Interspecific feeding refers to behaviour reported in wild animals, particularly birds where adults of one species feed the young of another species. This usually excludes the case of birds feeding brood parasites. The behaviour has been of theoretical interest since it appears to be provide little evolutionary benefit to the feeding bird. Some researchers have suggested that it is mainly male birds that are lured into feeding a fledgling that begs.

Such behaviour is also related to alloparenting, cross-fostering and brood adoption. Several situations have been suggested that lead to this including:
 Bird raised in a mixed clutch
 Original nest and brood of bird destroyed
 Nests in very close proximity
 Calling of young birds stimulates behaviour
 Orphaned birds adopted temporarily or permanently
 Male bird feeding another species while mate incubated
 Feeding bird is mateless and finds a mateless bird at nest

Shy (1982) listed 65 species of birds involved in interspecific feeding. Riedman (1982) listed 150 species of birds that adopted young that did not belong to themselves.

References

External links
 Nuthatch feeding Bluebird nestlings
 Cardinal feeding goldfish
 Levy, Sharon 2002 Parenting paradox. National Wildlife Magazile 40(5)

Ethology


Plugs For The Program is an EP by Guided by Voices, released March 1999.

Track listing
 Surgical Focus (Remix)
 Sucker Of Pistol City
 Picture Me Big Time (Demo)

References

External links
 This EP at Guided by Voices Database (Or GBVDB)

1999 EPs
Guided by Voices EPs


Riedelia may refer to:
 Riedelia (plant)
 Riedelia (fly)
 Riedelia (gastropod)
 Riedelia (diatom)


Lloyd Archer Merriman (August 2, 1924 – January 20, 2004) was an American professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from  to  for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs. Born in Clovis, California, Merriman played college baseball and football at Stanford University. He served as a United States naval aviator during World War II and was recalled to active duty while in the United States Marine Corps reserves during the Korean War. He served in Korea from January to August 1953 at K-3 in Pohang with the 1st Marine Air Wing and flew 87 combat missions in a Grumman F9F Panther jet fighter.

As a baseball player, Merriman threw and batted left-handed, stood  tall and weighed .  Because of his wartime service, he was nearly 24 when he was signed by Cincinnati in 1948. He had one year of minor league experience, with the 1948 Columbia Reds of the Class A Sally League, and batted .298 before becoming a member of the Major League Reds in 1949. He was the Reds' regular center fielder that season, but he batted only .230 with limited home run power, and was a reserve outfielder for the 1950–1951 Reds before being called back into military service as a Marine pilot.

He returned to the Majors in 1954 and batted a career-high .268 in limited service before closing out his MLB career in 1955 playing for both Chicago clubs. In retirement, he operated an insurance business and raised and trained horses in his native California. He died at 79 in Fresno, California. Merriman is enshrined in the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame. He was also inducted in the Clovis Unified School District Hall of Fame on November 4, 2017.

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Sportspeople from Clovis, California
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United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II
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Belmont was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland from 1960 to 1977.

First created for the 1960 state election, the district was based in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane, taking in areas previously belonging to the districts of Bulimba, Mount Gravatt and Wynnum. Typically a Labor seat, the district fell to the Liberal Party at the Coalition landslide election of 1974.

Belmont was abolished ahead of 1977 state election and largely absorbed into the neighbouring district of Chatsworth.

Members for Belmont

Election results

See also
 Electoral districts of Queensland
 Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by year
 :Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly by name

References

Former electoral districts of Queensland
1960 establishments in Australia
1977 establishments in Australia
Constituencies established in 1960
Constituencies disestablished in 1977


The Jardin botanique de l'Institut National is a small botanical garden located within the campus of the Institut des sciences et industries du vivant et de l'environnement (AgroParisTech), formerly known as the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, on the Avenue Lucien Brétignières, Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. It is closed to the public but may be visited by groups.

The garden was established sometime before 1979 on a plot of land adjacent to the Arboretum de Grignon. Today it consists of 34 beds containing about 1,000 taxa with an emphasis on Graminae, Leguminosae, ornamental plants, and plants of limestone soils. The Association de l'arbre de fer was established in 2001 to protect and enhance the campus' natural environment, and in 2003 it began restoration and enlargement of the arboretum, as well as creation of a botanical trail and rehabilitation of the garden.

See also
 Arboretum de Grignon
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 BGCI entry
 Convention on Biological Diversity: Botanical gardens in France
 Association de l'arbre de fer: Proposed renovation of the botanical garden, with maps and schematics (French)
 Association de l'arbre de fer (French)
 AgroParisTech - Grignon campus map

Institut National, Jardin botanique de l'
Institut National, Jardin botanique de l'


SC Germania Breslau was a German association football club from the city of Breslau, Lower Silesia (today Wroclaw, Poland). The team spent several seasons in upper tier regional play in the Südostdeutscher Fußball-Verband (Southeast German Football Association) and advanced to the league playoffs in 1911 and 1912.

In both appearances Germania advanced to the league final. A 2:3 loss in 1911 to Askania Forst was annulled after protest, but the team then also lost the rematch (0:3). In the following season's final they were beaten 1:5 by ATV Liegnitz. In 1913 the team merged with Preußen Breslau to form Vereinigte Breslauer Sportfreunde.

References

Defunct football clubs in Germany
Association football clubs established in 1904
Defunct football clubs in former German territories
Football clubs in Wrocław
History of Wrocław


Nelson Elmer Mathews (born July 21, 1941) is a retired American professional baseball outfielder who appeared in the Major Leagues (MLB) from 1960 to 1965 for the Chicago Cubs and Kansas City Athletics. Born in Columbia, Illinois, he graduated from high school in that community and signed with the Cubs in 1959. Mathews threw and batted right-handed, stood  tall and weighed .

Mathews and made his major league debut with the Cubs on September 9, 1960, against the future world champion Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. Pinch hitting in the ninth inning for pitcher Mel Wright, he singled off Vinegar Bend Mizell, moved to third base on a double by Richie Ashburn, and came around to score on a single by Don Zimmer. Mathews then spent most of 1961 and 1962 in the minors, where in 1962 he batted .368 and was named an All-Star in the Class B Northwest League.

Mathews then spent the full seasons of  and  in the majors. In the former year, he started 45 games in center field, and appeared in 61 total games played, but batted only .155. After the season, the Cubs traded him to the Athletics for left-handed pitcher Fred Norman. The A's made him their regular center fielder in 1964. Mathews started 154 games in center and hit 14 home runs, but he led the American League in strikeouts (143) and batted only .239. He began  with Kansas City and got into 67 total games, with 47 outfield starts, but he batted a weak .212 and was sent to Triple-A Vancouver in July. He played through 1967 in the minors before retiring from the game.

In 306 career MLB games played, Mathews collected 218 hits, with 39 doubles, 14 triples and 22 homers. He batted .223 lifetime with 98 runs batted in.

His son T. J. Mathews had an eight-season MLB career (1995–2002) as a relief pitcher.

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1941 births
Living people
Baseball players from Illinois
Chicago Cubs players
Kansas City Athletics players
Lancaster Red Roses players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Morristown Cubs players
Paris Lakers players
People from Columbia, Illinois
Reading Phillies players
Salt Lake City Bees players
San Antonio Missions players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Vancouver Mounties players
Wenatchee Chiefs players


Edward Joseph Winceniak (born April 16, 1929) is a retired American professional baseball player and scout. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. An infielder, he appeared in 32 games played over parts of two seasons (1956–57) in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs. Winceniak batted and threw right-handed and was listed as  tall and .

His professional career began in 1948 and ended in 1959 in the minor leagues, with three seasons (1951–53) out of action. During his two trials with the Cubs, he was used largely as a pinch hitter or pinch runner, appearing in the field in 12 of his 32 MLB games played. Altogether, Winceniak registered 71 plate appearances, with six runs scored and 14 career hits. His lone home run was hit off Hal Jeffcoat of the Cincinnati Redlegs on May 12, 1957. The solo shot came at Wrigley Field during the first game of a doubleheader. Winceniak also started the nightcap and collected a single off Don Gross. Those were his last two games in the majors as he was sent to the Open-Classification Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League at the May cutdown.

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1929 births
Living people
Atlanta Braves scouts
Baseball players from Chicago
Chicago Cubs players
Denver Bears players
Des Moines Bruins players
Havana Sugar Kings players
Hutchinson Cubs players
Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball infielders
Montreal Expos scouts
Portland Beavers players
Rock Hill Chiefs players
St. Paul Saints (AA) players
Seattle Rainiers players
Visalia Cubs players
American expatriate baseball players in Cuba


Canal 9 is a Danish pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA previously owned by C More Entertainment from 2009 to 2015.

The channel is a retro channel that shows older documentary series from the Discovery Channel and old action and comedy series like Miami Vice, The A-Team, Magnum, P.I. and M*A*S*H and with football in the weekends from Danish Superliga plus UEFA Europa League. The channel share sports rights with Eurosport and 6'eren; it was original launched as a low-pay sister channel to Canal+ in July 2009.

History

The channel was announced on March 20, 2009. There had been some uncertainty as for the distribution for the channel, as neither YouSee nor Telia Stofa and Boxer had expressed interest in distributing the channel. On March 25 it was announced that Canal Digital will broadcast the channel exclusively on satellite. The channel will cost 23,95 DKK, which is slightly less than its competitor TV 2 Sport.

Canal 9 launched on July 17, 2009 with the Danish action movie In China They Eat Dogs. From the start, it was available from Canal Digital, ComX, Smile Content and several community antennas and fiber networks.

Canal 9 became available terrestrially in July when it temporarily replaced Kanal København in Copenhagen where it will broadcast until October 31, 2009. After this, it will broadcast from Boxer's transmitters nationwide. On September 15, it was added to YouSee's cable network, where it initially be available digitally on the Middle package.

From the start in July 2009, Canal 9 had secured many football rights including matches from FIFA World Cup 2010, Danish Superliga, Serie A, Premier League, The Championship, La Liga, Eredivisie and League Cup but also the rights to events from UFC and TNA Wrestling and the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and handball from EHF Champions League.

On September 9, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Handball-Bundesliga.

On September 24, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open with the top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki.

On October 22, 2009, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2009 Handball Supercup.

2010
On January 12, 2010, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2010 tournament of Copa del Sol.

On February 8, 2010, it was announced that DR, TV2, Eurosport and Canal 9 will show more them 150 hours together from the 2010 Winter Olympics

On May 10, 2010, Canal 9 has secured the rights for two of Denmark's national teams qualifying matches for the UEFA Euro 2012 against Iceland June 4, 2011 and against Cyprus October 7, 2011

On May 15, 2010 it was announced that the owners of Canal 9, TV4 Group has secured the right to UEFA Euro 2012 in Denmark, but it is still uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings.

On August 2, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has the rights to The Championship for the 2010/11 season.

On September 11, 2010 it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to Lingerie Football League.

2011
On January 20, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has secured the rights to the 2011 tournament of Copa del Sol.

On February 15, 2011, it was announced that TV4 Sport and Canal 9 have secured the rights to IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017.

