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August 20, 2012
Thin, More Flexible Aerogel Material Unveiled
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online
An enhanced version of the world's lightest solid material, said to be as much as 500 times stronger than its predecessors, was unveiled during a meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on Sunday.Th... | <urn:uuid:d683f181-29a2-4962-b64d-98e82de01824> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112678190/new-aerogel-082012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943046 | 560 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Midsize family farms—historically the backbone of rural economies in the United States—have been disappearing for almost two decades, replaced by large, industrialized farms. When they disappear, many jobs evaporate with them. Once-vibrant rural communities are at continued risk as the loss of jobs and business opportu... | <urn:uuid:becceca9-1a40-4e52-8ecb-15d00e3cc8ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ucsusa.org/food-agriculture/strengthen-healthy-farm-policy/growing-economies-connecting-local-farmers-and-large-scale-food-buyers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955469 | 1,219 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Washington: A blood test is in the offing to detect Alzheimer's disease, researchers at Emory University say.
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Mosquito sperm have a “sense of smell.”
This unexpected discovery is reported in an article published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for the week of Feb. 3 by a team of Vanderbilt University biologists.
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Do you know that it is possible to have fun homeschooling? When you make some changes it is possible for mom and the children to have fun. When homeschooling is fun children will have less meltdowns and learn more. Mom will not experience burn out.
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|1. Introduce the letter by finding a word or a name that is
important to the child. Example: d: dog
|2. Point to the letter on an alphabet chart so the child can see
where the letter is in the alphabet. The chart can be a learning tool as children
visualize what the alphabet looks like.
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As mentioned in today’s column, the state proposes to flood 100,000 acres of Delta land for habitat restoration as mitigation for the tunnels project. Unfortunately, when the state restores habitat for fish, it also will restore habitat for Stockton’s historic scourge, mosquitoes.
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A century’s worth of data.
That’s how much researchers looked at for a new study — which showed that the world’s glaciers are melting faster than scientists think they ever have before, and that even if global warming stopped today, they would continue to melt.
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water courses, which may be nearly dry when you start out in the morning, but within an hour may be raging torrents. There are no bridges. One may ford a dozen times in a mile. A spring "tide" will stop all travel, even from neighbor to neighbor, for a day or two at a time. Buggies and carriages are unheard of. In many... | <urn:uuid:d95338ee-125d-4049-ae13-272b6195058a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://manybooks.net/titles/kepharth3170931709-8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96379 | 249 | 2.53125 | 3 |
examination of the worst offenders. This is a list of just the 7 most dangerous.
It is actually just the beginning of the problem.
- There are many types of environmental pollution that are considered dangerous
- Environmental pollution is a big concern around the globe, and this pollution can be deadly
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I have heard many historians use the word denominator. I know its significance in maths but when and why is the word used in other contexts? And what are its synonyms in those contexts?
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The December 2011 TESOL Quarterly contains a wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and materials writers, with lots of great information in it and a valuable companion to his 2003 corpus study on the most common spoken ... | <urn:uuid:c4f68913-fe3e-43b7-8e09-f93688d72c1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.tesol.org/figuring-out-the-frequency-of-two-word-verbs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969376 | 396 | 3.28125 | 3 |
(CHINA from MAO to DENG – continued)
On April 15, 1989 the Communist leader, Hu Yaobang, died. He had been a doctrinaire Marxist, but many students had seen him as free of greed and corruption. They respected Hu Yaobang for having possessed kindliness toward people in general. With Deng Xiaoping in mind, some of these ... | <urn:uuid:75ce876c-013a-4e76-8aac-734377023030> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch32prc3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985846 | 1,578 | 3.296875 | 3 |
It is no longer possible to contain the deadly swine flu virus first found in Mexico, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Governments around the world have been stepping up precautions against its spread.
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why do we die?
