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The Peoples Of Africa.
Have you ever thought of finding more about Africa. This is a great time and place to visit the page that links you to some of the information about some of THE G... | <urn:uuid:0b1bf06b-9bf3-46b9-90b9-852c881d3ff5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thinkquest.org/pls/html/f?p=52300:100:1233916622074438::::P100_TEAM_ID:501577109 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924971 | 293 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Number of people potentially affected: 2,600,000
Type of pollutant: Hexavalent chromium and other metals
Source of pollution: Chromite mines and processing
If you watched Erin Brockovich, then you know what hexavalent chromium is: a nasty heavy metal used for stainless steel production and leather tanning that is carci... | <urn:uuid:4e300e2d-568b-43c3-9c48-53b0e779dee8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1661031_1661028_1661018,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90839 | 169 | 2.796875 | 3 |
How does GPS work?
How does GPS work?
GPS (Global Positioning System) has 24 artificial satellites that orbit the Earth at a distance of 12,600 miles/ 20,300 kilometres, transmitting radio signals. The pattern of their orbit is ‘choreographed’ so that a GPS receiver anywhere on the earth’s surface is always ‘visible’ (... | <urn:uuid:343b746a-c0e0-4c06-b624-01f85a9fd427> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tomtom.com/howdoesitwork/page.php?ID=8&CID=2&Language=16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901214 | 708 | 4.375 | 4 |
We invite you to take advantage of the following services, products and online resources that are available to schools (teachers and students) as well as community groups and residents in the Toowoomba region.We have an education program which offers tours of some of our water and waste infrastructure, hosted by the op... | <urn:uuid:cd3a278b-292b-49de-bb36-9ffa3314bb2e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/community-services/educational-resources/waterwise-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951939 | 1,130 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Fracking Wastewater Disposal Plan Could Send Contaminants Over Niagara Falls
The contentious debate over hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York State just took a turn towards the weird. As Care2 reports, natural gas companies and the Niagara Falls Water Board have agreed to a plan for fracking wastewater disp... | <urn:uuid:c610d079-35a2-48d7-8a88-6d01d79f8a8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.treehugger.com/fossil-fuels/fracking-wastewater-disposal-contaminants-over-niagara-falls.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926903 | 276 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Hunting for minimal details...somewhere inside the santa catalina monastry
The Monasterio de Santa Catalina is a cloistered convent located in Arequipa, Peru. It was built in 1580 and was enlarged in the 17th century. The over 20,000-square-meter monastery is predominantly of the Mudéjar style, and is characterised by ... | <urn:uuid:4553b126-c298-424c-b12a-429349f19b00> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/South_America/Peru/South/Arequipa/Arequipa/photo1332770.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.737121 | 1,861 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Outdoors: Bird watch
BY DAN REINKING
Sunday, October 07, 2012
10/07/12 at 6:43 AM
Their presence usually betrayed by their voice long before they are glimpsed, marsh wrens return to Oklahoma each fall and are uncommon winter residents.
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With this translation of the 1929 novel Rainbow(Hong), one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English.
Rainbow chronicles the political and social disruptions in China during the early years of the twentieth century. Inspired by the iconoclasm of the "May Fourth Movement," the heroine,... | <urn:uuid:b6e2d54f-aed4-4949-b5b6-b49be265851c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520073289 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953828 | 317 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Get answers to your Myelodysplastic Syndromes questions.
Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia; Macroglobulinemia - primary; Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma
Macroglobulinemia of Waldenstrom is a cancer of the B lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell). It is associated with the overproduction of proteins called IgM antibodies.
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Penn Researchers Discover “Remote
Control” for Expression
of Human Growth Hormone Gene
Mistakes in Expression Implied in Growth Disorders
(Philadelphia, PA) - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine recently discovered a novel mechanism that
works over an extensive genomic distance and controls... | <urn:uuid:a878223a-d386-4a90-8d0a-9bc33fa36b75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/aug06/hghgene_print.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911602 | 1,542 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The story of oil, its importance to California from the first explorations and discoveries, and how it has evolved into such a major facet of our economy, is all told in graphic detail in a remarkable exhibition at the Kern County Museum located in Bakersfield.
Entitled "Black Gold: the Oil Experience" the exhibit was ... | <urn:uuid:c52f88bc-39cc-4c9a-8323-944d5daa17ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.vittlesvoyages.com/kerno.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954128 | 962 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The community of Web users has been engaged in discussion and litigation concerning the practice of "deep linking." This document is designed to provide input to this discussion based on the architecture of the underlying technology.
