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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-2, 'Son of Hanji' and 'The Feast')
Setting. The Master Puppeteer is set in Feudal Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate. This was a time when the Tokugawa family was in power as shoguns.
The objective of this lesson is to look at setting.
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“Pale Blue Dot” is a famous photograph taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of roughly 6 billion kilometers (or 3.7 billion miles) out in space. Voyager had completed its primary mission and was exiting our solar system, but, at the request of the writer and astronomer Carl Sagan (who died in 1996... | <urn:uuid:a4239830-fe3a-4096-88e6-6025a573ba92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865605789/Diverging-lessons-from-a-Pale-Blue-Dot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969343 | 1,223 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Installing JDK on Windows
There are detailed instructions available at: http://www.cs.armstrong.edu/liang/intro4e.html
Click on Configuring JDK, compiling, and running programs from DOS prompt. This will download a pdf file containing instructions and examples. In addition, here are some further instructions that peopl... | <urn:uuid:fca6dfdf-5812-4f05-9edf-0c7c1c9d7611> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lehman.edu/academics/mathematics-computer-science/java-installing-jdk-windows.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.824409 | 344 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The twin GRAIL probes, Ebb and Flow, are hot off the completion of their mission to map the Moon's interior. But to protect historic sites on the lunar surface, NASA is planning to make them a part of the Moon's exterior, smashing them into a mountain near the lunar north pole. The event will be broadcast live on NASA ... | <urn:uuid:8645311b-b7ce-4849-af2f-e50e35d048d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/nasa-tv-to-provide-live-coverage-of-grail-impact-on-moon/?comments=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959416 | 295 | 3.234375 | 3 |
The direct approach is the questioning of a source without having to use any type of approach. The direct approach is often called no approach at all, but it is the most effective of all the approaches. Statistics tell us that in World War II, it was 85 percent to 95 percent effective. In Vietnam, it was 90 percent to ... | <urn:uuid:922612e8-515c-42e7-bd6c-f93e63fb2353> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/policy/army/fm/fm34-52/app-h.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962305 | 5,541 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Vulture Mine Tour
Text and Photos by Carrie M. Miner
The legendary Vulture Mine offers visitors a glimpse of a vanished world, the chance to meet some ghosts, and an object lesson in the grim cost of striking it rich. Although the Vulture was the largest producing gold mine in Arizona, it never paid off for its investo... | <urn:uuid:96e98924-bdf2-4c65-ab52-b5f0955320e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.desertusa.com/mag00/dec/stories/vulture.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944019 | 1,621 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The Analysis of Mind/Lecture II
In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that th... | <urn:uuid:8c759bb4-126a-4d46-817c-6a4b7dd019b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_Mind/Lecture_II | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964564 | 5,869 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Southern Pacific Transportation Company
List of Deals
Southern Pacific Transportation Company originated with the efforts of Theodore D. Judah to build an earlier railroad, the Central Pacific. Together with Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and other investors, he created the Centra... | <urn:uuid:76cbcc47-4d4a-4f9f-ab1f-1f5bdfec9e73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/lehman/company.html?company=southern_pacific_transportation_company | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976327 | 1,556 | 2.953125 | 3 |
In IBM's Systems Network Architecture ( SNA ), a logical unit (LU) identifies an end user in an SNA network . By end user, IBM means either a human being that is interacting with the network or an application program that is indirectly representing such an end user. Two logical units that communicate depend on physical... | <urn:uuid:546060df-af94-48e3-a320-bdac5749d9f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/logical-unit-LU | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90982 | 189 | 3.203125 | 3 |
When examining the origins of a word one must be careful to distinguish between the word and the thing itself. The origin of the word is often quite different from the origin of the thing that it represents. Such is the case with baseball. In this case the word is much older than the game we today know by that name.
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Combing through the hairy genetic data of more than 6,000 people, researchers have teased out ten genes behind various furry features on human heads—unibrows, lush beards, and graying strands alike.
The study, published in Nature Communications, offers the first look at hair heredity beyond balding, color, and curlines... | <urn:uuid:f70754eb-0d16-4a47-810a-46c52e96830d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/scientists-pluck-genes-at-the-root-of-gray-hairs-unibrows-bushy-beards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94968 | 388 | 3.265625 | 3 |
What is "Blazer Cloth" - Definition & Explanation
It is a woolen cloth which is milled, raised and finished with a fibrous surface. It finds use as sports jackets and caps.
A cloth which has wool in its weft and wrap and used in apparels either in single or stripes coloring
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|Myth:||The United States spends way too much on foreign aid.|
|Realty:||The United States spends only a minuscule amount on foreign aid.|
|Foreign Aid is a category of development aid whose main objective is the economic development and welfare of developing countries. It is formally known as Official Development Assi... | <urn:uuid:61f15637-237d-4d01-a6a9-da1e0a1e1544> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://truthmonk.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/does-the-united-states-spend-too-much-on-foreign-aid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89046 | 2,339 | 2.90625 | 3 |
- 1 (on page)Example sentences
- ‘Fiscal rot’ was his marginal note on a chart showing the growth of the public debt in the 1990s.
