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Experts bemoan humans' ineptness in depicting animals' gait
THURSDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- If you have a dog, you probably take it for a walk, at least now and then. But do you actually watch the dog walk? Or, more specifically, can you describe how your dog does it?
If not, you're apparently in good company.
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The Workhouse in Scotland
(Note — workhouses in Scotland were more usually termed 'poorhouses'.)
Prior to 1845
The earliest Acts of the Scottish parliament relating to the relief of the poor date from 1424 when a distinction was made between able-bodied beggars and those who were unable to earn their own living. The la... | <urn:uuid:db58ee49-e86b-494c-86c1-6e025a1e05e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Scotland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982065 | 3,212 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Panosteitis is a canine disease about which very little is known. It seems to occur almost at random (although German Shepherds as a breed tend to produce the most cases) and has a tendency to vanish and return with seemingly little provocation. The disease manifests as a sudden lameness in one leg without any precedin... | <urn:uuid:c3b14237-155d-4535-ab85-17bf5e435931> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.terrificpets.com/articles/panosteitis.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971214 | 339 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Great Java: Level 1 will teach you the fundamentals of Java, from the basics of compilation through methods, objects, and the key concepts of good programming. By the time you're through these lessons, you'll be programming, and programming well.
Throughout the course, you'll progressively learn to code and compile pro... | <urn:uuid:0b554125-360d-4a21-93db-76f80ccfed9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596809393.do?sortby=publicationDate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944773 | 210 | 2.53125 | 3 |
In 1998, almost fifty years after Jackson Pollock painted "One: Number 31," the curators at MoMA realized the painting was looking a little... grimy.
As chief conservator James Coddington explains in a new video, the team at MoMA started wondering if something had gone terribly wrong in the painting's past. Using x-rad... | <urn:uuid:57d3a955-2ede-40f5-be14-70ab286501a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/restoring-a-pollock-with-x-rays-and-ultraviolet-light-486225539 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976922 | 391 | 2.84375 | 3 |
184: Matrix Transform
Title text: In fact, draw all your rotational matrices sideways. Your professors will love it! And then they'll go home and shrink.
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Conservatives complain that government metastasizes like cancers. Programs create new demands for services even as problems grow. This critique hardly fits such popular and effective programs as Head Start or Social Security, marked by low administrative costs and demonstrated track records. Yet the familiar rant does ... | <urn:uuid:7f62f090-6f4f-4636-83f7-fb5d0087d3af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.populist.com/03.17.buell.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955232 | 1,410 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The planet was found during a quest for brown dwarfs.
According to a news release from the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, astronomers have found a young planet that is not circling a star. This lonely planet, named PSO J318.5-22, is a mere 80 light-years away from our planet and has a mas... | <urn:uuid:b513384b-e3a1-479d-b199-e9279cc043b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://natmonitor.com/2013/10/10/astronomers-discover-planet-without-a-star-wandering-milky-way-galaxy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96216 | 729 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Science has taught us that everything in the universe is made out of energy. Even the words you’re reading right now are made of sub atomic particles—electrons and protons—which are continually in motion. Since everything in the universe is energy, then your organs, blood, bones and every cell in your body are too.
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One of the early conservation challenges in rebuilding the Kirtland's Warbler population was providing sufficient nesting habitat. These birds nest in jack pines that are five to fifteen feet tall – in other words, very young forests. Jack pines need fire for their seeds to germinate, so stands of young jack pines are ... | <urn:uuid:f1ac4443-905c-47d4-a727-de155da7b151> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dendroica.blogspot.com/2011/12/kirtlands-warblers-like-young-forests.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96144 | 444 | 3.984375 | 4 |
The United Nations dubbed 2013 as the International Year of Quinoa back in February, cementing the seed’s rise as a bona fide superfood after several years of growing popularity. Looking to strengthen food security, create jobs, and promote nutrition on a global level, choosing the ancient and perennial quinoa plant mu... | <urn:uuid:47f3d820-bdff-4cf8-b233-38cbe9a32e3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/tag/food-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917685 | 274 | 2.53125 | 3 |
According to the 2007-2008 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS), over 4.2 million Canadians (16%) aged 15 and older reported living with arthritis. An estimated 64% of those living with arthritis are women and nearly 3 out of 5 are younger than 65 years of age. Arthritis is one of the most common causes of physical ... | <urn:uuid:03e76534-bd93-4b48-8a73-92bf34b93ffa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/cd-mc/arthritis-arthrite/myths-mythes-eng.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952882 | 438 | 3.234375 | 3 |
ON THIS PAGE: You will learn about how doctors usually describe a cancer’s growth or spread, called the stage, and how this differs for Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia. To see other pages, use the menu on the side of your screen.
Staging is a way of describing where the cancer is located, if or where it has spread, and... | <urn:uuid:fd978088-c6a9-4639-8859-f903ce5e8a9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cancer.net/print/19328 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895504 | 344 | 3.4375 | 3 |
The Treaty of Waitangi (Waitangi
means weeping (or noisy) waters) was finally signed on 6th
February 1840, after a great gathering at Waitangi (Bay of
Islands), which commenced on the morning of 5th February.
