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It’s typical of many professions to cultivate an aura of infallibility and monopoly control of information. Open source doesn’t work that way. There are prima donnas, to be sure, but the culture requires practitioners to show their cards, and it erodes information monopolies. Shared code is just the tip of the iceberg.... | <urn:uuid:eeeb0bce-8cbb-4bbd-a3ea-04dcf9f7c100> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=40904 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934053 | 226 | 2.765625 | 3 |
SECTION 18. FALL FOOTBALL PRACTICE REGULATIONS.
The first two days of fall football practice must be in shorts. These two days are designed for coaches to determine if the students are conditioned physically for football practice. On the third day, shoulder pads are allowed for one practice and the length of this pract... | <urn:uuid:f47e2e7c-a193-44ff-b000-20ac2c20d5fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dnn.ahsaa.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949603 | 294 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. external link Learn more
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Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it ... | <urn:uuid:e9918e32-cc62-4509-adf1-73e4d86b85f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biblica.com/en-us/bible/online-bible/niv/john/9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992895 | 1,269 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
It is the “other” island in Charleston harbor, the one closest to peninsula Charleston and easily seen from the Battery, often mistaken by visitors for Fort Sumter. Although not much remains of Castle Pinckney proper and its thick brick walls are now crumbling amidst a tangle of wild vegeta... | <urn:uuid:4e0ca07a-d014-4b18-b2d2-61bafaf27fb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.moultrienews.com/article/20121128/MN04/311289932/1164/castle-pinckney-silent-sentinel-in-charleston-harbor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979214 | 1,588 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Step 7 - Create Your Eco-Code
The Eco-Code states your school's environmental values in a memorable way for both students and members of the greater community.
The Eco-Code is a mission statement for your school and should be reflective of both your Eco-Action Plan and your curriculum. It should demonstrate, in a clear... | <urn:uuid:f47147cc-3c2c-4a43-8127-3280ce9283cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/School-Solutions/Eco-Schools-USA/Become-an-Eco-School/Steps/~/link.aspx?_id=C46C40D74A024957886AC46E61BF1175&_z=z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922911 | 545 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy isn’t afraid to open up about mental health, and how access to care and treatment have helped save his life. Suicide Prevention Month, which runs through September, demands “urgency and advocacy” for what he calls a reversible epidemic.
In a video interview with APHA’s Public Health N... | <urn:uuid:d2296632-140d-4789-b961-baa11a33ed2a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.publichealthnewswire.org/?p=8496 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962814 | 434 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Biotechnology and Foods: Executive Summary
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in 1999- 2000 convened three panels of experts, consisting of IFT members and other prominent biotechnology authorities, to prepare a comprehensive scientific report on biotechnology. The report consists of four sections: Introduction,... | <urn:uuid:da329265-8c24-47f8-a83e-6a97558c2ebf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ift.org/Knowledge-Center/Read-IFT-Publications/Science-Reports/Expert-Reports/Biotechnology-and-Foods/Executive-Summary.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934668 | 4,177 | 2.875 | 3 |
Sticking needles into a tiger might not seem like the wisest of moves, but that’s exactly what happened at a safari park in Israel.
Vets turned to acupuncture after conventional medicine failed to treat 14-year-old Pedang’s chronic ear infection.
Luckily the Sumatran tiger was anaesthetised before the procedure took pl... | <urn:uuid:be591ced-19e3-4194-b21c-543445660826> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/10/video-tiger-gets-acupuncture-treatment-for-ear-infection-3835650/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980706 | 154 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Author:||Cleveland Kent Evans (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)|
|Date:||March 28, 2009 at 12:27:09 PM|
|Reply to:||Almanzo by lac|
The earlier answers about this name were done before I had access to Ancestry library.
From a little research on Ancestry library, it seems that Almanzo as a given name in the USA is ... | <urn:uuid:3259a9bf-08f8-4104-8e46-68b7f8eb7528> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/3516066 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985464 | 427 | 2.578125 | 3 |
As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. [...] But PHP can do threading, and more importantly it's a lot easier than you probably think.
[...] In this article I'm going to dive into the pthreads extension (short for POSIX Threads). It has been ar... | <urn:uuid:57bc94d6-f1f8-420d-afc8-850678420c76> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://phpdeveloper.org/tag/pool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969355 | 339 | 2.609375 | 3 |
An ear infection, or otitis media, occurs when viruses or bacteria enter the middle ear and cause it to become infected. If you’ve had an ear infection, you know it can cause extreme discomfort. What you may not know is how important it is to get an ear infection diagnosed as early as possible — if left untreated, it c... | <urn:uuid:3ce50084-1137-4ba0-996d-d96b28ddde56> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everydayhealth.com/ear-nose-throat/ear-infection.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959762 | 827 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Don’t believe the hype. The GM Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is a threat to those who care about livability, equality and the planet.
