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The Limusaurus fossil sits among small crocodile fossils
A new dinosaur unearthed in western China has shed light on the evolution from dinosaur hands to the wing bones in today's birds.
The fossil, from about 160 million years ago, has been named Limusaurus inextricabilis.
The find contributes to a debate over how an ... | <urn:uuid:22dc6e2e-6038-4fee-8ea2-d9a041295cdf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8105513.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973202 | 751 | 3.53125 | 4 |
N.H. Has Authority Over Any "Sizeable Change" To Portland-Montreal Pipeline
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services says it might have authority over a controversial project to reverse a crude oil pipeline that crosses the North Country. In a memo DES says while pipelines are regulated by the federal gov... | <urn:uuid:ee120002-3c55-4558-9536-28f2f54b027b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nhpr.org/post/nh-has-authority-over-any-sizeable-change-portland-montreal-pipeline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965916 | 370 | 2.546875 | 3 |
In doing numerical operations like NDSolve and NMinimize, the Wolfram Language by default uses machine numbers. But by setting the option WorkingPrecision->n you can tell it to use arbitrary‐precision numbers with n‐digit precision.
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Introduction to Optogenetics
"Before we can find the answers, we need the power to ask new questions." -Karl Deisseroth
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Definitions for cagekeɪdʒ
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word cage
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.(noun)
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Search And Seizure
Authorized school personnel can search a student, his or her possessions, or places under the student's control if there is a "particularized" suspicion--an "articulable" reason to believe the student knowingly possesses some contraband. The school can only search those places where they reasonably b... | <urn:uuid:3e269334-e943-4b1a-bb58-833157f4b984> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mass.gov/capeda/juvenile-justice/constitutional-considerations-generic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949016 | 454 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The usage of ceramics in architecture founds its origin in the Ancient East, but it was mainly the Islamic world to cover the wall of mosques, mausoleums, Koranic schools and palaces with colored glazed tiles, reaching refined results in the decorations. The lusterware items of 13th – 14th century from Iran, the floral... | <urn:uuid:fbdc2587-26a4-48f5-8ba5-0f3e5b0f2b24> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.micfaenza.org/piastrelle.php?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95253 | 580 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Generally speaking, a yurt is a tent because at some point, someone puts it up and, if desired, it can be taken down and moved. Yurts, however, are much stronger and weather-tight than tents. They are made with wooden lattice walls and radial rafters which are supported with perimeter tension cables and a central compr... | <urn:uuid:4d11a8e4-3a8d-474b-963e-0c566d8565b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wildernesswind.org/index.php/lakeside/the-yurt/what-is-yurt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940463 | 494 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Recognizing the significance of music in liturgy, Benedict instructed his monks to ensure that those who lead the singing be able to "fulfill that office in such a way as to edify the hearers" (Rule of Benedict 47). This, of course, requires proper formation and preparation in addition to natural ability.
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Dr Gareth Evans looks at how Australia is calling on the seas to ease the threat of drought in the sunburned country.
Australia – naturally one of the driest inhabited lands on the planet – has never enjoyed a great abundance of water, but in recent years the situation has taken a significant downturn as the country ha... | <urn:uuid:a8f44a96-af05-451e-98de-96ac36472eb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.water-technology.net/features/feature40057 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953736 | 1,677 | 3.515625 | 4 |
The Republic of Kosovo is an independent, sovereign, democratic, unique and inseparable state. The Republic of Kosovo is a democratic republic based on the principle of division of governments and check and balances among them. In the Republic of Kosovo the legislative power is exercised by the Assembly of the Republic... | <urn:uuid:71b531ce-2b06-41c5-834a-20b736ce4643> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.rks-gov.net/en-US/Republika/Pages/Kuvendi.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959294 | 884 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Charles Joseph Kickham
Biography of Charles Joseph Kickham
Charles Joseph Kickham was an Irish revolutionary, novelist, poet, journalist and one of the most prominent members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Kickham was born at Mullinahone, County Tipperary, on 9 May 1828. His father John Kickham was proprietor of ... | <urn:uuid:6ead6b9d-bb97-4e24-bbc1-783b38d36f68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-joseph-kickham/biography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982023 | 3,086 | 2.734375 | 3 |
2. At frequencies above 4 Hz, the 16 August event falls within the earthquake population and is separated from the explosion population. Taking the location and discrimination results together, I conclude that the 16 August event was an earthquake.
3. Given that many small events (mb < 4.0) will be examined under the G... | <urn:uuid:88f7ad4f-84c7-4bc6-8d90-a1f6d15ec842> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ees/ees11/geophysics/Posters/Hans/ch4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963543 | 269 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Hey, Baltimore — Feel Like Solving a Mystery?
