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Yuki Kaneko (born 29 May 1982) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|2000||rowspan="5"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||3||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0
|-
|2001||8||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||12||0
|-
|2002||1||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0
|-
|2003||1||0||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0
|-
|2004||0||0||0||0||1||0||1||0||2||0
|-
|2004||rowspan="4"|Consadole Sapporo||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||8||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||11||1
|-
|2005||27||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||28||0
|-
|2006||19||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||23||0
|-
|2007||7||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||8||0
74||1||12||0||11||0||1||0||98||1
74||1||12||0||11||0||1||0||98||1
|}

References

1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Tokyo Prefecture
Jorge Sebastián Núñez (born 10 December 1986) is a former Argentine football player.

Club career statistics

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|2005||Nagoya Grampus Eight||J. League 1||1||0||0||0||1||0||2||0
|-
|2006||Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
2||0||0||0||1||0||3||0
2||0||0||0||1||0||3||0
|}

1986 births
Living people
Argentine footballers
Hiroshi Kichise (born 10 July 1983) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|2002||rowspan="3"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 1||1||0||0||0||6||0||7||0
|-
|2003||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|-
|2004||15||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
|-
|2005||Mito Hollyhock||J. League 2||17||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||18||0

|-
|2006||Albirex Niigata Singapore||S. League||15||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0

|-
|2007||Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
|-
|2008||Gainare Tottori||Football League||22||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||23||1
57||1||3||0||6||0||66||1
15||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||16||0
72||1||4||0||6||0||82||1
|}

References

1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Fukuoka Prefecture
Zheng Zhi (born 20 August 1980) is a Chinese football player. He plays for Celtic and China PR national team.

Club career statistics

|-
|2001||rowspan="2"|Shenzhen Ping'an||rowspan="2"|Jia-A League||23||3||||||||||||||23||3
|-
|2002||22||6||||||||||||||22||6
|-
|2003||rowspan="2"|Shenzhen Jianlibao||Jia-A League||16||3||||||||||||||16||3
|-
|2004||Super League||16||2||||||||||||||16||2
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Shandong Luneng Taishan||rowspan="2"|Super League||18||10||4||2||4||4||6||5||32||21
|-
|2006||26||21||6||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||32||22

|-
|2006/07||Charlton Athletic||Premier League||12||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||12||1

|-
|2007||Shandong Luneng Taishan||Super League||1||0||0||0||0||0||3||2||4||2

|-
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Charlton Athletic||rowspan="2"|League Championship||42||7||2||1||1||1||colspan="2"|-||45||9
|-
|2008/09||13||1||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||13||1
|-
|2009/10||Celtic||Premier League||||||||||||||||||||
122||45||10||3||4||4||9||7||145||59
67||9||2||1||1||1||colspan="2"|-||70||11
0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
189||54||12||4||5||5||9||7||215||70
|}

International career statistics

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|2002||3||0
|-
|2003||4||0
|-
|2004||21||9
|-
|2005||3||1
|-
|2006||5||1
|-
|2007||3||0
|-
|2008||6||1
|-
|2009||4||0
|-
|2010||||
|-
!Total||49||12
|}

References

1980 births
Living people
Chinese footballers
Shinya Tokuni (born 8 April 1981) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|2000||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 1||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
|-
|2001||J. League 2||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
|}

References

1981 births
Living people
Footballers from Hokkaidō Prefecture
Shogo Ebisawa (born 29 July 1985) is a former Japanese football player.

Club career statistics

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|2004||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2005||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2006||Kamatamare Sanuki||Regional Leagues||13||0||0||0||13||0
13||0||0||0||13||0
13||0||0||0||13||0
|}

References

1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Hokkaidō Prefecture
Sportspeople from Sapporo
is a Japanese professional athlete and coach.  He is best known as an Association football or soccer player.

Club career statistics
Date retired in 1997. 

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|1989/90||rowspan="5"|Yamaha Motors||rowspan="3"|JSL Division 1||18||1||||||||||18||1
|-
|1990/91||11||1||||||0||0||11||1
|-
|1991/92||17||0||||||1||0||18||0
|-
|1992||rowspan="2"|Football League||18||0||||||colspan="2"|-||18||0
|-
|1993||17||0||1||0||5||0||23||0
|-
|1994||Júbilo Iwata||J. League 1||25||0||1||1||0||0||26||1
|-
|1995||rowspan="3"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||28||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||29||1
|-
|1996||19||2||1||0||12||1||32||3
|-
|1997||13||0||2||1||0||0||15||1
166||5||6||2||18||1||190||8
166||5||6||2||18||1||190||8
|}

References

1966 births
Living people
Footballers from Shizuoka Prefecture
Dejan Petković (born 10 September 1972) is a Serbian football player. He has played for Serbia national team.

