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Omega 3 ALA is especially important for a healthy heart and research has shown it can be beneficial for lowering cholesterol, maintaining artery function and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. The other function of ALA in the body is to be partially converted to other Omega 3 fatty acids - Eicosapentaenoic Ac... | <urn:uuid:dd7ab248-604e-436d-aa33-f6de0af660a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thechiaco.com.au/content/omega-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.840396 | 158 | 2.625 | 3 |
By Dan Shapley
The rate of increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas warming the climate, tripled in the first four years of the 21st century. Even as the Kyoto Protocol and other measures were put in place to try to reduce emission levels below 1990 levels, the rate of increase ... | <urn:uuid:4e7d0edf-1850-42b4-87cd-0d6078586ee9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/1741 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961497 | 215 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Neanderthal Man 'Was Capable Of Being A Prick'
EARLY man often indulged in intolerable behaviour similar to that of modern-day pricks, it has emerged.
Archaeological evidence discovered by the Institute for Studies could overturn previous assertions that Neanderthals, although frequently brutish and warlike, were not c... | <urn:uuid:d69215fe-3ce8-496f-9a03-7b1d92072adf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/neanderthal-man-was-capable-of-being-a-prick-201010073147 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971131 | 394 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The Nipple-Eyed Demon Worm From Hell
Scientists aren’t even exactly sure how this remarkable creature can withstand such extreme temperatures. They’re studying the symbiotic relationship-based bacteria that form a “fleece-like” covering on their backs. A symbiotic is one in which both animals benefit. In this case, the... | <urn:uuid:542daec1-1d38-4c89-bb15-6b5de9627899> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thefeaturedcreature.com/2012/04/nipple-eyed-demon-worm-from-hell.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950511 | 210 | 2.875 | 3 |
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
You know the story immortalized by Shakespeare’s Henry V: a small force of scrappy but proud Englishmen (we few, we happy few) beat the arrayed force of French nobility on October 25, 1415, St. Crispin’s Day.
Well, some French historians beg to differ, and they’re holding a conference at the... | <urn:uuid:af22c094-8973-4c5d-8a48-8086d19ba1e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2008/10/28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966652 | 361 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Our weekly Torah portions (Hebrew: Parashas) serve to cross-reference the Torah and Tanach ("Old Testament") passages with B'rit Chadasha ("New Testament") passages to reveal their seamless continuity, thus revealing God's continuous, ongoing disclosures from Genesis to Revelation. Each week the parashas will be examin... | <urn:uuid:7fef907e-559c-4f78-8109-81a9dcc9d2ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.therefinersfire.org/weekly_torah_studies.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954216 | 505 | 3.359375 | 3 |
NASA: Mars is good habitat for Terry Pratchett dragons
That's the gist, anyway
In a development which may untwist a few knickers around the internet, NASA scientists have now explained just what their Phoenix robot lander has found in the soil of Mars - and what the implications are for possible discovery of life on th... | <urn:uuid:b6a595ab-9105-4a91-83be-9194d606661e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/06/nasa_sez_mars_perchlorate_good_for_exploding_dragons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957021 | 511 | 3.1875 | 3 |
How on earth is this a money-saving tip? Eating a meal that many people skip? Really?
Believe it or not, eating a healthy and well-balanced breakfast can actually save you money, both on that day and over a longer period of time.
The big reason? There are many studies that indicate that breakfast eaters weigh less than... | <urn:uuid:2dd049b4-8032-4159-8a1f-9b5bf6bbfe7d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2012/08/06/eat-breakfast-every-day-218365/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95729 | 798 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Can cinnamon help lower blood glucose and cholesterol (yes or no)
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the health benefits of cinnamon, but can it lower cholesterol levels?
Scientists studying cinnamon say that it might have potential. Much of the information publicized about cinnamon mostly concerns its role in low... | <urn:uuid:b88860b2-eeb8-4e76-9fd7-d779f62c83e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thinkred.co.za/news/view/can-cinnamon-help-lower-blood-glucose-and-cholesterol-yes-or-no/filed_under/cholesterol | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919511 | 463 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Of the many components
storage might be categorized
as one of the more
evolving systems in the
overall architecture. As
to sort out the directions
and requirements for their organization’s
expanding needs, technological approaches
continue to change, and so do the means
and methods of storage provisioning.
Operators an... | <urn:uuid:fb8072c0-9415-47fe-a878-070a0cb79e58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tvtechnology.com/the-storage-channel/0090/software-defined-systems--virtualization/216662 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874712 | 1,429 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Earlier, I discussed techniques for obtaining food in the wild. The problem then, of course, is that if you’re living in a tent, there are no sturdy cupboards1 or refrigerator to store the food in, and the wilderness is full of animals and potheads who might want to steal your food and eat it. Animals have little regar... | <urn:uuid:1daba8c3-2625-48e2-8773-cada6f18c85a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tylertork.com/qna/2011/hiding-food-from-animals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965403 | 499 | 2.90625 | 3 |
To know nothing of the culture of others is to impoverish one’s own; to destroy the culture of others is an act of self-mutilation. Respect for cultural diversity and its corollary dialogue, is essential to the survival of humanity.
