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In the wake of the massive and horrific natural disasters in Myanmar and China, it is important to examine how the provision of humanitarian relief relates to issues of voice and accountability. In a general sense, communication should be an absolutely vital element of any relief effort. Broadcasting or otherwise circu... | <urn:uuid:29e2eefb-df7e-4746-9bde-c062dbf728b4> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/node/5146 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323721.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628171342-20170628191342-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.929713 | 371 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Blogs About Reading
Sound It Out
Dr. Joanne Meier
Along with her background as a professor, researcher, writer, and teacher, Joanne Meier is a mom. Join Joanne every week as she shares her experiences raising her own young readers, and guides parents and teachers on the best practices in reading.
Preparing for a big fa... | <urn:uuid:302660bb-59f8-4780-bcb5-16a6f6e3a956> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/sounditout/56380 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323721.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628171342-20170628191342-00459.warc.gz | en | 0.961026 | 545 | 2.734375 | 3 |
A study from Vanderbilt University has found physical changes in the brains of Ecstasy users that suggest that their brains are not functioning as efficiently as they once did. These changes did not disappear after a year of abstinence from Ecstasy.
Ecstasy use is associated with a loss of serotonin signaling, which le... | <urn:uuid:04abfc7e-a305-41db-a688-fbfe1f8328cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/content/mind/art3317.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323970.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629121355-20170629141355-00539.warc.gz | en | 0.966826 | 620 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Sales of drones—small flying machines equipped with cameras—are soaring. But new research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore their human controllers and land or, more drastically, crash.
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Disclaimer: EssayStudio is a custom writing service that provides online on-demand written work for assistance purposes. All the work should be used in accordance. A good art history essay comprises a strong central thesis supported by. At Essay Writing Service UK we can assign to you a professional art historian who. ... | <urn:uuid:bea23895-60c0-417f-9e70-bf3ec5311e4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://kbessayptyo.clinchrivertitle.com/essay-writing-for-art-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320023.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623063716-20170623083716-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.864253 | 1,146 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Author: Nollaig Frost
Publisher: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education
Price: £70.00 and £26.99
ISBN 9780335241507, 41514 and 41521 (e-book)
A text on research methods seldom makes an exciting read. The contributors to this volume, however, draw on interesting examples and make the process relatively appealing. T... | <urn:uuid:10bce33a-d4f9-4def-976d-c195cf9d6e5e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/textbook-guides/8-november-2012/student-review-qualitative-research-methods-in-psychology-combining-core-approaches/417970.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320023.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623063716-20170623083716-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.903615 | 586 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In the early 2000s, Alan Greenspan was worried about deflation. So he hired Ben Bernanke, the self-proclaimed expert on the Great Depression from Princeton. The idea was that with Bernanke as his right hand man, Greenspan could put off deflation from hitting the US. Indeed, one of Bernanke’s first speeches was titled “... | <urn:uuid:248b14af-5b2a-4a9c-9fdc-a2ba7ecc684a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://gainspainscapital.com/2015/10/15/5601/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320209.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624013626-20170624033626-00259.warc.gz | en | 0.954897 | 999 | 2.65625 | 3 |
THE HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
|Author(s)||Marnie Reed, John M. Levis|
|D O W N L O A D|
The present handbook is an excellent collection of twenty-eight chapters showing different approaches to the pronunciation. The authors of this volume have aimed it mainly for teachers of English language as well as for the ... | <urn:uuid:c0be72e2-2b09-4671-aee5-685568f046f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.libramar.net/news/the_handbook_of_english_pronunciation/2017-06-03-3220 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320209.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624013626-20170624033626-00259.warc.gz | en | 0.945166 | 332 | 2.953125 | 3 |
1902 – Flatiron Building, New York
The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. The neighborhood around the building is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York. It was designed ... | <urn:uuid:ed3d3d72-fd1e-4c75-80c3-62e0ed20e39e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://archiseek.com/2010/1902-flatiron-building-new-york/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320338.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624203022-20170624223022-00339.warc.gz | en | 0.961525 | 195 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Imitating Someone's Accent
In conversation, we often imitate each other's speech style and may even change our accent to fit that of the person we're talking to. A recent study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that imitating someone who speaks with a regional or... | <urn:uuid:0bc30657-8fb9-43f0-b1a9-cb008588dbb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/imitating-someones-accent.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320338.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624203022-20170624223022-00339.warc.gz | en | 0.981047 | 483 | 3.09375 | 3 |
- What are the benefits of following ADDIE or any other ID model?
- Is there room for an instructional designer’s creativity and free thought when using an ID model?
- What role should ID models and instructional theory play in the daily work of an instructional designer?
