The most common statistic on our website is a rate, either a teen pregnancy rate or a teen birth rate. A rate measures the likelihood of teen pregnancy or birth happening within the population and is calculated by dividing the number of pregnancies or births by the teen population, then multiplying by 1,000. For example, California's 1996 teen pregnancy rate of 125 per 1,000 means that out of every 1,000 teen girls living in California in 1996, 125 got pregnant that year.

Basically, when two parties (say a customer and the Amazon.com web-site) wish to "talk" securely (transfer the customer's credit-card number to Amazon.com), then a web-certificate sets up a "secure" session that first verifies the true identity of the party that requests data transfer (Amazon.com). If a certificate is valid, the other party (the customer) gets a message saying that its OK to "talk" to them (Amazon.com), as they are who they say they are.

If you require a bit more help, call us and we'll make an appointment to explain the entire process to you more fully. Like many things in life, it's not all that complicated when someone takes the time to explain it to you.

Try looking up the US Government’s Plain Language Action Network at www.plainlanguage.gov where you’ll find Professor Joe Kimble’s article: Writing for Dollars. Find out how StyleWriter can help you with: Technical Reports, Journalist Writing, Advertising Copy, Minutes of Meetings, Writing Memos, Writing Policies and Procedures, Legal Documents, Essays and Research Papers, Business Letters

We define plain English as writing that the intended audience can read, understand and act upon the first time they read it. Plain English takes into account design and layout as well as language. back to top

No. Many people think plain means simple, boring or childish. Plain English means clear English. Think of plain English editing as cutting out the complexity and redundancy in your writing to leave a clear, streamlined and flowing style your audience can read effortlessly. It’s the writing style of the best professional writers and communicators.

Simply put, we warranty the frame and specific components for the time period described above. This warranty covers defects in the materials that are used, as well as the way the individual parts are manufactured. It does NOT cover damage due to improper assembly, lack of maintenance, funky after market add-ons, crashes, or driving in to the garage with bikes on the car’s roof rack. It also does not cover normal wear and tear.

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Using plain English does not mean everyone’s writing must sound the same. Writers will express ideas differently, but all writing, especially business and government writing, must still be clear. Writing in plain English means keeping to commonsense principles to produce a clear document. Variety comes from writers keeping to clear expression, but choosing different content, vocabulary, examples and analogies and so on.

We are an independent organisation fighting against jargon, gobbledygook and other confusing language, while promoting crystal-clear language. We are based in New Mills, Derbyshire, in England. back to top

We are entirely self-funded, which allows us to stay totally independent. We raise our funds through our commercial services, which include editing documents and training courses. We have a brochure which covers all our services which you can download. This is in Adobe Acrobat (also called PDF) format. If you do not have Adobe installed on your computer, click on the link at the bottom of this page to download the software. back to top

A good first step is our free guide 'How to write in plain English'. We also have a range of guides with advice on writing in specific situations. You may be interested in our training courses. back to top

That's a good question! The following chart ([] indicate modifications, accents missing) was produced by Luigi Barbasetti in 1932:

The word Shotokai is composed of three kanji characters in Japanese. The Sho character is taken from the word matsu which means pine tree. To is the character for waves. Pine Waves is the English translation, that tries to give an idea, of what the original idea the Japanese kanji give: the sound that is produced by the pine needles when the wind blows through them, a sort of wave sound (listen well the next time you are in a pine forest, with wind).

Production Dialogue Editing - In order for the production audio recorded on the set or on location to be properly mixed, a Dialogue Editor needs to properly prepare it. This means locating the proper take from the recorded production audio, checking sync (so it actually works with the picture properly), and eliminate extraneous noise so the Mixer has clean dialogue to use during the Mix.

Almost every DVD contains audio in Dolby Digital format. DTS is an optional audio format that can be added to a disc in addition to Dolby Digital audio. Dolby Digital and DTS can store mono, stereo, and multichannel audio (usually 5.1 channels). Every DVD player in the world has an internal Dolby Digital decoder. The built-in 2-channel decoder turns Dolby Digital into standard analog stereo audio, which can be fed to almost any type of audio equipment (receiver, TV, boombox, etc.

Refer to the built in help under the Help menu in AP Grapher version 1.0 and above for more information.

Okay. The key thing about testability that -- because it is the hallmark of the scientific method, no disputing that -- is that it has to be able to -- the theories have to be able to be tested fairly; that is to say, without stacking the deck in favor of one or the other theory and especially not in terms of one of the other theory's assumptions. So this is turned out to actually be a very difficult thing to kind of make clear and practice, what exactly constitutes a fair test in science.

Whenever you type up a paper or an essay or a fanfic, you are using a text editor. There are a lot of different text editors available. Some text editors would be: Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, Notepad, Wordpad, emacs, vi, Simple Text, BBEdit ... Most of the time if you use one text editor to type and save your work, you won't be able to use another text editor to read it again. For example, if you save something in Microsoft Word format (*.doc), then you won't be able to read it from Notepad.

Johnston County participates in the FEMA and FIRM programs. If you wish to build in the flood plain, there are certain building codes that must be met to ensure your safety. You should check with the Flood Plain Administrator for more information. Being in the flood plain means that there is a one percent chance that your property will be innundated (flooded) in any given year.

A dedicated Plain English Project Worker has been recruited to set up the Plain English project on a full-time basis. Most of the work, which is funded by the Department of Social and Family Affairs, involves helping staff in the Department's Information Services unit to rewrite their social welfare information booklets and application forms. Another part of the project involves raising awareness of Plain English and setting up our Plain English service.

The easier it is to understand a reproducible bug, the more likely it will be fixed. Anything you can provide by way of insight into the problem helps a great deal. In other words, try to analyze the problem (to the extent you can) and report your discoveries.

The Housing Industry Association Plain English Building Agreement is a contract that outlines the conditions of the construction of your home.

We will update our database with your information and send you an e-mail within minutes confirming your Auctionpix account details. In the e-mail message you will also see a link to return to Auctionpix to log-in with. Enter your user name and the temporary password sent to you, (once logged in you can re set your password under the 'personal info' icon. Click the 'images' icon to see your current uploaded images, then click the 'upload new images' button to proceed.

I'm trying, OK!?? Gigapulse is TASCAM's convolution engine. It comes with Gigastudio 3, GVI, "Powered by GVI" Libraries (like the American Zither), and is available as a VST plugin as well.

Click here to view the most recent statistics on cancer. This data includes information on incidence, mortality and survival rates, which are the three most common groups of statistics produced about cancer. Understanding what each one means is integral to being able to comprehend and apply what you're reading. Read more on the reliability of statistics and what they can and cannot tell you.

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