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warc | 201704 | Hope From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope implies a certain amount of perseverance — i.e., believing that a positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary. Beyond the basic definition, usage of... | 4,790 | 2,273 | 0.000442 |
warc | 201704 | Joseph Allen & Associates
Joseph P. Allen
President of Allen & Associates, Inc.
At no time has it been more important to build successful public sector-private sector partnerships developing the technologies that drive the world economy forward. Yet many times deals that should succeed fall through.
Often, those who do... | 769 | 446 | 0.002266 |
warc | 201704 | The Adventure Project (TAP) is a nonprofit organization that “adds venture” capital to create jobs in developing countries.
CEO Becky Straw and co-founder Jody Landers launched TAP in 2010 with $4,000 and a bold vision. They believed that they could move people out of extreme poverty and save lives faster through the c... | 3,311 | 1,617 | 0.000632 |
warc | 201704 | It was one of those moments we educators thrive upon - receipt of test scores that placed our students at the top of the heap in a state that bears a reputation for underachievement in education.
Recently, we learned that William S. Hart Union High School District students scored above the state's goal in the Academic ... | 3,180 | 1,527 | 0.000655 |
warc | 201704 | Q: What is the Arkansas Dental Health Network (ADHN)?
A: The Arkansas State Dental Health Network is a new dentist owned network created by the Arkansas State Dental Association’s for-profit entity: ASDA Services, LLC (ASDAS)
Q: Why has ASDA created its own network?
A: The healthcare environment is rapidly changing; th... | 4,418 | 2,027 | 0.000503 |
warc | 201704 | CHICAGO, IL .- The Field Museum
s latest exhibition Fractured: North Dakotas Oil Boom opened to the public on June 7, 2013 and takes visitors to the prairies of North Dakota to explore the impact of the current oil boom on the Williston Basin region. Nationally acclaimed photographer Terry Evans and award-winning journ... | 1,977 | 1,073 | 0.000935 |
warc | 201704 | Downers Grove officials have launched a new program they hope will spur local business to go green.
The Green Business Recognition Program was announced Feb. 19, an idea borne from the village's environmental concerns commission.
Allison Deitch, village management analyst, told the council the commission also designed ... | 2,030 | 1,029 | 0.000981 |
warc | 201704 | WASHINGTON — The United States suffered a record $117.7-billion deficit in the broadest measure of its foreign trade last year as the country became a net debtor for the first time in 71 years, the government reported today.
The Commerce Department reported that the deficit on the country's current account for 1985 was... | 2,723 | 1,256 | 0.000804 |
warc | 201704 | Reporting from Salt Lake City — President Obama's aides were flabbergasted. Here was Mark Shurtleff, the conservative Republican attorney general of deeply red Utah, explaining how he and other GOP officials had approved a statewide version of the immigration measures that the president and his progressive allies have ... | 4,694 | 2,289 | 0.000444 |
warc | 201704 | It's unlikely that residents of Mount Washington ever envisioned a metal-clad trapezoid sitting on this bend of Cazador Street, but the design — dubbed the Big and Small House by its architect, Simon Storey — is full of surprises.
The home sits on a lot once considered unbuildable because of its steep grade and diminut... | 3,788 | 1,884 | 0.00054 |
warc | 201704 | The proposed sale of Conrail may be on a fast track in the U.S. Senate, but a House Democratic leader yesterday made clear the proposal will go nowhere in the House unless the Reagan administration produces some hard figures on the sale's impact on the U.S. Treasury.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., chairman of the power... | 3,662 | 1,715 | 0.000589 |
warc | 201704 | The Lehigh Valley and other areas of the state should know within two weeks how much federal funding will be available this year for highway projects, the technical committee of the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study was told yesterday.
Tom Kotay, acting committee chairman and a central office staffer of the Pennsylvan... | 4,841 | 2,320 | 0.000434 |
warc | 201704 | TAMPA — At the suggestion of the state auditor general's office, the Comptroller's Task Force on Securities Regulation added two recommendations Monday to its preliminary report on investment fraud in Florida.
