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ELMO, KANSAS: THE ORIGINAL KANSAS/OKLAHOMA FOSSIL INSECT LAGERSTÄTTE
Unfortunately, because of the abuse of some visitors to the site, the landowners (the Piper family) no longer allow access to the locality.
Right: Click on this thumbnail for a map of the Permian Insect beds in Kansas and Oklahoma.
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How Green Is the Cloud?
- 5:52 PM
Moving to the cloud means green in more ways than one, with savings on the order of billions of dollars, as well as by significantly reducing carbon emissions, according to a new study.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) says in its Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Centu... | <urn:uuid:11f4fe54-8fbc-47b3-89be-c69037852aba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wired.com/insights/2012/03/cloud-carbon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955221 | 422 | 2.890625 | 3 |
While adults await the latest information on the tragedy of an elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, Dr. Michael Brown at East Carolina University said it is best for parents to be mindful of the media their children consume. He shared that and other pieces of advice on talking tragedy at home.
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2 entries found for quarantine.
To select an entry, click on it.
Main Entry: 1quar·an·tine
Pronunciation: kwr-n-tn, kwär-
Etymology: from Italian quaranténa "quarantine, period of forty days," probably from early French quarantaine "period of forty days," from earlier quarante "forty," from Latin quadraginta "forty," f... | <urn:uuid:2337216c-42f9-4bc9-9bc0-0158de7692ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?quarantine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987084 | 346 | 3.140625 | 3 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- In the New Testament, the mother of Jesus and the principal saint of many Christian churches.
- In the New Testament, a sister of Lazarus and Martha and a friend of Jesus.
- Mary 3 1867-1953. Queen of George V of Great Britain and the mother of Edw... | <urn:uuid:6b64515f-083a-4a72-9d0f-cdf93f7ac658> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wordnik.com/words/Mary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937726 | 778 | 3.109375 | 3 |
The solar power consumption in Germany has improved by 50% since last year, the country’s solar resources have pulled in a remarkable 14.7 terawatt-hours in the first six months of 2012 alone, which amounts to 4.5 % of Germany’s power needs. Germany has set another impressive record for solar power consumption. In only... | <urn:uuid:b7e51716-7539-4162-b1e8-7d06dfac1588> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldsmegastructures.com/?p=1989/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948732 | 187 | 3.03125 | 3 |
More than 100-Million Americans are walking for exercise, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2010, More than 60 percent of adults said they walked at least once for ten minutes or more in the previous week. That's up from 56 percent in 2005.
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Remember this name - "Georgia Ann Hill Robinson". You probably never heard it before, but this woman helped changed the face of law enforcement. She was the first black policewoman in America. It was the furthest thing from her mind too. She was already very active with many community organizations throughout Los Angel... | <urn:uuid:2a4cb428-852d-4e65-8e9c-e92d322984d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wtoc.com/story/21219743/women-of-influence-georgia-ann-hill-robinson-demetra-butler | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989383 | 556 | 2.625 | 3 |
One of the first professional historians of West Virginia, James Morton Callahan (November 4, 1864-March 16, 1956) was born at Bedford, Indiana. He was educated at Southern Indiana Normal School, Indiana University, and Johns Hopkins University. He was awarded a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins in 1897, where he studied under He... | <urn:uuid:fff15652-097c-42e4-8c29-650673891578> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/810 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977464 | 466 | 2.5625 | 3 |
New technology to detect counterfeit medicines
A new technology to detect counterfeit medicines, called PharmaCheck, was recently developed by researchers at Boston University in partnership with the Promoting the Quality of Medicines Program (supported by USAID and implemented by USP). This new system is a microfluidi... | <urn:uuid:0c511327-fab0-475c-b307-14af15092b70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.xavier.edu/health/news/9876/3145/no | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949663 | 208 | 2.9375 | 3 |
