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warc | 201704 | Garissa County News Garissa County is an administrative county in the North Eastern region of Kenya. Its capital town is Garissa town. Garissa County has a total population of 623,060. A male population of 334,939 and a female population of 288,121 (census 2009) Constituencies in Garissa County
Garissa County has six c... | 10,020 | 4,448 | 22,105.723921 |
warc | 201704 | The US manufacturing sector expanded during December, with the Institute for Supply Management’s PMI coming in at 55.5%. However, December’s reading was lower than seen in November, and lower than analysts expected.
Construction spending during November also fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $975 billion - a... | 876 | 526 | 1,433.908745 |
warc | 201704 | Optipedia • SPIE Press books opened for your reference. Phase-Shift Masks
Excerpt from Field Guide to Optical Lithography
Phase-shift masks (PSMs) work by adding phase information to the mask in addition to amplitude information. A binary chrome-on-glass mask encodes the information about where to position resist edges... | 4,975 | 2,240 | 10,798.415179 |
warc | 201704 | November 21, 2010
Below Professor Janet E.Smith. provides explanation and clarification of the Pope’s comments:
Conversion, Not Condoms
Pope Benedict on Condoms in the
Light of the World (p. 119) In Light of the World, these answers appear:
To the charge that “It is madness to forbid a high-risk population to use condo... | 10,610 | 4,814 | 22,978.782717 |
warc | 201704 | Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Plaques, and Framingham Risk Score as Independent Determinants of Stroke Risk Jump to Abstract The Framingham stroke risk score (FSRS) and Framingham cardiovascular risk score (FCRS) estimate the individual absolute cardiovascular and stroke risks. Common carotid artery intima-media thic... | 22,106 | 8,628 | 55,687.750348 |
warc | 201704 | The most severe law enforcement will achieve little if lower-class urban offenders can see no legitimate way to solve their problems or satisfy their aspirations. At the absolute best it could turn the criminals into a passive underclass which is forever dependent on welfare benefits. Even then the most energetic and a... | 2,144 | 1,127 | 3,985.519077 |
warc | 201704 | Tax Evasion in Barrow, Alaska
"Tax Evasion" refers to the crime of intentionally failing to pay one's taxes, as required by Alaska law.
One of the most common frequent tactics of tax evaders in Barrow, Alaska is to attempt to make it appear to an outside observer that their tax liability is lower than it really is, suc... | 2,393 | 1,164 | 4,880.568729 |
warc | 201704 | Newsday is reporting New York State Senate co-leaders Jeff Klein and Dean Skelos have included language in their proposed state budget that signals their support for “authorizing and regulating internet gaming for games of skill, including poker, to reflect recent changes in the classification of these games.”
Aides to... | 1,741 | 886 | 3,293.358916 |
warc | 201704 | Because energy trading opens with the markets, Southern California Edison forecasters and meteorologists are on the job at 4 a.m., running forecasts for weather, short-term load and renewables output. Using SAS Analytics for utilities, SCE has begun improving its forecasting efficiency by integrating and analyzing vast... | 1,549 | 796 | 2,977.349246 |
warc | 201704 | SOPA has been ridiculed and has been called by various derogatory names over the last few months. However, the day of SOPA’s appearance before the Senate is closing in, and the bill is passing through unobstructed, as if it has a pre-determined fate. There has been massive online agitation against the bill to no avail.... | 5,781 | 2,778 | 11,905.363931 |
warc | 201704 | An asbestos lawyer is a personal injury lawyer who specializes in asbestos litigation. Asbestos litigation is a personal injury lawsuit that deals with exposure to asbestos. Exposure to asbestos can result in mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis or other asbestos-related illnesses. People who were exposed to asbestos ... | 5,426 | 2,253 | 12,993.018198 |
warc | 201704 | “I voted for Brexit, so the observations below will inevitably tilt toward that side of the debate. Many committed Christians were for remain, and their thoughts will be different. Rather than pouring fuel on the flames in a time of concern, this article is intended as a defense of Britain’s decision that may offer peo... | 8,772 | 4,016 | 18,483.233068 |
warc | 201704 | Evan Ratliffe, photo by Joe Pugliese
So, exactly how does a person disappear in today's modern world?
