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Building networks in Visual Basic or C# is easy.
To represent a node, make a node class that includes a list or collection of links. This class should also include a label, X and Y coordinates, colors, and anything else you need to draw the node appropriately.
The following code shows a simple PathNode class. It includ... | <urn:uuid:d6d06a7f-501e-444e-b350-40a7365159cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/38666/0/page/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935331 | 1,438 | 3.65625 | 4 |
A Little about Diminutives in Spanish
When you want to make a diminutive in Spanish, a little change can make a big difference. To indicate that something is small or little in Spanish, you add a few letters, called a suffix, to the end of the noun. With that suffix, you create a diminutive, and people know that you’re... | <urn:uuid:0a56d755-d426-4db6-a2c6-24dfd866e72f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/a-little-about-diminutives-in-spanish.navId-323280.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846812 | 203 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Sandra Brooke, Ph.D.
University of Oregon
Deep-water topographic features are abundant at various locations off the southeastern United States, the SW Florida slope and the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Deep-sea corals are major components of these features, acting as framework-builders and providing habitat for other organi... | <urn:uuid:171e6257-9e6b-4387-8d72-fd9d433db88a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05deepcorals/background/mission_plan/plan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920252 | 1,380 | 3.921875 | 4 |
European Crane Fly
Table of Contents
The European crane fly, Tipula paludosa Meigen, is a native of Eurasia. It has traditionally been a pest of turf in areas with a maritime climate in North America.
The first reported appearance of this insect in Canada was in 1955 on Cape Breton Island. The first reports from wester... | <urn:uuid:efc937aa-762c-4719-88e5-ac576cfd9cbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/13-023.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949588 | 1,486 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Neurontin addiction and abuse
Addiction to anything is composed of the main disorders including failure to control a behavior, increased tension prior to a behavior and pleasure while experiencing the behavior. There are specific symptoms for every addiction. These symptoms are experienced repeatedly. It is diagnosable... | <urn:uuid:6d7fb152-28cc-4430-883b-2a3125dc9c3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.neurontin-gabapentin.com/neurontinaddiction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953215 | 834 | 2.53125 | 3 |
WP Minify version 0.7.0 is here!
What’s new this release?
This version of WP Minify has the following enhancements.
- Added the following advanced options:
- Minification on external files
- Extra arguments for Minify engine
- Removed wp_path option (Thanks Jan Seidl!)
- Fixed Output Buffer conflicts with other plugins... | <urn:uuid:f9dd2dab-9271-45fd-8c3c-898276a2123d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://omninoggin.com/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914934 | 1,277 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Could the Ukraine Crisis Spark a World War?
The rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Slovyansk, and Odessa in the past week sounds alarms that should be heard more clearly in Western capitals. The strategy Washington and the Eu... | <urn:uuid:15d3cbd9-6faf-4852-96e7-3f4923b6a4c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nationalinterest.org/feature/could-the-ukraine-crisis-spark-world-war-10387?page=show | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967595 | 2,909 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Ornate Horned Frog
Ornate Horned Frogs are large frogs, up to 10 inches in length. They are strong and pugnacious, with a huge mouth, large teeth, and a wide body. They are covered with bumpy warts on their upper sides. They are intricately colored, with geometric patterns of yellow, red, and green on a dark background... | <urn:uuid:5b18694d-4d0d-4758-bbae-a87b8c1e8215> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://resourcelibrary.clemetzoo.com/animals/92 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964271 | 244 | 3.09375 | 3 |
World Climates & Vegetation
Terrestrial Ecosystems (from Soils & Veg)
- The tropical rainforest is earth's most complex biome in terms of both structure and species diversity.
- Tropical forests, covering 7% of the earth's surface area, contain perhaps 50% of the world's species.
- It occurs under optimal growing condi... | <urn:uuid:09bdfeea-c070-4f1c-9537-61acd38d2c9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/tbw/wc.notes/15.climates.veg/notes_chap15.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891096 | 178 | 3.625 | 4 |
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, VA.- The University of Richmond Museums
presents "Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection", on view from March 20 to May 14, 2010, in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art. The exhibition features art in which pattern, texture, and rhythm are the primary elemen... | <urn:uuid:0ec631bb-7a12-4913-bcb5-5a2a36be1a5c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36841&int_modo=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95505 | 625 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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What is art?