The Maryland Historical Society Library has uncovered a disturbing photo — or, at least, an apparently disturbing photo. A crowd of masked men in dark suits and bowler hats cluster in the corner of the room, staring at a black man who’s standing on a kind of podium. The atm... | <urn:uuid:6e407213-9a18-4a54-bee1-54d08adf528d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/hey-baltimore-feel-like-solving-a-mystery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961985 | 452 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Distilled beverages are alcoholic beverages that are obtained by distillation from alcoholic beverages or masses. The distillation material can consist of wine, a concentrated sugar solution or a fermented grain suspension. The used ingredients, the course of the process, the reuse or non-reuse of the alcohol, the impl... | <urn:uuid:2d12972c-3d18-47bd-b2c1-c5696eb409c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hyfoma.com/en/content/food-branches-processing-manufacturing/beverage/alcoholic-drinks/distilled-beverages/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943464 | 1,201 | 3.09375 | 3 |
A museum honoring the accomplishments of African American musicians may begin construction in the city of Nashville as soon as 2015.
Dedicated to highlighting the cultural and musical impact of black musicians in American history, as well as focusing on the rich musical history of black musicians from the city, the Nat... | <urn:uuid:d7af43f0-14f9-411e-93b1-93df2d3cfa47> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/04/09/3424896/nashville-african-american-music-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963961 | 459 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The Importance of Particle Packing for Strength (Tec-Cements) or Carbonation (Eco-Cements)
The initial particle packing of a mix has a strong influence on but is not the only determinant of microstructure and the final relationship between it and the porosity and permeability of a concrete. All of these factors strongl... | <urn:uuid:e034e91d-ead1-48d0-a861-1b2f1b07ed63> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tececo.com/technical.particle_packing.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933348 | 6,517 | 2.859375 | 3 |
What is tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually develops slowly and can lead to ill health for a long time. If it is not treated it can cause death.
How does it occur?
TB is caused by a type of bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria usually attack the lungs. They can dest... | <urn:uuid:4466f193-a2a8-4e1b-81fb-c32482351bdf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.corephysicians.org/news-and-health-library/health-library/infectious-disease/infd4540/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955409 | 1,679 | 3.625 | 4 |
Invisible Man Introduction
In A Nutshell
Nope: this isn't H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel. And it has nothing to do with Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, or Violet Parr from The Incredibles, or the T-1000 from Terminator. In fact, it doesn't even have any actual vanishing-into-thin-air-style invisibility.
Dead wrong. So far... | <urn:uuid:31ae3e4c-f519-47d2-9be1-3100f17f55ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/invisible-man-ellison/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95362 | 914 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Bird Lek Mating
Lekking is a curious variation on promiscuous mating. This word of Swedish derivation, describes a pattern of mating behavior seen only in a small number of birds around the world. In North America its chief practitioners are Greater and Lesser Prairie-Chickens, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Sage Grouse, and Buf... | <urn:uuid:cd8f73c5-b398-4adb-a732-504e525ea724> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.paulnoll.com/Oregon/Birds/courtship-lek.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940795 | 292 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The Optical Society
Specialty Contact Lenses May One Day Help Halt the Progression of Nearsightedness in Children
Researchers present new approach that may lead to possible cure for myopia at Frontiers in Optics 2012
Diagram of myopia in the human eye. Credit: National Eye Institute.
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Timor Blue-flycatcher (Cyornis hyacinthinus) - HBW 11, p. 159
French: Gobemouche hyacinthe
Spanish: Papamoscas Jacintino
Other common names: Blue-backed/Hyacinthine Flycatcher
Taxonomy: Muscicapa hyacinthina Temminck, 1820, no locality = Timor.
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Milford Sound History
Milford Sound and Fiordland were well known to the Maori. Many Maori legends relate to its formation, including the demi-god Tuterakiwhanoa, who is said to have carved the rugged landscape from formless rock.
The Maori named Milford Sound 'Piopiotahi' after a thrush-like bird, the piopio. Piopiota... | <urn:uuid:246f4af5-7fb3-45b1-92c3-342dd2339a00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wonderfulworldreview.blogspot.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954024 | 333 | 3.71875 | 4 |
White water is fearsome enough on the surface. Pour a river into light-swallowing limestone tunnels and it becomes terrifying.
Deep beneath the rain forests of New Britain, an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea, churning rapids jet through enormous passages, some of the largest, most remote river caves on the pla... | <urn:uuid:8cf0a2bb-ca12-493f-8e8e-9e2300a46945> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2006/09/raging-danger/shea-text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948219 | 1,088 | 2.890625 | 3 |
|The history of the drive-in theater.|
Richard Hollingshead was a young sales manager at his dad's Whiz Auto Products, who had a hankering to invent something that combined his two interests: cars and movies.
Richard Hollingshead's vision was an open-air movie theater where moviegoers could watch from their own cars. H... | <urn:uuid:43e97585-960c-4b89-b632-3d5dc7591996> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980121.htm?once=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973228 | 652 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A selection of articles related to petty apartheid.
Original articles from our library related to the Petty Apartheid. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Petty Apartheid.
- Weight of the World
- A man and his son were once going with their donkey to market. As they were wal... | <urn:uuid:c94cce58-82d8-47b9-a1f0-e4f95d783d35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realmagick.com/petty-apartheid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914077 | 730 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Cup Size -- a story about variables
The Coffee Corral coffeehouse at the Ranch is famous
around these parts for its unique cup collection. If you really need to understand the way
values and objects are used in Java, you gotta start here.
I like cups. Big cups, little cups.
