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The work of a local student is headed for the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.
Miriam Carlson just got her driver's license, but the Rockford teen is more excited about an exhibit on communism and the palmer raids.
"You don't hear a lot about it. It's kind of a sore subject people just want to forget about it," s... | <urn:uuid:7940d7ed-8670-443b-b954-660b235c167d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wifr.com/news/headlines/370476.html?site=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981465 | 374 | 2.65625 | 3 |
(Reuters - 21 December 2009)
Official Announcement from the Engels Volga-German Archives:
The Engels Archives Complex - both buildings - will open officially on September 6, 2008, with great celebrations and festivities, moreover to celebrate the 90th year of the founding of the Autonomous Volga German Republic, and th... | <urn:uuid:04a72273-c25a-4915-840c-8e939373eec5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/currentnews.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94467 | 444 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Nominated by Margaret Collins
Paddy has been a powerful voice and force in the development of hands-on science studies in Massachusetts. In the early 70's she was a founder, President, and member of the Boston Zoological Society and was instrumental in developing educational programs. In the 80's she continued the effo... | <urn:uuid:9d255a44-8de3-4ef6-b664-9697b09224d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bridgew.edu/MHFSE/Wade.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963184 | 185 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Forest Practices Board has planned an audit for the forest practices of Amabilis Contracting Ltd, part of the Pioneer Family Timber Partnership. The audit is for Forest Licence A79575, and beginning on June 18, will examine operational planning, harvesting, roads, silviculture, fire preparedness and hazard abatemen... | <urn:uuid:c20940d1-f0ae-41d9-b167-61f225e732ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.welcometowilliamslake.ca/index.php/the-news/local-news/5618-forest-practices-board-to-audit-williams-lake.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937012 | 229 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Permaculture urges humans to imitate nature. It’s an idea worth considering now more than ever.
As we face a triple-threat of James Bond villains — peak oil, climate change, and the Great Recession — many things are clearly going wrong with the industrial world’s plan.
Nature, on the other hand, has been able to run th... | <urn:uuid:4a3860e3-55ed-46eb-91e3-cf51e868ca51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://transitionvoice.com/2010/09/live-and-let-die-permaculture-primer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00034-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948489 | 1,478 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Although pejorative means the same thing as disparaging, the latter term may be applied to a look or gesture as well as to words and phrases.
Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorative word and eventually grow to have a non-pejorative sense. This happened with the terms Yankee and Ham radio operator, which changed from... | <urn:uuid:c310d430-cd68-4fd8-ae31-ed132710984a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fact-index.com/p/pe/pejorative.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970713 | 321 | 3.3125 | 3 |
A new book about the world water crisis. I haven't read it. Here's a little quote for thought from the web site:
Once a year in Stigomta, Sweden, citizens observe "Pee Outside Day" during which they save 50% of the muncipal water used on a typical day.One thing I've thought about doing in my house, and a capability whi... | <urn:uuid:ffcc87df-1293-4b7b-87d0-e6d0fa4fa205> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bgoodsel/post911/2004/10/troubled-water.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953253 | 271 | 2.046875 | 2 |
mattnyc99 writes "There was plenty of chatter last week about an MIT announcement that researcher Angela Belcher had developed a way to create virus-based nanoscale batteries to power mini gadgets of the future. In a fascinating followup at Popular Mechanics, Belcher now says that her unpublished work includes full-sca... | <urn:uuid:3dcce536-f996-4f09-ad92-3f1b8c3d018a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/08/29/023229/mit-secretly-built-mega-efficient-nano-batteries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961954 | 141 | 1.929688 | 2 |
April 7th, 2007 10:01 AM
If you use the Asus update utility it should tell you how to make the bootable floppy. Please follow the instructions very carefully.
You should be able to boot from this, as it will not load a lot of stuff that you don't need for the BIOS updating process.
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A pale golden color and a uniform puff lure unsuspecting buyers to second-rate croissants. This disguise simulates the classic good looks of the famous flaky French pastry. The smell of lightly salted butter and fresh yeast encases a real, handmade croissant like an alluring halo of authenticity. Its color ranges from ... | <urn:uuid:3a733aa9-4ac9-4861-a047-1207c5530788> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zesterdaily.com/cooking/how-to-make-croissants-from-scratch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923948 | 1,239 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Not much is known about the woman who gave birth to one of the most brilliant men in our history, Leonardo da Vinci. Her name and the events around her famous son's birth is pretty much it. Until now. Robin Maxwell takes us back to 15th century Italy and paints us a beautiful picture of Leonardo's childhood and of his ... | <urn:uuid:2369c115-c19a-46d7-819a-42dc938329c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.passagestothepast.com/2009/01/review-signora-da-vinci.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968651 | 780 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Although the term elemental can be used as an adjective to describe a creature that has been infused with the energies of the Elemental Chaos, when used as a noun, it refers to a native of that plane, made up entirely of that plane’s form of matter. The most common elementals are formed of a single elemental, such as a... | <urn:uuid:3ce033ea-4d91-4fc8-91ba-901012f52bea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/seven-kingdoms/wikis/elemental | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95089 | 202 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Blue-yellow colour vision impairment and cognitive deficits in occasional and dependent stimulant users.