On June 22, 2011 it was announced that Canal 9 will show some of the matches from the 2011 Copa América but most of the tournament will be shown on Canal+ Sport 1.

On June 24, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 will show the WTA 2011 Swedish Open with the top seeded Caroline Wozniacki.

On July 5, 2011, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has secured the rights to UEFA Europa League for 3 years from the 2012/13 season.

On July 12, 2011, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 & Canal 9 has extended the rights to La Liga for four more years till 2015.

On July 27, 2011, it was announced that the TV miniseries The Kennedys will get Danish TV premiere on Canal 9.

On August 13, 2011 www.kampanje.com start writing about that Canal 9 will be launched in a Norwegian version on October 1, 2011 and vill replace TV4 Fakta in Norway.

The 2011–12 season of The Championship and Serie A was originally scheduled only on Canal+ Sport 1 but after wild protests from viewers on their Facebook page, they decided to show a match at 4 p.m. from The Championship, followed by a match from Serie A at 6 p.m. on Saturday when possible; big matches from Danish Superliga and La Liga will still have priority in the time period, this was announced on their Facebook page on August 25, 2011.

On September 12, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 had lost one of their strongest football rights, The Danish Superliga from the 2012–13 season, to Viasat and TV2 Sport.

On September 21, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 has bought back 66 matches per season from The Danish Superliga from Viasat, valid from season 2012/13 to 2014/15.

Back in May 2010 it was announced that the Canal 9 and TV4 Group has secured the right to UEFA Euro 2012 in Denmark, but it was uncertain whether the tournament will be shown on Canal 9 because of the low ratings and the following strong focus on the problem in the media that Canal 9 had the rights as well as the two qualifying matches against Iceland and Cyprus, specially the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet has been after Canal 9 and called them "The Secret Channel", and several angry viewers have driven campaignings "Denmark national football team's matches back on national TV and not on Pay-TV" on Ekstra Bladet's webpage "Nationen" and on Facebook.
So on October 10, 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 and TV4 Group has sold the rights to the two national Danish TV-Stations TV2 and DR.

Through late 2010 and 2011 became Canal9 every Monday to Friday more a documentary channel like the Swedish TV4 Fakta and has the same rights, while the weekend was still dedicated to football and movies including UFC on Friday nights.
Sports rights as Handball, wrestling, Powerboat, tennis and ice hockey were dropped to get a more strong focus on football and the channel changed the slogan from Denmark's new sports channel to Denmark's new football channel – we live football.

Through the years, several sports presenters and commentators have switched to Canal 9 including Klavs Bruun Jørgensen, Stig Tøfting, Erik Rasmussen, Michael Gravgaard, Line Bilenberg, Jesper Simo, Mette Cornelius Esben Hansen and latest Flemming Povlsen in 2014.

2012

On January 11, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 will bring back the TV soap The Bold and the Beautiful in March 2012 after Kanal 4 dropped the series in November 2011 because of low ratings, fans of the series started a massive campaign on Facebook trying to get back the series on Danish television and it succeed with Canal 9 after two months. And Canal 9 has scheduled the series to 5:30 P.M.

Back in February 2011, it was announced that Canal 9 had secured the rights to ice hockey IIHF World Championships from 2012 to 2017 but on February 7, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 had sold the rights to TV2 Sport for a three-year period from 2012–2014.

On February 21, 2012, it was announced that Canal+ Sport 1 has extended the rights to Serie A for there more years till 2015, and Canal 9 will still show one weekly match with this new deal.

On July 3, 2012, it was announced that Canal 9 vil get a new sisterchannel called Canal 8 Sport, and will be dedicated to sports and will start August 13, 2012, Still there will be football on Canal 9 in the weekends from La Liga, Serie A and Danish Superliga.
UEFA Europa League on Thursday nights, and UFC replays on Friday nights.

And on July 4, 2012, it was announced that the new Canal 8 Sport will replace Canal+ Sport 1 in Denmark. and on the same day Canal 9 HD was announced, and will start also on August 15, 2012, and Canal 8 Sport HD was also announced, and will start in the beginning of 2013.

On July 5, Canal 9 announced on their Facebook page that they have not extended their right to English football (The Championship & League Cup) because of low ratings, they tried with regular airtime and gave it another chance in the 2011/12 season after wild protest on their Facebook page from the viewers, when they talked about already in 2011 that they would not extend the rights, but it was still no success in the 2011/12 season.

Canal 9 HD launched on August 15, 2012. From the start, it was available from Canal Digital, Stofa, YouSee & TDC TV several community antennas and fiber networks.

On December 17, 2012, the channel became available in Viasat's sportspackage on satellite and on IPTV Network Waoo together with Canal 8 Sport

2013

In late February 2013 it was announced that the channel after only one year dropped the TV soap The Bold and the Beautiful because of low ratings and again fans of the series started a massive campaign on Facebook trying to get back the series on Danish television until now with no success.

2014
Because of UFC started their own streaming service UFC Fight Pass could Canal 9 & Canal 8 Sport not get the extension of their rights to the UFC PPV and UFC Fight Night, but they would still be able to show the UFC's TV shows like UFC Unleashed, UFC Main Event & classics WEC Events. This was announced on their Facebook page on January 4, 2014.

On March 1, 2014 it was announced that C More & Canal 9 & Canal 8 Sport in Denmark has made a new deal with UFC, they get the rights to the UFC PPV and UFC Fight Night for 2014 & 2015. This was announced on their Facebook page.

On March 14, 2014, it emerged that TV4 Group and C More Entertainment, might sell Canal 8 Sport and Canal 9 in Denmark because of the poor economy, according to the newspaper BT, they are currently negotiating with TV 2 Denmark and SBS Discovery Media.

On June 26, 2014, it was announced that Canal 9 & Canal 8 Sport had lost one of their strongest football rights, The Danish Superliga from the 2015–16 season, to Viasat and SBS Discovery Media.

Later on June 26, 2014, it was announced that Discovery Networks Northern Europe and C More Entertainment has entered into an agreement that Discovery Networks Northern Europe has the option to purchase Canal 8 Sport and Canal 9 of C More Entertainment in 2015.
The Agreement is an extension of the SBS Discovery Media has just signed a six-year agreement for the rights to two weekly matches from The Danish Superliga. The two matches as SBS Discovery Media bought is the 2nd and 5th match the selection from every round (the matches that Canal 9 has been showing since 2009] and the agreement will take effect from season 2015/16 and will run for six years. And the plan is to continue The Danish Superliga on Canal 8 Sport and Canal 9 after summer 2015.

The agreement with C More Entertainment also means that Discovery Networks Northern Europe August 1, 2014 will takes over the sale of television advertising on the two channels.

On July 18, 2014, Canal 9 & Canal 8 Sport announced on their Facebook page that they had not extended their right to Eredivisie.

On September 26, 2014, Discovery Networks Northern Europe announced that they would use the option and buy Canal 8 Sport and Canal 9, the purchase must be approved by the Danish competition authorities and the purchase is expected to take in place during 2015.

2015
On May 27, 2015, The Danish competition authorities announced that they have approved Discovery Networks Northern Europe purchase of Canal 8 Sport & Canal 9, they take over the channels from July 1, 2015.

On May 28, 2015, Discovery Networks Northern Europe announced that they will merge Canal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 in to Eurosport DK in Denmark from July 1, 2015, and take the rights fra the two channel in to one channel and with the best from Eurosport but now in Danish with more rights targeted the Danish viewers, and with 2,400 hours of live sports a year, Eurosport DK will be the channel with the most live sports hours per year. With sportsrights like football from Danish Superliga, Bundesliga, Major League Soccer, Capital One Cup, UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying, Tennis from ATP Tour, WTA Tour and 3 Grand Slam, Cycling from UCI World Tour, Winter sport, Motorsports and much more. At the same time they also announced that Canal 9 will get a new name at a later time, and will still broadcast documentaries, drama & crime series, movies and sports on weekends.

On June 4, 2015, Discovery Networks Northern Europe announced that they had secured the rights to UEFA Europa League for 3 years from the 2015/16 season. It will be broadcast on Canal 9, 6'eren and Eurosport

On Oktober 29, 2015 it vas announced that Modern Times Group had sold half of the rights to Premier League, La Liga and Serie A to Discovery Networks Northern Europe they will share the rights for 3 years from the 2015/16 season. which meant that the Serie A & La Liga will continue to be broadcast on Canal9 in weekends.

2016
In the early 2016 Discovery Networks Northern Europe changed the channel into a retro channel that shows older documentary series from the Discovery Channel and old 80s action & comedy series like Miami Vice, The A-Team, Magnum, P.I. and M*A*S*H and still with football in the weekends.

2017
In the beginning of August 2017, Discovery Networks Northern Europe and Eurosport did not extend the rights to the Bundesliga and it was decided to transfer La Liga exclusively to Eurosport 2 and Serie A would future be exclusively on Canal 9, Still, Canal 9 will broadcast matches from Danish Superliga, plus extra matches from UEFA Europa League, Fa Cup and from the European 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Sports Rights

Football
 UEFA Nations League
 UEFA Europa League
 Danish Superliga
 Fa Cup
 EFL Cup

Past Sports Rights

Football
 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
 UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying
 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
 2011 Copa América
 FIFA World Cup 2010
 Copa del Sol (2010 & 2011)
 Premier League (season 2009/10)
 League Cup (season 2009/10-2011/12 & 2015/16-2016/17)
 The Championship (season 2009/10-2011/12)
 Eredivisie (season 2009/10-2013/14)
 La Liga (season 2009/10-2017/18)
 Copa del Rey (season 2009/10-2017/18)
 Serie A (season 2009/10-2017/18)

Handball
 Handball Supercup 2009
 Bundesliga (season 2009/10-2010/11)
 EHF Champions League (season 2009/10-2010/11)

Tennis
 WTA 2009 BGL Luxembourg Open
 WTA 2011 Hong Kong Tennis Classic
 WTA 2011 Swedish Open
 Various tournaments on the ATP Tour (2010–2015)

Winter Olympics
 2010 Winter Olympics

Fighting
 TNA iMPACT! (2009–2010)
 TNA PPV (2009–2010)
 The Ultimate Fighter (IX – XV)
 Monster Knockouts (2010–2014)
 UFC PPV (2009–2015)
 UFC Fight Night (2009–2015)

American Football
 Lingerie Football League (Season 2010/11-2011/12)

Athletic
 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Powerboat
 F1 Powerboat World Championship (2009–2010)
 Class1 Powerboat Championship (2009–2010)

Beach Volley
 2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships

Poker
 Poker After Dark
 National Heads-Up Poker Championship
 High Stakes Poker

Programming

Advertisements
All advertisement sales are handled by Discovery Networks Nordic.

References

External links
 Official website
 Official Facebook site

Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA


Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti (born 1976), also known as Shaykh Afifi, is the KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He is also the Islamic Centre Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is the first Malay to be appointed to such a position in this university. Elsewhere, he is a visiting professor of Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia. He has also received widespread media recognition across the globe.

In 2010, Afifi al-Akiti was appointed Privy Councillor to the State of Perak, Malaysia, by the Crown Prince of Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah.

