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Getting your vitamins may be even more important than previously realized. Researchers have found a link between deficiency of three B vitamins and cognitive impairment, providing new insight into the mechanisms that may underlie age-related cognitive decline.
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Skopentzana was as old as Videssos the city and as beautiful in its own way. It lay to the far northeast on the south side of the River Anazarbos below the headwaters and thus accessible from the sea. It was wealthy and its inhabitants looked down on those from the City as provincials since they did not know of events ... | <urn:uuid:727534ae-7f8e-4bd9-a93d-ccfb9cdae51e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Skopentzana | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990175 | 287 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Home - Choosing Survival – Spring 2011
As a youth, Pawling was captivated by the Abenaki history of his home state of Vermont. He was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware when he received a summer grant to conduct research at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, Maine, for his thesis on the Wabanaki Conf... | <urn:uuid:9d5c96e3-ec3b-4f49-ab9c-13bf74b396cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://umaine.edu/research/home/choosing-survival-spring-2011/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9626 | 537 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Identifying the weed and trying to determine why it has invaded is the first step in managing broadleaf weeds in lawns. Weeds can be indicators of underlying problems. For example, ground ivy invades lawns in shade, while knotweed may indicate soil compaction. Assorted weeds may indicate overall poor conditions for law... | <urn:uuid:97d75d1e-2619-4640-bb56-0c1483741471> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://urbanext.illinois.edu/lawntalk/weeds/broadleaf_weed_problems_in_lawns.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927912 | 648 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Scientists identify largest neolithic city
Updated: 2012-10-30 07:43
XI'AN - Archaeologists said a 4-square-kilometer city ruins discovered in Northwest China's Shaanxi province was the largest of its kind in neolithic China.
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A first stab at the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics is this: there is a difficulty in accounting for measurements having any outcomes at all. In Heisenberg's words: "it is the 'factual' character of an event describable in terms of the concepts of daily life which is not without further comment contained in... | <urn:uuid:7022edc4-ea18-43b9-a574-e3370065f584> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lina0174/measurement.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952335 | 648 | 2.765625 | 3 |
What is Snark?
Snark is one of those words that has been thrown around a bit on the interwebs. Don’t know what snark is? Don’t fear, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary provides this definition:
snark- 1. Snore, snort. 2. Find fault with. snarky- Irritable, short tempered.
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Authors: D.J. Pons
Existing theories of physics struggle to explain the difference between matter and antimatter in ways that make physical sense. This paper offers a reconceptualisation based on the cordus conjecture. We create a new concept of handedness, called ma, and an operational definition based on the energisa... | <urn:uuid:34b9b33a-d57a-4d04-bb43-a8fccba9446b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://vixra.org/abs/1109.0009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893835 | 272 | 2.71875 | 3 |
In part I we found the main bands of a excavation here in SW Iceland:
- dark band of Veidivötn 1477
- double white layer band of Hekla from 1341 (or Öraefajökull 1362) and Hekla 1104
- dark band of Vatnaöldur 870 (called the “Settlement Ash”).
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The Melbourne Scale:
Based on the work of Professor Lieven Boeve, the Melbourne Scale identifies four school ‘types’ or options in the context of today’s secular, pluralist culture where connection with long established Christian traditions and foundations is increasingly being lost. These ‘schools’ are theoretical/ id... | <urn:uuid:feae9cb1-f981-42df-b2d2-07002459f34f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://web.cecv.catholic.edu.au/projects/identity/melbscale.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945932 | 1,348 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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Electric Guitar Design and Technology
In the guitar world, inventor Ted McCarty made his mark as
an innovative instrument designer during the 1950s and early 1960s as President
of Gibson, Inc.
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Carriage of dangerous goods
Any goods that pose a risk to people, property and the environment are classified as dangerous goods and are assigned to different classes ranging from 1 to 9. These types of goods can range from those which are highly dangerous (such as explosives, flammables and fuming acids) to everyday p... | <urn:uuid:f1505359-0f95-4d62-aba7-a8fc7718ccd4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100415103316/http:/www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/freight/dgt1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937772 | 413 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Wildflower is published quarterly by the Wildflower Center. Its content is national in scope with articles about the conservation and use of native plants as well as news from the Wildflower Center. A subscription is provided to Wildflower Center members as a benefit of membership.
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Black men who openly discuss their challenges with racism and discrimination are less likely to suffer from depression than brothas who “man up” and keep their stress inside, Ebony reports.
