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Muons - tiny, electron-like particles - are present in the final stages of many B meson decays, and so muon detection is vitally important for the LHCb experiment.
Located at the far end of the detector, the muon system comprises five rectangular ‘stations’, gradually increasing in size and covering a combined area of ... | <urn:uuid:e0bac2e6-58c7-4922-bccc-06cdf8fcabdd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/en/Detector/Muon-en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892633 | 161 | 3.171875 | 3 |
For the popular musical genre, see soul music.
The soul is the deeper essence of a person. This can be understood in a number of ways. It may be understood as a religious or supernatural concept, with each person having an inner being that transcends death, and can be embodied in spirits or ghosts. A more secular under... | <urn:uuid:990f18ba-f7db-4ee7-834b-8c992ae6c141> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Soul&oldid=100397251 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942071 | 238 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Posted On November 5th, 2012 | Essay Writing
Define Punctuation and Its Functions
If you think that punctuation is one of the circles of Grammar Hell, this article is here to save you from it. So, let’s start with a simple and helpful punctuation definition.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center developed the assessment, which they call a functional diffusion map. They used a magnetic resonance imaging scan that tracks the diffusion, or movement, of water through the brain and mapped the changes in diffusion from the start of therapy to thre... | <urn:uuid:879a8fe6-b13e-4cd6-8045-e537077ccb0f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bio-medicine.org/biology-news/New-imaging-method-gives-early-indication-if-brain-cancer-therapy-is-effective--U-M-study-shows-138-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925916 | 898 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Date of Award
Master of Science
Throughout the Central Hardwoods, fire return interval dramatically increased during the period of Euro-American settlement. Fire was used as a tool for clearing land and improving forage for grazing. The Shoal Creek study site is located in Jackson County, Illinois, 8 km southwest of Mu... | <urn:uuid:46f8337a-5cb7-46a9-9d63-18af762ad4f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/816/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954266 | 619 | 3.125 | 3 |
MATH ENRICHMENTOne activity that students particularly enjoyed were solving multiplication problems that had missing numbers in them. Students had to think through what pairs of numbers could create specific numbers that end with a particular digit that is in place in the problem. Students made up their own examples to... | <urn:uuid:9132f785-7a18-4eec-94a5-b0195ddb7b2f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/lexedukkendall/grade-level-updates/fourth-grade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96616 | 1,200 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Since more than two-thirds of the nation's schools were considered rural during the first decade of the 20th century, the one-room schoolhouse dominated America's educational landscape.
In these cramped buildings, teachers had the daunting task of handling students ranging between 5 and 20 years of age. Memorization an... | <urn:uuid:1ef00dd5-8a30-4f31-88f1-b55b3482e799> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tnonline.com/print/2009/sep/24/tamaqua-teacher-protested-her-40month-salary-09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989319 | 1,101 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Ocean County is the oldest in the nation and will close by 2019. That’s welcome news, given the safety risk and the damage the plant has done to Barnegat Bay by dumping massive amounts of heated water into its delicate ecosystem.
