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news & tips
A collection of helpful articles on teachers and teaching
On Sept. 18, Ted Mitchell, president of the California Board of Education, published an article in the San Jose Mercury News advocating the repeal of a 2006 law that prevents the state from using student performance data to evaluate teachers. It seem... | <urn:uuid:da5cc991-3983-4827-8fb0-60ea60911a51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lessonplanspage.com/student-performance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961276 | 329 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Not only is the design beautiful, but I feel I must point out a few details that make this a real masterpiece. First, that pool is not a chemical laden bath it is in fact a natural pond-pool, which means that rather than using chlorine or other chemicals to keep the water clean and pure, the filtration system is natura... | <urn:uuid:14f5643b-d551-4675-a097-ad3997de575d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/garden-before-after-carolyns-pretty-cologne-garden-the-gardenist-169104?img_idx=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961756 | 453 | 1.609375 | 2 |
3D printers: We want what we want when we want it
A group supported by the P2P foundation, an organization that studies the impact of peer-to-peer technology, recently completed a survey of 3D printer users, titled Manufacturing in Motion. This was a survey of open-source users of the low-cost 3D printers (less than $4... | <urn:uuid:f8e9e793-493c-4428-921a-a1aa92dc289c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.makepartsfast.com/2012/08/4096/3d-printers-we-want-what-we-want-when-we-want-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950622 | 1,018 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Department of Energy Announces Funding for Nationwide Student-Focused Clean Energy Business Competitions
July 21, 2011
Competitions Will Encourage Entrepreneurship in Clean Energy Nationwide
As part of the Obama Administration's effort to support and empower the next generation of American clean energy entrepreneurs, U... | <urn:uuid:f0b2c3f1-09cf-402f-9ac2-b41fa6f8b626> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www1.eere.energy.gov/financing/news_detail.html?news_id=17568 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92371 | 541 | 1.546875 | 2 |
by Ian Thorleifson
We’ve all heard many sad stories and dire predictions about the future of the polar bears of Western Hudson Bay. And they have had some tough years – particularly in the early 2000s. The worst year they ever had was not recent however, it was almost 30 years ago. In 1983
My knowledge of 1983 is first... | <urn:uuid:8e7035cd-608b-4e1c-ab48-f1c65763fd57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.churchillwild.com/tag/polar-bear-alert-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98928 | 854 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Basic Science The Basic Science Course is intended to provide an introduction to within general surgery, with all essential topics covered. The conferences are held weekly from September through June every Tuesday at 5 p.m. in the 2-West Amphitheater for PGY1+2 residents and in Room 420-J Clinical Sciences Building for... | <urn:uuid:4660336a-f73a-4d73-933e-4dbd4cc87630> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/surgery/education/resident_info/resident_ed.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945127 | 579 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Psilocybin, Senate Race Highlight Harvard Year
President Pusey announced on May 27 that the Corporation had terminated the appointment of Richard Alpert as assistant professor of Clinical Psychology and of Education for giving halluginogenic drugs to an undergraduate in violation of an agreement with the University.
Th... | <urn:uuid:1ca817d8-6748-4158-bee9-100af44771e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/7/9/psilocybin-senate-race-highlight-harvard-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968197 | 1,247 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Finally a good news after series of bad ones about AMD. The company will be able to get its One laptop per child at under $100 and the sources close to company claim that AMD plans to earn a lot of money about it.
The magic word is the volume number of orders as the emerging third world countries such as many places in... | <urn:uuid:4e7101ca-ff14-46cf-ab17-9e0f3f09d4a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/17964-one-laptop-per-child-to-sink-to-under-$100 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954492 | 170 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Most neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks are quiet, quasi-suburban enclaves with intermittent commercial centers where residents gather often, and which outsiders frequent once in a blue moon. Many people move to the outerlands and Avenues to escape the bustle of the eastern part of The City and visit shops and eateries f... | <urn:uuid:ee215ba3-a73f-4185-b662-5271c498137d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/editorials?page=5&quicktabs_6=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949439 | 644 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This weekend marks the end of the first week of climate change discussions in Copenhagen, Denmark. Leaders from around the world have congregated to discuss their goals for lowering emissions and to pledge financial assistance for developing countries to adapt to the consequences of climate change. While national leade... | <urn:uuid:8a94137d-66db-4d94-80e0-46665cc3232c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://socialpsychologyeye.wordpress.com/tag/copenhagen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954579 | 263 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Energy Lecture - General Ronald E. Keys, USAF (ret.)
