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Carol Byrne sells local and organic vegetables that are moderately priced and bought by general customers at her L.O.V.E stall in the Bull Ring market. [Picture sometimes loads slowly]
She wrote about what might be our nearest community supported agriculture scheme in the region in her latest blog: “Today I visited Can... | <urn:uuid:9e3acf3d-b581-42ab-9aea-ad28e8a859dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://localisewestmidlands.org.uk/tag/food-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942736 | 258 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Dept. of Energy issues RFP for collegiate wind competition
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) to participate in DOE's inaugural National Collegiate Wind Competition.
The National Collegiate Wind Competition is a forum for under... | <urn:uuid:b82cf203-686c-4a0d-b228-7b709e47ef76> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.awea.org/blog/index.cfm?customel_dataPageID_1699=20995 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936089 | 598 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Web edition: June 22, 2012
This week, the United Nations hosted a major conclave in Rio de Janeiro — the 2012 Conference on Sustainable Development. Widely referred to as Rio+20, its timing commemorated the 20th anniversary of the so-called Earth Summit in this Brazilian capital. As one token — but highly visible — ges... | <urn:uuid:69586556-0a3c-476f-b4e6-41ea7e07c5db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341715/description/De-papering_environmental_summits | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946327 | 613 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Research conducted by the American Academy Of Dermatology finds that the way you sleep can actually make you look older. Studies show that sleeping in certain positions night after night can etch permanent wrinkles into your face.
But there are some ways to avoid that, and help you look younger. Patty Colman is here wi... | <urn:uuid:604ecd72-a2b5-4e89-b311-0520a3688cf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.myfoxla.com/story/19462243/patty-colman-wants-you-to-avoid-wrinkles-from-sleeping | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930269 | 192 | 1.820313 | 2 |
State Senator Dan Patrick, (R) Houston, is one of the guests on this weeks' Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall. He says the state has many priorities for improving the quality of education for Texas children. Patrick tells Khambrel that one of the keys is input from many stakeholders and to not rule out any idea... | <urn:uuid:d7f82146-8193-4ae1-8a3d-30474b08849d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.click2houston.com/news/Jan-27-Arming-teachers-improving-education/-/1735978/18309296/-/6op9k2/-/index.html | 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 | 0.924608 | 586 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Amazon Expands Public Cloud Infrastructure With NoSQL-Based Database Service
On Wednesday Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new database service that will let customers store and modify unstructured content while proving rapid access to data. The new internally developed distributed database service, called DynamoDB... | <urn:uuid:9954308c-9523-45fc-bb55-765d9b3243b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/01/18/amazon-expands-public-cloud.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953742 | 1,260 | 1.953125 | 2 |
will present “Bullets, Ballads, and Bandages: Civilians and Soldiers in the Civil WarOzarks,” an afternoon of activities at Battlefield Historic State Park , , from noon to 3:30 p.m.
Independent researcher Steve Burgess will discuss the Battle of Cane Hill at noon. At ., a concert of Civil War-era music will be perform... | <urn:uuid:4b63ec77-732c-42eb-b746-b55c8916b1cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nwakidsguide.com/blog/2010/06/01/heritage-trail-partners-civil-war-event/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00047-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927625 | 325 | 2.8125 | 3 |
If an object is acted on by equal and opposite forces then it will be in equilibrium, and it's acceleration or velocity (and so direction as well) will not be changed.
So when a ball bounces, it exerts a force on the floor, which matches the magnitude of the force in the opposite direction (the ball is bouncing perfect... | <urn:uuid:8439aa5a-f9ad-4224-aeb4-82ecb7a1eee0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/28922/why-does-a-ball-bounce | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950826 | 124 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Monster Black Hole Burp Surprises Scientists
LONG BEACH, Calif. – Astronomers have discovered what appears to be colossal belch from a massive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy. The outburst was 10 times as bright as the biggest star explosion, scientists say.
The potential super-sized black hole burp find ca... | <urn:uuid:a90ad14f-882e-40bb-81b5-9e3cd5489bc4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.livescience.com/26052-monster-black-hole-burp.html?cid=dlvr.it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949905 | 460 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP), recently released The Affordable Health Choices Act. The bill aims to reduce health care costs, protect individuals’ choices of doctors, hospitals and insurance plans and guarantee, quality and affordable health c... | <urn:uuid:b71007dd-35a7-44cc-b81e-1e79936c3587> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fightcolorectalcancer.org/policy_news/2009/06/health_care_reform_legislation_announced_in_the_senate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959989 | 307 | 2.125 | 2 |
Everything is made up of matter. The study of chemistry is the process of discovering how matter behaves and why. By studying chemistry at Sterling College, one learns to see the fingerprint of God through this matter that makes up His creation.
Dr. Curtis Beechan, who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford Universit... | <urn:uuid:2cd4ba30-c083-4ef1-9866-8e700d0c165a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sterling.edu/academics/chemistry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959636 | 181 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Integration courses – what are they?
