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In the News (Sun 5 Jul 09)

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	Interview
		In three dimensions you work with billiard balls - that's where the term kissing number comes from, by the way, a name that I think I invented, since two billiard balls that just touch are said to "kiss" - and the answer is 12.
		The amazing thing is that we now know the maximal kissing number in dimensions 1, 2, 3, 8 and 24, but not in any other dimensions.
		So Golay's nonlinear code of length 9, with 20 codewords, 18 of which have weight 4, produces a 9-D packing with kissing number 18+16.18 = 306, which was a new record.
	www.research.att.com /~njas/doc/interview.html

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		This is described as a snooker club or a billiard club with some sort of cafeteria or restaurant inside.
		BLITZER: And presumably the people in this club were younger Israelis who were hanging out at a pool club or a billiard club after 11:00 local time, about an hour and a half or so ago.
		But one of the things that's going to be clear is that the world is rallying towards these reforms and that's what our job is to do is to lead them towards those reforms.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0205/07/wbr.00.html (8505 words)

	Billiards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billiards is a family of games played on a table, with a stick, known as a cue stick, which is used to strike balls, moving them around the table.
		Billiards games are played with a stick known as a cue.
		The red balls are typically not numbered, though the six colored balls often are, and can easily be mistaken at first glace for pool balls (the design is similar, but the number does not match pool's scheme).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billiards (5208 words)

	World Pool-Billiard Association
		The mechanical bridge, also called rake, crutch or rest, is an accessory of the billiard sports table and consists of a stick with a bridge head mounted at its end to support the shaft of the cue stick replacing the hand bridge during shots difficult to reach.
		Each object ball has its number printed twice, opposite each other, one of the two numbers upside down, black on a white round background.
		A complete set of pool balls consists of one white cue ball and fifteen color-coded, numbered object balls.
	www.wpa-pool.com /index.asp?content=rules_spec (2057 words)

	Billiard Ball Cleaner
		Balls are usually hollow and spherical but can beother shapes, such as ovoid (only in a few special cases) or solid (as in billiards) and flat (as in ice hockey).
		This word is not found, with the meaning of a number, in standard Englishdictionaries.
		one billiard = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 10 15 = one shortscale quadrillion.
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/40853-billiardballcleaner.html (528 words)

	Mass of a Billiard Ball
		At the start of the game, all the numbered balls are racked together at the edge of the table and a player has to break it which is hit all the numbered ball with the cue ball with the hopes of pocketing one or more.
		In 8-ball, there are 15 balls number 1-7 (solids) and 9-15 (stripes) and one cue ball which is meant to hit all the other balls into holes in the table called pockets.
		Billiards however became popular in England where it was first played by royalty only.
	www.hypertextbook.com /facts/2004/OluwoleOwoseni.shtml (423 words)

	Antique Pool Table Appraisal & Antique Billiard Table Appraisals
		Antique Pool Table Appraisal and Antique Billiard Table Appraisals
		There are a number of reasons why you should clarify the value of yours.
		Tables are often missing the original nameplates that identified their manufacturers.
	www.marschaks.com /antique_pool_table_appraisals.htm (418 words)

	Genetic Epistemologist: Volume 25, Number 3 (1997)
		The number one assumption here is that, in developing a scientifically respectable theory of perception, human observers should be treated as if they were simply inert entities–like rocks or billiard balls.
		With Western thinkers spinning crazily along such paths it is perhaps no wonder that, at the end of the nineteenth century, a number of philosophers began to look for a way off of what appeared to be theorists traveling out of control.
		This so-called theory is really more a set of overarching assumptions than a theory–assumptions which have constrained virtually all theories of perception, philosophical, or scientific.
	www.piaget.org /GE/1997/GE-25-3.html (7486 words)

	Everything Billiard
		Your number one source for pool cues, cases, tee-shirts, billiard chairs, NFL and Major League billiard balls,
		as well as all BRAND NAME billiard supplies.
		Friday April 28, 2006 at 05:16 AM EDT
	www.everythingbilliard.com (33 words)

	Measurement Sample
		The answer is called the "kissing number" ("kiss" as in the billiard's sense).
		The kissing number for four-dimensional spheres is an unsolved problem.
		This problem can be modeled with coins or plastic disks and is solvable by high school students.
	www.ite.sc.edu /dickey/nctm1996/sphere.html (117 words)

	Multiplication is still commutative
		Some people don't believe that Xerox color copiers include a hidden serial number in all of their output so that a document produced by one can be traced back to that particular machine.
		I have a new telephone number again, as well as a new address, as of March 1.
		I'm fairly fascinated by the history of computation, and I would love to teach a course called "Billiard Ball Computers" (surveying computation with everything except transistors on microchips).
	loyalty.org /~schoen (117 words)

	Red Rocks Community College Library - Physics Videos
		Discusses the conclusion of a number of distinguished scientists that other intelligent civilizations exist in the universe.
		Host James Burke employs his investigative powers to unravel the mystery of who stole a set of billiard balls in 1902 and why he was the most famous crook in history.
		The methods used to extract metals from ores and to blend metals to form alloys with improved physical characteristics are covered.
	www.rrcc.edu /library/videos/progvid/phycat.htm (6548 words)