One recommendation would require the state comptroller's office to allocate an unspecified amount of its resou... | 2,091 | 976 | 0.001031 |
warc | 201704 | From The State, Columbia, S.C. Congress finally has started to ask some questions about the Defense Department's prime vendor buying program -- and it doesn't like the first answers it is hearing. To be a guardian of the taxpayers' dollars, it needs to ask more questions, including whether we even need this program any... | 1,324 | 708 | 0.001417 |
warc | 201704 | Congress traditionally moves more slowly than a snail when it comes to passing even the simplest laws, but financial experts say taxpayers should start preparing now for the changes that President Reagan`s tax proposals may bring.
The Reagan tax plan includes a profound restructuring of the ways in which Americans are ... | 5,285 | 2,281 | 0.000441 |
warc | 201704 | While buying a house in India, you have two choices. You can either buy an under construction house or a ready-to-move-in house. The process for both types of properties is slightly different. In this guide, we will tell you about how to buy a house in India separately for both types of properties.
The home buying proc... | 12,126 | 4,919 | 0.000206 |
warc | 201704 | Q: Which bird that migrates to or through the Bay Area travels the farthest to get here from its breeding grounds? Where does it come from and where does it go? [Jason, Oakland]
A: In October 1977, during my first pelagic birding trip in the middle of foggy Monterey Bay, I was carefully studying the drawing of a bird I... | 3,097 | 1,614 | 0.000636 |
warc | 201704 | Production Research Report No. 163
B. F. Detroy and E. R. Harp, agricultural engineer and agricultural research technician, Bee Management and Entomology Research, Agricultural Research Service, Madison, Wis. 53706
Acknowledgment
The authors thank Specialists Ronald Meyer and Andrew Hopfensperger, Jr., of the Departmen... | 16,850 | 6,888 | 0.000146 |
warc | 201704 | It’s the question on all our minds: How do we protect the livability of our community in the face of such dramatic growth and change? The answer is clear, it’s up to us to define our future together by learning about the challenges facing Bend, understanding how to shape the outcomes and engaging to implement innovativ... | 3,482 | 1,646 | 0.000623 |
warc | 201704 | It has been documented that telomere-associated cellular senescence may contribute to certain age-related disorders, including an increase in cancer incidence, wrinkling and diminished skin elasticity, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, weight loss, age-related cataract, glaucoma and others. Shorter telomere length in leuk... | 2,912 | 1,345 | 0.000745 |
warc | 201704 | Local engineering students who will be among the first to work on the new high speed rail route were introduced at an annual awards ceremony today (Friday 18 December).
The Building Birmingham Scholarship announced this year’s 25 young scholars who are set to pursue careers in the built environment sector. The 16-24 ye... | 4,236 | 2,046 | 0.000503 |
warc | 201704 | The Internet is written in permanent ink.
Most folks in the media industry have heard this saying countless times, from their J-school origins to their first human-interest beat. Whatever is broadcast or published on the Internet is forever, and—quite literally—archived by the Library of Congress.
It may seem like comm... | 6,173 | 2,984 | 0.000339 |
warc | 201704 | Posted on 13 September 2011
When we launched this blog, we weren't sure what the reaction was going to be - whether we'd be overwhelmed by comments or whether there would be crickets chirping. We've been getting very good quality comments from you and we'd like to thank you for them.
We thought it would be a good idea ... | 1,114 | 636 | 0.001584 |
warc | 201704 | CFA® Exam Survival Guide Part 1: Definitions and learning from your mistakes Sometimes the most valuable advice can come from people who have been through the challenges you are currently going through. The benefit of their hindsight can be a powerful advantage!
As CFA® Programme Leader at BPP, I’d like to share a few ... | 2,658 | 1,266 | 0.000829 |
warc | 201704 | This topic was recently raised in my office and I thought it would be interesting to pose to the Care.com readers. What do you think about letting kids drop-out of activities ? Never – or when within reason? Two employees weigh in. We’d love to hear your thoughts as well. No Quitting Allowed by Holly
To this day, I sti... | 4,533 | 2,267 | 0.000459 |
warc | 201704 | Texas authorities are investigating whether Xerox Corp. played a role in allowing dentists to allegedly overbill the state's Medicaid system by millions of dollars.
