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Obesity is big news in the media today. Everyone wants to get involved (including the government - check out yesterday's big news regarding a sugary drinks ban here), they want to fix it, to discover what is causing it, and to do this without putting in the actual work required to make the necessary changes in ones lif... | <urn:uuid:1bf51d38-0062-46ff-a9d7-ea55c28f60ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/new-study-links-social-jetlag-to-obesity-smoking-insomnia-and-drinking?cid=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951601 | 679 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Physics help from experts.
Famous Filipino physicists have not received the same amount of recognition as their North American or European counterparts. We hope the following provides some balance to this perspective. Some of the individuals listed below were trained in or worked in the United States. Although not all ... | <urn:uuid:c591fe17-0e9c-47fe-a355-97c0e5afe27b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.physics247.com/physics-tutorial/famous-filipino-physicists.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952996 | 324 | 2.765625 | 3 |
How to Knit Easy steps
If you want to learn how to knit, you came to the right place. Below are easy steps that will help you understand the process as well as have a general idea about the topic. But before starting with the steps, you need to know the basic concepts about knit. Knitting is a method by which thread or... | <urn:uuid:f2d75ae4-73f1-48a1-b041-b53174f40d33> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://learnthis.org/knit.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973142 | 246 | 3.75 | 4 |
Whitman left school in 1830, worked as a printer's devil and later as a compositor. In 1838–39 he taught school on Long Island and edited the Long Islander newspaper. By 1841 he had become a full-time journalist, editing successively several papers and writing prose and verse for New York and Brooklyn journals. His act... | <urn:uuid:890de5e8-e6c5-4b89-8d60-e3ffa8858fa9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/whitman-walt-early-life.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983229 | 145 | 2.828125 | 3 |
This is a fascinating news item. Hold on to your beanie hats with the propellers on them.
Scientists may have actually detected the grain or pixels of the universe. This may mean that our reality, everything we see and do, our entire universe in fact, is like a 3-dimensional holographic image of sorts projected from so... | <urn:uuid:ef23431d-e47d-46f0-a5fa-aa73f5740a3e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://theness.com/roguesgallery/index.php/general-science/the-universes-pixels-and-holographic-reality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942631 | 1,360 | 3.5 | 4 |
The Cop Column
Sgt. Rick Hord
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
The Birth of the “Terry Stop”
The 40th anniversary of an incredibly important day for Law Enforcement in America has passed without fanfare.
It was on June 10, 1968 The United States Supreme Court recognized “Stop and Frisk” as constitutionally reasonable u... | <urn:uuid:a31868ee-d0d4-44e7-896f-0fc6fc3bb75a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/pdfs/newsreleases/2008/cc072008.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970068 | 696 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Network Working Group
Request For Comments: 826
David C. Plummer
An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol
-- or --
Converting Network Protocol Addresses
to 48.bit Ethernet Address
for Transmission on
The implementation of protocol P on a sending host S decides,
through protocol P's routing mechanism, that it wants to tr... | <urn:uuid:4bffe318-2b43-4d51-b6cc-11d7a318ecc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cotse.com/CIE/RFC/826/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867005 | 556 | 2.71875 | 3 |
How do I start using standards?
What are the challenges I will face?
How do I assess students' progress?
How does technology complement this approach?
How do I introduce standards to the parents and community?
Dr. J. Arthur Jones of the organization Quality Education for Minorities talks about whether standards can suc... | <urn:uuid:05b54b50-0083-4f7e-b0dc-a3724a046e17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/standards/explor_sub1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969963 | 1,688 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Image arithmetic and flat-field correction
Operations can include addition and subtraction, as well as logical operations either between images or between an image and a constant value. Image arithmetic is a fundamental building block in many vision systems. In particular, image subtraction is often used to highlight d... | <urn:uuid:ac108177-6c36-4ae6-957e-2fc623803205> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.commonvisionblox.com/en/knowledge-base/image-arithmetic-and-flat-field-correction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929132 | 220 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Almost half of India's wildlife funding goes to the Bengal tiger, recent reports have shown.
"Project Tiger", a conservation project to protect India's Bengal tiger, is apparently receiving almost NZD$37 million of the nation's NZD$75 million wildlife budget for 2012-2013, an article in Live Mint reported.
