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The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.
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The form itself is stored in the next available cells of the W-region, beginning in cell Af.
If Af leads to an address Af that is equal to the address computed from Af, even though Af does not match Af, the chain of information cells is extended from Af by storing the address of the next available cell in the Y-region, Af, in Af.
Each entry that is selected for storage is written into the next available cells of the Aj.
The recovery will probably be sparked by a rising rate of housing starts next spring in response to more readily available mortgage credit, as well as by an expansion of Government spending, well sustained consumer spending, and some rebuilding of business inventories.
This is distinct from technical support and other lines which use ANI so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative: the MCI number is intended specifically for ANAC use.
They are used in order for the agent in the call center to confirm the phone the customer is calling from, so that a computer can automatically display the customer's account on a " screen pop " for the next available customer service representative ; they are distinct from purpose-made toll-free ANAC numbers.
If the next data item is not available when it is needed, the codec has no choice but to produce silence or guess — and if the data is late, it is useless, because the time period when it should have been converted to a signal has already passed.
* The sequential use of the Bayes ' formula: when more data become available after calculating a posterior distribution, the posterior becomes the next prior.
A double-sided disk on the 1571 would have a capacity of 340 KB ( 70 tracks, 1, 360 disk blocks of 256 bytes each ); as 8 KB are reserved for system use ( directory and block availability information ) and, under CBM DOS, 2 bytes of each block serve as pointers to the next logical block, 254 x 1, 328 = 337, 312 B or about 329. 4 KB were available for user data.
Suppose we wish to make it display the next available buffer.
By the next century, gardens became available to the middle class as well.
The BBC understands € 500 million (£ 440M ) will become available to make the extra purchase, taking Europe's version of GPS from 18 operational satellites in the next few years to 24.
More powerful 486 iterations such as the OverDrive and DX4 were less popular ( the latter available as an OEM part only ), as they came out after Intel had released the next generation P5 Pentium processor family.
Time available for leisure varies from one society to the next, although anthropologists have found that hunter-gatherers tend to have significantly more leisure time than people in more complex societies.
The first single-chip microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable microprocessors becoming available over the next several years.
Initially, only Claris ' Spring Valley and Elliot's Splash Garden are available, and successful completion of one of these unlocks the next level in that child's path.
The next phase is to empower the people of Niue to take advantage and benefit from the opportunities available from the online market place on the Internet.
For the next 20 years, many could find only low-paid work with the island government and the only available employment overseas for the islanders was restricted to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, a period during which the island was often referred to as the “ South Atlantic Alcatraz ”.
With the Discovery launch moving to November, Endeavour mission " cannot fly as planned, so the next available launch window is in February 2011 ," NASA said, adding that the launch dates are subject to change.
The UN World Water Development Report ( WWDR, 2003 ) from the World Water Assessment Program indicates that, in the next 20 years, the quantity of water available to everyone is predicted to decrease by 30 %.
The receiving device typically holds each frame in memory, displaying it until the next complete frame is available.
When a prisoner receives an organ, there is a high probability that someone else will die waiting for the next available organ.
Note that opportunity cost is not the sum of the available alternatives when those alternatives are, in turn, mutually exclusive to each other – it is the value of the next best use.
If the medium becomes idle, the sender transmits a frame with a probability p. If the station chooses not to transmit ( the probability of this event is 1-p ), the sender waits until the next available time slot and transmits again with the same probability p. This process repeats until the frame is sent or some other sender starts transmitting.
There is also a variant of this time control that adds the delay after a player makes his move ( Fischer after ), so the delay is added to the player's remaining time and is available for his next move.
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On the next day, much of the land army as had not escaped to their own lands submitted or were followed in their retreat to Macedonia and forced to surrender, and Antony's camp was occupied.
Urbanization has major effects on erosion processes — first by denuding the land of vegetative cover, altering drainage patterns, and compacting the soil during construction ; and next by covering the land in an impermeable layer of asphalt or concrete that increases the amount of surface runoff and increases surface wind speeds.
According to the Eureka Chamber of Commerce, railroad workers while clearing way for the track and the next railroad camp saw Eureka, level land with little to clear, and declared, " Eureka!
Some of the later vessels anchored next to a colony and ran out planks to the land.
The next publication was also a board game, Nomad Gods, published by Chaosium in 1978, which detailed the raids and wars between the beast-riding spirit-worshiping tribes of Prax, a cursed land to the east of Dragon Pass.
The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.
In gambler's fallacy, however, people predict the opposite outcome of the last event ( negative recency )-that, for example, since the roulette wheel has landed on black the last six times, it is due to land on red the next.
Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines.
Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.
Over the next four centuries this material underwent analysis and debate, known as Gemara (" completion "), in what were at that time the world's two major Jewish communities, in the land of Israel and in the Babylonian Empire.
For most of the history of the Upper House, Lords Temporal were land owners who held their estates, titles and seats as an hereditary right passed down from one generation to the next in some cases for centuries.
Luke McRedmond filed a Homestead Act claim for land next to the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the following year Warren Perrigo took up land adjacent to him.
Cochrane completes his warp flight, and the next day, April 5, 2063, the crew watches as Vulcans, attracted by the Phoenix warp test, land and greet Cochrane.
Columbus is reported to have promised to name the next land he discovered for the Holy Trinity, and considered it a miracle when the first land he sighted was the three peaks of the Trinity Hills.
In Hardin's example, it is in each herder's interest to put the next ( and succeeding ) cows he acquires onto the land, even if the quality of the common is damaged for all as a result, through overgrazing.
The next spring, Thorstein, Leif's brother, leads an expedition to the new land but is driven off course and spends the whole summer wandering the Atlantic.
The next winter, Gudrid marries a visiting Icelander named Thorfinn Karlsefni, who, with his business partner Snorri Thorbrandsson, agrees to undertake a major expedition to the new land, taking livestock.
Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
* In Rome a severe form of malaria appears in the farm districts and will continue for the next 500 years, taking out of cultivation the fertile land of the Campagna, whose market gardens supply the city with fresh products.
During the next seven years, approximately 300, 000 people came to California ( half by land and half by sea ) to seek their fortunes mining for gold or selling supplies like picks and shovels to the gold prospectors.
Over the next 300 years, a network of canals diverted nearby rivers and drained nearby swamps, thus reducing the possibility of flooding and creating a large belt of agricultural land around the city.
Some airports are located next to parks, golf courses, or other low-density uses of land.
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