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Why you need to listen to customers
Four in five Australian contact centres use customer feedback programs, but less than a third pay any attention to it.
Latest research by Australian customer experience research and management consultancy Fifth Quadrant found that 78 percent of Australian contact centres use customer... | <urn:uuid:8e286f37-b40b-4c7a-b77c-1f651d1723f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dynamicbusiness.com.au/news/why-you-need-to-listen-to-customers-07032013.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942137 | 502 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Statistics is the science and practice of developing humanknowledge through the use of empirical data. It is based soundly on statistical theory which is a branch of applied mathematics. Within statistical theory, randomness and uncertainty are modelled by probability theory. Statistical practice includes the planning,... | <urn:uuid:d3eea198-e031-4742-a89f-8f8057d4548f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allwebhunt.com/dir-wiki.cfm/Statistics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963617 | 628 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Healthy choices before and during pregnancy and in the early months of a baby’s life help children grow and develop normally.
- Women who are pregnant or could become pregnant can help prevent birth defects by eating a healthy diet, avoiding alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug use, taking a multi-vitamin containing folic... | <urn:uuid:da41767e-1e17-45a6-a7bb-66628440eef6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.mo.gov/living/families/babies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956479 | 180 | 3.4375 | 3 |
ZunaVision last week announced it had raised an undisclosed amount of angel funding from Stanford professor David Cheriton, the billionaire who is credited with introducing Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to the VCs at Kleiner Perkins – the rest, as they say, is history.
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Human trafficking is taking place in South SudanListen /
Human trafficking, says the United Nations, is the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.
Human trafficking is taking place in one of the world's newest nations, South Sudan.
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The charge of the alternative gadget chargers
Hydrogen and Wi-Fi used to power tech
CES 2010 Multipurpose gadget power packs provided some welcome light relief at this year's CES. Let's take a look at some of the contenders, real and possibly imaginary.
Horizon's Hydrofill converts water into hydrogen
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BEIJING, CHINA — China has reached a deal with the United States to improve import safeguards, after tainted wheat-gluten from the country
spurred the largest pet-food recall in U.S. history.
The agreement, made during a series of talks, aims to increase U.S. exports to China and "enhance the safety of scores of
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AN IDEA BLOOMS
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
For The Birmingham News
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In-person absentee voting begins Monday
Image by Courtesy of John de Rosier; MGN Online
MADISON- In-person absentee voting has begun for Wisconsin's primary, now just a little more than two weeks away.
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January 21, 2013
Who Says There's No Good News?
Earth is constantly crashing through huge walls of dark matter, and we already have the tools to detect them. That's the conclusion of physicists who say the universe may be filled with a patchwork quilt of force fields created shortly after the big bang.
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American Library Association
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Severe wildfires can create clouds of smoke so thick that they are hard to see through even with satellite sensors. That’s the kind of visibility problem that residents of Salmon, Idaho, and other towns faced in the summer of 2012 while living downwind of the large Mustang Complex fire in Salmon-Challis and Bitterroot ... | <urn:uuid:05c9bf17-2bb7-474b-9c8e-dc765ca4e6ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79233 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932451 | 451 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Not sure if I posted this essay before, but it was written back in 2001 concerning Episode I. I thought it was interesting when I read it because it seems to anticipate Traitor and The Unifying Force:
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The sun-ravaged face of a trucker, who spent a career with one half of his visage directly exposed to the sun's rays, has drastically illustrated the ageing effects of UV exposure.
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Why Comrades Is the Greatest
A history of breaking barriers at South Africa's fabled ultra
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Women with multiple sclerosis who breastfeed exclusively for at least two months appear less likely to experience a relapse within a year after their baby's birth, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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THE LIBRARY L
Published monthly from October to June
Hamilton Smith Library, of the Unive
of New Hampshire f
Entered as second-class matter October 10, 1927, at the post office at Durham. New Hampshire.
under the act of August 24, 1912
Vol. Io DECEMBER, 1934 No. 3
RUSSIA'S IRON AGE, by WVilliam Henry Chamberlin.
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BLUE EARTH - A lot of kids need a caring adult to help them navigate growing up, says Katy Gonzalez, coordinator of Blue Earth Area Mentors (BEAM).
If anyone is interested, there's no better time than January, which is National Mentor Month.
The non-profit BEAM matches adult mentors with at-risk youth.
