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2313775 | Principle of restricted choice | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Principle%20of%20restricted%20choice | Principle of restricted choice
The probability calculations in coverage of restricted choice often take uniform randomization for granted but that is problematic.
The principle of restricted choice even applies to an opponent's choice of an opening lead from equivalent suits. See Kelsey & Glauert (1980).
# Example.
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played both low cards and East the king. At first glance, it may seem that the odds are now even, 1:1, so that South should expect to do equally well with either of the two possible continuations.
However, this is not the case because if East had KQ, he could equally well have played the... | 6,120,501 |
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"uniformly at random" from KQ, then that original lie 32 and KQ would reach this stage half the time and would take the other fork in the road half the time. Thus on the actual sequence of play, the odds are not even but one-half to one, or 1:2. East would retain queen from original KQ ab... | 6,120,502 |
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any pattern.
# Better calculation of odds.
This is an attempt at a more accurate calculation of the odds as explained in the previous section.
"A priori", four outstanding cards "split" as shown in the first two columns of the table. For example, three cards are together and the fourth... | 6,120,503 |
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KQ win the first trick uniformly at random with the king or the queen – and with K win the first trick with the king, having no choice – the posterior odds are 3.39 to 6.22, a little more than 1:2, in percentage terms a little more than 35% for KQ. To play the ace A from North on the seco... | 6,120,504 |
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would win with the king 92% of the time (=6.22/6.78), then South wins 50% by playing the ace and 50% by repeating the finesse. If that is true, however, South wins almost 100% by repeating the finesse after East wins with the queen – for the queen from "that East" player almost denies the... | 6,120,505 |
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queen from Q32. The preceding probability calculation depends on West doing so.
# Mathematical theory.
The principle of restricted choice is an application of Bayes Law. Increases and decreases in the probabilities of original lies of the opposing cards, as the play of the hand proceeds... | 6,120,506 |
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examples of Bayesian updating as evidence accumulates.
# See also.
- Monty Hall problem
# Further reading.
- The article on Restricted Choice was originated by Jeff Rubens in the first "Encyclopedia" (1964 edition). In it and subsequent editions (e.g. on page 381 of the 6th edition), ... | 6,120,507 |
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Rauni
Rauni may mean:
- Rauni (deity), a figure in Finnish mythology
- Rauni, Ludhiana, a village in the Ludhiana (malwa) district of Punjab state, India
- Rauni Khurd, Roopnagar, a village in the Roopnagar (Puaad) district of Punjab state, India | 6,120,508 |
2313771 | Longest professional baseball game | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Longest%20professional%20baseball%20game | Longest professional baseball game
Longest professional baseball game
The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time. 32 innings were played ... | 6,120,509 |
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have suspended the game—the International League's activates at 12:50 a.m.—the rule book of home plate umpire Dennis Cregg did not contain one. After Pawtucket's Russ Laribee's sacrifice fly drove in Chico Walker in the bottom of the ninth inning and tied the game at one run each, the... | 6,120,510 |
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and the clubhouses ran out of food. The wind blew into the infield, making hits difficult; Pawtucket's Dave Koza later claimed that otherwise his team would have won in nine innings, with "four or five shots that would have been out of the park". For example, Sam Bowen hit a fly ball ... | 6,120,511 |
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not believe his explanation for coming home at 3 a.m. Sunday. He promised that the Sunday newspaper would prove his story, but since the game's postponement occurred too late to appear in it, Aponte had to wait until the Monday edition. Cregg had brought his nephew David to the game; ... | 6,120,512 |
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reached on the phone by Pawtucket publicity manager Mike Tamburro sometime after 3:00 a.m.; the horrified Cooper ordered that play stop at the end of the current inning. Finally at 4:07 a.m., at the end of the 32nd inning and more than eight hours after it began, the game was stopped.... | 6,120,513 |
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teams signed a baseball on Sunday for display at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Cooper had suggested that the game resume that day, but Rochester manager Doc Edwards requested a delay because of the risk of injury. Instead, it resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, the next time the ... | 6,120,514 |
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pitcher was Steve Grilli, who had joined Rochester in the interim since the game's suspension.