Like many states, Texas contracts with Xerox to process forms submitted by dentists, who seek a determination about whether procedures they intend to perfo... | 3,374 | 1,603 | 0.000628 |
warc | 201704 | Financial literacy is about comprehending the basics of banking, budgeting and investing so that you’re able to use money wisely…and the first step of that is to understand your personal income statement. A solid perspective on your “money in and money out,” combined with practical long-term planning, will help you dev... | 4,802 | 2,294 | 0.000451 |
warc | 201704 | My parents always tell me that the biggest purchase they made in their lives was buying our house. For a long time, I thought that my parents were simply talking about their utilities bills and maintenance fees, when they were actually talking about their mortgage.
I knew that a mortgage was one of the many fees relate... | 3,233 | 1,499 | 0.000674 |
warc | 201704 | As assured in our last blog, we are back with some more knowledge….!
When the information technology sector is on its usual go and we listen to its expansion plans almost daily, it becomes imperative to know what is really in demand. This is more significant for people who plan to venture into this sector as working pr... | 4,202 | 2,074 | 0.000486 |
warc | 201704 | California may have been an early adopter of medical marijuana, but the nice folks who have their hands on the wheel in Fresno don’t see what that has to do with them. While the state law permits the growth of medical marijuana, it also allowed localities to regulate its cultivation, which is a hole big enough to drive... | 6,718 | 3,077 | 0.000341 |
warc | 201704 | First of all let’s start explaining the origin of Niko-niko calendars and the concept behind this technique…
The first mention of a Niko-Niko Calendar is arguably in Norm Kerth’s paper “Project Retrospectives”, the “Energy Seismograph”, nevertheless the first real description as we know today is described by Akinori Sa... | 2,998 | 1,514 | 0.000684 |
warc | 201704 | What if I told that you that you are using your task lists
ineffectively?
Would that surprise you? Lots of people use task lists every day, but I’d wager plenty of them are going about it the wrong way. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that
they don’t even complete their task lists most of the time.
Are you one of them... | 1,188 | 626 | 0.001674 |
warc | 201704 | The narrative choices faced by the Obama Administration in confronting the Great Recession were nicely outlined yesterday in the editorial pages of the New York Times. Columnist Frank Rich offered a blistering critique of the Administration for ceding populist outrage to the right by failing to go after Wall Street exe... | 4,030 | 1,995 | 0.000513 |
warc | 201704 | Photo by Roger Phillips Duck season opened Saturday. Oct. 12. I was lucky to have a great hunt. My buddy and I both shot limits, Dusty did great retrieving birds, and it was a really fun day. But I also heard reports about snotty hunters who set up too close to others, behaved rudely, and basically spoiled hunts for ot... | 2,694 | 1,335 | 0.000779 |
warc | 201704 | Paul Volcker, a top adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, Tuesday expressed optimism that a financial overhaul containing a version of his proposal to limit bank risk would pass in Congress.
The former Federal Reserve chairman defended his proposal to give regulators the power to force banks to get rid of divisions t... | 2,047 | 1,037 | 0.001014 |
warc | 201704 | The Mission of The Blue Card is to provide direct financial assistance to needy Holocaust survivors. Who We Help
Of the nearly 2,500 Holocaust survivor households The Blue Card serves, three-quarters are over the age of 75 and nearly 70% live alone. Many of these survivors struggle to afford basic needs, such as adequa... | 1,476 | 817 | 0.00123 |
warc | 201704 | What is Osteoarthritis of the Hand?
Osteoarthritis is one of the most common forms of arthritis. Osteoarthritis occurs when the cartilage in a joint wears out, which can result in bone rubbing against bone. This condition can happen in almost any joint in the body, but it is most common in the hands, hip, knees, and fe... | 2,254 | 979 | 0.001026 |
warc | 201704 | About the Forensic Vocational Rehabilitation Program Overview
Jobs for rehabilitation counselors are expected to grow by 19%, which is faster than the average for all occupations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of people who will need rehabilitation counseling will increase as the size of the e... | 3,555 | 1,571 | 0.000642 |
warc | 201704 | Energy bills are one of American consumers’ top household expenses, says personal finance network Wallethub, costing a family on average about $2,000 a year—half of which goes directly to heating and cooling expenses.