- A marginal inscription notes that Captain Cook first sighted the south-eastern corner, where settlement began.
- For one thing, all my marginal notes are missing.
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A review by John Murray, first published in IIE Transactions, May 1993
In 1959, physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman described a vision of using machines to construct smaller machines which would in turn make even smaller machines, and so on down to the molecular level. He saw nothing conceptually wrong with th... | <urn:uuid:2e0e90df-b94c-4ad1-a168-03247ee49f1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/unbounding.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94847 | 1,504 | 3.109375 | 3 |
The Augsburg Confession Article 21 Of the Worship of the Saints
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What is the Augsburg Confession?
In January 1530, Emperor Charles V issued a summons for a special meeti... | <urn:uuid:aea2bafb-7af2-4f86-8d2d-76b5d7e3aefd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=152353 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957986 | 1,205 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Remember how your cat was waging a long-con, biological war on you? And then — with suspicious abruptness — it wasn’t waging war on you anymore and you were like, “But I could have sworn...” uneasily returning to your household chores with a creeping feeling that your cat hadn’t abandoned its murderous plans? Well, it ... | <urn:uuid:c15501ad-5a96-483c-9cbf-eb91a8119709> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jezebel.com/your-cat-is-trying-to-kill-you-again-part-ii-the-quic-626146743 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953693 | 465 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Role of Elizabethan Women - Education - The Nobility
The Elizabethan era brought the Renaissance, new thinking to England. Elizabethan women from wealthy and noble families were sometimes allowed the privilege of an. Education. The girls of Noble birth were invariably taught by tutors at home and Elizabethan women ... | <urn:uuid:cbe514c7-caa8-4b9e-b0a5-24681ca7810d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-women.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990001 | 467 | 3.8125 | 4 |
October 10th, 2012
SAFE ROUTES AWARDUncategorized, by Catherine Higgins.
UDOT participates in the Safe Routes to School, an award-winning program that helps communities identify and implement safety improvements.
The Harvard Bright Ideas in Government Award, which honors innovative government partnerships, has been giv... | <urn:uuid:f8031cdd-07a4-4767-870a-a1e47765612d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.udot.utah.gov/2012/10/school-safety-walking-biking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953623 | 667 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Value chain analysis helps a company review its supply chain and logistics to maintain a competitive advantage. A generic value chain can include a number of different steps, such as inbound logistics, operations and outbound logistics, as well as marketing and sales ... | <urn:uuid:c8c6db11-7dbf-4b18-b296-56d4b22c85c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-value-chain-analysis.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949783 | 483 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Thanks to new research by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, we are closer to understanding how these complicated network connections are wired up during embryonic development. Salk researchers have discovered that the same chemicals (called neurotransmitters) that are responsible for nerve signal... | <urn:uuid:0a7eae37-a43b-43de-be78-66a34c8cf565> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/si-dns060205.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949768 | 803 | 3.59375 | 4 |
veal, flesh of a calf from two to three months old weighing usually less than 300 lb (135 kg). The locomotion of the veal calves is often restricted, and they are fed a real or synthetic milk that is high in protein and low in iron; this produces the desired tenderness and white color of good veal. It contains gelatin ... | <urn:uuid:1e1c8263-8fa4-4f2b-9b94-7a54b4e01541> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/society/veal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956531 | 181 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Being that February 12, 2009 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and also this year being the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, which by the way was sub-titled The Preservation of the Favored Races In the Struggle For Life, I would like to highlight some of the problem... | <urn:uuid:59971dcc-38b2-4b4d-bf5c-b4f8092474bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.equip.org/audio/darwinism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966767 | 1,241 | 2.765625 | 3 |
A small, toothy fish, which researchers say resembles the terrifying creature from the movie "Alien," is turning out to be a big mystery for the scientists who study it.
Kryptoglanis shajii is a tiny, subterranean catfish with a number of defining skeletal features, including a bulging lower jaw similar to a bulldog's.... | <urn:uuid:1f739ad3-a066-4919-8abf-47bacd29c958> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/toothy-alien-catfish-baffles-scientists | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951214 | 935 | 3.25 | 3 |
Viruses are small infectious agents that replicate only within the cells of living plants and animals. Viruses are approximately ten times smaller than bacteria and consist of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein. Viruses cause many different diseases such as the common cold, chickenpox, polio,... | <urn:uuid:b9910c74-f3b2-452d-931a-7b67c8c512fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scientificpsychic.com/health/virus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945342 | 1,580 | 4 | 4 |
Threshold values of photoperiodic time-measurements correspond approximately to moonlight intensities. Experiments with Glycine and Euglena reveal that this is also the threshold value for synchronization of the circadian cycle. Saturation of this reaction is reached with 10 lx in 12:12 hr light-dark cycles. Thus, moon... | <urn:uuid:9a1cdf15-034a-426b-a8ca-5327e71b93f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,34082.0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915134 | 2,561 | 3.40625 | 3 |
It has taken humanity less than nine months to exhaust its ecological budget for the year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations.