While some dictionaries define the word right as “a privilege,” when used in the context of “human rights,” we are talking about something more basic.*
Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of being human. These are called “human rights” rather than a privilege (which can be taken a... | <urn:uuid:669269b1-9215-4e52-bce9-32b9bf6c90d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976732 | 270 | 4.1875 | 4 |
The ASPCA recognizes that chewing is a natural behavior in canines. Virtually all puppies chew objects as they explore the world with their mouths and while they are teething, presumably to relieve discomfort in their gums. Adult dogs appear to find chewing a pleasurable way to pass the time when they are bored or rest... | <urn:uuid:cecc70b5-b63f-4964-bde4-702448ecf536> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.aspca.org/about-us/policy-positions/dog-chews-treats.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953432 | 704 | 3.0625 | 3 |
George Washington Personified Courage, Poise
George Washington's birthday deserves celebrating for a reason few
Americans appreciate: at the end of the Revolutionary War, the future
president prevented a military revolt that would have undermined the new
republic. By early 1783, the fighting had ended, and the victorio... | <urn:uuid:b1f3b54f-9a39-4acc-a91a-979629c1a676> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.furman.edu/About/About/PresidentEmeritus/Pages/GeorgeWashington.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967646 | 940 | 3.96875 | 4 |
3 December 2009 • In a bright, quiet, air-conditioned room in eastern Tennessee, a portrait of Earth's progression from ice age to present is taking shape in unprecedented detail. Each day, up to 100 years of climatic history unfolds. By early this year, the story will be complete, thanks to some five million processin... | <urn:uuid:7182b376-0bf0-4d3e-9b40-dafa890ada05> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/features/1298/through-past-meticulously | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950958 | 1,931 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Most drugs are chemical compounds which
are described as "organic
because they are comprised primarily of the elements carbon, hydrogen
oxygen. The present experiment will be the synthesis of a
organic compound called aspirin. The common chemical name is acetylsalicylic
Aspirin, the most widely used drug in the
world, ... | <urn:uuid:cf67f00d-6c05-475e-98cc-1aa9bbad2312> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.volstate.edu/CHEM/1110/Synthesis_of_Aspirin.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897355 | 2,327 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010
One Flu for One Health
To the Editor: The emergence and spread of influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus from the animal reservoir to humans raise questions about the future approach to influenza virus infections. The scientific community has evidence demonstrating that influenza virus ge... | <urn:uuid:1ec176a0-3a60-4a43-bf8a-e0910718a3a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/4/09-1593_article.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910113 | 704 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The eastern gorilla is one of two gorilla sub-groups found roaming in the jungles on the African continent (the other being the western gorilla). The eastern gorilla is less common than the western gorilla and is also the largest primate in the world.
The eastern gorilla is found inhabiting the tropical jungles and for... | <urn:uuid:b0e500db-30c3-4a67-92ff-a618e6c97e3d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://a-z-animals.com/animals/eastern-gorilla/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974781 | 534 | 3.640625 | 4 |
|Riverside Community College District|
The purpose of the Reading Lab is to enhance students' reading development, to support the classroom curriculum, and to practice being an independent and active learner.
Reading classes are scheduled into the Reading Lab on a regular basis. Teachers remain in the Reading Center wi... | <urn:uuid:3c785b93-2936-4c38-836e-07d01057c3e9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://academic.rcc.edu/wrc/reading.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936261 | 209 | 2.515625 | 3 |
- Detector Sensitivity: Alpha above 3 MeV Beta above 50 KeV; X-Rays above 50 KeV, Gamma above 7 KeV
- Resolution and Range: 1 Count Per Minute (CPM) – 3,500 Counts Per Second (CPS)
- Radiation Resolution and Range 1 uR/hr – 500 mR/hr; METRIC Scale .01 uSv/hr – 5.0 mSv/hr
- LCD 16 characters by 2 lines with backlight pr... | <urn:uuid:8465ae47-9c32-48e7-b2ca-94a7e23f5c13> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://airkee.com/wp/2011/10/12/digital-geiger-counter-with-wand-pc-output/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.784833 | 227 | 2.53125 | 3 |
I see ….
