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Bladder infections, also known as urinary tract infections (UTI) is an encroachment by the bacteria in the urinary tract which includes the urethra, bladder, ureters, and the kidney. This can be very painful and if not contained or eliminated in the early stages it can reach the kidneys thus making it very serious.
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The physical properties of a material e.g. conductivity, density,
color, solubility etc., are determined by its crystal structure,
(the way in which atoms and molecules are positioned with respect
to each other in a crystalline material). For example, the dramatic
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Fresh, local and organic: Tips for buying produce
Feature Article- Fri., Feb. 11, 2011
These days, when it comes to produce, the buzz words are “local” and “seasonal.” Local and seasonal, like fresh and organic, can mean a lot of different things, according to Jim Gallivan, department chair of Culinary Arts at The Inte... | <urn:uuid:e0494bda-ab36-42f2-9ba5-a4dd6c2454be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.remindernews.com/article/2011/02/11/fresh-local-and-organic-tips-for-buying-produce | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949457 | 737 | 2.5625 | 3 |
In April of 2008, Schinnerer reported that the Social Economic Environmental Design Network, or SEED (linked article is password-protected for Schinnerer and CNA policyholder and broker use only), held its first national conference. Started in 2005, the SEED network’s mission is “to increase the social relevancy of the... | <urn:uuid:d305ebac-eeb0-4c12-bc85-464677f66d69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.schinnerer.com/blogs/rm/2010/04/15/first_leed_and_now_seed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906126 | 368 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Optimism bias: Why the young and the old tend to look on the bright side
Even more surprising was the finding that kids and elderly people both showed more of a bias than college students. On one hand, the young and the old were quite good at responding to desirable information: Everyone updated their beliefs similarly... | <urn:uuid:e50825b7-b7f5-4e8c-b05b-24b6584c11c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/02/optimism-bias-why-the-young-and-the-old-tend-to-look-on-the-bright-side/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976818 | 451 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Here is a quick guide to doing problems involving the work energy theorem, to help you do your physics homework or assignment:
The work energy theorem states that the work done is equal to the change in kinetic energy:
where the kinetic energy is:
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From the NEWS
Shah Allah Ditta caves are located on the route leading towards Khanpur. These caves are next to the shrine and tomb of a Mughal period ‘dervish,’ Shah Allah Ditta. Once you start travelling on Golra Sharif Road, a sharp turn comes for a village named after the saint — Shah Allah Ditta. The narrow road le... | <urn:uuid:3ded94ca-2d67-4e53-822a-4ede13d2752d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pakteahouse.net/2008/04/07/islamabad-shah-allah-ditta-caves-need-immediate-preservation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976437 | 931 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Men are four times more likely than woman to die by suicide, but women try to commit suicide twice as often as men (they're just unsuccessful). Such attempts are often viewed as a "cry for help" rather than an actual attempt to end the person's life.
Guns are the most commonly-used method for committing suicide. Using ... | <urn:uuid:79e44eb1-c87b-4c7f-9e13-3bb1f2d807b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://psychcentral.com/library/suicide_facts.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95873 | 508 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A California population-based twin study of autism
Basic & Clinical
Over the past two decades, research has supported the idea that autism has a strong genetic component. The strongest evidence comes from studies of twins that show that identical twins have a 90 percent chance of sharing a diagnosis of autism. Unfortun... | <urn:uuid:6d68a14f-ae92-428e-ba13-8079b1f58e36> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.autismspeaks.org/behavioral-psychosocial-educational/grants/california-population-based-twin-study-autism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937962 | 367 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Improve the quality of life of ordinary citizens by strengthening sustainable, legitimate livelihoods.
Decades of ongoing conflict, political instability, drought and economic chaos has left Afghanistan one of the world’s poorest and unstable nations. Eighty-five percent of the population relies on agriculture and natu... | <urn:uuid:d471451b-757a-41c2-87d2-d0d8f496fde9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mercycorps.org.uk/afghanistan?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927049 | 659 | 2.625 | 3 |
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
versión impresa ISSN 1020-4989
GUILHERME, Ana Lucia Falavigna et al. Secondary triatomine species in dwellings and other nearby structures in municipalities under epidemiological surveillance in the state of Paraná, Brazil. Rev Panam Salud Publica [online]. 2001, vol.9, n.6, pp. 38... | <urn:uuid:bf865c44-2358-4710-9d82-5fede828542e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1020-49892001000600005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942455 | 538 | 2.75 | 3 |
Ever wonder what great educational APP you should check out for your class?!? Welcome to the Spotlight Series on fantastic apps from Discovery Educators! Featuring this week’s app:
- Handout with Tips and Tricks
- Description: Toontastic allows you to create stories using Freytag’s Pyramid for story development. There ... | <urn:uuid:c2b430ab-b64d-46a5-9dd1-841e88496152> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2013/02/15/spotlight-series-educational-apps-toontastic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863006 | 275 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Treasures of the Deep
Summary:With higher log values, interest is growing in BC in salvaging `sinkers' and standing trees in man-made lakes created years ago by hydro dam construction.