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Southeast Australian rainfall outlook
Issued 27 November 2013
The chances of exceeding the median rainfall during summer are greater than 60% over Tasmania. So, for every ten summer outlooks with similar odds to these, about six or seven of them would result in above-average rainfall over these areas, while about three... | <urn:uuid:8945c64f-0ee0-4de6-8f9c-f882d0481f17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/archive/rainfall/20131127.rain.seaus.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941152 | 299 | 2.75 | 3 |
Is All Screen Time Bad For My Preschooler? Maybe Not.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends two hours or less per day of screen time (television, video and computer games, tablets, smart phones, e-readers, etc.) for kids over age two and no screen time for kids younger than two. The rationale is that too much s... | <urn:uuid:f3db029e-8396-4acb-a84b-ba97354a59f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/fitness-fact-article/3640/is-all-screen-time-bad-for-my/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949822 | 528 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Citation: Clem RJ, Passarelli AL (2013) Baculoviruses: Sophisticated Pathogens of Insects. PLoS Pathog 9(11): e1003729. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003729
Editor: Richard C. Condit, University of Florida, United States of America
Published: November 14, 2013
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I thought this section of del Boca’s article was really interesting, because I think a lot of countries with histories that are often somewhat shameful fall into this same trap. Italy made a symbolic gesture to “absolve” the sins of colonialism, but still fails to own up to the grave moral wrongs committed.
Honestly, t... | <urn:uuid:4b4ad1c5-4971-4f49-bb29-ff81265f1818> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.dickinson.edu/italiancolonialism/2012/04/25/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973037 | 1,959 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Topic: Can't Operate - Too Close to Blood Vessel??
Several members have posted that they can't have resections because the tumors are too close to blood vessels. In 2006, jules posted that her father had undergone an unsuccessful resection because the tumor was too close to a major artery, the vena cava. Surgeons at Ma... | <urn:uuid:81afc4bd-5b8e-4f36-9c6c-e8ca65c3882e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=69754 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976862 | 180 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Perhaps it was a mistake for 20th Century Fox to invite a group of scientists to the preview of its new disaster movie. Before it began, the climatologist Mike Hulme asked the audience to consider whether good science and good film making could go together. A few minutes later, it became pretty obvious that the answer ... | <urn:uuid:ef0c908e-5c1f-4a38-9bcf-256c9c28668c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May2004/Monbiot0518.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962938 | 1,729 | 3.171875 | 3 |
What is a real world example of a logarithm?
Last edited by delgeezee; January 9th 2012 at 12:03 PM.
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Originally Posted by delgeezee What is a real world example of a log function? A basic concept in Information Theory is the Entropy os a random variable. Given a random var... | <urn:uuid:369f8f35-601f-4bfe-b2c7-aa6cfa8c1821> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathhelpforum.com/calculus/195072-real-world-example.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892288 | 130 | 2.75 | 3 |
The search method described above applies directly to binary search trees. As above, the search begins at the root node of the tree. If the object of the search, x, matches the root r, the search terminates successfully. If it does not, then if x is less than r, the left subtree is searched; otherwise x must be greater... | <urn:uuid:a0614e8c-a629-4a74-9dcf-50face26fa0b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus4/html/page305.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922017 | 339 | 4.03125 | 4 |
If a chemical splashes into your eye, take these steps immediately.
- Flush your eye with water. Use clean, lukewarm tap water for at least 20 minutes. Use whichever of these approaches is quickest:
Wash your hands with soap and water. Thoroughly rinse your hands to be sure no chemical or soap is left on them.
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Galvanization, or galvanisation is the process of applying a protective zinc
coating to steel or ... The zinc protects its base metal by corroding before iron, for
better results application of chro...
Hot-dip galvanizing is the process of immersing iron or steel in a bath of molten
zinc ... The process is inherently s... | <urn:uuid:1c4efcd4-e526-4b71-b220-487eabb3489f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ask.com/web?qsrc=3053&o=102140&oo=102140&l=dir&gc=1&q=What+Is+The+Process+Of+Galvanizing+Steel+And+Its+Advantages | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889349 | 472 | 3.21875 | 3 |
DETROIT -- A Wayne State University researcher has developed technology that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.
Yong Xu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Engineering, has developed a simple technology compatible with silico... | <urn:uuid:d3d491ff-f87c-41fc-8af2-3a902c1a0a83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/wsu--wsn083012.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945293 | 593 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Birth of the Cherokee Constitutional Crisis
Chronologies, timelines, news stories and press releases about the Cherokee Nation constitutional crisis began with the serving of the search warrant at the tribal complex on Feb. 25, ignoring the action or inaction that led to the search warrant. The crisis actually began wh... | <urn:uuid:37fd5f8f-477b-485f-a23b-c0188eeed4bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/Cherokee/News/CNCtimeline.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938368 | 6,820 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Reasonable cause is a standard of proof. It is applied to a set of facts or actions to prove whether a reasonable person would have come to the same conclusion or acted in the same way given the totality of the circumstances. The standard is part of the tests applied ... | <urn:uuid:36802b91-fbcf-4466-a62b-b0cb4b57c2ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-reasonable-cause.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96988 | 840 | 3.265625 | 3 |
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Plane crashes, emergency landings, even mid-air medical emergencies... they happen rarely, but response crews are always prepared for the worst.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires airports to put on full-scale disaster response exercises once every three years.