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- Lifespan: 12-14 years
- Physique: Curved body, huge ears
- Temperament: Households with children, singles with other pets
The Cornish Rex breed originated from a litter of five kittens born in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England in 1950. One of the males, later named Kallibunker, looked like a little red and white lamb. H... | <urn:uuid:c1025792-43e6-488d-8550-24f40d7cc094> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.petguide.com/breeds/cat/cornish-rex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320338.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624203022-20170624223022-00339.warc.gz | en | 0.973514 | 660 | 2.890625 | 3 |
News Article | April 26, 2017
A young man pays his respects to his ancestors at a cemetery in Shanghai (AFP Photo/Johannes EISELE) Vienna (AFP) - It's not only in life that humans leave their mark on Nature. In death, our decomposing corpses alter the chemistry of precious soil, scientists warned on Wednesday. Whether ... | <urn:uuid:4493ca02-f9a3-423f-824b-3cad93b16b44> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.linknovate.com/affiliation/czech-university-of-life-sciences-20784/all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321961.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627235941-20170628015941-00659.warc.gz | en | 0.929168 | 3,904 | 3.40625 | 3 |
An economic impact analysis (EIA) measures changes in business revenue, business profits, personal wages, and/or jobs. The economic event analyzed can include implementation of a new policy or project, or may simply be the presence of a business or organization. Participants will gain a general understanding of an econ... | <urn:uuid:67c525b3-9054-4274-b451-2425cf14c578> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://landuselearning.com/economic-impact-analysis-in-land-use-planning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323801.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628204133-20170628224133-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.900024 | 235 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Direction (Q. Nos. 1-10): Study the situation given below to answer these questions.
Although he was born in a little village near the coast and had gone to school in the nearest seaside town. Mr. Smith was not a lover of the sea; even when walking along the sands, he was always afraid of being cut off by the tide. He ... | <urn:uuid:631e89fa-7806-427c-9534-985b503a9f10> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://onestopmba.com/mba-sample-paper/mat/details/logical-ability-model-paper-1-2012-197.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323801.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628204133-20170628224133-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.989009 | 946 | 3.171875 | 3 |
110 Delgado Street Suite D, Santa Fe NM 87501
Freedom from racism and social injustice through the practice of meditation.
To eliminate the fear, ignorance and conditioning that fuel racism and social injustice within the individual as well as in relationships, families, communities, and the world at large.
Deep inquir... | <urn:uuid:c5218893-a2a5-4704-be5c-0f37e23e4da8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.lifetransition.com/profile.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323801.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628204133-20170628224133-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.942033 | 810 | 2.625 | 3 |
Welcome back to a new Technique Tuesday post! This week we’re going to be discussing something called linear perspective, also known as the Unsung Hero of Realism. Truly, this is one of the most important techniques ever to be developed in art history. It changed the game completely, but we’re really so used to seeing ... | <urn:uuid:7fe4cf4f-304a-4ae4-829f-8c1373e9ae43> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://principlearttalk.com/tag/leonardo-da-vinci/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323801.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628204133-20170628224133-00019.warc.gz | en | 0.954064 | 957 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Vaccines and antibiotics may someday join caloric restriction or bariatric surgery as a way to regulate weight gain, according to a new study focused on the interactions between diet, the bacteria that live in the bowel, and the immune system.
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According to Medical Base, calcified hematoma refers to the condition wherein calcium and different salts are deposited in a hematoma. Commonly called a bruise, a hematoma is the collection of blood in a specific part of the body because of an injury. When a person suffers from injury, blood vessels may be damaged, and... | <urn:uuid:0dfd7a0b-f854-44d2-ab14-8ff960d6c715> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.reference.com/health/calcified-hematoma-3c0c784f8aa7850 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128329372.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629154125-20170629174125-00099.warc.gz | en | 0.931895 | 265 | 2.890625 | 3 |
One quote I liked in particular from The Shallows was from page 63: “The natural state of the human brain, like that of the brains of most of our relatives in the animal kingdom, is one of distractedness.” A few sentences before this quote Carr wrote about how “readers didn’t just become more efficient [over time]. The... | <urn:uuid:2abef7ab-5e43-4ca0-9fe3-d66f7d53398d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://e397spring2017.wordpress.com/tag/concentration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00219.warc.gz | en | 0.969336 | 1,218 | 2.84375 | 3 |
- Think about what you want to do, and how you want to do it, before starting coding.
- Build up a program in small steps. Write a bit of code, test it to see if it works, then write the next bit. If you write a large chunks of code, it may well have several mistakes in, and the combination of mistakes will be very dif... | <urn:uuid:610bb6d3-73a3-4b61-9918-842ed76e6523> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/javascript/program.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.947093 | 619 | 3.765625 | 4 |
It is often said that American kids are not as well educated as our kids were in the past. From both sides of the political aisle we are told that the modern educational system is failing us. There is broad disagreement on how to improve the situation. While some say we need to spend more money others say we are spendi... | <urn:uuid:5a59c918-78ca-4b5d-a367-d0c2d0c1f33e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://kidsspeakforamerica.com/are-kids-dumber-today-than-in-the-past | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.981072 | 844 | 3.359375 | 3 |
This post is a part of the series An Acre of Sunshine.
Every time I pass in or out of our property I have to open and close two cattle gates as our small one lane road passes through a neighbor's pasture. If our little road saw any more traffic than it does, the road would need to be fenced out of the grassy areas besi... | <urn:uuid:f45f92f1-4a46-40b8-a3a1-f0f27cfe79b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://sunshinesaved.blogspot.ca/2017/03/food-from-land-raising-beef-cattle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.970416 | 2,986 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The Holy Eucharist is
unique among the sacraments. Even the variety of names by which it is called
emphasizes the central position which it occupies in Catholic Christianity. It
is the Blessed Sacrament, the Lords Supper, the Holy of Holies, the Table of
the Lord, the Body and Blood of Christ, the Sacrifice of the Mass... | <urn:uuid:48df9dae-048e-41e7-8308-f2da7bd973d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.therealpresence.org/essentials/sacraments/acc36.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320215.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624031945-20170624051945-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.947404 | 6,527 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Texas wild rice, a little-known cousin of the widely eaten wild rice from the cooler climes of the upper Midwest, didn`t attract much attention when it began disappearing from the earth.
