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1. Michael is very unhappy at the beginning of the novel. Discuss how Michael's life changes after he discovers Skellig and meets Mina. Think about ways that you deal with fear and loneliness. How can you help a friend who appears unhappy?
2. Almond never gives the reader a specific description of Skellig. Based on the... | <urn:uuid:d6af431e-c1e9-40a5-a708-48c6608ced46> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440229087&view=rg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96986 | 577 | 2.578125 | 3 |
By the President of the United States of America
The American people join Hellenes today in commemorating the 188th anniversary of Greece's independence. As we celebrate the establishment of the Hellenic Republic, we honor the historic contributions of Greeks and Greek-Americans.
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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS DAILY
A SETI Radio Telescope in Northern California
from the Los Angeles Times
HAT CREEK, CALIF. - In this remote volcanic valley near Mt. Shasta, 42 telescope dishes have sprouted amid the soaring ponderosa pines, listening for a voice from space.
Every few seconds the 20-foot-wide dishes, scattere... | <urn:uuid:9192e6d0-450e-4f48-9aed-fac67e3de80e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.americanscientist.org/science/id.3787,content.true,css.print/science.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857224 | 149 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Politicos in Seattle, Wash., took Earth Day to heart. Mayor Paul Schell and the city council made an unprecedented pledge: to meet Seattle's future electricity needs without increasing net greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists say these gases, some of them produced by burning fossil fuels such as coal, make the Earth's ... | <urn:uuid:8e519445-7a7e-4449-9b59-ff6d51ce5972> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hcn.org/issues/180/5845/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942987 | 366 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Study Takes Closer Look at IED Impact on Soldiers' Brains
May 23, 2012 3:07 PM
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IEDs continue to cause severe long-term damage to blast survivors
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Some scientists believe that there is a growing shortage of fish in the sea. They believe the reason is that we have captured too many fish. This is called "overfishing." To help prevent overfishing, government has to set limits, called "quotas", on how many fish fishermen can catch in a year. In order to decide on quo... | <urn:uuid:a6858e90-865a-4065-86a8-ef09b29775ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.neaq.org/education_and_activities/games_and_activities/activities/counting_the_fish_in_the_sea.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950881 | 768 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Kerry Cassens will be the guest speaker at the Senior Circle Lunch and Learn April 13. She will discuss “Food-borne Illness: What is it and how to avoid it.”
Cassens grew up on a farm in rural southwest Minnesota and graduated from Rochester Community College with an associate degree in nursing.
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Museum Collections - Mesoamerica - Teotihuacan - Artifact #3
WHO: Teotihuacan culture
WHERE: Northeastern Valley of Mexico
WHEN: Classic Period, A.D. 450- 650
WHAT: Bowl coated with a thin stucco plaster and painted with four faces wearing plumed head-dresses. The impression given by the decoration on this bowl is akin... | <urn:uuid:26c74532-113d-4ca7-8a23-239bebaac4b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.textilemuseum.ca/cloth_clay/resources/teothuacan_003.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910936 | 215 | 3.375 | 3 |
Posted: August 26, 2013, 8:25 p.m. EDT
One of the many mysteries in medicine for ferret owners is how veterinarians determine a dose of a drug for their pet. Some people may believe that doses are all based on hard scientific facts developed after extensive research but, unfortunately, many of our doses for ferrets are... | <urn:uuid:66aa5a4c-3674-4bdf-a1d5-fdc8b434c355> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/ferrets/ferret-health/unravel-the-mystery-of-ferret-medication-dosages.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935998 | 856 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Anthropology.net calls my attention today to this paper:
Eimear E. Kenny et al., Melanesian Blond Hair Is Caused by an Amino Acid Change in TYRP1. Science 2012. Pay per view.
Naturally blond hair is rare in humans and found almost exclusively in Europe and Oceania. Here, we identify an arginine-to-cysteine change at a ... | <urn:uuid:8cef6f37-e008-4dda-aa69-70435ad8eece> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/2012/05/blond-hair-in-melanesia-genetically.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94035 | 347 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Your doctor checks your blood pressure at just about every visit, but why? High blood pressure, or hypertension, increases your chance of heart disease and stroke — and often there are no symptoms of high blood pressure other than the results of your reading at the doctor's office.
But a new clue is emerging in the que... | <urn:uuid:4dd6dfad-fa2b-4e6a-b839-658b121394a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everydayhealth.com/hypertension/diagnosing/a-better-way-of-measuring-hypertension.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938784 | 711 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Wrestling is an amateur sport, popular in high school, college and the Olympics, which consists of opponents of similar weight attempting to obtain control of each other and pinning the opposition to the ground.