	The Daily Star: Internet Edition Fri. April 16, 2004
		The first ever Bangladesh Billiard Centre pool and snooker championship begins at the BBC at GEC intersection in the port city on April 23.
		The Zimbabwe Cricket Union (ZCU) has dropped three selectors and named two new ones in a sign that the impasse with 13 senior players who have threatened to resign may be moving towards resolution.
		Ronaldinho insists he would not leave Barcelona 'for all the money in the world' after speculation suggesting Chelsea were plotting a summer move for him.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/16/d4041604.htm (692 words)

	Billiard Business
		In Britain, Ireland, and Australia, the word "billiard" has been largely replaced by either the long scale usage of "thousand billion" or the short scale usage of "quadrillion".
		This word is not found, with the meaning of a number, in standard Englishdictionaries.
		one billiard = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 10 15 = one shortscale quadrillion.
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/40856-billiard%20business.html (403 words)

	Billiards provides relaxation, friendly competition for Soldiers
		According to the Billiard Congress of America, during World War II a great number of Soldiers took up billiards at military camps.
		Doug Ide, spokesman for U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center said there are many different reasons that billiards is so popular among Soldiers, especially the low cost of the activity.
		According to Willie Evans, the Director of Sosa Community Center, an average of 100 to 125 players use the center’s billiards table each week.
	www.belvoireagle.com /archives/2005/AUG/11AUG/relax.shtml (494 words)

	ADAH: Montgomery Historical Markers
		Included in the area were a dance pavilion, refreshment stand, bowling alley, shooting gallery, carousel, flying swing, billiard parlor, scenic car and roller coaster.
		Bethel Cemetery was constituted Feb 13, 1819 and located on Federal Rd. Bethel Church was 1 of 4 churches in the Alabama Baptist Association which was formed on Dec. 13, 1819.
		He first played the piano in dance halls, then created his famous jazz trio and developed a singing style that influenced the future of jazz, rhythm-and-blues, and popular music.
	www.archives.state.al.us /markers/imontgomery.html (12063 words)

	Montshire Museum: Plastics
		Since billiard balls were made of ivory at the time, elephants were vulnerable to hordes of cue-wielding pool players.
		But he was later inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame (there is such a place).
		For one thing, it turned out the balls were highly flammable, which added a lot of excitement to the game, given the number of smokers who played pool.
	www.montshire.net /minute/mm980525.html (12063 words)

	sound & video contractor S&VC associations focus infocomm nsca cedia
		Laurance is the only billiards player ever featured in a cover article in The New York Times Magazine, and has also been prominently featured in a number of other national magazines, such as People, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Now, and Glamour.
		She is also the spokesperson for the Boston Billiard Club chain of upscale billiard rooms and a color commentator on ESPN billiards programming.
		She has spent numerous terms as a member of the WPBA Board of Directors, working to organize and promote women's pocket billiards, and is currently serving her second term as president of the WPBA, a position she also held in 1997.
	svconline.com /mag/avinstall_striking_viking_cedia (12063 words)

	Sun.Star Cebu - Bata beats Kiamco for Asian 9-ball leg title
		Even Philippine billiard sports patron Aristeo “Putch” Puyat of Puyat Sports, who joined a significant number Filipino audience in spectators’ row, marveled at the dominating run by the Filipino cue masters.
		Reyes, a 2003 Billiard Congress of America (BCA) Hall of Fame inductee, then registered three consecutive racks to enjoy 7-2 lead against Kiamco.
		Kiamco came back and ran down the 10th rack to inch closer at 3-7, but Reyes then claimed four of the next five racks to clinch the title.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2004/03/02/sports/bata.beats.kiamco.for.asian.9.ball.leg.title.html (12063 words)

	ONE POCKET HALL OF FAME MY UNCLE EDDIE TAYLOR THE KNOXVILLE BEAR
		As one of the oldest games in pocket billiards, many great players over the years have become well-known for their great One Pocket talent, a number of which are already enshrined in the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) Hall of Fame:
		The One Pocket Hall of Fame offers a chance to celebrate One Pocket in particular, rather than pool and billiards in general.
		After all, the game of One Pocket has always featured a little different cast of characters than the mainstream of pool and billiards that is naturally favored by the Billiard Congress of America.
	www.theknoxvillebear.com /one-pocket.html (12063 words)

	Introduction
		From turning Professional at age 22 in 1969 to being inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 2002, Jim has traveled the world amassing a staggering number of titles.
		Jim has been a Player/Staff Member for Meucci Cues for the past twenty years and is proud to be able to offer to you the finest in Meucci Custom Cues at a substantial discount.
		Jimmy's love affair with pool began at age 6 in Dickson City, Pennsylvania.
	www.jimrempe.com /introduction.htm (12063 words)