For more than three years, General Motors has been touting the Volt and its ability to run for 64 kilometres on electricity before switching to a gasoline engine. In January 2007,... | <urn:uuid:7ce57ba8-e628-4cce-9c29-2fa2abe752dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/gms-volt-by-bianca-mugyenyi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943931 | 1,018 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Ergonomics is the science of designing a person's environment so that it facilitates the highest level of function. A person's work environment should fit his or her capabilities as a worker.
Good ergonomics prevent injury and promote health, safety, and comfort for employees.
The use of ergonomics principles can incre... | <urn:uuid:1e167bdb-c670-448f-862d-574f30c8f311> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aota.org/About-Occupational-Therapy/Patients-Clients/Work/Ergonomics.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934141 | 582 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Basic Web Services
The ITIS Web Services provide the ability to search and retrieve data from ITIS by providing access to the data behind the ITIS web site
Description - This lists each service function with its description, inputs, outputs, and a sample URL that returns results.
WSDL - The Web Service Description Lang... | <urn:uuid:4366de60-01d4-496c-b008-cbe729f21e29> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.itis.gov/web_service.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.788046 | 366 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs
In the past two elections, richer people were more likely to vote Republican while richer states were more likely to vote Democratic. This switch is an aggregation reversal, where an individual relationship, like income and Republicanism, is reversed at some lev... | <urn:uuid:fe4f9623-a177-4296-9e20-44c2244e28b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nber.org/papers/w13031 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921591 | 186 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Violence against women, particularly sexual violence, is not a new phenomen. According to Vivi Widyawati, one of the leaders of National Committee of Perempuan Mahardhika, it is a “silent violence” that is rarely addressed by the Left and social movements in Indonesia – with the exception of women’s organizations. It c... | <urn:uuid:7be39e4b-a276-4882-a875-397be7fb36e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2520 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958147 | 2,028 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Mabel Smith Douglass: Conservative Feminist - Amanda Winter, Douglass College '03
Personality can be crucial in determining the success or failure of a goal. Influenced by past experiences and the surrounding society, personality controls the way in which one approaches challenges and affects how well one relates to ot... | <urn:uuid:1bce3197-fd91-4473-854d-c3da4e1afe14> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/douglass_scholars/article2.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978969 | 2,567 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Ancient Egypt is one of the most magnificent civilizations founded by man thousands of years ago. The Ancient Egyptians attained very high levels of medicine, science and art, and left hundreds of works behind them. They possessed more knowledge and experience than would have been possible were they the continuation of... | <urn:uuid:db9fa512-b772-4f68-ab13-2d35281d8fd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.harunyahya.com/en/works/8171/Ancient-Egypt:-a-magnificent-civilization---I | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967893 | 1,919 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Previous projects undertaken through the Endangered Archives Programme discovered a surprisingly large and varied body of Theravada Buddhist photographs taken and collected by the monks of Luang Prabang/Laos, from ca. 1880 up to the present.
Coming from more than 20 distinct monastery collections, this unique view from... | <urn:uuid:403a579f-046a-4ecf-863b-1f2d8c63d9a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP326;r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956444 | 1,581 | 3.078125 | 3 |
One of the defining images of war-torn London: St Paul's Cathedral shrouded in fire and smoke on 29 December 1940
Christmas 1940: the Germans had an unofficial two-day lull in night raids over the capital and then resumed bombing with renewed vigour on 29 December.
The onslaught was dubbed the Second Great Fire of Lond... | <urn:uuid:42931f51-f533-41b6-9225-5684356c1eeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9306000/9306779.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950981 | 720 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Pediatricians now have a new and simple way to diagnose a serious problem facing our nation's children thanks to David Kaelber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., MetroHealth System pediatrician, internist, and chief medical informatics officer and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher and faculty member. Nea... | <urn:uuid:01db8546-7569-4cd7-a035-3cf9370b81dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Pediatrician-creates-easier-way-to-identify-kids-high-BP-46843-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917336 | 583 | 3.234375 | 3 |
|Las Pilas Archaeological Ruins Entrance. Located In|
The Public Swimming Pool Enclosure Of:
The Northern Part Of The City Of Jonacatepec, In Morales, Mexico.
