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Habeas Corpus Act
An act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas.
WHEREAS great delays have been used by sheriffs, gaolers and other officers, to whose custody, any of the King's subjects have been committed for criminal or supposed criminal matters, in ma... | <urn:uuid:03d7cbb7-d4ad-448c-be87-e79455a0ce58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libertyforlife.com/law/law-habeas_corpus_act.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957719 | 1,505 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Ann BancroftArticle Free Pass
Ann Bancroft, (born September 29, 1955, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.), American explorer who was the first woman to participate in and successfully finish several arduous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
Bancroft grew up in rural Minnesota in what she described as a family of risk tak... | <urn:uuid:3f2d5f55-8c01-4784-9a6f-b428cf0e2f84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/51363/Ann-Bancroft | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978708 | 399 | 2.875 | 3 |
Drain with decorated cover, Roman, 100-400 CE
The Roman civilisation is renowned for developing advanced systems that influenced the community’s health. These included the establishment of street cleaning, waste disposal and fresh water supplies in a large number of Roman towns and cities. This limestone drain with a c... | <urn:uuid:9a24cc9a-e024-41c5-9293-08ac0304e5f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=4239 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972252 | 196 | 3.28125 | 3 |
This Moment In History
Excerpted from The Grand Experience by Toni Young:
“Despite the fact that the theater was called an Opera House, opera played a relatively minor role. During the initial season (1871-72) there was only one full scale opera, Martha, by Perepa Rosa Grand English Opera Company. Labeled the musical e... | <urn:uuid:280df97e-dfcc-47f5-8a3e-73cbd2d90c74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thegrandwilmington.org/About/This-Moment-In-History | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97967 | 291 | 3.125 | 3 |
It can happen to anyone! Identity theft occurs when someone uses another person's personal information to obtain credit cards or loans or gain access to their savings. Below are a few tips on protecting yourself.
- How does someone steal your identity? It's actually pretty simple. Identity thieves can use anything from... | <urn:uuid:2b6eb233-42a1-4b94-b0c8-0d08977572fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.youth.gc.ca/eng/topics/money/id_theft.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917941 | 511 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Me, Myself and Math, a six-part series by Steven Strogatz, looks at us through the lens of math.
I don’t know much about camels, having ridden one only once (and that was enough). But from what I’ve been told, you can usually add another piece of straw to a camel’s burden without ill effect.
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Have you ever fancied yourself as the David Bailey of the science world? Sponsored by Novartis and the Daily Telegraph, Visions of Science is a new competition that aims to stimulate widespread interest and fascination in science through the use of photographs. With entry categories for science/healthcare workers and t... | <urn:uuid:2ab5c581-93d9-422e-a236-369ac2a2a984> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_06_16/nodoi.11829219466331113447 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944505 | 545 | 2.71875 | 3 |
It only takes a few seconds for the heads-up — if you know what you’re feeling. And in an airplane, those few seconds spell the difference between getting back safely — or not.
We’re talking decompression — one of the things the flight attendants or video tell you about when they’re demonstrating the deployment and use... | <urn:uuid:f8b31700-b133-469d-82bc-09b33d92f4a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2013/02/know-the-signs-of-hypoxia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95577 | 1,128 | 3.078125 | 3 |
It seems paradoxical, but many early Puerto Rican traditional recordings were actually made in New York. Responding to labor demands, Puerto Ricans began migrating north soon after gaining citizenship in 1917, bringing their music to immigrant enclaves in Brooklyn, Harlem and the Lower East Side. Los Jardineros, often ... | <urn:uuid:654c3519-c876-4734-b3a4-b708f430cf9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.globalrhythm.net/print.cfm?rubricarticleid=3483 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918796 | 250 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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October 14, 2010
Three Things Government Cannot DoBy Larrey Anderson
"Government" is an abstract and amorphous word. It means nothing until it is put into some frame of reference (state government, municipal government, central government, etc.). The addition of these adjectives merely narrows the sphere of legal and c... | <urn:uuid:81e9cd56-8b94-4a47-bc20-5d1a33d362f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/10/three_things_government_cannot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950874 | 1,699 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Math and Reading SOL Clubs Ms. Sonn -firstname.lastname@example.org Six teachers are leading after school Standards of Learning (SOL) review groups
in either math or reading to help students feel confident about taking the SOL
tests in May. In these groups, curricular content is presented in unique and
engaging ways, w... | <urn:uuid:8add6425-5c83-41d7-b854-f1392ffe85df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.arlington.k12.va.us/domain/249 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925839 | 345 | 2.9375 | 3 |
A large memorial, a small museum and a remodelled cemetery in the south Albanian mountain village of Borovë commemorate the 107 village residents who were murdered by the members of the German Wehrmacht as part of »reprisal measures« carried out on July 6, 1943.