Culture, in its vast diversity, is a common source of wealth. Heritage and creation rep... | <urn:uuid:2bc8f562-08fe-4564-bf2f-b4ab410bfe06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/emergency-situations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945066 | 390 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter
Headline from the future? Actually, it’s happening now, although not quite on Mars, but about as close as humans can currently get. Six college students are the latest crew to embark on a two-week stint at the Mars Desert Research Station, a si... | <urn:uuid:31721b99-6077-4007-a096-1aae63eacfa3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.universetoday.com/82963/all-student-crew-lands-at-mars-research-station/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956744 | 1,336 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Spirometry is used to measure forced expiratory flow rates and volumes. It is the most commonly used pulmonary function test and is useful in the evaluation of patients with respiratory symptoms (eg, dyspnea, cough, wheeze) or risk factors for respiratory disease (eg, smoking, occupational exposures, family history).
I... | <urn:uuid:5d9023c9-90c2-49a4-a30d-927703a27c8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uptodate.com/contents/office-spirometry?source=related_link | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909579 | 391 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Infection Control and Management of Hazardous Materials for the Dental Team, 4th Edition
|Pageburst on VitalSource eBook||$40.27|
Maintain safety and infection control in the dental office with Infection Control and Management of Hazardous Materials for the Dental Team, Fourth Edition. This practical and comprehensive ... | <urn:uuid:289eb608-52b9-41b9-b8ab-72a3be69a8a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780323056311&navAction=&navCount=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887514 | 796 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Agriculture and Food Security
Agricultural growth has been the major driver of poverty reduction, especially in Southern Ghana. Ghana is a focus country for Feed the Future, and the initiative is contributing to the government’s commitment to food security and building on a common purpose shared among civil society, th... | <urn:uuid:2cbbf482-21b1-45cd-a57a-466640bc38aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usaid.gov/ghana/our-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942481 | 445 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Student, ranchers protect prairie songbirds
|SCOTT Bell/university of Saskatchewan U of S graduate student Allison Henderson is studying connections between prairie grasslands and songbirds.|
By Victoria Martinez
Grassland songbirds — from Sprague’s pipit to the chestnut-collared longspur — rely on native prairie to su... | <urn:uuid:dfbc46b1-469a-41a7-9838-818739d652d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usask.ca/research/news/read.php?id=1041&newsid=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931926 | 862 | 3.25 | 3 |
- For Teachers
First Person: I We
This pronoun is used when the subject is the speaker or the group with them.
Second Person: You
This is used when the speaking is talking about the person or people they are speaking to. In English, there is no difference between singular and plural and we use the same form whatever ou... | <urn:uuid:850c723c-930e-4dd4-a5be-5019a844c2f3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/person.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932856 | 151 | 4.21875 | 4 |
We think we’ve found some of the genes that are associated with the low alcohol sensitivity (or low effect per drink) and that we may be able to use this information to identify people at greater risk and educate them. This would be very useful when working with, say, adolescents.
Q: In your opinion, what has been the ... | <urn:uuid:b7b1ce86-583c-4dcc-be78-6e8299e87428> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/Jan/01/tp-alcohol-abuse-ranked-a-leading-risk-factor-for/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970541 | 269 | 3.0625 | 3 |
St Mary of the Cross Jugan (1792-1879)
St Mary of the Cross (in the world: Jeanne Jugan) was born at Cancale, in Brittany, France, on 25 October 1792 in the turbulent period of the French Revolution. She was the sixth of eight children, four of whom died in infancy. Their fisherman father was lost at sea when Jeanne wa... | <urn:uuid:ded6005e-20a4-4ed2-8ceb-53674445e812> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/2009/ns_lit_doc_20091011_jugan_en.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981139 | 943 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Civil War Research in Your Town
Learn How to Learn about Sites and Personal Stories Nearby
“The breadth of the Vermont initiative, and its clever interweaving of a wide array of cultural threads, makes it uncommonly attractive. . . . Vermont seems well-suited to this effort, which might serve as a model for others to e... | <urn:uuid:b5607af6-0ac1-4a46-a7a9-0c14f7d5923c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vermonthumanities.org/WhatWeDo/CivilWarat150Years/CivilWarResearchinYourTown/tabid/225/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954205 | 867 | 2.625 | 3 |
A sagebrush plain surrounds former island Fort Rock.
The Oregon outback is a place of one-horse towns set amid tracts of sage and rabbitbrush, where hawks hang in the wind and cattle graze contentedly throughout the lazy days—and where it's easy to imagine that things have always been the same.
