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Evermode of Ratzeburg

Evermode, or Evermod (c. 1100 – 17 February 1178), was one of the first Premonstratensian canons regular, and became the lifelong companion of Norbert of Xanten, who founded the order in France in 1120.

Evermode was born in Belgium. After hearing Norbert preach in the city of Cambrai, he decided to join him. He accompanied  Norbert to Antwerp and then, in 1126, to the half-pagan town of Magdeburg, where Norbert had been named as bishop. He attended to the bishop on his deathbed and ensured his burial in the church of the Norbertine Priory of Our Lady there, which Norbert had formed from the members of the cathedral chapter. A few months before his death in 1134, Norbert appointed Evermode acting provost of the Priory of Gottesgnaden.

In 1138 Evermode was elected as the provost of the Priory of Our Lady in Magdeburg. In this post, he oversaw the foundations of new Premonstratensian communities in Havelberg, Jerichow, Quedlinburg and Pöhlde, serving in that post until 1154, when he was named the Bishop of Ratzeburg, the first since its destruction by the Wends in 1066. He formed the newly named cathedral chapter of the diocese into a Premonstratensian community. The evangelization of the Wendish population was a primary goal of his episcopacy, and he traveled around the diocese, preaching to the people in their native language.

Worn out by his labors, Evermode died in 1178, and was buried in the cathedral he had built. He was succeeded by his fellow Norbertine, Isfrid.

Veneration
His cult was approved by Pope Benedict XIII in 1728. Evermode is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hamburg, which now covers that region, and in the Norbertine Order. His feast day is celebrated on 17 February.

Namesake 
The Evermode Institute of the Corpus Christi Priory, St. Michael Abbey is named in honor of St. Evermode.

See also
 Saint Evermode of Ratzeburg, patron saint archive

References

External links
Saint Evermod of Ratzeburg at Saints.SQPN.com
Evermod at Catholic Online
Saint of the Day, February 17: Evermod of Ratzeburg  at SaintPatrickDC.org

 (died 1066)

1100s births
1178 deaths
People from Hainaut (province)
Premonstratensians
Belgian Roman Catholic missionaries
12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
Roman Catholic bishops of Ratzeburg
Burials in Schleswig-Holstein
Yenipazar, Aydın

Yenipazar (Turkish for "new market") is a municipality and district of Aydın Province, Turkey. Its area is 245 km2, and its population is 11,863 (2022). It is  from the city of Aydın on the road to Denizli.

Yenipazar itself is a quiet rural town providing university, high and elementary school education and other facilities to the surrounding districts. In the last two decades the population has declined as people move to Turkey's larger cities for higher education and careers and Yenipazar is selected as one of the Cittaslow towns in Turkey. The local cuisine includes a delicious flat-bread pizza called pide. Adnan Menderes University has a school here offering diplomas in banking and finance. The student population created new income opportunities for the residents of this small town. Social life is also impacted positively from the university, you can find many restaurants and cafes than you would expect from a town of this size.

Composition
There are 18 neighbourhoods in Yenipazar District:

 Alhan
 Alioğullar
 Çarşı
 Çavdar
 Çulhan
 Dereköy
 Direcik
 Doğu
 Donduran
 Eğridere
 Hacıköseler
 Hamzabalı
 Hükümet
 Karaçakal
 Karacaören
 Koyunlar
 Paşaköy
 Yeni

Places of interest
 The house of prominent local Turkish War of Independence resistance leader Yörük Ali Efe is now a museum to his life and career.

References

External links 
 
 Yenipazar hunting club photo album

Populated places in Aydın Province
Cittaslow
Districts of Aydın Province
 
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Tristen Walker

Tristen Walker (born 11 April 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

From Claremont, Walker was picked up by Collingwood late in the 2001 National Draft. After playing his first season with Williamstown, he made his debut in 2003 in Round 1. Forced to play at fullback, due to the absence of Simon Prestigiacomo, he held superstar spearhead Matthew Richardson of Richmond to one goal and six behinds.  He was dropped soon after, before impressing in the latter stages of the season, winning a reprieve for the 2003 Grand Final due to the suspension of key forward Anthony Rocca for striking Port Adelaide ruckman Brendan Lade late in the first quarter of Collingwood's stunning 44-point defeat of the Power in the Preliminary Final a week earlier, Walker bypassing the more experienced Jarrod Molloy and Steve McKee to gain selection. Having played in the Williamstown premiership side the week prior in the VFL, it appeared that Walker was on track to record two flags in as many weeks, though the Magpies ultimately fell to a heavy 50-point loss to the Brisbane Lions.

Walker was again unable to reach a consistent pattern of form throughout 2004 and 2005, though arguably his inability to nail down a place in the senior side could be partially attributed to his struggle to find a key position to call his own, be it at centre half forward, or centre half back. He was fortunate to remain on the list despite a sizeable cull at the end of the 2005 season, though his AFL career was terminated 12 months later, after failing to appear in the senior side in 2006, his final match arising in round 17 of the previous year against St Kilda under the Friday night lights of Telstra Dome.