Tomorrow, August 21, we will reach Earth Overshoot Day: the day of the year in which human demand on the biosphere exceeds what it can regenerate. As of that day, humanity will ... | <urn:uuid:1e05e161-41b0-4649-b272-964c79141a20> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/blog/sum/2010/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924409 | 211 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A CT scan of a predynastic natural mummy excavated in 1896 from a shallow sand grave in the desert near Gebelein, Egypt has solved a cold case 5,500 years old: Gebelein Man was murdered, stabbed in the back, to be precise. After 112 continuous years on display in the Early Egypt Gallery of t... | <urn:uuid:21964202-c806-4e6f-bda8-9833cdf4bcfe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2012/11/23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971609 | 674 | 2.875 | 3 |
Christmas celebrations, as they appeared in the Latin calendar, were strictly connected with the turning
of the solar year at the winter solstice, which is when the day wanes to its shortest ebb and the night
waxes longest. This symbolic fight between day and night, light and darkness, and life and death was
deeply ins... | <urn:uuid:1322dfec-8f76-42a2-96b8-ceadcfffb0ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rochester.edu/College/PSC/CPCES/events/fall11/fall11_6.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965041 | 225 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Within recent years, knowledge of the alluvial stratigraphy and associated chronology for the east-central Plains states of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma has expanded significantly. Forty-seven ... | <urn:uuid:f8f33b6b-389c-41d2-9e0d-ff227e4c127e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/GB5/Johnson/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848962 | 19,027 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Tap water enema
An injection of plain water into the rectum in order to stimulate a bowel movement. Uusally given to relieve constipation or to clear the colon before a medical procedure. For an adult, typically 1 to 2 quarts of water are used, usually placed in an enema bag or bucket, although a bulb syringe may be al... | <urn:uuid:a6631fef-a44b-434f-be25-35da2d0fdbaa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Tap_water_enema | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93061 | 302 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Tests • Some parents worry about control, data issues.
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Though many education leaders and teachers are enthusiastic about Utah... | <urn:uuid:d6f48d11-d062-4e1c-9b23-4e669e668e39> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=56216979&itype=cmsid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969673 | 546 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The month of March has been designated Adopt-a-Rescued-Guinea Pig month to encourage people thinking of adopting a guinea pig to look to shelters and rescue groups first. Whitney Potsus, vice president of the Critter Connection guinea pig rescue, says that each year Adopt-a-Rescued-Guinea Pig Month educates a few more ... | <urn:uuid:cdfcccfe-fc9a-4b18-8f87-04ab31da5003> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.independent.com/news/2012/mar/02/adopt-guinea-pig/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955127 | 1,503 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States, with more than one third of U.S. adults now diagnosed as obese. Being obese or overweight comes with a large number of inherent physiological and emotional issues, so it’s no wonder people have several reasons for wanting to los... | <urn:uuid:e0568474-5f04-42d5-bfb4-0d160e63eb1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/top-reasons-people-want-lose-weight-6151.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949301 | 628 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The recently passed Precautionary Principle ordinance purports to make San Francisco a leader by "challenging traditional assumptions about risk management." In truth, it will likely be bad for the city, public health and the environment.
The precautionary principle is routinely described as "better safe than sorry." R... | <urn:uuid:2446f3ac-5fea-4696-b1af-a1f978d8cf83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.reason.org/news/printer/precautionary-principle-a-risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950665 | 771 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A vehicle is powered by a linear induction motor with a pole pitch of 2m. The primary circuit resistance R1 is .5 ohms and the secondary resistance referred to the primary circuit is 1 ohm. The equivalent inductance of the primary and the secondary circuits is .02H. The frequency of the primary windings is 10Hz. Assume... | <urn:uuid:34c5b750-e5fd-4cbb-bee5-ff26cc3693e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/vehicle-powered-linear-induction-motor-pole-pitch-2m-primary-circuit-resistance-r1-5-ohms--q4126647 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926326 | 106 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Mad Cattlemen Sue Oprah
Glossary terms from:
Decision made or course of action taken when faced with a set of alternatives.
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image credit: John Vickery and Jim Matthes/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF; image source; larger image
This is NGC 3198, a spiral galaxy. Astronomers originally assumed that most of the mass in this kind of galaxy was concentrated in the bright central region and, therefore, that the stars in the spiral arms moved in circular... | <urn:uuid:9479ea9e-82dd-4053-8366-5c4254cb2dde> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.compadre.org/informal/index.cfm?Issue=56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937642 | 243 | 4.4375 | 4 |
- An example of situated is where your house can be found; situated on a hill.