April 19 @ 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Stewart Center, room 206
Strengthening America’s Economy & National Security: A Call to Reduce U.S. Dependence on Fossil Fuels
Thursday, April 19, at 3:30 pm, Stewart Center, Room 206: Retired four-star General Ronald Keys will discuss ... | <urn:uuid:357903e6-384a-4893-b286-1ce456d8edd4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/events/view.php?id=843 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00040-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907384 | 426 | 1.773438 | 2 |
For decades, mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases. But now, researchers report stunning evidence that the mouse model has been misleading for at least three major killers — sepsis, burns and trauma. As a result, years and billions of dollars have been wasted following false leads, they sa... | <urn:uuid:c2d6242a-502a-44e2-aba1-09c6696b2b67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130215/NEWS0107/302150370/1159/NEWS04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975548 | 1,515 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Clinically proven OsteoMatrix provides a unique matrix of critical nutrients that go beyond calcium to build and maintain strong bones and teeth.* In addition to building strong bones and teeth, the nutrients in OsteoMatrix:
• Help retain normal blood pressure*
• Assist in muscle contraction and nerve transmission*
• H... | <urn:uuid:981a4799-c542-431c-801b-a215a1c00339> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://member.myshaklee.com/us/en/products.php?sku=20682 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900955 | 511 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Office of Environmental Health
Food Safety and Environmental Services
Food Safety Widget.
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The FS&ES is responsible for general supervision over food safety and environmental sanitation monitoring and enforcement in the State of Arizona in accordance with Arizona Revised Statutes and the Ariz... | <urn:uuid:881bace5-1f7f-4191-9f6f-673a1a678c20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oeh/fses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905834 | 228 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Congratulations Malpass Corner Elementary
2005 Battle of the Books Champion
Teams of students from Pender County’s elementary schools participated in the annual Battle of the Books competition on Friday, February 18 at Cape Fear Elementary School.
To prepare for the event, students read books from an established list a... | <urn:uuid:29dc2be3-beb8-43b9-aeca-93988d7486fc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.schoollink.net/pender/programs/articles.cfm?aaction=ViewArticle&nArticleTypeID=41&nArticleCategoryID=0&nArticleID=2603&Acro=&nSchoolID=999&DeptFlag=0&nDepartmentID=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951968 | 96 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The MegaFood commitment goes beyond our providing the highest Quality supplements. By packaging in 100% recyclable amber-glass we provide maximum potency protection for our formulas. At the same time glass enables us to use packaging that is friendly to our environment.
Environmental regulation of packaging has become ... | <urn:uuid:04bea6b2-ee65-4de9-b71e-f3f6ffed1a3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.natural-pantry.com/promog/cluster.asp?cpid=120&storeID=D92VLAQVMPDL9L5UHTS2WLU67NADEHUA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922416 | 198 | 1.726563 | 2 |
I was asked for my initial reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union speech, and the handsomely redesigned Think Christian posted them last night, “Jobs, Steve Jobs, and the State of the Union.”
As I point out, the president’s protectionist posturing is belied by the realities experienced by companies like Apple... | <urn:uuid:46cbc8ec-8380-482b-b02e-3f9874940177> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catholiclane.com/cheerleader-in-chief/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967875 | 594 | 1.773438 | 2 |
1833 Benton Pocket Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
Description: This is a beautiful example of the Henry Benton's extremely scarce 1833 pocket map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Benton's map covers Pennsylvania from Lake erie eastward to Delaware and New Jersey, including adjacent parts of Maryl... | <urn:uuid:bf7fb49f-3248-4c9b-a9d4-32d4f56d4049> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/PennsylvaniaNJDel-benton-1833 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943834 | 339 | 2.8125 | 3 |
So argues John Wooley, former Tulsa World journalist and author of the new book “Shot in Oklahoma: A Century of Sooner State Cinema,” which chronicles the motion pictures made within our borders. While most people know Oklahoma has served as a shooting spot for Hollywood blockbusters like “The Outsiders,” “Rain Man” an... | <urn:uuid:85d9eb36-8e1d-477f-9196-199386cd4039> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://okgazette.com/oklahoma/article-11710-we-were-framed.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955441 | 1,024 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Awful Plastic Surgery
Warning: strftime() [function.strftime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspell... | <urn:uuid:bd0a3606-638f-42df-b45f-db3274a110a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.med-help.net/s-awful-plastic-surgery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931562 | 696 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Resource Center for the Deaf &
CUNY Multimedia Regional Center
- Working with an American Sign Language Interpreter
An interpreter’s role is to facilitate communication and convey all auditory and signed information so that both hearing and deaf individuals may fully interact. For more information on Interpreting, plea... | <urn:uuid:e44ee1e0-991d-4c03-bc97-b5481dd20ffc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csi.cuny.edu/csa/rcd/staff_faculty.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909741 | 303 | 2.796875 | 3 |
[ILUG] mail account.
Dave O Connor
doc+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Sat Mar 13 22:23:42 GMT 2004
John Reilly said on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:06:37PM +0000:
> Dave O Connor wrote:
> >nils said on Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:14:30PM +0000:
> >>Ok so here it is, chorus offers a broadband package,I would imagine
> >>that the chorus... | <urn:uuid:325a1039-e207-4dd1-ab52-42bc9f21bc3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mail.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-March/066671.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930433 | 346 | 2.125 | 2 |
Clarence Thomas should not be appointed to the Supreme Court. It`s as simple as that.
