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A hammerless firearm is a firearm that lacks an exposed hammer or hammer spur. One of the disadvantages of an exposed hammer spur is the tendency to get caught on items such as clothing; covering or bobbing the hammer by removing the spur avoids this tendency.

Early hammerless designs

Early caplock firearms, patterned after their flintlock ancestors, had exposed hammers; the coversion was done by replacing the flash pan with a nipple for a percussion cap, and the flintlock’s cock with a hammer to crush the cap and ignite the powder. The hammer was on the side of the firearm, easily reached for priming and cocking.

The earliest cartridge firearms simply copied the older style of action; the .45-70 “Trapdoor” rifle and most early cartridge double-barreled shotguns are good examples of this. In these designs, the loading of the cartridge(s) and the cocking of the hammer(s) were separate operations. While rifles evolved away quickly away from these early breech loading designs, the double barrelled shotgun retained its popularity, and, for some time, its exposed hammers.

American inventor Daniel Myron LeFever was the first to develop a “hammerless” shotgun in 1878. It used internal strikers that were cocked manually, but in 1883, he developed a version that cocked the strikers automatically as the action was closed. This type of hammerless action, or the similar cock on open variation, is nearly universal in modern double barrelled shotguns.

Pump shotguns

Early pump action shotguns, like the lever action rifles that preceded them, had exposed hammers. Most famous of these is probably the Winchester Model 1897. Like the double barrelled shotguns, soon the early pump shotguns were replaced by models that enclosed the hammer completely in the action. Modern pump shotguns, with the exception of replicas of older exposed hammer designs required in Cowboy action shooting, are all hammerless.

Handguns

While shotguns have gone almost entirely hammerless (inexpensive single shot models being the main exception), handguns are available in significant numbers in many different forms, with or without exposed hammers. Striker fired guns, which are becoming more common, have no hammer, while many guns that do have hammers, such as revolvers, are available with the hammer shrouded or with the spur bobbed off. To be able to conceal or bob the hammer of a revolver, it must be a double action design, and most automatic pistols with bobbed or concealed hammers are also double action.

Business-to-government e-commerce (B2G) networks allow businesses to bid on government RFPs in a reverse auction fashion. Public sector organizations (PSO’s) post tenders in the form of RFP’s, RFI’s, RFQ’s etc. and suppliers respond to them.

There are two companies in Canada that offer B2G e-commerce.

See Also

• Tenders

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Display advertising is a type of advertising that may, and most frequently does, contain graphic information beyond text such as logos, photographs or other pictures, location maps, and similar items. In periodicals it can appear on the same page with, or a page adjacent to, general editorial content; as opposed to classified advertising, which generally appears in a distinct section and was traditionally text-only in a limited selection of typefaces (although the latter distinction is no longer sharp).

Display advertising uses static and animated images in standard or non-standard sizes called web banners as well as interactive media that might include audio and video elements. Flash by Adobe (originally Macromedia, which was bought by Adobe) is the preferred format for interactive ads on the internet.

Display ads do not have to be rich in images, audio or video. Text ads are also used where text is more appropriate or more effective. An example of text ads are commercial SMS messages to mobile devices users.

In the real world

Billboards are one example of a very common display ad.

A Finderscope is a small auxiliary telescope mounted atop the main astronomical telescope and pointed in the same direction. The finderscope usually has a much smaller magnification than the main telescope can provide and therefore can see more of the sky. This helps in locating the desired astronomical object in the night sky. Some finderscopes have crosshairs to mark exactly where the main telescope is looking.

Finderscopes usually come with a designation of the form AxB, where A is the magnification and B is the aperture of the finderscope’s objective lens in millimeters; for example, a 6×30 finderscope means a finderscope with a 30 mm objective and a magnification of 6x. This designation is in the same format used by most binoculars.

A 6×30 finderscope is the minimum useful size for a findescope on an amateur telescope, and an 8×50 or larger finderscope is preferred.”The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide”, by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer. Many inexpensive telescopes come with 5×24 finderscopes or smaller, and in some cases the true aperture is even less due to the presence of an internal aperture stop.