But to be sure they're rea... | <urn:uuid:dce0b46b-8df5-4659-b74e-0ab6068909af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/Preparing-for-the-worst-260364411.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966587 | 212 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Education in any social environment is influenced in many ways by the traditions of these environments. As a consequence the results of such education will naturally differ with different traditions in different environments. Indeed, this is necessary since one of the intentions of education is to support the tradition... | <urn:uuid:1b773b27-195e-465b-8838-0fb2327d3c21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mathunion.org/o/Organization/ICMI/bulletin/49/Comparative_East_West_Asia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950535 | 9,123 | 2.828125 | 3 |
FLRU 2520 Russia Today
- How did perestroika aid in the expansion of organized crime in Russia?
- Why was the transition from the black market in the Soviet period to organized crime after the disintegration of the USSR successful?
- Describe how growth of organized crime in Russia after 1991 can be attributed to the g... | <urn:uuid:95681cf8-49af-4d34-9f68-37f863185a1b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/FLRU2520/study-guides/RussianMob.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950483 | 192 | 2.796875 | 3 |
|part of speech:
||not proper or appropriate.
The drunk man was thrown out of the restaurant for using unsuitable language.
- adequate, appropriate, right, suitable
- similar words:
- improper, unbecoming, wrong
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Dakshinamurti Stotra, translated by Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, , at sacred-texts.com
"Whoso hath highest love for God, and for the Guru as for God, to that Mahatman, the truths here taught shine in full." (Svetasvatara-Upanishad, VI., 23). These are the words with which the Upanishad concludes its teaching and with which ... | <urn:uuid:6d605ddf-3516-45b7-a815-136ccaa264ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sacred-texts.com/hin/dast/dast04.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966601 | 16,662 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Synonyms / Related
Definitions of nurse:
- noun: one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
- noun: a woman who is the custodian of children
- verb: treat carefully
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Estrogen replacement therapy is the use of commercial estrogen preparations in women who are not producing normal (pre-menopausal) levels of estrogen. Because ERT can have certain undesirable side effects (which will be described in more detail later), Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is more commonly used. The only d... | <urn:uuid:47ef58ad-bff8-4fcf-9061-63486db2f0c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.macalester.edu/academics/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/Estrogen/ERT.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908571 | 1,861 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The brain can be a messy place. Thankfully, it has good plumbing: Scientists have just discovered a cleansing river inside the brain, a fluid stream that might be enlisted to flush away the buildup of proteins associated with Alzheimer's, Huntington's and other neurodegenerative disorders.
The researchers, based at the... | <urn:uuid:e7732fce-fd6b-45f4-9f07-d0cf98c4cd3d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-cleaning-discovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945953 | 944 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Number Ten - Wright and More Families - Saybrook Creek
Written by Joshua G. Borthwick and originally published
on July 12, 1879, in the Catskill "Examiner". Copy
provided by the Durham
Center Museum and retyped by Annette Campbell
As we proceed eastward, and southward from Saybrook Hill, we come to
Saybrook creek, whic... | <urn:uuid:ce0614e3-09fa-4ce7-ab3e-d9b7106f8e71> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/borthwick_number_10.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986313 | 1,593 | 2.640625 | 3 |
"Literature or fiction is not a knowledge, but it is not only a site where knowledge is produced it is also the location of a range of knowledges. In this sense the text always exceeds the history of its reception." Belsey p 432
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Here’s another one of my “Best of…” lists. This time it’s focused on websites to support writing instruction/reinforcement for grades K-12.
You might also find these other writing-related “The Best…” lists useful:
The Best Posts On Writing Instruction
The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online
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Costa Rica comprises only 0.01 percent of the earth's landmass (less than 20,000 square miles), yet it is home to five percent of the planet's animal and plant species. There are more species of plants and animals per acre in Costa Rica than anywhere in the world. Biodiversity is evident everywhere: 10,000 species of p... | <urn:uuid:1848fc0a-f9b9-4466-a176-eb94ff34a418> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://greenleafcostarica.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=42&Itemid=253 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946758 | 713 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Epidural Stimulation Could Combat Paralysis
- Created: Tuesday, 08 April 2014
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Sudden, unexplained reddening of the skin can be extremely embarrassing and worrying. This is referred to as blushing and is usually a normal response if embarrassed, angered or experiencing distress or any other strong emotions. Flushing of the face may be accompanied by redness on the neck, arms and chest. This occur... | <urn:uuid:1581db4d-c320-49da-a06e-4cd0ebcb289a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.md-health.com/Flushed-Face.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933731 | 831 | 3.171875 | 3 |
If there’s one place where the Internet of Things makes sense, it’s agriculture. From vast fields of soybeans, corn, and a different variety of corn, to the backyard garden, knowing how much sun, and rain crops get can vastly increase yields. For their Hackaday Prize project, [Adam] and [Shane] are building a board des... | <urn:uuid:aac5fe96-36d9-458b-a8bf-f868912579ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hackaday.com/tag/sensing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934836 | 522 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) combined with clinical care has been shown to benefit people with depression, anxiety and emotional distress from illness, according to an evidence-based review in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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This Easter: Chocolate Egg Hunt has a special surprise with meaning for children.
