In mathematics, a half-integer is a number of the form

<math>n + 1/2</math>,

where <math>n</math> is an integer. For example,

4½, 7/2, −13/2, 8.5

are all half-integers. Note that a half of an integer is not always a half-integer: half of an even integer is an integer but not a half-integer. The half-integers are precisely those numbers which are half of an odd integer.

The set of all half-integers is often denoted

<math>\mathbb Z + {1\over 2}.</math>

Uses

Half-integers occur frequently enough in mathematical contexts that a special term for them is convenient. For example, the densest lattice packing of unit spheres in four dimensions places a sphere at every point whose coordinates are either all integers or all half-integers; this packing is closely related to the Hurwitz integers, which are quaternions whose real coefficients are either all integers or all half-integers.

Moreover, the Pauli exclusion principle results from definition of fermions as particles which have spins that are half-integers. The energy levels of the quantum harmonic oscillator occur at half-integers and thus its lowest energy is not zero.

Ian MacNaughton (December 30 1925 – December 10 2002) was a television producer/director, best known for his work with the Monty Python team.

Serving as both director and producer of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, MacNaughton also directed the team’s first film, And Now For Something Completely Different and their German special, Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus.

In 1979, he made the short movie Le Pétomane about farting artist Joseph Pujol, starring Leonard Rossiter.

He also was the producer of Spike Milligan’s Q, which was a big influence on the Monty Python team. [1]

Ernest Irving (November 6 1878–October 24 1953) was an English composer and conductor, primarily remembered for his involvement in film music. He composed the score for the Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!.

External links

R. Vaughan Williams dedicated his Symphony No. 7 (Sinfonia Antartica) to him

Serafim Karalexis is a film producer.

Partial filmography

• Pavlova — A Woman for All Time (1985)

Producer:
1990s
1980s
1970s
The Steal (1995) (associate producer)

Anna Pavlova (1983) (associate producer)
… aka A Woman for All Time
… aka Pavlova
… aka Pavlova: A Woman for All Time
… aka The Divine Anna

Death Promise (1977) (producer: Boston Film)
… aka Enter the White Dragon (Philippines: English title)
… aka Pay-Off Time (UK: video title)
… aka Slumfighter (USA)
The Super Weapon (1976) (producer)
The Real Bruce Lee (1973) (producer)
… aka Bruce Lee: The Little Dragon (USA)
… aka The Young Bruce Lee (USA)

External links

George Perkins is the name of:

• George Clement Perkins (1839-1923), a U.S. Republican politician and governor of California
• George Walbridge Perkins (1862–1920), a vice-president of New York Life Insurance Company
• George W. Perkins (television producer), an American film and television producer

Miller-Boyett Productions was an American television production company that mainly developed television sitcoms from the 1970s through the 1990s. It was responsible for family-oriented hit series such as Happy Days, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, and Family Matters. It was originally founded in 1969 as Miller-Milkis Productions, and later became Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions in 1982, before adopting its current name.

The production team members are:

• Thomas L. Miller (born 1940)
• Robert L. Boyett (born 1942)
• Edward K. Milkis (1931-1996)

List of shows produced by either production team

• Angie
• Blansky’s Beauties
• Bosom Buddies
• Family Matters
• Full House
• Going Places
• Goodtime Girls
• Happy Days
• The Hogan Family
• Laverne and Shirley
• Makin’ It
• Mork and Mindy
• Out of the Blue
• Perfect Strangers
• Petrocelli
• Step by Step
• $weepstake$
• Two of a Kind

External links

Enter Tech was the first manufacturer to release a portable karaoke microphone in 2000 called Magic Sing. The latest Magic Sing microphone is the ED-11000 which was released in 2006 and is completely wireless.

External links

• Magic Sing Song Search

Wrong Number is a Hindi film which has an expected release date sometime in February, 2008.

Cast

• Vijay Malhotra……Raj/Rajiv
• Amitabh Bachchan……Shyam Uncle
• Akshay Kumar……Raju/Rajshri
• Zayed Khan……Uzair
• Shahid Kapoor……Shahir
• Ali Kapoor……Ali
• Amrita Rao……Sunita
• Kareena Kapoor……Rakhi
• Priyanka Chopra……Priya
• Sharat Saxena…..Banjo Bhai
• Sunil……Sunil

Jane Lewis was the main sports presenter on the evening edition of Scotland Today, the news programme on STV Central.

The programme is currently facing major changes as a result of mass redundancies both in the newsroom and technical support division.

Lewis, along with presenters Shereen Nanjiani and Sarah Heaney have all taken voluntary redundancy. Jane left the news programme on April 24, 2006.

Jane is now working as a freelance Journalist specialising in Sports Reporting and Broadcasting. She regularly works for Sky Sports, Setanta, Eurosport and Radio Clyde. Away from Sports Broadcasting she has also worked for BBC Radio Scotland.

In telecommunication, a four-wire circuit is a two-way circuit using two paths so arranged that the respective signals are transmitted in one direction only by one path and in the other direction by the other path. Late in the 20th century, almost all connections between telephone exchanges were four-wire circuits.

The four-wire circuit gets its name from the fact that, historically, a balanced pair of conductors were used in each of two directions for full-duplex operation. The name may still be applied, e.g. to a communications link supported by optical fibers, even though only one fiber is required for transmission in each direction. When transmission directions are separated by frequency duplex, it still gets the benefits of a four-wire circuit even if the same wire pair is used in both directions.

Contrast with two-wire circuit.

Paul Zenon (born June 29, 1964) is a British magician known for television shows featuring him performing in pubs and on the streets. He is regarded by some as a humorous British alternative to David Blaine. He is listed in some sources as Peter Zenon, which may be his real name.

Early life

Zenon has a criminal record and has sometimes been billed as “King Con” and “The Sultan of Swindle”. He staged his first “attack” (a scam-type operation) at the age of eight when he sold fake raffle tickets for a phony prize. In his adolescence Zenon worked in a joke shop, The House of Secrets, in Blackpool before travelling the Mediterranean as a street magician. He also worked in a casino, from which he was fired for (allegedly) cheating guests and the casino alike. It is fair to say that over the years Zenon has led a life of deceit and trickery but he now uses his knowledge to expose hustlers and scam/con artists, so that the public will not fall into their traps.