Afifi al-Akiti is listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims since 2010. In 2009, along with Professor Muhammad Abdel Haleem and the IIIT, Afifi al-Akiti was shortlisted for the Annual UK Muslim Awards, in one of its 15 coveted Awards for Excellence, the Allama Iqbal Award for Creativity in Islamic Thought. In 2011, Afifi al-Akiti was awarded the Darjah Paduka Mahkota Perak (PMP), the Malaysian equivalent to the British CBE. In 2012, he was the sole recipient of the Darjah Dato' Paduka Cura Si-Manja Kini (DPCM) in that year's Sultan of Perak Birthday Honours List, which carries the Malaysian title of Dato'.

Education
Afifi al-Akiti, who comes from Malaysia, is trained as a theologian and philologist in both the Islamic and Western traditions: educated originally at the feet of the ulema of the Muslim world, he subsequently received a First Class degree in Scholastic philosophy and the History of science from the Queen's University Belfast, where he was awarded various scholarships to read for his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Oxford. His areas of expertise are Islamic theology, philosophy and science.

Afifi al-Akiti completed his DPhil in Medieval Arabic Philosophy from Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar in 2008. His thesis identifies and systematically considers for the first time a group of philosophical writings, called the Madnun corpus, attributed to Islam's greatest theologian, al-Ghazali (d. 505/1111). His discoveries are based on a survey of nearly 50 medieval Arabic manuscripts. Besides acquainting scholars with this remarkable new body of source material, his three-volume study also presents a critical edition of the most advanced and technical work of this corpus, the manual on metaphysics and natural philosophy called the Major Madnun.

Defending the Transgressed
On 23 July 2005, just days after the London bombings, Afifi al-Akiti wrote Defending the Transgressed by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians (Arabic: Mudafi' al-Mazlum bi-Radd al-Muhamil 'ala Qital Man La Yuqatil), the foreword of which was described by Gibril Haddad as a "fatwa" or a "response by a qualified Muslim scholar against the killing of civilians". Furthermore:

 Upon reading Shaykh Afifi's fatwa do not be surprised to find that you have probably never before seen such clarity of thought and expression together with breadth of knowledge of Islamic Law applied (by a non-native speaker) to define key Islamic concepts pertaining to the conduct of war and its jurisprudence, its arena and boundaries, suicide bombing, the reckless targeting of civilians, and more.

This work was first published freely available on the Internet. It was written in response to a statement issued by the radical group al-Muhajiroun, which refers to the 9/11 hijackers as the "Magnificent 19", and claims that while Muslims who live in the West are not allowed to wage war against the government, Muslims who live elsewhere do not face the same prohibition. In fact, the leader of al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Muhammad, even argues that the British government had broken a supposed "covenant of security" with its Muslim citizens when it embarked on its anti-terror crackdown by introducing anti-terror legislation and indefinite detention of terror suspects. British Muslims therefore had every right to consider themselves at war with the government, he claims. Countering this argument, Afifi al-Akiti says that Omar Bakri has no authority to issue such a war directive as only a Muslim government could issue one. If a Muslim were to carry out such an attack, he would be a murderer and not a martyr or hero.

As a result of its huge online popularity, Defending the Transgressed was subsequently published as a book by Aqsa Press (Birmingham) and Warda Publications (Hellenthal, Germany) in September 2005. A year later the Defending the Transgressed appeared (as second edition) in The State We Are In  – a collection containing contributions on the same topic by other notable Muslim scholars, including the likes of Hamza Yusuf and Abdallah Bin Bayyah.  Its third edition is published in 2009 as part of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures (OAL) 2006 series, War Against Terror.

So far, Defending the Transgressed has been translated into a number of languages including German, Spanish, Albanian and Swedish.

Honours

 Commander of the Order of the Perak State Crown (PMP) (2011)
 Knight of the Order of Cura Si Manja Kini (DPCM) – Dato’ (2012)

 Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown of Selangor (DPMS) – Dato’ (2015)

References

External links
 Texts by Shaykh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti
 Dr Afifi al-Akiti Faculty of Theology Staff Profile
 Dr Afifi al-Akiti Academia.edu Page
 OCIS Fellows' Profiles

Video links
 Anak Melayu Pertama Menjadi Pensyarah di Universiti Oxford
 Dr. Afifi al-Akiti @ Sudut Pandang Astro Awani
 The Hidden Treasure of Imam al-Ghazali
 Scholars and activists offer some wise words to the YMAG
 Buletin Utama TV3 – Bersama Dr. Afifi Al-Akiti
 New Statesman – Suicide Bombers

Press links
 Scholar Urges Ulama To Be Equipped With Other Knowledge
 Ulama Perlu Lengkapi Diri Dengan Pengetahun Lain, Kata Cendekiawan Oxford
 Penseur malaisien: Oulémas musulmans doivent apprendre les nouvelles sciences
 Muslim perlu hidupkan semula semangat penyelidikan (Berita Harian)
 Watch This Face: Dr Afifi al-Akiti (Emel, issue no. 62, Nov 2009)
 New Statesman – Suicide attacks are un-Islamic
 Syed Jaafar, Muhammad Afifi dilantik ahli majlis MAAIAMP (Utusan Malaysia)
 King, Wan Azizah join top Muslim influence list (Malaysian Insider)
 Muslim berpengaruh: Senarai Malaysia naik, Nik Aziz bukan lagi 50 teratas (Utusan Malaysia, 14 November 2010)
 Understand each other to prevent conflict (Brunei Times)

21st-century Muslim theologians
Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford
Malaysian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Living people
Academic staff of Universiti Teknologi MARA
Malaysian writers
1976 births
Academics of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Knights Commander of the Order of the Crown of Selangor


Canyon Dreams is the fortieth major release and (although mostly recorded in 1986) it was released as the fourteenth soundtrack album by German band Tangerine Dream. It was recorded in 1986 and released in 1991 on compact disc and compact cassette formats. The music was written as a sound accompaniment for an eponymous scenic video film about the Grand Canyon by Jan Nickman, released by the record label Miramar in 1987 on VHS, Betamax and LaserDisc. The album's tracks are divided into various episodes and related to the titles of the cuts.

This album has musical influences from Native American cultures. Edgar Froese, Christoph Franke, and Paul Haslinger created sequenced, atmospheric soundscapes using a Native American pace and native flutes to give the disc a feel of the American Southwest. The execution is recognizable as a product of the Berlin School of electronic music, and brought Tangerine Dream their first Grammy nomination.

The music on Canyon Dreams has influenced contemporary musicians, including Soulfood, Steve Roach, Matthias Gohl, and Michael Stearns.

History
In 1991, the soundtrack of the video release Canyon Dreams was released as the first TD album by the Seattle-based company Miramar, beginning the band's Seattle Years period. Canyon Dreams was nominated for the Grammy for Best New Age Album 1991. Some months before its release, a bootleg version of the soundtrack titled The Canyon Dreams, featuring the music from the video, was released. The music on the official soundtrack was partially remixed with slightly different running times and features the bonus track "Colorado Dawn" composed by Jerome Froese.

The album was re-released in 1999 by TDI; this release features an additional track, "Rocky Mountain Hawk", and a redesigned booklet, which includes the following sleeve notes about the Grand Canyon:
Two billion years of geological evidence of the earth's history is exposed in the canyon's rock walls, more than can be observed anywhere else in the world. Travelling The canyon's length requires a river journey of 277 miles, through canyons varying in distance from less than a half-mile to more than eighteen miles apart, and through depths reaching nearly 600 feet. Early visitors named many of the large buttes after ancient gods. Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, Venus, Vishnu, Deva, Shiva and Brahma have temples here, while Vulcan and Wotan have thrones named in their honor. The Paiute Indians believed the canyon had been created by the god Tavwoats to separate the world of the living from the lands beyond death. Havasupai and Hulapai Indians believed the river was the runoff from an earth-covering flood, much like the one Noah experienced.

In March 2009, the album was re-released with a different cover design as part of a series of 60 CD and DVD releases by the Germany-based record label Membran.

Track listing

Personnel
 Edgar Froese
 Chris Franke
 Paul Haslinger

References

1991 albums
Tangerine Dream albums


This page shows the results of the 1999 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 1999 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Havana, Cuba from May 4 to May 9, 1999. The top four teams qualified for the 1999 Pan American Tournament, scheduled for July 14 to July 25 at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Competing nations

Preliminary round

1999-05-04

1999-05-05

1999-05-06

1999-05-04

1999-05-05

1999-05-06

Consolidation Round
1999-05-08 — 5th/8th place

1999-05-08 — 1st/4th place

Final round
1999-05-09 — 7th/8th place

1999-05-09 — 5th/6th place

1999-05-09 — 3rd/4th place

1999-05-09 — 1st/2nd place

Final ranking

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References
LatinBasket
Results

Centrobasket
1998–99 in North American basketball
1999 in Central American sport
1999 in Caribbean sport
1999 in Cuban sport
International basketball competitions hosted by Cuba


"Baby Not on Board" is the fourth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 2, 2008. The episode features Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) after he is accidentally left at home when the Griffins head for the Grand Canyon. The family soon notice his absence, and they rush home; however, Peter (also voiced by MacFarlane) makes it more difficult for his family because of his immature behavior. Meanwhile, Stewie realizes how much he depends on his family while he is alone.

The episode was written by Mark Hentemann and directed by Julius Wu. It received mixed reviews from critics for its storyline and cultural references. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 9.97 million homes in its original airing. The episode featured a guest performance by Jon Benjamin, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. "Baby Not on Board" was released on DVD along with eight other episodes from the season on June 16, 2009.

Plot
Peter visits the Quahog Mini-Mart where Chris works after a visit to the local spa with his friends. After he threatens to sue the store for Chris' "sexual remarks", Peter is given an unlimited gas coupon for a year by Carl. Peter begins to take advantage of the card, even taking a trip into space, until Lois suggests that the family travel to the Grand Canyon. They leave early the next morning but inadvertently leave Stewie behind at home, only realizing that when they visit the site of 9/11. They first contact Joe but cannot get a hold of him. They then contact Cleveland and Quagmire to look after Stewie. After not receiving any calls from either of them, Lois insists that the family return home to Stewie. While driving the car, Peter somehow enters the car next to them, causing the Griffins' car to crash. When the family attempts to ride a train home, Peter spends the last of the money that they saved on curtain rings. Lois is furious and blames all their misfortunes on Peter's stupidity, only to feel ashamed when he informs her that everyone else respects him for who he is. Eventually, Brian is able to get the family a ride in a pickup truck bound for Quahog.

Meanwhile, Stewie finds out that he has been left alone, and takes his solitude to his advantage. When Cleveland and Quagmire arrive, Stewie believes that they are intruders and sprays tear gas all around them to knock them out. Stewie realizes his mistake, and he chains them to the Griffins' basement wall of his house and forcing them to watch the DirecTV help channel on a continuous loop. When Stewie consumes all of the food in the house, he applies for a job at fast food restaurant McBurgertown but is eventually fired for stealing food, despite his insistence it was due to be thrown out. Eventually, Stewie realizes how much he depends on his family and is thrilled to see them return.

