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November 7, 2011
The Non-Robotic Robot
In popular parlance, the term “robotic” verges on the insulting. It implies uninspired, unthinking and repetitive. Yet at the same time, robots themselves are cool—striding through popular culture in science fiction and reality shows, alongside (or in place of) military troops, se... | <urn:uuid:54b19525-a1bf-4b0b-ad74-43a706f52626> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://convergence.ucsb.edu/article/robotic-renaissance | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954764 | 3,979 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Myth: The US was forced to declare war on Japan after a totally unexpected Japanese attack on the American naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On account of Japan’s alliance with Nazi Germany, this aggression automatically brought the US into the war against Germany.
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Many think of child abuse as physical abuse only.
In reality, inflicting harm of any kind upon a child or teenager
is child abuse. Categories of child abuse include Child Neglect,
Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and more specifically, the focus
of this program, CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
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The Creation Wiki is now operating on a new and improved server.
From CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
Peleg (Hebrew: פּלג, Pẹleḡ; Greek: Φάλεγ, Phaleg; "division") (Tammuz 1757 AMJuly 2246 BC
Av 1514 He
Tammuz 1757 AM-Tammuz 1996 AMJuly 2007 BC
Av 1753 He
Tammuz 1996 AM) is the first named son of Ebe... | <urn:uuid:23d80b5c-f420-45ed-b11e-26bec07c2ecd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://creationwiki.org/Peleg | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95145 | 1,156 | 3.125 | 3 |
October 25, 2012
New Seafloor Bacteria Discovered, Built like Undersea Electric Cables
By Colleen Lynch
An undersea mystery has finally been solved, but the answer is almost a mystery in itself. Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark have discovered that areas of the seafloor which were strangely able to conduct... | <urn:uuid:a4fa17ea-6097-4805-97c8-54861df8d112> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com/topics/dark-fiber/articles/313441-new-seafloor-bacteria-discovered-built-like-undersea-electric.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96285 | 441 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day)
Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants.
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Weather, temperature, carbon, water, soil and all other kinds of climate related open data. Including (but not limited to) data about:
- the atmosphere
- the weather
- air quality
- the ocean
- water levels
- water quality
- carbon emissions
- soil erosion
Existing Lists of Climate Datasets to Migrate Here
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Meaning stories deal with our beliefs about the nature of reality, our human nature, our relationship to creation, and the purpose of our existence. They are embedded in the creation stories that are the foundation of most human belief systems.
Patriarch, Chance, or Integral Spirit?
Duane E. Sherwood
Some say the unive... | <urn:uuid:4dd2d9e8-f22a-47ed-985e-bd410bd168de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://davidkorten.org/meaning-stories | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91478 | 1,109 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Book of Ruth:A Story of Love and Redemption
A Daily-Bible-Reading Study
The Book of Ruth
Deborah H. Bateman
Christian Daily Resources
About The Book
The Book of Ruth is a Daily Bible Reading Devotional. The Book of Ruth A Story of Love and Redemption is a love story from the Bible. The characters in “The Book of Ru... | <urn:uuid:114e0f00-55dd-4921-baf5-66faadc3bb48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://deborahhbateman.com/books-by-deborah-h-bateman/the-book-of-ruth-a-story-of-love-and-redemption/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936955 | 1,467 | 2.53125 | 3 |
|informal (US), (Canadian) short for mathematics Brit equivalent: maths|
|an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.|
|a fool or simpleton; ninny.|
in Hinduism, any monastic establishment of world renouncers or sannyasis. The first mathas were founded b... | <urn:uuid:8835a335-094b-4f3e-a657-277a15bee0ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Matha | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925704 | 272 | 2.96875 | 3 |
The presumed shallow time depth of the human Y-chromosome phylogeny is one of the main arguments of the recent Out-of-Africa theory. One of the major things I found while working on my Y-STR series is that point estimates from Y-STR variation are associated with huge confidence intervals, because of uncertainty about f... | <urn:uuid:fad6a481-6b7c-4e34-ae5f-0581ec99fd7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-old-is-y-chromosome-adam.html?showComment=1293964793333 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933544 | 1,288 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The fact that genomic diversity in Native Americans can be recovered from their admixed descendants presents new hope for prehistoric studies, as in many places of the world (e.g., North Africa or Central Asia), admixture events took place that are not as well understood since they did not happen to be well-recorded by... | <urn:uuid:75270ab5-a387-42b9-8c26-692e0c21b371> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/03/genetic-variation-in-native-americans.html?showComment=1300287878299 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918593 | 545 | 2.859375 | 3 |
National Assocation of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Archives
The National Association of Teachers of Singing was established in 1944 as an educational and collaborative resource for the profession. Through workshops, conferences, events, and publications such as the Journal of Singing, NATS supports the teaching of singi... | <urn:uuid:abcddfd1-b1e5-46f0-bb6d-5b55c0b6a422> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADAbstract.do?source=/MdU.ead.scpa.0122.xml&style=abstract&docname=/MdU.ead.scpa.0122.xml | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899161 | 149 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dr. K.M.D. Dunbabin
The 'La Ghorfa' stelae from Roman Africa offer a unique opportunity to study the social and cultural identity of an unusual cult, one that combined aspects of the Punic, Roman, and indigenous cultures. The context and origins of the votive stelae were not rec... | <urn:uuid:92968533-e7ff-496e-bfc1-86325e2dca08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/1674/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907123 | 419 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Sharing Books and Learning Language: What do Latina Mothers and Their Young Children Do?
