International 2, he reached the quarterfinals where he was defeated by eventual finalist Arthur Rinderknech. Seeded 28th at the Australian Open, he made it to the third round where he was ousted from the tournament by sixth seed Rafael Nadal.

In February, Khachanov competed at the Rotterdam Open. He lost in the second round to sixth seed Cameron Norrie. Seeded sixth at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, he upset fourth seed, Marin Čilić, in the quarterfinals. He fell in his semifinal match to second seed, Roberto Bautista Agut, in three sets. In Dubai, he lost in the second round to world no. 1 and five-time champion, Novak Djokovic. Seeded 25th at the Indian Wells Masters, he was defeated in the second round by American Jenson Brooksby. Seeded 23rd at the Miami Open, he was eliminated in the second round by American Tommy Paul.

Khachanov started his clay-court season at the Monte-Carlo Masters. He lost in the first round to 12th seed Diego Schwartzman. Seeded third at the Serbia Open, he reached the semifinals where he was defeated by World No. 1 Novak Djokovic. At the Madrid Open, he was beaten in the first round by Lucas Pouille in straight sets. In Rome, he sweeped past Pablo Carreño Busta to reach the third round where he was ousted by eventual finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas in three sets. At the French Open, he defeated Cameron Norrie to reach the fourth round of this tournament for a fifth time, but was outlasted by 6th seed Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets.

Khachanov played two tournaments in the grass swing. He reached the quarterfinals of both Libéma Open and Halle Open, losing to Félix Auger-Aliassime and Oscar Otte respectively. At the Hamburg Open, he lost to Alcaraz again in the quarterfinals.

Khachanov started the North American hard court swing at the Citi Open. He lost to eventual finalist Yoshihito Nishioka in the third round. Following early exits at both Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open, Khachanov reached the fourth round at the US Open defeating Jack Draper after he retired in the third set. He went one step further with a win over Pablo Carreño Busta, in a five sets match lasting over 3 hours, to reach the quarterfinals for the first time at this Major. Khachanov defeated Nick Kyrgios in five sets to reach his first career semifinal at a Major. He became the first player of Armenian descent to do so, since Andre Agassi reached his first Major semifinal at the French Open in 1988, and most recently, David Nalbandian at the French Open in 2006.  In the semifinals, Khachanov lost to Casper Ruud in four sets.

In October, Khachanov reached the quarterfinals of Astana Open, where he lost in straight sets to an eventual champion Novak Djokovic. In receipt of a first-round bye in Antwerp, he lost to eventual finalist Sebastian Korda in the second round. It was followed by another early exit at the Erste Bank Open to Dan Evans in the second round.

2023: Major & Masters semifinals in singles and title in doubles, first title in 5 years, back to top 10
Ranked No. 18 at the 2023 Australian Open he defeated three seeds in a row to reach the semifinals 16th seed Frances Tiafoe, 31th seed Yoshihito Nishioka and 29th seed Sebastian Korda in the quarterfinals after retirement. He moved back to the Top 15 to No. 13 in the rankings on 30 January 2023.

At the 2023 Miami Open he reached the quarterfinals with his first top-5 win for the season and first ever win against second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas. It was also his 11th top-10 career overall and first since Canada 2019 where he reached a Masters quarterfinal for the last time. He broke a 23-match losing streak against Top 10 players. Next he defeated 25th seed Francisco Cerundolo to reach his first Masters semifinal since 2019.

Khachanov began his European clay-court campaign at the Monte-Carlo Masters where he lost to fellow countryman Andrey Rublev in the fourth round. At the next Masters tournament, the 2023 Mutua Madrid Open, he reached the quarterfinals following wins over Thiago Monteiro, Roberto Bautista Agut, and Andrey Rublev before falling to top seed Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets. In doubles, he partnered with Rublev and the pair went on to win the title, their first as a pair.
Following a quarterfinal showing at the 2023 French Open he returned to the top 10 in the singles rankings.

Khachanov missed 2023 Wimbledon because of a partial stress fracture in his sacrum S1 bone.

He returned to the US Open but lost in the first round to Michael Mmoh. At the next tournament, the 2023 Zhuhai Championships as the top seed, he recorded his first win since coming back from injury over qualifier Alex Bolt. He reached the final defeating two Americans sixth seed Mackenzie McDonald and fourth seed Sebastian Korda. In the final, he defeated eight seed Yoshihito Nishioka in straight sets to claim his first title in five years.

Coaching team

Early in his career, Khachanov was coached by Igor Bitsenko in Moscow and Vedran Martić in Split, Croatia. In 2014 he joined 4Slam Tennis Academy led by Galo Blanco. Khachanov parted ways with Blanco in November 2017. He has been training for a few years now with his previous coach Vedran Martić. Currently, his other coach is José Clavet.

Personal life
In April 2016, Khachanov married Veronika Shkliaeva, his childhood sweetheart, who he had been dating since 2011. Their child was born in 2019. Fellow tennis player Ilya Ivashka is his brother-in-law, as their wives are twin sisters.

In March 2022, the Russian state-run RIA Novosti reported that, amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Khachanov had removed the Russian flag from his Instagram page.

During the 2023 Australian Open, Khachanov wrote messages on the television camera lens (traditionally signed by the winner following a match) after his victories over Frances Tiafoe and Yoshihito Nishioka, expressing support for Armenians in the Republic of Artsakh during its 2022–2023 blockade. The Azerbaijan Tennis Federation complained to the International Tennis Federation, demanding Khachanov receive punishment for "his dirty plans". Khachanov stated he had not been discouraged by the ITF or anyone else for his messages.

Endorsements

Khachanov has been endorsed by Nike for apparel and shoes, and Wilson for racquets. He has also been sponsored by Lavazza, Armani for luxury apparel, Cadillac Escalade for cars, and Rolex for watches. He was earlier endorsed by Mercedes Benz and Head, for racquets.

Career statistics

Grand Slam tournament performance timeline

Current through the 2023 Australian Open.

Olympic medal finals

Singles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Masters tournaments

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)

Awards and honours
National
The Russian Cup in the nominations:
Junior of the Year: 2013;
Male Player of the Year: 2018;
Olympians-2020;
Team of the Year: 2019, 2021.
 Sports title "Merited Master of Sports of Russia" (6 August 2021)
 Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (11 August 2021).

Notes

References

External links

1996 births
Tennis players from Moscow
Russian male tennis players
Living people
Tennis players at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
Hopman Cup competitors
Olympic tennis players for Russia
Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in tennis
Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes
Russian sportspeople of Armenian descent


title: Rhodopseudomonas faecalis

text:
Rhodopseudomonas faecalis is a gram-negative, anaerobic, phototroph bacteria from the genus of Rhodopseudomonas with a polar flagella which was isolated from chicken faeces.

References

External links
Type strain of Rhodopseudomonas faecalis at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Nitrobacteraceae
Bacteria described in 2002


title: Loco (nickname)

text:
As a nickname, Loco or El Loco may refer to:

 Sebastián Abreu (born 1976), Uruguayan footballer
 Willie Alexander (born 1943), American singer and keyboard player
 Daniel Barrera Barrera, Colombian drug lord arrested in 2012
 Marcelo Bielsa (born 1955), Argentine football coach
 Abdalá Bucaram (born 1952), Ecuadorian politician and President of Ecuador (1996–1997)
 René Higuita (born 1966), Colombian retired football goalkeeper
 Martín Palermo (born 1973), Argentine retired footballer
 Ramón Quiroga (born 1950), Peruvian retired football goalkeeper
 Vicente Rodríguez (baseball) (1891–?), Cuban baseball player in the Negro leagues and other leagues
 Manuel Valdés (born 1931), Mexican actor and comedian
 Juan Manuel Vargas (born 1983), Peruvian footballer

See also

Nicknames


title: Hyundai Pride

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Hyundai Pride is a container ship, built according to the latest IMO and MARPOL standards. The ship was ordered in 2011 and completed in July 2014 by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea.

Design
Hyundai Pride was ordered by Hyundai Merchant Marine in August 2011 at the shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in Geoje, South Korea. The vessel was planned to start serving the G6 Asia-Europe Loop 6 sea line of the company. The container ship has length of , beam of , depth of  and maximum summer draft of . The cargo ship has deadweight  and gross tonnage . With such dimensions the vessel can carry 13,154 TEU and has 900 reefer points for transportation of temperature controlled containers.

