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Yuzo Funakoshi (born 12 June 1977) is a Japanese football player.
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Arata Kodama (born 8 October 1982) is a Japanese football player.
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Jリーグ選手名鑑 (J League Players Selected List) at blog website
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Teppei Nishiyama (born 22 February 1975) is a former Japanese football player.
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Takashi Miki (born 23 July 1978) is a Japanese football player.
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The quadrature mirror filters (QMF) are two filters with frequency characteristics symmetric about  of sampling frequency (i.e. ).
They are used especially in process of orthogonal discrete wavelet transform design.
Simple variant
In notation of Z-transform, we can create the quadrature mirror filter  to (original) filter  by substitution  with  in the transfer function of .
By doing it, the transfer characteristic of  is shifted to  by .
for , where  is filter length.
According to the picture above, the signal split and passed into these filters can be downsampled by a factor of two.
Nevertheless, original signal can be still reconstructed by using reconstruction filters  and .
Reconstruction filters are given by time reversal analysis filters.
Orthogonal filter banks
For orthogonal discrete wavelet transform  is given by
, where  is filter length.
for .
Neil Aspinall (13 October 1941 - 23 March 2008) was a British music executive.
He was the managing director of Apple Corps, a company started by The Beatles.
He had earlier served as the band's road manager.
Aspinall was born in Prestatyn, North Wales and grew up in Liverpool, England.
He was an Accountancy student and lived with the Best family, renting a room in their house.
Eldest son Pete Best was a drummer who played for the Beatles.
Aspinall owned a van, and began driving the band to their shows, and setting up equipment.
In time, they began to pay him for this, and he gave up his studies to be their official road manager.
During 1962 the Beatles changed drummers when Ringo Starr joined, and Pete Best was let go.
Aspinall offered to quit also, but he was persuaded to keep working for the Beatles. (
He kept a connection to the Best family, having a son, Roag, with Mona Best.)
Aspinall was joined by another man, Mal Evans, who shared his job duties.
Over time, other people helped with setting up and breaking down the Beatles' instruments and equipment, but Aspinall and Evans still supervised them.
They also did other jobs, like shopping for the band, delivering important messages, and dealing with members of the public who wanted to meet the band.
Some of their lesser-known jobs were choosing female audience members at Beatles concerts to visit the band backstage, and signing Beatles autographs on photographs. (
The demand for autographs was too great for the Beatles themselves to meet practically.)
When the Beatles stopped giving concerts, they put time into forming their own company, which became Apple Corps.
Aspinall and Evans were both directors at Apple, and personal assistants to the Beatles.
None of the band's inner circle knew how to run a large company, and Apple got into financial trouble.
Allen Klein and Lee Eastman (Paul McCartney's father-in-law) took over running Apple, and Evans was fired.
Aspinall was also supposed to be fired, but the Beatles themselves insisted he be kept on.
After the Beatles disbanded, Apple's business decreased, Klein and Eastman moved on, and Apple was reorganized.
Aspinall alone was able to handle most of Apple's ongoing business, which was mostly licensing Beatles-related products, and future issues of Beatles music.
He kept working for the band until shortly before his death.
Aspinall's last tasks for Apple included handling a lawsuit against Apple Inc. over iTunes, and supervising a new recording of the whole Beatles music catalogue.
Aspinall died of lung cancer in New York City in 2008.
"Caretaker" is the first episode in the TV series Star Trek: Voyager.
When it was first broadcast on TV, it was shown as a double-length episode (meaning it lasted for double the time a normal episode would last), however it has been split into two separate episodes so that it can be shown as a repeat.
1995 television episodes
Jean Balukas (born June 28, 1959) is an American pool player from Brooklyn, New York.
During the 1970s and 1980s, many people thought Balukas was the greatest female player ever.
Some people described her as a leader and "a child prodigy, a loner who rebelled against dress codes for women—the pool equivalent of Billie Jean King".
Balukas was named Billiard Congress of America (BCA) Player of the Year five times.
She was the youngest person given an entry in the BCA Hall of Fame.
She is only the second woman given that honor.
In 1999, Balukas was ranked fifteenth on Billiard Digest's Fifty Greatest Players of the 20th Century.
Balukas was thought of as a rare young talent.
She first earned some fame when she was six years old by appearing in a pool playing event held at New York City's Grand Central Station.
She later appeared many times on television, such as on CBS's popular evening television show, I've Got a Secret.
She was nine years old when she placed 5th in the 1969 U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship.
She placed 4th and 3rd in the next two U.S. Opens.
From that early start, Balukas dominated women's professional pool during the 1970s and 1980s.
Balukas won the U.S. Open seven years in a row, from 1972 through 1978.
She won six world championship titles.
She had over 100 professional competition first-place finishes; 38 of those wins were in major events.
She had a streak of 16 first-place finishes in women's professional tournaments.
