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- Mathematical function, suitable for both symbolic and numerical manipulation.
- Round rounds numbers of the form x .5 toward the nearest even integer.
- Round[x] returns an integer when x is any numeric quantity, whether or not it is an explicit number.
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point (v) pɔɪnt
a geometric element that has position but no extension
"a point is defined by its coordinates"
the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
"she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
a brief version of the essential meaning of something
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Americans have no direct equivalent of our British Queen’s English, the perceived standard of correctness in writing and speaking, though it has been pointed out that even the Queen doesn’t speak the Queen’s English any more, her language having been overtaken by generational changes in vocabulary and pronunciation.
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In the years from the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the turn of the century some thirty-five years later, Americans witnessed the death of a rural and agricultural America dominated by farmers and the birth of an urban and industrial America dominated by bankers, industrialists, and city dwellers. This transformatio... | <urn:uuid:72923e53-3873-48f3-b6cd-62095ae3a1fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1302/agrarian.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979158 | 2,384 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Eating disorders can be treated with the following interventions: Cognitive behavioral therapyInterpersonal therapyGroup supportFamily therapyHospitalization
Therapists can help you develop a healthier and more realistic self-image. They will help you find new ways to think about your body and yourself.
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Global movement of Earth's ocean surface currents, June 2005 to December 2007.
The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of ocean currents.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
View Full Article
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How can Venezuela be so rich in resources, but so low in supplies?(Read article summary)
In the modern world, a country’s natural resources have very little to do whether goods are on the nation’s shelves for people to buy. Venezuela is a prime example.
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How to deal with a medical emergency on the Space Station
- 10 January 2016
- From the section Health
A major medical emergency has never occurred on the International Space Station - but what would happen if it did? And what lessons could be learnt for treating similar emergencies on Earth?
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The Places We Go!
Social Studies/Art Activity
Children will become more familiar with their school and develop a greater
understanding of the many different activities that go on at school by tracking
their movements within school over a day.
WHAT YOU NEED
- Large white poster board or roll paper
- Colored push pins
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Banks Island, c.26,000 sq mi (67,340 sq km), NW Northwest Territories, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean, in the Arctic Archipelago. It is the westernmost of the group and is separated from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf. Banks Island, which has many lakes, is a hilly plateau rising to c.2,000 ft (610 m) in the south. Once in... | <urn:uuid:2fb1148f-bd75-47f6-9dd3-effa5f270afd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/world/banks-island.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936588 | 165 | 3.03125 | 3 |
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Product DescriptionDVA stands for Direct Voltage Adapter, which is used to measure peak AC voltage. This type of measurement of AC voltage takes the absolute peak or highest value of the fluctuating AC voltage signal. Peak readings will be substantially higher than standard or RMS AC values and are t... | <urn:uuid:18590f21-7330-40c7-b0d5-9d02a76ecf5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.overtons.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=CDI-Peak-Reading-Voltage-Adapter&i=612566 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925446 | 189 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A database schema can be thought of as a directed graph. The nodes in the graph are the tables and the edges are relationships between them. The edges are created by foreign key fields in tables (see figure at right). The reason why the personality is stored in a separate table has to do with optimizing the way data is... | <urn:uuid:d1b09407-cac5-408c-8678-cdddce8d9a2d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/schemaball/?about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936074 | 465 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The University of Florida’s new infographic ‘The Psychology of Music’ reveals some truly fascinating facts regarding why humans love music, and how it can benefit our minds.
Listening to music, the infographic reveals, increases happiness, reduces anxiety and stress and can even heal some neurological disorders like Al... | <urn:uuid:6027ee3e-23cd-4352-9990-9a5782d9e1b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-psychology-of-music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945475 | 246 | 3.265625 | 3 |
No guts, no worries
Worm enlists full-service microbes for transportation, energy and waste management
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Acute arterial occlusion - kidney
DefinitionAcute arterial occlusion of the kidney is a sudden, severe blockage of the artery that supplies blood to the kidney.
Alternative NamesAcute renal arterial thrombosis; Renal artery embolism; Acute renal artery occlusion; Embolism - renal artery
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Let's say you have a spherical charge distribution of radius R. This distribution has some charge density as a function of radius. I know that I can determine the electric field outside of the charge density by forming a spherical gaussian surface around the charge distribution and apply gauss' law. But what if I want ... | <urn:uuid:76f2ea9b-8457-495e-9307-a233b207e317> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61620/charges-lying-on-a-gaussian-surface | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947018 | 932 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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Differentiation and teaching is like peanut butter and jelly. Not everybody likes it! However, if done correctly, this can be very enjoyable. The first day... | <urn:uuid:a2e52e7c-924b-4f95-beeb-f6fddf3ca532> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.edutopia.org/groups/personalized-learning/65094?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976592 | 288 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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There are two basic patterns for organizing comparison and contrast: the
alternating pattern and the block pattern.