Engineering

The main engine is a Hyundai-MAN B&W 10S90ME-C9.2, which was special development of the Hyundai with improved power and lower fuel consumption. The engine has output power of 85,670 hp at 86 rpm and NOx emissions 4.4 g/KW.h. With such engine the container ship can achiever service speed of 24.5 kn, while the maximum is over 27.0 kn. The vessel Hyundai Pride has also four diesel generators HIMSEN 8H32/40, which support the equipment and cargo handling systems.

See also
 NYK Vega
 Stena Paris

References

External links

Container ships
Transportation in the Marshall Islands
2014 ships
Ships built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering


title: 2005–06 Fencing World Cup

text:
The 35th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2005 and concluded in September 2006 at the 2006 World Fencing Championships in Turino, Italy.

Individual Épée

Individual Foil

Individual Sabre

Team Épée

Team Foil

Team Sabre

References
 FIE rankings

Fencing World Cup
2005 in fencing
2006 in fencing
International fencing competitions hosted by Italy
2006 in Italian sport


The McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar was a commemorative coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1916 and 1917, depicting the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley.  The coin's obverse was designed by Charles E. Barber, Chief Engraver of the Mint, and the reverse by his assistant, George T. Morgan.  As McKinley had appeared on a version of the 1903-dated Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar, the 1916 release made him the first person to appear on two issues of U.S. coins.

The coins were to be sold at a premium to finance the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial at Niles, Ohio, and were vended by the group constructing it.  The issue was originally proposed as a silver dollar; this was changed when it was realized it would not be appropriate to honor a president who had supported the gold standard with such a piece. The coins were poorly promoted, and did not sell well. Despite an authorized mintage of 100,000, only about 30,000 were minted.  Of these, 20,000 were sold, many of these at a reduced price to Texas coin dealer B. Max Mehl. The remaining 10,000 pieces were returned to the Mint for melting.

Background

William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843. He left college to work as a teacher, and enlisted in the Union Army when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. He served throughout the war, ending it as a brevet major. Afterwards, he attended law school and was admitted to the bar.  He settled in Canton, Ohio, and after practicing there, was elected to Congress in 1876.  In 1890, he was defeated for re-election, but was elected governor the following year, serving two two-year terms.

With the aid of his close adviser Mark Hanna, he secured the Republican nomination for president in 1896, amid a deep economic depression. He defeated his Democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan, after a front porch campaign in which he advocated "sound money", that is, the gold standard unless modified by international agreement. This contrasted to "free silver", pushed by Bryan in his campaign.

McKinley was president during the Spanish–American War of 1898, in which the U.S. victory was quick and decisive. As part of the peace settlement, Spain turned over to the United States its overseas colonies of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. With the nation prosperous, McKinley defeated Bryan again in the 1900 presidential election. President McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz in September 1901, and was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

In the years after McKinley's death, several memorials were built to him, including a large structure housing his remains at Canton. Another memorial was built at his birthplace in Niles under the auspices of the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Association (the Association).  Designed by the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the Greek Classic memorial was built of Georgia marble and was dedicated in 1917.  Housing a museum, library, and auditorium, as well as a statue of McKinley and busts of his associates, it remains open to the public, free of charge.

Inception and preparation

The McKinley Birthplace Memorial dollar was proposed as a fundraiser for the construction of the site in Niles. In February 1915, the Association's head, Joseph G. Butler, Jr., met with Ohio Congressman William A. Ashbrook, chairman of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, to propose a silver dollar in honor of McKinley.  Ashbrook was willing, and the two men saw Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo and Acting Director of the Mint Frederic Dewey, who envisioned no difficulty.  Accordingly, Ashbrook introduced a bill in the final days of the 63rd Congress, which took no action on it.  When the 64th Congress opened in December 1915, Ashbrook reintroduced his bill, H.R. 2.

A hearing was held before Ashbrook's committee on January 13.  Originally, the bill called for mintage of 100,000 silver dollars in commemoration of McKinley, but at the hearing, Butler requested that they be gold instead, stating, "if you will recall the fact, McKinley was elected in 1896 mainly on the question of the gold standard." The gold dollar had not been struck as a circulating coin since 1889.  Asked a question from New York Congressman James W. Husted as to whether a gold dollar would be too small to be a souvenir, Butler responded, "No; I do not think so. I think, on the other hand, a silver dollar might be too large. I think we can dispose of gold dollars very much easier. Mr. Husted, and you know gold dollars are rather scarce just now." Ashbrook agreed, and stated:

Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding was present at the House committee meeting and spoke in favor of the bill, arguing that "this assistance on the part of the Federal Government will cost nothing more than the making of the dies".  On being told that the dies, per the legislation, would be at the Association's expense, Harding replied, "I did not notice that. Then, it essentially costs the Government nothing whatever to render this mark of tribute and assistance." The committee reported the bill favorably on January 18, amending the bill to allow for the 100,000 gold dollars, to be purchased by the Association at par and sold at a profit to help build the memorial. The report indicated that the committee members "believe it is a deserved testimonial to the worth and service of a great man who lost his life while serving our Nation as its Chief Executive". The bill passed the House on February 7, 1916, and the Senate on February 15. It was enacted when President Woodrow Wilson signed it on February 23, 1916.

The act provided that no more than 100,000 pieces be struck, with the necessary gold bullion to be acquired in the open market. The Association could purchase the coins at face value. The act required that the pieces be struck at the Philadelphia Mint, one of only two pieces of authorizing legislation in the classic commemorative coin series (through 1954) that specified the place of striking (the Panama–Pacific issue of 1915 had to be struck in San Francisco).  The act also required that the dies be destroyed after the coining was done, something numismatists Anthony Swiatek and Walter Breen questioned as duplicating provisions in the Coinage Act of 1873.

The designs were prepared in-house at the Philadelphia Mint by Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, who designed the obverse and his assistant, George T. Morgan, who prepared the reverse. They did not seek outside artists to submit proposals. Numismatic author Q. David Bowers suggested that this was because Secretary McAdoo had sought non-employees to propose designs for the five Panama–Pacific coins along with those sketches prepared by Barber and his assistants, and the Mint's engravers had prepared only two of the five, and that because the artist assigned one, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, had fallen ill. When the McKinley designs were submitted to the Commission of Fine Arts on March 31, 1916, it recommended changes, though Don Taxay, who so stated, does not say what they were. In any event, no alteration was made, and the designs were approved.

Design

The obverse of the dollar features an unadorned bust of McKinley, facing left, with the name of the country above and "McKinley Dollar" (in all capitals) below.  McKinley, who had appeared on one version of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar (issued beginning in 1903), thus became the first person to appear on two different issues of American coinage.  The earlier pieces had also been designed by Barber, and the later coins, according to Bowers, "present an image so different that the uninformed observer would not know that the same man was being depicted". Bowers suggested that Barber might have been trying to create "a distinctively new version". Taxay agreed, opining that Barber's "chief concern seems to have been in making the portrait of McKinley as different as possible from that on the Louisiana Purchase coins".

The reverse, designed by Morgan, is intended to be a facing view of the McKinley birthplace memorial in Niles, but according to Swiatek and Breen, "the most charitable view must characterize it as inaccurate and incompetently done". Above the building is "McKinley Birthplace/Niles Ohio", and beneath it the date and "Memorial".

Art historian Cornelius Vermeule, in his volume on U.S. coins, disliked the McKinley pieces. "When Barber and Morgan collaborated ... the results were almost always oppressive. The McKinley Memorial dollars of 1916 and 1917 bear witness to these stylistic judgments, the unclothed bust on the obverse looking tastelessly Roman and the classical, colonnaded Memorial Building placed across a reverse further constricted by too much, too large lettering."

Distribution and collecting

The Philadelphia Mint struck 20,000 gold dollars in August and October 1916, plus 26 extra reserved for inspection and testing at the 1917 meeting of the United States Assay Commission. In February 1917, 10,000 more (plus 14 assay coins) were minted, again at Philadelphia. The Association sold these to the public at $3 each, the same price at which the Louisiana Purchase pieces, which sold poorly, had been vended. The McKinley Memorial pieces were ill-publicized, and few were sold at full price. Texas coin dealer B. Max Mehl purchased 10,000 pieces at an unknown price, selling them for years afterwards at $2.50 each.

