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Quality Creation Science Courses
Apologia Science courses are creation-based and homeschool friendly. After all, both Dr. Jay Wile and Jeannie Fulbright the main authors have been homeschool parents.
Both were inspired to write science courses because they could not find curriculum that worked for their own families. B... | <urn:uuid:73c11318-0336-43cd-b2c0-a66eac6be9f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-homeschool-companion.com/apologiascience.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939607 | 1,070 | 3.28125 | 3 |
A brief history of cinnamon bark oil and its benefits
February 14, 2014 09:34 PM
What is cinnamon
Cinnamon traces its roots to the biblical times of Moses. It was imported to Egypt in the year 2000 BC by ancient travellers. It is one of the most valued herbs that is known to cure a variety of health complications.
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Now the boy was rich, and he married the beautiful daughter of the head chief, and when he became older he was made head chief himself. He had many children by his beautiful wife, and one day, when his oldest boy died, he wrapped him in his spotted calf robe and buried him in it. He always took good care of his old gra... | <urn:uuid:542f92ce-0a19-4f1e-afea-458b82d67eeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/5718/163.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994268 | 494 | 2.625 | 3 |
Buy This Book
by Starr Ockenga
Hardcover, 96 pages
7 1/2 x 10, full-color photographs
Excerpt from Amaryllis
A History of Hippeastrum
Amaryllis: elegant, sensual, and mysterious. A tender tropical plant, the amaryllis bursts into magisterial flower from an oversized bulb.
The virtues of amaryllis are many. To begin wit... | <urn:uuid:5cbe85c8-d1f5-4dea-ba2e-b3cb4cf8d564> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/3296-excerpt-book-amaryllis-gardening-book.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946887 | 4,631 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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Hip Figuresdramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan D... | <urn:uuid:be1f2934-5d09-42c8-9f46-3a0e1d8ba8b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.bookshare.org/browse/author?key=Michael%20Szalay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913374 | 702 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Dr. Fuhrman contends a vegetable-based nutrient-dense diet is essential for protecting against and reversing heart disease. In Cholesterol Protection for Life Dr. Fuhrman advises people to center their diets on health promoting foods and to limit staples of the typical American diet:
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Written by Sara Peach for UNC Health Care
CHAPEL HILL – It's a harmless-looking pale blue gas, a relative of the oxygen molecule that sustains life. In the upper atmosphere, a layer of it protects us from the sun's harmful rays.
But ozone molecules, composed of three oxygen atoms, can trigger breathing problems when th... | <urn:uuid:275e1dcc-168a-40ea-9d3a-66e01430734a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.med.unc.edu/www/newsarchive/2010/april/air-pollution-expert-explains-how-to-take-care-of-your-lungs-during-ozone-season | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940014 | 772 | 3.46875 | 3 |
is constantly moving within and around the earth in a continuous
pattern called the hydrologic cycle.
with Water Use the navigation buttons on the right
to explore the water cycle. Using the oval buttons, you can
see the three primary stages of the water cycle in action.
Then check out the processes that make up these ... | <urn:uuid:e4d2c365-46eb-432e-b36d-6ff33d6bbbd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/water/in_depth/watercycle.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920435 | 424 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Organ transplant operations save lives. But for recipients, treatment does not end with an operation - they must take medication for the rest of their lives.
The EU-funded project ONE Study ('A unified approach to evaluating cellular immunotherapy in solid organ transplantation') is looking to change this through cell ... | <urn:uuid:11173432-4a4c-4ea6-843e-94ded73392d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-transplant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946168 | 544 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Welcome to 2012!
OK, pop quiz: When you silently read that opening sentence to yourself, how did you pronounce the name of the year? Did you a) think “two thousand twelve,” b) think “twenty-twelve,” or c) stop, paralyzed with uncertainty?
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BEIJING, Nov. 24 -- Water shortage has become the top problem facing China's rapid urbanization, as about two thirds of its 661 cities face this problem, China News Agency quoted a source from the Ministry of Water Resources as saying.
Among more than 400 cities with water shortage problems, about 100 are in serious tr... | <urn:uuid:a64058ae-16bc-4235-9b6f-a62ee2666605> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/24/content_5369926.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960404 | 370 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Mustang Memories: James V. Lyles, Breaking The Color Barrier
The Rev. James V. Lyles and four fellow students in Perkins School of Theology made history in 1955 as the first African Americans to graduate from SMU.
