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muddy the waters
Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up one irrelevant fact after another, he succeeded in muddying the waters. This metaphoric expression, alluding to making a pond or stream turbid by stirring up mud from the bottom, was first recorded in 1837.
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding... |
I’m struggling a bit to teach my children to pack for themselves. I want them to learn how to be self-reliant, but I also want to make sure they have everything they need for the day. If I don’t triple check every detail, they’re likely to be fully prepared for snack time but missing important papers or sports equipmen... |
Date: March 31, 2011
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
Description: This report discusses the background of the G-20 (an international forum for discussing and coordinating economic policies) and some of the issues that it has addressed. It includes historic background on the work of the G-20, information about how the group... |
About County Government
Montgomery County is proud of the services it offers. These include some of the best in the nation, which we strive to deliver in keeping with our Vision Statement and Guiding Principles. An organization chart is provided to show you the various levels of the County government.
Approved by the v... |
The anthocyanidins of bilberry have considerable pharmacologic activity. They are especially used as anti-aging substances. These bitter compounds inhibit collagen destruction, scavenger free radicals, reduce capillary permeability, increase bloods circulation to peripheral blood vessels and the brain, reduce inflammat... |
The cashew nut, a popular treat found on grocery and health food store shelves across the world, is jam-packed with nutritional content and can readily be found year round. It has a delicate flavor, and makes wonderful nut butter or special addition to salads and stir-fry dishes. Cashew nuts are actually the kidney-sha... |
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Date of Award:
Master of Science (MS)
Terry A. Messmer
Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus: hereafter sharp-tailed grouse) populations have been declining. These declines have been attributed to a number of factors, including habitat loss due to agriculture, habitat fragmentation, overgr... |
Definitions of why
adv. - For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1. 2
adv. - For which; on account of which; -- used relatively. 2
adv. - The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left... |
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Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron is the ... |
Science of the Quake
Developments in the wake of Japan's triple disasters: earthquake, tsunami, nuclear.
The US Geological Survey upgraded Japan's 11 March earthquake today to 9.0 from 8.9.
Based on Japan's huge network of 1,200 GPS monitoring stations, the quake shifted the country's coastline some 4 meters / 13 feet ... |
The Dakota House, Jamestown, N.D.
|Title||The Dakota House, Jamestown, N.D. |
|Date of Original||1878? |
|Creator||Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921|
|Creator Role||Photographer |
|Description||A three story wooden building with two chimneys on the roof, and the sign "Dakota House, " on the front. There are a few p... |
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MOUNT VERNON — Keeping up with the health and safety of one’s pets is a top priority for many. Diligence is key for many pet owners in keeping their companions safe from sickness and disease. One disease that can be a threat at any given time is rabies.Rabies is a viral disease which is spread through the saliva of an ... |
Description of the genus
Dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, compound, imparipinnate, (1-)3-13-foliolate; tertiary nerves generally collected into an oblique nerve directed towards the angle between midrib and lateral nerves (not in S. madagascariensis); leaflets petiolulate. Inflorescences of axillary or term... |
The prehistoric cave paintings of Chauvet in southeastern France show the work of deft hands: Hundreds of animals appear in lifelike posesstanding, stalking, running, or roaming in packson surfaces specially scraped to make the sketches stand out. Many archaeologists assumed that such sophistication required thousands ... |
Traditional Christmas Greeting: Merry Christmas (imported from the west). Also, Christmas Omedet and Merii Kurisumasu
The majority of Japan's population is Buddhist, and Christmas is not a commonly celebrated holiday. However, younger generations do exchange gifts at Christmas. Shogatsu, New Year's Day, is Japan's prim... |
In this essay, the individualist Anarchist writer Charles Johnson offers an analysis of the concrete mechanisms of capitalism, and of how the revolutionary potential of free economic relationships is diverted and deformed when markets are constrained to labor under bosses, monopoly and government. Johnson revisits, and... |
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French women will now need to be 18 years or older to consent to marry, three years older than previously required by law. The French parliament passed the law as a method of preventing forced marriages, reports Ireland Online, and the French standard is now aligned with other states that belong to the European Union.