And that`s unfortunate, says Donald Falk of the Center for Plant Conservation in Boston.
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Guest Author - Jeanetta Polenske
It is estimated that Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) affects about 1 in 5,000 persons worldwide. This inherited disorder results in the abnormal development of collagen that affects the joints and skin in varying degrees that range from mild symptoms to critical complications.
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Had a question come up today about a US Southern Family living in Mississippi, “When and from where did my family come from when first arriving in America?” WikiTree G2G
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Last summer, after more than a year of searching, a single piece of debris from Malaysia Airline’s MH370 aircraft was finally located on the coast of Madagascar. That flaperon was all we’ve found since MH370 vanished — until now.
Mozambique officials have confirmed that they found a piece of aircraft skin believed to h... | <urn:uuid:2592e73e-719f-46f0-8572-76c59e5b9a13> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/223961-another-piece-of-the-lost-malaysian-mh370-airliner-has-washed-ashore | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321306.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627083142-20170627103142-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.95415 | 812 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Why do some people get sick while others stay healthy? Since space shuttle Discovery launched into orbit Feb. 24, 2011, it has brought NASA scientists one step closer to helping astronauts and the public discover ways to battle and prevent serious illness and infection.
Discovery carried a six-member astronaut crew, cr... | <urn:uuid:8c1a192d-7ed0-4910-8fb8-cc1f04d718e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://gsuryalss.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/nasa-studies-the-bodys-ability-to-fight-infection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321306.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627083142-20170627103142-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.932784 | 881 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Trappe in Talbot County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Soldier from Trappe
Hopkins also helped establish an Emancipation Day celebration in Talbot County to commemorate the adoption by popular vote of the new state constitution on November 1, 1864. The new constitution abolished slavery in Maryland, ... | <urn:uuid:bb64c3df-78d2-41a0-80f3-6b754699246c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=3332 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321306.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627083142-20170627103142-00140.warc.gz | en | 0.963564 | 1,814 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Maria: It all seems unrealistic. I can't imagine that markets work in this smooth fashion.
McCloskey: real markets work more or less in accordance with the laws of demand and supply and the equilibrating system as described here.
Maria: Even if you're right, I still think that markets are terrible things. They make poo... | <urn:uuid:8a745050-dd8b-4cab-8efc-eb0f53e010a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://theeconomicconversation.com/book/ch3.4.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.959706 | 3,900 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Are you designing an artwork in Photoshop that is intended as a printing material? Are your Photoshop images printing out blurry and of poor quality?
Web, web, web but what about Print Media?
We live such a digital world that we forget that print design still a huge part of the design industry and is everywhere we look... | <urn:uuid:8e044d6d-14e8-4be0-b2cf-eb9458bc4d4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.jpdesigntheory.com/revisiting-photoshop-2-what-about-print-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.943166 | 1,620 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Mainline Customer Mike Cottee sent us a photo of a Maronite Monk that he took whilst walking the Lebanon Mountain Trail.
The Maronites are a Syriac-Christian ethnoreligious group in the Levant region. They are said to derive their name from the Syriac Aramean saint Mar Maron (Mar, the Syriac title for a Master, is used... | <urn:uuid:90b3bfbd-014d-4f70-b0f2-9554701b4f4c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://mainlinephoto.wordpress.com/tag/monks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322320.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628032529-20170628052529-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.937382 | 319 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Garuḍa Purāṇa 3
Kṛṣṇa now proceeds to elucidate on atonement of sins committed either consciously or unconsciously. As an immediate remedy one should take ten types of baths at least for a period of six years. Ten types of bath include early morning bath to taking bath in the holy river Ganges. Generally taking bath be... | <urn:uuid:c3ecda12-274d-427e-984a-a26cc4136421> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.manblunder.com/articlesview/garuda-purana-gifts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323807.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628222452-20170629002452-00300.warc.gz | en | 0.975514 | 1,112 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Although its exotic name may puzzle some consumers, agar-agar has long been known in Japan where consumption and use of algae for culinary purposes goes back centuries. The gelling substance was discovered by accident in 1658. A cook at an inn discarded some left-over gelidium seaweed soup served at dinner. It froze, t... | <urn:uuid:5eae047b-9166-47d8-bc33-22662240ac2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://molecule-r.cz/definitions/14-agar-agar-cs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320386.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625013851-20170625033851-00180.warc.gz | en | 0.949875 | 768 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered by humans. It is the largest and second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object... | <urn:uuid:b547f7cb-db5c-449b-8d7a-97c823444c03> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Pluto | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00260.warc.gz | en | 0.965707 | 299 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Thursday, 20 September 2007
One of the many colour phases of Syntherata janetta (White) (Saturniidae)
“Australia has somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 species of moths (a number comparable to the number of flowering plants)….” A quote from the recent book by Zborowski & Edwards (2007). So it’s not too bold to suggest... | <urn:uuid:af0956f6-dc76-4d03-9b4b-e087440ba871> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://bunyipco.blogspot.com/2007/09/moths.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320582.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625203122-20170625223122-00260.warc.gz | en | 0.969163 | 582 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Interior design course
Home furnishing is the art of making an environment more comfortable through furniture, light and the organisation of space.
