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The Idea in Brief
The Idea in Brief
Surprisingly, most organizations seem to operate under the assumption that employees can’t be trusted. Why? Though the principles of trust are well established, they fly in the face of a traditional managerial belief: that companies achieve efficiency only by controlling every aspect... | <urn:uuid:1f225510-0002-483c-82cf-75544b8d8803> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hbr.org/1995/05/trust-and-the-virtual-organization/ib | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961848 | 1,734 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Malaria is a global crisis. This mosquito-transmitted disease affects about 300 million people each year, resulting in 1 million deaths. More than 90 percent of all cases occur in African countries, where it is the leading cause of death in children under the age of five. Today, the disease is a public health challenge... | <urn:uuid:b04e36f9-a568-40b3-8d7a-dcfc5887a239> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/malaria-prevention.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926397 | 825 | 3.59375 | 4 |
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Blueberry Nutrition Facts
The American blueberry (Vaccinium) has long been recognized for its flavor, nutrition, and health benefits. Early settlers valued the blueberry as a major ingredient in foods and medicines. They ate b... | <urn:uuid:d2557312-552b-4eb5-81c7-4bef918da902> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://health.learninginfo.org/blueberry.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952917 | 415 | 3 | 3 |
(SOURCE: University of Leicester, news release, Nov. 22, 2012)
THURSDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The way people read changes as they age and helps explain why seniors have trouble reading fine print, a new study says.
Researchers at the University of Leicester in England measured eye movements in young adults (ages... | <urn:uuid:ea2b5c4e-dd87-4633-9e2b-7a26363a0040> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://healthfinder.gov/news/printnewsstory.aspx?docID=670998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961222 | 435 | 3.0625 | 3 |
The ROSAT HRI
The ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI) is very similar to the Einstein Observatory HRI and is comprised of two cascaded microchannel plates (MCPs) with a crossed grid position readout system. The HRI provides a 38 arcminutes (on a side) square field-of-view, with ~ 2 arcsec spatial resolution (FWHM). The ... | <urn:uuid:29e3c257-d43e-4b36-a404-6ef15b62b961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/rosat/hri.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923841 | 434 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Related ItemsAnalysis Worksheet: Alice Paul Hangs the Banner of Ratification at Suffrage Headquarters
Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage
After Congress approved the 19th Amendment in June 1919, the amendment had to be ratified by three fourths of the states. Fortunately, suffragists were well ... | <urn:uuid:aa3a60b2-2898-457a-9539-aa3ab1544341> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1685 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946521 | 295 | 4.0625 | 4 |
One of the most basic applications of text mining is simply counting words. I began by stripping out punctuation (in order to avoid differentiating mend and mend. as two separate words), put every word into lowercase, and then ignored a list of stop words (the, and, for, etc.). By writing a program to count occurrences... | <urn:uuid:a87b51bd-cdd2-4bd7-a2b3-35ce45bd24df> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://historying.org/tag/laurel-ulrich/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953899 | 1,661 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Lymphocytes are one of the five kinds of white blood cells or leukocytes), circulating in the blood. [More]
Although mature lymphocytes all look pretty much alike, they are extraordinarily diverse in their functions. The most abundant lymphocytes are:
- B lymphocytes (often simply called B cells) and
- T lymphocytes (l... | <urn:uuid:0ffff51b-3bab-411e-894e-05f420b041d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://home.comcast.net/~john.kimball1/BiologyPages/B/B_and_Tcells.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930034 | 2,824 | 4.09375 | 4 |
In the middle of the 19th Century the leading nation in military fashion was France. Emperor Napoleon III led a resurgent France, reaching yet again for the glory of the era of Napoleon I. In the end this resurgence fizzled with defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
The American military was highly influence by th... | <urn:uuid:ddfba8db-c4fe-4a7b-8c69-96db9be2d532> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://howardlanham.tripod.com/linkgr5/link222.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972221 | 1,206 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Auks, Murres, and Puffins (Alcidae)
The CHARADRIIFORMES (pronounced kah-RAH-dree-ih-FOR-meez) is a taxonomic order of nineteen families including the gulls, sandpipers, plovers, and auks (more commonly known as “Alcids”).