The Pawtucket Red Sox celebrated the 25th anniversary of the game on June 23, 2006.
Many members of both teams attended a luncheon and round table discussion in Providence, Rhode Island, a... | 6,120,515 |
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in one game: 219
- Most strikeouts (batting) by one team in one game: 34 (ROC)
- Most total strikeouts in one game: 60
- Most total assists in one game: 88
- Most at-bats by one player in one game: 14, Dave Koza, Lee Graham, Chico Walker (all PAW)
- Most plate appearances by one ... | 6,120,516 |
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striking out seven times, becoming the first player in history to surpass the titanium sombrero (six strikeout) level. Based on a nine-inning game, Laribee would only have struck out three times per nine innings.
- Between the two teams, pitchers faced a total of 246 batters (219 AB,... | 6,120,517 |
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game. Cal Ripken, Jr., who was inducted in 2007, went 2–for–13 on the night playing third base for Rochester. Ripken was the American League's Rookie of the Year the following year. Wade Boggs, who was inducted in 2005, played third base for Pawtucket and went 4–for–12 with a double a... | 6,120,518 |
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Series that year), Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers. While many of Pawtucket's players would play key roles in the 1986 World Series as members of the Boston Red Sox, Ojeda would go on to play for their opponent, the New York Mets. He then became the lone survivor in a boat cra... | 6,120,519 |
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at second base for the Boston Red Sox and San Diego Padres, hitting .278 for his career.
- Chico Walker later played 11 seasons in the majors with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, California Angels, and New York Mets.
- Mike Smithson started 204 games for the Texas Rangers, Minneso... | 6,120,520 |
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third base and catch for seven years with the Baltimore Orioles and the St. Louis Cardinals. His best year was 1985, when he hit .306 with 18 home runs and 48 RBI.
- Jim Umbarger appeared in 133 games as a pitcher for the Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics between 1975 and 1978. He ... | 6,120,521 |
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onto Blue Jay in 1979. Grilli, the father of Jason Grilli, retired from baseball at the end of the 1981 season.
- Cliff Speck went on to pitch for the Atlanta Braves in 1986, appearing in 13 games, including one start.
- Mark Corey played in 59 games in his three years as a Baltimor... | 6,120,522 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
Fructose
Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose, that are absorbed directly into blood during digestion. Fructose w... | 6,120,523 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
derived from sugar cane, sugar beets, and maize. Crystalline fructose is the monosaccharide, dried, ground, and of high purity. High-fructose corn syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose as monosaccharides. Sucrose is a compound with one molecule of glucose covalently linked to one molecule of fructose. All... | 6,120,524 |
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syndrome. The European Food Safety Authority stated that fructose is preferable over sucrose and glucose in sugar-sweetened foods and beverages because of its lower effect on postprandial blood sugar levels, and also noted that "high intakes of fructose may lead to metabolic complications such as dyslipidaemia... | 6,120,525 |
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Etymology.
The word "fructose" was coined in 1857 from the Latin for "fructus" (fruit) and the generic chemical suffix for sugars, "-ose". It is also called fruit sugar and levulose.
# Chemical properties.
Fructose is a 6-carbon polyhydroxyketone. Crystalline fructose adopts a cyclic six-membered structure ... | 6,120,526 |
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by yeast or bacteria. Yeast enzymes convert sugar (glucose, or fructose) to ethanol and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide released during fermentation will remain dissolved in water, where it will reach equilibrium with carbonic acid, unless the fermentation chamber is left open to the air. The dissolved carb... | 6,120,527 |
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has potential to contribute to changes in food palatability, as well as other nutritional effects, such as excessive browning, volume and tenderness reduction during cake preparation, and formation of mutagenic compounds.
### Dehydration.
Fructose readily dehydrates to give hydroxymethylfurfural ("HMF").
Th... | 6,120,528 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
The relative sweetness of fructose has been reported in the range of 1.2–1.8 times that of sucrose. However, it is the 6-membered ring form of fructose that is sweeter; the 5-membered ring form tastes about the same as usual table sugar. Warming fructose leads to formation of the 5-membered ring form. Therefor... | 6,120,529 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
glucose, and the taste sensation reaches a peak (higher than that of sucrose) and diminishes more quickly than that of sucrose. Fructose can also enhance other flavors in the system.