He is not qualified for the position by a longshot. His testimony given during the Senate confirmation hearings showed he feels strongly about his positions on such crucial issues as affirmative action, civil rights and abortion until... | <urn:uuid:92e5bdab-30af-4b06-8c8b-7ad20e6a3a6b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-09-28/news/9102080409_1_clarence-thomas-thomas-nomination-senate-judiciary-committee | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983579 | 613 | 1.625 | 2 |
How Helpful Are Birthing Classes?
October 7, 2011
By Robert H. Shmerling, M.D.
If you're going to have a baby, taking a birthing class has become routine. How else are you going to get through labor? Sure, there'll be a doctor, a nurse and, hopefully, a supportive spouse or significant other nearby. But how will you le... | <urn:uuid:3986ca6b-fa98-4bf3-a45f-a2fb742fd83b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/EMIHC267/9273/35323/1414249.html?d=dmtHMSContent&hide=t&k=basePrint | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966835 | 790 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Marc Faber, chief financial officer, said the increase comes primarily as a result of the federal requirement that all schools implement the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.”
“The federal requirement is mandated to ‘balance’ prices on free-reduced meals and fully paid meals,” Faber said via email.
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Going above and beyond is just the way Sam Attisha rolls
Working for the common good is a familiar enough concept. But Sam Attisha wants to figure out how we can do better when it comes to doing good.
When the vice president for business development and external affairs at San Diego’s Cox Communications was told to put... | <urn:uuid:d5ede058-dc66-4be3-8f9c-be70aecbee64> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sandiego.edu/publications/usdmag/spring-2011/class-notes/do-the-right-thing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975498 | 1,048 | 1.5625 | 2 |
It didn't take Steve Novick long to lay out his City Council agenda. It took six minutes, in fact.
On Dec. 31, the day before Novick was sworn in as a Portland City Commissioner, he launched a blog on the city's website. The first five posts—published between 3:12 pm and 3:18 pm—lay out a series of ambitious policy ini... | <urn:uuid:17da6e70-814c-4ecd-bd68-0f2f210937fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-29603-steve_novick_blogs_ambitious_agenda.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962057 | 575 | 1.546875 | 2 |
If you work with the youth of America in any fashion, be it youth ministry or as a parent, you know that we have identified this generation by the inventions that they have been raised among. Some call them the Internet Generation or the Digital Gen, which leads many to assume that this generation not only is always on... | <urn:uuid:9c3bf8e2-b1d2-4db2-8ffe-dbcbc42cdb59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.morethandodgeball.com/tag/relational/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962556 | 559 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Getting a handle on chopsticksWhile billions of Asians use chopsticks every day of their lives, here in the West, we encounter them most often in restaurants. I learned to eat with chopsticks before I was 5. My mom took two pairs of adult-sized chopsticks and whittled them down to kid-size. She painted one set blue for... | <urn:uuid:69413c74-7c02-4e39-926e-1d9ad79b3c6d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alibi.com/food/articles.html?di=2011-07-28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972172 | 233 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Charles "Buddy" Rogers (born on August 13, 1904; died on April 21, 1999) was an American actor and jazz musician.
Born in Olathe, Kansas, Rogers studied at the University of Kansas where he became an active member of Phi Kappa Psi. In the mid-1920's he began acting professionally in Hollywood films. Nicknamed "Buddy", ... | <urn:uuid:0161c94d-4b67-4a4e-aaed-4569a93a0d76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dipity.com/timeline/Charles_Buddy_Rogers/?eid=birthday*charlesbuddyrogers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979434 | 444 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The full Arabic name can be quite long. It can consist of a given name (called the ism), nicknames (laqab), and patronyms (nasab) and/or a family name (nisba). Sometimes these names are preceded by a kunya, which refers to the person's first born son.
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Connecting Neighborhoods and Transit: A Workshop on Transit Oriented Development Design
CNU Atlanta invites you to its Spring 2013 Workshop, which will explore design concepts that will help channel Atlanta's future growth into walkable, transit-oriented developments (TODs). The day-long workshop is divided into two pa... | <urn:uuid:8724325b-f295-4f00-9aa1-33b178351139> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cnu.org/event/2013/03/connecting-neighborhoods-and-transit-workshop-transit-oriented-development-design | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920171 | 162 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Taking the homeless beyond shelters
Rosanne Haggerty's Common Ground creates permanent housing that has reduced homelessness by 87 percent in one 20-block area of New York City.