Las Pilas Archaeological Ruins:
Las Pilas Archaeological Ruins is from a small community of the Tlahuica; who were one of the groups of Aztec people living in ce... | <urn:uuid:75b6fcf8-623b-4084-9c0b-4acfc98c8a0b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.delange.org/LasPilas/LasPilas.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94899 | 1,400 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Attn. Editors & Reporters: Important back to school issue
Scientists study exposes inadequate coverage of evolution by most leading biology textbooks
Seattle, WA In a critique on biological pseudo science, a Discovery Institute scientist issued failing grades to popular biology textbooks after he found that they inadeq... | <urn:uuid:bbb1973d-d133-4ca4-a6f7-664b7ca1bc37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.arn.org/docs/wells/jw_tbookreport900_pr.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950375 | 825 | 3.015625 | 3 |
US-Africa Cooperation: Focus on Sustainable Development Outcomes
In its cooperation with Africa the United Sates focuses on sustainable development outcomes based on economic growth, democratic governance, and sustainable systems for meeting basic human needs and food security. The U.S. government emphasizes the critic... | <urn:uuid:bcb51a3f-8234-46d9-bc9b-03edf89e1fc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/article/us-africa-cooperation-focus-on-sustainable-development-outcomes-12054/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946201 | 609 | 2.53125 | 3 |
One state adds a 7 percent sales tax to the price of most products purchased within its jurisdiction. This tax, therefore, if viewed as tax on income, has the reverse effect of the federal income tax: the lower the income, the higher the annual percentage rate at which the income is taxed.
The conclusion above would be... | <urn:uuid:71e524e1-edbf-4643-b870-c966f3a49c1b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gmatclub.com/forum/one-state-adds-a-7-percent-sales-tax-to-the-price-of-most-116378-20.html?sort_by_oldest=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964012 | 603 | 3.140625 | 3 |
A form of escapement in clocks and watches in which the teeth of the crown wheel or balance wheel act on the pallets by recoil.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Beginning his experiments around 1658 he had made two significant steps by 1660, namely the use of a balance controlled by a spiral spring and an improved escapement cal... | <urn:uuid:5ca6acb4-bd88-49ad-94e0-d65c354d2bad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles/anchor-escapement | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.76783 | 231 | 3.46875 | 3 |
After nearly 30 years at Caltech as a professor of theoretical physics and, eventually, provost, Steven Koonin took a leave of absence in 2004 to become BP's chief scientist. After a year of study, he recommended a strategy for the company that has included investments in unconventional sources of oil as well as renewa... | <urn:uuid:9b618959-b338-45cb-9266-ad35ad611c9f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.listeditor@abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=5894084&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968084 | 1,324 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The 2008 OECD Survey of Canada incorporates a long and surprisingly critical overview of developments in the energy sector, with a major focus on the tar sands. (Chapter 4). It is, in many respects, far closer to the views of the Pembina Institute and the Parkland Institute in Alberta than to those of the Alberta and f... | <urn:uuid:dda8fc59-a0c0-41a7-a96d-b3855b41ac75> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2008/06/22/the-oecd-and-the-tar-sands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92272 | 916 | 2.59375 | 3 |
With the "polar vortex" bringing frigid temperatures across the country, going outside isn't just uncomfortable — it can be downright dangerous.
The temperature will drop to -25 F in Fargo, N.D., -31 F in International Falls, Minn., and -15 F in Indianapolis and Chicago, according to the Associated Press.
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According to a report by Reuters, a 2 million-year-old fossil of a part-human, part-ape species, was found. The being had hands and ankles much like that of a human, however its brain was small but advanced. Found in a cave north of Johannesburg, the fossils may serve to change views on the origins of humans. The fossi... | <urn:uuid:83ea2ffa-94a1-4f28-93c7-2d8f848b8ee9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.overlandingafrica.com/blog/evolution-of-early-man/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977196 | 371 | 3.546875 | 4 |
From Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
One way to find articles in the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia is by browsing through the categories, rather than doing a keyword search.
On the Main Page of the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, you will see an alphabetical listing of all the main categories under which all of the articl... | <urn:uuid:87a6f60f-22bb-4a35-9bc6-b2155d906b6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Browsing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875461 | 436 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Towards frictionless nanomachines
Jul 14, 2006
Two independent groups of researchers have taken important steps in overcoming friction in nanosized mechanical devices. A team from the University of Basel in Switzerland has shown that friction between the tip of an atomic-force microscope and a salt crystal can be cut 1... | <urn:uuid:7359b8bf-3b76-4a1f-9d66-a19d92bf4c22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2006/jul/14/towards-frictionless-nanomachines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934603 | 439 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A square board divided into sixty-four alternating dark and light squares (conventionally called ‘black’ and ‘white’), used for playing chess or draughts (checkers).
- The playground is now a more pleasant and interesting place for the children with grid games, such as hopscotch, jigsaws, target games and three chessbo... | <urn:uuid:3aceec44-74e6-4a38-b6ae-5f78a5c9385b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/chessboard | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916897 | 167 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Native Americans all across the USA planted these three crops for a very good reason. By combining them in there diet they had a base of complete nutrition. It is not just any kind of beans. corn and squash. You need to grow mature dry beans, corn as a grain and winter keeping squash. String beans, sweet corn and summe... | <urn:uuid:aec04731-46ee-4849-854d-dc802babd0c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/sisters-beans-corn-squash/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940426 | 906 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Health Tip: Giving Baby a Pacifier
(HealthDay News) -- Pacifiers may do a great job of soothing cranky little ones, but parents should take steps to make sure their toddlers are safe.