Don't be fooled. This re... | <urn:uuid:c6c05e95-7be5-466a-9645-977c85d85f27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.viamagazine.com/destinations/oregons-outback | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937057 | 1,508 | 2.78125 | 3 |
In examining the use of Moorish design in the 1860's, Terry Reece Hackford points to Owen Jones' book The Grammar of Ornament (1856) as one "reason for the intensified interest" in styles from the East (Hackford). Jones' book, she notes, became "a crucial sourcebook of design motifs for craftsmen and commercial designe... | <urn:uuid:c96a338e-ac30-4962-8019-c6240bc4e3ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/moorish/keefe10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934849 | 1,485 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Dr. Dan Olweus, a research professor of psychology from Norway, is often considered the "pioneer" in bullying research." He has spent several decades researching the issue of bullying to help keep children safe in schools and other settings. Today, Dr. Olweus is best known for the most researched and widely adopted bul... | <urn:uuid:ba54524b-beb8-4210-b716-8bfa82ea1a1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.violencepreventionworks.org/public/olweus_history.page | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965125 | 867 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Looking at the historical experiences of many countries it seems uncontroversial that an abundance of natural resources can shape political outcomes. Few observers of Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and many other resource-rich countries would take seriously the proposition that political developments in these countr... | <urn:uuid:917a4d25-c0e7-4a4f-aada-31f2f26aa5c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.voxeu.org/article/oil-and-democracy-new-insights?quicktabs_tabbed_recent_articles_block=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925965 | 1,773 | 2.59375 | 3 |
If you thought you were doing your body justice by reaching for the low-fat cheese or milk, you may want to think again. While dietitians and others recommend low- and no-fat varieties, more experts are starting to realize why full-fat milk, cheese, and dairy as a whole should be chosen. If you want to lose weight and ... | <urn:uuid:e1674398-8485-436d-af05-5946bd8d6bee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/02/16/why-you-should-avoid-low-fat-cheese-and-milk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95407 | 903 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Walsh University Graduate Catalog 2012-2013
EDT 611 Multicultural Education: Curriculum and Instruction 3 sem. hrs.
Changing demographic patterns indicate that the United States is becoming more culturally diverse: new family structures are emerging, the number of minority children is increasing, the population is agin... | <urn:uuid:3b9b643e-7b84-4cbd-b482-b28da0d4cd6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.walsh.edu/course-catalogs/GR-Catalog/2012-13/edt-611-multicultural-education-curriculum-and-instruction-3-sem-hrs.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910459 | 161 | 2.921875 | 3 |
THE COMPUTER WORM known as Stuxnet was stealthy. It was able to inject malicious code into the devices controlling Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges and deceive the operators while quietly sabotaging the centrifuges. The intent was to slow Iran’s accumulation of highly enriched uranium, which could contribute to th... | <urn:uuid:d3bb5f73-58ec-4749-aa8a-5036a4cb0339> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-is-americas-cyberwar-policy/2012/06/16/gJQAkxgnhV_story.html?tid=wp_ipad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969978 | 642 | 2.65625 | 3 |
April Healthy Highlights
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. But survival rates are improving for many types of cancer, thanks to the improvement in cancer screenings and cancer treatments. From 1990 to 2007, death rates for all cancers combined dropped 22 percent for men and 14 percent fo... | <urn:uuid:05ef5c13-f1d1-4cbf-a8b9-a7877df8033f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.washjeff.edu/messenger/april-healthy-highlights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971839 | 86 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Photograph by spbutterworthon Flickr.
Kant distinguished between Beauty and the Sublime, in terms that clearly gave priority to the former. From the mid to late 19th century, photographic processes improved and, as it became more widespread, painting lost much of its historic purpose to provide an accurate record of th... | <urn:uuid:d57ea006-5a36-4d31-9a18-6399252f0c6f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.waterford-usa.com/ftour.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950195 | 2,417 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Cat Over the Great Lakes?
NASA/GSFC MODIS Rapid Response
In January 2012, in this high-resolution false color (red shades) satellite image from the northwest Great Lakes region, the cloud pattern formed an eerie face, with the mouth being a mesoscale vortex (small spinning feature) over Lake Superior. Above (to the nor... | <urn:uuid:644b6f2b-efa9-4b84-b4f6-e5713e8e4dcd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.weather.com/news/weather-image-face-20130105 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951149 | 364 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The Alexandria of antiquity.
