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A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.
Internet search engines themselves predate the debut of the Web in December 1990. The Who is user search dates back to 1982 and the Knowbot Information Service multi-network user search was first implemented in 1989. The first well documented search engine that searched content files, namely FTP files was Archie, which debuted on 10 September 1990.
Prior to September 1993 the World Wide Web was entirely indexed by hand. There was a list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee and hosted on the CERN webserver. One historical snapshot of the list in 1992 remains, but as more and more web servers went online the central list could no longer keep up. On the NCSA site, new servers were announced under the title "What's New!"
The first tool used for searching content (as opposed to users) on the Internet was Archie. The name stands for "archive" without the "v". It was created by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan and J. Peter Deutsch, computer science students at McGill University in Montreal. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie Search Engine did not index the contents of these sites since the amount of data was so limited it could be readily searched manually.
The rise of Gopher (created in 1991 by Mark McCahill at the University of Minnesota) led to two new search programs, Veronica and Jughead. Like Archie, they searched the file names and titles stored in Gopher index systems. Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) provided a keyword search of most Gopher menu titles in the entire Gopher listings. Jughead (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) was a tool for obtaining menu information from specific Gopher servers. While the name of the search engine "Archie Search Engine" was not a reference to the Archie comic book series, "Veronica" and "Jughead" are characters in the series, thus referencing their predecessor.
In the summer of 1993, no search engine existed for the web, though numerous specialized catalogues were maintained by hand. Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva wrote a series of Perl scripts that periodically mirrored these pages and rewrote them into a standard format. This formed the basis for W3Catalog, the web's first primitive search engine, released on September 2, 1993.
In June 1993, Matthew Gray, then at MIT, produced what was probably the first web robot, the Perl-based World Wide Web Wanderer, and used it to generate an index called 'Wandex'. The purpose of the Wanderer was to measure the size of the World Wide Web, which it did until late 1995. The web's second search engine Aliweb appeared in November 1993. Aliweb did not use a web robot, but instead depended on being notified by website administrators of the existence at each site of an index file in a particular format.
NCSA's Mosaic™ - Mosaic (web browser) wasn't the first Web browser. But it was the first to make a major splash. In November 1993, Mosaic v 1.0 broke away from the small pack of existing browsers by including features—like icons, bookmarks, a more attractive interface, and pictures—that made the software easy to use and appealing to "non-geeks."
JumpStation (created in December 1993 by Jonathon Fletcher) used a web robot to find web pages and to build its index, and used a web form as the interface to its query program. It was thus the first WWW resource-discovery tool to combine the three essential features of a web search engine (crawling, indexing, and searching) as described below. Because of the limited resources available on the platform it ran on, its indexing and hence searching were limited to the titles and headings found in the web pages the crawler encountered.
One of the first "all text" crawler-based search engines was WebCrawler, which came out in 1994. Unlike its predecessors, it allowed users to search for any word in any webpage, which has become the standard for all major search engines since. It was also the first one widely known by the public. Also in 1994, Lycos (which started at Carnegie Mellon University) was launched and became a major commercial endeavor.
Soon after, many search engines appeared and vied for popularity. These included Magellan, Excite, Infoseek, Inktomi, Northern Light, and AltaVista. Yahoo! was among the most popular ways for people to find web pages of interest, but its search function operated on its web directory, rather than its full-text copies of web pages. Information seekers could also browse the directory instead of doing a keyword-based search.
In 1996, Netscape was looking to give a single search engine an exclusive deal as the featured search engine on Netscape's web browser. There was so much interest that instead Netscape struck deals with five of the major search engines: for $5 million a year, each search engine would be in rotation on the Netscape search engine page. The five engines were Yahoo!, Magellan, Lycos, Infoseek, and Excite.
Google adopted the idea of selling search terms in 1998, from a small search engine company named goto.com. This move had a significant effect on the SE business, which went from struggling to one of the most profitable businesses in the internet.
Search engines were also known as some of the brightest stars in the Internet investing frenzy that occurred in the late 1990s. Several companies entered the market spectacularly, receiving record gains during their initial public offerings. Some have taken down their public search engine, and are marketing enterprise-only editions, such as Northern Light. Many search engine companies were caught up in the dot-com bubble, a speculation-driven market boom that peaked in 1999 and ended in 2001.
Around 2000, Google's search engine rose to prominence. The company achieved better results for many searches with an innovation called PageRank, as was explained in the paper Anatomy of a Search Engine written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the later founders of Google. This iterative algorithm ranks web pages based on the number and PageRank of other web sites and pages that link there, on the premise that good or desirable pages are linked to more than others. Google also maintained a minimalist interface to its search engine. In contrast, many of its competitors embedded a search engine in a web portal. In fact, Google search engine became so popular that spoof engines emerged such as Mystery Seeker.
By 2000, Yahoo! was providing search services based on Inktomi's search engine. Yahoo! acquired Inktomi in 2002, and Overture (which owned AlltheWeb and AltaVista) in 2003. Yahoo! switched to Google's search engine until 2004, when it launched its own search engine based on the combined technologies of its acquisitions.
Microsoft first launched MSN Search in the fall of 1998 using search results from Inktomi. In early 1999 the site began to display listings from Looksmart, blended with results from Inktomi. For a short time in 1999, MSN Search used results from AltaVista instead. In 2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own search technology, powered by its own web crawler (called msnbot).
Microsoft's rebranded search engine, Bing, was launched on June 1, 2009. On July 29, 2009, Yahoo! and Microsoft finalized a deal in which Yahoo! Search would be powered by Microsoft Bing technology.
from Wikipedia Bing
Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET.
Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 1, 2009. Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had acquired in 2008.
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early 2012. The deal was altered in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was only required to use Bing for a "majority" of searches.
In December 2011, Microsoft stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query.
As of November 2015, Bing is the second largest search engine in the US, with a query volume of 20.9%, behind Google on 63.9%. Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 12.5%.
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DMOZ The Internet Brain
from Wikipedia DMOZ
is the most widely distributed data base of Web content classified by humans.
DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It was owned by AOL (now a part of Verizon's Oath Inc.) but constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
DMOZ used a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories.
DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017 because AOL no longer wished to support the project. The website became a single landing page on that day, with links to a static archive of DMOZ, and to the DMOZ discussion forum, where plans to rebrand and relaunch the directory are being discussed.
As of September 2017, a non-editable mirror remained available at dmoztools.net, and it was stated that while the DMOZ URL would not return, a successor version of the directory would, at Curlie.org. Although a website is now live at that domain, the top-level directory category page is currently just a static HTML file whose category links direct the user to the dmoztools.net static archive.
Free Web Submission
Free Web Submission is the source for free search engine submission. We provide webmasters and site owners with free manual and auto submission to the highest-rated, free internet search engines and directories.
Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day. As of February 2016, it is the most used search engine in the US with 64.0% market share.
The order of search on Google's search-results pages is based, in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank". Google Search provides many different options for customized search, using Boolean operators such as exclusion ("-xx"), alternatives ("xx OR yy OR zz"), and wildcards ("Winston * Churchill" returns "Winston Churchill", "Winston Spencer Churchill", etc.). The same and other options can be specified in a different way on an Advanced Search page.
The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases. It was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. Google Search provides several features beyond searching for words. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores. There are special features for numbers, dates, and some specific forms, including ranges, prices, temperatures, money and measurement unit conversions, calculations, package tracking, patents, area codes, and language translation. In June 2011 Google introduced "Google Voice Search" to search for spoken, rather than typed, words. In May 2012 Google introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature in the U.S.
Analysis of the frequency of search terms may indicate economic, social and health trends. Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google can be openly inquired via Google Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys. As of mid-2016, Google's search engine has begun to rely on these deep neural networks.
In December 2016, Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst with Google, announced that the search engine will be making a new, primary web index dedicated for mobile, with a secondary, less up-to-date index for desktop use. The change is a response from the continued growth in mobile, and a push for web developers to adopt a mobile-friendly version of their websites. Illyes stated the change will happen in "months".