If you would like to live in Germany, you should learn German. This is important if you are looking for work, if you need to fill in application forms, if you would like to support your children in school or if you would like to meet new people. Also, you should know certain things ... | <urn:uuid:d29645be-22bd-4201-b964-3df726087356> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bamf.de/EN/Willkommen/DeutschLernen/Integrationskurse/integrationskurse-node.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973235 | 108 | 2.296875 | 2 |
In this paper, the author examines the potential for administrative independence to be used as a site for promoting positive uses of discretion. Using field experiences drawn from an ethnographic study of the concept of "tribunal independence” in Canadian access to information and privacy commissions, the author argues... | <urn:uuid:5effb4cd-5a65-4f37-b40a-68c574c43f58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2010/05/jacobs-on-administrative-independence-discretion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927166 | 335 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The New Year’s Day budget agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff includes two key measures that could be critical to people receiving long-term supports and services and their caregivers. The first repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act. The second creates a new national commission to de... | <urn:uuid:49bafb1e-6cef-4a91-9799-649c000bb947> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2013/01/01/fiscal-cliff-deal-repeals-class-act-creates-long-term-care-commission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965061 | 728 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Assumes New Role to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries
Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the NICHD, announced recently that he would soon leave the institute on October 1, 2009, to begin a new assignment within the NIH.
In his new position, Dr. Alexander will serve as a senior scientific advisor... | <urn:uuid:6425c445-059a-409f-b464-02f223a4faed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nichd.nih.gov/news/resources/spotlight/Pages/092309-Director-Announcement.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962619 | 1,027 | 2.375 | 2 |
I came across a product recently that really caught my eye: soap nuts. My first thought was... cute packaging. Then I wondered what they were... I have to say, I was strangely intrigued. Turns out soap nuts are small, berry-like fruits with a hard shell that grow in warm, tropical climates like India, Nepal and some ot... | <urn:uuid:11d7ad00-6409-49ba-bf1a-b99752c2fdb7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://houseandhome.com/concours/blogs/house-home-daily/decorating-finds/organic-laundry-soap | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95063 | 420 | 1.898438 | 2 |
A CIA drone attack in one of Pakistan's tribal areas last week killed the brother of a senior Afghan Taliban commander instead of the commander himself only because the commander decided at the last minute not to attend a family member's funeral, according to a resident in the area of the missile strike.
Sirajuddin Haq... | <urn:uuid:4a1f1e0a-38a9-4571-93da-bb52c5f92da6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cias-miss-top-afghan-taliban-leader-sign-improved/story?id=9938513 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972947 | 679 | 1.523438 | 2 |
We have to raise up the plight of how families are broken apart, how traumatic it is for children when their parents are deported, when they can’t stay in school. People of faith especially should raise our voices in advocacy and try to bring immigration reform to some kind of resolution so people can just live normal ... | <urn:uuid:b91bd3f9-ccc2-4168-be5f-0597adcea371> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joffi.tumblr.com/post/20523403831/we-have-to-raise-up-the-plight-of-how-families-are | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950945 | 165 | 1.539063 | 2 |
April 29, 2009
Skyhooks and cranes-2: Replacing skyhooks with cranes
(For other posts in this series, see here.)
Darwin's big idea of natural selection essentially removed the necessity for skyhooks. According to natural selection, complex things could and did emerge from simpler things and hence we no longer need to i... | <urn:uuid:18655505-185f-45b3-af93-f4a945697599> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.case.edu/singham/2009/04/29/skyhooks_and_cranes2_replacing_skyhooks_with_cranes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95481 | 1,127 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The United Church of Christ acknowledges as its sole head, Jesus Christ, Son of God and Savior. It acknowledges as kindred in Christ all who share in this confession. It looks to the Word of God in the Scriptures, and to the presenceand power of hte Holy Spirit, to prosper its creative and redemptive work in the world.... | <urn:uuid:f9d5352d-15dd-4561-8a01-14f6e14d0bf0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.stpaulsucc.com/whoweare.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946602 | 192 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge) ‘End of an Age’ (1948) ch.6
Boredom is…a vital problem for the moralist, since half t... | <urn:uuid:b8a6341f-21ff-4def-9174-f3c48393918f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://quoteocean.com/boredom-quotes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929304 | 592 | 2.25 | 2 |
Going vegan in 2013
Being vegan is no longer an unconventional way of life, and that’s due in no small part to the “Forks Over Knives” book and documentary. Now comes “Forks Over Knives — The Extended Interviews,” featuring even more evidence supporting the elimination of animal-based and processed foods to maintain he... | <urn:uuid:d415e1f4-cc10-4e65-a121-729b8f79f872> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/lifestyle/2013/01/15/going-vegan-in-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951862 | 847 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Mouse Guard is a comics series (graphic story) about medieval knights, life in medieval villages and communities, territorial differences, commerce, war, and the harsh conditions that marked life in Europe in the middle of the 12th Century; except that the story is about communities of mice, told almost in parallel, as... | <urn:uuid:8e9e5a47-f136-4500-b3f0-7cb1553d7f49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956026 | 921 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Where there are organizations, there are people. And where there are people, there are conflicting interests. One of the most basic -- and most difficult -- jobs of a leader is sorting through conflicting interests to make choices and achieve common ground.
Susan Podziba, 39, has spent her career moving people to commo... | <urn:uuid:561df8f1-6165-4ddc-990c-d76c94ffede4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fastcompany.com/38352/she-stands-common-ground | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00073-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974374 | 1,126 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Compact Disc)
Shipped to Tattered Cover in 3 to 7 days
A landmark exploration of the roots of economic prosperity and the escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens.
About the Author
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quete... | <urn:uuid:43826566-cbdf-46a8-b6e2-0a1775a2ad7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9780143143048 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907449 | 178 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Nations begin traditional Christmas warfare
‘I think it gets earlier every year,’ says Mandy Batchelor, a 22-year old physicist from Cheshire. ‘I remember when you used to get the odd massacre in the week before the holidays, and that would escalate into the New Year, but now there are countries launching retaliatory a... | <urn:uuid:02207292-238c-4259-bb46-06e3b362b505> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2012/11/19/nations-begin-traditional-christmas-warfare/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940744 | 599 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The Iron Giant
Runtime: 86 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Director: Brad Bird
Release Date: 08/06/99
A touching animation about friendship and acceptance, The Iron Giant is a fun film for kids of all ages with a powerful moral to boot.