Performance career

After spells in comedy clubs and Forces entertainment, Zenon moved to children’s television in the early 1990s, appearing regularly in the BBC shows Tricks ‘n’ Tracks and Tricky Business. He subsequently wrote and produced the Children’s ITV game show Crazy Cottage. He had a significant hit with a one-man show at the 1997 and 1999 Edinburgh Festivals.ibid

More recently he has become popular for a series of one-off magic specials on Channel 4 and ITV including Paul Zenon Turning Tricks (1999), Paul Zenon’s Tricky Christmas, Paul Zenon’s Trick or Treat (shot in Prague in 2000) and White Magic with Paul Zenon (shot in Lapland). Also appears as a special guest on Countdown sometimes. See also

Other work

He is the vice patron of the missing persons helpline (after having run away and gone missing early in his life).

He has also written three books:

• 100 Ways to Win a Tenner (2003)
• Paul Zenon’s Dirty Tricks (2004)
• Street Magic (2005)

Blaine allegations

It has been alleged that David Blaine has used many of Zenon’s tricks and routines without permission, leading Zenon to expose effects used by Blaine in his book Street Magic. There are counter claims that some of Blaine’s performances pre-date those of Zenon.

References

External links

• Paul Zenon’s official website
• His entry at the Internet Movie Database

Chris Brown may refer to:

• Chris Brown (baseball player) (1961-2006)
• Chris Brown (American football) (born 1981)
• Chris Brown (footballer) (born 1984), English
• Chris Brown (soccer) (born 1977), American
• Chris Brown (musician), Canadian
• Chris Brown (experimental music) (born 1953)
• Chris Brown (television) (born 1983), American journalist
• Chris Brown (singer) (born 1989), American hip hop/R&B singer.
  • Chris Brown (album), self-titled album by above singer
• Chris Brown (Trapt), singer for Trapt
• Chris Brown (field hockey) (born 1961), New Zealand
• Christopher Brown, (born 1978), Bahamian sprinter.

Tooth fungi are a relatively small polyphyletic group of fungi whose mushroom bears its spores on a hymenium - a layer of “mother cells” -
Although many tooth fungi are hard and inedible, some are prized both for their flavor and their ease of identification, such as Hericium erinaceus, the “bearded tooth mushroom”. Other species, though not edible, find use in the production of natural dyes.

Despite their physical similiarites, molecular phylogeny has divided the tooth fungi among several orders, including Cantharellales (including the hedgehog mushroom), Russulales (including the bearded tooth mushroom), and Thelephorales. Another fungus - the toothed jelly fungus, Pseudohydnum gelatinosum - has “teeth” but is an even more distantly related, as one of the jelly fungi.

External links

• Pinewood tooth fungi species profile

Alex Kurtzman is an American film and television screenwriter, producer, and director.

He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he met his high school friend and long time collaborator Roberto Orci.

Film Credits

• The Island, co-writer (screenplay)
• The Legend of Zorro, co-writer (screenplay and story)
• Mission: Impossible III, co-writer (screenplay)
• Transformers co-writer (screenplay and story)
• Star Trek XI, co-writer and executive producer (announced)
• Nightlife, Producer (announced)
• Transformers 2 Writer (pre-production)

Television Credits

• Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, writer and co-executive producer
• Xena: Warrior Princess, writer and co-executive producer
• Jack of All Trades, writer and Executive Producer
• Alias, writer and executive producer
• The Secret Service, co-creator, writer, executive producer

Trivia

As a child, he lived in Mexico City for a year where he learned to speak Spanish and French.

60 Seconds is a short news programme running between shows and during films on BBC Three. It lasts for 60 seconds as the name suggests, during which time the presenter condenses some of the day’s news, sport and entertainment stories into a 60 second bulletin. Throughout the bulletin, a timer in the corner of the screen is featured which counts down the seconds. There are two sets of pictures running simultaneously for each story. Five stories are featured in every bulletin. 60 Seconds is presented in a relaxed, cheeky style in keeping with the channel. Humour is a feature and some of the scripting often raises a smile. The main presenter is James Dagwell, with Alex Stanger filling the gaps.

It was launched on July 16, 2001 on BBC Choice, the precursor to BBC Three, to appeal to those within the 18-34 age group; BBC Three’s target audience, and also the demographic with lowest news-watching and voter turnout. When BBC Choice was replaced by BBC Three on February 9, 2003, the programme was kept and the titles updated to match the style of The 7 O’Clock News also on the channel.

The Coast Guard Command Enlisted Identification Badge is a temporary decoration which is awarded to those Coast Guard Petty Officers who serve as the senior enlisted advisor to a Coast Guard command when there are no Chief Petty Officers present.

Upon completion of duties as the senior enlisted advisor, the Command Enlisted Identification badge is surrendered and is not considered a permanent award. The Command Enlisted Identification Badge is worn on the lower left uniform pocket and is very similar to the CPO Command Identification Badge, upon which the decoration is based.

See also: Military badges of the United States

A magic item is any object that has magical powers inherent in it. These may act on their own or be the tools of the person or being whose hands they fall into. Magic items are commonly found in both folklore and modern fantasy.

Magic items often act as a plot device to grant magical abilities. They may give magical abilities to a person lacking in them, or enhance the power of a wizard. For instance, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the magical ring allows Bilbo Baggins to be instrumental in the quest, matching the abilities of the dwarves.Tom Shippley, The Road to Middle-earth, p 77, ISBN 0-628-25760-8

Fairy tales

Certain kinds of fairy tales have their plots dominated by the magic items they contain. One such is the tale where the hero has a magic item that brings success, loses the item either accidentally (The Tinder Box) or through an enemy’s actions (The Bronze Ring), and must regain it to regain his success.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 70-1, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 Another is the magic item that runs out of control when the character knows how to start it but not to stop it: the mill in Why the Sea Is Salt or the pot in Sweet Porridge.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 73, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 A third is the tale in which a hero has two rewards stolen from him, and a third reward attacks the thief.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 72, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977

Types of magic items

Many works of folklore and fantasy include very similar items, that can be grouped into types. These include:

• Magic swords
• Magic rings
• Cloak of invisibility
• Potions
• Rods
• Staves
• Magic carpets
• artifacts in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games

References

Gospels for the Sick is the first album by SCUM. It was recorded at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo in one session in 2004 and dropped on the Norwegian market in fall 2005, in August in Europe and October in North America.

The album was nominated for the Alarm Awards (Norwegian music awards) in the metal category, but lost to Stonegard.

The artwork on the CD was done by Stephen O’Malley and the band photos by Sebastian Ludvigsen. The music was created by Samoth, Cosmocrator and Casey Chaos, while the lyrics were all written by Casey Chaos.