... |
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Re: The Permo-Triassic extinction killed the dinosaurs, according to Fox News
What an excellent example of sloppy journalism. The sad thing is that the paper
could have made a very interesting news story in the right... |
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Prisoner with a cause
Artist and suffragette Olive Wharry became active in the Women's Social and Political Union in 1910. In March 1913, at the age of 27, she was sent to Holloway Prison for setting fire to the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens. In prison she went on hunger strike for 32 days. This photograph was taken on h... |
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... |
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Heart-Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate
It’s no secret that fruits, vegetables and grains provide many health benefits - we've been told that for years. But did you know that eating chocolate, specifically dark chocolate, could benefit your heart? It’s all about the flavonoids in the chocolate.
What are flavonoids?
Fla... |
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... |
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|Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:24 am Post subject: Nanotubes Could Aid Understanding of Retrovirus Transmission
|Recent findings by medical researchers indicate that naturally occurring nanotubes may serve as tunnels that protect retroviruses and bacteria in transit from diseased to healthy cells — a ... |
- FDA approves Novartis drug for high blood pressure treatment
- Adherence among chronic disease patients can lead to big savings
- New cardiovascular risk calculator now available online
- Pfizer forms licensing agreement with Seattle Genetics
- Walgreens puts its money where its mouth is with World AIDS Day campaign
... |
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Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text o... |
Economic growth in China has led to significant increases in fossil fuel consumption © stock.xchng (frédéric dupont, patator)
Per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by 3% last year. In China, the world’s most populous cou... |
Emerging Explorer, National Geographic Blackstone Innovation Challenge Grantee
Photograph by Dino Martins
Photograph by C. Lewis
Do you like chocolate? Coffee? Pollinating insects make these and hundreds of other foods possible. The threatened habitats that support those insects may often be out of sight and out of min... |
Downstream users are companies or individuals who use a chemical substance, either on its own or in a mixture, in the course of their industrial or professional activities.
Downstream users have a key role to play in advancing the safe use of chemicals by implementing safe use at their own site and communicating releva... |
Grading and Reporting for All Students
Instructor: Stephanie Wertkins, Instructor; Thomas Guskey and Lee Ann Jung, Presenter
Spring, Summer & Fall (Ongoing)
Instruction Mode: Internet-Asynchronous (Online Class)
Academic Level: K-12 Professional Development
Partner Course Fee: $145
Partner Class Offered Through Knowled... |
Although some may consider the practice old school, electrical taping is a valuable skill you shouldn't let slip away
With all of the new products and electrical insulation kits currently on the market, the use of conventional electrical tapes has gone down. As a result, electricians today may not possess the taping sk... |
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Worries about Pennsylvania facing a severe drought seem to have faded with recent rainstorms, but the question of how to care for your lawn during this summer’s heat is still important.
When it comes to maintaining your lawn, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, doing less really may... |
The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits
The Place of Distribution within the Traditional Divisions of Economics
We have undertaken to solve a test problem of distribution—to ascertain whether the division of the social income into wages, interest and profits is, in principle, honest. We have... |
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According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), human health and human disease result from three interactive elements -- environmental factors, individual susceptibility, and age.
Environmental medicine is the health care specialty concerned with human illnesses or dysfunctions that result... |
Search By State Standards
To appreciate some of the extra-literary elements of a play, students pause at various intervals in their study of Thornton Wilder's Our Town to develop their own settings, characters, and conflicts.
EDSITEment has partnered with Thinkfinity to help you find, save, and share even more free les... |
Jamestown, it was thought, had simply disappeared.
As the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown served as the capital of the Jamestown Colony throughout most of the 17th century. It was there, along Virginia’s James River, that Captain John Smith forged his famous bond with Pocahontas that kept... |
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January 12, 1773
America's First Museum
A museum is a building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
South Carolina was still a British colony when the Charleston Museum was founded ... |
Today's starting point? Atlanta. Destination? Florida. Although the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" lives in Atlanta, their journey to Florida takes them along the relatively new highways of the 1950s, including rural country roads.