The Iron Giant tells the story of Hogarth Hughes, a headstrong nine-year-old boy who... | <urn:uuid:01f28597-29ad-4c0a-94b7-fe6f06da739f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thebigpicturedvd.com/the-iron-giant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958669 | 759 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Gambling involves a collective game of chance for a wager or stake; whoever wins the game wins the wager or stake.
Pari-mutuel betting is mutual betting; individual bets are placed into a pool, taxes and the house share are subtracted, and payoff odds are calculated. Examples of pari-mutuel betting are horse racing, gr... | <urn:uuid:c8da0e29-7cff-48da-b321-2fa73b194061> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nvbar.org/content/nevada-gaming-law-glossary | 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 | 0.931304 | 227 | 1.9375 | 2 |
3.3.2 Drivers and Barriers to Innovation
Drivers of the materials industry are clearly chemical companies. Most material properties may be changed and engineered dramatically through the controlled size-selective synthesis and assembly of nanoscale building blocks. This requires the creation of particles that can be pr... | <urn:uuid:dc5e5df1-40de-458a-85bb-4971492ebc71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.observatorynano.eu/project/document/1947/?PHPSESSID_netsh101861=3dc813969f459024389a27c150aa36d2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00070-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927764 | 1,109 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Office vacancies in the U.S. rose to the highest level since 1993 in the second quarter as the sluggish economic recovery damps demand from corporate tenants, Reis Inc. said in a report.
The vacancy rate climbed to 17.4 percent from 16 percent a year earlier and 17.3 percent in the first quarter, the New York-based res... | <urn:uuid:c027080a-696a-44ef-be95-6105a7860802> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2010_07_06_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00062-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957461 | 260 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Migratory Shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Environment Australia and Wetlands International, 2002
Shorebirds are among the most impressive migratory species in the world and are found feeding in shallow water at both coastal and inland wetlands. Common examples include plovers, sandpipers, curlews and s... | <urn:uuid:bf9edc93-9bc7-4ef5-8aeb-7b5cb33710a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://environment.gov.au/biodiversity/migratory/publications/wings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00039-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937061 | 631 | 4 | 4 |
Armor-plated Creature Founf In Canada’s Capital
Scientists have unearthed the remains of one of the world’s rarest fossils – in downtown Ottawa. The 450 million year old fossil preserves the complete skeleton of a plumulitid machaeridian, one of only 8 such specimens known. Plumulitids were annelid worms – the group in... | <urn:uuid:6ec8fe40-506e-4963-a716-33a70b6be128> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1837354/armorplated_creature_founf_in_canadas_capital/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00022-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96769 | 757 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Do you avoid the word “sales” in your marketing communications?
I don’t mean “sales” the noun, as in “Sales were up 12 percent year over year.”
I mean “sales” the adjective, as in “sales representative.”
When you publish your 800 number and invite prospects to call, who do you say is standing by to take their calls? Cu... | <urn:uuid:013fcb49-6766-4ad4-ba82-7218087e140f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://touchpointcity.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/do-you-consider-sales-a-dirty-word/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946905 | 1,185 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Finland supports the concept of comprehensive security adopted by the UN, in which conflict prevention is closely linked with peacebuilding and development. Moreover, the structures concentrating on the UN’s conflict prevention activities are developed and the relevant normative basis is reinforced. Finland considers t... | <urn:uuid:fc5bab88-dfde-4626-8757-f5b9b56b057f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.finlandun.org/public/default.aspx?nodeid=35897&contentlan=2&culture=en-US | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00024-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918925 | 1,112 | 2.296875 | 2 |
One of the go-to anecdotes Simple Machine founders Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser have about their iPhone golf-meets-Twitter game Twirdie involves a five-year-old picking up the game for the first time. According the the duo—classmates from the Parsons School of Design who found sudden success recently with the release of... | <urn:uuid:c67af759-5fb7-491f-a83d-ad0f413bad0b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/03/14/gdc-2012-developer-simple-machine-iphone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970603 | 1,240 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Funny how the world keeps turning around us. In the 1960's, the precursor to the Internet took shape in response to the U.S. military's need for a network that would be reliable despite being comprised of inherently unreliable interconnections. Today we still yearn for an Internet we can rely on to let us carry out our... | <urn:uuid:760a1251-3e4f-4951-97a6-fa70a12b94a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.threatgeek.com/2011/07/are-you-serious.html | 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 | 0.939473 | 634 | 1.882813 | 2 |
FROM Murrurundi to Mayfield, thousands of residents living alongside the Hunter’s coal corridor are demanding greater protection from the hundreds of tonnes of fine toxic dust dumped in their communities annually.
To read The Herald's opinion, click here.
With coal exports through the Port of Newcastle expected to sign... | <urn:uuid:a621d27b-45ae-43eb-ab6b-9e4784244827> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theherald.com.au/story/205993/the-great-coal-cover-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00052-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95288 | 984 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The military pay charts linked below show pay and allowances that military personnel may be entitled to, based on their individual circumstances for the year 2009. Military members may be entitled to other pay and allowances, depending on the circumstances.