This extremely athletic sport is not to be confused with "professional wrestling," which is staged entertain... | <urn:uuid:513f82a1-d23d-4b75-8fa0-b048f2a7f9d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Wrestling&oldid=1035060 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958474 | 1,003 | 3.140625 | 3 |
“… if God cares for so much for all creatures, why didn’t God create a world in which there would be no natural disasters?”
One of the more significant passage in the Old Testament for shaping our understanding of God — or perhaps a passage that if we take it serious will shape our view of God — is the Flood Story.
Wha... | <urn:uuid:f0b39656-0024-4305-a0d5-1d50e69f86a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2010/10/29/creation-untamed-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946068 | 1,043 | 2.828125 | 3 |
ASBESTOS IN SOIL and VERMICULITE SAMPLES
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 18 - /EWire/ -- Often soil and vermiculite material will contain asbestos fibers either as naturally occurring asbestos in rock, such as serpentine, or as contamination from asbestos removal activities. The need to identify the presence of asbestos fi... | <urn:uuid:2de50356-5ff8-4e6b-9291-19b2ae05e7c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ewire.com/news-releases/asbestos-in-soil-and-vermiculite-samples/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860452 | 1,099 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Right to Food Handbooks 3, 2014.
This handbook presents the process to be followed for the revision of sectoral legislation, since it may affect various aspects of the right to food. The purpose of this revision is to ensure that the legal framework of the country is favourable for the progressive realization of the ri... | <urn:uuid:264810ec-0764-4235-b37a-6fe64eaf010d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/righttofood/publications/publications-detail/en/c/209641/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91727 | 203 | 2.78125 | 3 |
SittingNow.co.uk continue their rebooted ‘CounterTech’ series, with another great article from DisInfo’s Joe McFall:
This week, Italian scientists announced that in a month-long experiment conducted last year, an amputee’s nervous system was attached to a mechanical hand disconnected from his body. The man, Pierpaolo P... | <urn:uuid:0be7ec46-601f-49e9-b1ec-caeacda709d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://disinfo.com/2009/12/edwardo-robot-hands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95035 | 780 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Today the French Board River waterway is utilized by paddlers, fisherfolk, sightseers, and countless other outdoor enthusiasts. Natives point to it with pride, and there's talk going around of turning parts of the river into a source of water for the Asheville area. To stand on its bank and gaze out over the vast expan... | <urn:uuid:182480aa-80db-4e05-8e04-bc8cb814ab14> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/french-board-river-revitalization-zmaz84jazloeck.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9658 | 815 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A study by researchers at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia, previously in the news
for earlier research on the same topic, shows that certain types of video games, namely sports and fighting titles, can do a lot to distract players from feeling pain. The study, called Effects of Video Game Play Types on Pain... | <urn:uuid:6d9d15e3-24c8-43d5-917d-bb78614dfbf4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7939 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967158 | 364 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Teachers know how important it is to develop children's fine motor skills as a stepping stone to future learning. Christy Isbell's new book, Mighty Fine Motor Fun, provides teachers with the tools and information to teach fine motor skills to children ages three to five. Isbell covers a wide range of current research o... | <urn:uuid:531d6b23-fb42-41c6-a3a7-d9ba45dae589> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/mighty-fine-motor-fun-1st-edition-9780876590799-0876590792 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935149 | 346 | 2.765625 | 3 |
I couldn't find the answer anywhere, but let's say we have a B-Tree with min = 1 and max = 2: What is the formula to calculate the maximum number of nodes in this B-Tree if the depth is say 100? This question was given on an in-class test to which most everyone had no idea what the answer was. I was completely stumped ... | <urn:uuid:0bea50bc-3a9d-49d3-80d9-bea9236ed338> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/199721/balance-tree-with-depth-n-has-how-many-nodes-maximum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958003 | 212 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Brakes turn the energy of motion into heat. In other words, when you want to stop the friction between the brake materials, and the brake rotors/drums (more on this later) creates heat. The faster you go the more heat the brakes create for you to stop.
There are two types of brake systems, shoes and pads. Shoes are the... | <urn:uuid:a34443ac-5b81-4fab-a303-75d2272425dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ajjdz.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933828 | 1,569 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The National Parks and Reserves (Protected Areas) of Egypt
by Jimmy Dunn
Many people with little knowledge of Egypt and less interest in exploring this ancient land believe it to be a desert. It is the vision portrayed if they casually run across a photo of the great pyramids in a magazine. However, most people with on... | <urn:uuid:706b5b77-8f73-4daf-93ae-5a61fe057f25> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/parks.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952688 | 1,955 | 3.078125 | 3 |
How to connect your home appliances to the Internet of Things
November 13, 2012
SigFox is focused on connecting cheap sensors and “dumb” home appliances to the Internet. The goal is to make all kinds of appliances and infrastructure, from power grids to microwave ovens, smarter by letting them share data. The general c... | <urn:uuid:b0b59280-ecde-4cce-99ef-3dd0e7a3fd52> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-connect-your-home-appliances-to-the-internet-of-things | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940751 | 1,003 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Oceanographers announced today that a global observing system – based on drifting sensors that travel from the ocean’s surface to mid-depths – reached the milestone of 1 million ocean observations.