- An example of situated is the wealth of the Rockefeller family; well situated.
The definition of situated is where a person or thing is located, or their financial circumstances.
- placed as to site or position; located
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Skip to comments.Astronomy Picture of the Day -- ISS and the Summer Milky Way
Posted on 01/24/2013 3:42:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Clouds on a summer night frame this sea and skyscape, recorded earlier this month near Buenos Aires, Argentina. But planet Earth's clouds are not the only clouds on the scene. Star... | <urn:uuid:ea962d40-78de-421a-8541-a8c05751ad09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2981327/posts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.844161 | 330 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Although the influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine produced by Novartis, Fluvirin, was previously approved for use in the US, the clinical data supporting its safety and immunogenicity had not been released. The company has now issued a media release containing interim clinical data on the effects of the vaccine in humans.
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Debunking The Myths On Minimum Wage Laws
February 02, 2012
Source: DC Insider
The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour, but some states and cities have minimum wages that are significantly higher. Furthermore, eight states raised their minimum wage, effective January 1, 2012, says Pamela Villarreal, a senior... | <urn:uuid:b9a01d4d-a23e-47af-a4e4-1166d2093b6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncpa.org/media/debunking-the-myths-on-minimum-wage-laws | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938951 | 475 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Modern historians believe that Aboriginals arrived from Asia 30 000 years ago by way of a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Some of them settled in Canada, while others chose to continue to the south. When the European explorers arrived, Canada was populated by a diverse range of Aboriginal peoples who, depending... | <urn:uuid:073513fa-43c5-4a49-a785-23c63b298968> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/history&people/history_narrative.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965676 | 1,703 | 4.15625 | 4 |
A very innovative research experiment examined the possibility of boobs charging iPods. The questions is, could the energy created by bouncing boobs during exercise generate enough electricity to power small gadgets?
TreeHugger and Instructables made a "chest charger" that transforms support bras into energy-generating... | <urn:uuid:0c0f6f6e-7c9c-4680-9f4a-f1ca15e4fc96> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/chest-charger-boobs-ipod | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922562 | 253 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Tiffany's interest in glass began with experiments with molten glass in 1872, as he became more interested in creating artful glass to beautify the interiors that he was designing. The manufacture of glass at that time remained unchanged from the Middle Ages, and Tiffany found the product lacking in the qualities he ne... | <urn:uuid:2891498c-f1d1-4207-b3ce-f8da3aa38fef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oldnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/05/louis-comfort-tiffany-scientist-or.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985929 | 399 | 3.125 | 3 |
(Under the direction of Michael Enright) Department of History, March 2002.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the military and military-related economic capabilities of Anglo-Saxons during the migration era (5-6th centuries). This period was a time of crisis for the Roman Empire as "barbarian" peoples crossed in... | <urn:uuid:fb43c57d-3cb6-4d3a-b777-304b7df1ff16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/maritime/Nichols-Kevin.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967138 | 538 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The Codex Gigas, have you heard of it?
A manuscript like no other, and otherwise known as the Devils Bible because it contains a large and incredibly bizarre illustration of the fallen
It is the largest medieval manuscript still in existence, made from over 160 animal skins and at almost a meter long, it takes two peop... | <urn:uuid:fbc58db9-1f10-4153-b666-459e2990763d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread428910/pg1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959796 | 883 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Triggers in Sql Server
In this artcle I describe triggers
We can define a Trigger as "A Trigger is a Database object just like a stored procedure or we can say it is a special kind of Stored Procedure which fires when an event occurs in a database.".
Difference between Stored Procedure and trigger:
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The Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District is providing an updated way for residents to access information.
It's a system called a GIS?viewer which stands for a geographic information system. The computer system isn't new by any means and is used in nearly every county office in the state.