Competitors of Google include Baidu and Soso.com in China; Naver.com and Daum.net in South Korea; Yandex in Russia; Seznam.cz in the Czech Republic; Yahoo in Japan, Taiwan and the US, as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo. Some smaller search engines offer facilities not available with Google, e.g. not storing any private or tracking information; one such search engine is Ixquick.
Major Search Engines and Directories
Search Engine Watch (SEW) is a website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing.
Search Engine Watch was started by Danny Sullivan in 1996. In 1997, Sullivan sold it for an undisclosed amount to MecklerMedia (now WebMediaBrands). In 2005 the website and related Search Engine Strategies conference series were sold to Incisive Media for $43 million. On November 30, 2006 Danny Sullivan left Search Engine Watch, after his resignation announcement on August 29, 2006. Rebecca Lieb was named editor-in-chief the following month.
In 2015, Incisive Media sold SES, Search Engine Watch, and ClickZ to Blenheim Chalcot.
Google's Matt Cutts has called Search Engine Watch "a must read." Yahoo's Tim Mayer has said that it is the "most authoritative source on search."
Offering a wide range of marketing services including search engine submission, promotion, and optimization.
from Wikipedia Netscape Search
Netscape Communications (formerly known as Netscape Communications Corporation or Netscape) is an American computer services company known for its web browser, Netscape Navigator.
When Netscape was an independent company, its headquarters were in Mountain View, California.
Netscape's web browser was once dominant but it has lost most of that glare to its competitors Internet Explorer during the so-called first browser war. The usage share of Netscape had fallen from over ninety percent in the mid-1990s to less than one percent by the end of 2006.
Netscape is credited with creating JavaScript language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages. The company is also known for developing the SSL which is used for securing online communications that was used before its successor TLS took over.
Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US $10 billion. Shortly before its acquisition by AOL, Netscape released the source code for its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate future development of its product. The Mozilla Organization rewrote the entire browser's source code based on the Gecko rendering engine; all future Netscape releases were based on this rewritten code. The Gecko engine would later be used to power the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser.
Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007 when AOL announced that the company would stop supporting the Netscape browser as of early 2008. As of 2011, AOL has continued to use the Netscape brand to market a discount Internet service provider.
Netscape was the first company to attempt to capitalize on the nascent World Wide Web. It was founded under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation on April 4, 1994, the brainchild of Jim Clark who had recruited Marc Andreessen as co-founder and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as investors. The first meeting between Clark and Andreessen was never truly about a software or service like Netscape, but more about a product that was similar to Nintendo. Clark recruited other early team members from SGI and NCSA Mosaic. Jim Barksdale came on board as CEO in January 1995. Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen originally created a 20-page concept pitch for an online gaming network to Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 console, but a deal was never reached. Marc Andreessen explains, "If they had shipped a year earlier, we probably would have done that instead of Netscape."
The company's first product was the web browser, called Mosaic Netscape 0.9, released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had already taken three-quarters of the browser market. It became the main browser for Internet users in such a short time due to its superiority over other competition, like Mosaic. This browser was subsequently renamed Netscape Navigator, and the company took the 'Netscape' name (coined by employee Greg Sands, although it was also a trademark of Cisco Systems) on November 14, 1994 to avoid trademark ownership problems with NCSA, where the initial Netscape employees had previously created the NCSA Mosaic web browser. The Mosaic Netscape web browser did not use any NCSA Mosaic code. The internal codename for the company's browser was Mozilla, which stood for "Mosaic killer", as the company's goal was to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's number one web browser. A cartoon Godzilla-like lizard mascot was drawn by artist-employee Dave Titus, which went well with the theme of crushing the competition. The Mozilla mascot featured prominently on Netscape's web site in the company's early years. However, the need to project a more "professional" image (especially towards corporate clients) led to this being removed.
On August 9, 1995, Netscape made an extremely successful IPO. The stock was set to be offered at US$14 per share, but a last-minute decision doubled the initial offering to US$28 per share. The stock's value soared to US$75 during the first day of trading, nearly a record for first-day gain. The stock closed at US$58.25, which gave Netscape a market value of US$2.9 billion. While it was unusual for a company to go public prior to becoming profitable, Netscape's revenues had, in fact, doubled every quarter in 1995. The success of this IPO subsequently inspired the use of the term "Netscape moment" to describe a high-visibility IPO that signals the dawn of a new industry. During this period, Netscape also pursued a publicity strategy (crafted by Rosanne Siino, then head of public relations) packaging Andreessen as the company's "rock star." The events of this period ultimately landed Andreessen, barefoot, on the cover of Time magazine.
Netscape advertised that "the web is for everyone" and stated one of its goals was to "level the playing field" among operating systems by providing a consistent web browsing experience across them. The Netscape web browser interface was identical on any computer. Netscape later experimented with prototypes of a web-based system which would enable users to access and edit their files anywhere across a network, no matter what computer or operating system they happened to be using. This did not escape the attention of Microsoft, which viewed the commoditization of operating systems as a direct threat to its bottom line, i.e. a move from Windows to another operating system would yield a similar browsing experience thus reducing barriers to change. It is alleged that several Microsoft executives visited the Netscape campus in June 1995 to propose dividing the market (an allegation denied by Microsoft and, if true, would have breached antitrust laws), which would have allowed Microsoft to produce web browser software for Windows while leaving all other operating systems to Netscape. Netscape refused the proposition.
Microsoft released version 1.0 of Internet Explorer as a part of the Windows 95 Plus Pack add-on. According to former Spyglass developer Eric Sink, Internet Explorer was based not on NCSA Mosaic as commonly believed, but on a version of Mosaic developed at Spyglass (which itself was based upon NCSA Mosaic). Microsoft quickly released several successive versions of Internet Explorer, bundling them with Windows, never charging for them, financing their development and marketing with revenues from other areas of the company. This period of time became known as the browser wars, in which Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer added many new features and went through many version numbers (not always in a logical fashion) in attempts to outdo each other. But Internet Explorer had the upper hand, as the amount of manpower and capital dedicated to it eventually surpassed the resources available in Netscape's entire business. By version 3.0, IE was roughly a feature-for-feature equivalent of Netscape Communicator, and by version 4.0, it was generally considered to be more stable on Windows than on the Macintosh platform. Microsoft also targeted other Netscape products with free workalikes, such as the Internet Information Server (IIS), a web server which was bundled with Windows NT.
Netscape could not compete with this strategy. In fact, it didn't attempt to. Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998, while Internet Explorer and IIS have always been free or came bundled with an operating system and/or other applications. Meanwhile, Netscape faced increasing criticism for the bugs in its products; critics claimed that the company suffered from 'featuritis' – putting a higher priority on adding new features than on making them work properly. This was particularly true with Netscape Navigator 2, which was only on the market for 5 months in early 1996 before being replaced by Netscape Navigator 3. The tide of public opinion, having once lauded Netscape as the David to Microsoft's Goliath, steadily turned negative, especially when Netscape experienced its first bad quarter at the end of 1997 and underwent a large round of lay-offs in January 1998. Later, former Netscape executives Mike Homer and Peter Currie described the period as "hectic and crazy" and that the company was undone by factors both internal and external.
Search engine submission is a process in which a webmaster submits a website directly to a search engine. While search engine submission is sometimes presented as a way to promote a website, it generally is not necessary because the major search engines use web crawlers, that will eventually find most web sites on the Internet without assistance. They can either submit one web page at a time, or they can submit the entire site using a sitemap, but it is normally only necessary to submit the home page of a web site as search engines are able to crawl a well designed website. There are two remaining reasons to submit a web site or web page to a search engine: to add an entirely new web site without waiting for a search engine to discover it, and to have a web site's record updated after a substantial redesign.
Some search engine submission software not only submits websites to multiple search engines, but also add links to websites from their own pages. This could appear helpful in increasing a website's ranking, because external links are one of the most important factors determining a website's ranking. However John Mueller of Google has stated that this "can lead to a tremendous number of unnatural links for your site" with a negative impact on site ranking.
Yahoo! Search
Wikipedia Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo until June 2017.
It was globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website. At its height it was one of the most popular sites in the United States. According to third-party web analytics providers, Alexa and SimilarWeb, Yahoo! was the highest-read news and media website, with over 7 billion views per month, being the sixth most visited website globally in 2016. According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visited Yahoo websites every month. Yahoo itself claimed it attracted "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages".
Once the most popular website in the U.S., Yahoo slowly started to decline since the late 2000s, and in 2017, Verizon Communications acquired most of Yahoo's Internet business for $4.48 billion, excluding its stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan which were transferred to Yahoo's successor company Altaba.