•With the alternating pattern, the writer moves back and forth between the two
things. The two things are compared and contrasted point by point or
characteristic by characteristic.
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We noticed you are actually not timing your practice. Click the START button first next time you use the timer.
There are many benefits to timing your practice, including:
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Last week the New York Times reported a recent study on brain function published in the journal Psychological Science. This study, conducted by Travis Proulx from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven J. Heine from University of British Columbia, sought to examine how the brain responds to unusual, sur... | <urn:uuid:32e6615e-bb9a-42b7-a709-f630dd706058> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.uta.edu/englishmatters/2009/10/11/your-brain-on-literature/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964699 | 999 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Examining Urban Heat Islands
The Islands in the Sun project is sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resources and is led by Professors Peter Snyder and Tracy Twine. We are excited about the opportunity to highlight some of the things we a... | <urn:uuid:f4758b4d-3e78-450d-98f5-9b997c5b2e61> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://islands.environment.umn.edu/2011/09/06/examining-urban-heat-islands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951829 | 477 | 3.0625 | 3 |
The Arctic Outbreak, an unseasonable bout of frigid air that’s sweeping across the U.S. this week, is not the same as last winter’s so-called “Polar Vortex” event. Though both gave Americans the rare experience of breathing crisp, cold Arctic air, both were caused by different things: last winter’s “Polar Vortex” event... | <urn:uuid:fdba4d0c-53a4-4b60-96ee-901feb3f0b33> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/14/3592039/arctic-outbreak-polar-vortex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958079 | 1,162 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Dr. Jeanne Smith, in the University of
California Exotic Bird Report, January.2001, states that "there has only been
limited research done on safe and toxic plants for pet birds". Research on safe
and poisonous plants for pet birds has been conducted primarily at Washington
State University and from isolated case repor... | <urn:uuid:cf6d06de-3d6c-4063-bf7c-28cf9691a380> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cockatielcottage.net/houseplants.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.718892 | 836 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Our attitude towards our age has a massive impact on the likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia. New research shows that when seniors see themselves as 'older' their performance on a standard dementia screening test declines dramatically; making them five times more likely to meet the criteria for dementia.
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When you think of St. Patrick's Day, you think of Ireland, green, three leaf clovers, and leprechauns. But St. Patrick's Day was not always that way. Here is a compilation of little-known facts about St. Patty's Day, how it is celebrated in different cities across America, and how you can use MyHeritage to find your Ir... | <urn:uuid:44c80f75-87ed-4e73-a95a-3fe333a24a9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.myheritage.com/2009/03/st-patricks-day-is-acomin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956291 | 987 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Hispanic Link News Service
MEXICO CITY — Steven Spielberg’s movie — based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” — suggests maybe we have matured in how we understand our national past. Maybe some other conceptual changes are in store for us.
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One-of-a-kind meteorite unveiledEdmonton, Alberta, Canada -- The depths of space are much closer to home following the University of Alberta's acquisition of a meteorite that is the only one of its kind known to exist on Earth! What makes it so rare? The meteorite is 'pristine' – that is, still frozen and uncontaminate... | <urn:uuid:b59b4611-a587-469b-85bf-1c4df2fcb7a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2006-04/uoa-omu042106.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931034 | 531 | 3.828125 | 4 |
As a Royal Air Force officer during World War II, Clarke took part in the early development of radar. In a paper written for the radio journal "Wireless World" in 1945, he suggested that artificial satellites hovering in a fixed spot above Earth could be used to relay telecommunications signals across the globe.
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Panelists tell three stories about a new way someone is saving relationships, only one of which is true.
PARCC Field Testing Comes To Arizona Schools
More than 100,000 Arizona elementary through high school students will be taking part in a field test for one of the assessments aligned with the Common Core education st... | <urn:uuid:91c9109f-79b7-4aca-8929-1b7fca44d32a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kjzz.org/content/23126/parcc-field-testing-comes-arizona-schools | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96872 | 601 | 2.625 | 3 |
Students learn about North America’s venomous snakes, use artistic skills to create a specific snake, and write a short story about an encounter with that snake.
Snakes, reptiles, venom, science, writing, drawing, art
Consider how your students will be creating their snakes and gather the art materials necessary for Pa... | <urn:uuid:650ff9a2-d1d3-4df5-96a2-872050484507> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/venomous-snakes-north-america.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939693 | 1,731 | 3.609375 | 4 |
China represents an extreme example of the problems countries experiencing rapid demographic transition will have to face in the coming decades. A recent study estimates that China's population will peak at 1.6 billion in 2040, compared with 1.2 billion in 1995. It is expected to fall below 1.4 billion by 2100. These a... | <urn:uuid:2f1f794a-c2fc-427e-bfb8-2b8f67ef54c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/archivestory.php/aid/40/China,_a_demographic_time_bomb.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954623 | 950 | 2.984375 | 3 |
AUGUST 11, 1997
A night custodian at Eastridge Elementary School reads students' essays following the completion of their 17-week DARE program. The students' words so affected him that he quit smoking.