Misc. Pay Entitlements
Food Allowance (BAS)
Basic Allowance fo... | <urn:uuid:36794f00-daee-4f50-980e-fd950e4a7c94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://usmilitary.about.com/od/militarypaycharts/a/miscpay.htm | 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 | 0.958237 | 395 | 2.125 | 2 |
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
An agreement in which performance is done in installments. For example, where payments of money, delivery of goods, or performance of services are to be made in a series of payments, deliveries, or performances, usually on specific dates or upon certain happenings.
De... | <urn:uuid:d47eddac-5f60-4354-89bc-2815cbd01049> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Installment_contract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900477 | 89 | 1.6875 | 2 |
One of the best books I have read recently is “Free: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing Is Changing the Face of Business” by Chris Anderson. Whilst it is not, per se, about the cloud, but about innovation and economics, many discussions I have had about Windows Azure and cloud computing around the pricing ... | <urn:uuid:06117dfa-5d58-4be1-b32e-294d093716a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_gristwood/archive/2012/05/29/free-the-economics-of-abundance-and-why-zero-pricing-is-changing-the-face-of-business.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00042-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960185 | 365 | 1.851563 | 2 |
In my 15+ years of coaching real estate agents to be at the top of their game, I have seen that perfectionism does more harm than good. In fact there are at least 7 Ways that perfectionism stops you from success.
1. Perfectionism causes procrastination. Have you ever had a project that you really wanted to get done, bu... | <urn:uuid:ef0e2497-7ebb-4915-998d-fbddb2dc8cf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chariff.com/real-estate-news/Real-Estate-Marketing-Strategies-7-Ways-Perfectionism-Stops-You-from-Success.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975839 | 1,246 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Chinese Fortune Cookie
While I was going to write about all the reasons that people in the first half of their work life ought to be pounding down debt so that they can make life changing investments over the next several years in equities, commodities and real estate, the U.S. and China relationship came to the fore a... | <urn:uuid:48545c13-86f4-4cb4-a68a-b055074ebd18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bluemoundassetmanagement.com/letters-notes/83-chinese-fortune-cookie | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973465 | 1,616 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Control‐value theory: Using achievement emotions to improve understanding of motivation, learning, and performance in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 64
In this AMEE Guide, we consider the emergent theoretical and empirical work on human emotion and how this work can inform the theory, research, and practice of medic... | <urn:uuid:ffeff820-2474-4b6c-9d56-61feeb07e808> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.citeulike.org/user/jvasquezvasquez/article/11565801 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911185 | 226 | 2.234375 | 2 |
“ The Light in Delight”
Taken from Gallery Brochure for Deborah Garwood: Evan's Pond A Long Term Study of a Single Place;
Mildred Hawn Gallery October 2 to November 19, 2006.
Evans Pond, April 16, 2005[Croftside Forest Floor], parts 1-3.
Evans Pond: A Long Term Study of a Single Place is the title of this sequence of p... | <urn:uuid:521d9b76-6658-43a4-a65e-b228edf57700> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://smu.edu/cul/hamon/gallery/Garwood/commentary.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942584 | 932 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Al Davis never shied away from making bold moves as owner of the Oakland Raiders, especially when it came to hiring head coaches. In 1969, he chose John Madden, who at 32 became the youngest head coach in the NFL at the time. In 1998, Davis tabbed Jon Gruden, just 35-years-old to lead the Raiders into a new era.
But Da... | <urn:uuid:d8dccf64-a1f2-49f2-aef6-56b832dab435> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bayarea.sbnation.com/2011/10/8/2477760/al-davis-passes-at-82-lane-kiffin-reaction | 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 | 0.985261 | 334 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Du Toit, Cecilia Magdalena URN etd-12192005-115229 Document Title The recreational reading habits of adolescent readers : a case study Degree MA (English) Department Modern European Languages Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Prof S M Finn Keywords
- teenagers South Africa
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Tetbury Heritage Centre
In 1969 the Tetbury Magistrates Court was moved to Cirencester and the Police took over a new building in the London Road.
Tetbury Town Council then purchased the Victorian Police Station and Courtroom in Long Street.
The former Police Sergeant's living quarters currently house The Town Administ... | <urn:uuid:0ff964b3-83e4-488c-b4bd-4e1b0801616d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://malmesbury.com/local-days-out/239-tetbury-heritage-centre.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957205 | 448 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Here are some sustainable approaches towards resort operations followed by Six Senses Holistic Environmental Responsibility.
The resort has adopted a new direction by combining organic gardening using permaculture principals and an on-site recycling program. An organic raised bed garden is being built using a combinati... | <urn:uuid:bac8aa07-f1a4-4184-b0ed-33925c6b762a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sixsenses.com/evason-resorts/hua-hin/sustainability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947085 | 521 | 2.484375 | 2 |
for Veterans and the Public
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: If you have cirrhosis, won't you look yellow?
Cirrhosis is advanced scarring (fibrosis) in the liver. Many people who develop cirrhosis show no signs at all--they look exactly the same as they did before. For some people with cirrhosis, the scarring in the liver... | <urn:uuid:b545e7f3-68ca-4847-aeb4-536d611f861c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/patient/faqs/cirrhosis-jaundice.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965757 | 195 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Helping in the garden turned into a major rescue after a 82-year-old Dannevirke woman fell at least 30 metres down a cliff.
"It was quite a fall as the bank really is verging on a cliff face," Dannevirke fire chief Mike Finucane said.