However, the S... | <urn:uuid:732f7683-38dc-4f8b-8312-f735288fa465> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.faribaultcountyregister.com/page/content.detail/id/508541/GIS-mapping-benefits-county.html?nav=5002 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953646 | 865 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The Hormone Decision
The Grandmother Hypothesis
While there are many theories of why women go through menopause, Tara says she does not believe it's because humans are simply living longer than nature intended. Instead, she cites The Grandmother Hypothesis as the most reasonable explanation, the idea being that the bes... | <urn:uuid:e312c68d-4328-4ccc-85e9-8699c4627f31> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oprah.com/health/The-Hormone-Decision | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967012 | 425 | 2.53125 | 3 |
School-based early childhood education and age-28 well-being
Tags: July 27, 2011| Last updated:
Last updated: July 27, 2011
Policy decisions concerning education programming and early interventions are increasingly driven by documented results from long-term academic studies. The Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS) has no... | <urn:uuid:b32e4ffd-0342-4c49-890d-b1a065842914> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/education/school-based-early-childhood-education-age-28-well-being | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947353 | 826 | 2.75 | 3 |
In the context of the ongoing climate and health care debates, one of the season's big environment stories has been tainted tap water, which was the subject of the New York Times series, "Toxic Waters", a recent Senate committee hearing, as well as the focus of dozens of newspaper and broadcast stories on local water q... | <urn:uuid:40d6b6f7-c815-46c7-813b-c56dbd71fe78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-shannon/whats-in-emyourem-water_b_399935.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961715 | 1,020 | 2.859375 | 3 |
We continue our countdown to Christmas for day 18 of Advent. I’m sharing a Christmas science idea with you at the beginning of each day until Christmas. Day 18’s activity is Dancing Candy Canes
Dancing Candy Canes
We love baking soda and vinegar around here. It’s always a kid favorite. Dancing Raisins is a classic scie... | <urn:uuid:cd5f9dd4-75ae-4c6a-8789-bc12da94512c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://inspirationlaboratories.com/dancing-candy-canes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88223 | 567 | 2.625 | 3 |
Career Skills and Research
RESEARCHING YOUR CAREER IDEAS:
How do you find out what’s out there? Researching careers is a time-consuming, but necessary process. Waiting until graduation to start thinking about your career plans is as absurd as studying after you’ve taken your final exams.
SKILLS/ABILITIES (that are esse... | <urn:uuid:f7914fc7-2e2a-4905-a8ab-5ce9cb1727b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.elmira.edu/academics/programs/Majors_Minors/Art/Grad_School/Career_Skills.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916832 | 575 | 2.734375 | 3 |
FLAGSTAFF – A group of conservationists says pollution from a coal-fired power plant is clouding views of the Grand Canyon, and they want the federal government to do something about it.
A petition filed by the conservationists Tuesday asks the National Park Service to declare that particulate matter and nitrogen oxide... | <urn:uuid:b71bb620-ac1a-49d2-a4b9-b08f71010916> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2009/05/06/115861-group-seeks-cut-in-coal-pollution-in-grand-canyon-area/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953545 | 239 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Coming in June: A Document a Day
Throughout June, we'll be observing Torture Awareness Month by posting a Document a Day here on The Torture Report Diary.
In 1997, the United Nations commemorated the 10 th anniversary of the enactment of the Conve... | <urn:uuid:dcfcfe02-f364-4b77-a5c8-18463974f2ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thetorturereport.org/diary/coming-june-document-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931017 | 751 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Crossroads' Work in Niger
Niger is rated as the world’s poorest country. The majority of the population, approximately 80 per cent, relies on farming for livelihood. The situation for women is even more difficult. Typically, women have little access to productive resources and bear enormous family responsibilities. Cro... | <urn:uuid:c2cab38f-906b-4544-9867-96d0374c947d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cintl.org/page.aspx?pid=297 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948584 | 1,314 | 3.125 | 3 |
Giotto Art Gallery
iOS Universal Lifestyle
Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
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Aerospace 2014, 1(1), 31-51; doi:10.3390/aerospace1010031
Abstract: Four sample space launch missions were designed using rotating momentum transfer tethers (bolos) within low Earth orbit and a previously unknown phenomenon of “aerospinning” was identified and simulated. The momentum transfer tethers... | <urn:uuid:45f60372-4aae-4470-b8db-49ec46a3bb1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/1/1/31/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869973 | 13,984 | 2.921875 | 3 |
At the height of the Hussite crisis in the early 1400's, when the authorities ordered 200 manuscripts of heretical writings burned, people on both sides realized quite well the significance of that act. Two hundred handwritten manuscripts would be hard to replace. Not only would it be a time consuming job, but also tra... | <urn:uuid:4673347c-115e-4391-a660-6ed51bb6e83c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/11/FC74 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982459 | 1,880 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Way back in 1974, the year Nixon resigned, the federal minimum wage was $2 an hour.
How much would that wage rate be today in order to adjust for the rising cost of living we've seen in the past 39 years?
Answer: $9.31 an hour, or more than the $9 federal minimum hourly wage President Barack Obama called on Congress to... | <urn:uuid:10bd836b-c15f-4b0b-9295-fdbb2dac2f34> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibtimes.com/state-union-2013-obama-calls-9-minimum-wage-or-less-what-it-was-1974-photo-1083622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97297 | 861 | 3 | 3 |
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Ender begins the story as a naive, trusting six year old, but not as the typical six year old of today. He is extremely gifted in battle and strategies beyond his years. As the events unfold, Ender becomes a lonely outcast and understands that he is being manipulated by the adults and the military.... | <urn:uuid:48edf42c-5d5f-4416-bb3c-b2579c53bd59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-does-ender-change-throughout-book-enders-game-168951 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988079 | 206 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Children love learning new things, and they especially love to figure out how the world works. This is often done through observation and trial-and-error. For example, what happens if I mix two colors of paint? Why does the grass feel wet in the morning? You can make familiar, everyday experiences fresh by looking at t... | <urn:uuid:117147dc-d6a9-4312-89ee-a2cd4297441d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/science-nature-activities/lets-experiment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952921 | 623 | 3.9375 | 4 |
All about HIV Types, Subtypes, Groups and Strains
I often get questions from people worried about having some ‘strange strain’ of HIV that cannot be picked up by tests.