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Amid the economic crisis plaguing Europe, the prime ministers of Greece (George Papandreou) and Italy (Silvio Berlusconi) resigned last week. They have since been replaced with the appointments of Lucas Papademos in Greece and Mario Monti in Italy — men with backgrounds in banking and economics. We asked Northeastern U... | <urn:uuid:33497214-54e9-47dc-8175-73b8fa2e4974> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2011/11/greece_italy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970524 | 728 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Bush administration budget cuts could set back efforts to eliminate the Asian long-horned beetle from the New York City area, leaving the city and the Northeast at risk for widespread damage to parks, forests and street and backyard trees, as well as to the maple syrup, lumber, fruit-growing, and tourism industries. Fu... | <urn:uuid:84b53eb7-8439-48f7-8314-7e7d5f51e0a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/topics/1936-new-threat-from-asian-long-horned-beetle-also-van-cortlandt-park-and-the-water-filtration-plant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950123 | 1,333 | 2.765625 | 3 |
by Chris Woodford. Last updated: May 21, 2016.
Lasers are amazing light beams powerful
enough to zoom miles into the sky or cut through lumps of metal.
Once the stuff of science fiction, they have proved themselves
to be among the most versatile inventions of modern times.
The miniaturized laser beam that reads music i... | <urn:uuid:f8f48b24-09db-456e-8329-465020b994ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.explainthatstuff.com/lasers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926942 | 2,396 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Have you ever tried to take a snooze, but the sounds of someone else's snoring, snorting, or wheezing keeps you awake? Arghh! When you are dealing with it in real life it's not a fun situation! However, it can offer humorous scenario when writing a picture book. Have you ever been kept awake by snoring? If so, how woul... | <urn:uuid:1305d77e-6f79-4a90-82c9-a0b269e9ec0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hcpl.net/content/bedtime-zzzzzzzzs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938889 | 980 | 2.546875 | 3 |
St. Kitts and Nevis is not one of the poorer countries of the Eastern Caribbean. The Caribbean Development Bank estimated per capita GDP at US$7,086 in 1998, which is above the regional average. There are no statistics for the distribution of wealth, but there are distinct pockets of poverty, especially in rural areas ... | <urn:uuid:fdf9c621-0181-4fef-a7dd-2630eefb5b4e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Americas/St-Kitts-and-Nevis-POVERTY-AND-WEALTH.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935485 | 380 | 3.078125 | 3 |
our Health Index for More Subjects, Conditions and
Creams & Neuropathy (Nerve Damage)
Denture Creams like Poligrip and
Fixodent, have been causing serious health problems in
many people. Denture creams contain zinc, and excessive
exposure to zinc can lead to copper depletion, which
when severe, can cause serious neurol... | <urn:uuid:76df84ee-c8d8-4ec2-9ffa-e1bf3f4f2004> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mcvitamins.com/Causes%20of%20Neuropathy/dental-cream.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922941 | 1,831 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Thou, thee, etc., are old forms which are now out of use in ordinary speech. Usage was based on position:
Subject pronoun: thou (singular), ye (plural) <you>
Object pronoun: thee (singular & plural) <you>
Possessive pronoun: thine, thy <your, yours>
There are, however, two modern uses of thou, thy, etc.:—
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Life Science: Session 8
Children's Ideas Bibliography
The Children's Ideas listed in this section of the Web site were compiled from the following research:
- Driver, et al. (1992). "Life and living processes." Leeds National Curriculum Support Project, Part 2. Leeds City Council and the University of Leeds, UK.
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Lectures on the weekly Torah reading by the faculty of
Do Priests go to War?
Rabbi Judah Zoldan
Midrasha for Women
The opening verses of this week’s reading deal with the possibility of marrying a beautiful woman taken captive in battle. The gemara (Kiddushin 21b) discusses the question of whether the priests, as well,... | <urn:uuid:98f6d047-1abc-48e0-b849-ed1c59f465ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/kiteze/zol.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97324 | 2,064 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Definitions for tyche
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word tyche
(Greek mythology) the goddess of fortune; identified with Roman Fortuna
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TIME magazine is a treasure trove of information on American politics and culture since 1923. You want to write a paper on it, TIME probably has an article about it. While clicking on article after article on the magazine’s online archive will produce many historical facts and observations, TIME has one source that man... | <urn:uuid:0746448f-2971-451e-8aee-bf24bbdd331b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dighist.org/2012/03/time-magazine-corpus-of-american-english/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943455 | 983 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Learning the names of flowers is important if you work as a florist, floral designer, wedding planner, greenhouse attendant or landscape designer so that you can communicate with others using the correct terms. You may also want to learn flower names to better understand the environment and to expand your floral vocabu... | <urn:uuid:5c3d1ef0-e3bd-4339-aaae-f0f6908858ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/125570-flower-names.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921358 | 502 | 3.953125 | 4 |
TB cases and deaths linked to HIV at alarming levels in Africa
Rising rates contrast sharply with accelerated progress in other regions
London/Geneva - March 24, 2005 - In most areas of the world, the battle against tuberculosis is being successfully fought, but in Africa the disease has reached alarming proportions wi... | <urn:uuid:c160dfc6-c958-4346-bcd2-245514424270> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.who.int/3by5/release/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950771 | 992 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays can be very harmful to the body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. Yet the most preventable cause of this type of cancer is exposure to UV light.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Portrait Gallery in Washington is exploring the life of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart from her flying to her advocacy for women’s rights.