External links 
Tristen Walker at the Collingwood Football Club website

Notes 

1984 births
Collingwood Football Club players
Claremont Football Club players
Williamstown Football Club players
Living people
People educated at Newman College, Perth
Australian rules footballers from Perth, Western Australia
Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites

This is a list of Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites.

Key:
 BGS = Below ground surface
 C14 = Radiocarbon date
 char. = charcoal
 OSL = Optical stimulated thermoluminescence
 AA = Australian Archaeology

References

Josephine Flood (2004) Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J.B Publishing, Marleston 

Archaeological sites in Australia
Findon

Findon may refer to:

Places
Findon, Aberdeenshire or Finnan, a fishing village in Scotland
Findon, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
Findon, West Sussex, a village in England

People
 Andrew Findon, British flautist

See also
 Findern, Derbyshire
 Finedon, Northamptonshire
USS Halcyon

USS Halcyon may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 , a patrol vessel commissioned 14 May 1917 and decommissioned 24 June 1919 which then served as a research vessel in the United States Bureau of Fisheries fleet as USFS Halcyon from 1919 to 1927
 , a patrol craft that served briefly in 1917
 , a patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

United States Navy ship names
Google Page Creator

Google Page Creator was a website creation and hosting service by Google. It was a tool for basic website design, requiring no HTML or CSS knowledge.

In September 2008, Google announced that it would not accept new sign-ups to Page Creator, instead encouraging users to use Google Sites. The service was shut down in 2009, whilst existing published pages migrated to Google Sites.

One of the more famous use cases of the service was levarburton.com.

See also
 Blogger (service)

References 

Page Creator
Free web hosting services
Products and services discontinued in 2009
Tungsten (disambiguation)

Tungsten is a chemical element with symbol W and atomic number 74.

Tungsten may also refer to:

Tungsten (band), Swedish heavy metal band
Tungsten (music), a type of phonograph pickup stylus
Tungsten (film), 2011 Greek film
Tungsten, Colorado, a ghost town
Tungsten, Northwest Territories, a Canadian townsite
Tungsten (Cantung) Airport, a Canadian private airport
Palm Tungsten, Palm Inc.'s product line of personal digital assistants
Operation Tungsten, World War II UK Royal Navy operation to sink the German battleship Tirpitz
Tungsten, a character from the novel Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World
Tungsten, a setting for color temperature on digital cameras
Tungsten Network, a global electronic invoicing firm
Nexus Q, a digital media player first demoed as Project Tungsten

See also

 Wolfram (disambiguation)
 W (disambiguation)
 Isotopes of tungsten
TCDD 56301 Class

The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) 56301 Class is a class of 2-10-0 steam locomotives known as "Skyliners".  They were built by Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.  The 88 locomotives in this class were numbered 56301-88.  The first arrived in 1947.

They were the first American-built locomotives ordered by TCDD, though they had acquired ex-USATC S200 Class (TCDD 46201 Class) and ex-USATC S160 Class (TCDD 45171 Class).  This class had the largest boiler and firebox of any Turkish locomotive and were the only ones fitted with mechanical stokers.

At least 4 are known to be preserved, these being 56375 at the TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum in Ankara, 56337 at the Çamlık Railway Museum, 56378 at Tren Park within Karabük University, and 56359 stored serviceable at Çankırı.  The remains of 56369 and 56376 are also at Çankırı, serving as parts sources for 56359.

References

External links 
 56301 to 56388 Trains of Turkey

2-10-0 locomotives
56301
Steam locomotives of Turkey
Vulcan Iron Works locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Turkey
Railway locomotives introduced in 1947
Silvin of Auchy

Saint Silvinus or Silvin (c. 650 in Toulouse – 15 February 717 or 718 in Auchy) was an evangelist in the area of Thérouanne, which is now in northern France. He retired in the Benedictine abbey of Auchy-les-Moines.

His feast day is 17 February.

External links
Silvinus at Patron Saints Index
17 February saints at Saint Celtes et Belges
17 February saints at St. Patrick's Church

650 births
710s deaths
8th-century Frankish saints
French Benedictines
Streaming XML

Streaming XML is a synonym for dynamic data in XML format.

Another popular use of this term refers to one method of consuming XML data – largely known as Simple API for XML. This is via asynchronous events that are generated as the XML data is parsed. In this context, the consumer streams through the XML data one item at a time. It does not have anything to do whether the underlying data is being updated via dynamic or static means.

Uses 
 Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This is the protocol used for example in Google Talk.
 QuiXProc is an open source Java version of XProc which is streaming and doing parallel processing
 QuiXPath is an open source Java version of XPath which is streaming 
 QuiXSchematron is a java version of Schematron which is streaming, developed by INRIA/Innovimax

XSLT 3.0 
XSLT 3.0 is adding streaming as one of its capabilities

References 

XML
Frances Bannerman

Frances Bannerman (born Jones) (1855 – 1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She painted in oil and watercolour and made black and white illustrations.