Early Education and Development
Taylor and Francis
This study examined low-income, Spanish-speaking, immigrant Latina mothers' book sharing behaviors in relation to their children's vocabulary. Participants were 47 3-year-old child... | <urn:uuid:b5158720-06c4-4c1f-aa7c-64f215dc6a94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fchd_facpub/217/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952101 | 288 | 3 | 3 |
Some 3.5 billion years ago, a single-celled organism now named LUCA (for the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on Earth) developed the ability to pull oxygen out of its environment. Although LUCA is long gone, University of Hawaii microbiologist Maqsudul Alam has taken a step toward understanding the secret be... | <urn:uuid:6f68e90c-6447-4914-90b4-113218e933d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2004/aug/origin-of-breathing0804 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927491 | 432 | 3.9375 | 4 |
By Tammy Handsheik
The incidence of people with bowel troubles is on the rise in the western world. Though the afflictions bear several names, it is my belief that all of them are fungus based. Various species of candida, most notably candida albicans, are at the root of these problems. How do they enter into your syst... | <urn:uuid:4417138b-6111-4ba7-9fc5-805af17a9549> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://docakilah.wordpress.com/tag/sugar/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954101 | 2,492 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Memory-mapped file objects behave like both bytearray and like file objects. You can use mmap objects in most places where bytearray are expected; for example, you can use the re module to search through a memory-mapped file. You can also change a single byte by doing obj[index] = 97, or change a subsequence by assigni... | <urn:uuid:b636de05-d717-47af-ac57-614e8a8186c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/mmap.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829058 | 1,910 | 3.015625 | 3 |
GERD and Acid Reflux in Infants and Children
Most infants occasionally spit up throughout the day. However, when regurgitation causes other problems or is associated with other symptoms, it may be due to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which can also occur in older children.
What Are the Symptoms of Acid Reflux... | <urn:uuid:f7918d34-16fa-4bb0-8dc5-47bba9de344c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://doctor.webmd.com/local/connecticut/new-haven-milford/pediatric-gastroenterologists.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934482 | 193 | 3.15625 | 3 |
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On August 2nd and 3rd 1944, several thousand Roma and Sinti were massacred at the Zigeunerlager in Auschwtiz-Birkenau concentration camp.
An estimated 600.000 to 1,5 million Roma were exterminated during the Holocaust. As a percentage, that makes Roma the ethnic group most affected by the Nazi killings. Ov... | <urn:uuid:b6e27a01-bbdb-4da0-8b83-d51416aa8c8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dosta.org/node/33 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962292 | 2,175 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Stories encourage dreams - reading helps kids make their dreams come true. That singular idea - that we can help kids realize their dream - is the foundation of Share a Story - Shape a Future.
Share a Story - Shape a Future is a blog event for literacy. Throughout the week, blogging librarians, teachers, parents, autho... | <urn:uuid:009147ed-27e7-4403-a0f3-457c1069f29b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dulemba.blogspot.com/2009/02/share-story-shape-future.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917241 | 432 | 2.875 | 3 |
DENVER – Put on your poodle skirts and tune in Elvis on the transistor radio, because it’s starting to look a lot like the 1950s.
Unfortunately, this won’t be the nostalgic ’50s of big cars and pop music.
The 1950s that could be on the way to Colorado is the decade of drought.
