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It was neat to see all the creative ideas shared for the Discover and Explore community helper theme last week. Today we’re featuring ways to help kids learn about police officers.
This collection of Free Police Officer Printables and Montessori-Inspired Police Activities from Living Montessori Now is amazing. There ar... | <urn:uuid:8e1195d6-bb93-4939-ab24-af804692348f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/police-officer-activities-for-kids.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911363 | 322 | 3.375 | 3 |
St Lucia is the second largest of the Windward Islands located in the eastern Caribbean Sea. The island was created because of volcanic activity and is 43 km (27 miles) long and 23 km (14 miles) wide. Orchids and several other exotic plants grow wild in the lush rainforests of this island country. In recent years, St. ... | <urn:uuid:31f0ec9f-a1e8-4c20-92d8-c3c8761e1361> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/facts-about-st-lucia-10465.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959563 | 1,040 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Thinking in Java
An OpenLevel™ Seminar
For Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Java Students
Taught by Bruce Eckel
For an in-house seminar,
This course uses the 4th Edition of Thinking in Java.
The Thinking in Java OpenLevel™ Seminar is an multi-level Java seminar, for beginning, intermediate and advanced Java studen... | <urn:uuid:44ed0fa7-dd4b-49c8-9e68-76219323939f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mindview.net/Seminars/ThinkingInJava | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958162 | 1,085 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Los Angeles, CA (January 27, 2016) A new review of research out today outlines roles and recommendations for peers, parents, schools and new media platforms to stop bullying. This review was published in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences ... | <urn:uuid:701d13b2-b708-479d-b13a-76827b5c6847> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/s-hcp012516.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961417 | 911 | 3.5625 | 4 |
The US was the first to try quantitative easing (QE), which success depended on special features of the US financial setting. The Fed initially provided liquidity support for the banking system and bought government bonds to drive down yields and put cash into the financial system. It also rapidly brought down the poli... | <urn:uuid:850c691c-5e55-4cf6-826c-35b99afde2bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.voxeu.org/article/combatting-eurozone-deflation-qe-people | 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 | 0.951321 | 4,403 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Basketball was a sports game played by two teams. It involves each team trying to throw an orange ball through one of two hoops, one on each side of the court. The winner is the one who scores the most baskets.
The Harlem Globetrotters were a notable basketball team who played against Hubert J. Farnsworth's Atomic Supe... | <urn:uuid:0773b8b9-2888-418b-bebe-b089a265bf09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Basketball | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988197 | 129 | 2.53125 | 3 |
What does .aspx mean?
October 7, 2009 9:16pm CST
Ok. I know a lot about web desinging and all, but I'm not 100% sure what .aspx means, or what it does. Any help? Please give me as much details as possible.
9 Oct 09
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Other nations could learn from Germany's efforts to reconcile after WWII
In early March, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Japan, her first trip to the country in seven years. She met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss climate change, terrorism, and free trade ahead of this summer's G-7 economic summit. Sh... | <urn:uuid:3a20e48b-6eb2-42d0-8d4a-ccade6c4b666> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2015/summer/germany-japan-reconciliation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9802 | 4,255 | 3.375 | 3 |
Plasma Gasification Enables Combustion-Free Waste-to-Energy Conversion
- May 20, 2008 7:30 PM EST
- [num] Comments
Producing methane by burning organic waste in biogas digesters is nothing new. The approach is fairly straightforward and is already being applied to everything from lighting to heating, both here and abro... | <urn:uuid:4c4f03e7-2113-401c-a6a8-ea928327fb13> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://goodcleantech.pcmag.com/science/280693-plasma-gasification-enables-combustion-free-waste-to-energy-conversion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913884 | 225 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Palaeontologists in China have uncovered a species of giant feathered dinosaur that was an ancient relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Scientists have known for over a decade that some small dinosaurs had bird-like feathers. But a report in the journal Nature says the new species of tyrannosaur, which was 9 metres long and ... | <urn:uuid:c891f2ec-7ee8-4647-a052-422c7d91e6e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cankler.com.au/2012/04/09/china-feathered-tyrannosaurus-rex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977032 | 644 | 3.875 | 4 |
The eminent Shakespearean scholar John Barton has suggested that Shakespeare's accent would have sounded to modern ears like a cross between a contemporary Irish, Yorkshire and West Country accent.