Wired decided to answer that very question, using writer Evan Ratliffe as the guinea pig: I’m driving East out of San Francisco
on I-80, fleeing my life under the cover of dusk. Having come to the
interstate by a circu... | 5,901 | 2,980 | 11,502.989597 |
warc | 201704 | One more proof that some have decided to ride the horse backwards and fast: Spanish economist Juan Ramon Rallo recently said that “liberalism and austerity have not failed because no one has implemented them yet, not in most of Europe nor in the US.”
This must sound uncomfortably familiar to those buried in communist n... | 2,902 | 1,509 | 5,463.606362 |
warc | 201704 | There is a new paradigm emerging in business that allows forward-thinking businesses to create genuine value and in turn, reap great rewards. The value created is not only financial and can take a myriad of forms that contribute to making the world a better place.
This topic was recently explored with business managers... | 7,115 | 3,085 | 15,904.388979 |
warc | 201704 | Jonathan Ferrell was in a car accident last weekend, and when the police arrived on the scene, they shot him ten times. This is what we know for sure.
It’s believed that he crawled out of his car and went to the closest house to ask for help. The woman who answered the door quickly shut it upon seeing the young, shaken... | 4,941 | 2,419 | 9,798.254237 |
warc | 201704 | A leading research advocacy group is calling on lawmakers to increase funding for the Food and Drug Administration.
The group sent a letter on Wednesday making the request to the chairmen and ranking members of the relevant appropriations subcommittees in each chamber.
“A quarter of all consumer spending is on FDA-regu... | 1,493 | 828 | 2,603.7343 |
warc | 201704 | The decision of the government to demonetize the currency has come under great fire. The resultant havoc has only brought suffering so far. Is it all really worth it?
The positive implications of banning notes of 500 and 1000 are many. However, we need a continuum of measures to curtail the black money market.
Save a b... | 3,135 | 1,591 | 6,096.599623 |
warc | 201704 | A couple of weeks ago, I caught myself in the following compromising position:
Literally three houses in a row of us, not quite suburban, I admit (Glen Park is very much part of San Francisco, if a pleasantly sleepy, family-oriented part — our Islington?), three of us sweeping leaves in near-suburban synchronicity, mov... | 2,334 | 1,214 | 4,321.937397 |
warc | 201704 | Judges selected for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by Chief Justice John Roberts are trending towards ideologically conservative judges with executive branch connections, leading to concerns that the court will grow even more biased in favor of government surveillance requests.
There is a lot of surprising... | 3,690 | 1,789 | 7,419.189491 |
warc | 201704 | WOMEN are more perceptive than men, and they often decide the actions of men or divert the courses. Cecilia Uwadi did just that to me this week. She is the production editor of The Nation newspaper. Often boisterous when production deadlines are going to be missed, she surprised me on Wednesday last week when, calmly, ... | 16,680 | 7,581 | 35,835.267115 |
warc | 201704 | Why We Love Sociopaths
My greatest regret is that I’m not a sociopath. I suspect I’m not alone. I have written before that we live in the age of awkwardness, but This text excerpted from Adam Kotsko’s
Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide To Late Capitalist Television, now available from Zero BooksThe New Inquiry Magazine, N... | 18,987 | 8,077 | 43,143.29714 |
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Most of us seem to know one or two people who spend what seems like half their lives aboard a cruise ship. ... | 5,952 | 2,932 | 11,709.11869 |
warc | 201704 | A new Pew report finds that while 64 percent of Internet users heard about the widespread security bug that targeted OpenSSL encryption, only 39 percent reacted by changing their passwords or deleting online accounts
A new report reveals a significant rift in the number of Internet users who heard about the Heartbleed ... | 2,357 | 1,133 | 4,824.25684 |
warc | 201704 | What poems did you learn at school?
I have never much liked the idea of the National Curriculum. I saw what was driving it (let's make it impossible for schools not to teach a foreign language; let's make it easier for kids to move around the country and pick up with school wherever they go). But the whole idea made it... | 3,286 | 1,733 | 6,170.019619 |
warc | 201704 | Life today is not the simple life it used to be many years ago. We have so much stimulation from various different areas of our lives. We wear several hats, and must keep our plates spinning in the air at all times. It is exhausting for even the most organized, level-headed person. So what is the result of the circus-l... | 3,992 | 1,974 | 7,931.420466 |
warc | 201704 | Sunken City
When Lake Falcon’s water level drops, ghost towns emerge from the depths.
