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Queen (playing card). Liberty Playing Card Company

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The queen is a playing card with a picture of a queen on it. The usual rank of a queen is as if it were 12 (that is, between the king and the jack).

In the standard English playing card deck, the Queen and the other face cards represent no one in particular, although legend states the Queen of Hearts is a representation of Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England. Certainly the headdress the queen wears under her crown is of the Early Tudor era.

However, the court cards in a French deck do have names. Confusion often arises because the suits in an English deck came from the French deck as well.

Following are the personages represented by the Queens in the French deck:

  • Queen of Spades: Joan of Arc
  • Queen of Hearts: Judith (Biblical figure)
  • Queen of Diamonds: Rachel (Biblical figure)
  • Queen of Clubs: Argine (an anagram of Regina which is Latin for Queen)


Hearts

In the Card game Hearts if you concede the Queen of Spades in a trick then you concede 13 Points, unless you also concede all 13 Hearts (Shoot the Moon) in which case your 3 opponents all concede 26 Points.


See also

  • Queen of Hearts, a character from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland
  • Queen of Spades, a novella by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin.

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Monte Carlo (solitaire). are four cards

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Monte Carlo (also known as Weddings and Double and Quits) is a solitaire pair-matching card game (using a deck of 52 playing cards) where the object is to remove pairs from the tableau. Contrary to its name, it has no relation to the city with the same name nor to any casino-related game.

Game starts when 25 cards are laid out in such a way that they form a 5×5 grid (one version states that 20 cards are dealt to form a 5×4 grid). The rest of the deck are set aside for later as the reserve.

Cards that make up a pair (such as two Kings or two Sixes) are removed when they are immediately next to each other horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Once all pairs have been removed, the cards are consolidated, i.e. moving cards to the left as if towards the upper left corner to fill any gaps left behind by the discarded pairs. New cards are then laid out from the reserve to form a fresh layout of 25 cards.

This removal of pairs, consolidation of cards, and addition of new cards continue until the reserve cards have run out. After this, removal of pairs and consolidation continues.

The game finishes when all cards have been discarded. The game also ends when it is no longer possible to remove pairs, especially on the finishing stages of the game such as “4-6-4-6.”

Although skill and luck are mostly involved in the game, strategy can sometimes play a part, such as leaving a pair alone to be used to aid freeing a separated pair (e. g. two Queens that are left alone to unlock a Q-7-Q).


Monte Carlo Thirteens

Solsuite has a second version of Monte Carlo where the aim is closer to another solitaire game, Pyramid. In a version called Monte Carlo Thirteens, instead of pairs of cards with the same rank, kings and pairs of cards with values totalling 13 are removed during game play.

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Peerless (UK car). and stiffer

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For the unrelated United States car company, see: Peerless

The Peerless was a British car made by Peerless Cars Ltd. of Slough, Berkshire, between 1957 and 1960, when the company failed. It was resurrected as the Warwick in Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire, between 1960 and 1962.

The prototype of this British-built sports saloon was initially named Warwick, and designed by Bernie Rodger for company founders John Gordon and James Byrnes.

The car had been renamed Peerless by the time series production started in 1957. It featured Triumph TR3 running gear in a tubular space frame with de Dion tube rear suspension clothed in attractive fibreglass 4-seater bodywork. While the car had good performance it was expensive to produce and the overall fit and finish was not as good as that of similarly priced models from mainstream manufacturers. Production ceased in 1960 after about 325 examples had been produced.

Bernie Rodger re-started production of the car as the Warwick with minor changes to the appearance, a one-piece forward hingeing front end, a stiffer space-frame chassis and a revised dashboard. Although listed from 1960-62, only about 40 are thought to have been produced before this venture also failed.

John Gordon, together with Jim Keeble (who had previously inserted a Buick V-8 engine into a Peerless), subsequently used the Peerless space-frame as the basis for a Chevrolet-powered car with Giugiaro-designed, Bertone-built bodywork, initially shown in 1960 as the Gordon GT, and which eventually reached production in 1964 as the Gordon-Keeble.


References

  • Peerless Warwick Owners Register


External links

  • Peerless and Warwick history from the Gordon Keeble club

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Alhambra (solitaire). produces custom-made playing cards.

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the April 29th, 2008

Alhambra is a solitaire card game which is played using two decks of playing cards. Its unusual feature is akin to that of Crazy Quilt: the cards in the reserve are built either on the foundations or on a waste pile.

First, one King and one Ace is removed from the shuffled decks and placed in a row as foundations. Right below them, eight piles of four cards are dealt; these piles serve as the reserve.

The King foundations are built down by suit while the Ace foundations are built up, also by suit.

The top cards of the reserve piles are available only to be built on the foundation; there is no building. When there are no more moves possible, the stock is dealt, one card at a time, on the waste pile, the top card of which is available. The cards on the wastepile can be built on the foundations, while it can be built upon by cards from the reserve piles.

