Walnut Valley is a region in the eastern San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. The area is noted for its rolling hills.
The valley is noted for its fairly recent influx of Asian Americans into its upper-class residential neighborhoods. Walnut now has an Asian American majority, with Diamond Bar about half Asian and half Caucasian. Brea in Orange County is still roughly 3/4 caucasian.
The Diamond Lake neighborhood is in the Nokomis community in Minneapolis. It is bounded by Diamond Lake Road and 55th Street on the north, Cedar Avenue on the east, 62nd Street on the south and Interstate 35W on the west. It has approximately 2233 households within its boundaries.
The Diamond Lake neighborhood, together with Hale and Page, forms the HPDL
The Skewb Diamond is an octahedron-shaped puzzle similar to the Rubik’s Cube. It has 14 movable pieces which can be rearranged in a total of 138,240 possible combinations. This puzzle is the dual polyhedron of the Skewb.
The Skewb Diamond has 6 octahedral corner pieces and 8 triangular face centers. All pieces can move relative to each other. It is a deep-cut puzzle: its planes of rotation bisect it.
The purpose of the puzzle is to scramble its colors, and then restore it to its original solved state.
Imagem is a data and technology company which manufactures diamond grading equipment which aims to aid in automating laboratory grading of gem quality diamonds. Up to now, the grading of diamonds has been always performed by trained gemologists.
An ImaGem owned and operated demonstration lab is in business in Surat, India.
Commercial installation have been made at the AGA lab in Philadelphia, PA, the DGLA labs in Mumbai, India and Horsham, PA, and also at four (EGL-USA) European Gem Labs located in the USA
and Canada.
http://journal.pricescope.com/Articles/41/1/Making-the-case-for-Imagem-diamond-grading.aspx
Diamond Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Bergen County in New Jersey. Heading up the brook from the Passaic River, one encounters the towns of Fair Lawn, Glen Rock and Ridgewood.
Diamond Brook passes through a largely residential suburban setting, though its southern end runs under an industrial complex in Fair Lawn before terminating at the Passaic River. The head of Diamond Brook is located south of Godwin Ave in Ridgewood, near the border of Midland Park. Diamond Brook is considered part of the Goffle Brook drainage basin, but it has no junctions with Goffle Brook and is partly separated from it by another brook, Stevenson Brook, which flows south to the Passaic River between Goffle Brook and Diamond Brook in Hawthorne. (Stevenson Brook also shares no junction points with Diamond Brook.)
Another brook east of Diamond Brook, Little Diamond Brook, is considered to be in part of the same drainage basin as Diamond Brook. Both Little Diamond Brook and Diamond Brook terminate at the Passaic River in proximity to one other.
The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is a London-based subsidiary of the De Beers Group, specializing in the sale and marketing of rough (uncut) diamonds. The company forms an essential part of De Beers’ sales mechanism, maintaining an exclusive list of sightholders to which it sells all De Beers gem-grade diamonds coming to the market in a limited number of sales per year. Nicky Oppenheimer is chairman of DTC.
DTC receives uncut diamonds from all of De Beers’ mines around southern Africa, as well as some production from Alrosa in Russia. The diamonds are then sorted into over 16,000 categories, according to size, color, clarity, carat and quality (amount of inclusions). They are then combined into lots for sale to sightholders. Sightholders are invited to DTC’s London offices ten times per year and are given the opportunity to purchase lots of diamonds at prices set by DTC. According to a January 13, 2004 DTC media release ([1]), there are 84 sightholders, and three additional companies authorized to purchase diamonds from DTC for industrial use. In 2004, DTC’s sales were $5.7 billion, an increase of 3.2% over the previous year.
DTC also operates De Beers’ famous diamond marketing campaigns to consumers.
A winkle is a rare squeeze/endplay in contract bridge in which a trick is offered to the defenders but whichever wins the trick is then endplayed. Often one defender would be forced to offer a finesse or ruff and discard while the other could overtake and thereby promote a trick in that suit for declarer.
An example end-position, South needing 4 tricks:
On the play of the last spade, West and North let go clubs, and East is squeezed. Pitching a heart yields an immediate trick in that suit, but if a diamond is pitched declarer follows with Ace and 3 of diamonds. If East wins the trick, they must lead hearts conceding the last two tricks there. If West saves partner by playing the king of diamonds on the second diamond trick, they must then concede the last two tricks to dummy’s now high Ace of clubs and Jack of diamonds.
In contract bridge, the trump squeeze is a variant of the simple squeeze. (Squeezes are techniques in this game to gain extra tricks.)
In a trump squeeze, declarer has a suit that can be established by ruffing, but the defender being squeezed is guarding that suit. However, if he happens to also guard another suit, the squeeze card will force him to unguard one. This end position below shows a trump squeeze in action:
Hearts are trumps, and the lead is in the North hand. Declarer plays the A, discarding the 3 from hand, and East has no good discard. If East plays a spade, declarer cashes the A to set up the spade suit. If East plays a club, declarer cashes the K ruffs a club, and has the Ace of spades as an entry to dummy.
The key elements are:
A very rare example is the double trump squeeze, where both opponents suffer the same fate. Here is an example from the quarterfinals of the 2004 Olympiad, in the match between Italy and the USA. Declarer, Norberto Bocchi of Italy, declared 4 and achieved the following end position with the lead in dummy:
Declarer led the Ace of Hearts from dummy, discarding the 8, and the defence had no answer. If both pitched spades, declarer could play the Ace and King of spades, establishing the ten. If both pitched diamonds, a spade to the Ace and a diamond ruff would establish the Queen. Declarer’s play depended on who released the diamond guard. If it were West, a spade to the Ace and the Ten of diamonds would set up the Queen. If it was East, a spade to the Ace and the Queen of diamonds would smother the Jack and create a ruffing finesse position.
Note that the squeeze was not automatic, but Bocchi read the situation accurately when West discarded the seven of diamonds.
Donkey’s Tail () was a Russian artistic group created from the most radical members of the Jack of Diamonds group. The group included such painters as: Mikhail Larionov (inventor of the name), Natalia Gontcharova, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Shevchenko. The group was influenced by the Cubo-Futurism movement. The first and only exhibition of the group took place in Moscow in 1912. In 1913, the group fell apart.