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these safety guidelines for pacifiers:
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Handheld Tesla Coils: Violet wands and
High Voltage Forums
A Brief History
Plasma Globes were invented by Nikola Tesla some time before 1892.
Glass-enclosed Tesla coil terminals containing low-pressure gases were
part of Tesla's effort to develop a new source of lighting not covered by
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Whenever there’s a revolution in computing, there’s a period of wild experimentation. Ideas are explored, prototypes are built, and manifestos are written.
The final outcome does not always achieve the great ambition of the first prototypes. Not everything works well in practice. Some features prove difficult to build,... | <urn:uuid:e0ab0e31-8954-406b-bb82-3c2536e41937> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wilfred.me.uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893579 | 1,076 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Skunk Hollow: History of a 19th Century Community of Free African-Americans
Throughout most of the nineteenth century, a small community of free blacks existed along the New York/New Jersey state line about a mile south of Palisades. Known as Skunk Hollow, it was settled by former slaves and their descendents 60 years ... | <urn:uuid:694ea8c7-1502-4285-b100-157815e68578> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://palisadesny.com/history/skunk-hollow-history-19th-century-community-free-a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979011 | 1,260 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Summary of the Marriage Act, no. 25 of 1961 (With Amendments)
This Act sets out the requirements for the solemnisation and registration of civil marriages in South Africa. It was amended in 1997 by the Marriage Extension Act to extend to the whole of the country. It is also affected by the Recognition of Customary Marr... | <urn:uuid:36f2b0ab-ef04-4c82-875d-a4d3993ae4b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ossafrica.com/esst/index.php?title=Summary_of_the_Marriage_Act%2C_no._25_of_1961_(With_Amendments) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943571 | 1,458 | 2.75 | 3 |
THURSDAY, July 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Adults with dyslexia are more likely to report that they were physically abused as children or teenagers than people who don’t have the learning disorder, according to a new study.
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PBS KIDS is committed to providing the highest quality programming and learning environment for children to stimulate their curiosity, encourage interaction and foster their imagination. PBS KIDS remains a leader in the industry enriching the lives of children across the country. Throughout their years of broadcasting,... | <urn:uuid:d094c986-3c6b-4093-8f29-767a6f352548> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/content/environment-kids/?flavour=full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943998 | 1,221 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Experts recommend trees be 20 feet apart. However, he said many people don't realize the trunks being a good distance away from each other isn't enough.
The space between branches needs to be at least 20 feet apart. Otherwise, fires can leap from one tree to the other, and without defensible space, a blaze can go from ... | <urn:uuid:45138a08-6f0d-4c27-a491-80c16174ad53> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.localnews8.com/news/homeowners-prepare-for-fire-danger-with-neighbors/20427588?item=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972405 | 155 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The report says that the current global food system is cracking under the strain of increased demand (due to growth in income and population) and the widespread use of farming methods that use natural resources faster than the resources can be regenerated. The flashes of volatility in food prices we saw in 2007-8 (and ... | <urn:uuid:6a60c446-b273-4af2-b8b0-0e01726b3485> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.developmenthorizons.com/2011/01/foresight-report-on-global-food-and.html | 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 | 0.94804 | 1,143 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Helen, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women; daughter of Leda and Zeus, and sister of Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra. While still a young girl Helen was abducted to Attica by Theseus and Polydeuces, but Castor and Pollux rescued her. Later, when she was courted by the greatest heroes and chieftains of Gr... | <urn:uuid:c71403a4-febf-434e-b753-3c69040a313c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/entertainment/helen.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968033 | 414 | 3.140625 | 3 |
If you believe what you see on TV, women are inscrutable, conniving, hysterical and apt to change their minds without reason or warning. Some women's magazines perpetuate these stereotypes by offering advice on how to entrap men or keep them guessing. And some of the basic differences between men and women can seem a l... | <urn:uuid:b7b944b9-94f1-46d2-86c3-dd0cf783a5f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.howstuffworks.com/women.htm/printable | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91995 | 5,462 | 3.390625 | 3 |
A growing problem and a going problem. More families are dealing with bedwetting than ever before. In the 1950s, most kids were dry through the night by age two. But times have changed.
“In 2003, they looked at that number again and it certainly wasn’t two years of age; it was actually moved to five at that point. In t... | <urn:uuid:b44b8e44-9993-46a5-9d30-8afc39eb5ccd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.leememorial.org/healthmatters/scripts_2012/091312.html?lightbox[width]=550&lightbox[height]=500 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955033 | 513 | 2.75 | 3 |
Chilean media reported that a man called Oscar Munoz found the remains on October 19, 2003 at an abandoned settlement called La Noria in the Atacama Desert.