By E. Dan Klepper
Editor's Note: we are leaving this story in the archives because it is such an interesting story. However, travel to this area of Mexico either by vehicle or boat is not advised at this time.
Arturo the gatekeeper st... | 17,421 | 7,688 | 38,730.454214 |
warc | 201704 | سال انتشار: ۱۳۸۲
محل انتشار: یازدهمین کنفرانس مهندسی برق
تعداد صفحات: ۱۰
نویسنده(ها):
M.B. Naghibi-Sistani – Department of Electrical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
M.R. Akbarzadeh-T – Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico H. Rajabi-Mashhadi –
چکیده:
Cooperative learning in multi-a... | 1,673 | 787 | 2,740.148666 |
warc | 201704 | VISMED
® MULTI: an innovative and safe preservative-free multidose dispenser
It is now proven that preservatives present eye toxicity when used in the long term. Therefore, use of any sort of eye drops containing preservatives should be avoided in patients with moderate to severe dry eye as they may worsen the patient’... | 1,134 | 639 | 1,950.338028 |
warc | 201704 | Welcome to Session 3 of the Mini RPG Campaign Template, our own
Empire Strikes Back of the universal hero cycle. You’ve introduced the PCs to a supernatural/powerful mentor or ally in the previous session, and after the PCs traveled to the first new location they tackled the first of three subplots (or side quests). Ha... | 11,010 | 4,846 | 24,130.666529 |
warc | 201704 | 1
stBreakout Session: Trademark Theory
Harms, Benefits, and Justifications in Trademark Law
Stacey Dogan
© and patent are often considered to be about incentives (getting benefits), but TM law in the general view is about preventing harm/misinformation, at least in theory; misinformation can harm both producers and con... | 27,011 | 11,508 | 61,185.501217 |
warc | 201704 | Barr, David, Leakey, Jonathan and Ranchoux, Alexandre (2005)
TOLD like it is! An Evaluation of an Integrated Oral Development Project. Language Learning & Technology, 9 (3). pp. 55-78. [Journal article]
PDF - Published Version
499kB
Abstract
Much established pedagogical and CALL (computer-assisted language learning) re... | 2,203 | 1,121 | 4,303.809099 |
warc | 201704 | The Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development met on 4 and 5 February to discuss ways to enhance the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises of developing countries.
On Monday, 4 February, the morning session focused on transport and logistics aspects and the related challenges and o... | 1,082 | 572 | 2,037.262238 |
warc | 201704 | Why UWM Matters
It could be the key to transforming Wisconsin’s economy, but state leaders don’t seem to realize it.
Sign-up for the Urban Milwaukee daily email
Last week’s surprise decision by UW-Milwaukee chancellor
Michael Lovell to accept the job of Marquette University’s president was touted as good news for MU an... | 9,053 | 4,243 | 18,771.693142 |
warc | 201704 | Last night, a crowd of one hundred assembled at the Old American Can Factory to join us and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) for a different kind of Superfund conversation. The stormclouds decided to cooperate for a change, so we set up folding chairs in the courtyard, and our friends and neighbors Rooftop Films gra... | 7,690 | 3,644 | 15,916.020856 |
warc | 201704 | Japan 'unprepared' for nuclear disaster
TOKYO (AP) Japan admitted Tuesday it was unprepared for a severe nuclear accident like the tsunami-caused Fukushima disaster and said damage to the reactors and radiation leakage were worse than it previously thought.
In a report being submitted to the U.N. nuclear agency, the go... | 6,157 | 2,866 | 13,102.42254 |
warc | 201704 | Within the next month, and by the grace of God, my wife and I will be welcoming our first child. Along with the stories and helpful advice that everyone has been offering, I’ve been paying more and more attention to our friend’s babies to see how they act or respond to certain situations. Now yes, I agree that babies a... | 7,229 | 3,177 | 16,003.008184 |
warc | 201704 | The Identity Theft Business
By now, most people have been frightened with statistics about the prevalence of identity theft. Or they have at least seen those Citibank commercials in which identity thieves, speaking through the mouths of their victims, wax on about the joys of their ill-gotten loot.