The Washington Post reported on July 30, 1916 that the gold dollars had been released and were being "gobbled up as souvenirs". Nevertheless, according to Mehl in his 1937 volume on commemoratives, "the Committee in charge apparently realized that the number of collectors in the country could not and would not absorb an issue of 100,000 coins at $3.00 each" and some 10,000 coins "were disposed of at a greatly reduced price to the 'Texas Dealer' [that is, himself] who in turn distributed them extensively among collectors of the country at a reduced price". A total of 10,023 were returned by the Committee to the Mint for melting. It is uncertain how many of each year were melted, as the Mint did not keep records of this.  Mehl estimated that the Committee sold 15,000 of the 1916 and 5,000 of the 1917 (including the sale to him), meaning that about 5,000 of each were melted. Bowers deemed these figures "probably correct", given Mehl's personal dealings with the Committee. Bowers calculated that 8,000 of the 1916 were sold by the Committee to collectors and the public, plus 7,000 to Mehl. He opined that 2,000 of the 1917 were sold by the Committee at full price, plus 3,000 to Mehl. Swiatek, in his 2012 book on commemoratives, estimated that between a third and half of the melted pieces were dated 1917.

According to R. S. Yeoman's 2015 edition of A Guide Book of United States Coins, the 1916 is catalogued for $500 in slightly-worn AU-50 (almost uncirculated) to $1,850 in near-pristine MS-66. The 1917 is listed at $550 in AU-50 and $3,250 in MS-66. A 1916 in MS-68 condition was sold by Heritage Auctions in 2009 for $16,100.

References and bibliography

Sources

1916 establishments in Pennsylvania
Cultural depictions of William McKinley
Currencies introduced in 1916
Early United States commemorative coins
United States gold coins
Works by George T. Morgan


title: 2014 Stockholm Ladies Cup

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The 2014 Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup was held from September 26 to 28 at the Danderyd Curling Arena in Stockholm, Sweden as part of the 2014–15 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format, and the purse for the event was 250,000 SEK, of which the winner will receive 100,000 SEK.

The Margaretha Sigfridsson rink from Skellefteå won their first Stockholm Ladies Curling Cup, defeating Canada's Rachel Homan rink in the final, 6-3, after the Homan rink conceded after 7 ends. The defending Olympic champion Jennifer Jones rink, also from Canada, finished third.

Teams
The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

Playoffs

References

External links

Stockholm Ladies Cup
2014 in Swedish women's sport
2014 in women's curling
2010s in Stockholm
September 2014 sports events in Europe


title: Inter Leipzig

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Inter Leipzig is a German association football club located in Leipzig, Saxony. Their first team competes in the NOFV-Oberliga, the fifth tier of German football.

History
According to the Inter Leipzig mission statement, the club claims to become the "international and open-minded" Leipzig football team. The former mayor of Leipzig, Wolfgang Tiefensee, serves on the economic board.

In order to participate in the 2014–15 Sachsenliga season, Inter Leipzig merged with SV See 90 from the Upper Lusatian town Niesky. Previously, the club had unsuccessfully attempted to merge with TuS Leutzsch of Leipzig.

The first official match was played in the opening round of the Saxony Cup 2014–15 against SV Lipsia Eutritzsch, which ended in a 2–0 win for Inter Leipzig. On the last day of the 2014–15 season, the team was promoted to the NOFV-Oberliga Süd after a 7–0 win against Heidenauer SV. In July 2015 the team introduced a new team logo. The unicorn was replaced by a lion, which is the heraldic animal of the city of Leipzig.

Logo

Past seasons

Current squad

International players
Nerijus Astrauskas appeared in two games for Lithuania.

References

External links
 Official website

Leipzig Inter
Football clubs in Saxony
Inter
Association football clubs established in 2014
2014 establishments in Germany


title: Costinha (footballer, born 1994)

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Pedro Miguel Neves da Costa (born 11 March 1994 in Abrantes, Santarém District), known as Costinha, is a Portuguese footballer  who plays as a central defender for Luxembourg club US Mondorf-les-Bains.

References

External links

Portuguese League profile

1994 births
Living people
People from Abrantes
Footballers from Santarém District
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
Associação Naval 1º de Maio players
C.D. Trofense players
Louletano D.C. players
Luxembourg National Division players
US Mondorf-les-Bains players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Luxembourg
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Luxembourg


title: Secular stagnation

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In economics, secular stagnation is a condition when there is negligible or no economic growth in a market-based economy. In this context, the term secular means long-term (from Latin "saeculum"—century or lifetime), and is used in contrast to cyclical or short-term. It suggests a change of fundamental dynamics which would play out only in its own time. The concept was originally put forth by Alvin Hansen in 1938. According to The Economist, it was used to "describe what he feared was the fate of the American economy following the Great Depression of the early 1930s: a check to economic progress as investment opportunities were stunted by the closing of the frontier and the collapse of immigration". Warnings of impending secular stagnation have been issued after all deep recessions since the Great Depression, but the hypothesis has remained controversial.

Definition

The term secular stagnation refers to a market economy with a chronic (secular or long-term) lack of demand. Historically, a booming economy with low unemployment and high GDP growth (i.e., an economy at or above capacity) would generate inflation in wages and products. However, an economy facing secular stagnation behaves as if it is operating below capacity, even when the economy appears to be booming; inflation does not appear. In a healthy economy, if household savings exceed business investments, interest rates fall; lower interest rates stimulate spending and investment, which bring savings and investments into balance. However, an economy facing secular stagnation may require an interest rate below zero to bring savings and investment into balance. The surplus of savings over investment may be generating price appreciation in financial assets or real estate. For example, the U.S. had low unemployment but low inflation in the years leading up to the Great Recession, although a massive housing bubble developed.

The idea of secular stagnation dates back to the Great Depression, when some economists feared that the United States had permanently entered a period of low growth. The Economist explained in 2018 that many factors may contribute to secular stagnation, by either driving up savings or reducing investment. Households paying down debt (i.e., deleveraging) increase savings and are spending less; businesses react to the lack of demand by investing less. This was a major factor in the slow U.S. GDP growth during 2009-2012 following the Great Recession.  Another possible cause is income inequality, which shifts more money to the wealthy, who tend to save it rather than spend it, thus increasing savings and perhaps driving up financial asset prices. Aging populations (which spend less per capita) and a slowdown in productivity may also reduce investment. Central banks face a difficult dilemma; do they raise interest rates to ward off inflation (e.g., implement monetary policy austerity) assuming the economy is in a cyclical boom, or assume the economy (even if temporarily booming) is in secular stagnation and therefore take a more stimulative approach?

Stagnation and the financial explosion: the 1980s

An analysis of stagnation and what is now called financialization was provided in the 1980s by Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy, coeditors of the independent socialist journal Monthly Review. Magdoff was a former economic advisor to Vice President Henry A. Wallace in Roosevelt’s New Deal administration, while Sweezy was a former Harvard economics professor. In their 1987 book, Stagnation and the Financial Explosion, they argued, based on Keynes, Hansen, Michał Kalecki, and Marx, and marshaling extensive empirical data, that, contrary to the usual way of thinking, stagnation or slow growth was the norm for mature, monopolistic (or oligopolistic) economies, while rapid growth was the exception.

Private accumulation had a strong tendency to weak growth and high levels of excess capacity and unemployment/underemployment, which could, however, be countered in part by such exogenous factors as state spending (military and civilian), epoch-making technological innovations (for example, the automobile in its expansionary period), and the growth of finance. In the 1980s and 1990s Magdoff and Sweezy argued that a financial explosion of long duration was lifting the economy, but this would eventually compound the contradictions of the system, producing ever bigger speculative bubbles, and leading eventually to a resumption of overt stagnation.

