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Discovering the Civil War
Join the Navy and Get Rich?
When the U.S. Congress instituted a draft in 1863, many men sought to avoid Army service. The US Navy, which relied on volunteers for manpower, used this broadside to convince possible recruits that service in the Navy could be much more financially rewarding than A... | <urn:uuid:4b854a20-e526-4fc8-94b9-3a50044cb6e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archives.gov/press/press-kits/civil-war/gallery-page3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912357 | 107 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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Atmosphere in this case probably means the environment, or setting. For the storyline of The Scarlet Ibis, the atmosphere feels like the passage of time. Natural seasons coming and going are described through the vegetation of a home near a swamp. This gives the feel that the story takes place some... | <urn:uuid:aa94a875-51cf-415d-a31d-264fc4cfffe3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-atmosphere-details-scarlet-ibis-274516 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955492 | 286 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Road safety in Egypt
Egypt loses about 12 000 lives due to road traffic crashes every year. It has a road traffic fatality rate of 42 deaths per 100 000 population. Majority (48%) of those killed are passengers of four-wheelers though pedestrians also constitute a significant proportion (20%) of these fatalities. Accor... | <urn:uuid:323a3dac-7c7f-4382-806f-b73132c0ead1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_traffic/countrywork/egy/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946022 | 293 | 2.75 | 3 |
Why is my poop white
Feces or poop is the semi-solid bodily waste eliminated from the body through the anus. It consists of the waste that remains after the ingested food is digested, but even this waste is highly rich in energy that the decomposing micro organisms make use of. The color, texture and composition of poo... | <urn:uuid:d90d1f47-b2c2-4f2b-9e2b-0400546564f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.whycenter.com/why-is-my-poop-white/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932499 | 532 | 2.796875 | 3 |
RMRS-GTR-308: A review of fire effects on vegetation and soils in the Great Basin Region: response and ecological site characteristics
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t seems as though the issue of bullying is constantly in the news. There are times when other issues are in the forefront, but after a lapse, there is a new development.
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Rules for Missouri Fourth-Class Cities
II. Officials and Their Operations
Parenthetical numbers in the text refer to sections of the current Revised Statutes of Missouri, abbreviated as RSMo.
Swearing in of officials
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A giant space rock whizzed past the Earth on Monday under the close scrutiny of astronomers.
The mountain-sized object had been classed as a "potentially hazardous asteroid", but scientists said it posed no danger to Earth.
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Tweeddale (Scottish Gaelic: Srath Thuaidh/Tuaidhdail) was one of the four "committee area" or former districts in the Borders Region which existed in Scotland from 1975 to 1996. It is the traditional name for the area drained by the upper reaches of the River Tweed. This area was considered to end before the Yarrow Wat... | <urn:uuid:0ecc5b5d-c4b9-4980-acde-4ab6069b132e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Tweeddale%2C_Scottish_Borders%2C_Scotland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975395 | 288 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Each of the four major professional sports in America — basketball, hockey, football and baseball — uses the same basic format to divide up their leagues: two separate conferences, each divided into divisions based primarily on location.
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The sacred shrine of this country's ruling white Afrikaner minority - the Voortrekker Monument - is a solid, seemingly unassailable piece of architecture. The Afrikaner community is proving less so. The pressures of rising black nationalism continue to produce cracks and divisions within this once united group, who are... | <urn:uuid:2c4e0c05-fd71-4902-a9d3-ccb198a8c28b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://m.csmonitor.com/1983/0707/070769.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955963 | 904 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The risk of acquiring leptospirosis can be greatly reduced by not swimming or wading in water that might be contaminated with animal urine, or eliminating contact with potentially infected animals.
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Biography of Gace Brulé
Gace Brulé was a French trouvère and a native of Champagne.
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The March on Washington, Bruce Hartford.
History and Description of the March (History & Timeline)
March on Washington Demands
List of speakers & entertainers. (Does not include some unscheduled speakers/entertainers)
Program (Program, with statement, demands, & route map)
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University Researchers Keep Fruits, Vegetables Fresh with New Frozen Method
Imagine biting into a fresh, crunchy salad that has been frozen and defrosted. This can be possible thanks to a unique method of freezing vegetables and fruit that keeps cells alive, allowing fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables to be ava... | <urn:uuid:4243a93e-472b-4ed2-b949-ef286f81d823> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/88056-university-researchers-keep-fruits-vegetables-fresh-with-new-frozen-method | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953237 | 384 | 3.640625 | 4 |
The kids started out by looking at some examples of the work of Gustav Klimt. They discussed Klimt's work and talked about how he used a lot of pattern in his work. Mrs. Heimlich then focused more directly on Klimt's painting Tree of Life.
|Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt|
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In the face of the demographic change, the preservation of older adults’ physical functioning, mobility and independence should be a major public health concern.