The following images of Georgia highways and rural roads can give you a better i... |
The canons of Priscillian, prefixed to the Epistles of St. Paul in many (chiefly Spanish) manuscripts, are preceded by an introduction headed "Proœmium sancti Peregrini episcopi in epistolas Pauli Apostoli", in which it is explained that the canons were not written by St. Jerome but by Priscillian, and that they are gi... |
An Afghan resistance fighter
On Christmas Eve, 1979, Soviet Antonov transport planes began landing at the airport in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, disgorging tanks and trucks and thousands of troops. Meanwhile, MI-6 and MI-8 helicopters ferried in several thousand elite commandos, some of whom, led by Colonel Boyarino... |
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The selection of works from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Orientalist Painting Collection included in the “İstanbul: The City of Dreams” exhibition thus emerge as outstanding visual documents that feature, largely though the perspective of Western artists, a view of the Ottoman world stretching from the 17th to the early 20t... |
From Mekteb-i Sultani to Galatasaray Lycee Painters
The first Galatasaray Exhibition was opened in the spring of 1916 by the Association of Ottoman Painters at “Galatasaraylılar Yurdu” with the participation of 49 artists. It was the starting point of an organization that was meticulously upheld for many years to come ... |
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The Surface Inspector and the Texture Browser are the tools you will be using when texuring your maps. To use the Texture Browser, simply press T. To bring up the Surface Inspector for a surface, select a brush or surface and press S.
With the controls above you can either Fit a texture to fit on a brush, or use Axial ... |
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|Elections in California|
|Part of a series on|
|Lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT)
California Proposition 6 was an initiative on the California State ballot on November 7, 1978, and was more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative. Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County... |
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|A statue of Maitreya Buddha in Budai form in Emei, Hsinchu, Taiwan|
|Alternative Chinese name|
|Literal meaning||Laughing Buddha|
|Vietnamese alphabet||Bố Đại|
Budai or Pu-Tai (Chinese: 布袋; pinyin: Bùdài), or Hotei in Japanese, Bố Đại in Vietnamese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means "Cloth Sack," and comes ... |
|Elevation||758 ft (231 m)|
|Area||0.55 sq mi (1 km2)|
|- land||0.55 sq mi (1 km2)|
|- water||0.00 sq mi (0 km2)|
|Density||1,829.4 / sq mi (706 / km2)|
|- summer (DST)||CDT (UTC-5)|
|Wikimedia Commons: Colfax, Illinois|
Colfax is located at (40.566290, -88.615304).
According to the 2010 census, the village has a total... |
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François-André Danican Philidor
Portrait from L’analyze des échecs. London, second edition, 1777.
|Full name||François-André Danican Philidor|
|Born||September 7, 1726
|Died||August 31, 1795
François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lif... |
|Count / Earl|
A prince regent, or prince-regent, is a prince who rules a monarchy as regent instead of a monarch, e.g., as a result of the Sovereign's incapacity (minority or illness) or absence (remoteness, such as exile or long voyage, or simply no incumbent). While the term itself can have the generic meaning and r... |
Swat (princely state)
||This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2012)|
|State of Swat|
|Province of the Mughal Empire (1802–1858)
Princely state of the British Raj (1858–1947)
Princely state of Pakistan (1947–1955)
|Wāli of Swat||His Highness Sultan Faghal (first)|
|His Highness Miangul Jahan Z... |
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Hurricane Irene of 2011 now rated history's 6th most damaging hurricane
New damage estimates released last month by NOAA now place the damage from 2011's Hurricane Irene at $15.8 billion, making the storm the 6th costliest hurricane and 10th costliest weather-related disaster in U.S. history. Irene hit North Carolina o... |
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If you are reading this message, Please click this link to reload this page.(Do not use your browser's "Refresh"... |
To Our Enota Readers
August 1, 2012
One of the many vegetables growing in our organic garden this year is the jalapeño pepper. The jalapeno is a vegetable—or, more properly, a fruit—that can be grown either in a simple garden or in the home. Besides this, jalapenos can be used for a variety of recipes and mixtures.