Track listing

1. “Protest Life” (5:16)
2. “Gospels for the Sick” (5:05)
3. “Throw up on You” (3:15)
4. “Night of 1000 Deaths” (3:45)
5. “Truth Won’t be Sold” (3:37)
6. “Hate the Sane” (4:26)
7. “Deathpunkscumfuck” (2:07)
8. “Road to Sufferage” (4:33)
9. “Backstabbers Go to Heaven” (4:12)
10. “The Perfect Mistake” (5:22)

The track “Bleeders”, an album B-side, can be found on MySpace.

External links

• SCUM

ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) is the acronym chosen by Colt to denote its involvement in the design and/or marketing of several standard models of pistol cartridge.

ACP cartridges

• .25 ACP
• .32 ACP
• .380 ACP
• .38 ACP (Obsolete)
  
• .45 ACP

See also

• List of handgun cartridges

Kill or Cure is a 1962 British comedy film, in which an inept police officer is called to investigate the strange goings-on at a health club.

Cast

• Terry-Thomas — J. (Jerry) Barker-Rynde, PI
• Eric Sykes — Rumbelow
• Dennis Price — Dr. Julian Crossley
• Lionel Jeffries — Det. Insp. Hook
• Moira Redmond — Francis Roitman, Clifford’s Secretary
• Katya Douglas — Rita, Green Glades Nurse
• David Lodge — Richards, Nurse
• Ronnie Barker — Burton, Hook’s Assistant
• Hazel Terry — Mrs. Rachel Crossley
• Derren Nesbitt — Roger Forrester
• Harry Locke — Riggins
• Arthur Howard — Green Glades Desk Clerk
• Tristram Jellinek — Asst. Clerk
• Peter Butterworth — Green Glades Barman
• Patricia Hayes — Lily the Waitress

External links

An entry, in trick-taking card games such as bridge, is a card that allows a player to win the trick, thus getting the right to lead the next trick. Gaining the lead when some other player (including one’s partner) led to the previous trick is referred to as entering one’s hand; a card that wins a trick to which another player made the lead (except the last trick) is therefore known as an entry.

Example

This bridge example demonstrates the concept of and importance of entries:
North is unable to win a trick in any suit except spades. South has no spades, and so cannot lead spades. If South declares this hand at no trump and the opening lead is a club, he will probably take just 9 tricks with the top cards in his hand. Although the dummy holds the top six spades, they are useless unless somebody leads spades, which South cannot do. If South did have a spade, he could use it as an entry to the dummy, allowing the dummy to win the six spades tricks.

If South declares with hearts as trump, he has a good chance of making all 13 tricks: one of the dummy’s small trumps now becomes an entry when used to ruff the declarer’s small club. Unless the defense can ruff, South’s small diamonds can be discarded on North’s high spades.

Henry Brown may refer to:

• Henry Box Brown (1815-c.1879), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom
• Henry Billings Brown (1836–1914), U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1891–1906)
• Henry E. Brown, Jr. (born 1935), U.S. Congressman from South Carolina (2000-present)
• Henry Kirke Brown (1814-1886), American sculptor
• Henry Lee Brown, American jazz musician
• Henry Newton Brown, American lawman and outlaw of the old west.
• Henry Yorke Lyell Brown (1843–1928), Australian geologist
• Henry Brown (New Zealand) (1842-1921), New Zealand politician

See also Harry Brown

Anthony Marwood is the acclaimed violinist of the Florestan Trio. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) before going on to a successful career in music.

External links

• Anthony Marwood’s official website

The Circle is a peer-to-peer distributed file system written mainly in Python. It is based on the Chord distributed hash table (DHT).

It supports file sharing, instant messaging with buddy lists, the Internet relay chat model of sending a message to a channel, and a personalized, trust-based news service.

More unusually, it supports:

• finding and sending messages to people who aren’t currently online;
• a proxy for the Debian Advanced Packaging Tool system; and
• a probabilistic mechanism for sharing common keys between nodes, something not present in all DHT implementations.

Its DHT implementation is vulnerable to denial of service attacks.

From The Circle homepage:

The Circle is a scalable decentralized peer to peer application…. There’s no central authority running the show. Which means no entry taxes, no one booting you off the network, and (in theory) no weak point which can break the whole system. As long is there’s one Circle peer running, anywhere in the world, there’s still a network. Circle does not try to provide anonymity, which allows it to be much more scalable than gnutella.

The Circle currently runs on Linux, BSD, Windows, and Mac OS X.

External link

• The Circle homepage

Dorothy-Grace Elder is a journalist and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament.

She first came to the public eye in the 1970s as a television journalist, on BBC Scotland’s news programme Reporting Scotland. She also worked on the ill-fated Scottish Daily News.

Noted for her campaigning abilities, she was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a Scottish National Party (SNP) representative for Glasgow. A left-winger, she supported Alex Neil in the SNP leadership election of 2000. She became dissatisfied with the way in which the SNP was being run and in 2002 she quit the SNP and sat as an independent MSP.

She did not stand for re-election at the 2003 election, returning to journalism instead.

She is also a former Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association candidate for the post of rector of the University of Glasgow, losing to Richard Wilson in 1996.

See also

• Scottish Daily News

Stuart Macleod (born July 4 1980) is a Scottish magician.

Macleod was brought up in Peterhead, and graduated at the University of Aberdeen with an MA in both Philosophy and Psychology. He is one half of Barry and Stuart (who also go by the name 2magicians).

He has won the Young Magician of the Year for Scotland twice. Along with Barry Jones, Macleod used to perform street magic in Aberdeen. The pair have since moved to London after producers at Objective Productions saw their own video, which resulted in the making of their first TV show called Magick for Channel 4.

In 2005, Macleod performed in Dirty Tricks and When Magic Tricks Go Wrong, both for Channel 4. At Christmas, he presented, along with Jones, a look at the miracles of Jesus in The Magic of Jesus.

In 2006, MacLeod performed with Barry Jones in Tricks From the Bible, where they were performing magical tricks from the Old Testament.