In a new exhibit opening Friday, Earhart’s biography is told through photographs, paintings and drawings, and objects including her pilot’s license a... | <urn:uuid:e53949fc-99c4-4a75-8046-f8b24079e858> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/06/29/portrait-gallery-features-amelia-earharts-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972155 | 193 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This term for a non-rigid airship is of uncertain origin. We do know that it was coined during the First World War, but who coined it and why the rather enigmatic term blimp was chosen may never be known. Making matters worse, the various origin stories are often conflated in various sources, making sorting out the tru... | <urn:uuid:06ade09d-6414-4768-a2cf-ff9156919815> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/more/index.php/resources/P1904/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974968 | 553 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Rock Salt for the Feeding of Animals
Following our articles on rock salt uses, the current article is about how rock salt is very adequate for animal feeding.
In the same way that the benefits of rock salt for human consumption are evident, we provide rock salt to feed animals. It has become clear that animals have a n... | <urn:uuid:06d6c10b-912e-4227-9137-98c8c8ef134b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.erocksalt.com/rock-salt-animal-feed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951175 | 313 | 2.703125 | 3 |
MS specialist Dr Patrick Kingsley's clinical experience has been borne out by medical research (JAMA, 1991; 266: 2210) which shows that MS sufferers tend to have much lower levels of B12 than do healthy people (J Appl Nutri, 1973; 25: 16-40; Int J Neuroscience, 1993; 71(1-4): 93-9).
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1. The works of early European and European-American
explorers. It should be clear these individuals are not discovering
the land and waters as Native people are already present. The Europeans
and European- Americans are discovering the ignorance of their ancestors
about these places.
2. Russians, Yankee Whalers, missi... | <urn:uuid:1f7b3be7-17c7-4388-8095-88f4f6ee7a3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/bibliography.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.794216 | 12,226 | 3.375 | 3 |
The white British-black Caribbean achievement gap : tests, tiers and teacher expectations
Strand, Steve. (2012) The white British-black Caribbean achievement gap : tests, tiers and teacher expectations. British Educational Research Journal, Vol.38 (No.1). pp. 75-101. ISSN 0141-1926Full text not available from this repo... | <urn:uuid:dad68bb0-4d42-45bc-aa67-c108a11f2189> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/37627/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.764463 | 431 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A measure seeking positive, confident, satisfied employees. Involves the overall viewpoint of employees while at work in the work environment. Includes employee emotions, attitude, satisfaction. The morale of the employees directly effects productivity. Dissatisfied and negative employees portray negative, low employee... | <urn:uuid:81e2233d-0003-4eae-84ba-40c1de24d439> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thelawdictionary.org/employee-morale/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932641 | 97 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Bill, how bad do you think it will get?
I note that the first US death from swine flu was reported this morning in Texas. How widespread do you think this will get and with what toll?
The most honest answer is this – we need more data .
My hunch is that this isn’t “the big one.”
Just to put this in perspective… Typical... | <urn:uuid:74b14519-7751-4031-9d9b-c7a1bc555120> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://uechi-ryu.com/swine-flu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978427 | 932 | 2.515625 | 3 |
RESEARCHERS WATCH ANTIBIOTICS, BACTERIA MEET AT ATOMIC LEVEL
COLUMBUS , Ohio – A new understanding of an enzyme important for the transfer of genetic information in bacteria may help scientists improve current antibiotics and also create antibiotics that are less vulnerable to resistance.
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The civil parish names can be read with a magnifying glass. The lightly coloured areas were parts of parishes transferred from one district council to another during the period 1894-1974.
Cottingham is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies just to the north-west of the city ... | <urn:uuid:5416b833-4a1e-4d7c-a558-7dd0e2e846e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Cottingham%2C_Yorkshire%2C_England | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972266 | 387 | 2.765625 | 3 |
WIJAYANTI, YHENA (2008) NILAI DIDAKTIK SERAT “ANGLING DARMA” DAN KEMUNGKINANNYA SEBAGAI BAHAN AJAR SENI BUDAYA MUATAN LOKAL DI KABUPATEN BOJONEGORO. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Fiber Anglingdarma is folklore that is very popular among the people of East Java, especially B... | <urn:uuid:775cb653-3604-4252-a2f1-83b809bb2cc6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eprints.umm.ac.id/6943/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.867314 | 684 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Tutorial: Robot Safety
From Tekkotsu Wiki
Educational robots are not indestructable. The two principal dangers people need to be wary of are: (1) uncommanded motion, and (2) joint wear.