The woman had been assisting another elderly person at the address in the garden on F... | <urn:uuid:b53489e6-1a39-4177-b00c-45e828a3e9e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/cliff-rescue-after-fall/1709135/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993024 | 523 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Born Aug 7 1919 - Died Feb 19 2012
Polymers and Production Thereof
HDPE and Polypropylene Plastics
Patent Number(s) 2,825,721
Paul Hogan and fellow research chemist Robert Banks were working for Phillips Petroleum in 1951 when they invented crystalline polypropylene and high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Together, the p... | <urn:uuid:aaa7b526-e067-4dbf-a307-892d52b0004a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/166.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950315 | 299 | 2.515625 | 3 |
In May 2009, the Colorado State Legislature passed House Bill 09-1319 and Senate Bill 09-285, the Concurrent Enrollment Programs Act. The collective intent is to broaden access to and improve the quality of concurrent enrollment programs, improve coordination between institutions of secondary education and institutions... | <urn:uuid:9e14c4da-e89a-4340-baa0-761f66d6e06e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cicpartnernetwork.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=134&Itemid=151 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914551 | 117 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Irons plays Humbert Humbert, the professor who can not control his physical desires for 12 year-old Dolores Haze (Swain) in yet another adaptation of Nabokov’s classic novel. —The Samuel Goldwyn Company
At once hailed by movieg rs and reviled by critics, filmmaker Adrian Lyne was an Academy Award-nominated director and... | <urn:uuid:c9f85064-eda4-45eb-b205-1e4d77e273f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mubi.com/films/lolita--2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975327 | 296 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Posted on October 10th, 2011 by lskenazy
Hi Readers — This is from an article by Tim Gill in The Guardian last week. Tim is a friend, an activist, a blogger and author of No Fear, a book examining what it means to grow up in a completely risk averse society. In the article I’m quoting from, he’s talking about how there... | <urn:uuid:7d2627a0-9f07-4963-a8e1-304babc035ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.freerangekids.com/one-ninth-the-freedom-kids-used-to-have/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968668 | 305 | 2.421875 | 2 |
If you use Moodle as your VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) of choice you’re not alone. The latest statistics from the Moodle community site are impressive: over 1 million teachers and over 68 million students in 232 countries use it. Whether you are thinking of dipping your toes in the waters of VLEs, or whether you ... | <urn:uuid:23422b7e-600e-4a0a-927f-de65fffcb961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emoderationskills.com/?tag=blended | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921446 | 308 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Home Network Defender: securing the perimeter
Cisco makes home networks more secure from the inside out.
And vice versa.
Credit: ⓒAlienCat – Fotolia.com
Today, Cisco announced an important step forward in improving security for home networks. Home Network Defender is designed to stop Web threats before they reach you, ... | <urn:uuid:5ca5d16b-1f1e-4915-8153-c61f1434482e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.networkgarage.com/2009/02/home_network_defender_securing.html | 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 | 0.911794 | 555 | 1.734375 | 2 |
New Paths Being Forged to Higher Education
With demand for talented workers rising exponentially while state and federal budgets continue to shrink, the race is on to find new ways to impart more credentials and degrees with less money. In particular, two emerging trends have received a fair share of attention lately: ... | <urn:uuid:bbcad6ed-31e8-4ab4-8e46-d6211050fd62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://education.uschamber.com/print/1441 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00061-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955034 | 849 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Black Narcissus (1947)
Description: British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' w... | <urn:uuid:638dcdf7-06d4-4c0e-a438-226f92666fe0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fun.familyeducation.com/movies/black-narcissus-1947/3849 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914236 | 306 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Companion column: Drinking water supplies will be put at risk
For nearly two decades, there has been talk of building a 183-acre dump about 3.5 miles east of Interstate 15, just south of state Route 76. Opponents include the nearby Pala Indians and others worried about long-term effects on the San Luis Rey River and it... | <urn:uuid:535e346e-23c4-42eb-957a-58baa50d030f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/28/long-landfill-saga/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00023-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945016 | 643 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Car Pulls Up Its Wheels To Become a Boat (Jul, 1940)
Car Pulls Up Its Wheels To Become a Boat
RETRACTING its wheels as an airplane does, a proposed amphibian automobile transforms itself into a rakish water craft. The picture above shows a model of the machine which Paul Pankotan, its inventor, plans to build at Miami,... | <urn:uuid:3257d144-284c-451a-8286-e7b2ebeb827e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/car-pulls-up-its-wheels-to-become-a-boat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926605 | 117 | 3.015625 | 3 |
VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian museum says skeletal remains found in an ancient grave are that of a woman metal worker — the first indication that women did such work thousands of years ago.
The Museum of Ancient History says the grave originates from the Bronze Age, which began more than 5,000 years ago and ended 3,200 yea... | <urn:uuid:409a1ed6-bc39-4c37-a1d9-6e0539510d0d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.azfamily.com/news/world/172461651.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981702 | 157 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/21/eurostat_skills/
A third of EU citizens lack basic computer skills
They're the lucky ones
More than a third of Europe's population have no basic computer skills, according to data published by the Statistical Office of European Communities.
Eurostat found that 37 pe... | <urn:uuid:7902e7fd-8a77-4ff0-8d5a-9231136c9f06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/21/eurostat_skills/print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965487 | 225 | 2.625 | 3 |
News 12 This Morning / Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011
NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Mossy Creek Elementary is the first school in the district to survey its student body and pinpoint where and how bullying is taking place.
The first few days of classes at Mossy Creek include a lesson centered around bullying.