ABSTRACT Specific blue-yellow colour vision impairment has been reported in dependent cocaine users and it was postulated that drug-induced changes in retinal dopamine neurotransmission are responsible. However, it ... | <urn:uuid:3ec05402-8f4d-4b75-8af1-29589b270282> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227165886_Blue-yellow_colour_vision_impairment_and_cognitive_deficits_in_occasional_and_dependent_stimulant_users | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909503 | 918 | 2.296875 | 2 |
By Martha Harbison
Posted 07.25.2004 at 12:00 pm 0 Comments
Midwesterners beware: Although you’re assailed each year by voracious tornadoes, crop-flattening hailstorms and searing heat waves, it might be wise to start worrying about what’s going on below the surface. But earthquakes are just for Californians, right?
Fi... | <urn:uuid:c32ffbca-646e-4886-9781-7b68a5fb8e23> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.popsci.com/category/tags/new-madrid-quakes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9071 | 138 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The Threepenny Opera (Die 3groschenoper) [DVD]
Director : G.W. Pabst
Screenplay : Béla Balázs, Léo Lania, & Ladislaus Vajda (based on the play by Bertolt Brecht)
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1931
Stars : Rudolf Forster (Mackie Messer), Carola Neher (Polly Peachum), Reinhold Schünzel (Tiger-Brown), Fritz Rasp (Pea... | <urn:uuid:4d00311d-884b-441b-b50d-844f6bc4138c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.businesssun.com/index.php/nav/mreview/2229 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955609 | 2,143 | 1.601563 | 2 |
How to raise a millionaire
MANY OF US grew up in households where it was taboo to talk about money—or at least considered impolite. But according to Ted Scheinman, center director for the Oregon Council on Economic Education (www.oreconcouncil.org), a nonprofit that trains educators how to teach finances in the classro... | <urn:uuid:c7b49ef3-dc05-4063-84a2-66c677fd612b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/family/articles/1207-features-parents/5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957325 | 705 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Every year, U.S. officials from agencies with anti-money laundering responsibilities meet to assess the money laundering situations in 200 jurisdictions. The review includes an assessment of the significance of financial transactions in the country’s financial institutions involving proceeds of serious crime, steps tak... | <urn:uuid:00ce6181-3439-46ab-bfc9-b2dd952bdd2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.state.gov/j/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2012/database/191286.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916795 | 515 | 1.992188 | 2 |
As the former Co-Chair of AIDS Project Los Angeles, for many years I have supported the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes for those patients that have a legitimate medical need as confirmed by a physician, including people suffering from AIDS-related illnesses, cancer, glaucoma, and numerous other illnesses for w... | <urn:uuid:4211014e-6744-4170-9394-0ad7b14cdae6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kevinjamesformayor.com/issues/marijuana | 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 | 0.951816 | 402 | 1.515625 | 2 |
2009 Ultra High Relief Double Eagle Gold Coin Online Exhibit
Case 3: The Strikes
A CENTURY LATER: REALIZING SAINT-GAUDENS’ ORIGINAL VISION
The first phase of the production process was testing the blanks and conducting “feasibility strikes” using geometric shapes to simulate the highest and lowest points of relief. The... | <urn:uuid:70207657-ff33-4d5c-b9ac-f6c491152416> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/ultrahigh/index.cfm?action=case3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910334 | 203 | 2.71875 | 3 |
|February 21, 2001||atimes.com|
Indian census could produce 'the most complicated lies'
By Sultan Shahin
NEW DELHI - From general election to natural calamity, parliament session to census, perhaps nothing can happen in India without exciting its own quota of caste and communal controversy. The gigantic venture of Cens... | <urn:uuid:82331c7c-4f33-4b0c-8dcc-b308ba10f66a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://atimes.com/ind-pak/CB21Df01.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00063-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952969 | 1,992 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from n... | <urn:uuid:2bfacb44-ecf6-4a98-b3a0-f1facd635ac5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boingboing.net/2012/05/15/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919417 | 163 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Medutainment: Golf Meets CME — ONLINE
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center's Center for CME has taken the plunge into the “medutainment” field with an online medical education game called The Cardio Country Club (www.cyberrounds.com). It features game-style interactive learning on cardiovascula... | <urn:uuid:8d54210c-402c-4b21-a6e6-74caeea854a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://meetingsnet.com/medicalmeetings/meetings_eye_ecme_8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939017 | 955 | 1.75 | 2 |
When I read Theo Fleury’s memoir, Playing With Fire (Triumph Books, 2009) this past week, I was very intrigued by his story and wanted to find out more. Needless to say, the man behind the hockey sports figure and writer is quite a fascinating person.
