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Around 2000 BC, the Greeks played a ball game called episkyros. The game was played primarily by men and sometimes women. Regardless of their gender, the Greeks usually played nude.
A marble relief from the National Museum of Archeology in Athens shows an athlete balancing the ball on his thigh, supposedly teaching the... | <urn:uuid:b3e1cbdd-943c-4794-8ba4-bfa1afd6346c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://expertfootball.com/wp/?p=719 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.984182 | 678 | 3.609375 | 4 |
John and I have been working to ensure that Berrien RESA has appropriate resources for all classrooms in our county. As such, we have added the Strawbees Creation Kit. This kit comes with enough plastic connectors and straws for your class to create all kinds of 3D structures. We first came across these at Maker Faire ... | <urn:uuid:8df75df8-d2f5-4b87-91c1-1d12802fe0ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://techtalk.berrienresa.org/2015/11/new-resource-added.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.955991 | 264 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Plato: Part One: the Monad and the Complementary Distinction.
Plato’s categorical system may be deduced as one that is based entirely on the distinction of the “triune” sources and causes that inform the foundations of the knowledge system. Man the “Artificer” and “Demiurge” or lesser “god”, is central to his thesis wh... | <urn:uuid:9066cb14-ede1-4d16-b79e-c76b1c67230a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://novumveritasuniversalis.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/plato-part-one-the-monad-and-the-complementary-distinction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.965331 | 5,797 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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Tabata work outs can be summed up as 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest. A goal is to not to slip below your first level of work. So if I do 8 push ups in 20 seconds I'd want to keep t... | <urn:uuid:219d07ac-80d8-4989-9060-92b24095f191> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://whitakermedia.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/tabata-math-drill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00533.warc.gz | en | 0.984208 | 455 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A locale ID reflects the local conventions and language for a particular geographical region. A given language might be spoken in more than one Country/Region; for example, Portuguese is spoken in Brazil as well as in Portugal. Conversely, a Country/Region might have more than one official language. For example, Canada... | <urn:uuid:a4c986e1-d2ac-4e1a-9397-8e4f6ad6a017> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.yaldex.com/c_net_tutorial/html/bd937361-b6d3-4c98-af95-beb7c903187b.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320545.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625170634-20170625190634-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.881203 | 721 | 3.828125 | 4 |
The musical play Annie has charmed us all with adorable gangs of orphans happily dancing and singing, “It’s the Hard Knock Life.” But as charming as that scene is, and as much as we’d like to believe in its accuracy, it bears no resemblance to the reality of life in 19th and early 20th century America. In fact, if Litt... | <urn:uuid:9fedda8a-ad92-4eff-af9e-8c1db65a05ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://stargazermercantile.com/2015/03/23/the-orphan-trains-end-of-the-line/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320763.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626133830-20170626153830-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.983267 | 2,230 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, according to a University of British Columbia study that examines the potential effects of climate change on marine life.
Researchers used the same climate change scenarios as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to project a large-scale movem... | <urn:uuid:b51411a1-c434-4232-ba06-18f0637fe34c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/global-warming-to-drive-fish-toward-poles-study-says-1.2795077 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321306.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627083142-20170627103142-00133.warc.gz | en | 0.936029 | 438 | 3.75 | 4 |
Cleaning of Surgical Instruments
Surgical instruments should be cleaned as soon as possible after use. Blood and debris should never be allowed to dry on an instrument. This only makes them harder to clean,and promotes corrosion. Also all the instruments involved in the case should be cleaned whether they were actually... | <urn:uuid:ea1e438a-5f2f-47c7-9ccb-bdb510ea724a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://belvederevodka.com.au/read_article.php?7307 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.942361 | 607 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Creating an online quiz or test for your website is easy with ASP. All you are doing is using forms to ask questions, and then comparing the answers with what you know to be correct.