Photo by Deborah Stone
Eastridge student makes an impact
by Deborah Stone
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Russel Wallace : Alfred Russell Wallace (sic)
Now that a mathematician and astronomer like Dr. Pratt takes up the very same ground as Von Gumpach, it seems time that the matter should be clearly explained; and, with your permission, though neither an astronomer nor mathematician, I will endeavour to do so; and I have t... | <urn:uuid:eb734195-5055-417c-bed7-a8319fdffd1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S115-116.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948681 | 728 | 2.953125 | 3 |
A 10-minute walk north of Split's historic downtown is Croatia's oldest museum, which was founded in 1820.
The incentive for the establishment of the museum was provided by the visit of Emperor Francis I to Dalmatia in 1818, which also included visits to Split and Solin (formerly Salona). The original museum building w... | <urn:uuid:7364345e-68d8-4219-b94c-6cf37806ada6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.viator.com/Split-attractions/Archaeological-Museum-Arheoloski-Muzej/d4185-a10004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954553 | 314 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The Everglades area is a lonely one. For every person you meet, there are scores of plants and animals to help you remember that you are not the sole proprietor of the River of Grass. However, as far as people go, their presence within the Everglades is a true rarity. For those who must remain here. but also need human... | <urn:uuid:1b528787-a72c-48df-81d8-83c17f439f19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://everglades.fiu.edu/fiu/idh4007/odio3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989849 | 846 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies, The Evergreen State College
Lab 1, Room 3012, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW,
Olympia, WA 98505 USA
Tel. (360) 867-6153
By Charles F. Gritzner
Journal of Geography 102: 90-91.
Contemporary Americans have access to an unprecedented quantity of information, and to sophist... | <urn:uuid:628eb155-abe2-41ae-a958-d9080d74bb36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/gritzner.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946718 | 3,484 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Cloud computing has been pioneering the business of renting computing resources in large data centers to multiple (and possibly competing) tenants. The basic enabling technology for the cloud is
A key driver of the growth of cloud computing in the early days was server consolidation. Existing applications were often in... | <urn:uuid:2f9481cb-479c-4979-bea9-a3a7d1766bf9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899067 | 4,304 | 3.03125 | 3 |
By Majid Rafizadeh, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Majid Rafizadeh is a policy analyst and human rights activist and a contributing editor to the Harvard International Review. The views expressed are his own.
Despite what many Middle East analysts have been suggesting in recent months, the recent wave of uprisings in Li... | <urn:uuid:7581d97d-e8c4-49d1-bc6b-86b7724928eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/07/jobs-key-to-middle-easts-revolutionary-wave/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955173 | 856 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific. Moorea is 132 square kilometers (51 square miles) of tropical ecosystems – from jungle and wetlands to beaches and coral reefs – with no major landmasses for thousands of miles. While it may look like the perfect vacation spot, it’s actually ... | <urn:uuid:79004997-dda8-431f-bd71-3127c0841435> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ocean.si.edu/scientists-catalog-life-island-moorea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900009 | 217 | 3.515625 | 4 |
You might think that I – a public historian – would love the opportunities on our public calendar to celebrate historical figures and communities. But truth be told, I’m a bit of a skeptic.
Fifty years ago, in May 1961, a small group of civil rights activists embarked on a journey that would change them and change Amer... | <urn:uuid:7c04ad40-07e0-4672-af60-23177c9ce21a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jwa.org/blog/author/judith-rosenbaum?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956401 | 523 | 2.78125 | 3 |
As the text with this portrait shows, John Gay, who was born in 1688, is most famous for his ballad opera,The Beggar's Opera, first produced in 1728. It wasn't his first attempt at writing for the stage. He had tried satire, comedy and pastoral, including The Mohocks in 1712 and The What d'ye Call It, 1715, and had als... | <urn:uuid:11fdd224-5b64-4b54-b360-46d12135d297> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/8984 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99582 | 197 | 2.890625 | 3 |
I was recently introduced to a friend’s five-year-old daughter, and I’m already living in her shadow. She is being raised with not one, not two, but three languages. I began calculating how soon this child would know more total vocabulary than I do, and realized it’s probably already happened.
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It sounds like hype from a late-night infomercial: It can twist and bend without breaking! And wait, there's more: It could someday help you fend off disease!