Uncommanded motion means the robot moved when you weren't expecting it to, or in a manner you didn't expect. For example, if the robot... | <urn:uuid:5c8e1855-f2f7-44a1-9b1c-7faf5abebbf0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wiki.tekkotsu.org/index.php/Tutorial:_Robot_Safety | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921628 | 595 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Alec Jeffreys and Genetic Fingerprinting
In 1984, Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester. Twenty five years later, in 2009, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys still conducts his research in the same Department - and teaches ... | <urn:uuid:d6c7f2a2-733c-4dd1-8085-7939ff518840> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/genetics/jeffreys | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899108 | 367 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Scrabble word: FORCED
In which Scrabble dictionary does FORCED exist?
Definitions of FORCED in dictionaries:
- verb - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"
- verb - urge or force (a person) to an action
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Am Fam Physician. 2000 Jun 1;61(11):3237-3238.
The article on pediatric emergency preparedness by Wheeler and colleagues1 in this issue of American Family Physician should encourage many family physicians to review their office plans for management of pediatric emergencies. Because it is not possible to prepare for eve... | <urn:uuid:97c54f07-b8e7-4d3b-aac5-981cfbc915e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/0601/p3237.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905163 | 974 | 3 | 3 |
I was wondering what does "a treat and a half" mean exactly? You can find many Google results of it, such as
"Peter Davison donates a treat and a half to the Doctor Who 50th celebrations."
"It's a treat and a half when a lovely new coffee shop opens just a few minutes walk away, nestled amongst the lanes."
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- Milton Brasher-Cunningham
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Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
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Bridge to Terabithia
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A Lesson Before Dying
Song of Solomon
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Flowers for Algernon
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Things Fall Apart
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By Kirstin Brink and Jessica Hawthorn, PhD candidates, University of Toronto
Many impressive fossils have been found in eastern Canada: the spectacular Precambrian fossils of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland; the Carboniferous early amniotes (egg-laying vertebrates) from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia; and the Jura... | <urn:uuid:ea0c5157-6369-438d-b421-484d925b6eab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.rom.on.ca/en/blog/rom-research-permian-trackways-pei | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964995 | 1,385 | 3.75 | 4 |
Apollo 16 Mission
Science Experiments - Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph
The Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph took pictures and spectra of astronomical objects in ultraviolet light.
Ultraviolet (UV) light is a type of electromagnetic radiation at wavelengths that are shorter than can be seen with the human eye. M... | <urn:uuid:72558358-011c-43fc-9309-cac98e71faab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_16/experiments/f_ultra/index.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957038 | 369 | 4.125 | 4 |
Windows PowerShell is a utility that greatly extends the scripting capabilities of Windows. Built on the .NET Framework, PowerShell is both a language and an interface for administering Windows. If you manage a Windows system, PowerShell will make it easier to automate much of your work. Topics: create and debug PowerS... | <urn:uuid:8b6b55ca-790f-46c8-8c7c-fe70bd46648c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/ce/category/course-details/?CourseID=11938&ParentID=1820&CategoryID=1894&Name=PowerShell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.830196 | 126 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Search articles from 1992 to the present.
Dividing Bearded Irises
This article was published originally on 6/14/2006
Bearded irises are one of the most popular and widely grown perennials in the home landscape. While bearded irises are beautiful, they do require high levels of maintenance. One important chore is to div... | <urn:uuid:749b112b-999d-4046-adad-a5074e249d80> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/2006/6-14/iris.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945346 | 580 | 3.328125 | 3 |
A remarkable period of change
Twelve days isn't a long time to digest a presidential election, all that came before it and all that's likely to come after. But it's long enough to get a bit of perspective.
Max Weber wrote that “politics is the strong and slow boring of hard boards.” It is not a vocation that rewards im... | <urn:uuid:9c8e6417-40da-4773-af04-3bd03ced54ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/2948369-74/states-ezra-history-klein-passed-periods-president-united-ago-debt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974731 | 552 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Although bicycle helmets will certainly help prevent serious head injuries, they are absolutely valueless in averting accidents from occurring in the first place. Every day, I am continually amazed at the number of bicyclists riding on sidewalks, traveling against traffic flow and engaging in other unsafe cycling pract... | <urn:uuid:da14aec5-c926-4666-bce6-6841a6735b9d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/1992-07-05/local/me-2638_1_bicycle-helmet-bill-mandatory-helmet-law-cycling-accidents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950702 | 256 | 2.53125 | 3 |
More than a century after Homer Plessy's railroad ride across Lake Pontchartrain became the basis of the country's Jim Crow laws, the descendants of Plessy and the judge who upheld the "separate but equal" laws are working together to help stamp out racism.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy boarded a white-only railroad car in N... | <urn:uuid:0978ad0d-66ef-4d40-9681-e1a84255ad42> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/relatives_in_landmark_plessy_v.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980615 | 805 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The International Criminal Court (ICC) -- which was formally established in 2003 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the as-of-yet-undefined crime of aggression -- has long held a special place in the hearts of human rights activists and those hoping to hold perpetrators of terrible crimes t... | <urn:uuid:5a762769-4921-47eb-9682-daf060f7173e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2009/02/crimes-need-to-be-punished-but-is-the-icc-the-right-means | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960432 | 1,523 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Definitions for brindleˈbrɪn dl
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word brindle
brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby(adj)
having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
A streaky colouration in animals.