- nature: plants, birds, creatures
- shiny – tiles, plates, glass, metals, copper
I think ….
- stands out
- very different
I wonder ……
- how/where does Gaudi get his ideas?
- why did Gaudi become an architect?
- how difficult was it to build the buildings?
- how did he know his designs would work?
- why does G... | <urn:uuid:b90a1fc5-3162-4da8-90ea-175486bd1b66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allstars.edublogs.org/tag/visiblethinking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963428 | 307 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Galago moholi is found in southern Africa from Angola to Tanzania, including Zimbabwe, the Transvaal, and parts of Burundi and Rwanda. ("Southern lesser bush baby, South African galago Galago moholi", 2009)
South African galagos inhabit semi-arid woodlands, savanna woodlands, gallery forests, and the edges of wooded ar... | <urn:uuid:94724aa9-43ca-4e66-ad1f-b2e1f0183bea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Galago_moholi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91791 | 3,640 | 3.671875 | 4 |
The program was successful. Hundreds of thousands of students took advantage of the grants and enrolled in colleges. Meanwhile, as state legislatures reduced higher education appropriations, colleges found that students with Pell Grants helped them grow enrollment and offset at least some of the cuts that were coming d... | <urn:uuid:ebda4b48-d0a4-4469-a79a-7276233918e1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/21078342/article-College-students-take-another-hit?instance=home_opinion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98099 | 447 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The National Academy of Engineering just announced 14 grand engineering challenges of the 21st century, as selected by an international panel of scientists and engineers. The committee of 18 did not rank the challenges; they left that to us (see below). Here are the grand challenges:
¨ Make solar energy affordable
¨ Pr... | <urn:uuid:1ba74de9-3631-4c92-a2d7-b534f3afe8e4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aquadoc.typepad.com/aquablog/2008/02/grand-engineeri.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959391 | 907 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Item: The role of bacterial protein for snowmaking and as an antifreeze
Title: The role of bacterial protein for snowmaking and as an antifreeze
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 1994 International Snow Science Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, USA
Authors: David A. Lind, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, C... | <urn:uuid:3eba32a8-1604-4ed8-96bf-bbdce0f9a685> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://arc.lib.montana.edu/snow-science/item/1378 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907085 | 285 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Living far away from food may make you fatter.
That was the surprising finding of a group of University of Utah researchers, who looked at the body mass index of 500,000 Salt Lake County residents and compared those who live within a half-mile of retail food outlets to those who don't.
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English Literature 101
Two Elmhurst College English teachers weren`t at all surprised to see us manhandle Shakespeare in a recent Du Page Talk.
Our story reported the lack of buyers for a couple of pricey Valentine packages at two local hotels; we had borrowed a line that seemed tailormade:
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Mallee Ringneck Parrots / Barnard's Parakeets
The Mallee Ringnecks (Barnardius zonarius barnardi or Barnardius barnardi) - also known as the Mallee Parrots -- are native to south-eastern Australia (Queensland to South Australia). They are common in mallee scrub, open woodlands, where they blend extremely well with thei... | <urn:uuid:802dbaa0-a536-4024-8814-3b650cfdbac2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://avianweb.com/malleeringneckparrots.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926003 | 2,335 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Tonight, Jeremy asked,
“I know it might sound strange, but tonight when I was a couple of blocks away it looked like thousands of birds flying in them. Did they add sparkles or something like that?”
As much as we love them, as beautiful and revered as the Tribute in Light are as part of our nation’s 9/11 commemoration ... | <urn:uuid:d2464e65-2c08-46e7-ba73-313ec6b46de4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://batteryparkcity.com/news/tribute-in-light-fowls-bird-flight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963751 | 401 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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Oral History Association
The Oral History Association seeks to bring together all persons interested in oral history and provides ... | <urn:uuid:22403c66-a26c-4fe6-b10e-ebf07e7b9e7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://besthistorysites.net/index.php/oral-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916309 | 2,032 | 2.671875 | 3 |
In our tools for change section you can learn how to organize your community against pesticide use, discover concrete examples of local IPM strategies, review examples of pesticide free parks, understand legislation, and take note of personal testimonies.