In the late afternoon of July 6, 1943, communist partisan... | <urn:uuid:e221d3b8-4298-40dd-bbe6-a722603b6d9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/denkmaeler/view/1262/Memorial-to-the-Victims-of-the-Wehrmacht-Massacre-of-Borov%C3%AB | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981458 | 476 | 3 | 3 |
7430 Heritage Village Plaza
Gainesville, VA 20155
Dr. Bhakta and staff believe that informed patients are better equipped to make decisions regarding their health and well being. For your personal use, we have created an extensive patient library covering an array of educational topics. Browse through these diagnoses a... | <urn:uuid:60e8c0be-c201-42cf-8349-19cbb550d791> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pwfoot.com/library/1781/Chilblains(coldfeet).html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945358 | 327 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Inside ATI & NVIDIA: How they make frames flyby Anand Lal Shimpi on September 23, 2002 2:14 AM EST
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Inside ATI - Designing a Chip
We've often been asked how exactly these graphics giants go about doing what they do, and that's exactly what we asked an ASIC engineer at ATI to help us explain.
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Ecological and Urban Resilience
Natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and man-made catastrophes such as the Bhopal Gas tragedy in India and the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine all concern fundamentals of ecological resilience.
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Drug Endangered Children
Safe home environments are critical for a child’s health. Drug-endangered children are
Growing up in a home where adult(s) have severe addiction or substance abuse problems can cause short- and long-term consequences for children. Children who live in homes where drugs are made are at risk of h... | <urn:uuid:c5458dc0-b24b-4493-b028-4ed0020543a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.doh.state.fl.us/alternatesites/cms-kids/families/child_protection_safety/drug_endangered_children.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946478 | 365 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Diabetes (Hepatopathy) in Dogs
Diabetic Hepatopathy in Dogs
Diabetic hepatopathy is a disease of the liver which causes lesions to develop on the liver. It is associated with diabetes mellitus, and for unknown reasons, this type of liver disease is also associated with lesions on the skin. One of the possibilities may ... | <urn:uuid:c29d2a64-813c-4df2-a863-e8e4b8a8a77b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petmd.com/dog/conditions/endocrine/c_dg_diabetic_skin_disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898809 | 714 | 3.015625 | 3 |
A Cambridge, Ontario metal fabrication company, VeriForm, has become an ecological leader in a field notorious for neglecting the effects of their business and product on the environment. A capital investment of $78000 has allowed VeriForm to implement many small changes (i.e. a centralized programmable thermostat, hig... | <urn:uuid:47267532-51dc-451b-93a7-3feae36216ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thingsaregood.com/2011/05/26/going-green-to-bring-in-the-green/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960671 | 261 | 2.515625 | 3 |
STORIES OF STANISLAUS
A Collection of Stories on the History and Achievements of Stanislaus County
Sol P. Elias
The La Grange Dam
Though each district possesses an independent organization and though separated by the Tuolumne river, the Modesto and the Turlock Irrigation Districts may be considered as one, forming one ... | <urn:uuid:08789083-154e-435f-8dd5-8f4ef18df750> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/solch_7.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98411 | 2,843 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Seventy-one years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt uttered these oft-quoted words: "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
That, of course, was the date the Japanese a... | <urn:uuid:32e6f02a-1aae-4e86-8361-ae9dcd38c794> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/582399/Pearl-Harbor-attack-resonates--should-provide-lessons.html?nav=5003 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955135 | 529 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Snowmass fossil site continues to be ‘treasure trove’
Day by day, an Ice Age fossil site discovered last fall near Snowmass Village is continuing to grow in stature and scientific importance as excavators retrieve bones by the boxes full.
