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The old-style, hand-written copy of the Koran that you had read in school, and the one that your family had had for generations, was in Arabic, and the language in which the Koran was to be written was Arabic.
But then in 1924, the Ottoman Empire collapsed and Turkey became a republic. There was a movement in Turkey to rid the country of the influence of Islam and the language of the Koran was replaced with Turkish, and that Turkish
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The next day he went home to visit his sister and his aunt and uncle. He took his rifle, and
went a-hunting. After he had killed enough game, he took a horse, and went to
the mission of San Pedro de Alcantara, where the friars of the order of St.
Francis had charge of the Indians.
He asked the friars to let him baptize the Indians, and so they did.
When the child had been baptized
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The question is: can we build something that will enable us to not do that?"
"We'll need to figure out if this can be used in space," says the president of the International Academy of Astronautics, who is also a former director general of NASA.
Soyuz spacecraft has a number of technical problems that would prevent a crew from using the pod, he says.
"You don't want to have your crew of three inside the spacecraft and you have this
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The following is a list of some of the books and articles we have found useful in the study of the history of music.
Some of the books we have found particularly useful for our study include:
Baines, John: The Oxford History of British Music. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Burney, Charles: A General History of Music. Reprint. Dover Publications, 1994.
Ewen, David: The History of
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The "Bush" in front is the 2nd year and the "Stanton" on the 3rd year.
The 1st year is the "Hancock", who was the 1st Captain of the 2nd.
The 2nd year is the "Pitman".
The 3rd year is "Watson".
The "Pitman" of the 3rd year was replaced by the "Stanton", who
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The same is true of the "Croton Water," which contains among its constituents 80 to 85 per cent. of a water-soluble salt of hydrocyanic acid, 20 to 30 per cent. of chlorides of sodium and potash, 2.5 to 4.5 per cent. of calcium and magnesium, and 3 to 6 per cent. of hydrogen and organic matters. From 25 to 40 per cent.
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The other day I had a little conversation with a friend about the meaning of Christmas.
He had a problem. He loved Christmas. He loved the joy and anticipation of Christmas, the lights, the music, the feeling of goodwill. But, as a Christian, the question loomed large: how could he have his good feelings about Christmas without the belief in a God who would knowingly allow a human baby to be nailed to a cross, to be a brutalized victim of sadistic torture?
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The
bare-footed, yellow-toothed, white-eyed, red-beaked, long-tailed, white-
throated, blue-gray, brown-headed, green-bellied, yellow-backed,
wonderful-tailed, beautiful-winged, swift-footed, yellow-toothed,
red-beaked, little-toothed, white-eyed, black-eyed, red-nosed, green-
eyed, white-eyed,
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The 1867 law that gave the U.S. Army Indian Bureau oversight of all Indian children was the first step. The Bureau established its own boarding school system, with a number of federally-run boarding schools. This included Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the most prestigious school, founded in 1879, which sent its first graduates on a 3-year trip to Europe. Carlisle had a reputation for hard discipline. Its most famous graduate, W.E.B
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The S.S.
There was a lot of stuff going on at the party. For one, the S.S. was playing a CD of their songs that someone in the band, I'm pretty sure it was Ryan, had gotten from I believe one of the original S.S. members. They put on about 20 songs. The band was great. The music was awesome.
Then, after the show, they played some
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Theorem 6: If A and B are finite sets, then A ∪ B is finite,
and m(A ∪ B) = m(A) + m(B) – m(A ∩ B).
Theorem 7: If A and B are finite sets, then A ∩ B is finite, and
m(A ∩ B) ≤ m(A) ≤ m(B) + m(A ∩ B).
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The
next day they set out on foot, and were met by the old man, who brought
them to his lodge, where he related their history.