The episode ends with a scene of Cleveland and Quagmire monotonously reciting what is being said on TV; in the broadcast version, Cleveland eventually tells Quagmire, "Did I tell you I'm getting a spinoff?", while in the DVD release Quagmire simply curses in frustration.

Production

"Baby Not on Board" was written by eventual series showrunner and executive producer Mark Hentemann, who joined the show as a writer in its third season. It was directed by Julius Wu on his first episode of the season, although he would go on to direct the episode "420" later in the season. Series regulars Peter Shin and James Purdum served as supervising directors for the episode. The episode marked the first time since the show's creation that celebrities do not feature wide, circular eyes. The staff wanted to make the celebrities look more realistic in contrast to the regular characters; a good example of this can be seen on Patrick Swayze's character design for the episode. The Standards and Practices had a problem with Peter saying "masturbate", so staff writers edited it to "rub one out". The episode revealed that the character Cleveland Brown was going to start in his own show, which turned out to be the Family Guy spin-off, The Cleveland Show, which later premiered in September 2009.

"Baby Not on Board", along with the first eight episodes of the seventh season, were released on DVD by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada on June 16, 2009, one month after it had completed broadcast on television. The "Volume 7" DVD release features bonus material including deleted scenes, animatics, and commentaries for every episode.

In addition to the regular cast, voice actor Jon Benjamin, actor Joe Flaherty, and actor Jacob Pressman guest starred in the episode. Recurring voice actors Alexandra Breckenridge, writer Steve Callaghan, writer Danny Smith, writer Alec Sulkin, and writer John Viener made minor appearances. Recurring guest voice actors Adam West and Patrick Warburton made guest appearances as well.

Cultural references

"Baby Not on Board" makes several media references. The plot itself is inspired by the film Home Alone. At the Quahog Day Spa, Peter mentions that he needs the sauna's treatment after a stressful morning; the scene cuts to a non-sequitur that parodies the opening scene of Back to the Future. Another scene in the spa references the film Ghost; representations of the film's stars, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, are on top of Peter's back giving him a massage. After Lois chastises Peter, he recites the speech John Candy made in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles nearly verbatim. Chris asks his friend why in The Lord of the Rings films Frodo and Gandalf walk to get to Mordor instead of taking the Eagle that was used at the end of the story. When driving to the Grand Canyon, the family sings Bette Midler's "The Rose". When Stewie chains Cleveland and Quagmire to the basement wall, he forces them to watch the DirecTV help channel.

When Lois says they have not heard from Joe, he is seen screaming the Rifleman's Creed at his wheelchair like marines do with their rifles in the bootcamp sequence in Full Metal Jacket. One of the cutaways depicts Robin Williams in the film Patch Adams, where he fruitlessly attempts to amuse child patients with his comedy routines, driving one child patient to unplug his life support. When the Griffins return home to Stewie, the background music is an instrumental of "Somewhere In My Memory" by John Williams, which scores a similar scene in Home Alone. When Stewie is exploring the house he finds a Hustler magazine under his brother's bed, curious of what a vagina looks like. He instantly becomes horrified by the sight of a vagina on one of the pages, then proceeds to destroy the magazine by opening fire on it with an M3 submachine gun he retrieves from hammerspace, emptying the entire magazine of the weapon.  Stewie mentions that Aquaman is pretty useless if the crime does not take place on water. Other references included jokes about the television series Lost and actors John Forsythe and Sean Connery.

Reception
In its original broadcast on Fox in the United States on November 2, 2008, "Baby Not on Board" was watched by 9.97 million homes and acquired a 5.0 Nielsen rating, the audience measurement systems developed to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States, making it the highest rated episode of the season.

The episode received mixed reviews from television sources and critics. Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C, calling it "without a doubt, the most meta episode I've seen in quite some time" and said that "if Family Guy wants to make the show itself the butt of every joke, it needs to ramp up the conflict and tone down on the flights of fancy–most of those are funny for a bit, but excess can ruin just about anything." Another complaint of the episode were the Back to the Future references and the storyline.

Ahsan Haque of IGN gave the episode a negative review, calling it "definitely one of the worst Family Guy episodes in years". He criticized the jokes, calling some pointless and most of them tasteless, saying that the funnier moments of the episode were not enough to make it a worthwhile episode. Robin Pierson of The TV Critic also gave the episode a negative review, calling it "pointless television", but said that it featured some entertaining jokes.

References

External links

2008 American television episodes
Family Guy (season 7) episodes
Television episodes about vacationing


Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something and 5 is a 2000 EP by Guided by Voices. "This is a song about smoking dope, having cookouts, and hanging out in the West Side, it's called Dayton, Ohio 19 Something circa and 5", as put by front-man, Robert Pollard. The track is also featured on the album Tonics and Twisted Chasers.

Track listing
Side A
"Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something and 5 (Live)"
Side B
"Travels"
"No Welcome Wagons"
"Selective Service"

References

2000 EPs
Guided by Voices EPs


Ernest Smith (1914–2005) was a Canadian soldier and recipient of the VC.

Ernest Smith may also refer to:

Ernest Smith (artist) (1907-1975), native American artist
Ernest Smith (baseball) (1908–?), Negro league baseball player
Ernest Smith (boxer) (1912–?), Irish Olympic boxer
Ernest Smith (cricketer, born 1869) (1869–1945), English cricketer
Ernest Smith (cricketer, born 1888) (1888–1972), English cricketer
Tiger Smith (Ernest James Smith, 1886–1979), English cricketer
Ernest A. Smith (1864–1952), Canadian politician
Bert Smith (footballer, born 1896) (Ernest Edwin Smith, 1896–?), footballer who played for Cardiff, Middlesbrough and Watford
E. D. Smith (Ernest D'Israeli Smith, 1853–1948), Canadian businessman and politician
Ernest J. Smith (1919–2004), Canadian architect
Ernest Lester Smith (E. Lester Smith, 1904–1992), English biochemist
Ernest O. Smith (18851935), American educator
C. Ernest Smith (1894–1970), American lawyer, politician, and judge

See also
Ernie Smith (disambiguation)
Ernest Somers-Smith (1895–1950), English cricketer
Ernest Smythe (1904–1975), English cricketer and Indian Army officer


NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler (stylized as NIN|JA on the cover) is a free compilation EP by Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper Social Club as part of the Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction 2009 NINJA tour. It was released on March 20, 2009 for free, on the tour's official website. Both of Street Sweeper Social Club's songs that appeared on the album, "Clap for The Killers" & "The Oath", later appeared on their self-titled album. The two Nine Inch Nails tracks, "Not So Pretty Now" and "Non-Entity" were both originally recorded during the With Teeth sessions, but did not make it onto the final record. The two Jane's Addiction's songs are re-recorded versions of songs that had originally only live versions, from the band's first official record.

Track listing

Personnel
Nine Inch Nails
 Trent Reznor - performance (2, 5), production

Jane's Addiction
 Perry Farrell - vocals (1, 4)
 Eric Avery - bass (1, 4)
 Dave Navarro - guitar (1, 4)
 Stephen Perkins - drums (1, 4)

Street Sweeper Social Club
 Tom Morello - guitar (3, 6)
 Boots Riley - vocals (3, 6)

References

External links

Nine Inch Nails compilation albums
Jane's Addiction albums
Street Sweeper Social Club albums
2009 EPs
Sampler albums
Albums produced by Trent Reznor
2009 compilation albums
The Null Corporation compilation albums
The Null Corporation EPs


Linda Andrews (born 19 October 1973) is a Faroese singer who won the second season of the Danish version of The X Factor, and became the first Faroese winner of it.

Early life
She was born and raised in Tórshavn. She lived for many years with her father (a taxi driver) and mother in the western part of Torshavn called Vesturbýurin. She attended a Pentecostal church called Filadelfia until early adulthood. She was very active in youth work and in the choirs. During the early 1990s she became a known singer because of her appearance as one of the lead singers in Filadelfia. She also was in the Filadelfia Youth Choir and the Filadelfia Choir. She also sang with Vanja Carlsen (of the Carlsens) and was seen as a rival to the singer scene domination in the Filadelfia church. Later on in life she went Frydensberg and then after that she went to live abroad. She has a daughter, with whom she lives in Valby. Her daughter got her to join X Factor, and she eventually auditioned in Copenhagen. Andrews had recently divorced her husband of seven years, and she wanted to prove to her daughter that she could stand on her own feet. She comes from a large family in the Faroe Islands and has 4 older siblings. Prior to her rise to fame on X Factor, Andrews made her solo album debut in 2008 with Revelation, a gospel album, and prior to that, she released recordings such as "Hot Santa," a Christmas-themed novelty single from 2006.

Performances during X Factor

The X Factor
Throughout the series, she was mentored by Lina Rafn of Infernal. In the final, she sang "So What" by Pink and a new song written by Søren Rasted of Aqua and Hej Matematik.

Post X Factor
After winning the X Factor, she was offered a major-label recording contract with Sony Music. Andrews made her major-label début with "Det Bedste Til Sidst" written by Søren Rasted of the Danish pop band Aqua. The song was released in April 2009, just after Andrews had debuted the song on the season finale of X Factor (along with "So What" by P!nk). A couple months after releasing "Det Bedste Til Sidst," Andrews made her full-length album début with Into the Light (2009), primarily in English. It peaked at number two on the Danish albums chart and had two singles "Into the Light" and "Mirror Mirror". In 2013, she provided backing vocals for Hannah Mancini who represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song, "Straight into Love". In 2017, she was one of the backing vocalists for Anja Nissen who represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song, "Where I Am". In 2018, she made another return to the contest, this time as a member of the Danish jury.

Discography

Studio albums
2008: Revelation
2009: Into the Light
2009: Husker du julen...
2009: Jólasangir
2011: Tænder et lys
2017: Linda Andrews
2019: Live at Studio 55
2020: Merry Christmas

Singles
2006: "Hot Santa"
2006: "Divalicious"
2009: "Det bedste til sidst"
2009: "Into the Light"
2009: "Mirror Mirror"
2009: '"Tænder et lys (Til du kommer hjem)"
2013: '"Tears"
2013: '"Never gonna let you down"
 2013: '"Save Me" (TFX feat. Linda Andrews)
 2013: '"Jeg gi'r dig tid"
 2016: "Born again in your eyes"
 2017 "Save your love for me"
 2019 "Awake"

References

1973 births
Living people
People from Tórshavn
Faroese women singers
English-language singers from the Faroe Islands
The X Factor winners
21st-century Danish  women singers


Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya is a black and white 1963 Indian Hindi film, directed by B.S. Ranga. The film starred Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Pran, Om Prakash, Helen, Agha and Prithviraj Kapoor. The film's music was by Ravi Shankar.

