Shooting in basketball

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Player releases a short jump shot, while her defender is either knocked down, or trying to “take a charge.” Shooting is the act of attempting to score points throwing the ball through the basket. While methods can vary with players … Read More

WinHoldEm

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WinHoldEm is an online Texas hold ’em bot, created by Ray Bornert. Bots of this kind can sometimes be used in online poker play, but this is considered cheating by poker rooms, and grounds for account termination. The bot is … Read More

Batters and runners in baseball

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A batter squares to bunt, moving his hands up the barrel of the bat to increase his control and deaden the ball on impact. The ultimate goal of the team at bat is to score runs. To accomplish this feat, … Read More

Aggression

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In the game of poker, opens and raises are considered aggressive plays, while calls and checks are considered passive (though a check-raise would be considered a very aggressive play). It is said that “aggression has its own value”, meaning that … Read More

Mobile computing

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Telxon PTC-710 is a 16-bit mobile computer PTC-710 with MP 830-42 microprinter 42-column version. It was manufactured by the Telxon corporation since early 1990s. This one was used for example as portable ticket machine by Czech Railways (České dráhy) in … Read More

Cricket

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A cricket match in progress. The lighter strip is the cricket pitch. The men wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players on each side. It … Read More

Page tagging

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Concerns about the accuracy of logfile analysis in the presence of caching, and the desire to be able to perform web analytics as an outsourced service, led to the second data collection method, page tagging or ‘Web bugs’. In the … Read More

On the state of the market

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On the state of the market Studierea pieţei 1. We should appreciate your candid opinion on fhe state of the market in your country. 2. As you know the local conditions so well, we should very much like to take … Read More

Poker jargon – U

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under the gun The playing position to the direct left of the blinds in Texas hold ’em or Omaha . The player who is under the gun must act first on the first round of betting. underfull In a community … Read More

Advertising market

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Famous advertising agencies BBDO — works with Anheuser-Busch, Visa, and PepsiCo. Crispin Porter + Bogusky –famous for Subservient Chicken, works with Burger King, EarthLink, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Volkswagen Doyle Dane Bernbach — created famous campaigns for Volkswagen (including the famous … Read More

Golf

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Tee for the first hole at The Links at Spanish Bay Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games … Read More

Land-line based phone systems and fixed telephony

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Modern emergency telephone powered by sound alone. The network that connects most phones together is known as the PSTN (public switched telephone network). Fixed phone lines are usually copper wirelines which form a circuit between the subscriber and the exchange, … Read More

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