It's a new approach guid... | <urn:uuid:59967ce9-4b7f-4e2e-bf1f-05d4582f9411> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wrdw.com/news/schools/headlines/Mossy_Creek_Elementary_School_starts_a_new_bullying_prevention_program_127819833.html?site=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00065-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97308 | 556 | 3.125 | 3 |
Window closing on cybersecurity bill in Congress
'The time remaining to do this is growing short,' Sen. Lieberman tells briefing
June 20, 2012 — CSO — Deadline? What deadline? The deadline for the U.S. Senate to vote on some version of a cybersecurity bill seems to be both amorphous and porous.
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Why put your history on paper? It’s your story, so it’s a good story worth recording. You’re as important as anyone who has written one. It’s a good source for updating your resume, job interviews and promotion evaluations — in managing and leading with a human touch.
What should be in it?
Where were you born and under... | <urn:uuid:2c97933b-7699-4be7-8a17-18b801790aee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/20630/write-your-autobiography-today | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977522 | 663 | 2.1875 | 2 |
India: business opportunities, technology ... and martinis
Untapped market ... India's population of more than 1 billion speaks for itself. Photo: Michele Mossop
When you get 149 women into a room, the chatter is inevitable. When they are all successful female entrepreneurs, the energy is palpable. Relationships are cr... | <urn:uuid:dd5b16df-dd3b-42d5-9ec9-98daefd3a732> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/managing/blogs/enterprise/india-business-opportunities-technology--and-martinis-20120620-20myt.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959686 | 1,091 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Yesterday, after the sun beat down on the city of London and the final firework had launched from the roof of the Olympic stadium - the Olympic park finally fell quiet.
Six weeks, countless medals and shattered world records have passed as the Olympics and Paralympics took over for the summer – but one clear question r... | <urn:uuid:7c817d61-49af-4023-8eca-ea18644d48c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.givemefootball.com/193098-olympic-stadium-what-next | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957914 | 963 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Neither at home nor abroad does the company appear to have a competitive answer to the dramatic decline in gas prices worldwide — sparked by the rapid development of American shale gas. Gazprom, the world’s largest producer of natural gas, has grown somnolent, its critics say, failing to invest in research and developm... | <urn:uuid:0f2403cd-e721-49d2-bd10-e90baefbfb4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wpost.com/world/europe/cumbersome-gazprom-losing-its-clout/2012/09/23/adf7ec08-fcf8-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948594 | 530 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Just a little thought piece on some environmental news happening here in the Bay Area.
So on the Nerd for Nature group that I am a part of, someone posted this article with the subject “wtf”
Besides that title being so incredibly alarmist, it is articles like this that give environmentalists a bad name. If the author h... | <urn:uuid:8a9a84ba-9151-4ca1-a257-ef6207cc3bfc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thesteve0.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974232 | 3,010 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Question: "What does the Bible say about bisexuality? Is being a bisexual a sin?"
Answer: The Bible nowhere directly mentions bisexuality. However, it is clear from the Bible's denunciations of homosexuality that bisexuality would also be considered sinful. Leviticus 18:22 declares having sexual relations with the same... | <urn:uuid:b71df2b2-33f3-43e4-a071-f4c04bc8a097> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gotquestions.org/Printer/bisexuality-sin-PF.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00054-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93015 | 378 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Pursuing a degree through the use of online classes has become much easier in recent years. There was a time when only certain degrees could be completed through online colleges. But improvements in technology and different ways to distribute information to students have made it possible for any degree to be completed ... | <urn:uuid:aaab93c1-87f1-45d7-bed2-d2c32584fbfd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.collegeonline.com/online-college-facts/are-online-schools-a-good-choice/completing-your-degree-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701852492/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105732-00049-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954525 | 822 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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A war crime is a serious violation of the laws applicable in armed conflict giving rise to individual criminal responsibility. Examples of war crimes include "murder, the ill-treatment or... | <urn:uuid:aa892739-fe3b-4ae6-9114-7e52c5aa21cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.linktv.org/topics/war-crime?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965667 | 343 | 3.4375 | 3 |
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
You may have heard that another brand of magnet novelty has recently come under attack by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). This myopic attack by the CPSC on that other brand has now put all brands of powerful magnets under scrutiny and endangered not only the fun of buil... | <urn:uuid:0f4f3481-20d9-4811-b221-d6121a078e9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://comicsonline.com/2012/08/product-review-nanodots-magnetic-constructors-new-safety-features/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00030-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94208 | 732 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Updated Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 08:39 PM
As some Republicans again threaten to use the debt-limit statute next year to leverage protection of tax rates for the wealthy, it’s worth going back 95 years to see how Americans viewed taxes and spending when that law passed.
The statute was born out of the need to pay... | <urn:uuid:4b3c052c-5cc8-4022-8e25-5ff09163fe67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mobile.seattletimes.com/story/today/2019884408/track-.-.-./ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976226 | 1,170 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Wherever I am in Philadelphia, I know that I am truly in the birthplace of America. Here on these same streets that our forefathers walked a mere two centuries ago, I can feel the presence of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, and Adams.
