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Akshobya's blessings enables us to develop wisdom and understand the true nature of reality.
Akshobhya, meaning unshakeable, is one of many Buddhas found in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
He is described in the Mahayana Sutras of Northern Buddhism and in the Tantra literature.
Although a relatively minor figure in the Sutras Akshobhya is of major importance in the Tantras occupying a central role in Vajrayana Buddhism at all levels.
He is easily recognized in paintings by having a buddha-like form, blue body colour and the left hand supporting an upright vajra scepter.
There are no other Buddhist figures that have this same iconographic appearance.
Tantric depictions of Buddhas are commonly shown with jewel ornaments and a crown.
Jambhala's blessings are to help others by eliminating poverty, so that they may practice the Dharma.
There are five Jambhalas - Yellow Jambhala (overcomes pride), White Jambhala (overcomes attachment), Black Jambala (overcomes resentment), Green Jambhala (overcomes jealousy) and Red Jambhala (overcomes greed).
For instance, the White Jambhala is shown sitting on a turquoise dragon and his left hand holds a mongoose that spews out precious jewels.
Bodhi (Sanskrit) or Enlightenment refers to full awakening where all limitations have been removed from the mind.
All positive potential including unlimited compassion, skill and wisdom are said to be realized.
The enlightened being is free from samsara.
It is concerned with finite or countable infinite sets.
Combinatorics is part of discrete mathematics.
Combinatorics are about graph theory, or Partitions of sets.
According to George Pólya, combinatorics looks at counting the number of possibilities, and about the questions whether certain configurations exist, and how to get to them.
Determining how many different ways there are to arrange a number of objects.
Determining how many ways there are to select a number of objects from a larger set.
The objects may or may not be distinguishable.
The order in which the objects are selected may or may not matter.
There are 6 different ways to arrange three distinguishable objects (as shown in the graphic).
There are three different ways to select one particular orange from a basket with three oranges.
There is only one possible way to select the apple from a basket that has one orange, one apple and one pear in it.
Enrique Granados (born Lérida, Spain, 27 July 1867;  died in the English Channel, 24 March 1916) was a Spanish composer and pianist.
He lived most of his life in Barcelona.
His favourite painter was Goya and his best work, the piano pieces called Goyescas, are inspired by Goya’s paintings.
Granados started having piano lessons in Barcelona and then went to Paris where he studied privately with Charles de Bériot.
He returned to Barcelona  in 1889 and the following year gave his first piano recital.
He wrote a zarzuela (light opera) called Maria del Carmen.
The king liked it very much and gave him an award.
During the following years he composed a lot and performed with famous musicians such as Jacques Thibaud, Pau Casals and Camille Saint-Saëns.
His piano suite  Goyescas was first performed in Barcelona in 1911 and then in Paris in 1914 where it soon became extremely popular.
Goyescas and the fateful voyage
He was persuaded to make Goyescas into an opera.
The opera was going to be performed at the Paris Opéra but, because of World War I it was performed in New York instead.
Granados was invited to go to New York to watch the first performance of his opera.
He was very frightened of the sea, but eventually was persuaded to go.
The opera was a great success when it was performed on 26 January 1916.
Granados felt that he was at the beginning of a successful career.
President Wilson invited him to play the piano at the White House.
Because of this invitation he missed the ship that would have taken him back to Spain.
He took a ship to England instead.
In Liverpool, he got off the ship and got onto another one which would take him to Dieppe in France.
The ship was called the Sussex.
When the Sussex was in the middle of the English Channel it was torpedoed by a German submarine.
Granados managed to get onto a lifeboat, but then he saw his wife in the sea and he jumped in to try to save her, but they both drowned.
Granados wrote mainly piano works and songs.
He was influenced by Romantic composers such as Grieg, Schumann and Liszt, but he was starting to make his music sound very Spanish.
His songs include some of the best written by a Spanish composer.
His piano works include Ten Spanish Dances, which are not too difficult to play, and the suite Goyescas which is mostly quite difficult to play.
The most popular piece in this suite is called Lament, or The Maiden and the Nightingale.
It has a very romantic tune which is repeated several times.
20th-century Spanish composers
Manuel de Falla (born Cádiz, Spain, 23 November 1876; died Alta Gracia, Argentina, 14 November 1946) was a Spanish composer.
Falla (pronounce: “FA-ya”), together with Albéniz and Granados, helped to make Spanish music important again after three centuries during which there had been no important Spanish composers.
Falla had his first music lessons in Cádiz.
At first he did not know whether he wanted to take music or literature as a career.
When he was ten he started to go to music evenings where he heard chamber music being played.
Then he started to go to the opera, and he heard church music and orchestral music.
He liked the music of Grieg and decided that he wanted to do something similar with Spanish music.
He went to Madrid where he studied very hard and won prizes.
His first compositions were played in Cádiz.
He studied with Pedrell who had also taught Albéniz and Granados.
He wrote a song called Tus ojillos negros which became very popular, and he won a prize for a piano composition, but it was his opera La vida breve (1904-1905) which really showed his genius, although it was not performed at the time.
No one in Spain wanted to perform his zarzuelas, so he went to Paris in 1907.