By Reg Barclay
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The American Crocodile: A Story of Recovery
Michelle P. Moller, Michael S. Cherkiss and Frank J. Mazzotti
The American crocodile is a primarily coastal crocodilian occurring in parts of Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and at the northern end of its range in southern Florida. The crocodile was first si... | <urn:uuid:debb503a-56b2-4913-80f0-23d9d68aab5d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crocdoc.ifas.ufl.edu/publications/posters/crocodilerecovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943165 | 1,548 | 3.5 | 4 |
Benign breast conditions (also known as benign breast diseases) are non-cancerous breast disorders. Some of these conditions increase the risk of breast cancer and others do not.
To assess breast cancer risk, benign breast conditions are classified as:
- Proliferative (those with quickly growing cells)
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It was April 14, 1912. At 11:40 p.m. the ill-fated Titanic, touted as unsinkable, struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York, killing 1,507 people. In 1985, a team of U.S. and French scientists led by Robert Ballard discovered its watery grave. Since then, fewer than 100 people have j... | <urn:uuid:cd63350e-1cdb-4d24-acc1-628e547fd184> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cbn.com/700club/Guests/Bios/Michael_Sebastian_Harris092305.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989016 | 1,377 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The efforts of volunteers to increase public awareness of invasive plant issues are invaluable in protecting native plants, animals, and their habitats in the Refuge System.
– Jenny Ericson, Invasive Species Volunteer Coordinator, USFWS
What’s It All About?
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Volunteering For A Clinical Trial
Every year, millions of people volunteer to take part in clinical trials. For some, it is an opportunity to help advance medical research. For others, it is a chance to gain access to latest potential treatment. For everyone, however, it is a very personal decision and one that require... | <urn:uuid:aba18547-5d02-4e44-ab5d-be7cbb48b4bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.immunetolerance.org/public/clinical-trial-info | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920003 | 180 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Thirsty Birds 'Burn the Engine' In Flight
Migratory songbirds like Swainson's thrushes spend their winters in South and Central America. But as spring approaches, they fly thousands of miles north to Canada.
Along the way, these little birds show endurance that would shame even the toughest athletes. They can fly for u... | <urn:uuid:666e1d54-0025-49d0-a8e0-033100e632ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kanw.com/post/thirsty-birds-burn-engine-flight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967752 | 781 | 3.578125 | 4 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Law One who has committed a felony.
- n. Archaic An evil person.
- adj. Archaic Evil; cruel.
- n. A painful purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. Also called whitlow.
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Active galactic nucleus
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the centre of a galaxy that has a much higher than normal luminosity over at least some portion, and possibly all, of the electromagnetic spectrum. Such excess emission has been observed in the radio, infrared, optical, ultra-violet, X-ray ... | <urn:uuid:794214fe-3fc2-40ee-ac92-4f6ffdd025dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galaxy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868274 | 5,211 | 3.78125 | 4 |
The story of the introduction of Christianity to Japan is quite different from its introduction in Europe or the Americas, because the culture of the Japanese is quite different from those of the West. There were two religions in Japan from the sixth century to the sixteenth century: Shinto and Buddhism. Shinto is the ... | <urn:uuid:0d9d9265-2ba3-4c8d-aa87-4a1a987b809c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://padremickey.blogspot.com/2012/02/feast-of-martyrs-of-japan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978294 | 2,922 | 3.765625 | 4 |
A long but worthy read. Sadly.
An Overview of the Experiences of LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Download this brief (pdf)
Read this brief in your web browser (Scribd)
Gay, transgender, and gender nonconforming youth are significantly over-represented in the juvenile justice system—approximately 300,000 gay a... | <urn:uuid:5027ce75-690f-4d5a-bf3e-d9956b9e752a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://qbits.tumblr.com/post/26237242296/the-unfair-criminalization-of-gay-and-transgender-youth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948745 | 5,458 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Prostate cancer Hedgehod Signal
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a possible way to distinguish lethal metastatic prostate cancers from those restricted to the walnut-size organ.