Plot
Rajesh (Shammi Kapoor) is the son of a rich father, Kunwar Sahib (Prithviraj Kapoor). Rajesh falls in love with Savita (B. Saroja Devi) a daughter of a teacher Ramdas (Nazir Hussain), who Rajesh got sacked and humiliated when he was younger. Savita successfully prods Rajesh to study harder in college instead of being a layabout and he ranks first in the whole college and wins a gold medal. Kunwar Sahib is not happy with his son's love affair and refuses to accept their love. But Rajesh marries Savita without his father's permission and comes home. Rajesh's father Kunwar Sahib does not greet them or accept them and he consequently insults Savita. Not happy with that, Rajesh leaves home and they start living at Jeevan's (Pran) house, who is one of his friends. Jeevan starts poisoning Rajesh's mind against Savita because Savita humiliated and slapped Jeevan when he tried to woo her in college. Big misunderstandings start creeping into their relationship. No long after the couple separate due to these misunderstandings that have been caused between them. After a while Jeevan's friend Rita (Helen) starts feeling guilty of the misunderstandings that have been caused and brings out the truth to Rajesh he feels guilty for his mistake.

Cast
 Prithviraj Kapoor as Kunwar Sahib
 Shammi Kapoor as Rajesh
 B. Saroja Devi as Savita
 Pran as Jeevan
 Om Prakash as Asharam
 Helen as Rita
 Agha as Banke
 Shubha Khote as Sarla
 Rukmani Devi as Parvati
 Pushpavalli as Kamla

Music

References

External links

1960s Hindi-language films
1963 films
Films scored by Ravi
Films directed by B. S. Ranga


Ernie Smith is the name of:

 Ernie Smith (baseball, born 1899) (1899–1973), American baseball player
 Ernie Smith (baseball, born 1931) (1931–2012), American Negro league baseball player
 Ernie Smith (tackle) (1909–1985), American football player
 Ernie Smith (American football coach) (born ?), American football coach in 1950s
 Ernie Smith (footballer) (1912–1996), English professional footballer
 Ernie Smith (singer) (born 1945), Jamaican reggae singer
 Ernie Smith (politician), Jamaican politician

See also
 Ernest Smith (disambiguation)
 List of people with surname Smith


The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet is a 2002 EP by Guided by Voices. It collects the b-sides of the singles from their 2002 album Universal Truths and Cycles, in addition to two unreleased songs.

Track listing
"Visit This Place" - 2:35 - B-side of Cheyenne 7"
"Swooping Energies" - 1:47
"Keep It Coming" - 2:40 - B-side of Everywhere With Helicopter CD single
"Action Speaks Volumes" - 3:23 - B-side of Everywhere With Helicopter 7"
"Stronger Lizards" - 0:55
"The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet" - 1:32 - B-side of Everywhere With Helicopter CD single
"Request Pharmaceuticals" - 2:12 - B-side of Back to the Lake CD single
"For Liberty" - 0:54 - B-side of Back to the Lake CD single
"Dig Through My Window" - 3:51 - B-side of Back to the Lake 7"
"Beg for a Wheelbarrow" - 3:15 - B-side of Universal Truths and Cycles 7"

2002 EPs
Guided by Voices EPs


This is a compilation of the releases for the UK independent record label Heavenly Recordings.

Artists
See Heavenly Recordings#Artists for a list of artists.

Albums
 HVNLP1 - Foxbase Alpha, Saint Etienne (1991)
 HVNLP2 - The Rockingbirds,The Rockingbirds (1992)
 HVNLP3 - Drop Out, East Village (1993)
 HVNLP4 - Wildwood, The Wishing Stones (1991)
 HVNLP5 - Always..., Espiritu (Unreleased)
 HVNLP6 - So Tough, Saint Etienne (1993)
 HVNLP7 - You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone, Saint Etienne (1993)
 HVNLP8 - Tiger Bay, Saint Etienne (1994)
 HVNLP9 - I Love to Paint, Saint Etienne (1995)
 HVNLP10 - Too Young to Die - The Singles, Saint Etienne (1995)
 HVNLP11 - Annie on One, Various Artists (1996)
 HVNLP12 - Northern Uproar, Northern Uproar (1996)
 HVNLP13 - Live at The Social Volume 1 - Mixed By The Chemical Brothers, Various Artists (1996)
 HVNLP14 - High in a Basement , Various Artists (1996)
 HVNLP16 - Casino Classics, Saint Etienne (1996)
 HVNLP17 - Trailer Park, Beth Orton (1996)
 HVNLP19 - Yesterday Tomorrow Today, Northern Uproar (1997)
 HVNLP22 - Central Reservation, Beth Orton (1999)
 HVNLP24 - Afterglow, Dot Allison (1999)
 HVNLP26 - Lost Souls, Doves (2000)
 HVNLP27 - Maplewood EP, Ed Harcourt (2000)
 HVNLP29 - Lost Sides (promo), Doves (2000)
 HVNLP31 - Here Be Monsters, Ed Harcourt (2001)
 HVNLP32 - Smash the System: Singles and More, Saint Etienne (2001)
 HVNLP35 - The Last Broadcast, Doves (2002)
 HVNLP36 - Highly Evolved, The Vines (2002)
 HVNLP37 - Daybreaker, Beth Orton (2002)
 HVNLP39 - From Every Sphere, Ed Harcourt (2003)
 HVNLP45 - Pass in Time: The Definitive Collection, Beth Orton (2003)
 HVNLP46 - Lost Sides, Doves (2003)
 HVNLP49 - Strangers, Ed Harcourt (2004)
 HVNLP50 - Some Cities, Doves (2005)
 HVNLP53 - The Magic Numbers, The Magic Numbers (2005)
 HVNLP54 - Elephant's Graveyard, Ed Harcourt (2005)
 HVNLP55 - The Beautiful Lie, Ed Harcourt (2006)
 HVNLP57 - Those the Brokes, The Magic Numbers (2006)
 HVNLP59 - Thirst for Romance, Cherry Ghost (2007)
 HVNLP63 - Until Tomorrow Then: The Best of Ed Harcourt, Ed Harcourt (2007)
 HVNLP67 - Kingdom of Rust, Doves (2009)
 HVNLP69 - London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne (2009)
 HVNLP70 - Continental - Deluxe Edition, Saint Etienne (2009)
 HVNLP72 - Sound of Water - Deluxe Edition, Saint Etienne (2009)
 HVNLP73 - The Runaway, The Magic Numbers (2010)
 HVNLP76 - The Soft Pack, The Soft Pack (2010)
 HVNLP78 - The Places Between: The Best of Doves, Doves (2010)
 HVNLP79 - Beneath This Burning Shoreline, Cherry Ghost (2010)
 HVNLP80 - "Tales From Turnpike House", Saint Etienne
 HVNLP81 - "Losing Sleep", Edwyn Collins
 HVNLP82 - "Songs For The Ravens", Sea of Bees
 HVNLP83 - "Love & Nature", LCMDF
 HVNLP84 - "The Hill", James Walbourne
 HVNLP85 - "The Head And The Heart", The Head And The Heart
 HVNLP86 - “Tin Tabernacle”, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
 HVNLP87 - “Quality, First, Last & Forever!”, Trevor & Hannah-Lou
 HVNLP88 - “100 Acres of Sycamore”, Fionn Regan
 HVNLP89 - "FOLKROCK", Various Artists
 HVNLP90 - “Pray To Be Free”, James Levy & The Blood Red Rose
 HVNLP91 - “Noah and the Paper Moon”, Stealing Sheep
 HVNLP92 - “Words and Music”, Saint Etienne
 HVNLP93 - “Orangefarben”, Sea Of Bees
 HVNLP94 - “Toy”, Toy
 HVNLP95 - “Into The Diamond Sun”, Stealing Sheep
 HVNLP96 - “Invasion Of Love", Out Cold
 HVNLP98 - "Black Pudding", Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood
 HVNLP99 - "Clarietta", Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs
 HVNLP100 - "Sun Structures", Temples
 HVNLP101 - "Imitations", Mark Lanegan
 HVNLP102 - "Join The Dots", Toy

Singles and EPs

HVN 1 - 100
 HVN 1 - "The World According To Sly & Lovechild", Sly & Lovechild (1990)
 HVN 2 - "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", Saint Etienne (1990)
 HVN 3 - "It's On", "Flowered Up" (1990)
 HVN 4 - "Kiss and Make Up", Saint Etienne (1990)
 HVN 6 - "Circles", East Village (1990)
 HVN 7 - "Phobia", "Flowered Up" (1990)
 HVN 8 - "Motown Junk", Manic Street Preachers (1991)
 HVN 9 - "Nothing Can Stop Us", Saint Etienne (1991)
 HVN 10 - "You Love Us", Manic Street Preachers (1991)
 HVN 11 - "Destined to be free/There's a riot going on" Fabulous (1991)
 HVN 14 - "A Good Day For You", The Rockingbirds (1991)
 HVN 15 - "Join Our Club", Saint Etienne (1992)
 HVN 16 - "Weekender", Flowered Up (1992)
 HVN 17 - "Jonathan, Jonathan", The Rockingbirds (1992)
 HVN 19 - The Fred EP, Flowered Up, Saint Etienne and The Rockingbirds (1992)
 HVN 20 - "Francisca", Espiritu (1992)
 HVN 21 - "Gradually Learning", The Rockingbirds (1992)
 HVN 23 - "Avenue", Saint Etienne (1992)
 HVN 25 - "You're in a Bad Way", Saint Etienne (1993)
 HVN 28 - "Conquistador", Espiritu (1993)
 HVN 29 - "Hobart Paving", Saint Etienne (1993)
 HVN 36 - "Xmas 93", Saint Etienne (1993)
 HVN 37 - "Pale Movie", Saint Etienne (1994)
 HVN 40 - "Like a Motorway", Saint Etienne (1994)
 HVN 42 - "Hug My Soul", Saint Etienne (1994)
 HVN 47 - "Rollercoaster/Rough Boys", Northern Uproar (1995)
 HVN 50 - "He's on the Phone", Saint Etienne (1995)
 HVN 51 - "From a Window/This Morning", Northern Uproar (1996)
 HVN 52 - "Livin' It Up", Northern Uproar (1996)
 HVN 53 - "Work Mi Body", Monkey Mafia featuring Patra (1996)
 HVN 54 - "Town", Northern Uproar (1996)
 HVN 60 - "She Cries Your Name", Beth Orton (1996)
 HVN 64 - "Touch Me with Your Love", Beth Orton (1996)
 HVN 65 - "Someone's Daughter", Beth Orton (1997)
 HVN 68 - "She Cries Your Name", Beth Orton (1997)
 HVN 69 - The Blue Man EP, Famous Times (1997)
 HVN 70 - "Any Way You Look", Northern Uproar (1997)
 HVN 72 - "Best Bit", Beth Orton (1997)
 HVN 73 - "A Girl I Once Knew", Northern Uproar (1997)
 HVN 77 - "Goodbye", Northern Uproar (1997)
 HVN 87 - "Mo' Pop", Dot Allison (1999)
 HVN 89 - "Stolen Car", Beth Orton (1999)
 HVN 91 - "Message Personnel", Dot Allison (1999)
 HVN 93 - "Close Your Eyes", Dot Allison (1999)
 HVN 95 - "The Cedar Room", Doves (2000)
 HVN 96 - "Catch the Sun", Doves (2000)
 HVN 98 - "The Man Who Told Everything", Doves (2000)
 HVN 100 - NME Presents: A Taste of Heavenly Recordings, Various (2002)