The segment about a series of illustrations for the book "The Divine Comedy", to me is one of the most fascinating passages in the movie. As they scroll through various proofs and prints for the book, Milton remembers using the monoprint technique for the illustrations... | <urn:uuid:33972e08-9fc4-438d-881f-f2b8e673f2b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.graphic-design.com/design/milton-glaser-inform-and-delight?page=0,2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945388 | 985 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The control module is the control center of the fuel injection system. It constantly looks at the information from various sensors (inputs) and controls the systems (outputs) that affect vehicle performance. The control module also performs the diagnostics of the system. It can recognize operational problems, alert the... | <urn:uuid:6ed1f8af-8f26-4420-9fcd-cf3e8e1001fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.justanswer.com/chevy/3jgtu-physical-location-ecm-1993-chevy-suburban.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928815 | 772 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Easter Island : A Case Study in the Response to Resource Depletion
This is a guest post from Ralph Faggotter (also known as fingolfin).
This is a case study in which you are invited to answer the question, “What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?”
For a several years, I h... | <urn:uuid:1468a5ad-abb8-454a-9ff1-6d73a4588837> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-04-08/easter-island-case-study-response-resource-depletion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973457 | 2,171 | 2.5625 | 3 |
CERF gives $7 million to help people affected by conflict in Mali
24 July 2012: The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has given US$6,896,415 to humanitarian partners in Mali to aid conflict-affected people.
Some 146,000 Malians have been internally displaced, and over 191,000 have sought refuge in n... | <urn:uuid:7afcd4ea-19ab-43fd-94bd-af26cf82196f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unocha.org/cerf/cerf-worldwide/where-we-work/mli-2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94941 | 495 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The Olympic torch was lit, then re-lit, in the Games' spiritual home of ancient Olympia as the flame began its long journey from Greece to London for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In a typically grandiose ceremony, the flame was lit by Ino Menegaki - "an actress who has studied classical song, music and movement".
She... | <urn:uuid:2b293bd6-608b-4715-8bd5-ba2563eb52b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/london-2012-olympic-torch-is-lit-826844 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970806 | 1,488 | 2.53125 | 3 |
South Carolina became the second state to drop the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) last week after Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill calling for the state to develop its own educational standards. But many schools in the state had already begun implementing Common Core standards — and they were getting positive results... | <urn:uuid:5a3a9d2a-8c0b-40df-bb0b-ca0d13566c3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/education/2014/06/05/3445341/common-core-south-carolina/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968587 | 773 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Experts agree that long-term alcohol abuse is detrimental to memory function and can cause neuro-degenerative disease. However, according to a study published in Age and Ageing by Oxford University Press today, there is evidence that light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may decrease the risk of cognitive decline or de... | <urn:uuid:7627d592-e789-476b-ab20-6408fde01781> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Research-suggests-alcohol-consumption-helps-stave-off-dementia-79724-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960976 | 634 | 3.34375 | 3 |
In their analysis of data from the 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 administrations of the SCS, Robers et al. (2010) found a decrease in the percentage of students ages 12 through 18 reportingcriminal victimization at school in the 6 months prior to the survey. While 9.5 percent of students reported being victims of an... | <urn:uuid:aa7d3961-f5c5-40cc-85b7-2a2ee431f08e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2012/2012314/section1.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964814 | 462 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The numbers are nuts: More than 25 million people in the United States have diabetes - and that's almost 10 percent of the population.
Here's what's even crazier: Making just one key lifestyle change can cut your chances of developing type 2 diabetes by roughly one-third, suggests a new government study that collected ... | <urn:uuid:924d5eb5-af59-484e-a84e-8123a1920fe7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20120115/NEWS/120119895 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942695 | 550 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Motivating students to be (enthusiastically) receptive is one of the most important aspects of mathematics instruction and a critical aspect of the Common Core State Standards. Effective teachers should focus attention on the less interested students as well as the motivated ones. Presented in this blog post are nine t... | <urn:uuid:0332aa41-1ea5-4ed2-9220-e401052a2ef8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edutopia.org/blog/9-strategies-motivating-students-mathematics-alfred-posamentier?page=19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938304 | 1,022 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era'
- 19 November 2015
- From the section Health
The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.
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Easter Sunday is a religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It falls on a different Sunday every year between March 22 and April 25 as it follows a lunar calendar (usually the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20th).
Easter Sunday marks the end of Lent Season, a period of 40 da... | <urn:uuid:06b85cc7-4cf4-4e3d-9787-136a93938ac4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://birthdayalarm.com/cat-11/holidays/easter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956531 | 146 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Rodney Whitaker and Kenneth Prouty:
Jazz—diversity of a nation
Jan. 22, 2014
Rodney Whitaker is a University Distinguished Professor of jazz bass and director of jazz studies in the College of Music. Kenneth Prouty is an associate professor of musicology and jazz studies.