But energy consumption isn’t just a hit on individuals’ wallets: The fuel used to produce that energy ... | 3,370 | 1,685 | 0.00062 |
warc | 201704 | Abstract
T-cell infiltration of melanoma is associated with enhanced clinical efficacy and is a desirable endpoint of immunotherapeutic vaccination. Infiltration is regulated, in part, by chemokine receptors and selectin ligands on the surface of tumor-specific lymphocytes. Therefore, we investigated the expression of ... | 1,495 | 793 | 0.00129 |
warc | 201704 | CNP Expo Kicks Off with Fraud Panels
May 20, 2012
The CNP Expo began today in Orlando, Fla. with four preliminary sessions exploring different aspects of fraud, line-busting mobile payment apps and customer retention in an e-commerce environment. While the official welcome, keynote addresses and the highly anticipated ... | 2,090 | 1,122 | 0.000908 |
warc | 201704 | Carpet Cleaning Services Pittsburgh
Keeping your home fresh and clean has a lot to do with carpet cleaning. Every home owner at some point will have to face the challenge of carpet cleaning and restoration. Do-it-yourself cleaning methods have been used before but this should not substitute professional carpet cleaning... | 2,255 | 1,088 | 0.000922 |
warc | 201704 | Junk mail sucks. It wastes your time and money, and it wastes valuable resources. It can also be used to steal your identity. Unfortunately, there is no built-in spam filter for mailboxes like there is in your e-mail account. However, there are a few good ways to stop the mail at its source.
Stop Receiving Prescreened ... | 5,469 | 2,511 | 0.000404 |
warc | 201704 | When I first got out on my own, I’d often stash my change in the ashtray of my car. That way, if I needed a quick meal the day before payday, I could find enough quarters and dimes to go to McDonald’s or Taco Bell.
After all, one of the real benefits of fast food is how cheap it is. If you order off the value menu, you... | 4,410 | 2,175 | 0.000469 |
warc | 201704 | To a young single person, even from the best of families, marriage can seem like an abstract concept. Commitment has barely meant more than a few years of work or school at this point, and comparatively, a lifetime commitment is certainly daunting.
Marriage was never particularly at the top of my list, but as someone c... | 5,134 | 2,452 | 0.000419 |
warc | 201704 | Studies in an Unproductive Coastal Lagoon in South Texas: A Case Against One-Time Sampling for Environmental Assessments byDonald E. Harper, Jr., Texas A&M Marine Lab, Galveston, TX, USA, Abstract:This study illustrates the problems inherent in attempting to write an environmental assessment based on inadequate or misl... | 958 | 556 | 0.001804 |
warc | 201704 | Amid the wreckage of failed political predictions last year, we shouldn’t overlook another year of failed global warming predictions. One year ago, Cambridge University professor and global warming alarmist Peter Wadhams predicted that in 2016, Arctic ice would either disappear or decline to “record low” levels:
‘My pr... | 1,713 | 865 | 0.001217 |
warc | 201704 | What does the source tell us about society?
Investigating women in world history through the use of primary sources requires careful attention to particular historical contexts. Womens lives have varied dramatically based on geography, religion, level of education, socioeconomic position, marital status, race, and hist... | 2,729 | 1,281 | 0.000783 |
warc | 201704 | Want to join the global hunt for E.T.? All you need is a PC.
Last week, a small band of scientists involved in SETI -- the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence -- unveiled free software that turns home computers into alien trackers.