Biography 
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs. She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. Bannerman received her early art education from her mother and from Forshaw Day, one of the founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in Halifax. 

In Paris, she studied at the ateliers of Edouard Krug and François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin, where she developed her skill as a figure painter. While living in Paris, Bannerman was one of the first North American artists to be influenced by Impressionism and began to use a brighter colour palette and depict light while working en plein air, although she preferred a more academic approach in her brushwork. She began exhibiting her work in London, England in 1882 and was a regular contributor to shows, including those of the Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Society of British Artists, until 1892.  

In 1883, she exhibited at the Paris Salon. One of the works she submitted, Le Jardin d'hiver (The Conservatory), is said to be the "first Canadian subject ever to be shown in that venue". In 1882, she was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy, and only the second woman to be a member of that academy (the first being Academician Charlotte Schreiber). 

In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England. Due to her health, she was forced to give up painting and in 1899 published a volume of her verse, entitled Milestones. Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the Oxford Book of English Verse. She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.

Works 
 "Le Jardin d'hiver" ("The Conservatory) (submission to the 1883 Salon)
"An Upper Chamber"
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Collection
 Her art is exhibited at the art gallery of The Rooms in Newfoundland.

References

Bibliography

External links 
Canadian Woman Artists: Artists Database
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
 Bannerman in SFU Digitized Collections, Simon Fraser University, Coll. Canada's Early Women Writers (with photograph)

1855 births
1944 deaths
Artists from Nova Scotia
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian women writers
Canadian women poets
Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Ceremonial weapon

A ceremonial weapon is an object used for ceremonial purposes to display power or authority. They are often used in parades and as part of dress uniforms.

Although they are descended from weapons used in actual combat, they are not normally used as such. Their form and, especially, their finishing and decoration are typically designed to show status and power and to be an impressive sight, rather than for practicality as a weapon. Quite often, ceremonial weapons are constructed with precious metals or other materials that make them too delicate for combat use. With ceremonial swords, an example of this is that the sword may be poorly balanced. Historically, however, many ceremonial weapons were also capable of actual combat, most notably in the military.

Maces, halberds, daggers, and swords are the most common form of ceremonial weapons, but in theory almost any weapon can become ceremonial. The Sergeant at Arms in some parliaments carries a ceremonial mace. The Swiss Guard in the Vatican carry both ceremonial weapons (halberds and swords) and 21st century weapons (semi-automatic pistols). Mid-20th century rifles such as the American M14 and the Russian SKS, fitted with polished wood stocks, chrome plating and other decorative finishes, are common ceremonial weapons for honor guard units.

Another example is the use of a firearm to signal the start of a race. Guns are also used in celebratory gunfire.

Examples
Baton
Bulawa
Ceremonial mace
Drill purpose rifle
Gunbai
Honorary Revolutionary Weapon
Indonesian ceremonial bronze axes
Kirpan
Pace stick
Staff of office
Swagger stick
Sword of Islam (Mussolini)
Sword of justice
Sword of Saint Wenceslas – the coronation sword of Bohemia
Sword of state
Tumi
Vine staff
Weapons of Honour (French)

References

External links

European swords
European weapons

Ceremonies
Formal insignia
Amelia Josephine Burr

Amelia Josephine Burr (November 19, 1878 – June 15, 1968) was an American poet. Born in New York City, she was educated at and graduated from Hunter College (New York). She worked for the Red Cross in 1917–18. She married Reverend Carl H. Elmore of Englewood, New Jersey.

Career
She was described as a "popular lyricist, whose work yet flashes with genuine poetic feeling" and was reputed to have traveled widely. A contemporary source commented, "Her adventures in the Orient have colored her work, and with energy and charm she succeeded in getting to know much concerning the natives and their customs wherever she went. Much of her verse must, of course, be classed as balladry, and it is as a balladist that she has gained a wide audience, but, especially in her later work, there is much more than graceful appeal."

She made her "first considerable poetic appearance" in the pages of The Bellman.

Selected works

Poetical works
 A Roadside Fire, 1913 
 Afterglow, a poem 1913
 In Deep Places, 1914 
 Life and Living 1916 
 The Silver Trumpet 1918
 Hearts Awake: The Pixy, A play, 1919
The above two volumes relate chiefly to World War I
 A child garden in India, for very little people: Verses 1922
 Little houses: A book of poems 1923 
 Selected lyrics 1927

Novels
 A Dealer in Empire; A Romance 1915
 The Three Fires: A Story of Ceylon 1922

References

Sources
 The Bookman Anthology of Verse (1922)

External links
 
 
 Works by Amelia Josephine Burr at Poetry Archive
 Poem: Rain In The Night

1878 births
1968 deaths
20th-century American poets
American women poets
Hunter College alumni
20th-century American women writers
Gary Tibbs

Gary Tibbs (born Gary Brian Tibbs, 25 January 1958) is a bass guitarist and actor.  He is best known as a member of Adam and the Ants and for his work with Roxy Music. He appeared alongside Hazel O'Connor in the film Breaking Glass (1980) as bass guitarist Dave.