Discussions and arguments for and against the Treaty continued
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A researcher says he knows exactly where the galleon San Agustín -- possibly laden with silver, gold and other treasures -- sank in Drakes Bay more than 400 years ago.
It was the ill-fated arrival in 1595 of Portuguese explorer Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño in the bay that piqued the interest of Brian Kelleher, a San Jos... | <urn:uuid:37cd4ec3-b073-463b-b2c6-d5094938ee37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20167593/researcher-says-he-knows-site-400-year-old | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975798 | 883 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Tumblety, Joan (ed.)
Memory and history: understanding memory as source and subject,
Abingdon, GB, Routledge, 208pp.
(Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources).
Full text not available from this repository.
How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and... | <urn:uuid:f9643649-d5bd-47ed-8f8e-ce2fc8332fc6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/344219/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881519 | 389 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Paris has always had a knack for making the ordinary and the mundane somehow look infinitely more charming, even the city’s public toilets were once a thing of beauty…
In the 1860s, French photographer Charles Marville was named the official photographer of Paris. Until his death in 1879, he documented the richness and... | <urn:uuid:ab0c8970-3203-4aa3-b5f5-61c83ee4b74c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/02/22/the-prettiest-pissoirs-of-bygone-paris/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983039 | 400 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Player Positions in American Football
Part of the Football For Dummies (USA Edition) Cheat Sheet
When two opposing American football teams meet on the gridiron (playing field), the player positions depend on whether the football team is playing offense or defense. Football pits the offense, the team with the ball, agai... | <urn:uuid:accb7c01-37df-4c7b-b9cd-38a1e7c16031> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/player-positions-in-american-football.navId-397883.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967916 | 626 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Many different rituals are followed in India as a means of auspicious signs such as lighting lamp in Diwali, planting Tulsi tree infront of house etc. One of them is making Rangoli, The folk art Indian Rangoli is made on the floor at the front door. Rangoli is made in courtyards to welcome Hindus deities and guests,on ... | <urn:uuid:911a3a44-7691-48d8-8b6b-13ef13c26527> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.walkthroughindia.com/lifestyle/9-types-of-indian-rangoli-design-and-patterns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968283 | 679 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Experimental architecture in northern Europe between 1900 and 1933 derived great impetus from German architects who worked consciously on establishing a “school” or modern architecture, devoid of the romantic historicism that dominated nineteenth-century architecture. Interestingly, this was the period of the flowering... | <urn:uuid:a344e866-3258-40c0-9130-18bcefa9fdb8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.curatorscorner.com/2009/05/expressionist-architecture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97352 | 370 | 3.625 | 4 |
DEAR DOCTOR K: I have poor vision that is making it more and more difficult for me to live independently. Are there tools that can help with my day-to-day activities?
DEAR READER: Like you, some of my patients have poor vision, which limits their ability to perform activities such as reading a newspaper, using a comput... | <urn:uuid:bac3a7ed-b689-49d8-8588-c9b90d405d56> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2014/jul/24/ask-dr-k-optical-and-computer-aids-help-those-poor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958272 | 672 | 3.015625 | 3 |
In August 1982, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly adopted a value of k=0.2725076 for the mean lunar radius. This value is now used by the Nautical Almanac Office for all solar eclipse predictions [Fiala and Lukac, 1983] and is currently the best mean radius, averaging mountain peaks and low va... | <urn:uuid:de54460a-53cf-4563-9516-90d422916af2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEpubs/19980226/text/mean-lunar-radius.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874545 | 655 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Rivaroxaban for Deep Vein Thrombosis
How It Works
Rivaroxaban is a type of blood thinner (anticoagulant). It prevents blood clots by blocking a blood clotting factor (Factor Xa) from working. Clotting factors are substances that make blood clot.
Why It Is Used
Rivaroxaban is used after knee and hip replacement surgery ... | <urn:uuid:ef19df6d-66fd-471f-a85e-e860acc26ed1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=162069&ref=162069 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933513 | 590 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Eric the Red
Eric the Red was a 10th century Viking. He was expelled from Norway on charges of murder and took his family away to Iceland, which had been settled by Vikings about a hundred years earlier. After his involvement in several killings there, he was banished and went to Greenland, where he started the first s... | <urn:uuid:92d499e3-e5f2-427d-8c2f-993659f27363> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.conservapedia.com/Eric_the_Red | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992471 | 251 | 2.921875 | 3 |
In these 24-page board books, young children will learn important skills such as naming, sorting, counting, matching, as well as basics such as colors, letters, and numbers, through fun, interactive games and activities in these photographically illustrated titles. In this book, children will learn colors by grouping c... | <urn:uuid:93a817a8-6d8d-49b3-a1a9-383aa5fe10ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/books/kids-books-and-atlases/culture/national-geographic-little-kids-look-and-learn%3A-colors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942033 | 341 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Old Testament Word Studies
Of the Hebrew terms translated in English with "redeem," ga’al is the one word that is most closely connected to Israelite customs. The frequent use of the verb and its main noun in the Book of Ruth illustrates this point. The study of ga’al will show that at the heart of this redemption are ... | <urn:uuid:9e23a1b4-0bee-4837-99f6-7b2dbc1b4007> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/gaal.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967258 | 4,704 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Learn the basics of communicating in American Sign Language or build a foundation for a career in a deafness-related field.