He soon made friends with Dukas, Debussy and Ravel.
He made changes to La vida breve and it was performed in Paris in 1913.
His piano works and songs were also performed in Paris, and in Madrid.
In 1915 he wrote El amor brujo.
It was a work with dances, songs and spoken passages.
He soon turned it into a ballet.
The music uses the songs of Andalusia and the rhythms of Spanish folkmusic.
He wrote a work for solo piano and orchestra called Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the gardens of Spain).
Later he changed it to a ballet for Diaghilev, calling it El sombrero.
It was performed in London in 1919 with designs by Picasso.
The music is very lively and often sounds like a guitar.
He wrote a piano piece called Fantasia bética (1919) which is the most important Spanish piano work after Albéniz’s Iberia.
Falla had many friends, including Lorca.
They liked small theatre pieces and Falla wrote El retablo and set it as a puppet opera.
He liked the music of the past centuries, and wrote a concerto for harpsichord and five other instruments.
During his final years Falla was composing a very large work called Atlántida.
It was a long oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
The words were in Catalan.
Falla did not live long enough to finish the work.
He became very depressed because of World War II.
In the end he was invited to Argentina where he settled.
He continued to work at Atlántida, but he had not finished it when he died.
A man called Ernesto Halffter spent many years trying to finish it and prepare it for a performance.
It was performed on stage at La Scala, Milan, in 1962, but it does not work well as an opera.
Occasionally it is performed as a concert piece.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians ed.
Stanley Sadie, 1980
People from Cádiz
Turina was brought up in Seville, and the music of this town always had a big influence on his music.
His father was a painter.
As a small boy Turina’s favourite toy was a small toy accordion.
He started to study medicine, but he wanted to be a musician, so his father let him study music instead.
He had piano lessons with Enrique Rodriguez and studied harmony with Garcia Torres, who was in charge of music at the cathedral in Seville.
Soon Turina started to compose.
He met Falla and the two musicians became lifelong friends.
He moved to Paris in 1905 where he studied with Moskowski and d’Indy.
One of the his first works to be performed was piano quintet.
The style was similar to César Franck.
Albéniz heard it and advised the young composer to make his music sound Spanish.
Turina’s music started to be performed widely.
In 1914 both Turina and Falla returned to live in Spain.
They were two of the most important Spanish composers.
He was choirmaster at the Teatro Real and he had an opera Jardin de oriente performed there.
He became director of the Madrid Conservatory and received many honours.
Turina’s music always sounds very Spanish, although he used the forms of main European composers.
He wrote many short piano pieces which often describe a person.
He wrote songs and guitar music.
His family originally came from Spain.
Edouard learned to play the piano and violin at the Lille Conservatory, but his parents did not want him to take music as a profession.
So he left home when he was 16 and went to Paris.
He took some lessons and earned money by teaching and playing the violin.
He liked chamber music.
Not many people in France were interested in chamber music at that time.
With three friends he formed a string quartet and they helped to make the string quartets of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven better known in France.
He played the viola in his quartet, and later he played second violin.
In 1859 he composed a string quartet.
It was not until the 1870s, when he was already in his 50s, that he started to become really well known.
Some famous conductors such as Pasdeloup, Lamoureux and Colonne and the violinist Sarasate took an interest in his orchestral works and performed them.
He wrote a violin concerto and a work called Symphonie espagnole (Spanish Symphony) which was also for solo violin and orchestra.
Sarasate played both these works.
He wrote a cello concerto in 1877.
He wrote an opera Le roi d’Ys, but no opera house wanted to perform it.
They asked him to write a ballet instead.
He did not know anything about ballet, but he composed one called Namouna.
It had some good music, although people who did not like him said it sounded like Wagner or like the music of someone who is used to writing symphonies.
In 1888 his opera Le roi d’Ys was performed at last.
It was an enormous success, but Lalo only had four more years to live, and he did not compose anything more of importance.
He had married one of his pupils in 1865 and they had a son.
In France Lalo is mainly remembered for his opera Le roi d’Ys, but in other countries his best known work is his Symphonie espagnole.
It is not really a “symphony”,  it is a violin concerto.
It has  five movements and there are lots of lively, Spanish rhythms.
His cello concerto is also an excellent work.
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| city = Allegiant StadiumParadise, Nevada
| misc = Headquartered in Alameda, California
The Silver and Black
The Team of the Decades
The Third World's Team
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| mascot = The Black Hole
| coach = Jon Gruden
| owner = Mark Davis (majority owner)
| ceo = Amy Trask
| general manager = Mike Maylock
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| song = The Autumn Wind
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The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team in the National Football League.
They play in Paradise, Nevada, USA.
Their stadium is Allegiant Stadium.
They were created in 1960 as a new American Football League team.
They play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference.
Division rivals are Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, and Los Angeles Chargers.
The Raiders have won three Super Bowls.
Team history
American Football League years (1960-1969)
A few months after the AFL's first draft in 1959, owners of the Minneapolis new team (later known as the Minnesota Vikings) accepted the invitation to join the National Football League.
Needing a replacement, the AFL tried to find one quickly.