Others say that the speech of Elizabethans was much quicker than it is in modern day Shakespeare productions.
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Pinjarra is a town in the Peel region of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, from the state capital, Perth and south-east of the coastal city of Mandurah. Its local government area is the Shire of Murray. At the , Pinjarra had a population of 4,255.
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Affirmative Action effects of SQ
1. Unlike IQ, Social Quotient does not appear to vary noticeably with race or skin color.The overall results for 61 classes measured for both SQ and ethnicity showed a very slight preference for non-white males and a slight preference for white females. Both results are in the margin of... | <urn:uuid:adb5a539-cbb0-4994-a210-6b6f6d4c21bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sq.4mg.com/race.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923682 | 471 | 3.078125 | 3 |
January has been an unusually busy month for developments in fusion power.Or more to the point, for developments in government funding of fusion.Last week, the European Commission called for a ministerial level meeting to assure continued commitment from the countries that back the €13 billion ($17.4 billion) Internati... | <urn:uuid:ea110248-73db-4492-b23f-fbe3230e417b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-weinberg-foundation.org/2013/01/28/the-hidden-faces-of-fusion-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949523 | 1,915 | 2.96875 | 3 |
It's amazing how many Windows problems are caused by a faulty registry, from Windows protection errors on startup to Windows hanging on shutdown. Severe problems resulting from severe registry damage may require a fresh install of Windows. But for most annoyances and anomalies caused by registry corruption, a quick reb... | <urn:uuid:3397d745-f291-4630-b88d-9c72548481f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techrepublic.com/article/learn-to-rebuild-the-windows-registry-from-dos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829686 | 2,676 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Top 10 Disadvantages to Capitalism
There has been much discussion of the current economic system in the western world, capitalism. This is mainly because of the growing anti-capitalist movement. However, as the owners of the free media are the wealthy, the anti-capitalist side of the debate has not been fairly covered.... | <urn:uuid:5a4cebc1-5c90-41fe-9805-ecc084e379df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://listverse.com/2012/01/16/top-10-disadvantages-to-capitalism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97599 | 898 | 2.609375 | 3 |
|Catechism of the Catholic Church|
IntraText - Text
II. Abba - "Father!"
2779 Before we make our own this first exclamation of the Lord's Prayer, we must humbly cleanse our hearts of certain false images drawn "from this world." Humility makes us recognize that "no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows ... | <urn:uuid:2641136c-c038-4f27-aa04-546dba8ccad9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_PA2.HTM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981588 | 1,063 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Character Role Analysis
As the hero/central character of the Autobiography, Franklin has lots in common with the traditional protagonist figure. Some critics even see him as the hero of a bildüngsroman – the story of a young person's growth – like David Copperfield or Jane Eyre. Considering that we meet Franklin as a y... | <urn:uuid:eb0d4e24-d372-459b-b29f-dfa4ff84edd1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/autobiography-benjamin-franklin/protagonist.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975181 | 225 | 3.078125 | 3 |
A look at the Tax Freedom Day map yields interesting information on how the Kansas tax burden compares to other states and should give policymakers something to think about in the final days of the 2013 legislative session as they work to set future tax policy.
Each year the Tax Foundation calculates the Tax Freedom Da... | <urn:uuid:76583169-9269-4ba6-8e55-9b90d666a298> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hayspost.com/2013/05/20/tax-freedom-day-in-kansas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959192 | 470 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Brown University investigators explain how two different beneficial mutant prions foil the amplification of harmful clumps of misfolded proteins in yeast. They observed that the mutants act at distinct stages to tip the balance back in favor of the cells.
The researchers thus suggest that there are more steps than can ... | <urn:uuid:c6caa30c-6501-41f2-be8b-b6d4619dd8aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/scientists-show-how-mutant-prions-fix-misfolded-proteins/81244853/?kwrd=Protein%20Folding | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957842 | 648 | 3.3125 | 3 |
|More people, less space: A family of 20 in Pakistan, top; Shanghai building boom to house rising city dwellers|
NEW YORK: The United Nations has released population data confirming the continuation of long-term global demographic trends and a larger global population than previously projected. Nations cannot afford to... | <urn:uuid:e2147868-38ee-4b92-b04b-14374dee182d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/world-population-trends-signal-dangers-ahead | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952646 | 1,512 | 3.0625 | 3 |
The earthquake that struck off the Japanese island of Honshu on Friday created classic conditions for a powerful and destructive tsuanmi, geological experts told ABC News.