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Facts about Wasa
ABOUT WASA FLATBREAD
Wasa is the world's largest producer of flatbread. The Swedes eat more flatbread than any other people in the world, almost 4 kilograms per capita. Wasa's largest markets outside Sweden are the other Scandinavian countries and Germany, closely followed by Poland, the Netherlands, F... | <urn:uuid:6d204cb2-a28e-41ad-9335-c1214c38d526> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wasa-usa.com/flatbread.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976905 | 324 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Asbestos Cement Pipe Condition AssessmentSource: Mueller Water Products
Asbestos Cement (AC) water mains were installed throughout North America, Europe and Australia from the late 1920s to the early 1980s and still form a significant component of the water distribution systems of many cities. If fact, it is estimated ... | <urn:uuid:51daa565-1933-490d-85ed-0fc3607a2576> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wateronline.com/doc/asbestos-cement-pipe-condition-assessment-0001?atc~c=771+s=774+r=001+l=a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958643 | 170 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Winds of change blow, but breaking habits is no breeze
When Sydney held the first Earth Hour event in 2007, renewable energy made up just under 5 per cent of the power produced in Australia.
It now stands at 10 per cent, and that total must be doubled again over the next eight years if the national target for wind, sol... | <urn:uuid:7e744492-812b-473e-8ad2-dc0f6919fc96> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/earth-hour/winds-of-change-blow-but-breaking-habits-is-no-breeze-20120323-1vnxg.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948248 | 878 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The County of Victoria, or Victoria County, was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1854 as The United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, and separated from Peterborough in 1863. In 2001, the county was dissolved and reformed as the City of Kawartha Lakes. Though first opened to settlemen... | <urn:uuid:bad1b0e2-d0aa-427b-9991-4b8fb80d383f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Victoria%2C_Ontario%2C_Canada | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967814 | 735 | 3.109375 | 3 |
According to Article XVI of the United Methodist Articles of Religion, sacraments are “signs of grace and God’s good will toward us,” by which God works invisibly in us to initiate, strengthen and confirm our faith in God. Two Sacraments are celebrated in the United Methodist Church – baptism and Holy Communion.
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Anterior cingulate cortex
The Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex, which resembles a "collar" form around the corpus callosum, the fibrous bundle that relays neural signals between the right and left cerebral hemispheres of the brain.
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Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space
Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
The three largest islands in this image, and many smaller ones, make up Indonesia’s Komodo National Park which was established in 1980 to protect the world’s largest lizard species, Komodo dragon. The total area of the park is 230 square miles. Th... | <urn:uuid:bcce4d61-7a87-4627-8a6e-b4ecfbaff957> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/islands-space/8/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858985 | 116 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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There are several reproductive hormones in the human body, including testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) are also essent... | <urn:uuid:73bfabe9-1ce6-42b9-b3f2-ac6aa39308bf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-reproductive-hormones.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939576 | 760 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of herons, containing the buff-backed heron, B. ibis, formerly called Ardea bubulcus and Ardea russata, chiefly an African species, related to the squacco heron.
- n. small white egrets
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Prone to sickness.
- adj. Of, caused by, or associated with sickness: a sickly pallor.
- adj. Conducive to sickness: a sickly climate.
- adj. Causing nausea; nauseating.
- adj. Lacking vigor or strength; feeble or weak: a sickly handshake.
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This should be the simplest of searches and I may well be embarrassed by this, but here goes. (I’ve checked the Big List.)
Stephen Ambrose, among our very best of American historians suggests in his book on the building of the American trans-continental railroad [Nothing Like it in the World] that this come from
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The Global Language Monitor has recently released a list of the most confusing tech buzzwords of the decade. These words have spilled into popular culture but are not easily defined. The Global Language Monitor tracked word frequencies in print and electronic media, the blogosphere, databases and the Internet. Check ou... | <urn:uuid:c9b7e6c7-5ca6-4f03-9fa8-1959fe399526> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/buzzwords-defined/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926921 | 315 | 2.75 | 3 |
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the regulation and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, di... | <urn:uuid:f2eb998d-3fbb-45a0-a6a3-eabaab1dcd59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zmescience.com/tag/fda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924571 | 250 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. The prevailing impression was that these were Mormons, twenty-three hundred in number; and a great alarm... | <urn:uuid:4aa247d7-c2ba-45b0-9992-cdcb91cdf41b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/oregon/otrail05.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985138 | 7,793 | 2.578125 | 3 |
(WASHINGTON) -- The damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has had a residual effect felt all the way in the U.S., with rainwater here showing trace amounts of radiation.