SEE ALSO: Junior Seau Dead From Suicide
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Made from the grains of the oat plant, the dish we know as oatmeal is made from ground oat groats (sometimes called “milled oats”), steel-cut oats or rolled oats. Oat groats are the seeds of the oat plant with the hulls removed.
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Mark Wilson December 15th, 2009
MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY–Strong earthquakes produce seismic waves which can do much damage on land, as we well know. They can also disturb unconsolidated sediments on shallow oceanic shelves and platforms, producing characteristically swirled structures called seismites. The Upper Ordovician ... | <urn:uuid:7f88b123-621b-4369-b208-c0650965ca28> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2009/12/15/a-record-of-ancient-earthquakes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9716 | 172 | 3.453125 | 3 |
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In-dept talk about the very basic element of electronics, the element that makes all electronics tick, and that was the start of the electronics revolution: the transistor.
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Every year more than 50,000 children arrive in Canada in search of a better life. Angus Warner of The Hospital for Sick Children's Community Health Systems Resource Group (CHSRG), calls these families' trips "the five-hour journey."
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the heart become thick and rigid. The heart is then not able to fill with a normal amount of blood.
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with thanks to Rabbi Michael Skobac, Jews for Judaism
One of the most common questions we receive at Aish.com is: "Why don't Jews believe in Jesus?" Let's understand why ― not in order to disparage other religions, but rather to clarify the Jewish position.
Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because:
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Tomb Discovered from Era of Pharoahs
A Czech archeological mission discovered a 4,000-year-old tomb from the time of the pharaohs in Egypt's Abu Sir region, southeast of Cairo, the government daily Al-Ahram reported Monday.
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ICMP programming example
This is a chat program that use the ICMP protocol to communicate. It's a conversion from a gpl'd C code example written by Vergil at www.ragestorm.net. There are two new socket classes - Stdin/Stdin2 to read from the console and ICMPTwistSocket to read/write the icmp messages.
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"Our latest study demonstrates that animal model systems are inadequate for a great many tests of this kind," says Schöler. "Particularly when we're talking about developing safe and effective stem cell therapies, we will still need human ES cells as the gold standard against which to compare everything else. In such c... | <urn:uuid:6e6c722c-0c7e-4f46-90d7-b4bde3250d17> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-deceptive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951154 | 1,027 | 3.59375 | 4 |
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al-Assad was born in rural Syria as part of the minority Alawite community. He was the first member of his family to attend High School and finished top of his class. Because his family had no money to send him to university al-Assad went to the Syrian Military Academy and received a f... | <urn:uuid:bc44c85f-f848-4fcc-ad33-d67d57499d1c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Hafez_al-Assad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98472 | 540 | 3.453125 | 3 |
• Yankee •
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A term for natives of the American Colonies, dating from the 17th century. It gained wider usage during the War of Independence (1775-1783) and continues today.
Notes: Southerners, who use today's word strictly to refer to Northerners, are often taken aback when they go abroad a... | <urn:uuid:fc889b2b-7cd7-4fc6-b31f-0c820b0b2e52> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/date/2011/07/03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963232 | 418 | 3.5625 | 4 |
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What reaction does an earthquake incur in a whale?
18 May 2012
Taylor & Francis
Whales living within seismically active regions are subject to intense disturbances from strong sounds produced by earthquakes that can kill or injure individuals. Of particular fascination was the response of a fin... | <urn:uuid:ba3ba949-9b84-4304-9f8d-2cdf6c42b575> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alphagalileo.org/Organisations/ViewItem.aspx?OrganisationId=9023&ItemId=120346&CultureCode=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893768 | 313 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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Jeffry D. Wert examines the severe defeat of Jubal Early's Confederate army in From Winchester to Cedar Creek: The Shenandoah Campaign of 1864. Up to this point the Shenandoah Valley proved a symbol of Southern victory, but it would not remain unconquered. Union General Philip Sheridan w... | <urn:uuid:351494cd-eeec-496c-afab-223e8673e4ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.americanheritage.com/category/collection-keywords/virginia?page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96076 | 892 | 3.15625 | 3 |
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Scrabble word: ESTUARY
In which Scrabble dictionary does ESTUARY exist?
Definitions of ESTUARY in dictionaries:
- noun - the wide part of a river where it nears the sea
- The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.