Rosanne Haggerty didn't intend to start a crusade against homelessness. Taking a year off before law school, or so she thought, to volunteer a... | <urn:uuid:cbf830e3-0fa3-4b98-8185-d75c7cf19dae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2009/0907/p02s03-lign.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982597 | 904 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Top 10 Intellectual Rappers
Despite being in the mainstream consciousness for over twenty years now, Hip-Hop is still largely thought to consist solely of idiotic, crude and often pointlessly violent lyrics that debase and malign the English language. Although to be fair, that is still the majority of the Hip-Hop music... | <urn:uuid:6b6edcfc-fe32-4266-a305-211f5a8eee88> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://listverse.com/2011/07/17/top-10-intellectual-rappers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981704 | 3,112 | 1.625 | 2 |
The press conference announcing the choice of Daniel Libeskind's design for Ground Zero often seemed like a graduation ceremony. Governor George Pataki quoted Winston Churchill, and said that it was "a great day for New York and a historic day for America." The top rebuilding officials each publicly thanked one another... | <urn:uuid:5d15024a-8249-41f8-89b1-583d5cce43ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gothamgazette.com/iotw/chosen/index_print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97707 | 767 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Your Tuesday morning health roundup:
Cholesterol testing: If you've had a cholesterol test or two, you know the routine: you are told to show up hungry, after at least eight hours of fasting, so your results will be accurate. But a new study of more than 200,000 lab results suggests fasting makes little difference in c... | <urn:uuid:827bc728-c1e5-48ac-8ca0-a24726e6be0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/usatoday/article/1701845?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CMNH-News%7Cs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948583 | 314 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Many people use the words weather and climate as if they mean the same thing. They do not. It is important to understand the difference in order to understand the idea of climate change.
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Are you ready for the passionate kiss appearing on the cover of the Post in … are you ready … 1907? The beautiful painting by Frank X. Leyendecker (brother of renowned artist J.C. Leyendecker) shows a beautifully dressed couple at the piano, carried away by the music, one supposes.
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Dedicating to a God or Goddess - What does Dedication mean?
by J. S. Pereira
We are a very young community, both in terms of our collective history, and in actual age of many of our members. We are forced to find new ways of doing things related to our religion almost every day, and we have few guidelines to go by.
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The evil seduction of working with CSS comes in the form of its ease of useâin theory. The problems start when you drift into complexity. I find it a psychological game where you are constantly tempted to trap yourself in something complicated (usually because Microsoft Internet Explorer continues its decades-long trad... | <urn:uuid:373e8e3f-7a91-4b87-8b15-5736c4fcf2d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kintespace.com/rasxlog/?tag=stackoverflow-com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927447 | 567 | 1.898438 | 2 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. So slight as to be difficult to detect or describe; elusive: a subtle smile.
- adj. Difficult to understand; abstruse: an argument whose subtle point was lost on her opponent.
- adj. Able to make fine distinctions: a subtle mind.
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Explore Maine's Historic Forts During Fall
Maine is home to some of the northeast's best preserved military fortifications. Explore wooden, granite and earthen forts dating to the mid-1700s with lookouts, underground passageways and weaponry on display.
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There are untold benefits to using good grammar. You can masterfully piece together words to craft new messages. You can excel in school. You can impress potential employers. You can save time by communicating efficiently. You can save face by not sounding foolish. You can avoid embarrassing your parents. You can impre... | <urn:uuid:9071299f-d32c-4fbd-a9a2-230c0f87b905> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://campusleader.blogs.goupstate.com/10970/good-grammar-scholarship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918244 | 270 | 2.21875 | 2 |
We created Pandora to put the Music Genome Project directly in your hands
It’s a new kind of radio –
stations that play only music you like
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WHO: 2 more cases of new virus in Jordan
International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East.
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December 3, 2008
-- by Dave Johnson
A top tax rate of 90% removes the incentive to cheat and steal and exploit others and corrupt our democracy in hope of a rapid path to immense wealth.
But someone "earning" $30 million would STILL take home $3 million. (Plus the amount below that top tax rate.)
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It has been argued that it will be difficult to argue for the repeal of the cyclist-FTR and bikeway laws because they are based on subjective views that are widely held and are not susceptible to reasonable challenge. While it is true that these laws are based on subjective views of cyclist-inferiority, motorist-superi... | <urn:uuid:910b97a8-b2f2-4551-9292-c2df0967610e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.johnforester.com/Articles/Government/Against%20FTR.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971393 | 1,163 | 2.125 | 2 |
Best known as: Sturdy first mate in the novel Moby-Dick
Starbuck is a character in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by author Herman Melville. Strong and steady, Starbuck serves as first mate on the whaling ship Pequod under the command of the mad Captain Ahab. Starbuck tries to stop Ahab's obsessive hunt for Moby-Dick, but lo... | <urn:uuid:ee51385e-ea53-4cd6-b0ab-723d39ec7b11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/starbuck.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940972 | 235 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Is Washington playing at war?