Painted tea cups, huge cappuccino bowls, cups... | <urn:uuid:cd7af911-de12-402b-94fc-420000de42b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.javaranch.com/campfire/StoryCups.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919409 | 1,613 | 2.953125 | 3 |
For years, researchers have traced the phenomenon of "undermatching," in which high-achieving, low-income students rarely enroll in or even apply to the selective colleges their wealthier peers attend as a matter of course.
Now the researchers have found a way to broaden the horizons of the 35,000 students each year wh... | <urn:uuid:90938d31-b80f-49cc-8047-984c1fd64321> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chronicle.com/article/A-Low-Cost-Way-to-Expand-the/138227/?cid=at | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982071 | 968 | 2.75 | 3 |
evidence-based decision making, evidence-based medicine,ebdm,critical care,intensive care,medical education,journal club,royal north shore hospital,pre-appraised literature,gordon doig,critical appraisal,australia,ebm,ebdm,teaching case, computer simulation,patient simulation,trauma, guidelines, recommendation
The two ... | <urn:uuid:39efbd0e-fd17-4079-b7c7-04319eee6084> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.evidencebased.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906384 | 379 | 2.828125 | 3 |
An old epithet gets a new life
As the Zimmerman case proved, a defining characteristic of the American mind is the care we take with our racial vocabularies to make sure they specify where we land in our national free fall known as “This is who I am.”
Earlier generations of blacks had no trouble finding interesting and... | <urn:uuid:f8e3b7a1-88a4-457d-a013-e6c6dfc92d52> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/354937/meet-cracker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958883 | 182 | 2.53125 | 3 |
LOS ANGELES — In a finding that is being widely hailed as the first major prevention breakthrough in the AIDS era, researchers have shown that taking a single daily pill containing two HIV drugs can reduce the risk of contracting the virus by an average of 44 percent — and by more than 70 percent if the subjects take m... | <urn:uuid:838ec355-9af9-4d06-8060-51ac4c5a639d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/groundbreaking_pill_that_reduc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970718 | 831 | 2.53125 | 3 |
It’s tough being a teacher. Kids have so many distractions in their lives, and it’s getting harder to engage tech-savvy students with more traditional subjects.
Elizabeth Box was struggling with engagement in her seventh-grade civics class in Okeechobee, Florida — the third-poorest Florida county, with a quarter of the... | <urn:uuid:d27bd3f6-7521-4df0-a3c8-5350446858be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/12/teacher-turns-class-into-a-video-game-and-now-every-student-is-passing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974029 | 1,564 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A proposed “space elevator” consists of a cable going all the way from the ground to a space station in geosynchronous orbit (always above the same point on Earth’s surface). Elevator “cars” would climb the cable to transport cargo to outer space. Consider a cable connected between the equator and a space station at he... | <urn:uuid:8fe904d7-ac36-45fb-963f-8679890f0a47> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/proposed-space-elevator-consists-cable-going-way-ground-spac-chapter-rs1-problem-25re-solution-9780077339685-exc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923829 | 148 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Space Station Study CSLM-3 Grows "Christmas Trees" in Space
Like snowflakes or frost on windshields, metallic castings form crystals. Known as dendrites, these crystals form and grow, or coarsen, following crystallization from a vapor or a liquid. Coarsening occurs during the processing of metal alloys and affects ever... | <urn:uuid:ad3b6cf8-cd76-4431-b73d-934be5be9538> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/cslm3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938116 | 1,008 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Robert K. Greenleaf (1970) described Healing as one of the ten characteristics of a Servant Leadership. He stated that healing is the ability to help make whole. We all possess this powerful characteristic and how we use it is completely our choice. Greenleaf described a servant leader as a leader who overcomes self-in... | <urn:uuid:4e0f23d1-a642-4af1-99cf-1169c8e9def1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/be-kind-to-others?cid=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968346 | 473 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Brandt, Michael and Sundrum, Albert (2004) Umweltverträgliche Freilandhaltung von Mastschweinen im Ökologischen Landbau. [Environmental sustainable outdoor pig fattening in organic farming.] In: Heß, J and Rahmann, G (Eds.) Ende der Nische, Beiträge zur 8. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, kassel university pre... | <urn:uuid:9a04cc1a-6e6d-4e1d-a643-6960c1619212> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://orgprints.org/3790/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.76356 | 679 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Peer pressure is often referred to in a negative way – such as when teenagers experiment with drugs or alcohol because their friends pressured them into it, for example. Peer pressure can also be used to encourage good habits and behaviors, including saving money, as a Harvard Business School assistant professor’s rese... | <urn:uuid:eddd10ca-0b1d-4ef7-a94f-afd8178b9020> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mybanktracker.com/news/2012/11/16/peer-pressure-encourage-saving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976344 | 832 | 3.21875 | 3 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) boldly goes
where few have gone before (about 560 astronauts and cosmonauts
have been into space). The federal agency's
Aeronautics division conducts research on new flight technologies
while its Exploration Systems works on human and robotic
exploration and its Scie... | <urn:uuid:b8f26165-3837-4094-8266-caa193bf39b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vault.com/company-profiles/government/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration/company-overview.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896619 | 473 | 3.375 | 3 |
The Ancient Urban Food Gardens of Sana’a, Yemen
See larger image here. “What is remarkable, in the intensely urban setting of Sana‘a — a walled metropolis crowded with towers today, and the place where the Sabaeans built the 10-story Palace of Ghumdan some two millennia ago — is that not only the words survive: So, too... | <urn:uuid:bccb828f-bff0-4089-aa71-fce9b6da0f1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cityfarmer.info/2013/04/27/the-ancient-urban-food-gardens-of-sanaa-yemen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953838 | 871 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Today we have transatlantic cables of massive capacity, handling all sorts of telecom traffic (including the internet). However, these submarine cables had a modest beginning. The first successfully deployed commercial transatlantic cable was in 1866, after a decade-long series of less successful attempts. Sending mess... | <urn:uuid:c1f36f88-3d0c-48f3-b668-7f08202a760f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/03/05/transatlantic-cable-handled-8-words-a-minute-in-1866/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874609 | 752 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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research labs and other things of interest
Posted: March 19, 2010
Designer nanomaterials on-demand
(Nanowerk News) Composites are combinations of materials that produce properties inaccessible in any one material. A classic example of a composite is fiberglass – plastic fibers ... | <urn:uuid:5e315f1a-1b20-4ea2-b48d-81cb2cb465ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15416.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861688 | 673 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Why Did The Hypersonic 'Waverider' Crash?