The history of home furnishings is associated with the entire history of human beings. It is humans who create the environment and provide meaning and functionality to spac... | <urn:uuid:2ca0fffd-d207-490b-a20a-5966c55737f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.centromachiavelli.it/en/arts-and-crafts/interior-design-course.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320823.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626152050-20170626172050-00340.warc.gz | en | 0.918308 | 151 | 3.1875 | 3 |
for National Geographic News
A toxic chemical has been mostly removed from cottonseeds, potentially turning an underused agricultural product into a food source for hundreds of millions of people, according to a new study.
"The world grows cotton for fiber not for seed," said Keerti Rathore, a researcher at Texas A&M U... | <urn:uuid:866fe38b-f30f-4a9f-ad9f-1b3967e7c063> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061120-cottonseeds.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.949095 | 437 | 3.546875 | 4 |
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Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis is a condition of the hip that usually affects adolescents, where the growth plate of the thighbone becomes separated from the rest of the bone.
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) is a condition of the hip that usually affects adolescents, in which the ... | <urn:uuid:6dba8d59-06ba-4604-8d33-84a4adfb9e85> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.massgeneral.org/ortho-childrens/conditions-treatments/slipped_capital_femoral_epiphysis.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321309.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627101436-20170627121436-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.943725 | 1,454 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Who was Plato?
September 2016 - Plato was born about 429 BC, close to the time when Pericles died, and he died in 347 BC, just after the birth of Alexander the Great. Plato was born in Athens, to a very rich and powerful family. Many of his relatives were involved with Athenian politics, though Plato himself was not. A... | <urn:uuid:26870f56-8ec8-4e29-be3d-b3e26a77c67e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://quatr.us/greeks/philosophy/plato.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.986074 | 848 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Or: microaggression, and Microgramma.
At about the 3-second mark in the following video, we see an EMU police officer turn away from a black organizer and spit into the crosswalk. A moment later the camera moves past the word POLICE emblazoned on the side of a law enforcement vehicle.
A white person spitting in the pre... | <urn:uuid:7cb81e89-8506-477d-a5c9-e8bd6b3dfa23> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://radicalwashtenaw.org/2015/06/20/spitting-and-squadcar-typography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.929573 | 234 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Space has become an extension of the capitalist project. Not that it should surprise anybody. The market, when allowed, has a tendency to be all-consuming, and allowing the Russians the sole means of supplying the international space station was not a situation those at NASA would have tolerated indefinitely. In 2006, ... | <urn:uuid:db409b86-7306-4c4c-ae4e-c75a772de111> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/25/nasa-and-private-enterprise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322870.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628050821-20170628070821-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.950084 | 727 | 2.609375 | 3 |
WASHINGTON — Economists dismayed by the debt-ceiling pyrotechnics on Capitol Hill and at the White House say that political leaders' failure to deal with the short-term crisis bodes poorly for their ability to confront another looming fiscal disaster.
And the problem is compounded, many economists say, by how the Unite... | <urn:uuid:84f6dc34-3c55-4d03-998b-8a2655872860> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/economy/article24683506.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00219.warc.gz | en | 0.960132 | 1,105 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Are we in the midst of a new golden age of capitalism or the biggest asset bubble in history?
Frankly, nobody can tell for sure. All we can realistically do is to assign probabilities to the two outcomes. Or, perhaps not even that. In its new annual report published on 27 June, the Bank of International Settlements (BI... | <urn:uuid:c1f59914-eb8c-40e9-a8a7-9fb730017bef> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/tPbP560a42ee8Fu3uhVnbO/Threat-from-ponzi-finance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00300.warc.gz | en | 0.958506 | 1,008 | 2.515625 | 3 |
With this method they were able to gauge the power, temperature and duration of the ablation, and to monitor the development of lesions and other potential complications that may result from ablation. The study, involving 152 patients who underwent left atrial ablation for AF, is the first to identify the esophagus and... | <urn:uuid:fac19176-289e-4bd1-b341-d6744129fe21> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.medica-tradefair.com/cgi-bin/md_medica/lib/pub/tt.cgi/Risk_of_Esophageal_Injury_Reduced.html?oid=19011&lang=2&ticket=g_u_e_s_t | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320063.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623133357-20170623153357-00300.warc.gz | en | 0.947075 | 346 | 2.796875 | 3 |
We all would like to loose a few unwanted pounds this month. With the fad diets out there we think we know what will help us lose weight but then we gain it all back again. Why do those pounds come back?
In our culture we are faced with the ease of fast food in our busy on-the-go lifestyle. Why not, it’s easier, right?... | <urn:uuid:f98afc25-dd9a-4855-8e55-ca28cf03d14a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://healthwitherin.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/top-5-foods-to-avoid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320243.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624082900-20170624102900-00380.warc.gz | en | 0.961494 | 896 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The Civil Rights Act 1964
On May 2, 1963, many Americans watched in horror as live news televised images of white officials attacking hundreds of African American marchers with dogs, nightsticks, and fire hoses. After seeing the violent tactics used against mostly peaceful demonstrators, the public demanded action. Tha... | <urn:uuid:9b95007c-47ee-41ac-9f96-7e4f42755353> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://recordsofrights.org/events/144/the-civil-rights-act | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320395.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625032210-20170625052210-00460.warc.gz | en | 0.953907 | 135 | 4.0625 | 4 |
Thanks to the constant snowfall this winter, kids have been unsupervised in their own homes quite often. If you have seen Home Alone, you know that danger lurks inside the home for unsupervised adolescents. General home safety concerns for kids are similar to those for the rest of the family.