If future studies show their test -- measuring the level of activity of a signaling pathway called Hedgehog -- can predict which pros... | <urn:uuid:4914fadc-e3aa-495a-b4da-2738b187beab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.4-men.org/prostate-cancer/metastatic-prostate-cancer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950063 | 1,254 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Useful Reference Works
Horse Sense: 4. How Much Does a Horse need to Eat?
The average I have been told all my life, in feeding stock with hay, is that a horse needs 25 pounds of rough feed a day. That means, in order to maintain his weight, fitness, and good tone, he needs to consume 25 lbs of roughage, meaning grass o... | <urn:uuid:bbc4be4b-646e-4e5c-867f-9046070c4ae1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.henneth-annun.net/playlists/chapter_view.cfm?spordinal=4&sqid=182&sxid=969 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972313 | 191 | 2.78125 | 3 |
by Zakutnyaya Olga
Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 15, 2012
Light coming from an exoplanet only eight times larger than the Earth was observed with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Across the globe, an emergent group of committed clinicians, organizations and individuals are engaged in advancing a new healthcare paradigm. Broadly, this new healthcare paradigm fosters the promotion of health and resilience of individuals and communities by promoting personal health, social health and the regenerat... | <urn:uuid:320de4c8-88d0-4d8e-8ec9-55b548f606b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commonshealthcare.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949032 | 626 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Preterm birth is defined as a live birth before 37 completed weeks gestation. Some other classifications of preterm births include late preterm (34-36 weeks), moderately preterm (32-36 weeks) and very preterm (<32 weeks). These classifications are useful because they often correspond to clinical characteristics - incre... | <urn:uuid:01f198b4-9f10-4e95-8616-f2bc024b33ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats/ViewTopic.aspx?dv=lt®=4075000&top=3&lev=0&slev=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92853 | 391 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
Our Health Information Database is provided by A.D.A.M. the leading provider of electronic and printed information for professionals and consumers in healthcare and industry. It provides authoritative, reliable content written and reviewed by an editorial board who represent a variety of... | <urn:uuid:95995cfe-0a25-4365-aad0-fa480ffd94c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mercyweb.org/healthinfo.aspx?src=001191&typeid=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915118 | 1,935 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Electronic format: Acrobat PDF
OECD has conducted policy reviews of migrant education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden and has examined the migrant education experience in many countries. This book offers comparative data on access, participation and performance of immigrant students an... | <urn:uuid:7686336a-d6d4-442c-87b7-7cee5dbd0dd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?K=5KSCP0514Q7C&CID=&LANG=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871405 | 173 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Growth and Development, Ages 11 to 14 Years
When to Call a Doctor
Your child's doctor can help you discuss difficult issues with your adolescent if you ever are having trouble doing so on your own. Keep in mind that important subjects, such as sex, should be addressed long before you think your child will face them.
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The spine is composed of 33 interlocking bones called vertebrae. The lumbosacral region of the spine (or lumbar spine) consists of 5 lumbar vertebrae and 5 sacral vertebrae. The sacral vertebrae, which are fused together, are called the sacrum.
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Exhibit of "Great Migration" to open in Union Station
WASHINGTON (AP) - Amtrak is opening a new exhibit at Washington's Union Station to recount the history of the "Great Migration" of Southern blacks moving to the North early in the 20th century.
Between 1915 and 1970, about 6 million African Americans moved from the ... | <urn:uuid:18ca4008-2312-4cef-9968-9daa4eb01412> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wjla.com/articles/2011/08/exhibit-of-great-migration-to-open-in-union-station-65427.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93716 | 254 | 2.953125 | 3 |
E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Barricade (3 syl.).
To block up. The term rose in France in 1588, when Henri de Guise returned to Paris in defiance of the kings order. The king sent for his Swiss Guards, and the Parisians tore up the pavement, threw chains across the streets, and piled ... | <urn:uuid:e69ca18a-bf04-4bf1-a7fd-464c8c5f68e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bartleby.com/81/1417.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951403 | 297 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Battle of Bywater
The Battle of Bywater was a battle between the Hobbits of The Shire and a band of Ruffians who followed "Sharkey" (Saruman). Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry) himself slew the leader, a squint-eyed orcish-looking brute. Peregrin Took (Pippin) also took part in this battle. The courage and skill they had dis... | <urn:uuid:b22945bd-0155-4a57-a0de-aad7f8f87759> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Bywater&oldid=12196 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986563 | 522 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Oligarchy - "a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small segment of society distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent groups who pass their influence from one generation to the next."