By William S. Lind
When I had lunch recently with the thoughtful
foreign policy columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, the first thing she asked me was,
"Can you make any sense out of what is going on?" I assured her that,
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You need this review. Not for the simple, easily asserted things that spring to mind when someone says “file server operating system” – we’re well past the stage of files being presented and users sharing their content being a novelty or a matter of heavy engineering. The question you have to ask is: if you allow an Ap... | <urn:uuid:323760f3-609f-47c6-83f2-e05f36924bee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Review/111751,apple-os-x-105-server.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910967 | 998 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Home > US Edition > The Gulf War II > Report
US forces may have captured
Baghdad international airport
April 04, 2003 03:11 IST
Hours after Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf's asserted that US forces were nowhere near Baghdad, America's ABC television channel reported that the troops had captured Sadda... | <urn:uuid:fe0d9f90-48c8-4b31-a539-b82e6cf9196d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/apr/03iraq7.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979106 | 314 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Higher education classrooms are being outfitted with the latest technology equipment, software, apps, and tools at unprecedented rates. From iPads to whiteboards and clickers to AV equipment, these new additions are meant to make teaching and learning more effective for everyone involved. When done right these initiati... | <urn:uuid:2933ad16-f853-494d-8915-75fede3dc4b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/02/07/tactics-for-the-smart-classroom-getting-smarter-about-faculty-involvement.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962755 | 1,110 | 2.28125 | 2 |
By Lincoln Anderson
It was a far cry from their sprawling ranch in Crawford, as First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Barbara Bush got a private tour of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum last Friday. The first lady was in town to present the Preserve America History Teacher Award and, as a big fan of museums, decided to... | <urn:uuid:d13fddf6-4b94-4d69-b9f8-8fa8868388df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thevillager.com/villager_287/firstlady.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983686 | 504 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Hello, I am new to the site. My daughter was assessed last spring in second gra for learning disabilities and it was found that she does have a specific LD in math conceptualization, specifically in word problems. Though she was not found to have problems with reading, spelling and writing, she definitely has real prob... | <urn:uuid:92298c36-7476-42da-aef1-3998ff51ac92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ldonline.org/xarbb/topic/33211 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981582 | 364 | 1.515625 | 2 |
An glut of cheap cell phones powered by Google's operating system may have big implications for China's economy- and society.
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SHORT TALK BULLETIN - Vol.IV July, 1923No.7
In the charge to an Entered Apprentice each of us has been told:
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Vice president argued for domestic wiretapping without warrants
In the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001
attacks on the United States, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal
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BROCTON - Members of the district advisory committee for the possible merger of Brocton and Westfield schools were given a guided tour of the Brocton building and then settled down to meet in the Brocton cafeteria.
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The blazing hot sun rested on my neck. The wind blew softly through my hair. Where was I? I was dead center of the Copper River on a raft with five or six other people. My feet rested on the bowline that protects the water from coming into the raft. The kids and the two adults sang songs and shared stories about themse... | <urn:uuid:7a1a15d5-9444-43f0-90a4-48ddc8ece47a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hawknews.org/harold-love.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00029-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985508 | 2,688 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Monday was Martin Luther King Day. Monday, Barack Obama was inaugurated president for the second time.
This was one of the few glimmers of hope held up by many of the Palestinians I met with at the turn of the year in the West Bank: "Who would have thought in Martin Luther King's day that you would now have a black pre... | <urn:uuid:c91ec489-6ef2-42c4-acb4-40471578b246> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wlky.com/news/entertainment/My-Take-An-American-Jew-finds-MLK-and-a-new-understanding-on-the-West-Bank/-/9365716/18298298/-/4tgjugz/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982188 | 794 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) is the implementing body for the Open Skies Treaty. It consists of representatives from each of the 34 States Parties to the Open Skies Treaty. The OSCC meets at the headquarters of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria.
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Smokeless tobacco refers to tobacco products that are used orally, but are not burned. The most popular products in developed countries are moist snuff (also known as snus), which is used by placing a packet or pinch of loose tobacco between the lip and gum or cheek and gum, and chewing tobacco. (Certain products which... | <urn:uuid:42c777b5-d732-4d5e-b333-ab676f3838ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tobaccoharmreduction.org/faq/smokelesstobacco.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964378 | 993 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Motivational speaker, Dr. Steven Layne, will address this year's theme, "Igniting a Passion for Reading". Steven Layne promises a workshop to delight, empower and motivate teachers interested in bridging the literacy gap. The entertainment options available to young people in our fast-paced society are ever on the incr... | <urn:uuid:f39f7bce-b4ef-49dd-b6e8-3bba4c6dda7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.valpo.edu/education/profdev/pastevents/upcomingliteracy111.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00069-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961177 | 391 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Environmental Dispute Resolution Program
Formally initiated in 1996, the Department's environmental dispute resolution program has met with slow but continual success. This short article provides some tips and insights about alternative dispute resolution with mediation being the main focus.
