Me and the Drummer is the 47th studio album from American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released June 6, 2000, by Luck Records. It features Nelson revisiting some of his classic songs from the sixties with his band the Offenders.

The album was re-released in Europe in 2001 under the longer title Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer). The re-release omits "What a Way to Live".

Track listing
All songs by Willie Nelson, except as shown.

 "Me and the Drummer" (Bill McDavid) - 5:09
 "Home Motel" - 4:07
 "Let My Mind Wander" - 5:04
 "I'd Rather You Didn't Love Me" - 3:25
 "Something to Think About" - 2:48
 "No Tomorrow in Sight" - 3:11
 "I'm So Ashamed" - 3:40
 "A Moment Isn't Very Long" - 3:19
 "Rainy Day Blues" - 3:34
 "You Wouldn't Cross the Street to Say Goodbye" - 3:26
 "I Guess I've Come to Live Here in Your Eyes" - 2:46
 "Forgiving You Was Easy" - 2:59
 "What a Way to Live" - 4:11

External links
 Willie Nelson's Official Website

References

2000 albums
Willie Nelson albums


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The Pat Eddery Stakes is a Listed flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-old horses. It is run at Ascot over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in July.

The event was originally named the Winkfield Stakes after Winkfield, a village located to the north of Ascot. It was established in 2006, and the inaugural running was won by Satulagi. It was permanently renamed in 2016 to honour Pat Eddery, an 11-time British Champion flat jockeys jockey who died in 2015.

The Pat Eddery Stakes is held at the same meeting as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Records
Leading jockey (3 wins):
 William Buick -  Sixth Sense (2015), New Science (2021), Naval Power (2022)

Leading trainer (3 wins):
 Charlie Appleby -  Al Dabaran (2019), New Science (2021),Naval Power (2022)

Winners

See also
 Horse racing in Great Britain
 List of British flat horse races

References

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pedigreequery.com – Winkfield Stakes – Ascot.

Flat races in Great Britain
Ascot Racecourse
Flat horse races for two-year-olds
Recurring sporting events established in 2006
2006 establishments in England


Harding Township may refer to:

Harding Township, New Jersey
Harding Township School District
Harding Township, Ramsey County, North Dakota, in Ramsey County, North Dakota
Harding Township, Lucas County, Ohio

See also
Hardin Township (disambiguation)

Township name disambiguation pages


High-pressure chemistry is concerned with those chemical processes that are carried out under high pressure – pressures in the thousands of bars (100 kPa) or higher.  High-pressure processes are generally faster and have a higher conversion efficiency than processes at ambient pressure.  However, they are usually only beneficial on an industrial scale because of the investment in plant required.

The Haber–Bosch process produces ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen.  It was first demonstrated in 1909 and became an important industrial process for Germany during World War One when it played a part in the manufacture of explosives.  Today, it is mostly used to produce fertilizer.

The Bergius process produces hydrocarbon fuel from bituminous coal and hydrogen.  The process was first published in 1913 and was an important source of fuel for Germany during World War Two.  The process was used in the US for a while after the war, but there are currently no commercial plants in the world.

The Bergius process and the Haber-Bosch process were two pioneering methods of high-pressure chemistry.  The invention and development of these two processes led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1931 jointly to Friedrich Bergius and Carl Bosch.

See also
 Jiri Jonas
 Otto Ruff
 Hanns Hörbiger
 Vladimir Ipatieff
 Nylon

References

History of chemistry


Shrivenham railway station was a station on the Great Western Main Line serving the village of Shrivenham in what was then part of Berkshire.

History
The station was about  south of the village, on the west side of the B4000 Station Road, south of the Wilts & Berks Canal, and 5.6 miles  along the line east of Swindon.

The main station building was built in 1840. It was very small, faced with flint, had Tudor style windows and a roof that projected in the form of a canopy.

On 10 May 1848 six passengers were killed and 13 injured at Shrivenham when two porters pushed a horse-box and cattle van onto the main line to free a waggon turntable. The Exeter express struck them; the locomotive was undamaged but the side of the leading coach was torn out killing six passengers and injuring 13 more.

On 15 January 1936 an express from Penzance, hauled by GWR 6000 Class 4-6-0 No. 6007 King William III, collided with some coal wagons just outside the station that had become detached from an earlier train. Two people (the male driver and a female passenger) were killed and 10 injured.

On 7 December 1964 British Railways withdrew passenger services from Shrivenham and all other intermediate stations between Didcot and Swindon. The station buildings were demolished in 1965 but remnants of the platforms survive.

Routes

References

Disused railway stations in Oxfordshire
Great Western Main Line
Former Great Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Beeching closures in England


Andrew Langley (born 16 July 1985), better known as Andy Bell, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2010. He held the British super flyweight title in 2008.

Early Professional Career
Andy begun his professional career in November 2004 with a 5th round stoppage over journeyman Steve Gethin at the Mansfield Leisure Center.  His next two fights were also held at the same venue and also ended with victories giving him a record of 3-0.  A change of venue however coincided with his first loss as a professional losing to fellow prospect Wayne Bloy at the Askern Miners Welfare Club in Askern.  A further loss followed the following month in May 2006 when he lost to former victim Steve Gethin, this time it was Bell who ended up getting stopped in the 2nd round.  Two more fights in 2006 would end with a win against journeyman Shaun Walton and a loss to prospect Jamie McDonnell.  Despite a promising start to his pro career Bell finished 2006 with a disappointing record of 4-3.

English Champion
Bell's first fight of 2007 was in April and saw him travelling to Shrewsbury where he would compete for the Midlands Area bantamweight title against Neil Marston.  For Bell it was his first 10-round fight but it wouldn't end up going the distance when the fight was stopped in the 8th round and Andy Bell was crowned the new Midlands Area champion.  Five more fights that year saw Andy claim five more wins and a couple more titles.  He beat Mo Khalid to win the British Masters bantamweight title in June and much more significantly stopped Robert Nelson in September to win the English super flyweight crown.  In December 2007 he crowned an excellent year by beating former conqueror Wayne Bloy in the first defence of his English crown.

British Champion
The toughest fight of his career so far took place in March 2008 when Bell fought reigning British champion Chris Edwards for the national super flyweight belt live on Sky Sports.  The fight took place at the Barnsley Metrodome and ended with victory for the man from Doncaster who won a unanimous decision over the champion.  In November 2008 Bell faced another tough contest when for his first defence he took on former Commonwealth champion Lee Haskins at the Robin Park Center in Wigan again in a bout again shown live on Sky.  The fight ended with defeat for Bell as Haskins claimed victory in a close fight over 12 rounds.

Suspension from Boxing
On 13 January 2009 Andy Bell received a six-month ban following a positive drug test which showed traces of cannabis in his system.  The test had been taken after the defeat to Haskins and a hearing held to hear the matter took place on 8 January 2009.  The case was dealt with by Sports Resolution UK and the Anti-doping panel who decided that Bell was guilty of taking a banned substance.  Before the sanction was announced Bell had been due to meet former amateur star Don Broadhurst in a challenge for his Commonwealth title.  He returned to the ring on 5 February 2010 only to suffer defeat for the second time in a row to unbeaten prospect Paul Edwards and suffered a further setback, when on 19 March 2009, he was stopped in the first round by the former Bantamweight British title holder Gary Davies at the Leigh sports centre.  On 28 May 2010 Bell continued his losing streak, retiring in the 3rd round against John Donnelly in a match up staged at super bantamweight.

References

Super-flyweight boxers
1985 births
Living people
English male boxers
Boxers from Doncaster
Sportspeople from Doncaster


Fruits of Passion (; , ) is a 1981 French-Japanese co-production directed by Shūji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski. The film is loosely based on the novel Retour à Roissy by Anne Desclos, written as a sequel to the Story of O.

Plot
The lead characters of the Story of O and Retour à Roissy novels, Sir Stephen and O, are placed in southern China where Sir Stephen owns a casino. Sir Stephen places O in a Chinese brothel for "training" and O is then subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience. A sub-plot concerns a local rebellion due to the resentment towards Europeans by the local population and a young man desperate to afford O's favors at the brothel.

Cast
 Isabelle Illiers as O
 Klaus Kinski as Sir Stephen
 Arielle Dombasle as Nathalie
 Peter as Madame
 Keiko Niitaka as Aisen
 Sayoko Yamaguchi as Sakuya
 Hitomi Takahashi as Byakuran
 Miyuki Ono as Kasen
 Yuka Kamebuchi
 Kenichi Nakamura as Le jeune homme, Ogaku
 Akiro Suetsugu as Obana
 Renji Ishibashi as Kato
 Takeshi Wakamatsu as Le gardien de la maison
 Georges Wilson as Le narrateur (voice)

Production
In a 2017 interview with VSD (French magazine), Arielle Dombasle looked back on the film with regret: "It's something that hurt me terribly, I was too young to do that, and then Kinski ... he was crazy." She added about Kinski: "He's a guy who crushes the weak, the ugliest thing in the world, someone who loved power, who absolutely wanted to be loved, and who did everything to make sure we did not love him."

In his autobiography, Klaus Kinski wrote all the sex scenes in which he participated in this movie were unsimulated.

Release
The film was released in France on 3 June 1981 as Les fruits de la passion and as Shanghai Ijin Shōkan - China Doll in Japan with censoring of the pubic areas in November 1981. The USA release as Fruits of Passion with English dubbing occurred in November 1982. A version in Japanese with English subtitles on VHS tape and DVD was published as Fruits of Passion - The Story of "O" Continued on 20 June 2000. A digitally remastered version of the film was released in Japan in Japanese, English and French with Japanese subtitles in December 2005.

Reception
Reaction to the film has been mixed, Roberta Novielli described it as "shallow and decadent" and Jasper Sharp calls it "minor Terayama" whose "charms are mainly cosmetic", the costuming, sets and cinematography. Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser give the movie three stars out of four but say it is based on the "look" of the film and not on its narrative or coherence.

References

External links

1981 films
1981 drama films
BDSM in films
French erotic drama films
Japanese erotic drama films
1980s French-language films
1980s Japanese-language films
1980s English-language films
1980s erotic drama films
Japanese multilingual films
French multilingual films
Films based on French novels
Films directed by Shūji Terayama
Films produced by Anatole Dauman
1981 multilingual films
1980s Japanese films
1980s French films


Caleb Willoughby Shaffner (February 1, 1846 – December 28, 1904) was a travelling salesman and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1878 to 1882 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Nicteaux, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, of German descent, and was educated at Acadia College. In 1871, he married Annie Wood. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the local militia. Shaffner lived in Wilmot, Nova Scotia. He died in Truro at the age of 87.