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1 actions, bearing, carriage, comportment, conduct, demeanour, deportment, manner, manners, ways
2 action, functioning, operation, performance
Dictionnaire anglais Collins English synonyme-Thesaurus
behaviour ( behaviours plural )
in AM, use behavior
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Funding Gaps in the QBE Formula
The QBE Formula is intended to represent the cost of a providing a Quality Basic Education in accordance with minimum State standards, but there are substantial differences between the estimated and actual costs in various parts of the formula.
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If Excel data is on different sheets, you can create a pivot table using multiple consolidation ranges. It's better if the data is all on one sheet, but if you don't have that option, multiple consolidation ranges will pull all the data into one pivot table.
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Up to 1903
Ever since the beginnings of recorded history, humans have pursued the dream of flight. Mankind’s ancient dream to fly was finally realized with the first balloon flights in the late 18th century. During the 19th century, deliberate scientific experimentation with kites, gliders, airships and powered aircraf... | <urn:uuid:662c339f-93e1-434c-8a18-3298d56529f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cradleofaviation.org/history/permanent_exhibits/the_dream_of_wings/dream_of_wings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964378 | 120 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Digital Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Cats
Cats can be afflicted with several types of skin tumors, even on their feet and toes. One type of tumor that can affect the toes is a squamous cell carcinoma. A squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) can be described as a malignant and particularly invasive tumor that takes hold in the sc... | <urn:uuid:28fdd41e-a449-476f-a25c-6d4ca52054a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/cancer/c_ct_squamous_cell_carcinoma_digit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943505 | 817 | 3 | 3 |
There are a lot of ways you can be out by a factor of 2 or 4, but it is very hard to be out by a factor of three. Furthermore, I understand the basic concept of counting modes. I know how to do it in two dimensions for electromagnetics, and know how to do it in three dimensions for a gas. I thought I knew how to do it ... | <urn:uuid:6c083e1a-762c-4c63-8678-8b8c74a2378c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://marty-green.blogspot.ca/2011/02/counting-modes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959765 | 1,060 | 2.75 | 3 |
Animals Matter in a Disaster
Animals Matter in a Disaster
Don’t Put You Or Them at Risk. Make a Plan Now.
Following the severe 6.2 quake in the lower North Island on Monday (20/01/14); the expected aftershocks; and as the third year anniversary of Christchurch’s deadliest earthquake sadly approaches next month (22/02/1... | <urn:uuid:8dd66b75-3773-4e49-8eac-ffea7ce4a6ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1401/S00085/animals-matter-in-a-disaster.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944971 | 901 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Five Greatest American Military Victories
A few days ago, we wrote about the greatest American defeats in the history of the military. Now it is time for the greatest victories. Everyone loves a winner and here in America, we love to remember the times we’ve won the battle. These battles go through many wars and I’ve c... | <urn:uuid:be8b72c6-b600-43fc-9411-c54652e71d64> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://myfivebest.com/five-greatest-american-military-victories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982222 | 1,648 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This is the sixth article in the Medical Management "Signature Series" by Managed Care Resources, Inc. -- articles on topics in managed care written by experts in the field.
The authors of this article are Ira H. Rosenberg
and Mary Sajdak.
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Prepare Your Child for Kindergarten
Leaving home to attend kindergarten for the first time can be thrilling in that scary exciting way. As a parent you want to find ways to ease the transition and prepare your child for the upcoming changes that the world of kindergarten represents. Preparing for kindergarten means get... | <urn:uuid:e4c75ce2-6988-40bd-b74b-d127a4417f0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.momswhothink.com/education/prepare-for-kindergarten.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967459 | 579 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Life-saving role of heart attack centers confirmed in new studyNovember 13, 2012 in Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Recent studies questioning the role of specialist heart attack centres produced misleading results because doctors tend to send the sickest patients to have the best care, according to new research.
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..Why do fish have nostrils if they can't sniff?
This is perplexing my mind.:lol:
Posted via Mobile Device
Yes indeed. Fish have 6 senses, one more than we do. With us they share vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, and in addition fish can detect low frequency vibrations and since they make use of this when swimmi... | <urn:uuid:fa7bb66a-f6e5-4010-9686-952d7e09451a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/printthread.php?t=56896 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948041 | 565 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Learn what to expect in the new updates
Let’s start with a simple example.
text() function in the pyplot module (or
text method of the Axes class) takes bbox keyword argument, and when
given, a box around the text is drawn.
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Minor in Interdisciplinary Studies: Ethnic Studies
Do you already have a degree or want to expand your current
one? A minor in ethnic studies will give
you an awareness of race, ethnicity, culture, and diversity that complements
your major course of study.