2008–2009

Economists have asked whether the low economic growth rate in the developed world leading up to and following the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008 was due to secular stagnation. Paul Krugman wrote in September 2013: "[T]here is a case for believing that the problem of maintaining adequate aggregate demand is going to be very persistent – that we may face something like the 'secular stagnation' many economists feared after World War II." Krugman wrote that fiscal policy stimulus and higher inflation (to achieve a negative real rate of interest necessary to achieve full employment) may be potential solutions.

Larry Summers presented his view during November 2013 that secular (long-term) stagnation may be a reason that U.S. growth is insufficient to reach full employment: "Suppose then that the short term real interest rate that was consistent with full employment [i.e., the "natural rate"] had fallen to negative two or negative three percent. Even with artificial stimulus to demand you wouldn't see any excess demand. Even with a resumption in normal credit conditions you would have a lot of difficulty getting back to full employment."

Robert J. Gordon wrote in August 2012: "Even if innovation were to continue into the future at the rate of the two decades before 2007, the U.S. faces six headwinds that are in the process of dragging long-term growth to half or less of the 1.9 percent annual rate experienced between 1860 and 2007. These include demography, education, inequality, globalization, energy/environment, and the overhang of consumer and government debt. A provocative 'exercise in subtraction' suggests that future growth in consumption per capita for the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution could fall below 0.5 percent per year for an extended period of decades".

Post-2009

Secular stagnation was dusted off by Hans-Werner Sinn in a 2009 article  dismissing the threat of inflation, and became popular again when Larry Summers invoked the term and concept during a 2013 speech at the IMF.

However, The Economist criticizes secular stagnation as "a baggy concept, arguably too capacious for its own good". Warnings of impending secular stagnation have been issued after all deep recessions, but turned out to be wrong because they underestimated the potential of existing technologies.

Paul Krugman, writing in 2014, clarified that it refers to "the claim that underlying changes in the economy, such as slowing growth in the working-age population, have made episodes like the past five years in Europe and the United States, and the last 20 years in Japan, likely to happen often. That is, we will often find ourselves facing persistent shortfalls of demand, which can’t be overcome even with near-zero interest rates." At its root is "the problem of building consumer demand at a time when people are less motivated to spend".

One theory is that the boost in growth by the internet and technological advancement in computers of the new economy does not measure up to the boost caused by the great inventions of the past. An example of such a great invention is the assembly line production method of Fordism. The general form of the argument has been the subject of papers by Robert J. Gordon. It has also been written about by Owen. C. Paepke and Tyler Cowen.

Secular stagnation has also been linked to the rise of the digital economy. Carl Benedikt Frey, for example, has suggested that digital technologies are much less capital-absorbing, creating only little new investment demand relative to other revolutionary technologies.

Another is that the damage done by the Great Recession was so long-lasting and permanent, so many workers will never get jobs again, that we really can't recover.

A third is that there is a "persistent and disturbing reluctance of businesses to invest and consumers to spend", perhaps in part because so much of the recent gains have gone to the people at the top, and they tend to save more of their money than people—ordinary working people who can't afford to do that.

A fourth is that advanced economies are just simply paying the price for years of inadequate investment in infrastructure and education, the basic ingredients of growth.

A fifth is related to decreased mortality and increased longevity, thus changes in the demographic structure in advanced economies, affecting both demand, through increased savings, and supply, through reduced innovation activities.

And a sixth is that economic growth is largely related to the concept of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI), or energy surplus, which with the discovery of fossil fuels shot up to very high and historically unprecedented levels. This allowed, and in effect fueled, dramatic increases in human consumption since the Industrial Revolution and many related technological advances. Under this argument, diminishing and increasingly difficult to access fossil fuel reserves directly lead to significantly reduced EROEI, and therefore put a brake on, and potentially reverse, long-term economic growth, leading to secular stagnation. Linked to the EROEI argument are those stemming from the Limits to Growth school of thinking, whereby environmental and resource constraints in general are likely to impose an eventual limit on the continued expansion of human consumption and incomes. While 'limits to growth' thinking went out of fashion in the decades following the initial publication in 1972, a recent study shows human development continues to align well with the 'overshoot and collapse' projection outlined in the standard run of the original analysis, and this is before factoring in the potential effects of climate change.

A 2018 CUSP working paper by Tim Jackson, The Post-Growth Challenge, argues that low growth rates might in fact be ‘the new normal’.

See also
Biflation
Business cycle
Economic stagnation
Era of Stagnation
The Limits to Growth
Productivity
Prosperity Without Growth
Recession
Stagflation
Zero lower bound

References

Macroeconomic problems
Economic growth
Market trends


title: Songzhou

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Songzhou or Song Prefecture () was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Shangqiu, Henan, China. It existed (intermittently) from 596 to 1006.

The Song dynasty was named after this prefecture because its founder Emperor Taizu of Song had stationed in Songzhou for many years.

Geography
The administrative region of Songzhou in the Tang dynasty is in the border area of modern eastern Henan, northern Anhui and southwestern Shandong. It probably includes parts of modern:
 Under the administration of Shangqiu, Henan:
 Shangqiu: Liangyuan District and Suiyang District
 Minquan County
 Sui County
 Ningling County
 Zhecheng County
 Yucheng County
 Xiayi County
 Under the administration of Heze, Shandong:
 Shan County
 Cao County
 Under the administration of Suzhou, Anhui:
 Dangshan County

References

Prefectures of the Sui dynasty
Prefectures of the Tang dynasty
Prefectures of the Song dynasty
Prefectures of Later Liang (Five Dynasties)
Prefectures of Later Tang
Prefectures of Later Jin (Five Dynasties)
Prefectures of Later Han (Five Dynasties)
Prefectures of Later Zhou
Shangqiu
Former prefectures in Henan
Former prefectures in Anhui
Former prefectures in Shandong


title: Nostalgia (Annie Lennox album)

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Nostalgia is the sixth studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox. It was released on 30 September 2014 by Island Records. It is Lennox's first album in four years, and her third album of covers. The album consists entirely of cover versions, mainly of compositions from the Great American Songbook originally written in the 1930s; two compositions initially date from the 1950s. The material was researched and learned by Lennox as she studied archival footage uploaded to YouTube.

Nostalgia debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Lennox's sixth UK top-10 solo album. It has since been certified Gold by the BPI for sales in excess of 100,000 copies in the UK. It debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 32,000 copies, earning Lennox her third top-10 solo album on the chart, as well as her first-ever number-one album on both Billboards Jazz Albums and Traditional Jazz Albums charts. It had sold 139,000 copies in the United States as of April 2015. Nostalgia peaked inside the top ten in Austria, Canada, Italy and Switzerland. The album was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 57th Grammy Awards.

Background and release
On 15 August 2014, Lennox published a blog post on her official website announcing the upcoming release of Nostalgia. She stated that the album would initially be released on vinyl LP format on 30 September 2014 as a three-week vinyl exclusive. Nostalgia was previewed to a small audience at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on 12 August 2014.

Promotion
Lennox explained that she did not plan to tour as extensively as she did in support of her album Songs of Mass Destruction (2007). She told Billboard that "at this point in time, less is more for me. I'm more about quality than quantity, and I think this is quite a niche place to be."

The single "I Put a Spell on You" received its first radio play on 15 September 2014 by Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2. Lennox performed the song at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015, and coupled with the inclusion of the track as the opening song of the film Fifty Shades of Grey, pushed it into the Billboard Hot 100 at number 97 in February 2015. It also entered the UK Singles Chart at number 63 that same month. Despite a relatively lowly chart peak, in October 2022 the single was certified Silver by the BPI denoting sales/equivalent streams of 200,000 copies in the UK, making it one of Lennox's most popular singles.

Critical response

Nostalgia received generally favourable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, the album has a score of 68 out of 100 based on eight reviews.

Mojo gave the album a positive review, stating it was "Straight and true, without a trace of rear-view-mirror sentimentality." Mike Wass of Idolator wrote that Lennox "breathes new life into the much-covered gems with perhaps the best vocal performance of her long and varied career", noting the assistance given by the "haunting arrangements". He stated that it would be an understatement to call the album "a departure from Annie's usual oeuvre," and that Lennox "puts her own inimitable spin" on the tracks. In a mixed review, The Guardian stated "Lennox can't hope to approach the anguish or disgust of Billie Holiday's original 'Strange Fruit', so why even try, unless you're going to totally reinvent the song like the Cocteau Twins did? Lennox is at her best when she sounds most involved, and her beautiful takes on 'Georgia on My Mind', 'God Bless the Child' and 'You Belong to Me' are full of poignancy and yearning."