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During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Period there is some evidence of the sacrificial burial of servants with the deceased. However, this practice was quickly seen as unnecessary and wasteful, and instead symbolic images of servants were painted inside tombs to aid the deceased in the afterworld. This practice dev... | <urn:uuid:f2dcf76d-67e0-411c-89d7-94eb1df0a748> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/shabti.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982497 | 1,830 | 3.5 | 4 |
The course of Christianity has been marked by pulsations of advance, retreat, and advance.
–Kenneth Scott Latourette, Volume I, Christianity in a Revolutionary Age
Christianity is a faith that is solidly grounded in history.
–Robert L. Thomas and Stanley N. Gundry, preface to The NIV Harmony of the Gospels
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The President and Homosexuality
“Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage” (Stein, 2012). For a national, yea, international, figure to weigh in on such a moral issue, far-reaching, catastrophic consequences are inevitable. The gradual erosion of America... | <urn:uuid:277c0608-498f-43a7-a0ce-8910fb4cd435> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.apologeticspress.com/APContent.aspx?category=7&article=689&topic=36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947985 | 8,472 | 2.921875 | 3 |
According to John Leuthart and Tim Walker of Tourism New Zealand, our unique New Zealand cultures have the power to create the kind of world-class experiences our visitors are increasingly looking for. “Our country and each region is distinct. So as well as focusing on identifying existing world class products, by enha... | <urn:uuid:7706594a-6f0f-4298-ba45-038dd666c41b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ariarilodge.co.nz/category/luxury-accommodation-taranaki | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937894 | 356 | 2.546875 | 3 |
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Saeculum obscurum (Latin, the dark age) is a name given to a period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964. The p... | <urn:uuid:0c06ad93-491b-4bfe-926c-98b5a0dffc38> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Pornocracy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968501 | 881 | 3.21875 | 3 |
The First 20 Minutes
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"If you move enough, your muscles change and grow. So does your mind.... The same process operates body-wide. No cell in your body is unaffected by motion. Your very DNA is changed."
It’s a fascinating time to own a body, and a perplexing one.
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A) Assamese Pre Wedding Ceremony
B) Assamese Wedding Day Ceremony
Pre Wedding Ceremony
Juran Diya :- Juran is the first day ceremony. It held the before the wedding day. This ritual is performed by women. The bride's mother greets them and gives them a warm welcome with the xhorai, a brass plate, in which betel nuts an... | <urn:uuid:6ba81d85-48ce-425b-90d5-df93da16238b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.assaminfo.com/culture/19/assamese-wedding-celebrationss-or-assamese-marriage-or-assamese-biya.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927528 | 853 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Significance and Use
This test method is useful for the analysis of drinking water and groundwaters. Other waters may be analyzed by this method, see 1.2.
EDB and DBCP have been widely used as soil fumigants. EDB is also used as a lead scavenger in leaded gasolines. These compounds are very water soluble and are often ... | <urn:uuid:64e8a566-4d37-42a6-bcce-2a1473a6a5a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.astm.org/Standards/D5316.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899488 | 695 | 2.796875 | 3 |
|There's no place like
Peering out of the windows of the
International Space Station (ISS), astronaut
Tracy Caldwell Dyson takes in the planet on which we were all born,
and to which she would soon return.
About 350 kilometers up, the ISS is high enough so that the
Earth's horizon appears clearly curved.
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Now that the flaws of over-consumption have been found, and the amount of oil in the world is always decreasing, the demand to find alternative sources of energy has increased. The alternative source that has the best chance of replacing or reducing the demand for oil is solar energy.
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The headquarters of the Bank of Georgia is an 18-story building in the outskirts Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi. It was opened in 1975 as the Ministry of Highway Construction of the Georgian SSR. After the independence of Georgia, the building was temporarily unused before being acquired by the Bank of Georgia in 20... | <urn:uuid:12043dc6-79d9-4145-886f-2352a3a1cb11> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bank-georgia-building | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970966 | 298 | 2.75 | 3 |
4th Field Artillery Brigade
4th Field Artillery Brigade
The 4th Field Artillery Brigade was raised on 23 September 1915, following the formation of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and the raising of the 2nd Division in Egypt in 1915. It comprised of recruits from the pre-war militia’s 7th Field Artillery Brig... | <urn:uuid:37a1ab6b-0f8c-45c5-af54-4e328e2a0b43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.awm.gov.au/units/unit_10287.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96256 | 896 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Until about 1950, a married American couple wanting to have a child other than by procreation had only two options: adopt a U.S.-born children privately (e.g. attorneys, private child welfare agencies) or through public social welfare agencies. The model of adoption, dominant for many decades, was locked into the idea ... | <urn:uuid:175c2452-9e1c-496d-99bd-b6061109ebea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-adoption-20121112,0,2618067.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968138 | 1,304 | 3.359375 | 3 |
'Red hot' chillies arrive at frozen seed vault
Seeds from some of North America's hottest food crops have arrived on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard to be stored in a "doomsday vault".