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Most NIH research chimps to be retired
Posted July 31, 2013
The National Institutes of Health announced plans June 26 to substantially reduce the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research that the agency funds and to retire most of the 451 chimpanzees the NIH either owns or supports.
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that I have a connection to the Internet, what do I do with it?
This is a great question that is asked hundreds of times at
conferences and in school faculty meetings. Common statements
range from I don't have time to do one more thing to
where do I go for examples? This page is dedicated to examples
of how the Web can... | <urn:uuid:4343cf4d-da32-465b-ab4d-161d0aba264e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914955 | 9,144 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Scagliola, or false marble, is a colored plaster finishing process which, when completed and polished, looks exactly like marble. This program shows one of the few craftsmen in the country using this technique of decoration. Also demonstrated is plaster casting to create cornice mouldings.
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Hermann led him.
When fairly entangled in the dense wood, surrounded by morasses and wet marshes instead of roads, suddenly there was a thundering war-cry, and barbarians swarmed down upon him from all sides. Hundreds who escaped the rain of arrows were lost in the morasses. It was not a question of victory, but of esc... | <urn:uuid:0340da1a-9c24-4baf-963c-ed66c7d62962> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://manybooks.net/titles/parmelem3439734397.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991726 | 226 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The Health Perils of Gum Disease (cont.)
Cram cites research that links gum disease with heart disease, diabetes, lung problems, and premature and low-birth-weight babies. Helena Gallant Tripp, RDH, president of the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA), says, "In bulimic patients [who] induce vomiting, you se... | <urn:uuid:2c0b12c0-0d2b-4538-aa54-d84a8eddf915> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=50510&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945126 | 383 | 3.390625 | 3 |
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International Standard Bible EncyclopediaGOAT
Greek2056. eriphos -- a young goat
... a young goat. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: eriphos Phonetic
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There are 13 diamonds. A23456789TJQK.
A card is drawn at random from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability
(a) a king of spades?
(b) a king?
(c) not a king?
(d) a diamond?
(e) a face card (jack, queen, or king)?
second problem :
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Picture of Cataracts
Cataract is a painless condition where the normally clear aspirin-sized lens of the eye starts to become cloudy. The result is much like smearing grease over the lens of a camera which impairs normal vision. Causes of cataracts include cortisone medication, trauma, diabetes, and aging. In fact, cat... | <urn:uuid:6cf6d532-6b04-4e2b-aa3e-c06b663708f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicinenet.com/image-collection/cataracts_picture/picture.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91984 | 288 | 3.25 | 3 |
Daguerreotype of an insect
New York University professor John W. Draper's experiments with early photographic processes such as the daguerreotype led to successful scientific images. This Draper photomicrograph shows an insect head. His pioneering work in harnessing photography to science won Draper a distinguished pla... | <urn:uuid:2a8a8289-840d-45dd-b6ac-e129a5639426> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=466 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887587 | 98 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Medical transport systems play a critical role in transporting patients from one location to another in a timely and effective manner. Medical transport may be emergency or non-emergency services. Services of this kind have improved a great deal over the years.
The general mission of medical transport systems are to pr... | <urn:uuid:5fa7eb78-8bd0-43f7-bdaf-559ef81f46f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mbcaf.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945835 | 595 | 2.75 | 3 |
He gulped. This animal was bigger than the illustrations in his book.
Kenny is a book-loving rabbit who lives with his farming mother and father. One day, his father bursts in from the sheep field in a panic, announcing that they must pack their things ASAP and light out of there, because he just saw a real, live, drag... | <urn:uuid:5b7779e3-60c0-4060-ae8b-08ed50cc3838> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bugsandbunnies.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977229 | 1,074 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The Claude E. Phillips Herbarium is a botanical resource center located at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware. The Herbarium houses an extensive collection of pressed and dried plant specimens, and also functions as an active center for education and research on the world’s botanical diversity.