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ASADĀBĀD (Asadābāḏ and Asadāvād in medieval Islamic sources).
1. A town in the medieval Islamic province of Jebāl, now in the ostān of Kermānšāhān (Bāḵtarān) of modern Iran. It is situated at an altitude of 5,575 ft/1,699 m, some 33.5 miles/54 km west-southwest of Hamadān on the historic Baghdad-Hamadān-Ray or Tehran h... | <urn:uuid:7efdeba5-2be7-425f-a9b0-6e1c8ab31d43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/asadabad-asadabad-and-asadavad-in-medieval-islamic-sources | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891301 | 2,172 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Cultural tradition celebrates the life of the dead
Published: Friday, November 2, 2012
Updated: Friday, November 2, 2012 01:11
A cultural tradition that commemorates the life of a deceased loved one has become a part of the culture in mainstream America today, and with the rising number of Mexican Americans living in t... | <urn:uuid:e574df44-f175-457d-8808-f01e700eb6a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thebatt.com/cultural-tradition-celebrates-the-life-of-the-dead-1.2943396 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95073 | 796 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The use of Ultrasound in small animal veterinary medicine has grown rapidly in Village Vet practice in the past 5 years. This has allowed early diagnosis and better management of diseases which previously went undetected for months or years.
What is Ultrasound?
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Tamil National Party
Articles related to
Tamil National Party was a short-lived political party formed in 1962 in Tamil Nadu, India. The party finds its roots with the split in Dravidar Kazhagam after which Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was formed. E. V. K. Sampath, a founding member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,... | <urn:uuid:dd604c4e-66be-4786-bbc3-21f2408b3900> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_National_Party | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904373 | 1,100 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Manipulating typography to make its form reflect its meaning is a great technique. In this weeks assigned reading the words zoom, jump, spin, blur and even outline were mentioned. The key is to find verbs that indicate action and implying that action in the type design.
Some other great examples I have seen are “topple... | <urn:uuid:1da2155c-ddf9-449e-b241-a08988fc84c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spykefleming.blogspot.com/2010/02/typeface-to-express-meaning-of-word.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950939 | 163 | 3.125 | 3 |
Following a few, simple fire safety tips can keep electric lights, candles and the ever popular Christmas tree from creating a tragedy, states U.S. Fire Administration officials. USFA is an entity of the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Poetry in Wartime
illustration from wpshoppe.com
It is recommended that the documentary Voices of Wartime be shown initially as a lead-in to working with the material in the module. If this module is to be used in conjunction with other thematic modules, then it is appropriate to view the documentary at the beginning o... | <urn:uuid:83aa7c30-dede-4150-a8c2-0d43090549aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://voiceseducation.org/content/poetry-wartime | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932694 | 331 | 3.03125 | 3 |
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 08/27/12 -- The Arctic sea ice extent has hit its lowest extent since satellite records began, according to data from the IARC-JAXA Information System and the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center. More melting this year is likely, as the lowest sea ice extent has typically bee... | <urn:uuid:c1d01396-7635-4853-bd38-da2bad8035c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.environmental-expert.com/news/arctic-sea-ice-cracks-record-low-and-more-to-go-311827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935306 | 925 | 2.90625 | 3 |
What is Curcumin
What is Curcumin and its useful benefits
By Veena Deo
What is Curcumin? This article talks about Curcumin the rhizome extract of Turmeric, its composition and some of the benefits offered by this well know herb.
What is Curcumin and why is this herb so popular? Why are the world and the medical communi... | <urn:uuid:5106d85d-4cb5-4905-89be-516139a18ec7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.herbsbenefits.com/content/what+is+curcumin/132452 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931637 | 1,388 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Cluster munitions contamination
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Where are cluster munitions? What is their legacy? Which States and areas are most affected by cluster munitions? What challenges arise in areas affected by cluster munitions?