Balukas was also the only woman to compete equally with men in professional play in her era.
She quit the sport in 1988 because of a dispute that happened in a match at the World Open Nine-ball Championship that year.
Young fame
Jean Balukas's father, Albert Balukas, and his business partner, Frank McGown, owned a forty-eight-table pool hall, named the Ovington Lounge, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York.
Balukas began playing pool when she four years old.
She did not play at her father's pool room.
Her first play was on a 4½ by 9 foot pool table in the basement of her childhood home.
Her parents bought the table to keep her four brothers out of local pool rooms.
Balukas played with a cue stick that had ivory details.
It was made just for her in 1965 by a cue stick maker, George Balabushka.
When she was five and six years old she would practice a game called straight pool to 50 points after family dinners.
Her father supported her play.
In 1966, McGown held a public billiards exhibition at New York City's Grand Central Terminal.
With her parents' permission, he brought along the six-year-old Balukas.
Balukas participated in the exhibition.
This gained Balukas media attention.
Later in 1966, Balukas appeared on a television show called Wonderama.
Balukas and her younger sister Laura also appeared on CBS's television show I've Got a Secret later that year.
In 1967, Balukas was in an exhibition match at a pool hall called the Carom Club, located Manhattan.
In advertisements for the match, Balukas was described as "the Little Princess of Pocket Billiards".
A reporter described her at the match as "a little girl with honey-blond hair...wearing a short yellow dress and green leotards...who resembles a young Shirley Temple".
She beat her adult opponent, Roland DeMarco, with a final score of 50 to 42.
In 1969, at the age of nine, she competed in her first Billiard Congress of America U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship.
Balukas placed 5th in the competition.
All her opponents were adults.
In the next two U.S. Opens, in 1970 and 1971, she placed 4th and 3rd, respectively.
By that time, Balukas had appeared on other television programs with a number of billiard stars and other celebrities.
U.S. Open Straight Pool Champion
On August 18, 1972, when she was thirteen years old, Balukas won the women's side of the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship.
For the win she beat five-time champion Dorothy Wise.
The prize was $1,500.
Balukas was the U.S Open's youngest winner ever and by a large number of years.
She also beat in the finals, Madelyn Whitlow of Detroit, Michigan, with a score of 75 to 32 in 44 innings (turns at the table).
Reporting on the competition, The New York Times described her as a strong player "throughout the tournament ... as she defeated six opponents with precision shooting and [almost perfect] strategy".
In 1973, at fourteen, Balukas successfully defended her straight pool U.S. Open title.
She beat runner-up Donna Ries, a psychologist from Kansas City, Missouri, with a final score of 75 to 72 in 42 innings.
In her longest turn, she sank 26 balls in a row and won $2,000 for first place.
Earlier in the tournament she beat Mieko Harada, a housewife from Kyoto, Japan.
Baluka's score was much higher than Harada's: 75 to 1 in 20 innings and sank 25 balls in a row.
In the 1974 U.S. Open held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, Balukas defended her title, again beating out Harada, but by a much closer score: 100 to 99.
This was Balukas's third U.S. Open title in a row, at the young age of fifteen.
The close scores at the end of the match were similar to the results on the men's side, where Joe Balsis defeated Jim Rempe 200 to 199.
In 1975, Balukas beat Ries again in the U.S. Open semi-finals with a score of 75 to 15 in 15 innings.
She also beat Gail Breedlove of Ames, Iowa, 75 to 19.
She then again played and beat Harada in the finals, winning $3,000 with a score of 100 to 63 in 39 innings.
In her longest turn, she sank 23 balls.
In 1976, then 17, Balukas took her fifth U.S. Open title in a row, beating Gloria Walker of Cheyney, Pennsylvania 75 to 46 in 39 innings and winning a $1,700 prize.
Balukas would win the next two U.S. Open straight pool championships for a total of seven wins in a row.
Her streak of wins ended after 1978 because the U.S. Open itself was canceled, not because she was beaten.
Balukas was not only talented at pool but also good at other sports.
From age sixteen to eighteen, ABC-TV asked her to be on a show called Superstars.
This event happened in Rotonda West, Florida.
Top athletes from one sport competed in a different sports that they did not usually compete in.
In her first appearance in 1976, while a junior in high school, Balukas placed second with 192 points.
She won titles in tennis and bowling.
The winner that year was speed skater Anne Henning.
Other competitors included: diver Micki King; tennis and golf pro Althea Gibson; skier Kiki Cutter; runner Wyomia Tyus; and tennis champion Martina Navratilova.
The second place win was both good and bad for Balukas.
She won $13,100 prize money, so she lost amateur standing.
Afterwards, she was banned from competing in high school sports.
Also, she was not allowed to get a college athletic scholarship.
Balukas has won many other pool titles, including six at the World Open Pocket Billiard Championships.