Track listing

Personnel
Credits for Nostalgia adapted from Tidal.

Musicians
 Annie Lennox - all vocals, Fender Rhodes piano, flute, organ, percussion, piano, string arrangement
 Mike Stevens - production, accordion, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organ, vibraphone
 Chris Hill - bass guitar, double bass
 Ivan Hussey - cello
 Neal Wilkinson - drums
 Nichol Thomposn - trombone
 Simon Finch - trumpet
 Stephen Hussey - viola, violin, orchestration
 Richard Brook - percussion

Technical
 Mike Stevens - production, engineering, mixing, programming, studio personnel
 Mandy Parnell - master engineering, studio personnel
 Cameron Craig - studio personnel

Artwork
 Gavin Taylor - art direction, design
 Robert Sebree - photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 albums
Annie Lennox albums
Blue Note Records albums
Covers albums
Island Records albums
Traditional pop albums


title: Ernst Rothkopf

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Ernst Zacharias Rothkopf (December 28, 1925 – July 15, 2012) was an Austrian-born American educational psychologist. He received the E. L. Thorndike Award in 1985.

Early life
He was born in Vienna, Austria. He fled from Nazi Germany to the United States and served in the United States Army during World War II.

He received his PhD from the University of Connecticut.

Work

Mathemagenic effects
In 1966 he coined the term mathemagenic for behaviors that lead to learning, one of the first theories of learning that focused on internal processes. His ideas were based on his observation that what students learned from instruction is a transformed version of the knowledge their instructor intended to impart, which he thought required more than just the stimulus-response model of behaviorism.

Personal life
He and his wife Carol had three children.

References

1925 births
2012 deaths
Educational psychologists
Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United States
United States Army personnel of World War II
University of Connecticut alumni


title: Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge

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The Parc de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge formerly known as the Square de la Butte-du-Chapeau-Rouge, is a public park in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, which was created in 1939. It is an example of 1930s modernist park design, and contains a fountain and works of sculpture from the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) held at the Trocadéro.

The park is located between the Boulevard d'Algérie, Boulevard Sérurier, and avenue Debidour. The nearest Metro station is Pré-Saint-Gervais.

History

The park was built on a wide strip of land around the edge of the city which had been set aside as a military zone in the 1840s. Some Paris architects and planners had called for transforming the entire zone around the city into a continuous park, but that plan was abandoned and only a small amount of the zone was dedicated to green space.

The new park was designed by the architect Léon Azéma, a classically trained architect who had won the Prix de Rome in 1921, along with his colleagues Jacques Carlu and Louis-Hippolyte Boileau, who had all worked together on the hillside and fountains of Palais de Chaillot for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937).

The park marked a major departure for the garden designs of Paris. Since 1855, all the new parks and gardens of Paris had been designed or re-designed by Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand, the first chief of Paris Promenades and Plantations under Emperor Napoleon III from 1855 until 1870, and then Director of Public Works of Paris from 1871 until his death in 1891, or by the pupils of Alphand, and they all followed the same basic picturesque style, with groves of trees, flowerbeds, winding paths, kiosks, and follies. Azéma's style was more classical, with wide open lawns highlighting works of sculpture, and the groves of trees serving mainly as a background.   He used the park to showcase several works of modern sculpture.

Features of the park

The park has an area of 4.68 hectares and is built on a hillside, which offers a fine view of the city from the top. The moderne-style buffet d'eau at the entrance on Boulevard d'Algérie, on the lower end of the park, has a statue of Eve (1938) which had been displayed at the 1937 exposition, by Raymond Couvégne, a winner of the prix de Rome.

Two stairways and two long alleys climb the hillside from the entrance, on either side of a large lawn, and two spiral paths lead up to two belvederes, surrounded by groves of trees, which offer views of the city. Other paths lead to a terrace higher in the park, which also offers a panoramic view. A group of three statues (two women and a child with grapes) by Pierre Traverse (1938) decorates the hillside lawns, in the fashion of statues in the classical gardens of the 18th century. The park also has two large playgrounds, one with neo-classical columns. The architecture in the park is in the decorative style of the 1930s, using bricks combined with cement encrusted with pebbles.

See also
19th arrondissement of Paris
History of Parks and Gardens of Paris
List of parks and gardens in Paris

References

Notes and citations

Bibliography

19th arrondissement of Paris
Parks and open spaces in Paris


title: Fuegian dog

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The Fuegian dog (), also known as the Yahgan dog, is an extinct domesticated canid. It was a domesticated form of the culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus). The culpeo is similar in build to true foxes (tribe Vulpini) but is actually more closely related to wolves and jackals, being placed in a separate genus within the South American foxes or zorros. The Fuegian dog is not descended from domestic dogs, which were domesticated from an ancestor shared with the modern gray wolf (Canis lupus), nor from the domesticated silver fox which was domesticated from a melanistic population of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).

There are very few remaining specimens of the Fuegian dog. These include one in the Museo Salesiano Maggiorino Borgatello in Chile, and another in the Fagnano Regional Museum in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Characteristics

Fuegian dogs had erect ears, sharp snout and a thick tail and were tawny-colored or entirely white.  Surviving images show them to be a similar size to the wild culpeo, which weighs , or roughly the size of a Shetland Sheepdog.   Gauchos called these foxes "maned dogs" because of their resemblance to the maned wolf. Lucas Bridges described the animals as like "a stunted cross between an Alsatian police dog and a wolf".

It was described by French navigator , who headed the 1883 scientific expedition to Cape Horn, as “ugly, with long tawny hair and a sharp snout, it looks quite like a fox".

Behaviour
Although the distribution of the Fuegian dog corresponded with that of the Yahgan people, individual animals were not loyal to their human owners. Julius Popper pointed out the canid's lack of loyalty: "I never saw them, no matter how large their number, take an aggressive attitude or defend their masters when these were in danger".

Uses
Fuegian dogs were not used to hunt guanaco. However, they might have been useful for hunting otters. The foxes were also useful to humans in that they would gather around their owners to keep them warm. This was noted by Julius Popper: "The dogs placed themselves in a group around the small Onas, taking the shape of a kind of wrapping .... [M]y opinion is that the Fuegian dogs are only useful to complete the defective garment of the Indian, or better, as the Ona's heating furniture".

Extermination
In 1919, when Silesian missionary Martin Gusinde visited the local Yahgans, he noticed that, to his knowledge, all of the dogs seemed to be missing. He immediately noted this as odd, especially considering that the tie between the dogs and the local people was well documented by foreign missionaries and explorers by this time. Indeed, this mutual cooperation allowed for the region to become the only stronghold of this unusual domesticated canine to have ever existed. Upon speaking to the local people and inquiring about what had happened to the animals, he was told that the entire known population of them had been exterminated, and it was claimed they "were dangerous to men and cattle". Apparently, this "fierce" nature of the animal was allegedly witnessed by Thomas Bridges in the 1880s, who in his writings, purported that the dogs attacked his mission's goats, while giving few specific details.

References

South American foxes
Extinct canids

Mammals of Patagonia
Mammals of Argentina
Mammals of Chile
Fauna of Tierra del Fuego
Species made extinct by deliberate extirpation efforts
Mammal extinctions since 1500
Domesticated canids


title: Vacations in Majorca

text:
Vacations in Majorca () is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Bianchi.

Plot
Anselmo Pandolfini lives in Palma de Mallorca. He meets a famous American diva Mary Moore who initially dislikes him, but persuades her to let him act as her bodyguard.

Cast

Alberto Sordi: Anselmo Pandolfini
Gino Cervi: André Breton
Belinda Lee: Mary Moore
Dorian Gray: Hélène
Antonio Cifariello: Ernesto
Rossana Martini: Angela
Mercedes Alonso: Clementina
Vicente Parra: Gianni
Giulio Paradisi: Miguel

Production
The cast featured British actor Belinda Lee, then based in Europe.