Club career statistics

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|1988/89||rowspan="3"|Radnički Niš||rowspan="3"|First League||2||0
|-
|1989/90||17||7
|-
|1990/91||17||0
|-
|1991/92||Red Star Belgrade||First League||23||10

|-
|1992/93||rowspan="4"|Red Star Belgrade||rowspan="4"|First League||26||5
|-
|1993/94||29||10
|-
|1994/95||26||8
|-
|1995/96||12||6

|-
|1995/96||Real Madrid||La Liga||3||0
|-
|1995/96||Sevilla||La Liga||8||1
|-
|1996/97||Real Madrid||La Liga||2||0
|-
|1996/97||Racing Santander||La Liga||9||0

|-
|1997||rowspan="3"|Vitória||rowspan="3"|Série A||8||2
|-
|1998||21||14
|-
|1999||0||0

|-
|1999/00||Venezia||Serie A||13||1

|-
|2000||rowspan="2"|Flamengo||rowspan="2"|Série A||23||14
|-
|2001||21||4
|-
|2002||Vasco da Gama||Série A||19||2

|-
|2003||Shanghai Shenhua||Jia-A League||22||7

|-
|2004||Vasco da Gama||Série A||36||18

|-
|2004/05||Al-Ittihad Jeddah||Professional League||0||0
|-
|2005||rowspan="2"|Fluminense||rowspan="2"|Série A||20||6
|-
|2006||19||5
|-
|2007||Goiás||Série A||2||0
|-
|2007||Santos||Série A||21||1
|-
|2008||Atlético Mineiro||Série A||27||4
|-
|2009||rowspan="2"|Flamengo||rowspan="2"|Série A||23||8
|-
|2010||||
59||17
93||29
22||1
230||78
13||1
22||7
0||0
439||133
|}

International career statistics

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|1995||5||1
|-
|1996||0||0
|-
|1997||0||0
|-
|1998||1||0
|-
!Total||6||1
|}

References

1972 births
Living people
Serbian footballers
Alexei Shirov (born 4 July 1972 in Riga, Latvia) is a chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998. Shirov is also a well-regarded chess author.

Career 
Shirov became the World Champion (under 16) in 1988, and achieved the title of grandmaster in 1990. He is the winner of numerous international tournaments.

In 1998 Shirov's ranking rose to number four in the world. On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten-game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov. Shirov won the match with two wins, no losses and seven draws. However the plans for the Kasparov match fell through when funds could not be raised. When Kasparov played Kramnik for the world title in 2000, Shirov maintained that the match was invalid and he was the rightful challenger.

In 2000, Shirov reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship, losing to Viswanathan Anand.
In May/June 2007 he played in the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Chess Championship. He won his first round match against Michael Adams (+1-1=4, won in rapid playoff), but was eliminated when he lost his second round match to Levon Aronian (+0-1=5). In November/December 2007 Shirov played in the Chess World Cup. He lost in the final 2.5-1.5 to Gata Kamsky.

In May 2009, Alexei Shirov achieved the greatest triumph of his career by placing 1st in the high Category 21 M-Tel Masters 2009 tournament, a double round tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was undefeated, and scored 6.5/10—seven draws and three victories, two against Vassily Ivanchuk and the other against Magnus Carlsen in the final round. By this success he was given entry to the Grand Slam Chess Final 2009 in Bilbao where he met Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin (winner of Corus 2009), and Alexander Grischuk (winner of Linares 2009).
Personal life 
In 1994 Shirov married, and later divorced, Verónica Alvarez, moved to Tarragona, and became a citizen of Spain. He married, then later divorced, Lithuanian IM/WGM Viktorija Čmilytė from 2001 to 2008. Although he still plays for Spain, he now lives in Latvia.

Playing style 
Shirov is noted for his attacking style and for seeking complications, a tendency which has led to comparisons with fellow Latvian and former world champion, Mikhail Tal, under whom he studied in his youth.

Sample game 

During the 1998 Linares chess tournament Shirov played black against future FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov and won with a piece sacrifice in a bishop and pawn ending.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bb5+ c6 8.Ba4 O-O 9.Ne2 Nd7 10.O-O e5 11.f3 Qe7 12.Be3 Rd8 13.Qc2 Nb6 14.Bb3 Be6 15.Rad1 Nc4 16.Bc1 b5 17.f4 exd4 18.Nxd4 Bg4 19.Rde1 Qc5 20.Kh1 a5 21.h3 Bd7 22.a4 bxa4 23.Ba2 Be8 24.e5 Nb6 25.f5 Nd5 26.Bd2 Nb4 27.Qxa4 Nxa2 28.Qxa2 Bxe5 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Bg5 Rd5 31.Re3 Qd6 32.Qe2 Bd7 33.c4 Bxd4 34.cxd5 Bxe3 35.Qxe3 Re8 36.Qc3 Qxd5 37.Bh6 Re5 38.Rf3 Qc5 39.Qa1 Bf5 40.Re3 f6 41.Rxe5 Qxe5 42.Qa2+ Qd5 43.Qxd5+ cxd5 44.Bd2 a4 45.Bc3 Kf7 46.h4 Ke6 47.Kg1 Bh3!! (see diagram) 48.gxh3 Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 d4 51.Be7 Kd3 52.Bc5 Kc4 53.Be7 Kb3 0-1

Chess books 

Shirov has written two books of his best games:

References 

1972 births
Living people
Latvian chess players
People from Riga
Soviet chess players
Chess grandmasters
The Tweenies is an British TV show for children shown on BBC in the United Kingdom. The show is set in a preschool attended by the four Tweenies: Milo, Jake, Bella and Fizz, also with two adults Max and Judy, and two dogs, Doodles and Izzles. The theme song is "Hey, hey, are you ready to play". It was first shown on September 6, 1999. It is made by Tell-Tale Productions and Nick Jr. Productions. Hit songs from the show include "I Believe In Christmas", "Number 1" which went into the Top 10, "Best Friends Forever", "Do The Lollipop", "Have Fun, Go Mad!" which went into the Top 20. They also have a number 56 hit album and a number 34 hit Christmas album. Video games include an action game by BBC Multimedia/Tell-Tale called "Tweenies: Doodles' Bones" which was released in 2005 and a compilation game by BBC Multimedia/Various called "Tweenies: Game Time"  which was released in 2003.