Fructose exhibits a sweetness synergy effect when used in combination with other sweeteners. The relative sweetness of fructose... | 6,120,530 |
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are softer than those containing other sugars because of the greater solubility of fructose.
## Fructose hygroscopicity and humectancy.
Fructose is quicker to absorb moisture and slower to release it to the environment than sucrose, glucose, or other nutritive sweeteners. Fructose is an excellent humectant a... | 6,120,531 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
ice crystal formation. However, this characteristic may be undesirable in soft-serve or hard-frozen dairy desserts.
## Fructose and starch functionality in food systems.
Fructose increases starch viscosity more rapidly and achieves a higher final viscosity than sucrose because fructose lowers the temperature... | 6,120,532 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
besides pure crystalline fructose, are foods containing table sugar (sucrose), high-fructose corn syrup, agave nectar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, fruit and fruit juices, as these have the highest percentages of fructose (including fructose in sucrose) per serving compared to other common foods and ingredien... | 6,120,533 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
fructose to glucose is approximately 1:1; that is, foods with fructose usually contain about an equal amount of free glucose. A value that is above 1 indicates a higher proportion of fructose to glucose, and below 1 a lower proportion. Some fruits have larger proportions of fructose to glucose compared to othe... | 6,120,534 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
have less affinity for fructose absorption than for glucose and sucrose. Unabsorbed fructose creates higher osmolarity in the small intestine, which draws water into the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in osmotic diarrhea. This phenomenon is discussed in greater detail in the Health Effects section.
Table 1... | 6,120,535 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
granulated sugar and powdered sugar, as well as brown sugar.
All data with a unit of g (gram) are based on 100 g of a food item.
The fructose/glucose ratio is calculated by dividing the sum of free fructose plus half sucrose by the sum of free glucose plus half sucrose.
Fructose is also found in the manufac... | 6,120,536 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
foods, and some soft drinks.
## Carbohydrate content of commercial sweeteners (percent on dry basis).
Data obtained from Kretchmer, N. & Hollenbeck, CB (1991). Sugars and Sweeteners, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc. for HFCS, and USDA for fruits and vegetables and the other refined sugars.
Cane and beet suga... | 6,120,537 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
changed. Granulated sugar is 99.9%-pure sucrose, which means that it has equal ratio of fructose to glucose. The most commonly used forms of HFCS, HFCS-42, and HFCS-55, have a roughly equal ratio of fructose to glucose, with minor differences. HFCS has simply replaced sucrose as a sweetener. Therefore, despite... | 6,120,538 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
in humans.
Fructose exists in foods either as a monosaccharide (free fructose) or as a unit of a disaccharide (sucrose). Free fructose is absorbed directly by the intestine. When fructose is consumed in the form of sucrose, it is digested (broken down) and then absorbed as free fructose. As sucrose comes into... | 6,120,539 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
transport, because fructose uptake has been shown to occur against a concentration gradient. However, the majority of research supports the claim that fructose absorption occurs on the mucosal membrane via facilitated transport involving GLUT5 transport proteins. Since the concentration of fructose is higher i... | 6,120,540 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
through GLUT2.
## Capacity and rate of absorption.
The absorption capacity for fructose in monosaccharide form ranges from less than 5 g to 50 g (per individual serving) and adapts with changes in dietary fructose intake. Studies show the greatest absorption rate occurs when glucose and fructose are administ... | 6,120,541 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
of fructose.