Finderscopes most commonly come with three viewing orientations:

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Blues Point is a harbourside locality of North Sydney, Australia. Named after local mariner Billy Blue in the 1800s, Blues Point is at the very southern tip of the McMahons Point peninsula and has spectacular views of Sydney Harbour. The locality, within North Sydney Council, is home to the Blues Point Tower, a controversial residential tower designed by Harry Seidler. Since 2005, under the dual naming policy Blues Point has also been officially referred to by its indigenous name Warungareeyuh. Blues Point is also an ideal vantage point for Sydney’s New Years Eve celebration.

Gargantua is a solitaire card game that is basically a version of Klondike using two decks.

Instead of seven in Klondike, there are nine columns to be formed. Forming these nine columns of cards, i.e. dealing the cards, is like much like Klondike. One face-up card is placed on the first column, then eight cards are each placed face-down on the other eight columns. Over these eight face-down cards are one face-up card and seven face-down cards, and so on until all nine columns have a face-up card. The rest of the deck becomes the pile. The piles should look like this:

      O   O   O   O   O   O   O   O

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     +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
         +-+ | | +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+
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in Klondike, play consists of the following:

• The eight foundations, represented by the Os in the diagram, are built up in suits starting from the ace.
• Tableau piles and cards are built down by alternating colors in partial or complete piles.
• Face-down cards are immediately turned up when they become the top cards of their piles.
• Empty spaces can be filled only by Kings or piles with Kings as bottom cards.

As for dealing the stock, cards from it are dealt to the waste pile one at a time and used if possible. The stock can only be dealt twice; afterwards the leftover cards are left at the waste pile. Also note that if you do go through the stock twice you will almost always win, so for a little more challenge just go through it once.

The game is won if all cards are transferred to the foundations.

Shaw Satellite Services, previously Canadian Satellite Communications Inc., or Cancom, is a Canadian company responsible for providing and managing the distribution of television channels to cable companies via satellite. Shaw also operates StarChoice, a Canadian direct broadcast satellite service.

Shaw Satellite Services is wholly owned by Shaw Communications.

On October 5, 2006, Shaw announced that CANCOM would be renamed Shaw Satellite Services, with CANCOM Broadcast becoming Shaw Broadcast Services, and CANCOM Tracking becoming Shaw Tracking. The rebranding is slated to be complete by the start of 2007. [1]

As Cancom, it was required by the CRTC to be operated independently of Shaw’s cable holdings. However, in light of the name change, it is unclear if Shaw’s satellite-based companies would remain independent from the cable division.

Shaw Broadcast

Shaw Broadcast (originally CANCOM Broadcast) distributes both specialty cable channels and regular broadcast network affiliates via one of North America’s largest full-service commercial signal distribution networks. It distributes affiliates of all the major Canadian commercial networks, along with several independent services.

The company also distributes a limited number of American network affiliates from markets such as Boston, Rochester, Buffalo, Detroit, Minneapolis, Spokane and Seattle. Some Canadian cable companies use Shaw for these services where cost or technical issues prevent the use of a closer non-Shaw signal, even when the station is from a different time zone. (However, use of the Shaw feeds is not required for these services; cable companies are free to use any signal provider whose distribution is technically feasible.)

As well, Shaw distributes a number of Canadian radio stations, and a few American stations, for cable FM and digital distribution. In total, over 380 English, French and multilingual signals are offered via 49 Anik F1 and F2 transponders.

Shaw Tracking

Shaw Tracking (originally CANCOM Tracking) provides commercial tracking via satellite. Specifically it provides tracking, two-way messaging and integrated transportation and logistics solutions to the Canadian trucking industry with over 31,000 units in use by over 500 companies. Of Canada’s Top 25 trucking companies, Shaw claims that 23 use its services, and that it has over 85% of the mobile communications market place for long-haul trucks.

CANCOM Logos

The following logos were for these divisions under the CANCOM name; the new logos for the new Shaw names will be revealed by the end of 2006.

External links

• Official site
• Official Site (Shaw Broadcasting)
  

See also:
1910 in organized crime,
other events of 1911,
1912 in organized crime and the
list of ‘years in Organized Crime’.

Events

• Five Points Gang member James T. “Biff” Ellison is sentenced to Sing Sing Prison for the attempted murder of gang leader Paul Kelly. He dies several years later in an insane asylum.
  