References

External links

Film page at BFI
1959 comedy films
1959 films
Italian comedy films
Films directed by Giorgio Bianchi
Films about vacationing
1950s Italian films


title: Jorge Grant

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Jorge Edward Grant (born 19 December 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership side Heart of Midlothian.

Club career

Nottingham Forest
After spending time at the Nike Academy, Grant moved to Nottingham Forest's academy, where he played for two years before joining the first-team squad. Grant made his professional debut on 12 August 2014 as an 87th-minute substitute in a 1–0 win over Tranmere Rovers. On 25 September, Grant started Forest's third and final League Cup game of the 2014–15 season away at Spurs, and scored his first goal in professional football with a close-range finish in the 61st minute. Forest ultimately lost this game 3–1.

Notts County (loan)
On 31 January 2017 Grant joined Forest's city rivals Notts County on loan for the remainder of the season, having featured for the Reds in an Under-23 match against the Notts' counterparts earlier that day. After completing the signing, Magpies manager Kevin Nolan described Grant as a player with "brilliant technical ability (who) will add creativity and flair". In Grant's second game for the club he scored a 93rd-minute equaliser in a 2–2 draw at home to Exeter City. After a successful spell at County, in which he starred with six goals in seventeen games to help the club avoid relegation from League Two, Grant signed a three-year deal with Forest on 12 June to extend his stay until 2020. After signing the deal, Grant told iFollow Forest that he was targeting a starting position in Forest's first-team ahead of the new season.

Grant re-signed on loan with Notts County on 20 July 2017, joining the club for the 2017–18 season.

Luton Town (loan)
On 6 July 2018, it was announced that Grant would join Luton Town on loan for their 2018–19 season. The loan was terminated early on 7 January 2019 after making 22 appearances and scoring four goals for Luton.

Mansfield Town (loan)
On 14 January 2019, Grant joined Mansfield Town on loan until the end of the season.

Lincoln City
On 5 July 2019, Grant signed for Lincoln City for an undisclosed fee. He signed a new two and a half year contract on 29 January 2021, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2023. His form was not unnoticed as he made the League One Team of the Season for the 2020-21 season. In June 2021, it was revealed that the contract which he signed in January had a buyout clause to any Championship side and that a deal for his sale was 'imminent' according to Lincoln CEO, Liam Scully.

Peterborough United
On 29 June 2021, Grant completed a move to Championship side Peterborough United for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year deal.

On 18 September 2021, Grant scored his first goal for Peterborough United in a 3-0 win over Birmingham City.

Heart of Midlothian
On 27 June 2022, Grant joined Heart of Midlothian for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year deal.

Career statistics

Honours
Luton Town
EFL League One: 2018–19

Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 League Two
PFA Team of the Year: 2020–21 League One
EFL League Two Team of the Season: 2020–21

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Banbury
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Lincoln City F.C. players
English Football League players
Nike Academy players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Heart of Midlothian F.C. players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Footballers from Oxfordshire


title: Wang Renzhong

text:
Wang Renzhong (; January 15, 1917 – March 16, 1992) was a Chinese political leader. He was born to a peasant family in Jing County, Hebei. In November 1933, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). From 1938, he served as the vice director of Hebei-Shandong-Henan CCP Publicity Department, director of South Hebei CPC Propaganda Department, and as a party group secretary. After 1945, he became the director of South Hebei CCP Administrative Office.

After 1949, he arrived in Wuhan with the army, and was appointed as a standing member of Hubei Provincial Party Committee and vice president of People's Government of Hubei Province. In 1954 he became First Secretary (Party Chief) of the Hubei Communist Party Committee, the top leader of the province. He was very active in the Great Leap Forward period, but was purged during the Cultural Revolution, and imprisoned for eight years until 1975. In 1978 he became the vice-premier of the State Council, and from 1980 to 1982 he served as the head of Propaganda Department.

References

1917 births
1992 deaths
People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei
Heads of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party
Politicians from Hengshui
Mayors of Wuhan
Vice Premiers of the People's Republic of China
Political office-holders in Hubei
Victims of the Cultural Revolution
Members of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei
Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress
Vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference


title: List of Nepalese media

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This is a list of all Media of Nepal which includes radio, television, newspapers, magazines and online portals.

A
ABC Television
Avenues Television

H

Himal Khabarpatrika
Himalaya Television

I

Image Channel

K

Kantipur Television
Karobar Economic Daily

M
Mountain Television

N

Nepal Television
News 24

O

 Online Khabar

R

 Radio Kapilvastu
 Radio Nepal
 Radio Sagarmatha
 Radio Lumbini
 Radio Jayaprithvi F.M Bajhang

S

Sagarmatha Television
sajhasabal.com https://sajhasabal.com/

T

Terai Television
The Himalayan Times
The Kathmandu Post
The Rising Nepal

U
Unibig.News (https://unibig.news)

References


title: Jiroft University

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University of Jiroft (دانشگاه جيرفت, Daneshgah-e Jiroft) is a public, coeducational research university in Jiroft, Iran. It is 8 km from the city center and occupies nearly  of prime land.

The University of Jiroft was established more than 30 years ago. This university launched its educational and research activities in 1988 as a college of Shahid Bahonar University, upon receiving the principled agreement of the Council for the Development of Higher Education.

The university has completed its development processes in the past years with the promotion from a faculty, complex, and ultimately university rank. In 2009, this was a new chapter for the scientific and educational developments in the south of Kerman province when the Jiroft Agriculture College turned to the University of Jiroft.

Some unique characteristics of the region, such as having a rich 5,000-year-old civilization, diverse climatic and geographical areas, and located in one of the main agricultural and mineral productive areas in the country have provided the University of Jiroft an opportunity to be a hub of developing knowledge and technology in the southeast of Iran.

Having five faculties and 36 disciplines with 3500 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Jiroft has managed to establish the educational and research infrastructure, and largely contributed to training of the elite alumnus and developing science and technology in the country.

The presence of 105 full-time faculty members has not only fostered the quality of education, but also played an enormous role in creating a dynamic research environment for science and technology.

A high fraction of graduated students of the university are selected for the top-ranked universities in the country. This indicates the high quality of the education in this university.

One of the research themes of the university as an educational comprehensive center has always been sustainable development in the south of Kerman Province.
In the national and regional levels, the University of Jiroft has signed different cooperation agreements with other top universities, research centers, and governmental organizations. All of these agreements have been along with the national and regional research needs and priorities.

In the international level, the university has also provided an appropriate platform to have collaborations and cooperation with top class universities in the world such as:  the University of Milan and University of Padova in Italy, Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania in the US, Deccan College and Rai University in India, the University of Warsaw in Poland, Madrid University in Spain, University of Tübingen in Germany, as well as Ghent in Belgium.

The University of Jiroft in a ten-year horizon will be an entrepreneurial and skilled-oriented university among the top universities in the region and play a leading role in the sustainable development of southern Kerman Province and the region.

Jiroft County
Universities in Iran
Education in Kerman Province
Universities and colleges established in 1989
1989 establishments in Iran
Public universities


title: Michael Hinz

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Michael Hinz (28 December 1939 – 6 November 2008) was a German actor.

Life and career
Hinz came from an acting family, his parents were Werner Hinz and Ehmi Bessel, both actors, as well as his brother Knut and half-sister Dinah.

After growing up in Berlin and Hamburg, Hinz had his first theatrical role in 1958 in Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. A year later, he starred in his first film, Die Brücke, which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 32nd Academy Awards.

Hinz also starred in numerous films, such as The Longest Day (in which he played Manfred Rommel, the son of his father's character Erwin Rommel), television series, and was the voice actor for Jeff Goldblum in The Ray Bradbury Theater and Scott Wilson in the 1967 film In Cold Blood. He is best remembered for playing Uncle Quentin in the British television series adaptation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five in the late 1970s.

Hinz's first wife was the actress Ingrid van Bergen, with whom he had his first daughter Carolin van Bergen, who later also became an actress. In 1967, he met the actress Viktoria Brams. They were married from 1968 until Hinz's death in 2008.

In October 2008, Hinz was found unconscious by his wife at home in Munich as the result of a stroke, spending three weeks in a coma until his death on 6 November. His ashes were interred at the Westfriedhof in Munich.