Oakland was thought to be an unlikely city to have a professional American football team.
The AFL owners picked Oakland after Los Angeles Chargers owner Barron Hilton threatened to drop his team unless a second team was placed on the West Coast.
The city of Oakland was awarded the eighth AFL team on January 30, 1960, and the team took over the Minneapolis club's draft picks.
The new Oakland team was called the "Raiders", which is used as a synonym for a pirate.
The team logo includes an illustration of a pirate.
In the early years, the Raiders struggled.
When Al Davis came in as head coach and general manager, the Raiders got better.
Davis hired John Rauch and went to the their first AFL Championship against the Houston Oilers and won it 40-7.
After winning their first AFL championship they earned a shot at Super Bowl II and lost to Green Bay Packers 33-14.
The next two years, the Raiders again won Western Division titles, only to lose the AFL Championship to the eventual Super Bowl winners—the New York Jets (1968) and Kansas City Chiefs (1969).
National Football League years (1970-present)
After the 1969 season, the AFL decided to merge with the NFL.
The Raiders join the American Football Conference as a Western Division member.
John Madden was hired as head coach.
Madden took the Raiders to their first Super Bowl win against Minnesota Vikings 32-14 in Super Bowl XI.
Later, Madden left for a commentary career.
The Raiders hired Tom Flores, the first Hispanic head coach in NFL history.
Flores took the Raiders for their second Super Bowl win against Philadelphia Eagles 27 10 in Super Bowl XV.
The Raiders became the first wild card team to win a Super Bowl.
Los Angeles Raiders (1982-1995)
Al Davis signed a note to make the Raiders move to Los Angeles.
The Raiders won their third Super Bowl against the Washington Redskins.
Oakland Raiders (1995-2020)
The Raiders move back to Oakland.
The Raiders have struggled since 2003 season after losing to the Tampa Bay Buccanears in Super Bowl XXXVII.
They returned to the playoffs in 2016, but lost in the first round to the Houston Texans.
They played their final year in Oakland in 2019 before moving to Las Vegas in 2020.
Las Vegas Raiders (2020-present)
The Raiders moved to Las Vegas in the 2020 season.
They finished their inaugural season in Las Vegas with 8 wins and 8 losses.
Season-by-season records
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties
Sports in Oakland, California
1960 establishments in California
Wagenhausen is a municipality of the district of Steckborn in the canton of Thurgau in  Switzerland.
Wäldi is a municipality of the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Wängi is a municipality of the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Warth-Weiningen is a municipality of the district of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Wigoltingen is a municipality of the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
Wilen is a municipality of the district of Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.
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Auw is a municipality of the district Muri in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an entrepreneur, jurist, congressman, governor of New York, and the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825.
1825 deaths
King Mindaugas of Lithuania renounces Christianity, returning to his pagan roots and reverting to Grand Duke of Lithuania.
The Icelandic Commonwealth enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.
Strasbourg becomes an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire.
King Henry III of England obtains a papal bull releasing him from the Provisions of Oxford, preceding the Second Barons' War, a civil war started in 1263.
King Mengrai of the Lannathai kingdom in present-day Thailand founds the city of Chiang Rai as the kingdom's first capital.
Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, "Le Jeu de la Feuillee".
Richard of Chichester is canonized as a saint; he is best known for writing the prayer later adapted into the song Day by Day in the musical Godspell.
July 2 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (died 1312)
Ladislaus IV of Hungary (died 1290)
Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (died 1326)
July 15 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (born 1222)
Aegidius of Assisi, companion of Saint Francis of Assisi
Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
Matilda II of Boulogne, Queen of Portugal, spouse of King Afonso III of Portugal (born 1202)
September 4 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeats the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
King Otakar II of Bohemia captures Styria from King Bela IV of Hungary in the Battle of Kressenbrunn.
The Baltic Samogitians and Curonians defeat the Teutonic knights in the Battle of Durbe.
The Duchy of Saxony is divided into Saxony-Lauenberg and Saxony-Wittenberg, marking the end of the first Saxon state.
War breaks out in the Valais (today in Switzerland) as the Bishopry of Sion defends against an invasion by the County of Savoy.
October 24 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Construction on the Dunkeld Cathedral begins in Perthshire, Scotland.
Construction begins on the cathedral at Meißen.
Construction begins on the cathedral at Schwerin.
Jacobus de Voragine compiles his work, the Golden Legend, a late medieval best-seller.
Nicola Pisano sculpts the pulpit of the Pisa Baptistery.
German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation in which the length of a musical note is denoted by the shape of that note, a system still used today.
The mosaic Christ between the Virgin and St Minias is made on the facade of Florence's Basilica di San Miniato al Monte.
The advent of the Age of the Holy Spirit predicted by Joachim of Fiore according to his interpretation of Revelations Ch 6.
May 5 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
May 21 – Kublai sends his envoy Hao Jing to negotiate with the Song Dynasty Chancellor Jia Sidao, after the small force left by Kublai south of the Yangzi River is destroyed by a Chinese army of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Chancellor Jia Sidao ordered to imprison the entire embassy of Kublai.