Tibbs was born in Northwood, London.  He was a member of Adam and the Ants, and is mentioned by name in the lyrics of the band's UK top ten hit "Ant Rap". At various times he was a member of Zu Zu Sharks, Code Blue, The Believers, The Vibrators and The Fixx. He first played on The Fixx's 2003 album, Want That Life. Tibbs also worked with Roxy Music extensively from 1978 to 1981, toured with Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul in 1984 and played on selected tracks on Brian May's 1993 solo album Back to the Light.

He also formed a band called Merrick and Tibbs with Chris Hughes (a.k.a. Merrick), just after leaving Adam & the Ants. They released a single in 1982 entitled "Call of the Wild". In the early 1990s, Tibbs formed The Believers with drummer Manny Elias and guitarist Andy Skelton; they released one album in 1992, entitled "Extraordinary Life". The album was produced by Greg Ladanyi, and featured C. J. Vanston on keyboards and organ.

In February 2008, Tibbs left The Fixx upon the return of the band's previous bassist, Dan K. Brown.

References

External links

1958 births
People educated at Haydon School
Living people
English rock bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
English male film actors
English new wave musicians
Adam and the Ants members
People from Northwood, London
The Fixx members
Roxy Music members
The Vibrators members
Barry Cole

Barry Cole (Born 13th November 1936) was a poet and novelist from Woking, Surrey.

Biography
Cole was born in Woking, Surrey and was educated at Balham Secondary School in London. He did military service in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. His subsequent career included 1958 employment with Reuters news agency in London, working as a reporter (1965–70), as a senior editor (1974–94) at the Central Office of Information, London. He was Northern Arts Fellow at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham University (1970–72). He published several collections of poems and four novels. His 1968 poetry collection, Moonsearch, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. In 2015, Shoestring Press published a festschrift celebrating his life, edited by John Lucas. This included poems, a story, photographs, essays and Cole's final, innovative sequence of 13 poems, Broken Sonnets, which are marked by the use of ellipses to suggest gaps of memory or words that are too painful to be given expression.

In 1959, he married Rita Linihan and they had three daughters, Celia, Rebecca, and Jessica. He was a close friend of the writer Bryan Johnson, whose 1973 suicide had a traumatic effect on Cole.

Bibliography
Poetry
 Blood Ties (Turret Books, 1967)
 Moonsearch (1968)
 Ulysses in the Town of Coloured Glass (London, Turret, 1968)
 The Visitors (1970)
 Vanessa in the City (Trigram Press, 1971)
 Pathetic Fallacies (London, Eyre Methuen, 1973)
 The Rehousing of Scaffardi (Richmond, Surrey: Keepsake Press, 1976)
 Dedications (Byron Press: 1977)
 Inside Outside: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring Press, 1997, )
 Ghosts Are People Too (Shoestring Press, 2003)
 Broken Sonnets (privately printed 'eyelet' chap book, 2008)

Novels
 A Run Across the Island (1968)
 Joseph Winter's Patronage (1969)
 In Search of Rita (Methuen, 1970)
 The Giver (Methuen, 1971)

References

External links
 John Lucas, "Other lives: Barry Cole obituary", The Guardian, 15 July 2014.

People from Balham
1936 births
2014 deaths
English male poets
20th-century English poets
20th-century English male writers
1999 AFL draft

The 1999 AFL draft consisted of a pre-season draft, a national draft, a trade period, a rookie draft and rookie elevation.  The AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.

In 1999 there were 93 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft. The Collingwood Magpies received the first pick in the national draft after finishing on the bottom of the ladder during the 1999 AFL season.

Trades

In addition to the trades, Melbourne's first round draft pick (No. 5) was given to , as part of penalties levied against Melbourne for breaches of the salary cap related to its recruitment of Jeff White from Fremantle two years earlier. Melbourne was also fined $600,000 and stripped of draft picks in the 2000 AFL draft.

1999 national draft

2000 pre-season draft

2000 rookie draft

Rookie elevation
In alphabetical order of professional clubs. This list details 1999-listed rookies who were elevated to the senior list; it does not list players taken as rookies in the rookie draft which occurred during the 1999/2000 off-season.

See also 
 Official AFL Draft page

References

AFL Draft
Australian Football League draft
Cnemis

Cnemis or Knemis (; ) was either a range of mountains between the Cephissus Valley and the Gulf of Euboea combined with the Malian Gulf, or was a single mountain located in the northwest of that range. The valley formed the heartland of Phocis, where the river originated, before entering Boeotia north of Orchomenos. The uncertainty of what terrain was meant by "Cnemis" derives from the varying accounts of the many sources.