Hide hollow chocolate eggs instead of plastic or real eggs. Make sure there are enough eggs for each child to have one, and limit the hunt to one egg each. Gather the children and tell them that before they unwrap or eat their eggs, they ... | <urn:uuid:8b7ab042-268d-4239-9716-eb0219c4e249> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://childrensministry.com/articles/chocolate-egg-hunt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961214 | 132 | 2.71875 | 3 |
From Middle English upheven, from Old English ūphebban, ūpāhebban (“to lift up, raise up, exalt, rise in the air, fly”), equivalent to up- + heave. Cognate with Dutch opheffen (“to lift, raise”), German aufheben (“to lift, raise, cancel, repeal”).
- (transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
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The Metrical Dindshenchas (Author: [unknown])
- At Inber Cichmaine, though it be narrow, was slain (a mighty onslaught) far-famed Maine, son of Medb and Ailell, exulting in fury of warlike combats.
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Definitions for DISS
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word DISS
diss, insult, affront(verb)
treat, mention, or speak to rudely
"He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"
An insult or put-down.
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Study Could Help with Weight-Loss
Have trouble counting calories? Try counting dollars instead. A new study conducted by Carnegie Mellon Professor George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp of the University of Pennsylvania, found that dieters lost more weight when cash incentives were part of the plan.
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An elevator that leads into space might sound farfetched, but scientists have been seriously considering it for years — and work at the University of Connecticut could end up being a key part of it actually happening.
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Storytelling has long been used as a tool for evangelism. After all, Jesus spoke in parables to spread the Gospel. While not a parable, The Story of a Nail offers a message of God's goodness and provision as told through narrative and illustrations. The pam... | <urn:uuid:e4470c4c-b030-46d1-8fba-cb81d7315d03> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/bulletin/bu1303.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933886 | 310 | 3.140625 | 3 |
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Fairy Tales and You
|Grades||3 – 5|
|Activity Time||60–90 minutes|
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tugboat, small, strongly built vessel, used to guide large oceangoing ships into and out of port and to tow barges, dredging and salvage equipment, and disabled vessels. Tugboats range in overall length from 70 to 210 ft (21–64 m), and their engines generate from 750 to 3,000 horsepower. Steam power dominated tugboat d... | <urn:uuid:f64e76bc-447a-4d71-b792-7537abc8ec91> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/history/tugboat.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944688 | 143 | 3.71875 | 4 |
The latest news about robots, robotics
Posted: Apr 18, 2013
Frog-like robot will help surgeons
(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Leeds are using the feet of tree frogs as a model for a tiny robot designed to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery.
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A Eucharistic Retreat
The Teaching of the Church on the Real Presence in the Sixteenth Century
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Our present meditation is on the teaching of the Church on the Real Presence in the Sixteenth Century. It s... | <urn:uuid:accfc79a-ebd7-4f0f-a0e5-9862d080a7ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Eucharist/Eucharist_044.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964765 | 3,266 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) tracks the price of a market basket of goods and services purchased by U.S. households over time. Both monthly and annual changes are reported in the tables for the CPI in order to facilitate comparison with other series.
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HSP has launched a digital history project focused on the early years of the Great Depression and the December 1930 failure of a large Philadelphia bank, Bankers Trust Company.