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On this day in 1973, a week after her appointment, 18-year-old Felda Looper took up her duties as the first woman to serve as a House page. Speaker Carl Albert (D-Okla.) chose her after Looper mounted a successful campaign that sought to admit girls to the page program. “The practice of having only male pages in the Ho... | <urn:uuid:c499c79c-5d8f-46bb-bf0b-49119c768c6c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=E5723BC1-2ED3-4DD7-B4D9-F02424D47C37 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986705 | 415 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Solar energy is a growing market. Solar Today, The American Solar Energy Society’s magazine, indicates that solar energy has already begun to challange conventional non-renewable energy sources. According to the numeric date the Society has given, the residential solar panel installations have almost doubled in 2009 re... | <urn:uuid:1087de42-790c-4ec0-8527-ee6a8a274999> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ecofuture.net/energy/solar-panels-for-home/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936197 | 667 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Water Conservation; Environmental Economics & Policies; Governance Indicators; Poverty Assessment; Health Economics & Finance; Community Development and Empowerment; Decentralization; Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems
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Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.
In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday ... | <urn:uuid:21472076-ded1-4dd5-8111-81a8a31669f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://elev8.com/510495/what-is-veterans-day/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956895 | 365 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Minesweeper (video game)
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The player is initially presented with a grid of undifferentiated squares. Some randomly selected squares, unknown to the player, are designated to c... | <urn:uuid:089f6ddb-9693-4e69-b581-2131be363d6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938215 | 2,118 | 3.25 | 3 |
|State of Ohio|
|Nickname(s): The Buckeye State; The Mother of Presidents;
Birthplace of Aviation; The Heart of It All
|Motto(s): With God, all things are possible|
|Official language(s)||None. (English, de facto)|
|Spoken language(s)||English 93.3%
|Demonym||Ohioan; Buckeye (colloq.)|
(and largest city)
|Largest metro... | <urn:uuid:3a61fc79-e47b-4a57-9ffd-c1c5f0c84d19> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.mobile.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892551 | 14,426 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Bombing of Mannheim in World War II
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As part of Operation Abigail Rachel, the "first deliberate terror raid" on Germany took place on December 16, although with poor effect even though one hundred tonnes of explosives and 14,000 incendiaries wer... | <urn:uuid:9963668f-0361-4670-bd0a-2052f2fef453> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Mannheim_in_World_War_II | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949095 | 501 | 3.359375 | 3 |
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A Kairyu "Sea Dragon" in the Aburatsubo inlet.
|Completed:||200–213 (sources vary)|
|Type:||Kairyu (海龍 "Sea Dragon") class midget submarine|
|Displacement:||19.3 t (21.3 short tons)|
|Length:||17.2 m (56 ft 5 in)|
|Beam:||1.3 m (4 ft 3 in)|
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Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, 1880-1885.
|Family||King Hamlet (father)
Claudius (uncle, stepfather)
|Role||Prince of Denmark|
|Quote||"To be, or not to be, that is the question"|
Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew to the usurping Claudi... | <urn:uuid:40c8cc15-bc40-4fb0-8e87-509ff71996be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hamlet | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972534 | 4,609 | 2.765625 | 3 |
- Seigniorage derived from specie—metal coins—is a tax, added to the total price of a coin (metal content and production costs), that a customer of the mint had to pay to the mint, and that was sent to the sovereign of the political area.
- Seigniorage derived from notes is more indirect, being the difference between i... | <urn:uuid:198485b8-0449-4714-a4c4-54a7c44096c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937179 | 3,301 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Piano Sonata No. 7 (Scriabin)
The Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, subtitled White Mass, was written by Alexander Scriabin in 1911. As one of the late piano sonatas of Scriabin's career, the music is highly chromatic and almost atonal.
The White Mass is closely related to its predecessor, the sixth sonata. Both works were w... | <urn:uuid:8598b557-75fb-43ee-9c1b-a162d31ee2a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_No._7_(Scriabin) | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923213 | 814 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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|This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. (March 2013)|
||This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (March 2013)|
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Family: Ardeidae, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns view all from this family
Description ADULT Has pure white plumage with elegant plumes evident during breeding season. Legs are black and feet are yellow (orange tinged at height of breeding season). Daggerlike bill is dark and lores are yellow for much of the time, but are fl... | <urn:uuid:6e15c0b7-9d4e-4114-b062-b295f0c3153b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?sortBy=has+audio&curFamilyID=219&curGroupID=1&lgfromWhere=&viewType=&curPageNum=7 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925653 | 348 | 3.0625 | 3 |
A new kind of thyristor – an electronic switch – has the potential to change the landscape for power control and conversion. And it's thanks to a partnership between the Energy Department’s Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and GeneSiC Semiconductor that this technology is now on the market. Learn more.