Daniel Jones is the name of:

• Daniel Jones (phonetician) (1881–1967), phonetician, author of The Pronunciation of English
• Daniel Jones (composer) (1912–1993), Welsh composer
• Daniel Jones (musician), Australian musician, member of Savage Garden
• Daniel Jones (footballer) english footballer
• Daniel Jones (philosopher), Bristolian thinker
• Daniel Webster Jones (governor) (1839-1918), Governor of Arkansas
• Daniel Webster Jones (Mormon) (1830-1915), Latter-day Saint pioneer, colonizer, translator, and author
• Daniel C. Jones (musician), Canadian Musician, member of Thinking of Pinky
• Daniel T. Jones (1800-1861), U.S. Representative from New York

Danny Jones is the name of:

• Danny Jones (born 1986), musician, part of British pop group McFly

Dan Jones is the name of:

• Dan Jones (Mormon), Welsh-American Latter-day Saint missionary, sailor, and pioneer
• Dan Jones (politician) (1908–1985), British politician, MP for Burnley 1959–1983
• Dan Jones (artist) (born 1962), American rock musician, figurative painter
• Dan Jones (composer), British composer and sound designer

See also:

• Jones (surname)

The Testament of Jacob is a work now regarded as part of the Old Testament apocrypha. It is often treated as one of a trio of very similar works, the other two of which are the Testament of Abraham and Testament of Isaac, though there is no reason to assume that they were originally a single work. All three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style.

In a similar manner to the other two Testaments, the Testament of Jacob begins with Jacob being visited by the archangel Michael and told of his impending death, and then being taken on a visit to heaven, where he first sees the torture of the sinful dead, and then meets the deceased Abraham. In this Testament it is the angels that Jacob meets who deliver the bulk of the sermonising passages.

Azur may refer to:

• One of three uses in the Bible (meaning, he that assists or is assisted, helpful; also spelled Azzur):
  • The father of Hananiah, a false prophet of Gibeon (Jeremiah 28:1).
  • The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. 11:1).
  • One of those who sealed the covenant with Jehovah on the return from Babylon (Neh. 10:17).
• Azur, Landes, France
• Azure, in heraldry
• Azur ERP software from Luxembourg

References

See also

• Azure (disambiguation)

Fergus Hall is a Scottish artist born in Paisley, and has exhibited at the Portal Gallery in London. He is best known for the Tarot that he created for James Bond film Live and Let Die. His paintings have been published on two LP sleeves for King Crimson, these three paintings were bought by Robert Fripp from the Gallery during the Mid 1970’s.
During the 70’s whilst working on the tarot pack he also worked as a teacher at St Aelreds Junior High in Glenburn, Paisley. From the late 1970s he worked as an art teacher at Trinity High School, Renfrew.

In 1982 his children’s book Groundsel was published by Jonathan Cape.

Hall is also an accomplished lute player

A magic item is any object that has magical powers inherent in it. These may act on their own or be the tools of the person or being whose hands they fall into. Magic items are commonly found in both folklore and modern fantasy.

Magic items often act as a plot device to grant magical abilities. They may give magical abilities to a person lacking in them, or enhance the power of a wizard. For instance, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the magical ring allows Bilbo Baggins to be instrumental in the quest, matching the abilities of the dwarves.Tom Shippley, The Road to Middle-earth, p 77, ISBN 0-628-25760-8

Fairy tales

Certain kinds of fairy tales have their plots dominated by the magic items they contain. One such is the tale where the hero has a magic item that brings success, loses the item either accidentally (The Tinder Box) or through an enemy’s actions (The Bronze Ring), and must regain it to regain his success.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 70-1, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 Another is the magic item that runs out of control when the character knows how to start it but not to stop it: the mill in Why the Sea Is Salt or the pot in Sweet Porridge.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 73, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977 A third is the tale in which a hero has two rewards stolen from him, and a third reward attacks the thief.Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p 72, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977

Types of magic items

Many

works of folklore and fantasy include very similar items, that can be grouped into types. These include:

• Magic swords
• Magic rings
• Cloak of invisibility
• Potions
• Rods
• Staves
• Magic carpets
• artifacts in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games

References

Established in 1972, Spelling-Goldberg Productions was a television production company formed by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg. Together, they’ve produced such shows as Starsky & Hutch, The Mod Squad, S.W.A.T., Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island and Hart To Hart.

The rights to many Spelling-Goldberg Productions shows are held by Sony Pictures Television, which also co-produced a fraction of the library (as Columbia Pictures Television). The others are distributed respectively by CBS Television Distribution and 20th Television.

The Chen Lee Water Suspension is a magic trick.

The Effect: At first, an empty tube is shown to the audience. The magician proves that it is empty by passing an empty cup through the tube. The magician can even pass a silk through the tube to prove that the tube really is empty. Next, the magician picks up a pitcher full of water and slowly pours the water into the tube, where it magically stays suspended. The magician can even pass a silk through the water-filled tube, and the silk does not get wet. Finally, the magician picks up the empty cup and passes it through the bottom of the tube and when it emerges through the top, it is seen to be filled with water.

The Chen Lee Water Suspension was invented by U.F. Grant in 1962.

Not to be confused with Chris Jones (Access Software).

Chris Jones, Chief Technology Officer, Obsidian Entertainment - Chris Jones began his programming career in the game industry on a number of Interplay’s Star Trek titles and assisted in the creation and maintenance of a multi-OS windowing and resource system called GNW. His time at Interplay culminated with him being the co-Lead Programmer on Fallout responsible for much of the engine architecture and optimizations. After Fallout, Chris left Interplay to join Troika Games during which time he architected the engine used to complete Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. After Arcanum, Chris returned to Black Isle Studios and shortly after became the Lead Programmer for the Baldur’s Gate 3 project and was responsible for re-architecting the engine and building a solid programming team. In 2003, Chris left Black Isle Studios to become one of the founders of Obsidian Entertainment.

Beat Hefti (born February 3, 1978 in Schwellbrun) is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a total of three bronze medals (Two-man: 2002, 2006; Four-man: 2006).

Hefti also won four medals at the FIBT World Championships with one gold (Four-man: 2007), one silver (Four-man: 1999), and two bronzes (Two-man: 2001, 2005).

References

• FIBT men’s bobsleigh results: 1924-2005
• FIBT profile

Gavin Brown has been the name of several notable figures.

• Gavin Brown (academic) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
• Gavin Brown (musician) is a Canadian musician and record producer.
• Gavin Brown (artist) is a British visual artist.
• Gavin Brown (Australian rules footballer) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.
• Gavin Brown (politician) is a Member of the Scottish Parliament.

MAGIC, also known as The Magazine for Magicians, is an independent magazine for magicians that is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. A creation of Stan Allen, it debuted in September of 1991, with its first issue featuring Lance Burton on the cover, and over the years it has also featured David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy, Penn & Teller, Mike Caveney, and Mac King.