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The study, published in the December 2007 issue of Biological Psychiatry, analyzes information drawn from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, one of the longest-running cohort studies in the world. The survey tracked more than 4,600 people born in Great Britain in 1946 for symptoms o... | <urn:uuid:7f01eab5-9ca4-4e69-be36-f57d7543fba3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pregnancyandbaby.com/baby/articles/945027/smaller-babies-more-prone-to-depression-anxiety-later-on | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979304 | 590 | 3.375 | 3 |
Predicting happiness is a bit like herding cats. Smarter (but not necessarily wiser) people than me have been trying to make such predictions for years. One who attempted it in the mid-1970s was the economist Richard Easterlin, who came up with the Easterlin Paradox. This was, of course, an era in which some people sou... | <urn:uuid:d66a168a-87bc-4703-960e-4fcf573763fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/the-pursuit-of-happiness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980999 | 582 | 2.546875 | 3 |
One of the most fearsome developments of the twentieth century was the concept of total war - the belief that the most effective way of winning wars was through the obliteration, or the threat of obliteration, of entire civilian populations. The first, and in some ways still the most striking illustration of this theor... | <urn:uuid:88903de6-ded8-4477-9d96-df5a28304598> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.apwatt.co.uk/title_full.asp?title_id=1412 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974567 | 290 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Earths Amazing Facts -
07-26-2006, 08:30 AM
Amazing Earth Facts
We live on a sphere of extremes and oddities. In fact it's not really a sphere, but it is a wild planet, mottled with deadly volcanoes, rattled by killer earthquakes, drenched in disastrous deluges. But do you know which were the worst?
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Treatment of tomatoes with the essential oils of three herbs reduces salmonella contamination, and one — oregano — even enhances quality, according to a recent study.
The Journal of Food Science published a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and China’s Tianjin University of Science and Technology in March. An... | <urn:uuid:fa72edd8-d89f-4c80-9df6-b2d3bf79ff15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-news/Study-Oregano-fights-salmonella-boosts-tomato-quality-197801411.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948142 | 500 | 2.640625 | 3 |
But that's because the region was wetter than it had been just four years earlier, thus the bison and deer and other animals needed for the explorers to survive were more available than they would have been during a drought. Even at that, the expedition had to struggle to come up with enough food.
Food became so scarce... | <urn:uuid:59ee2645-23bb-473a-80b4-44ce70578d79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99450&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992471 | 400 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Peter Linebaugh's overview of the historical roots of the traditional workers' day.
Once upon a time, long before Weinberger bombed north Africans, before the Bank of Boston laundered money, or Reagan honored the Nazi war dead, the earth was blanketed by a broad mantle of forests. As late as Caesar's time a person migh... | <urn:uuid:641fd06f-313d-41f5-95b0-1a8a3575384d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://libcom.org/history/incomplete-true-authentic-wonderful-history-may-day-peter-linebaugh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975326 | 7,297 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Virtual Reality Is Addictive and Unhealthy
Interactive technologies give us a quick fix, and that's not a good thing
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Significance and Use
This method directly determines the concentration of metal cyanide complexes in environmental waters. The method is important from an environmental regulatory perspective because it differentiates metal cyanide complexes of lesser toxicity from metal cyanide complexes of greater toxicity. Previous ... | <urn:uuid:d417b7af-db3e-4f5c-92cb-595d2edc87a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.astm.org/Standards/D6994.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873727 | 982 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Respiratory Problems, Age 11 and Younger (cont.)
Check Your Symptoms
Most children have 7 to 10 mild upper respiratory infections each year. Your child may feel uncomfortable and have a stuffy nose. The infection is usually better within a week and is usually gone within 14 days.
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It is agreed by everyone (except the nuclear industry) that nuclear power is the most expensive form of electricity – more expensive than wind energy, solar photovoltaic (PV) and more expensive that concentrated solar power (CSP) with six hours of energy storage.
The South African government has researched this during ... | <urn:uuid:295d57f0-4490-40cb-b378-45b847dd0347> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://koebergalert.org/costs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962066 | 254 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Lincoln Playing the Banjo
This cartoon shows Lincoln playing the banjo. Lincoln's friend Ward Hill Lamon sang a few of Lincoln's favorite songs to him as they traveled to the troops at Antietam, and the incident was blown out of proportion to suggest Lincoln's indifference to the casualties of the Battle of Antietam.