Since 2000, scientists from 28 countries – including Australia – have deployed 3500 drifting robotic sensors, which provid... | <urn:uuid:a4655c52-e227-4a8d-9e7d-520c19bc809c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/444419/global_ocean_system_hits_1_million_observations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935926 | 587 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Virtual earthquakes predict greater shaking in the seismically precarious city of Los Angeles than in nearby areas, a new computer modeling study suggests. Shaking in the Los Angeles Basin could be three times larger on average than in the city's surroundings, the models show.
These virtual quakes could also predict th... | <urn:uuid:45a29bb9-7413-4734-bf53-c5fd09ef1b01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.livescience.com/42799-virtual-earthquakes-los-angeles-risk.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955158 | 1,303 | 3.328125 | 3 |
A proposal by ‘computational and speculative designer’ Benedikt Groβ and San Francisco based geographer Joey Lee to ‘run a satellite image based alphabet searching algorithm’ to identify man made structures that look like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. They say:
..we will traverse the entire planet’s w... | <urn:uuid:02a9f702-8b33-4d79-9272-5a1947cb8fbc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/satellite/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91708 | 497 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia & Herzegovina with a population of approximately 515,000. The first Jews came to Sarajevo in the middle of the 16th century, spreading from there to smaller towns of Bosnia.
- Early History
- 20th Century History
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At the beginning of the 20th Century, it was a matter of some sensitivity--and even controversy--when President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington, the pre-eminent "Negro leader" of his day, to dine at the White House.
By the end of the 20th Century, few Americans found it at all remarkable, much less obje... | <urn:uuid:2fe14a90-5cff-4ec2-9863-7303229d2eb5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-01-06/news/0001060059_1_full-racial-equality-white-house-foreign-policy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965312 | 749 | 3.390625 | 3 |
n his satirical essay, “The Decay of Lying,” Oscar Wilde argues that modern British society suffers from decadence, because the sages of this time do not think imaginatively when they create literary or visual art. The realist sage produces such “dullness” (p. 5), because he associates his art with the constraining sub... | <urn:uuid:69caad62-c91d-4299-b2ae-7ca153f334f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/gitter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957331 | 1,103 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely book Martha Minow ... | <urn:uuid:8557ce6d-b0aa-48cf-aedf-77290f255b97> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://princeton.dnlebooks.com/ebooks/ebooks/Law/Breaking_the_Cycles_of_Hatred | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934484 | 389 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Labor inductions are much more common nowadays than they used to be. Today approximately 1 in 5 births are induced, about double what it was just 20 years ago. While most labor inductions are medically necessary and increasing number are done electively. So what is labor induction?
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The motorist speeding away from East St. Louis over the Collinsville road is but a few miles out of town when he begins to pass through what has been described as the greatest field for archaeological research in the United States. Here, on either side of the modern concrete highway, and over an area of •two thousand s... | <urn:uuid:60e2e816-ea3f-4d7b-8df0-8b775748cd80> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Illinois/_Texts/journals/IllCHR/8/2/The_Trappists_of_Monks_Mound*.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977416 | 18,895 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Every answer is a familiar phrase in the form "_____ in _____," in which the first and last words given as clues are rhymes. For example, given "hide in spots," the answer would be "tied in knots."
Challenge From Last Week
Think of a four-letter word with a short "A" sound, and specifically the "A" is the second letter... | <urn:uuid:16e006ea-4e2d-4be6-a51a-b29addac9ed5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103001951 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9549 | 263 | 2.515625 | 3 |
After the Roman Empire declined, Western Europe had no countries. Numerous tribes fought for domination over territories, but there were no central governments or national armies. The Frankish tribes set up control over vast territories, and one Frankish king, Charlemagne (Charles the Great) ruled a considerable chunk ... | <urn:uuid:5e2f20a0-da3f-43f9-b4b6-b21de5075938> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wokm.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975398 | 638 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Woman: There has to be exploration, and it has to be decided by the children, not by the teachers.
Narrator: In 2001, Edutopia visited the Key Learning Community in Indianapolis, Indiana, a school intent on doing things differently.