In the Claude ... | <urn:uuid:7dd2a330-db24-4a0b-add8-51289b7d50f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://herbarium.desu.edu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.851335 | 415 | 2.890625 | 3 |
New Caledonia is to France what Hawaii is to the United States; a state or province considered an integral part of the primary county. In the 1970s, when I first became interested in birding around the world, I considered this unique bird to be impossible. Not only rare and reclusive, it was said to only be active at n... | <urn:uuid:31fda890-90e6-457d-8564-9384f6f8da3e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/kagu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975996 | 1,869 | 2.890625 | 3 |
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create an Eerie Eye Photo Manipulation. We will be using blending modes heavily and some standard adjustment layers.
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Estimated Completion Time: 40 minutes
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Fort Carroll (4)
Fort Carroll (4) (1874-1882) - A trading post and steamboat landing established in 1874 on the Missouri River in present day Fergus County, Montana. Garrisoned by 7th U.S. Infantry in the summers of 1874 and 1875. Abandoned in 1882. Also known as Carroll Landing Post.
History of Fort Carroll
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Open Education: A New Paradigm
BETWEEN 2010 AND 2025, nearly 80 million “baby boomers” will leave the workforce, just as they entered it between 1960 and 1980. When this exodus occurs, only 20 percent of workers remaining will possess the skills required for most of the jobs being created today. On a global scale, the ... | <urn:uuid:01e34fe4-bb5e-4032-be9c-da3f6db0601d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/open-education-new-paradigm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941639 | 1,734 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Americans consume 14 pounds per person per year of artificial sweeteners. That’s a lot! The belief is that these zero calorie drinks will aid in weight loss. There are actually no studies showing that people who drink diet sodas lose weight. In fact, the opposite may be true. Some research indicates that the overly swe... | <urn:uuid:b71f2bc9-b334-4716-bbeb-eed0451c3e23> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/cookusinterruptus/2009/07/30/zero-doesnt-equal-zero/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940233 | 756 | 2.84375 | 3 |
by Anthony Monteiro
Nelson Mandela lived a long life, with 3 careers, one before he was locked up, another while in prison, and a third after his 1990 release. Dr. Anthony Monteiro reflects upon the life, the lessons and the legacies of Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela, The Contradictions Of His Life And Legacies
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WEDNESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have developed a blood test that they say could help physicians predict whether pregnant women will deliver their babies prematurely.
The test isn't ready for prime time, however, and it's not foolproof: a study found that it misses some premature births and incorrect... | <urn:uuid:74528d5a-6c57-49ab-97f5-f5b89bd1d936> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Experimental-Test-May-Warn-of-Premature-Births-81231-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960656 | 685 | 2.828125 | 3 |
As nerve cells develop or attempt to recover after damage, they extend growth cones, highly flexible extensions that act as environmental sensors. Growth cones use the information they gather to direct advance of the nerve cells and it has long been known that such advance depends on the coordinated assembly of actin f... | <urn:uuid:58ec47ac-1af8-400a-8170-fc6c1ad77c09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news/A-new-focus-for-the-mechanism-of-nerve-growth-2528-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95719 | 565 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Pretty pictures and popular neuroscience go hand-in-hand. People love to see the contours of their brain on an MRI and journalists are drawn to a brain flashing away with activity. There have been some fantastic images from neuroscience in 2013. Here are my favourites, one for each month starting way back in January 20... | <urn:uuid:74fac370-a5b0-4e69-afa7-5a4b79f175d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thebrainbank.scienceblog.com/2013/12/23/flashes-of-brilliance-in-the-brain-the-best-neuroscience-images-of-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940555 | 1,212 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Mountain lion sightings have been reported this year in the townsite, which is not unusual since mountain lions are native to the Los Alamos area.
“Los Alamos is a mountain community and this is their habitat,” said New Mexico Game and Fish spokesman Dan Williams.
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At RBC, we are committed to reducing our environmental footprint through a variety of programs and initiatives. One of the ways we can reduce our impact is by disposing of our electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, in a responsible and ethical manner.
