the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
|1998/99||Lecce||Serie B||13||0||2||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||15||1
|1999/00||Bari||Serie A||26||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||28||0
|2000/01||Internazionale Milano||Serie A||19||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0||27||0
|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Parma||rowspan="3"|Serie A||16||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0||24||0
|2002/03||32||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0||37||2
|2003/04||33||1||2||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0||41||1
|2004/05||Roma||Serie A||35||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0||46||0
|2005/06||Everton||Premier League||8||0||||||||||1||0||9||0
|2006/07||rowspan="2"|Roma||rowspan="2"|Serie A||27||2||6||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0||39||2
|2007/08||16||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0||23||0
|2008/09||Genoa||Serie A||33||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||35||0
|2009/10||Beşiktaş||Süper Lig||||||||||||||||||||
|1989/90||rowspan="3"|Furukawa Electric||rowspan="3"|JSL Division 1||6||0||||||||||6||0
|1990/91||5||0||||||3||0||8||0
|1992||rowspan="2"|Fujita||rowspan="2"|Football League||10||0||||||colspan="2"|-||10||0
|1993||10||1||1||0||5||0||16||1
|1994||rowspan="5"|Bellmare Hiratsuka||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||28||1||5||0||0||0||33||1
|1995||27||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||29||0
|1996||10||0||1||0||14||0||25||0
|1997||32||0||3||1||5||0||40||1
|1998||23||0||2||0||1||0||26||0
|1999||rowspan="4"|Yokohama||rowspan="2"|Football League||19||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|2000||18||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||20||0
|2001||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||26||0||0||0||3||0||29||0
Tsuneyuki Ueda (born 3 July 1985) is a Japanese football player.
|2004||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2006||Albirex Niigata Singapore||S. League||23||1||3||1||26||2
|2007||rowspan="2"|Zweigen Kanazawa||rowspan="2"|Regional Leagues||14||2||3||0||17||2
|2008||12||1||1||0||13||1
|2009||rowspan="2"|Honda Lock||rowspan="2"|Football League||16||0||3||0||19||0
Shunsuke Iwanuma (born 2 June 1988) is a Japanese football player.
|2007||rowspan="4"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|2009||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||5||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||5||1
Yasuaki Okamoto (born 9 April 1988) is a Japanese football player.
|2007||rowspan="4"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||9||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||10||2
|2008||J. League 1||13||0||0||0||5||0||18||0
|2009||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||23||4||0||0||colspan="2"|-||23||4
Tomotaka Kitamura (born 27 May 1982) is a Japanese football player.
|2001||rowspan="6"|Yokohama||rowspan="6"|J. League 2||15||3||0||0||0||0||15||3
|2002||19||2||3||0||colspan="2"|-||22||2
|2003||17||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||18||1
|2004||30||2||3||1||colspan="2"|-||33||3
|2005||30||5||2||0||colspan="2"|-||32||5
|2006||32||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||32||2
|2007||rowspan="4"|Montedio Yamagata||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||43||8||2||0||colspan="2"|-||45||8
|2008||39||5||2||0||colspan="2"|-||41||5
|2009||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||29||2||2||0||1||1||32||3
Hatem Trabelsi (born 25 January 1977) is a former Tunisian football player.
|2001/02||rowspan="5"|Ajax||rowspan="5"|Eredivisie||21||0
|2003/04||8||1
|2004/05||24||0
|2005/06||20||0
|2006/07||Manchester City||Premier League||20||1
Takuya Matsuura (born 21 December 1988) is a Japanese football player.
|2007||rowspan="4"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2008||11||1||0||0||3||0||14||1
|2009||10||0||3||0||1||0||14||0
Ryu Okada (born 10 April 1984) is a Japanese football player.
|2007||rowspan="4"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||2||0||2||0
|2009||14||1||3||0||3||0||20||1
Ryohei Yamazaki (born 14 March 1989) is a Japanese football player.
|2007||rowspan="4"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||1||0||1||0
Yohei Kurakawa (born 10 August 1977) is a Japanese football player.