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To the residents of South Louisiana, recent reports on the alarming loss of Louisiana's coastline are as unwelcome, frightening and difficult to comprehend as a diagnosis of life-threatening cancer. The reports paint a dire picture for the future Louisiana coast due to sinking land and rising seas. But we warn against ... | <urn:uuid:b6671d6a-bad0-4c49-aaf4-918e71d1ff66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.nola.com/guesteditorials/2008/12/louisiana_cant_afford_denial_o.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945458 | 877 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Weather Tracking Cards
Weather Tracking Cards - Montessori Science Cards
This work includes:
- 20 labeled weather cards (1¾" x 2")
- 1 "Current Temperature" card
- 3 statement cards (Yesterday was... Today is..., Tomorrow will be...)
- 1 page of small weather cards (cards less than 1"x 1") - includes 4 of each card
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The use of orthotics and certain shoes such as motion control shoes do more damage to one's feet and legs, and increase the propensity for injury and further problems in the future.
Certain running shoe companies market and sell all sorts of shoes that provide such items as protection, motion control, arch support, cus... | <urn:uuid:ff77f842-28dd-4965-9ab0-dea68786d507> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.runireland.com/articles/othotics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94957 | 368 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Have you ever heard someone talk about the stock market? News programs report on whether it's up or down. When it goes down, people worry about the economy. What do they mean when they talk about "the market" or "the Dow"? Why does it matter so much?
A Function of the Economy
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In the large-scale petrochemical industry, one of the most concerning problems is the leakage of toxic gas. To solve this problem, it is necessary to locate the leak points and feed the possible location of leak points back to rescuers. Although some researchers have previously presented several me... | <urn:uuid:a77f96ef-3f7c-4a8c-b3a5-649859bde1ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6829946&sortType%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND(p_IS_Number%3A6829933) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930327 | 252 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Project Title: Gyro Controller Input for PySoy
Student: Mayank Singh
Organization: Python Software Foundation
Basic focus has been shifted to Wiimote rather than android as of 16/4/2011.
The idea behind this project is to be able to play a PySoy game like ping pong on your computer using your smartphone/wiimote as a ba... | <urn:uuid:dcb4feec-838d-4203-a32f-af51f5f6c93f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pysoy.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2011/MayankSingh/GyroController | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893537 | 1,363 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HyperKPP) is a rare inherited muscle disorder which causes episodes of paralysis or weakness. It's estimated to occur in only one of 250,000 individuals, though since it is inherited there may be several patients in a single family. It was only recognized as a separate disorder in 1955.... | <urn:uuid:38473f24-5596-4424-9f15-ff2488cc084d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hkpp.org/patients/hyperkpp-FAQ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954448 | 2,073 | 3.671875 | 4 |
NRG Energy Testing GreenFuel Algae Emissions-to-Fuel System at Coal Power Plant
13 April 2007
NRG Energy has begun field testing GreenFuel Technologies’ proprietary Emissions-to-Biofuels bioreactor technology (earlier post) at NRG’s Big Cajun II—a 1,489 net MW coal-fueled power plant in New Roads, Louisiana.
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Description: This coarse, erect, alien herb in the sunflower or daisy family grows to heights of 10-70 cm (4-28 in). Its stems and foliage normally are covered with short hairs. Bwilbwilikkaj has opposite leaves and yellow tubular flowers. Its name refers to a breadfruit (mā) that cracks upon falling to the ground.
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In 1991, the historian Alastair Lamb wrote that “it has become apparent that the Indian Republic is faced with, at least in that part of the Vale of Kashmir which it occupies, what can only be described as a terminal colonial situation.”
This terminal colonial situation has lasted for 25 years and has brought suffering... | <urn:uuid:69613372-e512-4e76-abf3-b2266ca4bea0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fpif.org/terror-impunity-kashmir/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970146 | 3,842 | 2.75 | 3 |
The technological singularity is a hypothetical moment in the future when artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intelligence—and capable of creating smarter iterations of itself. Apply the same general idea to simulations and you get the "simulation singularity": when a simulated world is indisti... | <urn:uuid:a175172e-bd15-436d-9c26-732ac758e09d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-simulation-singularity-is-near | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945069 | 915 | 2.640625 | 3 |
12.4 Financial Accounting Systems and Cost Accounts
The cost accounts described in the previous sections provide only one of the various components in a financial accounting system. Before further discussing the use of cost accounts in project control, the relationship of project and financial accounting deserves menti... | <urn:uuid:4305c4a6-2249-42d4-b346-c715d3a383e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sketch-plus.com/resources/pmBook/12_Cost_Control_Monitoring_and_Accounting-02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944225 | 2,686 | 3.390625 | 3 |
I recently read Doing Democracy by Bill Moyers, which is about the universal stages every political or social movement goes through. This book is to political movements what Joseph Campbell’s monomyth is to story.