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Yet, not only did Hasnain allow this claim to be repeated in November 2008, Peter Foster in the Financial Post reports that claim was also repeated in September 2009 in the Canadian Globe and Mail (link via Planetark). There we see the following:
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"Messiah" means annointed. Whenever a line of kingship was established, such as Saul, David, or after a disagreement about who should get the throne, the king was "crowned" by being annointed with olive oil. This was also done for the High Preists from Aaron until the end of the first Temple per... | <urn:uuid:c92f1d3c-17b1-4c47-b61d-c42b482b1aa1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/12-07.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956915 | 1,021 | 2.6875 | 3 |
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 7, 1999 |
A few days ago, the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on income and poverty in the United States, including data on income distribution. As it does every year, the Census found a yawning income gap between the rich and the poor. However, the report is a gross exaggeratio... | <urn:uuid:655f8991-1543-4f76-bc47-b05362fd9239> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/income-gap/recent/5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969662 | 787 | 2.6875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: FIRST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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As timber companies divest themselves of million acres of land in the southeastern United States, conservation groups fear that lands now providing habitat and watershed protection will soon fall victim to urban sprawl. Frank Peterman, director of public and political awareness with the Wilderness Society's Eastern For... | <urn:uuid:769e5365-2bca-4c8d-a7fe-5fea34cbb80a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/253/transcript | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978201 | 2,820 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Canada's Abstract Art Explosion During The Automatiste Period
Paul-Èmile Borduas revolutionized the art scene in Canada during the beginning of the 1940s by introducing the concept of abstract expressionism. Originating in Quebec, this marked the first appearance of abstract art in the country. The movement heavily dre... | <urn:uuid:eec8325d-dd81-4c14-9494-71bd6318ace8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.artslant.com/mia/articles/show/33963 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967295 | 525 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Brown Discharge During Early Pregnancy
Brown discharge during early pregnancy is frequently an alarming sign. However, there are cases when this symptom doesn’t present any risks. Such details as the shade of your brown discharge, its consistence, time of occurrence and whether it’s accompanied by other symptoms or not... | <urn:uuid:ad3a3b2e-1b74-4b7b-aba4-9fdfe36c65e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pinkdischarge.net/brown-discharge-during-early-pregnancy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900566 | 742 | 2.875 | 3 |
Trigonometry is usually taught in secondary schools either as a separate course or as part of a precalculus course. It has applications in both pure mathematics and in applied mathematics, where it is essential in many branches of science and technology. A branch of trigonometry, called spherical trigonometry, studies ... | <urn:uuid:34beb344-9c17-4f51-a32d-104f69fe1a53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://enychaiiank.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.790052 | 2,028 | 4.125 | 4 |
I can see most people agree that warm water fish arent going to be found in a cold water habitat and vice versu. If you notice, as you move down stream from a coldwater to cool water then warm you find fish species changing. Its not that the introduced trout are out competeting smallmouth or anyother fish populations i... | <urn:uuid:4f7efe09-445d-4419-b4c4-55a524d78339> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://littleriveroutfitters.com/forum/showpost.php?p=50971&postcount=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98244 | 257 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Eastern Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum)
Description: This is a slender, smooth scaled snake with reddish or brown blotches on a gray or tan background color. There is usually a light "Y" or "V" shaped marking just behind the head. The belly is white with a black checkerboard pattern. Adult length: 2 to ... | <urn:uuid:8c4c5df4-02e8-411f-9ecc-305d806b0f0f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12145_12201-61211--,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942604 | 238 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Whether you have an indoor or outdoor cat, one thing is for certain: your feline friend has probably nibbled on grass on more than one occasion. While it might seem like strange behavior -- especially when your cat throws up afterwards -- there's really nothing to worry about. Not only is there no evidence to suggest t... | <urn:uuid:ce076706-bcb5-4965-a547-894d693d11c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.petmd.com/cat/wellness/evr_ct_eating_grass | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952122 | 522 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, ideas, eco... | <urn:uuid:3750b420-538e-4698-9590-435aaab9b5fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Social_network | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939232 | 1,972 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Case Studies in Botany
David R. Hershey
dh321 at excite.com
Sat Mar 27 19:21:40 EST 2004
I coauthored a lab exercise (Hershey and Stutte 1991) where students
would use simple chemical tests to determine which mineral nutrient was
missing from the mineral nutrient solutions of deficient plants.
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Sperryville in Rappahannock County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
From Slavery to Freedom
During the war, Terry acquired several military relics, including an 1851 Navy Colt revolver and binoculars she took from the body of a soldier while she assisted with a burial. The Union Army of Virginia occupied R... | <urn:uuid:3aeafe57-b9ba-4351-ba9e-c24863e52e7f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=26518 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950906 | 785 | 2.71875 | 3 |
changing the sine function
You need to find a solution of the form
A + B sin (Cx - D)
where A shifts the wave up, here A = 3 as the wave moves around +3
B gives the size up and down, if B = 1 we have a size of 2, so we want B = 3 as we have a size of 6
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Using E-mail in Foreign Language Teaching: Rationale and SuggestionsMargaret Gonglewski, Christine Meloni and Jocelyne Brant
margaret [at] gwu.edu | meloni [at] gwu.edu | brant [at] gwu.edu
The George Washington University (Washington DC, USA)
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Secrets of the pyramids
In a boon for archaeology, particle physicists plan to probe ancient structures for tombs and other hidden chambers. The key to the technology is the muon, a cousin of the electron that rains harmlessly from the sky.