The twists and turns of marijuana legislation over the last couple years have made a tough go of understanding just where Maryland stands on pot policy. It's safe to say that Annapolis has had a hard time passing marijuana laws that were successful the first time around. A few years ago patients and decriminalization advocates initially celebrated the passage of medical marijuana, but later experienced a huge let down when it was discovered the program had absolutely no chance of being implemented. Two years after that a medical program with actual teeth was established that unfortunately is still months away from implementation. Decriminalization of possession of less than 10 grams of pot was also celebrated, but some of the celebrations were muted after police began issuing criminal citations for possession of pot paraphernalia. The legislature failed to address the paraphernalia issue two years ago, and when they did last year the governor vetoed the law for not addressing smoking in public or while driving. This year the legislature overrode the governor's veto and corrected the paraphernalia mistake, but the governor and numerous lawmakers still voiced displeasure that it is not a crime to smoke in public or in the car. As a result, Annapolis lawmakers are currently in the process of correcting another neglected component of marijuana policy.
This week the House passed legislation that would criminalize smoking marijuana in public and in a car on any state road. Public places have a broad definition under Maryland law, and include parks, restaurants, shopping centers, common areas of buildings such as stairwells, and even hotels. The ban also includes the common areas of apartment buildings that have more than four units, regardless of whether residents and guests are the only ones allowed on the grounds. House Bill 777, which will now moves to the Senate for approval, prohibits smoking marijuana in any of these public places. The bill originally prohibited any type of pot consumption, but this line was edited out and now all that is prohibited is smoking. One explanation for this edit may be the anticipation of edible medical marijuana that patients could discretely consume in public, but we will see if the Senate has other ideas about this specific line. A violation of this statute could trigger a criminal citation with a maximum punishment of a $500 fine, meaning that it does not carry the possibility of jail time. On the other hand, a violation could result in a permanent criminal conviction, and could trigger a probation violation or even a parole violation.
The bill also includes specific procedures for the expungement process of a criminal marijuana consumption statute. Unlike most criminal charges, a defendant who is convicted of this citation will still have to opportunity shield or even expunge a conviction for public consumption. Other offenses that fall under the new shielding statute include trespass, disorderly conduct, destruction of property, possession of a controlled substance and prostitution. Other offenses that can be expunged even after a conviction include drinking alcohol in a public place, loitering and riding a transit vehicle without paying a fare. A defendant must meet certain conditions including time limits before applying to expunge these convictions.
The Blog will continue to follow this important piece of legislation as it goes to the Senate and beyond. This bill will likely become law in the fall, as the governor wants it, and it will bring marijuana consumption laws more on par with alcohol laws. There is still an illogical glaring gap between alcohol and pot policy, but thankfully it's beginning to gradually close. Benjamin Herbst is a drug crime lawyer who handles all types of cases including possession with intent to distribute, disorderly conduct and probation violations. Contact Benjamin anytime for a free consultation about your case.