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BiologyThe distinctive narrow snout of the gharial is a superb adaptation for catching prey underwater. By providing very little resistance to water, it enables the gharial to whip its head sideways through the water to snatch fish with its small, razor-sharp teeth (2) (7). Although adults ... | <urn:uuid:2eb0c5e0-dc5d-4772-9f06-433d9aad5f49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eol.org/pages/794627/overview | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949504 | 299 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Morphological and genetic variation indicate cryptic species within Lamarck’s little sea star, Parvulastra (=Patiriella) exigua
Hart, Michael W., Keever, Carson C., Dartnall, Alan J., and Byrne, Maria (2006) Morphological and genetic variation indicate cryptic species within Lamarck’s little sea star, Parvulastra (=Pat... | <urn:uuid:155fce45-1d5e-4c35-a076-090f6f87d6e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/4068/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.793159 | 587 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Abell, Jacqueline (2013) Volunteering to help conserve endangered species:an identity approach to human-animal relationships. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 23 (2). pp. 157-170.Full text not available from this repository.
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VLTI observations of the radii of four small stars
The radii and masses of the four very-low-mass stars now observed with the VLTI, GJ 205, GJ 887, GJ 191 (also known as "Kapteyn''s star") and Proxima Centauri (red filled circles; with error bars). For comparison, planet Jupiter's mass and radius are also plotted (blue... | <urn:uuid:0fe245f7-49df-4a89-861a-e329222c30b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eso.org/public/images/eso0232c/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.836671 | 180 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Planning Begins for Experiment to Study Influence of Aerosols on California Water Supply
September 10, 2008
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Last week, while reading a brief
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because they were seen as "a threat
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This was a term paper for The Public Library a graduate level course offered by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University.
The role of the public library has always been to preserve the knowledge of the past as well as the present. Though this has changed slightly in the past century, with ... | <urn:uuid:192569fa-dfde-4e0e-a190-d31d4d17c103> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/Public+Libraries+and+the+Preservation+of+Materials+in+the+21st+century | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960734 | 2,746 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Prasad is the reverse of dakshina in Hindu religious and spiritual practices - it is a gift from the guru or god back to the devotee, usually in the form of food. The devotee, having offered his or her gift, is given a sweetmeat or a piece of fruit from a large bowl. This is prasad, and represents the offering of divin... | <urn:uuid:1701f960-16e7-4fff-b921-e56ad7b5d1eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://everything2.com/title/prasad | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963091 | 228 | 2.8125 | 3 |
3rd Regiment, Virginia State Line (Cavalry and Infantry) (Confederate)Edit This Page
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The 3rd Regiment, Virginia State Line was organized in 1862 and was composed of cavalry and infantry. On April 11, 1863, most of the men enlisted in Colonel William L. Jackson's 19th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry.
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Description: A map of Bloxham County showing the proposed county lines, the proposed county seat (Williston), railroads, canals and principal auto routes connecting the major cities current to 1917. Bloxham County was a proposed county in Florida named for Governor William D. Bloxham, and was to incorporate lands from ... | <urn:uuid:5c0a63ff-fbe3-4269-af7e-c980600b3872> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/1700/f1798/f1798p2.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930401 | 152 | 2.6875 | 3 |
When In Rome
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and it also took three days to sack. The Visigoths ended their rampage on this day in 410.
At the time, Rome was little more than a very rich mausoleum. The Eastern–more stable–half of the Roman Empire was ruled from Constantinople. The Western, reeling half was now tenuously ru... | <urn:uuid:1432cbf6-1313-4850-a18e-244e71f6d84f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/08/27/when-in-rome-2/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981018 | 673 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Come and visit the preschool themes
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Lecture Details :
Linear programming and Extensions by Prof. Prabha Sharma, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Course Description :
The objective of this course is to introduce those real life problems which can be formulated as Linear Programmin... | <urn:uuid:34a1c64a-ff8c-4408-ba35-dd32ec775945> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://freevideolectures.com/Course/3010/Linear-programming-and-Extensions/9 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.814404 | 1,055 | 2.859375 | 3 |
“Peaceable kingdom”? Not in the real, often violent world of nature.
