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Online sound recordings, photos, maps, frequently-asked questions, interesting facts about the language, origins, history, regional differences, speakers and status, how and where to learn Quechua, spelling, grammar, etc.. Intended for general readers, plus specialist sections for linguists.
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Hemlock Dwarf Mistletoe
Forest Service & Disease Leaflet 135
Revised January 2001
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
Paul E. Hennon1, Jerome S. Beatty2, and Diane Hildebrand3
Hemlock dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium tsugense (Rosendahl) G.N. Jones, causes a serious disease of western hemlock and several other... | <urn:uuid:bf6dde21-145f-44a2-bbc2-33e016d66ac0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r10/forest-grasslandhealth/?cid=fsbdev2_038350 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926789 | 3,787 | 3.734375 | 4 |
It is generally agreed upon that chameleons originated in eastern Africa, then moving into the rest of Africa, the Mediterranean region, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Madagascar. Today, the majority of chameleons are naturally found on Madagascar, but captive-bred chameleons are found throughout the world.
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Posted at: 12/27/2013 10:47 AM
SANTA FE -- The New Mexico Department of Health warns parents of the increased risks of sudden unexpected infant deaths during the New Year's holiday.
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A good friend gave me a copy of Eiffel’s Tower by Jill Jonnes and I had the pleasure to read it last month. It’s not just the fascinating story of how the Eiffel Tower was built, it is an equally engaging series of vignettes about this amazing era of discovery. Jonnes does an excellent job researching and telling the s... | <urn:uuid:f6a3b4d1-b1cf-4995-87ff-cef8a2188cfb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.parisperfect.com/blog/2011/02/eiffels-tower-an-excellent-book/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974329 | 1,496 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A river transports its sediment load in a variety of ways. The methods of
transport are also used to describe the various loads of a river, i.e. the bed
or traction load, suspension load, dissolved load, and suspended load).
The sediment load varies from river to river, along the course of one river or
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A team of researchers at the University of Brightloch have announced that 9×9 go has been solved. Inspired by recent improvements in computer play by Montecarlo algorithms, they hypothesized that “If a computer can play at random andplay good games, what prevents a more powerful device (like a brain) to do something si... | <urn:uuid:77c0b625-e86c-4d9a-b313-d0d6c8610ea5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usgo.org/news/2014/04/dumb-cluck-9x9-go-reportedly-solved/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985268 | 252 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Manual for the Use of Focus Groups (Methods for Social Research in Disease) (International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries - INFDC, 1993, 97 pages)|
|Part I: Team leader focus group training|
|Section 1: Deciding to use focus group training|
|Section 2: Designing the study|
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I have to admit that I had to do a little more research on Marxist criticism in order to truly understand it. Now that I have, I can see why "Wuthering Heights" would be a excellent subject for this particular type of criticism.
Before reading the passage on Marxist criticism, I thought that "Wuthering Heights" was jus... | <urn:uuid:8878ca24-7626-477b-b59f-da58adad14b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://feliciaervin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/wuthering-heights-marxist-criticism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990968 | 411 | 2.515625 | 3 |
One-third of the seafood consumed in the US is mislabelled, a fishy practice that can pose serious health risks, according to a study published Thursday by the non-profit Oceana.
The study reached its conclusions by testing the DNA of more than 1 200 seafood samples over a period of two years. It showed high levels of ... | <urn:uuid:c5e0b6a8-a50c-4603-bd32-5710588ad824> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.health24.com/Diet-and-nutrition/News/One-third-of-US-seafood-is-mislabeled-20130222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970035 | 400 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Christchurch City Council will publish updated floor levels today - the heights above ground level that buildings must be constructed in a city prone to flooding. Council regulation and democracy services general manager PETER MITCHELL explains what's been happening with the city's land and drainage network as a re... | <urn:uuid:57e1eee2-64f9-4a53-8c45-fce8c9ec5506> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/perspective/7794955/Hundreds-more-flood-prone-in-Christchurch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967155 | 1,121 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The Acadian Branch
History of the Acadian Samsons
According to the civil archives at Cap-St-Ignace, Quebec, Gabriel Sanson, the son of Gabriel Sanson and Francoise Durand, born January 12, 1682, was baptized at Lauzon, on January 16, 1682, in the presence of Jean Guiet, by Jean Basset, missionary priest from the semina... | <urn:uuid:4c6625af-d2fd-4f46-b5aa-92f18c446a3a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.samsonhistory.com/cape-breton-nova-scotia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96448 | 1,905 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Definition of drawnCategorized under "General"
Definition as written by htop:
This term describes the structure of a plant which has grown too tall and too weak. This usually occurs because the plant is receiving too little light and/or because it is growing too close to other plants. One observes drawn plants growing ... | <urn:uuid:69efbd88-0e90-4100-9ac2-606fa1db9238> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://davesgarden.com/guides/terms/go/2981/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965481 | 76 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Those that observe ecological dynamics have always stated that evolution plays a role, but it is only relatively recently that there has been a fever of interest in quantifying what that role might be. It is not the case that there was ever a lack of interest; it was just generally assumed that as evolution occurs on v... | <urn:uuid:32e58205-9fb8-41b2-9969-38ca4f47b3f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.ca/2013/04/of-mites-and-men.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966572 | 1,655 | 3.25 | 3 |
A team of scientists from the University of Washington claim to have devised a way to test whether we’re living in a computer simulation. Though fascinating, ‘reality’ is still to pass the test.