This slight would not be forgotten by Kublai, but he was unable to assault the Song due to the civil war with his rival brother Ariq Böke.
September 3 – The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.
The Sena Dynasty of Bengal falls.
The Chinese era Jingding begins and ends in the Southern Song Dynasty of China.
The Japanese Shōgen era ends, and the Bun'ō era begins.
The Hindu Silharya Dynasty, which ruled an area around Mumbai, ends.
The newly formed Sukhothai kingdom of Thailand adopts Theravada Buddhism.
October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (died 1339)
Matthew Csák, ruler of the Váh and the Tatras regions in present-day Slovakia (died 1321)
Meister Eckhart, German theologian, philosopher and mystic (died 1328)
Agnes of France, only daughter of Louis VII of France by his third wife Adèle of Champagne (died 1240)
Andronicus II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (died 1332)
Enguerrand de Marigny, minister to King Philip IV of France
Guillaume de Nogaret, keeper of the seal to King Philip IV of France (year very uncertain) (died 1313)
Maximus Planudes, Byzantine grammarian and theologian (approximate date; died 1330)
Farsi, Persian mathematician and physicist (died 1320)
October 24 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
Franciscus Accursius, Italian jurist (approximate date)
Matilda II of Bologne, sovereign Countess of Bologne
Aymer de Valence, Bishop of Winchester
Overijssel  (Latin: Transisalania) is a province of the Netherlands.
It is in the central eastern part of the country.
The province's name in both Dutch and Latin means "Lands across river IJssel".
The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle.
Its biggest city is Enschede.
About 1,166,000 people are living in Overijssel (2021).
Overijssel has Germany to the east.
The Achterhoek region of Gelderland lies to the south, the Veluwe region of Gelderland and Flevoland are to the west, and Friesland and the former moors of Drenthe to the north.
Overijssel is made of three regions: Kop van Overijssel in the northwest, Salland in the centre of the province, and Twente in the east.
Besides the capital Zwolle, the major cities are Almelo, Deventer, Enschede, and Hengelo.
To the southeast, the land is mostly sandy.
There are small rivers and brooks cutting through it.
Examples for such rivers are Regge and Dinkel.
In the northwest, the geology is mostly made of  sediments from the Overijsselse Vecht and clay.
The northern parts were once covered by veen (bogs) which separated the dryer and more arable south from Drenthe.
These bogs have been exploited as fuel to a large degree.
Only small patches survive today (Engbertsdijksvenen near Tubbergen, Witteveen (near Haaksbergen, and the Aamsveen (near Enschede).
The extreme northwest is dominated by a system of lakes formed by former peat-mining, the Weerribben, which is a valuable wetland.
The highest point in Overijssel is the summit of the Tankenberg, a hill in the municipality of Losser.
It is 89 metres (295 ft).
The lowest point is in the Mastenbroek Polder near Kampen at 2 metres (6 ft) below sea level.
Overijssel was formerly known as Oversticht.
In 1336, it was made part of Guelders.
It was given to the Bishopric of Utrecht in 1347.
Utrecht was known as het Sticht.
The Bishops gave the Oversticht to the Emperor Charles V in 1528, who styled himself "Lord of Overijssel".
With this, he gave the province its modern name.
The people joined with the other Dutch and rebelled against Charles' heir Philip II.
Overijssel became governed by the most powerful mayors and lords in the province.
After a brief occupation by the forces of the Bishop of Münster (1672–1674), Overijssel received a new form of government.
This granted the stadtholders more power.
Widespread resistance against the bigger power throughout the provinces lead to the Batavian Republic in 1795.
A centralist government arose and the Netherlands was organised into a series of départements, based on those used by revolutionary France.
At first organised into its own département, it was merged with Drenthe in 1798 to form Ouden Ijssel, which was renamed Overijssel in 1801.
The French annexed the Batavian Republic in 1810, and Overijssel was organised into the new French département of Bouches-de-l'Yssel.
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, the kingdom of the Netherlands and the former province of Overijssel were recreated.
Overijssel was briefly occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II from May 1940, until its liberation in April 1945.
The Noordoostpolder, which had been laid dry in 1942, was part of Overijssel from 1962 until 1986, when it became part of the newly created province of Flevoland.
Walker, Texas Ranger is an action/police television series.
It was created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis.
The series stars Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Rangers.
His co-stars include Sheree J. Wilson as D.A. Alex Cahill and Clarence Gilyard as Texas Ranger Jimmy Trivette.
The series was televised on CBS in the spring of 1993.
This first season consisted of three pilot episodes.
Eight full seasons followed from September 25, 1993 to May 19, 2001.
It was televised in over 100 countries.
A made-for-television movie Trial By Fire has been televised.
The series airs in reruns.
The entire series has been released to DVD.
The show is known for its conservative moral values.
The wholesome main characters don't use drugs, and they participate in community service.
Martial arts were the primary tool of law enforcement.
Occasionally Walker and company used martial arts to reach out to the community.
The series has since become one of the most popular action series in television history.
It has gained a cult following for its camp appeal.
The series is centered on a Dallas-Fort Worth–based member of the Texas Rangers named Cordell Walker.