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, September 29, 1911: Papa took us to school this morning. It was so rainy at noon it came down as if it meant business. Teacher has rearranged our classes, and now we’ll have the program every now and then to see where our class comes.
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The 1957 Moment: Racing to Space
Competition inspired a space race — a new front in the Cold War.
The United States and the Soviet Union both proposed launching artificial satellites during the International Geophysical Year, a worldwide challenge to encourage scientific research during 1957–58. As nuclear powers, the ... | <urn:uuid:c4690970-0a1e-4c95-8087-4670e5bdbe98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/online/ootw/1957/index.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942243 | 98 | 3.4375 | 3 |
The bank was founded along with the Bank of Scotland by William Paterson in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker; the Bank of Scotland was to be the Scottish Government's banker. He proposed a loan of £1.2m to the Government; in return the subscribers would be incorporated as the Governor and Company of the B... | <urn:uuid:f79abbb1-e572-4afe-b8cb-0e2253f09839> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allwebhunt.com/wiki-article-tab.cfm/bank_of_england | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984349 | 1,153 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Site provides quizzes with instructional explanations of challenging word usage and grammar. Take the Entrance Exam to become a Word Police Officer and issue Grammar Citations. There's even a diploma you can display (and print) when you pass the test!!
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In all of human history it would be difficult to find an example of a country that cut taxes as it prepared to go to war. But this is exactly what President Bush now proposes to do. In a worst-case scenario, the U.S. military may find itself under fire in three countries: Iraq, Korea and Afghanistan. To have called for... | <urn:uuid:d611fe3a-4129-4a4d-80e7-362e666e4a9a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://americamagazine.org/node/146368 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966418 | 969 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Lions are the largest of all African cats. They are the second largest cat species worldwide, smaller than only the tiger. Lions range in color from nearly white to tawny yellow, ash brown, ochre, and deep orange-brown. They have a tuft of dark fur at the tip of their tail.
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enthalpy of hydration
One possible way of analyzing the reaction involves breaking it into separate sublimation, ionization, and hydration steps:
Cu2+(aq) Cu2+(g) H° = +2289 kJThis process is endothermic because strong attractive ion-dipole forces between the copper(II) ion and the water must be overcome to vaporize th... | <urn:uuid:3b5f1a0e-9543-47d2-914f-34caa7984f4d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/thermo/faq/print-why-are-metal-displacements-exothermic.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846449 | 570 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Few people are totally without sight. Most individuals today classified as "blind" actually have remaining sight and, thanks to developments in the field of low vision rehabilitation, can be helped to make good use of it, improving their quality of life.
Anyone with noncorrectable reduced vision is visually impaired, a... | <urn:uuid:0e3f49c1-2aef-456c-99be-fa3b53b66f03> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aoa.org/x5240.xml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948565 | 238 | 3.5 | 4 |
Researchers created 3-D maps of prime spider habitats in a German national park using LiDAR, a remote-sensing system mounted on helicopters. The system uses lasers to characterize broad swaths of land in relatively little time, as opposed to doing surveys on foot that could take months.
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Over the years, a number of linguists have expressed reservations about many of the assumptions underlying this view, and in this paper the author examine both the orthodox view and various alternatives to it. The paper begins with a discussion of what it might mean to say that two languages are genetically related. Mi... | <urn:uuid:c7f260cf-ee09-43bd-9807-98a4ffb00d34> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/215/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.830527 | 209 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In some ways, the DDS system is the future of effective government, depending on entitled rights and an engaged private sector to serve the needs of a challenged population. The mission of the whole edifice is to sprawl, broad and variable enough that each person served can find their own access point to the help they ... | <urn:uuid:0f5fae95-51e5-49aa-8e06-81cc96d56aab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arribails.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9558 | 338 | 2.609375 | 3 |
A new bill introduced today in the US House of Representatives seeks to require warrants before police can trawl through your e-mail or track your cell phone, reports CNET. The legislation is backed by several technology companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter. But given the government's history with... | <urn:uuid:46cf966a-76b6-481d-9e3e-d2875fadf4fe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/cops-dont-need-a-warrant-to-see-your-e-mail-but-they-might-soon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973311 | 307 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The advent of techniques like PET scans and functional MRI has enabled researchers to observe the brain in action with a precision that is unprecedented. One of the interesting aspects of these studies is that we can now actually perform a limited version of what might be called mind reading: identifying what's going o... | <urn:uuid:a4af91ce-caca-4f60-9614-94f73d2139b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/12/mindreading-101-identifying-images-by-watching-the-brain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963991 | 728 | 3.15625 | 3 |
DARE is reaching kids on drug use
As a Baltimore County police officer who teaches the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program to sixth-grade students, I would like to respond to the letter from Robin A. Tomechko of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Maryland ("Drug education, taught by a friend," Sept. 4).