Reality is questionable. Zeno, Plato, and many philosophers have held similar opinions centuries ago. But ever since computer... | <urn:uuid:9177b16c-b6c1-4382-8a4f-ed78331abac7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shebytes.com/tag/university-of-washington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93842 | 128 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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This comprehensive report focuses on the fact that millions of people in poor countries remain uneducated and illiterate - which prevents them from developing the skills they need to escape poverty. The book looks at t... | <urn:uuid:dd345a83-623f-4cf1-ad51-c2911ecd84a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/the-oxfam-education-report-115525 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925715 | 180 | 2.953125 | 3 |
David R. Thompson
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems' efficiency with onboard data analysis. Agents can learn the structure of the environment and predict future observations, reducing the remote explo... | <urn:uuid:843e7026-edad-42df-a78b-13670506697a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/2007/aaai07-351.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838025 | 134 | 3.015625 | 3 |
History has blamed Nero for the disaster, implying that he started the fire so that he could bypass the senate and rebuild Rome to his liking. Much of what is known about the great fire of Rome comes from the aristocrat and historian Tacitus, who claimed that Nero watched Rome burn while merrily playing his fiddle. Gan... | <urn:uuid:c91b9858-014a-4890-9d13-4ea640f1250b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.unexplainable.net/ancients/did_the_christians_burn_rome.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976191 | 905 | 2.78125 | 3 |
While the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor came as a shock to most Americans, the U.S. government had already investigated possible actions to take in case of war with Japan. Japanese Americans also had speculated on what would happen to them, fearing as early as 1937 that they would be "herded into prison camps — perha... | <urn:uuid:15ed5cb5-309e-448c-bafd-27e90fdff717> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.lycoming.edu/library/forms/paraphrasing.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97793 | 136 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Network Operations Center (NOC)
UEN Security Office
Technical Services Support Center (TSSC)
Eccles Broadcast Center
101 Wasatch Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 585-6105 (fax)
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The wind carries only fine particles, but the force of flowing water can move much larger fra... | <urn:uuid:65b07226-bdb5-4721-afee-8cf0e494ca69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=9862 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905233 | 430 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Considering my family dynamic, I found this article interesting.
The first common genetic risk factor for autism spectrum disorder has been identified by a multi-center team of researchers that included Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., director of the Miami Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller S... | <urn:uuid:d8edba37-15aa-4ab2-981f-c7e33192ed59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.azbarbeque.com/forums/autism-charity/common-genetic-factors-that-affect-autism-risk-have-been-identified/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956152 | 953 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives is a compelling documentary exploring the under-reported environmental impacts of war and preparations for war. The film confronts the ecological and human ramifications of everything from technological development and natural resource exhaustion to weapons testing and modern warfare its... | <urn:uuid:5fafae8c-5392-45a2-84a9-4d7b2e787e84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013685303&sl=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.80395 | 397 | 3.03125 | 3 |
: Native or Not?
08-31-2003, 03:20 PM
I have a question regarding the Midwest.
Has anyone been able to find an archive of native trout streams in this area?
I've looked high and low to no avail....any help is greatly appreciated.
08-31-2003, 06:40 PM
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Lesson for March 24, 2013: The Lord’s Supper (Luke 22:1-38)
This treatment of the International Sunday School Lesson is written by Sam E. Stone, former editor of CHRISTIAN STANDARD.
By Sam E. Stone
To the Jew, Passover was the most important of all the annual observances in Jerusalem. Passover was celebrated on the 14t... | <urn:uuid:8eb3f2e8-39b0-4965-94e6-1a0fb751179a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://christianstandard.com/2013/03/lesson-for-march-24-2013-the-lords-supper-luke-221-38/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97534 | 1,140 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Absorb (v) ? to take in or soak up a liquid.
Acre (n) ? a measure of land equal to
43,560 square feet.
Agriculture (n) ? farming; growing crops and raising farm
Air (n) ? the mixture of invisible, odorless, tasteless
gases that surround the Earth.