First, you need to plan out your quiz or test. I like to do quizzes with 10 questions, because there are enough questions to be interesti... | <urn:uuid:eb601b45-b0f4-4133-9dff-baa6378f66ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art34736.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.931486 | 412 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Our dress up this week was regarding our history sentence about immigrants flocking to America. We went a little politically incorrect by dressing up as an Italian mobster. I couldn't resist! We had some great fun with this costume. Sarah wore it for the whole day - to the grocery, the Church and Bible study. It was qu... | <urn:uuid:a6e24e67-b713-4312-9e0e-f672af9203ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.solagratiamom.com/2015/01/painting-periodic-table-of-elements.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.977989 | 521 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Functional foods have been defined as those that go beyond merely providing nutrients—they actively help prevent diseases for those at high risk, such as cancer, diabetes or heart disease. According to the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the science of functional foods is the convergence of two major events in ... | <urn:uuid:041feb38-fa5c-4e63-845b-f7735c392830> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.hydroponics.com.au/foods-of-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.937581 | 633 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Preparing your SD Card
First you will need to have a compatible SD Card. Next we have to format our SD Card. Using Disk Utility we will erase the SD Card. to do this: Select the card, click the erase tab, select MS-DOS (Fat), Rename (optional), and finally hit erase. Once this is complete, select the newly creatted par... | <urn:uuid:39880476-bba9-4abf-91dc-afdcb60ce47f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blog.nextjump.com/engineering/setting-up-nodejs-on-the-raspberry-pi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319575.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622135404-20170622155404-00572.warc.gz | en | 0.807626 | 1,197 | 2.75 | 3 |
Twitter is geared to real-time use more than any other form of social media. Certainly not a medium for expressing nuance, ‘tweets’ do deliver the punch of immediacy. The OPTIMUM project, through one of its three pilot studies — “Proactive improvement of transport systems' quality and efficiency” — has funded a study t... | <urn:uuid:9046870a-7a94-440c-97e3-5eb706ed3686> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://optimumproject.eu/news/35/66/OPTIMUM-pilot-project-supports-research-on-travel-related-stress.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319575.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622135404-20170622155404-00572.warc.gz | en | 0.918151 | 849 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Cargo nets are used to secure cargo to a structure. Additional uses for a cargo net include an easy-to-climb net for children's play equipment, a retaining net for storing cloths or bags, or for supporting lightweight items from the ceiling. You can purchase netting of various sizes and shapes from hardware and supply ... | <urn:uuid:506bb1f7-8a76-46c9-98d9-0b986f46ec15> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7573298_instructions-tying-cargo-net.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320057.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623114917-20170623134917-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.912526 | 751 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Childcare Facilities
EPA is responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's drinking water in public water supplies. EPA estimates that approximately 8,000 schools and child care facilities maintain their own water supply and are regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDW... | <urn:uuid:093b7f15-b630-4852-a453-3fbba00d93ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/lead-drinking-water-schools-and-childcare-facilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320227.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624064634-20170624084634-00093.warc.gz | en | 0.930919 | 2,100 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Expletive (was: Odd construct)
|From:||Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>|
|Date:||Sunday, October 14, 2001, 6:15|
At 1:39 pm -0700 12/10/01, Matthew Pearson wrote:
>--- You wrote:
>> If you mean the semantically empty "it" found in sentences like "It is
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One of the most important components of health is ensuring our bodies have the vitamins and minerals it needs to function properly.
With our busy lifestyles it can be difficult to get all the nutrients our body needs through food alone. For example, it is recommended Canadians eat 7-10 servings of fruits and vegetables... | <urn:uuid:e05d82b0-d8bf-4227-8b55-84847cd9e8d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://purenorth.ca/nutrition-your-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.947398 | 672 | 2.640625 | 3 |
A friend brought this video to my attention, and it show something people could try at home. This video shows an experiment in which a powdered carbon material (charcoal) is exposed to microwaves in a conventional microwave oven, and after 3 minutes or so demonstrates that it contains magnetic properties it did not hav... | <urn:uuid:8a6336a7-1495-4d3f-9156-fd64b7ce6ca1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/03/24/low-energy-transmutation-of-carbon-in-a-microwave-oven/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.965093 | 241 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
We have been talking about the wonderful world of homophones! Homophones are words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. We read two books together, How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear and Dear Deer. These two books were incredible! Then, we came together and g... | <urn:uuid:9e7a7090-05ec-4521-910e-781d60e414fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://oursecondgradejourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/homophones.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.964373 | 152 | 3.5 | 4 |
In its earliest incarnations, the Village of Bartlett, Illinois was an old-time camping and hunting ground for the Potawatomi, Ottawa, Miami, and Cherokee Indians. At various other times in the past, Spain, France, Virginia, England, the Northwest Territory, and Indiana also staked their claim to Bartlett. In fact, if ... | <urn:uuid:a408ffe2-6ce2-47c2-8f14-3803eb182339> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.village.bartlett.il.us/our-community/history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.962791 | 970 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Michael J. Cummings...©
in 2010 ©
Goodman Brown is a short story, one of the greatest in American literature.
One may read it as an allegory centering on the temptation everyone faces
and on the human tendency to prejudge others on insufficient evidence.
The story was published in 1835.
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Mental/Behavioral Case Study Essay
Mental/Behavioral Case Study
I am doing a case study for Jenny Stanson, who is a 20-year-old college student who that is currently living with her grandmother. Lately, she has been noticing that her grandmother seems to be confused at times, and often forgets things she has told her. ... | <urn:uuid:a7c38767-03e1-4a72-89e1-2092c679c4f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://studymoose.com/mentalbehavioral-case-study-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.961005 | 775 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Here’s What Happens in Your Brain When You Hear a Pun
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Neuroscience Of Mindfulness: How To Make Your Mind Happy By Getting Your Left Brain Under Control, by Eric Barker
Zika, a Formidable Enemy,... | <urn:uuid:46fd0d17-2e90-45c0-bd2c-5b38fee2102d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://pandawhale.com/Geege4/neuroscience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.793118 | 804 | 2.875 | 3 |
The map below provides a global overview of some of the key datasets contained within WWF-SIGHT. If you would like to learn more about how this data is being applied, please visit our Project page.Go To Projects
A global map of biomass carbon stored in above and below ground living vegetation created using the Internat... | <urn:uuid:a1a5119b-7a80-4863-8dc4-83416e154b03> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://wwf-sight.org/explore/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.850354 | 550 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature. Www.humesociety.org/hs/issues/v2n2/patten/patten-v2n2.pdf. Philosophy Index. Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Willard Van Orman Quine Originally published in The Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43.
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Tsunami victims receive treatment via satellite
The ESA funded telemedicine project called I-DISCARE has been put into action to help victims along the coastal areas ravaged by last month's tsunami. It is being used to connect mobile teams of rescue workers with hospitals via satellite, greatly improving medical care.