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Record Number of Aquariums, Zoos, and Museums to Host Celebrations for World Oceans Day on June 8th
PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On June 8th communities around the globe will celebrate World Oceans Day as an opportunity to learn more about our ocean and take action to help conserve it. This ... | <urn:uuid:216c27c5-a0fa-4bf4-8f93-8cc30fdbf7bc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1112546447/record_number_of_aquariums_zoos_and_museums_to_host_celebrations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921824 | 656 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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Remote sensing of the Earth and other Planetary surfaces is a rapidly growing science that cuts across a wide range of disciplines, i... | <urn:uuid:af9b9ee1-9cc6-4507-812d-bd0990998681> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://crs.ucsc.edu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879006 | 415 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Just Keep Swimming…
In Disney/Pixar’s “Finding Nemo,” Marlin and Dory are swimming through murky waters en route to Sydney Harbor. Marlin suddenly exclaims, “Wait, I have definitely seen this floating speck before. That means we’ve passed it before and that means we’re going in circles and that means we’re not going st... | <urn:uuid:f5e26c64-4c39-436f-aae4-ffedb2fb5199> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sites.bu.edu/ombs/2011/02/10/just-keep-swimming/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9644 | 638 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Sociopathic personality; Sociopathy; Personality disorder – antisocial
Definition of Antisocial personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others. This behavior is often criminal.
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CSIRO use 3D mapping to explore Koonalda Cave in South Australia
- From: adelaidenow
- December 25, 2012
WORLD-FIRST 3D mapping technology is creating a new wave of cave exploration, giving researchers and the public unprecedented access to sites of global significance.
CSIRO researchers used the new 3D mapping technol... | <urn:uuid:3edde513-a425-441d-a9a5-3dfbb81ef420> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/csiro-use-3d-mapping-to-explore-koonalda-cave-in-south-australia/story-fn5fsgyc-1226543342455 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952107 | 490 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Southern California water managers have long recognized the importance of groundwater supplies as insurance against dry times, and now federal and state regulators realize it’s key to coping with climate change, officials said Friday.
Nearly 100 scientists and water industry representatives gathered at UC Riverside to ... | <urn:uuid:c02eb8df-3bb2-405a-b4c0-f843fea641a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120224-region-importance-of-groundwater-explored.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933988 | 317 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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Common Names in Chinese:
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Common Names in Danish:
Brænde-Nælde, Lidennælde, Lille Brænde-Nælde, Lille Nælde
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Broeinetel, Kleine Brandnetel
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Computed Axial Tomography
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Computed Axial Tomography - Also known as a CAT scan or CT scan, computed axial tomography, or computed tomography, is an x-ray procedure that uses a computer to create three-dimensional pictures of the inside of the... | <urn:uuid:f7de5828-e513-4fe4-9fee-4ad5df5a2892> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cancercenter.com/glossary/computed-axial-tomography.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886547 | 136 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Scanning Around With Gene: The Speedball Pen
A speedball is a pen you dip in ink and use primarily for lettering. It was invented by Ross F. George, of Seattle, who also wrote and illustrated the booklet I scanned for today's column. The booklet is titled "Elementary Alphabets and Their Construction."
George's idea for... | <urn:uuid:dec8f897-4464-4ac3-b9d0-edb9820fca12> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.creativepro.com/content/scanning-around-gene-speedball-pen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973712 | 409 | 2.53125 | 3 |
HIV/AIDS has become a common subject for the mainstream media since it possesses a tremendous impact on public opinion. The media fraternity looks into HIV AIDS for sensationalism and quite a broad area on the epidemic. This is a common concept when you are working to combat a disastrous and growing emergency like HIV/... | <urn:uuid:7c181baa-2c5e-4e14-a6d3-747d76873a5a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hiv.gov.bw/content/news-and-events | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968323 | 283 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Underwater Landscape
Ninepin Point gets its name from a series
of large boulders, 2-3 metres in diameter, which are visible from the shore
during low tides. These form part of a large, spectacular rocky reef that extends
offshore 150 metres to the sandy seafloor at depths of 7 to 10 metres. The reef
is dissected by... | <urn:uuid:c1eccbde-5d14-442e-aea4-84f59aca770f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=2935 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822364 | 754 | 2.875 | 3 |
"We were trying to figure out how to do it in a way that would recreate a bunch of different environments in an immersive experience and cover it all," says John Sparks, AMNH curator of ichthyology, "[to] expose people to the diversity of bioluminescence across the tree of life." Just as a variety of creatures use biol... | <urn:uuid:6d1227db-09d1-448b-a294-c7c1effa1495> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/water/brilliant-biology-10-bioluminescent-life-forms-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963644 | 221 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (Spanish: Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina);... | <urn:uuid:9f0feefc-8647-44e3-a73a-df19f6abe7da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://es.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=1928111 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935605 | 926 | 3.21875 | 3 |
After years of attending seminars and reading articles you have been brow-beaten into believing client/server design has advantages over the monoliths companies typically create. Now what? How do you design a server? How do you design its interface and how do clients communicate with it?
