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Overcoming Obstacles on Earth and in Space
Who are NASA's Earth and Space Science Explorers?
The middle school students who track weather to study its effect on bursting tree buds. And the scientist studying black holes in distant galaxies. But also the teacher whose class shares Earth science data with students around... | <urn:uuid:71f7e384-3eb7-4d21-a564-8fb90324d93d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/overcoming-obstacles-earth-space-58.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969526 | 690 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Besla cossmanni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of twelve known species within the Besla genus of gastropods.
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To give visitors to the area a greater sense of time and place, and appreciate the number of shipwrecks in Thunder Bay, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and State of Michigan opened the new Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center on Sept 17.
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Brittany / Bretagne is unlike anywhere else in France. The ancient portion the town Rennes rests on a sloping hill about 210 miles WSW of Paris. Rennes overlooks the confluence of two rivers, the Ille and the Vilaine. The eastern Armorican people of the Redones (from which the name Rennes developed (as well as Redon)) ... | <urn:uuid:c2816f6d-fbd8-45c3-96c2-8d08f3658abf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.larocheusa.org/Rennes.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944809 | 3,954 | 2.875 | 3 |
Graduate Course Catalog 2007-2009
COURSE: 51-743 Educational Leadership Responsibilities in a Global World (3)
Globalization of the economy, the necessary interaction of cultures, the era of accountability, shrinking resources, and the ready access to information and communication through technology make interdependenc... | <urn:uuid:6394e2a7-20c5-4ccd-ba13-b906ba3d2638> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lewisu.edu/academics/catalog/grad/2007-09/coursedesc.htm?pcourseid=51-743 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912595 | 124 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Toddling toward the wired schoolhouse
May 7, 1999
(IDG) -- When Alice disappears down the rabbit hole, she finds a mushroom that can instantly make her grow bigger. In elementary education, there's a similar wish that dropping a networked PC into a classroom will produce equally rapid growth.
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Alaska Academic Standards Overview Page
What are the Alaska Academic Standards?
These standards are already defining the way Alaska approaches education issues. The focus has shifted from what goes into our education system to what comes out of it. The standards will accomplish three primary goals:
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Advanced Manufacturing focuses on the integration of nanomaterial synthesis and microfabrication techniques and conventional macroscale manufacturing technologies to produce nano- and microscale systems in an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable manner.
Such efforts require both an understanding of t... | <urn:uuid:1d7d048d-74fc-4ad2-a280-bad4cd56a74c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mime.oregonstate.edu/academics/grad/me | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907155 | 1,526 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Wildlife Do's and Dont's
When it comes to enjoying the wildlife found in our state parks, here are some general guidelines to keep both your family and our furry friends happy and healthy.
- Don’t feed the wildlife. Feeding the animals may be fun and seem harmless, but it teaches our wildlife that people mean food. In ... | <urn:uuid:39be813e-c8d9-4550-83f8-36ae34e9e8c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wildlife-dos-donts/default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947525 | 423 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Literature / The Underdogs
(Los de abajo
in the original Spanish) is a 1915 novel by Mariano Azuela about the Mexican Revolution
. It follows a bandit named Demetrio Macías and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
who set out to take down some federal soldiers to support the Revolution. As the story progresses, however, they ta... | <urn:uuid:2edb5691-dec3-4399-b7c4-1e33c1c6950d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheUnderdogs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960499 | 131 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Who knew that the school to prison pipeline started at pre-school?
That is the overarching message that some have taken away from a recent Department of Justice report indicating that even though black students represent 18% of preschool enrollment 42% of them have been suspended on... | <urn:uuid:98f4afc8-e3bc-4f82-8d26-0207ab96cde7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.urbanfaith.com/2014/04/the-school-to-prison-pipeline-starts-in-preschool.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964507 | 824 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Around the world, people concerned about global warming and wary of higher energy costs are turning away from big power distributors in favour of local and “distributed” energy technologies and services.