May 7, 2007, Vol. 12, No. 32 • By CHARLOTTE ALLEN
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
The grandest and most culturally rich city of the classical world was--not Athens. Athens had its political and artistic heyday during the fifth century B.C., when it produced Pericles, Aeschylus, Sophocles, S... | <urn:uuid:6837404d-0c30-45f5-85ae-634497da6245> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/013/577udtkg.asp?nopager=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970601 | 3,714 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The plant must be fully and continuously suppressed and destroyed
Why Is It Bad?:
Coolatai Grass is a serious weed of native environments, improved pastures and cropping situations. It has the ablility to spread quickly without the need for disturbance. It is of high importance that this weed is controlled at an early ... | <urn:uuid:5f963e96-1cd2-48b8-9c57-ca59dc266811> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.westernweeds.org/index.php?act=weeds_detail&weed=4&saved=by~common&start=0&totalRows=43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908315 | 544 | 3.5 | 4 |
Controlling the Marburg outbreak in Angola
The WHO Regional Office for Africa has been leading the international field team supporting national and local experts in Angola to control the largest ever recorded outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever. Marburg fever is a rare but fatal disease caused by a virus from the sa... | <urn:uuid:3a742e99-c8cc-4b34-b73b-4b1a3e2880dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/features/2005/marburg/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961481 | 290 | 2.921875 | 3 |
What kind of care do preterm babies need?
Q: What kind of care do preterm babies need?
Babies who are born preterm need the same care that other babies get and a little more. This includes:
- Good pregnancy care:
- All pregnant women should receive good care, including at least four antenatal visits with a health worke... | <urn:uuid:9c8fb004-3e7f-4ec3-9547-c08e5f298a20> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.who.int/features/qa/preterm_baby_care/en/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949742 | 933 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Bilingual Education in the 21st Century
A Global Perspective
1. Edition October 2008
2008. 496 Pages, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-4051-1994-8 - John Wiley & Sons
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US Diplomatic Efforts Stalled Brazil's Nuclear Program in 1970s
Brazil's nuclear program in the 1970s faced opposition from the US as the Carter administration sought to make nuclear non-proliferation a top priority.
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What do you think they will find in the lake?
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The Search for Life on…Earth!
News story originally written on November 3, 2002
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Kenyan scientist Wangari Maathai
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
"We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. In making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own."
- Wangari Maathai
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Poetry and Pictures - Weather
Paintings by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) are often like snapshots of real life. In this painting of Le Pont des Arts in Paris, France there appears to be two cloud types in the sky: mid-level altocumulus clouds and lower stratocumulus clouds with an elongate shape.
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A meta-analysis of more than 1 million people across the globe found that moderate drinkers all have one thing in common: They tend to live longer than nondrinkers and, especially, heavier drinkers.
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A powerful digital certificate that can be used to forge the
identity of any website on the internet is in the hands of an
international band of security researchers, thanks to a
sophisticated attack on the ailing MD5 hash algorithm, a slip-up by
Verisign, and about 200 PlayStation 3s.
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- The 2MASS Redshift Survey created this universe map over the course of 10 years. It shows some 43,000 galaxies within 380 million light years of our planet. The Milky Way runs from left to right in the middle of the map.
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I found that the advice and information on www.woman2womanhealth.co.uk was very helpful. The Times, February 3 2007
An Introduction to the Menopause
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By: Dr. Jotham Musinguzi, Regional Director of the Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office; Originally published in The Independent
A few weeks ago, on 8 March, the world celebrated International Women’s Day, which serves as a clarion call to honor girls’ and women’s contributions to their familie... | <urn:uuid:e90db077-320a-41dd-92af-1f50bcd3f5f0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.womendeliver.org/updates/entry/its-time-to-deliver-for-girls-and-women | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950071 | 908 | 2.59375 | 3 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bluish-gray sandstone used for paving and building.
- n. A stone similar to this kind of sandstone.
- n. UK A form of dolerite which appears blue when wet or freshly broken.
- n. UK Any of several massive stones used to construct Stonehenge.
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“the first two groups are commonly referred to as sephardic, the latter as ashknenazi. all worship the same torah, are totally of the same religion, but some of the locallized customs are different eg. the ashknezai often spoke yiddish in central and eastern europe, the sephardic often spok... | <urn:uuid:38da0294-435c-41ba-8df4-75f40608344a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/sephardic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956089 | 467 | 2.578125 | 3 |
BERLIN - She’ll never know why, on August 7 1970, her father was in the border area near the Berlin Wall. The only thing she knows is that East German border guards fired 177 shots at him. Monika N. was 13 when she lost her father. Her sister was a year older.
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Sunday 1 August 2010
National Tree Day is Australia's biggest community tree-planting event. These are special days for all Australians to help out by planting and caring for native trees and shrubs to improve the environment in which they live. National Tree Day was co-founded by Olivia Newton-John and Planet Ark in 1... | <urn:uuid:71500ba4-2660-47f9-92b3-702705357418> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yellagonga.org/nursery-information/59-national-tree-day-1-aug-2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96316 | 127 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Borland C++ Builder is a programming
environment used to create computer applications for the Microsoft
Windows family of operating systems. To make it possible, it
internally uses a library called the Visual Component Library or
VCL, the same library used by Borland Delphi.
site is dedicated to Borland C++ Builder. It... | <urn:uuid:f9e93521-1807-451d-ba60-9f21410c0bc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yevol.com/en/bcb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.83807 | 85 | 2.625 | 3 |
Looking out across the River you can see Birkenhead from where the Mersey Ferries ply their trade back and forth. To the left of the ferry terminal you can see the steeple of Birkenhead Priory Chapel. This is the oldest building on Wirral and the first on this side of the peninsula. It was from Birkenhead Priory that t... | <urn:uuid:25939b30-a741-4929-846b-b06841c306a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.yourancestorsfree.com/2009/06/river-pilots-river-mersey-liverpool.html?showComment=1320565119481 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980775 | 470 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Es wurden insgesamt 3617 Einträge zu 'Fairy Tales' gefunden (Stand: 28.08.2012).