Alligator (n) - large amphibious reptile
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One of the simplest ways of cutting down on transportation pollution is to keep your car well tuned. Inspired by the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1972, many cities and states have now implemented annual or biannual emissions testing to determine if cars are producing excessive amounts of pollution at the tailpipe. Car owners ... | <urn:uuid:47d40a19-b104-4ee2-890a-23241a825020> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/top-10-transportation-pollution-solutions1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965506 | 182 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Indian-hating in American literature, 1682-1857
Osborne, Stephen D., 1958-
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The New England Puritans set out to "irradiate an Indian wilderness," but rightly feared they were being "Indianized" as well. Their Indian captivity narratives, ostensibly celebrations of passive submission to the ... | <urn:uuid:fda9454f-a8a5-4a66-9297-c63b0ac58ee2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/9484 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954947 | 478 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Psychology is the study of behavior and mind, embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought. It is an academic discipline and an applied science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases. In this field, a profess... | <urn:uuid:23ec7866-f8ea-481a-b4b6-921b7db2f904> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87374 | 28,782 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Today, a woman turns slavery from theoretical wrong
into personal evil. The University of Houston's
College of Engineering presents this series about
the machines that make our civilization run, and
the people whose ingenuity created them.
Harriet Beecher was her
mother's 7th child. After the 9th, her mother died.
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The Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrates, nitrites, ammonia: where do they come from, and why are they dirtying up your fish tank? Various forms of nitrogen are the by-products of food consumption and digestion in all terrestrial and aquatic animals. In a natural environment, waste products are diluted and recycled continuously by ... | <urn:uuid:38ff75ea-2c12-4e75-8796-e41a56527c83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pets.ca/exotic/articles/the-nitrogen-cycle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9436 | 1,029 | 3.96875 | 4 |
This spring, students in Professor Ruth Grant‘s course “Challenges of Living an Ethical Life” were given the chance to evaluate the view of ethics presented in Shel Silverstein’s classic children’s tale The Giving Tree. In the tale, a boy begins a friendship with a tree by playing in its branches and eating its apples,... | <urn:uuid:ba26e80d-26ef-4e67-9dbc-07ec004881e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/blog/ethics-certificate-students-critique-morality-tale-the-giving-tree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960072 | 362 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Canada's Copenhagen nightmare may be coming true.
A draft proposal published at the climate-change summit Friday for the countries in the Kyoto Protocol, the only international greenhouse-gas reduction treaty, calls for five years to be added to Kyoto, taking it to 2017. Canada fiercely resists any extension of the tre... | <urn:uuid:3f140d91-cd43-454c-95e7-ba096d6aed6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/canada-fiercely-opposes-proposal-to-extend-kyoto/article1398083/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950219 | 768 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Adams Family Papers
The Adams Family Papers, the most important manuscript collection owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society, contains of an extensive amount of material relating to John Adams (1735-1826), Abigail Adams (1744-1818), and their descendants. The collection, dating from 1639 to 1889, includes corres... | <urn:uuid:748a66c0-f2ed-42ad-9a0c-d80d6e7f139e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://masshist.org/adams/adams-family-papers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893005 | 651 | 2.953125 | 3 |
by Staff Writers
Delft, Netherlands (UPI) Sep 1, 2010
Concrete might heal its own hairline fractures -- as living bone does -- if bacteria are added to the wet concrete during mixing, European researchers say.
Cracks in concrete surfaces make them vulnerable, allowing water and tag-along aggressive chemicals in, says H... | <urn:uuid:2e0cb5ed-1807-4076-a616-7e3e6621f423> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Bacteria_could_make_self-healing_concrete_999.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904903 | 453 | 2.90625 | 3 |
AIPG Position Statement - Domestic Energy: Environmental
AIPG Position Statement - Domestic Energy: Environmental
Douglas E. Ganey, CPG-10868
In addition to resource availability, development logistics, and political aspects, the AIPG Energy Committee also considered the environmental aspects of energy production and u... | <urn:uuid:a17ab47a-3aa5-4ab3-bd98-3e9d58c13886> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aipg.org/Publications/Position-environmental.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91092 | 2,301 | 3.390625 | 3 |
In recent years, advances in semiconductor electronics have pushed the instrumentation of our world to unprecedented levels. Sensors are now all around us: many cell phones contain GPS receivers as well as cameras, doorways have motion detectors, stop lights sense vehicles at intersections, and satellites orbiting over... | <urn:uuid:d56390bb-2c19-499c-9926-80cba15dc6b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278514 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910665 | 460 | 2.625 | 3 |
History of the College of Education
President Lathrop considered the training of teachers to be among the most important functions of any state university. His opinion was supported by the new Missouri state constitution of 1865. The document suggested that all state universities house a department in instruction of te... | <urn:uuid:2eafe98c-3d99-4916-9408-75dc4389b431> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://missouri.edu/about/history/education.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982475 | 260 | 2.90625 | 3 |
IS ANIMAL LIFE POSSIBLE ON MARS?