To expand your expertise and learn about other cultures and
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So the transition is conservation, drill in ANWR and elsewhere, more oil from the oilsands and shale, temporarily ramp up biofuels and alternatives, ramp up nuclear and wind and solar, convert to more efficient cars, trucks, rail, planes, ships and industry and shift from liquids to electrification. Shift more freight ... | <urn:uuid:e962a015-dc95-4dc1-bad3-344757e168d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nextbigfuture.com/2007/11/transitioning-from-oil.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935017 | 706 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Many movies hitting the big screen over the last few years base their storylines on a common premise. They question reality, or the "real world" we think we know, pointing out that artificially-created dream worlds, and environments produced by computer simulations, can be convincingly realistic. These "fictional" stor... | <urn:uuid:d9473fae-072f-4049-8199-05c505fa719a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bookglobal.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=1_9&product_id=716 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953651 | 229 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Plant and Animal Care
Plant and Animal Care: Bulbs
Background. Bulbs are most often found in the subterranean world along with roots, but are not roots themselves. A bulb is a short piece of stem with a bud at one end and roots at the other. Around the bud is a compact capsule of modified leaves. The leaves are thick w... | <urn:uuid:eb37158d-3745-435c-9df6-a54c4e5bfef5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fossweb.com/plants-and-animals?organismID=D2669839 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957115 | 351 | 3.640625 | 4 |
At the heart of any photovoltaic (PV) system is the inverter, also referred to as the power conversion unit (PCU) or power conversion system (PCS). Its primary function is to convert the direct current (DC) output of the PV array to alternating current (AC) that can be used to power conventional building loads.
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The boreal muse of The Group of Seven
Creating a national identity from a palette of boreal colours
Story by Mitchell Gray
In Tom Thomson’s painting, The Jack Pine, a ragged tree hovers beside a desolate, yet somehow inviting lake,
as timid yellow light looms over dark, snow-pocked hills in the distance. Whether that t... | <urn:uuid:d09333e8-004c-4a97-bba1-80d56fe0edb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/jf04/indepth/history.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959691 | 1,362 | 2.8125 | 3 |
void as a type. Why on earth is "void" a type? It has no instances, it has no values, you can't use it as a generic type argument, formal parameter type, local type, field type or property type. It has no meaning as a type; rather, it is a fact about what effect a method call has on the stack of the virtual machine. Bu... | <urn:uuid:d3d58dd8-c22b-4395-b731-4af68a72aa95> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/40219/c-or-net-features-to-cut-off-assuming-no-backward-compatibility-needed/116610 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936524 | 306 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Something could be lurking at the edge of the solar system. Something big—two to four times larger than Earth—and dark. It might be a planet, slowly orbiting, and pitched away from the rest of the solar system. The only evidence comes from a half dozen dwarf planets circling the sun in strange, skewed, far-away orbits.... | <urn:uuid:f65a23d7-479f-440a-8aa2-f200f43b0ed9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wired.com/2016/01/this-isnt-the-first-time-astronomers-have-found-a-planet-nine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959294 | 1,345 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Observing System Products
Ocean Data Synthesis
The key objective of the ocean observing system for climate is to characterize the state of the ocean in adequate detail to monitor and understand climate variability and change in the ocean as well as its interaction with the atmosphere. To this end the observing system p... | <urn:uuid:4657c220-3fad-4e56-96d6-10bfa404d9a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oco.noaa.gov/oceanDataSynthesisProduct.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934386 | 499 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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More to Solar Cycle Than Sunspots
Sun also bombards Earth with high-speed streams of wind
Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. The study, led by scientists at the... | <urn:uuid:fbe04bfa-3059-435b-801e-f534bc3bb753> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115595 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954327 | 1,459 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Was it a Mistake?
In the most important and best-documented slave insurrection in Southern history, Nat Turner, son of an African-born slave mother in Southampton County, Virginia, led an uprising of sixty or seventy slaves. As his remarkable confession indicates, he was a precocious youth and became a preacher motivat... | <urn:uuid:5d33af5f-583f-463a-b5f3-e8e507450627> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1826-1850/the-confessions-of-nat-turner/was-it-a-mistake.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970247 | 406 | 3.21875 | 3 |
How to improve your musical ear through ear-training
All musicians of any kind can benefit from developing his or her ear. Some people are born with a better ear than others, of course, but those of us who don’t have a great natural ear can still improve a lot through the use of ear-training drills.