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Guide to President Bush's FY 2006 Education Agenda
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Four Years of Progress
Three years ago, President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), a law first passed in 1965. The new law reflected an unprecedented... | <urn:uuid:119df583-3de5-4169-9a81-1117bb9af401> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget06/nclb/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953798 | 3,464 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Figure. Neighbor-joining unrooted trees based on the full-length genome (A), E2 (B), 5′ untranslated region (C), and Npro (D) sequences of members of the genus Pestivirus. For phylogenetic tree construction, pestivirus sequences listed in the Table were used. Asterisks indicate strong statistical support for a node by ... | <urn:uuid:ee10de44-af7c-4c58-afb7-259dc84e5f68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/8/10-1447-f1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.84417 | 147 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The appropriateness of hero worship in America has been a subject of debate since the country's earliest days. Some argue that the notion of the 'hero' is antithetical to the spirit of popular democracy in which 'all men are created equal'. Others believe that America has a special need for heroes and, more generally, ... | <urn:uuid:7e0bdf08-f411-440a-b655-1cd66c7c33c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma97/halnon/capra/hero.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962954 | 5,819 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Newborns cry with an ‘accent’
Washington: Newborns start learning language in the womb – and their cries reflect the language their parents speak, say researchers."The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody ... | <urn:uuid:08df7a02-e870-4c51-bb9d-da50091b092a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/others/newborns-cry-with-an-accent_577157.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960031 | 475 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Healthbeat Report: CPR
December 17, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation can more than double the chances of survival for someone who has a heart attack.
It is not the CPR you remember from Girls Scouts and it's certainly not a joke. The classic 1970's disco hit 'Staying Alive' has a purpose. It's all ... | <urn:uuid:5f95ab65-f966-4937-b604-096e0ea9cff1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/special_segments&id=7177253 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958337 | 858 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The horse, a six-year-old thoroughbred mare domiciled in the Jennings area, was brought to the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge June 27 after exhibiting abnormal facial twitching symptoms.
The neurologic symptoms worsened and the horse was euthanized. A subsequent necropsy verified rabies.
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FORT HALL—In celebration of the newly declared National Native American Heritage Month, members of Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are having some fun by participating in "Wear Your Moccasins To Work Day" all day Thursday.
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When you draw in SVG, matrix math is used to figure out where on the screen the point is. Consider a document with a view box which is 200 by 200 pixels but on a display which is 100 by 100 pixels. A point at (20, 20) must be drawn at (10, 10) on the display. This transformation occurs for each and every point. The SVG... | <urn:uuid:695d7f57-1673-4bfe-9ac8-1373b51a8448> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://apike.ca/prog_svg_transform.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.845068 | 691 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2000 June 18
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ARCHIVE: What is biodiversity?
The Convention on Biological Diversity defines biodiversity as:
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Aspartame (L-alpha-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine methyl ester) is a low-calorie sweetener used to sweeten a wide variety of low calorie foods and reduced calorie foods and beverages, including low-calorie tabletop sweeteners. Aspartame is composed of two amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, as the methyl ester. Ami... | <urn:uuid:e48e10de-cbdc-469e-b5f7-8438a263f2b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aspartame.org/aspartame_facts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948371 | 572 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
Astronomy from the Stratosphere: NASA’s SOFIA Mission
Dr. Dana Backman (Director of Education & Public Outreach, SOFIA Project, NASA Ames Research Center)
Listen (mp3 file, 28.1 MB)
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In this collaborative photo series, photographer Mitch Payne worked with designer Kyle Bean to develop images of the micro systems of renewable energy. The goal of the series was to strip the systems to their simplest possible signifiers. As Payne describes this motive,
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History of Armored Vehicles
The idea of an armored vehicle predates the invention of the internal combustion engine, it seems. In fact, none other than the multi-talented Leonardo da Vinci made sketches of an armored war vehicle in 1485. It consisted of a circular platform on four wheels with light cannons arranged fac... | <urn:uuid:1053b8ef-3bb7-4c2d-95e3-9ebfbfd174f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://auto.howstuffworks.com/armored-car1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973568 | 327 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Loose in the La Platas
North Fork is a local name for the area where an old mining and logging road once crossed the North Fork of the West Mancos River. Upstream from the river crossing, where the river cuts through some iron-stained intrusive rocks, are the remnants of the mining camp named Jackson City. Captain Jack... | <urn:uuid:dedf0574-a057-400c-8571-8b0dbb1cc1b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://away.com/parks-guide/travel-ta-mesa-verde-national-park-mountain-biking-durango-cortez-sidwcmdev_056478.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950254 | 737 | 2.921875 | 3 |
LOS ANGELES — The famous winged and feathered fossil Archaeopteryx has been knocked off its perch as the oldest known bird by a newly discovered Chinese relative that has been dubbed Xiaotingia zhengi, according to new research. Instead, Archaeopteryx was most likely a dinosaur.