M State's 17-credit certificate in American Sign Language Studies provides basic training in ASL and an understanding of Deaf Culture. While the program does not prepare students to be interpreter... | <urn:uuid:8b7700c0-b39b-47c0-8cef-322661557974> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://minnesota.edu/programs_majors.php?program=american_sign_language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923859 | 220 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Learn English Phonics Reading Skills Quickly and Easily
"OUTSTANDING!!! I am a stay at home mom and have a Masters Degree in Elementary Education. My son, who just turned five, has been using the program for only four months and he has had an incredible amount of improvement in his reading ability!" Cayla Maraist, M.Ed... | <urn:uuid:2505aac7-618e-4678-a76e-497b9a273d66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.clicknkids.com/Public/Learn-English-Phonics.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925278 | 1,453 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Congregation Mikveh Israel Cemetery
There are 371 known grave sites, including some fascinating Revolutionary era people.
In 1738, a child of Nathan Levy, the Colonial era shipper passed away. No Jewish cemeteries existed in Philadelphia at that time. Levy approached Governor Thomas Penn, William Penn's son to buy land... | <urn:uuid:7ebf5d04-fde9-49ac-967f-d0043e643b96> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ushistory.org/tour/mikveh-israel-cemetery.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960758 | 596 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Operation Golden Pheasant
In 1988, when the borders of Honduras were threatened, XVIII Airborne Corps launched Operation Golden Pheasant to counter Nicaraguan incursions into Honduras. Elements of two divisions were dispatched on a no-notice deployment exercise and show of force to ensure the sovereignty of Honduran te... | <urn:uuid:24f6ded5-65ee-4b15-bfcd-10d9a0e84cd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/golden_pheasant.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92595 | 286 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Indonesian volcano erupts, spews hot ash and rocks
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (AP) -- A state scientist says Indonesia's most volatile volcano has started to erupt, spewing plumes of hot ash and rocks high into the air.
Subandriyo, chief vulcanologist in the area, said Mount Merapi started to erupt just before dusk Tuesda... | <urn:uuid:a50bf340-1c09-4313-bcba-bb4341971a12> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wctrib.com/content/indonesian-volcano-erupts-spews-hot-ash-and-rocks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958434 | 123 | 2.5625 | 3 |
In Chinese, halal is called Qingzhen Cai (清真菜). Hahal food is easy to find in most major cities in China given the large Muslim population in China. Small Muslim restaurants and food stalls are also widely available in cities or towns because of the number of Muslim migrants from western China. Muslim restaurants in Ch... | <urn:uuid:6ed5a363-4e13-48fe-b421-94ee54a3cfb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/muslim-china/halal-food.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963545 | 709 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Definition of Centric-fusion translocation
Centric-fusion translocation: A type of chromosome rearrangement, also called a Robertsonian translocation, in which there is fusion of an entire long arm of one acrocentric chromosome with a similarly intact long arm of another acrocentric chromosome. The short arms of the ch... | <urn:uuid:c4bad513-8a1c-452c-b6c8-2d625c58093d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=15918 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822734 | 209 | 3.53125 | 4 |
A new study finds that people with high emotional intelligence make smarter decisions because they aren’t swayed by their current emotional state.
The emotions can provide very useful information, but sometimes they are not related to the decisions we are trying to make.
Being able to tell one from the other is part of... | <urn:uuid:0bc6ee5b-881c-4e89-96b9-153947316e0c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/12/high-emotional-intelligence-dramatically-improves-decision-making.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97687 | 399 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Floating and spiky
With the aid of complex computer simulations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and at the University of Heidelberg have discovered how the shape and distribution of certain sticky areas on the cell affect its adhesion in blood vessels. According to this res... | <urn:uuid:e7c4a458-76f6-4670-82dc-e0b39cb6a66e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-11/m-fas110306.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943226 | 882 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Shape Up & Drop 10™
Step 5 — Count Calories Because Calories Count
Step 5 is going to explain everything you need to know about calories in the food you eat and how they wind up as fat — when you overeat. We will also explain what happens to your body when you diet. The topics presented in step 5 will be:
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane...No, It's a Photo
The Columbus Dispatch - November 23, 2009 09:51 AM
FILE PHOTO Amelia emerges from her plane after her long-distance flight, 1935.
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Makes Weather Clearer
By Tatiana Schreiber, Ph.D.
Why did Lake Champlain flood so badly last spring? How unusual was that summer drought? Why was the rainfall during Irene so intense? How are we to make sense of all this?
The weather certainly has been strange lately. As we emerge from the “year of no winter,” followin... | <urn:uuid:062d87f9-3f31-4238-94ee-6ae942310df1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/2012/0412/climatologist.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961364 | 3,240 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Goal: To have students create their own fair use system from scratch as a method of having them explore the ideas implicit in the issue of using "other people's stuff" (OPS) found on the web.
