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Cold weather creativity for kidsWith shorter, colder days in winter, the joy of indoor parenting can be elusive. With a bit of help, parents can avoid hearing the cries of boredom, and children may avoid hours of television. The books featured this month are for a range of ages and offer an equal range of activities. W...
http://bookpage.com/review/make-your-own-superballs/review
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- New York Bay and Harbor and the Environs - Hell Gate and Its Approaches - Pot Rock and Way's Reef, Hell Gate - New York Bay and Harbor - Approaches to New York - New York Harbor, Upper Bay and Narrows - Harlem River Nautical - New York Harbor Nautical - Hudson and East Rivers - New York City Electronic Navigational C...
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/new_york_charts/ny_bay_harbor.html
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A climate change monitoring system integrates satellite observations, ground-based data and forecast models to monitor and forecast changes in the weather and climate. A historical record of spot measurements is built up over time, which provides the data to enable statistical analysis and the identification of mean va...
http://climatetechwiki.org/content/climate-change-monitoring-system
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Tiny chorus frogs belt out love songs Seattle Times staff reporter A bold, solo RIB-IT is answered with an equally emphatic WRECK-IT, then another, and another. In seconds, the Pacific Treefrogs are in full chorus. Also called the Pacific chorus frog, Hyla regilla is Washington state's loudest and smallest frog. At jus...
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020506&slug=peeper06m
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Parapraxes (Freudian Slips) From Dead Media ArchiveA parapraxis (gr: para + praksis, another action) or Freudian slip (originally termed Fehlleistungen, German for “faulty function”) is an error of memory, speech, writing, reading or action that was thought by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) to be due to the interference of ...
http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Parapraxes_(Freudian_Slips)
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Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 7, No. 1 THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT ON BLACK MESA Cimarron County, Oklahoma, July 4, 1928 BY CHAS. N. GOULD Director, Oklahoma Geological Survey Black Mesa is the roof of Oklahoma with an elevation of 4,978 feet, or nearly a mile above sea level. Pike’s Peak, far to the northwest in an...
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v007/v007p034.html
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Remotely sensed digital data (Landsat CCT) has proven an efficient and cost effective means of defining land cover information required in hydrologic modeling. However, an organization such as a county government finds great difficulty in collecting and integrating regional ancillary data (aerial photos, soils, etc) wi...
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lars_symp/470/
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Tips for Installing a Rainwater Collection System In many areas of the country, conserving water has become an urgent priority…Posted Mar 15, 2009 Homeowners can conserve water both indoors and outdoors by adopting simple conservation strategies, but many people overlook the opportunity of collecting and storing rainwa...
http://eartheasy.com/blog/2009/03/tips-for-installing-a-rainwater-collection-system/
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The Bureau of Land Management is pursuing a settlement over 2.5 million acres of Oregon forest. The BLM is trying to steer clear of the lawsuits triggered by previous logging plans. The BLM’s plans from 2008 are on court dockets on both the East and West coasts. So, judges or Congress are likely to guide what happens, ...
http://earthfix.nwpr.org/land/article/blm-pursuing-settlement-over-25-million-acres-of-o/
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|A cast of the Middlesbrough meteorite| |TKW||1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb)| The meteorite fell in the afternoon, impacting the ground around 3.35 pm. Although there were reports that sound generated as the object travelled through the Earth's atmosphere was heard in some areas of Yorkshire, the meteorite was unusual in that ...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesbrough_meteorite
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Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia ||The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (May 2012)| Deletionism and inclusionism are opposing philosophies that largely developed and came to public notice within the context of the community of editors of the online enc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism
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Dish-washing (British English washing up) is the process of cleaning cooking utensils, dishes, cutlery and other items. This is either achieved by hand in a sink or using dishwasher and may take place in a kitchen, utility room, scullery or elsewhere. There are cultural divisions over rinsing and drying after washing. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwashing
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Groundwater is water located beneath the earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. The depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely satura...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_water
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||This article needs additional citations for verification. (March 2010)| |European Union / EEA| |UK / Ireland / Commonwealth| A joint-stock company is a business entity which is owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns the portion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company's shares (certif...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company
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Solar Probe Plus Artist's concept of NASA's Solar Probe Plus |Operator||NASA / Applied Physics Laboratory| |Mission duration||< 10 years| |Flyby of||Venus (V7)| |Satellite of||The Sun| |Altitude||~5,900,000 km (3,700,000 mi)| |Orbital period||88 days| Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, previously NASA Solar Probe, is a ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Probe_Plus
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Banff |←Banér, Johan||1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 |See also Banff and Macduff on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.| BANFF, a royal, municipal and police burgh, seaport and capital of Banffshire, Scotland. Pop. (1901) 7161. It is beautifully situated on h...
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Banff
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Quiz: What You Don’t Know About Flights and Fuel Photograph by David Nunuk, Visuals Unlimited/Corbis You know that a jet can get you across the country or overseas fast, but how much do you know about the fuel needed to fly you to your destination? Take this quiz to see how much you know about aviation energy. Quiz by ...
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/flights-and-fuel-quiz/
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Deformed Snow Slab on Roof January 17, 2011 The photo above showing an unusual slab of snow draped over a carport rooftop was snapped in Meaford, Ontario on December 11, 2010. In some ways, it's acting like a wet-base (temperate climate) glacier where basal slippage is facilitated by water at its freezing/melting point...
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/01/deformed-snow-slab-on-roof.html
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Obi (帯, おび) is a Japanese word referring to several different types of sashes worn with kimono and keikogi by both men and women. The maru obi is the most formal obi, with both sides fully patterned along its length. The classic maru obi measures 33cm wide. Maru obi with narrower width can be custom made for a petite c...
http://fashion.3yen.com/category/traditional-outfits/
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Rethinking Plastics Campaign Congratulations to LA County for Banning the Plastic Bag! Consequences of Convenience We’re addicted to plastic, especially plastic bags. If you are like 95% of US shoppers, whenever you purchase anything, it ends up in a plastic bag. In the grocery store, most of us put our vegetables and ...
http://greensangha.org/Plastics-Campaign/
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The reign of Queen Victoria (1837−1901) is considered by many to be one of the finest periods in British history. The “Victorian Era,” as it came to be called, marked the height of Britain’s power and influence on the world stage. The British navy ruled the seas and British colonies covered so much of the globe that it...
http://hermajestysgardener.com/
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