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Remembering the Nakba during Israel's 60th anniversary
This month, Jews around the world are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. These celebrations reflect the understandable joy of Jews who view Israel as the symbol of 60 years of freedom from centuries of persecution, culminating ... | <urn:uuid:9e3790b7-17f6-472b-8820-67369bd7d399> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com/2008/05/jewish-voice-for-peace-on-israels-60th.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957085 | 813 | 2.875 | 3 |
"Emblems were a genre that deployed word and image for rhetorical, ethical and/or educational purpose. They exhibited an economy of expression, typically in the three-part form of motto, allegorical image and explication, that served to contain their baroque piling-on of detail in a tight, formalist forcefield."These w... | <urn:uuid:07cbc71b-5fb8-445b-bfd6-5f5b0875d7b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2005/12/de-warachtige-fabulen-der-dieren.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954098 | 445 | 3.03125 | 3 |
In the last ten years a series of discoveries has changed our ideas about our mind/body connection. The evidence is building that one cannot distinguish the mind from the body, as previously thought. For example, with humans there is a second brain, complete with one hundred million neurons, which exists embedded in ou... | <urn:uuid:1dde59fa-a506-487b-b1ba-7c7016e1bd06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.braininjury.com/2012/the-second-brain-in-the-gut/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945831 | 408 | 3 | 3 |
How fast do you walk? How strong is your hand grip? A new study suggests simple tests like these may help doctors figure out the likelihood of a middle-aged person developing dementia or having a stroke.
Researchers at Boston Medical Center studied 2,400 men and women with an average age of 62, who underwent tests of h... | <urn:uuid:93ca86e9-a162-4887-b160-76cb7501934e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.ctnews.com/healthylife/2012/05/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963044 | 278 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Some of the topics we’re exploring in the 20th Century History exhibition relate to major local and international events, some are aligned with social or technological changes, and some revolve around personalities.
One of New Zealand’s most memorable personalities was Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. Muldoon dominated p... | <urn:uuid:1e899794-ff2e-4fac-81bc-58855cd9abc9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2008/05/13/robs-mob/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=a21ac6eb7c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978792 | 272 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Questioning a practice that has been gospel for the civil rights movement for decades, columnist Cynthia Tucker challenges the idea of creating “majority-minority” districts — legislative districts where African American voters have a clear majority.
The U.S. Supreme Court has also long supported the maximization of th... | <urn:uuid:0e2b601d-e541-4255-a520-91d228d41469> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.timesunion.com/opinion/category/race/page/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945812 | 432 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“Massive acoustic trauma.” It sounds like an ’80s metal band, but according to scientists at the Technical University of Catalonia in Spain, it’s what happens to squid and other cephalopods when they are exposed to sounds similar to boat noise. After exposing 87 cephalopods to low-volume, low-frequency noises for two h... | <urn:uuid:07067d9b-40a3-47ca-a2df-1cfac596daf9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/13/humanitys-underwater-cacophony-has-another-victim-cephalopods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958552 | 676 | 3.234375 | 3 |
January 7, 2013 | 1
Enhancing your level of vision on demand sounds like something out of a comic book. Superman, if you recall, had the power to turn his x-ray vision on and off like a light switch. So is x-ray vision possible? I’m sorry to say: no. The ability of our naked eyes to see through layers of objects remain... | <urn:uuid:08f246f3-134a-4cc1-b962-b8dc289763e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/01/07/go-go-gadget-eyes-and-brain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958225 | 938 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Investments in education and human capital have long been recognized as precipitators of future economic growth. Rapid development in Korea in the second half of the 20th century, for instance, has been traced by scholars back to high levels of investments in schooling and training, creating the enabling environment fo... | <urn:uuid:23dc5e8c-0c81-47a2-826e-b96268d1bb6e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.worldbank.org/education/node/507 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94984 | 539 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The Mabinogion - Lady Charlotte Guest's translation
Tha Mabinogion - This is a literal translation of White Book text: using the Dublin Advanced Studies edition for the First and Second Branches, and Ifor Williams' Pedeir Keinc Y Mabinogi (1951) for the Third and Fourth Branches.