These stages are critical for anyone interested in social change to understand. Often activists believe th... | <urn:uuid:dc6ea826-9e36-405a-9d8f-bcdf0a2be4d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.returnofkings.com/27956/the-8-stages-all-movements-go-through | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953267 | 1,870 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Nutrition and HIV for Moms-to-Be
December 5, 2012
Table of Contents
- Before You Become Pregnant: Nutrition-Related Considerations
- Nutrition Considerations During and After Your Pregnancy
- Eating Right on a Tight Budget
Nowadays, more and more women living with HIV are having healthy pregnancies and giving birth to ... | <urn:uuid:ebf50c54-ba4b-4880-a817-34e6ab9b6cf0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thebody.com/content/69961/nutrition-and-hiv-for-moms-to-be.html?comments=on | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963929 | 1,492 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Brzeski’s revolutionary 50-hp rotary powerplant, which he called Iskra (Spark).
In its first attempt, the Aquila shuddered aloft, and after 50 feet crashed into a hedge. The crash was blamed on the Schindler airframe, and the aircraft’s development was scrapped.
Born in the province of Transylvania, Aurel Vlaicu built ... | <urn:uuid:8cadca11-5ac7-43d6-b299-4df7d51b870b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/the-birthplaces-of-aviation-35726318/?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970475 | 716 | 3.09375 | 3 |
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES covering many aspects of evolution and palaeontology (the study of ancient life) are offered in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences.
|Dr Steve Salisbury with Honours student Stewart Macdonald at the 2003 Elliot dig. Photo: Chris Stacey, The University of Queensland.
Level 2 cours... | <urn:uuid:c1e3b49c-84ab-4507-b01d-46e054fbff0c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs/index.html?page=14085 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889108 | 788 | 2.8125 | 3 |
IntroductionIf the Sun is essentially an electrical phenomenon, as seems to be the case, and it is also a fairly typical star, then all stars should exhibit properties that are consistent with the Electric Sun (ES) model. Do they? Let us extrapolate the ES model and compare it to what we have observed about stars.
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Find free photos, pictures, diagrams, images and information related to space and astronomy right here at Science Kids.
Photo name: Lunar Rover
Picture category: Space and Astronomy
Image size: 73 KB
Dimensions: 600 x 450
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E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
(1) Of Greek tradition. Aristeas, a poet who continued to appear and disappear alternately for above 400 years, and who visited all the mythical nations of the earth.
(2) Of Jewish story. Tradition says that Kartaphilos, the door-keeper of the Judgment Ha... | <urn:uuid:7657685f-3d55-40fc-ad17-f194857ebf1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bartleby.com/81/17261.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955286 | 670 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Vaccines, Blood & Biologics
Development of Technologies and Evaluation of Methods Used to Test the Safety of Tissue Intended for Transplantation
Principal Investigator: Shyh-Ching Lo, MD, PhD
Office / Division / Lab: OCTGT / DCGT / TVBB
Tissue banks distribute about 1.5 million donated bone and tissue grafts to recipie... | <urn:uuid:b9cd428e-1975-49c2-833a-71fbb34f98c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/ScienceResearch/BiologicsResearchAreas/ucm221453.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852718 | 2,825 | 2.75 | 3 |
We are going to do a great deal of talking about the 18th dynasty kings. To make it easier for you to follow, we will state now that we believe Thutmoses 1 became Amenhotep 1 when he went from co-regent to emperor. Therefore, these 2 names are the same person.
Problem 1. Amenhotep I was the son of Pharaoh Ahmose and Qu... | <urn:uuid:fd85ffd5-e857-43ca-92d5-3fb5828dec5f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kingtutone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6934 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970528 | 1,547 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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The Earth is like a giant magnet, surrounded by a magnetic field. This magnetic field, which is a vector with both direction and intensity, is generated by a dynamo process in the fluid outer ... | <urn:uuid:8de8eeb9-db55-4ae8-a501-ed1ff0fcad08> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://geomag.org/info/declination.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923956 | 1,064 | 3.953125 | 4 |
]]]]]]]]]]] TOO CHEAP TO METER: ANATOMY OF A LIE [[[[[[[[[[[[ The biggest lie put in the the nuclear industry's mouth is the alleged claim that an accident like Three Mile Island couldn't happen. The second biggest, also put in its mouth, is that it promised nuclear power would be too cheap to meter. The opposite is tr... | <urn:uuid:3996e805-a855-4156-811b-3920c3aef25a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fortfreedom.org/p06.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980417 | 866 | 2.75 | 3 |
Which is correct?
