Adrian Šemper

Adrian Šemper (born 12 January 1998) is a Croatian footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Chievo Verona, on loan from Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb, in Serie A.

Club career

Early career
Born in Zagreb, Šemper started his football career with GNK Dinamo Zagreb youth academy in 2004. He was one of the brightest talents of a very interesting generation of Dinamo Zagreb players born in 1998, including Josip Brekalo, Nikola Moro, Borna Sosa, Branimir Kalaica and Vinko Soldo.

Dinamo Zagreb
In 2016, Šemper signed his first professional contract with Dinamo Zagreb. He made his league debut on 6 May 2016 against NK Slaven Belupo at Gradski stadion which Dinamo Zagreb won 3–0. In this match, he played 90 minutes whole the game and he lost on goals. On 16 January 2016, Chelsea made an offer of Šemper to Dinamo Zagreb for £3.1 million, but Dinamo Zagreb rejected the offer and Šemper remained in Dinamo. In the 2015–16 season Šemper made his professional debut and Dinamo Zagreb achieved the double of league and cup.

Chievo (loan)
On 9 August 2018, Šemper joined to Italian Serie A club Chievo Verona on loan with an option to buy. He did his league debut on 20 April 2019 in a 2–1 away win against Lazio.

International career
Šemper has represented his country at various age groups, most recently for the Croatia national under-19 football team. In 2015, he played 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Since March 2016, he has been member of Croatia national under-19 football team.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

Dinamo Zagreb
Croatian First Football League (1): 2015–16

References

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Jelašnica (Knjaževac)

Jelašnica is a village in the municipality of Knjaževac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 212 people.

References

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Bow Fiddle Rock

Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow.

It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone. This rock is part of the Cullen Quartzite formation which is seen along the coast between Buckie and Cullen. The formation is some 2,400m thick and dates from the Neoproterozoic Era, 1,000 to 541 million years ago.

These rocks were folded when the ancient continents of Laurentia and Avalonia collided during the Caledonian orogeny. They later became exposed at the surface where sea and weather eroded the structure seen today.

The rock formation is both a tourist attraction and nesting place for sea birds including herring gulls, great black-backed gulls and lesser black-backed gulls.

References

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Stanley Ketchel

Stanisław Kiecal (September 14, 1886 – October 15, 1910), better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was an American professional boxer who became one of the greatest World Middleweight Champions in history. He was nicknamed "The Michigan Assassin." He was murdered at a ranch in Conway, Missouri, at the age of 24.

Biography

He was born in 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Tomasz Kiecal and Julia Kiecal (née Olbinska), whose family immigrated from the village of Sulmierzyce in Piotrków Trybunalski, Guberniya, in modern-day central Poland.

He avoided school, instead falling in with a gang of street kids and often getting into fist fights. At twelve years old, he ran away from home, becoming a child hobo. As a teenager he lived in Butte, Montana, where he found employment first as a hotel bellhop and then as a bouncer. This profession obviously led to many scraps that established his reputation as the best fist fighter in town. Soon enough sixteen-year-old Stanley was performing in backroom boxing matches with older locals for twenty dollars a week. He began traveling throughout Montana, offering to take on any man brave enough to face him. Between 1903 and 1906, he lost just twice in thirty-nine contests and, in 1907, moved to California, where he knew most of boxing's big names and big fights waited for him.

Professional boxing career
Only a middleweight, Ketchel was also known for taking on heavyweights, who sometimes outweighed him by more than 30 pounds (14 kg). According to hearsay, before each of his fights, he would imagine that his opponent had insulted his mother, with whom he had a very close relationship; thus, his anger would motivate him to fight with fury.

He started boxing professionally in 1903, at 16, in Butte, Montana. In his first fight, Ketchel knocked out Kid Tracy in one round. In his second fight, he was beaten by decision in six rounds by Maurice Thompson. He boxed his first 41 bouts in Montana, and had a record of 36 wins, two losses, and three draws during that span. He lost once more to Thompson in their rematch and then controversially drew with him in their rubber match, in a bout that many people thought Ketchel had won. Afterwards, he went on to beat Tom Kingsley, among others, before moving his campaign on to California in 1907.

There, he won three fights that year, and drew one in Marysville against the man many considered the World Middleweight Champion, Joe Thomas. In his next bout, Thomas and he had a rematch and Ketchel won, by knockout in 32 rounds. Ketchel was then recognized by many as the World Middleweight Champion. He finished the year by beating Thomas again, this time by decision.

Middleweight champion

On February 8, 1908, Ketchel met the man who was generally recognized as the World Welterweight Champion and one of the leading middleweights of the era, Mike "Twin" Sullivan, knocking him out in the first round and winning general recognition as World Middleweight Champion. Sullivan often fought above the welterweight limit, making him a light middleweight. Whether Ketchel became world champion when he defeated Thomas or Mike Sullivan has always been up to debate, but the fact remains that Mike Sullivan and not Thomas is historically remembered as a world champion.

He proceeded to retain the title against Mike's twin brother, Jack "Twin" Sullivan, also a former world champion, by a knockout in 20 rounds; against future world champion Billy Papke by decision in 10; against Hugo Kelly by a knockout in three and against Thomas, by a knockout in two.

Then, he lost the belt to Papke by a knockout in 12, but Papke and he had an immediate rematch and Ketchel regained the title when he beat Papke by a knockout in 11 in their third match.

Ketchel began 1909 by fighting reigning Light Heavyweight Champion Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. Ketchel survived a terrible beating at the hand of the slick, quick O'Brien in the early rounds, only to mount a terrific comeback and score four knockdowns in the ninth and tenth rounds. When the final bell rang at the end of the 10th round, O'Brien was lying unconscious on the mat, his head in a resin box in his corner. Under New York rules at the time, though, O'Brien had been saved by the bell and because official decisions were outlawed in New York boxing, the fight was declared a "no decision". A few weeks later, Ketchel had a rematch with O' Brien, knocking out Philadelphia Jack in three rounds.

A fourth fight with Billy Papke followed. Ketchel again won in a tumultuous slugfest to defend his championship and end their series of fights with a record of 3-1 in their four encounters. This (fourth) fight took place in the outdoor Mission Street Arena in Colma, California, during a terrible thunderstorm, yet neither fighter relented in his pursuit of victory until Stanley took the 20-round decision.

Ketchel fought Sam Langford on April 27, 1910. It was a hard-pressed fight by both men, each displaying terrific hitting power for all six rounds of the short bout. No knock downs were scored and both had plenty of energy in the end. Langford won by decision. A longer rematch bout was rumored, but never happened. Some disputed the decision, although a majority of people felt that Langford had won the bout, which following a decision-appealing vote, it was decided (in an uncontroversial manner) that it would stand as a decision win for Langford.

Ketchel vs. Johnson

Ketchel's 1909 battle with Jack Johnson has been called by many a modern-day "David and Goliath". In the 12th round, Ketchel floored Johnson with a right hand. Johnson got up and knocked out Ketchel with a right uppercut.

Ketchel and Johnson were rumored to have been friends and to have gone gambling, as well as hit the brothels, together; they shared a love for women. Ketchel and Johnson planned to fight together. Because Ketchel was shorter than Johnson, he wore long coats to conceal the platform shoes he had worn to make him look taller at a publicity event. They set up a script for their fight to  stretch it to 20 rounds, as a 20-round fight would guarantee boxing fans would pay to go to local theaters to watch the replay of the fight. After 12 rounds, Ketchel swung a surprise punch that knocked Johnson down. Regaining his feet, Jack Johnson knocked out Ketchel with a swift combination to Ketchel's head and jaw. Ketchel did not wake up for many minutes and some of his teeth were knocked out by the blow, some embedded in Johnson's glove.

Professional boxing record

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|51-4-4
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|50-4-4
|align=left| Willie Lewis
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|49-4-4
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|48-4-4
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|48-3-4
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|47-3-4
|align=left| Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
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|46-3-4
|align=left| Tony Caponi
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|align=left| Hugh McGann
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|45-3-4
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|44-3-4
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|44-2-4
|align=left| Joe Thomas
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|43-2-4
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|42-2-4
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|41-2-4
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|40-2-4
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|39-2-4
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|38-2-4
|align=left| Joe Thomas
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|37-2-4
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|37-2-3
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|36-2-3
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|35-2-3
|align=left| Mike McClure
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|34-2-3
|align=left| Kid Foley
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|33-2-3
|align=left| Kid Fredericks
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|32-2-3
|align=left| Kid Lee
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|31-2-3
|align=left| Mike Tierney
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|30-2-3
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|29-2-3
|align=left| Montana Jack Sullivan
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|29-2-2
|align=left| Kid Foley
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|28-2-2
|align=left| Jerry McCarthy
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|27-2-2
|align=left| Jack Bennett
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|26-2-2
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|align=left| Jerry McCarthy
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|24-2-2
|align=left| Bob Sennate
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|23-2-2
|align=left| Roy Hart
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|align=left| Bob Sennate
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|21-2-2
|align=left| Peter Kelly
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|align=left| Kid Lee
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|align=left| Kid Pecor
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|align=left| Sid LaFontise
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|16-2-2
|align=left| Rudolph Hinz
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|align=left| Jack Bennett
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|align=left| Kid Thomas
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|align=left| Maurice Thompson
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|Win
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|align=left| Kid Herrick
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|align=left| Joe Mudro
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|align=left| Kid Lee
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|align=left| Jimmy Kelly
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|8-2
|align=left| Maurice Thompson
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|8-1
|align=left| Bob Merrywell
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|7-1
|align=left| Jimmy Murray
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|6-1
|align=left| Bob Merrywell
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|5-1
|align=left| Johnny Gilsey
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|2-1
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Murder

The following year, 1910, Ketchel fought six times (including one exhibition), but his fast living had worn him down.