But in this case it's true, thanks to scientists from several institutions including the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They ... | <urn:uuid:287c7354-4528-48a6-823e-41103faaeb94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.microbeworld.org/component/jlibrary/?view=article&id=6666 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932877 | 153 | 2.625 | 3 |
Go a few hours without the regular dose of caffeine, get a headache. It's a common problem we jokingly call caffeine withdrawal, but there's mounting evidence that that withdrawal, as well as caffeine intoxication, are genuine medical conditions deserving of diagnosis.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "the latest ... | <urn:uuid:ffc89860-c314-467c-a6c7-4a9e6324e031> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tested.com/food/coffee/456456-caffeine-withdrawal-and-addiction-earn-clinical-diagnoses-mental-disorders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952825 | 421 | 2.546875 | 3 |
IMRT for lung cancer
Three-dimensional planning with IMRT allows your radiation oncologist to simultaneously treat multiple lung cancer tumors with different doses of radiation, while sparing healthy tissue in the lung and elsewhere.
RapidArc® shortens treatment times
RapidArc® is an advanced technology we use to deliv... | <urn:uuid:b4519396-5ead-442d-92ae-1887cfd1de0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cancercenter.com/lung-cancer/imrt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938171 | 492 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The PSA test doctors use as a screen for prostate cancer is deeply flawed — as we were reminded last week, with the publication of largely inconclusive interim data from two big studies that left unanswered whether the risks associated with screening and treatment outweigh the benefits.
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Some people would pay anything for a quickfix pill for their sex lives or to slow the inevitable aging process. Now, US scientists have found a new class of small molecule in the molecular biologist’s favorite nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, a blend of which apparently not only attract mates but also slow the de... | <urn:uuid:0f5a9a57-e5a5-4327-bf7b-21de0154d042> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.reactivereports.com/chemistry-blog/sexy-worms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918457 | 381 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The lion of Judah tattoo is popular. It signifies all that the lion is. The most admirable qualities probably being this animal’s courage, strength and fearlessness. These are qualities that we, as humans, find very desirable, particularly if we are the male of the species! But in the modern world many women will also ... | <urn:uuid:6b7e9b5b-789b-4a39-b9d2-d4b9ce940d5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pictures-of-cats.org/lion-of-judah-tattoo.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958075 | 640 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Five People Born on March 15
Today is March 15, 2010 and the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days left in the year 2010. According the Mayan calendar, there are 1012 days till the end of the current cycle. It is the Ides of March, made famous in the Shakespearean play, Julius Caesar. On th... | <urn:uuid:d1d24376-52b1-469e-ad1d-610e079e7a84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://myfivebest.com/born-on-march-15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979766 | 2,465 | 2.84375 | 3 |
On April 2, 1931, world famous New York Yankees sluggers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were struck out by a 17 year old female pitcher named Virnett ‘Jackie’ Mitchell in Chattanooga, TN.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball,” grumbled Ruth off-field. “Of course, they will never make go... | <urn:uuid:8cc34f5f-1572-400f-bc13-48981cf8beb7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014/04/chattanooga-woman-strikes-out-babe-ruth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97906 | 900 | 2.5625 | 3 |
It's easy to see that images in the passenger side-view mirror are smaller than they are in reality. All you need to do is check the mirror and then glance over your right shoulder. And this is why they seem farther away -- we judge distance by the relative size of objects. Our brains compare how big a car looks in the... | <urn:uuid:e4814ac1-5bce-4adc-bc42-e702e2b61b9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/science-questions/why-objects-in-mirror-closer-than-they-appear1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922253 | 418 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Vomiting is most often a natural reaction of the body to some toxic substance in the gastro-intestinal tract. Vomiting can result from several kinds of bacterial and viral diseases, and from poisons and drugs. Activated charcoal is a premiere natural remedy that adsorbs these toxins and is routinely used in Emergency W... | <urn:uuid:85e729bb-914e-41c8-b50c-9178281f6a44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.charcoalremedies.com/vomiting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980712 | 1,934 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Scientists presume to speak with confidence about the origin of the universe and billions of years, but have been clueless about some everyday things close to home in the present.
Mystery of the whistling teakettle: PhysOrg reported that two Cambridge researchers have finally figured out how the teakettle produces a wh... | <urn:uuid:e6df6327-6e08-48bb-a631-ffa11d4a1a0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://crev.info/2013/11/surprising-things-science-didnt-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947334 | 793 | 3 | 3 |
Plasma cutting methods are a widely used industrial means of cutting thick, heavy-duty materials that are electrically conductive. Plasma cutting is applied to materials such as stainless steel, steel plate, aluminum, copper and brass.
When plasma cutting first developed out of plasma welding, machinery was slow and ex... | <urn:uuid:aef91d9b-7b1d-419a-9199-7d7c7c7006c6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cutterplasma.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9522 | 590 | 3.578125 | 4 |
The historical significance of South Carolina's (education) Lottery can impact blacks greater than any event since the abolition of slavery if we do the right thing.