You may have seen this video doing the rounds lately. It tells the story of Boulder, Colorado, where the city counci... | <urn:uuid:3adc8e84-c9ef-4659-aaf1-ff9c7cb9937d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://theconversation.com/what-australia-could-learn-from-a-us-energy-uprising-19637 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945291 | 1,165 | 2.75 | 3 |
Do people cringe when you sing? You've got company. But researchers have found that only 1 in 20 people truly has amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Tests have shown that some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are a smaller group with a perceptual problem: They can't pick out diffe... | <urn:uuid:70dacbfc-3d61-4972-b74d-c9df162be5ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/tone-deaf-test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952462 | 302 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Kansas State Capitol
The site was donated through the efforts of Cyrus K. Holliday, president of the early Topeka Town Company and one of the founders of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. In 1862 the company donated what has become known as Capitol Square. On February 7, 1862, the legislature accepted the donati... | <urn:uuid:97ce2bd1-0774-43df-b20d-84ace02a494b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-state-capitol/12121 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970566 | 1,112 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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Study: Early Treatment Makes HIV Less Infectious
Latest HIV News
Uninfected Sex Partner 96% Less Likely to Get HIV if Infected Partner Is Treated
By Daniel J. DeNoon
Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD
May 12, 2011 -- People who start HIV treatment while their immune systems still are strong are 27 t... | <urn:uuid:5c06fd14-6d29-43c3-8ace-bff97df7faf1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=144378 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957575 | 962 | 2.765625 | 3 |
By the time Chapman began his mural, the few remaining American Indians in Virginia had intermarried with English settlers, given up their native dress, and been confined to two small reservations.13 Nevertheless, Chapman had had ample opportunity to observe Indians in the studio of King, who was working on his series ... | <urn:uuid:49f4983c-2509-4d87-8f4d-a32332b4f970> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.themagazineantiques.com/articles/the-baptism-of-pocahontas/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986882 | 592 | 3.765625 | 4 |
I may pretend to know what I’m talking about in the kitchen most of the time, but I didn’t go to cooking school and I still have lots of questions. One of the things that I’ve been pondering lately is the naming of recipes; in particular, I’ve wondered how cookbook writers know how to draw the line between a soup and a... | <urn:uuid:15b4fd80-be35-490c-9ac7-333424747b90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://theweekendchef.exit-23.net/20060101/soup-vs-stew/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919885 | 402 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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ATV Safety on the Farm or Ranch
All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) are frequently used on the farm or ranch to haul livestock feed or get to the field, but ATVs often serve another purpose: recreation. Unfortunately, children are frequently victims of accidents on ATVs. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safe... | <urn:uuid:4d116297-8653-4d37-b8ba-1a568e37d6c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.agriculture.com/machinery/other-machinery/atv-safety-on-farm-rch_253-ar23560 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914846 | 422 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Details about Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development:
Natural disasters are a clear example of people living in conflict with the environment. Disasters cause human, social and environmental losses and, sometimes, even threaten geopolitical stability, as in many less developed countries. They are also a problem ... | <urn:uuid:a38efd8b-2aec-48f0-8a95-42ac85793d7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/natural-disasters-and-sustainable-development-1st-edition-9783540421993-3540421998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93545 | 340 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Bayer Young Environmental Field Trip 2008 - A Report by WhaYoung Cha, Korea
"Water knows no boundaries"
Dr. Ulrich Bornewasser, Head of Environmental Communications, Currenta GmbH. And what is true for water is true for the rest of the elements: air, soil and, unfortunately, neither do environmental issues. Problems on... | <urn:uuid:baf3b438-37c7-4d4f-baab-88fec42ddb22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unep.org/tunza/youth/BYEEProgram2008/tabid/4179/language/en-US/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971559 | 511 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Supply, demand, and consumer gasoline prices
October 08, 2003
According to the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey, the average consumer spent approximately $1,300 on gasoline and motor oil in 2000, an increase of 22.4 percent over the 1999 figure.
Over the same period, the average price of gasoline increased 36.3 percent,... | <urn:uuid:9c1a2c8b-d3ac-4723-8a7f-9922c52d3a94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stats.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/oct/wk1/art03.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937589 | 490 | 2.75 | 3 |
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: a scientific puzzle over the melting of one of planet Earth’s largest sheets of ice.
Margaret Warner has our story.
MARGARET WARNER: This week, NASA announced a surprising finding. Earlier this month, the surface of the ice sheet covering Greenland melted more widely than has been seen in 33 years o... | <urn:uuid:9ffb013d-3329-4689-9df7-4e9fcb35017f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-july-dec12-greenland_07-25/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956414 | 2,308 | 4 | 4 |
Mixed worm populations are reportedly increasing in both South Carolina and North Carolina peanut crops.
These populations include the corn earworm (may be some tobacco budworm also, but you cannot tell these species apart without some experience and good magnification of the mandibles/jaws), beet armyworm, and fall ar... | <urn:uuid:c9c7844a-f933-4b24-ae6a-4ff950edd938> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://southeastfarmpress.com/print/peanuts/mixed-worm-populations-could-be-heading-virginia-peanut-crop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92055 | 460 | 2.578125 | 3 |
WHEN YOU SHOULD CONSULT
You would seek the services of an audiologist if you or someone you know is having difficulty hearing. It may be difficult for you to determine if a child is having hearing problems.
You might consult an
audiologist for a child if:
- The child has difficulty understanding what people are saying.... | <urn:uuid:db6cd160-eae3-42f0-8080-903f099fbd0b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://avitahealth.org/dwp/nmp/services/Audiology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906774 | 367 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Contributing Monkie G Living Staff Monkies
Published on March 28, 2008
Scientists from several institutions around the world just released a report showing that roughly 40% of all oceans – deep water and areas in and around coastlines – are highly impacted by humans. Hardly a revelation, right? (I’m giving this one a 1... | <urn:uuid:e3ae6cc0-860e-45c4-8a35-28b69034f9e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gliving.com/ominous-shadows-on-our-oceans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9634 | 401 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Entered the Union: Nov. 2, 1889
As the 40th state
Motto: Under God the people rule
Nickname: Mount Rushmore State; Coyote State
Flower: American pasqueflower
Bird: Ring-necked pheasant
Song: Hail! South Dakota
Sports Teams: None.