The consignment of chilli seeds was delivered to the frozen outpost by a delegation of seven US senators.
Built deep inside a mounta... | <urn:uuid:6bda66dc-c9ee-4af5-ad23-6ef694a3d604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10603656 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966454 | 669 | 3.125 | 3 |
Pollinators lured away by farmland, study shows
A study has challenged the idea that areas such as farmland provide pollinating insects with a "corridor" between fragmented habitats.
Researchers suggested that the pollinators in their survey were "fickle foragers" and would concentrate on areas rich in pollen and necta... | <urn:uuid:aedd9848-ec2a-49c4-b3ba-797e60e3760f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14234567 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970072 | 637 | 3.9375 | 4 |
Nasa to encrypt data after its latest laptop loss
US space agency Nasa has ordered that the data on all its laptops must be encrypted, after losing another one of its portable computers.
Until the process is complete, it has forbidden staff from removing Nasa-issued laptops containing sensitive information from its fac... | <urn:uuid:1883d3a9-d0e6-47fd-befd-8dbc7859f32c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20343745 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964453 | 547 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Flat tower green building concept the un-skycraper
A team of French designers unveil the “Flat Tower” design, a second place winner in the 2011 eVolo skyscraper competition.
During the Industrial Revolution, humans moved out of rural areas and into the cities, where it was easier to access factory jobs. This influx of ... | <urn:uuid:d0683304-cd0e-49d7-9f2d-6a0303fb9e67> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bdcnetwork.com/flat-tower-green-building-concept-un-skycraper | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965241 | 406 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Current high-tech trends dictate that smaller is better. We covet slim smartphones, light-as-air laptops, and compact cameras, but does the same principle hold true for skin care? The study of nano-sized technology has grown exponentially in the past few decades, and scientists are in the early stages of testing its ab... | <urn:uuid:2c004106-8fc3-467a-b2f9-e5c682bc314f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beautylish.com/a/vpavj/nano-particles-sunscreen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940556 | 643 | 3.03125 | 3 |
rock quarry wetlands
Shallow waters in the base of hard rock quarries can develop
an interesting fen vegetation with a varied range of invertebrates,
bird and other animal life. Aquatic invertebrates such as water
beetles and dragonflies usually abound as do amphibians and
reptiles such as frogs, toads, newts and grass... | <urn:uuid:de83a41e-4d6d-4bf3-bcb1-38110629eea6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bgs.ac.uk/eqr/HRQ_Wetlands.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91614 | 177 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Jane Goodall biography
Born on April 3, 1934 in London, England, Jane Goodall set out to Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees by sitting amongst them, bypassing more rigid procedures and uncovering discoveries about primate behavior that have continued to shape scientific discourse. She is a highly respected member of th... | <urn:uuid:f68f3379-8492-4ae0-962e-4c37224d7610> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.biography.com/print/profile/jane-goodall-9542363 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961782 | 2,401 | 2.953125 | 3 |
A tower is a high structure, usually man-made. The sea can erode the land and make a tower known as a sea-stack .
The air traffic control tower at Bristol Airport, Bristol, England
- being impressive or beautiful
- saving surface area
- for the view
- for spreading light: light tower , lighthouse
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Abstract: Sulphur (S) fertilization is essential for primary and secondary metabolism in cruciferous foods. Deficient, suboptimal, or excessive S affects the growth and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites in adult plants. Nevertheless, there is little information regarding the influence of S fertilization on sprouts ... | <urn:uuid:a7de6ed3-57fd-4c62-bf8c-a9c4d40cd4dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bionity.com/en/publications/246364/glucosinolates-in-broccoli-sprouts-brassica-oleracea-var-italica-as-conditioned-by-sulphate-supply-during-germination.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923335 | 685 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Here’s Lab research associate Dr. Caren Cooper with a report from Thursday’s session at the American Ornithologists’ Union meeting in Philadelphia.