References
The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1880, CH Mackintosh
 A Directory of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758-1958, Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1958)

1845 births
1932 deaths
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia


The Marianne et l'Europe series or Marianne of Beaujard series was a definitive postage stamp series, issued on 1 July 2008 in Metropolitan France and the four overseas departments. The design created and engraved by Yves Beaujard marked the beginning of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union by France.

The Marianne et l'Europe series replaced the Marianne des Français series issued on 10 January 2005.

It was the first France's definitive stamp series to have all its denominations issued as self-adhesive in September 2008.

Description
Marianne, the allegory of the French Republic, wearing a Phrygian cap, is presented in profile, looking to the left. Stars surrounded her head, evoking the flag of Europe. One of these stars is in the usual place of the tricolor cockade.

Genesis
In October 2007, the President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy asked La Poste to organize a competition at the end of whom he would choose the new definitive stamp design of France. The competition topic was "The Marianne and Europe" (La Marianne et l'Europe). Fifty-eight artists who recently designed stamps for the French postal service were invited to send their project between 26 October and 16 November 2007. Forty-one were received and brought to the President.

Nicolas Sarkozy chose the project of engraver Yves Beaujard. La Poste's president, Jean-Paul Bailly officially presented the stamp design in Paris, on 29 January 2008.

The artist told he created "an old-fashioned Marianne", "realised a very classical version of the Marianne" and to have "given movement with the haircut" and activity with different size stars put around her head. A professional engraver, he drew with the idea to convert his design into an engraving because the definitive stamps of France has been usually printed in intaglio the past decades. It was the first time since the Liberté de Gandon d'après Delacroix series that a definitive series was designed and engraved by the same artist.

Career
After a first day sale at the Paris Salon du timbre stamp show in June 2008, the first thirteen values were nationwide issued in gummed version and self-adhesive for the three main rates, on 1 July 2008, the first day of the six month Presidency of the Council of the European Union by France. Two twelve self-adhesive stamp booklets (with six Marianne stamps and two times tree designed by Beaujard on the "values of Europe": Democracy, Environment and Peace.

During the same stamp show, a five euro silver Marianne et l'Europe stamp was issued, with postal validity.

In September 2008, alongside a new offer targeting firm and companies, La Poste issued all Marianne et l'Europe denominations in form of self-adhesive stamps, sold in indivisible sheet of one hundred stamps or coil of three hundred.

References

Postage stamps of France
Marianne (personification)


Roosevelt Township may refer to:

 Roosevelt Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa, in Pocahontas County, Iowa
 Roosevelt Township, Decatur County, Kansas
 Roosevelt Township, Beltrami County, Minnesota
 Roosevelt Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
 Roosevelt Township, Renville County, North Dakota, in Renville County, North Dakota

Township name disambiguation pages


Triathlon at the 2008 Asian Beach Games was held 26 October 2008 in Bali, Indonesia.

Medalists

Medal table

Results

Men's individual
26 October

Women's individual
26 October

References
 Official site

2008 Asian Beach Games events
Asian Beach Games
2008


Beagle Bag is a collection of video games for the Apple II family of computers published in 1982 by Beagle Bros Software.  In common with their other titles, the Beagle Bag software was released in unlocked and unprotected form, and is now in the public domain.

Games

Beagle Bag, collectively credited to "Bert Kersey and the Beagle Bros Staff", contains games designed for the Apple II, Apple II+ and Apple IIe computers.

Buzzword!
In Buzzword!, a children's game based on Mad Libs, the computer relates a short story in which certain key words are replaced with blanks.  Each time the story reaches a blank, the user selects a letter and the computer then randomly inserts a word from its vocabulary starting with that letter. Buzzword! comes with five pre-made stories and also allows users to create their own.

In addition to entering a custom story, the Beagle Bag manual also includes instructions about how to edit Buzzword!'''s vocabulary.

ElevatorsElevators challenges the player to use four elevators to deliver as many carloads of passengers as possible in a short period of time (5:00 to 5:30).  Passengers appear on any of ten different floors in a high-rise building and must be collected by sending one of four elevator cars to the correct floor and back down again.  The movement of each car can be controlled separately by three rows of keys: , ,  and  to move up, , ,  and  to move down, and , ,  and  to stop.  Power can also be cut to certain cars, allowing others to move more quickly.

Each carload of passengers delivered to the ground floor earns the player a point.  Points are displayed to the left of the building, the time of day to the right.

Gas Crunch
This simple game involves taking turns with the computer to remove gas cans from a wall with 21 cans.  Both the player and the computer can choose to remove one, two or three cans each time, with the object of not having to take the last remaining can.  With 21 cans, the first player wins with perfect play.  The computer knows how to play perfectly, so you must win the coin flip to have a chance to win.

Hang PersonHang Person is a simple hangman-style game in which the player must guess the letters of a word or short phrase.  For each incorrect guess, another piece of the person is drawn in; six incorrect guesses lose the game.  Hang Person allows a user to play by themselves against the computer, or to enter a word of their own (up to 14 characters) that a second user must guess.  Instructions on how to edit the computer's vocabulary of 150 words are given in the manual.

Magic Pack
This program acts as an aid to performing four separate magic tricks described in the accompanying manual: "Plenty Questions", in which the computer attempts to guess the object someone's thinking of; "21 Numbers", a number guessing trick; "Next Word", in which the computer and the player create a logical series of words; and "Card Scanner", in which the computer purports to identify a playing card held against the screen.

Oink!Oink! is a two-player dice-rolling game with each player taking turns rolling to score the sum of the two dice.  After the roll, a point is added to the bonus counter. The player can end their turn and bank their points, or roll again and add the new sum, plus the current bonus counter, which is then incremented after the new roll.  This may be repeated as often as desired.  Rolling doubles (a 1 in 6 chance) ends the turn immediately, forfeits all unbanked points, and clears the bonus counter.  First to 200 points wins the game.

A version of Oink! was used in experiments conducted in the mid-1980s to test for the existence of psychokinesis, the results of which were published in the Journal of Parapsychology.

Pick-A-Pair
Similar to Concentration or Hūsker Dū?, Pick-A-Pair is a two-person memory game played on a 4x4 array of 16 numbers, behind each of which is a symbol.  Players take turns revealing, two at a time, the symbols behind each number; if the two they pick match, the two are removed and the player earns points equal to the sum of the two numbers.  The first player to earn 68 or more points wins the game.  Unlike Concentration, making a match does not give the player an extra turn, which also significantly affects strategy.

Quick-Draw!Quick-Draw! is a two-player cowboy shoot-out game.  Each round the computer selects an abstract "firing symbol" which it displays between the two gunmen, then quickly cycles through various random symbols including the one it selected.  If a player fires while the correct symbol is shown and does so quicker than his opponent, he'll win the round.  If he fires while the wrong symbol is shown, his opponent get a free shot.

Points are awarded on how quickly players can make successful shots and are displayed beneath each cowboy.  Scores rounded off to the nearest whole number appear on each cowboy's hat.  First player to 10 points wins.

Slippery Digits
This game is a sliding puzzle that challenges the player to sequentially order 15 numbered tiles within a 4x4 playing area using as few moves as possible.  Slippery Digits has two styles of play: one in which the number of each tile is shown, and another more challenging one in which each number begins hidden and only appears when it's in its proper position.

Sub Search
In this submarine-hunting game, the player must identify the locations of a random number of submarines hidden within the playing area.  The player moves his ship north, south, east or west, and the areas over which the ship travels light up green.  If a submarine is within the area through which the ship has moved, it will appear as a black silhouette; moving directly over a submarine marks it as found.  To help direct the search, the player can use a sonar-like scanner to faintly reveal where submarines are located.

The player must manage oxygen and fuel supplies, both of which are assigned in random quantities at the beginning of the game and quickly diminish.  An "equalizer" balances the two, and a "jump" function allows the player to jump to a random location in the playing area.  The final score is based on the percentage of subs found multiplied by one thousand, plus the amount of fuel and oxygen remaining.

TextTrainTextTrain is a train simulator that uses a word or other series of letter to represent the cars of a train.  The game's object is to couple together a pre-defined series of freight cars and pull them to the Check Station at the top of the track as quickly as possible.  The player can move the train forward or backward around the tracks and onto sidings, open and close switches and couple and uncouple cars.  Coupling a car ahead of the engine or driving into a closed switch will derail the train and end the game.

Triple DigitsTriple Digits is a numbers game for two players.  Each player is dealt a set of thirteen digits (0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8); one plays white, the other black.  Numbers are placed one at a time in the unoccupied squares of a 9x8 board according to the computer's instructions.  Scoring is based on the number that was played and its two adjacent digits, read together as a single number; for instance, a row of 2, 4 and 6 would yield a score of 246.  Rows can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal.  TripleDigits ends when all the numbers have been played or one of the players resigns.

Wowzo
The object of Wowzo is for each player to move his "man" (represented on the board by the first three letters of his name) through the maze and land on each letter of a five-letter keyword before his opponent does.  The letters of the keyword, which is entered by a player at the start of the game, are scattered randomly throughout the maze.  Players can move their men left, right, up or down; the man will continue to move in that direction until it hits a wall or encounters one of the letters of the keyword (which grants a free turn).

Each player on his turn can also open or close one of many "gates" in the maze's walls, represented by letters.  Doing so can open shortcuts to letters or block one's opponent.  The first player to collect all the letters of the keyword wins.

Utilities
Included in the Beagle Bag collection is Beagle Menu, a configurable disk menu program that offers one-key access to select files.

Other softwareBeagle Bag also includes several simple programs that according to the manual "have been gathering dust around here for years."Baby Names generates semi-random names of five to seven letters.Cross Word insults the user at every keypress.Date Search calculates the number of days between two dates.Pack My Box challenges the user to create a pangram of less than 32 letters.Poly-Dice simulates the results of rolling dice of a specified number of sides.Naked City is a practical joke program that displays bogus computer errors.Name Game produces variations of a person's name: Spoonerisms, vowelisms, Pig Latin, etc.Test Patterns'' produces lo-res or hi-res test patterns.