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By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
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The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a microscope, telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.
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Dead birds on display at the ROM
TORONTO - The bodies of about 2,400 birds that died in collisions with buildings while trying to navigate through Toronto's skyline were on display at the Royal Ontario Museum today.
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Helping people with computers... one answer at a time.
Hard drives are built to expect a certain amount of use. Drives do wear out, but a certain amount of normal use is to be expected.
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There are several organizations involved in the licensure of CPAs.
The State Boards of Accountancy
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The Green Doula’s 10 Childbirth Preparation Tips
Posted By Danelle Brown On February 13, 2009 @ 8:00 am In education,green maternity,prenatal | 7 Comments
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Hercules Clusters II
In our region of the galaxy, stars have lots of elbow room -- our nearest neighbor is four light-years away. But there are other neighborhoods in which the stars are separated by mere light-months or even -weeks. And they've been that way since close to the beginning of time.
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Tariq Bin Iftikhar MD
Berwyn , IL
Male - 44 Years Experience
Dr. Iftikhar specializes in the following:
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3 Tips for Nurses Wanting to Return to Work – 2/21/2013
February 21, 2013
Taking a leave for any reason during the course of your employment is inevitable. Whether it be due to childbirth, a bereavement or illness, it is often expected for nurses
to take small intervals of time away from the job
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DriveWise is holding our 2nd annual Road Ahead Public Service Announcement Contest to spread the word about safe driving and to do our part in helping to eliminate unnecessary risks while driving. The contest is open to Simcoe County High School Students aged 13 to 18.
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by Patrick Rosal
And so we’ve all been told to shutup (Don’t talk, they say,
too fast, too loud, or for too long. Don’t take too much time
trying to tell the truth). But this is my work,
to break out —in the presence of strangers— into laughter,
to watch small children, for example, fill with the lucky gust
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I saw this time of the year as a "teachable moment." Kindergarten students learned about the importance of staying healthy, washing their hands, covering their cough and getting enough rest! We had a whole class discussion about how to stay healthy and what germs look like. There are lots, and lots of different types o... | <urn:uuid:ee2fd6fe-5e69-4f19-82f3-7efdd7d07604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://anartteachersfairyteal.blogspot.com/2012/01/germs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983143 | 161 | 3.25 | 3 |
Modern Medicine has created separate diagnostic boxes to fit us and our children in, but there is an underlying condition or factor that makes people susceptible to them in the first place. This is always present in ‘conditions’ such as: Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, addiction and depression.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court ruled Wednesday that a 90-year-old Australian citizen cannot be extradited to Hungary to face accusations he tortured and killed a Jewish teenager during World War II.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
The real truth is, when it comes to the government there is no debt.
All we hear about is the debt, the mountain of debt. Debt, debt, debt...it never ends. My question is, what debt? What's the debt that everyone is talking about?
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UTSA alumnus produces films about African immigrant music in Texas
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I have a great deal of respect for Stephen Hawking, he is obviously a genius. But, I am not sure that means he is really that good at philosophy. There is a fascinating interview on the Guardian, but sadly I think people are going to use it as some sort of magic atheist stick to quote as a debate ender. But, like the f... | <urn:uuid:a200701e-9971-4c6a-8ec9-7a5c15dda9b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mrdumpling.easingthebadger.com/tag/science-stephen-hawking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96175 | 360 | 1.773438 | 2 |
With smartphones, iPads and other technological gadgets now part of everyday life, providing proof of car insurance is like a trip back to the 1950s.
Visit the department of motor vehicles or get stopped by a police officer and you'll probably fish a business-card-sized slip of paper out of the glove box -- that is, if... | <urn:uuid:7e41a493-7126-466f-9b5c-23c0aaedddb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.carinsurance.com/Articles/proof-of-insurance.aspx?WT.qs_osrc=fxb-165128710 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965832 | 1,072 | 1.601563 | 2 |
SCHERTZ -- The city of Schertz is taking preventative measures against the West Nile virus by dropping mosquito larvae-killing tablets in standing water, but some residents don't think that's enough.
Jennifer Bridges is one of those residents.
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By Dr. William Bosher, NBC12 Education Specialist
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Delegate Chris Peace recently introduced legislation - House Bill #1942 - that clarified how a school board may establish a single-sex class or school.