BIOGRAPHY (via Wikipedia):
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Between Iraq and Afghanistan alone, the U.S.
Department of Defense needed an enormous amount of fuel last year -- the U.S.
government uses 20 to 50 million gallons of fuel every month in Afghanistan to
support operations. In fact, of the $15B USD it spent on fuel, 75 percent went
towards operations, such as the efforts... | <urn:uuid:fa078510-69a9-44bd-9b78-85ccb17a420a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=22111&commentid=698179&threshhold=1&red=018 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944049 | 1,322 | 2.328125 | 2 |
This section briefly introduces some concepts important to Sather that the reader may not have been exposed to in C++. It isn't meant as a complete language tutorial. More information of a tutorial nature is available from the WWW page:
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|Junior Alpine Racing
||6 to 18 (ages listed as of January 1, 2013)
Programs run 8:30 am to 3 pm (Lunch 11:30 am to 12:30 pm) from November 24, 2012 - March 30, 2013, Weekends, Dec. 22-24 and Dec. 26-30, Jan. 21 (MLK) and February 16-24.
All programs require a helmet, no soft ears for all programs above U8 (ages 6-7)
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There’s a significant threat of dangerous storms over the next two days. This is the time to think about what you will do to keep you and your family safe!!
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On Nov. 10, an antitank missile fired by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza at an Israeli army vehicle wounded four IDF soldiers. Retaliatory fire by Israel killed four Gazans, while dozens of rockets and mortar shells rained on civilian targets in southern Israel.
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday it is having to delay making its decision on which of the 189 airports will face the loss of a tower due to funding cuts.
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Nowak and Sigmund regarded Axelrod’s work as an elegant exercise of mathematics but wanted to change the game so that it applied more directly to specific questions in evolution. The classic Darwinian theory of natural selection suggests that individuals who cooperate threaten their own evolutionary fitness, since coop... | <urn:uuid:0bb80f45-2031-45ef-8efc-b212229aa1e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2012/dec/29-cooperation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973159 | 1,724 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The Waste Ethic
Twenty-five years ago, when I was studying philosophy at McMaster University, I wanted to write a book called "The Waste Ethic," which I hoped would be the first attempt in the history of the social sciences to accurately measure the amount of time people waste at work. I wasn’t interested in simply tra... | <urn:uuid:e47f779c-acf8-4115-9ad1-53fe68532df5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.randomhouse.com/book/114267/the-end-of-ignorance-by-john-mighton/9780676979640 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981481 | 2,705 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Our poetry in a suitcase
I've long suspected my kids think I'm a little crazy when I read poetry to them. Whenever I pull out a children's poetry book, my 22-month-old takes off running to find a toy. My three-year-old indulges me by sitting with me and looking at the pictures in the book, typically requesting I repeat... | <urn:uuid:6c3938dd-4c89-4481-9d0d-0249080159e7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mamawithoutborders.blogspot.com/2009/05/packing-our-poetry-in-suitcase.html?showComment=1245680076300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985342 | 1,304 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Carbon Nanotubes are hexagonal in shape and are rolled into tubes. These are thin, long cylinders of carbon and were discovered in the year 1991 by S. Iijima. They are lengthy chains made of carbon which are termed to be the strongest and hardest bonds in chemistry, they are considered to be stronger than sp3 bonds whi... | <urn:uuid:223df81e-6098-48c1-a3b6-c93f96a9ca46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cnanotech.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968912 | 470 | 3.75 | 4 |
The Wildlife Conservation Society has announced the birth of the first genetically pure bison calf ever produced by embryo transfer through a program aimed to establish a breeding herd of non-introgressed bison (without cattle genes) for restoration projects and zoos. Using female bison from the American Prairie Reserv... | <urn:uuid:ed39f138-5414-4e40-b1e9-c429f983d1d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanprairie.org/news/new-bison-calf-at-bronx-zoo-produced-through-embryo-transfer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941355 | 704 | 3.140625 | 3 |
A diary of mindfulness, week six - thoughts are not facts
Posted Tuesday 30 October 2012
In the sixth in her series on mindfulness and depression, Clare blogs about the freedom that can come from recognising that our thoughts aren't facts.
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IMFSurvey Magazine: Books
May 15, 2013
Expert panelists engaged in animated debate over Bretton Woods architects Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes and offered insights on how the IMF came about and how that history affects the global economy, in a book discussion sponsored by F&D.