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Introduction to Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi
In 1995, design patterns were all the rage. Today, I find the exact opposite. Patterns have become commonplace, and most developers use patterns on a daily basis without giving it much thought. New patterns rarely emerge today t... | <urn:uuid:e02e3dc7-a1d2-4a17-a435-3b5d1ec6b20e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1850815 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939661 | 725 | 2.84375 | 3 |
From The Great Pumpkin to pumpkin pie to pumpkin spice lattes, the pumpkin is an American icon. Nothing signals the start of autumn like the arrival of pumpkins. Originating in Central America over 7,500 years ago, archaeologists discovered the oldest domesticated pumpkin seeds in the Oaxaca Highlands of Mexico. These ... | <urn:uuid:eeebc489-5196-4e2f-9182-d828406ec4d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://toriavey.com/history-kitchen/2013/11/pumpkin-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967157 | 1,133 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Credit: Pam Ruiter
For the last three years, Environmental Defense Fund Europe has been working in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Spain through a nation-wide project focusing on the sustainability of small-scale coastal fisheries. Small-scale fishing is the lifeblood of many coastal Spanish communities. In ... | <urn:uuid:365f956f-2df6-4309-8182-29c7f38c468b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/tag/small-scale-fisheries-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940866 | 1,098 | 3 | 3 |
Microsoft PowerPoint Guide
by John Monyjok Maluth
Microsoft Office PowerPoint is a presentation software. We use this software to create presentations and share them with students or other viewers. You can make presentations for your lessons or sermons depending on what you want to present. In this course, we will look... | <urn:uuid:9032f18c-5512-4c07-bbde-93936c9beda8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.smashwords.com/books/tags/microsoft_2013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867082 | 82 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In 1786 and 1787, farmers in western Massachusetts rebelled against the state government in a series of uprisings known as Shays’ Rebellion. Led by Daniel Shays, the movement took place before the Philadelphia Convention had convened. Since the U.S. Constitution was a product of the Convention, Shays’ Rebellion did not... | <urn:uuid:d780e615-1fef-4fed-9437-0e4e843035c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://classroom.synonym.com/did-farmers-shays-rebellion-protest-constitution-18056.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972589 | 600 | 4.375 | 4 |
It isn’t uncommon to hear a homeschool mom who is having a less-than-studious day say something like, “We are learning life skills today!” We laugh understandingly, but in the back of our minds we wonder,
“Can you do that?”
As a matter of fact, YOU CAN!
If you are actively and purposefully teaching your children, it is... | <urn:uuid:4184edf7-aab9-45d6-a52b-dcff07bbe84e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.raisingarrows.net/2011/10/does-that-count-as-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929177 | 463 | 3.046875 | 3 |
How Pets Can Help Kids with ADHD
From The Pet Wiki
Children who have been diagnosed with ADHD can benefit from caring for and playing with a pet. If you are on the fence about bringing an animal into your family and you have a child with ADHD, consider these points:
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Alan MacDiarmid, Conductive Polymers, and Plastic Batteries
Until 1987, the billions of batteries that had been marketed in myriad sizes and shapes all had one thing in common. To make electricity, they depended exclusively upon chemical reactions involving metal components of the battery. But today a revolutionary new... | <urn:uuid:310fb1fd-4f77-4c7c-a551-4e39edd9dadc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/macdiarmid.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941628 | 1,680 | 3.734375 | 4 |
The National Zoo's Antarctica Expedition is sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs.
All photographs depicting Weddell seals were taken under NMFS Permit No. 763-1485-00 issued under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Capital Expenditure, Lactation Energetics, and the Imp... | <urn:uuid:73a648ee-1c63-4f7d-8ad4-290a56305557> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/AquaticEcosystems/Antarctica/Science/details.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963741 | 1,139 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The Mediation Process
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Family mediation is a co-operative problem solving process in which a neutral third party, the mediator, assists separating and divorcing spouses to work out their own, mutually acceptable, terms of separation. By definition, mediation is a process wh... | <urn:uuid:2db9c1bd-d82a-4720-91d4-7e63a5eed7b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dianedanois.com/mediation/family-mediation-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961313 | 1,411 | 3.015625 | 3 |
China and southern Africa have received growing international attention in recent years, but for very different reasons. As a rising, rapidly modernizing power, China -- already a permanent member of the UN Security Council -- is now on the verge of coveted G8 membership and a powerful role in the World Trade Organizat... | <urn:uuid:3fdb4b5b-b83b-40af-847c-fc14890ebfae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2004/12/28/2003217063 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942346 | 613 | 2.671875 | 3 |
from what i have gathered, this is part of a research programme held in collaboration with the national institute of education (nie). when the reptile was captured, they would first syringe some blood from it. the lizard would be put to sleep with a lethal injection. in the laboratory, they would dissect the big lizard... | <urn:uuid:fa325b79-ca13-4a20-b65a-cee9b00c58a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ivyidaong4.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977488 | 234 | 2.6875 | 3 |
We don't think of the internet as something with an actual, physical size, but if we gathered all the information online in one place, how big would the storage have to be? XKCD has answered that question.