While flying through the House and Senate, this bill amended the code of Virginia to require sch... | <urn:uuid:198a6cb8-4bc9-46b9-837f-eb4c3ca05148> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nbc12.com/story/10074870/educational-editorial-rethinking-single-sex-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955077 | 453 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Science and Civilisation in China Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part II: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality
by Joseph Needham, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen
Cambridge University Press, 510 pp., $35.00
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In his book The Golden Censer: An Essay on Prayer (1859), Thomas Summers defined prayer as, "The offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, by the help of his Spirit, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of his mercies." Summers also offered the follow... | <urn:uuid:8be0768c-eeec-455d-b2dc-21e8a403a2fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fwponline.cc/v23n1/prayermissions_summers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951947 | 390 | 1.976563 | 2 |
North Dakota State Representative Dan Ruby stops by The Palin Radio Update with Kevin Scholla to discuss a measure that could effectively outlaw abortions! Ruby talks to Kevin about the specifics of the legislation as well as other bills that stand up for life. During her speech at the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network... | <urn:uuid:c01680c2-eaa8-46c0-9e2e-41f2c306d067> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sarahs-accomplishments.blogtownhall.com/page9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969717 | 1,426 | 1.554688 | 2 |
3:37 pm in Uncategorized by Don Mashak
As the reader looks upon the accompanying “Political Bell Curve” Chart one Political Demographic group stands out.
Based on its overwhelming proportion of the population this Demographic group represents, it logically should control the political agenda of our country… Please hold... | <urn:uuid:287d4722-cc1f-48b0-a620-9da44049441d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://my.firedoglake.com/donmashakthecynicalpatriot/tag/consideration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938179 | 1,540 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The most traditional of all high school sports discipline may not longer be allowed in the state of Iowa after the use of running laps for punishment by a head football coach was deemed to be akin to corporal punishment.
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Florida coast under storm watch
Tropical depression picking up steam
This satellite image shows the tropical depression at 11:45 p.m. ET Tuesday.
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Permalink for this paragraph 0 MKG: Do you think that the sorts of projects you’ve been working on, because they get away from the production-only, or read-only state of media, enable the kinds of change you’ve been discussing?
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Blogs and Social Media
Let me help you develop your social media strategy. I can get your blog up and running and write the content for your blog as well for your LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
Blogs have become the linchpin of many corporate social media programs — driving conversations on F... | <urn:uuid:93a9e1d8-7532-431e-8aad-4a8e547778d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://writespeaksell.com/business-writing/web-copy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950753 | 487 | 1.515625 | 2 |
59th General Assembly November 1987 Chicago, Illinois
BACKGROUND One Biblical word stands for three concepts. Tzedek speaks of social justice, charity and righteousness. Thus the personal, the philanthropic and the social are inextricably linked in the traditional.
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A large meta-study has concluded that homeopathy doesn't work any better than placebos. This surprises me a little. In my own experience, I've seen a case where homeopathy seemed to effect a dramatic cure. But I do feel that much of traditional medicine, East and West, is simply poor science mixed with snake-oil. I've ... | <urn:uuid:c96e692f-fba1-443d-bfa1-166fc1314828> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://swerveleft.blogspot.com/2005/08/homeopathy-bust.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980301 | 201 | 1.78125 | 2 |
As I sit and listen to the congressional debates regarding the repeal of Obamacare, I can’t help but wonder to myself, how did we get here? How did we get ourselves into a position in which Americans now believe that the Government is the answer to all our woes and in which we allow said government overarching control ... | <urn:uuid:0b172236-6e0d-4576-b22a-58caf1a2bfed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rednexrants.blogspot.jp/2011/01/no-one-to-blame-but-ourselves.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983078 | 1,986 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Here is something to consider…
There are many who believe that English-Language articles are somehow less important than Hawaiian-Language ones. We should not turn our noses up at any history passed down by those who lived it—in any language. Although it is important to take into account who wrote the information and u... | <urn:uuid:ca96e985-e55b-43f3-b3f3-e3e6688e49d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nupepa-hawaii.com/2012/06/20/english-language-newpapers-articles-less-important-that-hawaiian-language-articles-2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942127 | 167 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Air Masses The presence of downward circulating air masses, as in the tropical high pressure climatic zones located between 15° and 35° latitudes on both sides of the Equator, provides for very dry air masses at all times.