Client/server systems are not j... | <urn:uuid:d9bb43dd-1ddc-4256-8a7f-53b8f6c12f3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://isectd.sourceforge.net/articles/csintro.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960185 | 3,692 | 2.75 | 3 |
“…the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions (Salovey & Mayer 189).”
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A report this week in the journal Reproductive Health describes what researchers call “a strong association” between the teenage birth rate of a particular state and its “level of religiosity.”
The correlation is not what you might expect. The more religious the state, the higher the rates of teen pregnancy.
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Thursday, November 08, 2012
Recognizing Your Biases
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause. Brown was a major blow to the separate but equal regime ratified by the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Brown is (rightfully... | <urn:uuid:e7ab4455-5fc6-46ca-a67e-8defe7973145> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2012/11/recognizing-your-biases.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956512 | 1,767 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects.”
With the meeting going on in Copenhagen, one might think that the headline above was from current media. But, it’s not. It’s actually a quote from an article in News... | <urn:uuid:e3256def-3081-43d7-86b0-6b3697a8e3dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://symonsez.wordpress.com/tag/snow-accumulation-forecast-dec-21-2009/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965194 | 1,927 | 2.796875 | 3 |
A multifunctional approach of integrating agriculture and forestry will be far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas emission and increasing food production than the practice of instensifying agriculture and sparing forests, reports Malawi’s The Nation this week.
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Researchers are finding more and more evidence that children's psychological well-being is associated, in part, with what they eat. However, this research topic is still relatively new and unchartered.
Here's a summary of the links that scientists are finding between nutrition and kids' mental health.
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What is in this article?:
- Blow Your Cover | Homemade Seeder Gives Cover Crops a Head Start
- Agronomic benefits
Beyond the engineering marvels of this machine, it offers the solid agronomic benefits of earlier cover-crop establishment.
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Beagles are known as good hunters. So why not send them in search of deadly bacteria?
That’s what Dutch doctors are hoping to do by training the dogs’ famously sensitive sense of smell to sniff out deadly pathogens that plague hospitals and put patients at risk.
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By Florence Barrett-Hill
"Acid mantle microflora" symbiosis, the first line of "skin barrier defence"
The surface of the skin itself comprises several distinct environments. Areas such as the axilla (armpit), the perineum (groin) and the toe webs provide typically moister regions for bacterial growth. These "tropical f... | <urn:uuid:dc370f2d-ad6c-41f8-ac94-ba767fcbb2f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beautymagonline.com/index.php/sample-pages/1210-acidmantle-symbiosis-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910152 | 2,004 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Book Description: Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction; Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt promoted it. Their efforts were set against the background of folklorists who brought collections of traditional tales, songs, and cra... | <urn:uuid:629ed335-996d-47d3-b57a-1e83d33bc2e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.campusbooks.com/books/nonfiction/social-sciences/folklore-mythology/9780700603060_Simon-J-Bronner_American-Folklore-Studies-An-Intellectual-His.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933617 | 256 | 3.375 | 3 |
Scientists have identified a new type of stem cell in blood vessel walls that initial studies suggest gives rise to the proliferative cells that result in the vascular remodeling and neointimal hyperplasia characteristic of vascular diseases. Until now it has been widely accepted that these features are caused by proli... | <urn:uuid:4b65ef52-6b6f-47d6-945e-e0bcb25e9a9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/study-overturns-tenet-that-smooth-muscle-cell-dedifferentiation-leads-to-vascular-disorders/81246860/?kwrd=University%20of%20California | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94699 | 949 | 2.875 | 3 |
STORY OF THE RED FOX.