Whites feel blacks who point out inequalities of the past and present have a victim syndrome and should get over it. But never shall we disregard rape and... | <urn:uuid:02139f71-1036-4f80-bef0-b84a8dd5c700> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/03/09/let_337714.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925835 | 355 | 2.890625 | 3 |
To raise an exception means to signal that the program cannot proceed normally due to an error or other condition. (In other programming languages, such as Java, the equivalent term is to throw an exception.)
Two values accompany the raising of an exception: the
type and the value. For example, if a program
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Hellenismos, otherwise known as Greek Reconstructionist Paganism, is the traditional, polytheistic religion of ancient Greece, reconstructed in and adapted to the modern world. It's a vibrant religion which can draw on a surprising amount of ancient sources. Baring the Aegis blogger Elani Temperance blogs about her exp... | <urn:uuid:30dfbf00-d31b-4415-84cd-8f9a058abd53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://witchesandpagans.com/Pagan-Paths-Blogs/labour-four-capture-the-erymanthian-boar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984697 | 2,332 | 2.671875 | 3 |
3.4 The mathematical model (see Restoration of the Planet)
The definition of sustainable development
The weighting method
The impact equation
The four interacting circles
The components of the four major quality systems
* People or social aspectsScoring method for performance
The Scale of Values obtained from the surve... | <urn:uuid:0594ad7e-5429-4017-9fbc-534eadeccb13> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globalcommunity/measurementofsd.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891665 | 8,071 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Greenwood Cemetery was chartered as “The Greenwood Cemetery Company of Philadelphia” on October 26, 1869. The president of the cemetery company, Wilbur H. Myers, was a member of the Knights of Pythias and decided to amend the charter to change the name of the cemetery to “The Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery Compa... | <urn:uuid:83b2639b-8be9-45da-8fac-b6a55e61652b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kpgreenwoodcemetery.org/history.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986753 | 328 | 2.96875 | 3 |
A Brief History of the NMSP
The New Mexico State Police has a proud tradition of service to the citizens of New Mexico.
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico; and by the terms of the treaty, the area that became New Mexico was now part of the United States. New Mexi... | <urn:uuid:91d777dc-7406-4267-a849-7f8dbf26064f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nmsp.dps.state.nm.us/index.php/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971197 | 686 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Reviewed by Douglas Bailie (University of Alberta)
Published on H-PCAACA (December, 1997)
Train passengers and cinema audiences shared a common experience. Scenes flashed past the train window or the movie screen, taking the passenger/spectator on a journey which challenged one's perception of space and time. Several h... | <urn:uuid:9796d4b0-9ecf-460e-be64-906345d2484e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1566 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927261 | 954 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Henry V Art and Culture Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
O, for a Muse of fire that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! (Prologue.1-4)
Here, the Chorus asks for a "muse of fire" to help the theater company portr... | <urn:uuid:5f99b746-014f-48d0-8c0f-b256f1191493> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/henry-v/art-culture-quotes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92188 | 693 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The latest news about space exploration and technologies,
astrophysics, cosmology, the universe...
Posted: Mar 25, 2014
Studying crops, from outer space
(Nanowerk News) Plants convert energy from sunlight into chemical energy during a process called photosynthesis. This energy is passed on to humans and animals that ea... | <urn:uuid:a509c968-d41f-4d9b-a9dc-b78af07de2ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/space/newsid=34929.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935545 | 544 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Volume 31-09 1 May 2005
This page has been archived.
Information identified as archived on the Web is for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. It has not been altered or updated after the date of archiving. Web pages that are archived on the Web are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards. As pe... | <urn:uuid:ae4f87e3-5e16-4f11-8ec4-3f5728ee32ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/05vol31/dr3109a-eng.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922753 | 2,170 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Proposition 1C is the classic stitch in time that saves nine. A bond measure by which the state would borrow $900 million ($64 million per year in interest and principal payments) for capital investment in higher education, it would go very largely to complete projects already begun. Omnipresent on the list of these pr... | <urn:uuid:e3b61165-0eda-448c-af66-e819ce128583> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-20/local/me-59882_1_higher-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978359 | 333 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Grades 3 - 5
Grade level Equivalent: 5.1
Lexile® Measure: NC1230L
Guided Reading: Z
- Dragons and Mythical Creatures
- Magic and Supernatural
About This Book
Straight from the library at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a book of magical creatures that no Harry Potter fan should be without!
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See also: Blossom's Ferry.