Origin of Name: From the Sioux tribe, meaning allies.
Major Industries: Agriculture (grain... | <urn:uuid:9640bbeb-b1bb-42d2-9daa-c2aecb931a9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uscounties.com/South-Dakota/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869595 | 200 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Synopsis / The Adventures of Pinocchio
In an Italian village, Geppetto, an old woodcarver, receives a piece of wood which looks perfect for his next project, a puppet. But when he sets to work something magical happens – the piece of wood begins to talk. When Geppetto is finished, the puppet turns out to be cheeky, nau... | <urn:uuid:adaf001e-c166-45f0-8e61-69fd8feca87b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Synopsis/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981818 | 245 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Posted on 19 September 2010 by John Rippo
Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World by Nick Bunker. Alfred A. Knopf pub. 480pp. hardcover. $30. ISBN: 978-0-307-26682-8
Much excellent American history has been written by English historians in the last twenty five years and Nick Bunker’s Making Ha... | <urn:uuid:9fafeda7-3bdb-48c0-888e-d93ceb9994af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theespresso.com/2010/09/book-review-a-pilgrim-history-to-be-thankful-for/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962299 | 523 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Research - Identifying Similarities and Differences
Identifying similarities and differences helps students connect new learning to prior learning. It also helps them to build relationships which expand their understanding of new learning.
- Students benefit by having similarities and differences pointed out by the tea... | <urn:uuid:e8919ebc-23f5-4d28-b76e-ce074f036424> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ell.nwresd.org/node/22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899907 | 469 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Why do earthquakes happen here?
subcontinent lies upon the Indian Plate.
This plate is moving northward at about 5
centimetres per year and in doing so, collides with the Eurasian
Plate. Upon the Eurasian Plate lie the Tibet plateau &
central Asia. Due to this mammoth
collision, the Himalayas are thrust higher and very... | <urn:uuid:ebd70b31-2f3a-4328-b504-1b060a2f95f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://asc-india.org/menu/seismi.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918141 | 587 | 4 | 4 |
Planning for your math subject is simple since you will follow a lesson by lesson curriculum such as Saxon Math. You should follow the curriculum in order with little flexibility. You can be flexible in how much work you require, the pace for the student, whether you test periodically, and so forth.
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Gandhiji's Autobiography* and his Satyagraha in South Africa+, as published in English, run into almost 1000 pages. An abridgement++ of these two into a single volume of 283 pages was published in 1952 by the Navajivan Trust. A request was recently received for a stil smaller version for use in our schools. This book h... | <urn:uuid:748542ae-1a2e-447b-85c6-09b37224a75f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mkgandhi.org/storyofmylife/editor_note.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979603 | 206 | 3.234375 | 3 |
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth.
Here, legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
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Your kitty might be cuddly, but he has also been shaped by millions of years of evolution into an efficient killing machine.
While in recent years, cats have become household fixtures, they used to be mostly viewed as pest control -- and for good reason. Just about every part of a cat’s anatomy enhances its predatory s... | <urn:uuid:14119fbd-017c-45ed-a783-bd08de304187> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibtimes.com/your-cat-killing-machine-how-evolution-has-shaped-our-pets-ruthless-predators-photos-1049036 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956117 | 797 | 3.25 | 3 |
The news that President Obama will nominate Janet Yellen as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System should remind us of the disaster that the Federal Reserve is and has been.
It was not quite 100 years ago that the Federal Reserve Act was signed into law by President Wilson. This was on Decembe... | <urn:uuid:a3e2514c-e5ff-48f3-882d-39fecfbbde33> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/10/09/rothbard-fed-told-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96538 | 967 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The purpose of socialist realism was to elevate the common worker, whether factory or agricultural, by presenting, as admirable, the life, work, and recreation of the proletariat. In other words, to educate the normal worker in the goals and meaning of Communism. In practice, socialist realism demanded close adherence ... | <urn:uuid:245c047e-c1b9-4219-ac21-6fab8718371f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/so/Socialist_realism?title=Congress_of_Soviet_Writers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974859 | 557 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Whether you're using a computer at home or at work, you'll first need to learn some basic computer skills. The lessons below are designed to make you more comfortable with everyday tasks to help you get the most out of your computer.
Learn the basic skills you'll need to get the most out of your computer.
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Water Beliefs That No Longer Hold Water
A study recently published by researchers at the University of Indiana points out that Americans seem to have a “slippery grasp” of the amount of water consumed for and by different activities. In addition, they are often confused as to ways to conserve water.