An animal so coloured.
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In Chapter 5, Mill deals with a criticism of utilitarianism, which is that it has no link with the concept of justice. In order to debunk this claim, he goes through the rather challenging process of trying to define what justice is and how it can be linked to utilitarianism. After going through a ... | <urn:uuid:c12afd0a-ed3f-4040-9e1a-6e4b51ef5a9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-does-mill-address-problem-justice-chapter-5-420973 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961714 | 313 | 3.765625 | 4 |
In the first pada Brahman has been shown to be the cause of the origin, subsistence, and reabsorption of the entire world, comprising the ether and the other elements. Moreover, of this Brahman, which is the cause of the entire world, certain qualities have (implicitly) been declared, such as all-pervadingness, eternit... | <urn:uuid:e9889c33-c8d0-44d7-8077-2c9c55ac7563> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/16295/167.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955959 | 686 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Professor Thomas Hunt opened his workshop at the Catholic Education Summit July 18 by addressing the history of urban Catholic education in the United States.
But this was more than just a history lesson. This was a discovery of the role of community from the very start of Catholic education.
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Discovery of a larger than expected latent reservoir of HIV confounds “shock and kill” cure strategy
Just when some scientists were becoming more hopeful about finding a strategy to outwit HIV’s ability to resist, evade and otherwise survive efforts to rid it from the body, another hurdle has emerged to foil their plan... | <urn:uuid:bbe2d9d6-1530-4a4b-9580-52351912837c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.positivelite.com/component/zoo/tag/news/viral%20reservoirs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946371 | 331 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Stephen M.R. Covey continues his discussion on trust and illustrates his point by alluding to a metaphor his father sometimes used of a trust account: a balance of trust in an account. Deposits are made through behaviors that increase the amount of trust in the relationship and withdrawals, conversely, are the behavior... | <urn:uuid:e3e0ea12-f73c-4aef-a073-a00137879d07> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.vistage.com/vistage-think-big/speed-of-trust-part-2-w-stephen-m-r-covey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933005 | 776 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Milne-Edward's sifakas are black or chocolate brown sifakas with white patches on the hind legs and back. These white patches are not always present and sometimes are replaced by silver-tipped hairs. They have a short, naked black face with forward facing eyes for increased depth perception. T... | <urn:uuid:311c6314-14bf-4614-8922-1e512376d2c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eol.org/pages/4454284/overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918787 | 178 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Results for ' ventricular contraction'
Getting an Accurate Heart Valve Diagnosis
In order to decide the best treatment for your heart valve condition, you?ll need a careful evaluation. An accurate diagnosis helps you and your treatment team determine the risks and benefits of your treatment options.
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1. What is the significance of Stars and Stripes Forever in the circus?
When Stars and Stripes Forever is played it means that something catastrophic has happened. When Jacob hears this sound, he rushes to the big top where he knows Marlena, his love, is.
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TWENTY TRUTHS ABOUT RAISING GOATS
Mortality and goats go together. Any species that has early sexual maturity, short gestation, and multiple births is going to have deaths -- despite your efforts. Do your best and learn from your mistakes.