Having now shown, that, even admitting the accuracy of all Mr. Lowell’s observations, and provisionally accepting all his chief conclusions as to the climate, the nature of the snow-caps, the vegetation, and the animal life of Mars, yet his interpretation of the lines on its surface as ... | <urn:uuid:56bfc28e-442d-4dbb-9cb3-d96d5eb5795d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/10855/15.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96097 | 598 | 3.34375 | 3 |
WASHINGTON—Scientists looking for habitable planets may not have to stray far from our galactic neighborhood, said a new study Wednesday, which calculated an Earth-size planet could be orbiting a red dwarf as near as 13 light years away.
“We thought we would have to search vast distances to find an Earth-like planet. N... | <urn:uuid:54ca2879-365c-4ce7-b507-9cbaabb3e6c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/354009/earth-like-planets-may-be-closer-than-thought-study | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95691 | 620 | 3.75 | 4 |
IBM scientists have developed a system to slow down the speed of light, and potentially enable it to be used as an optical power source to drive components in a PC.
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The effect of age of acquisition in visual word processing: Further evidence for the semantic hypothesis
2004) JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION. 30(2). p.550-554 Mark(
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Musicians in Seattle organize a union on November 7, 1890.
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On November 7, 1890, Seattle musicians form an union called Musicians Mutual Protective Association.
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Deer build a new layer called cementum on their teeth each year, much like the annual rings of a tree. By freezing a tooth, a biologist can slice off a thin layer and determine the exact age of the deer. Hunters can estimate the age of deer they take by evaluating replacement and wear of teeth on the lower jaw. Both mu... | <urn:uuid:a596b61d-f715-4971-9596-e505910586d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/planahunt/huntingGuides/dea/agingDeerBrochure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926414 | 106 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Today is the 140th day of 2014 and the 62nd day of spring.
TODAY’S HISTORY: In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which provided Western settlers free land for farms.
In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davies received the U.S. patent for blue jeans.
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Sun spots – also referred to as age spots, liver spots or dark spots – are flat brown, black or grey spots that typically show up on the back of the hands, neck, face, shoulders and arms – any area most often exposed to the sun.
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Definition of Gastric ulcer
Gastric ulcer: A hole in the lining of the stomach corroded by the acidic digestive juices which are secreted by the stomach cells. Ulcer formation is related to H. pyloridus bacteria in the stomach, anti-inflammatory medications, and smoking cigarettes. Ulcer pain may not correlate with the... | <urn:uuid:7078c3ad-52e3-4b27-b782-b0043a51e9fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3550 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86523 | 135 | 3.484375 | 3 |
(b. 1511, Arezzo, d. 1574, Firenze)
Italian painter, architect and biographer, one of Italy's busiest and most influential Mannerist artists. Born in the Florentine subject city of Arezzo, Giorgio was the child of a potter, and precocious enough for Cardinal Silvio Passerini, guardian of the young Ippolito and Alessand... | <urn:uuid:5b8b65ec-670c-4288-9d8f-9b980e3db79b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wga.hu/bio/v/vasari/biograph.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970436 | 1,260 | 2.84375 | 3 |
This is third post in a series on Text-to-Speech for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me (which turns out to be a great way to learn). In the first two posts, Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality and Digital Signal Processor and Text-to-Speech, we introduced the text to speech voice and discussed ... | <urn:uuid:37001af4-9068-4e11-b974-d6c41901182d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2010/07/using-text-to-speech-in-elearning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899914 | 1,234 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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This small unmanned aircraft was designed for the American armed forces and is used for surveillance of the battle field and identifying possible targets to call up artillery fire and attack aircraft. The Predator is equipped with extended endurance, allowing it to remain in flight o... | <urn:uuid:822e030d-f4a2-4856-a15f-1e60328b2fe4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/model-kits/italeri-rq-1-predator-sharp-1279/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964984 | 177 | 2.75 | 3 |
Syllabus of Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education Middle Standard Examination
I. INTRODUCTION :
Home Science is an optional elective subject of study in Classes VI-VIII.