Walker was raised by his paternal uncle, a Native American named Ray Firewalker (Floyd Red Crow Westerman).
Cordell prior to joining the Rangers served in the Marines' elite recon unit during the Vietnam War.
Both Cordell and Uncle Ray share the values characteristic of Wild West sheriffs.
His partner and best friend is James "Jimmy" Trivette (Clarence Gilyard), a former Dallas Cowboys player "Go Long T" who takes a more modern approach.
Walker's young partner grew up in Baltimore and used football as his ticket to college education.
He was dropped from the team after he tore up his shoulder in a major game, which led to his career in the Rangers (often making references to watching the "Lone Ranger" and how C.D. Parker mentored him as a Rookie Officer).
Trivette also works inside the office using computers and cellular phones to collate information of the people who have been taken into custody.
Walker also works closely (and shares a mutual attraction) with Alexandra "Alex" Cahill (Sheree J. Wilson), a Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney, who on occasion puts up a frown if Walker does not obtain results in time.
He also gets advice on cases from C.D. Parker (Gailard Sartain (pilot season), Noble Willingham (seasons 1–7)), a veteran Ranger (later inducted into the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame) who worked with Walker until retiring to operate a small restaurant and bar called "CD's Bar and Grill", a restaurant widely known in the series for its chili.
In Season 7 two rookie Texas Rangers, Sydney Cooke (Nia Peeples) and Francis Gage (Judson Mills), are assigned under Walker and Trivette's command.
Chuck Norris as Texas Ranger Sgt.
Cordell Walker, a former Marine and a modern-day Ranger who believes in the Code of the Old West.
He is a decorated Vietnam vet and a martial arts expert.
He is the show's main protagonist.
Appeared in all episodes.
Clarence Gilyard as Texas Ranger Sgt.
James "Jimmy" Trivette, Walker's partner and best friend.
Appeared in all but two episodes.
Sheree J. Wilson as Tarrant County Assistant D.A. Alexandra "Alex" Cahill, whom Walker dates for a few seasons and finally marries.
Appeared in all but five episodes.
Noble Willingham (Gailard Sartain pilot) as retired Texas Ranger Captain C.D. Parker, Walker's buddy and ex-partner who owns a bar-restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, and was the only one to address Walker by his first name Cordell regularly.
Appeared in 155 episodes.
Nia Peeples as Texas Ranger Sydney "Syd" Cooke, a rookie Ranger who joins Walker in Seasons 7–8.
Appeared in 47 episodes.
Judson Mills as Texas Ranger Francis Gage, another rookie Ranger who joins Walker in Seasons 7–8.
Appeared in 46 episodes.
Floyd Westerman (Apesanahkwat, Season 2)   as Walker's paternal uncle Ray Firewalker (also known as Uncle Ray), who raised Cordell after his parents – John and Elizabeth Firewalker – were murdered.
Ray disappeared at the end of Season 2.
Appeared in 14 episodes.
Marco Sanchez as Detective Carlos Sandoval, a detective for Dallas PD.
Best friend of Trent Malloy.
Often teamed up with Walker and Trivette in cases.
Appeared in 16 episodes.
Jimmy Wlcek as Trent Malloy, son of a pastor and former martial arts student of Walker.
Black belt in Karate and runs both his own Dojo and Protection Agency.
Appeared in 13 episodes.
Cynthia Dorn  as M.E. Mary Williams, a medical examiner in most of the murder cases that occurred on the show.
Vanessa Paul as Josie Martin.
Ran 'H.O.P.E.' center created by Alex after a near-death experience.
One of Alex's bridesmaids at Alex and Walker's wedding.
Did not play a major role in her appearances.
Frank Salsedo as White Eagle, the spiritual leader of the Cherokee reservation Walker grew up on.
Debuted during Season 3.
Rod Taylor as Gordon Cahill, the once-estranged father of Alex.
Also an Attorney.
Eloy Casados as Sheriff Sam Coyote, the sheriff of the Cherokee reservation and a very good friend of Walker.
James Drury as Texas Ranger Captain Tom Price.
He only appeared during the pilot season.
Peter Onorati as Sergeant Vincent Rosetti, a New York Police Sergeant with a strong New York accent and a little arrogance.
Terry Kiser as Charlie Brooks, a clumsy and fast-talking informant for Walker and Trivette.
Robert Fuller as Ranger Wade Harper, a retired El Paso Texas Ranger who came on board to work for Walker and Trivette.
Julia Nickson as Dr. Susan Lee
Chuck Norris facts is an Internet phenomenon with joke "facts" about martial artist and actor Chuck Norris.
The "facts" are jokes about Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, "alpha-male status", and masculinity.
They are given in a comically serious tone, for example:
Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer.
Too bad Chuck Norris has never cried.
The "facts" usually say that Chuck Norris is a very angry, all-powerful, superbeing.
Some of these "facts" have also turned into popular jokes.
Like most Internet phenomena, the Chuck Norris facts have spread around the world.
They have been translated into many different languages as well as used as the basis for advertising and other Internet phenomena.
The "facts" often refer to his use of roundhouse kick attacks to do almost anything, his beard, and his role in the action television series Walker, Texas Ranger.