Writers for the magazine include Joshua Jay, Gabe Fajuri, Alan Howard, Max Maven, Peter Duffie, Andi Gladwin and Shawn McMaster.

In 2005 MAGIC Magazine was deemed the world’s largest selling publication for magicians by Guinness World Records. ( 2005 edition page 183 )

In 2007 MAGIC Magazine was also listed as one of the Chicago Tribune’s 50 favorite magazines in their annual summer list.

External links

• Official magazine website

FTV is a three-letter abbreviation and it might refer to:

• Fairchild TV, a Canadian Cantonese television network
• Fashion TV, a television network
• Formosa Television (FTV), is one of the major TV channels and companies in Taiwan.
• Federation Television (Federalna Televizija), a television company of Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• Free-to-view, a television term for encrypted but non-subscription television services.
• First Time Videos, a subscription Internet pornography website that focuses on models that are new to the industry.
• FTV, a 1985 TV series.
• Free View Point TV。

Sarah Sorge (born 26 August 1969 in Frankfurt) is a German politician. She is a member of Alliance 90 a member of the German green party, and has been a representative for the state parliament of Hesse since 2001. Sorge studied political science from 1989 to 1997 at the University of Frankfurt. She has been a member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens since 1993, and was an active member of the Green Youth.

External links

• Official website

Draja Mickaharic was born Wednesday April 10th 1912. He was born in Bosnia, where his father, an Austrian, was a civil servant employed by the old Austro Hungarian Empire. He came to America March 12, 1937 He lived in New York City until 2002, when he moved to Philadelphia to stay with a former student. He has for many decades resided in the United States. He became a US Citizen in 1940. He practiced as a consultant on Occult and other matters for many years, and is now retired. He is now devoting what time he has left to writing and relaxing in front of the TV. He no longer consults or does work for others. He writes on the topic of occultism and magic. His work features a uniquely eclectic and practical blend of Eastern European and Caribbean folk magic, with strong touches of hoodoo, Obeah, and brujeria. He is somewhat surprised to learn he is famous.

Partial bibliography

• Spiritual Cleansing: Handbook of Psychic Protection (1982)
• Century of Spells (1985)
• Practice of Magic: An Introductory Guide to the Art (1995)
• Magic Simplified (2002)
• Mental Influence (2002)
• Magical Techniques (2002)
• More Magical Techniques (2003)
• A Spiritual Worker’s Spell Book (2003)
• Magical Uses for Magnets (2004)
• Magical Practice: Applying Magical Training To Your Daily Life (2004)
• Immortality (2007)

Mathias Abel (born June 22, 1981 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a German footballer for FC Schalke 04. He transferred to Schalke from FSV Mainz 05 during the 2006/07 season.

External links

• Mathias Abel profile @ mainz05.de

Duquette may be a reference to:

• Duquette, Minnesota
• Constance Jean Duquette, artist and occultist
• Dan Duquette, former baseball executive
• Jim Duquette, baseball executive
• Lon Milo Duquette, writer and occultist
• Steve Duquette, cartoonist

Robert Teitel is an American film producer.

Teitel is most notable for producing the films Soul Food (1997), Men of Honor (2000), and the three films in the Barbershop series: Barbersop, , and Beauty Shop. He is also co-producer of the television series .

He is a 1990 graduate of Columbia College Chicago. He has been associated with writer/director George Tillman, Jr. since they were students together at Columbia College.

External links

• Biography on the Soul Food movie website
• Coverage of Men of Honor by Columbia Chronicle Online, including video interview with Teitel

Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet (1608–1666) served Charles I during the English Civil War. He rose through the Royalist ranks during the conflict, but later had his holdings seized when the Cavaliers were finally defeated by Parliamentary forces. Following the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Colleton was one of eight individuals Charles II rewarded for supporting his efforts to regain the throne of England.

In 1663, he granted Colleton and the other seven individuals, called Lords Proprietors, the land called Carolina, named in honor of his father, Charles I. Colleton brought a group of settlers from the Caribbean Isle of Barbados, who brought with them slaves from Africa. This began the institution of slavery in the New World. These settlers also introduced the cultivation of rice to the area.

Sources

• Divine, Robert A. America: Past and Present. 6th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2003.

Elizabeth Macleod is a Canadian author.

She is author of (2001), a biography of L.M.Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables). Among her signing appearances was a stop at the Bala Museum in Bala, Ontario, to commemorate a vacation the Montgomery family made to Bala in 1922.

The Portland Rockies were a minor-league baseball team that played in Portland, Oregon from 1994-2000. They were a single-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Their name and logo mimicked the mountain theme of the Colorado club, even though Portland is not located in the Rocky Mountains. A rose was added to the Portland team’s cap logo to signify Portland’s nickname, the “Rose City”.

The Rockies (previously located in Bend, Oregon as the Bend Rockies) moved into Civic Stadium (now known as PGE Park) when the venerable Portland Beavers were moved to Salt Lake City, Utah by then-owner Joe Buzas in 1994. The Rockies played in the short-season Northwest League and had some success, including a league championship in 1997. Although few single-A teams play in cities as large as Portland, the Rockies were able to maintain local interest in baseball.

In 2000, PGE Park was renovated and a new incarnation of the AAA Beavers moved into the stadium in 2001. The Rockies moved to Pasco, Washington where they became the Tri-City Dust Devils.

Notable former Rockies include current MLB players Chone Figgins, Juan Pierre, Clint Barmes, Brad Hawpe, Jake Westbrook,Garrett Atkinsand Jason Franklin.

Teletext on 4 has been the name of two different text and teletext services in the on Channel 4 and S4C in the United Kingdom.

Current incarnation

Currently, Teletext on 4 is the name of Channel 4’s text service on digital versions of Channel 4 and its teletext service on analogue versions of Channel 4 on pages 400-499. It provides further information about Channel 4 programmes and a subtitles for programmes. The service is run by Teletext Ltd. on behalf on Channel 4. Teletext on 4 launched in 2003, replacing Channel 4’s previous ancillary teletext service, FourText.

Previous incarnation

When Teletext Ltd. first launched in 1993, its service on Channel 4 and S4C (the equivalent of Channel 4 in Wales) was called ‘Teletext on 4′ (its ITV service was known as ‘Teletext on 3′). The Teletext on 3 and Teletext on 4 branding was soon dropped, though, and the service became known simply as ‘Teletext’ on both channels.