Ferries are an integral part of North Carolina's modern transportation system, with 24 ferries providing regularly scheduled runs on seven different routes across rivers, sounds, and even an ocean access inlet. The capacity of the ferries in the state fleet ranges from 18 to 30 automobiles, a... | <urn:uuid:40ff117c-242c-4229-8ecb-0efb4c115029> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncpedia.org/node/2472/backlinks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949922 | 1,326 | 2.734375 | 3 |
"Abortion As a Sacrament"
Leaving that argument aside, this is far more interesting, and contentious:
- Although it is condoned, abortion is not treated casually by traditional Japanese culture. The life of the aborted embryo or fetus is honored through a ritual practice called mizuko jizo. Mizuko means "child of the w... | <urn:uuid:90c20aba-0dda-4d1a-ba69-e102634ce684> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://orientem.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961569 | 457 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown stood on a dry, bare hillside in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which would normally be deep under snow at this time of year, and announced an executive order aimed at dramatically reducing water usage statewide. The severity of the drought, now entering its fourth year, has alr... | <urn:uuid:6bf1a47d-86a1-48f9-8c34-1320f070b9dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/04/the-american-west-dries-up/389432/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964281 | 161 | 2.78125 | 3 |
For a while now I have been reflecting on the difference between unity and uniformity in the church. Last week’s post about “Playing at Presbyterianism” helped me frame this reflection in terms of the shift from Christendom to post-Christendom. As it has become clear that I need to do a better job of articulating what ... | <urn:uuid:398cee6d-2b17-458f-aed6-907c9ed4e1ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://johnvest.com/2013/11/26/unity-not-uniformity-in-post-christendom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956913 | 1,145 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working with the DARwIn-OP (which they helped to create) on a couple of fun projects that are worth a look.
The first one by Steve McGill is called Collaborative Mobile Manipulation Among Humanoid Robots, where two DARwIn-OPs have to work together to lift and carry a sm... | <urn:uuid:3c4bd4cb-2c8e-4e2c-85e6-186c9ee8d738> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=27835 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939857 | 545 | 2.84375 | 3 |
AS we read the story of invention it is wise to remember the "once upon a time" when all things had their beginning. Only thus do we realize that we are kin with our earliest ancestors and understand that it is mainly in the advantages we enjoy that we differ from the cave man.
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As with all rodents, Chinchilla's teeth grow throughout their lives, including their front teeth and their molars. From a “survival in the wild” perspective, this constant growth is required to ensure that chinchilla's teeth don't get worn down to nothing from all the chewing their food requires. As pets, we need to ma... | <urn:uuid:ca712ab2-ca9d-49d1-9c39-a9deb38150e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://infolific.com/pets/chinchillas/chinchilla-teeth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982447 | 370 | 2.65625 | 3 |
National cancer control programmes
A well-conceived, well-managed national cancer control programme lowers cancer incidence and improves the life of cancer patients, no matter what resource constraints a country faces.
A national cancer control programme is a public health programme designed to reduce the number of can... | <urn:uuid:a7bd4621-67c9-4a0a-90c0-f6a7f362168d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.who.int/cancer/nccp/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893134 | 180 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Globalization and Its Impact on Human Rights by George Mathews Chunakara (ed.)
Published by Christian Conference of Asia, Hong Kong. The Indian Edition was published in October, 2000 by Christava Sahitya Samithy, Tiruvalla - 689 101, Kerala, S. India, and is used by permission of the publisher. This material was prepar... | <urn:uuid:bb5af4e6-15b4-48ce-b617-35e6e402ba82> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1559&C=1396 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962362 | 6,889 | 2.578125 | 3 |
River Runs Through It
Banks of the Historic American River, Professors and Students Keep Watch
Over California Waterways
your campus borders the legendary American River, you cant help
being a nosy neighbor. Sac State researchers are looking into the good,
the bad and the uglyfish, floods and freonin not only the
river... | <urn:uuid:29a2f7f3-edb8-45da-9700-a3f70f08cf6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csus.edu/pubaf/journal/spring2001/10ariver.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924554 | 1,997 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Abortion is for some a means of birth control, for some a way to manage a dilemma, for others never an option because it ends life. Abortion is not new, nor is the debate about it likely to end.
While a relatively small sample of French Mennonites reflect divergence of opinion (fewer favoured abortion), the reasons wer... | <urn:uuid:6f22a636-afa0-49d6-b64a-7ee0471db1f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Abortion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916878 | 1,060 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Learning about evolutionary history
An organism's development, or ontogeny, may contain clues about its
history that biologists can use to build evolutionary trees.
Characters displayed by embryos such as these may help untangle patterns
of relationship among the lineages.