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Published December 13, 2010
American Indian Studies , Hopi films , Hopi history , Hopi language , Hopi youth
Tags: American Indian films, Hopi, Hopi ancestors, Hopi culture, Hopi film, Hopi Footprints of the Ancestors, Hopi history, Hopi migrations, indigenous films, Museum of Northern Arizona. Hopi Youth Return to Mes... | <urn:uuid:ceee2675-2e08-4c46-9057-2a56d9663caf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://beyondthemesas.com/category/hopi-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963538 | 991 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Here is how the beef industry defines pink slime:
The lower-cost ingredient is made from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts. The bits are heated and spun to remove most of the fat. The lean mix then is compressed into blocks for use in ground meat. The product is exposed to ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bact... | <urn:uuid:32ab6eca-a8d5-4375-9fa9-25a01f723876> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.beliefnet.com/cityofbrass/2012/03/pink-slime-is-not-halal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965748 | 1,267 | 2.9375 | 3 |
USA Today did a report on how lead factories that have been gone for years have left a dangerous poison in cities nationwide.
In order to do the story, the reporter had to go into public records to determine when the EPA and government had tested the soil from the old factory and found out that it was contaminated. How... | <urn:uuid:13ea13bc-a136-4e2a-a380-3b06fa9d1cf7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shepa097/3101newsspring2012/2012/04/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974906 | 354 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Make-up for discussion on Oct. 27
The above article is about ants whose behaviors are changed by mushrooms.
These fungi will take over an ant's central nervous system, and control its behaviors to the mushroom's advantage. The fungus infects the ant's body, and forces it to travel to a suitable environment. Once it has... | <urn:uuid:8c75e8b5-8f87-4bd8-a477-95b92626affd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/wlas0006/1001a/2011/11/zombie-ants.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941466 | 197 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Antique Mechanical Computers – Part 1: Early Automata (Jul, 1978)
Antique Mechanical Computers – Part 1: Early Automata
Dr James M Williams
58 Trumbull St
New Haven CT 06510
My purpose in writing these articles is to remind computer enthusiasts that there is a high technology in every age, not just our own. Described h... | <urn:uuid:de7edb94-cc93-4873-a92b-ff611678d0fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/antique-mechanical-computers-part-1-early-automata/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974813 | 6,829 | 2.796875 | 3 |
By Sue Gleiter
Newhouse News Service
Equipment makes playing sports safer than ever, and injuries among high school athletes are at an all-time low.
So why does the high school baseball teams 16-year-old pitcher suffer from a shoulder injury, the track and field runner have a torn hamstring and the football player beco... | <urn:uuid:0f079c33-9eb4-4fb1-b139-1e6663a3643b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.syracuse.com/healthfitness/2008/11/student_athlete_injuries_are_f.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952945 | 775 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Babies are not born with caries-forming bacteria. They only get it directly if someone blows on food before feeding it to the baby, or if someone kisses the baby and germs get in the mouth.
One of the main sweetening agents in toothpaste, Saccharine Sodium, is actually 500 times sweeter than sugar! This is not in Thera... | <urn:uuid:59e6126d-8fe8-49b5-8237-40e2d184629c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.therabreath.com/tag/babies-caries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927738 | 260 | 3.3125 | 3 |
A look at some clever things being done by smart people in the world of green technologies:
Solar power. Scientists in China and Japan are using the scales on butterflies wings as a template for improved light harvesting on Gratzel solar cells. Tests have shown they absorbs more light than conventional dye-sensitized c... | <urn:uuid:bf0ef293-e715-45f5-abf8-83b3eae9ff48> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/03/23/clever-things-being-done-in-green-tech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944482 | 468 | 3.46875 | 3 |
What’s the News: Please back away from the armadillo, ma’am. You can watch them from a distance, even take pictures, but don’t play with or eat Texas’s state mammal: scientists have just confirmed that it is a source of leprosy infections in humans.