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Vermont reports fewest daily COVID-19 cases since late September
by: Devin Bates
Posted: Jun 2, 2021 / 08:13 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 2, 2021 / 09:58 AM EDT
MONTPELIER – Vermont health officials reported just two COVID-19 cases Tuesday, the fewest one-day case count since Sept. 24.
At Tuesday's briefing, state Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine said Vermont could attain an 80 percent vaccination rate any day now. That would meet Gov. Phil Scott's threshold for ending pandemic-related restrictions.
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"It takes time for this to sort of really settle in, the fact that we're all of a sudden down to very modest numbers of cases every day," Levine said.
The latest data shows that, as of late last week, 77.9 percent of eligible Vermonters have gotten their first dose. Vaccinations administered Sunday or Monday won't be tallied until Wednesday morning.
Scott estimated that roughly 11,000 more Vermonters will have to step up to reach his goal, and when they do, all state COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted.
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The state is continuing to add walk-in and other vaccination opportunities at workplaces, houses of worship, libraries, mobile home parks and other locations. A clinic at Thunder Road Speedbowl in Barre originally scheduled for last weekend has been rescheduled to Friday, June 4 due to rain.
Dr. Levine also urged people to consider contacting their primary care doctor for a vaccination.
"If you've been waiting to get vaccinated by your doctor or primary care practice, it might be time to call and see if they are participating, and if they are, get scheduled for your shot," Dr. Levine said.
Tracking coronavirus cases by county
Vermont is the only state that hasn't had any COVID-19 deaths in the past two weeks, but as people begin to go about their normal lives again, employers say that hasn't necessarily translated to vacant jobs getting filled. Governor Scott was asked Tuesday if Vermont needs an incentive for people to return to the workforce. He said it hasn't been considered yet.
"We'll have to see come this fall and winter what it's going to take," Governor Scott said. "This is not only a Vermont problem, this is a U.S. problem, and we need to do everything we can in Vermont to get more people to come to the state."
One of the other unknowns hanging over Vermont's grand reopening is access across the Canadian Border. As we reported Friday, Governor Scott and other New England governors have escalated their efforts in hopes of avoiding a second consecutive summer without the benefits of Canadian tourism.
Tracking COVID vaccinations in the Capital Region
"We sent a letter as New England governors to see what we could do, and share any excess vaccines we may have," Governor Scott said.
New England's leaders have yet to hear a response, and despite progress with vaccinations in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that he doesn't want to risk having to close the border again. He wants at least 75 percent of Canadians to have at least one dose before considering it, and Vermont Department of Financial Regulation Commissioner Michael Pieciak said they're close.
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"Right now, Canada is about 58 percent, and they've been adding anywhere between four or five percent of their population every week," Pieciak said. "It looks like in the next three or four weeks, they'd meet those numbers."
Dr. Levine also said once Vermont reaches its vaccination goal, the work doesn't stop.
"The higher we can get Vermont's vaccination rate, the higher the probability we will truly suppress coronavirus activity in this state," Dr. Levine said. "This leads to less opportunity for the virus to be spread between susceptible people, meaning less likelihood of mutations and more virulent strains, and boding well for the fall and winter respiratory virus season."