At her first win in that tournament, held at a convention hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 14, 1977, she was described as "the 18-year-old prodigy from Brooklyn".
There, she again beat Gloria Walker with a score of 100 to 57, and earned a $1,001 prize.
Balukas has won more U.S. Opens than any other player, male or female.
The closest male is Steve Mizerak with four wins to Balukas's seven.
Her ball average over the seven U.S. Opens was far better than was her opponents'.
Balukas averaged 3.44 in 1972 with the next best, Gloria Walker, having an average of 2.37.
In 1975 she averaged 4.05, while no other player averaged even 3.
Playing against men
By the late 1960s, Balukas was playing in exhibition matches with top male players.
For example, she played with Willie Mosconi and Irving Crane who were together considered between 1941 and 1956 the "best in the world, flat out".
In 1975, she again played Willie Mosconi on CBS's Challenge of the Sexes, playing in games of eight-ball and nine-ball.
For the exhibition, the rules were changed to allow Balukas to have an advantage (a practice called "handicapping").
Specifically, Balukas always took the first shot.
Then, she also took the next shot, even if she did not put a ball in a pocket on the first shot.
Balukas beat Mosconi at both games.
She would later play "Battle of the Sexes" matches on television with Rudolph Wanderone (also known as Minnesota Fats) in 1977, Ray Martin in 1979, and with Steve Mizerak in 1986.
On August 6, 1978, Balukas became the first women to qualify to play in the men's side of the World Open Pocket Billiards Championship.
This meant that Balukas would be competing in both the women's and men's sides of the tournament.
The tournament was to be held on August 12 of that year at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City.
Balukas played against men in several other competitions.
These included at least one first shown on TV on March 25, 1979, between her and men's champion Ray Martin.
The match was described on the television schedule as part of a Challenge of the Sexes.
Other male-female matchups in the series were between golfers Nancy Lopez and Andy North and co-ed participants in a skateboarding challenge match.
During 1980, Balukas again competed in the men's side of the World Open Pocket Billiards championship.
That year it was played at New York City's Roosevelt Hotel.
She was beaten in the second round by Steve Mizerak with a score of 150 to 93.
Her final rank in the tournament was 22nd.
At the end, 42 men were behind her.
She also played on the women's side and was the champion.
She beat Billie Billings, also from Brooklyn, with a score of 100 to 75.
Balukas was entered in both the men's and women's divisions of the 1987 B.C. Classic, a nine-ball competition.
After controversy, she competed only on the men's side.
There, she beat Keith McCready 11 to 3.
At that time McCready was the 17th-ranked male player by money list.
Balukas finished the tournament by tying for 9th place.
Dress code controversy
In August 1987, at the yearly B.C. Classic held at a Holiday Inn in Binghamton, New York, Balukas was scheduled to play in the men's and women's tournaments.
After arriving, she found out that for the nighttime matches, she would be required to wear formal clothing.
However, she did not have suitable clothing with her.
The men's side had no similar dress code.
Thus, Balukas did not buy clothes to follow the rule because she thought it was unfair.
The women held a vote on whether Balukas should be allowed to play.
The vote resulted in Balukas being banned from the women's tournament.
Some people said that the real reason other players voted her out was because they would have a better chance of winning the first place USD $5,000 prize if Balukas did not play.
Balukas did not think so.
Balukas did compete on the men's side, tying for ninth place.
Soon after the dress code issue was reported on, the president of the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA), Belinda Bearden, sent a letter to The New York Times.
Bearden wrote that the facts were different than reported.
The WPBA stated the dress code was decided by the women players for themselves.
They made the rules to improve the image of women's pool and to attract a larger audience and more press to the sport.
They said that Balukas was the only woman at the event who was not willing to follow the rule.
They also explained that Balukas first left from the women's division.
They said that she came back to play after the list of who would play who was already completed.
Another vote on whether she could play went 8–7 in Balukas' favor.
However, after they asked a player who was absent from the first vote, Balukas withdrew from the women's division of the competition.
Leaving the sport
In 1988, Balukas was playing another professional player named Robin Bell the Brunswick-sponsored World Open Nine-ball Championship.
The tournament was held at Caesars Palace (a casino and hotel) in Las Vegas, Nevada and shown on television.
Bell was Balukas's best friend on the women's tour.
She had never beaten Balukas before.
However, Bell had been playing very strongly in the tournament.
The terms of the match were that the winner would be whoever won nine games first.
In the game of nine ball, there is a way to win the game very quickly.
The game is over and the first player wins if they put the 9 ball in a pocket when they take the first shot.
Early in the match the score was 2 games to 3, with Bell winning.
Then, Bell sank the 9 ball on the first shot two games in a row, so she won both games.
That made the score 5 to 2 very quickly without having to play a complete game.
Bell avoided having to match skill with Balukas on each turn.
All television match players wore small microphones so that their words and the sounds of play could be heard by the audience.