Here are some guidelines:
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In The Power Of Peak State, one concept that I describe is the idea of self-actualization. If you are familiar with psychology or self-help literature, you may have heard this term before, but if you have not, it is an important concept to grasp in order to understand peak state.
The term “self-actualization” originate... | <urn:uuid:a4e5d4b0-5aca-4881-a2ad-5a2f06dadff1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.thepowerofpeakstate.com/blog/personal-development-books/what-is-self-actualization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.971915 | 698 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Learning English can be fun and also done in your home. The web is filled with "English as a Second Language" (ESL) educational sites. Many of these sites help students to learn through activities, games, songs, quizzes, puzzles and other similar types of learning tools. Variety and fun can really help to keep both a s... | <urn:uuid:726f4426-a6f5-4c13-b7be-2239840136f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.sofasandsectionals.com/esl-learning-resources | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.967519 | 134 | 2.625 | 3 |
The reciprocal meter is the standard unit of wave number for electromagnetic field s (EM fields). In terms of International Units ( SI ), the reciprocal meter is equal to m -1 . The wave number is the number of complete wave cycles that exist in a linear span of 1 meter (m).
At the speed of light in free space, 2.99792... | <urn:uuid:f30285d7-758d-4b1a-942f-867833359238> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/reciprocal-meter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320841.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626170406-20170626190406-00620.warc.gz | en | 0.915851 | 343 | 4.03125 | 4 |
More on global warming
From CNN today:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melting of glaciers in the Patagonian ice fields of southern
Argentina and Chile has doubled in recent years, caused by higher temperatures,
lower snowfall and a more rapid breaking of icebergs, a study suggests.
. . . .
The researchers concluded that the Patago... | <urn:uuid:e07a1c46-f5e8-470a-acb5-d28bc64e9731> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://technopolis.blogspot.com/2003/10/more-on-global-warming-from-cnn-today.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00060.warc.gz | en | 0.894664 | 167 | 2.78125 | 3 |
NITROGENNitrogen is instrumental in increase leaf and stem growth, as well as the plant's dark green color. Nitrogen also influences the crispness and quality of leaves as well as quick early growth in the spring.
NITROGEN--DEFICIENCYDeficiency symptoms include a yellowing of foliage or a light green-yellow overall col... | <urn:uuid:4b89f9dc-ed94-4d22-9ce2-2cdf6440222a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://garden-services.com/nitrogen.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.949062 | 98 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Bacon's Castle (1676-1677) - A house seized and fortified by rebels in 1676 during Bacon's Rebellion in present day Surry County, Virginia. Recaptured later in 1676 by U.S. Sailors and abandoned as a fortification early in 1677.
Bacon's Castle History
Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon seized and fortified the house of Major... | <urn:uuid:30dfe01d-0a36-493e-8442-fd9d13524e14> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.fortwiki.com/Bacon%27s_Castle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.971011 | 210 | 2.859375 | 3 |
In order to achieve effective observation, these are the guidelines which need to be followed:
- The objective/focus of your observation is to get as much detail (thick description) as possible.
- Avoid making a summary/evaluation when observing.
- Record what you see and what you hear – focus on the events/activities,... | <urn:uuid:62ceadfe-1528-4893-9b01-0b06dc1d79db> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://idtech.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/phxd7102protocol-for-observation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.988149 | 906 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Most Americans support government action to combat the effects of global warming and will likely vote for candidates who put forth a promising stance on environmental issues, a new poll has found.
The telephone poll — conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group ... | <urn:uuid:667d55a8-4013-42d1-b970-b7212d91ff39> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://manwiththemuckrake.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/americans-will-vote-for-climate-loving-politicians-new-poll-suggests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.954045 | 249 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Ten student interns at the Long Beach Unified School District’s California Academy for Mathematics and Science, (CAMS) High School will be building prototypes of the 2020 Mars Rover with STEAM++ director Bob Barboza and physicists, John Davis. This is part of the Occupy Mars Learning Adventure project-based learning an... | <urn:uuid:6354afd3-1c21-4945-a95f-287e0b10dfaa> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://occupymars.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/listening-to-mars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.894749 | 192 | 3.125 | 3 |
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to peer into history
BY CRAIG COVAULT
Posted: May 21, 2009
Factors of time and distance have obscured from view the winners and losers that remain across one of the great battlegrounds of the Cold War - the Moon.
Those interfering veils are about to be lifted by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ... | <urn:uuid:4a853543-4f3a-4a2d-ad18-5fe5e90645e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av020/090521imaging.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320070.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623151757-20170623171757-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.939128 | 1,943 | 3.0625 | 3 |
“Every year, 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted by consumers and retailers around the world. This is more than the net total food production of Sub-Saharan Africa, and enough to feed the estimated 900 million people hungry in the world, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization. In the U.S. alone, abo... | <urn:uuid:b5fc4391-3456-4c96-a335-86eaae665e04> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://wonderplanetx.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/whats-being-done-to-fight-the-worlds-food-waste-problem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00660.warc.gz | en | 0.957182 | 150 | 3.03125 | 3 |
In late 2015, the world first met Homo naledi, a newly discovered human-like species that was found deep within a South African cave.
On Tuesday, a follow-up study dating the bones was published in eLIFE, and the results were nothing short of astounding. Dating showed that the fossils were in fact much more recent than... | <urn:uuid:6f1d9f17-7c67-4e81-b6a4-929464ceb862> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.inverse.com/article/31369-homo-naledi-human-ancestor-ape-evolution-south-africa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00660.warc.gz | en | 0.960658 | 892 | 3.640625 | 4 |
- Maths Questions in UGC-NET/JRF 2017 exam
- Data Interpretation in UGC NET exam: How to prepare?