The subject aims at providing a preparation for home and covers essential
ground in the following areas :—
1. Food & Cookery.
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Environmental advocates joined with business leaders to support Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to invest $30 million
of cap-and-trade proceeds in recycling, composting, recycled-content manufacturing and organic waste to energy projects. This funding will help build the infrastructure necessary to transition the waste sec... | <urn:uuid:6985d676-d078-4132-a2bd-49bf34b23995> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americanrecycler.com/8568759/index.php/news/category-news-3/137-california-invests-in-recycling-infrastructure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909874 | 285 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|United States Geological Survey: Contaminant Biology Program|
This is the homepage of the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Contaminant Biology Program, whose mission is to investigate the effects and exposure of environmental contaminants (for example, mercury) on the living resources of the United States. The... | <urn:uuid:4fa71841-a7b0-4654-b8e5-cff2e1a0d754> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dlese.org/library/catalog_USGS-ED-000-000-000-079.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868435 | 332 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Studies have demonstrated that patrons of archives have greater success when they have a basic knowledge and understanding of archival management – what are archives and what exactly do archivists do? Here you will learn about how archivists acquire, protect, and prepare historical records for research. You’ll also dis... | <urn:uuid:bdfac5ed-b319-4b41-ac95-03b4bb23529d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.nmu.edu/archives/node/21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877224 | 508 | 3.15625 | 3 |
9 April 2013 Despite a great deal of work in recent years there is still a lack of understanding of the link between forests and society, the economy and the wider world, the Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat said, as countries meet in Istanbul to chart a way forward on a number of forestry-re... | <urn:uuid:668a677d-508b-4ba1-be8f-849e20b14e85> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44598&Cr=forest&Cr1= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952365 | 980 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Researchers for deCODE, a company that focuses on genome-related products and services, studied 40,000 individuals to pinpoint the genes responsible for the most common eye health conditions in the world.
Both glaucoma and myopia are widespread in the population, and effect many people. According to the Glaucoma Resear... | <urn:uuid:d59b6ef4-ea20-42c3-bffa-ff1f58f994e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.39dollarglasses.com/blog/2010/page/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963585 | 459 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Viewer Question:Is there a specific type of arthritis that is common among Crohn's patients? Specific to the feet, how do you tell the difference between psoriatic and osteoarthritis?
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By Béla Lipták, PE, Columnist
In the United States, natural gas (NG) is the source of about 25% of the total energy consumption, and shale gas is the source of about 20% of the NG consumed. During the next years, hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to produce NG will continue to rise, and will increase from today's 20... | <urn:uuid:903dab93-9efa-4f01-a863-d70bb02417fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2012/fracking-scraping-bottom-barrel/?show=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953304 | 1,653 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Four Protective Meditations: recollecting the Buddha's attributes
at the time you pay homage to him is absolutely necessary in
order to reinforce your confidence in him. The Metta Sutta,
the Mittanisamsa Sutta, the Khandha Paritta, and "Sharing
Loving-Kindness" are verses which we selected so that you
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Definition of stoned
imp. & p. p. - of Stone 2
The word "stoned" uses 6 letters: D E N O S T.
No direct anagrams for stoned found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after stoned (in bold), or to denost in any order:
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Computer with brain connections changing quality of life of paralyzed
Patients with neurological diseases offered new hope
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Vermeer's Allegory of the FaithThanks to the availability of art education, particularly art appreciation classes with their heavy emphasis on art history, and the easy accessibility of the huge, mega-museums in all our major cities, we often come to a certain mindset in which we elevate our greatest artists a godlike ... | <urn:uuid:3f917012-21bd-4674-914e-f08401a69d64> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.humanitiesweb.org/spa/gai/ID/1145 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984814 | 1,182 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Michelle Obama's Plan to End Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Goal: Cut Child Obesity From 20% to 5% by 2030
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Laura J. Martin, MD
May 11, 2010 -- Spearheaded by Michelle Obama, a new presidential initiative would reverse the child obesity epidemic.
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FITCHBURG -- The region is rich with available renewable-energy options, but the upfront cost of harnessing these sources can often be prohibitive, student presenters concluded at a meeting Friday with the Montachusett Energy Advisory Committee.
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The New Jersey court is following a path similar to that of the Massachusetts Supreme Court a few years ago in allowing the legislature time to correct the law through legislative action; however, the Massachusetts court, unlike New Jersey's, has determined that recognition of civil unions alone will satisfy the state'... | <urn:uuid:7fffe3f6-a862-4194-afe2-fb07771997fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-jersey-supreme-court-rules-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950058 | 577 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Globally, the 20th century was marked by: (a) two devastating world wars; (b) the Great Depression of the 1930s; (c) the end of vast colonial empires; (d) rapid advances in science and technology, from the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (US) to the landing on the moon; (e) the Cold War between the ... | <urn:uuid:0bb0df34-5c38-43b2-94aa-394fb4a90f01> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bartelby.com/151/xx.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903231 | 3,728 | 3.28125 | 3 |
I was lucky that my daughter asked me whether I would answer all the questions of her classmates - most of them are nine years old - about my profession. They had "professions" as the topic of their general knowledge lesson. So my daughter told me that they invited teacher, school caretaker, stewardess, nurse and also ... | <urn:uuid:d97c1e63-4146-4f77-8506-8db0649358e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lofidewanto.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965515 | 1,038 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Tibetan sky burial photos. WARNING: Extremely graphic.