|2001||rowspan="4"|Gunma Horikoshi||Prefectural Leagues||||||2||3||colspan="2"|-||2||3
|2002||rowspan="2"|Regional Leagues||||||2||0||colspan="2"|-||2||0
|2003||||||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||||
|2004||Football League||29||4||4||1||colspan="2"|-||33||5
|2005||Horikoshi||Football League||25||6||3||0||colspan="2"|-||28||6
|2006||rowspan="5"|Kashiwa Reysol||J. League 2||16||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||17||2
|2007||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||28||1||1||0||2||1||31||2
|2008||32||1||2||0||5||0||39||1
|2009||15||0||1||0||3||0||19||0
Yonekura was born in Chiba on May 17, 1988.
After graduating from Yachiyo High School, he joined J1 League club JEF United Chiba in 2007.
JEF was relegated to J2 League first time in the club history end of the 2009 season.
From 2011, he played many matches as defensive midfielder.
In 2013, he was converted to right side back.
In 2014, he moved to J1 club Gamba Osaka.
In 2014, Gamba won all three major title in Japan; J1 League, J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup.
Gamba also won the champions in the 2015 Emperor's Cup.
In July 2019, he moved to his first club JEF United Chiba.
In July 2015, Yonekura was selected the Japan national team for 2015 East Asian Cup.
At this tournament, he debuted against China on August 9.
He played 2 games for Japan in 2015.
|2007||rowspan="7"|JEF United Chiba||rowspan="3"|J1 League||3||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
|2008||8||0||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||11||1
|2009||16||0||3||2||4||0||colspan="2"|-||23||2
|2010||rowspan="4"|J1 League||12||5||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||13||5
|2011||35||7||3||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||38||8
|2012||22||2||4||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||26||2
|2013||40||6||2||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||42||7
|2014||rowspan="6"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="6"|J1 League||21||1||4||0||9||2||colspan="2"|-||34||3
|2015||31||2||4||0||1||0||10||2||46||4
|2016||21||1||0||0||5||0||5||0||31||1
|2017||13||0||1||0||4||0||1||0||19||0
|2018||26||1||0||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||32||1
|2019||8||0||0||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||14||0
|2018||Gamba Osaka U-23||J3 League||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||1||0
|2019||rowspan="3"|JEF United Chiba||rowspan="3"|J2 League||16||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||16||1
|2020||22||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||2
Kazushige Kirihata (born 30 June 1987) is a Japanese football player.
|2006||rowspan="5"|Kashiwa Reysol||J. League 2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|2003||Thespa Kusatsu||Regional Leagues||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
|2006||Thespa Kusatsu||J. League 2||48||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||50||0
|2007||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||47||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||47||0
|2008||J. League 1||20||0||0||0||1||0||21||0
|2009||Omiya Ardija||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||5||0||5||0
|2011||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||||||||||||||||
|2012||J. League 1||||||||||||||||
Albirex Niigata, http://www.albirex.co.jp/topteam/28_takagi.html
|2003||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||1||0||0||0||1||0
|2004||1||0||0||0||1||0
|2005||rowspan="3"|Rosso Kumamoto||Regional Leagues||11||2||1||0||12||2
|2006||rowspan="2"|Football League||3||0||0||0||3||0
|2008||rowspan="2"|Roasso Kumamoto||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||33||1||1||0||34||1
|2009||23||0||0||0||23||0
|2010||Giravanz Kitakyushu||J. League 2||||||||||||
|2006||Machida Zelvia||Regional Leagues||13||4||colspan="2"|-||13||4
|2007||rowspan="6"|Ehime||rowspan="6"|J. League 2||12||1||0||0||12||1
|2008||36||0||2||0||38||0
|2011||||||||||||
|2007||rowspan="4"|Ehime||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||8||0||0||0||8||0
|2009||7||0||0||0||7||0
|2002||Ventforet Kofu||J. League 2||1||0||0||0||1||0
|2003||rowspan="3"|Tottori||rowspan="3"|Football League||25||8||2||0||27||8
|2004||28||5||2||0||30||5
|2005||27||5||1||1||28||6
|2006||rowspan="5"|Ehime||rowspan="5"|J. League 2||31||2||1||0||32||2
|2007||45||1||4||0||49||1
|2008||35||3||2||0||37||3
|2009||5||0||0||0||5||0
Chaetognatha, commonly known as arrow worms, are a phylum of small predatory marine animals.