The Alcidae (pronounced AL-sih-dee) family is composed of twenty-three species of Alcids in eleven... | <urn:uuid:c125b6d8-6049-4ab0-9e0d-8c0452753906> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/166/overview/Pigeon_Guillemot.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93249 | 780 | 3.78125 | 4 |
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In order to improve and enforce environmental monitoring ability, especially in fields of large scale monitoring and dynamic monitoring, the Environmental Satellite will be launched in 2008 in China. Before the Satellite is launched, necessary pre-research work has to be done. Considering future ec... | <urn:uuid:edb7ad2e-ca6e-4496-ab9e-9273619ebf46> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5972192&contentType=Conference+Publications | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942349 | 255 | 2.546875 | 3 |
What is iESP®?
iESP® is an acronym for Inner Information Electronic Sensory Perception, an advance in man-machine communication which recognizes that both humans and computers produce, and are sensitive or receptive to, energy fields not discernible with the 5 human senses of sight, sound, smell, taste or touch.
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As farmers begin to harvest crops that have been devastated by the drought, many are looking for ways to avoid similar difficulties next year.
Heavy spring rains delayed planting for a majority of the region’s corn farmers. Now, after a hot, dry summer, harvest yields are low.
Farmers say they need a late frost to give... | <urn:uuid:5c48a8a7-ef45-4e2c-be8b-c5f41e90776c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/tag/yields/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959319 | 107 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Culture » November 24, 2003
Anarchy in the U.S.A.
In Murdering McKinley, historian Eric Rauchway argues that the assassination of William McKinley by a self-described anarchist, Leon Czoglosz, had far-reaching social consequences. In coming to terms with this national trauma, American opinion-makers faced up to some of... | <urn:uuid:9ff1b90a-fb3f-41c5-8f51-9a9796772f2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://inthesetimes.com/article/114/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961895 | 1,884 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Sir Arthur C Clarke was famous for his science fiction writing
He came to fame when his story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was made into a film by director Stanley Kubrick in 1968.
Once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage", his vision captured the popular imagination.
Sir Arthur, who was born in Minehead, So... | <urn:uuid:e02b7cf1-048e-4fb3-a0e8-be6aa41f3b10> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ishush.blogspot.com/2008_03_16_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984091 | 191 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Intercultural sharing between two communities is nowhere more explicit than in the cultural products of a region where two groups lived together for a long period of time. In art and architecture, we tend to fuse two streams of influences together as in Indo-Sarasan, Indo-Persian etc. In an era which was characterized ... | <urn:uuid:0adf457f-213a-4c71-a4f3-9c126394ff7c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://islaminteractive.info/content/blend-europe-and-islam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960163 | 962 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Award winning Israeli company Solaris Synergy has designed solar energy grids that can float on water, reducing energy production costs, and preventing water loss.
Generating energy from the sun would be more practical if not for two huge drawbacks: The expense of the silicon material that converts light to electricity... | <urn:uuid:1a7a8aec-7d8c-48d1-9c14-f7e6659984c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://israel21c.org/environment/solar-energy-that-floats-on-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930653 | 1,007 | 2.890625 | 3 |
面 by itself means "face", while 白 by itself means "white". How did these two words combine together to mean "interesting"?
According to 語源由来辞典 ( http://gogen-allguide.com/o/omoshiroi.html ), 「面白い」 is originated from 「面白し」. 「面」 used to mean "a sight/view" (the source says the front of eyes) and 「白い」 used to mean "bright... | <urn:uuid:dfb9c678-50ae-43dc-a2ba-f58b162ffd0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6922/how-did-%E9%9D%A2%E7%99%BD-end-up-meaning-interesting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880677 | 231 | 2.84375 | 3 |
(Redirected from METHODOLOGY.)
- The Name.
- Relation to Midrash.
- The Three Subjects of Study.
- The Gemara.
- Relation to Mishnah.
- The Palestinian Talmud.
- The Style of the Yerushalmi.
- Further Examples.
- Passages Repeated.
- The Haggadot of the Yerushalmi.
- Editions of the Babli.
- Missing Gemaras.
- Earliest... | <urn:uuid:a1bc36c2-5c79-44b7-ab88-16c0ba5f95d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10739-methodology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954477 | 29,729 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Wine is a beverage that is steeped in history, having originated in the Middle East around 6,000 BC. Even as times changed, many vineyards prided themselves on their traditional approach to winemaking, continuing to use small oak barrels or even manually crushing grapes. Although this continues to be the case, most vin... | <urn:uuid:ba5abb3c-0d73-4e3f-9fdf-2753469b1c1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jwines.com/blog/the-science-of-wonderful-wine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970112 | 409 | 3.359375 | 3 |
November 2009 - Posts
Kent ICT and SEGfL are pleased to announce, effective immediately, the purchase of a new schools' licence for access to the re-vamped British Pathé Archives. Powerful search routines make finding resources from within the 3,500 hours of films or 12 million stills a simple process.
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In addition to interest earnings, if your child earns money from a part time job, the requirements will change slightly. For 2008, he must pay taxes if the earned and unearned total income is greater than the larger of $900 or earned income plus $300.