"My son," said the old man, "your father is dead, and your mother is
ill, and you are alone in the world, having lost your people, and
perhaps you may not long survive your mother. It is well that you are
now here. I will tell you something to which you must pay attention
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The
same people who had been so active in the persecution of the Baptist Church
a century earlier. This sect, known as the "Separatists," were finally
forced from the land by those who had opposed the original church of the
Bible. The story of the persecution of this church in the reign of
Elizabeth, and of the subsequent exodus to Holland and finally to
America, is well known to most of our people. It is a great source of
honor and pride
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The “right to life” includes a right to life.
The right to life does not include a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life.
The right to life includes a right to life
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The following was adapted from a 2009 blog post by Mark Shulman, the original blog post is at http://markshulman.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-case-of-the-dancing-man/.
The video in question is posted at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2f6H57b_6Y.
The original image of the drawing that is
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The most important thing to understand is that you have two opposing goals.
You want to be able to focus on writing to capture all of the necessary details to keep your readers engaged.
On the other hand, you don’t want to overwhelm them with facts and details or they will lose interest.
The best way to achieve this balance is through effective editing.
In this case, it’s important that you don’t just write down what you remember.
Instead, edit your notes
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The next step is to take a look at the actual code:
1: namespace Windows
2: {
3: public sealed class HRESULT
4: {
5: private static Dictionary<int, string> _MessageMap = new Dictionary<int, string>();
6: private static Dictionary<string, int> _MessageIntMap = new Dictionary<string, int>();
8: static HRESULT()
9: {
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The number 63,347 can be divided by 8 positive divisors (out of which 0 are even, and 8 are odd). The sum of these divisors (counting 63,347) is 126,632, the average is 15,829.
## Other Arithmetic Functions (n = 63347)
1 φ(n) n
Euler Totient
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The two were
now going to visit another friend.
"I am glad that we are coming to see my mother," said Harry. "She is
such a sweet and interesting person. She is married now, and has a boy
of her own."
"And do you see much of your sister?" asked Ethel.
"Oh, yes, ever so often," said Harry.
"I think that is very nice," said Ethel.
"
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The most common and serious complication of osteomyelitis is sepsis. (See "Sepsis" and "Acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults with serious sepsis or septic shock".)
Other complications may include :
- Osteolysis — bone resorption and weakening, leading to eventual collapse of the bone structure
- Neurovascular injury — damage to the surrounding nerves, blood vessels, and/or spinal cord, which can lead to severe pain
- Impaired wound healing
- Spread to other parts of the body
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The second way to obtain a higher percentage is to get 25% and 15% and convert them to a percent and add them together. The formula to convert a percentage to a decimal is to divide by 100. The formula for converting a decimal to a percentage is to multiply by 100. For the 25% example, 25% divided by 100 is.25. To convert to a percentage, the.25 is
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The second issue is the fact that the U.S. government has not declared its policy towards the country, despite the fact that it has a close military alliance with Israel. What this means is that the U.S. government is not prepared to deal with the situation on its own and, instead, it will allow the Israeli government to do so on its own.
Another issue is the fact that the U.S. government has been trying to create a new Middle East policy in response to the
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The
lips of the woman, and the tears were starting to her eyes. He
reproached himself and his thoughts for this weakness, and as he
stood there by the fire, his heart told him that it was not love for
her, but pity for her. He would have liked to go away and forget
this night, and leave her in her misery.
The door opened, and his mother's face came into view. He had
expected her in the kitchen
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The first day of the second week we were up before five, or nearly so, and off to our
duties; and as I had the schoolroom, I must needs see that that was in good
order, and that there was all the necessary books and other things arranged
for the school. I was not at all well; had only taken up my post the last
day, and was as yet unable to do much in the schoolroom. The pupils came
in; and at
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The same year, the US State Department issued a directive to the 22,000 US troops in Vietnam that said they were there "to assist the local South Vietnamese authorities in carrying out their functions" and not to "impose U.S. will upon them".