chbarry at mackiller.llnl.gov
Thu Nov 2 21:22:31 EST 1995
When an organism evolves to adapt to a given environment, does that species not
select the behavior or characteristic that is benificial to its survival? If
so, who is to say man is any different? It is apparent that a finite lifespan
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This felid is a hunter, and not a very picky one. It includes a wide variety of animals in its diet, which is dominated by introduced prey, specifically European hares. It will eat just about any kind of meat it can get a hold of; however its most abundant food items are hamsters and hares. P. geoffroyi hunts in trees ... | <urn:uuid:443f5685-c98d-4eb8-a02a-ea205fab58e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/data_objects/18654026 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937073 | 160 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Johann Friedrich Carl Gauss, more commonly known as Carl Friedrich Gauss, was a German mathematician, widely known as one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He made crucial contributions to geometry, statistics, number theory, planetary astronomy, the theory of functions, potential theory, optics and geophysics... | <urn:uuid:3552ccbf-15b0-4bcf-a7f3-4a4f5831bfa3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.famousscientists.org/carl-friedrich-gauss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986338 | 421 | 3.671875 | 4 |
September 17, 2015, marks the 228th anniversary of our nation’s founding document. On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution. Constitution Day has shared some really interesting Constitutional facts:
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|About this Recording
NA302212 - CERVANTES, M.: Don Quixote (Abridged)
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote is the masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and
the first great European novel. Everyone has an image of the story —
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Defining An Institution's Culture And Values
Fundamental to addressing the issues of alcohol use and abuse is a clear understanding
of the mission and philosophy of a given institution. While all schools must
comply with State and Federal laws, no single policy can cut across the 3,000+
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We’ve heard of gaming being integrated in primary school, but what about higher education? According to studies conducted by Gallup, the levels of student engagement fades the longer they stay in school. Engagement levels drop from 76% in elementary school to 44% in high school.
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WHEN President Diaz, in 1905, formally opened the Tehuantepec National Railway, he gave official recognition to one of the most wonderful enterprises that the world has witnessed in-recent years. This railway, a magnificent piece of engineering, runs across the Isthmus of Tehuantepee from the Atlantic to the Pacific co... | <urn:uuid:84a1b965-8965-402e-9d9d-fb0b15e6c44c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://travel.yodelout.com/the-isthmus-of-tehuantepec/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969019 | 6,161 | 3.765625 | 4 |
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We have studied about various types of ship movements in our previous articles. In this article we will take a look at the different ship motions and movement, taking a look at the methods used to achieve these movements.
- slide 2 of 2
Movements of Ship
AHEAD AND ASTERN MOVEMENTS
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Answers to Trivia from the Archives
Q. What role did Robert E. Lee play in the Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle in his home state of Virginia?
A. None, he was not there. Rather, he was in Richmond in a strictly advisory role. Lee would not take command of Confederate forces in Virginia for nearly a year.
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Dracula Topic Tracking: Sexuality
Sexuality 1: The first threat to Jonathan's well-being and sanity comes in the form of three beautiful seductresses. By threatening to compromise his loyalty to Mina, they are attacking Jonathan's honor as well as his neck.
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Apollo is still recent history, and a sense remains that the stories belong to the participants. The astronauts all tell their stories with an “I was there” authority, enhanced by the prestige they still enjoy from their erstwhile-celebrity status. More recently, ground controllers have begun to speak from their points... | <urn:uuid:13e17ce1-23c3-4968-a5bb-61d7feb9c868> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/sourcenote.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969774 | 874 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Ultrafast star escapes black hole
Galactic nuclei are the cores of galaxies, groups of thousands to millions of stars that are held together by gravity. As stars in the nucleus are so close together, interactions readily occur. If ultraheavy black holes (black holes several million times heavier than the sun) are also ... | <urn:uuid:96c8b0bc-6979-4f3a-8764-3d8a957e8157> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-10/nofs-use100406.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956274 | 387 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Victory in the Pacific 1945 - Australians in the Pacific War
Few words spoken in Australia's history have triggered such spontaneous displays of emotion as these words of Prime Minister Ben Chifley, spoken over the wireless on the morning of 15 August 1945, "Fellow Citizens, the war is over". This book offers a few sto... | <urn:uuid:ceaa20c7-c557-4697-a59f-024a178ef1e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.awm.gov.au/shop/item/19207205022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96714 | 132 | 2.796875 | 3 |
"Geography is destiny," writes Timothy Foote. "In Gibraltar's case, so is geology. The place is an amazing excrescence of rock, three miles long and a fifth of a mile high. It heaves up out of the Mediterranean like some petrified, Jurassic-age sea monster." One of the shadows on the Rock these days is that it is linke... | <urn:uuid:9f51ee3b-329c-4d93-9770-6a5b19d455f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/shadows-on-the-rock-51200650/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962611 | 398 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Brazelton Neonatal Test
One of the most extensive techniques available for assessment of newborns.
Developed by psychologist T. Berry Brazelton (1918-) in 1979, the Brazelton Neonatal Test is also
Brazelton, T. Berry (1918-)
Well-known pediatrician, writer, researcher, and educator.
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Pathfinders are guides to help you get started doing research on a particular topic.
Books from our Collection:
Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy. Rose, James M.