• Jack Zelig is arrested for robbing a bordello. The charges are later dropped however, in attempt to gain leadership of the Eastman Gang, lieutenants Jack Sirocco and Chick Tricker refuse to post bail beginning a gang war between the two.
• Nathan Kaplan severely injures Johnny Spanish in a knife fight before police arrive to break up the fight. Kaplan also fights Jacob Orgen later that year giving a scar across Orgen’s face before the fight is stopped.
• John Roselli arrives with his family in the United States from Sicily.
• Frank Tieri emigrates to the United States from Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
• December 1 - “Big” Jim O’Leary sells off his gambling operations and other business interests and goes into retirement.
• December 2 - Julie Morrell, an assassin hired by Sirocco and Tricker to murder Zelig, is lured to a Second Avenue nightclub and killed.

Arts and literature

Births

• Leonard Calamia, Drug traffiker and syndicate gunman
• George Gordon (George C. Berslem), Cleveland mobster
• Philip Lombardo, (Miami) Genovese crime family leader
• Frank Joseph Valenti, New York syndicate (Rochester) leader and gambling racketeer
• Armand Rava, Gambino crime family member, high ranking lieutenant to Aniello Dellacroce and syndicate gambling racketeer
• Joseph Zingara, Westchester County mobster and Gambino crime family member
• March 27 - Rocco Salvatore, Chicago Outfit member involved in North Side’s illegal gambling and former chauffeur of Sam Battaglia
• May 1 - Anthony Salerno, Genovese crime family Don
• September 9 - Dominic Blasi (Joe Bantone), bodyguard for Sam Giancana
• November 4 - James Napoli “Jimmy Napp”, Genovese crime family member involved in illegal gambling and loansharking

Deaths

• December 2 - Julie Morrell, Eastman Gang member

Bachi (桴, 枹) (also batchi or buchi) is the name for the wooden sticks used to play Japanese taiko drums, and also (written 撥) the plectrum for stringed instruments like the shamisen and biwa.

Drum bachi are made in a wide variety of sizes and materials, as appropriate to the drum it will be used to play. A typical bachi is about 22 mm (⅞ inches) in diameter, 400 mm (16 inches) long and made out of a hardwood such as oak. These would be suitable for a wide variety of playing styles.

A bachi for playing a larger drum like the O-daiko would be bigger both in circumference and length. Similarly, smaller bachi are used for smaller drums.

Some other woods commonly used to make bachi are (Japanese names in parentheses): maple (kaede), pine (matsu), cypress (hinoki), magnolia (hou), beech (buna) and bamboo (take). Hou is one of the lightest and softest woods, most suitable for playing smaller drums with a sharp attack and less decay. On a larger drum, however, a hou bachi usually sounds “slappy” and flat, because it is too light to strike the thicker head of the drum with enough power to generate the lower tones of the drum. It is also too soft to play on the rim of the drum (in kuchi shoka, it is called a “ka”) without denting the wood. Hinoki is slightly harder than hou, and is usually cheaper as well. On the opposite extreme, a kashi (oak) bachi is heavy and hard. It brings out a good sound when playing larger taikos, but on a smaller drum, it muffles the higher harmonics of the taiko, and sounds “thunky” and dead.

Taiko drumming is a highly visual art form, so it is not surprising that bachi are sometimes decorated with bells and/or tassels for use during performance.

Shaikh Abdullah Abu Azzam (d. September 2005) was an iraqi man who the US and allies claim was a member of al-Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgency. According to them, he was an aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and was also known as the emir of Anbar. There was a reward of $50,000 offered for information leading to his death or capture; he was killed by the United States Army in a shootout in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

See also

• 2003 invasion of Iraq

External links

• Story from ABC News

For the operations of Australia’s federal government, see

• Government of Australia
• Queen of Australia
• Governor-General of Australia
• Prime Minister of Australia
• Parliament of Australia
• High Court of Australia
• Australian electoral system

For the operations of the governments of Australia’s states and territories, see

• Governors of the Australian states
• Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
• Premiers of the Australian states
• Government of New South Wales
• Government of Victoria
• Government of Queensland
• Government of Western Australia
• Government of South Australia
• Government of Tasmania
• Government of the Australian Capital Territory
• Government of the Northern Territory

For local government see

• Local government in Australia
• Local Government Areas in Australia

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International Business School can refer to a number of institutions around the world, some of which are listed below:

• Brandeis International Business School
• International Business School - Budapest in Budapest [1]
• International Business School Groningen
• Isle of Man International Business School

John Chandioux is a specialist in computational linguistics. His work in the machine translation field includes creating the GramR® programming language and the METEO® Translation System, which has been used since 1977 by the Canadian government’s Translation Bureau to translate weather bulletins on microcomputers. Chandioux is the president of John Chandioux Consultants and vice-president of EDIT Inc., its publishing arm.