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Indeed, then-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the 5-4 majority in approving the Michigan law school's approach to admitting minority students, predicted that within 25 years the use of "racial preferences" should no longer be needed.
Nine years later, that day clearly has not come. However, the makeup of the... | <urn:uuid:06c0458b-863c-4a6a-8292-4eb75bd6bedc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.philly.com/2012-10-11/news/34364381_1_abigail-noel-fisher-affirmative-action-factor-in-student-admissions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966053 | 452 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Anatomy of a Gerrymander
To many Floridians, tasking elected representatives to draw nonpartisan voting districts seems a lot like tasking the fox to guard the henhouse…every 10 years feathers fly.
“Reapportionment, or how we divide our districts for the Legislature and Congress, is one of the most important things we ... | <urn:uuid:bd401c8b-6967-44e4-b3fb-4a39565a804f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://assistive.usablenet.com/tt/http:/www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2008/11/anatomy-of-a-gerrymander/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957542 | 747 | 3.125 | 3 |
M109 is one of the "Theta"-like barred spirals, which appears as a "hazy spot" situated just 40' SE of the mag 2.44 star Gamma Ursae Majoris (Phad, or Phecda). It was observed by Pierre Mechain on February 16, 1781, and by Charles Messier on March 24, 1781, together with M108 when they detected and measured M97, but M1... | <urn:uuid:5c0102cb-261d-4853-a423-c4c7c8d14d7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://astroa.physics.metu.edu.tr/messier/m/m109.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925617 | 242 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Fang Lizhi, a major voice for human rights and democracy and a pioneering scientist in his native China, continued to advance the field of astrophysics at the UA for more than 20 years before he died last week.
Human rights activist Fang Lizhi, who died last week at age 76, had been a professor in the University of Ari... | <urn:uuid:07ed7155-c3cc-4894-9786-b175e3386ad0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://astronewsus.wordpress.com/tag/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942728 | 1,105 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Climate change is fun! No, wait. Human-induced change of our global climate that threatens all life on earth is shocking and alarming. But, that doesn’t mean one can’t have fun raising awareness of the looming threat of global warming on a day in which people all over the world come together in like fashion to demonstr... | <urn:uuid:2109d76a-3723-4367-a2a3-9eb5b08e221f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://autonomieproject.wordpress.com/tag/350-org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932119 | 493 | 2.875 | 3 |
Constitutional conventions on the ballot
Constitutional conventions on the ballot: This topic refers to ballot measures regarding constitutional conventions. Constitutional conventions, also often known as ConCons, are gatherings of elected delegates who propose revisions and amendments to a state's constitution. Forty... | <urn:uuid:a0b06c43-3417-404a-90ea-682118955311> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Constitutional_conventions_on_the_ballot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941559 | 111 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Today is Debussy’s 150th birthday, the occasion for a recent series of posts about the seminal composer & writer:
I’m going to talk about another aspect of the composer that fascinates me, one that probably deserves greater attention considering that it’s rarely discussed on-air or in reviews.
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Despite your best efforts, you will probably not be able to remember every single fact about every single possible algebra or geometry property in the universe for the GRE. The good news – it doesn’t matter!
Beyond the simplest properties, most relevant information can be derived from what you know. When solving the fo... | <urn:uuid:b24ecf4c-c18a-45e0-8ca4-5cdb500f3692> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://barronstestprep.com/blog/2012/04/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945616 | 321 | 3.828125 | 4 |
There didn't seem to be anything all that remarkable about what Bill Nye said in one particular segment of his interview on Big Think that went viral. Perhaps it was the way he said it that hit a nerve. Nye said in a very straightforward manner that if parents don't want to believe in evolution, that's one thing, but t... | <urn:uuid:04c015b7-0577-4515-b917-66333eb8685d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bigthink.com/think-tank/bill-nye-and-pat-robertson-agree | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97567 | 656 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Two recent research reports may point the way to developing more effective, personalized therapies for two deadly women’s cancers for which their are currently few treatment options–triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer. The approach followed in both reports is to use gene expression analysis to stratify eac... | <urn:uuid:6cb54c79-0872-4e32-a9c9-6e9f8ea2ca0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biopharmconsortium.com/blog/2011/08/02/development-of-personalized-therapies-for-deadly-womens-cancers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938239 | 3,331 | 3.078125 | 3 |
"With the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games, sport and physical activity will attract tremendous worldwide attention,” said Pedro Hall, the study’s lead researcher. "Although the world will be watching elite athletes from many countries compete in sporting events… most spectators will be quite inactive.