Overview. We want students and citizens in general to understand that there are always issues associated with using materials fo... | <urn:uuid:42a53cd0-ee29-4203-b556-9d4be0fedcc5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/digcitizenshipadventures/using-other-people-s-stuff | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965464 | 484 | 2.875 | 3 |
Mirror Life Reflects Testing Extremes
When superstitious people break a mirror, they think seven years of bad luck. But when the test lab team at Schefenacker Vision Systems USA Inc. (Marysville, MI) breaks one, it usually means the company has verified the mirror will have a product life of 10 years or more.
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In quantum mechanics, particles are found to not obey the
equations of motion that are obeyed by large objects.
Experiments such as
show that particles have
a wavelike nature. When they are fired through a thin slit, rather
than scattering like hard spheres they interfere like waves.
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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
By Putra Satria Wijaya
Photography Loreen Neville
Among those within the monument, there are two objects that captures the attention of most visitors to the museum – the Torture Veranda and the Old Well of Lubang Buaya, sited side by side in front of the monument itself.
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When a country exports goods, it sells them to a foreign market, that is, to consumers, businesses, or governments in another country. Those exports bring money into the country, which increases the exporting nation's GDP. When a country imports goods, it buys them from foreign producers. The money spent on imports lea... | <urn:uuid:f5b1166b-7746-4aef-8776-0122a150d494> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/cig/economics/imports-exports.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939925 | 508 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Education has long been considered the key to future success. In order to attend college, many people require financial assistance which often comes in the form of student loans. Student loans are an attractive funding option because they don’t have to be paid off until after graduation.
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|MadSci Network: Astronomy|
I was told that I can have my students (fifth graders) spread a sheet of plastic (supported by 4 short poles) in the backyard and leave it there for some weeks and thus collect meteor dust. I would then use a magnet to pick up the dust and it would be meteorites! Is that true????
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Engaging the Senses with BTSB Audio and Video Previews
When was the first time you were told that the more senses were engaged, the more a student would be able to remember the lesson? Interactive learning still remains challenging in times of strained budgets and overflowing classes. So how do you provide an extra sen... | <urn:uuid:ee058709-eb9d-4091-a0f6-a2f2e6fb44dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.btsb.com/libcorner/tmyk/audiovideotrailers.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946773 | 812 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Theft Shoplifting Stealing Burglary Car Theft
Learn About our Online Theft / Shoplifting Class
by Steve Houseworth, MAAnother component of "THEFT TALK's" "focus on thinking" centers around the information people have and use to make their decisions. What most youth answer when asked "Why is it wrong to steal" is that "... | <urn:uuid:61fa1040-bc74-4367-9b82-d71236c467a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thefttalk.com/punish.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971516 | 2,182 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Shevchenko, Taras [Ševčenko], b 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Zvenyhorodka county, Kyiv gubernia, d 10 March 1861 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ukraine’s national bard and famous artist. Born a serf, Shevchenko was orphaned when he was twelve and grew up in poverty and misery. He was taught to read by a village precentor an... | <urn:uuid:39973c28-393e-4ab5-ac7c-5917a1ac56c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/S/H/ShevchenkoTaras.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867297 | 19,128 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Symbols of Sigma Tau Gamma
The Coat of Arms
The coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and modified in 1954. The colors are blue, silver, red and yellow. The Coat of Arms may be depicted in one color, provided that the colors are symbolized by lines and dots according to heraldic practice. Blue of the approximate hue of the ... | <urn:uuid:77d7bcb5-0d20-4456-ad80-0a3f0d837f54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www6.semo.edu/sigtau/symbols.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951926 | 398 | 3.125 | 3 |
Anyone involved in the winter tourism industry knows what uncertainty feels like.
Snow is currency, and climate change could deliver a damaging blow to businesses that depend on wintry weather, according to a recent study.
“Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States,” by two University of New Ha... | <urn:uuid:65e0bc20-9a46-47a9-b1f5-236e4169d806> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/mar/01/climate-cost-shifting-snowfall-winter-tourism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937986 | 1,402 | 3.125 | 3 |
Hot off the press
This term is applied especially to newspapers. Newsprint used to be printed by a process called 'hot metal printing', which involved molten lead being introduced into a mould to form the printing block. Although the term only really makes literal sense for printed items which use that process, it is b... | <urn:uuid:eede552c-1e69-42fa-9a9b-f544867e80f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/187550.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961846 | 231 | 2.84375 | 3 |
I’ve created and filmed several videos to teach the basic knitting skills. Here you will find videos on how to cast on, knit, purl and cast off. I’ve also included instructions for increasing and decreasing your knitting and how to knit if you are left handed.