External

links

• John Chandioux Consultants
• EDIT Inc. - Terminology Products
• EDIT Inc. - Educational Products

Flinch is a card game, played with a custom deck, invented in 1901 by A.J. Patterson. This deck has 150 cards, consisting of ten sets numbered from one to fifteen. Some variations use a 144-card deck.

Rules of play

In this description, masculine pronouns are used for convenience only.

• The cards are dealt face down.

• The first player turns over his top card and if it is a one it is put in the middle of the table; if it is not a one it is put face up so that everyone can see it. The second player takes his top card, and again if it is not a one it is put face up; and so forth for the rest of the players.

• The first player goes again: if his face-up card happens to be a two it can be placed in the middle, on top of the one; or, if the face-up card is either one more or one less than another player’s face-up card, that card can be placed on top of the other player’s card. For example, if the first player’s face-up card is a seven, it can be placed on another player’s six or eight. If the player is able to get rid of his face-up card in one of these ways, he turns up his next card and attempts to discard it using the same methods. He continues until he is unable to discard any more cards. Play then continues with the next player.

• Note that cards may be placed in the middle only in ascending order, starting at one and continuing to fifteen, whereas cards may be placed on other players’ cards in either ascending or descending order.

• The object of the game is to get rid of all one’s cards.

• If the current player’s turned-up card could be discarded, but the player fails to notice this, other players may yell “Flinch!”.

External links

• A Parker Brothers version of the Flinch rules

Boots is a remix single by KMFDM, featuring three versions of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”.

Track listing

1. “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” – 2:50
2. “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ (Bombs Mix)” – 3:44
3. “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ (Candy Mix)” – 6:22
4. “Back in the U.S.S.A.” – 4:24

Notes

• “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” is a cover version originally recorded by Nancy Sinatra in 1966.

Batman: Knight Gallery is a one-shot comic book released by DC Comics in 1995. It consists of a series of alternate Batman costumes with commentary attributed to Bruce Wayne.

In 1995 DC Comics decided to change Batman’s costume once again. Various artists proposed over twenty new costume designs. DC Writers, Artists, and Editors met at the annual Bat-Meet to decide on a new costume based on the submitted designs.

The Bat-Team decided on a costume, but someone forgot to notify Warner Brothers for the upcoming movie. In that movie the Batman wore an all black rubber costume and so DC began drawing Batman in an all black suit, beginning in Batman 515 in February of 1995.

Doug Moench, who liked all of the ideas, thought it would be interesting to print them in a Bruce Wayne journal - Knight Gallery. The designs were printed in a standard comic format with a little bit of text as if Bruce Wayne were sketching designs in a journal and writing in what he liked and disliked about each design. Taking the idea one step further, Moench used the costumes in a set of Elseworlds books called Brotherhood of the Bat and The League of Batmen.

The Knight Gallery also included possible designs for Tim Drake’s Robin costume, and sketches of the Gotham City skyline and Arkham Asylum.

Stonewall is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is probably named because the player seems to break down walls as one exposes more of the face-down cards. Its tableau is similar to that of Flower Garden with its beds as columns.

Thirty-six cards are dealt onto the tableau into six columns of six cards each. It should be noted that the exposed (top) card and the third and fifth cards from it are faced up while the second, fourth, and sixth cards from the top are faced down. The 16 leftover cards act as the reserve.

The object of the game is to move the Aces to the foundations and build each of them up by suit.

The top cards of each column, as well as all the cards in the reserve, are available for play to the foundations or the tableau. Building on the tableau is down by alternating colors and a sequence (or a part of a sequence) can be moved as unit. Any gap on the tableau can be filled by any exposed card or any sequence.

The game is won when all cards are built onto the foundations. But chances of winning are low, especially, for instance, that the needed cards are those faced down.