The site includes:
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NOTE: This blog has moved to www.developeconomies.com
In this journal, I have discussed the relationship between education, poverty alleviation, and economic development. The link is critical and the three are self-reinforcing. Education creates greater opportunities for the youth, who go on to work decent jobs in citi... | <urn:uuid:56c6cf56-bede-40f7-8fe3-cfedecbf6a01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://joshweinstein.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/the-problem-of-education-in-the-philippines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964105 | 1,406 | 2.625 | 3 |
Night Sky Observed from Paros Island, Greece
April 20, 2013
Photographer: Stavros Hios
Summary Authors: Stavros Hios; Jim Foster
The image above shows a view of an illuminated, old sailing ship and the glow of the Milky Way as observed from the island of Paros, Greece, in the Aegean Sea. Since the Moon was in the new p... | <urn:uuid:db2ad560-d4c8-4fcd-aaa8-6ee1aa3f828c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/04/night-sky-observed-from-paros-island-greece.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913405 | 220 | 2.5625 | 3 |
University Wits are a group of young dramatists who wrote and performed
in London towards the end of the 16th century. They are called University Wits
because they were the witty students of Cambridge or Oxford. They were all more
or less acquainted with each other and most of them led irregular and uncertain
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by Joel S. Hirschhorn
(Swans - October 8, 2007) Plagued by intellectual curiosity, I often ask why so many people believe, think, or act in baffling and irresponsible ways. Personal irresponsible behavior harms the individual. Civic irresponsible behavior harms US society and government. The epidemic proportions of the... | <urn:uuid:7aeeb644-bfc8-472c-b8b1-3e7e6dd042dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.swans.com/library/art13/joelh01.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957113 | 2,100 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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Scorpion stings hurt and can be life threatening, especially for young children. Neurotoxins and other chemicals in scorpion venom can cause movement problems, visual disturbances, and breathing difficulties. More than 250,000 people are stung by s... | <urn:uuid:45e7f522-0b2e-478e-ad7f-77280a008a0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/scorv.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976938 | 417 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Thousands of crashes occur each year because drivers falling asleep at the wheel. Learn the signs so that you know when you are getting drowsy, what puts you at risk for drowsy driving, and what to do to stay alert.
What Are the Signs of Sleepiness?
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Every year bees pollinate $201 billion worth of U.S. crops. Almonds are solely dependent on bees. Most other foods depend on bees for survival about 90% of the time. But every year U.S. beekeepers report losing about one-third of their colonies. Why? The most likely culprit is a class of pesticides , called neonicotino... | <urn:uuid:8e7d49e6-0244-480b-a013-70edbb3e3ea0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sophiaserve.com/hildegard-of-bingen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928917 | 492 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Research on tropical achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic
('saprophytic') plants with emphasis on morphology, anatomy, mycorrhiza and
ecology. Click here if you miss site navigation!
are puzzling! They are always characterized by remarkale reductions concerning root,
shoot and leaf structure and sometimes even hardly res... | <urn:uuid:a43d030e-1e81-466e-9f4f-e2af5508d25b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/%7Eb_morpho/imhtopic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882536 | 1,201 | 3 | 3 |
There are fundamental risk factors that lead to suicidal ideation, and there are also many risk factors which are not fundamental or across the board. However, in terms of understanding and responding to suicidal behaviour we must remove the taboos, the stigma, the shame, the whole guilt business and we must reduce the... | <urn:uuid:b0885ee9-3c20-4ef4-a854-d582f7f3b802> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thestringer.com.au/taboo-stigma-and-shame-need-to-get-out-of-the-way-for-suicide-prevention-9758 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957872 | 1,575 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 7, 2013 at 8:18pm.
Solve h + p = 3(k-8) for k.
- Algebra 1 - Anonymous, Monday, October 7, 2013 at 8:30pm
Can anyone assist me?
- Please, help me! - Anonymous, Monday, October 7, 2013 at 9:18pm
I must complete my schoolwork rather urgently.
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This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, (MUP), 1972
Alfred Peach Hensman (1834-1902), attorney-general and judge, was born on 12 May 1834, the second son of John Hensman, solicitor, and his wife Mary, née Wilkinson, of Springhill, Northampton, England. He went to India and was commis... | <urn:uuid:5da5ea25-29ed-45ae-a9e2-abf4a027c1ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hensman-alfred-peach-3756 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981539 | 1,203 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Neutral-to-ground voltage is any voltage measurable between the neutral conductor and the grounding conductor, usually reflecting voltage losses in the neutral conductor due to neutral return current. Neutral-to-ground voltage can affect electronic equipment if the amplitude of the voltage exceeds the withstand capabil... | <urn:uuid:3eef8d9e-3876-4bba-aaa4-dfe213166cf3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.experts123.com/q/what-are-the-symptoms-causes-and-solutions-to-neutral-to-ground-voltage-events.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881939 | 172 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Archaeologists & Volunteers Dig Mold Gold Cape Site
Monday, September 23, 2013
FLINTSHIRE, WALES—Fragments of burned bone and pieces of pottery have been unearthed near Mold, at the heavily plowed archaeological site famous for the Bronze Age gold cape discovered there in 1833. The 3,700-year-old cape had been crafted ... | <urn:uuid:5fcbabaa-4132-45c8-84b4-bfbfbbf8768f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archaeology.org/news/1321-130923-england-mold-bone-pottery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949457 | 166 | 2.703125 | 3 |
An Introduction to Tech Prep
Tech Prep is a planned sequence of study in a technical field that begins as early as 9th grade and extends through at least two years of postsecondary education or an apprenticeship program. Tech Prep programs culminate in students receiving a postsecondary credential, such as an associate... | <urn:uuid:b0f6cf4f-b283-445a-b746-9fa9241226b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adlit.org/article/31928/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957784 | 1,283 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The Triton 36,000 is an amazing submarine. Previous generations of the Triton only went to 3,300 feet but the new model uses technology from Rayotek Scientific to make a passenger dome that reacts to increasing pressure from increasing depth by becoming stronger.