- RC Passage: literature, partition and great war
- In NET exam, UGC asks hardly 1 or 2 MCQs from basic maths. [and 6 from DI, 6 from RC and ~10 from reasoning]
- Unlike other competitive exams, in UGC you don’t have to pr... | <urn:uuid:bc10707a-547f-4641-8e2f-7cebf168e0e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://mrunal.org/2017/01/answerkey-ugc-net-maths-data-interpretation-reading-comprehension.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320443.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625064745-20170625084745-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.901239 | 2,629 | 2.59375 | 3 |
ATLANTA, June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The first day of summer brings warmer temperatures and more time outdoors; unfortunately, that also means you are more likely to get stung by fire ants, bees and wasps and bitten by mosquitoes. As you barbecue with friends or work in your garden, watch out for the following insect... | <urn:uuid:c5d37802-3890-43c5-9b84-d13ea385cc03> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dont-let-pests-ruin-your-summer-fun-159240945.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.954764 | 1,117 | 2.78125 | 3 |
How polar bears got their white coat remains a scientific mystery, but newly published research suggests a way they could turn brown again.
One of the study’s authors says that’s what might eventually happen to some groups of modern bears as climate change alters their habitat.
“It’s not something that happened in the ... | <urn:uuid:3d30aa8c-4d51-4200-9e8b-0da5d7ddfb53> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/03/14/polar_bears_could_turn_brown_as_climate_changes_geneticist_says.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.964217 | 849 | 4.03125 | 4 |
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J. Clin. Med. 2014, 3(1), 167-175; doi:10.3390/jcm3010167
Abstract: It has now been over 50 years since it was discovered that Down syndrome is caused by an extra chromosome 21, i.e., trisomy 21. In the interim, it has become clear that in the majority of cases, the extra chromosome is inherited from... | <urn:uuid:2ba12381-77db-4a9a-b96e-07db3976bebd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/3/1/167/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00180.warc.gz | en | 0.906587 | 5,067 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento Field Office released June 25, 2012.
The week of June 18 began with near to above normal temperatures statewide under the influence of high pressure.
A long-lived, low-pressure trough pattern developed for Northern and Cen... | <urn:uuid:7cd78240-feae-451f-9def-719e7263fc22> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.westernfarmpress.com/vegetables/california-crop-weather-plant-development-course | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00180.warc.gz | en | 0.95862 | 686 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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To learn about the physical characteristics of this vast geographical area.
KNOWLEDGE TYPE: declarative, procedural
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:to learn about and understand the physical characteristics of America as a... | <urn:uuid:9abe171c-a635-4fca-a44a-e659bee64418> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://didactalia.net/comunidad/materialeducativo/recurso/physical-characteristics-of-the-american-continent/3d94f61b-34a2-48f6-8516-72f551804106 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00260.warc.gz | en | 0.739831 | 222 | 2.96875 | 3 |
BALI – This month’s international meeting in Bali will set a framework that will attempt to prevent the impending disaster of global warming/climate change. There is now little doubt that greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are leading to significant changes in climate. Nor is there doubt that these changes will ... | <urn:uuid:17ed5fda-8663-48e1-a777-19466e88e299> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/showdown-in-bali | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321458.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627152510-20170627172510-00260.warc.gz | en | 0.953375 | 1,034 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Strategic management is a critical factor in lifting organisational performance – the way we lead operate and make decisions. By effectively managing risk, utilising data and making well-informed and intentional resourcing decisions you can enhance the delivery and impact of your school strategic plan.
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see also: social entrepreneurship
A social enterprise is essentially an organisation that trades in the market, but aims to do more than make a financial profit; instead, it devotes the profit it makes towards a social objective.
The search for an "original" definition
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We’ve a new study this week, appearing in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation that looks at the survivability of OHCA (Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests) with non-shockable rhythms utilizing the new CPR guidelines that stress chest compressions.
Non-shockable cardiac arrest arrhythmias are asystole (flat... | <urn:uuid:df69d805-e4dd-4e9b-87ed-6e6a937bc127> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2012/04/survivability-of-non-shockable-rhythms.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323870.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629051817-20170629071817-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.887736 | 984 | 2.578125 | 3 |
If you're looking to photograph a polar bear hopping sea ice floes on your next summer cruise, you better hurry because in 30 years, the Arctic Ocean could be free of ice.
Simulating the climate with computer models, researchers analyzed how global warming could affect sea-ice in the future.