Ancestral characters are often, but not always... | <urn:uuid:251a2a83-9ad0-4bff-8e2c-701916e0ee31> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evodevo_02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95544 | 563 | 3.984375 | 4 |
The recent donor country pressure for African nations to adopt multiparty politics as the means to democracy has had its positive results. On the negative side, the rural majority are still peripheral to this process which, quite frankly, is rather alien to rural processes of democracy and transparency. The greatest ne... | <urn:uuid:6cac1c18-e4a5-496b-b007-e9324b9aeaec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/docrep/w7314e/w7314e0a.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94676 | 4,227 | 3.046875 | 3 |
January 26, 2011
Centuries Of Sailors Weren’t Wrong: Looking At The Horizon Stabilizes Posture
Everybody who has been aboard a ship has heard the advice: if you feel unsteady, look at the horizon. For a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers measure... | <urn:uuid:c2456338-66fa-44df-81a3-a244d89604ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1985677/centuries_of_sailors_werent_wrong_looking_at_the_horizon_stabilizes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972105 | 693 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Lime is a term referring to a number of different fruits (generally citruses), both species and hybrids, which have their origin in the Himalayan region of India, and which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3–6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour and acidic pulp. They are frequently associated with... | <urn:uuid:5cbeaa20-0228-4373-b275-a2e034dcefc0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foodfacts.com/ci/ingredientsoverlay/lime-leaves/11533 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972321 | 289 | 3.171875 | 3 |
|Great Mosque of Kufa|
The Great Mosque of Kufa, or Masjid al-Kūfa (Arabic: مسجد الكوفة المعظم), located in Kūfa, Iraq, is one of the earliest mosques in Islam. It was constructed in the middle of the 7th century after the Caliph Omar established the city. The mosque contains the remains of Muslim ibn ‘Aqīl - first cou... | <urn:uuid:1d0ca765-198c-4007-a285-7e3eb857403f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Kufa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937889 | 1,433 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Free Download - 17 Essential Strum Patterns PDF
An interval in music is a measurement of distance and sound between
two different notes. The first thing that you should understand
in your interval journey is what the intervals are within a major
scale. Remember that the major scale is a constant in music
theory. You wi... | <urn:uuid:bdd60c84-2ded-4acc-a6d0-d5cb504b8ad8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cyberfret.com/theory/intervals/index.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943685 | 470 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Grace Academy students in grades three to five are using the Hands-On Equations method this year to make learning algebraic concepts easier.
The instructional system uses game pieces consisting of pawns and numbered cubes, as well as a one-dimensional picture of a balance.
The use of this hands-on model helps students ... | <urn:uuid:c0aa5148-ce4f-4a1a-b444-50a09df8226f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.herald-mail.com/2012-02-26/education/31102613_1_hands-on-equations-math-problems-grace-academy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926911 | 194 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Public School 39
417 6th Avenue
New York City
Public School 39, also known as the Henry Bristow School, has been a neighborhood institution in the southern section of Park Slope for one hundred years. Prominently sited at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street, it is a handsome and distinctive brick school buildi... | <urn:uuid:520b1dcf-bb4f-4430-a22a-5c17af8ba4ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bldgdb.com/public-school-39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971405 | 1,366 | 2.84375 | 3 |
|Alexander VI, Poster Child of Bad Popes|
Popes are men of their times... and the bad popes tell us something about the Church's ever-changing relationship to society. In the early middle ages, influential Roman families controlled the election of the Pope (unless a northern king from, say, Germany, came down and put h... | <urn:uuid:7920674b-57ee-4621-8da9-b34ab38f4ec2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://romans8v29.blogspot.com/2013/02/7-things-every-catholic-should-know_20.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9752 | 682 | 2.75 | 3 |
In written form, that notion of what the right to counsel is looks like this:
[The Sixth Amendment] commands, not that a trial be fair, but that a particular guarantee of fairness be provided—to wit, that the accused be defended by the counsel he believes to be best. “The Constitution guarantees a fair trial through th... | <urn:uuid:97fd27cd-29c2-4a9f-b6f0-d50bd7c68396> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://althouse.blogspot.com/2006/06/lets-say-it-again-alito-is-not-scalito.html?showComment=1151374920000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967611 | 346 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Chronic Pain Causes
Long-term illness or disease, ongoing conditions, and injuries are the most common causes for chronic pain. Other causes include damage to the central or peripheral nervous system and vascular conditions. Long-term illnesses that may result in chronic pain include the following:
- Degenerative disea... | <urn:uuid:a652eb5b-5426-46d9-b965-4e14cc7ba25b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthcommunities.com/chronic-pain/causes.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933181 | 542 | 3.125 | 3 |
M-51 the Whirlpool
This is a CCD image
taken with an STL-1301E CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20 inch F/8.1 telescope.