The software, called SETIhome, runs on Windows and Macintosh machines and works lik... | 3,268 | 1,691 | 0.000597 |
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PEPFAR now explicitly targetting infants
In its "PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation" the meaning of the word "Voluntary" seems to ... | 43,241 | 17,894 | 0.000057 |
warc | 201704 | Water flows from Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, which has the most glaciers of any tropical mountain range in the world, are in a state of permanent decline 20 years sooner than forecasted
Water flows from the region's melting glaciers have already peaked and are in decline, Michel Baraer, a glaciologist at Canada's McGill ... | 6,092 | 2,792 | 0.000367 |
warc | 201704 | News Fleet Management LIVE 2017 CV Show 2017 Fleetworld Fleet Show 2017 December 2016 AFR rates Autumn Statement 2017 Bentley Bentayga New E-Class Saloon The all-new Ford Edge SUV New Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer New 350PS 2016 Ford Focus RS Fleet Management LIVE 2017 CV Show 2017 Fleetworld Fleet Show 2017 Low Carbon ... | 2,367 | 1,203 | 0.000834 |
warc | 201704 | Are you worried how your toddler will react when you transfer him from his crib to the bed? Well, you need to know that there are no developmental checklists involved that shall indicate he is ready for the transition. However, read along for some helpful tips.
You should focus on your toddler’s safety while choosing h... | 3,662 | 1,708 | 0.000592 |
warc | 201704 | Extremely close households hardly ever deem nursing homes as practical options for looking after their elderly. Devoted children and grandchildren frequently feel that their parents and grandparents are far too priceless to be put inside a center. Rather, they arrange to make their house conducive for their old folks.
... | 2,353 | 1,190 | 0.000844 |
warc | 201704 | In 1996 when the Coalition came into government the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister both made it clear that it was their intention to maintain the emphasis on engagement with Asia, which had been a trademark of the Keating/Evans foreign policy. But fairly soon it emerged that they would not share Keating’s evangeli... | 11,837 | 5,148 | 0.000198 |
warc | 201704 | One might expect that there would be a healthy debate in intellectual circles over whether the appearance of design in biology is real or illusory.... The reason that debate does not occur is that the intellectual culture of our time enforces a distinction between belief and knowledge, and between faith and reason, whi... | 63,634 | 26,980 | 0.000037 |
warc | 201704 | What is a statement of account?
A statement of account is a detailed report of the contents of an account. An example is a statement sent to a customer, showing billings to and payments from the customer during a specific time period, resulting in an ending balance.
The purpose of the statement is to remind a customer ... | 2,527 | 1,125 | 0.000895 |
warc | 201704 | Anindya Ghose, NYU Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and Professor of Marketing, is co-Director of the Center for Business Analytics, a Daniel P. Paduano Fellow of Business Ethics, and the Robert L. & Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow, all at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Additionally, Dr. G... | 12,258 | 5,439 | 0.000187 |
warc | 201704 | The opinion of the court was delivered by: JOHNSON
NORMA HOLLOWAY JOHNSON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Plaintiffs, residents and former residents of the Fort Dupont Housing Project (Fort Dupont) located in Southeast Washington, D.C., bring this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as a retroactive... | 10,174 | 4,005 | 0.000252 |
warc | 201704 | Remotely programmed boats that swarm to their objective just got closer to being a future warfighting reality.
In a recent demonstration that took place in the lower Chesapeake Bay, a swarm of rigid-hull inflatable boats, or RHIBs, and other small boats were takes with performing patrol missions autonomously, with remo... | 2,709 | 1,341 | 0.000763 |
warc | 201704 | Microsoft has responded to parliamentary pressure about Australian markups on its products by stating that it doesn’t set final prices to local customers — and stating that it was difficult to make direct pricing comparisons between countries, given differing local conditions in each jurisdiction.
The comments from the... | 3,571 | 1,628 | 0.000642 |
warc | 201704 | This isn’t a “mom blog,” so I try not to talk about my son too often, but I also know that as parents we can use all the helpful tricks and tips we can get.