Hoping for a rematch with Jack Johnson, Ketchel moved to the ranch of his friend, R.P. Dickerson, near (on what is now referred to as Dickerson Ranch Road) Conway, Missouri, where he had hoped to regain his strength. Dickerson had just hired a cook, Goldie Smith, and a ranch hand, whom Smith said was her husband, Walter Kurtz.

Walter Kurtz turned out to be Walter Dipley. Walter Dipley and Goldie Smith were not married, and in fact, had just met each other a month before Dickerson had hired them.

After being upbraided by the "Michigan Assassin" for beating a horse on the morning of October 14, Dipley decided to get even with Ketchel by robbing him. The following morning, Smith seated Ketchel at the breakfast table with his back to the door and Dipley, armed with a .22 caliber rifle, came up behind him and shouted, "Get your hands up!" Ketchel stood up, and as he turned around, Dipley shot him. The bullet traveled from his shoulder into his lung and Ketchel fell to the floor mortally wounded. Dipley then took Ketchel's handgun and smashed Ketchel in the face with it. At the same time, Smith rifled Ketchel's pockets for his money.

After promising to meet Goldie Smith later that night, Dipley ran from the ranch.

Unaware that, as he lay dying, Ketchel told the former ranch foreman, C.E. Bailey, that Goldie Smith had robbed him, she told police officers that Ketchel had raped her and that that was the reason why Dipley had shot him. Her story fell apart and she admitted her complicity in the robbery, but stated she did not know Dipley was going to kill the former champion.

In an effort to save the young fighter's life, R.P. Dickerson chartered a special train to take Stanley Ketchel to a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, but Ketchel died around 7 o'clock that night.  His last words were: "I'm so tired. Take me home to mother."

Dickerson also offered a $5,000 dead or alive reward (preferably dead) for Dipley, who was captured at a neighboring farmhouse the next day.

Upon being informed of Ketchel's death, his manager Wilson Mizner reportedly said, "Tell them to start counting ten over him.  He'll get up."

Aftermath
Both Walter Dipley and Goldie Smith were found guilty of murder and robbery at a jury trial in January 1911, and both were given a life sentence. Goldie Smith had her murder conviction overturned and she served 17 months for the robbery. Walter Dipley served 23 years before he was paroled. He died in 1956, 22 years after his release from prison.

Legacy

Ketchel was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Michigan. His funeral was the most attended until the Ford family surpassed him during the 20th century. A plaque in his honor is at the corner of Stocking Avenue and 3rd Street, and a statue is at 438 Bridge Street Northwest.  The Ketchel Valley neighborhood on Grand Rapids' west side is named in Ketchel's honor.

Ketchel is now enshrined in the International Boxing Hall Of Fame.

The Ring in 2004 ranked Ketchel as the eighth-greatest middleweight of all time, behind Harry Greb, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler, Jake LaMotta, Charley Burley, and Tiger Flowers.  The Ring also named Ketchel number six  on their list of 100 Best Punchers of All Time.

Nat Fleischer, the late ring historian and founding editor of The Ring, considered Stanley to be the greatest middleweight in history.

He had a record of 51 wins, four losses, four draws, one no contest, and four no decisions (newspaper decisions: 2-1-1), with 48 wins by knockout. He was the first middleweight champion to regain the world title after losing it.

Popular Culture

Subject of The Killings of Stanley Ketchel, a novel by James Carlos Blake.

Subject of the short story "The Light of the World," by Ernest Hemingway.

Biography Stanley Ketchel: A Life of Triumph and Prophecy, by Manuel A. Mora.

Biography The Michigan Assassin: The Saga of Stanley Ketchel, by Nat Fleischer, RING Editor 1946

References

External links

Ketchel's Record at Cyber Boxing Zone
New York Times Article on his death
 Down Great Purple Valleys, a 1954 True magazine story about his murder by John Lardner

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Corupella

Corupella asperata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Corupella.

References

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Lulu Wang (filmmaker)

Lulu Wang (; born February 25, 1983) is a Chinese-American film director, writer, and producer. She is best known for writing and directing Posthumous (2014) and The Farewell (2019). She has also written, produced and directed several short films, documentaries, and music videos. She splits her time between New York and LA.

Early life
Wang was born in Beijing, China. Her father Haiyan Wang was a Chinese diplomat for the USSR and her mother Jian Yu is a former cultural critic and editor at the Beijing Literary Gazette. She has a younger brother, Anthony. Wang spent her early years in Beijing with her parents and briefly lived with her paternal grandmother for a year in Changchun, Northeast China, before emigrating to Miami, Florida at age 6 because her father was pursuing a PhD at the University of Miami. She is a classically trained pianist, starting lessons at age four and attending the New World School of the Arts. Her parents encouraged her to become a professional pianist and Wang's mother took her to a local church in Miami every day to practice before they were able to buy a piano for her. Wang ultimately decided against a career in music when she was at college.

Wang studied music and literature at Boston College from 2001 and graduated in 2005 with a double major. In her senior year at college, Wang watched Steven Shainberg's 2002 film Secretary which she says inspired her to become a filmmaker. She then took two film production courses and made several short films while still at college.

Career

2005-2007: First steps
In 2005, while still a student, Wang received the Best Beginning Film Award at the Boston College Baldwin Awards for Storyteller, which she made together with fellow BC student Tony Hale. They went on to win the Baldwin Award for Best Picture for the short film Pisces at the Boston College Baldwin Film Festival the following year. Wang and Hale also collaborated on the 2006 documentary short, Fishing the Gulf, on over-fishing in Panama.
Her next project was the 2007 short film Can-Can, based on a short story by Arturo Vivante about marriage and infidelity.

2008–2015: Start in entertainment
In 2008, shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Wang was interning for a producer alongside Bernadette Bürgi. After a trip to IKEA, the two got the idea to make a film together from their mutual affection for storytelling and romantic comedies. From this trip, Wang and Bürgi set up their own production company Flying Box Productions and Wang directed multiple web shorts and music videos, as well as her first feature film, Posthumous, in 2014. Set in Berlin, Germany, Posthumous is an American-German co-production starring Brit Marling and Jack Huston. The film debuted at the Zurich Film Festival on 4 October 2014. It also played in the U.S. at the Miami International Film Festival and has been released worldwide.

In 2014, Wang was awarded the Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. The same year, she was chosen as a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow. Wang's 2015 short film Touch premiered at the Palm Springs International ShortsFest. It was also an NBCU Short Film Festival finalist, was selected by the American Cinematheque for its Annual Focus on Female Directors, and won Best Drama at the Asians on Film Festival.

2016–2019: The Farewell
In May 2016, Wang wrote and narrated a story for the radio program This American Life. Later that year, development began on a feature film based on the story with producer Chris Weitz who had heard it on the radio. In 2017, Wang was chosen to participate in Sundance Institute’s FilmTwo Initiative, which provides guidance for filmmakers creating their second feature films.

In January 2019, Wang's second feature film, The Farewell, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was picked up for worldwide distribution by A24. The film follows struggling New York City artist Billi (played by Awkwafina (Nora Lum) in her first dramatic role), who travels to China for a family reunion to visit her dying grandmother. The family has decided to keep the truth about her condition a secret from Nai Nai (Mandarin for "grandmother") and sets up a wedding as a pretense for their reunion. Wang based the film on her own grandmother's illness, which also included her family setting up a wedding as a pretense. In fact, the film opens with a title card stating Based on an actual lie. The film is presented for the most part in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles. It was filmed in the neighborhood where Wang's grandmother lived and Wang cast her actual great aunt Lu Hong to play herself in the film. After its Sundance premiere, numerous publications listed The Farewell as a standout at the festival, including Variety, Thrillist, and Rolling Stone. In an IndieWire critics survey published after the festival, The Farewell was voted Best Film and Best Screenplay and Wang was voted Best Director. The film holds a 99% Critics Consensus rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 207 reviews.

In January 2019, Variety named Wang one of ten "Directors to Watch." In an interview with the publication, she described her next project as "very grounded science fiction."