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All children develop as individuals. Parents and caregivers should use the age ratings below as a general guideline, taking the abilities, temperament and interests of their children into account.
Activities that develop a child's control of the small muscles of the hands (fine motor skills) allow children to make the ... | <urn:uuid:7379deb7-cc8c-4696-9ebc-c72240700bb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/dynamic.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916882 | 384 | 3.015625 | 3 |
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who b... | <urn:uuid:b320d1b8-26ce-46b8-91ab-080210aece8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://knopfdoubleday.com/2012/01/06/turings-cathedral-by-george-dyson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939896 | 590 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Tuesday’s article in the Los Angeles Times about the city’s SurveyLA program, which is looking for “hidden gems” of architecture around L.A. in need of preservation, resonated with me after seeing L.A. artist Steve Roden give a talk at last week’s Postopolis series, sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture ... | <urn:uuid:974e9a20-3352-423a-9cda-39dd279e096a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lacma.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/steve-roden-on-wallace-neff/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=a34a077b61 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970989 | 571 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A cup of camomile tea could help ward off cancer, researchers say.
The tea contains a chemical, apigenin, which takes away some of the ‘superpowers’ of cancer cells.
Scientists at Ohio State University found apigenin can block the ability of breast cancer cells to live far longer than normal cells, halting their spread... | <urn:uuid:f9592012-ce29-4249-8739-03845b65324f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lancastria.net/blog/tag/breast-cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956131 | 810 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Federal Laws Pertaining to Coastal Development in South Carolina
- Antiquities Act of 1906, 16 U.S.C. Sections 431 to 433.
Intended to protect prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts, the Antiquities Act "authorized presidents to proclaim 'historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of his... | <urn:uuid:a735d4de-9a35-44e8-9db2-986e84d0748c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://law.sc.edu/pathfinder/coastal_development/reference/federal_laws.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924211 | 1,892 | 2.875 | 3 |
It’s shockingly easy to discourage others. It takes no skill to knock people down. It’s the joy of fools to drag down.
Leaders encourage – losers discourage.
Discouragement comes quickly, easily, and without thought. Encouragement – positive momentum – is a fragile flame that requires fuel, protection, and repetition.
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Overview | Are today’s young adult novels darker in theme than in years past? What’s behind the current wave of dystopia in young adult literature? In this lesson, students reflect on some of the reasons dystopian and post-apocalyptic stories appeal to young readers by engaging in one of six different activities.
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1) An overview of the geography and climatic conditions that shape the South American continent will be provided.
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Bibliography for class (20%). You will develop an annotated bibliography of 10
sources that will be shared with your classmates. It can be related to any of
the ideas presented in class or addressed in the assigned readings. Annotations
should be 5-7 sentences, provide a summary of the source and explain how it’s
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The READ Collection idea was originally developed by KCC Librarians Mary Marko and Shirley Vashishta. Other librarians in the UH System including Ellen Okuma, Distance and Outreach Librarian at Hawai'i Community College on the Island of Hawai'i, adopted the idea and made the READ collection available on their campuses.... | <urn:uuid:d6d9244c-d821-4dd5-b21b-2132c61d71a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/resources/collread.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94046 | 240 | 2.75 | 3 |
On February 14, 1918, the new Soviet government adopted the Grigorian calendar, which changed all dates. Dates in the 18th century were advanced by 11 days; in the 19th century, by 12 days, and in the 20th century, by 13 days.
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Egyptians, the rich especially, cared much for their looks. Every day Egyptian women colored their cheeks, lips, and nails with dye made from a plant called henna. Men and women alike wore wigs or added false braids to beautify their own hair. Because of the blazing sun, it was crucial for Egyptians to outline their ey... | <urn:uuid:77da94e2-df1b-4107-aa59-2fac001f52f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215615/dlmakeup.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985185 | 110 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Why Boredom May Not Be So Bad
In This Article:
Accept the fact that creative activity is messier than watching TV. Be proud of a kid who wants to test the chemical interactions of dirt, dead flies and chocolate pudding, but set some boundaries so that you don't go crazy ("You can do your experiments in the backyard and... | <urn:uuid:98a3b566-864d-4b0e-8cd2-91c851e6681e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://life.familyeducation.com/summer/outdoor-games/36555.html?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966248 | 314 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Before the creation of the income tax, there was some dynastic wealth in this country. However, even back then, money passed from generation to generation tended to dissipate - it is a mathematical certainty.