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Supporters complain about the notoriously bad and under-built AT&T network in Palo Alto and the need for this epicenter of technology to provide reliable cell service. The large number of iPhone and iPad owners in our community put unusual demands on the current system, and AT&T is desperately trying to put in place th... | <urn:uuid:5a94fedc-de9d-413b-8977-0be1f8b0957e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/print/2012/01/06/editorial-antenna-angst-unwarranted | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941679 | 814 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Neighbors: Income
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a
neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood
may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand
the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the
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An informative but superficial expose of the responsibility of Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain and his French subjects for sending thousands of Jews to their death during WW II. British journalist Webster explains that some 76,000 Jews, a quarter of all those in France at the outbreak of WW II, were sent to the concentra... | <urn:uuid:c9b07ffc-c910-407e-994f-d508b5b90dd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/paul-webster/petains-crime/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977726 | 357 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Woodshed Master Class, by Michael Pettersen
Freddie Green's Rhythm Guitar Style Revisited
After the article "Distilling Big Band Guitar: The Essence of Freddie Green" appeared (October 2000), both positive and negative response indicated widespread interest in Freddie Green's guitar technique and musicianship. This led... | <urn:uuid:6223543c-c3de-41f7-8f04-b4b2ea185944> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.freddiegreen.org/technique/mp_downbeatFeb04.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966832 | 748 | 2.546875 | 3 |
English Colour Terms in Context
This thesis examines usage of English colour terms in context, based on an extensive computerised text corpus, the Bank of English. It describes the ways in which English colour terms may be used to refer to nuances outside their normal area of designation and to attributes outside the c... | <urn:uuid:aebc76f0-bd33-4440-8a8e-c928a2a2d814> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.openthesis.org/documents/English-Colour-Terms-in-Context-432621.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863089 | 495 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The Mini-RF project launched two radar instruments to the moon to map the lunar poles, search for water ice, and to demonstrate future NASA communication technologies. The first instrument, launched on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, concentrated on mapping both polar regions... | <urn:uuid:9ddfc5e0-3dce-4d73-a531-041d67b9f195> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Mini-RF/overview/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90287 | 209 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The families of flowering plants
Including Monotaceae (E. Gilg) Maury ex Takhtajan
Habit and leaf form. Trees (often tall with buttressed bases, constituting the mixed Dipterocarp forests dominant in Asian lowland rainforests); non-laticiferous; resinous (Dipterocarpoideae), or not resinous; leptocaul. Mesophytic. Leav... | <urn:uuid:97e1e194-c19e-4f28-9ecd-3ff8898a0f90> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/dipteroc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.761105 | 2,224 | 3.109375 | 3 |
In the middle of a California desert, doctors perform a revolutionary surgical procedure. The simulated patient is in one place and the surgeon is in another, operating through a robot!
"No one's ever put a robot out in the desert, so we're the first."
Surgeon Timothy Broderick initially operates from a few miles away ... | <urn:uuid:930a0d45-2f03-4339-b3b0-b3509269c52a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wctv.tv/health/healthalert/headlines/4470637.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940243 | 375 | 2.859375 | 3 |
An ocean current is more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans. Ocean current is the directed movement of the ocean water by virtue of the forces like wind, earth's rotation, gravitation of the moon etc.
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Finding and distributing food is the core operation of the Maryland Food Bank. The partnerships we’ve built with a wide variety of food donors allow us to provide low-cost, nutritious food to our network partners; and the programs we’ve developed help us channel fresh foods directly to the communities that need it most... | <urn:uuid:a5e536a4-cb85-4076-a8b5-e0cd4e0123e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.mdfoodbank.org/our-programs/food-distribution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950479 | 448 | 2.515625 | 3 |
|Washington Inspecting the First Money Coined by the United States|
This essay summarizes the case for considering money as a legal institution. The Western liberal tradition, represented here by John Locke’s iconic account of money, describes money as an item that emerged from barter before the state existed. Consider... | <urn:uuid:b7711039-7567-4497-bf1e-f2e6d67bb0e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/desan-on-money-as-legal-institution.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939016 | 129 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Ontology plays an important role in knowledge sharing and reuse. While ontology originally is defined as a "systematic theory of existence" in philosophy, we define ontology as "a system of concepts/vocabulary used as primitives for building artificial systems" from knowledge base perspective.
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Questions swirl around the sinking of the MS Explorer
Experts say key pieces of the story are missing regarding the Nov. 23 incident off Antarctica.
People familiar with the Antarctic tourism industry weren't surprised that a cruise ship sank there.
What stunned them was that the ship in question was the MS Explorer, a... | <urn:uuid:96d6e324-ba35-45d4-8fce-ea221e53f484> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://m.csmonitor.com/2007/1203/p04s01-wogi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979812 | 1,282 | 2.75 | 3 |
It's staggering to imagine a time when the Earth and its planetary siblings were nothing but cosmic dust. Yet astronomers agree that this was the state of things some 4.5 billion years ago. Our sun was but a fledgling protostar, continually amassing more matter via gravity and steadily cranking up its internal nuclear ... | <urn:uuid:f631568e-72b6-4667-a1e3-bc712ded9c19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/how-do-planets-form.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950398 | 504 | 4.34375 | 4 |
D.C. to D.C. converters and D.C. to A.C. Converters belong to the category of Switched Mode Power Supplies (SMPS). The various types of voltage regulators, used in Linear Power Supplies (LPS), fall in the category of dissipative regulator, as they have a voltage control element usually transistor or zener diode which d... | <urn:uuid:c27021ac-2a21-4c8c-b9db-9f485314de8e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.engineersgarage.com/articles/smps-switched-mode-power-supply | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907361 | 895 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks, Southwestern Europe, 2010
Figure. Evolutionary relationships of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus strains from Spain and other representative sites. Evolutionary history was inferred by using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean. The optimal tree is s... | <urn:uuid:832ae7a9-1e5b-461a-95fa-8456621e8854> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/1/11-1040-f1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945778 | 189 | 2.84375 | 3 |
For an introduction to graphical plotting with WXP, we'll take you through the surface plotting program, step by step viewing options and tailoring parameters.