On Thursday afternoon I went to a session titled Anthropogenic Structures, which is how ornithologists refer to birds hitting things that people have built. Millions of bir... | <urn:uuid:e4b077ef-3460-45f7-9412-8696de74b3af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.birds.cornell.edu/roundrobin/2009/08/14/aou-thursday-hope-for-solving-bird-collisions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952521 | 1,118 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Did you ever notice small white bumps on your face, similar to a pimple but much harder? Those bumps are probably milia. The condition is common in people of all ages and races, but tend to occur more in women. Also, milia are found to occur in about half of newborn babies.
While usually white, milia can also appear ye... | <urn:uuid:df7ff62b-4a86-4a18-986d-b50cef7e64f8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.birthmarks.com/HTMLArticle.cfm?Hit=1&Article=119&ReturnURL=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942169 | 623 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The fitness of a genotype measures its relative ability to reproduce itself, compared to other genotypes.
Fitness shows to what extent a genotype is favored by natural selection. Fitness values are between 0 and 1. The fittest individual has a fitness of 1, and the fitness of the other members of the population can be ... | <urn:uuid:e519c12f-3005-42db-8679-f097122c9223> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/a-z/Fitness.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922902 | 274 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Islam Blamers Ignore Real Mideast Trouble Source: Amity Shlaes
Why is Libya exploding? Why are Iraq and Egypt always, even after many millennia, undemocratic? Why was there scarcely any looting or rioting in Japan even after the triple calamity of tsunami, earthquake and nuclear accident?
Blame the rain. Or rather, the... | <urn:uuid:92ba54f8-8fd8-4e01-82ea-05fc762ec286> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/islam-blamers-ignore-mideast-s-trouble-source-commentary-by-amity-shlaes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941514 | 1,199 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers!
An author makes a very important choice with the first line of any story. This story begins:
"At the end of the century before last, in the market square of the city of Baltese, there stood a boy . . ."
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|Fish and Wildlife Protection|
BPA must mitigate
damage to fish and wildlife caused by the federal hydrosystem.
It is among
the many agencies that help fish runs damaged by dams, logging, farming,
overharvest and other human activities.
BPA is committed to working toward regional solutions, based on sound biological sc... | <urn:uuid:f9d07f1a-5f38-4229-9997-2b4d37731029> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bpa.gov/Power/pl/columbia/1-fish.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927281 | 298 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Brain Development Centers
By Andrew Loh
This article highlights two brain development centers that are well established in their
respective countries and have training centers worldwide. One of these brain development
centers is from the West (USA) namely "Brainy Gym" and the other from the East (Japan),
The article br... | <urn:uuid:a278f552-90ac-4cb2-a58e-912d29e6f7af> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brainy-child.com/article/braindevcenter.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921712 | 1,521 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Moving on to the next school level can be a very daunting time in a student’s life. They will be experiencing new teachers, new rules, and new subjects, all possibly with new friends. It’s important for students to prepare for the next step because it can pay dividends from the start, and starting off on the right foot... | <urn:uuid:6ec82e02-292a-40f1-94f8-1a7e41364a7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brasaus.org/preparing-for-the-next-school-level.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977806 | 372 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Basjoo is the hardiest Banana plants on earth. It is a very fast grower capable of growing up to two feet in one week. This hardy banana tree is a very heavy feeder. This means if you want your plants to grow quickly and well, you must feed it on a regular basis. Liquid plant food is recommended every 2 weeks to achiev... | <urn:uuid:42c4d79c-9aae-452e-ac85-1832018fa8be> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brighterblooms.com/planting-directions/basjoo-banana-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930867 | 507 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Pronouns are defined as words used in place of nouns. The antecedent is the noun that the pronoun replaces. There are six types of pronouns: personal, reflexive and intensive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative and indefinite. One trick when identifying pronouns is to check to see if it has an antecedent. If it doe... | <urn:uuid:5f9d537c-d628-4cd0-905c-3ebd2f362e7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brightstorm.com/english/grammar/parts-of-speech/pronouns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911472 | 85 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Figure 9: Proton force. The interaction energy of two protons is shown as a function of the distance between them. At small separations, the energy is positive and the force is repulsive. At intermediate distances, the nuclear interaction is negative and the force is attractive. At distances larger than shown on the gr... | <urn:uuid:1107f466-4b49-485c-8403-2a8483b3ca53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/652/Proton-force | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953998 | 99 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Pacific mountain systemArticle Free Pass