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Alright...no takers on my last post so I'll rephrase my question. I need to build an app in VB .Net that requires a login. It would be nice if I could use the windows credentials. Failing that, encryption could also be used. Surely someone has coded this before. I am not interested in ASP.Net, but that is the only info... | <urn:uuid:cefd3a2f-d448-469a-851a-2f3ab2815e41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.devx.com/printthread.php?t=137507&pp=15&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943967 | 277 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The International Criminal Court could hold Israel culpable for West Bank
settlement activity if the Palestinians become party to the Rome Statute, a UN
Human Rights Council probe concluded on Thursday.
fact-finding mission released a draft copy of its report in Geneva in advance of
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Blood specimen collection and rural well-water testing are in constant demand across Nova Scotia.
Accessing these services is becoming easier for many Nova Scotians with the launch this week of two new mobile health clinics.
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The Precision SIGINT Targeting System (PSTS) is an ACTD sponsored by the DUSD(AT) and funded by the U.S. Navy. Apart from the Army RC-12 Guardrail's Communications High-Accuracy Location System (CHALS) and Quicklook ES systems use of time-difference-of-arrival direction-finding, few existing SIGINT systems provide targ... | <urn:uuid:e55f40ac-d427-403d-8a36-1a647233259e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/psts.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913384 | 915 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Not only cool communist Style Hotels (like in my previous post here) are an obsession of mine, there are also the communist style shopping centers and commercial buildings that are enchanting to me! Almost every city in the former Yugoslavia has on the main street an empty building of the former chain of shops "Београд... | <urn:uuid:0cc0b948-b001-466e-8984-6a6519cc2edc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sajkaca.blogspot.com/2012/08/communist-style-commercial-buildings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958554 | 446 | 1.726563 | 2 |
- the pronunciation "aitch" was in Old French (ache "name of the letter H"), and is from a presumed Late Latin *accha (cf. Italian effe, elle, emme), with the central sound approximating the value of the letter when it passed from Roman to Germanic, where it at first represented a strong, distinctly aspirated -kh- soun... | <urn:uuid:2485e786-d8d1-4ea6-97a8-531f5de7c8ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=H&allowed_in_frame=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961791 | 344 | 3.46875 | 3 |
|This letter demonstrates the care that the architects
took in their design of the building's sunscreen. The screen's
success in doing its job was seconded by preservation expert
George M. Cunha in a 1986 survey of the library building.
According to Cunha:|
The fortuitous result of the architect and building committee'... | <urn:uuid:c83bce7a-a888-4b7d-b20b-94ccef2bedb9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nutrias.org/~nopl/exhibits/219/c&d.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940332 | 402 | 2.234375 | 2 |
As Apple and Samsung continue to duke it out in courts the world over, the iPhone maker has filed an unusual request with the U.S. district court, seeking to conceal from jurors the Samsung logo seen on television sets used in the courtroom. Apparently, Apple fears that the subconscious effects of the Samsung logo on c... | <urn:uuid:a4be610d-2d21-4eba-acdb-7766c3c4e757> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/01/apple-samsung-logo-concealed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930651 | 351 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Jan. 19, 2009 Political prediction markets -- in which participants buy and sell "contracts" based on who they think will win an election -- accurately predicted Barack Obama's 2008 victory. Now Northwestern University researchers have determined that these markets behave similar to financial markets, except when trade... | <urn:uuid:b048e041-4d0e-47dd-97eb-93eb80cd65ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210526.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969432 | 976 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The cost-effectiveness of genetic testing strategies for Lynch syndrome among newly diagnosed patients with colorectal cancer.
ABSTRACT To estimate the cost-effectiveness of genetic testing strategies to identify Lynch syndrome among newly diagnosed patients with colorectal cancer and to offer targeted testing to relat... | <urn:uuid:2a6e82a4-f67e-4375-ba03-4f255e6fb045> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/41056588_The_cost-effectiveness_of_genetic_testing_strategies_for_Lynch_syndrome_among_newly_diagnosed_patients_with_colorectal_cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941092 | 1,144 | 1.828125 | 2 |
New York State’s Campaign Against Sex Trafficking: What’s Next?
On October 5, 2012, the Feerick Center sponsored a program titled New York State’s Campaign Against Sex Trafficking: What’s Next? This program is part of lecture series made possible through the generous support of Law School alumna, Jill Cohen ’87.
The pr... | <urn:uuid:d930ceb1-532f-4654-bbc2-a1690cf2ef3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://law.fordham.edu/feerick-center/28358.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92419 | 348 | 1.53125 | 2 |
In a speech at Catholic University Thursday, he'll ask schools to strengthen their Catholic identity.
Andy Nelson – staff/File
For decades, Catholic colleges and universities have been immersed in the church's doctrinal and theological battles – first the liberalizing reforms after the Second Vatican Council of the 196... | <urn:uuid:ec96221a-4233-4ec1-a594-8dd81ce2950d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0417/p02s01-usgn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974318 | 323 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Britomart design challenges experienced city architects Peddle Thorp in Auckland
Designing any commercial building has its challenges but when it’s sited directly above a working underground rail station the technical and design challenges are multiplied. So it was for Auckland-based Peddle Thorp Architects with the Br... | <urn:uuid:3700767c-4752-432c-8f91-5ddb5634950a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=17341 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952411 | 429 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Will Trade Suffer From India-Pakistan Tensions?
