Statistics deals with collecting, organizing, and interpreting numerical data. An important aspect of statistics is the analysis of population characteristics inferred from sampling.
U.S. Homeshool Statistics
The following statistics are from a report entitled Home Schooling in the United States 2003 by the National Center for Education Statistics:
In the spring of 2003, an estimated 1.1 million students nationwide were being homeschooled, an increase of 29% since 1999. Duri…
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Sorry for the typo in the last message, I was interrupted. What I meant to say was my other two kids will probably also graduate at 15 yrs old. They are currently 14 and 11 1/2 yrs old.
Yes,there is a great book on the statistics of homeschooling. It is called "Homeschooling: The Right Choice!" …
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My Tutor Source is one site where your child can get good
homeschooling through online tuition. It is affordable as well and
they have some real good quality teachers as I had my son take
Physics tuition from there for his As level exams and he did score
an A!
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What comparative statistics are out there regarding how home schoolers compare to non-homeschoolers?
I don't know if there are any valid statistics to answer your query. However, I was home schooled as were my brothers and I believe we have done very well. The three of us hold advanced degrees and are very active in our chosen community affairs. I don't believe it is an either/or situation. I beli…
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If you are trying to find the number for a gun you no longer have you will have to go back to the dealer who sold it to you, if the dealer is still in business. Dealer records are the only place serial numbers are recorded. If the dealer is out of business, his records may have been sent to the…
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I read this in a book titled something like "Personality Disorders in Modern Life" published by Wiley:
There are two factors that determine whether someone is cheating (i.e. whether someone is sexually promiscuous or sexually conservative). One is impulsiveness. In other words, lovers/spouses with …
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Check eBay and you should able to see a picture of one. I'm not a bodyman, but I believe a clip consists of the two front fenders, grill and hood.
A Front Clip consists of the complete body parts from the front: radiator support, front fenders, hood, and bumper, spoilers, lig…
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Assuming that you have an automatic transmission, this is a pretty involved process,so ask your self if it's worth the effort and expense.You need all the parts for a manual transmission swap. These would include, a manual transmission,a bell housing,a clutch and pressure plate,throwout bearing,anot…
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a rod doesn't go on the camshaft. Perhaps you have your terminology mixed up?
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Why would it disappear? I still have a pregnancy test from Nov of 2006 that still has the positive answer. Sounds like a doctor visit would be best.
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You can find it in a service manual. under the plastic engine cover is a small valve to release the pressure. It is a two brass screws one into the other. Then you open the radiator drain on the lower driver side part of the radiator. If you want it all out of the engine block then you go under the …
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I own a Western field 12 ga (serial no g613481) that I purchased from Montgomery Wards in 1973-4. I believe it was made by Mossberg because I have ordered a replacement stock and barrel for a Mossberg 500 that fit perfectly. Your serial no is higher, so I'm guessing it was manufactured at a later d…
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"PF" either stands for Personal Fouls or Power Forward. TO only stands for turnover.
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Football in other countries is what we here in the US call soccer. It has been around a lot longer and is played in just about every country in the world. American football, as sports go, is relatively new for one and considered sissy in a lot of other countries because of the pads for another. I a…
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Unlike popular American sports (i.e. football, baseball, basketball), most soccer leagues abroad have varying levels. For example, in England the top league is called the Premiership. As a result, teams that do poorly in a season, drop down to a lower division (or "get relegated") while te…
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Usually body checks that made an opposing player lose control of the puck
At the end of the 2002 season hits were no longer kept track of because it was too hard to judge exactly what one was. Unlike shot and saves, it is hard to train a stat keeper on what one is.