The Farewell opened in limited release in four US theaters on July 12, 2019. On its opening weekend surpassed Avengers: Endgame for the biggest per-theater box office average for 2019. The film opened to a gross of $351,330, averaging $87,833 per theater, while Endgame averaged $76,601 in 4,662 theaters, making a gross of $357,115,007 on its opening weekend.The Farewell was released nationwide in the US on August 2, 2019.

On December 4, 2019, the American Film Institute announced that The Farewell was one of that year's ten recipients of the 2019 AFI Awards for "films that are culturally and artistically representative" of 2019's "most significant achievements in the art of the moving image." For her role as Billi, Awkwafina was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy on January 5, 2020. The Farewell won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature at the 35th Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California on February 8, 2020.

2020–present: Future projects
Wang is pursuing a film adaptation of Alexander Weinstein's collection of science fiction short stories, Children of the New World, which, according to Wang, "centers on questions of family."

Personal life
Wang is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese and also speaks some Spanish. She has been in a relationship with fellow filmmaker Barry Jenkins since 2018.

Wang's brother Anthony is a sous-chef at Eric Bost's restaurant Auburn in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Awards and Nominations

References

External links
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Franz Mertens

Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also Franciszek Mertens) was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria.

The Mertens function M(x) is the sum function for the Möbius function, in the theory of arithmetic functions. The Mertens conjecture concerning its growth, conjecturing it bounded by x1/2, which would have implied the Riemann hypothesis, is now known to be false (Odlyzko and te Riele, 1985).  The Meissel–Mertens constant is analogous to the Euler–Mascheroni constant, but the harmonic series sum in its definition is only over the primes rather than over all integers and the logarithm is taken twice, not just once. Mertens's theorems are three 1874 results related to the density of prime numbers.

Erwin Schrödinger was taught calculus and algebra by Mertens.

His memory is honoured by the Franciszek Mertens Scholarship granted to those outstanding pupils of foreign secondary schools who wish to study at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and were finalists of the national-level mathematics, or computer science olympiads, or they have participated in one of the following international olympiads: in mathematics (IMO), computer science (IOI), astronomy (IAO), physics (IPhO), linguistics (IOL), or they were participants of the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO).

See also
 Mertens's theorems
 Cauchy product

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Nasr School

Nasr School is a private schools chain in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, run by The Nasr Education Society and affiliated to CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations). Nasr Education Society celebrated its Golden Jubilee year in 2015.

It was founded by Begum Anees Khan for her daughter, Aliya, in June 1965 with the help of Mrs. Raees Hassan and Begum Najamuddin Khan.

The meaning of the word Nasr in Arabic is "help".

Nasr Education Society

The Nasr Education Society manages the Nasr Group of Institutions and is headed by Begum Anees Khan as the Chairperson and Nawab Mir Khutubuddin Khan as the Secretary. The board of directors consists of:
 Begum Anees Khan, Chairperson
 Nawab Mir Khutubuddin Khan, Secretary
 Janaba Raees Hasan, Founding Director
 Dr. Syed Shah Khusro Hussaini, Director
 Mr. Asadullah Pasha, Director
 Mrs. Aliya Yar Khan, Director
 Begum Salwa Khan, Director

 Mir Hafeezuddin Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer
 Mir Mohiuddin Mohammed, Director- Academics
 Mir Jamaluddin Hammad, Director- Finance

Locations

The Nasr Education Society runs Nasr Schools in four locations in Hyderabad. There is Nasr Pre-Primary School at Somajiguda and Gachibowli, Nasr School for Girls at Khairtabad and Nasr School for Boys at Gachibowli. The Society also runs a school for underprivileged girls in Somajiguda and charges no fee for their education. They provide free books, uniforms,and food to these girls and aim to uplift the living standards of these girls by educating them.

Student activities

The school organizes many competitions and activities. Nasr is home to a number of clubs, which are popular among students such as The Nasr Dramatic Society (NDS), The Nature Club,The Literary Club,The Red Cross,The Interact Club and the Nasr Riding Club. The school students are also encouraged to take part in social activities. Additionally, an annual magazine, "Echo", is brought out by the staff and students. The editorial board includes a Student Editor, Staff Editors, Creative Editors, Main Reporters, etc.

A concept in Nasr is the democratic way of electing the student leaders known as the Office Bearers headed by the School Captain. After a rigorous process of nominations on the basis of Academics and Overall Participation, Elections are held in which the students vote and elect their representatives. The Office Bearers are responsible of leading the school and helping the management in organizing various events. There is a School Captain, Vice Captain, Sports Captain and the various House Captains and prefects. Each Club has its own set of Office Bearers. Both the Girls' and Boys' School Office Bearers meet regularly to discuss and formulate plans for maintaining discipline among the students, and to organise various educational and extra-curricular activities.

Regular excursions are also embarked upon. They may be in the form of House excursions or Class excursions. There is usually an educative element to these trips. The students are also taken to tourist locations in different cities and towns.

Intra- and inter-school contests are held in order to encourage students to participate in extra-curricular activities and showcase their various talents. These may be in the varied fields of literature, public speaking, sports, music, art, etc.

Nasr Dramatic Society (NDS)

The Nasr Dramatic Society (NDS) was established in 1980 for the Girls School at Khairatabad and in the year 2004 for Nasr Boys at Gachibowli. The dramatic society was founded with a view to nurture the talent of young thespians, their creativity, and their intellectualism. NDS’s plays are often staged in Hyderabad's theatres. The Nasr Dramatic Society of Nasr Girls & Boys is the youngest and the only school dramatic club to be affiliated to the National School of Drama in Delhi.

Nasr Riding Club

Nasr Riding Club was founded in 1999 under the guidance of the Secretary of Nasr Education Society, Nawab Mir Khutubuddin Khan. The club has its own string of horses. The club members take part in many on- and off-field activities.

Nasr Nature Club
The school has club wings for both Nasr Boys' School, Gachibowli and Nasr School, Khairatabad. The Nasr Nature Club (Boys) adopted Vikas, a one year old Royal Bengal Tiger at Nehru Zoological Park on 13 January, 2015. The school students take part in raising funds for "Project Tiger" too.

Alumni
Alumni include tennis player Sania Mirza, actress, model and Miss Asia Pacific 2000, Dia Mirza , IPS and Additional Director General of Police (Sports), Tejdeep Kaur Menon and writer/ journalist Anuradha Roy

Awards
 Nasr School - India School Ranking 2017 (ranked number 1 day school for girls in Andhra / Telangana and Number 1 in Hyderabad; Ranked Number 5 in India ) - Education World.
 Nasr Boys School - India School Ranking 2017 (ranked number 1 day school for boys in Andhra / Telangana and Number 1 in Hyderabad; Ranked Number 7 in India ) - Education World.
 National Award for Meritorious Service - received by Mrs. Madhubala Kapoor, principal of Nasr School for Girls, in the year 2009.
 Acharya Devo Bhava - 2014 Award - Brainfeed Magazine - received by Mir Hafeezuddin Ahmed, Principal (Nasr Boys School).
 Bharath Shiksha Ratan Award by Global Achiever Foundation - received by Mir Hafeezuddin Ahmed, Principal (Nasr Boys School).
 Excellence Award (2014) to Nasr School - WCRC Leaders.
 Nasr was named as one of the fastest growing brands in India, one of the Top 100 best Schools in Asia and as one of The Most Promising Brands of India by WCRC Magazine.

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Kim Pickering

Kim Louise Pickering is a New Zealand composite materials engineer. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.

Academic career

After a PhD at Imperial College London, Pickering started working at the University of Waikato in 1994 and rose to full professor in 2014.

Much of Pickering's research involves 3D printing of "recyclable, biodegradable and bio-derived composite materials" and she has been a major proponent of recycling.

In 2017 she won the Scott Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

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Ed Oliver (American football)

Edward Oliver  (born December 12, 1997) is an American football defensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Houston, and was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.

Early years
Oliver attended Westfield High School in Houston. Oliver had 83 tackles, nine sacks and an interception as a senior and 84 tackles and seven sacks as a junior. In Oliver's senior season, Westfield went 11–1 into the 2015 UIL playoffs, where they lost 28–21 in the Area final to later state runner-up Austin Lake Travis.

Oliver was rated as a consensus five-star recruit and was ranked among the top players in his class. Oliver committed to play college football at the University of Houston, becoming the first five-star recruit in history to commit to a school outside the Power Five conferences.

College career
Oliver became an immediate starter his true freshman year at Houston in 2016. He started all 12 games during the regular season, recording 60 tackles and five sacks. He was named the winner of the Bill Willis Trophy, becoming the first freshman to win the award.

In 2017, Oliver's sophomore season, he was selected to the Walter Camp All-America first team and won the Outland Trophy, presented to the nation's top interior lineman.

Following his junior year in 2018, Oliver decided to forego his senior year and enter the 2019 NFL Draft.

College statistics

Professional career

On March 5, 2018, before the start of his junior year, Oliver announced that he already intended to forgo his final year of eligibility and enter the 2019 NFL Draft. In May 2018, ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay projected Oliver to go No. 1 overall in the 2019 draft.