There is no doubt that regular physical activity and exercise make a substantial contribution to maintaining and improving health in old age. Both the positiv... | <urn:uuid:5769308b-12f3-4729-b857-82a3f965bc0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/homefit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925166 | 154 | 2.546875 | 3 |
We in the United States may not think about it much, but more than one billion people are affected by tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis and leprosy. These diseases cause chronic disability and death in countless adults and children.
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LINE SHAFT PULLEYS and BELTINGBrought to you by Harry's Old Engine...
Everything you've ever wanted to know about a lineshaft and then some...
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Kinematics of Flexible Gearing
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Recommendations for Chemical Protective Clothing Database
The Recommendations for Chemical Protective Clothing database is a contractor's product procured by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Thus, the recommendations contained in this database do not necessarily reflect NIOSH policy.
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Health Hazards Associated with Consumption of Poultry
Produced by Industrial Methods in the USA or Elsewhere
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Zola Levitt taught that while the Book of Job tells the story of a man — his story parallels the larger story of the country of Israel.
We remember early glimmerings of the important ideas in Job. For example, its raising the question “Why do the righteous suffer?”
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What are the Biomechanical Principles that underpin the Basketball Jump Shot?
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Theologian Guillaume Bignon used to be an atheistic Parisian. He...
As the BBC screens an epic new dramatisation of War and Peace, Dr Alexandre Christoyannopoulos explains Leo Tolstoy's (1828 - 1910) radical understanding of Jesus' teachings
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Class and Taste in Edwardian England
The class system in England during the first decade of the 20th century was divided into the upper, middle, and working classes. The lives of the landed gentry and the grinding poverty of working-class life were much the same as before. It was the growing middle class, of which the ... | <urn:uuid:837267d3-e383-4028-942c-9a849367bdb3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tchevalier.com/fallingangels/bckgrnd/class/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978492 | 464 | 3.625 | 4 |
Battle of the Proxies
By ROGER ATWOOD
Monday, February 10, 2014
Two years before the outbreak of World War II, countries representing Europe’s warring ideologies fought by proxy in the Spanish Civil War—with the Soviets and French supporting the Republicans, and Germany and Italy behind the insurgent Nationalists. Now,... | <urn:uuid:353bf89e-f945-4dfb-a129-693fdfccb9d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archaeology.org/issues/125-1403/trenches/1794-spanish-civil-war-oviedo-battlefiend | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953288 | 472 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Chapter 6 Complex Integration
Of the two main topics studied in calculus - differentiation and integration - we have so far only studied derivatives of complex functions. We now turn to the problem of integrating complex functions. The theory you will learn is elegant, powerful, and a useful tool for physicists and eng... | <urn:uuid:6d78c069-cf9c-4250-9bb7-f2d9b9acf2fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathfaculty.fullerton.edu/mathews/c2003/ComplexIntegralMod.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856364 | 969 | 3.421875 | 3 |
BPA is a chemical used in epoxy resin to line items like food cans, glass jar lids and baby bottles. Senator Diane Feinstein wants the chemical removed from these items and replaced with a safer alternative. Her legislation puts pressure on the chemical and food manufacturing industry. There are roughly 30 industry gro... | <urn:uuid:b201e066-30d1-44fd-bccb-e03fae64b620> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/prop-zero/BPA--Its-Whats-for-Dinner-98261574.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947079 | 345 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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It may have been an intricate spider web, or perhaps a sturdy bird''s nest. No one is quite sure what inspired early man to experiment with weaving, but archaeologists think it''s probably the first craft developed by humans.
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| Several weeks to several months before El Niño begins to manifest in the eastern Pacific, a dramatic change occurs in the atmosphere over the Pacific. The pressure over the western Pacific increases while the pressure in the east decreases. This causes a change in the wind pattern and the convection, as shown in the ... | <urn:uuid:6fa99a9d-e8f8-4854-a9bc-3faf425fda5e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/topex/activities/elnino/sld010.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927389 | 314 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Land of opportunity
Economic migration is when people migrate to another country for
economic benefits -for work and money.