I don't know where t…
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The odds of course depend on what par is for the hole, and the
skill level of the golfer (pro or not). As an example, the odds of
making a 2 on a par 5, which is called an "albatross" are estimated
at 6,000,000 to 1 by Golf Digest, and a 1,000,000 to 1 for golf
pros. Back to back 2's, on back to bac…
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HandicapYour handicap would be 8
No, it definitely would not be an 8. First of all, yes, you can extrapolate a standard handicap from play on an executive course. The formula for calculating an exact handicap is a bit complicated, involving both the rating and slope of the courses played. H…
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In 1856 the Chicago City Council ordered that all street grades be raised to insure proper sewage drainage. By lifting the street levels four to seven feet – even twelve feet – sewers could be designed to flow and empty into the Chicago River. The Chicago River was dredged to…
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Chicago Department of Aviation Police Chicago Housing Authority Police Department Chicago Park District Police Department Lincoln Park District Police Department Morgan Park Police Department South Park District Police Department West Park District Police Departmenthttp://odmp.org/agency.php?agencyi…
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This is most likely a previous owner's code. Could be an inventory ID, an abbreviation telling him where he got it, the price he paid or value he assigned. It is not a standard numismatic term.
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When insurance for the car, costs more than the car is worth.
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Well, anonymous is definitely right. If it has reached that point, you probably need to buy a car that's worth insuring. I'd suggest that you drop the C&C when you feel that you could comfortably afford …
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In Arizona we have approximately 615,000 swimming pools.
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It depends on what team you are looking for. You can go to ncaa.com or go to the teams site.
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More than 27,000 Canadians fought in the Korean War, and 516 Canadians lost their lives. All together 26,791 Canadians served in the Korean War, with 1,558 casualties. 516 Canadian's are listed in the Korea Book of Remembrance for their sacrifice. A complete history of Canadian Forces in the Korean…
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Your high water table can effect any swimming pool type. You do have a couple of things going for you there in Florida. First there are alot of professional pool builders available to you. Be sure to get one with a license and insurance to cover all liabilities. Get references of experience with you…
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The forms you need are forms that i have or you can get them on each credit bureau's website.
the thing about it you would have to send Verizon the form but they would not send it into the bureaus for you. at least to my knowledge, please email me otherwise or if you have any…
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In Irish póg means "kiss".
The Irish band The Pogues used to be called Póg Mo Thóin
(pronounced Pogue Ma Hone) which means "Kiss my butt," until people
started to find out what the name means. Soon after, they shortened
their name to The Pogues.
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Hard to believe - but not really! All the data available is - perhaps intentionally anecdotal.
TherapyIt is commonly agreed upon that therapy is the only way that an abuser will change his ways. While an abuser may stop one kind of abuse, it is usually then replaced by another kind of abuse (…
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The number of advocacy groups which deal with intimate partner
violence increased - even as the rates of such abuse HALVED!
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Abuse is quite polymorphic, in that, it can assume many different forms depending on the circumstances, the cultural background, the history, and ofcourse, the individual quirks of the abuser. The bottom line in an abusive relationship is that the abuser says things that make the victim uncomfortabl…
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Go to: groups.msn.com/Npartners -or - verbalabuse.com
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Participate in discussions about Abusive Relationships - click on these links:
http://www.suite101.com/discussions.cfm/npd
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I will never say anything is impossible. I will say...most people don't change too easily. Abuse of a spouse is a power thing...and the desire for the same level of power will always be there. Once someone has crossed the boundaries into the disrespect it takes to abuse someone else...it's very hard…
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It depends where you live. I live in Canada and volunteer for the Abused Women's Centre. There are far more women abused than men, but, there are men also that are abused.
Men are more often unwilling to come forward on abuse issues directed at them because they fear no one will believe them, well …
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A "daemon" is a general English term for a process that is meant to
run forever in the background, without access to a display
terminal. Threads are subcomponents of processes. It is not
possible to run as an isolated "thread". Every process contains at
least one thread, but can contain more if prog…
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It means just what it says: something was wrong and needs to be corrected. Often it is a piece of code that doesn't do exactly what was intended and sometimes it is data that was entered incorrectly. For an example, if a program included the statement "divide A by B giving C…
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open the MMC and add the group policy snap-in. Under Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->System-->Logon, change "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to ENABLED.