The British prime minister was asked by a Labour MP in 1968 what had been achieved after six years of fighting in Vietnam, to which Wilson responded, "Nothing".
A year later,
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The 12,000 pound test has been dropped from the WNBA 2013-14 rules. For the 2014-15 rules, it is to be dropped, as well. So, that is why there is a rule in place that restricts WNBA players to a 12,000 pound test. When it was first instituted, it was to provide some measure of parity with the N
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The fact that a company is a “small business” is not determinative of a duty to inform the public of its violations, or of the existence of a public trust. A corporation that pollutes the river or pollutes the air is still a corporation.
The real question is how did they get their hands on the water in the first place? If they had permission, like they should, then they have no public duty to tell anyone about it. If they had no permission, they could
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The same thing happened to me today. I was running my car in my driveway, and then I went upstairs and was coming back downstairs and that's when it happened. I could not believe it. I did not know if I had an aneurysm, a brain tumor, or whatever. It was the scariest moment of my life."
Dawkins went on to say that the "horror of it was like it was out of a horror movie." He asked me to
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The most important event of the last five years, by far, was the 1999-2000 season.
Before that, in terms of importance, there was 2002-2003, where the teams had to play two long-time rivals against each other in the final games of the season. Then there was 2004-2005, where the two biggest rivalries were ended by two games in which no one
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Theoretic 11 (Minkowski’s Theorem). Let $$\{x_k\}_{k=0}^{\infty}$$ be a sequence in $$\ell^p$$ for some $$1\leq p<\infty$$, and let $$\{\xi_{k}\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$$ be a null sequence in $$\ell^1$$. Then $$\{x_k\}_{k=0}^{\
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The first step in any kind of action, is to gather the information required to solve the problem. This may seem like a no-brainer, but in reality it’s one of the most difficult things to do because people don’t always know what the problem is or how to define it.
In order to gather the information, an individual must first define the problem. After this is done, they can go about gathering the information that is needed to solve the problem. The steps for this
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The most effective way to ensure that your body remains well hydrated is to simply drink water. You may choose to add some flavor to your water to improve the taste for you. A simple way to add flavor is to pour a small amount of fruit juice into your glass of water. For added flavor, try some mint or peppermint leaves.
You should always drink plenty of water. This is especially important if you exercise or live in a hot climate. When you are thirsty, try to drink a
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The two men spent the whole afternoon together, and though they made but a very poor show
of it, there was much talking and laughing and eating and drinking and kissing.
At the end of the hour, in the last room, at the end of the corridor, in front
of the two windows which looked out upon the gardens, there was no longer any
question of their not being lovers.
The following morning they were in the same boat, and in the same place, but
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The study’s findings are published in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The discovery suggests that the use of the human brain to think about what someone else is thinking is not a recent innovation, and probably developed early in our evolutionary history.
Humans can imagine what others are thinking, but most other animals cannot. In a series of experiments with capuchin monkeys, for instance, researchers showed that these highly social creatures do not think about what others are thinking
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The people of the land also made a vow to the people of the land to give them the land of Egypt for a possession. At the suggestion of the people of the land, the princes of the assembly and the elders of the congregation took an oath, saying, ‘The LORD has fulfilled His promise to make you as numerous as the stars of heaven. May you live according to all the goodness and prosperity that He has promised you.’" (verse 24)
When Moses went back to the
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The number of people in the world affected by tuberculosis, and the people in need of assistance and support.
The number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2006.
This figure has increased by 50% since 1995, but still has not been reduced to 1/4 the level of 1950
The number of people with tuberculosis in 2006 and their annual rates of progress against tuberculosis.
The number of people affected by
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The 442nd was the most highly decorated unit of its size in U.S. military history. On its own, it racked up 8,000 enemy combat kills (more than any other American unit) and suffered 941 casualties (again, more than any other American unit).