May 09, 2013
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Warm weather making Maine shrimp supply scarce
(CBS News) FIVE ISLANDS, Maine - Up north, it's too warm.
A rise in ocean temperatures is killing off the iconic livelihood of New England fishermen. Two years ago, they hauled 14 million pounds of shrimp, but this year they'll only catch a tenth of that.
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Danielle Guzman-Orth, a graduate student in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz School at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded a graduate study grant from the Chicano Studies Institute at UC Santa Barbara for work on her project entitled “Investigating Home Literacy Environments of Spanish Speaking English Languag... | <urn:uuid:5e417c20-a023-4758-a145-77fda0537944> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://education.ucsb.edu/About/News/News-archives/Stories/Jan11/guzman-orth-csi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924078 | 367 | 1.625 | 2 |
Arrive in KATHMANDU
Arrival in Kathmandu. On arrival at Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu you will be received by our representatives. You will then be transferred to the recommended hotel or hostel. City Maps and detailed itinerary will be handed over to you. On the way to your hotel, our representative will ... | <urn:uuid:5038cd82-d7cc-4c3f-b0bd-db421bcc5dc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rcdpnepal.org/volunteer_nepal/cross_nepal.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951998 | 1,608 | 1.71875 | 2 |
In our valley of tears
When we read stories, like this one in the Catholic News Service, comparing deaths from chaos in a Third World country to Iraq, what should we make of it? More people are dying from starvation and disease in Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe than are killed in the war in Iraq or the conflict... | <urn:uuid:b39d22a1-3a7f-4de7-8d07-cfe33191928f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2006/11/in-our-valley-of-tears.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969639 | 665 | 2.0625 | 2 |
On July 6, the White House signed a memorandum designating “the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as a major Non-NATO Ally.” This is the first MNNA designation since 2004 when Kuwait, Morocco and Pakistan were designated.
More interestingly, Afghanistan now holds the honor of being the only country that is both a Major N... | <urn:uuid:2afad9df-aac9-45c4-a72a-e02e7e7a1efb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/4191 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93038 | 395 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Not so long ago, I had looked into buying a chalkboard to use as a prop in a photo booth at a wedding. I decided it would be cheaper in the long run to buy some chalkboard, paint it, and do it myself! That way, I was able to up-cycle something old into a useable, customized item, and have bragging rights because I made... | <urn:uuid:4c7384f7-b02b-4f68-83a6-bc5949dcb4db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2012/09/05/craft-chalkboard-paint-diy-upcycle-recycle-pig-mirror-vase-stein-photo-frame-photo-booth-money-box-chalk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986151 | 339 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Spiritual Profile of Homosexual Adults
So- gay people are pretty like everyone else, or so thus study shows. However, there are some differences in regards to faith. But your knew that already. Gay people are less likely to call themselves Christians for one thing. I bet we can posit why that is.
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Finding the best machine to meet your needs can easily be a overwhelming undertaking, simply because there are lots of manufacturers, plus hundreds of different models to select from. Just where do you start and exactly how can you narrow the choices? Let us begin by taking a look at the top four questions consumers as... | <urn:uuid:7f688ac2-9dde-4ae8-85a9-b936f0cacc33> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailyshopper.net/2011/06/04/vacuum-cleaner-reviews-finding-the-very-best-vacuum-for-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958124 | 970 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Truth #3: Creates the Largest Welfare Program in Our Nation’s History
What the bill does: The bill (H.R. 2454) requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide monthly cash payments, or “energy stamps”, to low-income households for their estimated “loss in their purchasing power” resulting from the Democr... | <urn:uuid:ada54fe7-3e29-4cb3-ad9b-95764a7b98c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gop.gov/press-release/09/07/02/the-daily-truth-about-the | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914361 | 271 | 2.671875 | 3 |
(Submitted February 02, 1998)
What are star clusters made of?
What forms a star cluster?
Star clusters are groups of stars which are close together in space, rather
than just accidentally lined up one behind the other. There are several
different kinds. Among the most spectacular are huge balls of many
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Published: 6/10/2012 10:55 PM | Last update: 6/10/2012 10:55 PM
Kan. law bans possession of e-cigarettes by youthsLAWRENCE - Kansas lawmakers have decided that electronic cigarettes should be just as off-limits to people younger than 18 as the real thing, so starting July 1 it will be illegal for minors to buy or posse... | <urn:uuid:501aaf36-0672-47dc-aa45-35b87f1417d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hutchnews.com/Localregional/BC-KS--Electronic-Cigarettes-Minors-1st-Ld-20120610-20-41-52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945573 | 600 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Question:How does diabetes affect male hormones?
Answer:Patients with diabetes often suffer from erectile dysfunction, and in some patients low levels of testosterone can be detected. This may in part relate to the obesity that often accompanies type 2 diabetes.