By Haley Bridger
|Illustrations: Sandbox Studio|
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John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 came soaked in symbols and lessons. It was the triumph of vision over experience, rich over poor, East over West, the playboy over the prig. And because a Catholic, for the first time ever, defeated a Protestant, the outcome was said to mark the burial of religious b... | <urn:uuid:52053347-e839-4fb9-8ba9-2a8a1b581c22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1635958_1635999_1634947,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990387 | 380 | 2.890625 | 3 |
In this three part article, I will be addressing the top 3 questions asked by beginning balloon entertainers. In part 1 of 3, I will be discussing balloon stuffing.
Question 1. What do you use to stuff a balloon inside a balloon?
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& Cool Volcanoes: The New England Seamounts
If you drained the water from the ocean basins, some of the most dramatic features you would see are groups or lines of underwater volcanoes called "seamounts", sometimes in clusters and other times stretching across the ocean basin for many miles. Perhaps the best known of t... | <urn:uuid:cc7f8a1a-3985-457c-bebd-5f61387ae44a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/hottopics/seamounts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941386 | 913 | 4.21875 | 4 |
The normal range of blood sugar levels means that you the level of sugar /glucose in your bloodstream is not too high (hyperglycemia) or too low (hypoglycemia). There are two major specific conditions that can affect and make your blood-glucose level raise & maybe reach its peak level. Those conditions are after eating... | <urn:uuid:8e8483f4-f5dc-43cd-b51f-6289377ac404> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthclop.com/blood-sugar-levels-normal-range-after-eating-and-fasting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939184 | 668 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99...
(Hebrew word meaning "house of God").
An ancient Canaanitish town, twelve miles north of Jerusalem, not far from Silo on the way to S... | <urn:uuid:a2f1cc0e-b3ab-4bfb-801d-c62baccb9395> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newadvent.org/cathen/02532d.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948373 | 906 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Our electric grid is remarkably robust, but the next big storm or calamity can still bring costly, disruptive power outages. An entirely new way to monitor the flow of electricity through the grid is giving us deeper insight into its operating state - knowledge that can diminish outages and increase stability. A new in... | <urn:uuid:8c033227-f7b4-4b05-b718-6b290cd9227e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://i4energy.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943703 | 156 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Study the relationship between the hydrologic cycle and weather with this tutorial and animations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed this 25-question quiz on water. The quiz is appropriate for students in grades 6-12.
Features: Online Interactivity, Graphics/Multimedia, Assessment
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August is synonymous with abundance: tomatoes ripen plump and juicy, bell peppers sweeten to sugary red, zinnias flaunt their crayon-colored blossoms and the musky fragrance of cantaloupe wafts from tangled vines. It’s harvest season, so perhaps you’re busy canning tomatoes or freezing pepper slices for winter pizzas. ... | <urn:uuid:11a83684-f0a3-452d-be5d-657d2ff53ab4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hortmag.com/weekly-tips/propagation/harvestinggardenseeds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92132 | 689 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The History and Landscape of Mount Manresa is at RISK of being destroyed by developers! Once it is gone, it is gone…FOREVER.
- Mount Manresa is a ecological treasure for our neighborhood and all Staten Island, located at 239 Fingerboard Road, Staten Island, NY 10305.
- The hills of Mount Manresa were formed 20,000 year... | <urn:uuid:ee900bcf-b8d5-4917-b3f3-8871858fce51> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://savemountmanresa.org/mount-manresa-facts-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961132 | 1,269 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Pen Tool Tutorial Recommended for Beginner Level Photoshop Users
In this Photoshop tutorial we will explore how to use the pen tool.
First, we will look at the pen tool’s basic controls. We will examine creating paths, curvature modification and anchor point adjustments.
Next, on the flollowing page, we will use our ne... | <urn:uuid:dbb633d4-0c1c-48cc-89bb-60a66609100f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/how-to-use-photoshops-pen-tool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877955 | 157 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Automotive gasolines are used to fuel internal combustion spark-ignition engines. While gasolines discussed in this chapter are used primarily in passenger car and highway truck se... | <urn:uuid:4b34a633-0aff-4209-8594-ba294ec848c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/STP/PAGES/STP42067S.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.831341 | 137 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Once upon a time a family of crows lived in a huge banyan tree. There was
a Father Crow, a Mother Crow, and many baby crows.