You couldn't ask for... | 3,849 | 1,725 | 8,499.038261 |
warc | 201704 | Took Seven Years, But Feds Finally Approve a State Plan to Rein in Some Medical Spending Plan Will Integrate Medicaid and Medicare for Patients Eligible for Both Programs
OLYMPIA, Oct. 26.—Gov. Christine Gregoire Thursday announced that one of her big health reform plans – vintage 2005 – has finally won federal approva... | 4,345 | 2,043 | 8,883.536466 |
warc | 201704 | dc.description.abstract ABSTRACT
This study recognises the need for greater cultural interaction in a globalised world in which cultural identities are no longer contained within national borders. The aim of this dissertation is, therefore, to address concerns arising from the role played by literary translation as a c... | 1,172 | 658 | 2,055.452888 |
warc | 201704 | CrossFit: More Than a Workout or a Sport Even after all these years, I’m still amazed at how 13 minutes and 33 seconds of CrossFit can break my soul. That was the length of my WOD the other morning and it felt like 13 hours of doubting my worth as a human being, followed by 13 glorious seconds of celebrating before I t... | 4,253 | 1,992 | 8,877.496988 |
warc | 201704 | A boil, or furuncle, is a skin abscess with various size filled by pus. It can be as small as a rice, or as large as egg. But no matter the size, it is very painful.
The only way to completely get rid from the pain is by removing the boils as soon as possible. The soon boils drain and heal, the soon you are free from t... | 4,184 | 1,863 | 9,286.548578 |
warc | 201704 | Need for food assistance in North Shore is up 14% this year. Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank has had their caseload increased for its mothers, children and seniors feeding programs to offset this need.
Cook County Food Shelf volunteer Gwen Lenz said they have seen an increase in need of just under 10%. She adde... | 1,515 | 824 | 2,715.600728 |
warc | 201704 | A North Carolina State University bioengineering student has made the first cut for a Dutch non-profit's mission to Mars.
Of the 200,000 applicants for a mission to colonize the red planet, Raleigh's Charles Parrish made it to the recent cut of 1,058 candidates. The 23-year-old has been passionate about space since chi... | 2,626 | 1,340 | 5,001.158209 |
warc | 201704 | Wonder why your bank doesn’t have room for you on its balance sheet? Check its exposure to commercial real estate lending. Distressed CRE loans continue to choke banks’ balance sheets, and their poor performance could force some U.S. banks to raise more capital, or even cause them to fail.
Midsize banks in particular a... | 5,654 | 2,637 | 11,777.558589 |
warc | 201704 | Theme of Utopia in The Giver Length:808 words (2.3 double-spaced pages) Rating:Excellent Open Document
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Utopia is an imaginary state, which consists of people who believe they are more capable to live in a group than alone. In such a community, the welf... | 4,167 | 1,926 | 8,983.065421 |
warc | 201704 | Carolyn, I am with you on the quantity issue. I have a very close friend who is quite thin and has always been thin. For the record her father is very thin and her mother is slightly overweight -- I haven't seen her brother since we were kids but I am guessing he's a normal size. She and I talk about emotional eating a... | 2,767 | 1,375 | 5,546.074182 |
warc | 201704 | Big Data Can Make the Most of Transportation Infrastructure Technological fixes that monitor traffic in real time may help unclog the roads, researchers say. | Flickr/pchweat [4]
While job creation and retirements will produce about 685,000 job openings in the state of Virginia over the next five years, transportation ... | 5,560 | 2,606 | 11,738.726017 |
warc | 201704 | EC Motors Continue Gains in Industry
October 1, 2007
Electronically commutated (EC) motors continue to gain a foothold in the industry. Such motors utilize variable-speed technology to optimize fan speeds for load requirements, maximizing energy efficiency, and minimizing sound.