External links

• Teletext on 4 at Channel4.com

Jesús Ochoa (born October 12, 1981 in Villamar, Michoacán) is a Mexican-American football midfielder.

Ochoa moved to the United States at a young age and was raised at Riverside, California. He then played one season of college soccer with California Baptist University before signing with A-League’s Portland Timbers in 2002. Later that year, he joined the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, playing with the club in a limited role through 2003. After spending 2004 with Mexican club Lagartos de Tabasco, Ochoa came back to MLS 2005, signing with C.D. Chivas USA, largely a hispanic team. He was released by Chivas in early 2006.

Ochoa’s brother, Sammy, is a highly-touted prospect who has played for United States at the Under-20 level.

This is not the same Jesús Ochoa as the one who stars in the 2007 award-winning film, Padre Nuestro (2007 film).

Gold Spot was a popular orange-flavoured soft drink in India until 1993. The brand was owned by Parle, but was sold to Coca-Cola when it re-entered the Indian market in 1993. Gold Spot had a catchy punch line - The Zing Thing. Gold Spot was withdrawn from the market in order to make space for Coca-Cola’s Fanta brand. However the brand has a good following in the rural areas especially in Maharshatra, to keep the brand alive, Gold Spot is sold as a soda in these markets.

Gold spot was owned by a British major company.

Richard Howitt (born April 5, 1961 in Reading, Berkshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for the East of England. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994, when he was elected for the constituency of South Essex.

Before being elected he was the leader of Harlow Council and worked in the voluntary sector.

External links

• Official website
• Profile at European Parliament website

Rihannsu is a fictional language invented by author Diane Duane which is spoken by the Rihannsu (Romulans) in Duane’s Star Trek novels. In her novel The Romulan Way ISBN 0-7434-0370-3), as the inhabitants of the planet Vulcan turn to the philosophy of Surak en masse, the followers of S’task decide that they can no longer remain on Vulcan. As part of their exodus, they intentionally invent a new culture and a new language, based on Old High Vulcan and “aged” in a different direction. This language, described as sounding somewhat like Latin and Welsh, came to be known as Rihannsu.

External link

• Central Institute of the Romulan Language, a repository of information on the language
• On Inventing a Romulan Language… by Diane Duane, archived on the Wayback Machine.

The Argentine Normalization and Certification Institute (Spanish: Instituto Argentino de Normalización y Certificación, IRAM) is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) member body for Argentina.

It was founded on May 2, 1935 under the name of Instituto Argentino de Racionalización de Materiales, and is since then known as IRAM, even though its name was changed in 1996.

The organism has branches in different provinces of Argentina, and even one in the neighbouring country of Chile.

External links

• ISO member body information
• Official website

The Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes (SWRI or WRI) is a registered charity which promotes the preservation of Scotland’s traditions and rural heritage, particularly in the sphere of household activities. It does so by means of local groups of women which meet regularly throughout the country.

It was formed in 1917 as part of the movement of Women’s Institutes started in Stoney Creek, Ontario in 1897.

External links

• Official website

Dr. Arthur Carty officially started in the role of National Science Advisor to the Prime Minister on April 1, 2004. The advisor heads the Office of the National Science Advisor (ONSA), within Industry Canada. Dr. Carty was previously the President of the National Research Council.

The National Science Advisor also sits on the Council of Science and Technology Advisors (CSTA) in an ex officio capacity.

See also

• There is also the science advisory body, the Council of Canadian Academies

External links

• National Science Advisor
• Changes in the Senior Ranks of the Public Service and other Appointments - December 12, 2003
• Council of Science and Technology Advisors - Members
• Office of Science & Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC. - Arthur Carty: Science Advisor to the Canadian Prime Minister

Minnesota whist is a simplified version of whist in which there are no trumps, and the goal of the game is to take 7 of the 13 tricks. Four-handed whist is played with two teams. The players of each team sit opposite each other at the table. One person is elected to keep score. Typically the scorer’s team is labeled as “Us” and the other team labeled as “Them”. In this game, the ace is high. This style of whist is sometimes referred to as Norwegian Whist as it has been passed forward to the Upper Midwest by Norwegian immigrants.

Order of Play

1. Everyone cuts the deck and high card is dealer.
2. Cards are dealt one at a time starting with the person to the left of the dealer and moving clockwise until all cards are dealt. Each person should have 13 cards.
3. Each person analyzes his/her hand and determines whether to go “grand” or not. If a player wants to go “grand” (play high), he lays down a low black card; otherwise, a low red card.
4. After all 4 players have laid down their cards, players flip up their cards in turn, starting with the person just left of the dealer.
5. As soon as a black card is flipped up, no one else has to flip their card up.
6. If all cards are red, the goal is to take 6 or fewer tricks.
7. If any cards are black, the goal is to take at least 7 tricks.
8. Play begins with either (1) the person to the left of the person who granded, or (if playing low) (2) player to the left of the dealer.

Taking Tricks

Basically, the person who leads lays down a card from his/her hand. Everyone must follow suit if they can. If a player cannot, he lays down any other card. Highest card of the lead suit takes the trick. Whoever takes the trick leads the next one. Each team pools their tricks, so only one player from each team needs to collect the winning tricks. Play continues until all cards are gone. Dealer moves one to the left.

Scoring

If the goal is to lose tricks, the team gets a point for every trick under 7 total. If the goal is to win tricks, the team gets a point for every trick over 6 total if the team granded. Get 2 points for every trick over 6 total if the opposing team granded.

The game continues until one team reaches a pre-designated point total, typically 13.

Scoring samples

• Us: Granded, got 10 tricks
• Them: got 3 tricks
• High game, “Us” makes 4 points (10 - 6)

• Us: Granded, got 5 tricks
• Them: got 8 tricks
• High game, “Them” makes 4 points (8 - 6) x 2

• Us: got 9 tricks
• Them: got 4 tricks
• Low game, “Them” makes 3 points (7 - 4)

Variations

• No cards are laid down after the hands are dealt; each player instead has the option to either pass or grand. If everybody passes, the hand is played as low, like in the main rules.
• If a player grands, then the player to the right of the player who grands leads the first trick.

Whist Lore

• When the opposing side runs a long suit, easily setting or making it harder for the granding team to make their bid, this is called an “Ole” (as in, “We woulda made it if you hadn’t run that ‘Ole’ on us!” This attests to the Scandinavian influence — short for “Olaf” we presume.