In addition, fructose transfer activity increases with dietary fructose intake. The presence of fructose in the lumen causes increased mRNA transcription of GLUT5, leading to increased transport proteins. High-fructose diets (2.4 g/kg body wt) increase transport proteins within three days of inta... | 6,120,542 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
process and dissolves into the blood of the portal vein. This hydrogen is transported to the lungs, where it is exchanged across the lungs and is measurable by the hydrogen breath test. The colonic flora also produces carbon dioxide, short-chain fatty acids, organic acids, and trace gases in the presence of un... | 6,120,543 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
three dietary monosaccharides are transported into the liver by the GLUT2 transporter. Fructose and galactose are phosphorylated in the liver by fructokinase (K= 0.5 mM) and galactokinase (K = 0.8 mM), respectively. By contrast, glucose tends to pass through the liver (K of hepatic glucokinase = 10 mM) and can... | 6,120,544 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
fructokinase initially produces fructose 1-phosphate, which is split by aldolase B to produce the trioses dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and glyceraldehyde . Unlike glycolysis, in fructolysis the triose glyceraldehyde lacks a phosphate group. A third enzyme, triokinase, is therefore required to phosphorylat... | 6,120,545 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
of fructose to fructose 1-phosphate by fructokinase, thus trapping fructose for metabolism in the liver. Fructose 1-phosphate then undergoes hydrolysis by aldolase B to form DHAP and glyceraldehydes; DHAP can either be isomerized to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate by triosephosphate isomerase or undergo reduction t... | 6,120,546 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
acid and triglyceride synthesis.
## Synthesis of glycogen from DHAP and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate.
The resultant glyceraldehyde formed by aldolase B then undergoes phosphorylation to glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate. Increased concentrations of DHAP and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate in the liver drive the gluconeoge... | 6,120,547 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
DHAP and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate.
Carbons from dietary fructose are found in both the free fatty acid and glycerol moieties of plasma triglycerides. High fructose consumption can lead to excess pyruvate production, causing a buildup of Krebs cycle intermediates. Accumulated citrate can be transported from ... | 6,120,548 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
tissues for storage in both fat and muscle cells.
# Potential health effects.
## Weight gain.
In a meta-analysis of clinical trials with controlled feeding — where test subjects were fed a fixed amount of energy rather than being allowed to choose the amount they ate — fructose was not an independent factor... | 6,120,549 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
However, as a common sweetening agent for foods and beverages, fructose has been associated with increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders that are part of metabolic syndrome. Clinical research has provided no or only limited direct evidence that fructose itself is associated with eleva... | 6,120,550 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
and effect relationship in humans showing that fructose is the causative factor.
## Compared with sucrose.
Fructose is often recommended for diabetics because it does not trigger the production of insulin by pancreatic β cells, probably because β cells have low levels of GLUT5, For a 50 gram reference amount... | 6,120,551 |
50337 | Fructose | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fructose | Fructose
ctose is often recommended for diabetics because it does not trigger the production of insulin by pancreatic β cells, probably because β cells have low levels of GLUT5, For a 50 gram reference amount, fructose has a glycemic index of 23, compared with 100 for glucose and 60 for sucrose. Fructose is also 73% sw... | 6,120,552 |
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Dr. Zeus Inc.
Dr. Zeus Inc., also known simply as The Company, is a fictional entity in a series of time travel science fiction stories by Kage Baker.
According to the stories, Dr. Zeus operates from the 24th century, using technologies of time travel and immortality to exploit the past for commercial g... | 6,120,553 |
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Dr. Zeus cannot save Lincoln, warn the "Titanic", prevent the sack of Rome, or stop the burning of the Library at Alexandria. It can take valuable artifacts thought to be lost in these and other events, hide them and 'rediscover' them in the future. However, even without the dangers of time travel, Dr. Ze... | 6,120,554 |
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individuals are then promised a bright future in the 24th century, in exchange for working for the Company till then. Their job is to preserve cultural artifacts, valuable plants, and endangered species, hiding them in safe places till the Company can 'recover' them in the future. The cyborgs will get to ... | 6,120,555 |
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the series progresses, it becomes apparent that the Dr. Zeus story is itself a fiction. How they came by their technology, and how long the Company has really existed, is an unfolding mystery. Furthermore, not even Dr. Zeus knows what happens after July 9, 2355; although it is possible to send messages to... | 6,120,556 |
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and businessmen who developed both the immortality process and time travel. This theory is backed up by the mortal Bugleg who, in "Sky Coyote", claims to have developed "Pineal Tribrantine 3", an artificial hormone which keeps the cyborgs youthful.