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Kleist, Annabelle C. , Nelson, Christine L. , Geiger, Jennifer M. O. , Korall, Petra , Ranker, Tom A. , Pryer, Kathleen M. .
Alternate pathways of fern dispersal to the Hawaiian Islands, Part 3: Cibotium.
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|Bicycling Street Smarts|
STEERING OUT OF TROUBLE
A bicycle is a highly maneuverable machine, but it stays upright only by being balanced. You have to take extra care to stay upright and read the road for hazards that can cause a fall.
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The World's Most Successful Ed Tech...
It's hard to talk about schools today without talking about technology. Enthusiasts celebrate the wonders of tablets, virtual schools, and "blended" learning. Skeptics recall a litany of overhyped, underwhelming past efforts.
News accounts whipsaw between breathless tales of digit... | <urn:uuid:73e281e6-7f39-4092-bbd5-c058cc34360e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rick_hess_straight_up/2013/12/the_worlds_most_successfull_ed_tech.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95954 | 1,639 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Father of English Hymnody" Watts wrote over 750 hymns, including "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," "O God, Our Help in Ages Past," "I Sing the Mighty Power of God," "Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed," and "Joy to the World," many hymns of which are still favorites in the Baptist Hymnal. Watts also wrote a book on formal... | <urn:uuid:2301bdfe-7c18-4ab2-bd6f-4d40e9c1db65> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://peterlumpkins.typepad.com/peter_lumpkins/2013/09/issac-watts-on-state-of-dying-infants-annihilation-on-one-hand-and-resurrection-on-the-other.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964409 | 927 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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IELTS Writing Task 2 - No. 29
Some governments say how many children a family can hare in their country. They may control the number of children someone has through taxes. It is sometimes necessary and right for a government to control the population in this... | <urn:uuid:06091ce0-e91b-460a-a904-990c74d6a21a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://en.ielts-house.com/index.aspx?siteid=83&pageid=1085&newsview=4685 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972588 | 449 | 3.015625 | 3 |
|Pope Sixtus IV|
AKA Francesco della Rovere
Birthplace: Savona, Italy
Location of death: Rome, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Executive summary: Roman Catholic Pope, 1471-84
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Two Australian agricultural researchers working with farmers in Cambodia on ACIAR projects are featured in ‘Changing Lives’, a new TV series being aired on Australia Network and now available on youtube.
Professor Bob Martin and Stephanie Belfield have travelled to Cambodia for the past eight years on collaborative pro... | <urn:uuid:ef2b033f-20a3-45b2-812c-c3e5319b8ff4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aciar.gov.au/print/14284 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889095 | 196 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Britomartis (brĭtˈōmärˈtĭs) [key], in ancient religion and mythology, Cretan goddess, sometimes identified with Artemis. To escape the amorous pursuit of Minos, she jumped into the sea, but fishermen caught her in their nets and transported her to Aegina, where she was worshiped as Aphaea. According to another legend, ... | <urn:uuid:b419d620-4e12-43d6-a492-b1eda0485189> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/society/britomartis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955866 | 124 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Weekly Problem 31 - 2012
When Kate ate a giant date, the average weight of the dates decreased. What was the weight of the date that Kate ate?
Weekly Problem 32 - 2012
How many visitors does a tourist attraction need next week in order to break even?
Weekly Problem 34 - 2012
Grandpa made a super-heavy rock cake. Five p... | <urn:uuid:2a1b81e8-b029-4e7f-9e18-def23c3a0018> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nrich.maths.org/6957/note | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965051 | 471 | 3.3125 | 3 |
"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. "
Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times
Here we see Truman in his most public roles; as "senator from Pendergast," successor to FDR, maker of such c... | <urn:uuid:c6ee740d-3b98-4d81-a7dc-1d90a65a90cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/hcl/ID/117 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96921 | 1,092 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Definitions for pair of scissors
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word pair of scissors
scissors, pair of scissors(noun)
an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades
The numerical value of pair of scissors in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
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When you type a plant name into Google and the first six websites returned are regional councils, you know you're in trouble.