It is not confined to poor
countries - inhabitants of rich countries also migrate for economic
reasons to other countries. Traditionally and historically, the
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease. Your body’s immune system is like an army with hundreds of soldiers. The immune system’s job is to fight foreign substances in the body, like germs and viruses. But in autoimmune diseases, the immune system is out of control. It attacks healthy tissues, not germs.
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FDA’s prescription for bone health and osteoporosis has been shown to make bones far more fragile in the long term, and may even cause jaw death and esophageal cancer.
Bisphosphonate drugs are used for treatment of osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become extremely porous, are subject to fracture, and heal slo... | <urn:uuid:108d47d5-d3a7-4af2-8b40-4af4c5334e90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-approved-treatment-makes-bones-worse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93512 | 514 | 2.6875 | 3 |
According to science, the earth’s environment is in constant motion and weather patterns tend to shift throughout the years. There are also the different patterns that have emerged that succeeded in defining the climate in various parts of the world.
The desert is considered as the driest part of the planet as it does ... | <urn:uuid:85866179-049b-4e2b-b273-fc2c129a8c58> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.doxagora.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97774 | 406 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Increase in Carbon Dioxide Levels "Greening" the Deserts: Study
There has been an increase in vegetation in the arid regions of the world since the 1980s, mostly due to an increase in the levels of carbon dioxide, a new study has reported.
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Cards and a pyramid frame to use in connection with the Egypt Math Pyramid Game, to help students "build" their pyramids. Use together with Math Pyramid Game rules and questions.
Use this game to reinforce telling time and to practice matching 10:30 to ten thirty; digital and ... | <urn:uuid:437124e8-a788-4019-8a6e-e58b7007089f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abcteach.com/directory/fun-activities-games-printable-games-3537-2-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931434 | 147 | 3.25 | 3 |
By Myra Lee Adams Goff
NEW BRAUNFELS – In old New Braunfels, the Faust family was prominent and so were the homes they built. There are actually five buildings that could be referred to as Faust structures either by direct construction or indirect connection to the Faust family.
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According to shocking new numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of American families do not have a single person that is working. So when someone tries to tell you that the unemployment rate in the United States is about 7 percent, you should just laugh. One-fifth of the families... | <urn:uuid:15541a81-bae6-4579-b2d8-b0bb675cf1de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-real-unemployment-rate-in-20-of-american-families-everyone-is-unemployed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974127 | 1,120 | 2.546875 | 3 |
There are three probable problems to be solved when reading a mystery story, they are: Who did it? What is it? and How did it happen? Mystery stories involve matters that remain unexplained and they involve the quality of being obscure, and they are usually dealing with puzzling crime. Mystery stories are meant to keep... | <urn:uuid:4d571736-978a-4f6e-bd9e-3b9372ae229c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/4404.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972292 | 387 | 2.828125 | 3 |
John Turpin was a messman aboard the Battleship MAINE. He went on to become the fist, or one of the first, Black Chief Petty Officers in the U.S. Navy.
John Henry "Dick" Turpin was born on August 20th 1876 in Long Branch New Jersey. At the age of 20 Turpin enlisted in the United States Navy on 4th November 1896, and wa... | <urn:uuid:2156fdb4-518b-4951-b9a6-f11416bccbf7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spanamwar.com/Turpin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984469 | 687 | 2.671875 | 3 |
5 Factors to Consider when buying an Energy Efficient Light Bulb
Making the switch from incandescent light bulbs to energy efficient compact fluorescent or LED bulbs can be a great process. Not only will you immediately start saving energy, but you'll be saving money as well. In addition, you can wave goodbye to the da... | <urn:uuid:bf0175b0-05bb-404f-a37e-73147ea6c0c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.conservationmart.com/t-5-Important-Energy-Efficient-Lighting-Factors.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928796 | 987 | 2.796875 | 3 |
E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Printed matter spread over an entire sheet of paper. The whole must be in one type and one measure, i.e. must not be divided into columns. A folio is when the sheet is folded, in which case a page occupies only half the sheet.
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/16/brown_dwarf/
Astronomers weigh ultra-cool brown dwarf
He ain't heavy
An international team of astronomers have been able to measure the mass of an ultra-cool brown dwarf "star", and its binary companion, directly, for the first time.