Pacific mountain system, series of mountain ranges that stretches along the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from northern British Columbia (Canada) to northwestern Mexico. They run for some 4,500 miles (7,250 km) in the United States and extend northward into Canada for ano... | <urn:uuid:16363cf2-cdcc-452e-bdd4-3b1425a50236> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/437689/Pacific-mountain-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94375 | 642 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Robert Vivian PoundArticle Free Pass
(born May 16, 1919, Ridgeway, Ont.—died April 12, 2010, Belmont, Mass.), Canadian-born American physicist who confirmed a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity when he and one of his Harvard University students, Glen A. Rebka, demonstrated in 1959 that gra... | <urn:uuid:acd668b5-ee3b-444a-aa10-2d0571a31d31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/473078/Robert-Vivian-Pound | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961195 | 232 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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role in England
...of Roman Catholicism. The controversy went to the root of society: Was the purpose of life spiritual or political? Was the role... | <urn:uuid:53adc0c6-c379-45fc-84ec-7173cdf992e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/639786/Paul-Wentworth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90817 | 145 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Jar with Impressed and Incised Decoration
Early Nubian potters often decorated vessels with two or three rows of geometric shapes, usually triangles or squares. Sometimes they added a rhythmic design, as in this example, by using a pointed tool to create dots and dashes.
- Medium: Pottery
- Place Excavated: Egypt
- Dat... | <urn:uuid:9c4bd720-a663-43f7-832b-9724a9f45a38> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3280/Jar_with_Impressed_and_Incised_Decoration | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.821775 | 276 | 2.78125 | 3 |
February 23, 1909
Canada takes fiight: With men on skates to steady
the Silver Dart’s wings, J. A. D. McCurdy pilots the biplane
for 0.8 kilo-metres over the ice-covered surface of Baddeck Bay,
N.S., completing the first flight in Canada by a powered heavier-than-air
machine. The plane was developed by Aerial Experimen... | <urn:uuid:ce94911c-1671-4497-82c1-ea5e5535e297> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/so00/aviation_history.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90295 | 2,216 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Approximately 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States in 2013. Many patients diagnosed with cancer will eventually require support from a family caregiver. In fact, family caregivers form the foundation of the health care system in the United States, supporting advances in trea... | <urn:uuid:f2257d69-a212-448a-885a-fb0234f9efae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/supportivecare/caregivers/healthprofessional/page1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885305 | 716 | 2.640625 | 3 |
ani-MODS is an interactive learning resource in which animated characters tell a story, with varied tasks and a quiz for each user to complete.
Each short module is an introduction to a topic and can be completed within a lesson. Each module also includes additional curriculum ideas, lesson plans, links to useful websi... | <urn:uuid:466cf32c-9358-4387-8857-f1002e67acdb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.careersoft.co.uk/Products/ani-MODS/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901482 | 302 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Well, it's kind of hard to determine the accuracy of your biomes without knowing the latitudes of your map. I think there are some discrepancies though, assuming that the equator runs through the center of your map and the arctic zones are at the extreme top and bottom. Also, not knowing the terrain makes it difficult,... | <urn:uuid:ea921ac2-8010-428d-8624-b0cd63fed515> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cartographersguild.com/regional-world-mapping/21522-first-swing-map-any-suggestions-critiques-more-than-welcome-wip.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923193 | 548 | 2.546875 | 3 |
West Nile virus arrived in the eastern United States in 1999. The virus is a human health risk because it can cause sickness and death when mosquitoes transmit the pathogen from an infected bird to a person. Birds, however, bear the brunt of West Nile virus mortality. Since its arrival, the virus has caused declines in... | <urn:uuid:2125a38c-247a-40ae-8c3e-c2403966770d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/west-nile-virus-alters-ecological-balance?page=0%2525252C3%25252C1%252C2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959862 | 804 | 4.1875 | 4 |
As a public health veterinarian, I am concerned that a campaign such as “Meat without Drugs” could result in “Animals without Health”. A new report from Consumer Reports provides some public opinion data that are not surprising.
Given the constant drumbeat about the “overuse” of antibiotics in livestock production, con... | <urn:uuid:b454df41-cf40-4065-ab8a-54a8f70215c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Commentary-Meat-without-Drugs-could-be-inhumane-160409875.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956664 | 383 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Black carbon is the second most powerful climate pollutant behind only carbon dioxide, according to a landmark four-year assessment .