Many people decry dynastic wealth. And in a Democracy, where everyone is supposed to succeed on their merits, t... | <urn:uuid:a01ae0c5-79bc-4694-9ea2-f7a750262dd3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://livingstingy.blogspot.com/2011/06/death-of-dynastic-wealth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978791 | 1,391 | 2.625 | 3 |
July 4, 2010
Fiction: Like Real Life, Only Better
“It’s no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” – Mark Twain
I like to think of fiction as a special version of reality. Fiction is inherently made up of lies, and yet it has a power unlike anything else, because it presents reality not actua... | <urn:uuid:f932c039-2726-4257-8a49-13badda1aeaf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://longriverreview.com/blog/2010/fiction-like-real-life-only-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967414 | 801 | 2.78125 | 3 |
July 22, 2009
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have for the first time produced a malarial protein (Pfs48/45) in the proper conformation and quantity to generate a significant immune response in mice and non-human primates for use in a potential transmission-blocking vaccine. Antibodies induc... | <urn:uuid:5df34a41-31cd-463d-8743-8a89643305aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://malaria.jhsph.edu/news/kumar_vaccine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915247 | 648 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Camel Lake is an ancient body of water located 30 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida in Liberty County. Geologists haven’t been able to determine if it’s a limestone sink lake or an aquifer positioned near the surface of the land. It’s not a large lake being 500 yards in diameter, and it is sometimes referred to as a p... | <urn:uuid:a4738aeb-f6b5-44ad-a8b0-a76bd596a797> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/chinkapin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956116 | 1,485 | 3.625 | 4 |
The Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander will be launched on a variant of Boeing's Delta II launch vehicle known as a Delta 7425. The vehicle is similar to the 7925, a more powerful version of the Delta II used for NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor missions, ex... | <urn:uuid:b37df7b5-890e-4108-a1d8-42fc50ee21e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/delta2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919065 | 1,409 | 2.984375 | 3 |
"Feral hogs are the most prolific large, wild mammal in North America.
With adequate nutrition, a feral hog population can double in 4 months.
Breeding occurs throughout the year when conditions are favorable, and sea-
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Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have devised a framework for running large-scale computations for tasks such as social network or web search analysis efficiently on a single personal computer.
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The Immortal L'Hospital
Course Topic(s): One-Variable Calculus | History of Calculus
Essay giving very brief biography of l'Hospital, the history of his and Johann Bernoulli's rule, and a slightly modernized diagram for and version of the proof he and Bernoulli gave.
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When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican
Has the South, once the "Solid South" of the Democratic Party, truly become an unassailable Republican stronghold? If so, when, where, why, and how did this seismic ch... | <urn:uuid:9976ce3b-6ae6-4765-89df-3774f906a8ed> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://muse.jhu.edu/browse/titles/p?items_per_page=10&browse_view_type=default&m=21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926899 | 3,343 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Though James Madison has been given the title “Father of the Constitution,” Gouverneur Morris could be considered second in importance in shaping the final version. Morris spoke more often (173 times) than any other delegate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Though he was often on the losing side of issues and ... | <urn:uuid:39d6d752-454c-4a2d-b1ba-3f234257f776> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://my.billofrightsinstitute.org/page.aspx?pid=555 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973685 | 389 | 3.5 | 4 |
More than 90 percent of fourth-graders had teachers who placed a heavy emphasis on teaching numbers and operations.
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On Sunday, January 15, NASA's Stardust mission landed safely with the first solid comet fragments ever brought back to Earth. Members of the mission's Preliminary Examination Team, including several from the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, are among the first to an... | <urn:uuid:576bc79c-70a4-42e3-bc07-9dfc2b2e9b25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-3/Carnegie-scientists-fine-tuning-methods-for-Stardust-analysis-7617-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868146 | 572 | 4.28125 | 4 |
Top Halloween Horrors of Alien Planets
Oct. 26, 2012 --
Exoplanets are mysterious, bizarre, but ultimately exciting. After all, with the help of the Kepler space telescope and advanced ground-based exoplanet-hunting techniques, for the first time we're directly observing a veritable menagerie of alien worlds. Through e... | <urn:uuid:f99051e0-b8b9-4608-bbfc-ea59393b4cf1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.discovery.com/space/top-10-exoplanet-horrors-halloween-121026.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945512 | 2,379 | 2.5625 | 3 |
June 08, 2011
The Lamont Seamounts are an example of the view from the seafloor synthesized by a team of oceanographers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. The seamounts are due west of El Salvador, at about 9.55 degrees N, 104 degrees W.
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Some people say that old dogs can't be taught new tricks. But don't tell that to Larry Myers.
A professor of veterinary medicine at Alabama's Auburn University, Myers has trained unwanted dogs to detect everything from drugs and bombs to off-flavor catfish and agricultural pests.