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The Air Force is trying to figure out what happened to an experimental jet that fell into the Pacific Ocean last week. The X-51 Waverider is meant to fly at least six times the speed of sound and beyo... | <urn:uuid:59a84ab1-f765-410d-bbfb-67e538ca15fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.npr.org/2012/08/20/159392700/why-did-the-hypersonic-waverider-crash | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96643 | 852 | 2.53125 | 3 |
'Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone'. So quipped Oscar Wilde. After reading Big Questions (I won't put the full title again, it's too tiring to type) I was reminded of the limitless range of my own ignorance.
The things most people don't know you could put in a book. And Faber have. 'Qu... | <urn:uuid:5d9975d2-5231-43f3-9a19-de0580de0217> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/9615166/Big-Questions-From-Little-People-.-.-.-Answered-By-Some-Very-Big-People-compiled-by-Gemma-Elwin-Harris-review.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967542 | 732 | 2.5625 | 3 |
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, which measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and is the smallest planet ever discovered outside the solar system.
The planet has been named Kepler-10b, a NASA statement said.
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A favicon (short for "favorites icon"), is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A webmaster can specify such an create such an icon with his site, and modern web browsers make use of them in various ways, for example displaying the icon next to the address in the location bar, and in bookmarks / fav... | <urn:uuid:f9bebf0f-e593-4ea9-9e3a-3e8052efaafe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Graphics/Web/Favicons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.788415 | 194 | 2.8125 | 3 |
A new finding shows that there are there are three out of every four U.S. health-care personnel make use of some form of balancing, or alternative medicine, or routine to help stay healthier.
What the general public did not know about the health personnel that they are relying too were more inclined to using wide-rangi... | <urn:uuid:2842fb98-9cfd-4c05-a10e-92927ef2aca3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthdoctrine.com/more-health-workers-are-using-alternative-medicine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963983 | 562 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Social media platforms and applications are dependent upon communal participation. Members of the community share everything from names, professions and scholastic and corporate affiliations to names and photos of family and friends as well as up-to-the-minute updates on current events. Little is too personal on social... | <urn:uuid:d2d7714b-1b30-481f-a5ca-e6e1c7b37df9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.articlesbase.com/social-marketing-articles/liability-and-user-generated-content-783323.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925258 | 847 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Intercepts and/or Slopes That Change over Time
Unlike typical cross-section analysis, which imposes a static nature to your models, a pooled cross section allows you to incorporate a dynamic time element. You can do this with a pooled cross section because cross-sectional units are observed in two or more periods.
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It is important to remember that when lifting heavy items it may be necessary to use an assistive device or team lift. If this is not possible, the employee should be provided sufficient time to plan and complete any difficult lift.
Daily situations often require employees to lift items in a variety of positions. Makin... | <urn:uuid:eec6e33e-c34e-47e9-a70f-57746ac238ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.riskmgmt.com/Lifting.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924852 | 939 | 3.140625 | 3 |
‘Canes4Play is a play initiative aimed at improving overall quality of life, reducing the incidence and prevalence of mental health concerns, and bolstering retention rates among University of Miami (UM) students. The program provides UM students with play-oriented programming and resources designed to enhance four dim... | <urn:uuid:906f6cd3-c5b4-4e8c-a603-9b4b7041deae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.miami.edu/sa/index.php/wellness_center/programs_and_schedules/wellness_programs_services/canes_4_play/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934719 | 533 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A test commonly ordered by cardiologists across the country to diagnose heart disease exposes patients to radiation doses equivalent to 600 chest X-rays, researchers have found.