When the stock is exhausted, the waste pile (which by then already includes cards from the reserve) is picked up and turned over to become the new stock. This can be done twice in the entire game.

The game finishes soon after the stock is exhausted the third time. The game is won when all cards are built into the foundations.

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The regular script or standard script, or in Chinese kaishu () and Japanese kaisho, also commonly known as standard regular (正楷), is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles (maturing around the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and publications (after the non-calligraphic printing Song Ti). It is also occasionally known as true script (真書 zhēnshū) and standard script (正書 zhèngshū).

Regular script came its current form in the 5th century during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Script from this period is the “Wei regular” (魏楷 Weikai). Some consider the regular script to be the direct derivative of clerical script, while others believe running script also has influence in some regular script calligraphers’ styles as well.

The most famous regular script calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty whose style are imitated by latecomers include:

  • The early Tang four great calligraphers (初唐四大家):

    • Ouyang Xun
    • Yu Shinan
    • Chu Suiliang
    • Xue Ji (薛稷)
  • “Yan-Liu” (“顏柳”)
    • Yan Zhenqing
    • Liu Gongquan

Those regular script characters with width (or length) larger than 5 cm (2 in) is usually considered larger regular script, or Dakai (大楷), and those smaller than 2 cm (0.8 in) usually small regular script, or xiaokai (小楷). Those in between are usually called medium regular script, or zhongkai (中楷). Or are compared in relation to those around.

Beginners often are recommended to start with the Eight Principles of Yong, which are said to contain the fundamentals of most, if not all, of the regular script calligraphy.

Notable artifacts with the Regular Scripts include:

  • The Records of Yao Boduo Sculpturing (姚伯多造像記) during the Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • The Tablet of Guangwu General (廣武將軍碑) during the Southern and Northern Dynasties
  • The Tablet of Longzang Temple (龍藏寺碑) of the Sui Dynasty
  • Tombstone-Record of Sui Xiaoci (蘇孝慈墓誌) of the Sui Dynasty
  • Tombstone-Record of Beauty Tong (董美人墓誌) of the Sui Dynasty

The Zhuyin used to annotate texts, although not true Chinese characters, are virtually always written in the regular script style as well.

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Fingerskate. one-way deck

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The fingerskate or fingerboard is a miniature version of the skateboard. It is the same shape as a skateboard, but is only 96 millimeters long, and hence is simpler, composed of a board, grip-tape, two trucks, four wheels.


Tech decks

A tech deck is a mini skateboard, with which a skateboarder can complete skateboarding tricks with his/her fingers. The index finger acts as the front foot and the middle finger acts as the back foot.


External links

  • official tech deck website

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Loaded Records. them. Recently they

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Loaded Records was a UK dance record label formed in 1990 by Tim Jeffery and JC Reid. It launched artists like Pizzaman, Slacker, and Wildchild. More recently it released albums by Super_Collider (featuring Jamie Lidell) and singles by Annie and Holden & Thompson. They also launched Skint Records as an offshoot.

The label has recently enjoyed chart success again in 2005 with the Freemasons who hit the top 20 with ‘Love On My Mind’ and ‘Watchin’


See also

  • List of record labels
  • List of electronic music record labels


External links

  • Official site

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Iraqi Arabic. Iraqi cards which featured

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Iraqi Arabic is a dialect of Arabic used in Iraq. The variety of Arabic used in Kuwait is quite similar, many words of Kuwaiti Arabic having similar spelling and pronunciation to their Iraqi counterparts.

Iraqi Arabic also differs within the country, such as with the Maslawi sub-dialect used in Mosul. For example, the standard Iraqi Arabic (Baghdad Arabic) word for dog is “cha-leb” while in Maslawi it would be called “ka-leb”, closer to the Fusha arabic “kalb”. Maslawi has also ancient words like “shimzie” meaning watermelon, while in standard Iraqi Arabic it is “rag-gi” simply meaning melon in most Arabic dialects.

A common variation in Iraqi Arabic as opposed to Fusha, is that of the use of Cha as opposed to Ka. Although not all words in Iraqi Arabic that begin with the arabic letter “kaaf” are spoken with a cha, it is a common variation in uses such as “chan”, meaning he was as compared to the Fusha “kan”.


See also

  • Baghdad Arabic
  • Baghdad Arabic (Jewish)

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Independent’s Day. Recently they produced

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Independent’s Day is an album by Detroit rapper Royce Da 5′9″, released through Trouble Records on June 28, 2005.