Balukas quietly said to herself that Bell had gotten lucky.
The microphone let others hear what Balukas said.
The referee spoke to Balukas and told her not to continue talking about Bell.
They continued playing.
Balukas won the match with a final score of 9 to 5.
According to an interview with Balukas by New York Woman magazine in 1991, Balukas's exact words were "Some world championship... beat me with skill, not luck".
Despite Bell and Balukas's friendship, after the match Bell made a formal complaint to the WPBA about the incident.
The WPBA's board of directors fined Balukas $200 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Balukas was angry about the fine.
She did not pay it.
She turned down offers by others to pay the fine for her.
Balukas explained that "It wasn’t the $200... [Women] pool players, who were ranked three and six and five, were the ones who decided I should be fined.
I felt it should have been done by an outside panel, not by my competitors".
The sides were deadlocked.
Balukas refused to pay and the WPBA refused to cancel the fine.
They would not allow Balukas to play again until she paid. "
Just because she was our premier player does not mean she was above the rules", said Vicki Paski in 1992, then president of the WPBA.
Another professional named Loree Jon Jones was also interviewed.
Her feelings were more mixed: "Her not playing is, I guess, sad", but she also said that without Balukas playing, "we've all learned how to win".
Balukas had faced other problems before she stopped competing.
When she had tried to compete against men as the only woman she heard insults from some men.
For example, one said "I’m gonna put on a dress and go play with the women".
Balukas heard many complaints from the men upon her entry to a Chicago tournament in 1988.
They said it was not fair that she got to play on both the men's and women's side, when the men could only play on their own side.
She agreed not to play.
However, after she traveled to the tournament she learned she had been tricked: "I found out that the first- and second-place winners in the women’s event were going to be invited to play in the men’s event.
I was stabbed in the back".
Balukas also admits having been under great pressure, much of it that she placed on herself.
After she reached the very top of her profession, "That's when I started getting nervous... that’s when I started putting a lot of pressure on myself". "
Playing against the men, I learned to lose,... but [losing] hurt with the women because I was expected to win all the time".
Balukas later said that leaving the sport was a combination of many things, including: stress, fatigue, frustration, and anger at the professional pool industry.
She said, "You know, you're going to fine me?
That was my excuse to finally say I need a break".
After leaving the sport, Balukas returned to Bay Ridge.
She took over management of her family's pool hall, Hall of Fame Billiards on Ovington Avenue in Brooklyn.
She says "I'm enjoying my life immensely... I have moved on".
In summing up these events in a 1992 article, The New York Times stated, "So America's greatest woman pool player competes only for the odd soda.
If you're feeling lucky, drop by her poolroom...If you're thirsty...go elsewhere".
In 1975, when she was fifteen years old, Balukas was already described as the "best female pool player in the world".
Announcers had stopped calling Balukas "the Little Princess", but introduced her to audiences as "the Queen".
By that time she had won the World Straight Pool Championship women's division eight of the last nine years.
During those same years, she also won sixteen women's professional tournaments.
She had been named the Billiard Congress of America Player of the Year five times.
In 1985, Balukas became the second woman (after Dorothy Wise) to enter the BCA Hall of Fame.
She was the youngest person ever to receive the honor, at just under 27 years of age.
In 1999, Balukas was ranked number fifteen on Billiard Digest's Fifty Greatest Players of the Century.
New York State Route 308 (NY 308, Route 308) is a short road in Dutchess County, New York.
The highway is  long.
It goes through mostly rural areas, and is usually used as a shortcut from U.S. Route 9 (US 9) to New York State Route 9G. The road passes several landmarks along its path.
The road began its history in about 1685, when a group of Native Americans built the Sepasco Trail.
This trail went from the Hudson River to Lake Sepasco, and followed the same path that currently exists as Route 308.
The trail was there until 1802, when part of the Ulster and Delaware Turnpike was built over it.
Route 308 was officially formed in 1930.
Route description
Part of NY 308 is in the Rhinebeck Village Historic District, which is a  area that has 272 historical buildings.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
A well-known attraction is the Beekman Arms Inn, which is located at the corner of NY 308 and US 9.
The inn was started in 1776, and says it is one of the oldest inns within the United States.
The road begins at US 9 in the village of Rhinebeck, which is  above sea level.
To the south of here is a park, a small lake, and a cemetery.
At this point, the Dutchess County Fairgrounds are north of Route 308.
The highway goes to the east, and is called East Market Street.
It soon leaves Rhinebeck, while it runs next to a small creek sometimes known as the Landsman Kill.
The road intersects with County Route 101 and then turns to the north.
It also intersects with Route 9G before it turns to the east into a rural area.
In this area, Route 308 carries about 6,400 vehicles each day.
There are many small lakes around the road as it intersects with County Route 52 and turns to the northeast.
NY 308 then travels west of Sepasco Lake before turning east again.