Oliver was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the first round with the ninth overall selection in the 2019 NFL Draft.
In week 7 against the Miami Dolphins, Oliver recorded his first career sack on Ryan Fitzpatrick in the 31–21 win. In week 13 against the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, Oliver recorded two sacks on quarterback Dak Prescott, including a strip sack recovered by teammate Trent Murphy that set up a Bills touchdown in the 26–15 win. Oliver was named the Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week for his performance in Dallas.

References

External links
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Houston Cougars bio

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Flute Sonata in C major, BWV 1033

The Sonata in C major for flute or recorder and basso continuo (BWV 1033) is a sonata in 4 movements. It is attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach in the manuscript, which is in the hand of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and has been dated to about 1731, although scholars question the attribution

The movements are:
 Andante – Presto
 Allegro
 Adagio
 Menuet 1 – Menuet 2 Jeanne Swack notes that the first menuet "is related to the first in a set of variations in a concerto for oboe, obligato cembalo and doubling cello by the Merseburg composer Christoph Förster"; this suggests that the movements of BWV 1033 "may have had a disparate origin, as does the sudden appearance of an obbligato cembalo part solely for that movement."

The basso continuo can be provided by a variety of instruments. For example, in complete Bach recordings, Stephen Preston on Brilliant Classics (originally recorded by CRD UK) is accompanied by harpsichord and viola da gamba while on Hänssler Classic Jean-Claude Gérard is accompanied by piano and bassoon.

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Priceline

Priceline may refer to:

Priceline.com, a commercial website which helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays
The Priceline Group, a provider of online travel & related services, and a parent company of Priceline.com
Priceline (Australia), a chain of health and beauty retail stores in Australia


2019–20 Budapest Honvéd FC season

The 2019–20 season will be Budapest Honvéd FC's 109th competitive season, 15th consecutive season in the OTP Bank Liga and 110th year in existence as a football club.

First team squad

Transfers

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Competitions

Overview

Nemzeti Bajnokság I

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Hungarian Cup

UEFA Europa League

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Second qualifying round

Statistics

Appearances and goals
Last updated on 22 February 2020.

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Top scorers
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Disciplinary record
Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.

Last updated on 22 February 2020

Overall
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|Games played || 31 (22 OTP Bank Liga, 4 UEFA Europa League and 5 Hungarian Cup)
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|Games won || 14 (9 OTP Bank Liga, 1 UEFA Europa League and 4 Hungarian Cup)
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|Games drawn || 9 (6 OTP Bank Liga, 3 UEFA Europa League and 0 Hungarian Cup)
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|Games lost || 8 (7 OTP Bank Liga, 0 UEFA Europa League and 1 Hungarian Cup)
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|Goals scored || 42
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|Goals conceded || 29
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|Goal difference || +13
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|Yellow cards || 75
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|Red cards || 3
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|rowspan="1"|Worst discipline ||  Tonći Kukoč (9 , 0 )
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|rowspan="1"|Best result || 7–1 (A) v Dunaharaszti - Hungarian Cup - 21-9-2019
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|rowspan="1"|Worst result || 1–3 (A) v Paks - Nemzeti Bajnokság I - 11-8-2019
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|rowspan="1"|Most appearances ||  Đorđe Kamber (31 appearances)
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|rowspan="1"|Top scorer ||  Davide Lanzafame (12 goals)
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|Points || 51/93 (54.83%)
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References

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 fixtures and results

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Richard Cramm

Richard Cramm (October 13, 1889 – 1958) was a lawyer and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1923 to 1928.

The son of John Cramm and Margaret King, he was born in Small Point and was educated in nearby Salem, at the Tilton Seminary in New Hampshire and at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Cramm studied law and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1923. He was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1924 and was named King's Counsel in 1928.

In 1924, he married Ollie Lynette Moores.

Cramm was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1923 as a Liberal. After Richard Squires stepped down as leader, Cramm supported William Warren. However, after the Hollis Walker Report was released which recommended criminal charges against Squires, he joined the opposition and moved the motion of no confidence which brought down Warren's administration. He was reelected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative. He was named a minister without portfolio in the new cabinet and, in 1926, became acting Attorney General. Cramm was defeated in 1928 when he ran as an independent candidate in Carbonear. He returned to practising law in St. John's. In May and June 1932, he served as a minister without portfolio in the short-lived Squires cabinet. In 1949, he ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Canadian federal riding of Trinity—Conception.

In 1921, Cramm published a book called The First Five Hundred, about the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I.

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Dan Ryckert

Daniel Joseph Ryckert (born June 16, 1984 in Olathe, Kansas) is an American producer, writer, and former video game journalist. In 2011, Complex magazine named Ryckert one of the twenty-five "raddest" game journalists to follow on Twitter. Ryckert has made three non-player character (NPC) appearances in video games; in 2011's L.A. Noire, 2014's Infamous Second Son and 2017's 2064: Read Only Memories.

Joining GameStop's Game Informer magazine in 2009, becoming senior associate editor, Ryckert reviewed games and made video content for its website. This included celebrity appearance videos featuring Gwar and Andrew W.K.. During his time with the magazine, Ryckert broke two Guinness World Records, after playing two gaming marathons. In 2014 Ryckert, along with Game Informer video producer Jason Oestreicher, would both join CBS Interactive's Giant Bomb website, with Ryckert later moving from their San Francisco office to their New York office. In addition to weekly appearances on the Giant Bombcast and Giant Beastcast podcasts, Ryckert continued to produce video content such as playing the video game Super Mario Bros. 3 while riding the Medusa roller coaster and creating the Metal Gear-based "Metal Gear Scanlon" series with Drew Scanlon. In 2020, Ryckert became a podcast producer for WWE.

In 2017, Ryckert and fiancé Bianca Mondo were spotlighted in the media when they won a competition to be the first couple to be married at the Taco Bell Cantina in Las Vegas. The ceremony was held in June 2017. Ryckert is also an author and professional wrestling manager.

Early life and career
Ryckert graduated from Olathe East High School in 2002 and the University of Kansas in 2007.

Game Informer (2009–2014)
Ryckert joined Game Informer in 2009, becoming most known for his video content produced, as well as breaking two Guinness World Records. Upon the release of the 2010 Xbox 360 peripheral, the Microsoft Kinect, Ryckert invited American rock band Gwar to play Kinect release Dance Central. Gwar, who were scheduled to play in Minneapolis, Minnesota where Game Informer is based accepted, with Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty joining Dan Ryckert to play the game. Following the death in 2014 of Oderus Urungus, real name Dave Brockie, the original article was updated and the video reposted in a tribute, thanking them for their appearance. 2011 saw the first of Ryckert's two successful Guinness World Record attempts. Ryckert broke the record for longest fighting game marathon along with three other editors, playing the Nintendo Wii title Super Smash Bros. Brawl for 30 hours of non-stop play during 474 matches.

His second world record was set in accordance with five other Game Informer editors, with each of the six individuals setting gaming marathon records at the same time in different video game genres or franchise. Ryckert's record was in the Super Mario franchise, setting the record at 50 hours. In response to the Game Informer staff being resistant to playing games from the Mario Party franchise with him, 2012 saw Andrew W.K. visit the Game Informer office in the same vein as Gwar at Ryckert's behest, to play the new release Mario Party 9, the meeting a pun on Andrew W.K.'s song Party Hard.

Giant Bomb (2014–2020)
Following the death of co-founder and host Ryan Davis in 2013, Ryckert and fellow Game Informer staff member Jason Oestreicher joined Giant Bomb in 2014 as senior content producer and video producer, first introducing themselves on the July 1, 2014 episode of the Giant Bombcast. Succeeding what Vice described as a year of emptiness, mourning and with a gap in editorial, the magazine said that the hiring of Ryckert, Oestreicher and news editor Austin Walker together ensured that "Giant Bomb has a future."

October 2014 saw Ryckert and Jeff Gerstmann compete against each other at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. The mock competition saw them attempting to make the most progress in Super Mario Bros. 3 on the Nintendo 3DS while riding on the theme park's Medusa steel roller coaster. Publications with articles on the video such as Polygon and The A.V. Club joined in with the joke, with Polygon saying that it was "a glorious display of video game endurance. Possibly stupidity as well. But mostly, endurance."
Metal Gear Scanlon was a Let's Play show for paid subscribers that ran from 2014 to 2017 in which Metal Gear Solid expert Ryckert guided Drew Scanlon through his first playthroughs of the Metal Gear franchise games. In a Metal Gear guide, James Davenport of PC Gamer cited Metal Gear Scanlon as his favorite method of watching start to finish playthroughs of Metal Gear Solid games.
At the end of 2016, Ryckert relocated to New York to live closer to his wife's family and starting working out of Giant Bomb's New York office, becoming a permanent fixture on the Giant Beastcast podcast.