How the Heck:
- About 150–250 cases of leprosy, which is caused by the... | <urn:uuid:d190d558-3028-43e0-9cd2-365b9caea745> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/28/leave-the-armadillos-alone-theyre-the-only-animal-that-can-give-you-leprosy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922211 | 781 | 3.359375 | 3 |
What’s the News: Scientists have discovered a new technique for linking semiconducting tubes with mouse nerve cell tendrils: They let the cells do the work for them. After creating biologically friendly semiconductor tubes, they found that nerve cells’ tendril-like axons didn’t shy away. “They seem to like the tubes,” ... | <urn:uuid:6b6e15df-7ca3-4072-a10b-d007a7a10955> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27463 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924376 | 426 | 3.359375 | 3 |
In class we were suposed to create a poster about an element that we chose. In this project I chose the element Rhenium because the name of the element inspired me and I thought it was going to be a good choice.
The most challenging thing about this project was to finish it in such a short amount of time and write inte... | <urn:uuid:7c785855-ebac-4e49-8362-3086aa5ab19c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/17manzonc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937998 | 535 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Statistics and Web Resources
- More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese.
- Approximately 17% of children and adolescents age 2 to 19 are obese.
- Obesity is the #2 cause of preventable death in the United States.
- Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types o... | <urn:uuid:82a171e7-0873-4a9f-b5ea-b5c68ef68899> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cabellhuntington.org/services/surgical-weight-control/statistics-and-web-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901211 | 177 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Just a few words of introduction to this most devastating news for the icons of modern science. Marilyn vos Savant holds the Guinness world record for the highest IQ, presently at 228. Working for Parade magazine, she was once posed with this question:
“What one discovery or event would prove all or most of modern scie... | <urn:uuid:7865819c-fcbd-43a4-be03-b83299aeef94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catholicintl.com/index.php/protestant/priesthood/580-e-mc2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962712 | 2,663 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Shocking isn't it how time can fly when you are not paying attention. That said though this weekend has actually felt like two days. Normally it feels like an afternoon!
Trawling through some old photo's on my phone I found some old experimental set ups from my previous science club, as well as some photos and developm... | <urn:uuid:ba2388ea-2291-4b7e-8239-b2da835c9a08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cgibson85.blogspot.com/2012/10/some-old-experiments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958384 | 690 | 2.640625 | 3 |
[This article also ran in Checkerboard City, John Greenfield's weekly column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.]
“The built environment plays a huge role when it comes to people being able to be physically active,” says Grant Vitale, community programs manager for the Consortium to Lower... | <urn:uuid:421235a4-4e54-4418-8117-1704c44c3b2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://chi.streetsblog.org/category/policy-planning/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966291 | 510 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Time: (10 minutes)
Children will pass a banana along a line to learn about
Have kids stand in a straight line. Say: Let's see how fast we can
pass a banana up and back down the line. Here is the catch: You
can't use your hands. You must hold the banana with your chin. Pass
the banana, chin to chin, up and down the line... | <urn:uuid:4e58a630-672b-48c5-ac9b-e42573f2667a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://childrensministry.com/articles/going-bananas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935011 | 350 | 3.265625 | 3 |
What happens when you don't brush your teeth? Well the sugar that is left on your teeth breaks down enamel (the first layer of coating on your teeth) and will cause little holes in your teeth called cavities.If you don't brush your teeth regularly plaque will build up. To remove plaque you have to brush your teeth. Pla... | <urn:uuid:a1a1b872-8285-49e3-9d28-b90ec667f41f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blog_id=1429116&mode=comment&blogger_id=350052 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959891 | 330 | 2.5625 | 3 |
This week marked the first of three lectures on counting. While this may seem like a lot of time to devote to a very simple concept, we’ll see that counting at scale is surprisingly more powerful—and unfortunately somewhat more difficult—than one might think.