Just over 60 times the mass of J... | <urn:uuid:bfe8cc88-0393-4a8d-9357-187b0e9e6900> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2004/06/16/brown_dwarf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949285 | 588 | 2.984375 | 3 |
January 23, 2012
Patterns Of Chromosome Abnormality: The Key To Cancer?
Chromosome aberrations happen in pairs when it comes to cancer, TAU research finds
A healthy genome is characterized by 23 pairs of chromosomes, and even a small change in this structure – such as an extra copy of a single chromosome – can lead to ... | <urn:uuid:28c277ee-5383-43e0-ad86-de2ca543a1db> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112460692/patterns-of-chromosome-abnormality-the-key-to-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943796 | 747 | 3.171875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON — Sleep deprived Americans have a new option to address hard-to-treat nighttime breathing problems: a first-of-kind device that keeps airways open by zapping them with an electrical current.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the pacemaker-like device from Inspire Medical Systems for sleep apnea patie... | <urn:uuid:9a450fa2-f130-41d5-9304-4af95695f2fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/01/fda-approves-first-kind-sleep-apnea-implant/JyMq2ZGxMpBqBggIYqPMBN/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943404 | 250 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Primary Sources Subject Guide
Publication coverage: late 19th century - contemporary (ongoing)
- The works address significant events for the Asian American community, including the construction of the railroads in the nineteenth century, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the Vietnam conflic... | <urn:uuid:81365b3d-5ace-4d1f-bbd4-7e5669caf4ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://library.queensu.ca/research/guide/asian-studies/e-resources | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8915 | 293 | 2.625 | 3 |
Words formed when one letter is changed in cine
Letter 1 (C) changed: 12 words found:
Letter 2 (I) changed: 2 words found:
Letter 3 (N) changed: 2 words found:
No words found when changing letter 4 (E).
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As income inequality in the United States has soared and median wages have flatlined since 1980, economists have spent a lot of time debating why the top 1 percent have done so much better than everyone else. Is policy to blame? The decline of labor? Technology?
An equally pressing question, though, is what those incre... | <urn:uuid:9a1ca838-241f-4c3c-a814-45acbe7bbc12> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.democraticunderground.com/101659393 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952949 | 311 | 2.609375 | 3 |
We welcome your suggestions on What Does Name Amabila Mean. Suggest Meaning of Name Amabila.
Name Amabila name is a form of name Amabel, which is derived from Amabilis being a late Latin name meaning "lovable". Saint Amabilis was a 5th-century priest in Riom, central France.
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with special emphasis on equines
There are four mosquito-borne viruses that can cause encephalitis in equines in the U.S.: Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), Western equine encephalitis (WEE), Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), and West Nile Fever virus (WN). These four viruses have also caused illness and death in ... | <urn:uuid:441fcc3c-2652-4404-8b82-e647bc671a6e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://vet.osu.edu/extension/mosquito-borne-encephalitis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945742 | 709 | 3.46875 | 3 |
A new report in this month's issue of the American
Journal of Psychiatry finds that while a high percentage of soldiers returning
from Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many do not show
symptoms right away.
"We can only speculate about why the rates rise with time," said
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(reviewed Winter 2010)
Reviewer: Ron McPeak
Recommendation: Recommended with reservations
Teacher Planet is a Web site that host links to other Web sites for teaching aids and is organized by a group of teachers. Visiting the link ‘About us’ – located on the right-hand column a third of the way down the page – the read... | <urn:uuid:afbeea18-0c84-4487-b2a1-db953b649fd7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/tesolcsueb/bibliography/web-evaluations/esl-4-teachers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930406 | 472 | 2.640625 | 3 |
New research shows that learning on a tablet may be just as effective as traditional learning techniques. Photo: Peter Rae
It's the modern parent's dilemma: to give in to the allure of the iPad, or endure the screams of a bored child.