Professor Lindsey Dav... | <urn:uuid:5ad9a15d-9516-4e1c-b4cb-1c736e08d0b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blackamericaweb.com/23422/study-finds-inactivity-just-as-deadly-as-smoking/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972178 | 226 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Today, the solar photovoltaics (PV) industry relies on government incentive programs to be competitive in electricity markets. The main government policy lever has been the use of feed-in tariffs (FiTs). An FiT requires utilities to interconnect with private renewable energy generators and purchase the electricity gene... | <urn:uuid:014ef755-a940-43cc-a371-805578c03a69> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.appliedmaterials.com/blog-filter/renewable-portfolio-goals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906897 | 172 | 2.84375 | 3 |
4. December 2012 00:45
Unfortunately, some extraordinary sites administered by our National Park Service are not very accessible. Among these is surely Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in northwestern Nebraska, even though it is not all that distant from South Dakota’s popular Black Hills resort region.
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Mars has long held a special fascination for humans—in no small measure because of the possibility that life either presently exists or at some time in the past has existed there. In his classic work Cosmos, Carl Sagan asks an important question: “Why Martians?” Why do Earthlings not similarly obsess over “Saturnarians... | <urn:uuid:856b7f19-4696-4507-8d08-904eb15ef833> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.nasm.si.edu/tag/mars-science-laboratory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928627 | 1,311 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Vole, it’s what’s for dinner. These three rodents were pulled from the stomach of a brown trout. Ralph Stewart photo
By Matt Miller, senior science writer
As an avid fly fisher, I had heard the stories.
By day, the trout of Silver Creek—a clear, spring-fed stream in southern Idaho—fed on tiny mayflies and caddis flies.... | <urn:uuid:f15883a7-7fa1-4c71-ab89-046f83fe6a11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.nature.org/science/2013/02/27/big-fish-rodent-eating-trout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944539 | 1,264 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The important part is that we can use this month to remind moms and dads that hepatitis is around and some of it can be prevented by vaccination.
Hepatitis C is a bloodborne virus that attacks the liver. It is not vaccine-preventable. If babies are infected it’s usually from their hepatitis C+ mothers or, and this is u... | <urn:uuid:b4eacbb4-f06b-4ed4-ba2a-9fbb7638398b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.pkids.org/2012/05/10/hepatitis-a-b-c-d-and-e/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941934 | 788 | 3.65625 | 4 |
What is the difference between a turbocharger and a supercharger on an engine?
Both turbochargers and superchargers are called forced induction systems. They compress the air flowing into the engine. The advantage of compressing the air is that it lets the engine stuff more air into a cylinder. More air means that more... | <urn:uuid:0763585c-262a-4f37-854f-dab196462479> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.provenautoparts.com/2012/03/05/turbocharger-vs-supercharger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949896 | 374 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In the early 1960s an Indonesian entrepreneur named Lee Chin Eng introduced the world to a revolutionary concept in saltwater aquarium keeping called “Natures System”. His revolutionary method; no mechanical or chemical filtration!
The method Lee Chin Eng devised was basically an aquarium loaded with live rock. Lightin... | <urn:uuid:4c9a647e-306a-4d5e-8765-25a447668fde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.truvuaquariums.com/2011_03_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920128 | 466 | 3 | 3 |
Automated testing using XUnit style frameworks can be achieved using several techniques. You can test a particular class, group of classes, or all your system at once. This selection will conform your SUT (system under test). You must define which technique or mix of techniques to use depending on your system and what ... | <urn:uuid:fd730e0f-ca57-4b05-ad77-5c26c39574a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.mulesoft.org/fake-and-stub-objects-creation-using-groovy-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89495 | 1,163 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Climate scientist, Richard Alley "did ground-breaking work in science when he helped extract a two-mile-long ice core from Greenland in the early 1990s, which shows that Earth's climate changed abruptly in the past."
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June 22, 2011
We humans aren’t alone in our aversion to snakes. Our primate cousins also fear serpents. And for good reason—snakes eat primates. Snakes have been preying on primates for millions of years, and some researchers think they might be the reason we—and our fellow primates—have such good eyesight.
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When the science you learned in school and the science you read in the newspaper don't quite match up, the Meet Science series is here to help, providing quick run-downs of oft-referenced concepts, controversies, and tools that aren't always well-explained by the media.
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Nicotine is one of nature's bug zappers. Seriously. Lots of plants have evolved to produce bug-repelling chemicals as part of their defense mechanisms and tobacco happens to be one of those plants.
