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Extract: When the priests were gathered for 'the first lot' in the 'Hall of Polished Stones,' as yet only the earliest glow of morning light streaked the Eastern sky. Much had to be done before the lamb itself could be slain. It was a law that, as no sacrifice might be brought after that of the evening, nor after th... | web |
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The ULTIMATE Guide to Lose Weight & Build Muscle
Step 2: What do I want to achieve?
There are countless types of training methods, but they can be divided into two very generic categories:
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Habitats and Niches in an Ecosystem
A lesson and worksheet on habitats and niches in an ecosystem.
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LENGYEL, JÓZSEF (1896–1975), Hungarian author and poet, born in Marcali. Lengyel's poetic talents were first discovered in the modernist periodical, A Tett ("The Deed"). In 1918 he was one of the founders of the Hungarian Communist Party, and was arrested by the revolutionary authorities of the Károlyi regime before th... | web |
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The country of Tuvalu is a tiny group of atolls in the middle of the Pacific. It's one of the lowest lying, smallest, and most isolated countries on earth.
There are no natural resources, there is little infrastructure and virtually n... | web |
First Pass: What’s Wrong with the Grand Challenges for Engineering
October 11, 2010 by Daniel W. Rasmus
At the risk of committing more over-thinking of the Grand Challenges for Engineering, I want to take a first pass at discussing what I think is wrong with them in a very specific way, and honing the list into somet... | web |
A Bad Break- Compound Fractures: May 1, 2013
The reaction from fellow Louisville basketball players spoke volumes about the gruesome nature of Kevin Ware’s leg injury. During an NCAA play-off round, he snapped his right leg in two. A bad break for the ballplayer.
“I sympathize with him and his players, but I think th... | web |
Risk factors for having an allergic reaction to sunlight depend on your particular condition. These include:
• Race. Anyone can have a sun allergy, but certain sun allergies are most common in people of certain racial backgrounds. For example, the most common type of sun allergy (polymorphic light eruption) occurs m... | web |
Man vs. Markets: Simplifying the language of Wall Street
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Anyone at any age can have a drinking problem . Great Uncle George may have always liked his liquor, so his family may not see that his drinking behavior is getting worse as he gets older. Grandma Betty was a t... | web |
What are RSS Feeds?
There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people use 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.
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6 Using the Pick Data Type
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This chapter describes the cxPick data type and how to use it in the IRIS Explorer environment. It defines the data type and describes how you can use it to write modules that read or write pick data. This is a specialized data type and requires a fairly sophistic... | web |
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Artist's rendering of a newfound solar system shows a planet resembling Jupiter (middle) and one about the size of Saturn (middle right). Both planets orbit a star that is about half the size of our sun.
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Auto Insurance and Traffic Fatalities
"No-fault limits on driver liability in an accident, by diminishing the possibility of being sued, increase fatalities by about 10 percent."
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Shake It! How Dogs, Cats, Even Hummingbirds Keep Dry
They don't have towels. So when they get wet, what do they do? They shake themselves into a frenzy and the water flies off like this:
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1An organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league: a confederation of trade unions
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Job Sprawl and Commuting Times
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Scientists clash over BPA: Do low doses really harm people?
Are people exposed to doses of bisphenol A in their canned foods and other consumer products that can harm them? Or are the amounts too low to cause any harm? This is the crux of a vehement debate that is being waged as federal officials are trying to decide ... | web |
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Hamm may allude to "Hamlet," making Hamm something of a raving prince who will ultimately bring about his own destruction. (Read more about Hamlet here.) It may also suggest the "ham," someone who is loud, silly, and o... | web |
Pure Genius
Q&A: Christopher Chabris, psychology professor, on everyday illusions
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Chabris explains how we can be oblivious to things that later seem obvious -- and why people who think they're funny have the worst sense of humor.
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Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a four-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter in Daytona Beach, Florida, appeared on New Year's Eve - staggering, weak and emaciated - in a backyard about one kilometre from the Richters' house in West Palm Beach.
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Ok, so the U.S. Constitution does not provide employees with a cause of action against employers for sex discrimination. But Title VII for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does. And so do laws in all states and many large cities.