New research suggests it no longer has to be a guilty choice because tablet games can... | <urn:uuid:bb796f1c-ea0b-4e90-ad09-2d23af5fa67e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/experts-tablet-games-can-aid-childhood-development-20151220-gls3vt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966857 | 418 | 3.5 | 4 |
In the past, parents worried more about their children being home by the time the street lights came on than whether they got the recommended amount of daily activity. Today, parents are advised to monitor their children's body mass index (height-to-weight ratio) as the obesity epidemic among children ages 6 to 19 has ... | <urn:uuid:30572e17-44b4-4cce-9daa-3c5a1b29b94e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://clubindustry.com/print/mag/fitness_top_27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927786 | 450 | 3.59375 | 4 |
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||W16 - Using Spatial Light Modulators to Teach Students Experimental Fourier Optics
||A spatial light modulator (SLM) changes the phase and/or amplitude of light incident on the SLM. The SLMs we use alter the phase of the incident light via an array of 1024x76... | <urn:uuid:4654ec8b-1b28-4a01-87f2-23eb5f0db506> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.compadre.org/advlabs/bfy/Detail.cfm?id=4841 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.834772 | 430 | 3 | 3 |
Dr. Elisabeth Blagrove, University of Warwick – The Shape of Evil Faces
In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Elisabeth Blagrove of the University of Warwick reveals why shapes can influence how we perceive faces.
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New research from the University of Kentucky (UK) suggests that genetic factors play a role in determining stallion susceptibility to equine arteritis virus (EAV) infection.
Scientists at Ludwig Maximilians University’s Department of Veterinary Medicine in Munich, Germany, are applying nanoscale molecule research in hu... | <urn:uuid:c4ebe39d-829f-4ea8-8ab5-0b146b793497> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/author/nancy-zacks-ms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.844478 | 282 | 2.71875 | 3 |
By Keith Bird, UK MD, Check Point
More and more people are beginning to use cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, and more businesses are beginning to accept it. The growing popularity, however, means thieves are also increasingly interested in stealing it.
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How to make a Nakamura Lock paper plane
This graceful Nakamura Lock paper plane design is a true paper plane classic that you should teach to your children. Making paper planes is a simple paper craft activity for kids that will also lead to some fun outdoor games as they fly their paper planes.
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A plant of the daisy family, native to Asia and Africa, with large brightly colored flowers.
- Genus Gerbera, family Compositae: many species, in particular the widely cultivated Transvaal daisy.
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Biography of Jean Cruveilhier
Jean Cruveilhier's father was a military surgeon who was obliged to follow the army and thus often had to leave his family alone. Cruveilhier was thus to a large degree brought up by his mother, from whom he inherited a serious mind. Thus, while still a student at the College of Limoges, h... | <urn:uuid:f379780f-e727-4c1d-aec8-8f02f97f7739> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/892.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976873 | 2,059 | 2.640625 | 3 |
(CNN) -- The poet Sylvia Plath, who made a name for herself through prose and poetry that conveyed a sense of depression and suicidal tendencies, famously died by asphyxiating herself in an oven in 1963.
There is evidence that depression runs in families, but both genetics and environment influence the condition.
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Acre (Akko) - Overview
The old city of Acre (Akko) is a large walled city on the shores of the bay of Haifa. As the largest natural port in the Galilee and Israel, it has a long history of conquests and ruling empires. It was one of the main Crusaders' fortifications and ports.
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Graston Technique is a popular treatment for muscle, tendon, ligament, and soft tissue injuries. It is very effective at speeding healing and recovery, in both acute and chronic injuries. It is one of the most well-known manual therapy approaches that utilizes instruments or tools. Graston Technique is utilized in many... | <urn:uuid:bd8c770e-73dd-465d-9ec6-82d1ca8b72b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.robertsonfamilychiro.com/graston-technique-chandler-az.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925343 | 1,943 | 2.9375 | 3 |
QUICK AND EASY CELL PHONE RADIATION PROTECTION
CELL PHONE RADIATION PROTECTION REDUCES THE POSSIBILITY OF THE BRAIN TUMOR
That is not going to contemplate you, if you are using cell phone yourself. Cell phone is extremely convenient and full of gadgets, that really help you co engage with your close ones or maybe indiv... | <urn:uuid:31e55be8-855c-4438-ad97-cb287ede4f0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://radiationprotection.feelingood.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00067-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9372 | 2,047 | 2.75 | 3 |
Duke of Argyll
The most delightful of all Mr. Darwin's works is the first be ever wrote. It is his Journal as the Naturalist of H.M.S. 'Beagle' in her exploring voyage round the world from the beginning of 1832 to nearly the end of 1836. It was published in 1842, and a later edition appeared in 1845. Celebrated as thi... | <urn:uuid:3833471e-5203-4674-bd43-25c05f97ac1f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/comm/Argyll/greatles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980849 | 5,355 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Cast your minds back a few months ago, to when the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced, “We have a very serious problem” with “nightmare bacteria,” and the chief medical officer of the United Kingdom backed him up a few days later, describing a “ticking time bomb” that threatens nati... | <urn:uuid:61be714f-888a-47ce-be86-e4d196d76c60> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wired.com/2013/07/cre-chronology-nature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967869 | 719 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Concerned Florence residents attempt rescues, but experts say do not disturb.