THE Indians, of whatever tribe, are exceedingly fond of narrating or listening to tales and stories, whether historical or fictitious. They have their professed story-tellers, like the oriental nations, and these go about, from village to village, collecting an admiring and attentive audience, how... | <urn:uuid:03f31d54-9e9c-41b1-9fdd-bfb56eaacfda> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER1105-Chpt29.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991404 | 2,782 | 3 | 3 |
Sagarmatha National Park
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Antitrust law is a form of economic regulation. And like all economic regulation, it transfers wealth, often in response to special-interest urging. Partly in recognition of such shortcomings, many economic sectors, such as transportation and telecommunications, have been partially deregulated. But antitrust regulation... | <urn:uuid:65be579a-ba15-4e50-b9c1-4db8db54ebe8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/antitrust-terrible-10-why-most-reviled-anticompetitive-business-practices-can-benefit-consumers-new-economy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94094 | 351 | 2.75 | 3 |
|Science & Fun | Home | Introduction into the 1H NMR Spectroscopy|
3. Chemical shifts - Positions of the resonance signals in the spectraFor the prediction of the NMR spectrum of a given molecule it is necessary to know the number of resonance signals. But it is obviously also necessary to know the position of these si... | <urn:uuid:5885ebea-45c2-4f43-904f-b794f66f10a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.science-and-fun.de/1hbuch/english/40.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896346 | 287 | 3.625 | 4 |
The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. A first-of-its-kind national study of the toxic chemical "body burden" in health professionals found an array of hazardous chemicals in twenty doctors and nurses across the country, highlighting the need for state lawmakers to enact strong legislation that would alleviate the ... | <urn:uuid:c3973775-e16d-4d7d-a0b0-bcbdd44c66ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cleanwater.org/feature/body-burden-report-reveals-toxic-chemicals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961247 | 445 | 2.84375 | 3 |
How people connect to the Internet
Golman Sachs produced a great graphic showing how the Internet is accessed and how this impacts Microsoft.
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...states until an observation, or measurement, “collapses” their various possible states into one actual state. This means that if a system of pa... | <urn:uuid:8b4085ee-4663-429d-a3f9-a533732a734f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/746272/qubit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907013 | 357 | 3.703125 | 4 |
The liturgy of the Catholic Church is the action by which Jesus Christ unites the members of the Church in glorifying God. It makes people holy through words, music, action and signs. The Eucharist is intended to be the most powerful means of union with our God, with the saints in heaven and with each other, and is to ... | <urn:uuid:5451a20a-8568-40d8-b012-f1a77a9cce6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ignatius.com/Products/CLY-P/ceremonies-of-the-liturgical-year.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953949 | 334 | 2.625 | 3 |
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In the 1920s Robert Yerkes acquired an unusual ape that he named Prince Chim. Chim was more intelligent, fun-loving, cooperative, emotionally positive and full of life than his chimpanzee companion, Panzee. Chim's vocal behaviour was so prolific and reminiscent of language that Yerkes transcribed... | <urn:uuid:aefa72df-f918-4909-81c2-1524b5e123b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/06/bonobos-have-a-secret.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95425 | 776 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Researchers at the Corrosion and Environmental Effects Laboratory of (CEEL) USC Viterbi School have been working on analyzing the ability of an organism called Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (hereinafter MR-1) to protect a number of metals.
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Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
- Publication date:March 2006
- 25 tables
- Dimensions: 276 x 216 mm
- Weight: 1.025kg
- Unavailable - out of print December 2011
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defeat of Xerxes, Cadmus returned to Sicity with the treasures, though he might easily have appropriated them to his own use. (Herod, vii. 163, 164.) Herodotus calls Cadmus a Coan, and states further, that he received the tyranny of Cos from his father, but gave the state its liberty of hi... | <urn:uuid:db7d2db3-fa3c-4bfb-9c41-4e729fdb5d9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0534.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962262 | 1,881 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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Cellulose acetate film
Cellulose acetate film, or safety film, is used in photography as a base material for photographic emulsions. It was introduced in the early 20th century by film manufacturers as a safe film base replacement for unstable and highly flammable nitrate film.
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No. 1. Used for choice roasts, the porterhouse and sirloin steaks.
No. 2. Rump, used for steaks, stews and corned beef.
No. 3. Aitch-bone, used for boiling-pieces, stews and pot roasts.