It's very unlikely you'll be told by these councils that your purchase of 100 broom plants was "inspired and why not plant a whole forest of them?".
No. They'll say: "Broom is an aggressive plan... | <urn:uuid:ea87f23f-4f7c-41e0-bb86-089107cd59ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hamilton-news/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503360&objectid=11312862 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978466 | 843 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Auditory Hallucinations Project
Funded 2009-2011 by the National Institute for Health Research
Development and testing of a computer-assisted system to reduce auditory hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations are an enduring problem in the treatment of serious mental illness such as schizophrenia. About 30% of people wit... | <urn:uuid:adbbb4ff-8d11-4762-b44b-397c69542045> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/project/audhall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919553 | 516 | 2.75 | 3 |
|DNA testing for celiac disease|
Celiac disease affects the digestive system and due to its effects on this part of the body, repercussions, side effects and secondary effects can often be experienced in other parts of the body or even psychologically. Celiac disease is essentially an immune reaction as well as the ina... | <urn:uuid:109bd560-db57-4d91-9519-faed26f386d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthorum.com/2013/04/genetic-testing-for-celiac-disease.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952278 | 785 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Tuesday, July 23
Transport equations are important in many different applications such as nuclear design, radiation therapy in medical science, and radiation effects in global weather models. They are also a fundamental part of many algorithms used to model more complicated applications such as shielding of the electro... | <urn:uuid:e11f3a02-2975-47b5-8d7e-99f74e38a79c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.siam.org/meetings/archives/an96/ms17.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886833 | 316 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Fair changes put humans, animals farther apart
Posted August 9, 2012
Raleigh, N.C. — Visitors to the 2012 North Carolina State Fair will see even more signs reminding them to wash their hands, the result of an investment of more than $200,000 after 25 people contracted E. coli infections last year that could be linked ... | <urn:uuid:284c2d99-c788-480f-8bf9-848f299ae201> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11409272/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958195 | 497 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The Mastery Club is an optional club for students who are interested in going “above and beyond” the normal classroom expectations. To become a member, choose a topic from the list and learn about it on your own. You may go to the library and look up answers or research it on the internet. When you find the answers, wr... | <urn:uuid:5a95bfe3-fa8a-4a65-b41e-205954ee6556> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wasatch.edu/Page/4375 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901045 | 827 | 2.921875 | 3 |
1. The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House by a majority vote.
2. Nancy Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House. She was called Madam Speaker.
3. Since 1987, Pelosi has represented California's 8th congressional district. The 8th District covers most of San Francisco.
4. Before she got mar... | <urn:uuid:81237823-ebb4-4b18-b6c5-3e5b53ac9821> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.elcivics.com/nancy-pelosi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986387 | 106 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Please Note: This article is an April Fool's joke from timeanddate.com. The following information is false and the Prime meridian and time will not change on July 1. Thank you for participating in our joke and sharing it with others.Previous April Fool's:
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) w... | <urn:uuid:45bd6e2a-60a1-4bc7-baab-4f094c0512b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/paris-meridian-gmt-obsolete.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949853 | 722 | 2.65625 | 3 |
IRIS mission logo features a sun, a prism with a rainbow light spectrum coming from it, and on the bottom a list of mission partners: NASA, LMSAL, LMS&ES, ARC, SAO, UiO, MSU, LSJU.
The primary goal of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) explorer is to understand how the solar atmosphere is energized. The I... | <urn:uuid:54e5c280-9fef-4a82-92f6-fbfd5231aac1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/iris/multimedia/iris_logo2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894675 | 173 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Luhman 16AB (otherwise known as WISE J104915.57-531906) holds out quite an allure for those of us hoping to see future exploratory missions to nearby interstellar space. As recounted here in December (see Possible Planet in Nearby Brown Dwarf System), the European Southern Observatory’s Henri Boffin has found that this... | <urn:uuid:c3bb76cb-9abc-46ea-a33a-2ed0535c96c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=29882 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936949 | 1,224 | 3.4375 | 3 |
The latest flashpoint for the U.S.-China rivalry is something called an Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ. China announced over the weekend that it set up an ADIZ over the East China Sea that overlaps with similar zones maintained by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan–all U.S. allies or partners. It’s an extension in... | <urn:uuid:9d8629b1-4eb5-47df-a36f-16b2b38adc1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/11/27/the-a-to-z-on-chinas-air-defense-identification-zone/?mod=relnews | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946113 | 682 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Carpenter Ant Size
Carpenter ants are one of the largest of all ant species. Carpenter ants have polymorphic workers, meaning that ants within a single colony may vary in size. Adult carpenter ants can measure from 6 to 12 mm in length. Males, or winged swarmers, can measure up to 18 mm, while queens grow to 20 mm in l... | <urn:uuid:ba3c3be0-95a5-47e2-ab60-9300443076ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.orkin.com/ants/carpenter-ant/carpenter-ant-size/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956136 | 262 | 3.953125 | 4 |
St. Paul, Minn. (January 28, 2008)—Fungi in the Ancient World is a comprehensive review on the impact of fungi in helping to shape ancient civilizations. Mushrooms, mildews, molds, and yeast had an effect on: diet; customs; politics; religion; human, animal, and plant health; art; folklore; and the beginnings of scienc... | <urn:uuid:68aa86ee-7537-4589-8e79-9b2282844c02> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.apsnet.org/about/newsroom/releases/Pages/08Fungi.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859047 | 669 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Dark Days Of Disney: Slavery, Propaganda, Animal Cruelty, And More
When your company has been making films since 1923, it is inevitable that, as sensibilities shift and time insists on remaining linear, you will find your back-catalogue strewn with quite objectionable content.