And even more revea... | <urn:uuid:7212c739-58fc-4982-b709-eed758a5e823> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/04/01/water-beliefs-that-no-longer-hold-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946435 | 1,048 | 3.015625 | 3 |
With smaller than 35mm sized sensors, you will often hear talk of a camera’s or lens’ “full frame equivalent” focal length or aperture. This can often be a source of great confusion among new shooters, and it can also be a point of disturbingly odd derision for other people, especially with regards to ‘aperture equival... | <urn:uuid:96f814c2-15fa-46e8-9315-90e167eda95b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://admiringlight.com/blog/full-frame-equivalence-and-why-it-doesnt-matter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935384 | 3,330 | 2.859375 | 3 |
A Lower Hutt student has stunned technology experts by developing a world-first machine for commercially producing a high-tech material that could prove a significant boon for the local economy.
In November 2011 WelTec Bachelor of Engineering Technology student Lachlan Clelland was briefed on pioneering superconductor ... | <urn:uuid:9b9b8807-ca51-43df-85ae-b1c390d81bf2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/8320894/Student-achieves-world-first | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975455 | 764 | 2.546875 | 3 |
- Recall and synthesize the knowledge derived from biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, economics, and political science to better understand the earth’s environment;
- Comprehend environmental problems from multiple perspectives;
- Evaluate the credibility of varied sources of information on environment;
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Saturday was the first annual International Migratory Bird Day celebration put on by REGI. If you don't know about International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD), it is the signature celebration of Environment for the Americas. It is celebrated in the United States and Canada on the 2nd Saturday of May annually, as birds are ... | <urn:uuid:f83d6c0a-f561-4826-ab81-53ffbbc5b7e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://raptoreducationgroup.blogspot.com/2011/05/international-migratory-bird-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979949 | 861 | 3.078125 | 3 |
What is a Pixel?
A pixel is a square which is very small in a computer. You can view pixel as a dot in a computer, actually a collection of pixels comprises of one big image. If you take a picture more pixels means more clarity of the image why because each portion of the pixels fragmented into each dots makes more cla... | <urn:uuid:063be1e7-88d3-466e-b15d-dcaebf3b1c24> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://browseme.info/camera_megapixels.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949704 | 393 | 2.921875 | 3 |
A support for the end of a row of books to keep them upright, often one of a pair.
- She's as strong and likable a female character as Davy is a male hero, making this a perfect bookend to book one.
- On the wall above the window ran a short bookshelf, where lack of space had forced Wilhelm and me to jam all of our old... | <urn:uuid:a0fe41a0-a5a1-448b-b74d-e61d007245f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_english/bookend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923839 | 281 | 2.75 | 3 |
A report from the Supervisory Psychologist
Reprinted from the American Mensa, Ltd. Website
American Mensa is often considered an "expert" source of information on intelligence and IQ testing. Dr. Abbie Salny, Mensa's supervisory psychologist, is the organization's spokesperson on these matters. The following paragraphs... | <urn:uuid:8e48b6be-7d46-442e-9b13-404d4ff3a9e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pb.us.mensa.org/resources/questionofgenius.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966576 | 967 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Do you think we should clone a Neanderthal?
Every day, we get a little closer to bringing prehistoric species back from extinction. Already, researchers are hard at work preparing woolly mammoth tissue for cloning and breeding chickens to more closely resemble the mighty T-Rex. One species on the possible "to-clone" li... | <urn:uuid:ff14596c-94b2-46da-b141-e4ea2716eb57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archeolog-home.com/pages/content/do-you-think-we-should-clone-a-neanderthal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955442 | 1,164 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Satyendra Nath Bose: The God Particle’s neglected namesake
In the territory of science, they say, nothing can be designated the rock-solid status of a ‘theory’. Hypotheses are all that anybody can think of, and today’s established theory might be shown the door tomorrow. The field is diverse, researches unending, and d... | <urn:uuid:ac0146a9-136f-4435-bbfa-7fa205de0636> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/satyendra-nath-bose-the-god-particles-neglected-namesake_3560.html?pagenumber=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946212 | 1,138 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The objective of this chapter is to evaluate user satisfaction with Web portals. To achieve this goal, we scan the information systems literature for research on portals and other factors that influence satisfaction. Few studies have investigated this issue. So, in this section we review information systems literature ... | <urn:uuid:cc112778-7451-4e31-a731-6675598480fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://flylib.com/books/en/2.509.1.82/1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933478 | 2,704 | 2.75 | 3 |
Ernst Lindelöf was a Finnish mathematician. Lindelöf spaces in general topology are named after him. A Lindelöf space is a toplogical space for which every open cover has a countable subcover.