HVN 101 - 200
 HVN 101 - "Something in My Eye", Ed Harcourt (2001)
 HVN 104 - "She Fell Into My Arms", Ed Harcourt (2001)
 HVN 107 - "Apple of My Eye", Ed Harcourt (2002)
 HVN 110 - "Shanghai", Ed Harcourt (2002) [cancelled release]
 HVN 111 - "There Goes the Fear", Doves (2002)
 HVN 112 - "Highly Evolved", The Vines (2002)
 HVN 113 - "Get Free", The Vines (2002)
 HVN 116 - "Pounding", Doves (2002)
 HVN 120 - "Outtathaway!", The Vines (2002)
 HVN 121 - "Still I Dream of It"/"The Ghosts Parade", Ed Harcourt (2002)
 HVN 125 - "Anywhere", Beth Orton (2002)
 HVN 126 - "Caught by the River", Doves (2002)
 HVN 127 - "All of Your Days Will Be Blessed", Ed Harcourt (2003)
 HVN 129 - "Thinking About Tomorrow", Beth Orton (2002)
 HVN 130 - "Watching the Sun Come Up", Ed Harcourt (2003)
 HVN 140 - "This One's for You", Ed Harcourt (2004)
 HVN 144 - "22 Days", 22-20s (2004)
 HVN 145 - "Black and White Town", Doves (2005)
 HVN 146 - "Born in the '70s", Ed Harcourt (2004)
 HVN 149 - "Loneliness", Ed Harcourt (2005)
 HVN 150 - "Snowden", Doves (2005)
 HVN 151 - "Forever Lost", The Magic Numbers (2005)
 HVN 152 - "Sky Starts Falling", Doves (2005)
 HVN 157 - "Visit from the Dead Dog", Ed Harcourt (2006)
 HVN 161 - "Revolution in the Heart", Ed Harcourt (2006)
 HVN 167 - "Mathematics", Cherry Ghost (2007)
 HVN 168 - "People Help the People", Cherry Ghost (2007)
 HVN 171 - "4 AM", Cherry Ghost (2007)
 HVN 172 - "You Put a Spell on Me", Ed Harcourt (2007)
 HVN 183 - "Burnt Out Car", Saint Etienne (2008)
 HVN 185 - "Method of Modern Love", Saint Etienne (2009)
 HVN 189 - "Kingdom of Rust", Doves (2009)
 HVN 192 - "Winter Hill", Doves (2009)

HVN 201 - 300
 HVN 201 - "Andalucia", Doves (2010)
 HVN202 – "Lines Written in Winter", Fionn Regan
 HVN203 – "Kissing Strangers", Cherry Ghost
 HVN204 – "Why Did You Call", The Magic Numbers
 HVN205 – "Losing Sleep", Edwyn Collins
 HVN206 – "Black Fang", Cherry Ghost
 HVN207 – "The Woods", Sea of Bees
 HVN208 – (Rough Trade bonus disc), Edwyn Collins
 HVN209 – "We Sleep on Stones", Cherry Ghost
 HVN210 - "Gandhi (Andy Weather¬all remix I)", LCMDF
 HVN211 – "Do It Again", Edwyn Collins
 HVN212 – "No One but You", Doug Paisley
 HVN213 – "Lost in My Mind", The Head & The Heart
 HVN214 – "Future Me", LCMDF
 HVN215 – "Wizbot", Sea of Bees
 HVN216 – "The Hill", James Walbourne
 HVN217 – Bee Eee Pee (EP), Sea of Bees
 HVN218 – "I'm Bored", Big Kids
 HVN219 – "In Your Eyes", Edwyn Collins & The Drums
 HVN220 – 3-track EP download ("Passing of Time" - Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, "BBC" - James Walbourne, "The Woods" – Sea of Bees)
 HVN221 – "Spin Me a Rhyme", Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
 HVN222 – "Only a Mother", Cherry Ghost
 HVN223 – "Gnomes", Sea of Bees
 HVN224 – "Extinction", Will Seargent
 HVN225 – "Cool & Bored", LCMDF
 HVN226 – "Making It Count", Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
 HVN227 – "Rivers & Roads", The Head And The Heart
 HVN228 – "For a Nightingale", Fionn Regan
 HVN229 – "Take Me to the Mountains", LCMDF
 HVN230 – "Drugs and Money", James Walbourne
 HVN231 – "Pray to Be Free", James Levy & The Blood Red Rose
 HVN232 – "Ghosts", The Head and The Heart
 HVN233 – "Left Myself Behind", Toy
 HVN234 – "Big Water", Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou
 HVN235 – "List of Distractions", Fionn Regan
 HVN236 – Sneak Into My Room (EP), James Levy & The Blood Red Rose
 HVN237 – Xmas '11 EP, Saint Etienne
 HVN238 – "Tonight", Saint Etienne
 HVN239 – "Broke", Sea of Bees
 HVN240 – "Shut Eye", Stealing Sheep
 HVN241 – "Motoring", Toy
 HVN242 – Promo EP, Toy
 HVN243 – "I've Got Your Music", Saint Etienne
 HVN244 – "Hung to Dry", James Levy and The Blood Red Rose
 HVN245 – "Genevieve", Stealing Sheep
 HVN246 – "Dead and Gone", Toy
 HVN247 – "Lose My Way", Toy
 HVNCB – "Ducks", Charlie Boyer
 HVN249 – "I Watch You", Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs

Discographies of British record labels


The HADAG (full name HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG, literally "HADAG Sea-tourism and Ferry service") is a local public transport company in Hamburg, Germany. It owns and operates passengers ferries across the Elbe River, overseen by and integrated into the network of Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV). In 2013, 10.6 million passenger journeys were made on the HADAG network.

In the 1950s the company operated ferries from Hamburg to England, and in the 1980s, the cruise ship MS Astor.

History

The Hafen-Dampfschifffahrt AG (HADAG) was founded on 8 August 1888, and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg granted the concession to operate ferries in the Port of Hamburg. In 1897, the HADAG owned 47 ferries and took over the smaller Jollenführer Dampfer GmbH. With opening of the Elbe tunnel in 1911, the HADAG line Landungsbrücken — Steinwerder lost 259,000 passengers p.a..

In 1918, with the end of the concession, the HADAG wanted to rise the fare price. The city of Hamburg refused and the company was in danger of liquidation. On 23 October 1918, the city of Hamburg acquired the HADAG. Later it became a subsidiary for the Hamburger Hochbahn (HHA). In 1928 the HHA and HADAG established a shared fare for the trains, trams, and buses of the HHA and the ferries of the HADAG.

In the 1950s, the HADAG operated a ferry to England and to the islands Heligoland and Sylt. In 1966, the last steam ferries were taken out of service. In 1982, HADAG closed the ferry line from Landungsbrücken to the Heligoland island, and started a line from Cuxhaven, with a combined fare with Deutsche Bundesbahn, in 1983. Until 1983, the HADAG owned the cruise ship MS Astor.

Operations

The HADAG runs public transport ferries and pleasure boats on the rivers Elbe and Alster. The public transport is supervised by the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.

Scheduled harbour ferries

Non-scheduled harbour cruises

See also

 Transport in Hamburg
 List of rivers of Hamburg

References

External links

Pictures of the ferries Hadag
Website

Companies based in Hamburg
Ferry companies of Germany
Ferry transport in Hamburg
Transport companies established in 1888
1888 establishments in Germany


2023 estimates
List of countries in Asia-Pacific by GDP (nominal), International Monetary Fund (Estimates for October 2023).

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See also
List of Asian countries by GDP (PPP)
List of Arab League countries by GDP (nominal)

Notes and references

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Edward Wotton may refer to:

Sir Edward Wotton (1489–1551) treasurer of Calais
Edward Wotton (zoologist) (1492–1552), early English zoologist
Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton (1548–1628), English diplomat


Munqeth Mehyar () (born January 16, 1957) serves as Chairman and Jordanian Director of EcoPeace Middle East (formerly Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME)). EcoPeace Middle East is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East. The organization has offices in Amman, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv, employs over 40 paid staff and actively involves hundreds of volunteers.

As Jordanian Director, Mehyar leads EcoPeace activities concerning the Jordan River, the Dead Sea and the Good Water Neighbors Project. As Chairman, his responsibilities include supervising international project development and management, serving as a liaison to and lobbying of governmental and private sector figures and organizations on major regional policy issues relevant to environmental protection, as well as developing international contacts and functional partnerships with international environmental and development institutions. Mehyar has organized dozens of regional conferences, workshops and study tours, supervised regional research on shared ecosystems, co-authored reports and policy papers and speaks regularly on water, peace and security issues, with the main emphasis directed towards the end of Israeli occupation and the creation of an independent "Palestinian State" with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Mehyar received a degree in Regional Planning and Architecture from the University of Louisiana, USA in 1981, upon which he became the planning engineer for South Amman. In addition to his role as the Jordanian EcoPeace Middle East director, he serves as Vice President of the Jordan Society for Sustainable Development. He is also on the Board of Directors of both the Jordan Sports Federation for the Handicapped and the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society.

Mehyar is married with 4 children, and resides in Amman, Jordan.

Awards
In 2000, King Abdullah II awarded Mehyar with The Medal of Distinguished Giving for his charitable activities in Jordan. EcoPeace Middle East's three co-directors—Munqeth Mehyar (Jordan), Gidon Bromberg (Israel) and Nader Al-Khateeb (Palestine) -- were honored by TIME Magazine as Environmental Heroes of 2008 and the organization was granted the prestigious Skoll Award in 2009, Alexander Aristotel Onassis prize for the protection of the environment (Hamburg, 17 November 2010) and Anna Lindh Foundation award 2011. EcoPeace Middle East also received a 2008 SEED Finalist Award. In 2012 he was a Green Prophet Eco Hero for 2011.

Published works

EcoPeace Middle East Reports: co-author
Environmental Peacebuilding Theory and Practice
Identifying Common Environmental Problems and Shared Solutions
Good Water Neighbors
Municipal Cooperation across Conflict Divides - A Preliminary Study
Nature, Agriculture and the Price of Water in Israel
Economic Valuation of Resuscitating the Dead Sea
Advancing Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Dead Sea Basin - Broadening the Debate on Economic and Management Issues
Let the Dead Sea Live
Dead Sea Challenges
One Basin - One Strategy
Jordan River Peace Park Pre Feasibility Study
How Past Trans-boundary Security Arrangements Can Change the Future of Peace Parks in the Tri-partite Region
FoEME Report on the Proposed Red Dead Conduit
Red Sea-Dead Sea Conduit - Geo-Environmental Study Along the Arava Valley
A Seeping Time Bomb: Pollution of the Mountain Aquifer by Solid Waste

For more, see Publications tab on EcoPeace Middle East website

Video
Good Water Neighbors and youth - "Green Mideast Peace"

External links
 EcoPeace Middle East
 TIME Magazine Environmental Heroes 2008 article

Munqeth Mehyar quoted in various articles in The Jordan Times
 "Better Red than Dead: Jordan grapples with water crisis."
 "Jordan Valley town poised to make history, again."
 "Environmental activists warn about global warming effects on Jordan, Palestine."