Chuck Norris facts were first seen on the Internet in early 2005.
Conan O'Brien's Chuck Norris jokes on Late Night with Conan O'Brien have been seen as a cause for the fad.
These "facts" are similar to "Tall tales" such as those of Paul Bunyan.
Chuck Norris Facts started being used in the gaming community shortly after a Chuck Norris Fact generator was created for use with World of Warcraft in early 2006.
Chuck's response
Chuck Norris has talked about the Chuck Norris facts on his official website, chucknorris.com, with a statement.
He was surprised and liked the attention.
He said that some of the statements were indeed funny but he tries not to take any of them seriously.
He hoped that the "facts" would get people to want to know the real facts about Chuck Norris found in his literary works.
Norris appeared in a 2007 commercial for Mountain Dew where he had his revenge on the two fictional webmasters of a site that showed Norris in a humorous way.
This is a reference to the Chuck Norris facts meme.
Chuck Norris Facts.com
Over 8,000 Chuck Norris facts (with sounds)
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Magglio Jose "Maggs" Ordóñez (b. January 28, 1974) is a former Major League Baseball player from Venezuela.
He was a right fielder and right-handed batter.
Ordóñez was born in Coro, Venezuela.
He played for the Chicago White Sox from 1997 to 2004 and the Detroit Tigers from 2005 to 2011.
After his baseball career, Ordóñez became a mayor in Venezuela.
Pura Pelota – Venezuelan Professional League statistics
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Johan Alexander Santana  () (born March 13, 1979, in Tovar, Mérida State, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher who plays for the New York Mets.
His first team was the Minnesota Twins.
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The Minnesota Twins are a Major League Baseball team in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
They began in 1901 as the Washington Senators, based in Washington, D.C. They moved to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in 1961.
That area is often called the "Twin Cities", so the team was renamed the "Twins".
They have often worn a "TC" emblem on their uniforms and caps.
As the Senators, they were not very successful overall.
They had some strong teams in the 1920s and 1930s, but most years they played poorly.
As the Twins, they have had much better success, with two World Series championships, in 1987 and 1991, and many other post-season games.
They first played at Metropolitan Stadium in the suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota.
They moved to the Metrodome in 1982, and then to Target Field in 2010.
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Hard-Fi are a popular indie rock band from Staines an area of London, England.
They are named after Lee Scratch Perry's description of his studio .
They have had two hit albums in the UK charts: "Stars of CCTV" and "Once Upon a Time in the West".
Their most successful songs include "Suburban Knights" and "Hard to Beat".
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Kai Stephens
Ross Phillips
Steve Kemp
A room (or chamber) is a space inside a structure or building.
Usually, a room is separated from both other rooms and the outside by walls.
Each room usually has a specified purpose.
They are defined by their use.
Examples of such rooms are the bedroom, the kitchen, and the bathroom.
A self is an individual person, from their own point of view.
To you, self is you.
To someone else, self is that person.
Essence of oneself
Main articles: Self (philosophy), Self (psychology), and Self (sociology)
Brain / Mind / Intelligence
Human condition
Self constructs
Self-concept
Self-consciousness
Self-identity
Self-image
Self-ownership
Self-worth
Stages of life
Infancy
Major life events
second childhood
Main articles: Human rights, Individual rights, and Personal rights
You have:security rights that protect people against crimes such as murder, massacre, torture and rapeliberty rights that protect freedoms in areas such as belief and religion, association, assembling and movementpolitical rights that protect the liberty to participate in politics by expressing themselves, protesting, voting and serving in public officedue process rights that protect against abuses of the legal system such as imprisonment without trial, secret trials and excessive punishmentsequality rights that guarantee equal citizenship, equality before the law and nondiscriminationwelfare rights (also known as economic or social rights) that require the provision of education and protections against severe poverty and starvationgroup rights that provide protection for groups against ethnic genocide and for the ownership by countries of their national territories and resources
Personality traits
Main articles: Big Five personality traits and Trait theory''
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism / Emotional stability
Openness to experience
Personal values
Self-actualization
Self management
Autodidacticism (self-education)
Self control
Self development
Self disclosure
Self-efficacy
Self help
Self-interest
Self-knowledge
Self monitoring
Self motivation
Self-reflection
Self-regulated learning
Self-reliance
Self-sufficiency
Self-preservation and self-maintenance
Enlightened self-interest
Life extension
Personal hygiene
Personal safety
Self-care
Personal concepts
Competence (human resources)
Freedom (philosophy)
Freedom (political)
Intrapersonal communication
Lifestyle (List)
Personal income
Personal time
Self talk
Taste (aesthetics)
Taste (sociology)
Harmful traits and practices
Self-abasement
Self-abuse
Self-criticism
Self-deception
Self harm
Self-hatred
Self-loathing
Self propaganda
Goldbach's conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in number theory and in all of mathematics.
It states:
Every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
On 7 June 1742, the Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach wrote a letter to Leonhard Euler  in which he suggested the following conjecture, which would later be called Goldbach's strong conjecture:
Every integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes.
He considered 1 to be a prime number, a convention subsequently abandoned.