The surface plotting program is "sfcwx". If you run this program by itself, you will get 4 prompts: filename, region, variable and device. So in order to run th... | <urn:uuid:4ba2b411-2a4b-4684-895d-852f5c76ea7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.weather.unisys.com/wxp/wxp5/Tutorial/SurfacePlot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.776124 | 173 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Exposure of genital and intestinal tract mucosal tissues to HIV-infected body fluids is the leading mode of HIV transmission worldwide, as these tissues are rich in activated CD4+ T cells, which are the primary targets of the virus. Additionally, the gut contains about half of all CD4+ T cells in the body, making it a ... | <urn:uuid:62d3eb52-6064-4b0a-a8ed-cb7366303f9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amfar.org/Articles/In-The-Lab/2014/HIV-in-the-Blood-and-Gut--Exploring-the-Differences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935473 | 689 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Advances in Preference Handling
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Jan Chomicki, Vincent Conitzer, Ulrich Junker, and Patrice Perny, Cochairs
Preferences are a central concept of decision making and are becoming of increasing importance for computational fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, and human-computer ... | <urn:uuid:a0b60729-fda8-4408-a84e-72532b21a162> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aaai.org/Press/Reports/Workshops/ws-08-09.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926667 | 175 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Final Common Core State Standards - and New Achieve Resources - Released
On June 2, 2010, the final K-12 Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English and mathematics were released by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The CCSS are the result of a voluntary,... | <urn:uuid:7a6654ef-b176-4620-906e-33af467088c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mymassp.com/content/final_common_core_state_standards_and_new_achieve_resources_released | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936674 | 552 | 3.375 | 3 |
What makes and unmakes (women) architects?
Architecture sees itself as an altruistic profession, one that makes a significant contribution to public life. Aligned with this is the assumption that it functions as a liberal meritocracy – that is, architecture is neutral with regard to gender, class and race. Statistics, ... | <urn:uuid:b576ca46-4dee-46e8-9d41-cf588b29eaf1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archiparlour.org/the-making-of-architects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95203 | 302 | 2.640625 | 3 |
“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests, which arise when ... | <urn:uuid:49949cae-242c-4fba-97da-21ef31d9c682> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/07/25/our-disembodied-selves-and-the-decline-of-empathy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964626 | 3,274 | 2.703125 | 3 |
In the September print edition of Discover Magazine, the article “Secret Death of Asteroids” describes the creative ways that nature has for destroying asteroids – it’s not just through large collisions. Now citizen scientists can help astronomers learn more about asteroids with NASA’s Target Asteroids! project.
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When watching the stars at night, they do appear to move very slowly. This is because the Earth is constantly moving. The Earth completes one “rotation" every twenty-four hours. A rotation is when the planet spins around once. The Earth rotates counterclockwise; this is why the Sun “rises" in the East and “sets" in the... | <urn:uuid:34019303-47a9-4391-a91f-f1fccb60d38f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://schoolworkhelper.net/the-effect-of-the-earth%E2%80%99s-rotation-revolution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940999 | 1,421 | 4.09375 | 4 |
This research group deals with infrastructures that were created in view of strategic military and political objectives as well as natural spatial requirements and local conditions, infrastructures that were subsequently used and transformed by the heirs of the Roman Empire. The research takes as its point of departure... | <urn:uuid:d26391a1-ce5a-4b40-963e-114e9fa360e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.topoi.org/group/b-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893418 | 675 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The public health world has waited for the results for more than a year. After a half-billion dollars in R&D, would the front-runner malaria vaccine protect the top-priority targets: young infants?
The results are disappointing. The vaccine — called RTS,S for its various molecular components — reduced infants' risk of ... | <urn:uuid:b62c623e-6bec-4f6e-9e0c-facd5a80b573> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/11/09/34878/experimental-malaria-vaccine-disappoints-but-work-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959015 | 1,365 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Athel Cornish-Bowden asks, in a comment under the post on English spelling reform, if Spanish spelling has remained constant over hundreds of years, as his Spanish host claimed a few weeks ago. Well, up to a point, Lord Copper. We have to distinguish between changes in the spelling, and changes in the pronunciation whi... | <urn:uuid:ba23c7b5-6284-489d-a2f9-d23f76f73abb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.linguism.co.uk/language/spanish-historical-phonologyphonetics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976259 | 565 | 2.90625 | 3 |
- 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:
- 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:
- 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph)
The outlook ranges exceed the seasonal average of 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricane... | <urn:uuid:f04939d4-b7b4-42a9-8fce-0353dadce393> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://carbon-based-ghg.blogspot.com/2010/05/noaa-expects-busy-atlantic-hurricane.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930151 | 240 | 3.34375 | 3 |
(Condylura cristata Linnaeus)
From: Saunders, D. A. 1988. Adirondack Mammals. State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 216pp.