Welsh History - A Timeline
More on Wale... | <urn:uuid:b9807445-b907-4658-9cd8-05a26eadc799> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bluemoonwicca.org/mythology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901523 | 535 | 2.71875 | 3 |
To understand the basics of nuclear energy, it’s helpful to learn a little bit about nuclei and the atoms where they’re located.
For background information about the basic structure of atoms — protons, neutrons, and electrons — see Atoms are the building blocks of the universe.
WHAT ARE ISOTOPES?
Protons define an atom... | <urn:uuid:89ee7d4a-b511-4cd3-93d3-56e82f43dd68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://burnanenergyjournal.com/what-is-a-nuclear-reaction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916214 | 1,338 | 4.5 | 4 |
Archived Content from Conference Held in October 2004
2004 Immersion Conference Presentation
How to Use Assessment and Evaluation to Promote
Quality Immersion Programs and Student Outcomes in the Era of NCLB
Professor, San Jose State University
We are moving through a challenging era for immersion education – the NCLB ... | <urn:uuid:bfaca038-0c2a-4f99-9e3d-0cb0c4f090c3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/immersion/leary-abs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937688 | 265 | 2.625 | 3 |
"The Ohio STEM Learning Network: A Study of Factors Affecting Implementation, Spread and Sustainability" is a National Science foundation funded project at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE). CEMSE is collaborating with the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy (B... | <urn:uuid:bea89497-4e7d-497f-a6d8-440c289a2014> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cemse.uchicago.edu/research-and-evaluation/research/stem-schools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946685 | 1,428 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Benefits of Keeping a Food Diary
Dear Diary… A food diary can help you balance your meals and recognize unhealthy habits.
A diary isn’t just a place to confess your inner-most thoughts and feelings. Keeping a log of your food can help you manage your healthy eating habits. There are numerous online sites and mobile app... | <urn:uuid:d40cfc6e-43f5-4e41-b268-5dfb9186df71> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cfcvi.osceolaregional.com/2013/01/28/benefits-of-keeping-a-food-diary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936755 | 287 | 2.65625 | 3 |
"The fact that most students study alone is indeed unfortunate because research shows that students who engage in collaborative learning and group study perform better academically, persist longer, improve their communication skills, feel better about their educational experience, and have enhanced self-esteem."
Tomorr... | <urn:uuid:a236cae9-0f17-453c-9a8e-29a699264d3c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=338 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943189 | 1,708 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Sandwiched in the middle of the Six Pillars, Fairness doesn’t always get to take center stage. But in a fascinating article in The New York Times, Natalie Angier traces the human desire for fairness back to our evolutionary roots.
Angier begins by looking at the equalizing habits of hunter-gatherers in Paraguay and bus... | <urn:uuid:17ff062f-a093-43a5-b8c0-596356744615> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://charactercounts.org/chron/2011/07/12/to-be-fair-is-to-be-human/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931591 | 499 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Yu Garden or Yuyuan Garden is a famous classical garden in south China , it was once famed as the "top beauty in southeast China". First built during the Ming Dynasty, 400 years ago, by a Sichuan minister of finance named Pan Yunduan, it has been several times renovated by the government since the Liberation and is now... | <urn:uuid:4d012be9-b593-4846-814b-d5ed6f9813cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chinatourmap.com/shanghai/yu_garden.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974761 | 739 | 2.53125 | 3 |
BASICS AND COSTUMES
Younger children especially should be accompanied by adults.
Reinforce traffic safety rules to kids who will be excited and distracted. Remind them the rules to wait for adults before crossing a street, look both ways for cars and bikes, and hold hands with their buddy or parent before crossing.
Mak... | <urn:uuid:24480277-5d37-46d3-8dfa-65cd9bbc56a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://citynewswatch.blogspot.com/2012_10_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947525 | 613 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Low Impact Development Handbook for the Tualatin Basin
Clean Water Services and its partners completed the Low Impact Development Approaches Handbook to promote sustainable development practices for Tualatin River Watershed in 2009. Low Impact Development Approaches (LIDAs) can maximize a site's potential by reducing o... | <urn:uuid:b1a17281-2a17-40e9-9e58-45cb3e69cdf5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cleanwaterservices.org/PermitCenter/NewsAndResources/LIDAHandbook.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857245 | 385 | 2.875 | 3 |
The basic idea is fairly simple. As 'fuzz testing' suggests, we call syscalls at random, with random arguments.
Not an original idea, and one that has been done many times before on Linux, and on other operating systems.
Where Trinity differs is that the arguments it passes are not purely random.
We found some bugs in ... | <urn:uuid:729ef9de-0d75-4a89-a018-2f7643ca62ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917614 | 388 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Find the Laser Solution that Fits
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Ultraviolet (UV) laser light is an ideal tool for many micromachining applications. The short wavelength results in two major advantages: it allows the production of very small features and the effect on the surrounding material is minimal due... | <urn:uuid:9f8342a9-f6a6-46a9-ae7a-c623c2cf91c4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://coherent.com/Applications/index.cfm?fuseaction=Forms.page&PageID=164&ParentID=249 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889626 | 309 | 2.71875 | 3 |
A popular herbicide is showing up in drinking water supplies, threatening its future use by Indiana farmers.