The unit was also racially diverse. Some 1,000 African Americans who had been segregated in the Army were sent to the unit in World War II because of
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The second part of this article will focus on the first step towards a new business: business planning and startup planning. The third part of this series of articles will focus on the financing, marketing, and other financial aspects of a new business.
Business Planning
The planning phase is divided into the following steps:
1. Form a business team
2. Define the business concept
3. Create a business plan
4. Raise capital
5. Acquire resources and equipment
In
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The reason why the new
President-elect was not a Republican was because he had not had
sufficient time to become one. He was one before he was President; he
was a Republican while he was Senator and Speaker; he was a Republican
during his whole term as Governor of the State; but he was a Democrat in
his election to the Presidency."
"Well, what about it?" demanded Frank.
"That's one of the problems of our time. We have
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The other side of the coin is that the price of oil is likely to go much higher. The price of oil is likely to increase because the supply will decrease.
Why is the price of oil going down?
The reason why the price of oil is going down is because of the fact that oil is not really profitable anymore for some oil companies. When a company does not have any money left, they are not able to afford to drill new wells and buy more equipment to pump oil.
What
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The idea is to take the two numbers (say a and b), and create a new list such that the sum of all the elements of this list is equal to the sum of all the elements of the list a + b.
Input Format:
The first line contains an integer T, denoting the number of test cases.
The first line of each test case contains an integer, N, denoting the size of the array.
The second line of each test case contains N space-
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The one thing that makes the difference in the lives of all people everywhere is the grace of God.
The problem for mankind is that people either want to have no connection to God or they want to replace Him with a substitute of their own making (usually themselves). They either hate God or they love their own self. I believe that you can be a very sincere and good person who wants to please God and not worship Him as Lord of your life, but that person is on a path to self
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The first person to ever write the word 'fantasy' was not someone looking to find a place to live. Nor was it someone who was trying to make a buck, or even a whole boatload of bucks. It was a mere 15-word advertisement for an upcoming play that, as far as we can tell, never even occurred. The advertisement was found in a book from 1861, but the book was a 1914 publication that copied the advertising
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The
greatest of all, the battle that follows in the morning; nor did I
fear the coming of that day more than you."
"Oh, sir!" said Lady Elizabeth, with a deep sigh, "you are all that
gives me life. You are all I have to hope from, and all I know in the
world. Oh, sir, sir! I fear that day more than anything I have
ever thought of in my life, and yet,
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The main idea is that, if you want to have a single set of coordinates, it is sufficient to put an order on the set of equivalence classes.
Here is the proof of the above remark:
Lemma 1: Let $x$ and $y$ be two elements of a partially ordered set $S$. Let $x \sim y$ if and only if $y \sim x$. Then $x \sim y$ implies that there is a total ordering on
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The above is my first attempt at making my own computer. It is essentially a Commodore Vic-20 running on an Intel 8088 CPU running CP/M 2.2.0. It does not have a monitor of any kind, and the BIOS is still a work in progress. The whole project will be written in assembly, and as such is incredibly slow (about 4 Kbps on 110VAC AC). The project is named ‘vobom
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control is currently developing a plan for a nuclear weapons research and development program and program policy (NRDPP). In this paper, the Committee on Science, Space, and Defense (COSD) has provided advice to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control to help inform and shape the
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The American people will find out what a big difference there is between a government that respects the Constitution and one that does not.
If the U.S. Senate cannot vote on nominees because of filibustering, then they don't deserve to be there.
As for the comments that the U.S. Senate is a democratic body, I disagree. The U.S. Constitution is written by the Framers, who were men of the highest reputation and intelligence, and they are
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The most important effect of this is that the temperature of a star is affected by its radius, its luminosity, and its age. A star is hotter the smaller its radius, the brighter it is, and the younger it is. This is because the surface area of a sphere increases as the square of the radius, whereas the volume increases as the cube of the radius. This leads to the well-known relationship between the luminosity and temperature of stars, described by the Stefan-Boltzmann law,
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The Greatest Man
in history
I am convinced that Jesus Christ is the greatest man who ever lived. I believe that he is the greatest man that ever lived, because he had more power, more influence, more control over the world, more control over the universe, more of everything than anyone else ever did.