Lik... |
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New Oakland Child-Adolescent and Family Center
"Psychoses" are defined as abnormal conditions of the mind, a psychiatric term for a mental state involving a loss of contact with reality. Psychotic disorders cause distorted thinking and awareness and can vary greatly in their severity. The term "psychosis" is very broad... |
Williams, H. Paul (2009) Logic and integer programming. International series in operations research & management science . Springer, London, UK. ISBN 9780387922799
Integer programming (discrete optimization) is best used for solving problems involving discrete, whole elements. Using integer variables, one can model log... |
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Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources
Polley, Martin (2009) Sportsmen and their sweaters: knitting patterns as historical sources. In, Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Games and Pastimes, Bolton, UK, 07 Apr 2009.
Full text not available from this repository.
Old knitting patterns are eas... |
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Visual perception and the associated structural and genetic components are highly developed in insects. However, it is unclear how well these features are developed in ectoparasitic insects that have secondarily reduced or lost vision. While it is well known that fleas have reduced or completely lost their eyes, it is ... |
The Business of America is Business—President Calvin Coolidge, 1925
Do you know the definitions of “commerce,” “entrepreneurship” and/or “free-enterprise?”
August, which is National Black Business Month, is a good time for Black Americans to start productive business activities. African-Americans across the U.S. are ur... |
|"zero in on" = focus on or direction your attention to a particular issue |
"I think we need to zero in on the main causes of water pollution and start solving them one at a time."
"leave no stone unturned" = do everything possible to solve a problem
"Things might look bad, but leave no stone unturned in trying to fin... |
concept. The basic idea is that the human mind
can keep track of about seven
at once, or can differentiate between seven or so
different (but similar) things.
The phrase comes from the title of a 1956 paper by Harvard professor George
A. Miller titled, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Cap... |
Fri Mar 21 18:02:28 GMT 2008 by Gordon
Why is it that gamma rays cannot penerate the earth's atmosphere when they will happily travel though thick lead.
Fri Mar 21 18:59:29 GMT 2008 by Radek
Air in atmosphere corresponds to ... One meter of lead!
Fri Mar 21 19:24:17 GMT 2008 by Tony Byron
"The atmosphere shields us fro... |
USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed today that Asian Soybean Rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi), has been found on soybean leaf samples collected from two Louisiana State University's research plots near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. APHIS officials report they believe the pathogen was carried to the Un... |
Falling Objects and Bouncing
Location: Outside U.S.
Date: April 2008
I am looking to compare different masses, objects, shapes
and compare these to dents made in a specific plate (e.g.
polystyrene). For this experiment I would need not only to be able
to work out the velocity of the object but also how much air
resista... |
The Clinton administration knows how to add insult to injury. Not only is it committed to an environmental program that will sap the American economy of its vitality, it also refuses to level with the American people about the costs.
At the global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, the administration promised that the... |
On This Day - 9 July 1915
Theatre definitions: Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland. Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and Austro-Romanian fronts. Southern Front comprises the Austro-Italian and Ba... |
This artist developed Florentine Mannerism, influenced by Michelangelo. Figures are muscular and in inventive poses, compressed into a space which has little depth. The painting may contain several stories. Moses is the central pivot for this turbulent composition but also appears in the red drapery rushing to save his... |
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When it comes to allergies there are many different types that may affect a person. How each person is affected by these allergies may also vary from one person to another. While some allergies may only be a bother during certain seasons others may be present year round. The ones which are triggered by things such as t... |
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National air quality has improved since the early 1990's, but many challenges remain in protecting public health and the environment from air quality problems. Since the 1950s, air quality has been a major public health and environmental concern. Local, state, and national programs have helped us learn more about the p... |
A team of researchers from Université Laval, CHU de Québec, and pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has discovered a way to stimulate the brain’s natural defense mechanisms in people with Alzheimer’s disease. Toll-like receptor 4 stimulation with the detoxified ligand monophosphoryl lipid A improves Alzheimer’s d... |
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