	Billiards
		The name derives from the correlation of the number of numbered balls in a standard billiard set and the number of zeroes in the number one billiard (fifteen).
		Billiards or pool is a game consisting of billiard balls, cuess, and a particular table (usually slate covered in felt, twice as long as it is wide - e.g.
		MARKINGTON and District Billiards Results: Birstwith 'A' 3, Birstwith 'B' 2; Hampsthwaite 1, Ripley 'A' 4; Kirkby Malzeard 2, Hookstone 3; Pateley Social 3...
	www.wikiverse.org /billiards (320 words)

	"The Traveller's Yellow Pages On-Line: BILLIARDS"
		Billiards in Russia, after years of restrictions is experiencing such a revival that the number of club-bars, billiard rooms, billiard bars and other well-equipped places where you spend a wonderful time playing the game has reached several hundreds.
		Billiard Club 2004 Russian billiards and American pool
		This game is no longer restricted to wealthy people and is attracting a very large number of young people.
	www.infoservices.com /stpete/97.htm (181 words)

	Rusgoods - Jewelry collections: "The first ever collection of the unique large pearls-paragons, cultered in the UAE", "Leman's collection"
		The book contains information on the history and technique of billiard, detailed analysis of different game combinations, suggests a number of interesting and clever ideas, and has characteristics and comparative analysis of the billiard tables, produced by the three main Russian billiard fabrics.
		Anatoly Ivanovich Leman is among the best billiard players of the past.
		It was he, who wrote one of the most significant books about billiard of that time "The theory of the billiard game".
	www.rusgoods.com /paragon/paragon_Eng.html (1202 words)

	BILLIARDS - LoveToKnow Article on BILLIARDS
		In France billiards was played exclusively by the aristocracy and the richer middle class until the first part of the 17th century, when the privilege of keeping billiard-rooms was accorded to the billardiers paulmiers, and billiards became the principal betting game and remained so until the time of Louis Philippe.
		The perfection of billiards is to be found in the nice combination of the various strokes, in such fashion as to leave the balls in a favorable position after each individual hazard and cannon; and this perfection can only be attained by the most constant and unremitting practice.
		Development in Billiard Play.The modern developmen.t of English billiards is due mainly to the skill of such leading players as John Roberts, sen., a-nd his son of the same name.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BI/BILLIARDS.htm (10777 words)

	The History of American Pool
		The American billiard industry and the incredible rise of popularity of the game are due to Michael Phelan, the father of American billiards.
		Fifteen-Ball Pool was played with 15 object balls, numbered 1 through 15.
		Many non-billiard games, such as poker, involve a pool but it was to pocket billiards that the name became attached.
	www.titansports.co.uk /history/pool.htm (1442 words)

	intrinsic.html
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		Keywords History of numbers, Arithmetic puzzles, Figurate numbers, gnomic numbers, geometric puzzles, railway shunting, tiling, tilings, tessellations, fifteen puzzle, chinese rings, magic squares, graph theory, duplicating the cube, Delian problem, trisection of an angle, squaring the circle, Konigsberg bridges, unicursal problems, labyrinths, mazes, points and lines, Astrology
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/sfgate/strens/intrinsic.html (3873 words)

	General Intelligence and Seed AI
		In the last case, the AI may have been able to manipulate each of the six billiard balls as a separate object, or each action may have affected multiple balls simultaneously, requiring a more complex planning process.
		The task of perceiving a particular number of "holes" and selecting, in advance, the correct number of pegs, might force the AI to develop the concept of corresponding sets, or sets that contain the same number of objects.
		When new situations are encountered, new situations that force the extension of the concept, the mind can switch from the optimized method to the methods that reflect underlying causes and underlying substrate.
	www.singinst.org /GISAI.html (18735 words)

	Book compiled
		Kenichi Morita with collaborators - “Universal Computing in Reversible and Number-Conserving Two-Dimensional Cellular Spaces” - show how to embed a Fredkin gate, which is a basic element of conservative logic, into a bitconserving reversible partitioning cellular automaton via generalisation of Margolus's billiard ball model cellular automaton to more complicated grids and advanced state transition functions.
		Thus in “Computing Inside the Billiard Ball Model” Jérome Durand-Lose applies his expertise in reversible computing, automata models of transition phenomena and grain sorting in sand piles to derive intriguing results related to reversible cellular automata models of collision-based computing.
		It covers such diverse subjects as conservative computation in billiard ball models and its cellular-automaton analogues, implementation of computing devices in lattice gases, Conway's Game of Life and discrete excitable media, theory of particle machines, computation with solitons, logic of ballistic computing, phenomenology of computation, and self-replicating universal computers.
	www.cems.uwe.ac.uk /~aadamatz/compiled.htm (2364 words)

	Documentation on Billiards Game
		In mathematical billiards, we have one ball on a table that moves with constant speed forever.
		Bunimovich gave a mathematical proof that the billiard motion was chaotic.
		To help follow the motion and not get distracted by the clutter of the path on the table, mathematicians invented an associated space, called the phase space, and study the motion of the billiard in the phase space.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /chaos/doc.html (1499 words)

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