By Michael Kugelman
This article originally appeared in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn
With India pointing to a Pakistani connection in last month's Mumbai attacks, the Pakistan-India relationship has grown dangerously tense.
Speculation is now rife about how a rupture in t... | <urn:uuid:6b5afa6a-0dd3-4be8-b153-aeae9b00f5d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/will-trade-suffer-india-pakistan-tensions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953214 | 1,039 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Should the personal allowance be raised to £10,000?
Nick Clegg wants to see the personal allowance raised soon. But who will pay for such a tax cut?
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has appealed to his colleagues to raise the personal allowance to £10,000.
The personal allowance is the amount of money you can ear... | <urn:uuid:e2094c03-92a0-411f-9dcb-c85e6d479bbd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lovemoney.com/blogs/the-economy-politics-and-your-job/politics-and-finance/14310/should-the-personal-allowance-be-raised-to-10000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969845 | 381 | 1.625 | 2 |
When I was a kid, my living room often served as a “job site” where I managed a fleet of construction vehicles. Scaled-down versions of cranes, dump trucks, bulldozers and tractor-trailers littered the floor, and I oversaw the construction (and subsequent destruction) of some pretty monumental projects. Fast-forward a ... | <urn:uuid:f8a539d8-1dc9-45dc-af14-d29ab96529a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.softlayer.com/author/radkins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941751 | 781 | 2.203125 | 2 |
GCC/G++ has a builtin function to count the number of leading zeros of an int (__builtin_clz), and long/long long versions (__builtin_clzl and __builtin_clzll). In looking at the compiler code, it looks like __builtin_clz and friends calls into the library, and there they have assembly versions of the routines.
So you ... | <urn:uuid:c534bb98-7723-4292-b71c-71c958bbc3b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=115013.msg872767 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94771 | 219 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Grants awarded to help businesses hurt by 2011 flooding
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration announced Tuesday an $879,000 grant will be awarded to the University of Pennsylvania to provide technical assistance to small businesses affected by the Susquehanna River flooding in 2011.
The ... | <urn:uuid:5b2f89d2-e4ef-4a36-876a-cfb054ee5c59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/business/grants-awarded-to-help-businesses-hurt-by-2011-flooding-1.1450562 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953307 | 248 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Thu February 7, 2013
2nd Amendment And Gun Control
President Obama has made gun control one of his administrations top priorities in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. Here in New Mexico, a flurry of gun control laws have been introduced by lawmakers who say they want to reduce g... | <urn:uuid:e5410173-b7dc-4f8c-a1c0-766178027695> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kunm.org/post/2nd-amendment-and-gun-control?ft=1&f= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960718 | 124 | 2.109375 | 2 |
As fans of the home improvement television show “This Old House,” Peter M. and Rachel B. Leary learned about solar panels and were partly inspired to install them in their Longmeadow home for their hot water use.
And as an environmental engineer, Rachel was aware of the benefits of solar energy. So the couple about fou... | <urn:uuid:8c7016f7-4b7a-4a2a-99d0-8cedd7cc139f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2012/05/going_solar_leary_family_puts_sunny_slant_to_their_1927_home_to_save_on_water_heating_costs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974438 | 641 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Posted on January 18, 2012 in Grids, Immersive, Mixed Reality, Networks, Uncategorized by dulce303
We love just about anything involving lasers or robotics here at Engadget, so naturally, we’re intrigued by Sriranjan Rasakatla’s Way-Go flashlight that combines the two. It’s comprised of a laser pico projector, GPS modu... | <urn:uuid:bef61fd9-df72-4e78-a397-b20548604251> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dulce.com/blog/tag/laserpicoprojector/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920397 | 364 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Our collection of Goodies
Throughout The Secret of the Old Swing Bridge, there are numerous references to historic elements. These include particular buildings, machinery, transportation routes, geographical features, events and more. Periodically, we will add background information on many of these interesting things.... | <urn:uuid:ee5ea19b-08bf-4961-8d27-bfae26ac9d9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.classicbooksforboys.com/goodies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00051-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920042 | 95 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Bruce Cumings is the Chairperson of the History Department and Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College at the University of Chicago. In 1975, he received his PhD from Columbia University. Cumings’ professional and academic credentials make his compilation of complaints pr... | <urn:uuid:7cf154a1-0e31-4364-93b5-70403150f23a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://espressostalinist.wordpress.com/category/imperialism-colonialism/u-s-imperialism/fbi-and-cia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960354 | 1,864 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Paula Trudeau still gets emotional over what she saw on the mountain that day in 2001.
Trudeau, a Shady Cove resident and former Forest Service employee, was part of a team headed into the woods south of Tiller.