This history-steeped city still bears the mark of its founder, William Penn. When Pe... | <urn:uuid:20ce8a71-5c78-48f4-b96f-686a84d57114> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/city-guides/philadelphia-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697974692/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095254-00059-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958767 | 627 | 2.8125 | 3 |
by Aimée E. van Dijk, Manon van Eijsden, Karien Stronks, Reinoud J. B. J. Gemke, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte
Prenatal maternal stress could have permanent effects on the offspring’s tissue structure and function, which may predispose to cardiovascular diseases. We investigated whether maternal psychosocial stress is a prenat... | <urn:uuid:0d47c95c-ed89-4233-b2c1-feb349af4e68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biospace.com/collaborative/PLos_Article.aspx?id=20788 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915707 | 447 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Another problem that some narcoleptics experience is cataplexy, a sudden muscular weakness brought on by strong emotions (though many people experience cataplexy without having an emotional trigger). It often manifests as muscular weaknesses ranging ... | <urn:uuid:8c62feda-a6d7-4f1e-8121-ae2cee00e027> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://android-apps.com/applications/medical/narcolepsy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00046-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943374 | 207 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Cannibalism represents—as a consultant might say to a tribe considering such a practice—a waste of human resources. Corporate cannibalization—creating new products or services that eat into your existing business—can represent a waste of company resources. John A. Quelch and David Kenny warn in “Extend Profits, Not Pro... | <urn:uuid:4f710824-53e2-4b87-810e-8ffcfe8c070f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hbr.org/2007/02/lets-eat/ar/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00058-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955489 | 263 | 2.265625 | 2 |
A new partnership between Freerice and Kaplan Test Prep means studying for the SAT will make a big difference on test scores – and in the global fight against hunger.
You already know that today’s students are the voice of our future. Better yet, they are eager to use their unique voice to explore creative ways to solv... | <urn:uuid:a21a65e4-45de-4164-aa1f-a31617e71689> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wfp.org/students-and-teachers/teachers/blog/sat-prep-makes-world-difference-freerice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00027-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927743 | 476 | 2.390625 | 2 |
We have a small Whole Foods somewhat close by, nothing like the giant one in New York pictured here. I signed up for a free guided tour that offers ideas for keeping the grocery store from being called "Whole Paycheck." Free samples included Ugly Fruit, Comte Cheese (which I'm gonna have to find space for in my budget)... | <urn:uuid:1a17513f-ebe2-483e-aad8-018458f5fafb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eatlikearabbit.net/2010/04/14/guided-tour-whole-foods | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953175 | 1,054 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Andy Ferguson, author of a terrific book about the madness of the American college application process, offers a negative review of President Obama's college tuition proposals:
Details of the administration’s plan make it clear that the president isn’t too terribly cheesed off at American higher education after all. Fo... | <urn:uuid:bfb73316-0cf4-4b2b-901c-c9b2596be80b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/30/the-tuition-gouge.print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00067-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96128 | 747 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Touch screens, scanners and electronic medical records helped land the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center as one of the nation's "Most Wired Hospitals" in a recent edition of "Hospitals & Health Networks" magazine.
Advancements in technology can help make our lives easier and safer. But many of it works behind the scen... | <urn:uuid:17fabbb1-1239-47f6-90ef-2289792ba4c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wndu.com/news/healthnews/headlines/SJRMC_named_among_Most_Wired_for_paperless_effort_127324803.html?site=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00048-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971646 | 694 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Psychology - A Resume
( Originally Published 1916 )
THE aims with which we set out were : to study in the light of modern psychology the characteristic endowments of human nature, the native tendencies and powers which, as they are called into activity by the challenge of outward conditions, determine to a large extent... | <urn:uuid:cc5ffe0c-40bd-41a2-92f0-4998bd78d267> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oldandsold.com/articles24/personality-11.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971876 | 646 | 2.5625 | 3 |
"Bans alone don't solve the problem," he said on ABC's "This Week," pointing to a prohibition on military-style weapons that was in effect in 1999 when the shooting at Columbine High School claimed the lives of 12 students and one teacher.
Barrasso said Americans "can get false sense of security from Washington, and in... | <urn:uuid:0a02e81d-99fb-4952-b33f-bfb1ddc78f26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kcra.com/news/politics/Republicans-not-jumping-onto-NRA-s-gun-plan/-/11797268/17881862/-/item/1/-/dut4ptz/-/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970782 | 267 | 1.625 | 2 |
Renewable Energy Sources
One of the most common uses of renewable energy is to heat the water of outdoor swimming pools using solar collectors.
While solar energy is a familiar terminology these days, many people don’t know much about any of the other renewable energy sources yet? These are wind, geothermal heat, and r... | <urn:uuid:4bf9fc24-3891-464d-b075-4175395d5b91> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.solarpanelwindturbine.com/renewable-energy/renewable-energy-sources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952364 | 689 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Walt Whitman Archive
This site presents the work of one of America's most influential poets, bringing together the various editions of Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, as well as Whitman's notebooks, poetry manuscripts, prose essays, letters, and journal articles. It also makes available the introductions to each... | <urn:uuid:6f8667b4-2a4e-4e18-aea0-f339cf62ff54> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/22671 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947637 | 255 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In addition to the following questions about TIMSS, more FAQs about international assessments are available at: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/faqs.asp.
Yes. The composition of participating countries in TIMSS has changed somewhat from 1995 to 2007, as some countries have dropped out and others have joined.
I... | <urn:uuid:99fb0046-d956-4703-a881-12b4cfa1ae26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nces.ed.gov/TIMSS/faq.asp?FAQType=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00045-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959432 | 222 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Prof. Alan V. Oppenheim
This course was developed in 1987 by the MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Studies. It was designed as a distance-education course for engineers and scientists in the workplace.
Advances in integrated circuit technology have had a major impact on the technical areas to which digital signal pro... | <urn:uuid:3d59dea9-eb1d-47d9-bd3f-fec45befb412> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-6-008-digital-signal-processing-spring-2011/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938591 | 197 | 3.375 | 3 |
What is cancer?