Randall Munroe, creator of the XKCD webcomic, has recently been delving into answering science and technology rela... | <urn:uuid:1ceba0b9-b2dc-445f-9edc-f7aa2f50035d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://vr-zone.com/articles/how-much-physical-space-does-the-internet-take-up-/18217.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965984 | 387 | 3.25 | 3 |
Medical Definition of acid–base balance
: the state of equilibrium between proton donors and proton acceptors in the buffering system of the blood that is maintained at approximately pH 7.35 to 7.45 under normal conditions in arterial blood
Variants of acid–base balance
Seen and Heard
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Table of Contents
- What Is Information Security?
- Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) Definitions
- A Functional Definition of Security
- Security Web Site Favorites
- The Complexity of Hacking
- The Ten Commandments of Information Security
- Evangelizing IT Security: Why is There a Need?
- Three Reasons Why Users Won't B... | <urn:uuid:73d62956-12b0-4942-8e88-866ba42a72e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=security&seqNum=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928547 | 1,804 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Conservatives got their name because they wanted to conserve important aspects of their own tradition.
What conservatives wanted especially to defend were particular forms of human identity and connectedness. For conservatives, the need for these forms of identity and “relatedness” is an unchanging part of our human na... | <urn:uuid:ff3956ad-658c-4b11-b59a-3350f9e2695d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ozconservative.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-is-conservatism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963357 | 2,114 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Under certain conditions, you can ground all metal parts of enclosures used for wiring the elements of a separately derived system (SDS) by the grounded neutral conductor on the secondary side of the transformer. This includes the transformer's secondary conductors.
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June 25, 2012 - The human gut is home to a teeming ecosystem of microbes that is intimately involved in both human health and disease. But while the gut microbiota is interacting with our body, they are also under constant attack from viruses. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have analyzed a ... | <urn:uuid:07fed5fd-3311-40d9-a75d-b021fdc8570f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/cshl-gmb062012.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929823 | 1,125 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Ring-necked Pheasant: Large chicken-like pheasant; metallic-brown body, iridescent green head, white neck ring, red eye patch and wattles; tail long and pointed. Sub-species identified by male plumage; white wing coverts in mongolicus group, with coppery upperparts, and in chrysomelas/principalis group, with orange or ... | <urn:uuid:d08a5a87-809f-4b7e-912c-d3e7b9b93f3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/261/behavior/Ring-necked_Pheasant.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924471 | 486 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The Blood Bank is critically low in five different blood types, O negative, O positive, A positive, B negative, and AB negative.
According to Jessica Golden, of the Blood Bank of Alaska, type-O (oh) blood is incredibly important in the state:
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GORMFLAITH - A NAAS WOMAN?
BRIAN BORU’S WIFE A NAAS WOMAN
With the political unification of England under the Norse King Eadred in the 10th century, the old game was up for the Dublin Vikings. There would be less and less raiding as the Norse built up Dublin to be an economic environment. Apart from an unsuccessful sie... | <urn:uuid:2b7ab423-d7b4-4c79-ba4a-318ae3a7da41> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kildare.ie/library/ehistory/2008/02/gormflaith_a_naas_woman.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981777 | 1,459 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Conventional Anaerobic Digesters <ul><li>Work well if the feedstock is macerated and/or screened </li></ul><ul><li>However both the capital and running costs may be high </li></ul><ul><li>Problems occur when the waste is unsorted or contains high levels of fibre and grit. </li></ul><ul><li>To overcome silting and block... | <urn:uuid:ed4a5cb6-7491-4e33-ac91-e34d2f8aef2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slideshare.net/nationalrural/bioplex-technologies-nov-2007all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.839846 | 1,082 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Fish and Fisheries
NEFSC has been studying Northeastern U.S. seafood species since 1871
Federal fishery scientists have been studying marine life on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf for over 140 years, focusing on those species that are:
- the most valued by commercial or recreational fisheries,
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February 7, 2002
New studies seek better treatment, prevention for genital herpes
|HS News & Community Relations|
Researchers at the UW are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.