WWE (2020–present)
On the January 3, 2020 episode of the Giant Beastcast, Ryckert announced his departure from Giant Bomb, having accepted a position as a podcast producer for WWE.

Video game appearances
Ryckert's first non-player character video games appearance was in the 2011 video game release L.A. Noire, with LA Weekly detailing the motion capture techniques and equipment used to recreate his likeness in the game. This included the lack of a traditional motion capture process, the facial markers associated with facial motion capture. Another facial motion capture technique was used for Ryckert's appearance in 2014's Infamous Second Son, an "advanced 3D scanning process." Ryckert made his voice acting debut in 2017's 2064: Read Only Memories, playing a character called Broke.

Publications
As an author, Ryckert has published six books. Two are of the fictional Air Force Gator series, inspired by action films of the 1980s. The books are described as a story of a military alligator pilot who is searching for his missing partner in the Middle East. After an altercation on Twitter between Ryckert and former Baseball player Jose Canseco, Canseco agreed to write the foreword for the sequel, Air Force Gator 2: Scales of Justice. ESPN reported that Canseco wrote the foreword under the impression, or pretending to be under the impression, that the book is a "thinly disguised metaphorical depiction of Canseco's life." Other books include Anxiety As an Ally, an autobiographical book based on Ryckert's experiences with anxiety disorders and panic attacks, and a memoir titled The Dumbest Kid in Gifted Class about his time growing up in Kansas.

In professional wrestling
A noted fan of professional wrestling, Ryckert is known for appearing on WWE Pay-per-views holding video game signs based on Waluigi. Ryckert joined the PAX video game wrestling league, League of Heels, as "Dirty Dan Ryckert", a Villainous heel character that uses nefarious methods to win video game matches. During his time working for the San Francisco Giant Bomb office, Ryckert carried over his character to independent professional wrestling organizations in Northern California such as All Pro Wrestling as a professional wrestling manager. After transferring to Giant Bomb's New York office, Ryckert began appearing at Battle Club Pro events in New Jersey.

Personal life
Ryckert is said to have an eccentric personality which leads to a lot of ideas that think outside the box. Former Game Informer co-workers Jeff Cork and Ben Hanson have commented on Ryckert that his time working for Game Informer was "kind of like a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Dan. His life is ridiculous" and "You realize you need to kind of reset your own gauges onto what works and what doesn't, because I've been proven wrong time and time again. Never bet against Dan's is kind of a constant refrain." Ryckert is a fan of 1980s action films, which both lead to the creation of his Air Force Gator series and being voted as one of the 25 raddest game journalists to follow on Twitter by Complex magazine. Complex commented on its choice of Ryckert because his posts are just as much about Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Die Hard as any given game review he's worked on. Ryckert is known to suffer from anxiety disorders and panic attacks.

Taco Bell wedding
In 2017, media outlets reported that Ryckert married Bianca Mondo after winning a Taco Bell competition, the Love and Tacos contest, to become the first couple to be married at the fast-food restaurant chain's new in-house wedding chapel in its Las Vegas flagship Taco Bell Cantina. Both are said to be fans of Taco Bell, with Ryckert noted as once spending 90 dollars ordering everything off of the Taco Bell menu. Listeners of The Giant Beastcast informed Ryckert of the competition which had entrants submitting their entries via social media. Ryckert learned that he had won while in Orlando, Florida for WrestleMania 33. The competition was said to have 150 entrants and that 17,000 votes were cast to decide the top ten, with a winner being selected by a Taco Bell panel.

Ryckert met Mondo in 2015 during his time in San Francisco, with Mondo living in her native New Jersey, initially having a long-distance relationship, before moving together to New York. Ryckert describes Taco Bell as being one of the first conversations they had and that he "knew then that [they] were going to be a good fit.". Mondo describes her life since being in a relationship with Ryckert as "so strange and exciting," and immediately agreed to entering the competition. The ceremony took place on June 25, 2017, with Taco Bell paying for the $600 wedding package. The wedding featured Taco Bell designed bouquet, garters, bow ties and a Cinnabon Delights wedding cake. Speaking after the wedding to Today, Ryckert said that despite the unique setting, "when I saw her walking down the aisle with her father – even in spite of the silly circumstances surrounding it – it was so easy to singularly focus on this genuinely important life event." A second traditional wedding ceremony took place in August 2017.

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Ababuj

Ababuj is a municipality located in the Comunidad de Teruel comarca, province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain.
According to the 2010 census the municipality had a population of 77 inhabitants. Its postal code is 44155.

The town is located at high elevation between the Sierra del Pobo and Sierra de Gúdar, part of the Sistema Ibérico.

See also
Comunidad de Teruel
List of municipalities in Teruel
Municipal elections in Ababuj

References

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Super heavyweight

Super heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and competitive bodybuilding.

Boxing
In amateur boxing, the super heavyweight division is a weight class division for fighters weighing in excess of 91 kilograms (200 pounds). Introduced for the 1984 Summer Olympics, the division is the amateur equivalent of the heavyweight division in professional boxing. The super heavyweight division was introduced because the general increase in the weight of top heavyweights throughout the 20th century meant that the heavyweight division became excessively broad, with the smaller men having little chance of competing effectively. Therefore, the bigger men were split off into the new super heavyweight division. Professional boxing also made this split, but instead of renaming the unlimited division, it introduced the cruiserweight division for the smaller heavyweights, and continued to call the unlimited division heavyweight. In the International Kickboxing Federation (IKF), the Super Heavyweight class (pro and amateur) is for kickboxers weighing  and above.

Olympic champions
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 1988 –
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 1996 –
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Mixed martial arts

The super heavyweight division in MMA generally refers to competitors weighing more than 265lb (120 kg), as up to 265 a competitor is considered to be part of the heavyweight division. In modern MMA, no current major organisation has introduced an actual super heavyweight division. The WEC was the only major promotion to possess a Super Heavyweight championship(2005-2006). The WEC Super Heavyweight division was abolished December 2006 when Zuffa purchased the organization.

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Training Command (Serbia)

Training Command () was established on 23 April 2007, by merging parts of Operation Forces, Land Force and Air Force units. This merger created seven territorial centers for basic training and five centers for specialist training of the members of military arms, branches and services. The Commanding Officer of the Training Command is Major General Djokica Petrovic.

Tasks
Primary responsible for providing soldiers,  non-commissioned officer and officers of SAF, as well the members of foreign armies basic and military specialist training.

Structure
The Training Command has under its command seven basic military training centers located all over Serbia, five specialist military training centers and one exercise range.

The each basic military training center is made from one command company and one training battalion, while Land Force Training Center is extended for company for training and development of land force non-commissioned officers. The Air Force and Air Defense Training Center consist from command, one air defense battery equipped with S-125 Neva-M surface-to-air missile system, one air defense self-propelled missile battery equipped with 2K12 Kub-M surface-to-air missile system, air defense missile-artillery battery of short range, air reconnaissance/intelligence and guidance (VOJIN) company, air force technical service company, company for training and development and section for control and evaluation of air defense missile-artillery shooting. Informatics, Signals and Electronic Warfare Training Center consist from command platoon, training center, development center, and logistic company, while the NBC Staff Development Center is made from command company and development company. Logistics Training Center consist from command company, company for training of intendant service, company for training of sanitation and veterinary service, company for training of technical service and battalion for training of traffic service.

There is also among all reserves under Serbian Training Command a 4 brigades in semi-reserve status(active reserve) with active HQ, command company and logistics company predicted for speedy deployment in case of need or war. This 4 brigades are preparing mobilization of war units, conducting training of war commands and units, conducting training of temporary units, securing objects, peoples and equipment and giving logistics support.

Organization

Training Command - Belgrade
1st Training Center - Sombor
2nd Training Center - Valjevo
3rd Training Center - Leskovac
Land Forces Training Center - Požarevac
Air Force and Air Defense Training Center - Batajnica
Informatics, Signals and Electronic Warfare Training Center - Gornji Milanovac
NBC Staff Development Center - Kruševac
Logistics Training Center - Kruševac
NCO Training Center - Pančevo
Command for speedy deployments of Banat Brigade, HQ in Pancevo commander Lieutenant colonel Živica Ognjanov
HQ
Command company
Logistics company
Command for speedy deployments of Belgrade Brigade, HQ in Jakovo commander Lieutenant colonel Veljko Martinović
HQ
Command company
Logistics company
Command for speedy deployments of Timok Brigade, HQ in Zajecar commander Lieutenant colonel Goran Stamenković
HQ
Command company
Logistics company
Command for speedy deployments of Rasina Brigade, HQ in Krusevac commander Colonel Siniša Kresović
HQ
Command company
Logistics company
"Pasuljanske Livade" Multibranch Exercise Range - Ćuprija

References

External links

Serbian Ministry of Defense
Official Website

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2020 K League 2

The 2020 K League 2 is the eighth season of the K League 2, the second-tier South Korean professional league for association football clubs since its establishment in 2013, and the third one with its current name, the K League 2. The top-ranked team and the winners of the promotion play-offs among three clubs ranked between second and fourth will get promoted to the 2021 K League 1.