Awards

References

Other websites
Other websites
 
 

British children's television series
Nickelodeon television series
BBC Television programmes
English-language television programs
1999 British television series debuts
2002 British television series endings
Pavel Eljanov (born 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
 
Eljanov's most notable tournament result to date was winning Corus B tournament 2007 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland with a score of 9/13. This result enabled him to qualify for the category 20 tournament Corus A 2008.

On the September 2010 FIDE rating list, Eljanov had a rating of 2761, making him number 1 in Ukraine and number 6 in the world. His results in the Russian premier league had been exceptional. Since then he has slipped to #21.

Ukrainian chess players
1983 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Lactase is an enzyme which acts on lactose, breaking it down so it can be digested. 

Mammals in their infancy usually make lactase: they need it for digesting the lactose found in their mother's milk. Mammalian adults usually lose the capacity to produce lactase. Thus, if you give milk to an adult cat it causes discomfort and diarrhea.

Lactase evolution in humans 
Humans are somewhat different. Some humans continue to produce lactase, and some do not. It is a type of polymorphism.

The ability to digest lactose into adulthood ('lactase persistence') was useful to humans after the development of animal husbandry. This created a system providing a consistent supply of milk. 

Hunter-gatherer populations before the Neolithic revolution were overwhelmingly lactose intolerant. So are modern hunter-gatherers.
Genetics 
A mutation on chromosome #2 stops the shutdown in lactase production, making it possible for those with the mutation to continue drinking fresh milk (and eating other dairy products) throughout their lives.

This appears to be a recent adaptation to dairy consumption. It has occurred independently in both northern Europe and East Africa in populations with a pastoral lifestyle. Lactase persistence, allowing lactose digestion to continue into adulthood, is a dominant allele, making lactose intolerance a recessive trait. 

Genetic studies suggest that the oldest mutations associated with lactase persistence only reached appreciable levels in human populations in the last ten thousand years. Therefore, lactase persistence is often cited as an example of recent human evolution. As lactase persistence is genetic, but animal husbandry a cultural trait, this is gene–culture coevolution.

Related pages 
 Lactose intolerance

References 

Genetics
Enzymes
Evolutionary biology
Tanduay Rhum is an alcoholic drink from the Philippines. It is produced by Tanduay Distillers Inc., and with origins dating from 1854.

References

Other websites
Tanduay's official website

1854 establishments
Alcoholic spirits
Companies of the Philippines
1850s establishments in Asia
19th-century establishments in the Philippines
Asia Brewery is a brewery founded in 1982 in Makati City, the Philippines. It is one of only two breweries in the Philippines, and is the smaller of the two, with only 10% market share. It is owned by Lucio Tan, listed by Forbes Magazine as the second richest Filipino in the Philippines, with assets worth $1.5 billion.

Products

It produces malt beverages like beer, shandy, iced tea, bottled water and carbonated soft drinks. Its sister company Tanduay Distillers, Inc. produces hard liquor. It somewhat mimics the structure of its bigger rival San Miguel Corporation, except that ABI has no food and agribusiness divisions.

It offers eight beers in the Philippines with its flagship brand Beer na Beer launched in 1988 as Beer Pale Pilsen. It changed its name to Beer na Beer after lawsuits by other breweries using the term pale pilsen. In 2001, Beer na Beer was reformulated and now has 6.0% alcohol volume.
ABI's seven other beers are sold on a somewhat limited scale, but its Colt 45 brand, launched in 1995, is the biggest among them. This malt liquor's biggest competitor is Red Horse Extra Strong from San Miguel. ABI's other licensed brands are Carlsberg (the brewery's first beer in 1987), Lone Star (launched in 2000), Lone Star Light (2002), Colt Ice (2003), Lone Star ULTRA (the country's first low-carb beer, launched in 2004, Stag (either cancelled or it's just hard to find in the country), and Coors (2008).

The company also offers Absolute distilled drinking water, the second biggest-selling bottled water brand in the market behind SMC's Wilkins, and Summit mineral water. They are both launched in 1992.

In 1995, Q Shandy was launched to compete with SMC's Cali. In 1999, Pacific Sun iced tea was launched. In 2009, Asia Brewery introduced Feelgood, the first juice drink in the Philippines to contain prebiotics.
Asia Brewery entered the low-priced carbonated soft drinks market by acquiring a license to produce Virgin Cola from Virgin Drinks. They are responsible in distributing products such as Summit Vitaminwater, ZeroCal and 100Plus.

In 2008, Asia Brewery partnered with Cobra International Beverage Holdings, Inc. introduced the Philippine version of Cobra Energy Drink, is the ready-to-drink energy drink now in the Philippine market.

Related pages
 List of Philippine companies
 ABI's Main Competitor, San Miguel Corporation

References

Other websites
 Asia Brewery Official Website

Companies of the Philippines
1982 establishments in Asia
1980s establishments in the Philippines
Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (GSMI) is a Philippines-based alcoholic drink company. It is owned by San Miguel Corporation, then called La Tondeňa Distillers, Inc. (LTDI) from 1987 to 2003.  Founded originally by the late Carlos Palanca, Sr. as La Tondeña, Inc. (LTI) in 1902 in the district of Tondo, Manila (where its name come from), it manufactures a range of products and carries packaging innovations that satisfy the needs of its target consumers. Its main product is hard liquor.