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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using Base.Test
using FastGaussQuadrature

println("Chebyshev tests")
include("test_gausschebyshev.jl")
println("Legendre tests")
include("test_gausslegendre.jl")
println("Jacobi tests")
include("test_gaussjacobi.jl")
println("Radau tests")
include("test_gaussradau.jl")
println("Lobatto tests")
include("test_gausslobatto.jl")
println("Bessel roots tests")
include("test_besselroots.jl")
println("Laguerre tests")
include("test_gausslaguerre.jl")
println("Hermite tests")
include("test_gausshermite.jl")

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Descrizione
Lo scoiattolo del Giappone è lungo circa 48 cm, dei quali circa 17 spettanti alla coda. Gli esemplari adulti pesano circa 300 g. Sul dorso la colorazione della pelliccia varia a seconda delle stagioni: in estate è marrone-rossastra, ma in inverno diviene grigia. Il ventre e l'estremità della coda sono bianchi.

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Su Honshu questo animale è ampiamente diffuso nelle regioni nord-orientali, mentre in quelle occidentali, specialmente nella regione del Chūgoku, è molto raro. È presente anche su Shikoku e sull'isola di Awaji, dove però non viene più avvistato da parecchio tempo. Non sappiamo se in passato sia stato presente anche su Kyūshū. Vive prevalentemente nelle foreste di pini, sia di pianura che di montagna.