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What is in Alvidar?Alvidar's ingredient list sounds quite official and impressive, and includes a variety of names -- all in Latin, probably to make them sound more serious and so you won't recognize them by their more common names.
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The Role of the Client in Adult Guidance Research: An Irish Public Policy Issue
By Lucy Hearne
The recently published report Guidance for Life: An Integrated Framework for Lifelong Guidance in Ireland(NGF, 2007) sets out a vision for the future provision of guidance which is responsive to the needs of all Irish citizen... | <urn:uuid:738d41f2-3ad7-43b8-ba67-accd9abe4d20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/5497/_PARENT/layout_details_cc/false | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924567 | 1,187 | 1.6875 | 2 |
April 7, 2009
A rebel soldier spies on the Union camp as he gathers information about the number of troops, kinds of rifles and whether it looks like the enemy soldiers are preparing to attack. More than 3,000 spectators awaited the resulting battle.
Stories this photo appears in:
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David Brin has created some of the greatest classics of recent science fiction, including Startide Rising, plus the short stories “The Crystal Spheres” and “Thor Meets Captain America,” the latter of which was the basis of the graphic novel The Life Eaters. So Brin’s first novel in a decade is cause for celebration.
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Simpson, of Tupelo, spent years as what he calls a slave to crystal meth and the lifestyle that came with being a "meth head."
"I was strung out bad," said Simpson, who says he no longer uses the drug. "It's a powerful thing. Drugs, in my opinion, are the most powerful things on earth when it comes to controlling a per... | <urn:uuid:95a42093-1160-479f-88a2-a73f815a3a72> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://djournal.com/view/full_story/12731120/copyright_policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985029 | 1,645 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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From the Wires
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Faculty Member Receives $353,400 Grant for Leukemia Research
By: Marketwire .
Jan. 28, 2013 06:12 AM
COLCHESTER, VT -- (Marketwire) -- 01/28/13 -- Karen Glass, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at A... | <urn:uuid:1bbca315-c036-4960-98b1-09da99fbaf54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://br.sys-con.com/node/2525591 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910656 | 446 | 1.75 | 2 |
||Since Berkeley Lab launched one of the world's
first 250 Web sites in 1993, we have been intent on using the Web to close
the communication gap between scientists and the public. The
American public pays for the research at this national laboratory. Science Beat helps us tell you what
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"Physics, Math, English, History"
...Algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning the study of the rules of operations and relations, and the constructions and concepts arising from them, including terms, polynomials, equations and algebraic structures. Together with geometry
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Race against time to develop new antibiotics
The second part of a series of three news features on antimicrobial resistance looks at how the antibiotics pipeline is drying up while resistance to existing drugs is increasing. Theresa Braine reports.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:88–89. doi:10.2471/BL... | <urn:uuid:d6b691e7-9733-4d2a-89fb-f4408c9cbe12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/89/2/11-030211/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949089 | 1,882 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Mayan Chican Itza
The ancient Mayan civilization was indigenous to present day Central America and southern Mexico. Its chief city for nearly a millennium and a major Mayan archeological site is located on the Yucatan Peninsula--it is Chichen Itza.Length 3:38
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12:02 AM CST, December 6, 2012
In 1977, South Dakota’s prison population was 546. In 34 years, it has increased more than six-fold to 3,600 inmates. Our incarceration rate is the highest in a six-state area.
Does this mean that we have more crime than other states? Not by a long shot. What it means is that we need to r... | <urn:uuid:02d7f685-acd0-438c-9773-c480157a37b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aberdeennews.com/opinion/aan-in-our-opinion-its-time-for-south-dakota-to-reevaluate-its-incarceration-strategy-20121205,0,3849629,print.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945336 | 364 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Target stores have come up with an extremely clever way to advertise both the items they sell and the upcoming Avengers movie-they’ve put together household items sold in their stores to form iconic images based on The Avengers.
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FTA signs largest public works project in Minnesota history
Minnesotans will soon have the option of taking light rail transit along the 11-mile Central Corridor that links the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, one of the most heavily traveled corridors in the region, thanks to a $474 million funding agreement b... | <urn:uuid:2f8773fa-96c4-4f8a-a043-2ecf8a806afa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aggman.com/fta-signs-474-million-funding-agreement-largest-public-works-project-in-minnesota-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927513 | 552 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Heart of Detroit: Martha Goode
Former teacher goes beyond the classroom, into the lives of troubled teens
Martha Goode could have walked away.