Other websites
Ginebra San Miguel official website 
San Miguel Corporation

Companies of the Philippines
1902 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in the Philippines
Fox was a Asian pay television channel,] It was owned and operated by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, a compsny owned by Disney International Operations.

The network operated six subnetworks. All of them were named as Fox. It had one feed for East Asia and individual feeds for Japan, Thailand, The Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. All of the networks had programming with the original English audio along with either subtitling or second audio feeds in each nation's main language. It also had a deal with Tcast until the end of 2020 for a version of Fox in South Korea.

History 
In Japan, the channel launched in February 1998. Other Fox channels such as Fox Crime and Fox Life (now FOX bs238) also launched at that time.

In Asia, the channel began testing in December 2009. It broadcast US TV series on loop. The first Asian provider who carried Fox was SkyCable. This was in the Philippines. It launched the channel on 4 January 2010. Next was StarHub TV in Singapore on 1 February 2010.
Fox Taiwan was officially launched on 1 September 2012, as FOX Showbiz (). It replaced Channel V Taiwan. They broadcast Asian programming and some of American series reruns with Chinese subtitles. The feed was renamed Fox in January 2014 and broadcast both local and foreign programmes.

In 2020, Tcast announced that it had ended its license agreement with Disney's domestic division. It changed the name of its channels after 31 December 2020. Fox in South Korea then became Ch.NOW (채널 나우).

On 31 August 2021, the Fox Networks Group channels ended operations in Hong Kong. The entire group of Fox networks in Asia ended operations on 30 September 2021. This did not include networks in Taiwan and Japan. Its content transferred to Disney+ and Hotstar.

On 1 January 2022, Fox Taiwan was renamed to Star World. This marked the return of Star World in Taiwan.

References

Other websites
 Official Site Fox Asia 
 Fox Asia in YouTube
 Official Site Fox Japan 

Television channels in Asia
Fox Broadcasting Company
1998 establishments in Asia
2020s disestablishments
For the similar Indian channel, see WB Channel.

Warner Channel (often shortened to WBTV) is an Asian and Latin American TV channel owned by HBO (along with company Warner Bros.) that focuses on airing American-made series and films. Most of the shows air in their original English language audio with subtitles in different languages.

WarnerTV headquarters are located in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Singapore and Malaysia, however the broadcasting is based in Miami.

Other websites
Official Website (Spanish and  Portuguese) 
Official Website (Chinese, Malay language and Indonesian) 

Time Warner subsidiaries
Miami
All Sports Network is an Asian sports television channel. It covers some of the biggest sports in the United States and other events from around the world. Some of these sports are the U.S. National Football League (up to 4 live games per week), the National Hockey League (up to 5 live games per week), and NCAA college basketball and football. They also cover motor sports (such as Formula Drift, Touring Car, GT racing), Extreme sports, Pro Bull Riding, and UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship).

References

Other websites
 Official Site 

Sport in Hong Kong
Television channels in Asia
Sports media
DZRH News Television is a 24-hour cable television channel of Manila Broadcasting Company in the Philippines. Its programs are mainly from MBC's AM station DZRH. DZRH-TV can be seen on Cignal Digital TV channel 18, Cablelink channel 9, and 54 cable TV affiliates nationwide, as well as live internet TV streaming on their official website.

History
On October 1, 2008 DZRH-TV began as an Interactive Radio/Cable TV channel. It was first seen on SkyCable, later on Dream Satellite TV & other cable TV Channels nationwide with 300 cable affiliates. It was first called TV Natin, then DZRH RadyoVision. It was later changed to DZRH Television or RHTV. RHTV is now available in satellite Measat 3 platform along with other MBC Radio stations.

Programming
RHTV airs the live video feed of DZRH programs, except Ang Dating Daan and selected radio dramas. RHTV also airs its produced programs.

RHTV on Cable Television

- With 300 cable affiliates nationwide.

Internationals channels on Cable Terrestrial and Satellite.
Related pages
DWAN MMDA TeleRadyo
DZRH-TV
Manila Broadcasting Company
DZRH-AM
One PH
BEAM TV
DWPM Serbisyo TeleRadyo
Aliw Channel 23
DWBL-AM
DZRB-AM
DZRP

References

Other websites
Official Website 

Companies of the Philippines
Television channels in Asia
2008 establishments in Asia
NBA TV is a television specialty channel. It is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association (NBA), which also uses NBA TV as a way of advertising their out of market package NBA League Pass.

Early years
Started in 1999 as nba.com TV, the channel, which had its studios at NBA Entertainment in Secaucus, New Jersey, began a multi-year deal with American television companies Cox Communications, Cablevision, and Time Warner on June 28, 2003, allowing the network to expand to 45 million American homes, and 30 different countries. NBA TV replaced Time Warner's CNN/SI on many cable systems after that network shut down a year earlier.
Programming
NBA TV offers basketball news every day, as well as programming showcasing basketball players' individual lifestyles, life as a basketball team during an NBA season, famous games of the past, and live games typically four days a week during the NBA season. Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV does not have exclusive broadcast rights to any of its games. Games carried by NBA TV are always also carried by each team's local rights holder.