Awards
 1963 Deutscher Filmpreis:  (best young actor)

Selected filmography

Die Brücke (1959), as Walter Forst
Stage Fright (1960), as Peter
The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960), as Adelheid's Son
Gustav Adolf's Page (1961), as Schwedischer Kadett
 (1961), as Martin Berger
 (1961), as Hans
 (1961), as Jossip
The Phony American (1961), as Helmut Krauss
The Longest Day (1962), as Manfred Rommel (uncredited)
Only a Woman (1962)
The Lightship (1963), as Fred Freytag
 (1963), as George Kerr
Jack and Jenny (1963), as Josef Lancelot
Lana, Queen of the Amazons (1964), as Matteo
Aunt Frieda (1965), as Karl Schultheiss
Onkel Filser – Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten (1966), as Max von Rupp
 (1967), as Jagdflieger
 (1969)
The Last Escape (1970), as Junior SS Officer
Four Times That Night (1971), as Rudy
Return of Halleluja (1972), as Lt. Von Steffen
Love Bavarian Style (1973), as Heino (uncredited)
Magdalena – vom Teufel besessen (1974), as Dr. Stone
Touch Me Not (1974), as Cory
Champagner aus dem Knobelbecher (1975), as Unteroffizier
The Spy Who Never Was (1976), as Martin
 (1977, TV film), as Hubert Rogers
The Famous Five (1978–79, TV series), as Quentin Kirrin
The Death of Mario Ricci (1983), as Otto Schmidhauser

References

External links

1939 births
2008 deaths
Male actors from Berlin
Male actors from Hamburg
German male film actors
German male stage actors
German male television actors
German male voice actors
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors
Burials at the Westfriedhof (Munich)


title: Michael Hinz (footballer)

text:
Michael Hinz (born 7 May 1987) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Blau-Weiß 1890 Berlin.

Career
Born in East Berlin, Hinz came through the youth teams of 1. FC Union Berlin, only to be told as a 13-year-old that he had no future at the club. Despite that, he returned four years later to help the club get promoted to the Under 19 Bundesliga. Hinz was rewarded with a call-up to the Germany national under-18 football team where he made one appearance in 2004.

Having only made 11 appearances until 2008, Hinz moved to FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt. On 18 April 2009, he made his professional debut for the first team in the 3. Liga as a second-half substitute for the injured Dirk Orlishausen in a match against SV Wacker Burghausen. A week later, he started the away game versus Kickers Emden.

Starting for FC Oberneuland, Hinz made two appearances in the first half of the 2009–10 Regionalliga season. After having spent the 2010–11 season without a club, he joined SV Germania Schöneiche, starting seven games in the latter half of the 2011–12 NOFV-Oberliga season before the club withdrew from the league. In 2012, Hinz joined FSV Union Fürstenwalde where he finally became a regular between the posts, starting all-but-one of the 2012–13 NOFV-Oberliga season's fixtures for the Brandenburg-based team that finished second to BFC Viktoria 1889 in the league. Hinz made 16 appearances the following season before moving to Berlin-Liga team Tennis Borussia Berlin.

References

External links

 Profile at FuPa.net

1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Berlin
German men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
3. Liga players
Germany men's youth international footballers
1. FC Union Berlin players
FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt players
FC Oberneuland players
SV Germania Schöneiche players
Tennis Borussia Berlin players
FSV Union Fürstenwalde players


title: Charles Ernest Weatherburn

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Charles Ernest Weatherburn (18 June 1884 – 18 October 1974) was an Australian-born mathematician.

Weatherburn graduated from the University of Sydney an MA in 1906. After being awarded a scholarship he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge sitting the Mathematical Tripos examinations in 1908. Weatherburn was awarded a First Class degree. On his return to Australia, Weatherburn taught at Ormond College of the University of Melbourne.

In 1923 was appointed chair of mathematics in Canterbury College, University of New Zealand. He returned to Australia in 1929 as chair of mathematics at the University of Western Australia, a post he held until he retired in 1950.

He died in Perth, Western Australia in 1974.

Selected works
 A first course in mathematical statistics
 Differential geometry of three dimensions
 An introduction to Riemannian geometry and the tensor calculus
 Elementary vector analysis : With application to geometry and mechanics, London (1921); PDF/DjVu Copy at the Internet Archive.
 Advanced vector analysis

References

Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
University of Sydney alumni
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Scientists from Sydney
1884 births
1974 deaths
20th-century New Zealand mathematicians
20th-century Australian mathematicians


title: Victor-Jean Perrin

text:
Victor Jean Perrin was a 20th-century Bishop of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer.

Biography
He was born August 7, 1894, in Segre (Maine-et-Loire) son of Breton parents, and educated in Rennes and Saint-Malo. He entered the major Seminary in 1911. He enlisted at the beginning of the First World War, he finished the war with the rank of lieutenant. After the war he was Ordained a priest on 21 May 1921, he was sent to the French Seminary in Rome where he obtained a doctorate of theology.

Upon his return to the diocese of Rennes, he was successively Professor of Holy History at the major seminary of this city, from 1923 to 1933 and then superior of the diocesan college of Saint-Malo from 1933 to 1938. He was appointed vicar general in 1938.

He enlisted once again for World War II (1939-1940), fighting the Germans during their entry into the city of Rennes.

After the Second World War he was appointed Bishop of Arras on November 3, 1945, in replacing Henri-Edouard Dutoit, who resigned after the Liberation of France. He left Arras after his appointment, on November 26, 1961, to the diocese of Blaundus in partibus. He resigned his duties on December 10, 1970. He died on January 31, 1971.

References

1894 births
1971 deaths
People from Maine-et-Loire
Bishops of Arras
Bishops of Bologna
Bishops of Saint-Omer
20th-century French Roman Catholic bishops


title: Lindholmiola regisborisi

text:
Lindholmiola regisborisi is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Helicodontidae.

Geographic distribution
The native distribution of L. regisborisi is a small area around the river Nestos and the island of Thasos in north-eastern Greece. An isolated record from Marmara Adası, the first of this species for Turkey, is probably the result of an introduction due to anthropogenic activities.

See also
List of non-marine molluscs of Greece

References

Further reading

Lindholmiola
Molluscs of Europe
Fauna of Turkey
Gastropods described in 1928


title: I Like to Play Games

text:
I Like to Play Games is a 1995 American softcore erotic drama film that was directed by Moctezuma Lobato and written by David Keith Miller. It stars Lisa Boyle and Ken Steadman, with Jennifer Burton, Monique Noel, and Cheryl Rixon also featured in the cast. It was released on September 15, 1995, and was followed in 1999 by I Like to Play Games Too.

Plot
Michael (Ken Steadman) is looking for a woman who likes to play games, but when he finds Suzanne (Lisa Boyle), he discovers that she may be more than he bargained for. Once Michael meets Suzanne, they strike up a relationship, which proves to be intense. Their first date takes them first to a restaurant, then into an alley where they fool around for a bit. They go back to his place to fool around some more. She then leaves. The next day, both attend a business meeting, during which Suzanne plays footsie with Michael. They return to his residence to fool around in his bathtub, then move onto his bed to fool around some more. But Suzanne flees and boards a taxi. This causes Michael, still naked under a bathrobe, to run after the cab taking Suzanne away. Arrested for indecent exposure, Michael places two telephone calls seeking release on bail. The first, to Suzanne, is without success. The second, to Nick (James DiZazzo), one of his friends, yields results. Suzanne then lures Michael to a motel bed and leaves him cuffed there to the bed naked while she leaves to go back to work to attend a meeting. She returns to him and they have sex on the motel bed.

Cast

 Lisa Boyle as Suzanne
 Ken Steadman as Michael
 Jennifer Burton as Tiffany
 Monique Noel as Valerie
 Cheryl Rixon as Sean
 James DiZazzo as Nick
 Pamela Dickerson as Melody
 Toshiya Agata as Kobe
 Tom Druzbick as Lochran
 Brittney Kwon as Asian Girl
 Cappuccino Moore as Jack
 Kenneth Roussell as Alexei

Releases
The film had international video and television releases: Brazilian Portuguese as O Jogo do Sexo (TV), and as Seduzidos Pelo Jogo (video); Canadian (French title) Suzanne; Germany as Opfer der Lust (video) and as Verhängnisvolle Täuschung (TV); Spain as Una chica muy traviesa; In Finland as Esileikit and as Villit leikit; In the United Kingdom as I Like to Play Games; Italy as Mi piace giocare (TV) and Venezuela as Me gusta jugar.