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1.type checking in const that is not a part of #define. 2.scope 3.debugging is possible with const.
const variable can be localized whereas #define variable cannot be done so.
#define simply replaces whatever you have defined by the text you want it to replace. const variable's value …
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Bolus chase - is a set amount of medicine that is immediately and
completely delivered. Unlike an I.V. drip which is administered
over a set period of time. This is what I found when I looked it up
on the Internet.
A single dose of drug usually injected into a blood vessel over a
short period of t…
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There are countless numbers of IQ tests available, with varying amounts of validity. The main ones in use, however, include: WISC-IV (children) WAIS-III (by far the most commonly used) Stanford-Binet-IV RIAS UNIT WASI Woodcock-Johnson-R WPPSI (young children) KBIT DAS (children) These differ in th…
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A Spade, as in a deck of cards, represents the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
A quick Google search on the subject reveals a site that tells about the use of the ace of spades in Vietnam. Apparently in fortune telling, the spa…
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Worlds Largest DamsDo you mean in terms of dimensions or perhaps just height? or water held or power generated?Itaipu Dam on the border of Brazil and Paraguay is the biggest dam in the world right now and has the largest power generators.The largest complete structure is the Syncrude Tailings in Can…
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When the new Republic of Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918, it included an area shaped like a horseshoe around Bohemia and Moravia, with a large number of German speaking inhabitants. This area was known as Sudertenland.
This German speaking Sudetenland minoirty was used as an excuse by…
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Kamikaze (from Kami - "god" and kaze - "wind") means 'divine wind' in Japanese.The original reference was to a timely typhoon which saved Japan from a Mongol invasion fleet in 1281.By extension, the idea in the latter part of WW2 was of a force which would drive away or destroy the encroaching enemy…
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SEABEE is slang for C.B., or construction battalion.the seabees were founded after the bombing of pearl harbor because of the number of civillian workers that were killed. during WWII seabees built large numbers of buildings and airstrips , but mostly in the pacific theatertoday seabees are as impor…
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go to England and contact the clubs on the telephone, they have trials for young players, mainly in the summer months, June, July and august
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"Tiocfaidh ár Lá"
pronounced chucky aur law, means "Our day will come" and is the rallying cry of the IRA/Sinn Féin.
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I made sure not to take baths during the two week wait (only showers and not to hot) But i don't know if there is anything to really help with implantation, as long as your are having sex during your fertile time. It just depends on if a sperm makes it and fertilizes the egg. Good luck =)
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This information can be found in the owner's manual.it holds 18 Gallons
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Answer:Shutout(s) many people think its strikeouts but thats wrong.
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If you got this while your screen turned blue and the computer restarted, then it could mean a problem with your computer hardware. I would start by checking your ram with memtest. Also if you are running an overclock, remove it and run at stock settings. There are 3 step to repair memory 0x0000000…
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Dysentery is amoebic or bacillary & means tenesmus & diarrhea with blood and mucus in the stools. Caused by small micro-organisms, your body will try to flush out the content of the bowls.
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The rationale behind the results of studies is that silver is a color that does not occur often in nature, and at close range thus elicits the surprise and close attention of the onlooker's lower or primordial brain faculties as well as the more conscious visual cortex.As an added benefit silver car…
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MLM stands for Multi Level Marketing. Some times called Network Marketing.