Recall that a compact space is a topological space for which every open cover has a finite subcover. Hence every compact space ... | <urn:uuid:1c54b2df-e2b0-436a-812e-3256830864ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=99439 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937513 | 249 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Food Scientist Dr. Stephanie Clark On Dairy Processing
Recently, Northwest Public Radio aired a profile about a family dairy as part of a series on the Northwest economy.It resulted in a flurry of comments from representatives of the dairy industry, and it spurred questions about the practices of pasteurization and hom... | <urn:uuid:4ae94edc-73fb-448c-8fc8-95ca4fb79939> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nwpr.org/post/food-scientist-dr-stephanie-clark-dairy-processing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94809 | 1,295 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Inside the Electoral College
By ALICIA CALDWELL
© St. Petersburg Times, published November 9, 2000
The riveting political story unfolding in Florida has put a spotlight on a somewhat obscure element of democracy: the Electoral College.
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These pictures of Chile's Atacama Desert were taken on a photographic expedition in February 2010 based in San Pedro de Atacama. The aerial shots were taken on a flight between Santiago and Calama. The photos of the Tatio Geysers focus on geyser holes and run-off rather than the geysers themselves. Those of the Guardia... | <urn:uuid:3213e142-ec4a-481e-900c-b4a1b4a93279> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.blurb.com/b/1525050-chile-s-atacama-desert | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943202 | 246 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Health Risk From Smog Is Growing, Official Says
By PHILIP SHABECOFF, Special to the New York Times
Published: March 1, 1989
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28— Urban smog reached record levels last year as medical evidence mounted that such pollution is a serious health threat, particularly to children, a Federal environmental offici... | <urn:uuid:c00417dd-0a1e-43dc-90f7-20532f12cc36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/us/health-risk-from-smog-is-growing-official-says.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958133 | 1,245 | 2.75 | 3 |
Do it yourself:
1# Me thinks C++ currently doesn't suport by the standard 64bits ints
const int lfloat=0x7f7fffff;//max positive float in hex, 8 bit for expoent
const unsigned __int64 ldouble=0x7fefffffffffffff;//max positive double in hex, 11 bit for expoent
const float FMAX = *(const float*)&lfloat;
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This is a pleasing garden shrub with faintly scented, attractive white flowers which appear in midsummer followed by a further season of interest in winter when a showy profusion of black berries are produced.
The growth habit of Kraussia floribunda is usually upright and can be either single or multi-stemmed 2-4 m tal... | <urn:uuid:552aedaf-5da5-47e8-95f9-3255e1ed9079> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantklm/kraussiaflori.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93409 | 1,153 | 3.203125 | 3 |
William Herschel, a famous astronomer of the mid 1700s through the early 1800s, is probably most famous for discovering the planet, Uranus, the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope.
He was messing around with prisms and sunbeams one day in the year 1800 when he noticed that the air in the red part of the... | <urn:uuid:adede292-18e6-4570-adae-943e2a320f01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stormtrack.areavoices.com/2011/08/26/infrared/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963895 | 227 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The Post Pagan Period - 14th To 20th Centuries
C. The Konbaung Period - Amarapura
The Konbaung Dynasty was founded in 1752 by Alaungpaya who by successful conquest and skillful diplomacy united upper and lower Burma.
When his heir, Bodawpaya, ascended the throne in 1782, he moved the royal capitol from Ava to Amarapura... | <urn:uuid:ccc8d18f-a47e-45c4-8130-4f8b16bff1ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.seasite.niu.edu/burmese/cooler/Chapter_4/Part2/post_pagan_period__part_2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972236 | 1,513 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Thom Hartmann wrote at Common Dreams back in 2004:
While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore’s recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe a... | <urn:uuid:363b839e-07b4-4642-9798-87b8dd016373> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://disinfo.com/2012/10/how-global-warming-may-cause-the-next-ice-age/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949425 | 937 | 3.046875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON – Four girls received in death one of America’s highest civilian awards Friday as the nation’s first black president honored some of the youngest victims in the historic fight for equal rights.
In the Oval Office, President Barack Obama signed a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal to the four girls... | <urn:uuid:93d85a54-5dfb-45ca-a127-dc7082acbe17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/26/world/girls-killed-in-kkk-attack-honored/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950899 | 200 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Speaking on the phenomenon recently at a media training in Benin, the Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Mr. Nnimmo Bassey said climate change was seen even by the die hard skeptics as a real crisis that must be urgently tackled for the preservation of the earth in... | <urn:uuid:b41f8355-dd25-4b77-adc2-9c30085996b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2008/07/nigerian-view-of-climate-issues.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972206 | 426 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Henry Craik, ed. English Prose. 1916. Vol. V. Nineteenth Century
By John Richard Green (18371883)
From A Short History of the English People
IT was no wonder that the statesmen whom she outwitted held Elizabeth almost to the last to be little more than a frivolous woman; or that Philip of Spain wondered how a wanton co... | <urn:uuid:b79244c0-3df4-4cf7-8018-f1c91cd94823> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bartleby.com/209/1199.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984727 | 1,351 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
|Founder||Richard Martin, William Wilberforce, Reverend Arthur Broome|
|England & Wales|
|Jeremy Cooper (CEO, April 2016-)|
|GBP £132.8m (2012)|
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales that prom... | <urn:uuid:a6c3b0b2-ec39-49d9-a5cd-69457e4a23a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSPCA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946877 | 8,118 | 2.5625 | 3 |
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — To know misfortune is to be a child born in Laos.