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'Tis the season in the Arctic when the sun disappears below the horizon and twilight replaces daylight. Temperatures drop and ice that melted throughout the Arctic summer begins to cover the world's northernmost ocean again. Scientists have used satellite pictures since 1979 to map the extent of such ice at its minimum... | <urn:uuid:e97ab5af-8944-46dd-a3f5-14fbf823c65f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-north-pole-is-melting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00212.warc.gz | en | 0.954471 | 702 | 3.578125 | 4 |
|Name||Tokutaro "Tokie" Slocum|
World War I veteran, citizenship activist, and Americanization advocate. Born in Japan, but raised in an adoptive American family, Tokutaro "Tokie" Slocum (1895–1974) led the fight to secure naturalization rights for Issei World War I veterans like himself. Before and after the attack on... | <urn:uuid:73748e15-e46a-428c-b952-d3be791425f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Tokutaro%20Slocum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.963501 | 1,397 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Approximately one in every three American adults suffers from high blood pressure, or hypertension. This figure includes around half of all adults over 65-years-old.
According to a new report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 47% of American adults with hypertension are not properl... | <urn:uuid:1a3ce1be-3922-4da5-b695-4810cbc2e9a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/health-news/about-half-of-american-adults-with-high-blood-pressure-fail-to-control-it-says-cdc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.924268 | 1,215 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Heat Recovery Ventilation Systems (HRV)
Another method of reducing radon levels is by dilution. Exhausting stale interior air while bringing in fresh air dilutes radon. As the half-life of radon is 3.8 days, there is a good chance it can be exhausted before it decays down to the more dangerous poloniums. While this met... | <urn:uuid:e2c16b21-89ed-44cf-851d-794ddff2c76e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.radonatlantic.com/faq-about-radon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.910631 | 229 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Controversy has arisen about the tax rate some higher income folks pay. It is sometimes much less than what middle- and maybe lower-income households pay. How can this arise? And is it fair? N.C. State University economist Mike Walden responds.
“Well, you’re talking about the controversy over one of the political candi... | <urn:uuid:1332b1d9-88c4-4178-b7e6-5d803b12db1a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://cals.ncsu.edu/news/the-15-tax-rate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.97551 | 421 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Definition of aniline point
: the lowest temperature at which aniline and a solvent (as gasoline) are completely miscible and which serves as an indication of the type of hydrocarbons present in the solvent, the content of aromatics being higher according as the temperature is lower
Love words? You must — there are ove... | <urn:uuid:361200c1-12b5-4e4a-9689-16c42014aaad> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aniline%20point | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.934905 | 204 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Process of making Red ginseng (紅蔘)
South Korean’s most favorite health food is red-ginseng (紅 蔘), which takes about 36% of the total health food sales.
Red ginseng is carefully selected 6 year old high quality ginseng cultivated in a field with an optimum conditions and environment and it takes reddish-brown color afte... | <urn:uuid:a3e72b68-fabc-413f-8802-04615b5720e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blog.penguinmall.com/process-of-making-red-ginseng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320243.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624082900-20170624102900-00373.warc.gz | en | 0.943524 | 648 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Sardines are a type of small oily fish. They are often sold canned and are rich sources of omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, calcium and protein. Canned sardines have their heads removed and are cooked by steaming or deep-frying. They are then dried and packed in vegetable oil, brine or sauce. A typical water-packed can ... | <urn:uuid:343dc3f2-e489-4fde-90ff-d49156aaefb3> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://getfit.jillianmichaels.com/canned-sardines-healthy-2386.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320243.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624082900-20170624102900-00373.warc.gz | en | 0.941447 | 617 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Learn how to sort with this engaging, colorful science reader! Follow along as children play "I Spy" to identify objects by color, shape, and more. See how they sort a blue square by color, then by shape. This title includes more fun and easy examples to help guide young readers into understanding sorting and categoriz... | <urn:uuid:7b7ee3bc-6418-4aa5-a9f2-ffaa8ca3a2a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://school-materials-network2.mybigcommerce.com/i-spy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320395.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625032210-20170625052210-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.949794 | 125 | 3.828125 | 4 |
February 15, 2009
Elephants Use Vibrations To Call For Mates
Many a love-besotted soul has declared they would move the world for their true love, but how many actually accomplish that task in their quest to unite with a lover?
Poets and romantics may argue the point, but research has shown that elephants issuing calls... | <urn:uuid:0dc61d36-d44c-45bd-bd10-b236e443df00> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1639570/elephants_use_vibrations_to_call_for_mates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320395.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625032210-20170625052210-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.971928 | 1,225 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Department of Agriculture
Master of Science
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is a valuable source of edible food and organic nitrogen. Soybean cultivar development and cultural practices have been directed toward seed production rather than forage or green manure production. Recent environmental concerns have resulted ... | <urn:uuid:49ca5019-5024-4521-9726-a0d982d729b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/952/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321410.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627115753-20170627135753-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.957677 | 496 | 2.875 | 3 |
BACKGROUND: Medication overuse headache (MOH) affects between 1% and 2% of the general population but is present in up to 50% of patients seen in headache centers. There are currently no internationally accepted guidelines for treatment of MOH. METHODS: A review of the current literature on MOH treatment and pathophysi... | <urn:uuid:780b5537-0572-44d4-bee7-e344622df9c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.forskningsdatabasen.dk/catalog/268768414 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321410.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627115753-20170627135753-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.937536 | 245 | 2.65625 | 3 |
What a fantastic week of play and exploration. There was no day this week that did not end with, “Oh My Gosh! They are so cute!”.. And us dive into the sweet things the Forest Caterpillars said, did or things we watched them accomplish.. It is hard to tell you how much we did and saw in those four short days. (They go ... | <urn:uuid:8c47fc5e-03e0-4607-9f13-ed734d912025> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.wildintelligence.org/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321410.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627115753-20170627135753-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.972405 | 6,585 | 2.546875 | 3 |
At long last, winter is finally making way for spring! We couldn’t be more excited to welcome in the season of new leaves, flowers, and even those long afternoon rains.