In information technology, an ___________ specifies the overall structure, logical components, and the logical interrelationships of an information system.
Reminds me a bit of how some anonymous wag thought to differentiate hardware from software:
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Significant challenges often require a team effort. Restoring the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary is one of them.
A group of professionals from the Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, joined 200+ scientists, engineers, academics and restoration professionals on June 3, 2014 at a major symposium in Manhattan ... | <urn:uuid:546d02e0-80e7-4f1c-ac98-e2745b624fe5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.marinelink.com/news/restoring-estuary-harbor375980.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915931 | 1,704 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Directed by Sandra Clarke (Linguistics), in collaboration with Philip Hiscock (Folklore). Web design, programming and technical support by Memorial's DELTS (Distance Education, Learning and Teaching Support) and by Computing and Communications (C&C) Webworks.
The online Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador was fo... | <urn:uuid:9bd7f8be-a58e-4787-ab7f-41d4eaad2bf3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mun.ca/elrc/projects/Dialect_Atlas.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924524 | 652 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Current evidence suggests that using Doppler ultrasound in high-risk pregnancies to monitor a fetus' health may reduce caesarean sections and the number of babies who die, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.
Doppler ultrasound is a well established technique used to diagnose problems during pregnancy. In the... | <urn:uuid:c5e6674d-5876-4f8c-b128-a0ab473eff25> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/w-dui011510.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969327 | 508 | 3.140625 | 3 |
N is for Newt. Tracing worksheet for letter N lower case.
Preschool alphabet worksheet for practicing the lower case letter S.
O is for Octopus. Lower case letter O alphabet tracing page.
Upper and lower case alphabet tracing worksheets, lower case letter T.
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Brad's Ultimate New York Yankees Website - www.HistoryOfTheYankees.com
Welcome to the Babe Ruth Biography Page. Here you will find many different biographies found about the Babe.
Biography - Courtesy of BabeRuth.com
George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Kate Scha... | <urn:uuid:c7ea2cf5-6464-4942-9de4-d635b2c84787> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ultimateyankees.com/baberuthbiography.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987628 | 13,583 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Grumman F-9 Cougar Video - Crash landing aboard USS INtrepid (CVA-11) 1956
Role - Fighter aircraft
National origin - United States
Manufacturer - Grumman
First flight - 20 September 1951
Retired - 1974, US Navy
Primary users - United States Navy
United States Marine Corps
Developed from - F9F Panther
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Noah has a lot going for him, in the biblical tale and in the recent Hollywood adaptation. Divine help would be a pretty useful tool in a quest to round up two of every species on the planet and build a gigantic ark to survive an apocalyptic flood. But, is the story rooted in truth or is it merely fable?
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In the three hundred years since Europeans first received reports of a mysterious creature in Siberia called the mammoth, nothing has engendered more public fascination about them than the occasional discovery of nearly intact, frozen mammoth carcasses with flesh still attached. At some point in the nineteenth century,... | <urn:uuid:89143ad4-1a7c-447b-b35c-75b1f31c7265> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://johnmckay.blogspot.com/2009/09/zombies-of-mammoth-steppes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978449 | 7,358 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Tessa Hill of the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues studied the amount of tar in samples taken from the seafloor of the Santa Barbara channel off the California coast. Because the oil and gas escape at the same time, measuring tar levels in such samples provides a good estimate of how much methane was... | <urn:uuid:451fd39f-dc16-48b1-9a6d-d5ac4c6257ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-spurs-ocea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962328 | 361 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Meridian, Miss. High school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area, made a stop in Meridian Thursday as part of Operation Understanding DC.