And although the Disney company has be... | <urn:uuid:f5eade57-eaea-4eeb-a837-3cd90e98952f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://junkee.com/the-dark-days-of-disney-slavery-propaganda-animal-cruelty-and-more/14742 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960236 | 3,238 | 2.65625 | 3 |
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Mothers whose kids went to high-quality day care were more involved in their children's schools later on than the moms of kids in poorer quality day care or no day care, new research finds.
In conducting the study, appearing Feb. 8 in Child Development, researchers examined informa... | <urn:uuid:f418fa01-d008-4d8c-a7c2-8e331ce7da8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Quality-Day-Care-Predicts-Later-Parental-Involvement-in-School--89081-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968658 | 379 | 2.828125 | 3 |
8 October 10 Caffeine's Effect on Hunger: Suppressant or StimulantIn a recent post on MyNetDiary's Facebook page, Kathy Isacks, MPS, RD, asked if people got more hungry on days they consumed more coffee than usual. Most of the responses suggested that coffee suppressed people's appetites. So what's really behind this? ... | <urn:uuid:620243ed-bb82-4860-a8b0-3195c4ab0a01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mynetdiary.com/caffeines-effect-on-hunger-suppressant-or.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932114 | 588 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Apr 4, 2008
Plug-in hybrids could become competitive
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) could help reduce air pollution compared to conventional vehicles and lessen greenhouse gas emissions. Now, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, US, have calculated that several million PHEVs could be charg... | <urn:uuid:75ed539d-a270-4e69-880c-53b10af3a872> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/33666 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960699 | 810 | 3.234375 | 3 |
ISLAM, ITS HISTORY, VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY
Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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The Islamic World is not at all a monolithic entity.
|Sub-Saharan Africa || Many Language Families|
The Nature of Islam
Arab... | <urn:uuid:45fabd37-417b-433f-9706-486b6b0999aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/islam.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.818226 | 466 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Rule #1 in the trends industry - you can't have a trend without a descriptive buzzword and/or acronym. MOOC is both a buzzword and an acronym, standing for massive open online courses.
MOOCs are different from traditional online courses in several ways. They are open to anyone, free, generally credit-less and they try ... | <urn:uuid:1bd1a1a0-3fc0-4e7b-90a2-0452149533b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smallbizlabs.com/2012/11/what-are-moocs-and-just-in-time-learning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965728 | 519 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Fifty-three years ago today, United States Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. became the first American to be launched into space. Shepard named his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7.
Officially designated as Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) by NASA, the mission was America’s first true attempt to put a man into space. MR-3... | <urn:uuid:c33b3305-aaa0-402b-a1d4-e5db49028455> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/americanaerospace/2014/05/05/the-flight-of-freedom-7-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958588 | 894 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Most image editors will work with Levels and Curves on an image to :-
- Levels – Set the white and black point
- Curves – Decrease the values of black and increase the value of white
Both of these in combination will help create contrast in the image, and ultimalty more interesting to look at.
These operations are typc... | <urn:uuid:6c1a0a61-df40-4125-ac0e-da620533a308> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.adobe.com/richardcurtis/2016/01/09/creativefriday-levels-in-curves-photoshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910659 | 473 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Who's Who - Sultan Mehmed VI
Sultan Mehmed VI (1861-1926) served as the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1918 until his overthrow in 1922.
Born on 14 January 1861 Mehmed - original name Mehmed Vahideddin - was unlike the brother he succeeded as Sultan, Mehmed V, in that he was both intelligent and politically cap... | <urn:uuid:3bc48560-6e7b-4152-bbf0-660dc3654ef9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://firstworldwar.com/bio/mehmedvi.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969302 | 554 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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