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when did expos become nationals
Their nickname is "the Nats"—a shortened version that was also used by the old D.C. teams.
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when did expos become nationals
An expansion franchise , the club was founded in as the Montreal Expos , the first major league team in Canada.
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when did expos become nationals
They were based in Montreal , Quebec , and played their home games at Jarry Park Stadium and later in Olympic Stadium .
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when did expos become nationals
In , the Expos won a division championship, won their first-ever playoff series by defeating the Philadelphia Phillies , 3–2, and advanced to the National League Championship Series , where they would go on to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers , 3–2, in their only postseason appearance during the strike-shortened season.
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when did expos become nationals
The Expos had their highest winning percentage in the strike-shortened season of , when the team had the best record in baseball.
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when did expos become nationals
The team's subsequent shedding of players caused fan interest to drop off.
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when did expos become nationals
After the 2001 season, MLB considered revoking the team's franchise, along with either the Minnesota Twins or the Tampa Bay Devil Rays .
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when did expos become nationals
After being purchased by MLB in 2002, the team was moved before the season to Washington and renamed the Nationals, the first relocation since the second Washington Senators moved to Arlington, Texas , and became the Texas Rangers in .
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when did expos become nationals
The Nationals are one of two MLB franchises, and the only one in the National League , that has never played in a World Series (the Seattle Mariners are the other).
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
A contingent fee (in the United States ) or conditional fee (in England and Wales ) is any fee for services provided where the fee is payable only if there is a favourable result.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
In the law , it is defined as a "fee charged for a lawyer's services only if the lawsuit is successful or is favorably settled out of court....
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
Contingent fees are usually calculated as a percentage of the client's net recovery."
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
In the English legal system , it is generally referred to as no win no fee.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
A conditional fee agreement between a law firm and a client.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
The usual form of this agreement is that the solicitor will take a law case on the understanding that if lost, no payment is made.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
However, if the case is won, the lawyer will be entitled to the normal fee based on hourly billing, plus a success fee.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
The success fee in England must be as a percentage no greater than 100% of the normal fee.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
This contrasts with the contingency fee in the US, which gives the successful attorney a percentage of the damages awarded in favor of his client.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
This makes it easier for the poor to pursue their civil rights since otherwise, to sue someone for a tort , one must first be wealthy enough to pursue such litigation in the first place.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
However, because of the high risk, few attorneys will take cases on a contingency basis unless they feel the case has good merit.
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
According to a 2004 book by law professor Herbert Kritzer, contingent fees were allowed as of that year in the following countries: Australia , Brazil , Canada , the Dominican Republic , France , Greece , Ireland , Japan , New Zealand , the United Kingdom and the United States .
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
They are also allowed in personal injury actions in Lithuania .
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what is a contingent fee with an attorney
Recently, they have been allowed in Belgium as well.
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what is a college convocation
A Convocation ( Latin 'calling together', translating the Greek ecclesia ) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose.
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
Sons of Anarchy is a television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming , a fictional town in California's Central Valley .
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller ( Charlie Hunnam ), the then-vice president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself.
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008, on cable network FX .
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
The third season of the series attracted an average of 4.9 million viewers per week, making it FX's highest rated series ever, surpassing FX's other hits The Shield , Nip/Tuck , and Rescue Me .
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
On February 3, 2012, Sons of Anarchy was renewed for two additional seasons, a fifth and a sixth.
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when does sons of anarchy return 2011
Those involved in the production of the series imply that a seventh and final season is creator Kurt Sutter's plan.
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
The Grímsvötn sub-glacial lakes (; vötn = "waters", singular: ) and the volcano of the same name are in South-East Iceland .
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
They are in the highlands of Iceland at the northwestern side of the Vatnajökull ice-cap.
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
The lakes are at , at an elevation of .
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
Beneath the lakes is the magma chamber of the Grímsvötn volcano.
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
Grímsvötn is a basaltic volcano which has the highest eruption frequency of all the volcanoes in Iceland and has a southwest-northeast-trending fissure system.
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
The massive climate-impacting Laki fissure eruption of 1783–1784 was a part of the same fissure system.
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what type of volcano is grimsvotn
Grímsvötn was erupting at the same time as Laki during 1783, but continued to erupt until 1785.
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Because most of the volcano lies underneath Vatnajökull, most of its eruptions have been subglacial and the interaction of magma and meltwater from the ice causes phreatomagmatic explosive activity.
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On 21 May 2011 at 19:25 UTC , an eruption began, with high plumes accompanied by multiple earthquakes , resulting in cancellation of 900 flights in Iceland, and in the United Kingdom, Greenland, Germany, Ireland and Norway on 22–25 May.
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Until 25 May the eruption scale had been larger than that of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull .
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The eruption stopped at 02:40 UTC on 25 May 2011, although there was some explosive activity from the tephra vents affecting only the area around the crater.
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what is a vetting process
Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, etc.
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what is a vetting process
A prospective person or project may be vetted before making a hiring decision.
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what is a vetting process
In addition, in intelligence gathering , assets are vetted to determine their usefulness.
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
Present-day impression of a Late Bronze Age seal
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
Town seal (matrix) of Náchod from 1570
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
The original purpose was to authenticate a document, a wrapper for one such as a modern envelope, or the cover of a container or package holding valuables or other objects.
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
The sealing process is essentially that of a mould , with the final image represented on the device for making the impression by a mirror-image design, incised in sunken- (or counter-) relief or intaglio .
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely, the sealing).
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal; in all other cases a liquid or liquified medium (such as ink or wax) is used, usually in another color than the paper.
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
For legal purposes, the definition of a seal may be extended to include rubber stamps , or writing specified words ("seal" or "L.S.").