Teams
Asan Mugunghwa changed name to Chungnam Asan ahead for 2020 season after the club dissolved in 2019 season, Daejeon Citizen and Hana Financial Group Football Club Foundation bought operating rights of the club, the club renaming to Daejeon Hana Citizen.

Stadiums

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Foreign players
Restricting the number of foreign players strictly to five per team, including a slot for a player from AFC and ASEAN countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field each game. Players in bold are players who join midway through the competition. Note that An Byong-jun, who is a North Korean player playing for Suwon FC, was deemed to be a native player.

As of 17 February 2020.

League table

Positions by matchday

Round 1–18

Round 19–36

Results

Matches 1–18

Matches 19–36

Promotion-relegation playoffs
The promotion-relegation playoffs were held between the clubs placed in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th position in the 2020 K League 2, and the 11th-placed club of the 2020 K League 1. If scores would be tied after regular time in the Semi-playoff and Playoff, the higher-placed team would advance to the next phase. The same conditions did not apply for promotion-relegation playoffs.

Semi-playoff

Playoff

Promotion-relegation playoffs

First leg

Second leg

Season statistics

Top scorers

Top assists

References

External links
 Official K League website

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Hedrick, Iowa

Hedrick is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 764 at the 2010 census.

History
Hedrick was incorporated on April 23, 1883. It was named for General Hedrick.

By 1991 several businesses in the community's main street closed, and the economy had declined. The school serving the town closed that year.

Geography
Hedrick is located at  (41.173733, -92.308294).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 764 people, 310 households, and 211 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 356 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.3% White, 1.2% African American, and 0.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.

There were 310 households of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 31.9% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.98.

The median age in the city was 37.7 years. 24.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 10% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.3% were from 25 to 44; 24.9% were from 45 to 64; and 16.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.3% male and 51.7% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 832 people, 335 households, and 233 families living in the city. The population density was 543.1 people per square mile (209.8/km²). There were 371 housing units at an average density of 240.7 per square mile (93.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 98.92% White, 0.12% Native American, 0.12% from other races, and 0.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.84% of the population.

There were 335 households out of which 32.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.4% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.4% were non-families. 28.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.04.

In the city, the population was spread out with 27.7% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,714, and the median income for a family was $37,917. Males had a median income of $30,000 versus $20,476 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,166. About 9.0% of families and 13.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.4% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.

Economy
Few businesses are open in the old historic business district; most businesses open to the public are located along Highway 149.

Arts and culture
Hedrick is notable for its well-preserved brick Main Street and its depot.

Notable People
Neal Edward Smith, Former U.S. Representative

Education
Hedrick is in the Pekin Community School District, which operates schools in Pekin.

The former Hedrick Community School District was involuntarily dissolved by the State of Iowa on July 1, 1991, due to not meeting state requirements to be a certified school in that state. It was the first school district in Iowa to be closed involuntarily by the state government. Students in Pekin itself were rezoned to Pekin schools.

References

External links
Hedrick, Iowa
City-Data.com

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Campo Vía pocket

The battle of the Campo Vía pocket was a decisive engagement of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia which took place in December 1933. It was one of the most prominent battles of the Chaco War. Lt Col José Félix Estigarribia, with a massive force of several divisions of the Paraguayan Army, was able to surround two Bolivian divisions around the outpost of Alihuatá.  The encircled troops were forced to capitulate due to lack of supplies on 11 December. Up to 2,000 Bolivian soldiers were killed and 7,000 captured. Barely 900 Bolivian troops escaped. Subsequently, the Paraguayan troops expelled the Bolivian army from the eastern region of Chaco by the end of 1933, forcing the resignation of German General Hans Kundt to the Bolivian High Command.

Bibliography
 de Quesada, Alejandro (2011). The Chaco War 1932-35: South America’s greatest modern conflict. Osprey Publishing,
 Masamaclay, historia de la guerra del Chaco, Segunda edición

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XS (radio station)

XS (formerly Afan FM) was a community radio station serving the Neath Port Talbot county borough. The station was owned and operated by Neath Port Talbot Broadcasting CIC and aired a mix of dance & alternative music and local information, targeted at 11-25 year olds. The station was based at studios in the Water Street Business Centre in Port Talbot.

History
Afan FM was established in 2003 and went on to run five Restricted Service Licence (RSL) trial broadcasts before becoming the UK's first new Community Radio station (following the initial tranche of 16 "Access Radio" trial stations) by the award of Licence CR005 by the UK Broadcast Regulator Ofcom in April 2005. Afan FM began test transmissions on 107.9 MHz on 17 April 2007 and was officially launched at 2pm on 20 April 2007.

The station completed its second coverage phase when it launched its transmitter on 97.4 MHz for the Neath and Neath Valleys area on Thursday 23 October 2008. There were plans for extending coverage to the remainder of the Neath Port Talbot area via a series of relay transmitters. The station also streamed online via its website with a 192kbit/s .mp3 feed. Afan FM was rebranded as XS Wales on 7 January 2011 in order to reposition itself as Neath & Port Talbot's Hit Music Station, complete with a new logo, audio imaging, website, and a launched schedule.

The station ended live programming on Tuesday 13 December 2011 and ceased broadcasting a day later.

References

External links
Official website

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Marino Pušić

Marino Pušić (born 18 August 1971) is a Croatian retired footballer and current assistant manager of AZ Alkmaar.

As a player, Pusic played for De Graafschap, VV Rheden, 1. FC Köln II, and KAS Eupen.  As a player and a manager he also was active in futsal.  Pusic was a trainer in the Vitesse/AGOVV Football Academy and assistant-manager with NAC Breda, Inter Baku en FC Twente.

On 18 October 2017, he was appointed interim manager at FC Twente after his predecessor René Hake was forced to leave. On 29 October 2017, Gertjan Verbeek was presented as the new manager, after which Pusic fell back in his role as assistant manager. On 26 March 2018, he was promoted to the interim manager position again, as Verbeek was fired.. As interim head coach, Pusic failed to save FC Twente's season and finished last in the Eredivisie, thus relegating to the Eerste Divisie. As of the 2018-2019 season, Pusic was promoted to head coach.

After finishing in first place and becoming the champions of the Eerste Divisie, and thus securing promotion back to the Eredivisie, Pusic was sacked on 7 May 2019.. He was then recruited to become the assistant manager for AZ Alkmaar in May 2019.

Honours
FC Twente
Eerste Divisie: 2018–19

References

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Otiocerus wolfii

Otiocerus wolfii is a species of derbid planthopper in the family Derbidae.

References

Further reading

External links

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Philipp, Mississippi

Philipp is an unincorporated community in southern Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States, along Mississippi Highway 8. Philipp is  east of Minter City and  west of Holcomb. Although Philipp is an unincorporated community, it has a post office with a ZIP code of 38950.

History
The community was founded by Emanuel L. Philipp who was Governor of Wisconsin when he was the manager of a lumber company from 1894 to 1902 in Mississippi.

References

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49er & 49er FX World Championships

The 49er World Championships are international sailing regattas in the 49er and 49er FX classes organized by the International Sailing Federation. It was first held in 1997. In 2013, the 49er FX class was added to the programme.

The 49er is an Olympic class since 2000. The 49er FX is anan Olympics class since 2016.

Editions

All-time medal table

49er

49er FX

Medalists

49er Open

49er Men's

49er FX Women's

49er Youth

49er FX Youth

Multiple medallists

49er

49er FX

See also

 ISAF Sailing World Championships
 International Sailing Federation

References

External links
 International 49er Class Association
 Sailing competitions

Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1997


Saúl Suárez

Saúl Suárez (born Colombia 1952) was a Colombian former football manager.

He became the first coach to qualify the Panama national football team for the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 1993.

References

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Sister Planet

Sister Planet is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson. It was first published in Satellite Science Fiction in 1959 and has been anthologised many times. It was included in The Golden Age of Science Fiction (anthology).

Plot
In the near future, Earth society is breaking down, with wars, violence and over-population the norm. On the other hand, a colony has been established on Venus, an ocean world with no land masses and no human-breathable atmosphere. A small trade and research base exists, which trades various items of goods with the aquatic population. They are air-breathing and known to the humans as cetoids. One is known to them as Oscar. Although Oscar and others exchange the goods for firegems, which are highly valued on Earth, no real attempt has been made to establish how intelligent the cetoids are. The source of the firegems is also unknown.

Two of the researchers, Dykstra and Cheng-tung, have been investigating the geology of Venus. The conclude that the planet is in many ways similar to Earth, and could be terraformed and made eventually inhabitable by humans. An oxygen atmosphere could be created and land masses formed. However, the native population would be destroyed in the process.

One of the researchers, Hawthorne, a keen diver, has established close relations with Oscar, who guides him into the depths of the ocean. He sees elaborate and artistically designed creations of coralite, but with no indication of what they might represent. He realises that if the planet is terraformed, not only will an obviously intelligent species be destroyed but all this fantastic artwork will be lost.