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Musical frequencies that blow your mind
Forget about iDosing, Rob Fitzpatrick finds some serious uses for ultra-low frequencies
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Volume 4 | Issue 1 | Feb 2013
More of Less: Juliet Schor Calls for a More Conscious Lifestyle
Schor has written extensively on Americans’ relationship to work, including her bestseller, The Overworked American. Her most recent book is True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans are creating a time-rich, ecologic... | web |
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While this potential origin of the word news seems plausible enough, it isn’t true. The truth is, the word news can be traced back to late Middle English around the 14th century as a plural for the adjective “new” or “new thing”. This is a somewhat rare instance of an English adjective becoming a noun when... | web |
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Though mostly unfounded and unfair, plastics take a lot of “hits” in some environmental circles. It seems that castigating plastics as being bad for the environment is the “thing to do”. However, when you look into many of the ... | web |
Your Friday morning health roundup:
Tick illness: Researchers have discovered a new disease spread by the same deer tick that spreads Lyme disease. The unnamed bacterial illness causes flu-like symptoms, such as fever and fatigue, and is treatable with antibiotics. It's the fifth human illness linked to deer ticks com... | web |
Today's video games boast near photo-realistic graphics, enveloping surround sound and the ability to play against anyone, anywhere in the world.
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Introduction to Music Paper Topics
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Ladybugs Obsession
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Ladybugs a very beneficial group of insects and they can really help you control pests in your garden. They have round, often spotted bodies, and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing cove... | web |
Setting Up Your Budget
In Dutch it’s “begroting,” in Spanish, “presupuesto,” and the Germans say “haushaltsplan” (which make the most sense, as in “How Shalt YOU plan? In any language, we either love or hate the word and the idea of it. But if you have no idea where your money goes, you are bound to end up in deep t... | web |
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‘Solar Tunnel’ To Power 4,000 Trains Annually
Europe’s first “solar tunnel” is providing power to high-speed trains running between Paris and Amsterdam.
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When you wish upon a shooting star…it’s probably a meteoroid
Perseid Meteor 8/12/08
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The Perseid Meteor Showers, which occur every year around this date, are caused by the comet Swift-Tuttle. The comet itself was discovered in 1862, and could be seen again with binocu... | web |
Thrills in Laying Deep-Sea Cable Across the Atlantic (Jan, 1924)
Neal Stephenson wrote a huge travelogue for Wired in 1995 where he followed the progress of a new world girding fiber optic network being constructed. Along the way explores every aspect of the process and history behind laying communications cables unde... | web |
Why the 2,776 NSA Violations Are No Big Deal
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Nullification: The Natural Way to Grow the Economy
So often, when some people think of Nullification, they think of a formal process involving a smaller government or individual taking action by producing documents, or sending requests, or petitioning to ... | web |
The Cautionary Instruction: U.S. Supreme Court examines bright-line mental disability rule
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Early embryo formation described in Nature, vol 449, 1049, 25 October 2007. Biologists at University College London, UK and University of Virginia, USA, have studied the process where a single layer of cells forms into three layers during the earl... | web |
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Distinguishing features Agile draft horse breed. Mostly gray or black. Clean-limbed, powerful and docile.
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In the past few decades it has become much rarer for the poor to move themselves out of poverty. From the LA Times:
The ability to go from poor to rich — or at least to climb out of poverty — has become much harder to do in the last three decades, according to an analysis by Wells Fargo Securities. The percentage of l... | web |
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On "Emancipation, the Cold War, and Hidden Themes of History"
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I would like to challenge Michael Dobbs's claim, cited in Perspectives on History (March 2013), that President Truman attempted to follow the policies of FDR until his experience with Stalin led him to a hard... | web |
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This week-long institute is designed for middle school and high school teachers of mathematics and science. The institute introduces the concept of the Internet, provides models for the use of networked resources in teaching, and guides teachers in the development of a computer-based learning modul... | web |
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Why virtual dogs make better friends than virtual cats
How do virtual dogs fit into the larger world of computer-canine interaction? Matt Novak over at Smithsonian has been doing a deep exegesis of The Jetsons because why not. On the introduction of Astro, the robot dog, Novak makes a salient point on why we need robo... | web |
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Falkland Islands Waralso called Falklands War, Malvinas War, or South Atlantic Wara brief , undeclared war fought between Argentina and Great Britain in 1982 over the control of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and associated island dependencies.
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Sevillaconventional Seville, ancient Hispaliscity, capital of the provincia (province) of Sevilla, in the Andalusia comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of southern Spain. Sevilla lies on the left (east) bank of the Guadalquivir River at a point about 54 miles (87 km) north of the Atlantic Ocean and about 340 mile... | web |
Merriman, John full John Xavier Merriman ( born March 15, 1841 , Street, Somerset, Eng.—died Aug. 1, 1926 , near Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa ) statesman who served South Africa as prime minister of the Cape Colony from 1908 to 1910.