Let’s take a step back and try to understand all this rather confusing terms of Types, Subtypes, Groups and Strains of HIV and see if it can shed any l... | <urn:uuid:c4264cba-80a7-456d-abfc-d9f93c8cebfc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drtanandpartners.com/all-about-hiv-types-subtypes-groups-and-strains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932831 | 906 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Environmental Factor, October 2011, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
SRP researchers quantify PCB pollution in East Chicago harbor
By Rebecca Wilson
EPA employees assisted Hornbuckle and Martinez with sample collection. Here, they separate a sediment core into pieces. (Photo courtesy of Andres Martin... | <urn:uuid:f1908904-c709-4886-9815-36254777e0ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2011/october/science-chicago/index.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925328 | 873 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The Mysterious Island
"Well, captain, where are we going to begin?" asked Pencroft next morning of the
"At the beginning," replied Cyrus Harding.
And in fact, the settlers were compelled to begin "at the very beginning." They did
not possess even the tools necessary for making tools, and they were not even
in the condi... | <urn:uuid:e3878e09-f642-4e70-8017-3eaf72b8735e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/The-Mysterious-Island/html/93 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98587 | 498 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The original problem was to show that factorization of polynomials with integer coefficients (into irreducibles) exists and is unique. This is what we are doing. (Please see my earlier post stating the overall strategy.)
For the second part, you should try to prove that if is irreducible and divides , then either or . ... | <urn:uuid:f57416ff-57a1-4442-9823-c48da76a4bb1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathhelpforum.com/number-theory/155690-unique-factorization-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971315 | 293 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The Hubble Telescope, one of the largest and most complex satellites ever built, was the result of over 20 years of science research and engineering.
Deployed April 25, 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery, Hubble barely skims the Earth's atmosphere, orbiting just 380 miles above our planet. It is the size of a school... | <urn:uuid:2c717771-e4cb-4b0f-84c8-69cb41f11aab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://engineergirl.org/what_engineers_do/FunFacts/Hubble.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924219 | 191 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Monday, April 25, 2011
In Art class, 5th graders reviewed the primary colors; red, yellow and blue and the secondary colors; orange, green and purple. Students “took at walk” with their paint brushes as they created an abstract painting using the primary colors to create the secondary colors.
Next, students used their ... | <urn:uuid:17b1a856-c4fa-4a01-910e-c3e94fc38937> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://artolazzi.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951257 | 181 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Gijon History, Spain
Located in the autonomous society of Asturias, Spain, Gijon is a city of coastal industry. The city’s main port, El Musel, is one of the biggest in northern Spain. Before it achieved its prosperity, Gijon History underwent some twists and turns. Learn about these facts through this guide.
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It’s not what you think. It’s not “when do you introduce objects?” Nor is it “which language?” or even “which approach?”
Nope. As a teacher for all these years I’ve found the hardest thing about teaching programming is coming up with the right problems. Lets face it – the bulk of problems and examples in almost all pro... | <urn:uuid:182809ae-1f26-4e5d-8878-26b1e18a33bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://learnpython.wordpress.com/2007/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956933 | 465 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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|Title:||Improved Contact X-Ray Microradiographic Method to Measure Mineral Density of Hard Dental Tissues|
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Innocent Infringement is the infringement caused without knowledge or awareness of such act. Innocent infringement is usually caused to an intellectual property. Innocent infringement in certain cases exempts liability. They are:
1. in case where the infringer were mislead by the lack of copyright notice; and
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Many types of virtual reality sites are involved with entertainment and telepresence, namely simulated world sites and social interaction venues. These websites allow users to interact with each other in a variety of ways, regardless of the physical distance between t... | <urn:uuid:0ba2bc8d-6313-4f7b-b1fd-c43363ad4f96> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.net/what-are-the-different-types-of-virtual-reality-sites.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940977 | 553 | 2.75 | 3 |
This supports the conclusion that extreme summertime temperatures are already occurring more frequently in parts of the lower 48 states.