If you find these videos helpful, then you might like to ch... | <urn:uuid:33daebdc-9bd6-4dff-8ff3-31f283e74bd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theknittingsite.com/videos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90466 | 707 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Aquaculture in Hawaii
Aquaculture is the controlled cultivation and harvest of aquatic plants and animals. Farming the sea is a part of Hawaii’s rich oceanic heritage. Aquaculture industry worldwide has experienced explosive growth since the 1960’s and there are many technology breakthroughs that make modern aquacultur... | <urn:uuid:3978889a-c670-4ad4-9d7f-e149777fd8bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hdoa.hawaii.gov/ai/aquaculture-and-livestock-support-services-branch/aquaculture-in-hawaii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923758 | 1,703 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Click on the four-way arrow in the bottom right-hand corner of the slideshow to convert into full-screen mode.
According to popular mythology, the publisher Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, formulated his idea for a press dedicated exclusively to paperbacks while visiting a railway station. Having spent the weeken... | <urn:uuid:26f1dd31-389c-4597-a99f-94b575ea0bec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.hrc.utexas.edu/tag/d-h-lawrence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958563 | 1,733 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Educators across Boston are noting a shift in the emphasis of the curriculum they’re expected to teach as more schools introduce science, technology, engineering, and math – the so-called STEM subjects – to newly reading preschool students.
Preschools have long followed the practice of elementary education and dabbled ... | <urn:uuid:b36376ab-e0fe-4e71-8b06-82b9e61378e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.educationnews.org/technology/technology-added-to-preschool-curriculum-in-boston/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958955 | 550 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Determine which of the properties listed hold and which do not
hold for each of the following discrete-time systems. Justify your
answers. In each example, y[n] denotes the system output and x[n]
denotes the system input.
a)y[n] = x[-n]
b) y[n] = x[n-2] - 2x[n-8]
c) y[n] = nx[n]
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Italy began to industrialize late in comparison to other European nations, and until World War II was largely an agricultural country. However, after 1950 industry was developed rapidly so that by 2006 industry contributed about 30% of the annual gross domestic product and agriculture only 2%. The principal farm produc... | <urn:uuid:0c5ac5c9-559f-406d-ba5f-e16c8396b101> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/italy-economy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958566 | 545 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR), composed of grasslands and farmland and interspersed with shallow wetlands,
occurs over a major portion of the PCOR Partnership region. In the United States, the PPR includes portions of
Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and in Canada, the PPR includes portions ... | <urn:uuid:94e8813f-21e6-41aa-9f2f-aec2cdda5e19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eerc.und.nodak.edu/PCOR/region/terrestrial/wetlands.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900063 | 447 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Self-assembly is the fundamental principle which generates structural organization on all scales from molecules to galaxies. It is defined as reversible processes in which pre-existing parts or disordered components of a preexisting system form structures of patterns. Self-assembly can be classified as either static or... | <urn:uuid:9c92056d-74bb-400d-80c1-ceb0383dba44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wise-nano.org/w/Self-assembly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91252 | 923 | 3.828125 | 4 |
"A Contemporary History of the Theory of Social Discrimination: Considered in Relation to Social Movements"
last update: 20151225
A Contemporary History of the Theory of Social Discrimination: Considered in Relation to Social Movements
The main tendency in the contemporary theory of social discrimination is the lack of... | <urn:uuid:7f18498c-dde5-4f40-bffb-56c0c042e320> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.arsvi.com/2000/0803yte.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914391 | 286 | 2.625 | 3 |
This is the free student devotional for And It Was Good, Session 2: Our Work With Creation.
Take a walk and notice your surroundings. Thank God for His creation and ask Him to prepare your heart to meet with Him today.
Think about the most beautiful place you’ve ever been. Keep that place in mind as you read Genesis 2:... | <urn:uuid:ed245af3-0b95-426b-b037-7b54946e2ee8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.lifeway.com/biblestudiesforlife/and-it-was-good-session-2-free-student-devotion-watch-over-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943194 | 376 | 3.40625 | 3 |
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the 2nd annual convention of the Illinois Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of America (IWA). Why commemorate the 2nd annual convention? Because it marked a decisive moment in the formation of the union and the role of women within that movement.
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Technology and Assessment
Student Response Systems
Many instructors at UNCW are using Student Response Systems, i.e. clickers, to enhance student participation and engagement, including Rick Olsen and other faculty in Communications Studies, and Roger Lowery, Public and International Affairs, who presented a session on... | <urn:uuid:46e98d9e-0067-461c-b94c-d0ac8e52065e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uncw.edu/cas/clickers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938233 | 361 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Automakers are pushing hard toward the goal of putting self-driving vehicles on public roads. The technology building blocks to do that keep popping up on vehicles for sale.
Cars already can warn drivers of obstacles, impending collisions and lane departures. Some nudge cars back into lanes or even stop them. But a lac... | <urn:uuid:816a5f27-5924-4d29-b065-c229d192ea6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.autonews.com/article/20140317/OEM06/303179978/self-driving-cars-await-smarter-safer-roads?CSAuthResp=1:57353091408371:423310:4129:24:approved:B0C16EABBF1EBEBDA2C1D0EB2F7C99B7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945982 | 355 | 2.890625 | 3 |
SAN DIEGO — Rates of testicular cancer among young men have risen significantly over the last two decades across racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study, and researchers are wondering what accounts for it.