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Choosing the right kind of tiller for your garden is an important decision. You need to consider the size of your garden and the type of gardening you do. A machine that is too small will not be able to do the job, while one that is too large for your needs will be hard to use and a waste of money.
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FILE - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Students advised to sleep in
Doctors association says schools should start later
On Monday, the AAP issued a recommendation that middle and high schools delay the start of classes until 8:30 a.m. or later. The reasoning is to align school schedules with the biological sleep rhythms of adolescents.
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CLASS - 8
1) Find the compound interest on Rs 64000 at 2.5 p.a. for 3 years, interest being compounded annually.
2) Simple interest on certain sum at certain rate for 2 years is Rs 200. If the interest is compounded annually, the compound interest is Rs 210. Find the rate and sum.
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This comprehensive and in-depth look at southern politics in the United States challenges conventional notions about the rise of the Republican Party in the South. David Lublin argues that the evolution of southern politics must be seen as part of a process of democratization of the region's politics. The Voting Rights... | <urn:uuid:ae782990-82b7-4899-83b5-266c4433a2ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7759.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918416 | 536 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Israel Table of Contents
In 332 B.C., Alexander the Great of Macedon destroyed the Persian Empire but largely ignored Judah. After Alexander's death, his generals divided--and subsequently fought over--his empire. In 301 B.C., Ptolemy I took direct control of the Jewish homeland, but he made no serious effort to interf... | <urn:uuid:658ad497-84db-4ad1-90c4-18f0a3da7bb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6688.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965653 | 1,570 | 3.625 | 4 |
Students read and act out folktales from various Native American cultures.
- define the words folktale, legend, myth;
- demonstrate creative thinking and dramatic skills to dramatize a folktale;
- work together in cooperative groups.
folktale, Native American, culture, drama, legend, myth
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In the last couple of years, the world has finally caught onto an idea that has long been obvious to anyone who paused to actually think about it: Jobs are disappearing due to increasing automation, and unless something changes, within a couple of decades, unemployment rates of 20% or even much higher might become the ... | <urn:uuid:087460b9-8def-42e1-b8e0-821dc7562bc1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/09/skills-training-a-pillar-of-future-social-stability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961815 | 808 | 2.984375 | 3 |
January 12, 2009, 6:42 PM CT
Epidural anesthesia is safe
The largest ever prospective study [1,2] into the major complications of epidurals and spinal anaesthetics reported in the British Journal of Anaesthesia
today (Monday 12 January 2009) concludes that prior studies have over-estimated the risks of severe complica... | <urn:uuid:64d3142d-b58e-4f43-ad29-3f3b12e673c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicineworld.org/news/news-archives/73749318-Jan-15-2009.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954822 | 3,482 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Women who routinely wear high heels may feel pain when they don flats because regularly walking around with their heels elevated can significantly change leg muscle structure — causing the calf muscles to shorten and tendons to stiffen — according to a study published online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology... | <urn:uuid:f9d2e561-1321-4f95-8fd6-8e789080b6bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthland.time.com/2010/07/16/why-some-women-hobble-without-heels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934169 | 313 | 2.890625 | 3 |
My six-year-old daughter has had high blood sugar levels since birth. She takes insulin twice a day. Her blood sugar was 275 mg/dl [15.3 mmol/L] last week. Will she have to take insulin forever? Is there any other possible treatment?
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Five Keys for Quitting
Studies have shown that these five steps will help you quit and quit for good. You have the best chances of quitting if you use them together:
- Get ready.
- Get support.
- Learn new skills and behaviors.
- Get medication and use it correctly.
- Be prepared for relapse or difficult situations.
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In 1964, as President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, he declared it to be among "the most far-reaching conservation measures that a far-sighted nation has ever coped with."
Now, as the Wilderness Act turns 50 on Sept. 3, Florida Bay and the Everglades have become two of its largest beneficiaries.
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MDCH unveils a new plan to combat obesity in the state
The Michigan Department of Community Health has a new plan to reduce the number of obese people in Michigan. The Department announced a new 5-year statewide program called "4 x 4" on Monday at the Recreation Park in Ypsilanti.
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The observed increases in vegetative productivity and growth are happening in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth’s vegetation.