The narrower meaning is based on the home territory of the Epicnemidian Locrians, who received their distinguishing name from this mountain, on the northern slopes of which they made their homes. Mount Cnemis was a continuation of Callidromus, with which it was connected by a ridge, at the foot of which is the modern village of Mendenitsa. Callidromus is the mountain that overhangs Thermopylae. It is usually not counted as part of Cnemis, which is the next mountain east.

The account of Cnemis in Smith, based on some of the ancient sources, seems to pinpoint the location of the populated mountain. A spur of this mountain, Smith says, running out into the sea, formed the promontory Cape Cnemides (Κνημῖδες), opposite the islands called Lichades and the Euboean promontory Cenaeum. Upon Cape Cnemides stood a fortress, also called Cnemides (or Cnemis), distant 20 stadia from Thronium.

Attribution

References

External links

Mountains of Greece
Mountains of Central Greece
Geography of ancient Phocis
Epicnemidian Locris
Tony Connor

John Anthony Connor (born 1930) is an English poet and playwright.

Biography
Tony Connor was born in Manchester, England. After leaving school at 14, he served in the British Army as a tank gunner, and worked as a textile designer between 1944 and 1960, and in radio and television in Manchester in the 1960s. He was a founder member of The Peterloo Group. He earned an MA at the University of Manchester in 1967 and in 1968 visiting writer at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

In 1961, he married the speech therapist, Frances Foad. They had three children: two sons, Samuel and Simon, and a daughter Rebecca. They divorced in 1979.

From 1971 until he retired in 1999 Connor was professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

He lives in Middletown and London. He was a close friend of the English writer J. G. Ballard and remains close friends with Michael de Larrabeiti. One section of Connor's 2006 anthology Things Unsaid is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 book Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems.

Connor has published nine volumes of poetry. His work is anthologized in British Poetry since 1945.  He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1974.

Bibliography
With Love Somehow (1962)
Lodgers (1965)
Kon in Springtime (1968)
In the Happy Valley (1971)
The Memoirs of Uncle Harry (1974)
New and Selected Poems (Connor) (1982)
Spirits of the Place (1986)
Metamorphic Adventures (1996)
Things Unsaid: Selected Poems 1960-2005 (Anvil Press Poetry, 2006)
The Empty Air (Anvil Press Poetry, 2013)
A Century of Childhoods (Kin Press, 2022)

References

External links
John Anthony (Tony) Connor fonds at University of Victoria, Special Collections
Tony Connor at Academy of American Poets.

1930 births
Living people
Wesleyan University faculty
Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
English male poets
Sergi Pedrerol

Sergi Pedrerol Cavallé (born 16 December 1969 in Molins de Rei, Catalonia) is a former water polo player from Spain, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, he was on the squad that captured the silver medal.  Pedrerol competed in four Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. With the Spanish National Team he also won the world title twice, in Perth 1998 and Fukuoka 2001.

See also
 Spain men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
 List of world champions in men's water polo
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

References

External links
 

1969 births
Living people
People from Molins de Rei
Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
Water polo players from Catalonia
Spanish male water polo players
Water polo drivers
Left-handed water polo players
Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain in water polo
Olympic silver medalists for Spain in water polo
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
Sportsmen from Catalonia
Paul Evans (poet)

Paul Evans (1945 – 1991) was a Welsh poet associated with the British Poetry Revival.  He is included in the anthology British Poetry since 1945 and the 1969 anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.

His work has been described as similar to that of Lee Harwood, with a dreamy tone and surrealist images.  His poems have no definite meaning, but alter each time they are read.

Publications 
 February, 1970
 Prokofiev's Concerto, 1975 
 The Manual for the Perfect Organisation of Tourneys, (Oasis Books, London, 1979) The Sofa Book'', 1987.

Footnotes 

1945 births
Living people
English male poets
Maria Hsia

Maria Hsia is a political figure who was convicted in early 2001, by a Federal District Court. She was found guilty of laundering donations to the Democratic National Committee by the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, during the 1996 U.S. presidential election. The judge, Paul Friedman, denied a request from the U.S. Department of Justice that Ms. Hsia should serve prison time, and instead sentenced her to 90 days' home detention, probation, a fine, and community service.

Born in Taiwan, Hsia came to the United States as a student in 1973 and received a permanent resident visa in 1975. Originally, she worked for immigration law firms in Los Angeles. In 1982, Hsia began fund-raising for political candidates in state and local races. In 1988, her work for then California Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy's Senate campaign introduced Hsia to national politics. She eventually became a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.

See also
Gandhi Memorial International Foundation

References

External links
Suro, Roberto, "Gore's Ties to Hsia Cast Shadow on 2000 Race", Washington Post, February 23, 1998
Eskenazi, Michael, "For both Gore and GOP, a guilty verdict to watch", CNN.com, March 3, 2000
Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's Majority Report Executive Summary, Washington Post, March 8, 1998

Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
1996 United States presidential election
People convicted of money laundering
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ted Sioeng

Ted Sioeng (pronounced 'shyong') (), also known as Xiong Delong and Sioeng San Wong, is an Indonesian businessman with interests in the United States, China, Vietnam and other parts of Asia, worth around US$500 million.