According to research done by Washington... | 3,920 | 1,852 | 8,070.712743 |
warc | 201704 | In the fall of 2015, the world descended into an economic apocalypse that will transform the globe into a single cashless society. This bold prediction is based on trends in nations all over the earth as shown in the article below.
As we enter 2016, we are only beginning to see this Epocalypse form through the fog of w... | 35,980 | 14,873 | 83,840.439723 |
warc | 201704 | People in the vicinity of Tuam are being urged to offer free accommodation in their homes to cyclists taking part in a major suicide awareness initiative.
The organisers of the annual national Cycle Against Suicide, which takes place on the May bank holiday, expect about 7,000 people to take part in the event.
Up to 1,... | 3,543 | 1,693 | 7,123.669226 |
warc | 201704 | Federal Health Minister
Ms Roxon announced yesterday that the new medicines, including a life-saving bowel cancer drug marketed as Erbitux, would be listed for subsidy from September 1.
She said the new drug listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme would pay for treatment of 400,000 patients at a cost of $200 mil... | 3,000 | 1,389 | 6,252.699784 |
warc | 201704 | Six years ago, Bernice Dapaah decided to forge an unconventional path into employment. About to graduate with a business administration degree but facing a bleak job market in Ghana, she joined forces with a handful of engineering students to create an innovative product from an abundant crop: bamboo.
Her inspiration w... | 2,986 | 1,505 | 5,749.786047 |
warc | 201704 | *By Essete Fitha-Amlak
In our last installment of our 2015 Leadership Academies, we brought together 52 Akili Dada scholars from different parts of Kenya. This particular academy was designed to challenge our Dadas thinking and activate their agency as advocates for gender equality as young women who desire change and ... | 5,590 | 2,485 | 12,464.462777 |
warc | 201704 | Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 145 / Number 2 / October 2003 / Pages 196-212
Technical Paper
Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis methodologies under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory were applied to determine whether existing benchmark experiments adequately cover the area of applicability for the... | 2,404 | 1,079 | 5,344.94532 |
warc | 201704 | BPM Tools Help Organizations Leap IoT Development Hurdles
App development is a growing challenge for enterprise IT departments, and business process management software systems are evolving to alleviate this burden. This is especially true as organizations try to get to grips with the Internet of Things, a technology m... | 2,587 | 1,240 | 5,338.816935 |
warc | 201704 | This ant of ancient lineage is described as a ‘living fossil.’ It is perhaps the most ‘primitive’ ant still alive today
(3). Ants are social insects, which typically live in colonies within nests comprising a single reproductive `queen’ and a force of non-reproductive `workers’, of whom the queen is the mother. Unlike ... | 5,417 | 2,526 | 11,413.014252 |
warc | 201704 | Foods to eat for gout by Nathan Wei, MD, FACP, FACR Nathan Wei is a nationally known board-certified rheumatologist and author of the Second Opinion Arthritis Treatment Kit. It's available exclusively at this website... not available in stores. Click here: Second Opinion Arthritis Treatment Kit
Gout is a disorder where... | 3,156 | 1,578 | 6,130 |
warc | 201704 | How to Maximize Appointments with Your Orthopedic Doctor Sienna Christie| August 16th 2012 | Views: loading
After weeks of planning, you and your pals finally decided to go fishing. But as you're reaching for your pole in the closet, you stumble on your wife's wayward high heels and fall. As you regain your composure, ... | 3,158 | 1,495 | 6,613.844816 |
warc | 201704 | The way people are booking holidays has changed considerably in recent years. This is due mainly to the easy accessibility of the internet, making it possible for anyone to instantly compare holiday prices with the click of a mouse. As a result, many holidaymakers are now shunning traditional holiday packages and are b... | 2,279 | 1,137 | 4,523.925242 |
warc | 201704 | Having Fun With Your Crawling Baby
In the first few months of baby’s life playtime is mainly stationary. When rolling over starts, baby’s play area spreads out a bit. But when baby begins crawling between 6 and 9 months, watch out! Baby now has complete run, or crawl, of the house, and playtime takes on a whole new mea... | 3,895 | 1,812 | 8,108.134658 |
warc | 201704 | A December 2012 study conducted by Pulse Opinion Research on behalf of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers showed that women spend $300 billion a year on new and used vehicles and accessories. For the first time, they also outnumber men in holding driver's licenses: According to a 2012 University of Michigan Trans... | 827 | 512 | 1,327.722656 |
warc | 201704 | Partitioning between benthic and pelagic nitrate reduction in the Lake Lugano south basin
Limnol. Oceanogr., 59(4), 2014, 1421-1433 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.4.1421
ABSTRACT: We evaluated the seasonal variation of denitrification, anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (... | 2,452 | 1,176 | 4,820.598639 |
warc | 201704 | Globalization is a progression of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic developm... | 405 | 262 | 622.958015 |
warc | 201704 | Assisted Living Facilities in Bucks County, PA
Our goal is to assist you in finding the best available independent and assisted living facilities in Bucks County. Just Click on the city below to see the list of assisted living facilities in Bucks County PA.