Extreme summer temperatures are already occurring more frequently in the United States, and will become normal by mid-century if the world continues on a business as usual schedule of... | <urn:uuid:17fa60f5-3141-431c-acb5-c80201959289> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dentistrytoday.com/science-a-medicine/6929-extreme-summer-temperatures-occur-more-frequently-in-united-states | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962396 | 715 | 3.78125 | 4 |
"Does anypony have a toupee? This donkey is really, really bald!"Baldness is an easy way to indicate age of a male character, or to try to make a character look older and distinguished (or evil or macho). When applied to an Anthropomorphic Animal, the effect can be weird and is usually represented as a crown line of ha... | <urn:uuid:22f7866d-e49d-40ff-a276-0f48a20acc6e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FurryBaldness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964635 | 1,120 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
With its sweeping 2,330-km-wide viewing swath, MODIS sees every point on our world every 1-2 days in 36 discrete spectral bands. Consequently, MODIS tracks a wider array of the earth’s vital signs than any other Terra sensor. For instance, the sensor measures the percent of... | <urn:uuid:2a4c12fe-46c0-449c-8552-35bafa068fc1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://terra.nasa.gov/about/terra-instruments/modis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905679 | 694 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Airbus, aerostructure manufacturer Aerosud, and the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, are partnering to develop the biggest, fastest 3D printer possible for making titanium aircraft and satellite components. Shown here, the Airbus A380 demonstrator aircraft arrives at the 2012 Farnborough In... | <urn:uuid:ceb5be09-20e0-4183-98a8-e7db7915c999> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1392&f_src=designnews_node_3056&doc_id=251754&image_number=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9449 | 1,008 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This animation of NOAA GOES-13 satellite imagery from March 5 to March 7, 2013, shows the progression of a cold front from the west associated with a low pressure system that brought snow from Chicago to the Appalachian Mountains. The low merged with a coastal low near the Mid-Atlantic on March 6 and brought more than ... | <urn:uuid:6b4aa18e-5f50-4dd4-8724-b4a9a131abbc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mar13-noreaster.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950116 | 909 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Altering Animals (Monica Post, Zoo Education Curator)
Monica Post is an education curator at the Blank Park Zoo. Find out how she thinks GE could impact the animal kingdom.
Transcript: Altering Animals
I think the public would really be very critical of the way zoos approach genetically altered animals at a zoo. I real... | <urn:uuid:7c1469b5-e532-480c-b693-cd8776e4b800> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/ge/story.cfm?id=9468&type=story&video=video | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965482 | 178 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Sentinels of the Rocks: From ‘Graveyard Coast’ to National Lakeshore (1979)
By Dennis R. Noble and T. Michael O’Brien
The story of a light station—the Au Sable Light—on Lake Superior. The book touches the Lighthouse Service and the Life Saving Service, predecessors of today’s Coast Guard. It sketches the Fresnel lens, ... | <urn:uuid:433ebb9d-45a3-4691-9397-74b295e13847> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nmu.edu/nmupress/node/13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859057 | 182 | 2.546875 | 3 |
About Air Ions (To purchase an AlphaLab Air Ion Counter click here.)
Almost all positive ("+") natural ions during fair weather come from radioactivity. About 40% of these natural air ions come from radioactive minerals in the ground. Each time a radioactive atom decays near the air, it typically ejects an energetic al... | <urn:uuid:920afb55-ef85-4e2e-9ecd-198f0a0e1c01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trifield.com/content/about-air-ions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925108 | 1,953 | 4.0625 | 4 |
About 25 million years ago, much of what is now the northwest corner of Victoria, Australia, sat at the bottom of a shallow sea. As the waters receded, the area changed to a near-forest of shrubs and small trees. Starting in the 1840s, after Europeans settled the region, much of the area was burned to clear land for ag... | <urn:uuid:1c52b128-0066-4409-b821-ea47912512f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8962 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940069 | 489 | 4.03125 | 4 |
A psychoanalyst attempts to analyze President Obama's failure to fulfill the hopes of his supporters.
Frank (Psychiatry and Behavioral Analysis/George Washington Univ.; Bush on the Couch, 2004) suggests that the differences between Obama the candidate and Obama the president are products of his troubled childhood. Obam... | <urn:uuid:a8829a09-ff4b-43ce-b5cf-45620167d087> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/justin-frank/obama-couch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980577 | 337 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Conference between Chevalier de Callières and the lroquois at Montreal, 18th July, 1700.
Father Onontio. The Onondaga, my oldest brother, who has more sense than 1, hath repaired hither to speak to you in our name, and as he informed us that you were desirous of seeing your son, the Seneca, we have come to tell you tha... | <urn:uuid:b10ec51f-29a5-4f42-b0ed-fe0633727009> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://staff.imsa.edu/socsci/skinner/The%20Great%20Peace%20of%201701.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971413 | 6,733 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Transmission Electron Microscope – Nobelprize.org
I was wondering why the electron microscope has a much higher magnification(500'000X) compared to a light microscope(1500X). The LM uses lenses to increase The high voltage electron microscope: it operates with an accelerating voltage of 700 – 3000 kV. Its power of ... | <urn:uuid:0a53300f-b243-45ff-91de-335bf152cba7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://binoculas.net/resolution-of-electron-microscope/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.85637 | 1,332 | 3.0625 | 3 |
The Variation of Inductance and Capacitance With Respect to Time
The Variation of Inductance and Capacitance With Respect to Time
We have heretofore established a new pair of dimensional relationships. These the magnetic inductance, L, in Henry, and the electro-static capacity, C, in Farad. Derived from these dimension... | <urn:uuid:ea1f98c9-2773-4d31-a5b9-15a9c62a8528> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.energeticforum.com/164979-post552.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876371 | 1,578 | 2.734375 | 3 |
|Title:||Adapterrex: Exploring the Learning Benefits of Erroneous Examples and Their Dynamic Adaptations Within the Context of Middle School Mathematics|
|Principal Investigator:||McLaren, Bruce||Awardee:||Carnegie Mellon University|
|Program:||Education Technology [Program Details]|
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A new program allows high school students to role-play the big decisions facing governors throughout Michigan's history.