Now that my son has become a full-blown toddler, I wanted to quickly share a few of my favorite things we’ve been using lately. I hope it will help my readers who ... | 6,189 | 2,978 | 0.000351 |
warc | 201704 | Article Title Abstract
This Comment recommends that Congress take action to bring consistency to the treatment of cultural property in two ways. First, ownership disputes should be settled based on the quality of provenance between competing claimants, a system similar to land title registration. Provenance is the hist... | 1,048 | 577 | 0.001743 |
warc | 201704 | Case in point? Check out this Kaiser - Microsoft press release touting a "50%" improvement in blood pressure control thanks to "in-home BP monitors and web-based reporting tools that connect clinicians and patients via the internet." The study of "348 patients" was presented at an American Heart Association meeting.
It... | 3,922 | 1,856 | 0.000543 |
warc | 201704 | Americans have a fetish with education. Specifically, we have an obsession with formal, higher education. For numerous reasons we believe that one’s education has a lot to say about that person’s character.
We immediately associate education with intelligence. Your intelligence is intrinsically associated with your edu... | 3,517 | 1,617 | 0.000632 |
warc | 201704 | Topic of the lecture: Sociolization of an individual
Plan:
1. Theoretical orientations to socialization
- Functional
- Interactional
- Critical perspective
2. Sociological research on socialization
3. Socialization is the life learning process
4. Agents of socialization
- Public opinion
- Religion
- State
- Total insti... | 4,715 | 2,013 | 0.000507 |
warc | 201704 | Accessibility tools
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Author(s): Marco Ratto, Werner Roeger and Jan in 't Veld-European Commission
This paper presents a DSGE model with residential investment and credit-constrained households estimated with US data over the period 1980Q1-2008Q4. In order to better understand specu... | 1,302 | 759 | 0.001332 |
warc | 201704 | Citizenship for Sustainability 3 rd – 5th July, Cascais, Portugal
From 3
rd to 5 th of July in Cascais (Portugal), the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD), will be holding the 13 th Annual International Conference of the IOPD under the theme “Citizenship for Sustainability” at the Estoril Congre... | 2,148 | 1,047 | 0.000973 |
warc | 201704 | Facts about National Origin Discrimination
Whether an employee or job applicant's ancestry is Mexican, Ukrainian, Filipino, Arab, American Indian, or any other nationality, he or she is entitled to the same employment opportunities as anyone else. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces the federal ... | 3,009 | 1,363 | 0.000737 |
warc | 201704 | Quotes From NVCWiki
Here is a list of
NVC quotes, aphorisms, and endorsements, which can be very useful in education and outreach. Hopefully you will find each quote to illustrate a core NVC concept, or will inspire you to learn more.
Since this is a wiki page, anyone can edit it. So, please feel free to add to this li... | 83,042 | 32,377 | 0.000031 |
warc | 201704 | The meeting provided a platform to reflect on the policies that support and/or hinder the hiring of third-country nationals residing in Europe, and brainstorm on innovative solutions for hiring migrants.
5-6 December 2013, Brussels
The ENAR Equal@work Initiative is a pioneering initiative, launched in 2009, which bring... | 2,054 | 1,043 | 0.000974 |
warc | 201704 | Title:
The rationalisation of drinking water supplies for pig housing
This study consisted of a series of experiments which investigated the water use of growing/finishing pigs (25-90 kg), newly weaned pigs (5- 12 kg) and gestating sows. Drinker type was found to affect water use in growing pigs. For example significan... | 2,591 | 1,208 | 0.000839 |
warc | 201704 | CCO believes the way to optimize clinicians’ competence in providing the highest standards of evidence-based medicine is through effective education and the availability of the latest clinical information, whenever and wherever it is needed.
To access CCO’s online educational activities, select one of the specialties t... | 1,063 | 605 | 0.001685 |
warc | 201704 | How To Download Cell Phone Hacking Software Free For Girlfriend
Businesses can be and are the victims of corporate theft. Cases range from actual corporate espionage to disgruntled employees selling off trade secrets to the highest bidders. Preventing such problems are very difficult as there are many avenues for attac... | 3,742 | 1,747 | 0.000587 |
warc | 201704 | The Body in Pain in Early Modern England
James C.W. Truman
Huntingdon College
James C.W. Truman. "The Body in Pain in Early Modern England".