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and Record your Unique Heritage. Smith, Franklin... | <urn:uuid:80b8aa3b-33f4-4a22-a49d-0158073e5a21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jfpl.org/NJHistoryPathfinders.cfm?doc_Id=288 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.842127 | 660 | 3.109375 | 3 |
BROOKINGS, S.D., Feb. 3 (UPI) — Scientists say the loss of wetlands due to climate change across central North American prairies will negatively affect millions of waterfowl.
The researchers said they’ve discovered the region is much more sensitive to climate warming than previously thought, posing a bleak future for w... | <urn:uuid:ee4b1814-378d-49db-8e31-2391ee255ed8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ecoworld.com/waters/wetlands/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893623 | 367 | 3.078125 | 3 |
900 Governors Dr., Pierre, North Dakota
South Dakota history, from the time of its early Native American cultures up through World War II, comes alive in this splendid underground museum. Among the displays are those of a Sioux in traditional dress, a walk-through tepee, and a magnificent streamlined wooden-stick carvi... | <urn:uuid:52bafe67-e93d-432b-9a42-9a99786a2aca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rd.com/advice/travel/for-historians-south-dakota-cultural-heritage-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946487 | 185 | 2.71875 | 3 |
From NationalGeographicVideo, produced by National Geographic
This professional and beautiful video footage by National Geographic addresses several different organisms in the Hawaiin waters. The video begins with statements such as "A string of spectacular undersea volcanoes created the islands and continue to add to ... | <urn:uuid:2bb5e0ab-0374-4bde-85fd-a683424fb23b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=979&CategoryID=2480 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952001 | 122 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Japan is known for so many things – the nation’s excellence in technology and affinity for the environment are among of the most notable. On the 23rd of this mo... | <urn:uuid:8b06e6d1-7973-49d0-a959-18fc9863f74e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.geishablog.com/technology/greenhouse-gas-satellite-launched-by-japan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933241 | 409 | 2.609375 | 3 |
It has been one of the most fraught relationships of recent centuries, at least in the popular imagination.
But a group of scientists are pinning their hopes for the salvation of the planet, in the face of climate change and habitat destruction - on religion.
Their case, set out in an essay in the journal Science, is b... | <urn:uuid:1e07b701-c492-44c5-b645-ce79ba1341d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/11107434/Scientists-turn-to-Pope-Francis-and-worlds-religions-to-save-the-planet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943458 | 618 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Hold that Line!
Georgetown High School’s Football Team in 1912.
Hold That Line!
Georgetown’s High School was built in 1885. As with other districts in the state, a process of consolidating the one room school houses began in 1915. This greatly increased the size of the population of the school. At the same time, footba... | <urn:uuid:6b77b79a-96ec-4ef0-b443-53bdf1db00ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archives.delaware.gov/100/wearelivingandlearning/Hold_that_Line!.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980584 | 218 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Cricetines, or hamsters, make up a small Old World subfamily of terrestrial cricetid rodents. There are 18 hamster species in 7 genera. (Musser and Carleton, 2005)
Cricetine rodents have a Palearctic distribution. They are found in central and eastern Europe, in Asia Minor, Syria, and Iran, in Mongolia, Siberia, northe... | <urn:uuid:320afd3b-7b0d-4261-8ca9-11632568ce34> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Cricetinae.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91801 | 3,457 | 3.78125 | 4 |
IRISH CLAN NAMES
|Author||Rev Patrick Woulfe|
|Source||Irish Names and Surnames|
Besides personal names, our Irish ancestors had from an early period, and even from pre-historic times, a complete system of fixed clan-names by which each family-group and its subdivisions had its own distinct name. These clan-names are o... | <urn:uuid:0c4ff4fc-907e-400c-83d5-cf4bdc96df02> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.libraryireland.com/names/irishclans/irish-clan-names.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953002 | 985 | 3.34375 | 3 |
There’s been much hand-wringing going on in the Pacific Northwest over snowpack levels in recent years due to Al Gore’s continual assurance that climate change is happening “faster than we thought”, and this year the tension has been ramped up even more with the mild temperatures and low snowpack levels at the Winter O... | <urn:uuid:e8122b9f-1c4b-4411-b07b-5c35f387985b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://algorelied.com/?cat=99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936592 | 1,120 | 3.203125 | 3 |
At Goldcliff 9km south-east of Newport, Monmouthshire, a promontory projects into the estuary. This marks the site of a former island, the greater part of which has now been eroded away by the sea. Round the edge of this island in the intertidal zone hunter-gatherer Mesolithic sites were excavated in 1992-4 and 2001-3.... | <urn:uuid:0c2ee245-0f0a-4384-bf2a-f5fb516fc33e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.selrc.org.uk/maplocation.php?location_id=38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97398 | 458 | 3.53125 | 4 |
The Mamertine Prison, a dingy complex of cells which now lies beneath a Renaissance church, has long been venerated as the place where the apostle was shackled before he was killed on the spot on which the Vatican now stands.