Of course, spring is also the season of allergies for many of our patients, since those blooming flowers release lots of irritating pollen. If you alwa... | <urn:uuid:28d3f90c-1629-49b5-8e01-db519440df63> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lyceumpm.com/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-allergies-a-cold/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.930051 | 669 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Summer’s heat wave: A sign of warmer years ahead?
State climatologist Jeff Andresen explains how this summer’s heat wave is related to climate change and MSU Extension offers a series of fact sheets on climate change.
This summer’s continuing heat wave and drought has many Michiganders actually looking forward to winte... | <urn:uuid:5fccd234-355e-4b3b-b58a-b0ab1e10574a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/summers_heat_wave_a_sign_of_warmer_years_ahead | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.952443 | 560 | 3.734375 | 4 |
In January the government derided the current ICT teaching at schools as a "mess" and announced its replacement by Computer Science and Programming modules.
From the little exposure I have had to some of the teaching materials, I have to agree this needs to happen. The lack of quality teachers needs addressing, too.
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Nicolas Bernier was an Italian-influenced French composer of motets and cantatas who lived from 1664 until 1734. Bernier is a lesser-known composer of the French baroque, who belonged to the generation that came between Lully and Rameau. Although he spent his formative years in Italy, he returned to Paris and held many... | <urn:uuid:dc5b7ee8-5a88-4476-9b95-46bc3bba2b21> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://arsantiguapresents.com/2012/08/06/ars-antigua-presents-august-2012-edition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323864.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629033356-20170629053356-00133.warc.gz | en | 0.954188 | 300 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The adjective resilient has been in use for decades in the field of dependable computing systems essentially as a synonym of fault-tolerant, thus generally ignoring the unexpected aspect of the phenomena the systems may have to face. These phenomena become of primary relevance when moving to systems like the future lar... | <urn:uuid:44a37d1e-fe40-4141-8c85-59bd6ace7772> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://dependability.org/wg10.4/SIGEdu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319902.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622201826-20170622221826-00492.warc.gz | en | 0.950625 | 435 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Legal Reform Needed to Promote Social Equality
Dean Spade visited Hamilton on Oct. 10 to lecture on the effectiveness of legal reform to promote social equality. Spade, associate professor at the Seattle University School of Law, focused his discussion on struggles and obstacles faced by the American trans community.
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Welsh alphabet. Note that there is no J, K, Q, V, X or Z. However the most common surname in Wales is Jones, and there is a little village called Vivod. And if you find this interesting, just do a search for the definition of a Welsh Mile.
Map of Wales showing the old counties before the modern restructure.
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MATLAB, by Gilat, Amos
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- ISBN: 9781118629864 | 1118629868
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/28/2014
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications 5th Edition walks readers through the ins and outs of this powerful software for technical com... | <urn:uuid:9952e090-f638-4925-ada7-5de8b676a43b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.biggerbooks.com/matlab-5th-gilat-amos/bk/9781118629864 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00653.warc.gz | en | 0.902765 | 167 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The Gospel of Matthew, Part 52
This chapter shows us the things that Jesus said about the future and give us the vision of the things to come. This chapter comes after the pronouncement of Judgement when Jesus speaks to the scribes and Pharisees.
A) THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM
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Parent-teacher conferences. Those three words make many parents nervous. It's understandable: Parents fear hearing the worst about their child's progress and performance, and teachers can sometimes be intimidating. Here are ten strategies to help you rid yourself of any preconference anxiety and make the meeting a prod... | <urn:uuid:7d7fd9a2-a953-4f1c-b591-28b4a2ae9753> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.parenting.com/article/10-tips-for-maximizing-parent-teacher-conferences | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320443.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625064745-20170625084745-00013.warc.gz | en | 0.968888 | 1,443 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Dealing with Extreme Heat
Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat, the body must work extra hard to maintain a normal temperature. Most heat disorders occur because the victim has been overexposed to heat or has over-exercised for his or her age and physical condition. Older adults, youn... | <urn:uuid:9a20097e-048d-4663-b54f-994bbd3569b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://fairfaxcountyemergency.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/dealing-with-extreme-heat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00093.warc.gz | en | 0.93693 | 557 | 3.515625 | 4 |
April 19, 1861 – Troops of the 6th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment traveling through Baltimore fired on a jeering mob of citizens, sparking mass unrest.
Federal troops heeding President Abraham Lincoln’s call for volunteers needed to pass through Baltimore, a major railroad hub, to get to Washington, D.C. Som... | <urn:uuid:8caea79e-dd3e-47dd-9f3b-1f4f52b75d4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://civilwarmonths.com/2016/04/19/the-baltimore-riot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.932497 | 1,873 | 3.140625 | 3 |
The rotary switch, or rotary selector switch, is used to select one of several options. The switches are usually mechanical so pull-up resistors and debouncing needs to be used. See Mechanical Switches for more information.