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.3 (January, 2009) 1.1-37 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/14-3/Trumbody.html>. In Book IV of Paradise Lost, Satan and Gabriel engage in a battle of... | 95,982 | 38,064 | 0.000028 |
warc | 201704 | Citing the recent US Supreme Court ruling in
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) announced that it will no longer be enforcing the contraceptive benefit rule for employers with religious objections.
Current state law in Wisconsin requires companies with insurance plans to... | 2,974 | 1,465 | 0.000699 |
warc | 201704 | Seafood such as oysters are
foods high in zinc (20mg per 100g consumed). Zinc can also be found in red meat, poultry and offal. Vegetables such as green beans, potatoes and mushrooms as well as whole grains are also sources of zinc, but in general, zinc that is coming from animal foods is better assimilated by the body... | 748 | 456 | 0.002208 |
warc | 201704 | DOUGLAS, Wyo. — Flaring from oil wells drilled near homes has some residents in the Douglas area concerned about air pollution.
Flaring is the process of burning off excess natural gas from oil wells. Wells are flared in the months after drilling and before pipelines are in place to move the gas elsewhere.
Complaints f... | 1,797 | 949 | 0.001088 |
warc | 201704 | Healthy Holiday Motivation – 5 Tips Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA This is the time of year when millions thousands a crapload of people you and your best friends Betty and Veronica make resolutions and promises, some of them involving blood, toil, tears and sweat (quick, history buffs, who said... | 3,376 | 1,747 | 0.000601 |
warc | 201704 | Abstract:
As part of the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000), the University of Montana participated in both ground-based and airborne campaigns during the southern African dry season of 2000 to measure trace gas emissions from biofuel production and use and savanna fires, respectively.During the ... | 1,762 | 919 | 0.00109 |
warc | 201704 | When this concept is applied to a real world situation of many trillions of molecules, the difference in probability goes up as well. In fact, it turns out that the probability of getting nearly half of the molecules; in a real world situation; is so close to one as to make it a practical certainty.
When entropy is exa... | 1,514 | 807 | 0.001247 |
warc | 201704 | Murphy's Laws are a humorous way to look at life. There are valuable laws or "rules of thumb" for helping us understand our churches and Sunday Schools and how to make them more effective. Let us look at some rules that can apply to your church and Sunday School.
Administrative and organizational rule
Great Commission ... | 15,895 | 6,326 | 0.000159 |
warc | 201704 | Happy Cinco de Mayo, dear friends… Hoping you celebrate the Mexican Army’s liberation over the French with laughter and safety! Transitioning from a joyous occasion to our current state of affairs… which certainly can be and is joyous oftentimes, but not so joyous for me when do-gooders get arrested for feeding the hom... | 6,554 | 3,245 | 0.000327 |
warc | 201704 | The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy
Title: The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy
Editors: Beth A. Simmons, Frank Dobbin, Geoffrey Garrett
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
“The diffusion of markets and democracy around the world was a defining feature of the late twentieth century... | 2,894 | 1,352 | 0.000753 |
warc | 201704 | The Smad3/4 adaptor protein ELF is emerging as a potent regulator of tumorigenesis by its ability to effect TGF-B tumor suppressor function. However, to date the role of the TGF-B pathway at specific stages in gastrointestinal (Gl) tumor development such as metaplasia, dysplasia and carcinoma remains poorly delineated,... | 4,738 | 2,425 | 0.000413 |
warc | 201704 | After the near eradication of polio, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the commonest cause of acute flaccid paralysis. Anti-ganglioside/glycan antibodies (Abs) are the most frequently recognized autoimmune responses in immune neuropathies grouped under the term GBS. Despite the availability of two immunomodulatory thera... | 4,613 | 2,142 | 0.000467 |
warc | 201704 | Top-Rated Health Nonprofits Every year, GreatNonprofits announces the recipients of its Top-Rated Awards, charities that have distinguished themselves with outstanding feedback from the clients, donors, and volunteers they work with directly. Nonprofits from all 50 states and cities around the world make up the list, p... | 4,930 | 2,346 | 0.000433 |
warc | 201704 | The results of my poll of 175 green smoothie drinkers yielded some interesting results that suggest quite definitively that it’s a 10-minute habit worth adopting! The vast majority, or 97 percent, said green smoothies noticeably improved their health or quality of life. Only 18.5 percent had uncomfortable, short-term c... | 1,996 | 1,076 | 0.000969 |
warc | 201704 | We're finishing up the major transplanting jobs this week. We'll be able to wrap up tomatoes and squash this week, and finish the smaller jobs next week. Of course, there's some transplanting that occurs all season long, but not as much as what happens in the spring.