Towards the end of "Mendoza in Hollywood", Mendoza glean... | 6,120,557 |
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will arrive from the future, kill all the humanoids and hide their technology to be "discovered" later.
Further clues appear in "The Graveyard Game" when Lewis, attempting to discover Mendoza's location after her disappearance, stumbles across a secret society in Victorian England called "The Gentlemen's... | 6,120,558 |
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friend and partner in the search for Mendoza.
At the beginning of "The Life of the World to Come" it is revealed that Sir Francis Drake discovered a cache of secret documents and mysterious potions and gadgets on Santa Catalina in the 16th century. He then gave the discovery to the alchemist John Dee, a ... | 6,120,559 |
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activation of the AI, of a communications terminal in the shape of the god Zeus, ordered a few years previously. At this point, it can be argued, the Zeus AI intervened in history to ensure its own creation in the 24th century, instructing its operatives to carry out those activities which produce the his... | 6,120,560 |
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be approximately 19 years old despite having lived for thousands of years during her life and exile in the distant past. Joseph is described as "seeming to be about 35" ("The Graveyard Game"), indicating that Facilitators may have their "natural" ages set higher for their roles.
## Preservers.
Preserver... | 6,120,561 |
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ocean, dropping into fugue state, and awaiting eventual rescue. Husband of fellow immortal Nan d'Araignee.
- Nan d'Araignee: a female cyborg, an art preservationist. Wife of fellow immortal Kalugin.
## Facilitators and Security Techs.
These operatives lay the groundwork for the Preservers and keep them... | 6,120,562 |
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with the descendants of his brother, who was not suitable for recruitment.
## Executives.
Executives run secret Company facilities and implement policy. Some have become intoxicated with power and regard ordinary mortals as a disease to be wiped out.
- Labienus : about 15,000 years old, originally from... | 6,120,563 |
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executives to exploit or eradicate mortals.
- Latif : One of Suleyman's chief assistants.
- Sarai : One of Suleyman's chief assistants.
- Kiu: has run operations in Egypt, where she posed earlier in her life as a princess, and in later years managed operations recovering Egyptian antiquities desired by... | 6,120,564 |
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Budu : recruited Joseph while killing the Great Goat Cult fanatics who killed Joseph's parents. He also recruited Labienus in prehistory and Victor in Anglo-Saxon Britain.
- Marco : rebels, is captured, and is sent back in time to 300,000 BCE to operate "Options Research".
## Adonai.
Trying to replace ... | 6,120,565 |
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the same fate as Nicholas.
- Alec Checkerfield, a 24th-century rich kid who is able to hijack high-tech data systems, including Company data and a time machine. He also finds Mendoza and she falls for him all over again.
# Cabals and conspiracies.
With centuries to think about the future, and an unknow... | 6,120,566 |
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who makes war on others. This would mean drastically reducing the population. His recruits included Labienus, who with Nennius began researching plagues as a means of carrying out Budu's vision. Budu objected to this, but Labienus may have engineered his downfall and gone ahead anyway, beginning with the ... | 6,120,567 |
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protect the interests of cyborgs against any attempt by the Company to get rid of them, or to place them all in storage.
## Mortals.
In the 2350s mortals such as Bugleg, the cowardly, introverted leader of the Company expedition recounted in "Sky Coyote", become increasingly concerned that the cyborgs o... | 6,120,568 |
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not like what Budu wants him to do. Meanwhile Alec is a different kind of rogue, with his own time machine.
# Homo umbratilis.
"Homo umbratilis", meaning "Man of the Shadows", is the name of a third species of human, after "Homo neanderthalensis" and "Homo sapiens". Small, pale and furtive, they hide fr... | 6,120,569 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
not very creative, but can focus intensely on developing something, such as a disrupter field that paralyzes the cyborgs, whom they regard as enemies. Attempts to exploit these creatures, once they come to the attention of the Company, are important to the series' plot.