The remains were found near an abandoned church wrapped in a white cloth. According to the Daily Mail
, a Chilean newspaper reported that the skeleton was "no bigg... | <urn:uuid:31e190bb-e0df-4eca-bd1c-648adc3264e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348702 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978216 | 838 | 2.59375 | 3 |
First, Armstrong and Green contend that agreement among forecasters is not related to accuracy—and may reflect bias as much as anything else. “You don’t vote,” Armstrong told me. “That’s not the way science progresses.”
Next, they say the complexity of the global warming problem makes forecasting a fool’s errand. “Ther... | <urn:uuid:199be1c2-b743-493b-a138-a8fd06d905a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rebelyid.com/2013/01/confidence/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954353 | 587 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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Rock viola is a style of playing employed primarily in the rock genre but also in other subgenres, such as alternative music. This style uses techniques from the classical method but ultimately employs a modified, faster attack style of playing. Rock bands like Yellow... | <urn:uuid:db6020a5-dffb-4c65-b5ad-938537552b1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-rock-viola.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967205 | 587 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Over the last few decades, engineers have developed submersible technologies capable of meeting the many challenges that the deep sea imposes upon explorers. Using advanced submersible technologies, remarkable new deep-water ecosystems have been discovered. Many of these communities were believed not to exist in harsh ... | <urn:uuid:b4aaa475-46c6-4466-acdb-05a94e4d7889> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/subs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933159 | 238 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Asynx Planetarium is a easy to use planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth and between the year 1760 and 9999. Perfect for students, kids and astronomy beginners.
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Energy is not only the essence of life, but also a great driving force determining a country’s economic stability and security benefits. Struck by the first oil crisis in 1973 and the oil price hikes since 2000, the U.S. government has learned the urgent needs to increase the national energy independence. To avoid cons... | <urn:uuid:18fe9abf-6134-402a-9462-55c2c4b38de8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.anl.gov/events/biofuel-water-nexus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951992 | 387 | 3.234375 | 3 |
1 GEOGRAPHIC SETTING AND ENVIRONMENT
Kenya is located in East Africa near the Equator (the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres). The country is approximately twice the size of Nevada. The southeast part of Kenya borders the Indian Ocean. The land regions are varied and range... | <urn:uuid:5bb67480-7546-4e04-b6f0-087679d0af8c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foodbycountry.com/Kazakhstan-to-South-Africa/Kenya.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931413 | 3,397 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Views of Palestine: perspectives and experiences from the British Mandate
Joint Middle East Department/Palestine Exploration Fund lecture series
Thursday 3 October 2013,
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Anne Lineen discusses her search for images of the British Mandate in Palestine.
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Most U.S. consumers believe they're protecting their computers against cyberattacks, but their actions indicate they aren't as safe as they think, according to a study released Monday.
Eighty-seven percent of U.S. consumers surveyed believe they have antivirus protection installed on their computers, but scans of their... | <urn:uuid:9adfb19a-ff1b-4986-a824-593651202a2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/193213/survey_consumers_only_think_they_re_cyber_safe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974531 | 646 | 2.8125 | 3 |
JACKSONVILLE’S TELEPHONE HISTORY
John W. Cowart
Jacksonville’s first telephone line stretched for a single city block. That line ran from the office of A.N. Beck at Main and Bay streets to the Inland Navigation Company at Bay and Laura streets.
Today, Jacksonville contains 424,000 miles of aerial wire and cable stretch... | <urn:uuid:7f009b44-b8f9-4917-aee1-5a20c6648667> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cowart.info/jax%20telephone%20history/telephone%20history.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96208 | 1,346 | 2.90625 | 3 |
1. Phosphoric acid is a clear, colorless, odorless liquid with a syrupy consistency.
2. Phosphoric acid is used as an acidifying agent to give colas their tangy flavor.
3. Due to the use of phosphoric acid, cola is a actually more acidic than lemon juice or vinegar! The vast amount of sugar acts to mask and balance the... | <urn:uuid:e4cc7468-cb71-4fbf-859e-2a85977bff7f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.fooducate.com/2009/06/30/11-quick-facts-about-phosphoric-acid-yes-that-chemical-in-coca-cola/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870786 | 575 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The History of Hydrogen Peroxide Propulsion
Hydrogen peroxide has been used in many applications for propulsion and power generation in the last 70 years.
Its first major use was by the German Luftwaffe during Word War II. In 1936 Helmuth Walters´ Walterwerke developed a 1000 kgf hydrogen peroxide propelled ATO (= Auxi... | <urn:uuid:96a2db6e-7300-4cb7-bad2-dbc0f2b8f173> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.peroxidepropulsion.com/article/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972236 | 945 | 3.59375 | 4 |
What is Morris Dancing?