See also

• Tuppi is a similar game played in Northern Finland.

External links

• ISBN 1-4116-3324-5 Norwegian Whist book

A Neurula is an embryo at the early stage of development in which neurulation occurs.

Neurulation is the development of the nervous system in the embryo, at the thickened area above the notochord in ectoderms. The neural plate will fold to produce the neural tube which will develop into the brain. Remaining tissue will develop into the spinal cord.

The Maid of Honor is, after the bride, the primary member of the bride’s wedding party in a wedding. Specifically, she is the primary attendant with the most honors and duties of the bridal party, and is considered the equivalent of the groom’s best man.

North America

In North America, the bride might have several bridesmaids, but the Maid of Honor is the title and position held by the bride’s chief attendant, typically her closest friend or sister. If married, the title Matron of Honor is used.

Her duties may be as many or as varied as the bride may wish to impose upon her, but typically, she is responsible for:

Pre wedding

• Travelling with the bride to help choose a wedding venue.
• Helping to choose and address wedding invitations.
• Going with the bride to help with the shopping for her wedding dress as well as the bridesmaid dresses.
• Going with the bride to register for her wedding gifts.
• Helping the bride with the seating arrangements.
• Hosting and planning the bridal shower as well as the bachelorette party.
• Maintaining communication and organization with the other bridesmaids.
• Attending and assisting during the rehearsal dinner.

Wedding day

• Assisting the bride with her dress and makeup.
• Being the messenger if the bride wants to communicate sight-unseen with the family or groom.
• Visiting the reception room to check on the details.
• Helping to make sure the bride has privacy before the ceremony if desired.
• Signing of the marriage license after the ceremony.
• Helping the bride with her veil and train before, during and after the ceremony.
• Holding the bride’s bouquet during the ceremony as required.
• Holding the groom’s wedding ring to hand to the bride during the ceremony
• Making a toast and/or speech during the reception.
• Securing any money as might be given to the wedding couple during the reception.
• Providing emotional support as needed.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, the term “maid of honour” originally referred to the female attendant of a queen. The term “bridesmaid” is normally used for a bridal attendant. However, when the attendant is married, or is a mature woman, the term “matron of honour” is more commonly used. The influence of American English has led to the Chief Bridesmaid sometimes being called the Maid of Honour.

In the UK, a “maid of honour” is also a type of small cake.

See also

Dr. Pipt, sometimes called “The Crooked Magician,” is a fictional character from The Oz books by L. Frank Baum. He first appears in The Patchwork Girl of Oz.

Dr. Pipt lives in the Munchkin Country with his wife Margolotte. He is notable for creating the Patchwork Girl. He also invented the Powder of Life, although in The Marvelous Land of Oz, its invention is credited to a Dr. Nikidik, another crooked magician from the Gillikin Country. Oz characters sometimes change their names—Roquat the Nome King becomes Ruggedo. (In an article in the Spring 1965 issue of The Baum Bugle, Lee Speth argues that Nikidik faked his death in the earlier book, to assume a new identity as Pipt.)

In Dr. Pipt’s hands, the Powder of Life is immediately useful in animating both Scraps the Patchwork Girl and Bungle, the Glass Cat, to have adventures together, as well as both characters’ subsequent appearances in the sagas of the Land of Oz.

ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America’s Funniest Home Videos, America’s Funniest People, and H.E.L.P..

The company was originally known as ABC Television Network Productions, ABC Circle Films, and later ABC Productions.

This page refers to the British television programme. For the political phrase, see For The Children (politics)

For The Children was a British television programme, the first to be designed especially for young children of school age. First broadcast on the BBC Television Service at 3pm on Saturday April 24 1937, for its first two years the series was only ten minutes in length. Suspended along with the rest of BBC Television for the duration of the Second World War in 1939, it returned on July 7 1946, now running on Sunday afternoons and expanded to twenty minutes in length.

The series featured a variety of different presenters and acts – story readings, puppet shows, songs. Of particular note is the edition broadcast on August 4 1946, which saw the debut of famous children’s television puppet Muffin the Mule, accompanied by his “friend” Annette Mills, sister of John Mills. The duo would go on to have their own programme and become extremely popular – Muffin was revived in a new animated series in 2005.

For The Children was last broadcast in 1950, when it was superseded by other BBC children’s television programmes, including Watch with Mother.

References

• Vahimagi, Tise. British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.

Brokaw bandgap reference is a voltage reference circuit widely used in integrated circuits, with an output voltage around 1.25 V with only little temperature dependence. This particular circuit is one type of a bandgap voltage reference, named after the author of its first publication.

References

• Brokaw, P., “A simple three-terminal IC bandgap reference”, ‘IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits’, vol. 9, pp. 388 - 393, December 1974.

Laugh in a Half was a comedy anthology show broadcast on CBC Radio One in 2003. Hosted by Walter Rinaldi, it was a summer replacement show for Madly Off in All Directions that ran for 13-weeks from June to late August of that year.

Each show focused on a particular topic, such as “pioneers of comedy”, “British comedy” or “comedy duos”, and then played well-known comedy skits from various performers on that theme. Over the course of the series the show played pieces by famous British, American and Canadian comedians, including Abbott and Costello, Monty Python and The Frantics.

La (Estudiantina) Sonora Matancera is a long-time band. Led by 90-year-old guitarist and vocalist Rogelio Martínez, La Sonora Matancera has been called, by the Guinness Book of World Records, “the group with the longest duration.”

Formed by Valentin Cané, bassist Pablo “Babu” Vásquez, vocalist Eugene Pérez, timbales player Manuel “Jimagua” Sánchez, trumpet player Ismael Goberna, and guitarists Domingo Medina, José Manuel Valera, Julio Gobín, and Juan Llópiz Baptist, the band has gone through many personnel changes in more than seven decades. Dámaso Pérez Prado was one of the group’s pianists and arrangers in its early days. Vocalists in the group have included Daniel Santos, Bienvenido Granda, Nelson Pinedo, Alberto Beltrán, Bobby Capó, Carlos Argentino, Celio González, Myrta Silva, and its greatest alumna, Celia Cruz.

The Sonora Matancera is best known for its harmonic use of four trumpets, a trademark sound that has led musical purists to reject attempts from any musical group with the word “sonora” in its name to use it, should the group not feature an all-trumpet brass section. Groups such as the Puerto Rico-based Sonora Ponceña follow the rule. Bongo and batá drums as well as accordion and hammond organ featured prominently among the instruments used.