This is a series of pictures of the Tibetan practice of sky burials. It involves cutting a corpse and exposing it to birds of prey. Burial isn’t practical in Tibet because of the permafrost condition of the ground. Cremation isn’t practical because of the shortage ... | <urn:uuid:68343da9-7445-4d83-9972-760a83e538fd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://holykaw.alltop.com/tibetan-sky-burial-photos-warning-extremely-g | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90868 | 170 | 2.765625 | 3 |
3D Vision with Stereo Disparity
2D is nice, but these days I’m getting interested in doing computer vision in 3D. One way to get 3D data is to use two cameras and determine distance by looking at the differences in the two pictures (just like eyes!). In this project I show some initial results and codes for computing d... | <urn:uuid:19bf240f-e055-4e99-b709-0c16d89b4c73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shawnlankton.com/2007/12/3d-vision-with-stereo-disparity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919197 | 1,060 | 2.6875 | 3 |
EAST GREENBUSH -- Kathy Arbogast believes that "buttons are miniature works of art."
She will offer proof of that assertion when she speaks about "Button History and Heritage" at the East Greenbush Community Library on Sept. 29. She is president of the Half Moon Button Club in Bethlehem.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
As a retired Army officer, I tend to get pretty exercised at the widespread notion in the media and public commemorations of Memorial Day that this day is set aside to honor living veterans. It's not. That's done on Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
Memorial Day is to honor and give th... | <urn:uuid:c3728f93-c8c3-4153-bd02-19dffee66275> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968186 | 9,369 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Big Waist Increases Death Risk
Very Large Waist Could Double a Person's Risk of Death From Any Cause, Study Finds
Reviewed By Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC
Aug. 9, 2010 -- Men and women who are very large around the middle are at much greater risk of dying from any cause than people with thinner wai... | <urn:uuid:521a9af2-1dc3-437d-b9e1-1d3587c3aff2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=118792 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954216 | 659 | 2.609375 | 3 |
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org):
The world’s air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere. The n... | <urn:uuid:380a7da7-df3b-413c-b340-72661e711cb2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pachurchesadvocacy.org/weblog/?p=11241 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880006 | 154 | 2.875 | 3 |
Our lives are filled
it brings pleasure in
Color is an important part of food -- alerting us to the time when fruit is ripe, making it easy to obtain needed vitamins and minerals by selecting a diet made up of foods of different colors. But Mother Nature didn't stop with mere eye appeal; she saw to it that foods which ... | <urn:uuid:d7f87488-bdef-4468-83bb-950d89ba6b3b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.feingold.org/johnny.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959031 | 590 | 2.53125 | 3 |
By Bob Burson
There are many factors to consider when adding solar panels to a self-storage facility. These include cost, potential energy savings, incentives, physical requirements and more. But an important aspect often overlooked in the process is the overall system design.
Design can mean different things. To the f... | <urn:uuid:5824834a-d5b0-47da-913d-8c1d964f6ec6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.insideselfstorage.com/articles/2012/04/solar-selfstorage-design-size-location-placement-and-aesthetics-of-a-solarpanel-array.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945158 | 735 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Today, scientists at CERN in Geneva announced their results for their search for the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that, if it exists, is thought to be responsible for giving other particles mass. It’s no exaggeration to call it a keystone in quantum mechanics, and finding it for sure will be a huge accomplishment ... | <urn:uuid:01a76a47-cfa7-461b-b818-511d5fa86629> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/13/mass-effect-maybe-higgs-maybe-not/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946184 | 2,098 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The main lecture at Day 3 of the YERME Summer School is held by Jean-Baptiste Lagrange. His talk will be concerning research about technology in mathematics education. Lagrange is going to look at different technologies with certain theoretical concerns:
- programming with the reification theories,
- microworlds with s... | <urn:uuid:b5262da3-bf20-4e6f-b6ef-3a98d3b1b4f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathedresearch.blogspot.com/2008/08/yess-4-day-3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931926 | 99 | 2.75 | 3 |
Blended Learning and Teaching with Animation
Library Home || Full Table of Contents || Suggest a Link || Library Help
|Dr S. M. Hajsadr|
|Algebra lessons online. Free registration required. From the site: Electronic lessons are animated learning material which deliver classroom or tutor like teachings. They are develop... | <urn:uuid:bf778966-9566-4c4f-a161-df297577e6cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathforum.org/library/view/69433.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86043 | 157 | 2.828125 | 3 |
10 Winning Science Fair Projects That Will Make You Feel Dumb
As beleaguered parents all over the country endeavor to prod their kids to finish their requisite science fair projects, some may find it helpful to provide some inspiration from past winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. These are... | <urn:uuid:9448d0a8-7218-49f5-a327-2ede07870e84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sciencefairprojects411.com/articles/Science-Fair-Projects-That-Will-Make-You-Feel-Dumb.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952238 | 2,128 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Scientists say they have seen the future of genetically modified foods and have concluded that it is orange or, more precisely, golden.