The state of Pennsylvania licenses assisted livinging faciliti... | 2,608 | 1,211 | 5,595.032205 |
warc | 201704 | 5 top trading tips By Stuart McPhee September 2016 min read
On the surface, you wouldn’t think there would be too much to trading shares: you only have to buy and sell; what more could there be?
As anyone will tell you, there is a lot more to it than you initially think. This might be the first tip to getting started i... | 7,449 | 3,221 | 17,004.811239 |
warc | 201704 | Aeronautics enthusiast Ariel Seidman has developed a real-time community-fed mapping tool designed to encourage widespread take-up of drones.
Digital mapping has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. You can now visualise in great detail almost any place around the globe from your computer or your smartph... | 4,274 | 2,095 | 8,513.318377 |
warc | 201704 | 1LAPC, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China 2Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 48, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Received: 25 Nov 2011 – Published in Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.: 16 Mar 2012 Abstract. Long-term measurements of carbon dioxide ... | 2,223 | 1,186 | 4,080.498314 |
warc | 201704 | Chapter 5 From Intersection to Collision: Women’s Sport 1920 –1980: Chapter 5 From Intersection to Collision: Women’s Sport 1920 –1980 Stevie Chepko & Lynn Couturier notes by N. Bailey from Women in Sport, Greta Cohen, Ed. Women’s & Men’s Worlds Collide: Women’s & Men’s Worlds Collide Greater prosperity, voting rights,... | 5,609 | 2,572 | 11,717.401633 |
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In this day and age, the Internet marinates us in all manner of delicious but endless ideas for eating well, eating poorly, eating copious bacon piles, and for different levels of wealth. Never before have we as a species had this vast a resource for culinary intrigue, but this in turn makes the quest... | 4,484 | 2,185 | 9,039.826087 |
warc | 201704 | Publishers Weekly Female Thing: Dirt, Envy, Sex, Vulnerabilityby Laura Kipnis Against Lovecomes a pointed, audacious, and witty examination of the state of the female psyche in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century.Women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an e... | 34,200 | 14,721 | 76,212.961076 |
warc | 201704 | THE CROCUSES HAVEN'T BLOOMED YET, BUT IT'S SPRINGTIME for online brokers. We've seen and heard that many updates and improvements are popping up on their Websites, a phenomenon we've noted before in the weeks before Barron's does its annual review of the electronic dealers in March. Here's a quick look at some of the n... | 5,568 | 2,737 | 11,280.438436 |
warc | 201704 | Mount Rainier Volcano
If you were ever to visit or move to Seattle you would notice the tallest peak in the Cascade Mountains and that is Mount Rainier. Though it looks like a very tall mountain it is actually an active volcano. The Mount Rainier Volcano is the 21
st in the list of the most prominent mountains in the w... | 4,654 | 2,097 | 10,242.350978 |
warc | 201704 | When are you done writing a piece of code? Is it when you have implemented the necessary functionality? When you have tested it? I believe there is more to professional-quality code than just getting it to function properly. What else is there? Making sure the code is maintainable - well designed and understandable. I ... | 6,569 | 2,928 | 14,712.944672 |
warc | 201704 | Can science help improve food security? 11 October 2012 From the section Science & Environment comments
Farming and retail experts warn that this year's poor UK's harvest is going to trigger a rise in food prices on supermarket shelves.