As a retired teacher, she had already put in her time.
Instead, at age 50, she went beyond the classroom and into the lives of troubled teens at Alternatives for Girls.
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December 5th, 2011 — Uncategorized
Augustus Saint Gaudens was an American sculptor tasked with redesigning American coinage in the early 20th century. He was specifically chosen for the role by President Theodore Roosevelt, after he had executed an inaugural medal for the presidency. Although the sculptor could not com... | <urn:uuid:3c1ef31b-2951-404b-b011-b388d1afb768> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rockhillcommunications.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97353 | 1,930 | 2.875 | 3 |
Perpetual war, perpetual surveillance, scarcity of basic goods, censorship, lack of any real knowledge, lack of freedom of thought, degradation of human relationships. So which ones do we have? Anyone reading this on a tablet in a ski resort in Switzerland while drinking Irish coffee will obviously say none, just like ... | <urn:uuid:912035a6-1a08-4c70-a1fe-87cf38928604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thoughtsinperspective.com/2013/01/orwell-george-1984-utopian-dystopia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955858 | 1,249 | 1.710938 | 2 |
For a company whose motto is "Don't be evil", Google is beginning to sound more and more like a villain from a James Bond film.
Silicon Valley is alive with speculation about what is going on in the bowels of the company's futuristic and sprawling headquarters, Googleplex. According to local public records, Google is e... | <urn:uuid:99d41710-1a22-46ee-9025-fcf2ecc3c221> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenational.ae/business/industry-insights/technology/googles-latest-search-may-cause-it-to-stray | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963717 | 996 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Laser System Paints Information on the Road Ahead | Technology Review
Ever wondered if you could control your house’s climate, security, and appliances — along with your PCs and peripherals — using Microsoft software? That day may soon dawn, as its Research arm has started testing its home automation software, called H... | <urn:uuid:a7a677c2-f5ce-4ddf-9a28-2c6e15ccb266> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com/post/22133355484/laser-system-paints-information-on-the-road-ahead | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937597 | 187 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Neurology Interest Group
“The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells-called neurons-lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.” - William F. Allman
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This could be a stupid question, but I'm testing out some of my assumptions about Python and I'm confused as to why the following code snippet would not exit when called in the thread, but would exit when called in the main thread.
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The Service of Resurrection at Saint Luke Orthodox Cathedral in Hong Kong. Christ is Risen!
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|WILLI MAUL STORY|
I had always felt a strong presence of his spirit and truly believe that this spirit lead me to search, find and write about him. This is what I call ‘echoes’ from the past.
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February 8, 2011 – – The Health Department this week debuts the subway ad component of its latest HIV prevention campaign, “It’s Never Just HIV.” Reinforcing the campaign video spot released in December, the posters speak directly to those currently at greatest risk to become infected – men who have sex with men – in a... | <urn:uuid:cc39637e-ea30-48b1-81b4-418715d0540f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pr2011/pr002-11.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947931 | 1,186 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed on such interviews.
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The Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, Tuberculin Sensitivity Test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for Purified Protein Derivative) is a diagnostic tool for tuberculosis. It is one of the two major tuberculin skin tests used in the world, largely replacing multiple-puncture tests such as the Tine test. ... | <urn:uuid:e59a3226-a95d-4f8a-b81a-652da87fee2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Mantoux_test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928396 | 1,739 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Understanding the Different Modes/Styles of Learning
By Shari Harpaz, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
As adults, we all have various strengths and weaknesses. The same is true when it comes to styles of learning – there are some styles that are very effective for us and some that don’t work as well. Sometimes we l... | <urn:uuid:9b2ded29-1c3d-49cc-87b1-9e438d9dcdad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ebeanstalk.com/articles/learning-modes.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953657 | 883 | 3.875 | 4 |
She's right, there are some real beauties, even in, in some cases, their derelict state. But the worst part about admiring these old structures is that we know so little about the history of each.