It been a place of Christian worship since medieval times, but after months of excavations, It... | <urn:uuid:91c27891-3410-473b-91d0-441531360e41> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/7852507/Archeologists-find-evidence-of-St-Peters-prison.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985475 | 575 | 2.9375 | 3 |
In one of my previous tutorials, I have demonstrated how to create a simple starfield simulation using Python and Pygame. Today, we will make a few modifications in the code from that tutorial to make a pretty cool parallax starfield. The video below shows the parallax starfield in action.
The idea of the parallax effe... | <urn:uuid:c3d75512-29e2-4779-a6ac-2a2d5d4b2534> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://codentronix.com/2011/04/27/a-cool-parallax-starfield-simulation-using-python/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.807169 | 742 | 3.234375 | 3 |
relative major / relative minor scales
The idea of there being a relative major key to each of the minor keys, and vice versa, is one of the very cool properties created by the equal temperament system. So each of the 12 major keys has a relative minor? Yes. Pentatonic color too? Yep. Any scale? Well ... sorta yep. Any... | <urn:uuid:c094004c-77e6-4f72-87ab-82f41e469cf5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jacmuse.com/melodic%20resources/newpage112.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891134 | 1,613 | 3.78125 | 4 |
- ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
- a legal tradition that deals with remedies other than monetary relief, such as injunctions, divorces and similar actions.
- The value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
Translations: Etymology: Latin 'aequÄtas' was used by romans wit... | <urn:uuid:d66a89cb-e27d-4609-bdc5-8fa2f195af24> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.allwords.com/word-equity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920014 | 226 | 3.015625 | 3 |
noun (plural arteries)
- Most are caused by a blood clot that forms in the veins, before passing through the heart and entering the arteries that carry blood to the lungs.
- Thus the fetus grows its own umbilical cord, containing its own blood vessels: two arteries and a single vein.
- Over time, it can cause damage to... | <urn:uuid:c1bd6390-e751-4a3b-a90a-115535889fa5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/artery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951072 | 354 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Pot Lids, or to give them their proper title “under glaze multicoloured printing in ceramic wares”, have been collected from the very first time they were made in the mid-Victorian period.
The term pot lids is a generic term. Initially it meant lids that went on pots which contained all manner of products: bear’s greas... | <urn:uuid:8e227d1e-1142-42d3-8fc6-69c849d38c2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://quezi.com/5902 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981262 | 545 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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When discussing the setting in a literary work, it is important to consider various elements that contribute to it. The location or locations, historical time period and, often, the culture surrounding the story, and the intended audience, are all important. To a Shakespearean audience and particu... | <urn:uuid:6a47ff8c-019f-4167-af22-c03c402832cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/setting-macbeth-83631 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9675 | 1,080 | 3.5 | 4 |
A soil pH number tells gardeners a range that helps them determine whether their soil is acidic, neutral or alkaline. Soils with a pH of 7 are neutral; below a pH of 7, acidic; and above a pH of 7, alkaline. A soil test can determine the type of soil and whether it is extreme in either direction, as these extremes in p... | <urn:uuid:e2d37b7c-fa50-4331-9ff9-520d52b872b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://homeguides.sfgate.com/signs-low-ph-plants-39457.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906877 | 664 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Feline AIDS Symptoms
Recognize the Signs
Feline AIDS symptoms
differ during the various phases of the disease.
In this chapter on
feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) we provide comprehensive details about the
symptoms during the 3 distinct stages of the disease and the diagnosis
and treatment of this feline infectious ... | <urn:uuid:d11fc391-55a2-426a-bd67-e1b2297b6dd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catbreedsjunction.com/feline-aids-symptoms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898982 | 1,155 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Over the last thirty years, the majority of Americans have started working longer hours while earning less, according to a recent report by the Center for American Progress.
The report finds that in in 2006, American families worked an average of 11 hours more per week than they did in 1979. Indeed, now many top-level ... | <urn:uuid:30848639-74c1-48f5-ae85-f6b74ef700f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/americans-now-view-40-hou_n_888231.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966595 | 577 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Some Inconvenient Facts About Fiscal Austerity
Andrew Mellon's infamous advice to Hoover is as good now as it was in 1932: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, and liquidate real estate."