The channel also shows international games, typically on Saturday evenings, with special emphasis on the Euroleague and the Maccabi Tel Aviv team from Israel. In April 2005, the channel televised the Chinese Basketball Association finals for the first time.
NBA TV carries at least 90 regular-season games per season, all broadcast in high definition, as well as some first-round playoff games. It also broadcasts WNBA games nationally (subject to local blackout).
The channel's flagship program is NBA Gametime Live, a show in which a host and studio analysts go over the latest news, highlights, and look in at games in progress. The show is live six days a week, not airing on most Thursdays due to NBA's coverage of The NBA on TNT. An edited one hour/thirty minute version of the broadcast is repeated throughout the late night/early morning hours.

NBA TV shows
 All Access with Ahmad Rashād
 Basketball International
 FIBA World Basketball
 NBA Action
 NBA Gametime Live
 NBA TV Fantasy Hoops
 NBA TV Hardwood Classics/Greatest Games
 NBA TV News in Review
 NBA Stories
 NBA Vault
 The Run
 This Week in the D-League
 NBA 360
 NBA Roundtable

Personalities
The studio host and analysts vary every night on NBA Gametime Live.

Studio hosts
 Andre Aldridge (2005-2009)
 Rick Kamla (2002-present)
 Ernie Johnson (2008-present)
 Ahmad Rashad (2006-present)
 Marc Fein (2008-present)
 Bob Fiscella (2009-present)
 Matt Winer (2010-present)
 Larry Smith (2010-present)
Studio analysts
 Brent Barry (2009-present)
 Eric Snow (2008-present)
 Kenny Smith (2008-present)
 Stephen A. Smith (2008-present)
 Gary Payton (2008-present)
 Chris Webber (2008-present)
 Cheryl Miller (2008-present)
 Charles Barkley (2008-present)
 David Aldridge (2008-present)
 Antonio Davis (2008-present)
 Eddie Jordan (2008-present)
 Sam Mitchell (2008-present)
 Bernard King (2008-present)
 Reggie Theus (2008-present)
 Mike Fratello (2008-present)
 LaPhonso Ellis (2009-present)
 Derrick Coleman (2009-present)
 Scot Pollard (2009-present)
 Kevin McHale (2009-present)
 Syleys Roberts (2010-present)
 Matt Harpring  (2010-present)
Ownership
On October 8, 2007, it was reported that Turner Sports, a division of Time Warner, was to take over the channel's operations, according to
Hoopsworld:
"NBATV: Surprisingly there has been little said about the NBA's decision to sell off NBATV to one of its media partners. Talks had gone on for  as ESPN/ABC and Turner both explored scenarios with the league. Ultimately it seems Turner has won out, and will take over operation of the league's flagship cable channel, that reaches some 12 million subscribers. The exact changeover date is not clear, but several months ago a Bloomberg report cited sources saying senior level producers were offered contract buyouts in September."

Turner Sports relaunched the channel on October 28, 2008, using analysts carried over from NBA on TNT.
 The studio was also upgraded, and the show now airs live from Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia; Studio B is adjacent to Studio J, home of Inside the NBA.
International presence
In 2001, Raptors NBA TV begin airing in Canada. Although quite similar to NBA TV, there is a larger focus on the Toronto Raptors basketball team, due to Canadian content requirements and restrictions on foreign ownership (the channel is owned by Raptors parent company Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, not the league).

As of 2010, NBA TV coverage can be seen in 40 countries via the following partners:
 Hong Kong Cable Television (Hong Kong)
 Canal+ (France)
 NTV (Turkey)
 NBA TV Canada (Canada)
 NTV Plus (Russia)
 Sportitalia (Italy)
 Flow (Argentina)
 NOS (Portugal)
 Sky Deutschland (Germany)
 StarHub TV (Singapore)
NBA TV HD
NBA TV HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of NBA TV. All studio programs and original shows are shot in HD, and all live games and recent game rebroadcasts are shown in HD. For programs not available in HD (such as older game footage), unique stylized pillarboxes are used, the NBA logo with "NBA TV" under it, or alternately, just "NBA TV" sideways. Both are in black and gray

New carriage agreements
On April 16, 2009, it was announced that DirecTV and the NBA reached a new carriage agreement. NBA TV was moved from the satellite television provider's add-on Sports Pack (and premium subscription package NBA League Pass) to its lower priced base package Choice Xtra on October 1, 2009. DirecTV believes the move will make the channel available to an additional 8 million subscribers.
On June 4, 2009, it was announced that the NBA and Comcast have reached a deal to move the channel from the cable company's add-on Sports Entertainment Package to its basic level Digital Classic package, by the start of the 2009-10 NBA season. Comcast believes an additional 8 million customers will now have access to the channel.

Verizon FiOS added the channel and NBA League Pass for the first time on September 23, 2009.

The channel also signed new multiyear agreements with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and Dish Network on October 22, 2009. They also reached a new deal with Cox Cable earlier this year.

With all of the above carriage deals, the NBA believes it will now reach 45 million viewers.

Related pages
 List of current National Basketball Association broadcasters

References

Other websites
 Official Site 
 NBA TV HD

1999 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
American television networks
Sports in Atlanta
Companies based in Atlanta
HBO Asia is a television network in Asia. It is a franchise of HBO. HBO Asia is now a joint venture of media giants Viacom (25%) and Time Warner (75%). Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Studios exited the fifteen year-old HBO Asia premium movie joint venture on January 16, 2008.

History 
Launched in 1992, Singapore-based HBO Asia is a commercial-free 24-hour subscription movie channel. It also offers some original movies and series that are produced by the Emmy and Golden Globe award winning American channel, HBO.