UNICEF figures show that 48 percent of Laotian children are stunted. They will grow up short and probably not very smart. That comes from serious malnutrition during the first years of life.
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Americans have long treasured their right to worship as they choose.
Wall Street Journal, Nov. 26, 2013 7:18 p.m. ET
In the fall of 1621, some 50 of the Puritans who had left the Old World in search of religious freedom sat down in their tiny thatched hamlet of Plymouth with their Wampanoag neighbors to feast on turkey... | <urn:uuid:e2c4c2bb-eeb7-4284-932c-95e6d3efd0ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://myronmagnet.com/tag/religious-liberty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969662 | 1,096 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Pearled Barley, similar to wheat as it is rich in protein, vitamins and minerals and can be added into soups, stews and also as an ingredient for stuffing or sweet dishes and desserts.
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Posts in this series: Syntax, Deployment, Metaprogramming, Ownership
The fancy word for what I’m talking about here is Deployment. How easy is it, once you’ve written your code, to get it running on someone else’s computer? What barriers are there to someone else using your program?
Examples of potential barriers inclu... | <urn:uuid:b555f0f9-b2fa-48fc-9e7b-06b1bc0fa0a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2012/03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941628 | 585 | 2.96875 | 3 |
VANDENBERG, Calif. - NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft, the first mission dedicated to the exploration of mysterious ice clouds that dot the edge of space in Earth's polar regions, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., at 1:26 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, April 25.
The mission ... | <urn:uuid:78551b65-164d-4c68-9eac-ef4ae2aeb402> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bendweekly.com/Science/5352.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923844 | 707 | 2.921875 | 3 |
While the United States is now an international leader in the fight against genocide and human rights abuses, it only recently ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide—forty years after the convention's unanimous adoption by the UN General Assembly. Korey provides a description ... | <urn:uuid:417f0a14-4d37-469f-860d-4417acf16ead> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/journal/11/articles/445.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920415 | 183 | 3.40625 | 3 |
.- The momentous life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., indicate the important role of faith as the conscience of society, said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C.
“The voice of the Church is the voice reminding us of all the things we ought to do,” said the cardinal at the archdiocese’s annual Mass cel... | <urn:uuid:263e6a83-9b4a-481a-a49e-58a5d67a7063> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cardinal-says-mlks-witness-shows-need-for-cultural-conscience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957508 | 758 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Romeo and Juliet: Essay Topics
1) Discuss the character of Romeo and his infatuation with Rosaline. Does this weaken the credibility of the love he feels for Juliet?
2) Friar Laurence serves many dramatic purposes in the play. Examine the Friar and his role in Romeo and Juliet.
3) Mercutio is considered to be one of Sh... | <urn:uuid:7cbb301d-6d9d-4a1b-8882-0a2930c5adc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shakespeare-online.com/topics/romeotopics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880064 | 496 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Western Nghe An
The Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve is located in central Viet Nam in mountainous and remote area which is difficult to access. Its climate is strongly influenced by a north-east and south-west monsoon. The topography of the surrounding Annamite mountain range also impacts atmospheric circulation, res... | <urn:uuid:e31dee94-11a3-407b-9262-a72380ed904d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/asia-and-the-pacific/vietnam/western-nghe-an/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933795 | 616 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Our Language Dilemma
Creole (patois/patwa) versus Standard English – the debate continues.
It spills over into writing stories for our children. Some persons, especially the educators, frown on the use of creole in the stories as the children have to learn to use Standard English to pass exams using Standard English. (... | <urn:uuid:5130a440-abb8-482a-b3cf-cf71826e9312> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jambooks-fiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/creole-patoispatwa-versus-standard.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966141 | 1,228 | 3.3125 | 3 |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The United States has slipped behind many other countries in college completion and "educational mobility," with fewer young Americans getting more education than their parents, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's "Education at a Glance" report.