Biologia
Lo scoiattolo del Giappone si nutre di noci, ghiande e gemme, foglie, insetti e funghi. È un animale molto abile e, seppur privo di pollice opponibile, utilizza le «mani» in maniera simile alle scimmie, ai procioni e agli esseri umani. In autunno, immagazzina noci e ghiande sotto il terreno come riserva di cibo per i mesi invernali.

Gli scoiattoli del Giappone non sono territoriali e i territori di più esemplari si possono sovrapporre considerevolmente. Tuttavia, non hanno una natura particolarmente gregaria e non vengono mai visti in gruppo, a eccezione di quando più maschi penetrano nel territorio di una femmina e competono tra loro per ottenere il diritto di accoppiarsi. Dopo l'accoppiamento, la femmina partorisce di solito 2-5 piccoli, completamente ciechi alla nascita. Essi trascorrono i primi 2-3 mesi di vita accuditi dalla madre all'interno del nido, solitamente costruito all'interno della cavità di un albero.

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Lo scoiattolo del Giappone è una specie molto numerosa, e non sembra essere minacciata da alcun fattore; per questo la IUCN la inserisce tra le specie a basso rischio. Sembra essere minacciato solamente dall'espansione di alcune specie vegetali invasive che stanno soppiantando le naturali foreste di pini, e dall'introduzione, avvenuta nella zona di Tokyo, di esemplari di S. vulgaris, con i quali potrebbe incrociarsi.

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The 1976 United States Senate election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1976. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bill Roth won reelection to a second term.