It ends at NY 199 in the town of Milan.
The earliest people that lived in northern Dutchess County were the Mohicans.
They were a Native American nation that came to the area about 3,000 years ago.
There were around 8,000 Mohicans during the time they first saw the Europeans.
However, there were only 800 after the American Revolution.
Artifacts were found along the shore of Lake Sepasco, which is a small lake near NY 308.
The artifacts included very old arrowheads, and are now being shown at a local museum.
A smaller group of these Native Americans were known as the Sepasco Indians.
This name was used for Native Americans in the Sepasco area, which is now known as Rhinebeck.
The word Sepasco probably came from the tribe's word for "little river" or "stream", which is sepuus.
After the Civil War, only a few of the Sepasco were left.
The last Sepasco Indian died in 1867 in a hut near Lake Sepasco.
By 1685, a trail known as the Sepasco Trail was formed by the Sepasco people.
This trail started at the Hudson River and went east through the village of Rhinebeck.
It ended at Lake Sepasco.
Part of the trail from Rhinebeck to Lake Sepasco follows about the same path that is today taken by Route 308.
The trail was there until 1802, when a turnpike, a type of road, was built over it "for improving and making a road from the west line of the Town of Salisbury in the State of Connecticut to the Susquehannah River at or near the Town of Jericho".
The part of the new turnpike east of the Hudson River was sometimes known as the Ulster and Salisbury Turnpike.
A plaque was placed in November 1922 at the Beekman Arms Inn.
The sign marked the crossing of the Kings Highway (now called US 9) and the Ulster and Salisbury Turnpike.
NY 308 itself was officially made during 1930.
The path of the road was changed a bit in the 1960s.
NY State Route 308 Ends
Roads in New York
Grand Central Terminal (GCT) — often called Grand Central Station or simply Grand Central — is a train station in New York City.
Located at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms.
The first station at this site was built in 1871 by the New York Central Railroad at a time when there were many long-distance passenger trains in the United States which most people took to move across the country.
Back then it was called "Grand Central Depot".
In 1913 the station was rebuilt and given its current name, "Grand Central Terminal", but today many people call it "Grand Central Station".
In fact, "Grand Central Station" is the name of the nearby post office, and of a New York City Subway station underneath.
Grand Central Station covers an area of 48 acres and has 44 platforms on two levels, with 67 tracks along them.
There are 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 tracks on the lower level.
All of them are built underground at the end of a long tunnel under Park Avenue, where trains have to change from diesel to electric power using a third rail to avoid problems with exhaust.
These platforms serve commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester County, New York, Putnam County, New York, and Dutchess County, New York in New York State, and Fairfield County, Connecticut and New Haven County, Connecticut in the state of Connecticut.
By December 2022, the Long Island Rail Road will be extended to a new station at Grand Central, below the existing platforms.
Once this happens, Grand Central will have a total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms.
Samuel P. Taylor State Park is a state park located in Marin County, California.
It contains approximately  of redwood and grassland.
The park contains about  of old-growth forest, some of which can be seen along the Pioneer Tree Trail.
Pedernales or silex ("flint") is the name of a hard mineral that is common in the region.
Before the conquest of the island by European people, some native groups lived around the place where the city of Pedernales is now.
But soon those groups disappeared and very few people came to live here because it is a very dry region.
When the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present Haiti) was created, the Pedernales river was the southern border between that colony and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (present Dominican Republic).
During those colonial times, some soldiers came here for some time but almost nobody lived here for a long time.
The municipality had, in , a total population of 14,590: 7,473 men and 7,117 women.
Sierra de Bahoruco ("Bahoruco mountain range") is in the northern half of the municipality; its highest mountain, and the highest mountain of the province, is Loma del Toro,  above sea level, in the limits with the Independencia province.
The municipality has a total area of  and has only one municipal district (a subdivision of a municipality): José Francisco Peña Gómez.
The altitude of the city of Pedernales is  above sea level.
The municipality of Pedernales has the Independencia Province to the north, the Barahona Province to the east, the municipality of Oviedo to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the south and Haiti to the west.
The city is at about  from the border with Haiti.
The month with the most precipitation on average is September with  of rainfall, followed by October with .
Pedernales is in a hot region; the average temperature for the year is .
Because Pedernales is on the border, the trade with Haiti is important.
But the main economic activity is farming, mainly on the mountains, where coffee and beans are important products.
Tourism is becoming an important economic activity because there are several beautiful beaches with white sand, like Cabo Rojo and Bahía de las Águilas.
1927 establishments in North America
The Mahicans (also Mohicans) are a Native American tribe, who originally settled around the Hudson River.
Many then moved to Massachusetts after 1780, before the remaining descendants moved to  northeastern Wisconsin during the 1820s and 1830s.
Notable members
John Wannuaucon Quinney, diplomat
Bill Miller, musician
The Heaviside function, often written as H(x), is a non-continuous function whose value is zero for a negative input and one for a positive input.