-- Craig Idso
CHICAGO, IL (PRWEB) December 12, 2012
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Chapel of Notre Dame la Brune
The Chapel of Notre-Dame la Brune, named for the Romanesque Madonna on the altar. Made in the Auvergne in the 12th century, the statue is a cedar reliquary that has been painted and gilded. The chapel itself, with a Gothic sculpted arch and frescoed walls, dates from the 15th century and o... | <urn:uuid:01176e7a-ef2d-465b-8dae-ba7537be8ba1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/tournus-abbey-st-philibert/photos/xti_4554 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965845 | 134 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Let's take a close-up look at what's going on inside a water heater's tank to see how simply and elegantly it does its job.
A water heater's thermostat controls the temperature of the water inside the tank. Normally, you can set the temperature anywhere between 120 and 180 degrees Fahrenheit (49 to 82 degrees Celsius).... | <urn:uuid:b7640f44-f6f5-4bf5-ad08-a518f4990420> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://home.howstuffworks.com/water-heater2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942122 | 371 | 3.625 | 4 |
China says it will intensify its efforts to protect girls and address the gender imbalance of newborn babies.
There are far more boys than girls in China
A senior government official said that trafficking and abandonment of girls would be severely punished, and a ban on selective abortion reinforced.
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ST. JOHN'S DAY
The “third day of Christmas” is marked by the feast of St John, Apostle and Evangelist, called “the beloved disciple” in the the Gospel he wrote and styled “the Divine” or “the Theologian” in the language of the Church. This is a felicitous marriage of feast and season, since John's Gospel excels as the ... | <urn:uuid:0d89e90d-9940-45cb-9286-195d206a2192> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2009/12/fr-wells-bulltetin-inserts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960362 | 688 | 2.59375 | 3 |
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge has developed two new systems to aid autonomous driving, which use a combination of simple smartphone technology and machine learning.
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Wearable Electronic Sensors Could Be The Future Of Surgeon’s Gloves
A U.S.-China team has developed a ‘stretchy’ electronic sensor that can be worn on a finger, which could enable doctors to feel electric activity and cut tissue.
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Technology has revolutionised the way people work, turning individuals into highly efficient machines that can seamlessly process multiple conversations with people across the globe.
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verb[no object] Physiology
(Of a cell) lose or release granules of a substance, typically as part of an immune reaction: the eosinophils degranulate, releasing the toxic contents of the granules
More example sentences
- When mast cells degranulate they release tryptase, in addition to histamine and prostaglandins.
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An example of prophetic writing is the Book of Revelations in the Bible.
- of, or having the powers of, a prophet
- of, having the nature of, or containing a prophecy: a prophetic utterance
- that predicts or foreshadows
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Initial and Final Sounds With Dr. Seuss’ Hop on Pop
by Elizabeth Hourigan
Saint Joseph College
Duration: 30 minutes
Grade Level: first
“Given a flip book with preprinted final sounds, students will write the initial sounds of rhyming words on left side flip pages.
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Your Everyday Guide to Cholesterol Control
Include plenty of fruits, vegetables and grains in your diet. When you use fat, make sure it's unsaturated.
If you are overweight, work with your health care provider to find a healthy weight for you.
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A man who has traveled much of the world and brought the Earth to the minds of the masses remains anchored in optimism, and perhaps that is the most remarkable aspect of Michael Jones.
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Classroom Rules for Behavior &
How to do:
When you take attendance the first day, you can ignore some noise and problems as you call out the names and fill out the attendance sheet. Do it calmly. Have the attendance taken accurately first.
Then, standing by the first seat to be assigned [the front left hand corner] ann... | <urn:uuid:35b59cee-3d15-497c-a01b-b7c3fc477981> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://teacher2b.com/discipline/firstrls.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97056 | 1,310 | 2.75 | 3 |
Gravity isn't uniform. Denser planets and objects in space — that is, things with more mass to them — experience a stronger pull of gravity. But even if you zoom in to the level of a single planet (or, in this case, our Moon), gravity isn't uniform all the way around. That's because the mass of the Moon isn't uniform, ... | <urn:uuid:3bc8cfd9-5148-473e-b1c1-215294379f32> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://boingboing.net/2013/02/19/a-gravity-map-of-the-moon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933641 | 650 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope and W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star.