Background
Sioeng grew up in Indonesia. Raised in an ethnically Chinese family, he has a strong affinity for China, which is now the focus of his business interests, while he also admires the United States - he and his family have been based in Los Angeles since 1987.

Business interests
While in his 20s, Sioeng became successful selling foam rubber padding. In the 1970s, he was quick to recognize that money could be made in emerging China and he built a multimillion-dollar fortune selling the Chinese used factory equipment – such as for cigarette- and toy-manufacturing and in the medical field – and exporting Chinese cigarettes to the West. In China, he goes by the name Xiong Delong.

He quickly saw that by donating money to good causes, such as to build schools, hospitals, and roads, he could gain favour with local governments. In Yunnan, this approach gained him a license to sell the popular Hongtashan brand of cigarettes – called 'Red Pagoda Mountain' in the U.S. – outside of China. He now runs the business as a (dollar-based) joint venture.

He is owner of the Chinese-language International Daily News, published in the United States and Indonesia.

U.S. campaign finance controversy
Sioeng was a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, notably sitting next to Bill Clinton and Al Gore at fundraising events after having donated to the Democratic Party funds allegedly linked to China. In 1997 the U.S. Congress was informed by the U.S. attorney general, and the directors of the CIA, FBI, and NSA that they had credible intelligence information indicating Sioeng was an agent of China.

According to an unclassified final draft of a report by the US Senate committee then investigating campaign finance abuses, half of the $400,000 given to the Democrats by Sioeng and his family was "funded by transfer from overseas accounts," suggesting that the money came from the Chinese government.

Family and personal life
Sioeng, who is ethnically an Dutch-Indo descent, began his life in an orphanage. He was then brought up (in Indonesia) by an Indonesian Chinese couple, which led to his  interests in China.

He is married with five children, including his eldest, daughter Jessica Elnitiarta, who heads the family interests in California and was also involved in the Clinton controversy, having donated $300,000, some of which was alleged to have been Chinese government money.

Mr. Ted Sioeng holds a Singapore passport but his wife and children are permanent U.S. residents. He is able to speak good English.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Living people
Businesspeople from Jakarta
Indonesian businesspeople
Place of birth missing (living people)
Karen Gershon

Karen Gershon, born Kaethe Loewenthal (29 August 1923 – 24 March 1993) was a German-born British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938.

Her book We came as Children: A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account.

One of her best-known poems, I was not there, describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazis.

Works

Poetry
 The Relentless Year New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960
 Selected Poems Gollancz 1966 (published in the United States by Harcourt Brace & World in 1967)
 Legacies and Encounters Gollancz 1972
 My Daughters, My Sisters Gollancz 1975
 Coming Back from Babylon Gollancz 1979
 Collected Poems Macmillan, Papermac 1990
 Grace Notes (with drawings by Stella Tripp), Happy Dragons Press, 2002

Non-Fiction
 We came as children () London, Gollancz 1966, republished Macmillan, Papermac 1989 (published in the US by Harcourt Brace & World in 1967 and in Germany by Alibaba Verlag in 1988)
 Postscript: A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War  Gollancz 1969

Fiction
 Burn Helen Harvester Press 1980
 The Bread of Exile Gollancz 1985
 The Fifth Generation () Gollancz 1987 (published in Germany Alibaba Verlag 1988)

Other
 A Tempered Wind (Autobiography, Vol.2, 1938–1943) Northwestern University Press 2009
 A Lesser Child () (Autobiography, Vol.1) Peter Owen 1993 (published in Germany Rowohlt 1992)
 Only Meant to Comfort () Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000 (in Germany)

Sources
 Peter Lawson (2006): Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein. Pub. Vallentine Mitchell.
 J. M. Ritchie, German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2001, .
 Literary estate of Karen Gershon (see External Links).

References

External links
 Shmuel Huppert, Biography of Karen Gershon, Jewish Women's Archive
 Meinolf Schumacher, Bielefelder Literatur-Splitter (12): "Wilhelm Harms' House" (Karen Gershon)
 Website of Stella Tripp, daughter of Karen Gershon, executor of literary estate of Karen Gershon
 Website of Naomi Shmuel, daughter of Karen Gershon, site contains further information about Karen Gershon
 Poems by Karen Gershon, 16 poems read by the author (with text)

1923 births
1993 deaths
British women poets
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Jewish poets
British Jewish writers
Kindertransport refugees
20th-century British women writers
20th-century British poets
Jewish women writers
Chalukya–Chola wars

The Chola–Chalukya Wars were a series of battles that were fought from 992 CE to 1120 CE between the Chola Empire and the Western Chalukya Empire in what is now South India. Most of these conflicts were initiated by the Western Chalukyas who were defeated by the Cholas and forced to return to their capital. These recurring conflicts eventually exhausted as both empire, straining their manpower and material, were left vulnerable to other enemies.
More than 1,000,000 people were killed due to direct or indirect consequences of the war. The battles were rages on two fronts: the Western Front in which the capture of Manyakheta and Kalyani were the objectives of the Cholas, and the Eastern Front which centered around Vengi which was strategic for both sides. The west saw the heaviest fighting with Rajendra Chola I leading an army of 900,000 and defeating Jayasimha II  at the Battle of Maski (1019 CE-1020 CE). On the Eastern Front, Rajendra Chola led Rajaraja Chola I's army in Vengi and expelled the rulers in battle. Vengi was later the site of the coronation of Rajendra Chola's nephew following his victories in the Chola expedition to North India.