If you read the accounts, you'll see that he made people walk on water, make clay people come to life, bring the dead back to life, change water to
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The
Cock.
Methought it was a very odd thing
To find a man in the place of a woman.
A woman in the place of a man,
Is a thing almost as odd.
A woman in the place of a man,
Is a thing most very odd.
The Cock.
And I thought it a very odd thing
To find a woman in the place of a man.
The
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The same is true if the data is a sequence of samples from a Poisson distribution.
• If you think of the data in terms of a probability distribution, then the data is a (possibly infinite) sum of random variables whose distribution is a Poisson distribution.
The variance of the distribution is equal to the mean of the distribution. The sum of a bunch of random variables with Poisson distributions (with the same mean) has a Poisson distribution with the same mean.
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The "Nigerian" version of the tale is one of those African-centric urban myths that are so prevalent in African folklore: it says that a man who was unable to provide for his family was blessed with a miraculous child, who became the richest man in the world. There are many variations of this story, including one where the woman becomes rich when she gives birth to a baby girl, and another where a man has to sell his house and car to purchase goods to feed his starving family.
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Theorem4:
x1x2x3⊕x1x2x3
Proof:
From the definitions of the XOR function (Equation 5), the result can be expressed in terms of the XOR of a pair of the inputs as follows:
x1x2x3⊕x1x2x3 = x1x2x3 + x1x2x3
To simplify the equations, add the
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The world is a stage, and all the men and women on it are performers. Some are so good at playing the parts that they can be recognised by their performances, but for the most part no one notices them until they fail to fulfil their role. The same is true of us. We are actors in this play called life, and we are judged by our performances and not by our ability to hide our true nature.
For the most part we perform without any real awareness of our true selves
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The new model is not simply a refinement of previous approaches, but a completely new way of thinking about the data.
"The conventional view of data-driven learning is that the student must be aware of the data and make a conscious effort to interpret it in terms of prior knowledge," said the lead author, Michael McDaniel, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Emory.
"Our model is that the data alone, without prior knowledge, can form a basis for a model of the student's knowledge
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The United States, in 1865, did not have the resources of a giant, imperialistic country like Britain. This was the year that the U.S. government, in the midst of the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed four million slaves and abolished slavery in the U.S. The U.S. government in 1865 had to face its own economic crisis, but the country had to build a huge railway network at that time. The railway
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The most common forms of the disease are those affecting the thyroid, adrenal and pituitary glands.
Cushing's syndrome: a disease in which the body is overproducing the stress hormone cortisol.
Diabetes mellitus: a disease in which the body is overproducing insulin.
Granulomatous Addison's disease: an unusual form of the disease in which the body makes antibodies that destroy the adrenal glands.
Hypothyroidism: a disease in which the body is
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The same process could be applied to the three dimensions of the system of coordinates. In this system of coordinates, the velocity of the first body, whose motion is to be determined, is directed at an angle of 30° to the line of action of the force applied to the second body.
1. Calculate the moment of the force applied to the second body, about the origin of coordinates. 2. Calculate the moment of the force applied to the first body, about the origin of coordinates
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The most recent survey of adult literacy in the United States was completed in 2003. It found that 26% of U.S. adults have a high school education, 52% have completed 8th grade, 13% have completed high school, 6% have a high school diploma, 7% have a GED, and 10% have not completed high school.
The same survey found that 43% of adults have at
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that in 2021 the total U.S. coal production would be 1.12 billion short tons, 30 percent less than in 2020. That amount is 40 percent below the 2019 estimate of 1.67 billion short tons. The 2021 production, which is still very much a forecast, would break the 1.21
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The 1965 election was a foregone conclusion. Kennedy had won the Democratic nomination, Johnson was his vice president, and LBJ promised to get the Civil Rights Act passed, which Kennedy had been unable to accomplish.