Video Clips on EcoPeace Middle East Projects
 FoEME Eco-Park in the Zeiglab Basin, Jordan Valley
 Gidon Bromberg on the Jordan River Peace Park
 Gidon Bromberg on the Good Water Neighbors Project

References

Living people
1957 births


Rockoon is the forty-fourth major release and twenty-first studio album released by Tangerine Dream. The album was started in March 1991 and completed January 1992, making it the longest production ever in the band's history until the release of Quantum Gate in 2017. The album was nominated in the US for the "Best New Age Album 1992" Grammy and reached the Top Ten in Billboard New Age charts and the Top Twenty in Billboard Jazz charts.

It is the first full album of Tangerine Dream music as a father and son duo. Saxophone player Linda Spa who joined in 1990 does not appear on this release.

The album was re-released in 1999 on Tangerine Dream's own TDI label with new cover artwork by Edgar Froese.

Track listing

Personnel
Tangerine Dream
 Edgar Froese - composer, musician
 Jerome Froese - composer, musician
Future Tangerine Dream
 Zlatko Perica - musician
Additional musicians:
 Enrico Fernandez - musician
 Richi Wester - musician
Technical:
 David Marino - recording engineer
 Phillip Calvert - recording engineer
 Jeff Robinson - recording engineer

Rockoon Special Edition
Rockoon was accompanied by a special limited single edition CD-5. It included an edited version of the title track, the bonus track "Oriental Haze" featuring Linda Spa and an interview with Edgar Froese.

Big City Dwarves
"Big City Dwarves" was used as a promo single with a release of 200 to 300 copies.

References

1992 albums
Tangerine Dream albums


Li Yan (; born July 19, 1984) is a Chinese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Shanxi Longjin in the China League Two.

Club career
Li started his senior career in 2002 with China League Two club Guangzhou Sunray Cave Easter. He made 14 appearances in 2003 league season and moved to second tier club Guangzhou Sunray Cave in 2004, however he was often used as a substitute in the early years. He was loaned out to Guangzhou Easter's second team, which was about to participate in the 2004–05 Hong Kong First Division League season and returned to Guangzhou in the summer of 2005. Li scored his first goal for Guangzhou on 16 July 2005, three days before his 21st birthday. He scored the winning goal in injury time, which ensured Guangzhou win Qingdao Hailifeng 2-1.

In the 2007 league season Shen Xiangfu came in as manager, which saw Li steadily established himself in Guangzhou and was a key player within the club as they went on to win the division title. Within the top tier Li adapted very well within the league and was a vital member of the team that saw Guangzhou establish themselves as regulars within the division, however at the end of the 2009 Chinese Super League campaign it was discovered that the club had fixed a game during 2006 and were punished with relegation. Li would however remain faithful toward Guangzhou and played a key role as they immediately won promotion and the division title at the end of the 2010 league season. As this was going on the Evergrande Real Estate Group invested heavily within the club by bringing in Chinese international Zheng Zhi and South Korean international Cho Won-Hee into central midfield. This would limit Li's playing time and despite being part of the team that went on to win the 2011 Chinese Super League title he only played in a handful of games.

Li was loaned to Guangzhou R&F on 11 July 2012. He made 11 appearances for the Blues in the second half of the 2012 league season. On 9 November, Guangzhou R&F announced that they had made the move permanent with an undisclosed fee.

On 21 January 2016, Li transferred to his hometown club Baoding Yingli ETS in the China League Two.

Career statistics
Statistics accurate as of match played 31 December 2020.

Honours

Club
Guangzhou Evergrande
 Chinese Super League: 2011
 China League One: 2007, 2010
 Chinese FA Super Cup: 2012

References

External links
Player profile at 7m.cn

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Baoding
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Hebei
Hong Kong First Division League players
Guangzhou F.C. players
Guangzhou City F.C. players
Baoding Yingli ETS F.C. players
Chinese Super League players
China League One players
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Chinese people


uCoz () is a free web hosting with a built-in content management system. The modules of the uCoz CMS can be used together to build a fully featured website, or separately, e.g. as an online shopping platform, blog, webforum etc. As of July 10, 2015, there are more than one and a half million websites created in the uCoz system. uCoz is among the top sites for Russian-speaking users according to Alexa Internet.

History

Initially, the basis of the service development was formed by the combined experience of several developers, which consisted in previous work over different services such as polls, free guestbooks and, more importantly, a professional CMS script (WoCatalog Pro). On 29 October 2005, after almost a year of development, uCoz announced the Russian version of the system. In June 2007, the English version of the system was officially announced, and in August the German version. Currently, uCoz is also available in Azeri, Spanish, French, Arabic, Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, partially in Hebrew, Latvian, Ukrainian, and Georgian languages.

In January 2013, Yandex, the 4th largest Search Engine in the world announced the transfer to uCoz for its project Narod. This was the 2nd largest free website hosting platform on the Russian Internet, and the merger increased uCoz's market share substantially, as the company was already the market leader before the merger.

uCoz is backed by the Mail.ru group, has its headquarters in Moscow, Russia and other offices in Saint Petersburg, Rostov on Don, Kazan and Cherkassy, Ukraine.

Peculiarities

Being a SaaS system, uCoz has the features of this type of platform like closed source code, but with the availability of running server-side scripts like JavaScript. Also, it has the unavailability of running databases (all this is possible within Web 3.0 PaaS concept), which is balanced out by a great number of built-in system capabilities. Also, the system is fully HTML5 and CSS3 compatible.

Awards

 Open Web Awards 2009 winner in the nomination Best Site for Publishers
 Runet Prize 2008 People's Ten
 Runet Prize 2009 Technologies and Innovations
 Content Management Award Winners 2009
 Web Host Directory September 2008 Best for Ecommerce

References

External links

Companies based in Moscow
Content management systems
Free web hosting services
Internet technology companies of Russia
Website management
Blog hosting services


Jeannie Cho Lee (born 1968) is a Hong Kong-based, Korean-American wine critic, author, journalist, consultant, wine educator and Master of Wine, the first ethnic Asian to achieve this accreditation. She was 25th on Decanter's Power List 2013.

Biography
Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and shortly thereafter moved to the United States where she later received her undergraduate degree in arts from Smith College and a master's in public policy from Harvard University. Since 1994, Lee has been based in Hong Kong where, initially pursuing a career in business journalism in Asia, she began writing for publications such as Asia Inc., Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Asset, before contributing to international wine publications such as Wine Spectator, The World of Fine Wine, Wine and Dine, Wine Business International and La Revue du vin de France. Later, in November 2010, she joined Decanter as a contributing editor for Asia. She is also the Co-Chair of Decanter Asia Wine Awards, a sister competition to the Decanter World Wine Awards, launched in 2004.

Jeannie Cho Lee is the first ethnically Asian Master of Wine (MW), a title she received in 2008. In 2022, Lee received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in marketing and branding from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Lee is also the creator and designer of the Jeannie Cho Lee Signature Wine Glass Collection, which she launched in 2014 at the Vinexpo. The collection includes five unique shapes handmade in Italy and a set of machine-made versions distributed in Europe by Zafferano S.r.l. Later that year, she co-hosted the wine program 'In Vino Veritas', which aired on the Hong Kong broadcasting network channel TVB Pearl from October to December. In 2015 the weekly show started its second season with Lee retaining a co-host role.

Lee is a frequent judge at international wine competitions such as the International Wine Challenge, Decanter World Wine Awards, Royal Adelaide Wine Show, Mundus Vini, and Wines of the Pacific Rim. She has also been teaching Wine and Spirit Education Trust courses since 2004 and in 2008 helped establish The Fine Wine School in Hong Kong. In 2009, she received Vinitaly's International Award, and also became a wine consultant to Singapore Airlines, Galaxy Macau, Resorts World Genting and Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI).

Lee's first book, Asian Palate, which explores wine and Asian food pairings, was launched in November 2009. In February 2010, at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Asian Palate was awarded the 'Best Food and Wine Pairing Book in the World'. In June 2011, at the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards 2011, Asian Palate won under the category of 'Wine, Beer or Spirits' category Same month, Asian Palate won under the category of 'Wines and Gastronomy' category at the 2011 OIV Awards.  Lee launched her website AsianPalate.com in May 2010.

Lee's second book, Mastering Wine for the Asian Palate (2011), provides a fresh Asian perspective, introducing a new set of Asian wine descriptors. Both books are in their second reprint and are available in English, Korean and simplified Chinese.

Lee's third book The 100 Burgundy, available in English and in Chinese, won the 2020 Gourmand Award for Best Wine Book in the World for French wines and is currently sold out and reprinted in late 2022.

Lee is currently a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) where she helped to launch the Master of Science (MSc) in International Wine Management program offered by the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM). She is also a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Culinary Institute and the International Culinary Institute. She is the former Publisher and CEO of LE PAN, a wine lifestyle publication.

Lee is a sought-after speaker, traveling the world giving seminars and masterclasses on wine, the Chinese market and the quickly evolving Asian consumer market. Lee was selected as one of the top 100 most influential people in Hong Kong by the South China Morning Post and Debrett's in November 2015. She was named the 25th most powerful person in wine by Decanter magazine (UK) and was listed among the top 60 most influential people in wine by La Revue du Vin (France) in 2015.

Recognized for her contributions to the food and wine industry, Lee was awarded Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour (Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur) in 2021 by the President of France.

Over the past decade, Lee has devoted increasingly more time to charities and has raised millions of US dollars for worthy causes including Room to Read, Mother’s Choice and the Hong Kong Society for the Protection for Children. She sits on the board of the Asia Pacific Council of The Nature Conservancy where she raised over US$20 million in the past 6 years as its gala chairwoman. Lee is also a board member of La Cité du Vin, the most successful, interactive wine museum in Bordeaux that has attracted 2 million visitors since its opening in 2016.

Lee holds a Certificat de Cuisine from Cordon Bleu and trained as a Master Sake Sommelier at Japan's Sake Service Institute. She is a Certified Wine Educator with both the UK's Wine & Spirits Education Trust and the US Society of Wine Educators.

Lee is a member of the following wine organizations and associations:
 The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin
 The Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne
 Commanderie de Bordeaux
 Commanderie du Bontemps de Médoc et des Graves
 The Knights of Alba
 The Hong Kong Wine Society

Personal life
With her husband, Joseph Lee, she has four daughters. Lee has lived in Hong Kong with her family since 1994.

Bibliography

See also
List of wine personalities

References

External links
Social media:
Personal website
Jeannie Cho Lee  on Twitter
Jeannie Cho Lee  on Instagram
Profiles:
Jeannie Cho Lee at MW official website
Jeannie Cho Lee at Wine Writers' Symposium

Living people
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Masters of Wine
South Korean expatriates in Hong Kong
Wine critics
Smith College alumni
1968 births


Trofeo Zsšdi-Unione dei Circoli Sportivi Sloveni in Italia is a road bicycle race held annually in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The trophy is contested around Trieste, near the frontier between Italy and Slovenia. Since 2005, it is classified as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

Winners

External links
 Official Website

UCI Europe Tour races
Cycle races in Italy
Cycle races in Slovenia
Recurring sporting events established in 1977
1977 establishments in Italy
Spring (season) events in Slovenia


Analysts trace the high rates of gun crime in south Manchester, England, to acute social deprivation in an inner city area south of Manchester city centre stretching from Hulme through Moss Side to Longsight. Whilst by the 1990s, the trade in illegal narcotics and firearms had given rise to Manchester's nickname of "Gunchester", by the late 2000s levels of gang related gun crime had greatly reduced in the area as a whole.