HBO Asia has five channels under its multi-channel strategy (HBO, HBO Signature, HBO HiTS, HBO Family and Max). HBO launched its first subscription Video-On-Demand service, HBO On Demand, in Hong Kong, it was launched in Singapore a year later. 

HBO recently launched its first regional HD channel, HBO HD, in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines,Thailand and Malaysia. HBO is available in twenty-two countries throughout Asia and has closed-captioned subtitling in several local languages.
Programming 
HBO Asia has licensing deals with two major Hollywood conglomerates and their film studios: Time Warner (Warner Bros. Pictures; New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Independent Pictures, Franchise Pictures) and Viacom (Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks; Paramount Vantage). It also licenses movies from Columbia Pictures and  many independent distributors such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Morgan Creek, Screen Gems and Universal Studios

 A new movie is usually premiered on Sunday night at 9pm. After the premiere, it will be aired many times in the next seven days.
 HBO Central is a  monthly program giving information about which movies and series will be shown in the coming month, including Hollywood gossip and behind-the-scenes tidbits.

Channels
Channels 

The HBO multiplex channels are divided into special packages. In Hong Kong, now TV's package is HBO/MAX PAK Premium while in the Philippines, SkyCable Platinum's package is THE HBO PAK. In Indonesia, First Media's package is HBO MAX PAK In Singapore, StarHub TV's package is called HBO PAK.

Censorship 
Singapore
Since HBO Asia headquarters is in Singapore, HBO Asia has to follow Singapore Law, which means that cuts have to be made to programs such as  "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos".

Philippines
The HBO-made series "Entourage" was taken off-air for three weeks by one cable operator in the Philippines pending clearance by MTRCB. The entire series continued to air without disruption on all other Philippines cable operators.
Vietnam
Every movie with content which is considered to oppose or distort the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Communist Party or Communism is replaced by a black screen. In addition, if the Ministry of Culture and Information considers a movie has contents of a serious sexual or horrific nature not conforming with Vietnamese society, it will not be aired.

HBO in South Asia

India 
HBO Asia airs a separate  PAY TV feed with commercial breaks for viewers in South Asia. The channel is labeled as HBO South Asia and often referred to as HBO India since it specifically caters to the Indian market. All movie promos in this beam are according to IST The channel is also available to viewers in Bangladesh and the Maldives. HBO South Asia took over the rights for DreamWorks movies from STAR Movies in June 2008.
Pakistan 
In Pakistan, HBO is available as HBO Pakistan. It is a simulcast of HBO India with slight modifications and running in PST. Diwali ads and other adverts targeted towards India are filtered out in this beam. This beam can also be called the +0.30 version of HBO South Asia since all the programs aired on this beam are aired with a thirty minute delay.

Availability 

Malaysia
Astro
Philippines
SkyCable
Global Destiny Cable
Telmarc Cable
Cable Boss
Cablelink
Cignal Digital TV
Hong Kong
now TV
Indonesia
First Media
IndosatM2
TelkomVision
Indovision
Astro Nusantara
Singapore
StarHub TV
China
CITV China
Macau
Macau Cable TV
Thailand
TrueVisions (also available in Cambodia and Laos)
Republic of China (Taiwan)
CNS Total TV
Vietnam
VTC's Cable television and Electronics Company (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)
Tay Do CaTV (Can Tho City and Ca Mau City)
Ho Chi Minh Cable Television - HTVC (Ho Chi Minh City)
Ha Noi Cable Television - HCaTV (Ha Noi)
Vietnam Cable Television - VCTV (Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Ha Tay, Hai Duong, Ho Chi Minh City)
Song Thu Cable Company (Da Nang City)
Bangladesh
Maldives
Pakistan
PTCL Smart TV
India
Tata Sky
DishTV
Airtel digital TV
Reliance BIG TV
Sri Lanka
DialogTV
Lanka Broadband Networks
Comet Cable

Other websites 
 CNS Total TV 
 HBO Asia official site 
 HBO South Asia official site 
 HBO HiTS official site 
 HBO Signature Asia Official Site 
 HBO Family Asia official site 
 MAX Asia official site 

HBO
Time Warner subsidiaries
Television channels in Asia
1992 establishments in Asia
Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an Asian satellite and cable TV channel which provides current affairs, and documentary programming
. Its documentaries focused mainly on popular construction, government, crime, factory, science, technology, history, culture, and animal, similar to that of the Al Jazeera English, Radio Philippines Network, Smithsonian Channel, Special Broadcasting Service, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Investigation Discovery, History2 Channel, History Channel, Crime and Investigation Network, Nigerian Television Authority, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Public Broadcasting Corporation of Jamaica, TVNZ, People's Television Network, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, Philippine Broadcasting Service, Educational Broadcasting System, Channel 4, National Geographic Channel, CBS, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, American Broadcasting Company, National Public Radio, China Central Television, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, British Broadcasting Corporation and Public Broadcasting Service.
It is owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery International, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery Channel Southeast Asia now divided into two channel feeds.

Operating Channels
 Discovery Channel Southeast Asia
 Discovery Channel Philippines - same with the Asian feed including the schedule, but different in advertising.

Other websites
 
 Discovery Asia 

Television channels in Asia
Singaporean culture
1995 establishments in Asia
Discovery Channel
The National Geographic Channel, also known as Nat Geo, is an Asian subscription television channel. It has non-fiction, programming involving nature, science, culture, and history. These programs are made by the National Geographic Society, just like Educational Broadcasting System, History Channel, the Discovery Channel and British Broadcasting Corporation.