As shown in the schematic above, each output of a rotary switch needs its own pin. If the rotary... | <urn:uuid:2bf2d771-e958-4ecb-b8ab-7ab4db0ec10b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://generichid.sourceforge.net/rotaryswitch.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.867415 | 337 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Eating too many sweets cannot be placed in the same league as smoking or excessive drinking but its not a million miles away.
This is because the majority of sweets are made exclusively from refined sugar which has absolutely zero nutritional value. You may as well be eating cardboard.
But a much greater problem of ref... | <urn:uuid:c392b29e-7373-4c19-a8c0-c70a087ee711> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.womenrepublic.co.uk/diet_fitness/sweets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.978181 | 175 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Aged appears in the following palindrome (phrase that reads the same backward as forward):
- Degas, are we not drawn onward, we freer few, drawn onward to new eras aged?
On this page:
- Definition of the adjective aged
- Definition of the noun aged
- Definition of the verb aged
- Other definitions of aged
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Navarro County, Texas
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Navarro is a county in Texas. It was formed in 1846 from the following county/ies: Robertson. Navarro began keeping birth records in 1903, marriage... | <urn:uuid:d09a2904-b1da-4806-90e9-512f7e0fd51d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.ancestry.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Navarro_County,_Texas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323870.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629051817-20170629071817-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.919439 | 159 | 3.015625 | 3 |
How to make a smooth transition from home to camp
Encourage your child's independence throughout the year with sleepovers.
Discuss what camp will be like before your child leaves, including role-playing anticipated situations, such as using a flashlight to find the bathroom.
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A nutritionist, also known as a dietitian, organizes and lays out food programs from beginning to end. This can include meal preparation and the serving of meals. Nutritionists may delay, prevent, or treat illnesses by providing or modifying a client’s diet. Clients with high blood pressure might receive tips on design... | <urn:uuid:95ea50d1-7b98-4207-a386-bd3b91663ac9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.highersalary.com/health/nutritionist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320130.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623184505-20170623204505-00133.warc.gz | en | 0.93488 | 1,237 | 2.875 | 3 |
Today is Maundy Thursday — no, not Monday Thursday, which would be an interesting concept: society could work Monday through Thursday, with Fridays off! Some Christians misunderstand that this day is only a “Catholic” celebration. Christians both ancient and modern have remembered Christ’s last supper with his disciple... | <urn:uuid:18c68e4a-2031-4f1f-ab0e-46d9554c5a94> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.alanrudnick.org/2012/04/05/why-we-call-today-maundy-thursday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.96276 | 478 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Model studies of the middle atmosphere of Venus
Newman, Matthew, 1961-
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Zonal winds reach in excess of 100 m/s in the middle atmosphere of Venus; the cloud-level atmosphere takes little more than 4 days to complete one rotation, while the solid planet below has a 243-day rotation period. Th... | <urn:uuid:6b3c3b14-0b9e-4d09-9e87-3c4f47074da6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/10060 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.906864 | 419 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A relatively large white float discovered during a bird survey on Salmon Creek Beach on 19 June 2012. It was ~21 inches long.
There were a few faded Asian characters visible on one end (see below).
At least two species of barnacles were growing on the float.
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Skiing: From Necessity to Sport
A winter sport, skiing was primarily done on snow. It has become so popular that people want to ski even on grass. Roller skis and ski simulators are also some ways it can be enjoyed even without snow.
A skiing adventure is not complete without the right equipment which involves skis, a ... | <urn:uuid:c24fdbec-0c92-4779-8086-ee0f4d6b41d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://buyhealthstore.eu.org/a-quick-overlook-of-trips-your-cheatsheet.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320476.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625083108-20170625103108-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.980167 | 617 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Wanda comes to you because she is discouraged and needs to talk. Her parents have heard she is thinking of expanding her business and even possibly taking out a second mortgage on her home to fund the expansion. They have never been overly supportive of her business, but as long as it seemed like a "hobby," they didn't... | <urn:uuid:09820981-29e3-459d-acb4-38da57950aeb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.tutorsglobe.com/question/positive-entrepreneur-characteristics-51797365.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320476.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625083108-20170625103108-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.986625 | 307 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Peasants’ Revolt, also called Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1381, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century. The rebellion drew support from ... | <urn:uuid:0a301ae6-ade6-4b2e-902a-45a26eaa3f6a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.britannica.com/event/Peasants-Revolt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320476.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625083108-20170625103108-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.971429 | 633 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Motu Kōkako, also known as Piercy Island or "The Hole In The Rock”, where Zane Grey, the noted author and angler, was based in the 1920s. The island is located off the north coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is at the very northern tip of Rakaumangamanga (Cape Brett) in the Bay of Islands. It is Māori freeho... | <urn:uuid:f54ed2f5-617a-4c95-abd6-99b4c21aedc7> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.delzanephotography.com/p578092569 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00373.warc.gz | en | 0.96705 | 434 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Administrative estimates of vaccination coverage:
Virtually all vaccination programmes, including both mass campaigns and routine vaccination, require vaccinators to record how many doses of vaccine have been delivered. If the target group for the vaccination is clearly defined and all vaccinators vacci... | <urn:uuid:c5ad193b-dfab-4c9f-965f-53c753c9b999> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://conflict.lshtm.ac.uk/page_86.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.936505 | 269 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Carlists(redirected from Carlism)