Reception

References

External links
Beagle Bag at the Beagle Bros Software Repository
Beagle Bag Instructions

1982 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Video games developed in the United States


Joint Task Force Liberia was a joint task force formed from August to October 2003 in response to the crisis that developed during the Second Liberian Civil War.  The ongoing civil war destabilized the area and created a large number of refugees as rebel forces closed in on Monrovia and took over Bushrod Island.  As a result, the Freeport of Monrovia closed, causing food shortages.

As the crisis unfolded, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia John W. Blaney requested military assistance.  U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved deployment of U.S. forces on July 20, 2003 and soon afterwards, the United States armed forces established Joint Task Force Liberia.

Formation and deployment of the task force

In 2003, the 56th Rescue Squadron of the 85th Group, U.S. Air Force, from Keflavik, Iceland, deployed to Liberia as part of JTF-Liberia.  It saved lives by extracting people from the United States Embassy in Monrovia.

In July, Marines from a forward deployed Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team (FAST) left Naval Station Rota, Spain for Liberia. The FAST platoon reinforced the embassy security and began non-combatant evacuation operations. After a month of the platoon of Marines being alone to defend the Embassy Compound, the 26th MEU, which had steamed at full speed for 2 weeks from the Horn of Africa finally arrived off shore.

Members of the Southern European Task Force formed the headquarters element of the task force while the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit provided the operational forces.  The Task Force Command Element Forward embarked aboard the  with the intent of keeping a small footprint ashore.

On August 14, 2003, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group conducted an amphibious operation and landed about 150 Marines at Roberts International Airport and another 50 at the Freeport of Monrovia on Bushrod Island. Nigerian Army forces also deployed as part of an ECOMIL, an Economic Community of West African States temporary intervention force. The Joint Task Force Liberia and ECOWAS forces began to stabilize the area and the United Nations brought in humanitarian aid.

President Charles Taylor left the country soon afterwards under pressure from the international community, and the stage was set for the arrival of first an ECOWAS interim peacekeeping force, ECOMIL, and then the UN peacekeeping force the United Nations Mission in Liberia.

Notes

Further reading
Colonel Blair A. Ross (U.S. Army), 'The U.S. Joint Task Force Experience in Liberia,' Military Review, May–June 2005, p. 60-67. at https://web.archive.org/web/20121119101218/http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/CAC/milreview/download/English/MayJun05/ross.pdf
Geraci (2005). Expert Knowledge in a Joint Task Force Headquarters. JFQ. at  http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1238.pdf
Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations: Stability from the Sea, chapter note 26, pp. 167–168

Joint task forces of the United States Armed Forces
Military units and formations established in 2003
History of Liberia


The Gandhi High School in Pécs, Hungary (in Romani: Gandhi (Mashkarutni Shkola ando Pech)), was founded with donations given by several individuals from the private sector and with further donations from other organizations in 1992, this becoming the first high school for Romani people in Hungary, that has been actively operating since 1994.
It was named after the Indian Mahatma Gandhi, to emphasize the Indian origin of all Romani groups.
The purpose of the middle school/high school is to provide a school-leaving exam (A-level), also to improve the prospects of Romani children in Hungary and to help preserving the Romani culture.

The school is financed by the Government of Hungary with additional funds from the EU and by donations.
The school consists of 6 classrooms where about 250 male and female pupils study, mostly between the ages of 14 and 18.
There are also courses available for the older generation.
The first group of students beginning in 1994 took their school-leaving exam (A-level) in 2000 and out of 18 pupils, 16 have applied to universities, whilst 7 out of the 18 students gained entry to their desired universities.
Less than 1% of Romani people in Hungary in Hungary are university graduates.
Although the school is open to all, currently only five non-Romani are being enrolled to our institution but hopefully this picture will soon change as quality of education is being improved.

See also
 Roma in Hungary

References

Sources
 Information in German
 I Mashkarutni Shkola Gandhi (magyarikanes)
 I librariya (pustakalya)

External links
 YouTube:Working with the Roma People at the Gandhi School

Gymnasiums in Hungary
Organisations based in Pécs
Romani in Hungary
1992 establishments in Hungary
Educational institutions established in 1992


This is a list of supernovae that are of historical significance. These include supernovae that were observed prior to the availability of photography, and individual events that have been the subject of a scientific paper that contributed to supernova theory.

An alternative, complete and updated list can be found in the Open Supernova Catalog. Recent supernovae can be found at Latest Supernovae. Supernovae in 2023 include SN 2023ixf in Messier 101 (May 2023), SN 2023idj in NGC 4568 (May 2023) and SN 2023gfo in NGC 4995 (April 2023).

List

In most entries, the year when the supernova was seen is part of the designation (1st column).

See also
 List of most distant supernovae
 List of supernova candidates
 List of supernova remnants
 Lists of astronomical objects

References

Further reading

External links
List of all known supernovae at The Open Supernova Catalog.
IAU Supernovae on the Transient Name Server (TNS)
Supernovae through 2015 at IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT).
WISeREP – The Weizmann Interactive Supernova data Repository

Supernovae
Supernovae


The following list of C++ template libraries details the various libraries of templates available for the C++ programming language.

The choice of a typical library depends on a diverse range of requirements such as: desired features (e.g.: large dimensional linear algebra, parallel computation, partial differential equations), commercial/opensource nature, readability of API, portability or platform/compiler dependence (e.g.: Linux, Windows, Visual C++, GCC), performance in speed, ease-of-use, continued support from developers, standard compliance, specialized optimization in code for specific application scenarios or even the size of the code-base to be installed.

General
 Active Template Library (Windows)
 Adaptive Communication Environment
 Adobe Source Libraries
 AGG (anti-aliased rendering library)
 Boost
 CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
 Concurrent Collections for C++ (CnC)
 Dlib
 Embedded Template Library
 IT++
 KFRlib Audio and DSP library with extensive use of template expressions.
 Loki
 mlpack – machine learning
 ODB ORM and Database-Aware Container Template Library
 Oracle Template Library
 PETSc – Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
 POCO C++ Libraries
 Template Numerical Toolkit
 Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
 Windows Template Library
 Windows Runtime Library

Standard Template Library and derivates
 Standard Template Library
 GNU C++ Standard Library (libstdc++)
 libc++, part of clang++
 STAPL
 EASTL

Linear Algebra
 Armadillo C++ Library
 Blitz++
 Eigen Library
 Matrix Template Library
 Trilinos

See also

External links
 Linear Algebra Libraries (A well-done survey by Claire Mouton, from INRIA, France in 2009)
List of open source C++ library

C++ libraries


Ford Township may refer to:

Ford Township, Ford County, Kansas
Ford Township, Kanabec County, Minnesota
Ford Township, a geographic township in Unorganized North Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada

See also
 Ford River Township, Michigan

Township name disambiguation pages


Carter Township may refer to:

 Carter Township, Ashley County, Arkansas
 Carter Township, Spencer County, Indiana
 Carter Township, Carter County, Missouri
 Carter Township, Burke County, North Dakota
 Carter Township, Tripp County, South Dakota

See also
Carter (disambiguation)

Township name disambiguation pages


Hard to Hold is the eighth studio album by Rick Springfield released on 23 July 1984, by RCA Records as the soundtrack to the film of the same name. The album includes the U.S. Top 5 hit "Love Somebody", Top 40 hits "Don't Walk Away" and "Bop 'Til You Drop", plus minor hit "Taxi Dancing" (a duet with Randy Crawford). In addition to Springfield appearing on the soundtrack, there are three tracks from other artists; "When The Lights Go Down" by Graham Parker, "Heart Of A Woman" by Nona Hendryx, and a live version of "I Go Swimming" by Peter Gabriel. The album was later remastered by Steve Hoffman for the Razor and Tie reissue label.

Reception
From contemporary reviews, Ken Tucker of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the album three out of five star rating, noting that "Love Somebody" was Springfrield's "best pop-rocker since "Jessie's Girl" and the filler songs on the album include good songs by Graham Parker and Peter Gabriel. Tucker concluded that the album was "one of the few soundtrack albums that doesn't cheat its listeners."

Cash Box said that the second single "Don't Walk Away" has "a more heavy metal tinge...than on 'Love Somebody' and Springfield’s hard rock sensibilities come into full flower with a high-energy sound that gives this tune a forceful momentum."

Cash Box called the third single "Bob 'Til You Drop" "an urban mover for the ’80s."

Track listing

Personnel
Producers: Rick Springfield & Bill Drescher
Engineer: Bill Drescher
Second Engineers: Eddie Delena, Rick Polakow
Executive Producer: D. Constantine Conte
Mastered by Greg Fulginiti at Artisan Sound Recorders, Hollywood
CD Mastered by Steve Hoffman
Recorded by [Pre-production Assistance]: Jeff Silverman
Brett Tuggle, Richard Page, Rick Springfield, Jerry Marotta [PG], Tom Kelly - backing vocals
Mike Seifrit, Reggie McBride, Tony Levin [PG] - bass
Peter Gabriel [PG] - vocals
Mike Baird - drums
Jeff Silverman, Rick Springfield, David Rhoades [PG], Tim Pierce - guitar
Alan Pasqua, John Philip Shenale, Mitchell Froom, Larry Fast [PG], Rick Springfield - keyboards
Michael Fisher - acoustic percussion
Reek Havoc, Rick Springfield - electronic percussion
Joel Peskin - saxophone, electric woodwind
[PG] Peter Gabriel track (I Go Swimming)

Charts

Certifications

References

Rick Springfield albums
1984 soundtrack albums
1980s film soundtrack albums
RCA Records soundtracks


“To Atlanta” (This is Atlanta) is a single by Edyta Górniak for the 1996 Olympic Games.

Background

"To Atlanta" was the Polish anthem for the Olympic Games '96 which took place in Atlanta, USA. The single was released exclusively in Poland and was produced for Polish Olympic Foundation. The song has never been released on any of Edyta's albums.

The single cover includes pictures of Edyta (by Marlena Bielińska) as well as various athletes (by IndexStock).

Track listing

CD
 To Atlanta (3:41)
 To Atlanta (wersja akustyczna) (3:49)
 To Atlanta (wersja symfoniczna) (3:03)

Cassette
 To Atlanta (3:41)
 To Atlanta (wersja akustyczna) (3:49)
 To Atlanta (wersja symfoniczna) (3:03)

References

1996 singles
1996 songs


Julie Wood was a Franco-Belgian comics series drawn and written by French cartoonist Jean Graton between 1976 and 1980. It centered around a young female motorcyclist, Julie Wood. When the series ended the character was introduced in Graton's other, more famous, comics series Michel Vaillant.