An example of their monomania is t... | 6,120,570 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
humans, but their origins and final fate remain obscure. A group headed by a queen female (given the title "Quean" in the novel) occupies tunnels in an artificial mound known as a "Hill". The Quean is attended by "stupids", the "idiot savant" workers who can produce technological marvels but are incapable... | 6,120,571 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
"stupids". The Uncles, while waiting their turn for her favors, fetch her luxuries from the outside world. Eventually the Quean produces a daughter, who, if she is not killed by her mother first, will grow up to overthrow her with the help of some of the Uncles. The Uncles, like the "stupids", live short ... | 6,120,572 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
Cult.
This cultural movement is referred to frequently within the novels. The main points that can be gleaned about it are that it was a cult among humans, the main object of which was to wipe out unbelievers. Cult members covered their bodies in tattoos. Unbelievers consisted of anyone who refused to be... | 6,120,573 |
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of the Company in the 24th century, the Cult was impeding the start of civilization. The Enforcers were created to destroy the Cult. Possibly because of their small numbers, a few thousand at most, this seems to have taken them thousands of years.
# Company locations.
Despite relatively low numbers, in ... | 6,120,574 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
facility, this is remembered by some, including Joseph, as once being nothing more than a stockade. By the third century CE it is an elaborate and luxurious facility run by Aegeus, where he experiments with hybrids of humans and Homo umbratilis. It is located in the Cevennes mountains of France.
## Eurob... | 6,120,575 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
were transplanted to this base where they worked for the Company doing menial jobs.
## New World One.
This base existed in the jungle of the Yucatan for hundreds of years before being dismantled in 1701. Its human servants were rescued sacrifices from the Mayan culture. Having been sacrificed, they beli... | 6,120,576 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
Alpha-Omega.
Located on an island in 500,000 BCE, this is a storehouse for all the genetic material used by the Company in creating its servants and Project Adonai, according to "The Machine's Child". Since the Company could not trust a cyborg with the store, it is overseen by a 24th-century mortal, Davi... | 6,120,577 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
Santa Catalina.
The island of Santa Catalina is the hub around which all of the mysteries of the Company revolve. Settled by strange, pale humanoids in about 150,000 BCE, it seems to be the repository of the secrets which make the Company's activities possible. In the 24th century it is the home of the C... | 6,120,578 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
reveals itself as Dr. Zeus, Inc. in the 24th century. Naturally the Company goes to great effort to maintain possession of the island as much as recorded history allows. Actual history records that in the 19th century much of the island was owned by a syndicate which included the Banning family and the fa... | 6,120,579 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
is equipped with a "time transcendence" chamber to send people and objects through time.
The stated reason for the existence of this facility is "monitoring the Lookout Mountain Avenue anomaly", apparently a source of paranormal phenomena located nearby. The area has a history, real and imagined, of attr... | 6,120,580 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
period. The ride is safe but uncomfortable, the carriages being small and boxlike. The maximum speed is about that of a fast stagecoach, but without the risk of being robbed, or in the case of cyborgs pretending to be Spaniards, attacked by enraged mobs. The method of propulsion is not revealed.
# Cyborg... | 6,120,581 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
beginning at birth.
Cybernetic implants in the brain give the cyborgs advanced abilities and senses, such as perfect memory, encyclopedic knowledge, instant learning, enhanced vision and hearing, multi-spectral scanning, and radio communication. Other implants tap into their senses and broadcast them to ... | 6,120,582 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
such as "Pineal Tribrantine 3" or PT3, which confers youth and vigor. Cyborg muscles are much stronger than the human equivalent. Their bodies are also capable of "hyperfunction" which allows them to carry out actions at many times normal speed.