The Sonora is also peculiar for its backup singers, notably Manuel Díaz Alonso, “Caíto”, whose nasal delivery was much imitated by many Latino orchestras, most notably for those directed by Venezuelan-born bandleader and singer Oscar D’León.

Original director, Valentin Cane, led the band until poor health forced him to retire at the end of the 1930s. Initially known as Septeto Soprano, the group adapted its name to La Sonora Matancera in 1932. Leaving Cuba, at the advent of the revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, the group settled in New York, where they continued to share their love of salsa with enthusiastic audiences.

External links

• Unofficial band page

Sheep’s Fescue or Sheep Fescue (Festuca ovina) is a species of grass. It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs, for example in the Portlethen Moss, Scotland and mountain pasture, throughout Europe (with the exception of some Mediterranean areas) and eastwards across much of Asia; it has also been introduced to eastern North America .

It is sometimes used as a drought-tolerant lawn grass.

References

Stuart Macleod (born July 4 1980) is a Scottish magician.

Macleod was brought up in Peterhead, and graduated at the University of Aberdeen with an MA in both Philosophy and Psychology. He is one half of Barry and Stuart (who also go by the name 2magicians).

He has won the Young Magician of the Year for Scotland twice. Along with Barry Jones, Macleod used to perform street magic in Aberdeen. The pair have since moved to London after producers at Objective Productions saw their own video, which resulted in the making of their first TV show called Magick for Channel 4.

In 2005, Macleod performed in Dirty Tricks and When Magic Tricks Go Wrong, both for Channel 4. At Christmas, he presented, along with Jones, a look at the miracles of Jesus in The Magic of Jesus.

In 2006, MacLeod performed with Barry Jones in Tricks From the Bible, where they were performing magical tricks from the Old Testament.

Noot vir Noot (”Note for Note”) is an Afrikaans language musical quiz shown on South African television. It is the longest continually running television game show (in any language) in the country, having reached 17 years and its 26th series by 2006. The show was first broadcast in 1989; its first (and only, as of 2006) presenter being Johan Stemmet. The production company, which also owns the format, is Stemmburg Television, named after its founders - Stemmet and musical leader Johan van Rensburg.

Absa Group Limited has sponsored the programme since its inception.

Since 2004 the producers have also arranged a yearly roadshow, which takes the basic programme format on a concert tour. A boardgame version of the show is also available.

Notable past winners include Zelda Meyer (unbeaten champion) and Daantjie Badenhorst.

Music

The music on the programme is performed by its own live band, Musiekfabriek (Music Factory), lead by Van Rensburg.

A guest artist also performs as part of each episode, these have included:

• David Kramer
• Anton Goosen
• Heinz Winckler

External links

• Noot vir Noot Website (In Afrikaans.)

Nationwide is an Irish television programme broadcast on RTÉ One every Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening at 19:00. It is currently presented by Michael Ryan and Mary Kennedy. The programme focuses on human interest stories and cultural events across the island of Ireland, generally but not solely outside of Dublin. The show is produced by RTÉ Cork.

It, along with Capital D, a programme featuring Dublin, serves a similar purpose to the occasional RTÉ attempts to regionalise news and human interest content in the past [1], albeit without the increased technology and transmission costs, which would likely require total re-engineering of the country’s transmission and cable television networks. Nationwide itself was the sole programme regionalised in recent times [2], but this has now ceased.

The Spelling Bee also known as Cards That Know Their Names, is a magic effect with cards where the magician uses thirteen cards. He then spells out cards one at a time, moving a card from the top of the packet to the bottom for each letter. For example, he spells “Ace”, moving one card from the top of the packet to the bottom as he says “A”, another as he says “c”, and a third as he says “e”. The next card is turned over, and it is an ace. The ace is removed from the packet and the process is repeated for “two”, “three”, and so on, up to “queen”, until the magician is holding only one card. This last card is a king.

Method

Before starting the performance, the magician has secretly arranged the thirteen cards in the following order from top to bottom: 3-8-7-A-Q-6-4-2-J-K-10-9-5 for Ace to King. For Two to Ace it is J-4-9-2-K-8-A-5-7-3-Q-10-6

The trick is then performed just as described above.

Literature

• Jean Hugard, The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks ISBN 0-486-21252-1

Old is a village in the Daventry district of the county of Northamptonshire in England. It is one village on from Walgrave with a church, Hotel, Village Hall, pub and park. Originally called ‘Wold’ the ‘w’ was dropped. Home of the famous delivery company ‘Knights of Old’ on Cherry Hill, there is now a housing where the depot used to be situated.

A balloon catheter is a type of “soft” catheter with an inflatable “balloon” at its tip which is used during a catheterization procedure to enlarge a narrow opening or passage within the body. The deflated balloon catheter is positioned, then inflated to perform the necessary procedure, and deflated again in order to be removed.

Some common uses include:

• angioplasty or balloon septostomy, via cardiac catheterization (heart cath)
• tuboplasty via uterine catheterization

Angioplasty balloon catheters

Balloon catheters used in angioplasty are either of Over-the-Wire(OTW) or Rapid Exchange(Rx) design. When a balloon catheter is used to compress plaque within a clogged coronary artery it is referred to as a plain old balloon angioplasty or POBA. Balloon catheters are also utilized in the deployment of stents during angioplasty. Balloon catheters are supplied to the cath lab with a stent premounted on the balloon. When the cardiologist inflates the balloon it expands the stent. When the cardiologist subsequently deflates the balloon the stent stays behind in the artery and the balloon catheter can be removed. Stents that are used in conjunction with a balloon catheter are known as balloon expandable stents.

External links

• Video of how the original balloon embolectomy catheter works. From MIT Press.

The Drop Swindle was a con game commonly used during the 19th and 20th centuries. Employing a variety of techniques the con usually consists of the “dropper”, who purposely drops a wallet containing counterfeit money near a potential victim. As the victim goes to pick it up the “dropper” turns to pick it up at the same moment pretending to have found the wallet as well. Acting as if he’s in a hurry the “dropper” offers to give the wallet to the victim in exchange for money while the victim can claim the reward from the owner. One of the leading practitioners of this con was “Kid Dropper” Nathan Kaplan, an early twentieth century gangster.

While the drop swindle is now fairly well known it is still practiced among today’s con artists as most major cities receive complaints regarding this specific scam although unreported cases are estimated to be muc