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Money Income in the United States: 1995 - Highlights
The data presented here are from the March 1996 supplement to the CurrentPopulation Survey (CPS), the source of official income estimates. The CPS is asample of approximately 50,000 households nationwide. These data reflect conditionsin calendar year 1995. For almost... | <urn:uuid:aee6b7ab-a18f-44fd-9eee-95dcae036d1f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/incpovhlth/1995/highlights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931458 | 1,021 | 2.765625 | 3 |
School: LAS CRUCES HIGH
Area of Science: Earth and Space Science
Given a set of initial accretion disk conditions, i.e. a sun and a nebula of leftover dust particles, what planets and objects will form? How long will it take and what are the distributions of different planet types?
With the recent discoveries of more a... | <urn:uuid:8b974a60-8325-4f20-82ff-e5b4be3ff506> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.challenge.nm.org/abstracts/047.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887679 | 255 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke
Exposure to abnormal or prolonged amounts of heat and humidity without relief or adequate fluids can cause various types of heat-related illness. Children and adolescents adjust more slowly than adults do to changes in environmental heat and are thus more vulnerable to heat-... | <urn:uuid:2e5ae04e-3508-4f05-8924-61a85a3889d7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site996/mainpageS996P0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944932 | 198 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Assyrians contributions to the Islamic civilization
Nov. 24, 09
Christians mentioned in this article were ethnically Assyrians whose language was known as
Syriac, or Aramaic.
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Dry eye disease, affecting about four million people age 50 and older in the United States, can be very uncomfortable and interfere with vision. Our current treatment options range from simple warm compresses, eye washes and artificial tears to medications and tear drainage devices.
Dry eye syndrome involves either a m... | <urn:uuid:4b1979ec-b8da-4ec6-a522-50dca33bc4b9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clarineyecare.com/tag/caffeine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953906 | 564 | 3.359375 | 3 |
A Cancer Vaccine (CG8123) Given With and Without Cyclophosphamide for Advanced Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
The main purpose of this research study is to determine if a vaccine made from a patient's lung cancer tumor cells will be effective in making the cancer shrink or disappear. The vaccine will be given... | <urn:uuid:46a486c6-0bd5-4e78-8af3-e428ddc29fbd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00089726?view=results | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.866474 | 442 | 2.640625 | 3 |
String is just the datatype, as is int. You don't need to specify the size of it until you instantiate it. When an array is returned by something different, it can take the place of the placeholder.
Simple look: T -> 4 byte pointer <- T returned
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UPDATE: See end of post for additions – ed.
For the uninitiated, QR codes are square “bar codes” that can be read by smart phones. You can embed information in a QR code that will allow the smart phone user to access a web page, or an e-mail address, or send a text, etc.
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Welcome to Conquer Anxiety and Depression
Panic Anxiety Disorders Chat Room Article
. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
You may also listen to this article by using the following controls.
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These cute bird checks come with matching address labels and checkbook covers. Order your personal checks today.
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A Copper Alliance Member
One Wire Size Up Means Big Savings
Installing wire only one size larger than has been required by the National Electrical Code increases energy efficiency with dramatic paybacks. This simple technique can yield quick paybacks while increasing the flexibility of the installation. By increasing t... | <urn:uuid:95bddab8-63b9-4591-8b00-aed178a5ffa0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.copper.org/environment/sustainable-energy/energy-efficiency/education/archive/onesizeup.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870372 | 926 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Where are we?
You’ve learned about the first part of a site’s framework: information architecture. Let’s move on to page layout.
This lesson’s goals
You learned about layouts earlier. Let’s review the basics.