The function is used in the mathematics of control theory to represent a signal that switches on at a specified time, and which stays switched on indefinitely.
It was named after the Englishman Oliver Heaviside.
The Heaviside function is the integral of the Dirac delta function: H′(x) = δ(x).
This is sometimes written as
Discrete form
We can also define an alternative form of the Heaviside step function as a function of a discrete variable n:
where n is an integer.
H(0)
The value of the function at 0 can be defined as H(0) = 0, H(0) = ½ or H(0) = 1.
Step function
Yasushi Kita (born 25 April 1978) is a Japanese football player.
|1997||rowspan="4"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||1||0||0||0||5||0||6||0
|1998||7||0||3||0||0||0||10||0
|1999||3||0||0||0||3||0||6||0
|2000||rowspan="2"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||7||0||3||0||2||0||12||0
|2002||rowspan="2"|Cerezo Osaka||J. League 2||37||2||4||1||colspan="2"|-||41||3
|2003||J. League 1||18||1||5||0||3||0||26||1
|2004||rowspan="3"|Albirex Niigata||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||17||0||1||0||1||0||19||0
|2005||17||3||0||0||5||0||22||3
|2006||11||0||0||0||1||0||12||0
|2007||rowspan="3"|Thespa Kusatsu||rowspan="3"|J. League 2||7||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||8||0
|2008||33||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||34||1
|2009||21||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|1996||rowspan="5"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2000||rowspan="2"|Consadole Sapporo||J. League 2||3||0||0||0||0||0||3||0
|2001||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2002||Tokyo||J. League 1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|2003||rowspan="4"|Shonan Bellmare||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||21||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||21||0
|2004||9||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||9||0
|2005||39||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||40||0
|2006||10||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0
|2007||Rosso Kumamoto||Football League||34||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||34||0
|2008||rowspan="2"|Roasso Kumamoto||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||18||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||0
|2009||10||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||11||0
Tomohiko Ito (born 28 May 1978) is a Japanese football player.
|1999||rowspan="2"|Ventforet Kofu||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||6||0||2||0||0||0||8||0
|2000||38||0||4||0||2||0||44||0
|2001||rowspan="2"|Shonan Bellmare||rowspan="2"|J. League 2||1||0||0||0||0||0||1||0
|2002||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0
|2004||23||0||1||0||4||0||28||0
|2006||rowspan="5"|Shonan Bellmare||rowspan="4"|J. League 2||30||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
Descriptive statistics is a branch of statistics.
Its aim is to summarize a set of statistical data.
The data are usually taken by sampling a population.
To picture the way the data are distributed, a histogram may be drawn.
The data may be summarized by computing some characterising values, like the "center" of the data, and the "spread".
In some cases the different items of data will be grouped and the groups will be described, in some way.
Statistical inference  is the statiscal process of drawing conclusions from data.
Examples would be the randomness of the data, observational errors,  sampling variation, and other issues.
For the most part, statistical inference makes statements about populations, using data drawn from the population of interest by some form of random sampling.
The result is some kind of statistical proposition, such as:
an estimate; i.e., a particular value that best approximates some parameter of interest
a confidence interval.
That is an interval from a dataset such that, under repeated sampling, the interval would contain the true parameter value with the probability at the stated confidence level
a credible interval; i.e., a set of values containing, for example, 95% of samples would include the true value of the parameter.
rejection of a hypothesis
clustering or classifying data points into groups
|1995||Guarani||Série A||19||1||||||||||19||1
|1996||rowspan="4"|Santos||rowspan="4"|Série A||16||2||||||||||16||2
|1998||17||3||||||||||17||3
|1999||São Paulo||Série A||15||1||||||||||15||1
|2000||rowspan="4"|Grêmio||rowspan="4"|Série A||18||1||||||||||18||1
|2001||14||1||||||||||14||1
|2002||18||7||||||||||18||7
|2003||32||8||||||||||32||8
|2004||São Caetano||Série A||33||9||||||||||33||9
|2005||Albirex Niigata||J. League 1||30||8||1||0||5||0||36||8
|2006||São Caetano||Série A||25||7||||||||||25||7
|2007||Coritiba||Série B||25||3||||||||||25||3
Silvio Spann (born 21 August 1981) is a Trinidad and Tobago football player.
He plays for Wrexham and Trinidad and Tobago national team.
|2000||Doc's Khelwalaas||Pro League||||||||||||
|2001||W Connection||Pro League||||||||||||
|2001/02||Perugia||Serie A||0||0||||||0||0
|2002/03||Sambenedettese||Serie C1||3||0||||||3||0
|2003||rowspan="2"|W Connection||rowspan="2"|Pro League||||||||||||
|2004||||||||||||
|2004/05||Dinamo Zagreb||Prva HNL||0||0||||||0||0
|2005||Yokohama||J. League 2||20||3||0||0||20||3
|2006||rowspan="2"|W Connection||rowspan="2"|Pro League||||||||||||
|2007||||||||||||
|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Wrexham||League Two||9||1||1||0||10||1
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Conference||13||0||2||0||15||0
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Amir Karič (born 31 December 1973) is a Slovenian football player.