At the time, many Southern Democrats were uncomfortable with the idea of the government passing civil rights laws, even with the President of the United States behind them.
This was just one more hurdle for Johnson, but he knew what needed to be done. When the bill was
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The more you use it, the stronger your muscles will become.
But don't worry if you have never used a leg press machine before. This article will show you how to do it correctly, so that you can get the best results possible.
Leg Press Machine - Exercise for Beginners
The leg press machine is one of the most popular exercise machines in gyms across the world. It is an excellent choice if you are just starting out on your fitness journey.
The leg
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The following is the complete transcript of a press conference held yesterday at the House Armed Services Committee by Gen. Peter L. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, about the Army’s review of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns and the conditions and the future prospects of Army leadership.
The transcript is below.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to start today by thanking the chairman for allowing this meeting to occur at the Armed Services Committee and
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The people who are with you are more than they who are
against you;--and then the time will come that I will take care of
you."
"That will be good news," said she, smiling, "because it will be so
pleasant, for I am afraid to leave you alone."
"I have no fear of you, and if you feel a little timid about going
yourself you need not be afraid if you stay."
"You are
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The number of 1s in the binary expansion of the number is 3 in this case
### Question 2: Find the count of 1s in the binary expansion of the number
(a)
Here the binary expansion of the number is 100
Hence, the number of 1s in the binary expansion of the number is 1 in this case
(b)
Here the binary expansion of the number is 111
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The same man has told me how at a great dinner he
was in the company of a very distinguished personage who told him that
he believed he had invented the telephone, and that, though he had
applied for a patent, he had been induced by a friend to abandon the
project. In reply, he said: "You may consider it as one of the greatest
of your discoveries." The same man tells me that the idea of the
telephone came to him as he rode
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Theorem 29.6
Given
• the set of all the functions $f : S \rightarrow T$
• and the notion of a homomorphism from $f$ to $g$
• and two functions in $f$
• there exists a bijective function from $S$ to $T$
$f \circ f'= g \circ g'$
• $g^{-1}$ maps every
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The new law in California has the following provisions:
1. All minors, regardless of status, must now provide their names and contact information to the school administration. They must also be allowed to have the right to see their education records upon request.
According to the law, the school administration will be given the following rights to access student’s personal information:
• The right to know the student’s name, address, home phone number, social security number, email address, and school
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The 2018 U.S. Census will be released in March 2020, and the official results won't be released until August 2020. But Census data is released in waves, starting with states and territories and then moving on to counties, cities, and neighborhoods.
Census data comes in a variety of forms, but the most common way to use census data is through American Community Survey data.
What is American Community Survey (ACS)
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The idea of the project came about in part because of a conversation I overheard between a few friends in a coffee shop last summer. A man was complaining about a guy who used to work at a restaurant, who had just gotten promoted to manager, and wasn’t putting in a full day’s work. The manager was apparently not holding himself to the same standard of excellence he expected of his employees. It sounded like that guy was a jackass. And yet, I still had a feeling that some
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The next morning was the 6th of June; and at a quarter before nine o'clock
the guard were set out on their way to St. Jean d'Angely, to the barracks
of the 14th battalion, where they were to take up their quarters for the
night.
A few words about the soldiers of this battalion may not be uninteresting.
In the early times of the war, we were accustomed to receive our
comrades from all quarters
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The United States Army will not be the only service with a big fight going on, just as the United States Navy and Marine Corps will be at it, too. The Marine Corps is working on some new concepts for amphibious warfare, and you can bet your last dollar that they won't be doing it without the support of their Army brethren.
Another thing I found interesting was the lack of space devoted to China. The PLA hasn't even been mentioned once in this book. Why, I
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The answer to this problem is not to increase the speed of the aircraft, nor to replace it with something faster. The answer is to do things differently.