One day a huge snake came to live in the hole at the bottom of the tree.
The crows were unhappy about this, but could do nothing.
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We don’t know the exact date when the great and powerful Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913) came into this temporal world, but we do know when she left it. One hundred years ago on this day, Harriet Tubman exhaled her final breath and spoke her last words to those at her side: “I go away to prepare a place for you, and whe... | <urn:uuid:81c0ce52-fc1a-455d-b83f-bc5028f6ffdb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/03/10/100-years-later-the-harriet-tubman-symposium/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95977 | 1,772 | 3.125 | 3 |
Fudge, Erica and Gilbert, Ruth and Wiseman, S J, eds. (2002) At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Perdiod. Palgrave.Full text not available in this repository.
What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a r... | <urn:uuid:508b2ed0-937a-49fa-adac-d7e75c345598> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/29575/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829113 | 297 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Torah Portion for week of Tammuz 7-14
Balak send for Balaam
Chariot of God
Today in History - 5 Tammuz
· Galus Yehoyochin occurred on this day, 7 years after Yehoyokim was taken into galus, 433 BCE. Yehoyochin, king of Yehuda, was taken to Bavel together with the leading talmidei chachamim of his time.
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Disease caused by the protozoan parasite (Trypanosoma cruzi) transmitted by bites of blood-feeding Assassin bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae). Occurs in northern South America, Central America, and Mexico.
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CDC Travelers' Health: American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease)
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Cigarette vs Pipe Tobacco
Cigarette and Pipe Tobacco came from tobacco plants which were originally used as an entheogen commonly used is some occult or shamanic groups. Both these two contains different levels of nicotine. For those who did not know, the term nicotine is derived from Jean Nicot, a French ambassador in... | <urn:uuid:8e3bb041-a71a-4e9c-91fc-7b9251db56c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-cigarette-and-pipe-tobacco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9588 | 493 | 2.78125 | 3 |
POST-PLANTING WEATHER COULD DECIDE INSECT THREAT, PURDUE SPECIALIST SAYS
Apr. 22, 2013
Source: Purdue University news release
Farmers should look to the skies for an idea of how active below-ground insects could be in cornfields later this spring, a Purdue Extension entomologist says.
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Hermes Trismegistus and Apollonius of Tyana in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
by Keven Brownpublished in Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahá'í Theology, Studies in the Babi and Bahá'í Religions, vol. 8, pages 153-187
Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1997
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Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was a Ghanaian nationalist politician, prime minister of the Gold Coast (1952-1957) and of independent Ghana (1957-1960), and Ghana's first president (1960-1966). His policy of "African socialism" led to links with the communist bloc.
Originally a teacher, he studied later in both Britain and ... | <urn:uuid:46cfd963-cb6b-445e-9733-8685266ad89e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.famouswhy.com/kwame_nkrumah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964321 | 291 | 2.9375 | 3 |
|Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1989. 27:
Copyright © 1989 by . All rights reserved
According to classical definition (Hubble 1926, de Vaucouleurs 1959, Sandage 1961), elliptical galaxies contain no dust. Galaxies with dust have usually been given So or later-type classifications. Now sensitive searches are finding that... | <urn:uuid:239f61d2-f5e0-40ff-985a-83a319a76304> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Sept01/Kormendy/Kormendy4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906051 | 3,550 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Beginning of the program
The program code begins in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Beginning of the program named BouncingBall02.
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William Harvey (15781657). On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. The Harvard Classics. 190914.