Producers who use weed control products with the active ingredient atrazine need to be extra careful when applying the herbicide to cropfields near watersheds, says Bill Johnson, a Purdue University Extension we... | <urn:uuid:bca33bfe-d06b-46d7-a116-db9e98b4fa29> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/atrazine-runoff-jeopardizing-its-use-farmers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938965 | 1,268 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Whitetail feeding on Multiflora Rose
Whitetails are opportunistic feeders and will utilize any food source that they find to their liking. Browse is the single most important component of their diet during the winter months and the deer in my area have found multiflora rose to their liking. Multiflora rose, now conside... | <urn:uuid:b8609016-6f12-41db-abc8-c179912b609e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://countrycaptures.blogspot.com/2013/01/feeding-whitetails.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970874 | 246 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Have you ever thought about where coupons came from, or researched the history of coupons and how they relate to national and global commerce?
Well, one initial interesting statistic about coupons is that companies have been using coupons to market products to the masses for over 110 years.
Each and every day as we ope... | <urn:uuid:c09c4309-5f50-419b-8aa5-894683a199ab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://couponshoebox.com/tips/history-of-coupons/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970612 | 945 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Over the last couple of weeks I have engaged in discussions on Twitter where people have been arguing against the use (or misuse?) of summative assessments. I would argue that summative assessments are an essential PART of a comprehensive assessment program based on Assessment for Learning practices.
As educators our g... | <urn:uuid:f025938f-13c6-402a-84c4-2d81ac2ed7e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://darcymullin.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/summative-assessment-a-fr-letter-word/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96002 | 411 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Word Origin & History
c.1200, from O.N. skaða "to hurt, injure," from P.Gmc. *skath- (cf. O.E. sceaþian "to hurt, injure," O.Fris. skethia, M.Du. scaden, Du. schaden, O.H.G. scadon, Ger. schaden, Goth. scaþjan "to injure, damage"), from PIE base *sket- "to injure." Only cognate outside Gmc. seems to be in
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From the (open access) paper:
In this article I will consider the spread of agriculture from central Europe to the Atlantic (fig. 1). This involves four major “spread events”: the Cardial of the western Mediterranean, the Linienbandkeramik (LBK) of the interior, the Trægtbægerkultur (TRB) of southern Scandinavia, and t... | <urn:uuid:0dfed342-ef78-44ae-9f26-2b14d8a4db79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/05/death-of-acculturation-as-model-for.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926329 | 571 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Date: February 2004
Creator: Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan & Tyagi, Akhilesh
Description: This presentation accompanies a paper discussing research on a novel scheme to reduce static leakage energy in SRAM arrays. The increasing sub-threshold leakage current levels with newer technology nodes have been identified by ITRS ... | <urn:uuid:e309b5a5-225e-4f6c-802f-34f5398d5bc6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTCOE/browse/?start=150&fq=untl_decade%3A2000-2009&fq=untl_collection%3AUNTSW | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923459 | 284 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Today’s focus on the development of "sustainable” communities as being critical to the recovery of the economy and the challenge of maintaining our high standard of living raises important questions: What is sustainable environmentally, economically, and socially? Who will be a part of the future economy and how will t... | <urn:uuid:cdd94110-a86f-45ac-bcbc-52841cf0229d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol5/iss1/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950269 | 239 | 2.515625 | 3 |
He was elected Governor of Minnesota at age 31 - the youngest to serve in U.S. history.
He served as a Commander and Captain in World War II and served under Admiral Halsey.
He was chosen by F.D. Roosevelt to be U.S. representative in the creation of the United Nations charter.
He was a contender to represent the Repub... | <urn:uuid:739ecaa6-2c7c-4686-bf73-7d140b445513> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovery.mnhs.org/MN150/index.php?title=Nominations:Harold_E._Stassen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982849 | 688 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Monday the nation remembered the service and sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In Dothan hundreds of people took to the streets to honor Dr. King's legacy at the city's annual MLK March.
The march started at Piggly Wiggly and ended at First Missionary Baptist Church.
Parade participant Franklin Jones said, Monday... | <urn:uuid:fa1bf1a9-5212-46e0-948d-e10af7675ece> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dothanfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=252722 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978671 | 240 | 2.515625 | 3 |
MODIS Rapid Response
“I had gotten a MODIS image from a researcher,” Stone recalls. He had been impressed with the quality and detail of the photo-like images. Compared to some kinds of satellite images, says Stone, “True color seems more like you’re looking at a photo. You can identify features easily.” While being ab... | <urn:uuid:75663beb-f3e3-4c7c-b3a4-7a7f3929b4fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OperationAntarctica/operationantarctica3.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975285 | 427 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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