History
The channel was launched on August 1, 1994 in partnership with STAR TV. Star TV is a Hong Kong-based satelite television service for Asia and the Pacific. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Nat Geo replaced the NBC Asia channel on July 1, 1998. , the Asian version of National Geographic Channel was available in over 56 million homes. NGC Asia has eight different channels feeds.
Operating Channels
 National Geographic Channel Asia - This channel has a bilingual feed with English and Cantonese in selected programs only.
 National Geographic Channel India - This channel has a bilingual feed with English and Hindi in selected programs only.
 National Geographic Channel Korea - With Korean subtitles.
 National Geographic Channel Japan - This channel has a bilingual feed with English and Japanese in selected programs only.
 National Geographic Channel MENA - Simulcast from NGC Asia from 11:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M. HK Time.
 National Geographic Channel Philippines - Same with Asia feed with local advertisement.
 National Geographic Channel Taiwan - With Traditional Chinese subtitles.
 National Geographic Channel Israel - With Hebrew subtitles.
 National Geographic Channel HD Asia

Related pages
 National Geographic Channel

References
References

Other websites
 National Geographic Channel Asia 
 National Geographic Channel Hong Kong 
 National Geographic Channel Taiwan 
 National Geographic Channel Korea 
 National Geographic Channel India 
 National Geographic Channel Middle East
 National Geographic Channel Japan
 National Geographic Channel China 
 National Geographic Channel Israel

Television channels in Asia
News Corporation
1994 establishments in Asia
Disney companies
Gifted education is a term for special ways to educate (teach) children who have been identified as gifted. There is no definition of a gifted student which everyone agrees on.

Gifted and talented education has a long history of thousands of years. Plato (c. 427–c. 347 BCE) was in favour of providing specialized education for intellectually gifted young men and women. In China's Tang Dynasty (580-618 CE), child prodigies were summoned to the imperial court for specialized education. Throughout the Renaissance, those who showed creative talent in art, architecture, and literature were supported by both the government and private patronage.
In 2011, the National Association for Gifted Children published a position paper that stated what a gifted student is. The word "gifted," describes people who demonstrate outstanding aptitude or competence in one or more domains. An "aptitude" is defined as an exceptional ability to learn or reason. "Competence" is defined as documented performance or achievement in the top 10 percent of the population.

References 

Giftedness
Sport England is the name for the English Sports Council.  It is a non-departmental public body under the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It works with national governing bodies of sport to grow the number of people in sports. Their goal is to keep these people in the sports. Sport England also helps more talented people do well by identifying them early, nurturing them, and helping them move up to the top level.

Sport England has two statutory, functions: (1) a lottery distributor for sport; and (2) it must be consulted on planning applications that affect playing fields. The funding it distributes comes from both H.M. Treasury and the National Lottery. Since 1994, it has invested over £2bn of lottery funds and £300 million from the Exchequer into sports in England.

References

Other websites 
 Official website

Sports organisations of England
Manic Street Preachers (often referred to as the Manics) are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band is part of the Cardiff music scene. Their biggest success was during the 1990s.

The band were originally a four piece band: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards mysteriously vanished on 1 February 1995. In November 2008, 13 years after his disappearance, he was officially declared presumed dead.
The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery, outspoken
invective and songs about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums kept a politicized and smart lyrical style. They also adopted a broader alternative rock sound. Enigmatic lyricist Richey Edwards gained early notoriety by carving the words "4 REAL" into his arm with a razor blade (narrowly missing an artery and requiring seventeen stitches) in response to the suggestion that the band were less than authentic. The dark nature of 1994's The Holy Bible showed the result of Edwards' instability.
Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore, and Wire kept with the Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical and commercial success. They became one of Britain's top rock bands. They have had eight top ten albums and fifteen top ten singles. They have reached number one three times, with their 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and the singles "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) and "The Masses Against The Classes" (2000). They have also won the Best British Album and Best British Group accolades at the BRIT Awards in 1997 and 1999, and were lauded by the NME for their lifetime achievements in 2008. Their ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers, was released on 18 May 2009 and features lyrics Edwards had left behind to the band weeks before his disappearance.
In 2010 their tenth album Postcards from a Young Man was released. Their eleventh album Rewind the Film was released on 16 September 2013. Their next album Futurology is going to be released in 2014.
References

Other websites

 
 
Manic Street Preachers biography from BBC Wales
MspPedia, a comprehensive Manic Street Preachers wiki and archive 

1986 establishments in the United Kingdom
1980s British music groups
1990s British music groups
2000s British music groups
2010s British music groups
Musical groups established in 1986
Welsh rock bands
20th-century establishments in Wales
A turnstile, also called a baffle gate, is a type of gate. It only allows one person to pass at a time.  It can also be made so as to make one-way traffic of people. It can also make passage only to people who put in a coin, a ticket, a pass, or similar. A turnstile can be used for paid access (sometimes called a faregate when used for this). For example, it can be used in public transport as a ticket barrier or at a pay toilet. 

Turnstiles are used at a variety of places. This includes stadiums, amusement parks, museums, and mass transit stations.

Other websites 

Page showing various designs of turnstiles in the history of the New York subway system.
Turnstile Models 

Gates
A toroid is a geometric shape that resembles a torus. A toroid is constructed by rotating a geometrical shape around an axis which is outside the shape. If this is done to a circle, a torus results.