The results, published in t... | <urn:uuid:45dae93d-d53e-4112-b19d-bc97059d9608> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/12/11/arctic-summers-could-be-ice-free-by-2040.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323870.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629051817-20170629071817-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.94063 | 425 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Remote-controlled quadrotor robots have been around for some time, but in the following video just released by a research team at the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, science fiction edges much closer to science fact as a swarm of the Nano Quadrotors perform... | <urn:uuid:dc6c1143-902d-4c8e-99ec-3185003a1d6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://newatlas.com/grasp-nano-quadrotor-robots-swarm/21302/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319933.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622234435-20170623014435-00059.warc.gz | en | 0.886261 | 304 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Recently in the news, an incident made headlines when a mother sent home an official itemized bill to the family of a child who missed her child’s party. Apparently, the family failed to notify the hosts that their plans had changed and their son would be missing the party. Granted, there was a lot of miscommunication ... | <urn:uuid:9340a6e5-8ac9-4bc7-95bf-e7dc2a0e42ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://bluenavyroses.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319933.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622234435-20170623014435-00059.warc.gz | en | 0.945662 | 646 | 2.703125 | 3 |
On 13th April 2010, Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law, Senate Bill 690, making Maryland the first US state to legally recognise a new corporate entity, the ‘Benefit Corporation’. While traditional corporation’s primary purpose is dictated by its fiduciary duty to shareholders, which means maximising s... | <urn:uuid:0f5b3bee-5281-4842-831c-f6cb10721ca9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.futurepolicy.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00220.warc.gz | en | 0.932322 | 188 | 2.5625 | 3 |
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), could be used to test the principles behind hyperdrive, a possible future form of spacecraft propulsion that could drive spacecraft at a good fraction of the speed of light.
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If you're hiking around Cincinnati on a warm sunny day and spot a lizard scurrying over rock walls or rocky slopes, it's likely to be the non-native European wall lizard (Podarcis muralis). However, if you ask a Cincinnatian to identify the lizard, they will most likely call it the "Lazarus lizard."
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Newswise — During the past decade, the gut has experienced a renaissance as investigations focus on the role of the microbiome on human health. While most studies have focused on bacteria, the dominant microbial inhabitants in the gut, scientists at University of Utah Health Sciences used mouse studies to show the role... | <urn:uuid:c5440592-55d3-4ec3-ab64-7e95ac31ef7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://newswise.com/articles/common-yeast-may-worsen-ibd-symptoms-in-crohn-s-disease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00460.warc.gz | en | 0.949325 | 930 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation has created a series of interactive anti-bias workshops called Why We Bully. Each workshop helps educators better understand the bias behind bias-based bullying incidents.
All Why We Bully training participants will be provided relevant materials to incorporate into their schools.
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Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות), meaning Tabernacles, is the autumnal 'foot festival' in which the Jews are commanded to leave their permanent houses and to dwell in booths for seven days. The idea behind this is to remember that the Israelites lived in booths in the Wilderness for forty years. Additionally, when the Temple sto... | <urn:uuid:e7f535e9-7d64-4048-bb3e-a8a649add309> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://calendar.wincalendar.net/Sukkot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321497.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627170831-20170627190831-00540.warc.gz | en | 0.960919 | 784 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Newswise — NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mosquitos are involuntary bioterrorists. For many years scientists thought that mosquitoes provided the disease organisms which they spread with a relatively free ride because the insects didn’t have much in the way of natural defenses to fight off these microscopic stowaways.
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At the early time when radios used antennas to transmiss as well as receive signals, it's probably not common to see such gadgets in use. In the era of internet, mainstream technology offers us real-time options to communicate with one another on computers via the internet as well as enjoy listening to news and music s... | <urn:uuid:e8034f0b-0037-4c08-8a31-f5d5aa477576> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://radio.ezinemark.com/tuning-radio-antenna-to-receive-signals-better-51089297586.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323889.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629070237-20170629090237-00700.warc.gz | en | 0.951496 | 407 | 3.265625 | 3 |
"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."—Albert Einstein
"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most va... | <urn:uuid:42b98133-b4f5-4ee4-8f7f-50e2431e1140> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Useful_Notes/India | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00339.warc.gz | en | 0.94864 | 2,027 | 3.5 | 4 |
Charles II, James II and the Revolution of 1688-9
When the Convention Parliament met in March 1660 there was still some doubt about what action it would take to settle the country, and what influence the army under General Monck would have. It quickly decided, though, that the government of the country should be by ‘ki... | <urn:uuid:9f0d8498-00a5-4f0e-a75f-502cce80fa1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://historyofparliamentonline.org.dedi436.your-server.de/research/parliaments/parliaments-1660-1690 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.979577 | 891 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Ali Usman Qasmi
On May 28, 2010, in Lahore, Pakistan, armed men opened indiscriminate fire at worshippers offering Friday prayers. They killed about 100 people. After media outlets broke the news of this gruesome act of violence against ‘Muslims’ offering namaz in a ‘mosque,’ an outpouring of grief and condemnation fol... | <urn:uuid:b8182819-4f4c-4090-b46a-ade2357a440a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/pakistans-ahmadi-religious-minority-attacked-impoverished-and-ghettoized | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00500.warc.gz | en | 0.963433 | 2,511 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Monday, November 1, 2010
Lesser Rattlesnake Orchis (Goodyera repens)
The Lesser Rattlesnake Orchis, Goodyera repens does not grow in Washington, but in the northwest reaches the southern limit of its range in British Columbia. Further east it grows as far south as the Appalachian Mountains, and is widespread, growing i... | <urn:uuid:faab742f-e128-4f10-80de-21db978938db> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://nativeorchidsofthepacificnorthwest.blogspot.com/2012/08/lesser-rattlesnake-orchis-goodyera.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.97356 | 283 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Lester Flatt Bluegrass & White County Heritage Museum
An amazing trove of local history including a special section for the granddaddy of bluegrass, Lester Flatt. Learn about the Revolutionary War Soldier, surveyor, and frontiersman, John White, whom the county is named for. See artifacts from the many water-wheel powe... | <urn:uuid:6025adc9-368b-445d-9b65-f109e01b8ffb> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.exploresparta.com/museums/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.968097 | 544 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Published Online: July 29, 2013
Numerous studies showed that number of siblings are a protective factor for allergy. Over the years, many potential causal factors, underlying this so-called “sibling effect,” have been presented ranging from in utero programming to childhood infections. In a recent article published in ... | <urn:uuid:4d70c4d9-e1a2-41bf-b443-5398e047290d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.aaaai.org/global/latest-research-summaries/Current-JACI-Research/hygiene-hypothesis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320489.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625101427-20170625121427-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.934041 | 327 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Southern exposures feature direct sunlight for most of the day. This intense exposure creates a microclimate that requires gardeners to select flowers tolerant of the heat associated with direct sun. These full-sun locations often feature very few wind blocks. Flowers for southern exposures need to be tough. Provide pl... | <urn:uuid:ab2a7c09-c1f7-42a7-acd5-1b5d27fa8b14> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/122709-flowers-southern-exposure.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320679.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626050425-20170626070425-00660.warc.gz | en | 0.894261 | 466 | 2.96875 | 3 |
It’s official: New York City is stuck for the next decade with the U.S. Census Bureau’s population count of fewer than 8.2 million, now that the bureau has rejected Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s appeal asserting that enumerators had missed at least 50,000 New Yorkers.