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The colossal black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy will soon to get a big, tasty meal, astronomers say.
A humongous gas cloud is on a collision course for the Milky Way's core — the home of Sagittarius A* (pronounced "Sagittarius A-star"), which scientists suspect is a supermassive black hole with the mass o... | <urn:uuid:14342a7e-fc34-4191-a5c2-d7bdc7900e61> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.yahoo.com/milky-ways-giant-black-hole-eat-space-cloud-202110966.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93521 | 476 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Since mid-June, National Geographic Young Explorer Dr. Neil Losin and his colleague Dr. Nate Dappen have been in the Spanish Mediterranean islands of Ibiza and Formentera to create a book about the endemic Ibiza Wall Lizard (Podarcis pityusensis), the symbol of these islands. Learn more about Neil and Nate’s work at ww... | <urn:uuid:b697c0c7-b8ee-4043-868a-b745e821a120> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/30/the-symbol-part-3-island-of-mystery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936498 | 644 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), our nation’s special education law, defines 14 categories of disability under which a child may be found eligible for special education and related services. One of those categories is “Other Health Impairment,” or OHI, for short. Within OHI’s definition, numerous... | <urn:uuid:5c418db6-bf83-4767-a576-c9e377617b8f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nichcy.org/disability/specific/ohi-nephritis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933761 | 517 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Happy Friday, all! This week in ocean news, ...The New York Times described the threats facing sea turtles who nest on Miami's popular beaches. ...New research indicates that because killer whales in the Puget Sound must raise their voices to be heard over the din of boats, they may be exhausting themselves as they try... | <urn:uuid:6c054516-3bea-4954-abf4-2dce769eaa2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oceana.org/en/category/blog-free-tags/whales?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960159 | 1,707 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Health management in organic pig production
Organic pig production is a relatively new production concept with promising possibilities for growth. A major challenge is to maintain and improve animal health and food safety without compromising animal welfare. Many problems concerning diseases, zoonoses (diseases that tr... | <urn:uuid:b4b2fb6d-2705-4baf-ae0a-3123abc70438> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://orgprints.org/5345/1/ii8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891404 | 424 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Efficient Practice Time
One of the most valuable skills we can learn is time management. Using our practice time wisely when we have little time, can make an enormous difference in the long run. Here are some tips to help get the most out of the time that is available:
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Mustard Seed? What does that mean?
The mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds, is mentioned several times throughout the Bible.
So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,
'Move from here to there,' and it w... | <urn:uuid:116aa286-56b1-4bfc-8d10-addfcb3723f5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://people.bu.edu/seeds/about.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959841 | 459 | 2.625 | 3 |
The World Health Organisation on Friday began consulting its emergency committee of flu experts on the severity of the swine flu virus and possible travel recommendations.
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| I have always considered myself fortunate to have the
use of this set of six Koenig tuning forks mounted on resonators during
my teaching career at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
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I'm trying to understand how a MEMS gyroscope can give you orientation. The question may not make any sense, I may have some misunderstandings about the different topics...
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This spectacular native shrub, with large scarlet flowers, is a butterfly-attractor. In Florida, it is occasionally found growing in swamps from the peninsula to the central panhandle and Okaloosa County. It blooms in the summer. There are 13 species of Hibiscus in Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). Scarlet rose-mallow grows a... | <urn:uuid:b0e21cf1-2551-4152-a2b1-efcfc254792d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/181 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918587 | 98 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Delayed phenology and reduced fitness associated with climate change in a wild hibernator
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“Lazarus & the Rich Man” - Medieval fresco, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria
“Dear God, you made many, many poor people.
I realize, of course, that it’s no shame to be poor.
But it’s no great honor either!
So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?”
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What turns your most appropriate masquerade into a showstopper? Accessories. And what turns your online by all means content into dazzlingly useful knowledge content? Wisdom Activities. What is a Learning Activity? In e-learning content happening, we use all forms of questions for the treatment of check up on and quizz... | <urn:uuid:a48370cf-cfa7-4f3a-8808-d38214c67545> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://proteomicsvj.com/developing-knowledge-activities-and-simulations-in-e-learning-content/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945048 | 1,488 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Researchers have identified a fear factor – a protein the brain uses to generate one of the most powerful emotions in humans and animals. The molecule is essential for triggering both the innate fears that animals are born with – such as the shadow of an approaching predator – as well as fears that arise later in life ... | <urn:uuid:296536f9-de2f-4529-8007-4d8f30c938d3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://psychcentral.com/news/archives/2005-11/hhmi-lof111805.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969313 | 1,420 | 3.75 | 4 |
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Urticaria (from the Latin urtica, nettle (whence It. ortica, Sp. ortiga, Pg. urtiga, Fr. ortie) urere, to burn), is a skin disorder, commonly referred to as hives. It is a kind of skin rash nota... | <urn:uuid:43a39d70-6447-4ce2-a037-eb083c667181> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Hives | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915833 | 5,304 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Life-saving mutation discovery
Philippe Gros, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and his colleagues have found two distinct disease-causing mutations, a finding which helped save the life of a baby girl.