All of the dancing is done to live music, traditionally performed on instruments such as pipe and tabor (a small drum), button accordion, fiddle, etc. Modern Morris dancers have been seen accompanied by saxophone, baritone horn, guitar, bassoon, or whatever else is handy. The songs are mainly tr... | <urn:uuid:3f8029a3-38db-46d7-8464-7f6597a87fff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mossyback.com/what_is_morris.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975183 | 1,143 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Do not give your child any product that contains aspirin. A child or teenager who has the symptoms of any viral disease, including chickenpox, should never be given aspirin, because the combination of aspirin and viral disease has been linked to the development of Reye's syndrome, a dangerous complication.
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2000 Jordan Institute
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Working with Adults with Mental Illness
While most parents with mental illness do not abuse their children, and while the parents of most abused children are not mentally ill (National Clearinghouse, 1994) child welfare workers often encounter adults with mental illness. Making the approp... | <urn:uuid:474f99c6-e0c1-4ca7-9abd-552f540ea6e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.practicenotes.org/vol4_no2/working_with_adults.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928487 | 2,283 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The Republic Day of India commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950. The 26th January was chosen to honor the memory of the declaration of independence of 1930. It is one of the three national... | <urn:uuid:24a9df0a-c768-423b-b984-ea1d01f61a19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.india-intro.com/religion/festivals/january/733-history-of-republic-day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960476 | 755 | 3.328125 | 3 |
News & Announcements
Temple-Penn Researchers Identify Calcium “Accelerator,” A Crucial Piece to Keep Cell Power Supply Ticking.
A team of scientists from Temple University School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania has moved another step closer to solving a decades-long mystery of how the all-important flow ... | <urn:uuid:372133f3-5d56-469d-9241-e2c6025a74f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.templehealth.org/content/news.htm?view=34&inCtx5news_id=373&inCtx4pg=0&news=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901237 | 1,306 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Methuselah, the longest-lived human being of all time, died at the age of 969 years on the 11th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 from creation (2105 BCE) -- exactly seven days before the beginning of the Great Flood. Methuselah was Adam's great-great-great-great-great-grandson and Noah's grandfather.
The matriarch Rachel d... | <urn:uuid:86671975-766a-4f63-9f43-ade2c9ac7990> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp%3Ftdate%3D10/27/2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983846 | 381 | 3.09375 | 3 |
A command line argument (or parameter) is any value passed into a batch script:
C:> MyScript.cmd January 1234 "Some value"
Arguments can also be passed to a subroutine with CALL:
CALL :my_sub 2468
You can get the value of any argument using a % followed by it's numerical position on the command line. The first item pas... | <urn:uuid:3394f908-78bc-4bc9-890f-b01a37166e60> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-args.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.76266 | 1,750 | 3.1875 | 3 |
When you generate your own power from a solar energy system or other renewable technology, your home or business’ onsite electrical load will be served first and any electricity you don’t consume will be exported to the grid. Most of the time, customers use the power from their solar or renewable systems, but may still... | <urn:uuid:86fbef06-2c2d-43fa-af0e-baa8135d98ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/solarenergy/solarupgrade/index.page | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928754 | 194 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Does Disease Cause Autocracy?
October 11, 2011
In attempting to explain those factors which lead to the rise or fall of liberalism, democracy and wealth, several scientists believe they have identified a new culprit: disease. The eradication of proliferating diseases correlates strongly with the rise of democratic inst... | <urn:uuid:ab743584-a2ce-49c1-b7e6-588d8fea7968> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21182 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938706 | 472 | 2.703125 | 3 |
This tutorial will show you how to create motion tweening text. You will also learn:
1. How to break apart the text,
2. How to convert every letter into a Graphic Symbol,
3. How to place every letter in separate layer,
4. How to enlarge every letter using the Free Transform Tool (Q),
5. How to apply on it Alpha effect ... | <urn:uuid:0c741acd-8eb8-4738-ab5c-db3574e92582> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.toxiclab.org/tutorial.asp?ID=39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.828057 | 943 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Neuroscience: First detailed map of the Grand Central Station of the brain
In "First Detailed Map of the Human Cortex" in MIT's Technology Review, Emily Singer notes,
"A new imaging technique reveals previously hidden brain structures, including the central hub" and explains,
The first high-resolution map of the human ... | <urn:uuid:bfab36af-853b-4d66-9f96-801b58eaf9d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mindfulhack.blogspot.com/2008/07/neuroscience-first-detailed-map-of.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940787 | 420 | 3.21875 | 3 |
The Four Stages of Learning
The learning process has often become more difficult than necessary because of the bad feelings people get when they make mistakes in learning. The bad feelings come from judgments like, "not doing it right," "not good enough," "can never learn this," etc.
Ironically, not doing it right and ... | <urn:uuid:8da7f52c-7fbc-4a25-a35c-c6c87503b0e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://processcoaching.com/fourstages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987472 | 631 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Q: I rescued a box turtle for my grandchild. The turtle is in a container. It has laid two eggs and we’re not sure what to do or how to care for the eggs. Would the eggs normally been laid in the ground or are they laid above ground? Do they lay eggs even if they are not fertile?