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Carlists,partisans of Don CarlosCarlos
(Carlos María Isidro de Borbón), 1788–1855, second son of Charles IV of Spain. He was the first Carlist pretender. After his father's abdication (1808) he was, with the rest of his... | <urn:uuid:b9e13363-3cdf-4bd2-9ea2-5973da95d30b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Carlism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.944599 | 1,308 | 2.859375 | 3 |
A common view in psycholinguistic models of spoken-word recognition is that speech decoding is essentially phonemic: the speech signal is mapped onto intermediate phonemic representations, which in turn are used to access phonemically coded lexical representations. Several types of evidence indicate, however, that acou... | <urn:uuid:84f47b4e-6c0c-4f48-909a-bd962a01e464> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://linguistics.arizona.edu/dpl/dutch-diphones | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.934519 | 415 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Drugs used to prevent and treat allergic conditions and allergic reactions
Mast cell stabilizers
Other antiallergy drugs
Antiallergy drugs are used in the treatment of a variety of allergic disorders, such as allergic conjunctivitis, hay fever (see Allergic rhinitis), and atopic eczema. Antiallergy drugs can be used to... | <urn:uuid:417372d2-9b64-4829-be7b-040a293b5ccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.aviva.co.uk/health-insurance/home-of-health/medical-centre/medical-encyclopedia/entry/antiallergy-drugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.901763 | 712 | 3.125 | 3 |
Why is it important?:The capacity to recruit and retain appropriate staff is critical to the sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care services, particularly in rural and remote areas. Recruitment and retention is also an important issue for mainstream services and GPs in rural and rem... | <urn:uuid:c866bc7b-8560-4706-84bd-8e7fe8a3bf0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/health-oatsih-pubs-framereport-toc~tier-3~3-20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323680.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628120308-20170628140308-00613.warc.gz | en | 0.970711 | 1,391 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Get facts on marijuana—the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S.—including its effects and information on marijuana surveillance, laws and policies, and prevention guides.
Marijuana, or Cannabis, refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which contains the psychoac... | <urn:uuid:5864bfb5-ec76-4de7-8385-eb2e8e9965e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://ppaccentral.org/2017/05/18/national-prevention-week-marijuana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323889.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629070237-20170629090237-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.938323 | 652 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Curriculum and Assessment for Students with Moderate and Severe Disabilities
This timely volume provides a complete guide to designing and implementing personalized curricula for K-12 students with moderate and severe disabilities. The author delineates a comprehensive assessment model that provides a framework for pin... | <urn:uuid:bd3932cc-95a2-477b-a566-af7c3984cb87> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://books.google.com/books/about/Curriculum_and_assessment_for_students_w.html?id=WwGmra1ncHYC&hl=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00332.warc.gz | en | 0.918174 | 230 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Aquinas: Conscience isn’t inner knowledge of what’s right and wrong but rather a device or faculty for distinguishing right from wrong actions. When people do wrong their following apparent goods instead of real goods, however we can’t always be right otherwise we wouldn’t learn from our mistakes. Furthermore if our mo... | <urn:uuid:83d2a8f4-c96b-4554-9eb2-c1d7f21d6ed1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://getrevising.co.uk/revision-notes/conscience_notes_brief_summary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00332.warc.gz | en | 0.890667 | 194 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Medicines to Avoid
Many medicines are wholly or in part removed from the body by the kidneys. So it makes sense for everyone with ADPKD to avoid any medicines that could harm the kidneys or make other treatments less effective. This applies not only to medicines prescribed by a doctor or in hospital, but also to remedi... | <urn:uuid:0a1f2ec7-8bb4-435b-b089-f29c27676e4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://pkdcharity.org.uk/about-adpkd/living-with-adpkd/medicines-to-avoid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.928163 | 992 | 2.6875 | 3 |
From the somatic cell to the germ cell
An international scientific consortium including the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has discovered a regulatory pathway that turns plants' ordinary somatic cells into germ cells for sexual reproduction. The researchers recently published their findings in the scien... | <urn:uuid:40b552e8-cf84-4d7b-aef2-c30d2e2dbf82> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.bioss.uni-freiburg.de/newsroom-and-media/2017/laux-sciencepaper-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.866693 | 571 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Different types of kelp have been eaten for nutritional value for over a thousand years. The Chinese used kelp and other types of seaweed for medicine as far back as 3,000 B.C. People in Greece used kelp to feed their cattle around the first century B.C. and kelp has been a main staple for Icelanders for centuries. The... | <urn:uuid:346139bc-29bd-41ec-a692-74636e410ebd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.dailyhealthmagazine.com/sea-kelp-benefits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.930246 | 695 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
''Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.''Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. An Address to the Irish People (1812). These sentimen... | <urn:uuid:1442c41a-7ce4-45f7-a3db-7297199479a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.poemhunter.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/quotations/page-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00413.warc.gz | en | 0.883618 | 799 | 2.609375 | 3 |
We Need More STEM Teachers; Higher Ed. Can Help
Four recommendations for sending more STEM majors into teaching
America's colleges and universities have fallen short for decades in providing K-12 schools with teachers, particularly secondary school teachers, in the high-need STEM fields of physics, chemistry, math, and... | <urn:uuid:e5b7478a-7912-48ed-91c5-07a11e3d4856> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/05/17/we-need-more-stem-teachers-higher-ed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.967422 | 1,166 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Oil-rich Texas has built more highways and bridges than any other state, but over the next two decades it will fall $170 billion short of what it needs to keep the sprawling network in good repair.