The test is called a cardiac CT angiogram, or cardiac CTA for short, and it is a relatively new way to look for potentially dangerous blockage... | <urn:uuid:c3fc5c63-9dce-481c-9fef-ed1207796771> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/story?id=6801216&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959044 | 938 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Since the Red Cross has figured four times in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize (1917, 1944, and 1963), as well as in the award to Henri Dunant (1901), and has therefore been made the subject of various presentation speeches and Nobel lectures which give details of its inception, history, and activities, the following... | <urn:uuid:2d894bab-3f86-4514-8d30-3c7c548b66df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1944/red-cross-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911716 | 1,982 | 3 | 3 |
Sweet potato garden.
image by Jennifer Dickert/flickr.com
Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are warm-weather vegetables that require a long, warm growing season. Sweet potatoes are tropical vegetables, so they grow the easiest in southern states. It is possible to grow sweet potatoes in the north as well, given proper w... | <urn:uuid:ba950b62-ede0-49ea-b3fb-8edd59622fe2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/69674-grow-sweet-potato.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914786 | 586 | 3.390625 | 3 |
The battle of Pengcheng (205 BC) was a major defeat suffered by Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, after he occupied the capital of his main rival Xiang Yu.
After conquering the former Qin heartland, Liu Bang prepared to strike east into Xiang Yu’s heartland. Xiang Yu, who had been advised that this was unlikely... | <urn:uuid:f84c9980-28c9-499a-b429-0da932be1c1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://historyofwar.org/articles/battles_pengcheng.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993712 | 470 | 3.46875 | 3 |
~ Erzsebet Bathory ~
(Elizabeth) Bathory was born in Hungary in 1560, approximately a hundred years after Vlad the Impaler died. One of her ancestors,
Prince Steven Bathory, was even a commanding officer who helped Vlad Dracula In 1546, when he claimed back the throne in Wallachia.
At the time Elizabeth was born, her p... | <urn:uuid:02808a93-f5d2-4b50-91fc-095f10cb0a80> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jhb15.tripod.com/midnight/id18.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979302 | 1,644 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The Goal Is Mars: The Planetary Society's Submission to the Committee on Human Spaceflight
The following was submitted to the National Academies' Committee on Human Spaceflight in July of 2013.
The Planetary Society strongly supports human exploration of space. The planet Mars is the goal. There, humans will explore ef... | <urn:uuid:2415120b-8748-4d3b-80a3-c4a85fdc82f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/2013/human-spaceflight-the-goal-is-mars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943386 | 1,647 | 2.796875 | 3 |
1. Scene on railroad pier, Smyrna, where refugees embarked.
2. Weeding out the men. All men of military age were torn away from their wives and children and led away in groups for deportation to the interior.
3.The Long Line That Leads to Death. Deportation of Christians from their homes to the arid wastes to die.
4. P... | <urn:uuid:a753baf0-f3a5-4738-a262-8d70519b2d4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hri.org/docs/Horton/pictures.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945761 | 163 | 3.0625 | 3 |
“The verdant Hawai‘i Islands in their mid-Pacific location have for over two centuries played a siren song to travelers from the greatest land mass in East Asia. The earliest Chinese emigrants landed on Hawai‘i’s shores beginning in 1789, and built the first wooden structures around Honolulu harbor that are the forerun... | <urn:uuid:9c708c6b-b6ef-4276-839c-807590811a9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://manoa.hawaii.edu/media/campustalk/tag/school-of-pacific-and-asian-studies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947616 | 366 | 2.578125 | 3 |
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — There’s no question that the two Republican front-runners in the race for president are rich.
Mitt Romney paid nearly $3 million in federal taxes for 2010, Newt Gingrich paid almost $1 million. That’s wealth. In fact, Gingrich paid more in taxes than most of us make over 20 years.
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Prepared by editors whose scholarship fuses literary and composition studies,Making Literature Mattercombines a comprehensive writing text with a uniquely organized anthology for introductory literature courses that emphasize critical and academic writing.What makes literature matter?Writing about it argumentatively.Th... | <urn:uuid:e65e1d11-651a-4a5b-861b-dcd55ace5588> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ecampus.com/making-literature-matter-2009-mla-update/bk/9780312677305 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.718274 | 4,073 | 2.6875 | 3 |
In chapter 5 we learned how to analyze and describe univariate, or single-variable data. We explored ways to present our data visually with graphs and charts and how to analyze our data with numerical statistics. Also, we described our findings verbally and in context. Now we will be analyzing bivariate numerical data.... | <urn:uuid:16cfb010-d6d9-4aa7-ada6-3974a0fc6e4e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ck12.org/user:Anoka/book/Anoka-Hennepin-Probability-and-Statistics/r56/section/6.0/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.864364 | 154 | 4.09375 | 4 |
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2016
lot /lɑt/USA pronunciation
n. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2016
- [countable] one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles... | <urn:uuid:6c3643cb-26a7-42f8-81a8-4e543850d824> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wordreference.com/definition/lot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908483 | 1,578 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Metabolic syndrome is a medical condition that involves multiple related conditions including obesity, elevated blood sugar, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. People with metabolic syndrome are at a high risk for developing many serious medical complications including type 2 diabetes, heart attacks and strokes.... | <urn:uuid:836bf31b-8036-40a9-a4a1-0488e6039465> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nami.org/metabolic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932331 | 570 | 3.453125 | 3 |
On November 30, 1896, two young boys, Herbert Coles and Dunham Coretter, where bicycling along Anastasia Island. Their plan was to go to Matanzas Inlet. However, as they neared Crescent Beach, they discovered a giant carcass on the beach that was partially buried in the sand, so it had probably already been beached for... | <urn:uuid:2d5f7359-63d2-4444-a1c1-d3675f991046> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.strangemag.com/globsters1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97712 | 6,930 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Definition of irredenta
: a territory historically or ethnically related to one political unit but under the political control of another
Variants of irredenta
Origin and Etymology of irredenta
Italian Italia irredenta, literally, unredeemed Italy, Italian-speaking territory not incorporated in Italy
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By Michael Breus, PhD, ABSM
New research suggests that regular practice of yoga can lead to significant improvements in sleep for people who have undergone cancer treatment. For patients with cancer, sleep problems are common. Research indicates that people coping with cancer are at significantly higher risk for sleep ... | <urn:uuid:dd6cdf78-7ceb-4a99-a8fb-5138f9559013> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/2013/10/yoga-improves-sleep-for-cancer-patients.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954903 | 1,116 | 2.8125 | 3 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The health of the world’s oceans is declining much faster
than originally thought — under siege from pollution, overfishing and other
man-made problems all at once — scientists say in a new report.