Cancer is a disease that starts in our cells. Our bodies are made up of millions of cells, grouped together to form tissues and organs such as muscles and bones, the lungs and the liver. Genes inside each cell order it to grow, work, reproduce and die. Normally, our cells obey these orders and we remain... | <urn:uuid:82538c17-936d-410a-813b-2e71c3458156> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-101/what-is-cancer?region=ab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948531 | 277 | 3.734375 | 4 |
York St John University staff and students have launched an appeal to help Tsunami victims rebuild their lives by turning t-shirts into sandals.
The seaside village of Takashirahama was completely destroyed by the Tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, with every house except one storehouse being washed away. After much... | <urn:uuid:a845ef64-c703-4cf8-85ff-26a165945dfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oneandother.com/articles/the-tsunami-appeal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969919 | 552 | 1.9375 | 2 |
An Egyptian commission investigating the deaths of protesters during the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011 says the former president knew the extent of the protests and the crackdown against them.
The commission says Mubarak watched live video feeds of the protests and the brutal response of his security forc... | <urn:uuid:b13af68b-dd9a-46b9-8cbc-dc19f8391436> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.rferl.org/content/egypt-commission-implicates-mubarak-in-protest-deaths/24814513.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00035-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98514 | 168 | 1.632813 | 2 |
What Chanie’s journey to aliyah says about racism
Our correspondent, recently back from Ethiopia, sees Israel’s treatment of the Falashmura as a symptom of the mess that is aliyah
Chanie Tewabe Baruk left Ethiopia three weeks ago for a Jewish Agency absorption centre in the Galilee. As a Falashmura, the descendant of E... | <urn:uuid:25dcc57e-4844-40f7-a8b6-676978821e09> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thejc.com/comment/essays/what-chanie%E2%80%99s-journey-aliyah-says-about-racism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969876 | 2,378 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Japanese actor who took Kabuki to the world dies at 57
TOKYO (Reuters) - One of Japan's top kabuki actors, who worked hard to modernise the centuries-old theatre form and performed around the world, died on Wednesday after a five-month battle with cancer, Japanese media repored.
Kanzaburo Nakamura, 57, was born to a fa... | <urn:uuid:fc2513ae-de29-42ba-a9a5-4a5a539e6eac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/12/05/japan-kabuki-idINDEE8B403I20121205 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00041-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973856 | 329 | 1.648438 | 2 |
European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection
Railroad Bridge, ArgenteuilMade in France, Europe
Claude Monet, French, 1840 - 1926
Oil on canvas
Cat. 1050John G. Johnson Collection, 1917
LabelIn the 1860s and 1870s Monet, like his Impressionist colleagues, often depicted industrial France. Here, a train crosses a ne... | <urn:uuid:987fe8c0-0cce-43e6-ae7a-c0fee719eb67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/101731.html?mulR=2297%7C18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943281 | 145 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Journey to Australia
Journey to Australia is a hand written diary by Renoldas Cesna of the journey he and his family made from Germany to Australia in 1949. It was written in Bonegilla Australia, at the beginning 4 May 1949
Eighteen year old Renoldas wrote in Lithuanian in an old school exercis... | <urn:uuid:22bd3b0c-4742-419c-b42c-909fc1a83327> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://salithohistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/journey-to-australia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00038-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971226 | 270 | 2.125 | 2 |
FOREST HILLS—The former St. Andrew the Apostle Church complex at Walk Hill and Wachusett streets lacks any kind of historic protection, leaving a developer free to alter or demolish any of the buildings, including the 1921 stone church.
A 2003 historic survey recommended the complex for listing on the National Register... | <urn:uuid:853a0d65-d9b2-499a-9ef9-cf2b28892505> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jamaicaplaingazette.com/2007/09/07/st_andrews_lacks_historic_protection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00021-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962879 | 2,512 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency (LEA)
Waste Tire Enforcement Program
Waste and Used Tire Overview
California generates approximately 33 million waste and used tires every year, roughly equal to the combined total generated in Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, and Missouri.
The Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency (LEA... | <urn:uuid:53779826-2256-410d-9d77-7c9e14caecf4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sandiego.gov/development-services/industry/lea/tire.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701459211/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105059-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9427 | 375 | 2.546875 | 3 |
There are two types of marriage licenses a couple may apply for: Regular and Confidential.
Both licenses may be obtained at the County Clerk-Recorders Office.
California residency and U. S. citizenship are not requirements for marriage in
California. Only two unmarried persons over the age of 18 years of age may apply
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Corrective Actions ? Checklist
1. Contact the fraud department of any one of the three credit reporting bureaus to place a fraud alert on your credit report.
Regardless of whether or not thieves have already misused your personal information, the most important thing that you can do is minimize the damage done to your ... | <urn:uuid:aff37f14-2ef4-44b6-8334-9bafd5c316ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/idtheft.aspx?id=1812&LangType=1034 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945509 | 1,488 | 1.585938 | 2 |
It’s not every day that GQ magazine puts a Kansan on its cover. The men's fashion monthly did just that in November of 2005, however, when it prominently featured Attorney General, Phill Kline and his anti-abortion crusade. The magazine declared him “the future of the pro-life movement.” Within four years of the GQ spr... | <urn:uuid:9ccb09b6-615b-41da-abbc-855b554333d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mail.teapartynationalism.com/issue-areas/nation-state-and-citizenship/itemlist/tag/Planned%20Parenthood | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962934 | 184 | 1.578125 | 2 |