In a few months, golden rice - normal rice that has been genetically modified to provide vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world - will be... | <urn:uuid:bd190167-c1bd-4c98-8c76-45da31b09d1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10863451 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972115 | 388 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Metal Bar Floated in Air by Magnetic Repulsion (May, 1929)
Obviously this is a silly trick, but I posted the piece mainly so I’d have an excuse to link to this insane video of “quantum” levitating superconductors locked in a magnetic field. You need to see this, they can actually levitate upside down.
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Facebook 'may soon allow' under-13s to join the site
- 4 June 2012
- From the section Technology
Facebook may soon allow children younger than 13 years old to access the site under parental supervision, reports say.
The social networking giant is developing technology to link children's accounts to those of their paren... | <urn:uuid:52423d59-02ba-4e7e-80ab-b68a8eba2f73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18321553 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984599 | 709 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Far from a pristine forest stretching for mile upon mile, the Amazon was once home to millions of people who domesticated huge swathes of land before the arrival of Europeans caused their societies to collapse, according to a new study.
An international team of researchers concluded that the minimum population in 1492 ... | <urn:uuid:b625b2ff-84c0-4f15-8be3-846fcb85c5d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-was-home-to-millions-of-people-before-european-arrival-says-study-10412030.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952218 | 435 | 3.75 | 4 |
What are the bacterial prostatitis causes? Bacteria can find their way up the urethra on their own, they may hitch a ride on a urinary catheter or any other instrument inserted into the urethra, or they can originate in the bladder and make their way to the prostate via the urine. Regardless of their travel method, onc... | <urn:uuid:761c8d8c-496f-4946-a5ac-09ebfe705e9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prostate.net/prostatitis/prostatitis-causes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899676 | 682 | 2.78125 | 3 |
That may never have happened if dinosaurs had never gone extinct, Butler added."
London, July 28 - If the killer asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago had hit a few million years earlier or later, dinosaurs probably would have been much better equipped to survive, an interesting study reveals.
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How to Study More Effectively – Top Methods
Here, you’ll learn several tips on how to study, such as scientifically-proven note taking methods, tricks for getting the most out of the time you spend reading, and programs that can help you take more effective notes. Knowing any one method won’t be enough; finding the one... | <urn:uuid:578b6209-cba6-4993-a6b4-06eedfa3b425> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.discoverbusiness.us/learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92096 | 7,126 | 3.25 | 3 |
ERIC Identifier: ED446368
Publication Date: 2000-11-00
Author: Goorian, Brad
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on
Educational Management Eugene OR.
Alternative Teacher Compensation. ERIC Digest Number 142.
Teacher compensation is gaining renewed attention in state legislatures and
school district offices as policymakers seek ... | <urn:uuid:a9b0ed9e-987a-4c04-9e87-f943ebab77de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/teacher.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907438 | 2,675 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Confederated Tribes of the Colville ReservationHistory
The Colville reservation was established April 19, 1872 east of the Columbia River by the executive order signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. The boundaries were changed July 2, 1872. Chiefs Moses and Joseph bands m... | <urn:uuid:b329b3f1-17f8-462c-8f87-cb1756ddef53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.goia.wa.gov/Tribal-Information/Tribes/colville.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983214 | 467 | 3.5 | 4 |
PARIS – Imagine Optic, French manufacturer of wavefront metrology and adaptive optics technology, has been entrusted with the leadership of MICADO (MICroscopy with ADaptive Optics), a three-year project that aims to develop new technology using adaptive optics for detecting and treating neurological disorders.
Financed... | <urn:uuid:30019824-85a5-40aa-b770-9f64ca54460c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1248837 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896838 | 321 | 2.609375 | 3 |
- Course overview, expectations, logistics, processes, syllabus,
FAQ, and prerequisite material.
- Embedded systems descriptions, definitions, and vocabulary.
Design Engineer's notebook.
- Embedded system design considerations and requirements,
processor selection and tradeoffs.
- Overview of board development process,... | <urn:uuid:fbd02326-5ed4-4f59-a3c7-3e85e7f0ba36> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ecee.colorado.edu/academics/courses/ECEN_5613.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.679195 | 808 | 3.4375 | 3 |
The Hall of Memory
The focus of the Memorial is the Hall of Memory, a quiet place for contemplation of the efforts of ordinary Australians in war and for the remembrance of those who suffered and died.