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A recent Australian study linked black tea to a modest lowering of blood pressure, and I thought it would be fun to share other possible health benefits of drinking tea.
1. Green tea has cancer-fighting properties: A catechin called EGCG found in green tea has been linked in various studies to a reduction in cancer rat... | <urn:uuid:8709b6cf-4e25-4189-a4b1-57bc8ca9e37e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/10-possible-health-benefits-of-drinking-tea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947112 | 498 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Researchers have shown a malfunction in the immune system is likely to be a factor in some cases of narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder
People with narcolepsy fall asleep anywhere, at any time without warning. It has been linked to hormones and nervous system activity.
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Temporary Tattoo Monitors Personal Health
Created by researchers at the University of Toronto, the device measure the skin's pH levels to identify metabolic stress in patients and athletes.
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a temporary tattoo in the shape of a smiley face that can monitor metaboli... | <urn:uuid:d6b620f7-0c0b-4307-84f1-da8a523e653f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psfk.com/2012/12/temporary-tattoo-monitors-health.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923408 | 221 | 3.03125 | 3 |
- American Philatelist
- Buy and Sell Online
- Buy and Sell by Mail
- Learning Opportunities
- Estate Advice
- Reference Collection
- Stamp Authentication
- Stamp Identification
- Young Philatelists
- Stamp Thefts
- Fraud Watch
- Book Publishing
Stamps and Collectors - a little History
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"Famine and disease have won more battles than soldiers; our job of fighting the war can be greatly simplified by keeping them under control," Dr. Carl W. Walter '28, associate in Surgery, said Wednesday evening at New Lecture Hall in a talk on the Red Cross blood bank.
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Bernard of Italy, illegitimate son of Pepin of Italy (himself a legitimate son of Charlemagne), became king of the Lombards in 810.
Edward the Martyr, briefly king of England from 975 to 978, was probably illegitimate; his father Edgar I acknowledged his younger son Æthelred as the only rightful heir (but Edgar's opini... | <urn:uuid:7f0922e9-3084-4771-9ffe-a27bd51c4cca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/12521/bastard-children-who-became-kings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979316 | 331 | 2.921875 | 3 |
We use the term “environmental pollution” to refer to the presence, in the atmosphere, of physical, chemical or biological agents, in forms and concentrations that are or may be harmful to health, safety or welfare of the human life, plant or animals.
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Politics and Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century 1660-1860
Court Room, Senate House Library
- Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation, University of Greenwich
Talks at this conferenceAdd a talk
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Abstract: The discovery of quarks in the 1960's launched a now classic question in nuclear physics: How do the interactions between quarks and gluons produce the fundamental properties of the proton and neutron? The nucleon electric charge is simply the sum of the valence quark charges, while the mass is largely due to... | <urn:uuid:c6e66dd7-1691-4981-8485-bb223a209766> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/collegesanddepartments/physicsandastronomy/activities/colloquiumseries/2013sep26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846334 | 267 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Ministers are promising women a choice of where they give birth.
The government has promised mothers choice by 2009
They say they want to create a "world class" maternity service, but there is some doubt over whether this can be achieved.
What is the government promising?
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Following a request from the European Commission, the Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) was asked to deliver a scientific opinion re-evaluating the safety of vegetable carbon (E 153) when used as a food colouring substance.
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2007 Grant - Dineley
Alpha7 nAChR Protects Against Beta-Amyloid Toxicity in Vivo
Kelly Dineley, Ph.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch
2007 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the degeneration and event... | <urn:uuid:00a45df8-338d-4428-a11f-a234553c9f30> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.alz.org/research/alzheimers_grants/for_researchers/overview-2007.asp?grants=2007dineley | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923074 | 421 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Green and black tea may have more health benefits than their well-known calming effect. Several compounds in these leafy plants have been examined in numerous studies and are linked to having beneficial effects on conditions ranging from mental health to cancer.
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Shining a light on Indonesia's dark days of 1965
A landmark investigative report by Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights has declared that Indonesia's anti-communist purge of the mid-1960s was a "gross violation of human rights".