Bloomberg submitted the appeal last August, and his adm... | <urn:uuid:634cf71a-8ba7-4693-990e-5886642f6ae2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2012/04/02/the-daily-q-how-does-miscounting-census-population-numbers-affect-federal-aid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320887.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627013832-20170627033832-00020.warc.gz | en | 0.938021 | 579 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Ferrochromium, also known as Ferrochrome, is an alloy of iron and chromium containing 50 to 70% of chromium. It is produced by electric arc melting of chromium ore and chromite. Ferrochromium is consumed extensively in the manufacturing of steel to achieve the qualities such as corrosion resistance, tensile strength, h... | <urn:uuid:7167dbfd-27af-4f7d-a520-592ea7eac21f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.persistencemarketresearch.com/market-research/ferrochromium-market.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321553.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627203405-20170627223405-00100.warc.gz | en | 0.931421 | 703 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Denisovans were a now extinct species of humans that were contemporaries of Neanderthal and that lived in a range from Siberia to Southeast Asia. Their genome has now been completely sequenced and, among other things, reveals that they had brown hair, brown eyes and dark skin. It also reveals that they interbred with N... | <urn:uuid:87cb3316-3c82-424d-986d-bf43657a5fe1> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://atheistnexus.org/group/originsuniverselifehumankindanddarwin/forum/topics/denisovans-had-brown-hair-brown-eyes-and-dark-skin?page=2&commentId=2182797%3AComment%3A2054746&x=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00180.warc.gz | en | 0.970528 | 1,751 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Selective Listening Explainedposted by Anna Mar, May 30, 2013
What is it?Conventional wisdom says that the goal of listening is to fully understand what someone is saying.
In practice, people don't always fully listen.
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Joel Chandler Harris’s Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
by Robin Bernstein
This essay is adapted from Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011)
Joel Chandler Harris, one of slavery’s most effective and influential apologists,
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Lava that is almost as free-flowing as water and, when it cools down, as pale as limestone: the Ol Doinyo Lengai in northern Tanzania is the only active volcano in the world that produces so-called carbonatite lava. Unlike conventional lava, the majority of this lava consists not of molten silicates but of molten carbo... | <urn:uuid:0185d31c-1742-430c-82ef-3c4dd6bfba2d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.geologypage.com/2015/02/carbonates-make-diamonds-grow-in-the-earths-mantle.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319992.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623031127-20170623051127-00619.warc.gz | en | 0.922567 | 1,025 | 3.953125 | 4 |
Originally posted on Brain Pickings.
At Christmas time in 1944, more than a decade after the resounding success of Brave New World Aldous Huxley (July, 26 1894–November 22, 1963) penned his one and only children’s book, The Crows of Pearblossom (public library) — the story of Mr. and Mrs. Crow, whose eggs never hatch b... | <urn:uuid:752dd138-6718-40d5-9542-463de728d7e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://acesalesnews.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/gorgeous-vintage-and-modern-illustrations-from-aldous-huxleys-only-childrens-book-brain-pickings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319992.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623031127-20170623051127-00619.warc.gz | en | 0.950747 | 215 | 2.828125 | 3 |
One of the principles behind St. Ann Elementary School’s success is letting students take the lead. When framing the school’s strategy, Principal Theresa Tillinger is careful to articulate what the school avoids doing. They do not over-structure, over-guide, or over-prescribe. In fact, Tillinger describes the teacher’s... | <urn:uuid:eab7ffc4-209b-419d-baa8-c04c6db9ff98> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.changemakerschools.org/profiles/2016/2/1/st-ann-academy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320201.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623220935-20170624000935-00700.warc.gz | en | 0.952331 | 181 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Canada, the United States and Mexico are adjacent coastal nations where the impact of significantly increased human activity in the coastal zone by the year 2050 will be potentially catastrophic. Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) may well have a role to play within and between all three countries to help ameliorate t... | <urn:uuid:2d49a301-5739-433b-941b-0a090d7411ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://digitalcommons.mainelaw.maine.edu/oclj/vol9/iss2/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00060.warc.gz | en | 0.897307 | 274 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Protein is one of the main ingredients in dog food, such as chicken, fish and beef, and provides amino acids essential for proper growth and development. As dogs age, their protein needs change. Your veterinarian is important when determining what level of protein is necessary for each stage of your dog’s life.
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