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SOC 212 Course Guide
This guide will provide you with an overview of how to search for books and journal articles for your research project.
What to Search: Catalog vs. Database
What is listed in the catalog is based upon OWNERSHIP. The catalog tells you what physical or electronic items a library has.
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Top 12 Must-Buy Organic Foods
Pesticides help protect crops by warding off damaging weeds, diseases, and bugs, but they also leave a residue on our produce. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, certain fruits and vegetables consistently carry much higher levels of pesticide residue than others, even after w... | <urn:uuid:4f848b19-81f9-4811-89b2-cb25ba09a6db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://recipes.familyeducation.com/slideshow/health-and-safety/57915.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939314 | 226 | 2.625 | 3 |
In January, in Japan, 25 hospitals refused to permit an ambulance to transport a man who was pronounced dead when he finally arrived at a hospital.
Were the patients already in the ED (Emergency Department) less stable than this patient?
Was this patient going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and result in ... | <urn:uuid:1fc9eb3e-cb21-4b82-bfeb-c217a210fe74> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://roguemedic.com/2013/03/japanese-man-dies-after-25-hospitals-reject-him/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914686 | 1,532 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Thornthwaite's New System of Climate Classification In Its Application to New Zealand
[Read before the Otago Branch, February 16, 1950; received by Editor, March 9, 1950]
Note. This paper forms part of an investigation into the regional variety of climatic type in New Zealand which is being financed by a grant from the... | <urn:uuid:972698f4-0310-4a61-8595-43a5a4821fb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_79/rsnz_79_01_002080.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907302 | 6,763 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Last month, The Economist ran a story about income disparities between the rich and everyone else. The Economist noted the growing concern among leaders of the world, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, Warren Buffett, and French economist (and Socialist) Dominique Strauss-Kah... | <urn:uuid:e417e556-44f8-49dc-8793-dc895ebcb77c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ryanblaughlin.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962783 | 2,685 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg, , at sacred-texts.com
Fire, flame, and frenzied passion;
MOLOCH was the mighty, gluttonous god. He bestowed his bounty upon mankind, but he wished a taste of all that he gave. Moloch gave only to be gifted in return. There was no altruistic hypocrisy in his little divine circle. He wa... | <urn:uuid:57569ac5-fe67-4939-905a-83da24d619e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sacred-texts.com/sex/tsf/tsf11.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986807 | 1,219 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Portrait of Rhea (Raw Image #1)
March 12, 2012
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,019 miles (41,873 kilometers) away.
This image has not been validated or calibrated. A validated/calib... | <urn:uuid:4ebf2606-e002-4b12-afb2-f7b9188481ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=4474 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906863 | 127 | 2.515625 | 3 |
March 27th, 2008
I get so many questions about this topic… so let’s see if this explanation helps.
Educators and parents often get confused about the difference between these. Remember: an accommodation does NOT fundamentally alter what is being taught or tested, and a modification DOES. A fundamental alteration change... | <urn:uuid:a607ee56-c98a-4511-8c16-f6bff588c475> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://schoollawpro.com/2008/03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953573 | 779 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The reason why there were two ways of saying the element aluminum/aluminium has always been one of the those things that made me go “hmmm” But by the same token, it’s also always been one of those things that never stuck around in my consciousness long enough for me to look it up.
Well, lucky for all us, Michael Quinio... | <urn:uuid:f19c322e-8bc8-458b-86f3-bcef59315281> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2009/04/08/aluminum-versus-aluminium-wher/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962467 | 541 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Camarillo, Calif., Sept. 22, 2010 – In recent years, special congressional appropriations known as ‘earmarks’ have become synonymous with wasteful government spending and corruption. Andy Roth, a vice president at the Club for Growth, claims that “Earmarking is a corrupt practice, plain and simple."
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Home > Shaiva Siddhanta
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Shaiva Siddanta - Introduction
Though for learned persons this may not seem a good introduction to shaiva sidhdhantha, this page is out of the wish to talk about that. This is similar to a kinder garden boy trying to explain the construction of a nuclear reactor. Still... | <urn:uuid:b65a3f16-79f9-4421-9213-1f64aaced8ac> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shaivam.org/siddhanta/introduc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947243 | 1,386 | 2.53125 | 3 |
baby safety stoveSeptember is Baby Safety Month, sponsored annually by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA). This September, JPMA is helping educate parents and caregivers on the importance of safely using second hand, hand-me-down and heirloom baby gear.