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October 02 2008 / by Garry Golden / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Energy Year: 2013 Rating: 4
How might storing electricity in the form of solid hydrogen change the future landscape of energy? We believe it could change the performance of mobile power, lower the cost of renewable energy production, a... | <urn:uuid:fecf805e-e13e-4565-8ab3-07bb1c0b7122> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.futureofgadgets.com/futureblogger/tag/solid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91728 | 396 | 3.109375 | 3 |
U.S. Army in the Cold War
CMH Pub 45-1, Cloth; CMH Pub 45-1-1, Paper
2005; 483 pages, illustrations, charts, maps, index
Building for Peace traces the U.S. Army's engineering construction activities in Europe, beginning immediately after World War II in 1945 and ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. ... | <urn:uuid:53ee0316-6ba0-46ee-82c6-8c7a0655f712> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://history.army.mil/catalog/pubs/45/45-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937834 | 273 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
Treating scar tissue on the lungs
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A user installed application (UIA) is one that is installed on a computer by an end user, instead of by a corporate IT department.
Applications provisioned by IT are typically tested to ensure compatibility and stability, but a user installed application can cause problems for other applications or for the entire opera... | <urn:uuid:e30608b3-af73-4ec2-9434-3604bc4d4333> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/definition/user-installed-applications | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938966 | 255 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Hosts: Preferred hosts include oak, apple, birch, boxelder, hawthorn, linden, poplar, sweet gum, and willow
Evidence: The distinctive felt-like, tan egg masses may be seen on bark, branches, and in other sheltered locations throughout the winter. In early May, shot hole damage to leaves by young larvae is apparent. Lar... | <urn:uuid:a458bd27-3743-40b9-9c07-9806bc605181> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.forestpests.org/vermont/gypsymoth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922427 | 669 | 2.984375 | 3 |
A 400-year old cottage was discovered by a construction crew near Pendle Hill (in northern England) that is believed to have been the home of one of the Pendle Witches. The eleven women known as the Pendle Witches were found guilty of murdering ten people with witchraft in 1612, and all but one were hanged for their su... | <urn:uuid:04ba6c46-4513-4d5c-a259-6c67a7ea2af5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/09/pendle-witch-cottage-discovered-in-lancanshire/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971698 | 276 | 2.875 | 3 |
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BUYING OF TITLES
The purchase of the rights of a person to a piece of land when the seller is deceased.
When a deed is made by one who, though having a legal right to land, is at the time of the conveyance disseised, as a general rule of the common law, the sale is void; the law wil... | <urn:uuid:e49912b6-f919-4bb6-ab10-176f1c710864> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lectlaw.com/def/b122.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970023 | 419 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Ask the Dust
Struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, fights to scrape by, living in the Bunker Hill area of 1930's Los Angeles, as he is distracted from his work by his infatuation with Camilla Lopez, a local waitress who flirts with him by insulting him, uninterested in him treating her like a "Mexican princess". ... The R... | <urn:uuid:b2842e16-965b-41ae-bda5-37099a21b8f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://allreaders.com/books/john-fante-2761 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984264 | 282 | 2.515625 | 3 |
September 2, 2009
Galaxy Plays Host To Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole
University of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 billion years ago, is a... | <urn:uuid:84170686-2720-4356-a4cf-c1946ed89178> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1746475/galaxy_plays_host_to_most_distant_supermassive_black_hole/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936027 | 794 | 3.46875 | 3 |
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Friday, July 1, 2016
Glimpses at the First Trimester
- Nausea and Vomiting ("Morning Sickness")
- Urinary Frequency
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Turkiye, known officially as the Republic of Turkiye, is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkiye borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest, Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast, Armenia, Azerbaijan (the Nak... | <urn:uuid:80f97628-37a5-43d2-8327-91335350c9af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/site/tcaunr/about-turkey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961661 | 415 | 2.65625 | 3 |
New Options for the Future
Up ahead on the HIV horizon lurks a possible new weapon against HIV. This weapon is in the form of a "Fusion Inhibitor." Fusion Inhibitors are a new class of anti-HIV medications. T-20, (also known as Pentafuside) developed by Trimeris Inc. in collaboration with Hoffman-La Roche Inc. is the f... | <urn:uuid:e4e06dff-bc42-485e-8500-8a553398c74e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thebody.com/content/art113.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961765 | 653 | 2.515625 | 3 |
ver the course of time, Frankenstein's monster has usurped the very name of his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the precocious student of natural philosophy from Geneva, where Mary Shelley was living with two gifted poets, her husband, Percy, and George Gordon, Lord Byron, when she conceived the strange Gothic tale. A pe... | <urn:uuid:c85563c4-0f01-470c-89cb-e4585a5a487c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://victorianweb.org/previctorian/mshelley/pva229.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946414 | 3,266 | 2.859375 | 3 |
This was the standard Japanese light AA of the war, being mounted aboard practically everything that floated. It was an adaptation of a French Hotchkiss design. It was also a very mediocre weapon, being hampered by slow training and elevating speeds (even in power-operated triple mounts), excessive vibration and muzzle... | <urn:uuid:99bb8225-02fd-48e5-a91a-f5687d2a5907> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.combinedfleet.com/25_60.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968996 | 229 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) brings technology created at Stanford to market. In 2014–15, Stanford received more than $95 million in gross royalty revenue from 695 technologies. Thirty-nine of the inventions generated $100,000 or more in royalties. Eight inventions generated $1 million or more. In 20... | <urn:uuid:6b083c9e-4453-4669-aa39-f2b350faf933> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://facts.stanford.edu/research/innovation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92263 | 653 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Civil war is another catastrophe for Greece, for many worse than the Nazi occupation. More people are killed during the Civil war than during the occupation. Greece is the first battle of the Cold War.