The study, scheduled for presentation Sunday at the 108th annual scientific meeting of the American Uro... | <urn:uuid:a90dae07-047e-48de-88b0-ca6c52feaec1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drugstorenews.com/print/541866?ad=health-wellness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955584 | 295 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Welcome from the Department Head
The basic purpose of the Department of Languages is to train students to understand and to communicate ideas through the medium of languages: English, French, Greek, Latin, and Spanish. The department also encourages active engagement in research and/or creative work, and its members he... | <urn:uuid:e845870d-e37e-462a-84df-2611403f8b66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.mcneese.edu/enfl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937346 | 313 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The genus Justicia, named after an 18th century Scottish gardener James Justice, consists of about
300 species of herbs, shrubs and tender perennial native to the tropics and subtropics of both
hemispheres and extending into temperate North America.
Some common names for these tender perennials from Brazil and South Am... | <urn:uuid:ca2676dc-a491-4465-ae68-4c6868027a9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gaygardener.com/gardenspot/perennial/peren028.phtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89282 | 889 | 2.875 | 3 |
The image shows a small portion of the Gulf Stream in the infrared. The Gulf Stream is like a warm river in the ocean, but, as the image above shows, it’s not uniformly warm. Instead, water temperatures in the Gulf Stream range from 64° to 70.25° Fahrenheit (18° to 21.25° Celsius). The image – which is from an infrared... | <urn:uuid:98fb962e-0eef-4f7f-b817-0b047d73f15f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthsky.org/todays-image/gulf-stream-in-infrared | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929747 | 332 | 3.484375 | 3 |
If your student exhibits the following traits, he should be able to be placed appropriately on one of the 11 levels of Flow-Word-Lists and succeed using the basic approaches described in the Spelling Power program:
- is able to write each separate letter of the alphabet from dictation and can write some words without h... | <urn:uuid:60166a0c-ed65-4841-93ab-1df208121559> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://spellingpower.com/info/SpellingPowerReadinessList.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960454 | 346 | 3.953125 | 4 |
I guess this is mainly an engineering problem - the basic physics of charging a roller is to just apply a voltage to it, and these charges will jump over to another (uncharged) object that comes in contact with it (the drum, in the laserprinter).
The engineering problem is to get a perfectly even charge, to make that c... | <urn:uuid:bd3a29fa-3c66-4a4f-b9c5-33ae3d8fabc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15338/how-does-a-primary-charge-roller-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947852 | 465 | 3.03125 | 3 |
[Nobel Laureate Thomas] Schelling observed that by skating without a helmet, a player increases his team's odds of winning, perhaps because he can see and hear a little better, or more effectively intimidate opponents. The down side is that he also increases his odds of injury. If he values the higher odds of winning m... | <urn:uuid:1b120ba0-7f49-4ee2-952b-1153cb6d6c5b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/10/the_hockey_game.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974443 | 497 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Naming conflicts only happen for replayed operations. The server uses the following methods to resolve naming conflicts:
Uses unique IDs to identify entries, including entries that have been renamed
Tries to replay each operation first and only takes action if a conflict occurs
Checks during the pre-operation phase for... | <urn:uuid:a4188ceb-553e-40e8-8a4d-a52064a5d586> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19476-01/821-0509/resolving-naming-conflicts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936031 | 214 | 2.671875 | 3 |
One of the main benefits of baby sign language is the gift of interaction in learning. If you are the parent of several little ones chances are your ability to have longer intentional learning sessions is limited by your responsibilities. If a busy schedule is making you feel discouraged in your baby sign language jour... | <urn:uuid:e1e385e2-7247-490a-829b-8eab950ca6e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.babysignlanguage.com/2014/07/four-ways-baby-sign-language-help-siblings-bond/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945982 | 537 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Publisher: Westminster John Knox
In this book John Barton examines the complex relationship between the canonical text of the Old and New Testaments. He pays particular attention to historical questions--How did the biblical canon develop? How did the church come to accept as authoritative a New Testament containing no... | <urn:uuid:dea2e18d-e22a-4b7f-98da-7563c0350683> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.svspress.com/holy-writings-sacred-text-the-canon-in-early-christianity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933936 | 273 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Research Team Focuses on Invertebrate Species Diversity in the Fox River
The Fox River Valley has long been a locus for manufacturing, in large part because of its proximity to water, but as a team of St. Norbert researchers has shown, the relationship between industry and the river that runs through it can also make f... | <urn:uuid:154bf488-541c-4c15-b881-3378000e6921> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.snc.edu/magazine/2013spring/foxresearch.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963383 | 583 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Resembling stacked pancakes, flapjack succulents, sometimes called paddle plant (Kalanchoe thyrsiflora), are one of the most interesting desert plants for your home or garden. Preferring dry climates in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11, these plants provide a splash of red along the edg... | <urn:uuid:76dc03d7-c36d-419d-aa4e-f321c8fcd746> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://homeguides.sfgate.com/care-flapjack-succulents-44898.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911854 | 517 | 2.859375 | 3 |
What's chitin? It is a polysaccharide made up of linked amino sugars N-acetyl-glucosamine.