Chola conquests in the Chalukyan kingdom 
All the Chola–Chalukya battles took place in Southern (early battles) and Central (later battles) Chalukyan country and a few in Vengi which the Cholas dominated until the rise of Ganapati Deva of Kakatiya dynasty.

References
"Tennaattu Porkalangal" by Ka. Appaturaiyaar
"VeeraSozhiyam"
"Kalingattu Parani" by Jayankondaar
 our Karnataka
Chalukya wiki-Chalukya
 Indian inscriptions, Archaeological Society of India
"Prabandha-Chintamani" of Merutunga
Vijnanesvara's " Mitakshara"
Kirthi Verma's "Govaidya "
"Ajitapurana and Sahasabhimavijaya" of Ranna
Bilhana's "Vikramankadeva Charitha"

Chola Empire
History of Karnataka
Western Chalukya Empire
Battles involving the Chola Empire
Monbukagakusho Scholarship

The , formerly known as Monbusho Scholarship that supports foreign students, is an academic scholarship offered by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbu-kagaku-shō, or MEXT), and selected on the recommendation of the Japanese Embassy/Consulate General, University, or Authority.
Over 65,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under this Scholarship program which was established in 1954.

Scholarship types 
There are seven types of Japanese government-sponsored scholarships available under the Japanese Government Scholarship program: those for research students, teacher training students, undergraduate university students, Japanese studies students, college of technology students, special training students and YLP students.

Recommendations
Every year a large number of students are enrolled by embassy recommendation. Each half of the contingent undergoes a 1-year preparatory program at either Osaka University or Tokyo University of Foreign Studies before entering a 4-year undergraduate program at one of 87 Japanese national universities.

References

External links
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Japan
The Monbusho (Monbukagakusho) Scholars Homepage
Engineering Scholarships in the UK
Monbukagakusho Scholarships News

Education in Japan
Scholarships
Government scholarships
Tennessee Department of Tourist Development

The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development (TDTD) is a Cabinet-level agency within the Tennessee state government, headed by the Tennessee Commissioner of Tourist Development, who is currently Mark Ezell. The Department is responsible for attracting tourism to Tennessee and marketing to residents both in the United States and internationally. Annually, $100,000, or however much is necessary of that amount, is appropriated from the general fund of the state when not otherwise appropriated for carrying out the Department's duties.

When the Department was first created in 1976, it was divided into the tourism division and the hotel and restaurant division. Divisions may be abolished or added by the Commissioner with governor approval, and the Commissioner can also transfer to the tourism division any employees of the department. The Commissioner appoints a director of the tourist division, who is required by statute to be a competent person, properly informed on public contracts, publicity, tourism, and tourist promotion, and having executive ability. The tourist division is also responsible for managing seventeen welcome centers across Tennessee's interstate highways, from which tourists may make hotel and campground reservations.

Welcome Centers
There are sixteen welcome centers across Tennessee, mostly located at major entrances into the state, such as immediately off interstates and major highways (14 off interstates and 3 off U.S. Routes). These welcome centers usually consist of a large building with restroom facilities, brochures, staffed desks for people to ask for assistance, picnic areas, and large parking lots. In addition to the aforementioned, there is a large flagpole with the state flag in front of the building. All of the below listed welcome centers are open 24 hours a day, except for the I-40 welcome center, which closes at 10:30 PM CST. The headquarters for the state's welcome centers is called Welcome Centers and is located in Nashville. More information can be found at. There are 3 welcome centers each on I-24 and I-40, 2 welcome centers each on I-75 and I-65, and one welcome center each on I-155, I-81, and I-55. There are two unique welcome centers located in Mountain City and Pigeon Forge, respectively. The Mountain City welcome center serves the Johnson County Chamber of Commerce and the Pigeon Forge location serves the world-famous Pigeon Forge tourist district.

References

External links
The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development website
LexisNexis's archive of Tennessee Code, Title 4

 
Tourist Development
Salvador Gómez (water polo)

Salvador E. Gómez Agüero (born 11 March 1968 in Santander, Cantabria) is a former water polo player from Spain. He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, he was on the squad that captured the silver medal. Gómez, nicknamed Chava, competed in five Summer Olympics from 1988 to 2004. He is among four Spanish water polo players, all in the 1992 and 1996 medal winning teams, to have competed at five Olympics – the others are Manuel Estiarte, Chiqui Sans and Jesús Rollán.