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The storage of knowledge is related to consciousness.
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The FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office have set up a new hotline to solicit the public's help in identifying and targeting public corruption - (888) 722-1225
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Chromosomes Born of Broken DNA
We inherit our genes thanks partly to DNA "handles" called centromeres that help a cell gently pry apart pairs of chromosomes, allowing them to be passed on to a daughter cell. Now scientists for the first time have witnessed a fragment from a damaged chromosome somehow sprout a centrome... | web |
Scientists' theories make good movies
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Regarding "River has no bearing on tornadoes, scientist says" (News, June2): I have less faith in scientists than I do wives tales, folklore and legends. Many times scientific claims are far more outrageous and unbelievable than those things. In the 1970s ... | web |
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Economist magazine wants more spent to verify safety of nanoparticles
The Economist has a lengthy article that suggests that more money and effort should be sent to verify the safety of nanoparticles.
America already spends the most on EHS (environmental health and safety) research into nanotechnol... | web |
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In about 7 Billion years our planed will be consumed by the ever-growing sun, life would have become extinct long before that. That means that in several hundred thousand years we have a deadline to either:
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I had an idea to use 2D images to extract data about wind velocity from raindrops. (Determining Wind Velocity from Images of Raindrops) which inspires me to ask this question.
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I’m trying to convince my boss that the mixers we are using are too much. I’m trying to prove that we are over-mixing our product. Our product is ink…just your basic ink found in your printer at home. We mix in a 23 inch diameter 50 gallon vessel using a 2.75 inch diameter axial flow impeller ... | web |
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Coolness alert: Dinosaur Locomotion
How did the dinos walk or run has often been depicted on the big screen, but never with much thought to accuracy. Now a couple of researchers have applied a degree of scientific rigor to the question and published their results in the journal Nature:
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And the Rebbe of Nemirov, every Friday morning early at Sliches-time, disappeared, melted into thin air! He was not to be found anywhere, either in the synagogue or in the two houses-of-study, or worshipping in some Minyan, and most certainly not at home. His door stood open, people w... | web |
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I really like using ClassNames and memberNames as convention but I am not sure how I would name the file containing a class.
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Guava a genus of tropical herbs and small trees. The common guava, native to tropical regions of North and South America, reaches a height of 30 feet (9 m). It has greenish-brown bark, large oblong leaves, and small white flowers. The fruit is spherical or pear-shaped and is 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) in diameter. It h... | web |
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Guest editorial: Time to consider open source alternatives to Oracle?
This die-hard Oracle fan is seriously considering open source alternatives such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
There are a lot of us who consider working with Oracle a higher calling. I for one have spent the last 20 years of my life with Oracle. But hav... | web |
Volume III, No. 4, Summer 1976
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Drawings by Emery Savage, Interviews by Danny Hough, Donna Scott, Teresa Maddux and Terry Brandt
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So the way people talk about Charlie Parker, for example, is so reductive and it sort of misses the point a lot of times in terms of what his real discoveries were and how creative he was with the fundamentals of music. People reduce it to a system of licks that get plugged in various places, and it wasn't at all that.... | web |
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The startling discovery was made by a team of scientists working in one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines at Cerrejon in La Guajira, Colombia.
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How to Cook a Wolf
By M.F.K Fisher
Book Review by Mike Dresser
“You can buy a cheap cut, of course, like a round-bone steak, and have the butcher run it through a fantastic little electric machine called a Tender-Lux or some such thing. Then it comes out looking all nibbled, and supposedly tasting like the finest T-... | web |
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A Wall Street Trader watches a stock market crash.
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A stock market crash can create a bear market, which is when stocks fall 20% or more.
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Black Tuesday
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Proxy Services Aren't Just For Hackers
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.. _usersGuide_03_pitches: User's Guide, Chapter 3: Pitches, Durations, and Notes again ============================================================= Now that you've made a couple of `Note` objects, it's time to dig a little deeper into what makes a `Note` really a `Note`, namely, :ref:`modulePitch`, and :ref:`moduleDu... | web |
From the Wall Street Journal:
Fast-growing emerging nations are taking increasingly aggressive actions to beat back rising food prices as they grow more worried of threats to stability if prices don't start to retreat.
Developing-market governments have unveiled a laundry list of measures—including price caps, export... | web |
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