The character was portrayed by German actress Diane Kruger in the 2003 film adaptation of Michel Vaillant.

Overview
Founded in 1976 by Jean Graton, these series found an audience among bikers and other comics fans. Julie Wood was regularly published in the comics magazine Super As. The albums were published from 1976 to 1979 by Dargaud, and in 1979 and 1980 by Fleurus. The series consists of 8 albums plus 2 advertising albums. After 1980 the heroine was featured in the series Michel Vaillant in 1982, in which she becomes the bride of Steve Warson from the album Paris-Dakar.

Albums
Une fille nommée Julie Wood
Défends-toi Julie
500 fous au départ
Pas de cadeau pour Julie
Le motard maudit
Un ours, un singe...et un side-car
Ouragan sur Daytona
Bol d'or

External links
Graton éditeur official website

French comics
Wood, Julie
1976 comics debuts
1980 comics endings
Wood, Julie
Adventure comics
Motorsports comics
Wood, Julie
Dargaud titles
Wood, Julie
Bandes dessinées
Comics set in France
Wood, Julie
Michel Vaillant


Peter Daland (April 12, 1921 – October 20, 2014) was an International Swimming Hall of Fame coach from the United States, best-known for coaching the University of Southern California Trojans team to nine NCAA championships from 1957-1992.

He was born in New York City to Elliot and Katherine Daland, but grew up in Philadelphia, where after college, he began a coaching career that spanned over 40 years.  His father was slow to approve his choice of careers.

Daland attended Harvard University as did his father, and grandfather, before he enlisted in the United States Army for World War II. After the war, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1948 and got his first coaching job at Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, where he won 8 straight Suburban League titles (1947–55).  He founded and was the first coach of the Suburban Swim Club, now called the Suburban Seahawks Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and served as an assistant coach to Bob Kiphuth at Yale University.

In 1956, he decided to take Horace Greeley's advice and head west and become coach at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Recognizing the future of California swimming, and showing persistence, Daland endured rejection from fifty California clubs that turned down his application. Demonstrating his early success, in 1958, after two years on the USC coaching staff, he returned to Yale with 5 USC Freshmen and won the National AAU Team Title from the New Haven Swim Club.

Collegiate coaching career

For 35 years (1957–1992), Daland was the swimming coach for the USC Trojans, where he led the Trojans to 9 NCAA Championships. Harvard educated, and a graduate of Swarthmore, he was known for bringing the "bearing of an upper crust Eastern sophisticate" to the less stodgy USC campus, and would often come to the swim deck in a white shirt, coat and tie.

He led teams to 14 AAU Men's National titles, and 2 AAU Women's National titles.  He is the only coach to have won all three major national team championships—8 NCAA, 14 National AAU Men's, and 2 National AAU Women's (Los Angeles Athletic Club).  Specializing in family dynasties, Daland had the good fortune of obtaining championship wins from the brothers Bottom, Devine, Orr, and the House brother and sister act.  His Trojan teams won more than 160 dual meets with more than 100 individual titles.  As of 1974, Daland's record boasted 183 individual national champions.

Some of the most outstanding swimmers he mentored included four time gold medal winner John Naber and American record holders Dave Wharton and Mike O’Brien.

Olympic coaching
Daland also coached the U.S. women's swim team at the 1964 Olympics, where his swimmers won 15 of the 24 medals awarded in women's swim events. The women's team won six of eight events.  He then coached the US men's team at the 1972 Olympics, where his men swimmers won 26 of 45 medals awarded in men's events.  In those Olympics, Mark Spitz of the United States had a spectacular run, lining up for seven events, winning seven Olympic titles and setting seven world records.

Outstanding Olympians coached by Daland included Roy Saari, Murray Rose, Jeff Float, Joe and Mike Bottom and Bruce and Steve Furniss.

Swimming community roles
Daland was also active in the swimming community via his roles/positions with FISU, the International University Sports Federation, and ASCA, the American Swimming Coaches Association.  He was one of the founders of ASCA, and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977.  Daland served as a swimming consultant for Philips Petroleum, the sponsor of U. S. Senior Swimming from 1972-82.  The pool of USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center bears his name. Daland was also the founder of the Junior Swimmer newsletter, and co-founded the widely subscribed Swimming World Magazine.  Originally little more than a mimeographed journal, Daland began Swimming World in the 1950's with Yale coach Bob Kiphuth who mentored him in his first College coaching assignment.

Daland was married to former German top-class swimmer Ingrid Feuerstack. They had three children, Peter Jr., Bonnie, and Leslie. Leslie won a gold medal in the 900 meter freestyle at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow.  Leslie now owns Daland Swim School, which was founded by Ingrid, in Thousand Oaks, California. On October 20, 2014, Peter died in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 93 of Alzheimer's disease.

Honors and awards
1962 ASCA Coach of the Year
1964 Olympics Women's Swimming Team Coach for the USA
1972 Olympics Men's Swimming Head Coach for the USA
1977 AAU Swimming Award recipient

See also
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

References

External links

American swimming coaches
USC Trojans swimming coaches
2014 deaths
1921 births
Sportspeople from New York City
Harvard University alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
Yale Bulldogs swimming coaches
Swarthmore College alumni
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Deaths from dementia in California


Durai is a 2008 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by A. Venkatesh from a story written by Arjun Sarja. It stars Arjun Sarja, Kirat Bhattal, Gajala, Suma Guha, Vivek and Vincent Asokan.

Plot
Raja works with a cook for "Arusuvai" Ambi, where he comes across Anjali, who catches his interest and falls for Raja, but he cannot remember anything of his past. After a sequence of events, Raja recollects his past as Durai, the close associate of honest politician Deivanayagam. Durai, who led a happy life with his wife Meena and son, is blamed for Deivanayagam's death, where Meena and his son are murdered. After recollecting his past, Dorai/Raja takes on his enemies and finally cracks the truth behind Deivanayakam's death.

Cast
 Arjun as Durai (Raja)
 Kirat Bhattal as Anjali
 Gajala as Meena
 Suma Guha as Sandhya
 Vivek as Arusuvai Ambi
 K. Viswanath as Deivanayagam
 Vincent Asokan as Dharma
 Amit Dhawan as Shanmugam
 Vennira Aadai Moorthy
 S. N. Lakshmi
 Shanmugarajan
 O. A. K. Sundar as DC Eswara Pandian
 Stunt Gopal

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman and he remixed yesteryear chartbuster hit "Raja Rajathi" from Agni Natchathiram composed by Ilayaraja

Critical reception
Indiaglitz wrote "Loads of action is the hallmark of any Arjun film. Durai is no different from his routine commercial action entertainers, where he takes on baddies, fights corrupt system and romances heroines. Director A Venkatesh seemingly inspired by Hollywood flicks like The Bourne Identity and Gladiator." Behindwoods wrote "Overall, Durai is a regular Arjun movie that fails to provide the regular entertainment. The weak story and loose script are the major drawbacks and with all his experience in tinsel town, Arjun ought to have done better. Even the trademark action sequences are missing with only the climax fight justifying the title of "Action King"."

References

External links

2008 films
2000s Tamil-language films
Indian action films
Films scored by D. Imman
Films about amnesia
Films directed by A. Venkatesh (director)
2008 action films


Diana Vickers (born 30 July 1991) is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She was semi-finalist on The X Factor in 2008. Vickers signed a record deal with RCA Records and, after touring with her fellow finalists from The X Factor, played the title role in a West End revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.

Vickers' 2010 debut single, "Once", charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and her debut album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree, achieved number one status on the UK Albums Chart. Her follow-up singles, "The Boy Who Murdered Love" and "My Wicked Heart", reached the top 40 and top 20 respectively. Vickers' second album, Music to Make Boys Cry, followed in 2013, accompanied by the singles "Cinderella", "Music to Make Boys Cry", and "Mad at Me".

Vickers unveiled her debut fashion line in 2011, and her boho-chic approach to fashion has received praise from British fashion media. She made her film debut in "The Perfect Wave" and her television acting debut in the comedy series Give Out Girls, both of which premiered in 2014.

Early life
Vickers was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. She studied for A Levels in Theatre Studies, Classics and Psychology at Westholme School in Blackburn. Vickers has been singing since the age of 11, taking singing lessons and participating in local competitions, but did not sing professionally before adulthood.

Music career

2008–2009: The X Factor

In 2008 Vickers auditioned for the fifth series of The X Factor, singing "The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice, after which Louis Walsh commented that she resembled a "little hippie". Vickers was selected for the live shows and was mentored by Cheryl Cole in the girls' category alongside Alexandra Burke and Laura White.

Vickers' live show performances attracted both praise and criticism. While on the show, she often performed with bare feet. Vickers additionally gained attention for her hand gestures on stage coining the nickname "The Claw".

On her first live show, Vickers sang U2's "With or Without You" and in her second live show Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror", for which she received praise from Dannii Minogue, describing it as "box fresh", with Simon Cowell remarking she was "the one to beat". The following week Vickers performed Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" and in week four Blondie's "Call Me", which again received praise from the judges. In week five of the live show stages, Vickers did not perform due to a bout of laryngitis. She had wanted to perform the Mariah Carey song "Always Be My Baby", but her doctor advised her not to, saying Vickers could do permanent damage to her vocal cords. This was the first time on the show that the producers had excused any act from performing.

In week six, Vickers returned to the programme performing Coldplay's "Yellow", which received a negative reaction from the judges; Dannii Minogue commented that she didn’t "love the song choice", while Cowell suggested Vickers was still not well enough to perform. In week seven, Vickers performed Take That's "Patience" commenting that she now felt 100%.

In the semi-final of the competition, Vickers performed Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" as her first song and received positive comments from the judges, including Cheryl Cole's comment that "she had got that sparkle back". Vickers followed this with Dido's "White Flag" but was voted out of the competition. She performed a reprise of "White Flag", where her fellow singers joined her on stage in a memorably emotional moment. She became the ninth contestant eliminated overall. Following the end of the series, she went on tour with the rest of the top eight contestants on The X Factor Live tour between February and March 2009.