This story is featured in Montana Outdoors
Some of my most vivid memories of wild creatures come from having seen their most aggressive behaviors. Two red squirrels, locked together tooth and claw, tumbling through dried leaves in a fight over territo... | <urn:uuid:719dc295-55ef-4f5c-9841-344164d15bd3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2006/warriors.htm | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957778 | 2,455 | 3.140625 | 3 |
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 25, 2002
National Bone and Joint Decade Proclamation
National Bone and Joint Decade, 2002-2011
By the President of the United States of America
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Region of the electromagnetic spectrum extending from about
This is the wavelength
region to which the human eye is sensitive.
There are no precise limits for the spectral range of visible radiation since
they depend upon the amount of radiant power
reaching the retina and on the responsivity
of the observer.
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Army Corps of Engineers
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In an era when almost every energy technology is unpopular with somebody, the people who don’t want wind turbines, generating stations or new transmission lines installed in their neighborhoods often raise the idea of improving energy efficiency as an alternative.
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The Torah tells of the Jews desperation and anguish when hope seemed lost:
וּפַרְעֹה הִקְרִיב וַיִּשְׂאוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת עֵינֵיהֶם וְהִנֵּה מִצְרַיִם נֹסֵעַ אַחֲרֵיהֶם וַיִּירְאוּ מְאֹד וַיִּצְעֲקוּ בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶל הֹ – Pharaoh drew near, and the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold! the Egypt... | <urn:uuid:fe667fbf-dbc2-463b-b41d-dc82d908c879> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gtorah.com/category/sources/r-yitzchok-hutner/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861939 | 1,535 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Watson discovered the structure of DNA when he was 24. Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle when he was 25. Newton claimed to have developed his gravitational theory when he was 24. Darwin embarked on the Beagle when he was 22.
I could go on for hours like this.
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The Jinns In The Qur’an
Previously, we explained that God gave Prophet Solomon (pbuh) great support by putting the jinns under his command. Now, we must consider what we are told in the Qur'an. For example:
And He created the jinns from a fusion of fire. (Qur'an, 55:15)
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Denture adhesive is a non-toxic, water-soluble material that is placed between the denture and the tissues in your mouth to enhance the normal physiological forces that hold dentures in place. It can come in both cream and powder form and reduces movement and slippage when you do things like eat, speak, laugh, cough or... | <urn:uuid:80c24022-d19e-4338-a969-800b7fd6d445> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.mytelus.com/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=5596&channel_id=1029&relation_id=87329 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952184 | 215 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Is Your Medication Working for You?
Prescription drugs can enhance your life, but when not used correctly, they may have the opposite effect.
Medications are serious business and should never be taken lightly. Ask these questions each time you’re prescribed a medication:
Q: How should I take this drug?
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Older men are more likely than younger ones to have children with autism or schizophrenia, and a new genetic study points to why: compared with younger dads, older fathers pass on significantly more random genetic mutations to their offspring that increase the risk for these conditions.
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1st and 4th or, a chief indented azure; 2nd and 3rd gules three covered cups or.
out of a ducal coronet or a plume of five ostrich feathers argent, therefrom issuant a falcon rising of the last.
utler is a name to be found in every walk of life in Ireland. The name is true of England. In the absence of a reliable pedig... | <urn:uuid:436aac4b-302d-4d39-895b-c20a7f591cd0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heraldry.celticradio.net/search.php?id=99 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97387 | 924 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Caste in Transition
Education, economics and protest drive changes and reform to India's ancient societal divisions
Caste is not a pleasant topic for Hindus, and in the international arena today, it has elicited a shame upon the Hindu religion. I have written this article to initiate dialogue within our community. The ... | <urn:uuid:7452e204-d3b7-46e2-85f4-4249228e833d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=3767 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961575 | 4,617 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Achilles Tendon Rupture
Type of Procedure: Outpatient
Length of Procedure: One hour
Anesthesia: General and popliteal block
Rupture of the Achilles Tendon: What Is It?
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CHAPTER X. KING COTTON
For two weeks there was no lightening of Southern depression in England. But on June 28 McClellan had been turned back from his advance on Richmond by Lee, the new commander of the Army of Virginia, and the much heralded Peninsular campaign was recognized to have been a disastrous failure. Earlie... | <urn:uuid:ca0266cd-1a05-424c-93cb-caffa6f3eb2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://historion.net/great-britain-and-american-civil-war/chapter-x-king-cotton | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972021 | 926 | 3.453125 | 3 |
4 Nero ascended to the Roman throne.
1332 Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan became the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1775 The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
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Optics: Light at Work - Part I. Part 2
You can order free DVDs from SPIE: Light in Action:
Lasers, Cameras & Other Cool Stuff; Optics: Light at Work; and Careers in Optics.