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The Discovery of the Higgs Boson July 12, 2012
Aug 04, 2012
Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) may have made one of the biggest discoveries in recent particle physics. They have discovered evidence of the Higgs boson, a ... | <urn:uuid:a9b93e40-2186-4572-858c-f972fb2108f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.compadre.org/precollege/features/NewsDetail.cfm?ID=435 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932914 | 140 | 3.40625 | 3 |
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
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London: Scientists claim to have finally solved the mystery why zebras evolved their distinctive black and white stripes - to keep blood-sucking flies at bay.
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School Choice in England: Background Facts
AbstractThere is considerable debate on the merits of extending and strengthening school choice. In England, the controversial Education and Inspections Bill, published on the 28 February 2006, contains a prominent role for ‘school choice’. But the debate lacks some basic info... | <urn:uuid:93c4ec32-7931-4460-bfd3-86a2be8b7975> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ideas.repec.org/p/bri/cmpowp/06-159.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910788 | 967 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Family Economy of 19th-Century Industrial Workers
This set of assignments leads students through the steps of identifying a research question and designing an empirical analysis. Students use a large collection of late 19th-century family budgets from the U.S. and Europe, which lend themselves to questions about consum... | <urn:uuid:4a20fe94-e39f-454c-a32b-5750a758323a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/studentresearch/examples/36329.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971705 | 486 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Open Government Partnership
GSA met President Obama's open government challenge head on by successfully spearheading several open government initiatives and making meaningful headway towards fulfilling the aspirations set forth in his Open Government Directive. Full story >
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With lengths of 40-50 feet and jaws studded with 6-inch teeth, these powerful predators were extraordinarily equipped to feed upon a variety of dinosaurs. In fact, dinosaur bones have been found here that are heavily damaged and covered with distinctive crocodile bite marks! Just like modern day crocodilians, Deinosuch... | <urn:uuid:6b2694e0-7488-42a5-ad5d-bdd3a26b731f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nps.gov/bibe/naturescience/deinosuchus.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941576 | 191 | 3.015625 | 3 |
June 20, 2011 -- The so-called "white coat effect" is both real and common in the management of hypertension and it may be a significant cause of patient overtreatment, a new study finds.
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New York Passes Sewage Pollution Right-to-Know Act
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Postage stamps designated for parcel delivery
By Michael Baadke
When we think of how postage stamps are used, the first thing that typically comes to mind is a stamp on an envelope, paying the postage to deliver a letter from one location to another.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cry or screech like a cat in heat.
- v. To make a shrill, discordant sound.
- v. To have a noisy argument.
- n. A shrill, discordant sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Memorial Day seems to be forgotten for its original intent. Now people think it’s a long weekend signifying the start of summer and a time to break out the BBQs.
Please remember our fallen brothers and sisters this weekend. Fly the flag. Remember that your weekend BBQ came at a great price. Freedom is never free.
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English to English
1. make (images or sounds) soft or softer
2. lessen in force or effect
soften a shock|break a fall
3. give in, as to influence or pressure
4. protect from impact
cushion the blow
5. make less severe or harsh
He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears
6. make soft or softer
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Butterfly Wing Scale Digital Image Gallery
Variable Eggfly Butterfly
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This site, for students of Higher English, focuses on Robin Jenkins' novel The Cone-Gatherers.
Using extracts from the book, we take you step-by-step through the process of literary interpretation, leaving you confident and ready for the exam.
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New theoretical modeling by Carnegie's Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn—might have formed and evolved. New stars are surrounded by rotating gas disks during the early stages of their lives. Gas giant planets are thought to form in the presence of these disks.
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The groundbreaking initiative we are announcing today is the first of its kind in the nation…Because of this historical initiative, millions of documents, miles of film, and hundreds of thousands of photographs from President Kennedy’s administration will be scanned, digitized, indexed and permanently preserved. More i... | <urn:uuid:3b9c263f-8c2d-4402-87b2-e0025cbd55b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/About-Our-Collections/Access-to-a-Legacy.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895737 | 207 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Invisible Minority
The National Education Association has a long, proud legacy of advocating for great public schools for every student, including English language learners. Educational, socio-economic, and sociocultural factors facing English language learners (ELLs) and NEA members are more important now than eve... | <urn:uuid:fe279da6-de1f-4148-8c97-65d16e1d65fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nea.org/home/46866.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961899 | 351 | 2.84375 | 3 |
In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages.