The mix of interacting ingredients is in place for a mass extinction in the
world’s oceans, said a repor... | <urn:uuid:e2140034-60dd-43b7-8003-58d5ba30928f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chestertontribune.com/Environment/621112%20panel_problems_with_oceans_multi.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933408 | 788 | 3.25 | 3 |
To build up their background knowledge and their understanding of their world, children need to know more than just the names of concrete objects. They also need to know the names for abstract concepts and feelings and ideas. Since children can’t physically interact with these concepts, activities that prompt conversat... | <urn:uuid:d48c38e6-c4b9-4aed-a9b1-163304dcc5c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=5013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944722 | 579 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Mild traumatic brain injury
Statistics from the Center for Disease and Control report that 1.4 million individuals each year sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, only about 300,000 of these people receive treatment. This happens because many survivors don’t realize they have sustained an injury until much l... | <urn:uuid:0cc0e05d-3a8c-4827-a8a2-58b133203b0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.brainline.org/content/2008/08/understanding-mild-traumatic-brain-injury.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964257 | 1,126 | 3.203125 | 3 |
[Source: mBio, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Horizontal Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Genes on Abiotic Touch Surfaces: Implications for Public Health
Sarah L. Warnes, Callum J. Highmore, and C. William Keevil
Author Affiliations: Centre for Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, S... | <urn:uuid:356a438a-72b2-4a15-a224-b79ae5beac6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hygimia69.blogspot.com/2012/11/horizontal-transfer-of-antibiotic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896225 | 857 | 2.6875 | 3 |
What is Recovery?
Recovery means something different to everyone. Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
Through the Recovery Support Strategic Initiative, SAMHSA has delineated four major dimensio... | <urn:uuid:63da4494-b3e0-41de-a462-50afad82cdc2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmh.ms.gov/think-recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933912 | 211 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Muscle soreness is an unavoidable side effect of endurance training. The only way to avoid post-exercise muscle soreness completely is to avoid exercise.
However, there are several things you can do to minimize muscle soreness caused mainly by damage to muscle proteins without sacrificing fitness. Some obvious ones inc... | <urn:uuid:53c3da28-60cb-4f48-bad6-742d73e57302> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.active.com/a3_articles/ffcee604-af93-4515-80f7-336be36b7723/1?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948323 | 483 | 2.875 | 3 |
Panspermia is a theory that originated in the 19th century in opposition to the theory of spontaneous generation. Panspermia propounded that reproductive bodies of living organisms exist throughout the universe and develop wherever the environment is favorable. The basic tenet of panspermia is that primitive life, whic... | <urn:uuid:e1a6e279-6ade-45f6-9589-5e7f50fe485e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.conservapedia.com/Panspermia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947201 | 1,268 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Roots of our problems
A meeting of planters in Trelawny in 1838, the year of 'full free' from slavery, drew the conclusion that "the people will never be brought to a state of continuous labour while they are allowed to possess the large tracts of land cultivated by them for provisions, which renders them perfectly ind... | <urn:uuid:6d546815-6328-44fc-9129-f93951b77d3b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100103/focus/focus3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961926 | 2,087 | 3.21875 | 3 |
June 6, 2010
Definition of Language
“Many definitions of language have been suggested. An English Phonetician and language scholar, Henry Sweet stated, Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into t... | <urn:uuid:3c55110a-cb33-404a-87b6-f31be223a078> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Language-Paper-394054.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940658 | 790 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Human Ecology - Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development
Environmental success stories from around the world with their lessons on how to turn from decline to restoration and sustainability.
Author: Gerald G. Marten
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Publication Date: November 2001, 256 pp.
Paperback ISBN: 1853837148
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These tips are general ideas that may or may not work for you. Give them a try and find out which ones work for you and your particular learning style. You'll be glad you did, especially at exam time.
- Complete assigned readings and projects.
- Bring a three-ring binder—it is easier to add notes, add handouts, and tak... | <urn:uuid:54519d58-ecf9-4aed-b9a3-6b89d7cad6fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tammy.denlinger@grace.edu/resources/academic-assistance/academic-success-tips/note-taking | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895546 | 646 | 4.21875 | 4 |
10 August 2012
Last updated at 09:15 ET
A navy officer described the floating spectacle as the “weirdest thing” he had seen at sea
A vast “raft” of volcanic rocks covering 10,000 sq miles (26,000 sq km) of ocean has been spotted by a New Zealand military aircraft.