& Optics: Science and Art Closer Than You Think
Optical technology and the study of light go far back in human
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Pascal’s Triangle is a special triangular arrangement of numbers used in many areas of mathematics. It is named after the famous 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal because he developed so many of the triangle’s properties. However, this triangular arrangement of numbers was known by the Arabian poet and ma... | <urn:uuid:7a83b8ab-ac7e-4b18-be31-d445000cca1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hotmath.com/hotmath_help/topics/pascals-triangle.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927657 | 737 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Monitoring power usage effectiveness paints a powerful picture
As the importance of information technology has grown in the world of business, data centers have become the centerpieces at many companies. The demands placed on these facilities—and the HVAC systems that serve them—grow constantly and will likely continue... | <urn:uuid:1e54fa8a-cfa4-4220-a349-5a9e2edf8290> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hpac.com/bas-controls/pue-effective-metric-data-1111 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920737 | 1,147 | 2.578125 | 3 |
EPO is a nootropicWednesday, 10 September, 2008
Erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that increases red blood cells and is used as a performance enhancer for athletic performance, has now been shown to enhance memory in normal, healthy mice. Mice that received EPO injections had enhanced memory for 3-4 weeks afterwards, whi... | <urn:uuid:4b6d67c9-bf43-419d-bd2a-90f5140e91f2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hplusbiopolitics.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/epo-is-a-nootropic/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960158 | 465 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Resources - Homeschool Groups - Article
This article was published in the HSLDA Discount Groups E-Zine, March 2007.
Guest Article: A Mom Shares Her Perspective—
Making Families of Handicapped Students Welcome
By Esther Mast
Given that homeschoolers come in all shapes and sizes, it is not surprising to find a few in whe... | <urn:uuid:cf203a3e-c499-44d2-8ad0-8eae725d987d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hslda.org/GroupServices/Leaders.aspx/Handicapped | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966995 | 416 | 2.71875 | 3 |
SIRAT : THE FORGOTTEN IBAN ATTIRE
The loincloths was once of the most basic markers of cultural identity, is now distinctively ignored among modern Ibans. Even the so called expert such as the anthropologists give a word or two regarding it, then pass on to other matters. The writers on customs seems to forgot the topi... | <urn:uuid:a21552f9-8936-44ac-b4d3-2091d8b0c778> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ibancustoms.wordpress.com/iban-traditional-clothing-and-attire/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953311 | 3,160 | 2.875 | 3 |
The Place of Face-to-Face Communication in Distributed Work
Type of work: Book Chapter
Categories:ICT & Information Society | Participation & Uses
Most distributed work requires mediated communication, but the appropriate use of mediated, as compared with face-to-face communication, is not well understood. From our eth... | <urn:uuid:828d6246-17c4-4285-bdbb-b53e4cb4156a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ictlogy.net/bibliography/reports/projects.php?idp=716 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906411 | 222 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Optimal Control Theory for Undergraduates
AbstractDynamic optimization is widely used in financial economics, macroeconomics and resource economics. This is accounting for some tension between the undergraduate and graduate teaching of economics because most undergraduate programs still concentrate on static economic a... | <urn:uuid:c3792403-7cdc-469a-9441-441b018c82d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ideas.repec.org/p/uwa/wpaper/05-07.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.812372 | 658 | 2.6875 | 3 |
by John Campbell
I had always thought that Africa was a cornucopia of mineral riches: gold, platinum, coal, diamonds, oil–you name it; Africa has it all.
Maybe not so, writes Bright Simons in “Africa’s Fabulous Mineral Wealth that Isn’t all There,” published in African Arguments.
He argues, inter alia, that on a per sq... | <urn:uuid:26c00d27-0093-42d4-8954-f540c7e63941> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://indepthafrica.com/africa-impoverished/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955852 | 464 | 2.75 | 3 |
A M A Z I N G H U M A N F A C T S : ( If you have the time to read about you :) )
Except for your brain cells, 50,000,000 of the cells in your body will have died and been replaced with others, all while you have been reading this sentence.
More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet.