They are present in huge numbers in plankton worldwide.
About 20% of the known species are benthic and can attach to algae or rocks.
They are found in all marine waters from surface tropical waters and shallow tide pools to the deep sea and polar regions.
Most chaetognaths are transparent and are torpedo shaped, but some deep-sea species are orange.
They range in size from .
Despite the huge numbers, there are only about 120 modern species in 20 genera.
Some species are known to use the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin to subdue their prey.
Chaetognaths appear to have originated in the Cambrian Period.
Complete body fossils have been described from China, and the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia.
Pepper spray (also called OC spray, from Oleoresin capsicum) is a spray used for self-defence, by spraying it into an attacker's face.
It makes eyes water and causes intense pain, sometimes even leading to temporary blindness.
Pepper spray is an inflammatory agent.
When someone is sprayed with pepper spray, their eyes will close and they will have difficulty breathing, a runny nose, and cough.
The stronger the spray is, the longer the effects last, but the average full effect lasts around thirty to forty-five minutes, with longer effects lasting for hours.
Pepper spray is mostly used by police forces for riot control, but in some countries people can use it for self-defence.
OC spray (from Oleoresin capsicum)
Capsicum spray (Australia)
Lord of the Rings: Conquest is a video game based off the award-winning science-fiction movie The Lord of the Rings.
The game was produced by Pandemic Studios and published by EA Games.
This game is used on PC and PlayStation3.
Playable classes
Warrior: A melee fighting unit.
The warrior has three different attacks.
Another attack is the ranged attack, is a throwing axe.
There are also some special attacks, like the fire sword, and the "crowd-breaker" which is used when the character is blocking.
Scout: The scout also has three levels of attack.
His long-ranged attack he throws a bomb, and he has two knives instead of a sword.
He has invisibility and can back-stab people, which can kill them in one attack.
The scout is good at killing trolls.
Archer: The archer cannot block attacks, instead he zooms in making it easier to aim.
He has four attacks.
One is that he has a poison arrow, which slowly decreases their health over time.
The effect can be canceled if the character is healed.
There is also the fire arrow, which does an enormous amount of damage by exploding upon impact.
Mage: They use magic to defeat their enemies.
Their spells consist of lightning bolt, firewall, shield and healing.
Lightning is a range attack that can take out single enemies, it can also be charged up and have it bounce from person to person.
Fire wall is a spell that creates a circle of flame that damages the enemies if they go near it.
The shield blocks certain kinds of attacks.
The mage also has an attack where he can damage enemies with an earthquake.
The player can choose between single player and multiplayer.
The tutorial of the game is where the player will get trained in the moves of every unit class.
It is set in the Battle of the Last Alliance, where elves and men have to fight against Sauron and his forces.
The game's "campaign" mode has 16 levels, 8 good and 8 evil, but the player must finish the good campaign before being able to unlock the evil one.
The campaign's plot follows the movies closely.
The campaign can be played in either single player or in multiplayer.
It can also be set to 4 different difficulty modes: easy, normal, difficult or heroic.
"Instant action" is another playable mode.
It allows the player about 16 different scenarios, plus 2 more downloadable ones.
There are several different game types that can be played:
Team death match: makes the player have to kill as many enemies as possible.
Capture the ring: is where the player must take the ring of power to the enemy's base.
Conquest: the objective is to keep as many bases as possible for as long as possible.
Hero team death match: a variation of death match where the player exclusively uses heroes.
Instant action can also be played online with anybody else, whenever anybody is online.
The campaign mode, however has to be played with a friend, someone that the player knows and has consciously added.
This way, if the friend with the game is not online, then the campaign cannot be played.
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Official Site
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American artist.
He is famous for his work in the "pop art" style around the late 1950s to early 1960s.
He was born and grew up in New York City.
After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he finished his education at Ohio State University and began teaching in colleges.
Lichtenstein was interested in popular culture, including comic books and advertising.
He made his art about topics like these.