Among the favorite activities of the early summer is... | 2,354 | 1,178 | 0.000854 |
warc | 201704 | Only science and tech will save Nigeria
Lee Kuan Yew, the acknowledged father of Singapore, in his book: From Third World to First: The Singapore Story; 1965-2000, explained how by integrating technology into the country’s businesses, government and homes, he used the power of the internet to position Singapore for sur... | 9,358 | 4,150 | 0.000243 |
warc | 201704 | Oklahoma earthquakes today tremors and booms: Oh my! In Edmond, Oklahoma earthquakes measuring between M2.2 and M3.3 were felt in the early-morning hours Monday, November 11. Many residents reported a large boom on the second quake, making it doubly frightening.
Dana and Todd Sittig, of Edmond, Oklahoma, were sleeping ... | 3,554 | 1,704 | 0.000606 |
warc | 201704 | Definition
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease whose cause is currently unknown and that evolves in spurts. It appears on parts of the skin, which becomes red and scabbed with "scales", a kind of unsightly white film layer. These skin lesions can be itchy and painful. There are several types of psoriasis according to t... | 1,952 | 1,015 | 0.000994 |
warc | 201704 | Learn about the science of nutrition, role of diet and nutrition and how we can maximize our health by making better dietary choices.
The future demand for food, nutrition and dietetics professionals is strong. The field provides diverse career opportunities in health care organizations, community and public health, gr... | 1,265 | 713 | 0.001422 |
warc | 201704 | In the last hundred years, life expectancy of the average human has increased by 50% due to advances in agricultural science, modern medicine, and awareness of the importance of good hygiene. Although it is expected that society as a whole to live longer than previous generations, there are many steps that can be taken... | 10,574 | 4,730 | 0.000213 |
warc | 201704 | As a PADI DiveMaster I have spent hundreds of hours training above and below water to further develop my skills and experience the thrills of deep water diving. Yet my 200+ dives are nothing compared to those professionals out there some with 10,000+ dives in their log book! You may remember a previous article entitled... | 6,539 | 3,082 | 0.000331 |
warc | 201704 | There is a big debate going on whether to develop mobile apps as native apps or as web apps. I’ve found a couple of nice articles recently that I want to share.
This discussion doesn’t only occur in the community but even within companies. As pointed out on globalmoxie.com even Google internally has two camps, the Chro... | 3,257 | 1,595 | 0.000647 |
warc | 201704 | At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that further elucidate the particle discovered last year. Having analysed two and a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in July, they find that the ne... | 2,272 | 1,105 | 0.000919 |
warc | 201704 | Should you obtain the building permit or leave it to the contractor, if you're working with one? It's a common question and the answer is simple: Let the contractor handle the permit. He knows about the process and can accurately answer questions about the project when applying. He can address issues that might come up... | 2,682 | 1,282 | 0.000782 |
warc | 201704 | Tiny green, brown, yellow, red or black insects, aphids survive by sucking the sweet juices from plant leaves and stems. The pests aren't choosy, sipping the sap from nearly any plant in the garden, resulting in foliage with a curled, distorted appearance. Additionally, the sweet honeydew left behind attracts other pes... | 2,873 | 1,400 | 0.000718 |
warc | 201704 | Finding plants to grow in wet garden soil can be challenging since many common vegetables do not thrive in these conditions. If you are stuck with a wet garden and are committed to growing vegetables in it, try a not-so-common variety to regain control of that problematic spot.
Leafy Vegetables
For greens high in nutri... | 2,877 | 1,464 | 0.000687 |
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