The 840-page report examines the massacres of hundreds of thousands of people f... | <urn:uuid:64bbb72a-a541-4d6a-a1ca-fc6cf711d285> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-25/an-indonesia-1965/4153614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972179 | 429 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
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Insect Collecting and Information for Kids
Insect collecting is a great way to identify different bugs, show them off and learn about them. Some scientists believe that bug collecting dates all the way back to prehistoric times. Humans have always been fascinated and amazed by critters and scientists are always discove... | <urn:uuid:c712941c-e0ba-4c78-8cba-2788d3f4ff07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bedbugs.org/insect-collecting-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922569 | 929 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Aren’t sure when to use whomever or whoever? There or their? When to insert a comma? Check out these sites:
These OWL resources will help you use correct grammar in your writing. This area includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and preposi... | <urn:uuid:d1244050-0a2e-431e-9896-389e391ad337> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.laketech.org/student-center/improve-your-grammar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865577 | 76 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Board games have been played throughout the world by people of many different cultures and backgrounds across
a time span of millennia. The oldest known games date back to about 3500 B.C. Board games may be categorized
according to the type of strategy dictated by the rules of the game. These categories include race ga... | <urn:uuid:7cd7e37a-e357-4865-82b1-cb0fd6cc1f17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/caroluschess/board-games | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915137 | 3,469 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Forces of NatureForces are a big part of physics. Physicists devote a lot of time to the study of forces that are found everywhere in the universe. The forces could be big, such as the pull of a star on a planet. The forces could also be very small, such as the pull of a nucleus on an electron. Forces are acting everyw... | <urn:uuid:4ade6d28-4652-4946-acb5-cd6bd3ba8940> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.physics4kids.com/files/motion_force.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966879 | 690 | 4.125 | 4 |
© SALIM MADJD 2011 FOR ASTHMAMD
A woman brought her asthmatic son into pediatrician Sam Pejham’s Pleasanton, California, office last July because he was always tired, wasn’t sleeping, and was gaining weight. Though it was the first time that Pejham had seen the patient, he knew the boy’s asthma wasn’t under control the... | <urn:uuid:13973068-9ab5-4645-9b48-374faba4ab78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/31228/title/New-Tech-Boosts-Science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944162 | 2,270 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Celebrating 165 years of kazoo playing in America, National Kazoo Day will be celebrated on January 28, 2016.
Of course, kazoo players are not known to be perfectly precise, so feel free to celebrate National Kazoo Day on January 29, if you so desire, as some folks have the impression that the date is supposed to be th... | <urn:uuid:8187efc7-85b9-469e-b532-777516624fe0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationalkazooday.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950742 | 250 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have developed a technique that corrects a mutation leading to Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The technique, called CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing, removes the mutation entirely in mice, and could have far-reaching consequences in the trea... | <urn:uuid:5cb528a8-24a0-4ad2-ac87-cc2e3d12b640> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/gene-editing-muscular-dystrophy/33487/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940121 | 577 | 3.640625 | 4 |
On 10 August 1995 HST observed the second passage of the Earth through Saturn's ring plane in the 1995/96 series of triple crossings. This pair of 100 sec exposures was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2) in planetary (high resolution) mode 2.5 hours prior to the Earth's passage through the ring plan... | <urn:uuid:eb302217-907a-489a-ae10-409c0a4e8605> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/31/image/b/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939771 | 381 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Submitted by Ryan Barnett 5/13/2009
In a text book case of web applications being abused due to insufficient anti-automation defenses, the Time Magazine's Internet poll of the most influential 100 people was bombarded with various methods to manipulate the results. The WASC Web Hacking Incident Database provides a grea... | <urn:uuid:cbe6b478-2ba1-4342-b4cf-7a771141c8f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tacticalwebappsec.blogspot.com/2009/05/lessons-learned-from-times-most.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873095 | 1,015 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Work With Me Here
Ideas from the field: Tips for earning cooperation and respect.
Illustration by Darren Thompson
Scout A.S. and his fellow junior leaders are outnumbered by the younger guys in their troop. Because of this, the older Scouts have trouble getting the younger members of their troop to follow instructions.... | <urn:uuid:9820263b-50e6-4094-a69c-d6998bdd263b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scoutingmagazine.org/issues/1105/d-wwyd.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96444 | 944 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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