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Cancer of the Throat
Alternative NamesSquamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tonsil
What is Cancer of the Throat
Throat cancer takes its beginning in your throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx) or tonsils. The throat is the passage from the back of your mouth to the top tubes that go down to your stomach and lungs. Voice box is ... | <urn:uuid:cd307985-1ff7-42b0-9b48-26c1d2b76fae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://intermanews.com/pages/diseases/Cancer-of-the-Throat-20/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915592 | 648 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Mary Dixon Kies
Born 1752 - Died 1837
Weaving Straw with Silk or Thread
Patented: May 5, 1809
Mary Dixon Kies was the first woman to apply for and receive a U.S.
patent in her own name. Her patent, issued May 5, 1809, was for a
process for weaving straw with silk that was adopted by the New England
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Evolution is generally regarded as pretty good at specializing species for certain ecological niches, but with a glacial pace of adaptation, sometimes it needs a helping hand. Meet the team of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who decided they wanted to beef up the paraoxonase 1 (PON1) to the point it could ... | <urn:uuid:ca631b54-235b-4a94-a3c9-fb08d2a7335c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://io9.com/5903125/artificially-evolved-enzyme-could-protect-us-against-nerve-gas-attacks | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962869 | 341 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Be honest — would you have guessed that red blood cells are mysterious? No, I wouldn’t have either. They’re the simplest cells in our bodies, for goodness sake — they don’t even have DNA. All they do is carry hemoglobin around, picking up oxygen as they pass the lungs and gradually dumping it everywhere else. How hard ... | <urn:uuid:02b530ba-9e25-4e66-8cc1-1d715938bd50> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ittakes30.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/the-mysteries-of-blood/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924683 | 1,783 | 3.953125 | 4 |
It's normal for a newborn's eyes to wander or cross occasionally during the first few months of life. But by the time a baby is 4 to 6 months old, the eyes usually straighten out. If one or both eyes continue to wander in, out, up, or down — even intermittently —it's probably due to a condition called strabismus.
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Chris never thought that his pet iguana would make him sick. But when he started having a fever, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea, the doctor diagnosed him with an infection called and said that the iguana may have been the cause.
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Jacob loves books. His mom knows this because when she sits down to read to him every night, he waves his arms excitedly.
His favorite page of "Goodnight Moon" shows a cow jumping over the moon. He squeals and reaches for the book every time he sees it. When she is done reading, his mom usually lets him hold the sturdy... | <urn:uuid:44d24959-e00e-4115-9176-6d35de417abc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=Nemours&lic=60&cat_id=20054&article_set=44730&tracking=P_RelatedArticle | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966013 | 1,573 | 2.9375 | 3 |
An allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) blood test is done to check whether a person is allergic to a particular substance.
An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system overreacts to something, often in the environment, that's harmless to most people. To protect the body from this perceived threat, or allerge... | <urn:uuid:e6cee68b-52cc-442c-863d-9aa58de77ce8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=Willis_KnightonHealth_System&lic=304&cat_id=174&article_set=65392&ps=104 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941844 | 1,035 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Some people at school are worried because we think our friend has anorexia. Is there anything we can do for her? - Dionne*
It’s a great idea to eat healthy and stay in shape, but when it goes to an unhealthy or extreme level, a person might be developing an eating disorder. Although many people are unhappy with their w... | <urn:uuid:9e54f418-ec00-4e18-9561-1fd35e338f4f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=YourOrganizationsName&lic=240&cat_id=20383&article_set=35394&ps=204 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966029 | 283 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Participants will learn how plants utilize the diffusion of water (osmosis) to bring water into their roots. After placing food dye in water and watching diffusion, an analogy will be drawn to water and plant roots. Participants will be able to view toy "crabs" that have been undergoing
osmosis for different lengths of... | <urn:uuid:3a4e5bcc-1d51-4245-b875-48b9b01e0d9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidstechuniversity.blogspot.com/2012/04/vt-ktu-april-7th-osmosis.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948399 | 189 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Bullying: Advice to Parents and Teachers
A survey by the Josephson Institute of Ethics reveals that half of high school students in America say they have been bullied. While clearly this is an issue which teens now have to deal with on school campuses, it would be misguided and a mistake to see this strictly as a youth... | <urn:uuid:00df4864-b9ba-4306-84a6-ea48c4b5a198> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kwanzaaguide.com/2010/10/bullying-advice-to-parents-and-teachers/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961745 | 654 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Are you dealing with a legal issue related to housing, education, transportation, or the environment? Then you may need to look at local ordinances when you are doing your research. Cities and towns have the authority to make local laws in many areas, including planning and zoning, building and construction standards, ... | <urn:uuid:8fb73c4f-5dff-42ef-8452-8b252e145fdd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://law.uconn.edu/content/local-ordinances-0 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96119 | 232 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly in different cultures and different historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity and relationships in general. All cultures have their own values regarding appropriate and inappropriate sexuality; some sanction same-sex love and sexuality, while... | <urn:uuid:182eb4d6-848b-49de-be43-258a5cbac576> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homosexuality | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929009 | 12,178 | 3.578125 | 4 |
|Thomas Jonathan Jackson|
Full Name: Thomas Jonathan Jackson |
Born: January 21, 1824
Place of Birth: Clarksburg, Virginia
North or South: South
Other Professions: Mexican War, 1851 resigned from US army, professor at VMI.