Finally, Main Street Americans were introduced to the twin wonders of consumer installment credit and stock mar... | <urn:uuid:0932627a-e5ef-4634-b00b-38ebe4f73ebe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/fiscal-austerity-fiscal-consolidation-gnp-krugman/7/2/2010/id/29035?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9602 | 883 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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To say bald eagles are kleptomaniacs wouldn't be quite correct-they do have a persistent impulse to steal, but for them it is not abnormal. More precisely, they engage in kleptoparasitism. A parasite takes without making any useful return and for the eagle it is parasitism by... | <urn:uuid:1e71764d-77b5-4b43-b37c-41534a84b5b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/122309/out_538961631.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963018 | 871 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Brazil, which has the world’s 12th largest economy and vibrant economic centers in its major southern cities, also has the fourth largest disparity between rich and poor among the nations, and the largest inequality of wealth outside of Africa. Twenty-one million children... | <urn:uuid:433d0422-eb0e-4f57-b8cb-ca93410c680c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law/where_we_work/latin_america_caribbean/brazil/background.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946497 | 185 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Desalination is a popular source of potable water in Middle Eastern countries, where large energy reserves and the relative scarcity of water suitable for drinking led to desalination in the region accounting for close to 75% of total world capacity in 2007. If that figure hasn’t already dropped it almost certainly wil... | <urn:uuid:eb815d98-2ccb-4c2a-b3d9-0d2f6fae1bb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/m3-desalination-system/12230/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952275 | 827 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Humans today, perhaps more than at any other time in history, are caught up in a web of entangled narratives. Globalization and communication technologies have brought a world of differences into our living rooms, classrooms and communities. People wage culture wars within and between civilizations based on these narra... | <urn:uuid:7cf24d36-c625-4504-8522-4a6d2f678d92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-grassie/conflicting-ideologies-entangled-narratives-and-big-history_b_1381904.html?ref=books&ir=Books | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95042 | 2,068 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Living with diabetes: normal but different, different but normal
Background: The notion of normal is dominant in the lives of children with type 1 diabetes and their parents, because living with diabetes not only makes families different but it also makes their pursuit of normal more visible.
Aim: To develop a theoreti... | <urn:uuid:48e0b3df-6e20-4064-b549-4cc822cfaa77> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0024/ea0024s26.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966081 | 254 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Obesity and its related health problems impacts far more people with a disability than previously reported, according to new research in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
About 54 million people in the U.S. have a disability that affects mobility. The study looked at how these disabilities affect the prevale... | <urn:uuid:ec4c6416-18d7-4862-bef7-42b845f7f15d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://egpnews.com/2013/08/obesity-is-a-major-obstacle-for-disabled-americans/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975851 | 619 | 2.78125 | 3 |
In our post on shooting snow, we talked about manually changing the settings on your camera to achieve the right light balance when photographing in high glare situations. But there’s more than one type of balance in a photo: compositional balance is important too. It’s also a lot easier to get right than the light lev... | <urn:uuid:43f6487f-7e42-4e63-b877-b1c96b24b70a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.photopreneur.com/balancing-your-photographs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935586 | 326 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Building a pyramid is no easy task -- especially when it comes to transporting heavy stones across the hot desert. But physicists say they've uncovered the secret behind how ancient Egyptians moved the stones -- wet sand.
Based on the research conducted by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and the... | <urn:uuid:2f415e78-457d-4cae-a3ac-da76b285c694> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-secret-behind-how-ancient-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935315 | 277 | 4.5625 | 5 |
This Redundancy of those several Ways of Speech, which Aristotle calls foreign Language, and with which Milton has so very much enriched, and in some Places darkned the Language of his Poem, was the more proper for his use, because his Poem is written in Blank Verse. Rhyme, without any other Assistance, throws the Lang... | <urn:uuid:d67bae02-6944-4ae9-a317-c86b52138ad5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/12030/866.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95942 | 693 | 2.890625 | 3 |
An 83-year-old woman operated on last summer was the first person to receive an entire 3D-printed jaw transplant, her Belgian doctors announced Monday. The woman’s own lower jaw was riddled with infection, and given her age, and the fact that reconstructive surgery would have been a long and painful process, her doctor... | <urn:uuid:03378437-5a47-4d31-86dd-bf536c243786> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/transplant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979713 | 225 | 2.71875 | 3 |
1 Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
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Administrative division of Canada
Also known as Province d’Ontario
Total area: 1,068,580 square kilometres (412,581 square miles)
Population: 10,084,885 (1991)
Maximum elevation: 660 metres (2,165 feet)
Average elevation: 305 metres (1,000 feet)
Ontario, one of the central provinces of Canada, bordered on the north by ... | <urn:uuid:d19da9de-6a50-44c0-a944-689a8fc67185> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.angelfire.com/country/t2canada/provinces/Ontario.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952562 | 3,890 | 3.25 | 3 |
Space Missions to study Earth's Atmosphere & Climate
Television weather forecasts in the space age routinely feature satellite views of cloud cover. Cameras and other instruments on spacecraft provide many types of valuable data about Earth's atmosphere and its evolving climate. Here are just a few of the many satellit... | <urn:uuid:395ba37b-81f4-4ea5-aa3a-ba1b05779ded> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/cli_missions.html&edu=high | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938158 | 652 | 3.796875 | 4 |
This week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Kentucky Division of Forestry announced an agreement to promote the survival, conservation, and recovery of the federally endangered Indiana bat on state forests within Kentucky.