Patients with type 1 diabetes can also ultimately have lo... | <urn:uuid:5834e59e-fca8-4ada-ae3a-133e0230e51b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DiabetesLivingWith/story?id=3845180 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954701 | 155 | 2.109375 | 2 |
There's no doubt that Life of Pi follows in the footsteps (or wake) of the great high-seas adventure novels. Its author, Yann Martel, spent a year and a half researching (along with religion and zoology) disaster and castaway stories (Yann Martel, "How I Wrote Life of Pi"). The book itself references many of the great ... | <urn:uuid:3955e12e-26d5-4041-bde3-356d3df13d6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shmoop.com/life-of-pi/genre.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948316 | 452 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Here is a video dedicated to the start of a new academic year.
Today we all have good intentions but what will come of these intentions in the future?
Can the students choose the last day of the semester as their deadline for all three? Is there a way to describe using the rational framework why one would not choose la... | <urn:uuid:46d00831-c969-434f-8625-249975e443c8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://danariely.com/2009/08/24/procrastination-and-self-control-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948886 | 1,530 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Article brought to you by: Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
Question: Did Pope Benedict Attack Capitalism in His 2013 World Peace Day Message? Answer: No!
By Deacon Keith Fournier
January 4th, 2013
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
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Two Cazenovia College Student-Athletes Publish Original Biological Research
Cazenovia, N.Y. – Two members of the Cazenovia College swimming and diving team, Nina Kalantari and Van Scholten (Nashville, Tenn.), recently had their research on dragonfly spiketail nymphs, "The Distribution of Cordulegaster (Odonata: Cordule... | <urn:uuid:dd8ae780-392d-4129-aa02-ebbf5dff0ede> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.neacsports.com/news/releases/2011-12/Release_12-04-11_2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968249 | 508 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The kidneys are some of the hardest working organs in an animal's body. Their primary responsibility is to filter and excrete toxins and metabolic by-products from the blood. But they also play a major role in regulating pH, electrolytes, blood pressure and red blood cells. The kidneys are very strong organs and having... | <urn:uuid:6a3322f4-2dab-4d21-80f9-a19563e39b53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guidedogs.com/site/PageServer?pagename=resources_pets_vettips_kidneydisease | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960377 | 393 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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That Kinko's Guy
by Robert J. Nebel
Academic life was not easy for Paul Orfalea. As a hyperactive, dyslexic child growing up in the 1950s and 60s, Orfalea's future looked dim. His education was plagued with one disappointment after a... | <urn:uuid:15e26a11-b61e-47ba-9b7e-0ad2ba006099> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://raintaxi.com/online/2005fall/orfalea.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00056-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978909 | 1,368 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Grandmother of Europe
In the last decades of her life and reign, Queen Victoria received the nickname, "Grandmother of Europe." The nickname had much literal justification, as her many children had married into many of Europe's royal families, and her numerous grandchildren, once grown, did the same. Her own children h... | <urn:uuid:6a5e4910-7dcb-4025-a07e-5b92a4f483ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/victoria/section10.rhtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972882 | 922 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Norfolk Travel Guide
Norfolk Local History
Norfolk became a town in 1736 when it was incorporated by a charter from George II. During the Revolutionary war, English ships opened fire on the town, destroying many of the buildings; Colonial troops then further gutted the town to stop efforts by the British to occupy the ... | <urn:uuid:16976349-8ce9-4a71-a9ab-629c3d928c2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.travel-library.com/north_america/usa/virginia/norfolk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944331 | 644 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The popularity of virtual desktops has been slowly rising over the past few years. IT departments are interested in centralized desktop management, but they are leery of issues such as application performance degradation or incompatibilities and less-than-rich computing experiences.
Technology company Teradici started ... | <urn:uuid:d890785a-c0ee-4b4f-a9bf-738c8dc80b92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2012/04/zero-clients-pcoip-chips-deliver-virtual-desktop-experience | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944841 | 694 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Just when you've mastered PowerPoint, something like this comes along to burst your productive bubble.
The ultimate project tool, as evidenced by Ministry of Tech, is a 3D printer that can produce physical objects. The printer, manufactured by Massachusetts-based Z Corp., uses CAD programs and a highly specialized inki... | <urn:uuid:386604c5-27f1-4456-9f17-85dbd4aaa700> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-6674-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946131 | 157 | 2.125 | 2 |
As we write our posts we sometimes run across words that we need to look up the definition of, or words we may want to give the definition of. Rather than just links to wikipedia, this page will also have an abbreviated definition. This will educate us and our readers without having to stray to far from our blog.