Oh, that. Of course. I totally knew that.
Chitin is considered to be the second most abundant biomass on Earth! That's because it is found in crustacean and insect carapaces, snail shells, beaks of cephalopods, and even some fung... | <urn:uuid:edd3a56a-d638-42d0-b37d-7c2fe868eac2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://snowcrablove.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-got-fever.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885349 | 365 | 3.078125 | 3 |
This chapter provides a summary of federal legislation and funds for education to describe the scope and variety of federal education programs. Data in this chapter primarily reflect outlays and appropriations of federal agencies. These tabulations differ from federal receipts reported in other chapters because of nume... | <urn:uuid:1b8e8884-3933-4d7e-bc07-2e5efb02f46f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d08/ch_4.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924598 | 4,019 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Bhutan Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Since the early 1990s, over 100,000 refugees of ethnic Nepalese origin from southern Bhutan have been living in camps in eastern Nepal after they were arbitrarily stripped of their nationality and forced to flee Bhutan. These 100,000 people constitute about one-sixth of the pop... | <urn:uuid:36e34ba4-4442-44dd-a7c4-5484aa626a13> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/bhutan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955941 | 151 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Camels are known for their humps, which store fat and allow camels to survive long periods of time without food or water. But camels have also developed other traits like insulin resistance and salt tolerance to help them feel more at home in extreme environments. Scientists are now working to determine what these adap... | <urn:uuid:91a3b797-5c33-4fdf-9703-10fd3d5ee1d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/genetics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9592 | 1,915 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Contagious Cancer In Dogs Leaves Prehistoric Paw Prints
Our four-legged friends suffer from many of the same cancers that we do. But one type of dog tumor acts like no other: It's contagious.
The tumor spreads from one pooch to another when the dogs have sex or even just touch or lick each other.
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What is in this article?:
- Federal proposal targets fresh produce contamination
- Exemptions can be cancelled
• If adopted, it will establish mandatory practices that farmers must employ to prevent microbial contamination of fresh produce.
Growers should be aware of the Produce Safety Rule proposed Jan. 4 by the U.S. ... | <urn:uuid:b367d83d-1d2f-48c1-9a6d-00aeb4682504> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://southeastfarmpress.com/vegetables/federal-proposal-targets-fresh-produce-contamination?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9478 | 498 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Big Data is defined as the real time collection, analyses, and visualization of vast amounts of information. In the hands of Data Scientists this raw information is fueling a revolution which many people believe may have as big an impact on humanity going forward as the Internet has over the past two decades. Its enabl... | <urn:uuid:13864996-64c3-4244-87ee-476e117c8605> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rocoeducational.com/the_human_face_of_big_data | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932002 | 412 | 3.40625 | 3 |
When does replication reveal fraud?17 May 2013
Here’s a little thought experiment for your weekend pleasure. Consider the following:
Joe Scientist decides to conduct a study (call it Study A) to test the hypothesis that a parameter D > 0 vs. the null hypothesis that D = 0. He designs a study, collects some data, conduc... | <urn:uuid:12aa5736-b3f9-4729-b741-53ea9a34b20b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://simplystatistics.org/2013/05/17/when-does-replication-reveal-fraud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970081 | 398 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act in Juvenile Correctional Facilities
The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) can help eliminate unlawful conditions of confinement for detained and incarcerated youth.1 Through express authority granted to the Attorney General, CRIPA gives the Civil Rights ... | <urn:uuid:192cccec-13a5-4cb6-bab2-633639133d35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/walls/sect-01.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950246 | 4,097 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Tailing dams are normally built to contain refuse from mining, mineral processing and power generation. They have been an essential part of the minerals extraction process. History shows that serious environmental and safety issues are associated with tailing dams. There are options to the conventional tailing dams tha... | <urn:uuid:e48e89a6-7dd6-4a6e-972e-c5ec7a758348> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:8955?exact=subject%3A%22safety+issues%22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938058 | 170 | 2.75 | 3 |
Beaufort, John (1373?-1410) (DNB01)
BEAUFORT, JOHN, first Earl of Somerset and Marquis of Dorset and of Somerset (1373?–1410), born about 1373, was the eldest son of John of Gaunt [see John, 1340–1399], by his mistress, and afterwards his third wife, Catherine Swynford [q. v.] His younger brothers, Henry Beaufort, card... | <urn:uuid:88f16e21-e19b-4023-a1db-cd570510ddc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beaufort,_John_(1373%3F-1410)_(DNB01) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980972 | 1,777 | 2.75 | 3 |
Red Road is a movie which uses visuality to create the sensation of touch and most of the time leads the viewer to associate the visual material with sensations of the "haptic". In general the movie can be associated with feelings of security and vulnerability; the sensations of coming out of a narrow and safe space an... | <urn:uuid:5ea08be2-6b57-4aac-a408-5a6c2b942cfd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Red-Road-movie.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955555 | 2,525 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Windows 7 gives users the ability to share files and folders with friends and family at home or with co-workers at the office. Whether your computer is connected to a homegroup, workgroup or domain on a specific network, folders and files can be shared. Windows 7 also has a File Sharing Wizard to help simplify the proc... | <urn:uuid:6118085f-b32e-4fe1-8880-ee615c9135e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wikihow.com/Add-a-Shared-Folder-in-Windows-7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899156 | 1,215 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Solar Storm Goes Easy On Earth — But More Are Sure To Come, NASA Says
The huge solar storm that NASA detected hurtling toward Earth hit our planet at 5:42 a.m. EST Thursday. So far, there have been no reports of major power or communications disruptions. The storm's magnetic fields are oriented in a way that's "been op... | <urn:uuid:63c9b5fd-2664-4988-8ad7-2453162bd720> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wknofm.org/post/solar-storm-goes-easy-earth-%E2%80%94-more-are-sure-come-nasa-says | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950781 | 1,044 | 2.65625 | 3 |
ence for the Sun-god.