The agreement provides a streamlined and programmatic approach to evaluating potential i... | <urn:uuid:f940cfd5-eff2-4780-a13f-5d8909143b78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stateforesters.org/news-events/blog/kentucky-division-forestry-works-us-fish-and-wildlife-service-help-endangered-bat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930228 | 160 | 2.53125 | 3 |
There’s been a lot in the news lately about the question of longevity. This past week an article discussed the role of exercise in “biological aging,” the relative age of a person based on biomarkers (determined by telomere length in this study), rather than simple chronology.
To add to this discussion, I want to offe... | <urn:uuid:9f4d4616-a449-4bc2-aea9-43959040aef3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.marksdailyapple.com/organ-reserve-muscle-mass-aging/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932762 | 1,476 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
You will need the following printouts (PDFs) for session 6: Differentiating Instruction. In order to read these files, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download ... | <urn:uuid:ac081b51-d544-4f34-83cf-0d05a5b7451a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.learner.org/workshops/readingk2/session6/printouts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.854029 | 100 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Perspective view of Mercury's north polar region with the radar-bright regions shown in yellow. New results presented today at the NASA News Conference provide compelling evidence that the radar-bright deposits are water ice. View a higher resolution perspective view of Mercury's north polar region here and a high reso... | <urn:uuid:44592466-1027-4f3b-bbad-f1eaa9a68ba1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16523 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891937 | 236 | 3.171875 | 3 |
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DescriptionThe Mediterranean monk seal is one of the most endangered mammals in the world (5). The description of this species by Aristotle was the first known written description of a pinniped (a group that includes seals, sea lions and walrus) (2), and the head of a monk seal appeared on ... | <urn:uuid:4cc434d0-7fcf-4fdf-a13b-fa7cf90a48a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/pages/328633/overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949709 | 169 | 3.640625 | 4 |
|When your baby is stillborn, expectations , hopes and dreams are cruelly shattered and lives are changed. Many parents have initial feelings of shock and confusion when told that their baby has died. What happened? Why you? Babies are not supposed to die. When they do, it can be devastating, overwhelming, and painful.... | <urn:uuid:a1071bc4-add2-4c3a-ade2-19e518b17c6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.marshfieldclinic.org/wissp/when.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953568 | 2,016 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Of the 250 questions on the Series 7 exam, 70 will focus on the critical function: "Provides customers and prospective customers with information on investments and makes suitable recommendations", as indicated by the FINRA's Content Outline for the General Securities Registered Representative Exam.
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|To Have and to Hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa|
AUTHOR: R. Strickland
As the AIDS epidemic continues to ravage communities across the developing world, households affected by HIV/AIDS face difficult choices as their limited resources are increasingly diver... | <urn:uuid:9d5ea9ab-8569-4e7e-b257-38f831780f10> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.genderandaids.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=228:to-have-and-to-hold-womens-property-and-inheritance-rights-in-the-context-of-h&catid=80:inheritance-land-and-property-rights&Itemid=110 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933751 | 315 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The wormwood plant is a source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin
Emerging technologies could boost supplies of essential plant-based drugs to combat and ultimately help eradicate malaria, says a report.
In the face of increasing parasite resistance to anti-malarial drugs there is now great reliance on artemisinin co... | <urn:uuid:a7335314-a951-4cdd-a265-e526b158c6bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7735858.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928395 | 552 | 3.625 | 4 |
The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main feature and make comparisons where relevant.