Acid ... | <urn:uuid:b3e63f75-5366-4404-b1f6-e4eb73a0b030> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pullthatcork.com/wine-words/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961218 | 508 | 3.375 | 3 |
I just finished reading Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz, one of the more moving and inspirational books I’ve read in a very long time. Although it describes the author’s journey into the jungles of Northern Myanmar, and details his efforts to save endangered wildlife in that area, Beyond the Last Village is ... | <urn:uuid:dce59ade-1460-4b5e-8334-edd1bef2594b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://garlicneversleeps.wordpress.com/tag/stuttering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968903 | 850 | 1.75 | 2 |
A newsletter for alumni, students, and friends of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Following is a revised version of a letter sent to President Clinton by four professors in the ME Solar Energy Laboratory:
The recent conference in Kyoto, Japan has increased worldwide awarenes... | <urn:uuid:f18fc4ad-df84-42e6-bbe2-49abfa1c1193> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.engr.wisc.edu/me/newsletter/1998-04/solar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947981 | 891 | 2.875 | 3 |
I ran across this looking at the PBS Teacher Previews. What a resource!
Listen and Learn
The WGBH Forum Network Offers On-Demand Lectures from World-Renowned Scholars Online
Grades 6-8 / 9-12
Educators have an audio and video library of scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders at thei... | <urn:uuid:f2e756f3-731a-4425-b5a6-7df20536912f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alicebarr.edublogs.org/2007/08/18/listen-and-learn/ | 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 | 0.936661 | 169 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Pierce's disease, a lethal disease of grapevine, is caused by Xylella fastidiosa, a gram-negative, xylem-limited bacterium that is transmitted from plant to plant by xylem-feeding insects. Strains of X. fastidiosa also have been associated with diseases that cause tremendous losses in many other economically important ... | <urn:uuid:b30f2776-1249-4584-9775-51f43e06f3bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.apsnet.org/publications/mpmi/2001/June/Pages/14_6_701.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910878 | 314 | 2.5 | 2 |
The concept of "evolution relative to the Schroedinger equation" is an insightful means of considering your questions via a holistic interpretation of the reality to which most of modern physics seems to point. One should recognize that interacting with a measurement device is another aspect of interacting with "the wo... | <urn:uuid:5a0cab20-2d3d-403a-aeed-1fbc92b9caa1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15776/what-is-the-meaning-of-wheelers-delayed-choice-experiment | 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 | 0.966456 | 1,594 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Magen Tzedek, the kosher ethics certification program launched four years ago, has yet to certify its first food producer.
In fact, Rabbi Morris Allen, the group’s program director, told the Forward that independent auditors only completed their initial audit of the project’s first potential candidate to receive the Ma... | <urn:uuid:3822956e-f423-40ff-87a8-1b95cb81f666> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forward.com/articles/163485/after-scandal-slow-start-for-ethical-certification/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973487 | 490 | 1.75 | 2 |
Handwritten thirteen-page account by Joel Fithian, entitled "Recollections of Stirring Times," dated April 5, 1872, in which
he recounts what he witnessed in Washington at the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Fithian, a major in the U.S. Army,
was staying at the National Hotel, where John Wilkes Booth also had ... | <urn:uuid:58ae5b6b-f911-4886-8bcc-5331011c6e86> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6580075z/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976239 | 277 | 1.96875 | 2 |
What do Arizona’s Common Core Standards mean for students?
- Help prepare students with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in education and training after high school.
- Clearer standards help students understand what is expected of them.
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Suppose you could replace “Made in China” with “Made in my garage.” Suppose also that every time you polished off a jug of two percent, you would be stocking up on raw material to make anything from a cell phone case and golf tees to a toy castle and a garlic press.
And, you could give yourself a gold medal for being a... | <urn:uuid:927979de-6612-4f26-bd53-7a62e40a8f24> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scienceblog.com/60743/turning-trash-into-cash-and-saving-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952928 | 907 | 3.171875 | 3 |
04-12-2009, 08:08 PM
How is it done? I have a Z760 with an SD card port. I put the SD card in and plug in the camera dock's USB, but my computer does not recognize the USB drive as an edittable drive? Furthermore, will I ever be able to put NON image files on my SD card so I can send information between my Wii and home... | <urn:uuid:42eba1a9-60e5-4985-8a87-6d5e6fc53f51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.pcsx2.net/archive/index.php?thread-5848.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950524 | 86 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Courtesy of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, February 28th, 2012
In its “Path to the 2012 Farm Bill” series, NSAC gets into the details of the 2012 Farm Bill debate.
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Silent Night, Holy Night
As told by Walter Cronkite with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The 1900’s, the final century of the recent millennium, brought unprecedented possibilities and promise.
The children of these hundred years would see more improvement in the human condition than ever before in the world’s history.
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How to Install a Mobile Video System: General Tips
Automotive video system components vary by manufacturer, but there are a few general rules you can follow when installing a car video system. In general, you'll need the following equipment for a basic system:
- a DVD receiver
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- Canonization of Saint Thomas a Becket, buried at Canterbury
- Construction started on the Leaning tower of Pisa in August
- Castle at Abergavenny was seized by the Welsh.