In the 2011-12 edition of Maple Street Press' Toronto Maple Leafs Annual (available now across Canada) I had the opportunit... | <urn:uuid:50488a17-974b-4300-ac01-15997b4e2fce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/2011/10/grand-old-buildings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957231 | 382 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Students at Edna Karr High School in Algiers were "rewarded'' in a big way Wednesday when NFL legend Deion Sanders stopped by with words of encouragement and to cut the ribbon on a refurbished weight room. In a motivational speech that resonated with students and staff, Sanders stressed that education is the key to suc... | <urn:uuid:386b10de-8d51-4956-88dd-4b383423410c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2013/01/deion_sanders_cheers_on_edna_k.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98852 | 383 | 1.632813 | 2 |
For Immediate Release
April 3, 2012
Contacts: Nicky Everette, 301-405-6714 or firstname.lastname@example.org
UMD Students to Remember Trayvon Martin
Faculty, students, staff and the larger UMD community are invited to discuss the meaning of Trayvon Martin's killing and its aftermath. This forum will address what this t... | <urn:uuid:e8eee48d-61fb-4401-b15e-4cc676e6d5b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsdesk.umd.edu/engaged/release.cfm?ArticleID=2654 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903622 | 200 | 1.726563 | 2 |
A written statement is a legally binding agreement between employer and employee, which is formed when an employee agrees to work for an employer in return for pay. Employers are legally required to put some of the main particulars of employment in writing. It is not itself a contract of employment but is evidence of t... | <urn:uuid:37b8c443-0782-4833-9e58-685396c98c25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3251 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951357 | 515 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The downturn in the economy has driven more Pennsylvanians to enroll in Medicaid according to a report from the Pennsylvania Medicaid Policy Center at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
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INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
The University Language Academy for Children is also a training site for students in the Bachelors of Arts in Teaching foreign languages program, Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Curriculum and Instruction to carry out observations, experimentation, or fulfill aspects of their p... | <urn:uuid:ae930e22-6ee6-4d39-879a-ab693295d694> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.languageacademy.illinois.edu/researchers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908782 | 202 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Hoffman - They Were Slaves - The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America (1993) - Printable Version
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Conducting noise surveys in today's mobile work environment
The industrial environment has changed drastically in recent decades with an increased level of mechanization within the workplace. This has given rise to many changes to employees' work patterns and has added new challenges to conducting noise surveys. A prod... | <urn:uuid:58a49d0b-3164-4408-9894-1d133e61de19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.plantservices.com/whitepapers/2010/002.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944822 | 171 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Roget's Int'l Thesaurus
Fowler's King's English
The King James Bible
Brewer's Phrase & Fable
Frazer's Golden Bough
Shelf of Fiction
The Victorian Age, Part Two
The Growth of Journalism
The Stuarts and
The Morning Post
INDEX OF ALL CHAPTERS
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
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If you have insurance for your business (and I truly hope you do), sometimes it may seem as though you are paying an insurance firm an awful lot of money each year for nothing. If that thought has ever occurred to you, then you are fortunate enough to not have been forced to utilize the protection afforded by insurance... | <urn:uuid:7adc54fd-4650-40ea-8b4b-42f9c71c19ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petbusiness.com/articles/2011-05-31/Be-Sure-and-Insure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969214 | 882 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Does vampire fiction make teens more likely to commit evil crimes? Some seem to think so. Photo by Flickr user drurydrama (Len Radin).
Halloween is coming soon, and people are already seeking spooks.
Specifically, adults in religious communities around the world think they’re seeing monsters — in teenagers.
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Many of us who work at the NRC are scientists and engineers. So as with anyone who works in a specific field, we spend our time at work thinking and speaking in jargon. Even within the NRC, different program offices use different jargon – and we may sometimes not speak each other’s language. So it’s n o wonder we may s... | <urn:uuid:097c2817-4d61-4e48-a225-1ae58eaa8950> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://michelekearneynuclearwire.blogspot.com/2011/12/from-nrc-blog-near-term-task-force.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952804 | 221 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Mark Steyn nails it: we need to talk back, to show spine, to learn from the past. It may hurt, but that’s a lot less painful than encouraging aggression with the kind of imbecillic apologies that trip so readily off our lips. It’s definitely preferable to fighting a Jihad that, like WWII, will kill tens of millions… at... | <urn:uuid:3732c36b-38c3-41e2-b966-5ac6488b3ac6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/06/25/852/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966682 | 1,665 | 1.539063 | 2 |
One of the most popular and practical means to promote a certain product or service is through business printing. It can be an efficient way to tell people of who you are, what you do, and why they would want to do business with you.