Candidates
William V. Roth, Jr. (Republican), incumbent U.S. Senator
Thomas Maloney (Democratic), Mayor of Wilmington
Donald G. Gies (American), engineer, perennial candidate and officer in the US Air Force Reserve.
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It's practically a family affair at Southwest Airlines. The company has 1,100 married couples among its 31,000 employees, and spouses and family members are encouraged to join the ranks.
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NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - The NYPD arrested a suspect Tuesday in connection with the triple shooting outside a nightclub in the Flatiron District early Monday morning. A man shot three women outside the Motivo nightclub, killing one. The shooting followed a dispute earlier in the night involving the gunman, the security guards, and a party planner.
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"In addition to teaching Physical Education, I also coach after-school teams and serve as the athletic director for the junior high and high school sports program. I came to Liberty directly after college and have been working here for eleven years. As it turns out, the Lord allowed me to work at the high school I graduated from.
"I love teaching elementary physical education. There is nothing better than forty-five minutes with twenty K5 students.
"The program at PCC greatly prepared me for what I am doing. The education classes are second to none because they gave me the tools needed to effectively educate children. I felt so ready to walk right into class the first day of school.
Math education major Anna Hoduski (KS) has a burden to "be the voice" for unborn babies across America. The idea to "be the voice," which comes from Proverbs 31:8–9, is the slogan for the transcontinental run Anna plans to begin in June 2016 with her sister Sarah Marie. Through this run, Anna hopes to gain more support for unborn babies' right to life.
Anna's burden for the right to life began when she was still in elementary school, but it was during her sophomore year at PCC that God really began to work in her heart about her role in doing something for the unborn. After reading Francis Beckwith's book Defending Life, recommended by her political science teacher, Anna knew that she could defend the right to life from both a biblical and a scientific standpoint. A few days later while jogging near the college campus, she felt God leading her to combine her passion for running and her conviction about the right to life into something that would really get people's attention.
When Anna told her close friend, junior elementary education major Megan Maier (IL), about her idea for the transcontinental run, she hoped Megan would discourage her immediately; however, Megan started helping Anna think about what needed to be done to make the journey happen.
The list is long, but already God has answered prayers. Someone has volunteered to provide running shoes; another person donated a van; and Answers in Genesis has agreed to be a publicity sponsor. Anna's older brother is currently designing a website for the campaign; it will be up and running this June. On the website, supporters can buy T-shirts or make a donation to the cause. Anna is hoping that the website will also encourage churches and other venues to schedule her to speak as she travels across the United States.
In the upcoming months, Anna plans to finish her degree while improving her public speaking abilities in her teaching classes and upcoming internship. She plans to graduate in May 2016, just one month before starting the run.
The run, which totals over 3,000 miles, will begin at the Golden Gate Bridge in California and end 11 months later in Washington, D.C. To complete the trip within a year, Anna plans to run 13.1 miles five days a week with her older sister. Her friend Megan will drive a van in front of them. For lodging, they plan to stay at churches where they are speaking about the pro-life cause.
Like Esther, Anna is only one person, but she knows that small numbers do not limit what God can do. "I am one; but if God will use me, I will give everything," Anna said.
"I am currently the principal at Central Baptist Academy, a ministry of Central Baptist Church in Brantford, Ontario. I also maintain the operation of the school, meet with prospective parents, and review school curriculum. I enjoy interacting with the students, investing my own life into theirs, and then seeing where God leads them in the future.
"The best part of PCC's education for me was its practicality. I have spoken to other principals that have finished a master's degree, and they have told me that they have never used any of the information they learned in classes at their schools. I have used information from every single one of my courses to make me a better principal.
"I have earned certification from the Association of Christian Schools International as both a teacher and an administrator, and I'm now preparing my family to move to Portugal, answering God's call to be career missionaries, assisting the missionary school and training the Portuguese youth for serving Christ.
"My favorite part of teaching is being able to impact my students both academically and spiritually.
"I am responsible for the supervision of teachers, curriculum, student life, and discipline. I started out as a coach and history teacher for several years, and then unexpectedly the Lord allowed me the opportunity to advance and step in as interim principal. I returned to PCC to get my master's and have been principal ever since.
"PCC trained me to strive to do all things with excellence. You may work at a school with a small budget and no technology or equipment, but you can still do things excellently with what you have. As a principal, I prize teachers who do things as unto the Lord and are on time, dependable, self-starters, competent in their subject, and able to kindly and professionally deal with students and parents. PCC's education department expected that of me daily, which really put me ahead of the competition.
After graduation, Zacharias taught at a small Christian school in South Carolina, where he met and married Karen, also a PCC graduate ('87). Soon after, the couple moved to Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, where Zacharias taught at a Christian school before becoming principal. He also coached soccer and was a member of the Old Dominion Association of Church Schools (ODACS) board. He and Karen were happy serving where God had them; little did they know He had even more in store for them.
In 2003, God began to show Zacharias the need for Christians to be involved in politics. "I knew that the Holy Spirit was trying to prepare me for something, but I didn't know what. So I just waited and prayed," he said. Two years later, ODACS contacted Zacharias and asked him to submit his résumé for the position of executive director. The timing was perfect. "I'd have never been willing to give up my Christian school work had it not been for that two-year journey of spiritual preparation," Dan said.
For forty years, ODACS has played a key role in preserving Christian education liberties in Virginia. Now under the leadership of Zacharias, ODACS continues to connect Christian schools across the state, providing opportunities for them to participate in politics as well as fine arts, Bible quiz tournaments, sports, and academic competitions.
"I currently have a full-time administrative position at TIU-FRC. I oversee the curriculum for the undergraduate program and am the point person/contact for all the adjunct instructors for the undergraduate program (except for Elementary Education instructors).
"My duties as principal include supervising staff, enrolling students, managing school finances, overseeing the computer network, working with parents of students and students themselves, and making sure the school is compliant with state laws.
"My favorite part of working in the education field is that each day brings new challenges and victories. Even though the school schedule may be the same, there is never a monotonous routine because I am working with students and staff who have so many interesting and differing character traits. It is wonderful to see students learn academically and spiritually.
"PCC helped prepare me for teaching because of the practical knowledge that the teachers instilled in me during student teaching. Perhaps the greatest preparation was learning how to manage a classroom successfully by setting boundaries and routines to help students succeed. Then as a student teacher, I had the chance to put that knowledge into practice during my internship at PCA.
Aaron said his favorite part of working in the educational field is "teaching and training others. This is my twelfth year teaching, and I enjoy it more the longer I do it.
"In addition to teaching science, Algebra 1 and 2, and Geometry, some of my other responsibilities include running 7th and 8th grade clubs and being in charge of various activities such as the science fair.
"My favorite part about teaching is the interaction with the students. Seeing them grow mentally and spiritually makes teaching more rewarding to me than many other occupations combined. I also enjoy the subjects that I teach. The science field is always growing, and it is fun to tell my students about the new things that are happening daily. In the mathematics field, I am always challenged to grow mentally and to stay at my best.
"My daily responsibilities involve overseeing the daily operation of the upper grades and teaching four classes of junior high Bible and science. My favorite part of the educational field is the interaction with students and parents and the opportunity to have a positive influence in the lives of our students. I enjoy being able to see them accomplish great things and knowing that I have helped to set the building blocks in place for their future endeavors.
"My four summers at PCC really equipped me to be able to face the challenges that come to anyone in the educational field. The classes I took were beneficial because they were practical and informative, not just busy work to complete a degree.
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Sysco Corporation, Sysco är en akronym av Systems and Services Company, är ett amerikanskt multinationellt partihandelsföretag inom främst livsmedel som har verksamheter i fler än 90 länder världen över. De levererar bland annat livsmedel och köksutrustningar till fler än 650 000 kunder som är bland annat restauranger, hotell, hälso- och sjukvårdsinrättningar, militära anläggningar samt utbildningsinstitutioner.