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June 19, 2012
Salty Diet Can Lead To High Blood Pressure
Eating a high-salt diet for several years may damage blood vessels – increasing your risk of developing high blood pressure, according to research reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. People with this type of blood vessel damage who eat... | <urn:uuid:fe79c6ea-01d6-47fa-b6b4-5f3f8815a951> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112641314/salty-diet-can-lead-to-high-blood-pressure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950284 | 610 | 3.171875 | 3 |
I've come across Spanish sentences where the article is followed by a possessive adjective or demonstrative adjective, followed by a noun. Normally, it is either the article or the adjective + noun, ...
I usually use the possessives mi and mío interchangeably. For example: Esta es la casa mía. Esta es mi casa. However,... | <urn:uuid:d0b325c7-ac14-42bf-b5d6-a9b2ad27bb60> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/posesivos | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902333 | 145 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Persons using assistive technology might not be able to fully access information in this file. For assistance, please send e-mail to: email@example.com. Type 508 Accommodation and the title of the report in the subject line of e-mail.
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Recently in Technology Category
The revolution in mobile healthcare continues to accelerate: More than 40 million smartphone owners now actively use at least one wellness or fitness app and by an overwhelming margin, they report that their health is improving because of it.
So why is the Federal Communications Commissi... | <urn:uuid:ed7f648b-3247-415c-be84-63c12f318c83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.technicaljones.com/technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946295 | 2,063 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Course: Psychology 459, Spring 2007, Generation 26
Instructor: Dr. Leon James
Introduction to Theistic Psychology at www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/theistic/ch1.htm
My Home Page: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/459s2007/lastname/lastname-home.htm
Class Home Page: www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy26/classhome-g26.htm
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Out of an estimated total of 14,500 - 17,500 individuals trafficked in 2004, 5,200 - 7,800 were Asians and Pacific Islanders, comprising the largest group of people trafficked into the U.S.
U.S. Department of Justice. Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Washington, D.C.: Author; 2... | <urn:uuid:64d59f3c-60c0-4bab-9953-f403eb5cc65f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.api-gbv.org/violence/trafficking.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898588 | 1,364 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The vegetation in the area is made up of mangroves and patches of desert scrub and salt flats. The dominant species of mangroves are Button mangrove (Conocarpus erecta), Red Mangrove (Rhyzopha mangle), White Mangrove (Avicenia germinans), and Black Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa). Other important species include Turtl... | <urn:uuid:b6e695f4-5792-4b65-a1c2-530a4de704a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.whsrn.org/site-profile/playa-ceuta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903361 | 408 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Demographic and social trends will have a significant impact on the workforce in the coming years. Thus, in today's struggling global economy, it is more important than ever that organizations leverage the knowledge, skills and abilities of all workers--from all generations. By capitalizing on the strengths and values ... | <urn:uuid:a1a14314-85b8-4b92-a6fc-75522ed1af7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://textosdeinteresse.blogspot.com/2009/10/multigenerational-workforce-opportunity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923884 | 7,693 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second AmendmentBy Nelson Lund and Adam Winkler
Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and b... | <urn:uuid:5919bbb2-18ed-48e2-9856-8b61682160b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-ii | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966906 | 1,393 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Definition of Drug resistance
Drug resistance: The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand a drug that once stalled them or killed them.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016
Drug Medical Dictionary of Terms by Letter
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Traditional building crafts
The preservation,conservation,restoration and repair of historic buildings, structures or heritage sites demands that craftspeople are practiced in the use of traditional building materials and methods. Such typical traditional building crafts include:
- bricklaying and craft masonry
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[gdal-dev] OGRGeometry Distance
yilmaz.arslanoglu at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 11:06:39 EDT 2009
I wanted to compute the distance between two points,
and for this reason I tried the "OGRGeometry::Distance" member function.
However, I saw that this function only returns the linear
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We already know that energy efficiency offers a “vast, low-cost energy resource” … so why has a new report, Energy Efficiency in the South, triggered a strong reaction from Grist, the New York Times, and many people online?
Maybe the reaction was generated by the prestige of the research team that collaborated on this ... | <urn:uuid:afaa8b2c-c00f-4aaa-8d42-9800ed839517> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2010/04/14/energy-efficiency-south-duke-georgia-tech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937349 | 695 | 2.921875 | 3 |
If you are a principal looking to globalize education in your school and better prepare your students for the global innovation age, there are several ways for you to engage with our work:
- Global Competence
- School Design
- International Studies Schools Network
- Curriculum Support
- Language Learning
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What Is Adaptive Cruise Control?