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.

Sources

• Erdnase, S.W. The Expert At The Card Table. ISBN 0-486-28597-9

An obstack is a stack of objects (data items) which is grown dynamically.

Obstack code typically provides C language macros which take care of memory allocation and management for you. Basically, obstacks are used as a form of memory management which can be more efficient and less difficult to implement than malloc/free in several situations.

For example, say one needs to set up a stack for handling data items whose numbers grow for a while and then reach a final form; such a stack could be defined in obstack.h.

The GNU C Library’s info file summary of obstacks:

An “obstack” is a pool of memory containing a stack of objects. You can create any number of separate obstacks, and then allocate objects in specified obstacks. Within each obstack, the last object allocated must always be the first one freed, but distinct obstacks are independent of each other.

Aside from this one constraint of order of freeing, obstacks are totally general: an obstack can contain any number of objects of any size. They are implemented with macros, so allocation is usually very fast as long as the objects are usually small. And the only space overhead per object is the padding needed to start each object on a suitable boundary.

References

• GNU C Library Obstacks

Picozzi and The Horn was a very successful and popular morning drive radio program in Hartford, Connecticut.

It aired from May 1986 until May 1997 on WHCN 105.9 FM.

It featured co-hosts Michael Picozzi and Gary Lee Horn.

It included rock music, news, contests, listener calls and featured running comedy bits. Among these were: The Marching Weathermen, GhandiMart, The Ground Hog and Stump Picozzi and The Horn.

Parties called Live Lunch Luaus were held on Hawaiian Shirt Fridays and broadcast live. Picozzi and The Horn were cited numerous times for charity work and community service.

Captive Queens is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. The game is so named because the queens are being “enclosed” as the foundations are built.

There are two ways that the queens are played in this game: either they are laid in the center of the tableau immediately or shuffled into the deck and laid out later. Either way, their role is just purely decorative and have no further part in the game.

The game starts by laying the cards from the stock one at a time into a wastepile in search for fives or sixes. Once any of these cards are found, it becomes a foundation and can be placed on a circle surrounding the area where queens are placed; it can be built upon immediately. The foundations’ places in this circle are irrelevant.

The fives are built down and the sixes are built up, all by suit. Here’s the chart of which cards are placed on these cards:

After the foundation cards are found, the rest of the stock is dealt to look for cards that can be built in to the foundations. In case the queens are shuffled into the deck, when a queen is found, it is placed on the center.

Once the stock runs out, the cards are gathered from the wastepile and become the new stock from which cards are to be dealt. This can only be done twice in the whole game.

The game is won when all the cards are in the foundations with the face cards (kings and jacks) are at the top of each foundation, like the thumbnail at the right.

E.214 is a numbering plan used for delivering mobility management related messages in GSM networks. The E.214 number is derived from the IMSI E.214 numbers are composed of two parts. The first, the E.164 part, is made up of a country code followed by the network code. The second part of the number is made from the MSIN part of the IMSI which identifies an individual subscriber. For more details on the derivation of the E.214 number from the IMSI, see the article about the IMSI.

E.214 numbers are routed separately from E.164 numbers since they are marked with a different Numbering Plan Indicator, however, it is possible to reuse the Global Title analysis tables used E.164 numbers everywhere except for the final destination network of the message. This saves considerable administrative work. See the article on Global Title Translation for more details on routing of messages using E.214 numbers.

Flower Garden is a solitaire card game using a deck of 52 playing cards. It is not known why the game is called such, but the terms used in this game do have a relation to those in gardening and it takes merit that some skill is needed. It is also known under the names The Bouquet and The Garden.

Thirty-six cards are dealt in to six columns, each containing six cards. The columns are called the “flower beds” and the entire tableau is sometimes called “the garden.” The sixteen leftover cards become the reserve, or “the bouquet.”

The top cards of each flower-bed and all of the cards in the bouquet are available for play. Cards can only be moved one at a time and can be built either on the foundations or on the other flower beds. The foundations are built up by suit, from Ace to King (a general idea of the game is to release the aces first). The cards in the garden, on the other hand, can be built down regardless of suit and any empty flower bed can be filled with any card. The cards in the bouquet can be used to aid in building, be put into the foundations, or fill an empty flower bed.

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