So when city-dwelling birds use the fluffy, nicotine-soaked material from discarded cigarette butts to build their nests i... | <urn:uuid:fc941373-e74f-49e1-8db0-f140202a5ed4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boingboing.net/2012/12/07/what-birds-are-doing-with-your.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956476 | 520 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative benefits of the technology-for example, enabling greater agricultural productivity and stability in the food supply-outweig... | <urn:uuid:9239d5cb-59cc-46f6-8774-f4cb06ecc12d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12216 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943734 | 210 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Order of Difficulty
In this episode we're going to talk about a really important concept for the Math section of the SAT, the idea that you should pay attention to the order of difficulty and this is based on the concept that Math questions come in blocks and within those blocks the questions are in order of difficulty... | <urn:uuid:0a46853b-eab8-449e-bdb1-62f1507e9da4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brightstorm.com/sat-prep/videos/sat-math/order-of-difficulty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979148 | 2,398 | 2.703125 | 3 |
What is Hwadu?
Seon Master Wumen Huikai (1183-1260) said,
Meditation is the penetration through the barrier gate of the patriarchs. Marvelous enlightenment has to cut off the paths of all thought. If one does not penetrate the barrier of the patriarchs and does not cut off the path of thought you will be no different t... | <urn:uuid:34d80ec5-1ae2-4336-81a6-9d00e22f346c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://buddhism.org/board/read.cgi?board=Hwadu&nnew=2&y_number=50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951957 | 1,828 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Lady Gaga is a beautiful, unique entertainer, whose heart must be as big as her talent. She recently started Born This Way, a foundation whose goal is to empower kids and encourage a more understanding and accepting environment for them in and out of their classrooms. Or, as the foundation itself states, to create a br... | <urn:uuid:57b5912e-9df7-4ae8-96ae-2326561b6941> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bullyatambushcorner.com/2012/03/19/born-this-way/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97488 | 627 | 2.609375 | 3 |
California Agriculture, July-September 2006
Volume 60, Number 3
When transgenes wander, should we worry? This issue: plants, animals, and fish
peer-reviewed research articles
UC works to monitor, prevent, contain avian flu
by Lynn Narlesky
Research seeks to adapt conservation tillage for California fields
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The History of Cancer: How Cancer was First Discovered and TreatedBelieve it or not, cancer has afflicted people for several centuries. It is not a new disease. It is because of the early research that we hold a greater knowledge of cancer today.
Origin of the Word "Cancer"The word cancer came from the father of medici... | <urn:uuid:7301c831-18e6-4c10-bc36-ace44468f9a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cancer.about.com/od/historyofcancer/a/cancerhistory.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980816 | 386 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is a severe and deadly allergic reaction to certain drugs, some proscription and some over the counter, which causes the severe burning of skin and mucosal membranes from the inside out. 15% of people who develop Stevens Johnson Syndrome will die as a direct result. Many drugs which have ... | <urn:uuid:85c3faad-e63f-4c23-9531-151ad2ebb6ae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://careplannursing.blogspot.com/2012/01/impaired-skin-integrity-nanda-nursing.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918061 | 311 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Lent is a time of preparation for the death of Christ on Good Friday and His Resurrection on Easter Sunday. It is a period of 40 days of repentance, with prayer, fasting and abstinence, and Confession.
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Last year in villages across Mali, some farmers harvested bumper crops of millet, sorghum and maize, while their neighbours struggled to produce a high-enough yield to feed their families. Yet they all faced the same dry spells, high temperatures and unpredictable rains.
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Tuesday, December 2001
Is your High School student needing more feedback on their work? Are they having trouble completing a homework assignment? Does your son/daughter feel unprepared for an upcoming quiz or test? How can he/she get academic assistance when not in class? High School students are encouraged to advocate... | <urn:uuid:571536f6-8104-4284-acc4-d8d1d93b7d4a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chicagowaldorf.org/bulletin/high-school-academic-support-for-students | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959857 | 337 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Mission and Beliefs
The mission of Communities In Schools of Houston (CIS) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
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United Malays National Organisation
Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu
|Leader||Abdullah Ahmad Badawi|
|Founded||May 11, 1946|
|Headquarters||Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia|
|Youth wing||Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO|
|Ideology||Malay nationalism, Conservatism, Islamist|
|National affiliation||Barisan Nasional|
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With Transfrontier Conservation Areas, wildlife, domestic animals and people are coming into unprecedented contact. The threat of transmissible disease must be urgently addressed.