A weaker version of Goldbach's original conjecture is:
Every integer greater than 5 can be written as the sum of three primes.
This is called Goldbach's weak conjecture.
Euler, becoming interested in the problem, wrote back to Goldbach saying that the weak conjecture would be implied by Goldbach's strong conjecture, saying that he was certain that the theorem was true ("ein ganz gewisses Theorema"), but he was unable to prove it.
Goldbach's weak conjecture was later proved by Harald Helfgott in 2013,  but Goldbach's strong conjecture has not been proved yet.
Goldbach's conjecture, part of Chris Caldwell's Prime Pages.
A compass (or pair of compasses) is a drawing tool that can be used to draw circles or arcs, parts of circles.
They can also be used  to measure distances, in particular on  maps.
Compasses can be used for mathematics, drafting, navigation, and more.
Compasses are usually made of metal, and have two parts called legs meeting at a hinge.
The legs can be moved apart or together to change the size of the circle.
One part has a spike, a sharp, pointy part at its end, and the other part has a pencil or a pen.
There are two types of compasses: the mechanical compass and normal compass.
The mechanical compass is a compass that has a mechanical pencil, and the normal compass is a compass that has a normal pen or pencil on it.
To make the compass work, you need to change how far the pencil sticks out.
A divider is a compass that has two parts with a spike, and is used to show measurements of distances and lengths.
It is called a divider because it is used to divide (make smaller things from a bigger thing) a distance in two, using geometry.
Circles can be made by pressing the leg with the spike into the paper, putting the pencil on the paper, and moving the pencil in the circle.
To do this, you need to not to move the legs farther apart or closer together while you are drawing the circle.
A circle can be made bigger or smaller by moving the legs farther apart or closer together.
Distances can be measured on a map using dividers,compasses with two spikes.
The distance between the spikes on the map shows a distance in reality.
Measuring how many times the compasses fit between two things on the map shows the distance between those things.
Compass and straightedge drawing is used to show things in plane geometry (geometry used on a flat area).
Real compasses are used on paper, but the perfect compass used in proofs is an imaginary, perfect tool that draws perfect circles.
The most strict definition of this ideal tool, used for explaining, is the "collapsing compass".
It draws a circle from a given place with a given radius and cannot be used again.
That is, unlike a real pair of compasses, it cannot simply be moved to another place and used to draw another circle that is the same.
43 Ariadne is a fairly big and bright main belt asteroid.
It is the second-biggest member of the Flora asteroid family.
It was found by N. R. Pogson on April 15, 1857 and named after the Greek heroine Ariadne.
Ariadne is very stretched out (almost twice as long as its smallest shape).
It is a retrograde rotator, although its pole points almost parallel to the ecliptic towards ecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (-15°, 235°) with a 10° uncertainty[2].
This gives an axial tilt of about 105°.
For reasons unknown, "Asteroid 43 Ariadne" was included in a list of names of supporters of the NASA spacecraft Stardust that was stored on a microchip within the spacecraft.
The maximum apparent size of Ariadne is equal to the maximum apparent size of Pluto.
Supplemental IRAS Minor Planet Survey
M. Kaasalainen, J. Torppa & J. Piironen Models of Twenty Asteroids from Photometric Data, Icarus, Vol.
159, p. 369 (2002).
P. Tanga et al.
Asteroid observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol.
401, p. 733 (2003).
PDS lightcurve data
G. A. Krasinsky et al.
Hidden Mass in the Asteroid Belt, Icarus, Vol.
158, p. 98 (2002).
bi-lobed shape model from Hubble lightcurves
45 Eugenia is a big Main belt asteroid.
It is famous because it is one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it.
It is also the second known triple asteroid, after 87 Sylvia.
Eugenia was found in 1857 by Hermann Goldschmidt.
It was named after Empress Eugenia di Montijo, the wife of Napoleon III, and was the first asteroid to be named after a real person, rather than a figure from classical legend (although there had been controversy about whether 12 Victoria was really named for the mythological figure or for Queen Victoria).
Eugenia is a big asteroid, with a diameter of 214 km.
It is an F-type asteroid, which means that it is very dark in colouring (darker than soot) made up of carbonate.
Like Mathilde, its density appears to be unusually low, indicating that it may be a loosely-packed rubble pile (an asteroid that has been broken apart by a collision and pulled back together by gravity).
Lightcurve analysis indicates that Eugenia's pole most likely points towards ecliptic coordinates (β, λ) = (-30°, 124°) with a 10° uncertainty, which gives it an axial tilt of 117°.
In November 1998, astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, found a small moon orbiting Eugenia.
This was the first time a moon orbiting an asteroid had been found by a ground-based telescope.
Eugenia's moon has been named (45) Eugenia I Petit-Prince, after Empress Eugenia's son, the Prince Imperial.
The moon is much smaller than Eugenia, about 13 km in diameter, and takes five days to complete an orbit around it.
A second, smaller (estimated diameter of 6 km) moon that orbits closer to Eugenia than Petit-Prince has since been found and provisionally named S/2004 (45) 1.
It was found by analyses of three images acquired in February 2004 from the 8.2 m VLT "Yepun" at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Cerro Paranal, in Chile.