See info on
Supernova 2011dh in M-51 on this
Messier: (Jan. 11th, 1774) 'Very faint nebula without stars
... M. Messier discovered this nebula on the 13th of Oct. 1773, while observing
the comet which appe... | <urn:uuid:e5205268-1a00-47c6-ba92-d1dae8414044> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kopernik.org/images/archive/m51.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881424 | 1,022 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Two Metal Refinishers Die When Fumes Ignite in Elevator Car
Missouri FACE Investigation # 92MO04601 - 92MO04602
The deaths of workers in confined spaces constitute a recurring occupational tragedy. If you are required to work in a:
- SEWER STORAGE TANK SHIPS HOLD
- SEPTIC TANK SILO REACTION VESSEL
- SEWAGE DIGESTER VAT... | <urn:uuid:011ce297-3f6b-4a49-ba9e-c8e61a52088b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/stateface/mo/92mo046.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941366 | 3,266 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Globalization: Definition and Impact—Updated
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu
September 03, 2012
In a book titled The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy (1994), Professor Hilbourne A. Watson suggests that globalization "is an intensive process that conforms to the tendencies and laws of motion of (international) capital." ... | <urn:uuid:93f8424c-ce3d-4dba-9d2a-c741c5368158> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trinicenter.com/kwame/2012/0309.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927746 | 1,461 | 2.875 | 3 |
Capacitors are passive circuit elements that can be used to store energy in the form of an electric field. In the simplest case, a capacitor is a set of parallel metal plates separated by a dielectric substance.
Electric charges build up on the opposite plates as a voltage is applied to the capacitor.
With a constant v... | <urn:uuid:fab46eff-88a5-4fc3-8edf-4980e680a035> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Theory/Capacitors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909646 | 578 | 3.859375 | 4 |
“If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak then to me.”
Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, 3
Why did the creation of Israel engender such deep but opposing emotions in the Islamic world and the West, leading to Arab wars against Israel and Israeli wars against its Arab neighb... | <urn:uuid:2013e6b1-3182-41f4-a308-ada6c10e0c7a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/10/29/israel-and-the-consequences-of-quot-uniqueness-quot/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965043 | 5,740 | 2.625 | 3 |
Heart failure is real, and it often begins with high blood pressure – a silent killer in the African American community.
If you aren’t experiencing high blood pressure, then you most likely know someone who is. According to the American Heart Association, more than 40 percent of Blacks are living with high blood pressu... | <urn:uuid:3475addf-59e1-42c7-84b4-602c829ece82> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://communityjournal.net/category/mcj-weekend-edition/health/page/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939026 | 497 | 2.875 | 3 |
Map created in Guide 7.0 with the figure outline based on Johannes Hevelius' Uranographia (1690). Click on the object's name to access its image or click on the name of adjacent constellation to see its map.
This Nortern circumpolar constellations was introduced by the Dutch globe-maker Petrus Kaerius in 1613. It occup... | <urn:uuid:83d59b60-80cc-4056-bac8-64df29d0e89d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.astrosurf.com/jwisn/camelopardalis.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908963 | 145 | 3.265625 | 3 |
When Loring Gotschall of Marblehead, Mass., eats avocados, bananas, raw chestnuts, or kiwi, she has an unusual reaction — severe abdominal pain for a couple of hours.
"I used to eat a banana every day for breakfast, and over time they started affecting me," she says. At first, she thought a digestive problem was causin... | <urn:uuid:9d3e5b3c-cd5e-4f00-8221-b24f90d80c41> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everydayhealth.com/allergies/food-allergies-and-digestive-problems.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958763 | 683 | 2.796875 | 3 |
By Rev. Thomas A. McGovern, S.J.
Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College, 1972–1985
Thomas Aquinas College defines itself in terms of liberal education and is concerned exclusively with such education. That phrase itself may suggest different notions to different people, but there is one traditional meaning thereof that the Coll... | <urn:uuid:7f45ff92-79ee-41ac-be31-8c10b69feb07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thomasaquinas.edu/about/liberal-education-and-freedom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969014 | 1,434 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Parsley is a biennial herb grown in many parts of the world. Used primarily in cooking and as a garnish, it may be used fresh or dried and is commonly served with potatoes, rice, meats, soups and salads. Parsley is also used as an herbal supplement, thought to aid digestion, sweeten the breath, and reduce inflammation,... | <urn:uuid:471aff7b-918b-4132-89a8-e7c0b07e20cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.grannymed.com/remedies/conditions/bad-breath/parsley-for-bad-breath | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935296 | 259 | 2.75 | 3 |
MUNISING - Young people learning about credit and how to use it could benefit from some reminders and tips from educators at Michigan State University Extension.
Alger County MSUE Educator Joan Vinette in Munising said teaching youth about some of the basic terminology involved is important. She suggests explaining tha... | <urn:uuid:59e5e149-c1c2-429e-af2b-4336173bf7b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/568295/Credit-tips-for-young-people.html?nav=5136 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959336 | 771 | 3.296875 | 3 |
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