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THE HISTORY OF HOCKEY
Hockey was developed in Canada. According to the
C.A.H.A, British in kingston,ont.,and Halifax,N.S.,Played the first games
in 1885. The idea of ice hockey probly came fromthe old version feild hockey.
In feild hockey, players would use a cruved stick to hit a rubber ball at
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This lesson focuses on the drafting of the United States Constitution during the Federal Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. Students will analyze an unidentified historical document and draw conclusions about what this document was for, who created it, and why. After the document is identified as George Washington’s a... | <urn:uuid:bea5935b-85c1-4813-b57a-26d148033019> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/more-perfect-union/ | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900833 | 168 | 4.03125 | 4 |
When did we sign up to be Monsanto's lab mice? Image via WikipediaDoctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
On May 19th, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on "Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible... | <urn:uuid:f3e33743-2a71-4033-b44a-4d6cba8023e3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lovesalem.blogspot.com/2009_06_11_archive.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964617 | 192 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Being Smart With Your Money: 5 Ways To Reduce Debt in the New Year
In this economy, it seems everyone is watching their pennies. Here are some ways to reduce and prevent debt in 2011
The national debt increased more than 1.6 billion – excuse me, trillion dollars in 2010, rising to a record $14 trillion according to the... | <urn:uuid:527bc26f-dccd-4933-9f34-a2173f38b9de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manassaspark.patch.com/articles/being-smart-with-your-money-5-ways-to-reduce-debt-in-the-new-year | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951037 | 976 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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GEOM - modular disk I/O request transformation framework
The GEOM framework provides an infrastructure in which “classes” can
perform transformations on disk I/O requests on their path from the upper
kernel to the device drivers and back.
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The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Program is designed to prevent violence in and around schools; prevent the illegal use of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco by young people; and foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports academic achievement. Without a safe and orderly learning environment, ... | <urn:uuid:0bb09b3f-53ce-472a-aa6a-16ee401ecfae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/divisions/studentschoolsvcs/student_services_alt/safe_drug-free_schools/?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpu%25%3E%25%25%3E | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939918 | 587 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Take an $n \times n$ matrix $A$, and suppose that $v$ is an eigenvector of $A$, with all entries of $v$ equal to a constant $k$. Naturally, $k \ne 0$. Let $\lambda$ be the eigenvalue of $A$ that has $v$ as an eigenvector. If $(b_1, b_2, \dots, b_n)$ is any row of $A$, then by the definition of eigenvalue and eigenvecto... | <urn:uuid:981f0954-07f0-4ac9-a047-28425b31384b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/70754/when-does-an-eigenvector-of-a-matrix-contain-only-a-constant/70757 | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869303 | 280 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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|Fermi questions emphasize estimation, numerical reasoning, communicating in mathematics, and questioning skills. Students often believe that "word problems" have one exact answer and that the answer is derived in a unique manner. Fermi questions ... | <urn:uuid:0982ac60-6c85-4317-9c57-d2a8b00e4570> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mathforum.org/library/view/5508.html | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822112 | 257 | 4 | 4 |
Interview with Dr. Motoji Ikeya
By David Jay Brown
Dr. Motoji Ikeya is a Japanese interdisciplinary researcher, using electron spin resonance (ESR) in geosciences and radiation dopsimetry, with a research interest in the cause of unusual animal behavior prior to earthquakes. His laboratory experiments at Osaka Universi... | <urn:uuid:3a002823-0b1c-4678-87bd-401e9c6f2b2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mavericksofthemind.com/category/animals-and-earthquakes/motoji-ikeya | null | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946064 | 1,663 | 2.78125 | 3 |