Unknown to most cyborgs, their bodies are also equipped to ... | 6,120,583 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
"The Machine's Child" the final line of defense for the Company's immortal agents is a "time-transcendence" field in the brain-case. With the brain "a split-second out of phase" with real time the brain case is, in effect, impenetrable. In addition the time field seems to be able to bend reality in order ... | 6,120,584 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
the source of paranormal abilities in humans and cyborgs. The tendency to emit Crome's radiation can be measured, according to the novel "Sky Coyote", and the Company's standards forbid recruiting individuals with more than minimal Crome potential. Joseph, confronted with Mendoza's measured potential seve... | 6,120,585 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
charge is suddenly released, resulting in visions, time distortions, messages from the dead etc. It is a large body of quartz beneath the intersection of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain Avenue which causes so much abnormality in that location, up to and including sending Mendoza and her compa... | 6,120,586 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
it is apparent even to Dr. Zeus that, in exploiting so-called recorded history, they may be responsible for history turning out the way it did, beginning with annihilating the Great Goat Cult so History as we know it could begin. As character after character turns against the Company, they are still unabl... | 6,120,587 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
the stories, the cyborgs mention "theobromos" as their narcotic of choice. In fact this is simply chocolate. Having been rendered immune to all known human diseases, and being largely unaffected by alcohol and other drugs, since their bodies quickly reprocess such chemicals into harmless forms, the cyborg... | 6,120,588 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
to be treated with large amounts of complex carbohydrates, such as pizza or fettuccine alfredo. The humans who run the Company do not like their servants intoxicating themselves, but are powerless to prevent them from doing so.
Theobromos provides a thread of humor, sometimes ironic, which runs through t... | 6,120,589 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
in York, England.
- Suleyman's protege Latif secretly runs a highly profitable black-market in theobromos out of Eurobase Five, until operatives from Central America come to complain about him undercutting them. ("The Children of the Company")
- Mendoza's tragic confession in "Mendoza in Hollywood" is o... | 6,120,590 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
rogue cyborgs ("Gods and Pawns").
# Names.
Dr. Zeus is named for the Greek God Zeus, who defeated his father Cronus. Cronus is sometimes confused with the entity Chronos, the personification of Time.
The "New Inklings" are named for a group of intellectuals in pre-WW2 England, of whom the best known ar... | 6,120,591 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
Legion. Joseph was there as coordinator. Nennius supervised the cleanup. No trace of the battle was left.
- The expedition of Sir Francis Drake. Part of the temporal paradox that creates the Company involves a discovery of artifacts by Drake's men on the island of Santa Catalina. In fact it is not known ... | 6,120,592 |
2313733 | Dr. Zeus Inc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Zeus%20Inc. | Dr. Zeus Inc.
arpole's martyrdom.
- The San Francisco earthquake. As recounted in "The Children of the Company", this was a major operation to coordinate snatching many different items immediately before the earthquake and the subsequent fires. There was also a "Dance on the Eve of Destruction" party set up by the cyb... | 6,120,593 |
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Labor unions in Japan
Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization. Until 1945, however, the labour movement remained weak, impeded by lack of legal rights, anti-union legislation, management-organi... | 6,120,594 |
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declined to 18.5% as of 2010.
The labour movement went through a process of reorganization from 1987 to 1991 from which emerged the present configuration of three major labour union federations, along with other smaller national union organizations.
# National labor union federations.
In 2005, ... | 6,120,595 |
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730,102 members
- Zenrokyo: National Trade Union Council ( "Zenkoku Rōdōkumiai Renraku Kyōgi-kai") 1,625 unions, 158,342 members
A further 19,139 unions, with a combined membership of 2,842,521 workers, were affiliated to other national labour organizations. The labour union organizations includ... | 6,120,596 |
2313779 | Labor unions in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Labor%20unions%20in%20Japan | Labor unions in Japan
of Japanese Universities (38,500), and All Aluminium Industrial Workers Union (36,000).
# History.
## Meiji period to 1945.
In the first half of the Meiji period (1868-1912), most labour disputes occurred in the mining and textile industries and took the form of small-scale strikes and spontane... | 6,120,597 |
2313779 | Labor unions in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Labor%20unions%20in%20Japan | Labor unions in Japan
Company successfully struck for an improvement of status and higher wages. In the same year, ships' carpenters in Tokyo and Yokohama formed a union, and a dispute followed with demands for higher wages.
1907 saw the greatest number of disputes in a decade, with large-scale riots at Japan's two le... | 6,120,598 |
2313779 | Labor unions in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Labor%20unions%20in%20Japan | Labor unions in Japan
the influence of western coalitions and their mission to implement work insurance in Britain, a multitude of Japanese citizens ignited countless of riots, labor revolts, and unionization in order to counter the insufferable conditions. In the beginning of the 20 century, Bunji Suzuki, founder of t... | 6,120,599 |
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