Cruise control, as applied to automobiles, is a system that will maintain a preselected rate of travel. The driver simply decides how fast they want the car to go, locks in that speed, and the vehicle will continue to travel as such until the system is either disengaged, or the car runs... | <urn:uuid:68fb7e75-58a5-4c54-b81a-6032f41f12a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.autobytel.com/car-ownership/what-is-adaptive-cruise-control-113845/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947743 | 736 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Perplexing labels, unique classifications and unfamiliar regions, all in an arduous language. Confused? Let’s look at Germany and Austria’s wonderful wines, demystify the label and decipher the varying levels of quality. This is a puzzle you will definitely enjoy completing.
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The Pitfalls of Mind-Brain Dualism
But hold the phone. Who or what controls thought? Where does thought come from? Mind-brain research of course shows that thought comes from the brain. Without the brain, there are no thoughts, as far as neuroscience can tell. So what Begley describes in the article (I haven’t yet read... | <urn:uuid:fe4ffa63-4c6d-4b5c-869a-0b381ce0d9be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://centerfornaturalism.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942877 | 811 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Letters And Sounds Phase One
Posted 15 January 2012 - 06:38 PM
I am working in pre-school and really want to get more done on letters and sounds. i brought our letters and sounds pack home this weekend and have scanned it and i like some of the activities. I just want to check if i am understanding this correctly.
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While walking my dogs on the edge of the Norfolk Broads the sleek outline of a kestrel glided over the stubble fields and made a beeline for an old oak.
A few crows and a magpie rose from the greenery and chased it off, presumably to protect a nest or young. But then another kestrel joined the action, swooping round th... | <urn:uuid:143cf408-3e72-44be-81eb-02143e90710f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/john-ingham/504418/John-Ingham-on-bird-teamwork-national-birds-and-the-Florida-panther | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942841 | 1,014 | 2.515625 | 3 |
While Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering America for the European world, some see the Newport Tower in Rhode Island as evidence of an earlier contact.
Widely accepted to be the remains of a windmill built in the 1700s, the squat round tower shows archeological signs that it was shaped by much older trans... | <urn:uuid:4e04bd79-1ad7-4a72-aef8-dae5696d1d7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/newport-tower | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972133 | 286 | 3.5625 | 4 |
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Tibetan macaques have long, dense, grayish brown fur. The whiskers and beard are lighter than the top of the head. Infants are blackish with silver, which changes to yellow at age 2
Head and body length
Subtropical evergreen forest to mixed deciduous temperate forest at 800-2000m (... | <urn:uuid:ca4f8fe5-6f3b-4a50-82b1-9a66efc51408> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwvir/VirusInfo/pages/tibetan1_jpg.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860442 | 185 | 3.1875 | 3 |
CORVALLIS, Ore. The potential of forest biotechnology to help address significant social and environmental issues is being "strangled at birth" by the rigid opposition of some groups and regulations that effectively preclude even the testing of genetically modified trees, scientists argue in a new report.
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Autism clusters in California
U.S. researchers have identified 10 locations in California that have double the rates of autism found in surrounding areas, and these clusters were located in neighborhoods with high concentrations of white, highly educated parents.
Researchers at the University of California Davis had ho... | <urn:uuid:6a2ea6d6-5187-4f80-ae29-685d62a0cd72> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/40902/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958443 | 243 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Yuletide Trivia and Fun Facts
This article was written by Dorothy Morrison
posted under Pagan
So you think you know all there is to know about Yule? The history and origins and how certain delights came to be? Test your knowledge by reading some of the... | <urn:uuid:8b24c864-22d6-4d7e-928a-c9a101d4f051> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/print.php?id=1418 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958577 | 772 | 3.125 | 3 |
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This chapter reports pilot work investigating the potential of Evidence-based Dialogue Mapping to scaffold young teenagers’ scientific argumentation. Our research objective is to better unders... | <urn:uuid:42321950-7f9b-4746-ac2c-1e5467bbaa10> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oro.open.ac.uk/11767/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87523 | 391 | 3.21875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education, on Monday, released a new report that compares high school graduation rates by state using what it says is a more accurate and common measure.
In Connecticut, according to the report, 83 percent of all students in the class of 2011 graduated. For black students, that numbe... | <urn:uuid:5b0e29d5-f81e-4e29-b937-105a335322f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.ctnews.com/education/2012/11/26/how-ct-graduation-rate-stacks-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963277 | 368 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Apple has been called “groundbreaking” for its innovative phones and user-friendly computers, but the word took on a much more literal meaning this week when a construction crew in Madrid broke ground for a new Apple Store and discovered the remnants of a 15th century hospital.
The hospital was used to treat victims of... | <urn:uuid:b4d64ea1-e1c6-4298-9f84-cf8f702867dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/14/apples-latest-groundbreaking-discovery-a-15th-century-ruin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960925 | 286 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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