One dangerous substance that may go unnoticed:... | <urn:uuid:f41c88bd-8fe1-49b9-b657-7f71dd1b4ad6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shine.yahoo.com/team-mom/7-ways-celebrate-baby-safety-month-124100075.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95664 | 375 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, G... | <urn:uuid:164aa7d9-031a-4318-ade8-78925071f589> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shop.history.com/empire-of-liberty-a-history-of-the-early-republic-1789-1815-hardcover-book/detail.php?p=107941&v=history_all-store-exclusion&pagemax=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972649 | 345 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Modern art arouses many different responses: suspicion, controversy and misunderstanding are among the most frequent. But it doesn't need to be like that. To help out, here is a clear, accessible, fully illustrated introduction to what can otherwise seem a daunting subject. Covering everything from Impressionism to the... | <urn:uuid:d3a947ae-ea85-45e3-a443-9e2064d88f68> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shop.tate.org.uk/modern-and-contemporary-art/how-to-survive-modern-art/invt/7032/&temp=quickBuyDetails&layout=noheaders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958344 | 243 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Students Become Train Enthusiasts
In November of 2011, Shaun Hagan, Social Studies Teacher at Lin-Wood School in Lincoln, NH, brought his 8th Grade Class to the Hobo Railroad in New Hampshire to see and experience trains first hand. They heard from Mike Goodin of the Hobo Railroad regarding trains, their operation, how... | <urn:uuid:0b18b4c7-3629-4201-bff5-92daa28b9571> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://silverhillboys-srrc.com/2012/07/09/students-become-train-enthusiasts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981657 | 1,337 | 2.96875 | 3 |
"I have known the pain of failure, frustration, disappointment, defeat because I have taken the chance on winning, succeeding, achieving.
It takes a lot of the first to get some of the second."
Natasha Jose Fowitz
The dictionary meaning of self-confidence is: "controlling, managing and understanding self " helping one ... | <urn:uuid:d62f7a47-35d6-4cf9-9bf1-b9403f251a25> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sitagita.com/beauty/beauty-in-the-mind/defining-self-confidence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966569 | 419 | 2.625 | 3 |
[LE: Something I often wonder about when studying history is: why do certain civilisations develop in certain ways, and others (which are equally technologically advanced, if not more so) do not develop in the same way? I suppose it's one of the reasons why I enjoy speculative fiction so much: speculative fiction plays... | <urn:uuid:c7555cec-da91-45c3-9336-a45ba1cb81a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/03/01/the-divine-law-disadvantage-guest-post-by-lorenzo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962656 | 3,316 | 2.625 | 3 |
On January 20, we toured the Forum Boarium, which is located next to the round Temple of Hercules and the Mouth of Truth, and Primavalle, a distant suburb in northwest Rome that was made up largely of people displaced from the city center by fascist visions of the city. Our tour guide was Ferro Trabalzi, who has taught... | <urn:uuid:46cce3dc-bf9b-4d68-852c-fd29cc3f2bfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://socializarq.com/arq/temple-of-hercules | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98896 | 209 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Social games for social good: How Minecraft is moulding next generation sustainability action
This year is no different. My X-Box, Nintendo DS, iPad, iPhone (insert any new device here) addicted son has the normal voracious 10-year-old’s appetite for structured multi-platform mayhem such as Lego Star Wars and Skylander... | <urn:uuid:247c85d7-8df8-403d-956a-0d8c40b9b036> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://socialmediainfluence.com/2012/12/12/social-games-for-social-good-how-minecraft-is-moulding-next-generation-sustainability-action/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956571 | 966 | 2.703125 | 3 |
New Zealand's tuatara has a unique way of chewing its food, say scientists who have studied its jaws in detail.
This beak-headed reptile uses a "steak-knife sawing motion" as it chews.