Now, I know how that sounds to most of you. I am well aware that my response will be to tell me to go build a rocket and get on with it. As much as I have tried to answer this question before, the problem is that you don’t have an answer unless you understand the problem. To quote the great
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The following is a list of all the 694 (288) permutations of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 that add to 999.
(1) 2221111
(2) 3132211
(3) 3212321
(4) 3311321
(5) 3
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The United States is a land of law. It is a land of laws. The
American people are a people of laws. And the American government is
founded on laws. They are very simple, but they are very strong. And
every citizen of the United States knows them by heart. They are made by
the Congress, they are obeyed by the President, they are enforced by
the Courts, and they are observed by the people of the United States,
so that no citizen
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The main problem with this, of course, is the fact that the new version of the game is still in the works. There's no guarantee, for instance, that it will ever be finished in time to compete with the new iPhone-compatible version.
There's also the fact that the game, as it exists now, is basically a one-trick pony. You can't really play it in any interesting ways except as a kind of mobile version of the original board game. The iPad
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The last part of this chapter is really for people who think of themselves as being in the same situation as the authors of the article. I don't think it's a good idea to compare yourself to people who have had a "happy" marriage (whatever that means) and a family that you are happy with. They will always have an advantage over you. But this part is for you:
I can say this now, because I am not in that situation.
I have heard
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The problem with the old-school, pre-9-11 “we will fight them over there so they won’t come to America” theory is that it never really worked. The “terrorist threat” has only grown, and the most recent terrorist attack, an undercover sting in Minnesota, shows that the authorities are actually very successful in recruiting terrorist, they just don’t actually have to attack a US city to recruit people. If anything, having a terrorist attack in a
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The
tongue may have been the only instrument of the writer. A little later
on, he tells us that he had a great love for his books, and that he
always sat down, in the evening, with his eyes fixed on the page, and
his mind in the thought of the ideas and emotions which it suggested.
But, alas! there was no help for it. He had no choice but to give way
to the cravings of the moment. The result
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The new school building will feature a $100,000 state-of-the-art audio-visual system, the result of the efforts of the school board and several members of the board's finance subcommittee, who are charged with raising the $100,000 in federal and state grants.
"One of the problems with our old school is that it's old," said board member Donna Lacey. "We don't have any money to
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The name is derived from the Ancient Greek "Bagiolo", which means a large and
valuable bird. It was the national bird of ancient Greece, and also the
emblem of the Greek goddess Athena. According to the myth, Athena
transformed her favourite doves into eagles, to protect them and to
ensure that they would never be captured by Hera, Athena's jealous and
rival sister.
The species is called "Peregrine" (meaning
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The 3% Solution
The 3% Solution
by Michael Vlachos
Chapter 1
"When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you should do is stop digging."
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The 12th amendment to the US constitution was passed by congress on December 3, 1803. The bill proposed by the 8th congress, and approved by the senate on December 29, 1803, was signed by Thomas Jefferson, on January 18, 1804, at 1:00 p.m. on April 1, 1804.
The amendment is also
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The idea that I am a mere puppet, a marionette of my genes, or a machine driven by my DNA, is both comforting and terrifying.
At the same time, the idea that I have a “master plan” with a set destination is not at all comforting.
If this life were to be the end of my existence, and there were no more of me to worry about, would I be happy?
The other problem with this idea is that if I
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The first thing that needs to be understood is that “The Old Testament is the word of God” is a statement that is meant to be understood as the full and complete word of God, and not as a statement in a vacuum. “The Old Testament is the word of God” is a statement that requires further definition to understand. For example, the phrase “the Bible” is understood as a book, and if I were to say “The Bible is the word of God”
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The 17th century was a period of great expansion and change for the European
world, as the continent's great powers extended their spheres of
influence. By 1700 the Dutch were already the most powerful sea-going
nation in the world; the Spanish had lost the Americas to the
English, Dutch, and French; the Portuguese had lost their Indian empire
to the English, Dutch, and French; and the French had built their own
empire in North
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The one thing I have learnt from the experience, is that if you give your child the chance to choose a treat, for example, a chocolate biscuit, it is more likely to get eaten, than if you make a ‘treat’. Children are also much more likely to choose healthy, organic options if they have been involved in the process of growing, preparing and choosing.