The reasons for this transformation are not entirely clear but the heavy sentencing of main offenders, prohibiting the availability of firearms, community working and co-operation in tackling this kind of crime may have all played a role.

History
Gun crime in Manchester appears to have begun in the 1970s at a time of rising unemployment and poverty in the area, which is known as a centre of Manchester's Black British/Afro-Caribbean community. Finding it difficult to make a living from legitimate means some residents chose to turn to the drug trade – mainly the sale of cannabis. Most of the drug conflict was centred around the Moss Side precinct where black British youths would sell cannabis or heroin. After police cracked down the drug sellers moved down to the Alexandra Park estate in Moss Side.

During the early 1990s, the use of firearms by criminals in south Manchester soared along with gang associations. Gangs related to their 'patch', named after places such as Gooch Close, Doddington Close and the Pepperhill pub. South Manchester's gangs became engaged in feuds with each other for the control of the drug trade. Shootings and murders increased in frequency in the area. This started attracting negative news and media headlines, with the nickname of 'Gunchester' being used to sum up this increase in gang, drugs and firearms activity.

Gun related violence featured throughout the 1990s. In January 1993, 14-year-old Benji Stanley was shot dead as he queued for an Alvino's takeaway in Moss Side. The reasons surrounding his shooting are not fully known and no one has ever been prosecuted for this crime.

During the mid-1990s, the police started developing new approaches to confronting gun crime in south Manchester which initially met with limited success. These started with Operation China in the mid-1990s, which aimed at targeting gang members and taking them out of circulation.

By the late 1990s gun related killings had increased with the nature of shootings changing becoming more reckless often seeming to take place over petty disputes, such as 'a row over a girl or ownership of a bike', and, surprisingly, rarely over the drug dealing "turf". 1996 saw 28 confirmed shootings with 12 wounded and four dead. In 1997 there were 68 confirmed shootings, with 39 injuries and six deaths. In 1999 more shots were fired in the Manchester area than in any other year, at least 270 (based on found casings), with the majority being in the south Manchester areas of Longsight, Moss Side and Hulme. In 1999 there were 43 gun related injuries and seven fatalities.

Gun crime fatalities by area:  1999–2009

Multiagency response to gun crime

In 2001 a multi-agency approach to tackling gun crime was initiated when the Manchester Multi Agency Gang Strategy (MMAGS) was introduced as a result of the Home Office 1999 Tilley and Bullock report. A new approach to tackling gun crime began to develop with police working more closely with the local community and other agencies.

The high rate of shooting incidents continued into the early 2000s, though gradually the number of gun murders declined to a much lower rate. April 2004 saw panic at Manchester Royal Infirmary as rival gangs spotted each other after a shooting and ran through the building with guns in the air.

Bearing similarities to the death of Benji Stanley 13 years earlier, 15-year-old Jessie James was killed on 9 September 2006, cycling home from a party with friends. The youngest victim since Benji Stanley, his was also believed to be a case of mistaken identity, with the police maintaining he wasn't involved in any of the area's gang and drug related activities. Similarly, the lack of witnesses willing to come forward has prevented his killers being identified and brought to justice.

In January 2007 the Manchester Evening News reported a 'consistent decrease' in firearms incidents over a period of two years, which it attributed to the work of Xcalibre, Greater Manchester Police's specialist task force. Xcalibre received a funding boost of £6.5 million in June 2008 A police spokesman said that the recent Operation Cougar has had a "massive impact" on gang related shootings in the area and it was hoped the new money would help build on that success.

A combination of targeting key offenders, along with diversionary activities and better communication with the local community, through working closely with local authorities, including child protection and other agencies, appears to have been effective in cutting gang related firearms incidents.

1999-2009

Imprisonment of the Gooch gang

Ten members of south Manchester's Gooch gang were put on trial in October 2008 for a catalogue of gang-related crimes. Gang members Colin Joyce and Lee Amos had been arrested in 2000, when they had been apprehended at their 'nerve centre' in a house in Moss Side, found with an 'extraordinary array of firearms'. In 2001, they had been sentenced to nine years in prison but had been released early, on licence, in 2007 and there had followed a new bout of shootings.

In April 2009, Joyce and Amos were among 11 members of the 'Gooch gang' who were found guilty of a 'catalogue of crimes' they had been charged with, which included the murders of Ucal Chin and Tyrone Gilbert. These convictions were hailed by Manchester's chief prosecutor, John Holt, as having 'enormous significance for public safety'. Their trials were held 35 miles away at Liverpool Crown Court to lower the risk of witness intimidation from other gang members. Not unusually, the perpetrators of gun crime were also victims of it, with Amos's brother Stephen Baba-Tunde Amos having been shot dead aged 21 in a gang-related shooting outside a bar in Ashton-under-Lyne in 2002.

Colin Joyce, aged 29, known as the leader of the gang, was given a minimum 39-year sentence. Lee Amos was sentenced to receive at least 35 years. Three other members of the gang were given minimum sentences of between 30 and 35 years.

Shootings in Stretford and Longsight

Optimism about the reduction in gun crime in the south Manchester area was tarnished by the shooting dead of 16-year-old Ardwick resident Giuseppe Gregory outside the Robin Hood pub in Stretford on 10 May 2009. He was someone who had been noted for an association with gang members and police had sought to warn him of the dangers by delivering a note to his home address in November 2008, in accordance with Operation Cougar policy of treating potential young gang members as children at risk.

Following the shooting, there was some apprehension about the possibility of reprisals but shootings continue to be at an historically low level, with only one fatal gang related shooting in 15 months.

On 3 December 2009 Khurram Ashraf, a 30-year-old student, was shot outside a money exchange in Longsight, later dying in hospital. The motive appears to have been robbery, with a laptop and £10,000 in cash thought to have been missing. It did not initially appear to be gang related.

Comments of Chris Grayling

Comments of Chris Grayling, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, in August 2009, comparing Moss Side to the Baltimore set TV series The Wire met with an angry response in the area, from locals and the police. Having been out on patrol for a day with the police, observing the results of a shooting at a house, he described himself as having witnessed an "urban war" and said "It's the world of the drama series The Wire". Police responded that gang related shootings in Greater Manchester had fallen by 82 percent on the previous year, and that to speak of "urban war" was "sensationalistic". They said that he had not taken account of their achievements in pursuing a multi agency approach to tackling gun crime in the area.

Local councillor Roy Walters complained of the Moss Side unfairly being a "negative target" due to historical associations. Sticking by his comments, he said, "I didn't say Moss Side equals Baltimore. What I said is that we have in Moss Side symptoms of a gang conflict in this country which I find profoundly disturbing". Baltimore, with a population of about 600,000, was noted as having 191 gun related murders in the past year, in comparison to Moss Side, which had none.

Community attitudes

In the wake of the Gooch gang prosecutions, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Peter Fahy, referred to the need to keep guns off the streets. He spoke of working with the local community with the aim of identifying those at risk of being drawn into gang membership and educating them as to the consequences of involvement in such activities.

Some newspapers have reported a change coming from within the community in the area of Moss Side, in particular, where there have been no gun fatalities for over three years, reporting that "Moss Siders feel that change is running more deeply than the police's work in winning convictions for the Gooch gang". Patsy McKie, whose son was shot dead over ten years ago, in a row over a bike, was reported as saying "People are standing up and saying, we don't want this any more, and the young people are taking notice". Local councillor, Alistair Cox, noted "People had been very frightened, understandably. But witness protection schemes and an absolute transformation in policing have changed that".

See also
 Gangs in the United Kingdom
 Crime in the United Kingdom

References

History of Manchester
Violence in Manchester
Gangs in Manchester
Organised crime in England


Zhou Lin (; born February 4, 1981) is a retired Chinese football player as a defender.

Club career

Chongqing Lifan
Zhou Lin began his professional football career when he was able to break into the Chongqing Lifan first-team during the 1999 league season after previously playing for their youth team. Under head coach Lee Jang-Soo he was able to quickly establish himself within the team and even help Chongqing win the 2000 Chinese FA Cup, however once Lee Jang-Soo left Chongqing found themselves struggling to remain within the top tier. Despite Chongqing constantly struggling within the league and several managerial changes Zhou Lin would still remain a constant regular first-team member within the team until Chongqing were finally relegated in the 2006 league season and were willing to let Zhou Lin leave the club.

Guangzhou Pharmaceutical
He would move to second-tier side Guangzhou Pharmaceutical at the beginning of the 2007 league season where he would quickly become an integral member of the team that won the league and gain promotion to the Chinese Super League. Returning to the top tier Zhou Lin immediately helped establish Guangzhou within the league and saw them finish middle of the table. The following season was, however, to prove more difficult for him as head coach Shen Xiangfu preferred using different defenders that saw his playing time limited. Nevertheless, he was still given the chance to play against Beijing Guoan F.C. on June 28, 2009, but his performance was extremely disappointing and the game ended in a 1–1 draw that saw the vice-captain Xu Liang publicly criticize his performance. This would see infighting between the two breakout and while Shen Xiangfu tried to end the infighting Zhou was frozen out of the team. At the end of the season both Xu Liang and Shen Xiangfu left the club, however despite this he was allowed to leave the club once his contract ended.

Club career stats
Last update: 30 October 2010

Honours
Chongqing Lifan
Chinese FA Cup: 2000
Guangzhou Pharmaceutical
China League One: 2007, 2010

References

External links
 Player stats at sohu.com
 Player profile at football-lineups.com

1981 births
Living people
Chinese men's footballers
Footballers from Tianjin
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. players
Guangzhou F.C. players
Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games
Chinese Super League players
China League One players
Men's association football defenders
Asian Games competitors for China


This is a list of ASEAN countries by GDP.

GDP Composition

GDP

List 2023
GDP and GDP per capita data are according to IMF for 2023 October Database.

List 2022
GDP and GDP per capita data are according to IMF for 2022 data.

List 2021
GDP and GDP per capita data are according to IMF 2021 data.

Notes

See also
List of ASEAN country subdivisions by GDP

References

ASEAN
GDP
ASEAN countries GDP
GDP ASEAN


Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (22 February 1797, in Saint-Pal-de-Chalencon – 18 April 1832, Paris) was a French pathologist remembered for Dance's sign. He was the son of a physician, and studied medicine in Paris, gaining his M.D. in 1826. He worked as physician to the Hôpital Cochin, and had just been employed as a teacher at the clinic at l'Hôtel-Dieu when he died of cholera aged 35. Despite his early death he left a number of publications, including his eponymous sign and an early description of parathyroid tetany, which occurs in hypoparathyroidism.

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19th-century French physicians
French pathologists
1797 births
1832 deaths
Deaths from cholera