No. 4. Buttock or round, used for steaks, pot roasts, beef a la mode; also a prime boiling-piece.
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|Hep B infection through food?
Sep 28, 2004
Dear Doctor Dieterich.
If you can get Hep B from using toothbrushes infected with microscopic blood specks, is it also possible to become infected with Hep B through eating food contaminated by similar invisible particles (acquired from, say, dirty hands)?
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Voter ID Laws: Necessary or More Likely to Disenfranchise Voters?
As the November election approaches, the arguments for and against strict voter identity laws heat up.
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Why was the Ontario Tumour Bank Created?
Scientific and technological advances in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics are providing new insight into the cause and treatment of cancer. The analysis of human tumours offers academic and industry researchers a window into the molecular and genetic world of cancer. Thr... | <urn:uuid:3e59d05d-f923-4d1e-b87c-dd2e464edec1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oicr.on.ca/oicr-programs-and-platforms/ontario-tumour-bank/ontario-tumour-bank/about-otb/why-was-otb-created | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924758 | 285 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The field of gene expression continues to grow and evolve. Commonly used technologies such as microarrays are packing higher densities in a smaller footprint, and qPCR is becoming more accurate and reproducible with new guidelines in place.
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The Experience of Chronic Pain and PTSD: A Guide for Health Care Providers
The Experience of Chronic Pain and PTSD: A Guide for Health Care Providers
What is chronic pain?
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Americans haven’t worried about polio for a long time; vaccines have effectively eliminated the disease in America and much of the rest of the world. However, there are three countries that are still facing polio epidemics: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria.
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Texans who have drawn there water supplies from the vast but shrinking Ogallala Aquifer are engaged in a complex process of clarifying and/or renegotiating a more exact notion of just what rights they have to access the resource. A story in the Sunday Lubbock Avalanche-Journal provides an update.
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Global Warming Science - www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming
Water Vapor / Humidity Implications for the GHG Based Global Warming Theory
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Increasing atmospheric CO2 does not by itself result in significant warming. The climate models assume a significant positive feedback of increased water vapor in... | <urn:uuid:fa00abc7-75e6-4e8e-8d05-262815aee803> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.appinsys.com/globalwarming/WaterVapor.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884125 | 4,252 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Today, it seems, is an appropriate day to delve into American history. Specifically, the long history of politicians' sex scandals, and the media who are always willing, ready, and eager to use them to sell newspapers.
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Zoo School Technology
Preparing students for success in our 21st century global society is a challenging task. Rigorous and relevant curriculum is vitally important, as are small learning communities where relationships can flourish. Equally important is a philosophy of using appropriate and integral technology to faci... | <urn:uuid:65d0c23a-246e-4a22-85e8-64394bdb7d17> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nczoo.org/education/zooschooltechnology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935934 | 317 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Could it be the last Emperor?
MILLIONS fell in love with the noble creatures in hit movie March Of The Penguins as they battled to survive in the coldest weather conditions on Earth.
But now the magnificent Emperor penguins of the Antarctic are in even greater peril — because it is getting too WARM.
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I had the pleasure of working with a group of middle school math co-teaching teams recently. We spent an afternoon reviewing online resources that could be used to help differentiate instruction and then made paperslide videos, to find out if it could be a strategy that students could benefit from.
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Mahaweli GangaArticle Free Pass
Mahaweli Ganga, (Sinhalese: “Great Sandy River”), river, central and eastern Sri Lanka. At 208 mi (335 km) in length, it is Sri Lanka’s longest river. It rises on the Hatton Plateau on the western side of the island’s hill country, flows north through a tea- and rubber-growing region, an... | <urn:uuid:367ec090-24ce-4a28-9c34-454648eab420> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/358033/Mahaweli-Ganga | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922037 | 248 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Object Oriented Programming
Everything about Object Oriented Programming
Everything in Ruby touches object oriented programming. You can't go anywhere without seeing it. These articles should get you started in OOP with Ruby.
Object Specific Behavior
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Interstitial lung disease
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Mountaintop removal is a form of extracting coal that uses heavy explosives to remove hundreds of vertical feet of a mountain to access thin seams of coal underneath. This “overburden” is then dumped directly into adjacent valleys, burying headwater streams.
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