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The Kepler space observatory has been a source of great wonder since it first launched in 2009. It has turned its eyes out into the great vastness of space and seen new planetary systems and potentially life-supporting planets. The telescope's original 3.5-year mission was extended into 2016, but that may now come to a... | <urn:uuid:2bf61eec-7ec1-4cb9-8c8b-085b1117246d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cnettv.cnet.com/8300-5_53-0.html?keyword=telescopes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935046 | 1,058 | 3.421875 | 3 |
- Place of origin:
England, Great Britain (embroidered)
Italy (velvet, probably, woven)
- Materials and Techniques:
Silk velvet, embroidered with silver and silver-gilt thread and coloured silks
- Credit Line:
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Written for the U.S. Army Air Corps in the early days of World War II, Bombs Away gives readers insight into the training of individual members of a heavy- bomber (B-17 and B-24) crews and their molding into a functioning team. Throughout the book, Steinbeck emphasizes that, although the pilot may be the most visible p... | <urn:uuid:86f7bf73-6fce-4492-9ce2-fc6c4e914894> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cozylibrary.com/default.asp/?id=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968605 | 3,680 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Project Censored reports:
Recent research raises compelling concerns about two commonplace technologies, cellular phones and microwave ovens. Heavy, long-term exposure to cell phone radiation increases risks for certain types of cancer, including leukemia, and in males impairs sperm production. Prenatal exposure to cel... | <urn:uuid:6a115ba8-3609-420d-a939-c1574ae6a554> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailyrevolution.com/2012/11/13/dangers-of-everyday-tech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924772 | 174 | 2.875 | 3 |
It's time to read and vote for your favorite article in the 2013 Write-Off Contest! The four finalist's articles are featured in the May 13 newsletter and can be found through this link. Hurry! Voting ends May 18.
Long ago and far away, during a time we can only read about, the same plants that often grow in our garden... | <urn:uuid:6ed44711-6d9b-4725-a057-9c39ee0f213e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2076/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972598 | 1,775 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Understanding the Changing Planet: Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences (2010)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports r... | <urn:uuid:016699f1-b49a-420d-93d0-308362d6529e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dels.nas.edu/Report/Understanding-Changing-Planet-Strategic-Directions/12860?bname= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921626 | 495 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The TCP/IP DAT is used for sending and receiving information over a TCP/IP connection between two remotely located computers. The Pipe In CHOP and Pipe Out CHOP also communicate through a TCP/IP connection, though they use a specific syntax. It captures all the messages without any queuing or buffering, and allows you ... | <urn:uuid:b3e9b336-24d3-423a-9f02-825fd27b3f9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://derivative.ca/wiki077/index.php?title=TCP/IP_DAT | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.796825 | 572 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The following sections explain how to grant system, object and access privileges.
Granting System Privileges
System privileges are granted to the system administrator at the time of installation of the system. System privileges refer to global information, that affects the database as a whole.
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You can specify a different collation for ordering characters when you create or alter a table or create a domain.
If you have specified a collation for a column, the collation is used implicitly in SQL statements.
You only need to explicitly use a collate clause in SQL statements if you want to override the default co... | <urn:uuid:473ebd6a-b79e-4d8d-96f2-0b29766edad1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://developer.mimer.com/documentation/html_93/Mimer_SQL_Engine_DocSet/Collations3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.719011 | 849 | 3.46875 | 3 |
import file-name ((export? prefixed by prefix) | export? unprefixed | only) ( (export? use declared-name (as new-name)?) |(export? use #conversion-functions)? |(supply declared-name (as required-name)?))*
import to import a module into the current module or program. Some or all of the
exported items in the module are p... | <urn:uuid:ef81a407-f75c-422d-ac03-6c355a534c6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://developers.omnimark.com/docs-extract/html/keyword/1683.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.821665 | 484 | 2.625 | 3 |
/rid/v[I/T](past tense and past participleread/red/)(OBTAIN MEANING)
›to obtain meaning or information by looking at written words or symbols: [T]I read the book over the weekend.[I]She couldn’t read or write.[I]Did you read about the plan to build a new road to the airport?[+ that clause]I read that the job market for... | <urn:uuid:ade73c6d-4a53-4784-ab27-036801e492c6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/read_1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918976 | 129 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Origin: 1375–1425; late Middle English Related forms
< Medieval Latin trānspārent-
(stem of trānspārēns
) showing through (present participle of trānspārēre
), equivalent to Latin trāns- trans-
(stem of pārēns
), present participle of pārēre
to appear; see apparent
Can be confused: translucent