He tried by all means in his power to win the love of Hyacinthus, but the youth took no heed, and in spite of the West-wind's gentle words and tender, soft caresses, he continued to love Apollo best.
Then Zephyr became angry and jealous. Day by day he watched the two friends, and waited his opport... | <urn:uuid:b89e4d5f-c620-411a-8a13-2661e4feaa7d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://manybooks.net/titles/hartwellj2795227952.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985186 | 238 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Battle Of Thames River was a big event that took place in 1813, marking its 200th anniversary when British soldiers abandoned Amherstburg, burning the fort to the ground before retreating towards Burlington Heights at the head of Lake Ontario in Canada.
A resounding defeat at the hands of the Americans in the fight... | <urn:uuid:4c0017ce-7767-4d6c-9989-975406aa16bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newsoxy.com/world/battle-of-thames-river-1813-142414.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960158 | 501 | 3.390625 | 3 |
World Wide Study Bible
a Bible passage
The First Passover Instituted
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. 3Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a l... | <urn:uuid:cb95dce9-1046-484e-836e-b8ec48d257da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ccel.org/study/Exodus_12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971699 | 4,770 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Medical Definition of paralexia
: a disturbance in reading ability marked by the transposition of words or syllables and usually associated with brain injury
Seen and Heard
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The signs are familiar: mounds of fresh crumbly soil, raised shallow ridges of earth, or a lumpy area in the garden that collapses when you flatten it down; moles are busy.
Some people have especially sharp reactions to moles – or mole-signs more precisely. Those of a tidy nature tend to think that mole hills and tunne... | <urn:uuid:eed9f6ed-746f-48bc-bb0b-61ef5457e2de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wallyhood.org/2012/04/moles-love-hate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939875 | 696 | 2.671875 | 3 |
THE genealogists of each island are said to favor a particular account of the beginnings of mankind and the ancestry of the Hawaiian people. The Kumuhonua tradition, according to which Ho‘okumu-ka-honua (Founding of the race), as his name implies, is the original ancestor, is recited on Molokai. Hawaii and Maui genealo... | <urn:uuid:0abd35f9-4ce8-4bca-a493-44a470b367ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sacred-texts.com/pac/hm/hm23.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953588 | 3,301 | 2.75 | 3 |
Western North Carolina Anemometer Loan Program
Western North Carolina Anemometor Loan Program (WNCALP) is part of the Small Wind Iniative's effort to increase the use of small scale wind power in the Southern Appalachian Region. WNCALP will loan and install wind measurement equipment for one year to owners of property ... | <urn:uuid:e1520d5a-825e-4750-9abf-a4060327d77d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wind.appstate.edu/programs/nc-anemometer-loan-program/nc-anemometer-loan-description | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892018 | 540 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A Holocaust education center will open in the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the Romanian town of Sighet.
The “Holocaust Cellar” is scheduled to open on May 18, as part of the Holocaust museum located in Wiesel’s pre-World War II home, which sits in the old Jewish Ghe... | <urn:uuid:54f48814-970a-423b-9425-f2f67b0a9f4f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.timesofisrael.com/elie-wiesels-childhood-home-to-become-education-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968056 | 371 | 2.828125 | 3 |
|What are the laws of cricket?|
|Around the Academy:
The aim of cricket is simple - score more than the opposition.
Two teams, both with 11 players, take it in turns to bat and bowl.
When one team is batting, they try and score as many runs as they can by hitting the ball around an oval field.
The other team must get t... | <urn:uuid:4bdc4cce-bd8e-4f97-8428-ac7a33035007> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/cricket/rules/the_basics/newsid_3794000/3794981.stm | 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 | 0.969244 | 277 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Folks with a modicum of common sense have good reason to worry about oil spills and toxic waste sites. The former can pollute vast regions of sensitive wildlife and human habitat, while the latter pose more focused threats.
In theory, both the National Environmental Protection Act [NEPA] and the California Environmenta... | <urn:uuid:3f5e6665-dd1b-41bd-a2f9-6123c6e9856b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2010-06-22/article/35639?headline=The-Fraud-of-Environmental-Protection---By-Richard-Brenneman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958285 | 2,256 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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