Each one of the Hall's fifteen stained glass windows represents a defining quality of Australian servicemen and women,... | <urn:uuid:d5c6e08a-1243-4fe6-97e3-86b0265b2f15> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/hall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959214 | 438 | 3.546875 | 4 |
When members of the general public are faced with complex decisions, for example a medical situation for an elderly parent, all of the sudden there is a need to learn what a whole lot of new words mean and a compulsion to get up to speed with current research. The relevant words may be entirely new concepts and its har... | <urn:uuid:5d2fe295-8544-4c5f-ba64-fc9bb4475c11> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/?p=1045 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950426 | 553 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Severe weather is most common during the Spring months of March, April, and May across Tennessee and southwest Virginia, but it can occur any month of the year. It's important to stay weather-aware and to have multiple ways to receive severe weather alerts. Have a plan of action before the storm hits.
See the latest Se... | <urn:uuid:b2f7008b-cc7c-4376-9882-eadc2a76b13a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wcyb.com/news/alert-be-ready-for-severe-weather/25681128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903886 | 727 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Volume 10 — September 26, 2013
Consistency of Nutrition Recommendations for Foods Marketed to Children in the United States, 2009–2010
Lorraine J. Weatherspoon, PhD, RD; Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam, PhD; Hye-Jin Paek, PhD; Sookyong Kim, MS; Sumathi Venkatesh, MS; Julie Plasencia, MS, RD; Mira Lee, PhD; Nora J. Rifon, PhD... | <urn:uuid:1f626715-bb40-42dc-b68a-d2d94da27624> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2013/13_0099.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90962 | 6,474 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Periodic Report on the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention
As a country that has ratified the World Heritage Convention, Canada is required to submit a report to the World Heritage Committee describing how it is implementing the Convention. The “periodic report” consists of Section I, an overview of Canada’... | <urn:uuid:6bda5727-e914-485f-acc3-bcf04b8c6672> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/docs/rspm-whsr/index.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921074 | 444 | 2.703125 | 3 |
In March 2000, I wrote an Email message to a young student who had asked me about memorizing mathematical formulas. With his message he included some example formulas for perimeter, area, etc. Here was my reply:
“There are lots of different ways to memorize mathematical formulas. I have always found that the best way i... | <urn:uuid:cfe722c7-4412-482a-8af7-4cc03b9b4f42> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thememorypage.net/how-to-memorize-formulas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947498 | 1,814 | 3.96875 | 4 |
The Opportunity Rover on Mars is one of the greatest engineering success stories of the 21st century. Originally designed for a 3 month mission and still going 10 years later, it’s performed 40x longer than planned!
It’s saddening that a feat of engineering that in my mind equals that of say Brunel’s Clifton Gorge brid... | <urn:uuid:464e8be4-23a4-4f74-887a-a3d74be65dd9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.colinmcnulty.com/blog/2013/06/08/the-greatest-engineering-feat-of-the-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939616 | 341 | 2.859375 | 3 |
THE ROLE OF FERRIC IRON UPTAKE REGULATOR (FUR) PROTEIN ON IRON REGULATION IN COXIELLA BURNETII
Coxiella burnetii is a gram negative, obligate intracellular bacterium. It is the etiologic agent of Q fever in a variety of species including livestock, humans and arthropods. The bacterium infects the monocytes of its host ... | <urn:uuid:9577ca76-b947-40c9-9b61-813dd3400a13> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.openthesis.org/documents/Role-ferric-iron-uptake-regulator-567486.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942559 | 554 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Scouting for turkeys can mean anything from simply driving around and looking for tracks in the road, to extensive groundwork and advanced woodsmanship in searching for and reading the various types of turkey sign. The importance of scouting is undeniable. Hunters who go into the field armed with sufficient knowledge a... | <urn:uuid:10c02361-e97a-4422-a9d1-ab240e2e8105> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wildlifedepartment.com/hunting/turkeyscouting.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950817 | 938 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Invasive species: impacts on forests and forestry
Books and monographs
- Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1993. Harmful non-indigenous species in the United States. Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, Report OTA-F-565.
- Stein, B.A. & Flack, S.R. eds. 1996. America's Least Wanted: Alien species invasio... | <urn:uuid:487264fd-9b10-4cdb-96c4-da79b2feba17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/forestry/aliens/28269/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.733086 | 511 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Any Card At Any Number - You table a cased deck, then remove a small, thin note-pad from your shirt pocket and ask one person to name any card. Let's assume he says, "The Queen of Spades." You record this on the pad. You next ask a second person to name any number from 1 to 52. Let's assume this person says, "22". You ... | <urn:uuid:f84063b4-b8cb-41fb-bebf-3a5f973d84bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lybrary.com/acaan-p-1079.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965327 | 305 | 3.015625 | 3 |
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