Huvudkontoret ligger i Houston i Texas.

Historik
År 1969 föreslog John Baugh att hans och åtta andra partihandelsföretag skulle fusioneras och bli ett nationellt partihandelsorganisation som kunde leverera livsmedel till varstans i USA. Företagen som gick ihop var Frost-Pack Distributing Company (Michigan), Global Frozen Foods, Inc. (New York), Houston's Food Service Company (Texas), Louisville Grocery Company (Kentucky), Plantation Foods (Florida), Texas Wholesale Grocery Corporation (Texas), Thomas Foods, Inc. (Ohio) och dess dotterbolag Justrite Food Service, Inc. (Ohio), Wicker, Inc. (Texas) och Baughs Zero Foods Company (Texas). Året efter blev företaget ett publikt aktiebolag och börsnoterades. År 1981 blev de USA:s största partihandelsföretag för livsmedel. Den 9 december 2013 meddelade Sysco att man skulle förvärva konkurrenten US Foods, som var USA:s näst största i branschen, för totalt 8,2 miljarder amerikanska dollar. Den 19 februari 2015 meddelade dock den amerikanska konkurrensmyndigheten Federal Trade Commission (FTC) att man skulle vända sig till federal domstol i försök att förhindra förvärvet eftersom det fusionerade företaget skulle då få marknadsandelar på 75% i USA. Den 23 juni dömde den federala domaren Amit Mehta i favör för FTC och fusionen blev stoppad. Den 29 juni meddelade Sysco att den påtänkta fusionen med US Foods hade avbrutits.

Referenser

Externa länkar
Officiell webbplats

Företag bildade 1969
Amerikanska partihandelsföretag
Amerikanska tjänsteföretag
Företag i Houston
Multinationella företag med huvudkontor i USA
Företag listade på NYSE


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YOUR GO-TO GUIDE FOR DORM ROOM DOs and DON'Ts.
BED SET – One of the most important things you will need in your dorm is a nice set bed set. Your bed will be the place where you will spend most of your time studying and doing work in college, and dorm beds can be hard and unforgiving. You can always get a mattress pad to soften things up in addition to a nice, comfy set.
MINI FRIDGE – Every student will need one. Whether you know how to cook or not, you will need this to store your drinks and leftovers. It can also make your dorm feel a little more at home. It doesn't have to be expensive, but it's worth consideration, especially given the number of snacks you will potentially enjoy while cramming work in.
TOTE – In order to keep a clean environment between you and your roommate, a tote will come in handy. It can help keep all your personal hygiene product together without mixing them with your roommates'. It will also keep you from annoying your roommate with dirty items.
MICROWAVE – This is to heat up your leftovers for the most part. What college student will not have leftovers over a long period of time? It'll help you enjoy late night leftovers, popcorn, and meals for your comfort.
ROOMMATE AGREEMENT – If you and your roommate sleep at different schedules, it's best to make suggestions for each other so you can bear living with them. Make rules with each other, and tell each other your pet peeves. It helps with your friendship if you maintain an openness with them, and it may help resolve future conflicts.
NEVER PAY FULL PRICE – There are coupons for students everywhere. You can shop at places like Target or Bed, Bath, and Beyond to get good, cheap stuff made with quality. You will save your money by shopping for less.
FIRST AID KIT – If you're someone who takes a lot of medication, this will be helpful. Also, in cases of emergency, it's good to be the one who's prepared with antiseptic, band aids, and other necessary items. Make sure your kit is fully stocked!
TOWELS – This is self-explanatory, but keeping a few towels will definitely be a necessity for when you shower. Remember that dirty towels will begin to smell, so you should stock up so you never run out or have to use a funky one to dry yourself.
KEURIG COFFEE MAKER – If you're a coffee lover, this will definitely save you money. It also saves you the time of running to Starbucks or a local coffee shop, especially when you are pulling a lot of all-nighters.
LAUNDRY BASKET – Instead of putting all of your laundries into a big pile, it'll be more helpful to keep it into a basket. This helps you stay organized and prevents you from making your place smell. 濫 It will also motivate you to do your laundry more often.
GROCERIES – This helps with your mini fridge. It is not healthy to constantly be eating out. In order to save more money, making your own meals will be convenient. Also, you won't have to get bored with your dining hall food and get to make anything you desire.
SEVERAL PILLOWS – Since you're staying in your bed for the majority of the time to study during late nights, multiple pillows will help you find comfort. It will also help you sleep better when you are under pressure and stressed.
ELECTRONICS – Students now are more on social media than ever. In order to keep track of the latest activities and assignments, a laptop is crucial. This will also help you get your work done more effectively and in a timely manner.


When we prepare this dish at The Real Food Academy, we use freshly made pasta dough. Dough can be prepare with whole wheat flour or gluten free. Kids love making the bow-tie pasta using their fingers as the main tool.


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