2009–2010: Record deal and Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree

Vickers signed to Sony Music's RCA Records. She began work on her debut album in January 2009, commenting that it would not be rushed and that it would be "Diana style". She worked with Cathy Dennis, Eg White, Nerina Pallot, Ellie Goulding, Guy Sigsworth, Chris Braide, Savan Kotecha, Starsmith, Patrick Wolf, and Dev Hynes.

In March 2010, Vickers' first leg of the Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree Tour took place,
followed by a second leg in May 2010 to coincide with the release of her debut album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree, which charted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree has since been certified gold by the BPI for sales of 100,000 copies. Vickers' debut single, "Once", was written by Cathy Dennis and Eg White and produced by Mike Spencer. The track was released in the United Kingdom in April 2010 and playlisted on Radio 1, where Vickers performed an acoustic version of "Once" and a cover of Snow Patrol's "Just Say Yes" for the Live Lounge. "Once" entered the UK Singles Chart at number one.  "The Boy Who Murdered Love", written and produced by Chris Braide (with lyric contribution from Vickers), was released as the second single and charted at number 36 in the UK. During mid 2010, Vickers performed at numerous music festivals such as the Freedom Festival, iTunes Festival, Oxygen Festival, Radio 1's Big Weekend, Summer Sundae, T in the Park, T4 on the Beach, and V Festival. Vickers also supported Mika at the Eden Sessions in June 2010.

Vickers' third single was a previously unheard track titled "My Wicked Heart", co-written by Vickers and producers Dee Adams and James Earp, which features Vickers playing the trumpet. The single was released in October 2010 and reached number 13 in the UK; the same month, it was reported that Red Hot Chili Peppers was considering legal action over similarities between the chorus of the band's well-known song "Under the Bridge" and "My Wicked Heart". Vickers said in an interview that she had been listening to "Under the Bridge" shortly before working on "My Wicked Heart" and had noticed but decided to ignore the similarities. In an interview to promote the single, Vickers announced the possibility of Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree getting a solely digital download re-release, and also stated, "I've been writing so much and got so many tracks under my belt. I think I'm very close to ready for the second album actually." The fourth leg of the Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree Tour began in November 2010 and included dates in Ireland as well as the UK. At the end of 2010, Vickers became RCA's highest grossing domestic artist.

2011–2015: Music to Make Boys Cry and side projects

In June 2010, Vickers announced that she had started preparing songs for a second album. She co-wrote material with musicians such as Nerina Pallot, Eg White, Starsmith, Chris Braide, and Dee Adam. In January 2011, Vickers travelled to Los Angeles, United States, to co-write material with John Shanks and Diane Warren, and played her debut USA gig at Cherry Pop in West Hollywood (promoted via Perez Hilton).

Vickers co-wrote the 2011 Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez single "Mouth 2 Mouth" for Iglesias's reissue album Euphoria Reloaded.

In June 2011, Vickers revealed on her official Tumblr account that she had parted company with RCA Records due to creative differences. It was later reported that her departure was due to wanting to pursue a more indie, less commercial route, coupled with a breakdown in her professional relationship with Sony Music due to the departure from RCA Records of Craig Logan, who had originally signed Vickers to the label. Vickers released two new tracks, "Music to Make Boys Cry" and "Kiss of a Bullet", for free download online in December 2011. In February 2012, she showcased material from her second album in a mini-tour at The Ruby Lounge in Manchester and Cargo in Shoreditch, London. She signed a worldwide record deal with So Recordings in early 2013.

Vickers' second album, Music to Make Boys Cry, was released in September 2013, later than anticipated due to Vickers starring in an independent film titled The Perfect Wave. The album charted at number 37 on the UK Albums Chart and reached the top ten on the UK Indie Chart. The lead single, "Cinderella", was released in July 2013 and charted in the top 20 of the UK Indie Chart; the second single, "Music to Make Boys Cry", coincided with the album's release in September. Vickers promoted the album during the 2013 music festival season with appearances at Festival Too, Liverpool International Music Festival, T in the Park, and V Festival; for some of these performances she opened for fellow The X Factor alumnus Olly Murs. The third single from Music to Make Boys Cry, "Mad at Me", was released in December.

In 2013, Vickers appeared as the lead in a music video for the single "Derail" by Leeds rock band Dinosaur Pile-Up. In the music video, Vickers plays the part of a kidnapped girl who subsequently kills a man in the shower after the kidnapping. The same year, Vickers was featured singing on the One Direction television advertisement for the launch of their debut fragrance, Our Moment. Vickers sings a cover of "My Favourite Things", a song from the musical The Sound of Music.

Lately dedicated in her career in acting, Vickers' launched in August 2015 the song "Chains", which was used to promote the film Awaiting.

2020-present: Dial M for Murder and podcasts
In 2021, Vickers performed in a theatrical tour of Dial M for Murder.

As of 2022, Vickers' hosts Ki & Dee: The Podcast alongside Kiara Hunter.

From January 2023, Vickers starred as Shelby in a production of Steel Magnolias at the Richmond Theatre, London. Vickers appeared alongside Laura Main, Lucy Speed, Caroline Harker and Elizabeth Ayodele. The production, going on to tour the UK, was rated 2/5 stars by What's on Stage.

Artistry

Vickers' musical style includes simple folk-tinged, keyboard and guitar based ballads to more up-tempo indie rock and synth-based songs with full band backing. Her musical style has been compared to Kate Bush, Ellie Goulding, Dido, and Dolores O'Riordan. Vickers additionally showcases an idiosyncratic style of singing described as breathy, raspy and hiccupy. Vickers has cited an array of influences including Florence + The Machine, Kate Bush, Regina Spektor, Kings of Leon, Frou Frou, Sinéad O'Connor and The Sundays. Vickers commented on her musical style and debut album, Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree (2010), saying:

For her album Music to Make the Boys Cry (2013), Vickers initially described her new musical direction as "sexy", "adventurous" and influenced by indie and rock music, citing the works of The xx, The Doors, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Björk. Later she described the album as "Kylie-esque" and inspired by 1980s acts including Blondie, Cyndi Lauper, and Madonna, saying she had "got to the core of who I am as an artist [...] [my music is] more mature and sophisticated and feels like there’s more of a structure and consistent vibe to it".

Other ventures

Acting career

Vickers made her professional acting debut in the title role of a newly revived West End production of Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in October 2009 at the Vaudeville Theatre, on The Strand, London. She played Little Voice, impersonating singers such as Shirley Bassey, Edith Piaf and Judy Garland. Mark Owen of Take That wrote "Sunlight", the final song in the play for Vickers to sing. "Sunlight" was featured as a B-side for her debut single, "Once".

Vickers took a break from recording her debut album to star in the production.
Her performance received a positive review in The Guardian in which they said that "[Vickers'] singing is impressive, we were surprised at her vocal abilities." Her stint was deemed "magical" in The Daily Telegraph. She won the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award "London Newcomer of the Year" in February 2010 for her performance, with 34.5% of the vote out of 7 other competitors.

In 2012, it was announced that Vickers had landed her debut film role alongside Clint Eastwood's son in the independent film The Perfect Wave. Vickers stated, "It's a lot about surfing and it's to do with the power of life and death. It's quite interesting. I'm going to learn how to surf." Vickers travelled to Cape Town, South Africa for the shoot, putting the release of her second album on hold. The film was released in 2014.

In 2013, Sky Living confirmed that Vickers had signed to appear in a six-part comedy series titled Give Out Girls, which marks Vickers' debut in television acting. The series follows the endeavours and lives of a group of promotions girls. Vickers plays Gemma, the youngest of the group, who is bright and enthusiastic with a naive view of the world. The series filmed in Manchester and is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. It premiered on Comedy Central in October 2014.

From December 2013, Vickers played the role of Holly in the West End play The Duck House by Dan Patterson and Colin Swash, starring alongside Ben Miller, Nancy Carroll and Simon Shepherd. The show is a farcical political satire based on the 2009 UK parliamentary expenses scandal.

In 2016, Vickers played Nikki in the feature film To Dream.

In 2015/2016 Vickers played the role of Janet in Rocky Horror Show UK tour. She also played the lead role Lauren in the 2015 film Awaiting.

In October 2017, Vickers played a version of herself in Josh Widdicombe's comedy series, Josh.

She starred alongside Shane Richie and the Olivier award-winning Sara Crowe in the 2019 tour production of The Entertainer by John Osbourne

From 2021-2022, Vickers starred in a production tour of Frederick Knott's show of Dial M For Murder playing the role of Sheila.

Fashion
Vickers' fashion sense has been described as boho-chic and hippie-influenced. Her trademark style includes messy, back-combed "bird's nest" hair and vintage inspired clothing. Vickers' fashion icons are Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. Vickers has encouraged fashion blogs documenting her latest attire and has been labelled a fashionista in the making by Grazia. In October 2009, she was awarded "Fashionista of the Week" in The Guardian and in June 2010, she was nominated for "Best Dressed Woman of The Year" at The Clothes Show Style Awards 2010. Vickers' approach to fashion has received praise from Grazia, Look, and Harpers Bazaar.

In September 2011, Vickers was the face of Collection 2000's autumn and winter make-up line.

Philanthropy

In March 2010, Vickers supported JLS for a charity performance in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall in London to raise money for teenagers who are suffering from cancer. In July 2010, Vickers performed at a charity event "Give Tilly a Hand", helping to raise funds in a charity evening for meningitis victim Tilly Lockley. For anti-bullying week 2010 in the UK, Vickers uploaded a video to her official website encouraging young people to stand up to bullies. In September 2010, Vickers played an intimate gig as part of the month-long Oxjam Festival, which raised money in support of charity Oxfam.

In March 2011, Vickers launched an eBay competition on behalf of Comic Relief, which encouraged people to bid to become Vickers' Twitter "best friend".

Discography

 Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree (2010)
 Music to Make Boys Cry (2013)

Filmography

Film

Television

See also
 List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 5)

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
English fashion designers
English women pop singers
English film actresses
English women singer-songwriters
English singer-songwriters
English stage actresses
English television actresses
English trumpeters
Musicians from Lancashire
People educated at Westholme School
People from Blackburn
RCA Records artists
The X Factor (British TV series) contestants
21st-century English actresses
21st-century trumpeters
21st-century English women musicians
21st-century English women singers
21st-century English singers
British women fashion designers
Women trumpeters


Love and Money, also known as Love & Money, is a 1982 American drama film directed by James Toback and starring Ray Sharkey.