A way of organizing people for the objective of selling goods and services to members and to the public. When operated correctly the business structure is similar to most corporate sales organizations which have sales people…
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a business degree is only a guide. it's no guarantee for a great job and certainly no guarantee that you will make lots of money when your finished. having said that, you still need it. I've seen many qualified people with untold accomplishments get the door closed b\c they don't have a business deg…
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1 reasons for creating multiple processes is 1- If in an application there are various independent major operations, we can create multiple processes for these tasks, a perfect example of this is operating system
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When you issue the execve or fork syscalls a new process …
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Compilers do not correct errors let alone system errors. A system
error is a systematic failure, either within the hardware itself or
in its software configuration. A compiler is specifically concerned
with program source code and whether or not it is capable of being
compiled into object code. If n…
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It is defined as the positive square root of the mean of the squared deviations from mean. The square of S.D is called variance.The standard deviation is used as a measure of the variance of a measurement within a group of objects. In essence, it is the average difference between the measurement of …
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External ultrasounds can only detect pregnancy when you are more than about 5-6 weeks wereas if you have an internel ultrasound they can detect pregnancy from as early as 4weeks. In answer to your question you are either not as far gone as originally thort and would have to have a internal ultrasoun…
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Meaning of Copreneur
I believe it refers to a couple, e.g. a husband and wife, who start a business together.
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That is true. Copreneur are couples into business and having personal relations too. Couples here could be anyone like Husband - Wife, people who are dating or couples of sam…
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It's only been in the past few years that the battered male syndrome has gotten serious attention. The latest percentage of battered men was placed at approximately 36% or roughly 835,000 of the 2.3 million abuse cases reported yearly. Researchers believe that those figures are far from accurate for…
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GB stands for games behind, as in games behind the first place team.
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Once you've filled your pool, and taken that one time hit, there will be some routine water usage to replace water lost by evaporation. It is possible to get enough rain to replace it, so the cost might be zero. If you get no rain, and it's hot and sunny, you might loose up to a foot of water in a m…
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According to the American Cancer Society and the CDC, approximately 163,500 people are expected to die of lung cancer in the USA in 2005. They also estimate that 172,500 people were diagnosed with the disease in 2005 as well.
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Grand Coulee Dam The Grand Coulee Dam is said to be the largest concrete dam. Currently the world's largest concrete dam is the Itaipu Dam, an accomplishment of two neighboring countries, Brazil and Paraguay in South America. Though it isn't finished yet, the Three Gorges (or Sandapong) Dam on the…
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Your 94 Ford Explorer XLT V6 is running at 3000 revs when speed is at 65 mph is this normal or high?
DO NOT mess with your idle air control, whoever posted that last answer did not read your whole qestion, i have a 94 ford explorer 4x4, at 65 i run 2500 rpms, your torgue converter isn't going into lockup mode, most likey cause is a selnoid inside the transmission shorted out, or your computer,note …
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Need to clarify three tons - long ton, metric ton and short ton
long ton
Avoirdupois unit of weight used in Britain, called long ton to distinguish it from short ton. 1 long ton is equal to 20 hundredweight (long) or 2240 pound.
metric ton
Unit of mass in metric system, also called tonne (sy…
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easy look it up on answers.com
Answer: Whatever you found could be the subject of great controversy anyway, as there are quite widely differing figures on many of these claims concerning inter-country "popularity" of various sports, and who, even, engages the various sports within certain of…
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Yes. There is one to see how popular a sport is. These are the list
of the sports.
1. Baseball
2. Football
3. Basketball
4. Hockey
5. Soccer
6. Volleyball
7. Tennis
8. Swimming
9. Track
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Women first began working outside the home during the industrial revolution, mostly in textile mills. The Merrimack Manufacturing Company opened more than thirty mills in 1840, employing more than 7,00 workers- mostly unmarried women. So, many women worked outside the home before the Civil war, thou…
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Hitler started the Hitler Youth before he came to power so when he
did all the kids in the youth prgoram would eb old enough to do
anything fro him because they were taught since they were little to
hate Jews. Germany was also going through economic depression and
needed a "scape-goat," and t…
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Sat or Act. The greatest Letter you have ever written. And lots of money.over 40,000 a year.Stanford you can have it all paid by rotc. Not sure about Harvard. My father is a Harvard lawyer.
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There are three ways to do this
Generally, foods are analyzed in a lab to determine the nutritional content. This is how the nutrition counts on most labels are determined, and it is the most accurate way.