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11 May 2015: Hampson K, Coudeville L, Lembo T, Sambo M, Kieffer A, et al. (2015) Correction: Estimating the Global Burden of Endemic Canine Rabies. doi: info:doi/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003786 View correction
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In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how social class, family... | <urn:uuid:6bba0ddb-9058-49b4-bb0e-6548183336b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/too-much-to-ask-1st-edition-9780807849897-0807849898 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955578 | 314 | 3.09375 | 3 |
- freely available
Viruses 2014, 6(3), 986-1003; doi:10.3390/v6030986
Abstract: This research compared the effectiveness of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) outreach programs in New Mexico, Panama, and Chile. Understanding the role of human demographics, disease ecology, and human behavior in the disease process is ... | <urn:uuid:b1caedc0-3af6-470b-b859-d6ea7bc06f34> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/6/3/986/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933829 | 12,581 | 3.1875 | 3 |
In the early 1990s, drug production in Colombia diversified to include heroin as well as cocaine, and since then the country's role in the heroin trade has substantially increased. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia produced approximately 70 to 100 metric tons of heroin between 1998 and... | <urn:uuid:aaf0ee5d-f66f-44e7-83df-ef9a118949f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/nyu-nra021216.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939639 | 1,597 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Georgetown was a community south of Middletown at the present site of Oxford State Road and Yankee Road, and part of the unincorporated suburb of Oneida in Lemon Township. There also was a Georgetown south of Fairfield Township in Colerain Township in Hamilton County. Ruth J. Wells in her book, Colerain Township Revisi... | <urn:uuid:298f4e78-259c-414a-85ec-5ec1b62ea90c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/a/lanepl.org/butler/home/g/georgetown | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986409 | 612 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Meditator next looks at the source of his errors. They depend simultaneously upon the intellect (the faculty of knowledge) and the will (the faculty of choice, or freedom of the will). The intellect, however, only allows us to perceive ideas, not to make judgments on them, and so in this strict sense, it cannot be ... | <urn:uuid:96f28d2e-7968-4fd4-b78a-446b3cdcbaa4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/meditations/section9.rhtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96846 | 1,335 | 2.796875 | 3 |
notes taken during the round table:
in a recent article in science, it has been shown that humans learn by example rather than by argument. consequently, your health/happiness is influenced by your friends as you tend to ”imitate” (learn from) them. sandy pentland co-athoured a paper (soon to be published) that tries t... | <urn:uuid:1e8d63ab-beb6-4033-a12c-a35cbf86b0b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mobblog.cs.ucl.ac.uk/2010/05/21/netsci-2010-monday-round-table-at-harvard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951573 | 646 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The top five priorities for school libraries and their districts
January 2005; Pages 19–22
Schools should consider the introduction of a range of new technologies that enhance students’ access to information. ‘Federated search technologies’ are able to search a number of specified sources simultaneously – users or libr... | <urn:uuid:897b5648-b80f-4645-8666-a0bafaa5cacd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.curriculum.edu.au/leader/abstracts,58.html?tab=2&issueID=9764 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951264 | 3,839 | 2.890625 | 3 |
A team of doctors led by Mona Raghothaman of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore in southern //India, has made a strong plea for all out nationwide efforts to detect the Parkinsons Disease at an early stage.
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NOAA figures show that 2013 CO2 level growth was the highest ever recorded, i.e. 2.95 ppm.
The EPA expects U.S. 2013 energy-related CO2 emissions to be 2% higher than in 2012.
The UC San Diego image below shows CO2 levels in the atmosphere over the past two years.
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Meet the Breed: Eastern Monument
Beloved in its native Japan and around the world, the Akita radiates dignity and showers its loved ones with ample affection.
Kim Campbell Thornton
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Thomas Adams-Chewing Gum
By: Shelby S.
Nevada, Age 11
Chew, chew, chew goes your jaw as your chewing a famous mistake that turned good. This thing you are chewing on is called Chewing Gum, invented by the inventor named Thomas Adams. Thomas Adams and his buddy Santa Anna started out trying to make tire patches out of r... | <urn:uuid:951c44d3-c200-4b3d-a390-2cdb5a0fd3ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/biograph/biography_readrep.asp?id=3404&age=11&Page=19&sortBy=title | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98254 | 514 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Nine judges assess synchronised diving. Four judge the execution of individual dives, and five assess synchronisation - how the pairs mirror height, distance from the springboard or platform, speed of rotation and entry into the water.
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While many cities around the country grapple with drought and excessive heat this year, city planners in Boston have something else on their minds: the prospect of rising water.
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Bioengineer Manu Prakash of Stanford University has come up with an excellent design for an ultra cheap paper based folding microscope which could provide low cost health monitoring and diagnosis in areas where conventional scopes are too expensive.
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Drug Safety Becoming a Major Concern
A study released in 2007 showed that reports of serious adverse drug events reported to the FDA more than doubled between 1998 and 2005. A serious adverse drug event is defined as one that results in death, a birth defect, disability or hospitalization, or that needed intervention t... | <urn:uuid:90c02d2f-8af5-480d-800a-f9483e80be0c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/drug-safety-becoming-a-major-concern | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941705 | 1,212 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Kepler Discovers Five Exoplanets
January 4, 2010: NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets.
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History of Religious Life
St. Francis of Assisi and the
Witness to Evangelical Poverty - Part 2
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Now the Poor Clares are of course the Second Order, but
they identify themselves
completely as far as possible with the Friars Minor in terms of personal and communal dispossession.
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how do u display text on the applet when a button is pressed?