- Conversion to Christianity of Peter Waldo.
- End of Qiandao era and start of Chunxi era of the Chinese ruler Song Xiao Zong
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Religion in Europe has been a major influence on art, culture, philosophy and law. The largest religion in Europe for at least a millennium and a half has been Christianity. Two countries in Southeastern Europe have Muslim majorities. Smaller religions include Judaism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Hinduism which are found in... | <urn:uuid:1e92f3b7-5b91-4453-9f28-6e51ece2e113> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://timtebowfacts.com/religion-in-europe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944504 | 3,042 | 3.609375 | 4 |
University of Calgary researchers create new method for making water-splitting catalysts using abundant metals.
Interactive Data Visualization App Sheds Light on Energy Use and Inefficient Buildings.
Small reactors have some benefits, but they won’t make nuclear as cheap as natural gas.
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Yarn Profile: Schoolhouse Press Unspun Icelandic
Meg shipped a bunch of samples home to her mother, Elizabeth Zimmermann, who fell equally head over heels. She promptly contacted the mill in Iceland and became the U.S. distributor for this unusual yarn. Some 50 years later, Schoolhouse Press is still the place to go fo... | <urn:uuid:b5d3b743-bf36-40c1-aff9-dc8a592b2814> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.knittersreview.com/article_yarn.asp?article=review%2Fproduct%2F120913_a.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950779 | 910 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2004 - Uruguay
|Publisher||Reporters Without Borders|
|Cite as||Reporters Without Borders, Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2004 - Uruguay, 2004, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/46e690f123.html [accessed 25 May 2013]|
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Music Teacher International
, July 2003
Naxos' Introduction to Wagner CD is one of nine in an 'opera explained' series, that introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. A complete recording of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman is available as a two-CD set from Naxos and this CD uses the principa... | <urn:uuid:b9fb7470-92d8-4eb0-9ded-a0af4c6b395a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.naxos.com/reviews/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=8.558013&languageid=EN | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947251 | 311 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Corporate Valuing People Statement
DuPont can achieve its corporate vision only through and with the full commitment participation, creativity, energy and cooperative spirit of our diverse workforce. Achieving success for all stakeholders will come only through respecting each and every individual, valuing uniqueness, ... | <urn:uuid:0d004026-b63b-40b5-b239-fb4ff84e174d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.dupont.com/Career_Center/en_TH/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00066-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92366 | 187 | 1.53125 | 2 |
I just found out that HTML is no longer what web designers are using. The going web design markup language is HTML5 and CS5. I have been using your book "Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way", for the past weeks and I am on chapter 4. Since HTML5 and CS5 is the newest language, is it a waste of time for me to continue... | <urn:uuid:c1e353d5-5e51-4881-8f9e-d2bca31ce3eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?867369-HTML-vs-HTML5&p=5153000&viewfull=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958066 | 155 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Col. Kenneth E. Koons
Kenneth E. Koons, General Edwin Cox '20 Institute Professor of History, teaches HI 315, The History of Everyday Life, a research seminar on the social and economic history of the Shenandoah Valley, and various courses in World History. His research and writing focus on the history of society and e... | <urn:uuid:3bbf2536-d7ea-4cb1-b504-661b840033e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vmi.edu/content.aspx?id=37531&libID=36083 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907343 | 195 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology in Aichi, Japan have managed to use bacteria to create graphene – a substance with great promise in manufacturing. Using bacteria to reduce graphene’s oxide means a ‘greener,’ more environmentally-friendly production process as well.
What is Graphene?
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In 2012 the number of unique detections of malware for Android increased globally by a factor of 17X (yes, that is 1,700%), and we expect the increase in 2013 to be even greater. This is one of the main predictions in the white paper we are releasing today: "Trends for 2013: astounding growth of mobile
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The Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) recently announced this spring's "Allergy Capitals" for 2008. This is NOT a coveted award -- it's actually more like a booby prize if your city makes it on to this list.
Twice each year, once in the spring and once in the fall, the AAFA performs research to determine wh... | <urn:uuid:a6453954-10ab-4e9e-af79-c518ef13f7e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.healthcentral.com/allergy/c/3387/27166/capitals-location | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955762 | 623 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Humans and Ethical Behavior
This course addresses the concept of worldviews and how they are expressed through moral principles and practices. Students are encouraged to explore their own worldviews and approach an understanding of the importance of worldviews in society. A primary goal of this course is to deepen the ... | <urn:uuid:dce838a1-1bc0-4930-bd3c-81088c359f5b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.apu.edu/courses/description/?id=HDEV404 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939276 | 176 | 3.765625 | 4 |
Current tests miss the mark. We need to get serious about citizenship education.