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EMMA II - Updating the European Atlas
The Atlas of European Mammals was published in 1999, with most of the data being rather older than this. The Atlas is now out of print and the underlying data, though still available through this website, are getting more and more out of date. Is the time right for a new project to... | <urn:uuid:3f287b7d-2d12-4e4f-a36e-491b8be1d585> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.european-mammals.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908941 | 1,240 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Marriott Sustainability Report: GHG Emissions, Energy Use Down 11% since 2007
Marriott International has reduced its energy consumption by 11 percent, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 10.7 percent since 2007, according to the company’s first official Sustainability Report using Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) gu... | <urn:uuid:994bcbb9-2609-47ab-859e-d67ffd234062> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.environmentalleader.com/2010/10/13/marriott-sustainability-report-ghg-emissions-energy-use-down-11-since-2007/?graph=full&id=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94053 | 1,029 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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The name Tallaght (Irish Tamlachta), derived from tam, plague, and lecht, stone monument, records the burial place of some of the ear... | <urn:uuid:ecd8822c-810b-4208-85c0-c058ecddb7e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16077b.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937845 | 713 | 3.09375 | 3 |
February is Black History Month, a time when we celebrate the achievements of African-Americans in our country’s history. This year, the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History has chosen the theme “Civil Rights in America” to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law outla... | <urn:uuid:fd871545-894c-4b5a-ac9c-76bc30a35d23> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kids.dbrl.org/tag/black-history-month/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93922 | 295 | 3.96875 | 4 |
According to this Life, Gildas had been sent by his parents to study in the island monastery of Hildutus, where "a great number of the sons of the nobles were taught". Gildas encouraged his master to pray for the improvement of this small island and in due course its area was extended and its fertility improved. The sc... | <urn:uuid:c963e240-a56c-41cd-a293-d51831711c58> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.data-wales.co.uk/caldy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982904 | 236 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Highlighting the deep-rooted Chinese culture in Indonesia, the Chinese “Peranakan” Festival is set to spark up the city of Batam, Riau Archipelago Province from 2nd to 4th November, 2012 held at the Kepri Mall.
The festival will feature some of the most unique displays of the “Peranakan” Culture which retains the value... | <urn:uuid:1dc805db-933e-4c63-bc2e-a37c9ad477b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://id.indonesia.travel/en/news/detail/848/don-t-miss-the-chinese-peranakan-cultural-festival-in-batam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927755 | 722 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The Life of St. Julian the Hospitaller
©Translation by Tony Devaney Morinelli
||St. Julian the Hospitaller, or "the
Poor Man" [Feast day February 12], was a popular saint in Western Europe - his life
was recounted in the Golden Legend - and his name was attached to many churches and
charitable institutions. It is his l... | <urn:uuid:ee3db300-f1d9-41f4-b9ba-05c14d27b3d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/julian.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986301 | 41,723 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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<p>From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (... | <urn:uuid:60c8333b-1802-473f-a7cd-c8b584023595> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/book-review/jew-among-romans-life-and-legacy-flavius-josephus/frederic-raphael | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887853 | 325 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Just over a year later the first major damage occurred. On the night of 27 February 1903 the sea wall in front of the London Inn slipped forward and downward. The sea entered behind it, removing the filling at the back of the wall and undermining a conservatory attached to the inn. Either at the same time, or soon afte... | <urn:uuid:1a91a75c-c7df-4158-bf0b-6c8763e36dad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/hallsands3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98927 | 997 | 2.890625 | 3 |
As everyone is winding down for the holidays and getting ready for a much deserved winter break, I thought this would be a nice time to post this great email I received from a teacher who attended one of Day of Discovery trainings. I thought instead of just having one person give feedback, why not have the DEN communit... | <urn:uuid:7191e344-a0aa-483b-88d8-f6c6e7407ea8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2007/12/13/whos-space-is-it-anyway/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974798 | 466 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Navel oranges are delicious. So it's no wonder you want a navel orange tree of your very own. But, before you plant, make sure that your yard is a suitable location. These tropical trees can only survive life outdoors in tropical and subtropical growing zones with mild winters that rarely, if ever, fall below 35 degree... | <urn:uuid:4f0ff275-1ed1-4077-b216-2b7d8189e0b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/111645-plant-navel-orange-trees.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937854 | 470 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Any medium through which the music signal passes, whatever its form, can be regarded as a filter. However, we do not usually think of something as a filter unless it can modify the sound in some way. For example, speaker wire is not considered a filter, but the speaker is (unfortunately). The different vowel sounds in ... | <urn:uuid:31d04b10-3d0a-4266-b3f6-670cf99a253c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/filters/What_Filter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959529 | 365 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Space scientists recently completed an examination of orbital debris, recovered after circling the Earth for several years. They discovered that much of it was coated with a thin film of what was delicately described as `fecal matter', attributed to astronauts' sloppy sanitation.
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Because one of the critical terms involves the SIN(LON-ALONVT), the largest errors should have occurred farthest away from the reference longitude. Therefore, with the way that the AWIP grid is set up, the largest errors should be in the corners of the map. This is indeed the case on this map. Look at the upper right c... | <urn:uuid:09eb76d6-d77d-4b4d-8c5c-340855621c00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/gcp/wind_example.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955396 | 177 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Air pollution now the world’s biggest environmental health risk with 7 million deaths per year
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report last year showing that air pollution killed more people than AIDS and malaria combined. It was based on 2010 figures, which were the latest available at the time. There's ... | <urn:uuid:b1b9f8dd-38dd-4024-9826-77692f1b794a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://origin.www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/air-pollution-now-worlds-biggest-environmental-health-risk-7-million-deaths.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962957 | 639 | 3.25 | 3 |
1969 was quite a year. Woodstock. The moon landing. The Amazin’ Mets.