In some cases, home cooks will add up the nutrition counts of all the ingredients, to get …
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there were so many deaths for different reasons.one of the most comon was of disease. the soldiers had to walk through puddles of water, sometimes infected swamps, and they could possibly contract something through their feet.also, the conditions in the trenches were horrific.a lot of people died fr…
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Women are a very difficult concept to understand, i say that being one myself, but it is true. A woman that return to an abusive husband are not easily able to let go. Its hard to leave a loved one that may have cheated on you, and same goes for a loved one hitting/beating you. Love can be…
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Konami has now released legal (Effect Monster) versions of Obelisk the Tormentor and The Winged Dragon of Ra. Slifer the Sky Dragon has yet to be released. The effects are as follows: Obelisk the Tormentor (Effect Monster) Attribute: DIVINEType: Divine-Beast/EffectLevel: 10ATK: 4000DEF: 4000You must…
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Because sometimes your parents say it's just them.
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List (Disused if you want, still in use if you want...)We search in Internet for chat.Search the Internet for "funny how-to articles".Nothing.Not do what we wanted.Play the PlayStation.Go to the Falkland Islands, where some of the most interesting wildlife on earth is found.Do the things in the priv…
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if there a pedo don't let them babysit your children report them to the police and cut off any contact with them and make sure your children stay way away from the person who's a pedo! I think you should, call the police, do not have ANY CONTACT with the sick freak, if your child has been sexuall…
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Codependancy, is when you surround yourself with "needy" people because you always feel the need to take care of others in order to feel validated.
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Contact your local police. If it was reported stolen, it should be in the system.
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Listings for domestic violence hotline and general information numbers, shelters, support groups, legal aid and counseling and other information concerning women's issues can be found on the Feminist Majority Foundation website, http://www.feminist.org or National Domestic Violence and Abuse Hotline…
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Most IQ tests are designed so that 100 represents the average score. Anything above that is considered, well, above average. The highest you're likely to encounter is in the 170-180 range, and anything about 150 is considered genius level.So 110 is a good, solid score. your average
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24that is biased i bet your a laker fan because its just kobe;s number the actual one is 1
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Mine was 20 gallons.
depends on the wheelbase the shorter will have a 23 gallon and the longer could have a 23 or 38 gallon tank
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Heh, I think you know the answer deep inside. But let me clarify, she is avoiding you because you broke her heart when she put her true feelings out there. She is embarressed just like any person would. I think she is making the right choice by avoiding you.Good for her. You are obviously second gue…
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Yes. It is possible she doesn't think she is big enough and when she sees another person with the same size, she has a hard time believing you are the same. She wants to be bigger.
Your bra size is your business, you shouldn't disclose it to anyone else. Why is it a big…
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Germany was in a depression because of the treaty of Versailles and the debts it created for them.
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Germany in 1939 had not been crippled by the debts of the Versailles treaty. Hitler in a short period of time spent more on re-arming Germany than Germany had ever paid to France &…
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Was thinking of buying a used firearm to defend my home from invasion. But how do I know if its stolen? Call your local police department and have them check it in NCIC. You may have to bring it in so they can confiscate it if it is stolen.
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Definition Used with off, foist means to represent as valuable or genuine something that is worthless or fake. Used with on, foist means to impose something or someone on another by trickery or deceit. With into, foist means to insert fraudulently, as into a contract
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"Blue Balls" is the pain a male human being allegedly gets in his groin when he is very close to ejaculating but the stimulation stops before he ejaculates. However, blue balls is simply a myth that some males use to receive sexual favors from gullible/compassionate females. Most men/boys, if not al…
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Plate appearances is the total number of times a player has stood at the plate ... regardless of outcome.
At-bats are counted when a batter either scores an 'out' or scores a 'hit'. If the batter receives a Base-on-balls, hit by pitch, or reaches base as the result of an error or Fielder'…
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you can only find smackdown results n spoilers on www.wrestlezone.com
In Australia, Raw is on Wednesday nights, so check wwe.com on Tuesday and fnd out results there. Cheers
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It stands for Bon Chic, Bon Genre which means Good style and Good class.
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