In 1944 Greece is liberated from the German occupation though the celebration is a short one. The victorious resis... | <urn:uuid:0e098c87-7bb0-4ebd-853f-7de18f289b3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/civilwar.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967405 | 5,204 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Late Antique Textiles
Late Antique textiles are unique in a number of ways and provide a useful insight into the larger context of the Late Antique Period. Textiles are especially important as an art form because they combine aesthetics and function. Not only do they demonstrate popular styles and forms and speak to cu... | <urn:uuid:46a90f94-b19b-4f76-ae10-e45b46e4fe19> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/late-antique-egypt/topic-10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954472 | 1,350 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Test your skills
How to create a new database? Please give easy steps since I’m new to it. Your help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
You can use the CREATE DATABASE <database name> statement. But before that, you have few things to consider. You need to create a user account on the on the database for you to use when... | <urn:uuid:b506fc47-c3a2-424f-972a-fa7a5783ff6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techyv.com/questions/how-create-new-database | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874594 | 320 | 2.6875 | 3 |
By the time Henry VIII came to the throne, the cathedral and all its surrounding buildings were complete and substantially as they are today. As the Reformation got under way, Wells was less affected than those cathedrals which were monastic foundations, but the king’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, who was lay dean ... | <urn:uuid:7e72ff80-207f-4bf7-95a7-e37261306c68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/history/timeline/the-reformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978472 | 440 | 3.375 | 3 |
Dec. 17, 2003 — The suborbital spaceship being tested by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and his team at Scaled Composites fired its rocket engine and went supersonic for the first time Wednesday, on the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic first flight. Hours later, multibillionaire Paul Allen confirmed long-rumbl... | <urn:uuid:d3b76664-db44-4795-ae0d-5932ff91250a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4864524/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/private-spaceship-goes-supersonic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961384 | 1,040 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Martell, M., J. Nibe, and J. Galli. 1990. A report on bald eagle use of the Wacouta Bay, (Mn.) area of the Mississippi River along with management recommendations. Final report submitted to the Nongame Wildlife Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. 15 pp.
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Everything you need to understand or teach The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
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1. What do the introductory sections of the book cover and what is the overall intent of Livy?
2. What is interesting about the Roman religion and where was it adopted from?
3. What are the two different stories about the origin of Romulus and Remus?
This section contains 4,020 words
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Research study shows only heirloom organic breeds nutritionally complete.
One look at a big, red tomato and one can almost taste its’ juicy freshness…unless, that tomato was part of a group of 43 fruit and vegetable crops analyzed by Dr. Donald Davis, research associate at the Biochemical Institute at the University of... | <urn:uuid:4a1957a9-39d2-4763-94df-07dd7d97cb21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.organicauthority.com/organic-food/organic-food-articles/declining-nutritional-value-of-produce-due-to-high-yield-selective-seed-breeding.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95356 | 2,375 | 2.9375 | 3 |
From Dr. Art Evans' Blog – The bumble flower scarab, Euphoria inda (Linnaeus), is the most widely distributed species of Euphoria in North America, ranging from Quebec south to Florida, west to British Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, and southeastern Arizona. The head and pronotum are mostly black, while the elytra are yel... | <urn:uuid:24274665-5dae-438a-9c81-17e76bc445cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ideastations.org/radio/news/bumble-flower-scarab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940707 | 208 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Estimates call for some 1200 new satellites to be launched by 2019. Meanwhile, an estimated half-million pieces of space debris currently orbit the earth. Impact seems inevitable.
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Definition of Modenas
1. modena [n] - See also: modena
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Economy of Malta: strong points and development of Maltese business and trade
Malta has limited resources but a thriving economy
Malta does not have any natural resources and experiences a limited fresh water supply; and it only produces around 20% of the food requirements. Thus, the economy is dependent on the human r... | <urn:uuid:11775d57-5866-4428-8c1b-06fa156395b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.malta.com/en/about-malta/economy | 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 | 0.943867 | 499 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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