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The question will not go away: Do vaccines cause autism? Some 1 million to 1.5 million adults and children in the United States have received autism diagnoses, and there is no clear insight into its causes. What surprises many scientists is that their findings against a vaccine connection keep failing to quell the deba... | <urn:uuid:5e204248-52d2-4bbf-8a2d-04d4a7d527ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966475 | 1,107 | 2.875 | 3 |
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- assign buffering to a stream
#include <stdio.h> void setbuffer(FILE *iop, char *abuf, size_t asize);
int setlinebuf(FILE *iop);
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18th October 2012
The company is developing an alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture, which is both expensive and hazardous to the environment. With advanced computer vision techniques for identifying weeds and selectively killing unwanted plants, Blue River Technology’s equipment is much faster and more effici... | <urn:uuid:75935ef5-6739-44f9-a6fb-2226ab2ba86f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=81779 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96739 | 144 | 2.734375 | 3 |
This project aims to digitise the library in the church Romanat Qeddus Mikael Dabre Mehret, Enderta. The library possesses around 70 codices and includes several valuable manuscripts of high quality, some of them with illuminations and valuable marginalia. The collection builds an indigenous and integral local document... | <urn:uuid:88a93752-5289-4b55-8555-8485fbe9b8fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eap.bl.uk/database/overview_project.a4d?projID=EAP254;r=14935 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949939 | 753 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The ultra-dense form of basalt, eclogite made from mainly garnet and a strange high-pressure, low-temperature pyroxene (omphacite) that forms from plagioclase and some of the basalt’s ferromagnesian minerals, is possibly the most important rock there is. Without the basalt to eclogite transition that takes place when o... | <urn:uuid:78e5a605-d447-498b-98b9-949ad556d379> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earth-pages.co.uk/tag/alps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930645 | 577 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Terrestrial versus Oceanic Biosphere
The bulk of carbon on land is locked up in soils and in trees, with each source respectively representing the "soil carbon" and "biosphere" reservoirs. Of course, living things in the ocean are also part of the biosphere, but the amount of carbon they contain is small when compared ... | <urn:uuid:809abd9e-3c06-4866-9749-bee6257f16dc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/virtualmuseum/virtualmuseum/TerrestrialCarbonCycle.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960622 | 1,630 | 3.53125 | 4 |
2005 - 2006 Public Lecture Series
Please join our sixth year of the Public Lecture Series!
March 23 - 8pm - 2006
Parkfield 2004: Lessons from the Best-Recorded Earthquake in History
- Andy Michael, USGS Menlo Park
Obtaining high-quality measurements close to a large earthquake is not easy: one has to be in the right pl... | <urn:uuid:0ca684fd-a1f1-4d12-ba06-ca44c2f01393> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/sca/lectures/lectures2006.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924873 | 968 | 2.625 | 3 |
The Importance Of Context
In a thriller novel, the explanation comes at the end. In a newspaper article, it usually comes at the beginning. In an executive summary meant to be read by the top management, the explanation, comes at the beginning of the memo. And for a scientific paper, a summary, with findings and hypoth... | <urn:uuid:1712b052-98b0-480f-a2c0-0c017af35ad4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://edge.org/print/response-detail/10676 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961294 | 494 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Browse recordings: livestream.com/educon8
- Session Three: Saturday 3:00pm–4:30pm
- Room 303
- Bud Hunt, Joe Bires
- Affiliation: St. Vrain Valley School District, Haddonfield School District
- Conversational Focus/Audience:
- All School Levels
- Conversation Description:
This presentation is an extension of a Twitter ... | <urn:uuid:516d6011-a6ca-43b4-8e56-457ba657dcc0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://educon23.org/conversations/Dr-_Remix-_or_how_I_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_citation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941397 | 472 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Shabti figures are very popular, especially when they depict royal personages. Some of the most common royal shabtis you are likely to encounter are those of King Seti I (c. 1294-79 BC). Estimates vary, but it is probable that Seti had over 1000 shabtis – the largest number of any New Kingdom king. Materials for the sh... | <urn:uuid:44c34ec6-ba52-4a41-bac1-4881648cf8cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://egyptmanchester.wordpress.com/tag/valley-of-the-kings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970371 | 718 | 3.484375 | 3 |
“Citizen Science” is a movement that is growing around the world. It can be defined as the participation of non-professionals (including students, teachers, and individuals from the general public) who aid in data collection and analysis for scientific experiments. Although usually done under the supervision of a profe... | <urn:uuid:5808248e-daf0-45c6-9464-e8ae5c5e55a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://elementsunearthed.com/tag/signals-of-spring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945279 | 1,726 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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