Florence residents who regularly stroll along Heceta Beach reported a disturbing sight last week as they encountered more than 100 seabirds hunkered in the sand, obviously in distress, unable to move out of the surf.
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The closing of an open society
Eastern European intellectuals, writers and artists certainly contributed to some degree to the collapse of the totalitarian Soviet system. Their ideas circulated in the public space, their courage was a model for many. In general, intellectuals, fickle, often using abstruse language, can... | <urn:uuid:263e57f4-24a1-41e9-842c-e703c2a8446a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2016-03-01-zagajewski-en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966362 | 2,309 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has requested that all individuals born between 1945 and 1965 be tested for the presence of the hepatitis C virus. This is a clear cut change in their policy which had previously asked that only high risk patients be tested.
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There is a huge difference in the Church's teaching about Jesus' Ascension and Mary's Assumption. The biggest difference is that Jesus raised himself up. The Assumption of Mary was carried out by Jesus. Jesus lifted Mary up. Jesus was her personal Saviour. The doctrine of Mary's Assumption states that Mary:
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"I'm going to be the last herder of my family," said Erdenemunkh, a nomad living in Central Mongolia. We were sitting in his cozy ger -- or Mongolian yurt -- drinking salty milk tea, a staple of the Mongolian herding diet.
"I'm going to do everything to send my kids to school," Erdenemunkh continued. I glanced at his 9... | <urn:uuid:1bdadfeb-b096-4924-9726-9e69e547041c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-wegner/last-of-the-nomads-how-mo_b_1404716.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959387 | 1,139 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Moore's Law Is Alive And Well, And Intel Will Prove It Today
Intel, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer chips, and by far the one with the most advanced manufacturing capabilities, is holding a big event in San Francisco which it described in an invitation to reporters as its “most significant technology annou... | <urn:uuid:75ce151e-bdb2-4143-8735-921805aded98> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://allthingsd.com/20110504/moores-law-is-alive-and-well-and-intel-will-prove-it-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967404 | 1,007 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Brief introduction of kitesurfing kiteboarding
Kiteboarders use inflatable kites tethered to harnesses to glide through water and air.
Kite surfing, also known as kitesurfing
, fly surfing, and kiteboarding, involves kitesurfing gear
like a power kite to pull the rider through the water on a small surfboard, a wakeboar... | <urn:uuid:36f93a4e-a394-4a88-b569-94c199d5528d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.maelstormgear.com/blogarticle.php?id=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958681 | 330 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Mapping the Moho with GOCE
The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle – the Moho – has been produced based on data from ESA’s GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Moho will offer new clues into the dynamics of Earth’s interior.
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Phytobezoars are infrequently encountered in the study of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and are therefore considered to be of minor importance. Their rarity does not detract from, but rather enhances, the interest which has been focused on the subject for many years. The purpose of this paper is to comment upo... | <urn:uuid:f2f10420-4a53-4b2e-a44c-18fbe9f46605> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archsurg.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=559407 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945786 | 197 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The Rehabilitation Nurse Educator
The rehabilitation nurse educator functions in a variety of settings to develop and maintain the competency of nurses who care for individuals and groups with physical disability and chronic illness. The ultimate goal of the rehabilitation nurse educator is to support the provision of ... | <urn:uuid:02393491-a5a2-437e-8d53-6a6234d72875> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rehabnurse.org/pubs/role/Role-Rehab-Nurse-Educator.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924607 | 1,334 | 2.578125 | 3 |
[tweetmeme source=”librarianbyday” only_single=false]Digital Culture & Education latest issue looks beyond “new” literacies. DCE is an international inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal, that is interactive, open-access web-published journal is for those interested in digital culture and education. It is apparent r... | <urn:uuid:5158e22a-e50f-4f61-adab-924aecf4879c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://librariesandtransliteracy.wordpress.com/tag/new-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911321 | 682 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Oryctolagus Cuniculus, the common European rabbit found in Ireland.