The discovery was announced in IAUC 8817, on 7 March 2007 by Franck Marchis and his IMCCE collaborators.
Johnston Archive data
Astronomical Picture of Day 14 October 1999
SwRI Press Release
Orbit of Petit-Prince, companion of Eugenia
IAUC 8177
Shape model derived from lightcurve (on page 17)
MOOMIN (b. July 13, 1972) is a Japanese reggae singer.
He comes from Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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This is a list of divinities native to Japanese beliefs and religious traditions.
Many of these are from Shinto, while others were imported via Buddhism or Taoism and "integrated" into Japanese mythology and folklore.
The following is a list of some of the major and minor deities in Shinto.
As it is often said that there are yaoyorozu-no-kami(八百万の神) or 8 million kami (a representation of an infinite number), it would be impossible to list them all.
Major kami
Commonly called Uzume, she is the goddess of dawn and revelry, instrumental to the "missing sun legend" in Shinto.
She is also known as The Great Persuader and The Heavenly Alarming Female.
Commonly called Amaterasu, she is the goddess of the sun as well as the purported ancestress of the Imperial Household of Japan.
Her full name means "Great Goddess" or "Great Spirit Who Shines in the Heavens"; she may also be referred to as Ōhiru-menomuchi-no-kami (大日孁貴神).
Due to her ties to the Imperial family, she is often considered (though not official) to be the "primary god" of Shinto.
A male deity, he is considered the "First in Charge of Divine Affairs", as well as the aide to the first Emperor of Japan.
He is also considered to be the ancestor of the Fujiwara family.
Also known as Kaminokaze, he is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods, said to be present at the creation of the world.
He is often depicted as an oni with a bag slung over his back.
Also known as Hachiman-shin or Yawata no kami, he is seen as the god of war.
Originally an agricultural deity, he later became the guardian of the Minamoto clan.
The god of rice and fertility.
His messengers and symbolic animal are foxes.
He is often identified with the Buddhist deity Dakiniten.
Though traditionally represented as a male, there are records of Inari appearing as a female as well.
The forefather of the gods, he is the first male as well as the god of creation and life.
He and his wife, Izanami, were responsible for the birth of the islands of Japan and many kami, though she died in childbirth.
Later, after his failed attempt to retrieve her from the underworld, he  sired Amaterasu, Susano and Tsukuyomi.
Izanagi's wife and sister, she is the first female as well as the goddess of creation and death.
She died shortly after the birth of Kagu-tsuchi, and Izanami followed her to the underworld, but failed to bring her back to the living world.
A marital spat between the pair caused the cycle of life and death for all living beings.
Commonly called Ninigi, he was the grandson of Amaterasu.
His great-grandson was Kamuyamato Iwarebiko, later to be known as Emperor Jimmu, first emperor of Japan.
Commonly called Raiden (雷電), he is the god of thunder and lightning, and is often paired with Fujin.
As with the latter, Raijin is usually depicted as an oni.
Also known as Rinjin, he is a dragon, as well as god of the sea.
He resides in Ryūgū-jō, his palace under the sea built out of red and white coral, from where he controlled the tides with magical tide jewels.
His great-grandson would become Emperor Jimmu.
Alternately romanized as Susano-o, Susa-no-o, and Susanowo.
He is the god of storms as well as in some cases the god of the sea.
He is also somewhat of a trickster god, as Japanese mythology extensively documents the "sibling rivalry" between him and Amaterasu.
Susanoo also was responsible for the slaying of the monster Yamata-no-Orochi and the subsequent discovery of the sacred sword Kusanagi.
The god of scholarship, he is the deified Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), who was elevated to his position after dying in exile and subsequent disasters in Heian-kyō were attributed to his angered spirit.
See Dazaifu, Fukuoka
Also known as Otohime (乙姫), she was the daughter of Ryūjin and the grandmother of Jimmu.
It is said that after she gave birth to her son, she turned into a dragon and disappeared.
Also known as Tsukiyomi, Tsuki no kami, Tsukiyomino mikoto, and Tsukiyumi no mikoto, he is the god of the moon.
He killed the goddess of food, Uke Mochi, out of disgust and anger in the way she had prepared a meal.
This  caused Amaterasu to never face him again, causing the sun and moon to be in different parts of the sky.
Minor kami
Amatsu-Mikaboshi (天津甕星), the kami of all evil and stars who existed before Ama-No-Uzume
Konohanasakuya-hime (木花之開耶姫), the wife of Ninigi and daughter of Ohoyamatsumi, and great-grandmother of Jimmu.
She is also known as the goddess of Mount Fuji.
Ohoyamatsumi (大山積命), an elder brother of Amaterasu, and an important god who rules mountain, sea, and war, as well as the father of Konohanasakuya-hime.
Sarutahiko Ohkami (猿田毘古神), a kami of the Earth that guided Ninigi to the Japanese islands
Uke Mochi (保食神), sometimes called Ogetsu-hime-no-kami, a goddess of food.
After she had spat a fish, vomited or defecated game and coughed rice, she had been killed by a disgusted Tsukuyomi, or in some other versions, Susanoo.