VIII. Of the Quantity of Blood Passing Through the Heart from the Veins to the Arteries; And of the Circular Motion of the Blood
THUS far I have spoken of the passage of the blood from the veins into the arteries, ... | <urn:uuid:c5331e1b-9ae8-456e-9b96-9d3baa19b215> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bartleby.com/38/3/8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957608 | 1,228 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Cashed Coal Plants
As the US struggles to agree on an energy policy, Canada is telling energy providers that they’ll have to gradually close their coal plants when they reach the end of their commercial life, which in most cases is 5 to 15 years from now. As a weekend story in The Globe and Mail explains, the companies... | <urn:uuid:9bfd4a15-606f-461f-9afe-e3aa7a63ad69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://grist.org/article/cashed-coal-plants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956173 | 873 | 2.625 | 3 |
According to Susan K. Perry in Playing Smart, the more a child uses brainstorming skills, the more creative a thinker she will be. Brainstorming is thinking up as many answers to a question as possible. Below are some ideas to get you started. After you've brainstormed for a while, brainstorm some new brainstorming top... | <urn:uuid:5de41c6d-eab7-4cb3-a864-4bd2ed9335c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fun.familyeducation.com/writing/activity/37067.html?cc=us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944318 | 351 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Detox With Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth
Throughout our daily lives, we encounter a large number of toxins in the air, in our food, and on surfaces we touch. Our world is literally crawling with bacteria, viruses, toxins, and parasites, which can have a negative impact on our health. These harmful materials can attach ... | <urn:uuid:2accf67f-2de8-4dc3-9293-0bf1d68cff90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.diatomaceousearthusa.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958535 | 692 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Hercules and Perseus
By these arms the monster of Nemea lies crushed; upon this neck I upheld the sky!
—Hercules, in Ovid, Metamorphoses:197–198
Hercules (the Greek Herakles), one of the many sons born of Jupiter’s liaisons with mortal women, was the most admired of the classical heroes. In the Renaissance, he was reve... | <urn:uuid:9f4b12dc-33b2-4b81-9c85-8f6e2dd03362> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hero/hd_hero.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00067-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971373 | 699 | 3.5 | 4 |
The professions of accounting and finance, like most professions, have developed a complex jargon of terminology with specific meanings, particularly in accounting and financial contexts. And while this terminology may seem confusing at first, the concepts behind the jargon are often not that complex and relatively eas... | <urn:uuid:7ef19380-ea9a-430f-8c5d-15a8fdf0e156> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/definition-sales-vs-revenue-22279.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969109 | 394 | 2.96875 | 3 |
The U.S. and U.N. Response to the AIDS Crisis in Africa
T-NSIAD-00-99: Published: Feb 24, 2000. Publicly Released: Feb 24, 2000.
- Full Report:
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed its recent reports concerning the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic in sub-... | <urn:uuid:8ec35075-de6e-4769-a7aa-a7f8301e9255> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gao.gov/products/T-NSIAD-00-99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944367 | 392 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Jason DeParle has written an extremely important article for the New York Times on how family structure shapes economic outcomes.
There is a data-rich passage (“A Broadening Gap”) that is particularly helpful. It opens by drawing on the work of sociologists Bruce Western and Tracey Shollenberger, who document the house... | <urn:uuid:6ac74c5a-f61a-4f94-a8f4-7c62b283a71b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/309436/jason-deparle-changing-family-structure-reihan-salam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956746 | 703 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA
Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on the southern Amazon jungle than logging, NASA has determined with an innovative use of satellite data that has yielded the first-ever regional estimate of these hidden fires.
Based on the informat... | <urn:uuid:ac794596-0174-4caa-af7d-eb2002efe5e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/comment/1402626 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9494 | 630 | 3.46875 | 3 |
The display below shows six atoms packed together in a closest-packed arrangement. This particular geometry is octahedral. In the very center of this octahedron is a hole. This hole is said to be a octahedral hole because the hole is surrounded by six atoms (the coordination number is six).
Take note that the size of t... | <urn:uuid:c2acd1ec-ec48-4887-a1d1-5265ce106e3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/Crystals/OctahedralHole.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901732 | 332 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The military strategists of the British Empire have long
had an actual plan for the military conquest and enslavement of the entire
planet, and this plan for global conquest was based on the military realities
which they believed any would-be world conqueror would encounter. The British
strategic plan for world conques... | <urn:uuid:a3392a08-e138-45fe-826b-da0e67a9f31c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://educate-yourself.org/cn/britishstraegyglobalconquest29jun05.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956712 | 2,850 | 3.296875 | 3 |
It’s been said that whoevers owns the dominant narrative in the courtroom wins.
How do you make sure that your story becomes the dominant story?
In Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die: Made to Stick, Chip Heath and Dan Heath provide six simple elements for creating narratives that stick. These elements are:
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One of the things that uses up the most energy in a home is hot water. And all of that heat is wasted as it drains away into the sewage system. The EcoDrain device pictured above allows you to partially warm up incoming cold water with the heat from the outgoing hot. It’s a heat-exchange system, and isn’t exactly a new... | <urn:uuid:ee33390f-3073-455f-81b0-7d62c35b13d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ohgizmo.com/tag/home-improvement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957291 | 254 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Smart Renewable Energy on Public Lands
Guest post by Hayley Connolly-Newman
Earlier this month, the EPA issued guidelines which would reduce coal generated power in each state by 6 percent over the next 15 years. This would give states the opportunity to reduce carbon emission amounts by choosing from other types of en... | <urn:uuid:4ff7c485-fd3e-4add-b1b3-7f68ab0f9a37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.nwf.org/2014/07/smart-renewable-energy-on-public-lands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955917 | 709 | 2.875 | 3 |
The demographics of health issues are similar to other rural areas, where there are higher numbers of elderly. In 2007, persons over 65 composed 21.4% of the island population while it was 11.7% in Washington State (Bureau, 2009). In 2007, the average life expectancy at birth was higher in San Juan County than the stat... | <urn:uuid:9c747e26-a586-4de1-b2f9-520d7ca30fe0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slideshare.net/guestf21450b/san-juan-county-health-project | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900854 | 5,727 | 2.78125 | 3 |
If the stressful situation is very intense or continues over a period of time,
the adrenal cortex becomes increasingly involved in the stress reaction. The
activity of the cortex is largely controlled by blood levels of
adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH, which is released by the anterior pituitary
gland. When informat... | <urn:uuid:5ca4201f-aa46-491c-9983-f565691c2d04> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthy.net/Health/Article/Stress/1609/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93401 | 752 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Like me, you’ve probably been following the remarkable story of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student targeted by the Taliban because of her efforts to promote girls’ education. On her sixteenth birthday, July 12—celebrated worldwide as “Malala Day”—a still-healing Yousafzai delivered a moving speech at the United Na... | <urn:uuid:dbee88f8-0daa-42bc-b69c-3f683a5472ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://firstperson.oxfamamerica.org/2013/07/beyond-malala-five-stories-of-girls-education-in-pakistan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981044 | 975 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Show Number 908
How Do Toys Work?
When the Slinky's inventor Richard James, a naval engineer, and his wife decided to demonstrate their new toy at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, they feared that no one would buy it because it was so simple. They were so worried they gave a close friend a d... | <urn:uuid:49d9ccb6-715e-4b84-a29b-7ddbf8eea082> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/slink.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942088 | 1,223 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Biologist Seeks Wolves' Return to Rockies
ALBUQUERQUE − A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist says returning wolves to the Rocky Mountains is "a chance to undo a great wrong" done when wolves were exterminated from about 98 percent of their range by the mid-1900s.
Steve Fritts said he believes the region from nort... | <urn:uuid:3952f446-c7d0-4461-bafd-e76f46e0e7e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/385/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964644 | 542 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Here’s another entry to add to our list of contagious behaviors (which currently includes yawning and driving like an old person): sniffing. In this study, the researchers had participants sit in an “odor clean room” and watch the movie Perfume, which contains “28 movie sniff events (MSEs) where a character takes a sni... | <urn:uuid:19de4075-66b2-466e-aa46-99f5ef98a29e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/07/30/apparently-sniffing-contagious/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953602 | 428 | 2.96875 | 3 |
This brings us rather neatly to an explanation of the Foveon X3 sensor, which has some fundamental differences to conventional CCD or CMOS image sensors. Although it still relies on the photoelectric properties of semiconductors, in this case each photocell actually has three semiconductor receptors, buried at differen... | <urn:uuid:c0d38355-db01-4fd6-a09f-f7f0fd530510> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/digital-photography-tutorial-camera-sensors_Page-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930734 | 669 | 3.234375 | 3 |
John Thomson (1837-1921) was born and brought up in Edinburgh. In 1862 he left Scotland to join his elder brother in Singapore.
While in Singapore he began to take serious photographs. Travelling to what is now Thailand, he photographed the Siamese royal family. He also visited Cambodia – where he became the first pers... | <urn:uuid:6f15d510-ebd8-4729-8fb0-42e403da8d7d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://digital.nls.uk/thomson/introduction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980458 | 474 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Teacher evaluation criteria always generates controversy.