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In the United States, the word "seal" is sometimes assigned to a facsimile of the seal design (in monochrome or color), which may be used in a variety of contexts including architectural settings, on flags , or on official letterheads .
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Thus, for example, the Great Seal of the United States , among other uses, appears on the reverse of the one-dollar bill ; and several of the seals of the U.S. states appear on their respective state flags .
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In Europe, although coats of arms and heraldic badges may well feature in such contexts as well as on seals, the seal design in its entirety rarely appears as an emblem.
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how were letters sealed in the 1800s
The study of seals is known as sigillography or sphragistics.
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what states are harrah's properties in
Former headquarters and current corporate offices
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what states are harrah's properties in
Caesars Entertainment Corporation (formerly Harrah's Entertainment from 1995 to 2010) is an American public gaming corporation that owns and operates over 50 casinos , hotels, and seven golf courses under several brands .
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The company, based in Paradise , Nevada , is the largest gaming company in the world, with annual revenues of $8.9 billion (2010).
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Caesars is a public company, with a joint venture of Apollo Global Management and Texas Pacific Group ownig a large portion of the stack and Blackstone Group also holding a significant stake.
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The name change from "Harrah's Entertainment Inc." to "Caesars Entertainment Corporation" was made official on November 23, 2010.
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Harrah's remains a key brand in the company.
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On November 5, 2010, Harrah's announced an initial public offering of 31,250,000 shares but retracted this offering on November 19.
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what is a landed immigrant in canada
A Permanent Resident in Canada is a person who is not a Canadian citizen but who has been granted permission to live and work in Canada without any time limit on his or her stay.
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what is a landed immigrant in canada
A permanent resident must live in Canada for two years out of every five or risk losing that status.
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what is a landed immigrant in canada
A Permanent Resident holds many of the same rights and responsibilities as a Canadian citizen, among others the right to work for any enterprise as well as for the federal or provincial government (under restriction of access rights to certain regulated professions).
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what is a landed immigrant in canada
The main differences are that residents cannot:
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vote in elections in Canada ;
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run for elected office;
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hold Canadian passports;
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In addition, they may be allowed to join Canada's armed forces if the national interest would not be prejudiced.
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Permanent residents also risk deportation for serious crimes committed while resident in Canada.
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Permanent residents may apply for Canadian citizenship after three years in Canada; however this is not mandatory.
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who killed erica cain
Erica Kane is a fictional character from the American ABC Daytime soap opera All My Children .
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who killed erica cain
The character was portrayed by actress Susan Lucci from her debut on January 16, 1970 until the last broadcast television episode aired on September 23, 2011.
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On February 11, 2013, it was announced that Lucci will guest-star on the Prospect Park 's continuation of All My Children.
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who killed erica cain
In the U.S., Erica is considered to be the most popular character in soap opera history.
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Regarding the North-American market, TV Guide calls her "unequivocally the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV", and included her in their 2013 list of The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.
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who reports the consumer price index
A graph of the US CPI from 1913 to 2006 (in blue), and its percent annual change (in red)
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who reports the consumer price index
A consumer price index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of a market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
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who reports the consumer price index
The CPI in the United States is defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as "a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services."
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who reports the consumer price index
The CPI is a statistical estimate constructed using the prices of a sample of representative items whose prices are collected periodically.
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who reports the consumer price index
Sub-indexes and sub-sub-indexes are computed for different categories and sub-categories of goods and services, being combined to produce the overall index with weights reflecting their shares in the total of the consumer expenditures covered by the index.
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who reports the consumer price index
It is one of several price indices calculated by most national statistical agencies.
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who reports the consumer price index
The annual percentage change in a CPI is used as a measure of inflation .
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A CPI can be used to index (i.e., adjust for the effect of inflation) the real value of wages, salaries, pensions , for regulating prices and for deflating monetary magnitudes to show changes in real values.
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In most countries, the CPI is, along with the population census and the USA National Income and Product Accounts , one of the most closely watched national economic statistics.
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where does the expression "knocking on wood" come from
Knocking on wood, or to touch wood, refers to the apotropaic tradition in western folklore of literally touching/knocking on wood, or merely stating that you are doing or intend same, in order to avoid " tempting fate " after making a favourable observation, a boast, or declaration concerning one's own death.
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what are rocker arms?
Rocker arm
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what are rocker arms?
Generally referred to within the context of the internal combustion engine of automotive, marine, motorcycle and reciprocating aviation engines, the rocker arm is an oscillating lever that conveys radial movement from the cam lobe into linear movement at the poppet valve to open it.
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One end is raised and lowered by a rotating lobe of the camshaft (either directly or via a tappet (lifter) and pushrod ) while the other end acts on the valve stem .
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what are rocker arms?
When the camshaft lobe raises the outside of the arm, the inside presses down on the valve stem, opening the valve.
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what are rocker arms?
When the outside of the arm is permitted to return due to the camshafts rotation, the inside rises, allowing the valve spring to close the valve.
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The drive cam is driven by the camshaft .
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This pushes the rocker arm up and down about the trunnion pin or rocker shaft.
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Friction may be reduced at the point of contact with the valve stem by a roller cam follower .
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what are rocker arms?
A similar arrangement transfers the motion via another roller cam follower to a second rocker arm.
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This rotates about the rocker shaft, and transfers the motion via a tappet to the poppet valve .
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what are rocker arms?
In this case this opens the intake valve to the cylinder head .
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The effective leverage of the arm (and thus the force it can exert on the valve stem) is determined by the rocker arm ratio, the ratio of the distance from the rocker arm's center of rotation to the tip divided by the distance from the center of rotation to the point acted on by the camshaft or pushrod.