The past 12 months have seen a range of extreme weather not just in this country, w... | 8,928 | 4,126 | 19,063.422201 |
warc | 201704 | Million sickness benefit applicants 'fit for work' 29 January 2014 From the section UK Politics
Nearly a million people who applied for sickness benefit have been found fit for work, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions.
The DWP claims 980,400 people - 32% of new applicants for Employment and ... | 2,643 | 1,381 | 4,998.925416 |
warc | 201704 | “For beef, the number-one driver is still product quality. When everybody asks consumers what drives purchases, it’s the one that comes out on top.”
And, for most consumers, taste is what drives the determination of a quality product, says Daryl Tatum, Colorado State University meats scientist. So how are we doing? Is ... | 2,554 | 1,229 | 5,103.843775 |
warc | 201704 | Mar 23,2007 00:00
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Jim Barlow
After years of results that repeatedly dogged him, University of Oregon geologist Douglas R. Toomey decided to follow the trail of data surfacing from the Pacific Ocean. In doing so, he and his collaborators may have altered long-held assumptions involving plate tectonics on the ocean fl... | 5,590 | 2,598 | 11,900.804465 |
warc | 201704 | So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country's swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are retrenching.
Analysts say that before long companies could have to start slowing the gas flow from existing wells or even take the rare and expensiv... | 1,104 | 636 | 1,897.283019 |
warc | 201704 | Introduction to Project Management Principles & Practices Overview - Download Details
This course demystifies project management using plain English and practical techniques, the course content focuses on why project management is important, the key skills needed by a project manager and addresses the wider areas that ... | 2,232 | 1,096 | 4,486.40146 |
warc | 201704 | This press release is available in German.
Castor oil is known primarily as an effective laxative; however, it was also used in ancient times with pregnant women to induce labour. Only now have scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research succeeded in unravelling the mysteries of the action mechan... | 4,180 | 1,937 | 8,964.233351 |
warc | 201704 | WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The sense of family in the Latino community is so strong academics have coined a term for it: familismo. But for Latinos, family includes the village, the community at large. Dr. Garth Graham, a physician who heads the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department... | 4,029 | 1,905 | 8,434.462992 |
warc | 201704 | Mutation-selection balance
Natural selection will act to eliminate any allele that decreases the fitness of its bearers, but what about a recurrent disadvantageous mutation that keeps arising at a certain rate?
Selection can never finally eliminate the bad gene, because it will keep on reappearing by mutation. In this ... | 746 | 397 | 1,388.649874 |
warc | 201704 | The Swine Flu is Hitting Kids: Please Take Your Child’s Symptoms Seriously
I am not the type to worry about flues and colds, but something happened yesterday that opened my eyes about the severity of the flu. In the preschool where I teach, we had our back-to-school meeting. Our Preschool Director presented the guideli... | 3,137 | 1,541 | 6,288.249838 |
warc | 201704 | By Raanan Geberer
Although the panelists at the discussion on “Solving Brooklyn’s Hospital Crisis” basically agreed with Stephen Berger’s diagnosis that the current hospital system doesn’t work, they had varying opinions about the right prescription for it.
The discussion, sponsored by Crain’s New York Business, includ... | 2,764 | 1,368 | 5,279.482456 |
warc | 201704 | Gujarat government's decision to reduce value added tax (VAT) on battery-operated two-wheeler seems to have started yielding results. Some of the leading players see prices of electric two wheelers in Gujarat coming down in the range of Rs 2,500 to Rs 3,500 as the electric bike makers in the state plan to pass on the b... | 2,147 | 1,043 | 4,341.345158 |
warc | 201704 | Across the nation, our landfills are filling up with debris and junk. Isn’t there something productive we could be doing with all that unwanted trash? That’s what Energy Answers plans to do. Baltimore, Maryland is an innovative city with an innovative economy, and in 2010, Energy Answers proposed a new waste to energy ... | 3,407 | 1,664 | 6,814 |
warc | 201704 | Budget planners: Play it safe — Business Management Daily: Free Reports on Human Resources, Employment Law, Office Management, Office Communication, Office Technology and Small Business Tax Business Management Daily
As you prepare your budget, confront ambiguities head-on. If your projections are shrouded in unavoidabl... | 639 | 399 | 994.533835 |
warc | 201704 | BY MINDY CHAPMAN, ESQ.