He liked to make his art colorful and with bright lines.
Sodor is a fictional island in the Irish Sea used as the setting for The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry, and later used in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series.
|2003||rowspan="6"|Consadole Sapporo||rowspan="5"|J. League 2||0||0||3||1||colspan="2"|-||3||1
|2004||27||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||27||0
|2005||20||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|2006||31||2||1||0||colspan="2"|-||32||2
Yuki Kaneko (born 29 May 1982) is a former Japanese football player.
|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||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
|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
Hiroshi Kichise (born 10 July 1983) is a former Japanese football player.
|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
Zheng Zhi (born 20 August 1980) is a Chinese football player.
He plays for Celtic and China PR national team.
|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||||||||||||||||||||
Total||49||12
|2000||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 1||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
|2006||Kamatamare Sanuki||Regional Leagues||13||0||0||0||13||0
is a Japanese professional athlete and coach.
|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
|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
Dejan Petković (born 10 September 1972) is a Serbian football player.
|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
|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
|1999/00||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
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.
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.
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 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).
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.
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
The Tweenies is an British TV show for children shown on the Nickelodeon in the United States and 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.
2002 British television series endings
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.
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.
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.
Tanduay Rhum is an alcoholic drink from the Philippines.
It is produced by Tanduay Distillers Inc., and with origins dating from 1854.
Tanduay's official website
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.
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.
List of Philippine companies
ABI's Main Competitor, San Miguel Corporation
Asia Brewery Official Website
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.
Ginebra San Miguel official website
San Miguel Corporation
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.
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.
Official Site Fox Asia
Fox Asia in YouTube
Official Site Fox Japan
2021 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.
Official Website (Spanish and  Portuguese)
Official Website (Chinese, Malay language and Indonesian)
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).
Sport in Hong Kong
DZRH Television or RHTV 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 30, Cablelink channel 9, and 54 cable TV affiliates nationwide, as well as live internet TV streaming on their official website.
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.
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
Channels internationals on satellite.
Manila Broadcasting Company
DZRH
DZRH-TV
DZMM TeleRadyo
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, and partner channel TNT.
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.
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
This Week in the D-League
NBA Roundtable
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)
"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."
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).
Hong Kong Cable (Hong Kong)
Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network (Pan-Middle East)
CanalSatellite (France)
Basketball TV (Philippines)
NTV (Turkey)
Raptors NBA TV (Canada)
NTV Plus (Russia)
Sport+ (Greece)
Sportitalia (Italy)
Cablevisión (Argentina)
ZON Multimédia (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.
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.
List of current National Basketball Association broadcasters
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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
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 DramworksProductions movies from STAR Movies in June 2008.
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.
SkyCable
Global Destiny Cable
Telmarc Cable
Cable Boss
Cablelink
Cignal Digital TV
First Media
IndosatM2
TelkomVision
Indovision
CITV China
Macau Cable TV
TrueVisions (also available in Cambodia and Laos)
CNS Total TV
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)
Song Thu Cable Company (Da Nang City)
PTCL Smart TV
Tata Sky
DishTV
Airtel digital TV
Reliance BIG TV
DialogTV
Lanka Broadband Networks
Comet Cable
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
Discovery Channel (formerly The Discovery Channel) is an Asian satellite and cable TV channel which provides documentary programming.
Its documentaries focused mainly on popular science, technology, history and culture, similar to that of the National Geographic Channel and History.
It is owned and operated by Discovery Networks Asia, a division of Discovery Communications.
Discovery Channel SE Asia now divided into two channel feeds.
Operating Channels
Discovery Channel SE Asia
Discovery Channel Philippines - same with the Asian feed including the schedule, but different in advertising.
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 History and the Discovery Channel.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Manic Street Preachers biography from BBC Wales
MspPedia, a comprehensive Manic Street Preachers wiki and archive
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.
Page showing various designs of turnstiles in the history of the New York subway system.
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.
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).
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.
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'
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
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.
Wembley Stadium, Brent, London (which removed itself from consideration prior to the decision being made)
The O2, Greenwich, London
Eastlands, Manchester
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'.
Text of the Gambling Act, 2005