Track listing

  1. “Intro” – 0:29
  2. “I Owe You” – 4:24
    • Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen
    • Additional drums: Chuck Alkazin
  3. “Ride” (featuring Big Herk, Juan) – 4:14
    • Produced by K.I.D.D.
  4. “Wet My Whistle” (featuring Sara Stokes) – 3:36
    • Produced by Great Scott
    • Co-produced by James Terry
  5. “Politics” (featuring Cee-Lo) – 4:37
    • Produced by Nottz
  6. “Looking at My Dog” (featuring Yo Gotti) – 4:32
    • Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen
    • Additional vocals: Ingrid Smalls
  7. “Right Back” (featuring Juan, Kid Vishis) – 3:40
    • Produced by K.I.D.D.
  8. “Skit” – 0:37
  9. “Blow Dat…” – 3:50
    • Produced by Nottz
  10. “Chips on Pistons” (featuring Blade Icewood) – 4:25
    • Produced by K.I.D.D.
    • Additional vocals: Ingrid Smalls, Jay Black
  11. “Skit” – 0:36
  12. “Fuck My Brains Out” (featuring June, Ingrid Smalls) – 3:31
    • Produced by K.I.D.D.
  13. “Independent’s Day” – 3:47
    • Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen
  14. “Meeting of the Bosses” – 4:01
    • Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen
  15. “Skit” – 0:32
  16. “Paranoia” (featuring La the Darkman) – 3:54
    • Produced by Asar
  17. “Lay It Down” (featuring Juan, K-Doe) – 4:18
    • Produced by Great Scott
    • Co-produced by James Terry
  18. “Yeah” – 3:48
    • Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen
    • Additional vocals: Ingrid Smalls

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Indian Empire Games. games such as

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The Indian Empire games were a national sporting event held in the Indian Empire, British Raj. The event was held once; in Madras, in 1909. The event included athletes from all parts of the Indian Empire. This includes modern day India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar (Burma), Oman and Bhutan.


See also

  • Commonwealth Games
  • 2010 Commonwealth Games

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Iraqi Council for Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organisations. most-wanted Iraqi playing

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The Iraqi Council for Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organisations is one of the electoral coalitions that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq. Their leader was Jabbar Me’taff Hassoon.

In the 2005 election, the party received 1,360 votes, or 0.02% of the ballot. This was not enough for a seat in the legislature.

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Soga. image Kabufuda site Japanese

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Soga may refer to:

  • Busoga, Basoga or Lusoga, the root adjective for referring to the land, culture or language of a group/tribe found in south-east Uganda
  • Machiko Soga, a Japanese voice actress
  • Soga (instrument), a percussion instrument
  • Soga (name), a Japanese name
  • Soga clan, a Japanese clan
  • Soga, Guinea-Bissau, an island in the Bissagos Islands
  • Soga Monogatari, a Japanese epic about the revenge of the Soga brothers

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Huntington State Bank. is a Texas-based company

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Huntington State Bank is an FDIC insured bank headquartered in Huntington, Texas, with branches in Etoile, Central, Zavalla, Lufkin, Nacogdoches, and Tyler. The bank, founded in 1961, is privately held.

Lowery Bank, a division of Huntington State Bank, serves the Sugar Land, Texas area, which is outside Houston.


External links

  • Huntington State Bank
  • Lowery Bank

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Yankee (motorcycle). they produced

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The Yankee motorcycle is a motorcycle which was produced in Schenectady, New York by the Yankee Motor Company. This company was started by John Taylor, a long-time resident of that area.
The motorcycle used an engine that was produced by the OSSA motorcycle firm in Barcelona, Spain. The engine was a unique combination of two OSSA cylinders, that produced a twin-cylinder engine of near 500 cc capacity. The Yankee frame and running gear were produced in the US, and the entire motorcycle was assembled in the Yankee plant in Schenectady.


External links

The history of this motorcycle can be viewed at http://www.yankeetwin.com.

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Itō’s lemma. partial

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In mathematics, Itō’s lemma is used in stochastic calculus to find the differential of a function of a particular type of stochastic process. It is the stochastic calculus counterpart of the chain rule in ordinary calculus and is best memorized using the Taylor series expansion and retaining the second order term related to the stochastic component change. The lemma is widely employed in mathematical finance.


Statement of the lemma

Let x(t) be an Itō (or generalized Wiener) process. That is let

<math> dx(t) = a(x,t)\,dt + b(x,t)\,dW_t </math>

where Wt is a Wiener process, and let f(x, t) be a function with continuous second derivatives.

Then <math> f(x(t),t) </math> is also an Itō process, and

<math> df(x(t),t) = \left(\frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + a(x,t)\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} + \frac{1}{2}b(x,t)^2\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2}\right)dt + b(x,t)\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\,dW_t. </math>

This is not Ito’s Lemma, and is in fact just a specialization of the Lemma.


Informal derivation

A formal proof of the lemma requires us to take the limit of a sequence of random variables, which is not done here. Instead, we can derive Ito’s lemma by exampling a Taylor series and applying the rules of stochastic calculus.