Measurement tests that are designed to determine the characteristics of a given teacher, learner’s performance test score and teacher’s performance in the classroom have been used as the primary techniques for teacher evaluation, but it is not always effective.
... | <urn:uuid:ae30b50c-6af9-430d-bed7-961975cbaed8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://drpfconsults.com/steps-to-determine-effective-teacher-evaluation-criteria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967403 | 957 | 3.125 | 3 |
A 16-year-old is playing a key role in making energy more affordable.
"If we can incorporate methane as a fuel source for cars, gas prices will skyrocket down," he said. "I'd rather not have a portion of my limited income on gas."
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Back in Time: Hieroglyphics in Ancient Egypt
There are over 500 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Students will use the Internet to translate their names into hieroglyphs. They will use the translation to design a clay cartouche.
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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Two people in Utah have died following exposure to hantavirus, a rare but deadly disease of the lungs spread by rodents, health officials said on Tuesday.
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This item is a Java simulation relating to work done by a spring. As a spring is stretched to its elastic limit, the movement is recorded on Force vs. Position and Work vs. Position graphs. Users may view the graphs in stepped motion to see how the position of the spring is related to the amount of work done.
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Indiana's War: The Civil War in Documents, Richard F. Nation, Stephen E. Towne, eds. Ohio University Press, 2009. xx + 252 pp. $18.65 (paper).
Indiana's War in Documents A Review by A. James Fuller (University of Indianapolis),Published on H-CivWar, April, 2011.
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With the passage of the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act of 2010, in addition to improving school meals, Congress required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to update nearly non-existent nutrition standards on so-called competitive foods. These are foods sold outside the school meal program, including fast food items sol... | <urn:uuid:3e4e4285-e168-473f-93e8-d1156346b133> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/blog/2060/about-us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958083 | 985 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Dermatitis is a skin inflammation. Eczema is the most common type of dermatitis.
Eczema first appears as an episode of itching and redness of the skin. You also may have tiny bumps or blisters.
When eczema develops into a long-term condition, it is called chronic eczema. This leads to:
Thickening of the skin
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The old joke about the Human Development Index is that it was designed to show Americans how many countries were better than us. Typically, Scandinavian and Western European countries would fill the top ten, pushing the United States, discouragingly, into the mid-teens. But not this year. On the occasion of HDI's 20th ... | <urn:uuid:bc07b921-fb11-4a3c-8b53-048aa348696a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/forget-gdp-here-are-the-most-advanced-countries-in-the-world/66460/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950197 | 608 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The percentage alcohol in mashed and fermenting mixtures never exceeds. since the yeast plant cannot live in fluid containing a larger percentage.
Resume writing services
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Doubtful Descent of Human Rights from Stoicism
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Popular Health & Physical Education Games
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When the Great Flood of 1927 occurred, Jackson Countians rushed to help the people of the Mississippi Delta who experienced a shocking loss of life, homes and possessions.
Newspaperman Arthur Smith wrote about the disaster and how aid was rushed to the Delta from this area.
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When one thinks of the Renaissance, usually one pictures Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, or the Medicis. But if you travel westward from the Italian countryside, cross the vast western European taiga forests, and swim to the British Isles, one encounters the greatness of the English Renaissance. Here, it is not about ... | <urn:uuid:43fc1bc8-4300-44fe-b40b-785af8246ec8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thewaldorfway.blogspot.com/2012/01/star-crossd.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956076 | 855 | 2.984375 | 3 |
My first job is to find the fossils
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From age zero through sixteen, there was one top priority that I had with my daughters: Make sure that they grew up to be “free-thinking” individuals. Whether you have a young son or daughter, the importance of raising a free-thinking child is more important today than ever before.
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'Brain changes' seen in young American footballers
- 1 December 2014
- From the section Health
Some teenagers appear to show changes in their brains after one season of playing American football, a small study suggests.
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The Capital Asset Pricing Model or CAPM
, is a model that is used in corporate finance to evaluate the expected return of capital assets
based on their systematic risk
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The Voting Rights Act – its constitutionality and its future
June 26, 2013
Guests: Gary May and Heather Gerkin
The Voting Rights Act which was passed in 1965 to prevent racial discrimination in voting practices gives the federal government the right to approve any changes in election laws in nine states, mostly in the ... | <urn:uuid:f2917cc1-46d8-4344-9c3b-33411b733ba6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2013/06/26/the-voting-rights-act-its-constitutionality-and-its-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962727 | 257 | 2.875 | 3 |
Go ahead: stress him out a little
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
Learning on the edge
Ignition: why stress works
Deep practice: after stress, what next?