Plot
Byron Levin works in a California bank.  He becomes infatuated with Catherine Stockheinz, the wife of his billionaire boss.

Frederic Stockheinz has a million-dollar offer to make.  He asks Byron to go to the republic of Costa Salva to offer a business proposition to the dictator there, Lorenzo Prado, who just happens to be Byron's old college roommate.  Matters become further complicated when Catherine and Byron begin an affair.

Cast
 Ray Sharkey as Byron Levin
 Ornella Muti as Catherine Stockheinz
 Klaus Kinski as Frederic Stockheinz
 Armand Assante as Lorenzo Prado
 King Vidor as Walter Klein
 William Prince as Paultz
 Tony Sirico as Raoul (as Anthony Sirico)
 Jacqueline Brookes as Mrs. Paultz
 Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr. as Gen. Sanzer
 Tom McFadden as Blair
 Tony Plana as National Guard General

Production
Toback wrote the script "on spec". He attached Frank Yablans who unsuccessfully tried to set up the film at 20th Century Fox. It was then bought by Columbia Studios, who put it in development. The management of the studio changed and the project was put into "turnaround". Warren Beatty bought the script on the strength of Toback's debut feature as director, Fingers. He set it up at Paramount intended to star and produce.

At Paramount, Beatty got the film critic Pauline Kael to work on the project. Kael was an admirer of Toback's and Beatty's and had recently left film criticism to work in Hollywood. However, Kael dropped out of the project after a number of weeks, instead becoming a consultant for Paramount. (she would eventually return to film criticism).

"She helped me immensely on the script," said Toback of Kael. "But she decided she didn't want to ossify herself on one project for a year... Saying Pauline did a masterful job of alienating everyone is totally crazy. There has never been any kind of blow up, hostility, or disagreement except the kinds of disagreements that two intelligent people have over creative ideas. She had some ideas for Love or Money that I wasn't willing to go along with, but her contributions were large."

Beatty dropped out of the film to concentrate on Reds. Toback and Paramount could not agree on casting without Beatty's involvement. The project was put into turnaround again and Toback set up the film at Lorimar. Filming started November 26, 1979.

Toback made the film with Ray Sharkey, whom he later called "the wrong actor".

The role of Sharkey's grandfather was originally meant to be played by Harry Ritz. He fell ill after one day of filming and had to be replaced. Toback offered the role to director King Vidor. His part took five days to film.

References

External links

1982 films
American drama films
1982 drama films
Films directed by James Toback
1980s English-language films
1980s American films


Lanškroun Ponds Nature Park () is a nature park in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It includes the Lanškroun Ponds Nature Reserve.

Location

Lanškroun Ponds Nature Park is located mostly in the municipal territory of Lanškroun, northwestern of the town. The nature park also extends into the territory of municipalities Ostrov and Rudoltice.

Description
The nature park has an area of , out of which  are the ponds.

The nature park is formed by set of seven fish ponds on the Ostrovský Stream and their surroundings: Krátký, Dlouhý, Olšový, Pšeničkův, Plockův, Slunečný and Ostrovský. Part of the nature park is also the area around the Zadní Stream which flows in the territory into the Ostrovský Stream. The northernmost ponds, Pšeničkův and Olšový, and the closest area around the Zadní Stream are protected as a nature reserve.

History
The history of pond farming started here in 1433. Dlouhý pond was founded before 1464 as the first pond in the set. The last was founded Slunečný pond in 1965. The nature park was established in 1990.

Use
The nature park was established as a place for relaxation and sports activities, and also for biological and aesthetic preservation. Krátky and Slunečný are used for fishing. Dlouhý is the largest pond and is used for recreational purposes. It is a natural swimming pool with the possibility of yachting and windsurfing. An educational path leads through the nature park.

Protection
The area of Lanškroun Ponds is an important nesting place for migratory birds. The common snipe, little bittern, white and black stork, water rail, osprey, great reed warbler and many duck species are among the endangered birds who nest in the area. The area is also home to European crayfish, alpine newt, European and green toad, European tree frog and other species of amphibians. The flora is typical for damp areas and includes the yellow iris, white water lilly, western marsh orchid, spring snowflake and other species.

References

Nature reserves in the Czech Republic
Ústí nad Orlicí District
1990 establishments in Czechoslovakia


Love and Money may refer to:

 Love and Money (band), a Scottish rock/soul/funk band
 Love and Money (album), an album by Eddie Money
 Love and Money (film), a 1982 drama
 Love and Money (play), a play by Dennis Kelly
 Love & Money, an American TV sitcom
 "Love and Money", an episode of the British television sitcom You Rang, M'Lord?

See also
 For the Love of Money (disambiguation)
 For Love or Money (disambiguation)
 Love v Money (disambiguation)
 For Love & Money
 Love of money


The term spiritual warrior is used in Tibetan Buddhism for one who combats the universal enemy: self-ignorance (avidya), the ultimate source of suffering according to Buddhist philosophy. Different from other paths, which focus on individual salvation, the spiritual warrior's only complete and right practice is that which compassionately helps other beings with wisdom. This is the Bodhisattva ideal (the "Buddha-in-waiting"), the spiritual warrior who resolves to attain buddhahood in order to liberate others.
The term is also used generically in esotericism and self-help literature. Spiritual warrior, "illuminated heart and valiant one", "enlightenment hero", "one who aspires for enlightenment" or, "heroic being" has been defined as a bodhisattva.

Shakyamuni Buddha

The Agganna Sutta elaborates on a history of the world and how society has emerged. The first monarch was known as Mahasammata, Raja, Khattiya. He belonged to Solar Race and he was ancestor of Shakyamuni.

Some scholars consider the Shakyans a republic or federation formed by a group of warrior class, who supposedly followed an aristocratic democratic tradition similar to that of the Greeks during antiquity.

In the Agganna, the Buddha says that the monks and nuns have become "children of the Shakyans", the Enlightened One's sons and daughters, and children of the truth.

Tibetan origins
In Tibet a monastic rule derived from a feudal warrior clan society, which was transformed into a spiritual warrior society. While the rest of the world followed feudalistic warrior development during the medieval period throughout Europe and Asia, Tibet uniquely established Lamaism. This was centered around a Buddhist social revolution originating distinctly from India's Hinduism and finding root in Tibet. The Lama (teacher) is a living Buddha for Tibetans who provides a powerful bridge between real and imaginary consciousness worlds, where the self is methodically dissolved into the whole's benefit by tantra practice.

Tibetans imported this order to help change their society to one based on education, social welfare, peaceful progress, with a self-renouncing monastic class of rulers. The monastic sangha (community) were supported and organized like a military; however, they were set on a self-discovery yogic mission for reconnaissance to perfect and develop methods in eliminating ego suffering.

Tibetan Buddhists advanced a form of a non-hereditary succession of title and land-based on reincarnation, which presented living proof that their methods succeeded by extraordinary means.  It also ensured that young leaders were well-trained in the monastic canon and it avoided deadly heir feuds seen in the heritable practices within feudalism. Tibetan monastics eschewed materialistic and economic progress for want of virtual visualizations. Monastic warriors were focused on accepting and perpetuating life in contrast to defending or attacking it.

In a highly celebrated and unique victory, Tibetan monastic warriors overcame the native Bon practices which then encompassed services for all of life's needs (birth, marriage, healthcare, death, and spirit exorcism) by incorporating them into their own practices.  New Buddhist spiritual technology was integrated with the existing Bon methods, as contrasted with oppression methods seen in other warrior techniques. Transformation and re-purposing of military-warrior symbolism and strategy into new codified tactics within Buddhist practice was a recurring metaphorical theme.

The society flourished to produce one of the best assemblies of peaceful enlightened self-knowledge known to humankind. When modern Chinese communist military-economic industrial forces swept in to dismantle and uproot it based on monarchic upheaval, this caused a spread of the seeds of this spiritual warrior way throughout the rest of the world, which are now taking root in new democratic forms.
Displaced Tibetans tend to remain loyal to their exiled leaders and lineage of teachers.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chogyam Trungpa teaches the way of the spiritual warrior. In 1976, Trungpa established the Shambhala Training program on spiritual warrior-ship grounded in sitting meditation practice. The Sacred  Path of the Warrior is Trungpa's  book which embodies the practice.

The spiritual warrior archetype helps to constructively answer questions about aggression and competition in a healthy direction. Unlike the soldier character, the spiritual warrior is in touch with the joy, the sadness, the expansiveness in their heart; able to share and give it to others. The warrior knows about death and seizes the day. They have learned to let go with forgiveness and avoids chasing others in revenge. The warrior commits to growing the heart and soul in becoming a creative being. The warrior serves in love of strangers and gives generously while giving to themselves. The spiritual warrior seeks to change others with rational and compassionate decision-making in service of a higher goal.

Dudjom Rinpoche

In Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje's Nyingma history, spiritual warrior (sems-dpa', Skt sattva), is a technical term applied to bodhisattvas, Subhuti, Vajrasattva, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, Sakya Jugne and Tsangtonpa.  Great spiritual warriors have inserted doctrinal treasures into mountains, ravines and woods.

See also
Bodhisattva
Shambhala Buddhism
The Dharma of Star Wars

Notes

Further reading
 "Shambhala:  Sacred Path of the Warrior" by Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala, March 12, 1988,
"Everyday Enlightenment:  How to Be a Spiritual Warrior at the Kitchen Sink" by Venerable Yeshe Chodron, Harper Collins Publishers PTY Limited, September 1, 2006,

External links
Rosen, Richard, "The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom by Red Pine", Yoga Journal
Grant, Kara-Leah (2009), "How yoga has the power to transform and release avidya  (self-ignorance)", The Yoga Lunch Box, October 13, 2009
 sems dpa'

Tibetan Buddhist practices


Partners in Flight / Compañeros en Vuelo / Partenaires d’Envol is an organization launched in 1990 in response to growing concerns about declines in the populations of many land bird species, and to emphasize the conservation of birds not covered by existing conservation initiatives. The initial focus was on Neotropical migrants, species that breed in the Nearctic (North America) and winter in the Neotropics (Central and South America), but the focus has spread to include most land birds and other species requiring terrestrial habitats. The central premise of Partners in Flight (PIF) has been that the resources of public and private organizations in North and South America must be combined, coordinated, and increased to achieve success in conserving bird populations in the hemisphere. PIF supports education initiatives and is a title sponsor of International Migratory Bird Day.