Although it is decided not to continue with the terraforming project, and even to destroy the research before it can be reported to Earth, Hawthorne knows what he must do to stop a repeat of the research by others. He sabotages the colony, leaving no-one alive but him, and shoots many cetoids, to make them distrust and fear humans.  As he recognizes Oscar's dead body, he thinks to himself "Oh God.  Please Exist.  Please make a hell for me."

External links
Sister Planet at the isfdb
 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?63961

Footnotes

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Villere

Villere or Villeré is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Jacques Villeré (1828–1899), Confederate legislator from Louisiana
Jacques Phillippe Villeré (1761–1830), Governor of Louisiana
Roger F. Villere, Jr. (born 1949), American businessman and politician


Péter Bacsa

Péter Bacsa (born 21 November 1970, in Dorog) is a Hungarian former wrestler who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

References

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March to Quebec

March To Quebec (published 1938, revised 1940) is a historical work by novelist Kenneth Roberts largely compiled from the actual journals of Colonel Benedict Arnold and several of his companions during the American Revolution. It depicts their march through the Maine wilderness in 1775 for a surprise attack upon Quebec with the hope of adding it as a fourteenth colony. Other famous patriots included: Christopher Greene, Daniel Morgan, Henry Dearborn and Aaron Burr in this unsuccessful campaign. Drama was added by the author to flesh out the story.

Shortly, after its publication a review in the Boston Evening Transcript read:

Bringing together, in March to Quebec, the journals of the Quebec Expedition is an exceedingly valuable contribution to the Americana of the Revolution ... Many have been practically inaccessible ... Only a few libraries in the country have them all, and he who would buy them for himself would be obliged to spend a large sum of money and wait a year or so before some dealer in rare books could accumulate all of them.

Roberts incorporated some of these historical notes in his other books, such as Arundel.

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Category:American historical novels
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Category:Novels set in Maine
Category:American Revolutionary War novels


Ioannis Kossos

Ioannis Kossos (; 1822–1875) was a Greek sculptor of the 19th century. Born in Tripoli, he later studied in Athens and Florence. His work includes several statues and busts in Athens, Patras and other Greek cities.

Kossos died in Athens.

References
 Στέλιος Λυδάκης: "Οι Έλληνες Γλύπτες – Η νεοελληνική γλυπτική: ιστορία – τυπολογία – λεξικό γλυπτών", τόμ. 5ος, σελ. 364 – 365, Εκδοτικός οίκος "ΜΕΛΙΣΣΑ", Αθήνα, 1981.
 Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Πάπυρος – Λαρούς – Μπριτάνικα, λήμμα "Κόσσος, Ιωάννης" (κείμενο Μ. Στεφανίδης), τόμ.35, σελ. 274, Εκδόσεις Πάπυρος, Αθήνα, 1996.
 «ΕΛΛΑΣ» (Η ιστορία και ο πολιτισμός του Ελληνικού Έθνους από τις απαρχές μέχρι σήμερα), τόμος 2ος, σελ. 602, Εκδοτικός Οργανισμός «Πάπυρος», Αθήνα, 1998.
 Ζέττα Αντωνοπούλου: « Τα γλυπτά της Αθήνας: Υπαίθρια Γλυπτική 1834 – 2004», σελ. 25, 28, 30, 34, 38, 132 & 203 – 204, α΄ έκδοση, Εκδόσεις «Ποταμός», Αθήνα, 2003.

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Japan Association for Language Teaching

The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), or 特定非営利活動法人全国語学教育学会 (“Specified Nonprofit Corporation – Zenkoku Gogaku Kyoiku Gakkai”) in Japanese, is a non-profit professional organization for foreign language teachers in Japan. Japan's "largest convocation of language educators", JALT has 2,800 members, many of whom are non-Japanese who have settled in Japan. Each member may belong to a local chapter, and has the option of also belonging to Special Interest Groups (SIGs). JALT holds an annual conference, and has done so since 1975. JALT produces a bimonthly magazine, a semiannual journal, and an annual conference proceedings.

History
The first beginnings of the association began with a casual get-together (based on an interest in the Silent Way teaching method) organised in 1975 by Sharon Bode, then Chief Instructor at the Kyoto YMCA. A subsequent meeting was held at the National L.L. School in Osaka in spring 1976, where it was agreed to call the "organization" KALT (Kansai Association of Language Teachers) and the group grew to around 60 members. The group's first event was a KALT-sponsored weekend conference in August 1976 at Kyoto YMCA attended by about 120 people. KALT as a broader organisation came into existence when the Tokai Chapter (representing Tokyo) was formed in 1977, followed in the late 1970s by Chugoku (Hiroshima), Takamatsu (Shikoku), and Nishi-Nippon (Fukuoka). In 1977 KALT became JALT, and in September that year it became the Official Japan Affiliate of TESOL, and by the end of 1978, membership was around 800, alongside 30 commercial members. JALT was granted NPO status (as a nonprofit organization registered with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government) in 1999.

Chapters
JALT now has Chapters throughout Japan, and each member of JALT may belong to one chapter. Chapters take their names from the geographical area that they serve (usually named for their prefecture), although Nankyu is a created name. Chapters sponsor activities for language teachers in their area, and most chapter events are in English, though some are in Japanese.

Current chapters

 Akita
 East Shikoku
 Fukui
 Fukuoka
 Gifu
 Gunma
 Hiroshima
 Hokkaido
 Ibaraki
 Iwate
 Kitakyushu

 Kobe
 Kyoto
 Matsuyama
 Nagoya
 NanKyu
 Nara
 Niigata
 Oita
 Okayama
 Okinawa
 Osaka
 Saitama, Japan
 Sendai
 Shinshu
 Shizuoka
 Tokyo
 Tottori, Japan
 Toyohashi
 West Tokyo
 Yamagata
 Yokohama

Special Interest Groups
JALT now has many Special Interest Groups (SIGs) consisting of members who share a professional interest. Members also have the option of joining one or more SIGs. SIGs provide publications, mailing lists, and are involved with conferences.

Current SIGs

 Bilingualism
 Business Communication
 CEFR and Language Portfolio
 College and University Educators
 Computer Assisted Language Learning
 Critical Thinking
 Extensive Reading
 Gender Awareness in Language Education
 Global Issues in Language Education
 Intercultural Communication in Language Education

 Japanese as a Second Language
 Learner Development
 Lifelong Language Learning
 Literature in Language Teaching
 Materials Writers
 Mind, Brain, and Education
 Mixed, Augmented, and Virtual Realities
 Other Language Educators
 Pragmatics

 School Owners
 Speech, Drama, & Debate
 Study Abroad
 Task Based Learning
 Teacher Development
 Teachers Helping Teachers
 Teaching Younger Learners
 Testing and Evaluation
 Vocabulary

Conference
The full name of JALT's annual conference is Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition. Conferences consist of plenary sessions, featured speaker sessions, and concurrent workshops and presentations. There are about 600 of these, and about 1,600 attendees, and there is a balance between practical presentations and theoretical. The Educational Materials Exhibition (EME) consists of displays of language learning textbooks, reference books and other language education materials.

Publications
JALT's first publication,The Newsletter, began in October 1975, and gradually increased in both size and quality. Its successor, The Language Teacher (TLT), was first published in April 1984. Originally released monthly, in 2009, a decision was made to begin publishing bimonthly in order to concentrate on offering more content online. It is a refereed publication, meaning that articles are subject to peer review, and is distributed in both paper and electronic (online) form.

The first annual conference proceedings publication was called TEFL Japan '77: Collected Papers whereas the most recent was the 2017 release of the JALT Postconference Publication - JALT2016.

The JALT Journal is JALT's applied research journal which was first published in November 1979. It is still published semiannually, in May and November, with an emphasis on linking theory to practice.

Partner organizations

International Partners
 English Teaching Association of the Republic of China (ETA-ROC)
 Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association (FEELTA)
 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
 International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL)
 Linguapax Asia
Korea Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (KOTESOL)
 Malaysia English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)
 Philippine Association of Language Teaching (PALT)
 The Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia (TEFLIN)
 TESOL International Association (TESOL)
 Thailand TESOL (ThaiTESOL)

Domestic Partners
 Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (AJET)
 The Elementary School Thematic Education Movement (ESTEEM)
 English Teachers in Japan (ETJ)
 Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET)
 The Japan Intercultural Institute (JII)
 The United Associations of Language Studies (UALS)

References

External links

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Battle of Kupres (1942)

The Battle of Kupres () was a battle fought in 1942 during World War 2 in Independent State of Croatia between the forces of the Independent State of Croatia and the Yugoslav Partisans, in and around the town of Kupres in western Bosnia. The Partisans launched three concentrated attacks against the garrison of 1,500 men during the nights of 11/12 August, 14 August and 19 August. Although outnumbered, the Black Legion, Croatian Home Guard and local militia units successfully defended the town against several Partisan brigades.