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The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
“Analytic” sentences, such as “Ophthalmologists are doctors,” are those whose truth seems to be knowable by knowing the meanings of the constituent words alone, unlike the more usual “synthetic” ones, such as “Ophthalmologists are rich,” whose truth is knowable by both knowing the mea... | <urn:uuid:82760345-9cb7-4dc4-9f96-c3562f019375> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948711 | 24,773 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Volvo Group has developed a directive on how to communicate about environmentally enhanced products such as hybrid solutions and vehicles that can operate on renewable fuels. The purpose is to ensure that the communication about the environmental performance of the Group’s products is accurate, substantiated and do... | <urn:uuid:4e4d5366-5730-4fa4-b515-455f5d0e8d94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www3.volvo.com/investors/finrep/sr12/en/valuechain/distributionandserv/transparentcommunic/transparent-communi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942929 | 201 | 2.75 | 3 |
A balloon returned from a high-altitude flight this year covered in microscopic life forms which seemed not to be of this world, and reignited the debate over whether life on Earth actually began here, or somewhere else.
This year, other scientists have argued that life originated on Mars, due to a mineral found in Mar... | <urn:uuid:dbcf0686-92c1-4de2-b5dc-93dd05a16755> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adguk-blog.com/2013/10/humans-came-from-another-planet-new.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973315 | 1,574 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Dealing with Anger in Marriage
Source: Ohio State University
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Scientists Say Smaller 2006 Landslide Set The Stage For Oso Disaster
A small landslide in 2006 set the stage for the catastrophe that claimed 43 lives in Oso, Washington this past March, say a panel of scientists in a federally-funded study.
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May is finally acting like May across much of the country today. The odds of seeing large hail and damaging winds are 30x higher than normal in both the Mile High City and the Nation's Capital this afternoon, respectively. Some tornadoes are also possible, especially around Denver, but the risk is starting to drop a bi... | <urn:uuid:676eb0e9-d50e-42cd-8ef7-0ef42c489c35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thevane.gawker.com/denver-and-washington-d-c-could-see-large-hail-tornad-1579602540/all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950607 | 656 | 2.59375 | 3 |
William Hone and George Cruikshank, The Political Showman – At Home! April 1821
Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of George IV, had been living in exile on the continent since 1814. On George’s accession in January 1820, she returned to England to claim the throne as his consort. This prompted a trial before th... | <urn:uuid:cbec8cf8-547c-4187-8d92-31e146c863e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/abusingpower/polshowman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935754 | 211 | 3.328125 | 3 |
OFSAA supports leading an active and healthy lifestyle!
Here are some online resources for healthy-active living:
- Eat Right Ontario
- Ontario Ministry of Health
- Human Kinetics
- Don't Just Sit There!
When it comes to exercise, there’s more good news! In addition to all of the physical benefits, exercise can be very... | <urn:uuid:ec20fbcf-d7e9-4b59-b63e-f4e6f7e69762> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ofsaa.on.ca/resources/healthy-active-living | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891096 | 143 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Mar. 27, 2013
Moose in the Morning
Oh wild and gentle beast,
Immense antlered shape,
This morning in the meadow!
Like something ancient, lost
And found now, promise kept,
Emerging from the shadow,
Emerging while I slept—
Wilderness and escape!
You set me free to shirk
The day's demanding work
And cast my guilt away.
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X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out
X-ray image of Enchelynassa canina. Courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
“Art is science made clear.”
—Jean Cocteau, 1926
When looking at nature close up, we begin to see structures of unexpected beauty. This exhibit features X-rays made for research purposes, bu... | <urn:uuid:ab55154e-a0cf-4774-a32f-f8afedbff017> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chemheritage.org/visit/museum/exhibits/x-ray-fish.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875029 | 368 | 2.96875 | 3 |
(CNN) -- At least 40% of moms are feeding their infants solid foods far too early, according a new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics, and that may lead to problems for their children later in life.
Researchers wanted to know how many babies were being fed solid foods (including cereal and baby food) soo... | <urn:uuid:1d6d2fcc-9873-4b07-a5c7-bd31aee6eff4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://5newsonline.com/2013/03/25/too-early-solid-food-could-lead-to-problems-for-babies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979486 | 923 | 2.75 | 3 |
A kind of knot used to join ropes, especially hawsers, end to end, especially so that they can go around a capstan without jamming.
- The double carrick bend is used for joining 2 very thick ropes at the end, usually used by towboats to tow large cargo ships.
- Probably, the most famous knot used in English heraldry is... | <urn:uuid:e3a85b82-6d93-4a1d-9373-2cdc3e4b5cfd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/carrick-bend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940369 | 163 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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