He plays for Koper.
|1992/93||Rudar Velenje||PrvaLiga||27||10||||||||||27||10
|1993/94||rowspan="4"|Maribor Branik||rowspan="4"|PrvaLiga||20||0||||||||||20||0
|1995/96||21||4||||||||||21||4
|1996/97||25||6||||||||||25||6
|1997||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||5||0||2||0||0||0||7||0
|1998||7||0||0||0||3||1||10||1
|1998/99||Maribor Teatanic||PrvaLiga||11||0||||||||||11||0
|1999/00||rowspan="2"|Maribor Pivovarna Laško||rowspan="2"|PrvaLiga||12||0||||||||||12||0
|2000/01||3||0||||||||||3||0
|2000/01||Ipswich Town||Premier League||0||0||||||||||0||0
|2000/01||Crystal Palace||First Division||3||0||||||||||3||0
|2001/02||rowspan="3"|Maribor Pivovarna Laško||rowspan="3"|PrvaLiga||12||1||||||||||12||1
|2002/03||15||4||||||||||15||4
|2003/04||16||4||||||||||16||4
|2004||Moscow||Premier League||4||0||||||||||4||0
|2004/05||Mura||PrvaLiga||9||3||||||||||9||3
|2005/06||AEL Lemesos||First Division||11||1||||||||||11||1
|2005/06||Koper||PrvaLiga||15||1||||||||||15||1
|2006/07||Anorthosis Famagusta||First Division||2||0||||||||||2||0
|2006/07||Interblock Ljubljana||PrvaLiga||||||||||||||||
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|Olimpija Ljubljana||Third League||||||||||||||||
|2008/09||Second League||||||||||||||||
|2009/10||Koper||PrvaLiga||||||||||||||||
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The 2007 floods in the United Kingdom were a series of major floods that happened in many places across the country during June and July 2007.
In Gloucestershire, there was a flash flood from the River Severn and a lot of extreme rainfall.
It is estimated that 13 people were killed and nearly all of Gloucestershire was trapped in their homes for the summer holidays.
The water was around four foot deep, and it got into most people's homes.
The repairs would have cost about 3 thousand pounds per home.
Primary effects
In July 2007, thirteen people were killed after the River Severn burst its banks.
10,000 motorists were stranded overnight.
Farmers lost crops.
350,000 people were without running water after the sewage treatment plant was submerged.
Houses and buildings were flooded and ruined.
Electricity in Gloucester was shut down.
Schools and businesses were unable to travel or work and were shut down.
Significant damage to most properties in the area with nearly 50,000 homes affected, with people losing treasured, personal belongings and made homeless- staying with friends or relatives and 850 families had to stay in caravans, some up to Christmas 2008.
Infrastructure severely affected, with roads cut off and badly damaged.
On 22nd May water treatment works shut down.
The media reporting’s of imminent loss of supplies, meant usage doubled and led to water depletion.
By 24 July, 140,000 properties in Gloucestershire had no water supply.
Alternative water supplies by bottles, bowsers and tankers had to be used.
Water supplies were not fully restored until 1 August.
Shops had better business because people needed more supplies.
£3 billion had to be spent on repairs.
Some businesses lost income while they had to repair buildings.
9,000 businesses affected
More than 180,000 insurance claim
People helped each other, creating a sense of community.
Children were taught in temporary classrooms without books.
Sandbags were distributed. (
25,000)
200 tonnes of sand used
Flood barriers were put in place.
Bottled water was given out.
5 million liters of water distributed through 85 different places
People who lost their homes were forced to live with relatives or caravans for up to two years.
2007 floods
Floods in Europe
Anto Drobnjak (born 21 September 1968) is a former Yugoslavian football player.
|1986/87||rowspan="4"|Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje||||5||0||||||||||5||0
|1987/88||||24||7||||||||||24||7
|1988/89||||14||1||||||||||14||1
|1989/90||||27||19||||||||||27||19
|1990/91||rowspan="2"|Budućnost Titograd||rowspan="2"|First League||31||13||||||||||31||13
|1991/92||17||9||||||||||17||9
|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Red Star Belgrade||rowspan="2"|First League||35||22||||||||||35||22
|1993/94||29||17||||||||||29||17
|1994/95||rowspan="3"|Bastia||rowspan="3"|Division 1||31||12||||||||||31||12
|1995/96||36||20||||||||||36||20
|1996/97||33||18||||||||||33||18
|1997/98||Lens||Division 1||32||14||||||||||32||14
|1998||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||18||8||1||0||0||0||19||8
|1999||13||4||0||0||2||1||15||5
|1999/00||rowspan="3"|Sochaux-Montbéliard||rowspan="2"|Division 2||18||3||||||||||18||3
|2000/01||14||1||||||||||14||1
|2001/02||Division 1||1||0||||||||||1||0
|2001/02||Martigues||Division 2||26||9||||||||||26||9
Sugiyama was born in Shizuoka on July 4, 1941.