Description: The star-nosed mole has a rose-colored ring of fleshy, retractable tentacles surrounding its nose. This nasal disc is bilaterally symmetrical wit... | <urn:uuid:13373297-8d59-4062-985a-52154a148017> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/starnosed_mole.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933884 | 1,523 | 3.765625 | 4 |
2014 has been a special year filled with special events for Stafford County. Celebrating its 350th anniversary, the county held numerous community-based historical celebrations to mark the occasion. On January 4, some 4,300 people kicked off the commemoration with an inaugural event—complete with an interactive history... | <urn:uuid:108819dd-46f4-45f3-9bba-aab939baccce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/tag/abolitionists/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935401 | 607 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
August 9, 1997
Explanation: You are flying through space and come to ... the Hydra Cluster of Galaxies. Listed as Abell 1060, the Hydra Cluster cont... | <urn:uuid:0ff00ca1-50f2-4919-9934-286bc6618d83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap970809.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875315 | 247 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Forgiveness is an essential part of reducing our attachments to the world and increasing our alignment with it.
When directed toward others, forgiveness is the process of ceasing to feel resentment or anger for a perceived offense, and ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. When we forgive someone we reduce the s... | <urn:uuid:0de5e1a8-6cb7-4c73-9aaf-0d232d54265c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://paulchefurka.ca/Forgive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962376 | 512 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Researchers may have found a way to drastically increase the performance of the lithium ion batteries that power everything from electric cars to laptops. By reconfiguring the battery to allow lithium ions to rush in and out about 100 times faster than before, researchers say they’ve created a prototype that provides f... | <urn:uuid:c804fb2f-7048-4f65-877b-4b190672ac11> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/12/improved-batteries-for-electric-cars-could-recharge-in-seconds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914984 | 649 | 3.578125 | 4 |
|States on a Box!*
Use an empty cereal box to present research on your assigned states.
Follow the steps below.
1. Select a brand of cereal; modify its name to reflect an important characteristic of your states.
2. Place a physical map of each of your states on the front of your cereal box.
a. Include each state's capi... | <urn:uuid:f2c8b322-d0c1-4177-9c1c-a70b0efe5c99> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kathysnyderscience.com/state_ina_box.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874577 | 553 | 3.9375 | 4 |
Shia-Sunni Relations in the Essay on Muslim Unity
Actually, the term “Muslim unity” is rather general and means the establishment of the brotherly relations between various Islamic denominations. So, your essay on Muslim unity can be devoted to one of these denominations or to the relations between several of them. Thi... | <urn:uuid:8076dd80-755d-40e4-941b-8e63c9db8637> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://essay911.org/search/essay-for-class-3-unity-is-strength.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972463 | 171 | 2.953125 | 3 |
November 10, 2011
The success of a UN Children’s Fund project to teach pre-school aged Hmong children in their native language has prompted the spread of the project to schools in Malaysia.
Below is an article by Voice of America:
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|Elementary GLOBE Unit: Discoveries at Willow Creek|
In this activity, the GLOBE Kids, on their second visit to Willow Creek, discover why the creek looks different. They learn about making observations, measuring water temperature and speed, and looking for critters in the water. In Activity 1, 'Magnify That', student... | <urn:uuid:6cfdaa90-4a2b-4e49-9c32-9d8058a925b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dlese.org/library/catalog_NASA-ESERevProd628.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877075 | 306 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Objective: Suitcase (Birth) Kobo Abe is a Japanese playwright and director. He was also a photographer and inventor. Today's objective will study the biographic information of Abe.
1) Class Discussion: This book is a collection of three of Abe's plays. Do you know anything about the author, Kobo Abe? What from his name... | <urn:uuid:a0f24776-723f-4a49-b193-ad3e7a6798d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/lessonplan/manstick/lessons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981168 | 215 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Kākāpō don’t breed every year – that depends on whether there’s enough rimu fruit around for them to eat. But when they do breed, they do it different to most! Find out about the kākāpō’s unique courtship!
The kākāpō ‘boom’ and ‘ching’
Listen to the Kākāpō Boom
Breeding activity usually starts in about December, when m... | <urn:uuid:ec65b9d7-9515-4650-ba4f-64d95784834d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kakaporecovery.org.nz/breeding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952754 | 474 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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