Web pages are often divided into the following regions:
Figure 1. Regions
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How Electricity Flows To Its Users
Large-scale electric generators, such as coal plants or large wind farms, are connected to transformers that increase the electricity’s voltage, or potential energy, enabling it to be sent via transmission lines over long distances. Transmission lines carry electricity to substations ... | <urn:uuid:d43f6b2c-4c27-40d5-aef9-f26d1ed4ed0a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cpa.state.tx.us/specialrpt/energy/uses/exhibits/exhibit27-1.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870018 | 148 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Students will gain an awareness of the diversity of the student population to foster sensitivity in the student population, and our community. Allow student to tell you what they know, what they see and how people of different races, religions, cultures, are really the same, and want the same things for their children,... | <urn:uuid:1d776255-72f8-4d58-83fb-ca4739255aec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crockerartmuseum.org/school-educator/striking-gold/item/mother-and-child | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97103 | 3,436 | 3.859375 | 4 |
- Enter a word for the dictionary definition.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Oyer \O"yer\, n. [Anglo F., a hearing, from OF. o["i]r, F. ou["i]r, to hear, L. audire. See Audible.] (Law) A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a ... | <urn:uuid:69941e00-b458-4532-8620-f28cb8f4f127> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crosswordpuzzlehelp.net/old/dictionary.php?q=Oyer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879569 | 172 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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Blue and Purple
Green and Brown
Plant ID Guides
Argentina anserina (Potentilla anserina)
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William Byrd—the leading composer of Protestant, Elizabethan England—also wrote liturgical music for clandestine religious observances. Among his most serene and pure works, these intimate five-voice masses are drawn from his second book of Gradualia, published in 1607, and were probably sung at the chapel of the Catho... | <urn:uuid:46b9656c-bb55-45bc-b3e3-b3da319cbe84> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.daedalus-books.com/Products/Detail.asp?ProductID=102497&Media=Music&SubCategoryID=2128&ReturnUrl=%2FProducts%2FSubCategory.asp%3FMedia%3DMusic%26SubCategoryID%3D2128%26MajorCategoryID%3D35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941006 | 139 | 2.5625 | 3 |
New evidence from the Messenger spacecraft orbiting Mercury hints that the tiny planet may be harboring water ice in some of its most extreme terrain. The Messenger spacecraft has found that bright radar spots previously detected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico appear to be in permanent shadow, according to c... | <urn:uuid:de6d54d5-de68-4789-9e51-ffeb91320b1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/03/extreme-water-edges-of-mercurys-poles-may-harbor-water-ice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918354 | 222 | 3.125 | 3 |
Mechanics - Punctuation - Slash
Use a slash (/) to separate parts of a choice. Example: Mr./Mrs. Smith will speak to us first.
Instructions: Put slashes where they are needed in these sentences.
1. Jeff and or Jim may return by train.
2. Miss Ms. Jones is a special guest of the company.
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Do you think people look healthier and more attractive with a tan? If so, you're not alone, according to a survey released Monday by the American Academy of Dermatology.
However, you'd also be wrong.
sun exposure is good for one's health.
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Argument is something that is part of our everyday lives as citizens. The course requires students to learn about argumentation both conceptually and practically. Students study the components of arguments, including claims, evidence, reasoning, and fallacies and learn how to apply course concepts to critique others’ a... | <urn:uuid:a93492f6-f7cb-4b35-a9ba-e89918965839> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/speech/spee24.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923325 | 171 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Approximately 500 Seeds available as of March 26, 2013.
Seed Specifications: Purity - 100%; Projected Germination Rate - 91%; Where Harvested (location) - China
Lacebark Elm, also known as the Chinese Elm or Drake Elm, has the most beautiful bark - green, gray, orange and brown mottled and flaking in small thin plates.... | <urn:uuid:daf366be-def8-4b53-a269-f7351da4d832> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.datreestore.com/laelulpa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937961 | 457 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Shingles is also known as zoster or herpes zoster. It is caused by a virus called the Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) — the same virus that causes chicken pox. The name “herpes zoster” is sometimes confusing because people usually think of the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) which causes genital herpes, oral herpes, etc. when ... | <urn:uuid:dde0ae7f-f4d7-4a04-84e9-7580947372d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dermbytes.com/what-is-shingles-aka-zoster-or-herpes-zoster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931932 | 613 | 3.671875 | 4 |
A new kind of solar cell could give windows the ability to generate electricity. The polymer solar cells (PSCs), developed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) absorb mostly infrared, not visible, light, making them almost 70 percent transparent to the human eye.
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Also known as continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII)
Insulin pump therapy should be offered as a treatment to people with Type 1 diabetes as part of a cohesive and comprehensive diabetes service. Insulin pumps could also have a role to play in the treatment of some people with Type 2 diabetes, but further rese... | <urn:uuid:fa1174b0-2428-4f5b-9f38-aded35c456cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diabetes.org.uk/pumps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941241 | 1,754 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Definition of drill :
1. A large African baboon ( Cynocephalus leucophaeus).
2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing.
3. A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea.
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