Three-dimensional shapes
Ashburys railway station in Openshaw serves Beswick and West Gorton in Manchester, England. It is located on the Manchester-Glossop Line at its junction with the branch line to  and  and the freight-only line to Phillips Park Junction (on the Huddersfield Line).

Other websites 

Railway stations in Manchester
1855 establishments in Europe
1850s establishments in England
A Regional Casino, more commonly known as a Super Casino (or occasionally known as Mega Casino), is the term given to the largest category of casino that was to have been permitted under UK law. It is meant to be the same size as the larger casinos in Las Vegas. The first Regional Casino was proposed to be in the City of Manchester. This was stopped by the UK government soon after Gordon Brown became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

History 
The Gambling Act 2005 revised many regulations relating to gambling in England. Amongst the most controversial provisions was the establishment of  a number of 'destination casinos' in the style of Las Vegas, commonly referred to in the media as 'Super Casinos'
Initial drafts of the act proposed eight regional casinos but concerns expressed in the national media and by a range of addiction related social and religious groups meant that the final revision of the act permitted only one casino of the largest size, referred to as a 'Regional Casino', with a further eight 'large' and eight 'small' casinos of a smaller sizes and with reduced Jackpot limits.

Prior to the act there were 140 casinos in the UK, the largest of which in Star City, Birmingham had a floor area of around 950 square metres. Customers were required to register twenty-four hours prior to gaming.

Definition of casino types 
Under the terms of the Gambling Act the Secretary of State is able to define each type of Casino, with reference to any matter he or she chooses; although the act specifically mentions as facts to consider the number, location and concentration of gaming tables, and the floor area designated for a specific purpose.
Definitions have been determined such that the 'super casino' will have a minimum customer area of 5000 square metres and at most 1250 unlimited-jackpot slot machines.

'Large casinos' will have a minimum area of 1000 square metres and up to 150 slot machines with a maximum jackpot of £4000.

The 'small casinos' will have a minimum customer area of 750 sq metres, up to 80 slot machines and a jackpot of £4000.

The shortlist 
In May 2006, a short-list of eight sites, selected from various ones submitted by local councils, was announced for the location of the Regional Casino. These were:
 Wembley Stadium, Brent, London (which removed itself from consideration prior to the decision being made)
 The O2, Greenwich, London
 Cardiff
 Blackpool
 Eastlands, Manchester
 Newcastle
 Bramall Lane, East End (Don Valley Stadium) or Meadowhall, Sheffield
 Glasgow Many sites were put forward; including Ibrox Park
On 30 January 2007 it was announced that the first Regional Casino would be built in East Manchester near the City of Manchester Stadium. This was a shock to the Blackpool and The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) bids. Both of them were thought of as the favourites.  However, the Blackpool bid organisers pledged to continue the work in getting government approval for a 'supercasino'.

References

Other websites 
 Text of the Gambling Act, 2005
 Casino Advisory Panel Announcemenet of the Super Casino Venue 

Casinos
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional organisation for architects in the United Kingdom.

It was originally named the Institute of British Architects in London and formed in 1834. The group was started by several important architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, John Buonarotti Papworth and Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey. It was awarded a Royal Charter in 1837, becoming the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, eventually dropping the reference to London in 1892.

The RIBA is a member organisation, with 44,000 members. Chartered Members are allowed to call themselves chartered architects and to add the post-nominals RIBA after their name; Student Members are not permitted to do so. In the past, fellowships of the institute were given, but this has stopped; those who continue to hold this title instead add FRIBA.
RIBA is based at 66 Portland Place, London—a 1930s Grade II* listed building designed by architect George Grey Wornum with sculptures by Edward Bainbridge Copnall and James Woodford. The Institute also maintains a dozen regional offices around the United Kingdom. Parts of the London building are open to the public, including the exhibition galleries and Library. It has a large architectural bookshop, a café, restaurant and lecture theatres. Rooms are hired out for events.

References

Bibliography 
 H.M. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 (1997) 
 Charles Read, "Earl de Grey" (2007)

Other websites 
 RIBA
 RIBA Library  Books, photographs, drawings and archives
 RIBApix Images from the RIBA Library collections
 Register of Architects (ARB) 

Organisations based in the United Kingdom
The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) is an organisation for structural engineering based in the United Kingdom. It has 23,600 members in 105 countries. The Institution is a learned body and provider of professional accreditation for structural engineers. The Institution publishes a monthly journal, The Structural Engineer.

References

Other websites
www.istructe.org – Official website
www.istructe.ie  – Republic of Ireland Branch website
Structural Awards 07

Organisations based in London
The Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) is a motorsport track opened in 2004 and used for auto racing. The main race is the Bahrain Grand Prix. The 2004 Grand Prix was the first held in the Middle East. In 2006, Australian V8 Supercar started racing at the BIC. 24 Hour endurance races also hosted at BIC.

History 
Building the Bahrain circuit (track) was important for Bahrain, and was started by the Crown Prince, Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The Crown Prince is the Honorary President of the Bahrain Motor Federation.

In  the track became the first Grand Prix circuit to be awarded the distinguished (important) FIA Institute Centre of Excellence award. The award was given for having and keeping high race safety and medical facilities.

Construction and design 
The track was designed by German architect Hermann Tilke. Tilke also designed the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.  The track cost approximately US $150 million to build. It can be set-up as six different tracks, including a test oval and a drag strip.