But it also marked a lucrative year for the federal judiciary, thanks to a large pay hike for all branches of the federal government. After adjusting for inflation, wages ranged from nearly $220,000 for district judges to $343,000 for Chief Justice W... | <urn:uuid:19b21875-40fd-4866-bb6b-8acbf6873d07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/02/15/judicial-pay-are-judges-being-selective-with-the-evidence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945171 | 816 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Poetry abounds in the most ordinary surroundings. One popular and fun form of poetry is book spine poetry. Rather than being written from scratch, this type of poem gathers phrases, words, and lines already written. Just stack up books from your personal collection and summer reading list, read the titles, and rearrang... | <urn:uuid:499d485c-b217-459b-bf05-cf50a2f451fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2014-05-16/How-to-Turn-Your-Summer-Reading-List-into-Book-Spine-Poetry.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940249 | 545 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke, , at sacred-texts.com
Nehemiah makes use of proper precautions in guarding the city gates, Neh 7:1-4. He proposes to reckon the people according to their genealogies; and finds a register of those who came out of Babylon, with Zerubbabel, Neh 7:5-7. A transcript of the register,... | <urn:uuid:8b55b2e1-ac91-4487-8f0a-a09c93688d2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/clarke/neh007.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974968 | 1,503 | 2.75 | 3 |
Mineralized deposits detected in the cerebrum generally occur in the region of the medial, ventral and posterior thalamic nuclei (Morgan et al., 1983). They vary from single, rounded bodies up to 100 μm in diameter to very extensive, irregular, but usually rounded masses which in most cases are found to be associated w... | <urn:uuid:952084fe-ccc6-4b3f-89e8-ff2ea886b302> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.informatics.jax.org/frithbook/chapters/centralnervous.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937636 | 1,622 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Honoring my 2nd Great Grand Uncle on
the 150th Anniversary of the start of
the Civil War
April 12, 1861Karl Heinrich Joachim Bunge (Charles) was born on June 20, 1842 in Germany. When he was 6 years old, in 1853, the family emigrated to the U.S. through the Port of New Orleans. The Bunge family then traveled to Gascona... | <urn:uuid:c58b12fb-c7df-4d8b-84de-5b75bd5a4c32> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://terri-thetiesthatbind.blogspot.com/2011/04/civil-war-charles-bunge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977467 | 242 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), the largest single life science society with 43,000 members, is pleased to submit testimony on the FY 2005 budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC is the nation’s lead agency for protecting the health and safety of the public, both nationally... | <urn:uuid:96b582a6-bc9b-43fb-8095-b8045005a1be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.asm.org/index.php/publicpolicy-2/statements-testimony/97-policy/documents/2141-cdcfy-2005 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934148 | 3,163 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Elevational diversity patterns of small mammals on Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Diversity patterns of small mammals were studied along an elevational transect on Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in South-east Asia, utilizing data from previously existing sources and a new field study. A mark-and-release study (c... | <urn:uuid:7e6722ff-9d74-4025-9bbd-230a7e8225a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/jbiog/2001/00000010/00000001/art00004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945488 | 444 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Growth of Hispanics in Rural Workforce
Technological change and industrial restructuring in rural America in the 1990s led some employers to demand more unskilled workers relative to skilled workers (particularly males). Many of those unskilled workers were Hispanics who now represent an increased share of the rural wo... | <urn:uuid:f5842595-25ec-4bd3-a6bd-bca14151e337> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2004-april/growth-of-hispanics-in-rural-workforce.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956718 | 549 | 3.25 | 3 |
PODCAST: Dating Ancient Water
|Image: Böhringer Friedrich|
Lu and his group have developed a method for dating water samples. It's called the Atom Trap Trace Analysis, or ATTA. These samples come from underground wells, pockets of isolated ocean water, and glaciers, and the ATTA method can determine how long they have ... | <urn:uuid:15ee118e-86bd-4504-897c-41993a9dd4d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.physicscentral.com/buzz/blog/index.cfm?postid=6588645903937905568 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951441 | 562 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Find over 200 print-friendly fact sheets about heart disease and related health topics.
body needs potassium to help your muscles contract, maintain fluid balance, and maintain a normal blood pressure. Normal potassium levels in the body help to keep the heart beating regularly. Potassium may help reduce your risk of k... | <urn:uuid:6e74f85f-b71c-4da2-9a5f-fd4b0e2a0274> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.cardiosmart.org/Healthwise/tv78/55/tv7855 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874129 | 736 | 3.71875 | 4 |
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
The Magazine answers...
Hay fever season is well under way, meaning misery for millions of people across Britain. But why are some people suddenly struck by the condition after years of experiencing no symptoms?
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introduction to tummy time
Madison Demonstrates at 6 weeks
If you have ever watched a football game, you can recall the running back running down the field while holding the football. Holding the football with both hands and forearms, he prevents the ball from dropping or being stolen. The football is more secure in hi... | <urn:uuid:4cf034a3-49e9-4249-871e-de38c36377b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stellarcaterpillar.com/2011/02/11/tummy-time-tips-the-football-carry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970395 | 563 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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