The graph compares percentages of population of people with the age of 65 and over in Jap... | <urn:uuid:ce847e9f-2c60-42e1-9d54-cb2e569280dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ielts.studyhorror.com/writings/ielts-writing-sample-task-1-proportion-population-65-1940-2040/72 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957998 | 810 | 3.5 | 4 |
Action Plan — Introduction and Overview
In the 1940s, the widespread availability of penicillin and the subsequent discovery of streptomycin led to a dramatic reduction in illness and death from infectious diseases. However, bacteria and other disease-causing organisms — viruses, fungi, and parasites — have a remarkabl... | <urn:uuid:1ae473c0-9c71-4ffb-a1e2-956a882b2589> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/actionplan/intro.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93072 | 1,886 | 3.75 | 4 |
A recent email exchange gave me reason to create a list of some of the propositions regarding ethics that I hold to be true. I have decided to present them here.
(1) Beliefs and desires exist.
(2) Beliefs and desires are propositional attitudes -- mental attitudes towards a proposition.
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The Devil and Demons in Medieval Art
Scholars say that no artistic representation of Satan was produced before the sixth century. They suggest that belief in Satan was only made official by the Ecumenical Council of 553. So, until the Devilís existence was certified, the Church had little reason to commission portrayal... | <urn:uuid:d2db1e25-4df1-4d7e-95f3-576d6975a389> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://temperaworkshop.com/history/demons.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974343 | 2,086 | 3.859375 | 4 |
The idea has been around for quite some time, but no one really put together what differentiated instruction actually meant until the more recent years. According to Pearl Subban’s article, “Differentiated Instruction: A Research Basis,” there has been a significant change in the student population over the past decade... | <urn:uuid:b5e8fb36-34dd-4384-b620-3b61d8334849> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.longwood.edu/emspady/2013/03/31/the-move-towards-differentiated-instruction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965037 | 629 | 3.953125 | 4 |
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What makes a computer fast and powerful?
Note: This document helps explain the components within a computer that help make it fast. See our troubleshooting a slow computer page if you are need help troubleshooting a slow computer.
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Chicago Researchers Look to Lengthen Life of City Trees
Researchers in Chicago are beginning a study Tuesday that they hope will extend the life of urban trees.
All those trees you see lining shady Chicago sidestreets actually have it pretty rough. Their average lifespan is less than ten years. That's compared to fifty... | <urn:uuid:a5656d23-2f7d-40d5-a57d-6b7000426e3a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://will.illinois.edu/news/story/chicago-researches-look-to-lengthen-life-of-city-trees | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956898 | 264 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Brazil, an up-and-coming agricultural superpower with abundant fertile land, is struggling to provide consistently affordable food for its population. To understand how, consider the tomato.
Prices of the red fruit shot up 122 percent in March from a year earlier, putting it on the cover of two national magazines, spur... | <urn:uuid:603a66cf-0a85-4042-b245-86d6819f1a33> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/05/05/2003561461 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957773 | 734 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Learning the history of the Western Reserve has been fascinating to me. The struggles the early settlers endured and the spirit of entrepreneurship they possessed still amaze me. As I explore the history of Cleveland Metroparks, their stories began to surface and I became more intrigued about their lives and their conn... | <urn:uuid:5c326045-f667-460d-b464-ec4bc3a57a35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.clemetzoo.com/Main/Roots-Revealed-Blog/106.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969391 | 1,114 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Dr. James Wanket, Associate Professor of Geography at Sacramento State, will deliver the first presentation of the spring 2014 STEM Scholars Lecture Series. His talk is titled "Forest Migration in a Warming World: Lessons from the Past."
Because trees are the backbone of many ecosystems, understanding the way in which ... | <urn:uuid:4103a581-e159-473e-916d-87cb94293903> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://calendar.csus.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6NCO7XDhCgDB%2BRk7q7QbwYa0dl3VW0J42XQATNA%2FgMQ7L9B2CEMJdj | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887614 | 175 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The day after his inauguration, President Barack Obama said, "The way to make government responsible is to hold it accountable. And the way to make government accountable is to make it transparent, so that the American people can know exactly what decisions are being made, how they're being made, and whether their inte... | <urn:uuid:55c350ed-3d49-4d47-8984-ca99cca25e79> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/12589 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966497 | 278 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The introduction of new standards to assess nutrition in children could lead to confusion and a cut in the numbers of malnourished children eligible// for emergency feeding programs, warn researchers in this week’s BMJ.
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Influence of Cobalamin Scarcity on Diatom Molecular Physiology and Identification of a Cobalamin Acquisition Protein.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2012 Jun 26; 109: E1762-71.