: can you help me on how to associate flash animation with
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Negative and positive rights
|Rights by claimant|
|Other groups of rights|
Philosophers and political scientists make a distinction between negative and positive rights (not to be confused with the distinction between negative and positive liberties). According to this view, positive rights usually oblige action, where... | <urn:uuid:55ccc2bb-86fd-4ed3-b64e-049534de2638> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93935 | 3,136 | 3.875 | 4 |
Uffizi GalleryArticle Free Pass
Uffizi Gallery, Italian Galleria degli Uffizi, art museum in Florence that has the world’s finest collection of Italian Renaissance painting, particularly of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculpture, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.
In 1559 the grand duke of Tusca... | <urn:uuid:cf01d40f-549f-4c63-ac72-82eecfd02a42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/612578/Uffizi-Gallery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961562 | 593 | 2.53125 | 3 |
October 17, 2011
The locomotory system of many animals is muscle based. However, small marine animals often move by cilia. This type of locomotion is more ancient in evolution than muscle-based locomotion and very common in marine plankton. Besides the annelid larvae, the larvae of many marine invertebrates are part of... | <urn:uuid:5a01ac70-dd38-447c-abc3-45a2fbaea799> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mpg.de/4606470/cells_regulate_swimming_depth_marine_plankton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942808 | 782 | 3.640625 | 4 |
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Closed: Major holidays.
Dumbarton House is a fine example of Federal period architecture and offers visitors to Washington, D.C., a unique opportunity to enhance their appreciation of early American history. Closely connected to the first years of the American Republic, ... | <urn:uuid:60b7c713-edc9-4533-9453-ef8e49d45f79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nscda.org/museums2/dc-dumbarton.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974947 | 442 | 2.921875 | 3 |
From An Illustrated History of Ireland by Margaret Anne Cusack
Cromlech at Castle Mary, Cloyne
The Religion of Ancient Erinn—The Druids and their Teaching—The Irish were probably Fire-worshippers—The Customs of Ancient Erinn—Similarity between Eastern and Irish Customs—Beal Fires—Hunting the Wren—"Jacks," a Grecian gam... | <urn:uuid:35012d53-dfb2-42f0-a8d0-af3edc79e03a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.libraryireland.com/HistoryIreland/Celtic-Druids.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968499 | 940 | 3.296875 | 3 |
H.L. Mencken (18801956). The American Language. 1921.
9. Other Syntactical Peculiarities
Language begins, says Sayce, with sentences, not with single words. In a speech in process of rapid development, unrestrained by critical analysis, the tendency to sacrifice the integrity of words to the needs of the complete sente... | <urn:uuid:a0f7a72f-379a-48fc-b307-3a227873b94e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bartleby.com/185/46.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974874 | 509 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Ray Frank, 1861 - 1948
Ray Frank Litman died on October 10, 1948. Her lifelong enthusiasm for Judaism and tireless work to bring people into the circle of Jewish life left their mark both on those immediately surrounding her and on American Jewry at large. Her words had moved several congregations to overcome differenc... | <urn:uuid:952caae7-63d7-4515-92c3-78f6a3ce81d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jwa.org/womenofvalor/frank/legacy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978298 | 365 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Welcome to Kenya Wildlife Service
Canada partners with Kenya in climate change adaption in National Parks
Date Published: 15 Feb, 2013
The Canadian Government through Parks Canada has partnered with Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to support the country’s efforts in coping with adverse effects of climate change in Nationa... | <urn:uuid:30c43ef6-20bb-4ba2-9f2b-d49d8a3850d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kws.org/info/news/2013/15febmeeting2013.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937941 | 483 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Seven-year-old Jennifer* lay whimpering on the emergency room bed. The ambulance ride had been frightening and the nurse was just now giving her pain medication. What had been a glorious spring day complete with a team barbecue after a successful soccer season had suddenly turned tragic when Jennifer took a nasty spill... | <urn:uuid:ac00a26c-6f10-433d-b381-dafb4ebf4a29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nymetroparents.com/article/LOOK-BEFORE-YOU-LEAPThe-Dangers-of-Trampolines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965284 | 1,819 | 2.75 | 3 |
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest was fought between the US 1st Army, under the command of General Courtney Hodges, and the German 275th and 353rd Infantry Divisions, led by General Hans Schmidt, from September 19, 1944, to December 15, 1944, during World War II.
This inconclusive battle that had no victor took place in the... | <urn:uuid:a12a99ec-7f77-4970-bce7-83dd11cf34f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.active.com/outdoors/lebanon-al/battle-of-hurtgen-forest-2012?cmp=39-31--wshih | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955586 | 178 | 2.859375 | 3 |
New Creations from Six Simple Machines
- Grades: 6–8
- Observe and identify the types of simple machines.
- Conduct research and gather data to increase knowledge of simple machines.
- Apply knowledge and organize data to complete a graphic organizer and focus questions.
- Identify and understand the terms: force, effo... | <urn:uuid:d735c7cc-6744-439b-81e5-0aee141323c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/new-creations-six-simple-machines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86472 | 272 | 4.25 | 4 |
Teacher of Record (TOR)
The Teacher of Record definition framework is the starting point for a dialogue within and between state education agencies (SEA), local education agencies/school districts (LEA), and schools about the purposes, characteristics, and data elements required for effective, reliable teacher-student ... | <urn:uuid:8f5e7755-6bfa-4d96-b922-c137e536165e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tsdl.org/TeacherOfRecord.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93332 | 273 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Preparing for Kindergarten can be overwhelming. While most children start at 5 years old, some public and private schools are enrolling children as young as 4. The decision about when to start kindergarten should depend not only on what is offered in your area, but on your child's abilities and maturity. Here are some ... | <urn:uuid:0b7bccfe-5ef7-4d63-a09d-7049061fa483> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://moms.popsugar.com/Should-Your-Child-Start-Kindergarten-Early-27332967 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974618 | 1,298 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Students will make observations about a selection of works from Africa and identify how the art reflects a diversity of cultures and visually embodies core values and beliefs. A group writing activity encourages students to construct a cinquain summarizing their observations.
Appropriate for grades: 3rd-8th
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LEDs have a well-deserved reputation for high-efficiency operation, not to mention high reliability. Properly specified and implemented, LEDs should and do satisfy virtually every lighting application. Still, there are times when actual device lifetimes fall short of the specified ideal. LEDs are wide-bandgap semicondu... | <urn:uuid:48634cd6-57ba-4702-9f53-0551a14d3b99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digikey.com/us/en/techzone/lighting/resources/articles/Understanding-and-Preventing-LED-Failure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921212 | 1,775 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Flour. Butter. Water. Salt. No leavening. Or is there?
When these four ingredients are combined into a homogeneous dough, then rolled out and baked, you end up with a cracker or flatbread. Not much rise there.
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A wild bull was chosen and said to be the Bukhis incarnation of Menthu, in which role it was worshipped as such. Over time, the criteria for choosing the bull became more rigid, fixing themselves on what had been simply the general appearance of bulls in the region, being a white body and black face.
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David of Dinant
A pantheistic philosopher who lived in the first decades of the thirteenth century. Very little is known about his life. It is not certain whether he was born at Dinant in Belgium, or at Dinan in Brittany. He is believed to have lived for some time at the Roman Court under Innocent III. He was a magiste... | <urn:uuid:c16a5f7d-5cf7-49a7-b291-04fdcfaf4537> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3680 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958618 | 1,416 | 2.65625 | 3 |
NOAA Weather Radio
NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) is a unique service provided by the federal government that began in the 1960's. It provides a continuous 24 hours a day, 7 days a week broadcast of the latest weather information. In 1975, the main function of NWR was defined, as an executive order of the White House made it... | <urn:uuid:1e53356b-0c67-4a4a-8e58-21c3c4dc247c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=noaa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947251 | 926 | 3.203125 | 3 |
|Occultation of Anahita|
The globe of the Earth is centered on the location at the time of conjunction, and shows the footprint of the shadow at intervals on either side of conjunction.
The interval depends on the length of the occultation, with lighter footprints at the start. The first and last footprints are offset ... | <urn:uuid:6268e7e0-9294-49c0-9995-158409075339> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://asa.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/occnwdo.cgi?dir=2013/occns&file=occn.2013Sep08.Anahita&body=Anahita | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893334 | 109 | 2.875 | 3 |
Location: Located in North Eastern Kenya, it borders Somalia to the East, Wajir and Isiolo to the North, Tana River to the West and Lamu to the South.
Area (Km 2): 44,175 Km 2
Population Density: 14 people per Km 2
Some strengths of Garissa County include:
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Free-space vs. One-horn Interferometer Techniques for Radar Absorber Measurements
The reflection coefficient measurements of radar-absorbing materials (RAM) in free space (FS) and using the one-horn interferometer (OHI) technique are compared for different test samples. It is observed that the problems i... | <urn:uuid:3809f5cb-7763-47e3-b986-86d47ceb84de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/2433-free-space-vs-one-horn-interferometer-techniques-for-radar-absorber-measurements | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924041 | 3,083 | 2.609375 | 3 |
THE PARIS COMMUNE ARCHIVE
The Paris Commune, functioning between March 18 to May 28 of 1871, was spawned by the Franco-Prussian war. Germany's victory created discontent among the Parisian workers who were already unhappy over growing economic inequality and food shortages. A truce between France and Germany created fu... | <urn:uuid:dc2643ba-7b36-4bf1-a272-d406e81c5ace> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/pariscommune/Pariscommunearchive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980492 | 434 | 4.3125 | 4 |
batch - execute commands when the system load permits
The batch utility reads commands to be executed at a later time. It is the equivalent of the command:where queue b is a special at queue, specifically for batch jobs. Batch jobs will be submitted to the batch queue with no time constraints and run by the system usin... | <urn:uuid:b3ea4a9d-83f6-4d07-b358-b1398551575f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/batch.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838708 | 1,025 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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4. The Army of Northern Virginia was led by General Joseph E. Johnston (from the time it was created as a merger of the Confederate Army of the Potomac an... | <urn:uuid:8f8e9885-1809-441f-9a6e-547d835c4c78> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2011/oct/18/kb_civil_war_101911_155678/comments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973256 | 353 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Start out thinking about the basics of survival fresh water, food, safety, warmth, sanitation
and clean air.
- Water (1 gallon per person per day for 3 days)
- Food that does not need electricity for storage or preparation
- Manual can opener (if kit contains canned food)
- Battery-powered NOAA Weather Radio and a comm... | <urn:uuid:fe1d2bbd-d0ce-4fce-8319-bc2535a50d97> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://readywisconsin.wi.gov/kit/GetKit.asp?maintab=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885793 | 1,528 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The New Jersey Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring is involved
in many aspects of the State's coastal water quality.
It's roles include monitoring for compliance with the
National Shellfish Sanitation Program, coordination of coastal bathing beach monitoring, removal of trash from coastal beaches, evaluation of the
ecolo... | <urn:uuid:5733b12a-7470-4522-8f4a-4e144c5b3997> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.state.nj.us/dep/wms/bmw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896217 | 83 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Learning to write is like learning a new language. It can be done by breaking tasks into small manageable chunks. With a bit of help and patience, new skills are acquired and the essay form is mastered.
I am a certificated high school English teacher, but earn my living by writing. I understand the frustrations student... | <urn:uuid:8ab97b38-f00c-4fcf-8c62-6ae501ad0afc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wyzant.com/Tutors/CA/Pasadena/8055608/?g=3MG | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955959 | 150 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Type||Main battle tank|
|Place of origin||USSR|
|In service||1963 – present|
|Used by||Soviet Union, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan|
|Designer||Morozov Design Bureau|
|Designed||1951 – 62|
|Produced||1963 – 87|
|Weight||38 tonnes (42 short tons; 37 long tons)|
|Length||9.225 m (30 ft 3.2 in) (gun forward)|
|Widt... | <urn:uuid:138767db-e457-47ae-9d6d-c000790cae3a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-64_tank | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922784 | 8,744 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Politics of Quebec
Many of Quebec's political institutions are among the oldest in North America. The first part of this article presents the main political institutions of Quebec society. The last part will attempt to present an overview of Quebec's current politics and issues.
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (abbreviated J. Acoust. Soc. Am. or JASA) is a scientific journal in the field of acoustics, published by the Acoustical Society of America. It contains technical articles on sound, vibration, speech and other topics. Access to ar... | <urn:uuid:a6850914-cb7b-433c-ad38-db75171d9cb6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medicalxpress.com/journals/journal-of-the-acoustical-society-of-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928344 | 143 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American poet: born in West Africa in 1753, brought to America on the slave ship, The Phillis, she was sold into slavery at age eight to the Wheatley family in Boston. The Wheatley children provided her with a solid classical education and she began writing poetry. Her Poems on Va... | <urn:uuid:3dfa049c-bc09-40b9-97fd-272220ba2ee8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://raunerlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/11/wheatleys-iliad.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974934 | 345 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Did you Expect Anything Less?
Are you asking what they'll think of next? Not even they know.
Photographer: Rob Ratkowski
Summary Author: Rob Ratkowski
Astronomers are frequently asked why we have our observatories on high mountain tops. A big part of looking into deep space has to do with atmospheric transparency and f... | <urn:uuid:50a59ad5-fba7-4cf7-8d7c-ebcba7214552> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://voyagerslog.blogspot.com/2010_03_28_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972069 | 2,667 | 2.78125 | 3 |
William S. Burroughs
William Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, the grandson of the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. After his graduation from Harvard, he lived in Chicago and New York on an income of two hundred dollars a month from his parents. He met Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsbe... | <urn:uuid:c294b9dd-1f17-4dfd-9f73-3d8ad3810190> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.levity.com/corduroy/burroughs.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980815 | 1,031 | 2.6875 | 3 |
measure from A to B, fold her tape in four and mark off the point E,
which is thus one quarter of the side.
Then, in the same way, mark off
the point F, one-fourth of the side AD.
Now, if she makes EG equal to
AF, and GH equal to EF, then AH is the required width for the path in
order that the bed shall be exactly half... | <urn:uuid:34cafd10-0584-40a7-aa97-65f0061af193> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pedagonet.com/mathgenius/answer195.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925517 | 187 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Annually, the RSPCA receives over 7,000 phone calls about litter-related incidents and our officers regularly rescue pets, farm and wild animals trapped or hurt by discarded litter.
With many pet and farm owners going direct to vets, and many injured wild animals never being found, it is estimated that this figure is j... | <urn:uuid:27bdbb1b-0cc9-4bf3-81b3-d7c1c21cdde8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/helpandadvice/litter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926997 | 812 | 3.21875 | 3 |
It’s a fact that all distilled spirits and beers have one common ingredient – the most essential ingredient of the product, that being water. Unfortunately, most water is a lot more that just H2O, which often adversely impacts the final product. Chlorine, iron, manganese, chloramines, tannin, nitrate, TDS, sodium, chlo... | <urn:uuid:54228f35-90c8-413c-925b-cd2ae794c708> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uswatersystems.com/blog/2012/06/water-treatment-for-breweries-and-distilleries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925219 | 756 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Pepper berries come from a woody climbing vine and grow in spike-like clusters. Immature berries are harvested, fermented and dried. In earlier times (1000 B.C. to 1000 A.D.) Pepper was so valuable that it was used as a currency, like gold. | <urn:uuid:7eb723cd-49cf-4158-beef-660fb3a5e9b1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vitacost.com/celebration-herbals-organic-black-pepper-coarse-grind | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951231 | 81 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Many women struggle to get pregnant because the number of eggs they have and the eggs' quality drops as women get older. But now Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center are experimenting with a process that can create new eggs from ovarian cells.
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President of the Southern States
Out of the depths of the 80’s, Ta-Nehisi Coates unveils Hank Williams, Jr’s “If the South Woulda Won,” an absolutely astonishing hymn to how great it woulda been:
Coates laconically suggests we “Notice the whiteness of the “we,” and generally how black people do not figure in.”
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Ernie is walking (or running or jumping or flying or dancing) and he falls (or trips or slips or tumbles). He hurt his nose (or knee or hand or forehead). What happened? Why is he crying? Where does it hurt? Where will you put the band-aid? Do you need a big band-aid or a little band-aid?
This was one of my favorite le... | <urn:uuid:18321814-51cb-48e6-9cfa-9e55b305dd64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thebudgetslp.com/2012/09/cover-your-objectives-with-band-aids.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973689 | 189 | 3.359375 | 3 |
An Education professor at UMPI recently was in Spain to present at the Global Conference on Inclusive Education, an event organized by Inclusion International, a global federation of organizations advocating for the human rights of people with intellectual disabilities worldwide.Dr. JoAnne Putnam gave a presentation ti... | <urn:uuid:f831bfc1-c323-40aa-ad40-1147d7f0fa59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.umpi.edu/news/releases/item/09-10040?category_id=34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946064 | 620 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Obtaining an ISBN for Your Self-Published Book
If you look at any commercially available book, the back cover lists the book's International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and barcode, along with the book's price. Any book that's sold anywhere in the world must have a unique ISBN.
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[Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
ABSTRACT Different diseases of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) group are known to affect humans and various animals. Owing to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic and the description of the new variant of Creutzfeld... | <urn:uuid:64bfd9b6-c641-4740-97ac-0ccc04392c1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/13630348_Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathies_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921192 | 209 | 2.828125 | 3 |
In association football, the goalkeeper occupies a position that represents the last line of defence between the opponent's offence and his own team's goal. The primary role of the goalkeeper is to defend his team's goal and prevent the opposition from scoring a goal. The goalkeeper is the only player who is permitted ... | <urn:uuid:6e62b5e7-7416-41a9-b0ca-2b80bba003a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything.explained.at/Goalkeeper_(association_football)/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982038 | 2,265 | 2.890625 | 3 |