After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Japan Soccer League club Mitsubishi Motors in 1966.
The club won the champion in 1969 and 1973.
In his 8 seasons, he played all matches except 1 game in 1970 season and he was selected Best Eleven in all seasons.
He was also selected "Japanese Footballer of the Year" 3 times (1964, 1969 and 1973).
On May 28, 1961, during Rōnin for university, Sugiyama debuted for the Japan national team against Malaya.
At 1964 Summer Olympics, he played 3 games and scored 2 goals against Argentina and Ghana.
At 1968 Summer Olympics, he played 6 matches and assisted 5 goals and Japan won bronze medal.
He played 56 games and scored 15 goals for Japan until 1971.
After retirement, Sugiyama became a manager for Yamaha Motors in 1974.
He led the club to the Japan Soccer League Division 1.
He is their longest-serving manager, having led the club from 1974 to 1987.
|1966||rowspan="8"|Mitsubishi Motors||rowspan="8"|JSL Division 1||14||11
|1967||14||8
|1968||14||4
|1969||14||1
|1970||13||4
|1971||14||4
|1973||18||6
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|1967||5||4
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People is a poll of United States citizens to tell the names of the individuals whom they most admire.
It is a list made every year by The Gallup Organization.
In December 1999, they produced a list of 18 people from the 20th century who are "most admired":
Lists of the most admired people for any given year can be found in the respective volume.
There is a rise in average IQ scores since the beginning of measurements.
It is called the Flynn effect.
The rise in most industrialized countries where IQ testing has long been commonplace is about three IQ points per decade.
James R. Flynn described this phenomenon in 1984.
Others supported the claims.
They found the rise was mostly due to the test scores of those who scored an IQ below 100.
The number of those who were classified as mentally handicapped reduced from year to year.
In contrast, the scores of those who got more than 100 did not seem to be affected.
The rise
IQ tests are re-normalized every so often to hold the average score for an age group at 100.
This gave a first hint to Flynn that the IQ was changing over time.
The revised versions are standardized on new samples and scored with respect to those samples only.
The only way to compare the difficulty of two versions is to have a group of people take both tests.
This confirms IQ gains over time.
The average rate of rise seems to be around three IQ points per decade.
Today, children go to school for a longer time.
They have also become more familiar with testing.
It might therefore be expected that the biggest gains occur with school-related content, such as vocabulary, arithmetic or general information.
Just the opposite is the case: abilities such as these have had small gains and occasional declines over the years.
The largest changes appear  on general intelligence factor loaded (g-loaded) tests such as Raven's Progressive Matrices, instead.
For example, Dutch soldiers gained 21 points in only 30 years, or 7 points per decade, between 1952 and 1982.
Some studies focused on the distribution of scores have found that the Flynn effect mainly occurs with lower scores.
However, Raven (2000) found that a lot of data must be re-interpreted with respect to the date of birth.
Previously, this data had been interpreted to show that many abilities decrease when people get older.
This data must now be interpreted to show that many abilities had in fact increased dramatically, as Flynn predicted.
On many tests this occurs at all levels of ability.
Two large samples of Spanish children were assessed with a 30-year gap.
Comparison of the IQ distributions indicated that
the mean IQ had increased by 9.7 points (the Flynn effect),
the gains were concentrated in the lower half of the distribution and negligible in the top half, and
the gains gradually decreased from low to high IQ.
Some scientists believe these changes are very big.
One of them is Ulric Neisser.
In 1995 he was the head of a task force of the American Psychological Association, charged with writing a statement on where intelligence research was.
He estimates that if American children of 1932 could take an IQ test normed in 1997 their average IQ would have been only about 80.
In other words, half of the children in 1932 would be classified as having borderline mental retardation or worse in 1997.
Looking at Ravens, Neisser estimates that if you extrapolate beyond the data, which shows a 21 point gain between 1952 and 1982, an even larger gain of 35 IQ points can be argued.
Arthur Jensen warns that extrapolating beyond the data leads to results such as an IQ of minus 1000 for Aristotle (even assuming he would have scored 200 in his day).
Most of the time, the effect is associated with IQ rises.
A similar effect has been found with increases in semantic and episodic memory.
William Franklin Graham, Jr.  (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018), better known as Billy Graham, was an American Evangelical Christian minister and evangelist.
He was a member of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Graham is widely recognized as the one of the most important and most influential preachers of the twentieth century.
He was a spiritual advisor to several U.S. presidents.