Rabbits In Ireland
Wildlife and Fauna
Rabbits are not native to Ireland, unlike mountain hares. Their bones have never been found in archaeological sites and, while there are illustrations of hares in the Book of Kells, there are none of rabbits. They ... | <urn:uuid:0bf0094e-3524-43d1-9b6c-3f64fe88ae8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rte.ie/tv/waterways/pages/wildlife-and-fauna/rabbits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982386 | 496 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Work Motivation Theories
Reinforcement theory describes how rewards or reinforcements affect behavior. Based on Skinnerian theory, the concept of reinforcement does not focus on internal states such as motivation, but explains behavior as a function of the individual's reinforcement history - the behavior that has brou... | <urn:uuid:dbe7c20a-b4c5-4bc1-8772-8e5597734404> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychological-musings.blogspot.com/2011/06/improving-organization-retention.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945178 | 2,162 | 3.328125 | 3 |
It's always a pain to memorize a password. This is why we so often choose weak ones. A technique used for protecting bitcoin wallets (called a "brain wallet") seemed to offer a workaround. You use a strong form of cryptography to convert a password that you only keep in your mind—thus reducing vulnerability to malware ... | <urn:uuid:d7766851-c0a3-4f9c-a7d9-6ef58e190d76> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fastcompany.com/3056651/researchers-find-a-crack-that-drains-supposedly-secure-bitcoin-wallets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961626 | 1,380 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Definition of Memory B cells
Memory B cells: Secondary immune-system components that have an affinity for a particular antigen. Like other B cells, memory B cells originate from lymphocytes that develop and are activated in the bone marrow.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
Last Editorial Review: 5/13/2016
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Yes, cat poop can definitely make you sick. I was just going to give you all the usual reasons, but your question got me thinking, and I did a little research. It turns out cat poop can cause more than the usual sicknesses, and women are especially vulnerable.
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Ocean’s Iron Impact Could Alter Climate Predictions
By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network
LONDON – British scientists say estimates of the amount of iron dissolving into seawater around some of the world’s coasts may be drastically wrong.
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Dealing with Whining
The life of a toddler is one of extremes. They experience extreme highs and lows; they feel every emotion at its absolute strongest. Eating breakfast out of the red bowl instead of the yellow bowl? No way! And how are so many of these feelings communicated? By whining, of course.
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AIDS: Still killing after all these years | Amy Johnson
“Still killing after all these years” was the caption on a graphic for World AIDS Day, which occurs Dec. 1 each year.
To be fair, progress has been made. Globally, AIDS deaths... | <urn:uuid:82f481c6-6e84-4b25-968a-214cd383e052> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.federalwaymirror.com/opinion/182575701.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96225 | 562 | 2.609375 | 3 |
PRESIDENT Reagan's decision to visit a German military cemetery next month has created a predictable furor. Jewish leaders charge the graveyard visit shows Ronald Reagan is insensitive to the Holocaust. The national commander of the American Legion says the President is making a mistake.
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Nothing makes a geeky food policy student like me more excited than seeing the NYTimes writing about cross-price elasticities of demand, except that they didn't actually use the technical term for it. The cross price elasticity of demand, or the change in demand for one food when the price of another changes, is a form... | <urn:uuid:14359e48-596a-473b-b2f6-0e4bc4bb9f99> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-global-food-prices-keep-us-healthy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948717 | 463 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Researchers at Imperial College London found there was a 12.3 percent fall in hospital admissions for childhood asthma in the first year after laws against smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces came into effect in July 2007.
Similar anti-smoking legislation has been introduced in many other countries, includ... | <urn:uuid:350c64f1-2731-4a07-96f5-9d996bb7daed> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.reformer.com/health/ci_22418811 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97765 | 430 | 3.015625 | 3 |
What happened to America’s black farmers?
John Boyd remembers watching a USDA official toss his loan application in the trash. It was the late ’80s, and Boyd, a fourth-generation black farmer from Baskerville, Va., was counting on a $5,000 loan to keep his family farm in business. Boyd was told to come back the next we... | <urn:uuid:4157ffb8-5376-41cb-8bb9-24eb260cf515> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://grist.org/people/what-happened-to-americas-black-farmers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975343 | 2,108 | 3.125 | 3 |
The Camas Prairie project is a collaborative effort on the part of several federal agencies and Native American tribes to promote camas bulb production using fire to restore a degraded prairie wetland. Through the efforts at Camas Prairie we hope to contribute to the restoration of the indigenous cultural landscape.