A naval ship was forced to change course in order to av... | <urn:uuid:809cb8ed-7ba0-4240-83e6-72e7e5939e8c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rocketnews.com/2012/08/vast-volcanic-raft-in-pacific/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982449 | 311 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Kansas Geological Survey, Nov. 3, 2011
Developed originally in response to a question from Southwest Groundwater Management District No. 3
Donald O. Whittemore (with input from other KGS staff)
November 3, 2011
The challenge in trying to "sufficiently" establish baseline ground-water quality relative to hydraulic fract... | <urn:uuid:f98058fa-9dc3-452e-8d3d-feb33e1b1c39> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/Publications/2012/Fracturing/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871141 | 1,652 | 2.9375 | 3 |
This tip is excerpted from Craig Mullins' new book Database administration: The complete guide to practices and...
By submitting your email address, you agree to receive emails regarding relevant topic offers from TechTarget and its partners. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Contact TechTarget at 275 Grove St... | <urn:uuid:84c38019-9c26-4be0-96df-42ffe1166859> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/tip/Optimizing-database-performance-part-1-Partitioning-and-indexing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895554 | 2,447 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Department of History
Bringing World History Research into the Classroom
The question of how best to teach world history is a topic of central importance to historians, young and old alike. The most pressing problem faced by both established scholars and emerging professionals is the lack of training in world history. ... | <urn:uuid:f2a4829e-0194-4243-a21d-feeda8d35ac5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ucworldhistory.ucr.edu/RiversideAbstracts/Monty.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936064 | 756 | 2.5625 | 3 |
February 8, 2013
Child Hackers Use Malicious Code To Level Up In Online Games
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com — Your Universe Online
To be honest, we all should have seen this coming.According to BBC News, AVG´s Virus Labs have discovered that children as young as 11 years old have been writing malicious code to hack i... | <urn:uuid:c1fcc097-05bb-4d19-a210-b2277c5affaa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112780368/hacking-by-children-a-growing-trend-020813/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967816 | 707 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Exploring The Science Of Flying, From Your Window Seat
IRA FLATOW, HOST:
This holiday season I'm sure is finding many of us on airplanes, flying around the country. It could take tedious hours of body scans, the crummy back-of-the-seat TV and scary airplane bumps and noises. But if you marvel at nature and technology, ... | <urn:uuid:2be85426-3853-4eaa-9a94-3e892c294bf4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kasu.org/post/exploring-science-flying-your-window-seat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980081 | 7,113 | 2.765625 | 3 |
OECD Factbook 2009 is the fifth edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/labour force,... | <urn:uuid:a41bfc9f-5a65-4788-aa45-1de687ae6f9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-factbook-2009/regional-unemployment_factbook-2009-51-en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846648 | 252 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Researchers with this Industry/University Cooperative Research Center program perform projects identified by industry. Examples are carbon storage in soils under biofuel feedstock production and net energy analysis and greenhouse gas emissions from Eucalyptus plantations activities.
HNEI retained FACTS, Inc. to evaluat... | <urn:uuid:bcb64e85-6ba2-4840-85ae-f88ea8b54d2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hnei.hawaii.edu/taxonomy/term/71/0/feed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910418 | 573 | 2.5625 | 3 |
There’s an old standard for judging what doctors really think: What do they do themselves? Many doctors will apply something to their own health long before they’d recommend it to patients. This makes good sense: Your doctor wants to err on the side of caution when it comes to giving you health advice.