In California, transportation officials estimate that 60 percent of the state’s roads and a quarter of its bridges need to... | <urn:uuid:9c31b6b8-8423-4312-8a0c-1279fc2ec04a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article24743959.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.959655 | 3,199 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Nations have the chance to deliver almost 60 per cent of the emissions reductions needed to keep global temperatures under a 2 degrees Celsius rise.
But only if the pledges made last year in Copenhagen are fully met.
These are among the findings of a new report compiled by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and jointl... | <urn:uuid:59a33c75-f64e-49c1-8304-11bd591dcb3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/news/5-gigatonnes-the-gap-between-climate-science-and-current-climate-cuts-after-copenhagen-212153 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.942552 | 504 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Diocese of Calvi and Teano
(Calvensis et Theanensis).
The city of Calvi is the ancient Cales or Calenum in the Campagna, not far from Capua. Towards the end of the fifth century it was certainly a bishopric, since Valerius, Bishop of Calenum, was present at the Roman Council held by Pope Sy... | <urn:uuid:2fadcdd3-bed8-4d27-a872-f59e7e590fb8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Diocese_of_Calvi_and_Teano | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320679.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626050425-20170626070425-00653.warc.gz | en | 0.980344 | 275 | 2.671875 | 3 |
One of the predictions of General Relativity (Einstein's theory of gravity) is the existence of gravitational waves. In theory, anytime a massive object accelerates (that is any motion that is not constant straight line motion and not simple rotation) it should generate gravitational waves. So in theory the universe sh... | <urn:uuid:c2b9e0f8-9eb2-4d25-8cd8-0f62a4d9dada> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lowbrows.blogspot.com/2016/02/rumor-of-gravitational-wave-detection.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320887.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627013832-20170627033832-00013.warc.gz | en | 0.945128 | 473 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Joe Slovo, Signaller, WW2
Slovo was born in Obeliai, Lithuania to a Jewish family which emigrated to the Union of South Africa escaping Jewish persecution in Europe when he was eight.
Slovo first encountered socialism in South Africa through his school-leaving job as a clerk for a pharmaceutical wholesaler. He joined t... | <urn:uuid:2ac600a1-77f1-47a7-8e49-fe8135196efb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://salegion.org.uk/joe-slovo-signaller-ww2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321553.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627203405-20170627223405-00093.warc.gz | en | 0.972851 | 2,128 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Admission to Degree Program
The degree program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is open enrollment.
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The Hermitage is pleased to announce that our 18th century Korean tapestry is ONE OF VIRGINIA’S TOP TEN ENDANGERED ARTIFACTS!
So what does that mean, exactly?
It means that we have an important object in our collection that is in desperate need of conservation, and the people of Virginia agree.
What is this important o... | <urn:uuid:79fc538c-a991-4107-8fc9-68b51e0e35ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://hermitagemuseum.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/we-won-we-won/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00173.warc.gz | en | 0.937304 | 1,224 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Today In Literary History - Doris Lessing Publishes The Golden Notebook
On April 16, 1962, Doris Lessing published The Golden Notebook, still the most highly praised and bestselling of all her books.
The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer, Anna Wulf and the four notebooks in which she ke... | <urn:uuid:7bf2fdc7-8a4b-477b-95d1-bd644e967854> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://literarycornercafe.blogspot.com/2011/04/today-in-literary-history-doris-lessing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.978222 | 949 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Definition - What does Scrolling mean?
Scrolling is the sliding movement of images, video or text across a display screen either vertically or horizontally. Scrolling can be done with or without user intervention. This feature is provided by most applications and smart devices that display contents that are too big to ... | <urn:uuid:e38995c7-98c6-4740-a25c-b1023b390293> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.techopedia.com/definition/5469/scrolling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00253.warc.gz | en | 0.925695 | 206 | 3.75 | 4 |
Early exploration of a variety of mediums can begin. The more heavily loaded with touch information initially, the better.
So a great place to start is with shaving cream or pudding (on the height chair tray). Whole hand movements back and forth teach basic strokes in large space.
- Back forth = horizontal strokes
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A framework for a priori estimation of the expected sampling variances of the Shannon-Weaver and the Simpson indices of species diversity is developed by the introduction of the most probable relative species abundance distribution (MOPSAD). MOPSAD gives the prior probability of a species’ relative abundance. The beta ... | <urn:uuid:d1f823d4-2a45-4072-8d27-12c43377503b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cifor.org/library/39/estimating-sample-size-for-inference-about-the-shannon-weaver-and-the-simpson-indices-of-species-diversity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319992.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623031127-20170623051127-00612.warc.gz | en | 0.908765 | 244 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This student behavior system is perfect for kindergarten and first graders. There is two different take-home sheets for the student to self-reflect on his or her behavior.
- One has just the smiley faces for Monday through Friday and a signature line for the parents for each day.