This could help explain how the species has continued to adapt to a changing world - and changes in available prey - over more than 200... | <urn:uuid:297a763d-2e3f-4648-a70c-6d3c97986729> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://squamates.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuataras-chew.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967016 | 625 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Lots of Planets
The discovery of a new “exoplanet” doesn’t generate a lot of excitement these days. That’s because astronomers are discovering planets in other star systems at an astonishing pace. The number of confirmed planets is getting close to a thousand. And just a couple of months ago, scientists with the Kepler... | <urn:uuid:df267509-c386-4917-9c64-978fbfaf5d8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stardate.org/radio/program/lots-planets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925216 | 334 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Creation Astronomy is the scientific study of matter in outer space with the goal of determining or measuring properties of distant objects, such as distances, positions, dimensions, distribution, magnitudes, motion, composition, physical condition, energy, evolution, and the causes of their various phenomena. Astronom... | <urn:uuid:03949741-4959-4575-8bc6-eb9e30535159> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.nwcreation.net/ourcreatedmoon1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937316 | 123 | 3.640625 | 4 |
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II (GALE Cengage)
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection of primary source material includes national and... | <urn:uuid:b5912741-866e-4185-99bb-f011208d47fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://subjectguides.library.uws.edu.au/N | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911596 | 1,270 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Dwarf Planets | Blogs
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Where in the Solar System is Ceres?
My daughter came home from school today and wanted to know where Ceres is located. She and her classmate disagreed, she thought Ceres was in the asteroid belt and he thought it was in the outer reaches of the Solar System near Pluto. My... | <urn:uuid:030ef7c2-b1a7-400c-8008-72b375f45031> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://supersmartcarbon.com/blogs/categories/Dwarf-Planets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979081 | 168 | 3.15625 | 3 |
An Essay And Article on Newspapers
Newspapers are one of the vital organs of the modern world. Literally, a ‘newspaper’ .means a paper which furnishes us with news or makes a record of contemporary events from day to day; and this was what the first newspapers undertook or attempted to do. Now, however, they go much fa... | <urn:uuid:cca0cf17-ed51-459f-8d96-7bd2b440293b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://talkingstreets.com/essays/newspaper-names/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964054 | 1,827 | 2.984375 | 3 |
These are one set of questions which were answered by a group of
Odyssey scholars from the Ageanet.
Honors English I (7th period)
What does: 'Eumaios- O my swineherd! answered him.' mean? Why
does Homer use this instead of 'Eumaios said.'?
What does this mean? -And you replied Eumaios- O my
swineherd. Where does that c... | <urn:uuid:bf23f138-8630-4aab-ad12-bfcc2d3a5a45> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teacher2b.com/literature/odysques.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96214 | 995 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Carpentry; Technical education; Vocational education
Eight woodworking students outside the Camp Sam Houston workshop. The students hold various kinds of saws, hammers, drills, and squares. A sign above the workshop door reads, "Educational Department Work Shop" ... | <urn:uuid:0f2019d2-2750-4049-a76e-2557cc5b4b62> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/erosion/mode/all/order/subjec/page/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896924 | 410 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is two and a half times as massive as all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant, along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as ... | <urn:uuid:430951c0-532d-41b2-889a-f57c71dcf0fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thebigfoto.com/jupiter-from-space | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970972 | 155 | 3.375 | 3 |
It’s US election time, so let’s take the opportunity to look at one of the 20th century’s best political satirists, Clifford K. Berryman.
US Presidential campaigns have a habit of throwing up the humorous side of the electoral process. Noticeable examples during the 2012 election that have caught the public’s imaginati... | <urn:uuid:b68c4f67-176a-44d1-b48a-e8ba7c5292c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theibtaurisblog.com/2012/10/25/running-for-office-the-political-cartoons-of-clifford-k-berryman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964345 | 995 | 2.609375 | 3 |
the Equity and Human Rights Commission’s annual study which examines the number of women given top positions in business, politics, and the public sector, found women’s representation has fallen in almost half the industries surveyed. They discovered there has been the biggest backward step for workplace gender equity ... | <urn:uuid:29a3c4ad-87df-43df-8951-68ffe299c961> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theimpudentobserver.com/world-news/british-women-losing-battle-for-top-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96018 | 221 | 2.875 | 3 |
Is it really this bad?
World Bank on climate:
'Turn down the heat'
Instead of working on climate pollution emissions reductions, we are now emitting more than was imagined in the 1998 worst-case scenario.By Bruce Melton / Truthout / January 17, 2013
See Bruce Melton's writing about climate change on The Rag Blog.Mega r... | <urn:uuid:f75e0188-8b99-40de-b997-8addb4dec470> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/bruce-melton-world-bank-on-climate-turn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949969 | 3,401 | 2.703125 | 3 |
By KAREN WILKIN
Portland and Prout's Neck, Maine, and Philadelphia
In 1883, Winslow Homer moved to Prout's Neck, near Portland, Maine, where his family had cannily acquired large amounts of land. The following year, he moved into the idiosyncratic studio, a former carriage house moved from his brother's adjacent proper... | <urn:uuid:95eaf51c-6c3b-4234-9517-44b7e7c580ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://topics.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323852904578128983692000200.html?mod=WSJ_article_MoreIn_Arts%26Entertainment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956218 | 1,710 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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