Expanding f(x, t) in a Taylor series in x and t we have

<math> df = \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\,dx + \frac{\partial f}{\partial t}\,dt + \frac{1}{2}\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2}\,dx^2 + \cdots </math>

and substituting a dt + b dW for dx gives

<math> df = \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}(a\,dt + b\,dW) + \frac{\partial f}{\partial t}\,dt + \frac{1}{2}\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2}(a^2\,dt^2 + 2ab\,dt\,dW + b^2\,dW^2) + \cdots. </math>

In the limit as dt tends to 0, the dt2 and dt dW terms disappear but the dW2 term tends to dt. The latter can be shown if we prove that

<math> dW^2 \rightarrow E(dW^2), </math> since <math> E(dW^2) = dt. \, </math>

The proof of this statistical property is however beyond the scope of this article.

Deleting the dt2 and dt dW terms, substituting dt for dW2, and collecting the dt and dW terms, we obtain

<math> df = \left(a\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \frac{1}{2}b^2\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2}\right)dt + b\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}\,dW </math>

as required.

The formal proof, which is not included in this article, requires defining the stochastic integral, which is an advanced concept in between functional analysis and probability theory.


Example

Ito’s lemma can be used to derive the Black-Scholes formula for an option, suppose a stock price follows the following:

<math>dS_t = S_t r dt + S_t \sigma dW_t</math>

Let

<math>f(S_t, t) = log(S_t)</math>.

We then have:

<math>d(log(S_t)) = \left( S_t r \dfrac{1}{S_t} + 0 + \dfrac{1}{2} S_t^2 \sigma^2 \left( - \dfrac{1}{S_t^2} \right) \right)dt + S_t \sigma \dfrac{1}{S_t} dW_t</math>
<math>d(log(S_t)) = \left(r - \dfrac{\sigma^2}{2} \right)dt + \sigma dW_t</math>


See also

  • Wiener process
  • Itō calculus


References

  • Kiyoshi Itō (1951). On stochastic differential equations. Memoirs, American Mathematical Society 4, 1–51.
  • Hagen Kleinert (2004). Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets, 4th edition, World Scientific (Singapore); Paperback ISBN 981-238-107-4. Also available online: PDF-files. This textbook also derives generalizations of Itō’s lemma for non-Wiener (non-Gaussian) processes.
  • Bernt Øksendal (2000). Stochastic Differential Equations. An Introduction with Applications, 5th edition, corrected 2nd printing. Springer. ISBN 3-540-63720-6. Sections 4.1 and 4.2.


External links

  • Derivation, Prof. Thayer Watkins
  • Discussion, quantnotes.com
  • Informal proof, optiontutor

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Crescent (solitaire). cards. Usually they make

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Crescent is a solitaire card game played with two decks of playing cards mixed together. The game is so called because the cards are dealt properly, the resulting piles should form a large arc or a crescent.

First, one king and one ace of each suit are removed to form the bases for the foundations. The kings are placed on a row, while the aces are placed below the kings. The ninety-six remaining cards are dealt into 16 piles of six cards each, faced down. If the player chooses, the piles should form a large arc, as mentioned above. After the cards are dealt, the top card of each pile is turned face up.

The object is to move all the cards from the semicircle tableau to the foundations. The kings are built down by suit up to aces and the aces are built up, also by suit, to kings.

The top card of each pile in the semicircle are available to play on the foundations or around the tableau. Only one card can be moved at a time and building on the tableau is either up or down by suit and can go round-the-corner (placing a king over an ace and vice versa). Once a face-down card becomes exposed, it is turned face up. Spaces are not filled.

When the king and ace foundations are in sequence, one can transfer the cards from one foundation to the other except the base cards.

When all possible moves have been made—or the player has made all moves he wanted to make—a special redeal move is made. The bottom card of each pile on the semicircle is placed on the top without disturbing the order of the other cards in the pile. This can only be done three times in the entire game.

The game is won when all 104 cards end up in the foundations.

As a suggestion, the player can also just deal the 16 piles in any arrangement as a semicircle can possibly be a space waster, especially when the game is played with regular-sized playing cards. Either way, the game stays the same.

See also: solitaire terminology

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The Acme of Control is a card trick in which the magician shows two cards, inserts them into the deck, allows the spectator to shuffle the deck, takes the deck back, and is then able to produce the two cards in any way he pleases, such as from his pocket.


Method

Assuming that the magician wishes to produce the cards from his pocket at the end, he starts with the five of diamonds and the four of hearts in his pocket before presenting the trick. He then removes the five of hearts and the four of diamonds that are in the deck, and shows them together to the audience. These cards are re-inserted into the deck, which is then shuffled by the spectator. At the end, the magician produces the similar pair of cards that have been in his pocket all along, apparently the same cards which were shuffled into the deck.


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