- The other has the same, but a space f... | <urn:uuid:273e083e-64bf-4826-a126-94ed7659b7de> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Student-Self-Reflection-Sheet-Clip-Chart-2368788 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319992.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623031127-20170623051127-00612.warc.gz | en | 0.93937 | 169 | 2.65625 | 3 |
In November 2014, George Bush was elected Land Commissioner of Texas. This was not the former president, nor his presidential father. Instead, 38-year-old George P. Bush, eldest son of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, became the latest member of his family to enter public office.
At the same time in Massachusetts, Jos... | <urn:uuid:08955144-23a7-4c7a-9af6-3373ba0bfb5b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://theconversation.com/family-ties-why-political-dynasties-rule-in-americas-democracy-36487 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320201.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623220935-20170624000935-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.970536 | 983 | 3.59375 | 4 |
The shipping industry, currently in the midst of an over-capacity crisis that has toppled at least one major international shipping firm, must now come to grips with a new demand to reduce sulfur emissions, improve fuel standards and generally take greater action in addressing its role in battling climate change.
The I... | <urn:uuid:3a148eb8-f0ff-4daa-932b-c69b999592df> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Shipping-Industry-Faces-Uphill-Battle-Against-New-Climate-Regulations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.954705 | 1,030 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Healthy Choices for Children-- includes serving sizes appropriate for kids
Creating healthy and interesting snacks is a vital key to introduce children to healthier foods. In order to help you, here are some of the fun foods for kids, which you can easily make.
Healthy Food for Children - Complete Set of Alphabet Theme... | <urn:uuid:25ea1b7e-6dfc-4481-a409-4100906b148e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://au.pinterest.com/explore/food-for-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.929122 | 292 | 2.546875 | 3 |
2-Minute Mentor: Iterative Assignments
- What are iterative assignments?
- How can I implement them?
- How can these assignments deepen student learning?
Click below to watch CTE’s 2-Minute Mentor video on this topic:
Iterative Assignments video transcript (doc)
Advantages of using iterative assignments
- If students k... | <urn:uuid:3409d428-ed65-448b-9763-03d26c4257d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://cte.drupal.ku.edu/two-minute-mentor-iterative-assignments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.941413 | 388 | 3.1875 | 3 |
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. BAMPFA inspires the imagination, ignites critical dialogue, and activates community engagement through art, film, and other forms of creative expression.
BAMPFA’s origins can b... | <urn:uuid:aa3e267a-a852-4d76-b25b-2ecacc2c2156> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/node/196382 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320532.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625134002-20170625154002-00133.warc.gz | en | 0.938654 | 2,176 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Professional Reference articles are written by UK doctors and are based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. They are designed for health professionals to use, so you may find the language more technical than the condition leaflets.
Glaucoma refers to a group of eye conditions that lead to damage to the op... | <urn:uuid:bddd0b66-5dde-4116-968f-14b978311142> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://patient.info/doctor/glaucoma-and-ocular-hypertension | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320532.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625134002-20170625154002-00133.warc.gz | en | 0.878138 | 5,286 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Carers are people who provide unpaid care and support to family members and friends who have a disability, mental illness, a serious long-term illness, a terminal illness, an alcohol or other drug issue or who are frail aged. Carers help and support the person they care for with daily activities, emotional, social and ... | <urn:uuid:e4dd60c7-d402-47fb-bd04-996d1972c0a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.carersaustralia.com.au/ndis-and-carers/ndis-faqs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320915.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627032130-20170627052130-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.950628 | 1,243 | 2.84375 | 3 |
For more than 100 years, International Women’s Day has celebrated the economic, social, political achievements of women and has become a time to reflect on areas where progress on gender equality has stalled.
This year’s theme, Pledge for Parity, calls for women and men to make a pledge to take meaningful action in the... | <urn:uuid:f211d2a6-c4d9-4797-b76c-63c3a0b83cf2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/03/08/comment-forced-marriage-australia-gender-equality-has-long-way-go | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320915.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627032130-20170627052130-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.971493 | 952 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The most comprehensive multi-media content on Grasslands Ecosystem!
The content presented here is a the same as that available in the Grasslands section of the popular iPad app – Ecosystems HD (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ecosystems-hd/id547133275?mt=8)
This presentation has comprehensive and visually engaging cont... | <urn:uuid:9f4cec0b-f9b3-4e60-b9b1-6dbe4da8014e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grasslands-Ecosystem-1811625 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320915.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627032130-20170627052130-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.866557 | 350 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Anyone who follows the financial news has probably heard the terms “alpha” and “beta” in relation to investing. However, it’s rarely explained how important they are when it comes to making investment decisions.
Alpha is a risk-adjusted measure of an investment’s performance. It takes the volatility of an individual in... | <urn:uuid:f674d23d-d723-41df-b067-3918d6b18252> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blog.principal.com/2013/04/17/the-difference-between-alpha-and-beta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321938.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627221726-20170628001726-00373.warc.gz | en | 0.94867 | 387 | 2.734375 | 3 |
NASA chief Charles Bolden is beaming.
The news today (April 3) that the International Space Station has played a pivotal role in what could be one of the biggest leaps forward for astrophysics has left the NASA Administrator with nothing but high praise.
The news stems from the station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, wh... | <urn:uuid:597c310b-f2fa-4c5b-ac12-066b725b5830> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.space.com/20498-dark-matter-nasa-statement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323721.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628171342-20170628191342-00453.warc.gz | en | 0.940525 | 398 | 2.921875 | 3 |