References

External links
 I Like to Play Games at the Internet Movie Database

1995 films
American erotic drama films
1990s erotic drama films
1995 drama films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films


title: Fábio Gomes (footballer, born 1988)

text:
Fábio Ilídio Furtado Gomes (born 21 September 1988) is a Portuguese footballer of Cape Verdean descent who plays as a forward.

Football career
On 27 July 2014, Gomes made his professional debut with Farense in a 2014–15 Taça da Liga match against Chaves.

References

External links

Stats and profile at LPFP

1988 births
Footballers from Lisbon
Portuguese sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
GD Bragança players
S.C. Farense players
Liga Portugal 2 players
C.R. Caála players
Girabola players
F.C. Vizela players
Sertanense F.C. players
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Angola
Expatriate men's footballers in Angola


title: 2014–15 Montenegrin Second League

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The 2014–15 Montenegrin Second League () was the ninth season of the competition as the second top football league in Montenegro. The league played its first games of the season on August 17, 2014 and its final matches were played on May 30, 2015.

Format of competition
Twelve teams participate in this league. The top team directly qualifies for the Montenegrin First League while the second and third teams contest in a two matches playoff against the 11th and 12th team from the First League. The two bottom-placed teams are relegated to the Third League, to be replaced by the two winners of the Third League promotion play-off.

Teams

The following 12 clubs competed in this season.

League table

Results
The schedule consists of three rounds. During the first two rounds, each team played each other once home-and-away for a total of 22 games. The pairings of the third round were then set according to the standings after the first two rounds, giving every team a third game against each opponent for a total of 33 games per team.

First and second round

Third round

Promotion play-offs
The 3rd-placed team (against the 10th-placed team of the First League) and the runners-up (against the 11th-placed team of the First League) will both compete in two-legged promotion play-offs after the end of the season.

Summary

Matches

2–2 on aggregate. Mornar won 9–8 on penalties.

Dečić won 7–1 on aggregate.

Top scorers

References

External links
Football Association of Montenegro - Official Site

2014-15
2014–15 in Montenegrin football
Montenegro


title: HMS Bridgewater (1740)

text:
HMS Bridgewater was a sixth-rate 20-gun ship of the Royal Navy, built in 1740 and wrecked in 1743.

She was commissioned in August 1740 under Captain Robert Pett for service in the North Sea and English Channel. In December 1741 Bridgewater was assigned to coastal duties off Newfoundland under Captain Frederick Rogers.

On Christmas Day 1742 she engaged and captured an 18-gun privateer, Santa Rita, off the Scilly Isles. A month later she received her third captain, William Fielding, and returned to her Newfoundland patrol.

Bridgewater was wrecked in St Mary's Bay, Newfoundland on 18 September 1743.

Notes

References

1740 ships
Sixth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy
Maritime incidents in 1743


title: St Nicholas Church, Whiston

text:
St Nicholas Church is in Windy Arbour Road, Whiston, Merseyside, England.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool.  The church was built in 1864–68 and designed by G. E. Street in Early English style.  Its tower was never completed because of a fear of subsidence.  The stained glass in the church includes windows designed by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

History

The church was built between 1864 and 1868, it was designed by G. E. Street, and consecrated on 30 July 1868.  Plans had been made by G. F. Bodley to add a crenellated parapet to the tower but, because of concern that the extra weight could result in subsidence due to local coal mining, it was never carried out.

Architecture

Exterior
St Nicholas is in Early English style.  It is constructed in coursed rubble sandstone with dressings in red sandstone, and it has slate roofs.  Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory and a west vestry, north and south aisles, a chancel with its roof at a lower level, a north organ chamber, and a south Lady Chapel.  At the southwest is a tower that is almost detached from the church.  The tower is in three stages, it has buttresses, and on the east wall is a stair turret with a conical roof.  The bell openings have two lights and are paired, the parapet is plain, and the tower has a flat lead roof. The church is entered through a doorway in the south side of the tower.  Most of the windows are lancets, many of which are in pairs with a roundel above.  The west wall of the nave also has a rose window, and in the west wall of the vestry is a five-light straight-headed window.  The east window has three lights.

Interior
Inside the church the arcades between the nave and the aisles are carried on cylindrical piers with moulded capitals, and there is a two-bay arcade between the chancel and the chapel.  The church is floored with encaustic tiles.  There is a low stone chancel screen that is integrated with the drum pulpit.  The choir stalls are decorated with fleur-de-lis finials and have carved arcades on the front.  In the chancel is a painted reredos, and this is flanked by carved arcading and patterned wall tiles.  The stained glass in the east window is by Clayton and Bell and depicts the Crucifixion.  In the Lady Chapel the glass in its east window was designed by William Morris and depicts musicians in the form of angels.  The glass in the rose window was designed by Edward Burne-Jones, and other windows were made by Morris & Co. The first pipe organ in the church was made by T. C. Lewis and Company in 1873. This was superseded in 1934 by an organ made by C. H. Walker. The organ has since been increased in size; it has two manuals and 26 stops.

Appraisal

On 28 January 1971 the church was designated as a Grade II listed building. Grade II is the lowest of the three grades of listing, and is applied to buildings that are "nationally important and of special interest". In the Buildings of England series, the architectural historians Pollard and Pevsner describe the church as "an earnest work of architecture with nothing done just to please".

Present day

St Nicholas is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Huyton, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool, and its style of worship is Evangelical. The church holds regular services on Sundays, organises other events, and arranges baptisms, weddings and funerals.

See also

Listed buildings in Whiston, Merseyside

References

Church of England church buildings in Merseyside
Grade II listed churches in Merseyside
Churches completed in 1868
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Merseyside
Anglican Diocese of Liverpool


title: Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier

text:
The Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier are two lion sculptures in bronze placed at the Admiralty embankment in Saint Petersburg since 1832. The lions are copies of the late 16th century Italian Medici lions in Florence.

The lions are the best known among several Medici lions and other lion sculptures in Saint Petersburg. The sculptures were created by the German craftsman, Johan Gottlieb Prang to designs by sculptor Ivan Prokofiev.

References
saint-petersburg.com

External links

Outdoor sculptures in Russia
Animal sculptures in Russia
Sculptures of lions
19th-century sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Russia
Tourist attractions in Saint Petersburg


title: Diocese of Blaundus

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The city of Blaundus was the seat of a bishopric in the Roman and Byzantine era. It was a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Sardes, also in Lydia. It was part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and was suffragan of Archdiocese of Sardis.

The diocese is known by the names Blaundus, Blandus and Balandus, in the 5th century AD, the bishopric was connected to the diocese center at Sebaste. The last record of Blaundus dates from the 12th century

There are three bishops assured of here.  At the synod Arian of Seleucia in 359, Phoebus distanced himself from his fellow Aryans taken, signed the orthodox formula drafted by Acacius of Caesarea, and for this reason he was deposed.  Elijah took part in the Council of Chalcedon of 451, while Onesiphore signed a letter written by the bishops of Lydia to ' Emperor Leo in 458 following the killing of Proterius of Alexandria.  In the Council of Constantinople (879-880) that rehabilitated Photius we find a Eustathius of Alandos, but there is no evidence that this is Balandus.

Today Blaundus survives as titular bishopric;  the seat has been vacant since January 31, 1971. Several Bishops have been recorded.
 Helias at the Council of Chalcedon
 Phoebus † (fl. 359 )
  Elijah † (fl. 451 )
  Onesiphorus † (fl. 458 )

The bishopric was nominally revived in 1953 as a titular see of the lowest (episcopal) rank, but is vacant since 1971, after only two incumbents:
 Michael Mongkhol On Prakhongchit (1953.05.07 – 1958.01.23)
 Victor-Jean Perrin (1961.11.26 – 1971.01.31)

References

External links
Titular Episcopal See of Blaundus, Turkey at GCatholic.org

Catholic titular sees in Asia
Roman Catholic dioceses in Turkey