If you can identify the current president, the colors on the flag, and the date of our independence, you're halfway there. Six correct answers out of 10 questions has for the last two decades proved fitness for American citizenship.
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For an official host venue of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, accessibility should not be optional.
In preparing to host that event, and the Olympics beforehand, a lot of infrastructure and planning went into this community. One would expect accessibility would be part of that process and a legacy from the event.
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I've been reading Babbit, and this quote, "In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman." Is straight of it. I do not believe it ... | <urn:uuid:aeb8993b-63e6-476a-aaac-ef2ddd36dbbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Sinclair_Lewis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969714 | 1,184 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Now raising intellectual capital
It is hard to be very optimistic about China’s proposed stock market for start-up companies. After all, similar attempts in other countries have a decidedly mixed track record. Why would China, where small private companies face an uphill battle against state-owned firms, be any excepti... | <urn:uuid:00a14662-4115-4377-a962-fde1361cd6a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.reuters.com/commentaries/tag/start-ups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00037-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963856 | 1,080 | 1.5625 | 2 |
December 4, 2012
Horse Slaughter and the Horsemeat Trade in Europe
The European Union lies at the very heart of the global horsemeat trade.
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Massage works by soothing soft tissue and encouraging relaxation. Modern studies show that massage can successfully treat a range of disorders, including back pain, anxiety and high blood pressure. Different types of massage include aromatherapy massage, massage for babies, reflexology, shiatsu massage, remedial massag... | <urn:uuid:4e1edc89-48ac-4919-9426-d2639dfb4843> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Massage?open | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911188 | 1,225 | 2.6875 | 3 |
U.S. banks have been buffeted by more than a week of powerful cyberattacks, but the mystery surrounding their perpetrators lingers.
One expert said Friday that he was suspicious of claims of responsibility purportedly made by Islamists angry at an anti-Muslim movie made in the United States, explaining that the widely-... | <urn:uuid:217865e0-304a-477b-b722-972e4a956236> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://washingtonexaminer.com/us-banks-hit-by-more-than-a-week-of-cyberattacks/article/feed/2034493?custom_click=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973368 | 686 | 1.890625 | 2 |
>Well, if you want to jump all the way in, the obvious next choice
>one of the "standard" pocket editions, the UBS4 or the NA27.
>On the other hand, an interesting "intermediate" step you might
>the Fribergs' _Analytical GNT_ (Baker, 1981 --this is published in
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"Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive" (SAS) traces the history and ongoing cultural impact of slavery. It provides access to thousands of full-text primary source documents and archival records, including those from:
- The American Missionary Association Archives from 1839-1882;
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I. Purpose and Mission of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform:
The purpose and mission of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform is to challenge to the nation to improve public education in America by enhancing the quality of learning for youth in urban communities across the country.
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Mother Teresa (real name:Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), was an Albanian nun who, depending on your level of cynicism, is one of the following:
- The most recent example of a saintly person,
- The greatest con artist, sham charity embezzler, and sadist the world has seen in the last 50 years, or
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©2009 Wendy Mass; (P)2010 Scholastic Inc.
"Emboldened by the idea of daily do-overs, [Amanda] discovers that small changes in her attitude and actions result in sometimes-subtle, sometimes-monumental shifts in results for herself, her family, and her friends. A rewarding choice for readers and a natural for booktalks a... | <urn:uuid:5b14eecd-fc0e-4792-bbcf-6c07bb7444db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=pd_sim_auth_1?asin=B00329C69O | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93803 | 263 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Contradictions in John Fremont's Political Chart of the US (1856)
The question concerns John Frémont's Political Chart of the United States (1856). Typically, we think of the north as being more industrialized at this point and the south as more agricultural. Yet, under the heading of area on the right of this document... | <urn:uuid:e2deac4e-65ce-4870-8fda-6136f3671c9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/19497 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952212 | 2,503 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Thirty years after the first volume of the Scribner Writers Series , this second Retrospective Supplement follows the path of the first by re-examining some of the most important and influential writers in the American canon-men and women who continue to be studied in high schools and universities as often today as whe... | <urn:uuid:d67cf72e-e2b2-4f82-b6d0-cc39626ba4df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&cf=p&titleCode=S29&type=3&dc=null&dewey=null&id=197518 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930043 | 198 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Few know the struggles veterans experience when transitioning into a civilian job better than fellow military members who have made the leap.
As a way to ease the transition, the National Veteran-Owned Business Association and the online resource Military Alumni have teamed up to launch the Hire Veteran website, design... | <urn:uuid:beffbfb9-c3a8-4f94-a7e1-c0136c457e51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mashable.com/2012/11/13/veteran-job-search-website/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96517 | 550 | 1.53125 | 2 |