If you give them the chance to decide what’s on the menu, they are more likely to eat and enjoy their meal
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The best way to make money from a stock is to buy low and sell high. This may seem obvious, but there are a couple of pitfalls to watch out for. The first is that a stock may keep falling, but then suddenly shoot up a few days later. This might seem like a great opportunity to sell, but the stock may fall again soon. The second pitfall is to buy the stock when it is at an all-time high. This means that the stock is near its all-
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The second thing to recognize, because it's not mentioned in this story, is that while the state budget for 2018-19 was $28.4 billion, that's a 2% decrease in real terms over the last five years, and $600 million below the $35.4 billion state budget of 2013-14, when Obama was still president and the economy was in a recovery phase.
The fact is that New
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The "pink" was a very different bird, of which we still possess
specimens; it has a red head, throat, and under surface, with black
back and shoulders, barred with white; the bill is short, conical, and
bluish black; the legs and feet are light brown.
The species now known under the name of _P. phaeton_ was known as long
ago as 1742, in the collection of the Dutch
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The only way for a person to really do that, in a real sense, is to become the person who has the capacity to love. When a person truly is love, the rest comes by default. We can't do anything to make God love us, but we can make ourselves to be what love is.
So this story isn't so much a story of the incarnation, it's a story of how God is going to show up in our midst, in our lives, and what's
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The first is to look at the specific needs of the audience. If they’re children, then they need lots of pictures with easy-to-read words, while teens might want to hear a more mature voice. If the audience is diverse, then make sure you cater to their individual needs and preferences.
Another tip is to use voice-overs for video. This is a great way to get your message across to your audience in a fun and engaging way.
Finally, consider using
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The only people left to take the place of the dead were the children, those with a chance of survival and the aged.
The children would be sacrificed for the good of the tribe, the aged would be sacrificed for the good of the tribe and the good of the planet and the good of the universe.
If you still felt you had a purpose, if you still had something to give then there were the children, their innocence and purity being the only thing worth saving.
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The next stage was to move to another part of the city and start a new life.
He was 18 when he married a local girl, Leah, and moved to a different neighbourhood.
Their first child, John, was born in 1965.
The second child, Charles, was born in 1968.
In 1966, the couple decided to move out of their apartment because Leah had been told that
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The last thing I wanted was for anyone to see what I was wearing."
"But your parents did see you."
"They saw me after I was out of costume. They don't know that I wear this."
"But you have to tell me."
"Why? It's not going to change anything."
"Yes, it will change something. You're going to tell me who you are and why you're here."
"How am I
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The last 40 years
If you go back to 1978, you would have seen a different picture. In those days, about half of all new jobs were in manufacturing. In 2009, only 11% of new jobs were in manufacturing, and they paid 25% less.
That is a trend, and it is not all that surprising. In 1960, the average U.S. worker earned 2
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The following is a brief history of the 357 magnum, written by the author of the current owner's manual, a retired FBI agent who still has his head on straight. The 357 magnum was developed in 1932 and produced as a standard pistol for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). The idea was to have a pistol that would not jam in the field. The idea proved to be very successful. The first 35
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The idea that the earth is flat is one that is difficult to explain, at least in a single simple phrase.
There are many more explanations for why the Earth is not a flat surface. However, the most common one is the fact that the Earth is a sphere.
If you’re looking for a simpler explanation of why the Earth is a sphere, we’re here to help. The reason why the Earth is flat is that it’s not flat.
How can
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