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AromaticityAromaticity is a property of the sp2 hybridized planarrings in which the p-orbital, one on each atom, allowcyclic delocalization of π electrons.CRITERIA:RULE 1: An aromatic compound is cyclic and planarRULE 2: Each atom in an aromatic ring has a p-orbital whichis parallel so that a continuous overlap is poss... | <urn:uuid:39d02105-86a4-4a07-aceb-e49d7aa3514d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slideshare.net/selimjigsaw121/presentation-on-benzene | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.810765 | 891 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Santa Monica Beach: Santa Monica, California
It is the birthplace of "beach culture," a place where human theater unfolds daily against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. For nearly 120 years, Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, California, has been the dynamic link between the natural and man-made worlds, providing eq... | <urn:uuid:89d11dbc-b4e0-491a-838a-54b1004fe4a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.planning.org/greatplaces/spaces/2008/santamonicabeach.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927221 | 984 | 2.671875 | 3 |
U.S. Middle-Class Students Fall Short in Global Study
Discussions of how to close the achievement gaps for low-income and minority students often take center stage in education policy discussions. Yet students from middle-class families, regardless of race and ethnicity, also have some catching up to do to be competiti... | <urn:uuid:e10f40d4-ff8c-4ab1-b82b-3370c3059b44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/04/discussion_of_how_to_close.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966184 | 957 | 2.734375 | 3 |
In this series of tutorials, we will take a detailed look at the Apache Maven tool. In this particular post we will go through some introductory concepts related to Maven. So lets get started with the Quick Start Guide to Maven.
In this tutorial we will see how to write PDF file in Java using iText library. Review the ... | <urn:uuid:3df7f35a-d6aa-4378-967b-1d85d1b14acc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.quicklyjava.com/category/j2ee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894336 | 341 | 2.625 | 3 |
About Hemangiomas and Vascular Birthmarks
Vascular birthmarks are clusters of veins, arteries, or lymph channels that are found within or under the skin. They range from flat, faintly red skin lesions to bulky deep lesions that can become large enough to interfere with vision, breathing, or swallowing. Vascular birthma... | <urn:uuid:7629cdf8-c1db-4195-86d6-64bf065613eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.evms.edu/education/centers_institutes_departments/otolaryngology_ent/divisions/hemangiomas_and_vascular_birthmarks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919244 | 2,158 | 3.234375 | 3 |
OABCDE is a regular hexagon. The points A and B have position vectors a and b respectively, referred to the origin O.
Find, in terms of a and b, the position vectors of C, D and E.
I've no idea how to do this. If I sketch a hexagon where will be C, D, E? And what are their position vectors?
is a regular hexagon.
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Figure 37. Spring messengers with rotating closing mechanisms. In 1923, the
Danish scientist Martin Knudsen described and tested this type of messenger.
The goal was to find a form and weight of messenger that would rapidly descend a
cable without becoming entangled. Subsequently messengers of this type were
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Built near the mouth of the Petit-Rhône, the Church of the Saintes Maries de la Mer held an important strategic position, because at the time of its construction, between the 9th and the 12th centuries, pirates were attacking the coast and it was necessary to defend it against invasions.
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Revista de biología marina y oceanografía
versión On-line ISSN 0718-1957
OLAVARRIA, Carlos; AGUAYO-LOBO, Anelio y BERNAL, Rolando. Distribution of Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus, Cuvier 1812) in Chilean waters. Rev. biol. mar. oceanogr. [online]. 2001, vol.36, n.1, pp.111-116. ISSN 0718-1957. http://dx.doi.org/10.406... | <urn:uuid:b52c3ded-4f41-42a9-bbe7-f9f4e42edce9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-19572001000100011&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.755033 | 283 | 2.53125 | 3 |
- Natural arches around the world are made of rock, with a hole formed by natural forces
- Natural bridges are arches where water is the force making the hole
- Stunning natural bridges can be found all over the world
- The world's longest is the Fairy Bridge in China, experts say
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Thousands of miles of Colorado streams would gain stricter protection under a new approach the Obama administration unveiled this week.
The goal is to prevent further fouling, filling-in and dredging of streams, tributaries and wetlands by requiring polluters to obtain permits. The Environmental Protection Agency and U... | <urn:uuid:7aba3d75-1b1d-4b75-9ff1-7f8611a5dead> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.timescall.com/outdoors-news-recreation/ci_25426953/epa-and-fed-engineers-seek-clear-power-protect | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952829 | 538 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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