Her job was to prepare an environmental report that would allow removal of parts left over after a 57-year-o... | <urn:uuid:6a373e12-5206-4c65-bb87-0e74586b097c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121111/NEWS/211110317/-1/LIFE0204 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98528 | 1,276 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Dollar, Evan Stephen (1993) An historical study of channel change in the Bell river, north eastern Cape. Masters thesis, Rhodes University.
Channel instability has occurred in the Bell river, north eastern Cape, in the form of meander cutoffs, incipient meander cutoffs, channel straightening and general channel instabi... | <urn:uuid:25b9553f-8d33-403f-8c10-cf6ee99f6a87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eprints.ru.ac.za/4053/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928037 | 610 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Picking the yearly Flu antigens is an interesting exercise, and more often than not it’s gotten right. The vaccine has to be committed to well in advance of the first US case happening, and it’s still an educated guess.
So, it’s always fun to see if the shot we got will actually help. Here’s the latest:
CDC has antigen... | <urn:uuid:9dcf527a-b3f2-45c8-9481-3ebf1649d511> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gruntdoc.com/2005/12/is-my-flu-shot-going-to-help.html/comment-page-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932133 | 343 | 2.546875 | 3 |
ST. PAULS, N.C. (AP) - The only shelter in North Carolina to use "heart sticking" to euthanize animals has stopped the practice.
The Robesonian in Lumberton reported that the Robeson County Health Department agreed last week to euthanize intravenously rather than using heart sticking. That procedure involves puncturing... | <urn:uuid:d0c86fba-41eb-4c07-b91e-258d01783fcf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wwaytv3.com/comment/reply/22308 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919381 | 170 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Visiting the White House is not unlike preparing to board a plane. Bags pass through x-ray machines and visitors through metal detectors. The White House, though, benefits from some augmentation: specifically, so-called backscatter x-ray technology, in which devices capture the radiation bounced back from objects. It c... | <urn:uuid:65b0d2c4-a122-48d6-b162-06c383b13af7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-better-defense | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952995 | 266 | 2.625 | 3 |
Some Turn To Acupuncture To Boost Immune System
During the changing of the seasons, some believe acupuncture could help strengthen your immune system and prevent future sickness
Have you ever noticed that people often get sick with a cold or allergies right around the change of seasons? That’s because it takes energy t... | <urn:uuid:cba15768-f9db-48bc-b8a9-1505aa710a77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hometownstation.com/content/some-turn-acupuncture-boost-immune-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00064-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919853 | 258 | 1.632813 | 2 |
| STYLE |
Reggae, buoyantly soulful and confrontationally rocking by turns.
"Is This Love," "No Woman No Cry," "Could You Be Loved"
Although rooted in Rastafarianism, to which Marley converted (from Christianity, see "Get Up Stand Up"), the music's themes are seldom more religious than life, liberty, and the pursuit of... | <urn:uuid:3847238c-2e8d-46f7-a106-71cd0471c5e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldmag.com/2000/04/the_music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937913 | 108 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Morning Baby News
Here are the best baby, pregnancy related articles, findings from the last 24 hours :
- Stress ‘harms brain in the womb’: the cause is the extreme levels of cortisol and the partner has a big role in that
Children whose mothers were stressed out during pregnancy are vulnerable to mental and behavioura... | <urn:uuid:2c1de067-96b6-4c09-a246-dea571d52dd2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scienceroll.com/2007/01/27/morning-baby-news/?like=1&_wpnonce=cb13afa090 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962296 | 253 | 2.765625 | 3 |
It is true that a plaster cast or splint cannot be applied to a broken rib the way other fractures may be treated. But that doesnt mean that there is nothing that can be done for broken ribs.
For any fracture, its important to relieve your pain relief. To do this, you can either try acetaminophen (for example, Tylenol)... | <urn:uuid:088b5325-4db7-4a2e-9b61-b4e879417b8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHWOOO/4464/8486.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9117 | 339 | 2.6875 | 3 |
WASHINGTON - — President Clinton joined with tourism leaders on Monday to urge Americans to show a friendlier face to foreign visitors.
Rallying 1,700 tourism promoters from across the country, Clinton gave a pep talk and pledge of support at the first White House Conference on Travel and Tourism.
The president promise... | <urn:uuid:e0a82d0f-d366-4c15-bf48-aac9c7909d1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-10-31/business/9510300454_1_tourism-leaders-travel-organizations-international-tourism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950324 | 776 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Should an interface ever say “please”?
Avoid the word "please," except in situations in which the user is asked to do something inconvenient (such as waiting) or the software is to blame for the situation.
Correct: Please wait while Windows copies the files to your computer.
I always use "please" in my error message fo... | <urn:uuid:85327ccf-a572-4466-a732-5c7bb460b823> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/25500/why-avoid-the-word-please-in-error-messages/25502 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906226 | 118 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Passenger Transport Archive
McCain's 'Gas Tax Holiday' A Bad Deal
April 21, 2008
The "gas tax holiday" proposed by U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive Republican nominee for president, would do much more harm than good, according to organizations representing transportation users and providers.
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