PIF is a cooperative effort involving partnerships among federal, state, and local government agencies, philanthropic foundations, professional organizations, conservation groups, industry, the academic community, and private individuals. All its meetings at all levels are open to anyone interested in bird conservation. The 5th International Partners in Flight Conference and Conservation Workshop: Advancing Bird Conservation Across the Americas took place August 25–28, 2013, in Snowbird, Utah.

Partners in Flight mission
The PIF mission is expressed in three related concepts:

Helping Species at Risk - Species must be conserved before they become imperiled.  Allowing species to become threatened or endangered results in long-term and costly recovery efforts whose success is far from guaranteed.  Endangered species must not only be protected from extinction, but also must be recovered to once again play their roles in ensuring the future of healthy ecosystems.

Keeping Common Birds Common - Common native birds, both resident and migratory, must remain common throughout their natural ranges. These species comprise the core of avian diversity and are integral to the integrity of the ecosystems of which they are a part.

Voluntary Partnerships for Birds, Habitats, and People - Conservation of land birds and their habitats is not a task that can be undertaken alone.  Partnerships must be formed with others who are working for conservation on the same landscapes, as well as those who depend on those landscapes for their economic and social well-being.  The conservation of natural systems is fundamentally necessary for life on earth, including that of humans.

Partners in Flight goals
Ensure an active scientifically based conservation design process that identifies and develops solutions to threats and risks to land bird populations
Create a coordinated network of conservation partners implementing the objectives of the land bird conservation plans at multiple scales
Secure sufficient commitment and resources to support vigorous implementation of land bird conservation objectives

PIF 36-month Strategic Goals (2012)
 Increase capacity to support full lifecycle conservation
 Integrate PIF priorities and objectives into public agency, joint venture, landscape conservation cooperative, and private lands natural-resource planning and action
 Engage PIF's constituencies, audiences, and partners in priority conservation actions through more effective education, outreach, and communications
 Expand the PIF network and increase financial resources to support land bird conservation activities

Working groups
Several working groups were formed for PIF. The international group comprises members from the Caribbean, Canada, and Latin America. The United States has four working groups. Each has a chair and a committee structure that generally parallels that of the national technical working groups (i.e., research, monitoring and inventory, communications, education, and international). The regional working groups' missions are to develop a regional strategy for the conservation of birds within their respective regions by developing bird conservation plans that identify problems, synthesize information, and generate solutions to be used by resource professionals and the general public. Regional working groups foster communication, coordination, and cooperation among agencies, organizations, academic institutions, and individuals interested in conserving birds within their respective regions.

Regions are defined by the states, territories, and countries listed below; some are in two regions by their request.

Southeast Partners in Flight: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Northeast Partners in Flight: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware
Midwest Partners in Flight: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Western Partners in Flight: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
 Mesoamerica Partners in Flight: representatives from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Canada and Panama
 Caribbean Partners in Flight: Society for the Conservation and Study of Caribbean Birds
 Educational Partners in Flight Working Group: coordinated by Bird Education Alliance for Conservation

See also
National Partners in Flight homepage
Department of Defense Partners in Flight homepage

Bird conservation organizations
Organizations established in 1990
Animal welfare organizations based in the United States


Cai Qian (; pinyin: Cài Qiān; 1761–1809) was a Chinese sea merchant, considered by some a pirate during the Qing dynasty era.

Biography
Cai Qian was born in Tong'an District, which is a county in the prefecture of Quanzhou in Fujian, China. This information is, however, not consistent with the account found in other sources. For example, a contemporary scholar called Jiao Xun identified Zhangzhou as Cai's birthplace while official records show - based on a report by the governor-general of Fujian to the emperor (during Ruan Yuan's time as a governor) - that Cai came from the village of Xiapu, also in Tong'an County.

There is very little information about his early life except that he lived a hard life, first working as a peasant and then a fisherman. Due to starvation, he became a pirate in 1794. He was, thereafter, described by fellow pirates as small in stature but quite ambitious, stopping at nothing to rise through the ranks. He was said to have used his own wife to entice a rival into a trap. His cunning and ambition allowed him to thrive in the constantly warring gangs and pirate chieftains in the South China Sea.

At the height of his power, he and Cheung Po Tsai commanded hundreds of ships and thousands of pirates; he was Cheung's mate. They predated others on the seas of Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Strait and came to be considered a major threat to Chinese political stability. Because the British businessmen sold English guns to Cheung, the Qianlong Emperor became angry with the British. The Qianlong Emperor blamed George Macartney over this issue, leading to Chinese hostility towards the United Kingdom during the Chinese Rites controversy. In 1799, Cai married a weapons expert who spoke English. Her expertise may have been beneficial to their accumulation of wealth. Some diaries say her name was Lin Yuyau () and that she had lived in Fangyuan, Changhua, Taiwan.

In 1802, Cai occupied  Xiamen's guns bases.

In 1804 and 1805 Cai and Cheung twice attacked Taiwan's provincial capital of Tainan but were defeated. In the battle of 1804, Cheung defeated the Qing fleet from Wenzhou. Within the next four years he fought many battles against Tsai and Cai, vowing to destroy their fleets.

In January 1808, Fujian and Zhejiang admirals nearly destroyed their fleet near Hong Kong through a battle which lasted one day and night. They succeeded in defeating their enemies, causing Qing's navy to begin fearing Cheung and Cai.

In 1809, Wang Delu, now the Captain General of Fujian Navy, surrounded Cai Qian off the coast of Wenzhou () in Zhejiang. Lacking the strength to escape the encirclement, Cai committed suicide by shooting himself with a golden bullet.  Rumours claim that Cai had a great treasure which was hidden on Matsu Islands: it had never been found to this day.

References

1761 births
1809 deaths
Hokkien people
Qing dynasty people
Chinese pirates
People from Xiamen
Suicides in Taiwan
19th-century pirates
18th-century Chinese businesspeople
19th-century Chinese businesspeople


The Indigenous Australian rugby league team (also known as the Indigenous All Stars or Indigenous Dreamtime team) is a rugby league football team that represents Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.  The team was first formed in 1973 and currently plays in an annual All Stars Match against a National Rugby League NRL All Stars team.

History
An Aboriginal v White Australian rugby league game was held in Barcaldine in Western Queensland in 1963. These 'Blacks v Whites' games continued annually until 1984.

The first Australian Aboriginal rugby league team was assembled in 1973 The Aboriginal team managed to win seven of its nine matches in just 10 days, The team consisted of 34 players – 19 from NSW, 13 from Queensland and two from the Northern Territory. They went on to win games against Kiwi premiers Wellington Petone, the only all-Maori team & Auckland club & Te Atatu, which the Aboriginal side won 17–13.

The side competed in the Pacific Cup in 1990, 1992 and 1994.  During this period the team contained New South Wales Rugby League first grade players such as Ricky Walford, Graham Lyons, Ron Gibbs, Darrell Trindall, Paul Davis, Wayne Alberts, George Longbottom and Will Robinson.

In the post-1999 NRL season an Aboriginal side managed by Arthur Beetson defeated the Papua New Guinea Kumuls and the future rugby league Immortal was pushing for an Australia Day match against the Australian national team.

In 2008 World Cup curtain raiser to the Australia vs. New Zealand match included an Indigenous Australian squad playing against New Zealand Māori which featured several prominent NRL players and rising stars, including Chris Sandow, Wairangi Koopu, Preston Campbell, Shaun Kenny-Dowall and Carl Webb.

Preston Campbell, a highly respected Aboriginal rugby league player, was a driving force behind the setup, in 2010, of a curtain raising match between the Indigenous All Stars, and the NRL All Stars. The Indigenous All Stars played what seems likely become an annual match against the National Rugby League All Stars on 13 February 2010. The squad was chosen in part by public vote. Aboriginal NRL player Sid Domic's artistic ability led him to be selected from a field of six artists to design the Indigenous side's jersey, as well as Johnathan Thurston's and Jamie Soward's custom headgear, for the annual All Stars matches.

2019 will see a new format of the Australian Indigenous All-Stars play the New Zealand Māori at AAMI Park in Melbourne on 15 February. It will be part of an All-Stars double header with the women's teams to play the curtain-raiser Māori and indigenous teams to the men's game. With no All-Stars game in 2017 due to the World Cup, the NRL will be hoping the inclusion of the New Zealand Māori side will spark popularity in the fixture. With three Indigenous players also eligible for both teams Dane Gagai, Reimis Smith, Josh Hoffman and Javid Bowen.

Teams

First Australian Aboriginal Rugby League Team 1973 Tour
 Michael Anderson
 Neil Appo
 John Brady
 Marshall Brown
 Don Carter
 Phillip de la Cruz
 Les Drew
 Archie Glass
 Jeffrey Hennaway
 Larry Hoskins
 Desi Illis
 Allen Madden
 Patrick Marra
 Ron Mason
 Ambrose Morgan
 Thomas Moylan
 Michael Mundine
 Steve Ridgeway
 Clarke Scott
 Bruce Stewart
 Wally Tallis
 Francis Tappin
 Geoffrey Thorne
 Neville Thorne
 Albert Torrens
 Eddie Vale
 Terry Wickey
 Bill Widders
 Victor Wright

1990-92-1994 Australian Aborigines Pacific Cup Team
 Wayne Alberts
 Paul Davis
 Ron Gibbs
 George Longbottom
 Graham Lyons
 Will Robinson
 Darrell Trindall
 Ricky Walford
 Jason Wilson (Walgett Rugby League)

1999 Australian Aborigines
 Cliff Lyons (c)
 John Buttigieg
 Owen Craigie
 John Doyle
 Justin Doyle
 Alf Duncan
 Peter Ellis
 Damien Higgins
 Lee Hookey
 Damian Kennedy
 Kevin McGuinness
 Dennis Moran
 John Simon
 Robbie Simpson
 Blaine Stanley
 Mark Tookey
 Albert Torrens
 Carl Webb
 Dean Widders
 Coach - Arthur Beetson

2008 Indigenous Team of the Century (1908–2007)

2008 Indigenous Dreamtime

2010 Indigenous All Stars

2011 Indigenous All Stars

2012 Indigenous All Stars

2013 Indigenous All Stars

2014 Festival of Indigenous Rugby League
The NRL launched a Festival of Indigenous Rugby League program to take the place of the prestigious pre-season Rugby League All Stars game following every World Cup year. The 2014 Festival of Indigenous Rugby League featured a trial match between the Knights and a non-elite Indigenous team, drawn from the immensely popular NSW Koori Rugby League Knockout and Murri Carnivals in Queensland, as well as the NRL Indigenous Player Cultural Camp, Murri vs Koori women's and Under 16s representative games, a Murri v Koori match, a jobs expo and community visits.