Basically, the purpose of commercial printing is to impress and encourage as many pros... | <urn:uuid:e5e43368-e91f-43d0-a465-ee6dfff2366d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.leaderform.com/2012/04/things-you-need-to-know-about-business-printing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962032 | 648 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Gardening Articles: Care :: Soil, Water, & Fertilizer
Transplanting Eggplant, Peppers, and Okra
by National Gardening Association Editors
Transplanting is a major step that can make or break your crop. It doesn't have to be traumatic to you or your plants, however, if you've thoroughly prepared the soil, and hardened o... | <urn:uuid:c5a25785-5f2c-4fb3-bc6b-033c912000b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.garden.org/subchannels/care/soil?q=show&id=525 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926161 | 605 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Given how deeply businesses rely on their SAP systems, it’s simple to see that maximizing performance and uptime is critical. What’s not so simple is figuring out how to understand, let alone optimize, performance in these complex, dynamic, and interrelated ecosystems. This paper offers five best practices that can hel... | <urn:uuid:b01089a4-60ad-4ffd-9d9b-fe034a8e673b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.techworld.com.au/whitepaper/tag/administration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918513 | 381 | 1.578125 | 2 |
An unnamed Swiss woman in her early 50's has died after attempting to live on only rays of sunlight, starving herself in a concept also known as breatharianism.
According to Newspaper Tages Anzeiger, The woman whose name has not been released has died of starvation while attempting a radical way of living, after seeing... | <urn:uuid:53371ae6-9c11-4097-b1aa-bb5a513c2a5f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323750 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981503 | 219 | 2.03125 | 2 |
In an online conversation, an acquaintance who supports copyright asked a number of questions about how things would work in its absence. Obviously I’m not chair of the anti-copyright committee, but there are some possible answers. If you have a better one, please leave a comment!
Q. I don’t think anyone answered my qu... | <urn:uuid:ecbeb26f-ac32-4c80-957a-dc618e1c99e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hiresteve.com/category/free-culture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959028 | 887 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Translating the advances in cystic fibrosis (CF) gene-therapy research into the clinic hasn’t been successful. In fact, during the 21 years since the gene responsible for causing cystic fibrosis was discovered, and despite the early excitement about the possibilities of gene therapy, no gene therapy is even close to em... | <urn:uuid:2342d69d-4d48-4109-b2d4-1185fc7b62ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genengnews.com/gen-articles/team-cf-and-racing-on-the-road-for-a-cure/3401/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981894 | 599 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Last week I attended an incredibly intense conference in Lalandia, Denmark: Miracle Oracle Open World. According to Mogens Norgaard, the organizer, the conference devotes 80% of the time to intense discussions of Oracle databases and 80% of the time to drinking. During the festivities you get this dim mental image of w... | <urn:uuid:6b8c43db-ba7c-449a-9803-987a5f24beaf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scale-out-blog.blogspot.com/2008/10/simple-is-beautiful.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945455 | 495 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Thanks to the potential of the residential gateway, the home of the future is starting to take on Jetsonian proportions. Get ready, George and Astro, the future may not be very far away.
Serving as the "brains" of the "smart home," the residential gateway is being touted as a portal device that distributes and shares t... | <urn:uuid:9b6024f3-6ba7-4428-8564-7fe0809ad1cf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cedmagazine.com/articles/2000/07/welcome-to-the-'smart-house' | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961843 | 2,750 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Children collect cans, food for less fortunate
A group of local school children shared the spirit of giving with the less fortunate in their community.
Students at Helen Cordero Elementary School in southwest Albuquerque collected thousands of cans and dozens of boxes of food Monday.
Organizers said the effort was an o... | <urn:uuid:d846cd8b-8fba-4490-9b22-656c3f6ab5ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/Children-collect-cans-food-for-less-fortunate/-/9153728/17808378/-/view/print/-/13v1h7y/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965513 | 192 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Oil is well for Maine farmers growing canola
In the lush St. John River Valley, at the northern tip of Maine's Aroostook County, Rodney Chamberland has been working straight out plowing and planting over 100 acres of seed potatoes. The farm's potatoes come first.
Then, Chamberland plants rotation crops. One he's seedin... | <urn:uuid:346b9c69-9d1b-4e7a-84af-abd2a4980e32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2009/05/27/oil_is_well_for_maine_farmers_growing_canola/?camp=pm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961057 | 905 | 2.296875 | 2 |