Do you sometimes let employees bend company policy … just a little? It’s really no big deal, right?
A new court ruling warns that if you start bending a policy for one, you’d better be ready to bend it for all. Being flexible can sometimes be fatal. Cheron Dinkins worked for 12 years as a school ... | 2,576 | 1,313 | 4,883.21706 |
warc | 201704 | The El Dorado City Commission took action Monday evening to increase both the water and sewer rates
El Dorado residents will be seeing an increase on their water and sewer rates next year.
The El Dorado City Commission took action Monday evening to increase both of these rates after tabling a decision on a water rate i... | 7,357 | 3,293 | 16,197.464318 |
warc | 201704 | A couple of weeks ago, Tunisia became the first Arab nation to succeed in shaking off decades of debilitating dictatorship through a popular uprising that sent shock waves through the entire region.
Egyptians who have long voiced discontent with their government are now taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers de... | 7,665 | 3,558 | 16,170.177066 |
warc | 201704 | For accident victims in California, significant brain injuries can result in a number of serious consequences. In some cases, a traumatic brain injury may even be the cause of other conditions, which can require extended medical treatment later in life.
While in the past there have been purported links between TBI incu... | 1,863 | 989 | 3,432.139535 |
warc | 201704 | Constant Cravings and How to Tame Them
Wouldn’t life be simpler if instead of craving cakes and chocolate your body cried out for lettuce?
But unless you’re Bugs Bunny, that’s never going to happen.
The good news is that there are ways to control your cravings so they don’t lead to unhealthy eating habits and an expand... | 3,191 | 1,594 | 6,037.676286 |
warc | 201704 | What are trimmer capacitors?
Trimmer capacitors are variable capacitors which serve the purpose of initial calibration of equipment during manufacturing or servicing. They are not intended for end-user interaction. Trimmer capacitors are almost always mounted directly on the PCB (Printed Circuit Board), so the user doe... | 4,953 | 2,020 | 12,105.426238 |
warc | 201704 | Remember the times in your childhood when asking your parents for forgiveness calmed their anger and compelled them not to punish you. If it worked, it just might work once again, only this time with your credit card issuer. Being late on a credit card payment is now a ?“punishable offence,?” that will cost you at leas... | 7,596 | 3,273 | 17,468.711274 |
warc | 201704 | Exercise with a Mantra
You can use a mantra (sound) to increase the benefit of exercise. Research with instruments such as the electroencephalograph or EEC, which measures electrical activity in the brain, has shown that certain mental states are beneficial to both physical and mental health. Specifically, researchers ... | 2,230 | 1,140 | 4,283.947368 |
warc | 201704 | When new tires act old. Dear Tom and Ray:
In August I had new front tires put on my '80 Olds Calais. The problem is they keep losing air. I have had it back to the tire company four times trying to resolve the problem, but they have checked and they say can't find anything wrong.
Jo
TOM:Well, Jo, we can look at this pr... | 1,902 | 972 | 3,708.117284 |
warc | 201704 | Canadians can travel far and wide, but never quite far enough to avoid paying taxes. Whether you're working in a bar in Paris, or on a global trek, you may still be on the hook for paying tax on income earned.
Here are some things to keep in mind to make sure you don't run afoul of the Canada Revenue Agency on your ret... | 5,271 | 2,275 | 12,096.655385 |
warc | 201704 | Mold is a common cause for concern. Not only does it present potential health issues, it can also be indicative of other issues within the home.
Every home has the potential for mold - if it can grow on your bread, it can grow on your walls. This isn't meant to cause alarm, but rather to show when an alarm should or sh... | 2,282 | 1,118 | 4,625.234347 |
warc | 201704 | Print this article | Return to Article | Return to CFO.com
CFOs urge the SEC to drop a proposal mandating U.S. companies to use the international accounting rules.
Sarah Johnson and Marie Leone, CFO.com | US April 17, 2009
When the U.S. economy went into a tailspin last September after big financial institutions falter... | 10,237 | 4,661 | 22,334.274405 |
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