At this point, t... | <urn:uuid:56435397-531d-4cc7-8e14-6802714809ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/daniel-heller-nd/why-your-doctor-eats-chocolate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957285 | 596 | 2.953125 | 3 |
DIOCESE OF CHÂLONS-SUR-MARNE (CATALAUNENSIS)
The Diocese comprises the department of Marne, exclusive of the arrondissement of Reims. United in 1802 with the Diocese of Meaux and in 1821 with that of Reims, the diocese of Châlons was re-established in 1822, and is suffragan to Reims. Local legends maintain that the eva... | <urn:uuid:7f90acfd-ac86-4dd7-8fe7-add4f513b22c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=2779 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955317 | 952 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Dangerous Games Children Play
Sharron says for generations, young people—mostly pre-teens and teenagers—have been finding ways to suffocate themselves on purpose. The lure is a drug-free way to achieve a euphoric, light-headed high that lasts a few seconds. Some children play the game together, helping each other cut o... | <urn:uuid:732b40dd-e2b9-4e60-9f21-7f00d0148279> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oprah.com/oprahandfriends/Dangerous-Games-Children-Play | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978802 | 303 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Ancient Near East
Images & Art
Maps & Geography
Mythology & Beliefs
People in History
Timelines & Charts
Click around the Image of Herodís Temple for Pop-up DescriptionsThe Construction of the Temple On the northern and southern sides of the building were the enclosed halls or rooms where the priests prepared for the s... | <urn:uuid:092999be-0ce7-42d3-851e-160435cff682> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bible-history.com/gentile_court/TEMPLECOURTThe_Temple.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964258 | 454 | 3.65625 | 4 |
A new book on the French and Indian War (the Seven Years War in Europe) highlights the role New York merchants played in trading with the French enemy. Thomas M. Truxes’s Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York gives an engaging narrative account of New York City’s heavy involvement in a thriving, f... | <urn:uuid:7996946f-5761-4b33-b557-acb720f3e1d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2009/04/21/defying-empire-trading-with-the-enemy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945854 | 3,104 | 2.921875 | 3 |
September 10, 2010
New Sickle Cell Screening Program For College Athletes Comes With Serious Pitfalls
The Johns Hopkins Children's Center top pediatrician is urging a "rethink" of a new sickle cell screening program, calling it an enlightened but somewhat rushed step toward improving the health of young people who carr... | <urn:uuid:092ba4c9-6275-4f73-8c33-7ee4d40b3739> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1915307/new_sickle_cell_screening_program_for_college_athletes_comes_with/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951029 | 890 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Hot answers tagged objective-c
I am trying to mitigate SSL bypassing on a jailbroken iOS. ... My application handles confidential data so securing from SSL kill switch and mobile substrate is necessary. There is nothing to mitigate here. SSL is only used for transport level security, that is to protect everything betwe... | <urn:uuid:e3fc2b36-6383-49dc-8af9-b2c2aaf6332f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://security.stackexchange.com/tags/objective-c/hot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934632 | 557 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Carbon 12 vs. Carbon 14
Difference Between Carbon 12 and Carbon 14
The two isotopes of carbon are Carbon 12 and Carbon-14. Carbon atom is composed of 6 protons. They generally have six neutrons; too, this is the reason for their being called as carbon 12. At times, instead of 6 neutrons there are 8 which is when it bec... | <urn:uuid:f9fcb971-25db-4fa4-8cc8-d995462fd03d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://vspages.com/carbon-12-vs-carbon-14-5650/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957566 | 391 | 3.609375 | 4 |
A place is called in the shade when the sun is shining, and some object, a tree for example, blocks the direct sunlight. So the sunlight can not reach the spot. The dark image, which the object casts on the ground (or on another object) is called shadow, not shade.
Shade can also mean a darker or lighter color of the s... | <urn:uuid:4ac4c29f-c5f5-4d02-a598-761307b9d957> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908758 | 109 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Steep Point, AK Steamer OHIO Sinking, Aug 1909
Wireless Operator and Purser of the Ohio Give Lives to Save 128 Passengers.
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 28. – Five lives were lost in the sinking of the Alaska Steamship Company’s steamer Ohio off Steep Point, Alaska. There were 128 passengers on board, but all these escaped,... | <urn:uuid:fe9e427e-78cc-435c-9673-29032646d3b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www3.gendisasters.com/alaska/5115/steep-point%2C-ak-steamer-ohio-sinking%2C-aug-1909 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957394 | 206 | 2.515625 | 3 |
This research guide is designed to help you locate musical scores, articles, books, excerpts, and other resources for the violin. This guide is just a starting point - not every resource available in the library is included. If you have any questions, stop by the Music Library's service desk for assistance, or contact ... | <urn:uuid:138fb7ce-d9ce-4f62-9b1a-b132383f19eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/violin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918097 | 351 | 2.75 | 3 |
Grape powdery mildew in the Pacific Northwest is an ongoing problem in wine grape vineyards; grape powdery mildew research is also ongoing. For nearly two decades, Washington State University researchers have conducted fungicide efficacy trials, screening hundreds of products.
In the early 1990s, Washington State Unive... | <urn:uuid:cdef1d35-6e1f-4a26-9d50-4f3852ffb2cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.goodfruit.com/mildew-wanted-in-this-vineyard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938679 | 940 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Domestic violence is a pattern of physical, emotional, verbal, and/or sexual abusive behaviors that adults or adolescents use against their partners. Domestic violence occurs in intimate relationships where the perpetrator and the victim are currently or previously have been dating, living together, married or divorced... | <urn:uuid:0325e4c8-2da2-488d-8b3c-bb852f06e272> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.franklinmo.org/Prosecuting_Attorney/Domestic_Violence/Domestic_Violence.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917722 | 254 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Name Game
With a group of children have them sit in a circle and have them take turns clapping out the rhythm for a name, especially their own, while saying the name. The other children should repeat the name while clapping the rhythm. For example Mi-chael would be Clap clap or Ma-lin-da would be Clap clap clap. An... | <urn:uuid:749c03cb-5bb9-43b1-8c6a-193269d7fcf5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.savvysource.com/activities/activity_b821_the-name-game | 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 | 0.890299 | 88 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Virginia Earthquake Could Affect Some Water Wells
Rare East Coast earthquake might have caused changes in local groundwater
What happens above the Earth’s surface was dramatically apparent this week in places from Mineral, Va., to Washington, D.C., but what’s not so obvious are impacts beneath the surface to groundwate... | <urn:uuid:c0205ba6-389a-42d3-9624-a718c58a7b9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wqpmag.com/virginia-earthquake-could-affect-some-water-wells | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951817 | 472 | 3.390625 | 3 |
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