Th... | <urn:uuid:457dd0c9-d455-4625-9ad3-0ae9509a29d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/fire/success/camas-prairie-restoration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927205 | 567 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Lone Star College-CyFair’s efforts reaching out to middle school children, in particular, to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education, are evolving.
Each fall, during the college’s annual Cy-Fest, there are numerous activities related to math and science. The math department, the Math C... | <urn:uuid:6bd5405b-452e-482d-8b90-dc5bae85a497> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lonestar.edu/news/20651.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970698 | 1,151 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Accessor events are automatic and syntactically transparent accessor methods. For example, in VisualFoxPro 6, if a method named property_Assign() exists, this method fires automatically when property is modified. If a method named property_Access() is defined, this method fires automatically when property is read. The ... | <urn:uuid:1e7e9849-8c8d-40bb-8510-6828f76db9b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?AccessorEvents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.727713 | 305 | 2.5625 | 3 |
An Illustrated History
Distributed for Reaktion Books
Over the last twelve centuries, Korean food dishes and their complex preparations have evolved along with the larger cultural and political upheaval experienced by the nation. Pettid charts this historical development of the cuisine, exploring the ways that regional... | <urn:uuid:2c4d416c-1062-4744-9e0d-c93aca2d151a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/K/bo5666856.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923643 | 263 | 2.5625 | 3 |
How to Use Grids in Adobe InDesign CS6
Text frames contain any text you add to a publication. You can create a new text frame in many different ways. In Adobe InDesign CS6, you can add text to creative shapes you draw, thereby changing them into text frames. Creating and using text frames in a publication is important ... | <urn:uuid:5054b87f-fc9f-45d2-86e2-caec051d60c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-grids-in-adobe-indesign-cs6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.833255 | 665 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Last week some commenters wondered why I hinted that radically reducing greenhouse gasses in the present environment ran the risk of impoverishing people. I had in mind two things: (1) our nonsensensical government policy promoting ethanol, which appears to have contributed to a worldwide run-up in food prices, leading... | <urn:uuid:826aa408-5939-4789-9089-db5261b01fc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.volokh.com/posts/1209432971.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960344 | 676 | 2.625 | 3 |
Food labelling legislation.
Food labelling serves to (a) inform consumers about the attributes of a food product so that they can make rational and well-informed choices; (b) assist manufacturers in marketing their product; and (c) warn consumers about the inherent risks of certain products, or ingredients in the produ... | <urn:uuid:03d58717-7947-4b44-8020-f45b17284149> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/handle/10413/5150 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940248 | 924 | 3.765625 | 4 |
How ‘Saving’ Animals at All Costs Can Be a Dangerous Proposition
All across the country, people are hearing calls to raise the “save rate” at animal shelters. But beware: As warm and fuzzy as that sounds, a shelter’s high “save” rate does not reduce by one puppy or kitten the number of unwanted animals born every minut... | <urn:uuid:162a40bd-2f18-49cd-9ff0-c78359b11858> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.peta.org/blog/saving-animals-costs-can-dangerous-proposition/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951293 | 911 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Introduction : Coffee Processing and Coffee Quality
Coffee beans are not beans at all in a botanical sense. They are the twin seeds of a red (sometimes yellow) fruit that grows to about the size of the tip of your little finger. Growers call these coffee fruit coffee cherries. Before the coffee can be shipped and roast... | <urn:uuid:2cfb4964-1da2-4792-a242-5987524a8e8f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.coffeereview.com/coffee-reference/coffee-basics/introduction/coffee-processing-and-coffee-quality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951463 | 477 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Requirement – A student will be required to have two IL courses.
An information literate person is able to ask appropriate questions related to an information need and discover explanations and specific answers to those questions based on evidence. The goal of information literacy is knowledge, the basis for good decis... | <urn:uuid:7d460e5e-ab53-45f2-9d6e-eb9c4d67195c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://simpson.edu/faculty-development/general-education/embedded-skills/embedded-skill-information-literacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884522 | 340 | 3.734375 | 4 |
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