Background

In July 1942, the 2nd Proletarian Brigade moved on Kupres and, with the assistance of local Partisans, seized control over several villages in the vicinity. During the night of 4 August 1942 the Partisans attacked the town of Livno and captured it in the following days. The plan of the National Liberation Army Supreme Command, following the seizure of Livno, was to move the Proletarian Strike Brigades to Kupres, whose capture was vital for further actions in the valley of River Vrbas.

The battle

 Yugoslav Partisans 11/12 August 1942, 13 battalions with around 2,100 men

2nd Proletarian Brigade
3rd Proletarian (Sandžak) Brigade
4th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Brigade
10th Herzegovinian Brigade
3rd Krajina NOP Detachment

14 August 1942, 16 battalions with around 2,400 - 3,000 men

2nd Proletarian Brigade
3rd Proletarian (Sandžak) Brigade
4th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Brigade
10th Herzegovinian Brigade
1st Krajina Brigade
3rd Krajina NOP Detachment

 11/12 August 1942, in total around 1,400 men
Black Legion
Kupres Militia
XVII Ustaša Battalion
9th Artillery Battalion
9th Infantry Regiment
5th Gendarmerie Regiment

14 August 1942, around 1,500 armed men
Black Legion
Kupres Militia
XVII Ustaša Battalion
9th Artillery Battalion
9th Infantry Regiment
5th Gendarmerie Regiment
14th Infantry Regiment

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Gaia Seed: Project Trap

Gaia Seed: Project Seed Trap is a 1996 Japanese side scrolling shooting game for the PlayStation.

Development
The game was developed by Techno Soleil. They were the same developers as Rapid Angel.

Gameplay
Gameplay features a rechargeable shield for your ship.

Release
It was released in Japan on December 13, 1996. It was re-released on the PlayStation Network on July 8, 2009, and retailed for 571円. The game is considered quite rare. A 2005 United Kingdom listing, gave the price as £50-£80, while a 2014 listing put the game as costing £80.

The game was released on PlayStation Network Imports for purchase outside of Japan on September 21, 2010. Previously, the only way to purchase the game outside of Japan on PSN was to use a Japanese PSN account. The game was released with no localization or translation. Publisher MonkeyPaW Games cites the cost of translation as a barrier to releasing games outside of Japan.

Reception
Famitsu magazine gave it a score of 22 out of 40.

Eurogamer called it "quite dull". GamesTM said that it looked like a 16 bit game, but that it was enjoyable, and was more for the hardcore fans of the genre. Silliconera praised the game, and compared the game to Gradius series.

See also

 Stahlfeder: Tekkou Hikuudan

References

External links

 Official website

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Mian Habib Ullah

Mian Habib Ullah (Born April 30, 1948) is a Pakistani businessman and diplomat belonging to Chiniot and is best known for his association with the Islamabad Stock Exchange and Export Promotion Bureau (Trade Development Authority, Government of Pakistan). He was also a founding member of Islamabad Stock Exchange. He is the current Honorary Consul General of Republic of Cyprus  also elected as the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps of Honorary Consuls and Consul Generals in November 2014. Mian Habib Ullah is former Minister of State and Former, President of Federation Of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) and also Former President of Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce & Industry.  He was closely associated with Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto in her second term and also served as her Advisor on trade. He is also the Former President of All Pakistan China Friendship Association .

Personal life
Mian Habib Ullah was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He is married to the sister of Shahzada Alam Monnoo, who served as Federal Minister for Commerce, Industries and Textiles. Mian Habib Ullah himself is a living example of the business acumen of his fraternity. His grandfather Dost Mohammad had started export of hides and skins from Southern India and set up several industrial units including Zeenat Textile Mills with 25,000 spindles and 500 looms in 1952. It was among the top 4 largest textile groups in Pakistan at that time. It was after his father's death in 1981 that Mian Habib Ullah launched his own independent business, by buying off shares of his uncles in the family enterprise D M Textile Mills. .

Education
Mian Habib Ullah Graduated in Commerce from Punjab university.

Career

-Honorary Consul General Of the Republic Of Cyprus

-Dean of the Diplomatic Corps of Honorary Consuls and Consul Generals

-Life Member SAARC Chamber of Commerce and industry

- C.E.O of D.M Textile Mills Ltd.

Former :

President - Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1990-1991

President - FPCCI 1992-93

Vice President - Economic Cooperation Organization Chamber of Commerce 1992-1993

Chairman - Export Promotion Bureau (now TDAP) 1993-1996

Director - Pakistan Television Corporation 1993

Director - Allied Bank 1995-1996

Director - Islamabad Stock Exchange

Member of Syndicate - Taxila Engineering University 2002-2005

Director - Islamabad Electricity Supply Co. 2005-2010

President - All Pakistan China Friendship Association 2013-2016

Achievements
Under the leadership of Mian Habib Ullah as chairman EPB export grew from $6.8 billion to $8.7 billion

As minister of Trade, he also invited a delegation of Zimbabwe to Pakistan, which was led by the Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. Mian Habib Ullah has led numerous successful business and diplomatic delegations of Pakistan to countries including Yemen, Russia, Uzbekistan, India, Tajikistan, Korea, Iran, Turkey, UAE, Hong Kong, China, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe etc to boost exports and investment.

Mian Habib Ullah is also credited with the Success of 65th Izmir International Fair in Turkey, where he was the Chief guest on invitation of Prime Minister of Turkey which was attended by prominent figures from Turkey and abroad. Trade, tourism and industry ministers from Georgia, Nigeria, Palestine, Romania, and Bulgaria were represented.

He also led a 100-member delegation to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Business Leaders' Conclave in India.

Mian Habib Ullah has been twice awarded gold medal by President of Pakistan Farooq Leghari and President Pervez Musharraf in recognition of services for the business Community/promotion of trade and industry.

Mian Habib Ullah led the largest businessmen delegation to Moscow and Central Asia by chartering a private plane including 86 businessmen  for bilateral talks in the year 1992.

Miab Habib Ullah has been honored to address thrice at the National Defence College of Pakistan.

Mian Habib Ullah also represented Pakistan in United Nations Organizations in Geneva and Tokyo.

Mian Habib Ullah shares struggles of an entrepreneur in a book called Kamyaab log کامیاب لوگ by Dr Amjad Saqib CEO of Akhuwat.

References

External links
 Islamabad Stock Exchange
 Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cyprus

Category:Pakistani businesspeople
Category:People from Islamabad
Category:Living people
Category:1949 births
Category:Pakistani stock traders
Category:Chinioti people


Ken Booth

Ken Booth may refer to:

 Ken Booth (academic) (born 1943), British international relations theorist
 Ken Booth (footballer) (born 1934), English former footballer
 Ken Booth (politician) (1926–1988), New South Wales politician

See also
Ken Boothe, Jamaican recording artist


Preston Hill Country Park

Preston Hill Country Park is in Eynsford, in Kent, England. It is a woodland and former military firing range.

Within the site of the park and woodland, stood Preston Hill farmhouse. This was then damaged in 1944 after a 1000 kg parachute bomb or mine was dropped, in the early hours of 22 January 1944. Three of the farmhouse occupants were killed and 8 others were injured, later the ruined farmhouse was demolished. The site was then used as a Ministry of Defence firing range (up to the 1940s); the remnants of the range can still be seen.

Since 1951 it has been a Site of Special Scientific Interest (part of  Otford To Shoreham Downs site).

Preston Hill has extensive views across the countryside from the Darenth Valley (following the River Darent) to Lullingstone Country Park.
The site has  of chalk grassland and woodland with many wild flowers and rare butterflies at this site of outstanding natural beauty located within the Kent Downs.

On the grasslands, a variety of butterflies including chalkhill blues and dark green fritillaries can be seen. Since the site is relatively quiet, common adders and grass snakes can also be found.
The grassland is grazed occasionally by a herd of feral goats, which came from the Great Orme, near Colwyn Bay in North Wales.These are used to further encourage the growth of wildflowers.

There are paths through the woodland (called 'Preston Plantation') at the top of the hill although they are steep in places and some have become overgrown.

The park also is acreddited with a Green Flag Award by Natural England (linked with Lullingstone Country Park).

How to get there
Situated along A225 Station road, cross the railway (between Shoreham and Eynsford) then head up Preston Hill.
The site has no official car park, but the site is only about 1 mile from Lullingstone Country Park.

External links
Kent Council Page

References

Category:Country parks in Kent
Allington Quarry


2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres race of the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held on 23 March at 17:35 local time.

Results

References

Women 05000
World


1877 in Chile

The following lists events that happened during 1877 in Chile.

Incumbents
President of Chile: Aníbal Pinto

Events

January
3 January - The clipper Champion of the Seas is abandoned off Cape Horn

May
9 May - 1877 Iquique earthquake

Births
3 November - Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Deaths
20 July - Federico Errázuriz Zañartu

References

Category:1877 in Chile
Category:Years of the 19th century in Chile
Category:1877 by country