He made his debut for the national side at the 1987 European Championships in Strasbourg. With the Spanish national team he also won the world title twice, in Perth 1998 and Fukuoka 2001.

See also
 Spain men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
 List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
 List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of men's Olympic water polo tournament top goalscorers
 List of world champions in men's water polo
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

References 
 Profile on Athens 2004-website

External links
 

1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Santander, Spain
Spanish male water polo players
Water polo centre backs
Water polo players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain in water polo
Olympic silver medalists for Spain in water polo
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
20th-century Spanish people
AECI

AECI Limited () is a South African chemicals group and is listed on the JSE Securities Exchange.

History
The company was registered as African Explosives and Industries  (AE&I) in 1924, with its headquarters in Johannesburg. It was formed as the result of a merger between the South African interests of Nobel Industries of the United Kingdom and the manufacturing arm of De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines of Kimberley. The company's primary purpose was to provide blasting explosives and detonators to South African gold and diamond mines but AE&I was also the only South African producer of phosphatic fertilizer. In 1944 the company was renamed as African Explosives and Chemical Industries  (AECI). The company was listed on the JSE in 1966.

The AECI Group operates various sectors including  Mining solutions (explosives and initiating systems), Specialty fibres, Specialty chemicals and Real Estate market segments.

AECI's principal manufacturing sites are located in Johannesburg (mining solutions and specialty chemicals), Sasolburg (specialty chemicals), Durban (specialty chemicals) in South Africa.

AECI is a specialty product and services group of companies which claims to provide "value-adding solutions to customers through science, technology and industry knowledge".  The focus is on serving the mining and manufacturing sectors.  The Dulux decorative coatings business was disposed of in 2007 and the unprofitable segments of the SANS Fibres business were closed.

Construction is in progress on five projects related mainly to the mining sector, with capital expenditure of about R1.1 billion in total over the next two years.

AECI's core businesses serve both global and regional markets.  

Both African Explosives and Chemical Services have expanded their presence throughout sub-Saharan Africa.  The DetNet joint venture designs, produces and sells electronic detonators. In specialty chemicals a presence has been established in Brazil.

The realisation of land and the utilisation of built assets that have become surplus to AECI's requirements are managed in the property portfolio, led by Heartland Properties.  These activities offer land holdings near Johannesburg and Cape Town for commercial, residential and industrial development and leasing purposes.  By the end of 2007, 14.5 square kilometres of the 37.7 square kilometres of excess land available had been sold.

At the end of 2007, AECI had 6000 employees, many of whom are engaged in the Group's sales, technical service and distribution networks.

Company structure
The AECI group of companies consists of:
 African Explosives Limited
 Improchem (Pty) Limited
 Chemical Initiatives (Pty) Limited
 DetNet (Pty) Limited 
 Acacia
 SANS Fibres (Pty) Limited

See also 
List of companies traded on the JSE
List of companies of South Africa
Economy of South Africa

References

External links
AECI Annual Report 2011
AECI website 
DetNet website

Companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Manufacturing companies based in Johannesburg
Xavier García (water polo)

Xavier García Gadea (born 5 January 1984) is a Spanish-Croatian water polo player. He was a member of the Spain national team between 1999 and 2013, finishing in sixth place at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, fifth at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and sixth again at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In 2003, García, then playing for CN Barcelona-Noferthe, ended up in fifth place with the national side at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships in his home town of Barcelona.

Since 2010, García has played in Croatia. After being left out of the Spain national team in 2013, he obtained the Croatian citizenship in 2016 to be able to take part in the Rio Olympics, facing Spain in the group stage.

Honours
CN Barcelona
 LEN Euro Cup: 2003–04

Spanish Championship: 2003–04, 2004–05
Copa del Rey: 2002–03
CN Atlètic-Barceloneta
Spanish Championship: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10 
Copa del Rey: 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10 
Supercopa de España: 2007, 2009, 2010
Primorje Rijeka
LEN Champions League runners-up: 2011–12, 2014–15
Adriatic League: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
Croatian Championship: 2013–14, 2014–15
Croatian Cup: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15
VK Jug
LEN Champions League: 2015–16 ; runners-up: 2016–17
LEN Super Cup: 2016
Adriatic League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18 
Croatian Championship: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20  
Croatian Cup: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19

Awards
 Member of the World Team 2018 by total-waterpolo

Orders
Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 2016

See also
 Croatia men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
 List of world champions in men's water polo
 List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo

References

External links
 

1984 births
Living people
Water polo players from Barcelona
Spanish emigrants to Croatia
Spanish male water polo players
Croatian male water polo players
Water polo drivers
Left-handed water polo players
Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic water polo players for Spain
Olympic silver medalists for Croatia in water polo
World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in water polo
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain
Croatian people of Spanish descent
Croatian people of Catalan descent
Naturalized citizens of Croatia
Sportsmen from Catalonia
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate water polo players
Naturalised sports competitors