Stress that works: schools that challenge
Skateboarders, snowboarders, and kayakers all know it is true: a little competition goes a long way. Without that touch of adrena... | <urn:uuid:b2e06d8a-edf9-4620-8790-993d1f2c3535> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/stress-essential-for-teenage-learning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968053 | 901 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Changed to Sarah
|The first matriarch of the Jewish People.|
Sarah was Abraham’s wife. She married Avram when that was still his name and her name was still Sarai. They lived in Ur Casdim (Ur of the Chaldees).
They always wanted children, but never had any. At one time, Sarai even told Avram to use a surrogate mother a... | <urn:uuid:2a85a505-5dd6-43db-8a9f-4f839a40b68f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.akhlah.com/jewish-heroes/torah-heroes/sarah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992127 | 334 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Jan 05,2007 00:00
Bend Weekly News Sources
As January gets under way, public health officials in the Oregon Department of Human Services are encouraging people to make emergency planning one of their New Year resolutions.
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- Gather your materials. You will need some construction paper or cardboard, black foam or paper , some paint, glue, scissors and a pipe cleaner.
- Draw a big A on the cardboard/ construction paper.
- Have your child paint the A in fun bright colors, we used the dot a art paint dobbers.
- Keep going with a new paint co... | <urn:uuid:f774578b-5b39-484e-aa97-0d9dbab7d908> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2008/08/letter-of-the-week-aa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915659 | 359 | 3.625 | 4 |
- So far, most of the discussion of Lieberman's Jewishness has focused on a particular religious practice: sabbath observance.
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Learn About A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol, probably the most popular piece of fiction that Dickens ever wrote, was published in 1843.
Dickens’s Life When Writing A Christmas Carol
- Late in 1842 or early in 1843 Dickens begins work on Martin Chuzzlewit.
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Climate and the Carbon Cycle: Unit Overview
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NOTE TO USERS: This module is still under development. Content has not yet been finalized for classroom use.
Why teach about carbon and the earth system?
Carbon, like water, is essential to life as we know it on Earth. It is a component of our DNA and of the f... | <urn:uuid:bb799de9-e712-4363-8577-cde7213668d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/carbon/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906751 | 753 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Sargon II (721-705 BC) was an Assyrian King. He took the throne from Shalmanassar V in 722. It is not sure if he was the son of Tiglatpilesar III or an usurper unrelated to the Royal family. In his inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors, and he took the name 'Sharru-kinu', tr... | <urn:uuid:630a450c-0b7d-47dd-a512-172ade754ade> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Sargon_II_of_Assyria.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977756 | 2,108 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Laura Nielsen for FrontierScientists
We know that the Arctic holds unique climate conditions and a complex carbon balance. Tundra fires and thawing permafrost release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, while unique ocean currents and cold waters prompt higher levels of ocean acidification. Methane emerges from sea and... | <urn:uuid:d955f305-b38d-4238-919b-fc1a3c8e8afd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://frontierscientists.com/2012/10/portal-toolik-field-station/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897871 | 981 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American guitarist. His earliest and strongest musical influence was Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, Byrd collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Sam... | <urn:uuid:fbdb278c-8c17-43aa-bad6-8765a8bb0993> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/08/14302650-corcovado-composed-by-antonio-carlos-jobim-performed-by-charlie-byrd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955761 | 773 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Since WCARRD, held in 1979, there has been greater emphasis on the reduction of poverty and improved nutrition and on increased self-reliance in rural areas, particularly at the household level. To achieve this, there have been efforts to improve the awareness of decision-makers and planners of the role played by women... | <urn:uuid:f087bd15-0fbe-4c2b-b0ec-5d28cc6d4ccc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/docrep/V4805E/v4805e01.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953696 | 979 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Studies Find Payoff, Drawbacks Persist for Pupils in Preschool and Child Care
Both the positive and the negative effects of spending long hours in organized child care and preschool are evident even after children move into elementary school, two new studies show.
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