2015 Indigenous All Stars

2016 Indigenous All Stars

2017 Indigenous All Stars

2019 Indigenous All Stars

Indigenous Team of the Decade (2010–2019)

2020 Indigenous All Stars

2021 Indigenous All Stars

2022 Indigenous All Stars

2023 Indigenous All Stars

Results

2022 Player Pool
National Rugby League (Australia)
Selwyn Cobbo (Brisbane Broncos)
Ryan James (Brisbane Broncos)
Albert Kelly (Brisbane Broncos)
Brenko Lee (Brisbane Broncos)
Ezra Mam (Brisbane Broncos)
Tyrone Roberts (Brisbane Broncos)
Zac Saddler (Brisbane Broncos)
Kotoni Staggs (Brisbane Broncos)

Adam Elliott (Canberra Raiders)
Jamal Fogarty (Canberra Raiders)
Sebastian Kris (Canberra Raiders)
Xavier Savage (Canberra Raiders)
Jack Wighton (Canberra Raiders)

Josh Addo-Carr (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Bailey Biondi-Odo (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Braidon Burns (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Josh Cook (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
Brent Naden (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)

Andrew Fifita (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Wade Graham (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
William Kennedy (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Nicho Hynes (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Jesse Ramien (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
Braydon Trindall (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)

Jayden Campbell (Gold Coast Titans)
David Fifita (Gold Coast Titans)
Brian Kelly (Gold Coast Titans)
Jonus Pearson (Gold Coast Titans)
Will Smith (Gold Coast Titans)
Treymain Spry (Gold Coast Titans)
Corey Thompson (Gold Coast Titans)

Jason Saab (Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles)

Reimis Smith (Melbourne Storm)

Dane Gagai (Newcastle Knights)
Edrick Lee (Newcastle Knights)

Joshua Curran (New Zealand Warriors)
Ashley Taylor (New Zealand Warriors)
Reece Walsh (New Zealand Warriors)

Reuben Cotter (North Queensland Cowboys)
Scott Drinkwater (North Queensland Cowboys)
Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow (North Queensland Cowboys)
Jamayne Taunoa-Brown (North Queensland Cowboys)

J'maine Hopgood (Penrith Panthers)
Chris Smith (Penrith Panthers)

Troy Dargan (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Alex Johnston (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Blake Taaffe (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Cody Walker (South Sydney Rabbitohs)

Jack Bird (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
Tyrell Fuimaono (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
Josh Kerr (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
Tyrell Sloan (St. George Illawarra Dragons)
Jayden Sullivan (St. George Illawarra Dragons)

Connor Watson (Sydney roosters)

Daine Laurie (Wests Tigers)
Tyrone Peachey (Wests Tigers)
James Roberts (Wests Tigers)

Super League Europe
Josh Drinkwater (Catalans Dragons)

Aidan Sezer (Huddersfield Giants)

Robert Lui (Leeds Rhinos)

Nathan Peats (Leigh Centurions)

Joel Thompson (St Helens R.F.C.)

David Fifita (Wakefield Trinity)

Greg Inglis (Warrington Wolves)

Jai Field (Wigan Warriors)
Bevan French (Wigan Warriors)

See also

 Australian national rugby league team
 List of Indigenous All Stars players

References

External links
 rleague.com

Rugby league representative teams in Australia
Australia national rugby league team


Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor.

Biography
Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959.

He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years. As Bernard Grasset's nephew, Bernard Privat took the job in 1955. In 1967, along with his friend Jean-Claude Fasquelle, he merged his publishing company with the éditions Fasquelle. He would go on to publish authors such as Yves Berger, François Nourissier, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Matthieu Galey, Françoise Verny, and Edmonde Charles-Roux, who received the Prix Goncourt with Oublier Palerme. Bernard Privat left his job at the éditions Grasset in 1981.

Bibliography
Cet ange en moi (1943, poetry)
Églogues by Virgil (1948, translation)
Armance (1947)
Au pied du mur, (1959, Prix Femina)
Une nuit sans sommeil (1966)
La Jeune Fille (1976)
L'Itinéraire (1982)

References

1914 births
1985 deaths
Prix Femina winners
20th-century French novelists
20th-century French poets
French male poets
French male novelists
20th-century French male writers


Fudbalski klub Radnik Bijeljina () is a professional association football club based in the city of Bijeljina that is situated in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club plays its home matches on the Bijeljina City Stadium, which has a capacity of 6,000 seats. The name Radnik means worker.

The club won its first First League of the Republika Srpska title in the 1998–99 season, and the second in the 2004–05 season, after which the club got promoted to the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club was relegated from the Bosnian Premier League in the 2006–07 season.

Under the leadership of manager Darko Nestorović, in the 2011–12 season, Radnik once again won the title in the First League of RS and won a second promotion to the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where they played until the 2021–22 season.

In the 2015–16 season, Radnik had, so far, their biggest success, winning its first national trophy, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Cup, after they beat FK Sloboda Tuzla in the two-legged cup final (1–1 in Bijeljina and 0–3 in Tuzla). Winning the cup, the club qualified to the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds, its first UEFA competition.

History
The first football was brought to Bijeljina in 1916. The first football club was FK Podrinje which was formed in 1919. Later other clubs were formed such as FK Zora in 1920, FK Građanski in 1923, and FK Semberija in 1935. The clubs from this entire region of Posavlje and Podrinje played in the provincial leagues of the Belgrade Football Subassociation. After the end of World War II, FK Radnik was formed.

1945–1990
FK Radnik Bijeljina was founded on 14 June 1945. It didn't take long for Radnik to win their first trophy. In 1948 they became champions of the Tuzla District beating FK Sloboda Tuzla in the final. A year later, the club reached the 1/16 round of the Yugoslav Cup. In 1957, Radnik entered into the Novi Sad/Srem zone (regional league). In season 1971–72, Radnik became champions of the regional Republic League of Bosnia and Herzegovina and they entered a playoff for a place in the Yugoslav Second League. The club played FK Sloga from Vukovar in the playoff where it won both matches, 4–0 in Bijeljina and 8–0 in Vukovar. It entered the 2nd League of Yugoslavia playing against clubs such as FK Proleter Zrenjanin and FK Bečej. They stayed in the Yugoslav Second League for six seasons, being its best classification in the season 1977–78 when they finished 10th.

Another great achievement of FK Radnik Bijeljina was when the junior team won the Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup in 1987. In the semi-final, they beat FK Velež Mostar in Mostar by 5–2. In the final, Radnik beat FK Polet Bosanski Brod in the penalties to win the trophy.

1990s
From 1995 to 1997, the club was called FK Panteri Bijeljina and played under that name in the first two seasons of the First League of the Republika Srpska. In the 1998–99 season, Radnik Bijeljina won their first First League of RS title, an achievement reached again in the 2004–05 season.

2000s
In the season 2004–05, Radnik won their second Republika Srpska title which got them a place in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the 2005–06 season.  In the 2005–06 Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina season, Radnik finished 13th. A year earlier it had reached the 1/4 finals of the Bosnian Cup.

In the Republika Srpska Cup, after being twice a losing finalist in the 2005–06 and 2008–09 editions, it finally won the Cup in the 2009–10 cup season.

2010s
Radnik won its first national trophy in 2016, winning the Bosnian Cup in the 2015–16 season, beating Sloboda Tuzla in the final (agg. 4–1). This way Radnik won a spot in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. Even though they put up a good fight, Radnik got eliminated in the first qualifying round by Bulgarian First League club PFC Beroe Stara Zagora (agg. 2–0).

In the 2018–19 Bosnian Premier League season, Radnik finished on 5th place, but as 4th placed FK Željezničar Sarajevo didn't get an UEFA license to compete in that season's league, Radnik got qualified by default to the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds. The club got eliminated by FC Spartak Trnava in the first qualifying round, after beating Spartak in the first match in Banja Luka 2–0, but it got eliminetd by Spartak in Trnava in the second match after penalties (2–3 on penalties for Spartak), since the Slovak side defeated Radnik 2–0 in regular time as well.

2020s
On 28 March 2020, five years after becoming club chairman of the board, Mladen Krstajić decided to leave Radnik, with Predrag Perković becoming the new club chairman.

In September 2022, fans waved a flag of the Totenkopf Division which is widely viewed as a hate symbol.

Honours

Domestic

League
First League of Republika Srpska:
 Winners (3): 1998–99, 2004–05, 2011–12
Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic League:
Winners (2): 1948–49, 1971–72

Cups
Bosnia and Herzegovina Cup:
 Winners (1): 2015–16
Republika Srpska Cup:
 Winners (7): 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 (record)
 Runners-up (3): 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11

European record

P = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goals difference. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

List of matches

Players

Current squad

Players with multiple nationalities
  Nenad Srećković
  Nenad Rašević
  Milan Gavrić

Club officials

Technical staff

Club management

Managerial history
 Ivan Mioč
 Radomir Jovičić
 Živorad Miražić
 Zoran Jagodić
 Miroslav Milanović
 Dušan Jevrić
 Nikola Bala
 Dragan Radović
 Darko Nestorović (July 1, 2011 – August 27, 2012)
 Srđan Bajić (September 1, 2012 – September 3, 2014)
 Slavko Petrović (September 5, 2014 – August 23, 2016)
 Nebojša Milošević (August 24, 2016 – May 9, 2017)
 Mladen Žižović (May 9, 2017 – November 11, 2019)
 Slobodan Starčević (November 11, 2019 – January 13, 2020)
 Slavko Petrović (January 13, 2020 – November 16, 2020)
 Darko Nestorović (November 24, 2020 – April 16, 2021)
 Vlado Jagodić (April 21, 2021 – October 25, 2021)
 Velibor Đurić (October 25, 2021 – present)

Club ranking

UEFA coefficient

2020–21 season

Source: uefa.com

Notes

References

External links

Football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Association football clubs established in 1945
Football clubs in Republika Srpska
Football clubs in Yugoslavia
Bijeljina
1945 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina