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The worlds smallest gasoline engine concept is 15 mm long, 5 mm wide and 3 mm tall, and is being developed at Cambridge and Birmingham Universities in the U.K. Below is an image of this micro engine taken whilst under development.
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What Role Does Biology Play in Politics?
When it comes to politics, our stances may not just be a matter of opinion. They could be based in biology, too.
To find out, researcher Mike Dodd, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and his colleagues had 48 adults who were strongly conservative or strongly ... | <urn:uuid:6659d87f-3b6b-4426-be77-12586a5c758c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newstalk1290.com/what-role-does-biology-play-in-politics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963192 | 386 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Jumper’s knee Patellar tendon inflammation and rupture
Jumper’s knee is an overuse injury associated with pain on the front of the knee. It results from excess stress being imposed on the tendons around the patella, especially the patellar tendon, resulting in inflammation or tendonitis. It is common among sportsperson... | <urn:uuid:9bd56684-2280-4f21-b351-d0eb8bc78529> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.docpods.com/jumpers-knee-patellar-tendon-inflammation-and-rupture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923565 | 1,084 | 3.25 | 3 |
Students have read about life in South Asia today, including the economies of the countries in the region. In this activity they will learn more about the economy of India and the reasons businesses or industries might choose to operate in India. They will also learn that India encourages tourism and tourism-related bu... | <urn:uuid:fc9e9ec6-1f46-42b9-b2f5-cbed784e4524> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/geography/gwg2003/content.php4/157/5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913821 | 570 | 3.46875 | 3 |
A low growing green plant with no flowers. Multiple stalks coming out of the same ground base with almost a fern pattern, but with leaves instead of fronds. Each branch off of the main stalk was opposite another, with the leaves coming off in pairs, tapering down until three at the very tip. Typically from seven to fiv... | <urn:uuid:48dec633-6d93-40d6-9f89-8451f605b580> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/83210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979757 | 114 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The major health organizations — including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical Association (AMA), the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the World Health Organization (WHO) — agree that breast milk is the ideal form of nutrition for babies (especially during the first 6 months). However, it... | <urn:uuid:b30d83e9-5e81-44b8-8cb8-36c8295f8f88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=60&dn=Nemours&article_set=45611&cat_id=20731 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946335 | 542 | 3.03125 | 3 |
W.Va. on Target to Adopt Common Core Curriculum
Posted: January 13, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Board of Education on Thursday approved a timeline to incorporate Common Core State Standards beginning in kindergarten this fall. Last May, the state board adopted Common Core Standards for English and math, ... | <urn:uuid:bb6e7948-896b-4cc4-b6e8-8eabac608fc7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wvde.state.wv.us/news/2242/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939547 | 635 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The most common and most important greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Black carbon is also a potent warmer, although not a greenhouse gas.
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
This greenhouse gas is present in relatively low concentrations in the atmosphere; prior to the Industrial Revolution, it made up a... | <urn:uuid:ef19c25b-d5c8-47c7-a657-783261aa0de5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/climate-change/learn-act/greenhouse-gases | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933687 | 796 | 4.09375 | 4 |
WASHINGTON - Not all calories are equal. A new study suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates provides the best chance of dropping pounds without side effects.
Researchers compared three different diets: healthy carbs, low carbs and low fat. The study, which appears in The Journal of the American Medical Ass... | <urn:uuid:fec04bad-465a-494a-ac03-13d2e48d5a9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wtop.com/267/2920473/Best-diet-One-based-on-healthy-carbs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927493 | 470 | 2.578125 | 3 |
I have noticed that the basic 3D rotation matrices in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix
rotate vectors clockwise and not counter-clockwise, when the axis about which they occur points toward me !
For example: the following operation yields the vector (0,1,0)
[1 0 0 ]
[0 cos(90) sin(90) ] X
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January 25, 2013 More than half of norovirus outbreaks reported during the last four months of 2012 in the U.S. were caused by a strain first identified in Australia. Restaurants and long-term care facilities have been hit hardest.
January 4, 2013 Developed by British researchers, Larry the robot has helped scientists ... | <urn:uuid:cb82f79a-2f5f-4b1f-ae15-7de05a498668> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=141861342&ps=sh_sttag | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966709 | 196 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The origins of Black History Month began when Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and one year later, the Journal of Negro History.
Woodson was a Harvard-trained historian. He believed that publishing scientific history about the black race would produce facts that ... | <urn:uuid:cf76fa7f-ded3-40a2-a0c3-c6726d80935c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://harlemcondolife.com/tag/abraham-lincoln/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966778 | 501 | 4.1875 | 4 |
How I Teach Calculus: A Comedy (Drubbles)
Dry Ice! Bubbles! Drubbles!
There’s really nothing better than a spontaneously created investigation. We were bumbling through the idea of the derivative operator (implicit differentiation and all that). When the question got asked:
Hey, what if the variable in the bottom (z in... | <urn:uuid:36975869-4005-43b8-b01b-3d0ca444952d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shawncornally.com/wordpress/?p=2865 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947712 | 500 | 3 | 3 |
What is coronary artery bypass surgery?
artery bypass graft surgery (also called CABG or "cabbage") helps improve blood
flow to the heart in people with severe
coronary artery disease. The surgeon connects, or
grafts, a healthy artery or vein from another part of your body to the blocked
coronary artery. The grafted bl... | <urn:uuid:cac245af-47ca-4c99-aa4d-e5888c1a94c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/should-i-have-coronary-artery-bypass-graft-cabg-surgery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947527 | 1,961 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A country in Eastern Asia.
a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
a developing country and one must be prepared to adapt to local conditions and circumstances which may be significantly different from those to which one is accustomed
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Bioengineering in this textbook is taken to be the application of the concepts and methods of the physical sciences and mathematics in an engineering approach to problems in the life sciences. The aims of such studies is to understand the physical processes and engineering aspects of a systems performance both under no... | <urn:uuid:32c29111-a21e-4b80-a242-022811fdd373> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biology-online.org/books/introduction_bioengineering_sa_berger.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942732 | 441 | 2.625 | 3 |
Queen's University - Utility Bar
Did you know?
What do students consider as cheating? A survey done by Berman & Elkin in 2010 showed that students considered the following actions as cheating:
- 99.6%: Taking an exam for someone else
- 99.6%: Looking at a classmate’s paper without their knowledge during an exam
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Respect Your Children and Yourself
It's a Good Idea!
The fact that children are little, seemingly-irrational, and inexperienced shouldn't be held against them. Children should be held against you—gently.
It's a Good Idea!
Respect your child's challenges! Children test you to see how far they can go. It's not that they ... | <urn:uuid:46faa033-71ce-4a79-b4b6-7ccb33e74ce9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://life.familyeducation.com/parenting/respect/45273.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957816 | 487 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Get off to a good start
As another academic year begins, Dr Ali Khwaja provides tips on making a good beginning by getting the first impressions right.
We are all aware that first impressions can be very lasting and can have a significant effect on our actions, relationships or attitudes. So it is with the first impres... | <urn:uuid:81bf9c47-6b08-49c5-ae91-8186c29b4293> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.deccanherald.com/content/254986/get-off-good-start.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962314 | 1,718 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Fecha de publicación: 03/07/2012
"The increase in life expectancy has traditionally been a good résumé of a population's state of health. But the profile of diseases has changed: now there is a great prevalence of specific disorders that are not life-threatening yet are very incapacitating," points out Unai Martín. In ... | <urn:uuid:fb5c3717-ffcb-4e50-84ff-83e76094f30f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ehu.es/p200-hmencont/en/contenidos/noticia/20120703_elh_unai_martin/en_np/20120703_elh_unai_martin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951157 | 1,104 | 2.625 | 3 |
Here is. more or less, what my canning sources have to say about the distinctions between the assorted fruit spreads (in the US, anyway):
Jelly is the jelled juice of a fruit (or something like wine). Generally, jelly contains no pieces of fruit, although specialty jellies, like pepper jelly, may include pieces of jala... | <urn:uuid:5da50fbd-f488-4a07-827f-478e245bff79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.etiquettehell.com/smf/index.php?topic=101470.msg2646479 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965609 | 224 | 2.796875 | 3 |
By Chester Dawson
For those living in northeastern Japan and Tokyo, nary a day has passed recently without being rattled by an aftershock or two from the destructive March 11 earthquake. While the Japanese archipelago is no stranger to temblors, the power and length of the aftershocks has unnerved many. That includes T... | <urn:uuid:01e1b750-db96-48b4-8ef3-3f7c3ff193ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/14/how-to-treat-an-earthquake-hangover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95656 | 583 | 2.6875 | 3 |
There’s more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this “dark ma... | <urn:uuid:2be64738-ebfd-4c0c-ba5e-b1f6a4b80b35> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2012/04/dwarf-galaxies-provide-new-insights-on-dark-matter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917317 | 426 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Bioethical Decision Making for Nurses
University Press of America (1985)
|Abstract||This article has no associated abstract. (fix it)|
|Keywords||Nursing ethics Nursing ethics Case studies Nursing Decision making Bioethics nurses' instruction Decision Making nurses' instruction Ethics, Nursing|
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Chanucah, the festival of lights, is, in our own day, mainly the commemoration of a spiritual event. Its historical roots, however, as set out in the Book of Maccabees, were the celebration of a great military victory over the Syrian-Greek overlords.
The Talmud's description concentrates on the laws of keeping the Chan... | <urn:uuid:b127f229-1907-4593-ac8b-ee657ef8d20d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejc.com/print/60333 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981359 | 980 | 3.53125 | 4 |
INFLUENZA. Under the names Epizootic, Contagious Catantal-fever, Contagious Influ enza, Pink-eye, etc., this disease has been known to veterinarians, and since the year 1872, gener ally to the horsemen of the United States and Canada. Its immediate cause is entirely un known, but that it is produced by blood poison ing... | <urn:uuid:9512f57a-7f14-46ef-99c2-f2e8f88efc98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gluedideas.com/content-collection/encyclopedia-of-agriculture/Influenza.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941911 | 3,748 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Series: On This Day in Christian History
Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms – April 17, 1521 – By *Dr. Philip Ryken
It is customary to date the beginning of the Protestant Reformation to October 31, 1517, the day on which a young German monk and Bible scholar named Martin Luther nailed his famous “Ninety-five Theses” t... | <urn:uuid:b9a8a3df-68ae-4610-8e63-51b806a1b521> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://verticallivingministries.com/tag/he-speaks-to-me-everywhere-by-philip-ryken/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975984 | 1,905 | 3.28125 | 3 |
|The Arabs introduced Islam to Djenné, and made their influence felt in matters such as the monetary system and architecture. The local bricklayers have been combining Arabic decorations with their own traditional adobe construction techniques since the fourteenth century. Funnily enough, typical Djennéan walls are kno... | <urn:uuid:374cf9f6-3d98-41d2-9c80-2033d8fc1582> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.foto8.com/issue08/djenne04.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970588 | 469 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Freeman Dyson, the eclectic physicist, took good aim at philosophy last week in a review of the silly book by Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?" An Existential Detective Story. Holt went around to "a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers," and asked them the Leibnizian question: Why is there something rathe... | <urn:uuid:eb3fd9ac-b68c-4005-94c6-146d7a3f72bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?tag=civilization | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955862 | 2,224 | 2.640625 | 3 |
This exhibition showcases the development of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). It traces its origins from the 19th century, describes its social, political and philosophical milieus, chronicles its transformation from a workers party to a "people's party" as well as its continuing adaptation and actualizati... | <urn:uuid:121f5190-da62-40ec-a2f5-aefb718697e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lankanewsweb.com/LNWArchives/EN_FEATURE/FEATURE_09_08_22_001.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938964 | 509 | 3.09375 | 3 |
July 7, 2005
A warning for swimmers looking to take a dip over the summer. The pool water you're diving into may not be as safe as you think.
To the naked eye, pool water can look clean. However, it may be anything but. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of Recreational Water Illnes... | <urn:uuid:cae3d547-1012-454e-b0ba-49a10a5fb09d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newsplex.com/news/headlines/1671467.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979086 | 411 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Aug. 30, 2012 Inspired by the twitching whiskers of common rats and Etruscan shrews, EU-funded researchers have developed rodent-like robots and an innovative tactile sensor system that could be used to help find people in burning buildings, make vacuum cleaners more efficient and eventually improve keyhole surgery.
Se... | <urn:uuid:930df5dc-8e20-4415-9f35-b7bf4b336dfc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120830065730.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936334 | 1,486 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Frequently Asked Questions
The health and safety of our Southeast Technical Institute students remains our utmost concern. Therefore, we are providing the following questions and answers regarding the H1N1 virus and STI’s response to this health issue.
What is H1N1?
H1N1 (sometimes referred to as “swine flu”) is a viru... | <urn:uuid:f74101cb-dfcc-47b2-bb6c-e6cb548e150f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.southeasttech.edu/aboutus/healthnotices/h1n1/h1n1faq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914855 | 1,166 | 2.984375 | 3 |
MANHATTAN—When engineers restore rivers, one Kansas State University professor hopes they'll keep a smaller engineer in mind: the North American beaver.
Beavers are often called ecosystem engineers because they can radically alter stream or valley bottom ecosystems, said Melinda Daniels, an associate professor of geogr... | <urn:uuid:a5efcd94-8837-4744-9731-26c2e979849e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/01/05/the-ecosystem-engineer-research-looks-at-the-beavers-role-in-river-restoration_print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956107 | 615 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Though consumption has fallen, it’s far above recommended levels.
Added sugar in drinks and foods makes up almost 16 percent of the calories U.S. children and teens consume, federal health officials report.
That’s far more than the daily recommendation of no more than 15 percent of calories from both sugar and fat, acc... | <urn:uuid:df765a1e-3066-4de0-b360-41a9ea11a67e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/forums/viewthread/7101/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943205 | 871 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Liberation of Korea and the Church
1. Context of the Times
Korea was freed from the rule of Japanese imperialism on August 15, 1945. National liberation was the starting point for a modern Korean history as well as that of the Catholic Church in Korea. Immediately after liberation the Allied Forces were stationed in Ko... | <urn:uuid:c770a8ce-2c91-4b1f-bb9c-b42811cc3caf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://english.cbck.or.kr/history/1204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978385 | 1,970 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Boston, MA – Children in the U.S. whose activity choices, interests, and pretend play before age 11 fall outside those typically expressed by their biological sex face increased risk of being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused, and of suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by early adulthood,... | <urn:uuid:134ca536-bdb0-482d-98f1-6a554f992046> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/hsop-oit021512.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957917 | 962 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Anemia Due to Bone Marrow Failure (or Toxicity) in Dogs
Aplastic Anemia in Dogs
Bone marrow plays a pivotal role in the origination and constant replenishment of important cells like red blood cells (RBCs), granulocytes (or white blood cells [WBCs]), and platelets. Once these cells reach the point of maturation they ar... | <urn:uuid:51d925b8-a628-4242-a0c8-d3d68b9dae48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/cardiovascular/c_dg_anemia_aplastic?page=show | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924347 | 1,089 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Helping Your Child Build Inner Strength
What Is Inner Strength?
Inner strength, often called "resilience," is the ability to cope with the stressful situations that life throws at us.
Building inner strength begins with simple actions or thoughts that your child practices, such as planning for what to do next and learn... | <urn:uuid:470c0652-3cce-4195-bd7e-48e404e7484d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sutterhealth.org/health/healthinfo/index.cfm?A=C&hwid=aba5885 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920221 | 297 | 3.53125 | 4 |
The sustainability crisis has provoked an unexpected and dramatic response from academia. Until now, higher education institutions have tended to focus on sustainability within their own borders. This has predominantly been via sustainability education, research and designing green or carbon neutral campuses.
Yet borde... | <urn:uuid:24b9b926-f87d-429e-9479-9e8261748464> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/universities-co-creating-urban-sustainability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932818 | 2,271 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
An anastomosis (plural anastomoses, from gr. ἀναστόμωσις, communicating opening) is a network of streams that both branch out and reconnect, such as blood vessels or leaf veins. The term is used... | <urn:uuid:00b0078a-4e1a-43cd-8867-660b482a88d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Anastomosis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.864882 | 637 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Je parle de vieillesse à la femme que j'aime;
on me répond : « C'est dans Ronsard, tout ça. » Je parle
d'un deuil profond et d'une enfant qui s'est noyée;
on me répond : « Tout ça, c'est dans Victor Hugo. »
Je parle d'un coeur lourd comme un lac en colère;
on me répond: « Tout ça, tu vois c'est Lamartine. »
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LONDON (Reuters) - People should be cautious about taking vitamin E supplements regularly because doing so can increase the risk of a certain type of stroke, an international team of scientists said on Friday.
Researchers from the United States, France and Germany reviewed existing studies of vitamin E and its effect o... | <urn:uuid:15e53c8e-6091-4f33-8916-6ff1a5fa5d3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lifescript.com/health/centers/stroke/news/2010/11/05/vitamin_e_linked_to_risk_of_certain_types_of_stroke.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960832 | 754 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A selection of articles related to mussel characteristics.
Original articles from our library related to the Mussel Characteristics. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Mussel Characteristics.
- Sign Characteristics: Capricorn
- Quadruplicity Cardinal Day of the week Saturda... | <urn:uuid:87375e98-3a46-41d1-9c55-d4a0f302b091> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.realmagick.com/mussel-characteristics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.781694 | 662 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Christmas Has a Dark Side
Micah Watson, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Director, Center for Religion and Politics
Dec 18, 2009
There has always been a darker side to Christmas. Simeon warned Mary that her son would cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and that a sword would pierce her soul. Joseph and... | <urn:uuid:1c9d82d4-d4ed-424c-959c-ad196cb082d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uu.edu/dept/politicalscience/blog.cfm?ID=98 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966073 | 813 | 2.515625 | 3 |
July 4, 2007 9:30 AM
Want to find a lily that will survive without water? Want to start a native garden but don't know where to start?
Here's a great resource to help you learn what grows in your part of California. It even includes photos like this one!
California Native Plant Link Exchange:
It's easy to use. For inst... | <urn:uuid:7792de11-175f-4a50-8a78-815d56c49e93> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nature.berkeley.edu/blogs/freshfaces/2007/07/native_plants.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940778 | 268 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The ability to forecast periods of intense solar activity may be improved after scientists compared cycles of solar magnetic activity (over the past 10,000 years as reconstructed from ice cores) with the action of the planets. The Sun determines the course of the planets, but it has been discovered that the planets may... | <urn:uuid:b80a16c4-016e-44af-8707-08e826b63339> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news/2012-11-solar-weather-space.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939975 | 670 | 3.671875 | 4 |
From the manufacturer to the grocer and to our dinner tables, airtight plastic packaging is an essential part of modern life—protecting and preserving goods, and ensuring they are transported efficiently.
For decades plastics have driven innovation in packaging design.
From tamper resistant medicine packaging to the ne... | <urn:uuid:0e931e74-b403-4116-ba7c-6e86fe7faff8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://plastics.americanchemistry.com/packaging | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932589 | 337 | 3.171875 | 3 |
CAPTAIN AMERICAOriginal Medium: Comic Books
Publisher: Marvel Comics
First Appeared: 1941
Creators: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
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In the early days of World War II, one of the popular sub-genres of comic-book superheroes was the "patriotic" variety —... | <urn:uuid:a3ecbf2b-228d-44da-b9b6-68d86b878ed3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://toonopedia.com/capamer.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983746 | 1,062 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Kidneys from older donors often do not survive long after transplantation because of certain structural dysfunctions that can occur as the kidney ages, according to a study appearing in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that the number of functioning ... | <urn:uuid:7cee1628-8433-4dd9-bb6c-6dece5f95fb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/ason-wkf092308.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945769 | 706 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Atomic theory is the basis of the science of atoms and the basis of chemistry.
History of the atomic theory
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus thought that everything was in a state of flux and change. His compatriot Parmenides, another fifth century Greek, founded the Eleatic school of philosophy and believed th... | <urn:uuid:1382b9e9-e8ed-4898-b789-b164d6816a83> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.life123.com/parenting/education/physics/what-is-atomic-theory.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980835 | 684 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Mission 3: Space Matters
This programme from ESA switches between scenes filmed in space and on Earth to demonstrate basic scientific principles in ways that children can relate to.
Filmed during the Eneide Mission in 2005, ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev are shown investigating the ... | <urn:uuid:09024eec-cdfb-4380-b2fe-abeed1bd10d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/resource/6120/mission-3-space-matters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945521 | 273 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Into the Sea with Giants
So why would you want an up-close encounter with a 60-ton bowhead whale?
ECOLOGIST KERRY FINLEY skillfully maneuvers our two-person kayak in the 6-foot swells of icy Baffin Bay. "If you are going to swim with these bowhead whales, then you better go now," he yells against the wind.
Apprehensive... | <urn:uuid:50c3a2b1-5af1-43f2-9187-3260fb27a92e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2000/Into-the-Sea-with-Giants.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959747 | 1,522 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Often I recycle pages from my 365 New Words-a-Year calendar, and use them to jot down lists or notes; I saved a few words from January to use for BermudaOnion's weekly meme, Wondrous Words Wednesday. On the reverse side of each page there's additional information about each word, and I've included some of this as well.... | <urn:uuid:b8227f51-a3ce-426a-be16-094d8cc0f9cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sukosnotebook.net/2012/02/wondrous-words-wednesday-january-words.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955044 | 411 | 3.125 | 3 |
Modern Foreign Languages Mrs M Mathews (Curriculum Leader: Modern Foreign Languages)
Nowadays, everyone accepts the need to study at least one foreign language. Here at Charters you will have studied French and Spanish for three years and achieved an accredited AQA FCSE, which has tested your knowledge in three topic a... | <urn:uuid:f98af345-beb8-49a0-85c4-8763c9a726fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chartersschool.org.uk/modern-foreign-languages | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954805 | 665 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Even though we are having some mild weather, I’m sure most of us are feeding hay or if you are not, soon will be. Most nitrate toxicity issues occur when producers are feeding hay. So this week, I thought we would have a refresher on the particulars of nitrate poisoning of livestock.
Nitrate poisoning is caused when an... | <urn:uuid:59dd5356-f682-4933-88c0-792120966031> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clintonnc.com/pages/full_story_myown/push?article-Nitrate+toxicity%20&id=21589774 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946124 | 889 | 3.375 | 3 |
Two years after the Kingston, TN coal ash spill, federal action to regulate coal ash dumps is being held up by concerns that stricter standards would depress markets for coal-ash recycling. “Cost-benefit” analysis estimates prepared by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claim that coal ash recycling is wort... | <urn:uuid:333846d7-a4c9-4d32-9e14-2aae06ad2c85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earthjustice.org/print/news/press/2010/epa-coal-ash-analysis-flawed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949096 | 1,209 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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El Mirador was first discovered in 1926, and was photographed from the air in 1930, but the remote site deep in the jungle had little more attention paid to it until Ian Graham spent some time there making the first map of the area in 1962. A d... | <urn:uuid:c82fb7a6-e124-47cd-9db0-e5ca5aa9d88d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mirador | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93087 | 2,190 | 3.4375 | 3 |
WebMD Health News
Louise Chang, MD
Oct. 3, 2008 -- Wouldn't it be sweet if honey could help heal cuts and burns? Researchers who analyzed existing studies on whether honey can help heal wounds are cautiously optimistic that this ancient treatment may help in some cases.
The study, published in The Cochrane Library, rev... | <urn:uuid:c6932b85-4edd-4086-a87e-44da1ec30bde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newschannel34.com/webmd/firstaid/story/Honey-May-Help-Heal-Wounds/D5aa5FeSVUusZBGn5UT5qg.cspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947229 | 309 | 3.46875 | 3 |
By Diana Zuckerman, PhD
There is growing evidence that ALCL, a type of cancer of the immune system, can be caused by breast implants that are filled with either silicone or saline, and that the sooner the implants are removed, the more likely that the woman will recover. A study by doctors at MD Anderson Cancer Center ... | <urn:uuid:8d22554f-586b-4fb7-b70f-8b4b62a2497c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://center4research.org/medical-care-for-adults/breast-implants-and-other-cosmetic-procedures/update-on-alcl-lymphoma-for-women-with-breast-implants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958292 | 310 | 2.9375 | 3 |
|How to Think Like a Computer Scientist|
source ref: ebookit.html
Every time you write a class definition, you create a new Object type, with the same name as the class. Way back in Chapter 1.5, when we defined the class named Hello, we also created an object type named Hello. We didn't create any variables with type H... | <urn:uuid:ba44f77c-991c-442c-95ce-8887416b5293> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://iimk.ac.in/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0inftec--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-0l--1-en-50---20-bsummary---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=inftec&cl=CL2&d=HASHf411a4db64b1aa9e572c17.10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937966 | 3,371 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Owlman, sometimes referred to as the Cornish Owlman or The Owlman of Mawnan, was a cryptozoological creature that was sighted in the late 70s in the village of Mawnan, in Cornwall.
Reports of sightings
In the year of 1976, two young girls claimed to have seen a giant owl, hovering over the local church tower, on April ... | <urn:uuid:64da3efa-b980-4fa7-9f1d-9638d5bb570d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Owlman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974693 | 439 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Letters like wedges (Latin, cuneus, a wedge). These sort of letters occur in old Persian and Babylonian inscriptions. They are sometimes called Arrow-headed characters, and those found at Babylon are called nail-headed. This species of writing is the most ancient of which we have any knowledge; and was first really dec... | <urn:uuid:243af765-ee0a-4641-82a4-d859fbbe8134> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/brewers/cuneiform-letters.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963359 | 111 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Since 2010, Australia has been moving toward a national framework for schooling aimed at raising education standards and achieving nationally consistent curriculum, assessment and reporting.
The QSA, and Queensland's school sectors — Education Queensland, Queensland Catholic Education Commission, and Independent School... | <urn:uuid:e2917e51-c235-434d-831d-d087f53cc535> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/13636.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908742 | 579 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The United States of Inequality
Trying to understand income inequality, the most profound change in American society in your lifetime.
Timothy Noah's 10-part series on inequality, published in Slate last September, has won the 2011 Hillman Prize for magazine journalism, an honor awarded annually by the Sidney Hillman F... | <urn:uuid:3a89253c-d7f1-4c99-9eb0-d20de0bf5ef3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_great_divergence/2010/09/the_united_states_of_inequality.single.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935127 | 549 | 2.59375 | 3 |
From time to time, the Department of Education receives inquiries about the role and membership of its federal advisory committees. Below is a brief summary of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 as amended and other basic information, including contacts for further information about the advisory committe... | <urn:uuid:c67e474e-a17d-46c6-9edf-42385b9c2007> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/com.html?exp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946371 | 2,478 | 2.875 | 3 |
Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum Archives
Three of the ten metal boxes and two milk cans in which Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum hid documents and materials to preserve for future generations detailed information about life in the Warsaw ghetto. In September, 1946, the metal boxes were discovered under the ruins of a house. In December,... | <urn:uuid:09f31ee1-e0df-4a2a-8333-7405e7b6e688> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/p150.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872457 | 162 | 3.34375 | 3 |
We all know that vitamins and minerals play an important role in maintaining our health and well being. There are 13 vitamins that our body requires to fight diseases and to function properly. Vitamin B has 8 different types of vitamins. One of them, vitamin B3 is also known as niacin or nicotinic acid.
Niacin is one o... | <urn:uuid:234575bb-449a-480d-8cea-f4f0dde308e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://juiceforhealth.org.uk/a-b-c-of-juicing-for-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917721 | 1,684 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The stars in a cluster known as NGC 188 are all billions of years old. Most of them are faint, cool, and fairly red. But a few look like youngsters: They're bright, hot, and blue. The stars aren't young, though. Instead, they've undergone a sort of rejuvenation.
The stars are known as blue stragglers. Although they hav... | <urn:uuid:2a160215-bef5-432c-9489-ec9f70b9d116> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stardate.org/radio/program/2010-03-04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95861 | 348 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Physical therapists may be generalists or may specialize in various areas of patient care such as orthopedics, sports medicine, pediatrics, women’s health, and long-term rehabilitation. They direct continuing education programs, teach in universities, or may work as researchers, managers, entrepreneurs and consultants.... | <urn:uuid:1265ecd1-2c91-4639-bca6-6559f3b065e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://twu.edu/physical-therapy/pt-career.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937154 | 217 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Composition: The Chain Rule
What is the derivative of the composition of two functions?
Try the following:
- The first example shows the composition of a line and a parabola. Here, f (x) = 2x, g (x) = x2, and h (x) = g (f (x)). The graphs are shown in purple, and each has a tangent line (hard to see for f, because f is... | <urn:uuid:9541af2e-d85a-4f4a-82bc-c67c1aa64b44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.calculusapplets.com/chainrule.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913693 | 576 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Birding in South Carolina
Hundreds of species for you to see year round!
Bring your binoculars and your birding list. South Carolina's many varied habitats are home to a diversity of birdlife unmatched by many larger Atlantic States. With over 375 species, birders from around the world flock to South Carolina to view m... | <urn:uuid:c6538be9-c896-452c-956b-6a284eaff5eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.discoversouthcarolina.com/see-do/outdoor/birding/default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881119 | 301 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The Art Of Film And Video Editing Part-3
Soviet Filmmakers Advance Editing
Filmmaking spread around the world and D.W. Griffith’s techniques were widely studied. In the 1920s Soviet filmmakers were fascinated with editing and the theory of film as a communications and propaganda tool. After the 1917 Russian revolution ... | <urn:uuid:a2628b8f-12b5-4747-a805-b6795eac2e05> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.videouniversity.com/articles/the-art-of-film-and-video-editing-part-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959782 | 1,354 | 3.15625 | 3 |
In the Czech Republic, the Masopust festival takes place from Epiphany (Den tří králů) through Ash Wednesday (Popeleční středa). The word masopust translates literally from old Czech to mean "meat fast", and the festival often includes a pork feast in preparation for Lent. The tradition is most common in Moravia but do... | <urn:uuid:9b2e48ae-8ca5-468a-ac17-4a0da4760169> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-749663 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90251 | 160 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Tell us in 50 words or less what your child wants to be when they grow up to win. more
Yes, it's true - breakfast is the most important meal of the day and yet too many adults and children leave the house each day with little, or nothing, in their stomachs. Not only does breakfast kick-start our metabolism, it feeds th... | <urn:uuid:655fbd64-a237-421f-b780-d61bc5c5e698> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kidspot.com.au/weightgain/familyhealth/Nutrition-Nutritional-needs-Breakfast-basics+2521+222+article.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946743 | 796 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors
Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of programs and services provided by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). These benefits are legislated in Title 38 of the United States Code. This booklet contains a summary of ... | <urn:uuid:f9e535b4-5e2f-4ba3-956c-7bd91b7c5ac9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book/benefits_introduction.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848351 | 1,082 | 2.546875 | 3 |
As we enter the holiday season, several ornamental houseplants are purchased for home and office. Among the most popular are Christmas cacti and the poinsettias. These can be excellent plants if properly cared for.
Christmas cactus is a popular winter-flowering houseplant native to Brazil, available in a wide variety o... | <urn:uuid:f7036d4f-a70d-4967-8361-24df661a0011> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2008/nov/20/holiday-plants-brighten-up-the-home/?living | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920234 | 875 | 2.59375 | 3 |
15 oral history interviews : 13 DVDs, 2005-2009; Fred Ross memorial : 2 DVDs, 1992; "The Leadership Lessons of the CSO" :
3 DVDs. Files pertaining to the history project, 1997-2009.
The Community Service Organization was an important California Latino civil rights organization, most famous for training
Cesar Chavez. It... | <urn:uuid:d5e94a9f-36a3-447a-a3f1-8c40ad2b0bd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8s20408g/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875347 | 217 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
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Owens Findlay-area Campus Presents Free ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Film Screening and Discussion, Feb. 19
FINDLAY, Ohio – Area residents are invited to explore diversity and its societal impact in the 1930s as Owens Community College Findlay-area Campus’ Office of Student Activities and Honors Program presents a free scre... | <urn:uuid:8d48847c-86ed-4a49-a420-108c7e9d9b64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.owensoutlook.com/?p=3049 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922754 | 386 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Heritage at Risk - Special Edition: "Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk: Managing Natural and Human Impacts"
This publication forms part of the ICOMOS Heritage at Risk series. Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk demonstrates the application of the principles of the 2001 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Un... | <urn:uuid:040f1fa2-b2fc-402b-bed1-a264060782ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unesco.org/new/ar/culture/themes/underwater-cultural-heritage/documents-publications/heritage-at-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933214 | 293 | 2.625 | 3 |
Good Sense Eating | 10 nutrition myths debunked
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Myths about nutrition and health abound-even in the 21st
century. Let's take a look at 10 of my favorites.
Myth: Eat a low fat diet.
Reality: While many high fat foods-such as commercially fried foods, sausages and heavily marbled meats-are bes... | <urn:uuid:c38361c7-a499-4649-ad1d-00dfd9a5a018> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chicagoparent.com/magazines/chicago-parent/2009-december/columns/10-nutrition-myths-debunked | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944288 | 1,020 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Northern Rockies region contains the northern portion of the internationally famous Rocky Mountains which extends from the Yukon down into New Mexico. Unlike the better known Rockies near Banff and Jasper, the Northern Rockies wilderness has remained relatively untouched, still much as it was centuries ago.
The Roc... | <urn:uuid:bb949505-f6b0-4c4d-a815-4c240798994c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.spacesfornature.org/greatspaces/northrockies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932142 | 320 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The human nervous system is made up of neurons or nerve cells, and these nerve cells function with electrical impulses and chemical signaling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron Our nervous system is very sensitive to our thoughts. Remember we said that a thought is an impulse of energy and intelligence. Due to energy... | <urn:uuid:c23c830f-bff7-4383-b624-453420856326> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/columns/stress-the-nervous-system-and-natural-healing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943213 | 2,376 | 2.984375 | 3 |
|A USDA inspector looks at the feet|
of a Tennessee walking horse
(Dipti Vaidya, The Tennessean)
Earlier this month, USDA announced it would require organizations that inspect horses on its behalf to assess minimum penalties to violators of the Horse Protection Act, the 1970 law that makes it illegal to show or transpo... | <urn:uuid:1117691d-f317-4730-9577-d4db1cba10d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://irjci.blogspot.jp/2012/07/tennessee-walking-horse-industry-group.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95837 | 320 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Shasana means rules someone imposes on you. Anushasana is the rule you impose upon yourself. Do you see the difference? Now, why is yoga called a discipline? Where is the need for discipline? When does the need for discipline arise?
When you are thirsty and want to drink water, you do not say "Oh! This is a rule, I mus... | <urn:uuid:4ff8a0e5-80d3-4adb-93aa-cba9f235c7ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artofliving.org/us-en/yoga/patanjali-yogasutra/knowledge-sheet-3?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975337 | 602 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Today in History November 5
Today in History
1219 The port of Damietta falls to the Crusaders after a siege.
1556 The Emperor Akbar defeats the Hindus at Panipat and secures control of the Mogul Empire.
1605 Guy Fawkes is betrayed and arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the "Gunpowder Plot." Eve... | <urn:uuid:62cce0e6-2ee8-4d86-a8e8-c39e765b70e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/printthread.php?t=53193&pp=10&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923357 | 558 | 2.75 | 3 |
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The area originally selected for a cemetery was known as Copley Knob, located in the southwestern part of town near Western Kentucky University. It was considered no longer a desirable site due to the Civil War. Trees were down, cannons were everywhere and bayonets lay all over the ground. In 1864, 30 acre... | <urn:uuid:15bf93d9-7e86-4c4c-a79b-7165bbb5c6b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kentuckytourism.com/things_to_do/history_heritage/fairview-cemetery--and-confederate-monument/6087/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959381 | 223 | 2.78125 | 3 |
As I write this at 2AM sitting under annoying fluorescent lights, am I increasing my risk of developing breast cancer? Maybe, according to a recent study showing that melatonin-depleted blood can spur the growth of mammary tumors:
The increased breast cancer risk in female night shift workers has been postulated to res... | <urn:uuid:62b04e12-2553-4ee1-9cfe-94fc141503bd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2006/01/16/are-female-night-owls-screwed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93903 | 976 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Description: Postcard photograph of Patzcuaro Lake, also known as Atardecer Lake in Guadalajara, Mexico. The photograph is cast in relief from the setting sun disappearing behind a line of mountains that stretch across the photograph. Several clouds filter sunlight onto to the lake in an irregular pattern. A dock is ju... | <urn:uuid:a2bc6b61-a0d3-4960-b6a2-fa075cf90568> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/CARPA/browse/?sort=added_a&fq=str_location_county%3ABexar+County%2C+TX&fq=dc_type%3Aimage_postcard&display=list | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904053 | 137 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Above: Cherry blossoms and the Jefferson Memorial, photo by Michael Foley (Flickr).
Spring in D.C. is traditionally marked by the blooming of the cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin and the Cherry Blossom Festival that marks the occasion. Beyond their aesthetic appeal, the cherry trees represent a long relationship ... | <urn:uuid:f93d9e98-f1dc-497b-9e94-6f66dc7a8095> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apanews.si.edu/2011/04/12/cherry-blossoms/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957988 | 606 | 3.25 | 3 |
Energy-saving method checks refrigerant level in air conditioners
July 1, 2009
Engineers have developed a technique that saves energy and servicing costs by indicating when air conditioners are low on refrigerant, preventing the units from working overtime.
The new "virtual refrigerant charge sensor" is particularly pr... | <urn:uuid:a8873a40-b3fc-4125-a7b0-8c9ef93b73b2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/energy/news/view.php?id=185 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948306 | 779 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The summer Arctic ice cap is the smallest ever measured. If current trends continue, Arctic summers will be nearly ice-free within 30 years.
The northern Pacific loggerhead sea turtle is declared endangered.
Fishing regulations have reduced accidental sea turtle deaths in U.S. coastal waters by 90 percent since 1990.
S... | <urn:uuid:cba12763-f43a-47fe-895e-83db4e7d9498> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201201/uptospeed.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917574 | 276 | 2.90625 | 3 |
- The Western Mediterranean region is depicted with earthy tones such as Basque Brown, Pompeii Orange, and Mediterranean Sun.
- The Roman Empire's classical look is embodied with Roman Marble.
- San Juan Sand gives a hot and pale look for Caribbean.
- The Orient is exotic and bold colors like Bangkok Rust.
- Even gener... | <urn:uuid:47253462-d089-4659-9584-889c87c31353> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geographictravels.com/2008/04/studying-geography-through-paint-color.html?showComment=1207756020000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931377 | 139 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Conservation Reserve Payments
Marie B. Morris
May 1, 2000
The Conservation Reserve Program became law in the Food Security Act of 1985, P.L.99-198,§ 1231,etseq.,(codifiedml6U.S.C. §3831,etseq.). The current version of the program extends through ca... | <urn:uuid:a4149617-2d3a-4dbb-93f4-11433fd31647> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Agriculture/ag-84.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972713 | 1,947 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The pocket-knife which we know today has its roots in the pen knife, or scribal knife, of the Middle Ages. But not only did those early knives not fold, few of them would safely or conveniently fit in a pocket, even in their protective leather sheaths. For centuries, people of lesser means might only have one knife, wh... | <urn:uuid:a527f00b-82fc-4e73-b8ca-624941cc5a44> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/34714 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986729 | 1,543 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Different Kinds of Reactions
Examples of phase diagrams and reactions in jpg, pdf and animated-pdf format are available.
A 5 page summary (Acrobat (PDF) 158kB Aug1 07) of this information is available, which can be used as a class handout.
Reactions among solid and fluid phases can be categorized in several different w... | <urn:uuid:aecf1394-e79e-4b2e-9712-98a9ba3b6245> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/equilibria/reactioncurves.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883893 | 2,725 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Germund Dahlquist's father was a minister in the Church of Sweden, the established Lutheran church in Sweden. Germund's mother was a poet, but also wrote a number of well-known hymns. Dahlquist entered Stockholm University in 1942 to begin his study of mathematics. The person who had the biggest influence on him was Ha... | <urn:uuid:89f19f35-8c5c-43ac-b6d1-3fb3539e8831> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Printonly/Dahlquist.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976675 | 2,429 | 3.171875 | 3 |
GEOG 1000 World Regional Geography (3L,3CR)[E][CS][G]:
An overview of the world’s major physical regions: the physical features, climates, and natural resources of each region, and how the people living in each region have adapted to, and are affected by, their physical environment.
GEOG 1010 Introduction to Physical G... | <urn:uuid:8819d023-2555-4377-8cad-70cc0c45f668> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caspercollege.edu/geography/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891423 | 884 | 3.0625 | 3 |
By the year 2030, sixty-seven million Americans ages 18 years or older are projected to have doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Currently, there are more than thirty-one million people who are either diagnosed or suffering from arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are two common types of arthritis, but both of t... | <urn:uuid:5c07ca4d-dbba-443c-adea-53906ebf4799> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cheeba.com/story/a-joint-to-ease-your-joints-medical-pot-for-arthritis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956966 | 743 | 2.84375 | 3 |