The "Governor's Decision Room" unveiled Thursday is located at the Michigan Historical Center in Lansing. Teachers can sign up their classrooms to participate.
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Two ASTM Publications Address Alloy Heating and Cooling
Quenching, the practice of heating and cooling metals under controlled conditions, requires an understanding of both the process and the effects it has on materials.
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Have you ever tried honey and peanut butter together on a sandwich? How about honey on your pancakes for breakfast? Honey is a great complement to every meal! It can be eaten by the spoonful or mixed with other ingredients to make some deliciously sweet dishes.
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Cannon Street Hospital Dedication
In November 1896 Dr. Alonzo Clifton McClennan and six other African-American health-care professionals met to discuss the need for a hospital and nurses' training school for African Americans in the city of Charleston. In July 1897, the state of South Carolina approved the charter for ... | <urn:uuid:d37d8871-bb37-4e57-b754-be8438548dde> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/musc/news/univ_news/archive/2011/mar2011_cannon.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974699 | 1,008 | 2.625 | 3 |
It's a bird, it's a plane...
Comet is a term describing the interaction of a client and server that uses long-lived HTTP connections to enable event-driven communication between the client and server while the connection remains open. Ever since Alex Russell defined the term, in Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser ... | <urn:uuid:c42ebaa4-7222-467f-8766-ee209855de57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0711_col_burckart/0711_col_burckart.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922198 | 1,471 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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A punctuation mark is one of a set of marks or signs used to clarify meaning. This is by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases.
Examples of punctuation marks include:
- & — An ampersand is used to represent conjunction (the use of the word "and").
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Every 14 to 15 years, Saturn's bright beautiful rings are tilted on edge to our line of sight and the rings seem narrow but provide the opportunity to watch multiple transits of Saturn's moons. During a transit, a sunlit moon and its shadow glide across the cloudy face of the gas giant. Recorded on February 24, this Hu... | <urn:uuid:73ca6bee-4cda-44ec-b252-88993dee1e6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ufoinfo.com/filer/2009/ff0913.shtml | 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 | 0.981278 | 7,809 | 2.75 | 3 |
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA Standing Committee on Observational Activities Programme for Solar Eclipse of July 20, 1963, Bulletin No. 3 Basic Observation Programme March 15, 1963 Section A. Precision Observations In this bulletin we cover briefly the procedure to be followed for each of the projects that come ... | <urn:uuid:b48999db-449d-4a79-89ed-17e6a4e1e9b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rasc.ca/content/630315eclipse3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943288 | 3,301 | 2.796875 | 3 |
This is a great math and reading activity. The numbers are available in Spanish, French and English.
The pink tower is such a important foundation in Montessori sensorial education. For example, you introduce degrees of word comparisons with the pink tower. You teach words to describe the smallest to the largest cube, ... | <urn:uuid:21a0fc13-9382-46f6-b45a-2a0e37603bcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.montessorimom.com/pink-tower-and-counting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940198 | 546 | 3.78125 | 4 |
First of all, I am using only basic parent functions and their transformations that my students are already familiar with (linear, quadratic, and absolute value). They do not need to plot points, because they already know how to sketch these graphs. I spent some time reviewing these before the lesson.
I start out with ... | <urn:uuid:188399d8-bdd3-453e-8a62-b7ac0e299172> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://squarerootofnegativeoneteachmath.blogspot.com/2011/05/color-coding-for-sketching-piecewise.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946104 | 289 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The game of Cricket has been governed
by The Rules of Cricket for over 250 years. These Rules of
Cricket have been subject to additions and alterations recommended
by the governing authorities of the time. Since its formation
in 1787, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has been recognised
as the sole authority for drawi... | <urn:uuid:f2e65ca9-fef6-4771-b0e4-6a1ebbeeb07c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rulesofcricket.co.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970581 | 299 | 2.75 | 3 |
UNEP launches new communication tools to help protect coral reefs
Cancun, Mexico/Paris, 11 January 2002 -- In response to the growing threat to coral reefs, worldwide, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) have prepared five new "communication" tools to help ... | <urn:uuid:89416156-4071-4b56-9755-0a25c19671c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.grida.no/news/press/2232.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92423 | 1,910 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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