Take, for instance, the questions we discussed around the lo... | <urn:uuid:86b32de5-6346-44bd-919b-3a4b067f0c0f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://compsocialscience.org/2013/02/lecture-2-an-introduction-to-counting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90656 | 1,010 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Animals don't like the taste of raw, whole soybeans, right? Don't tell that to the steers in Monty Kerley's feeding trials.
Kerley is a University of Missouri animal science researcher. He found that steers not only eat whole beans as part of the finishing ration, they also produce higher-grading carcasses than animals... | <urn:uuid:5256d45d-caca-4918-9629-71bcbff2507f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/raw-soybeans-make-better-beef | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954664 | 816 | 2.625 | 3 |
But that's not the point of the post. It's the text accompanying the image. And specifically the phrase "a million volts of fiery electric current"! ARGH!!!
I know Joe Public does not care, but such a sentence causes the inner guts of those with a passing knowledge of physics to twist in an awful pain. Put simply, volt... | <urn:uuid:896ff3ba-62c8-4df4-8f93-999f2419fee6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cosmic-horizons.blogspot.com/2012/10/flipping-bad-physics-david-baline.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954479 | 391 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Surnames were in fact in use in Ireland before they were introduced in England following the Norman Conquest. In Scotland the situation is more complicated but, as a result of English influence, some surnames were in use in Scotland after the Conquest, but surnames developed much later in the Gaelic-speaking areas in t... | <urn:uuid:042e4a3d-38c4-48d5-8d07-6bd3da105868> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cruwys.blogspot.com/2012/11/extinct-and-endangered-surnames.html?showComment=1353586295628 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968933 | 2,709 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace which means “seize the day”. Carpe is literally translated as “to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather”. Diem on the other hand simply connotes “day”. Roman poet Ovid used this phrase to mean “to enjoy, seize, use, and live”. For the author, this is about changin... | <urn:uuid:741728bd-ecf5-4bb0-945f-81c3fd983d1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dars0357.wordpress.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961749 | 158 | 3.078125 | 3 |
This is a rather intense infographic, but it would be a good way to start a discussion on the topic of life on other planets. With the landing of Curiosity on Mars and it’s success thus far, I think it’s an interesting topic to discuss.
This infographic uses an advanced math problem to decide the chances of, and how ma... | <urn:uuid:6109ec88-b6f7-4388-ad48-ebf27b5f7746> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://davidwarlick.com/graphicaday/?p=1222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921784 | 155 | 3.265625 | 3 |
226 THE A. M. E. REVIEW
the last fifty years. This must be the object not only of the colored
people themselves, but of all their white friends, and in no better
way could the race testify to its reverence for and gratitude to the
men who made the Emancipation Proclamation possible, and to him
who wrote it, than by joi... | <urn:uuid:458d2849-0243-44fe-b15e-4f82e875ac30> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page.cfm?ID=2359&Current=P226&View=Text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965391 | 505 | 2.546875 | 3 |
25. April 2013 1 Kommentar
Seventhly, language is often abused by figurative speech. Since wit and fancy find easier entertainment in the world than dry truth and real knowledge, figurative speeches and allusion in language will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it. I confess, in discourses where we see... | <urn:uuid:0891af82-4af4-4afc-b0bf-e4da63cce3a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://derblindehund.wordpress.com/category/philosophus-dixit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94003 | 254 | 2.59375 | 3 |
|a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.|
|an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.|
|—vb , burns, burning, burnt, burned|
|1.||to undergo or cause to undergo combustion|
|2.||to destroy or be destroyed by fire|
|3.||(tr) to damage, injure, or mark ... | <urn:uuid:f8603d56-1a14-4ce8-bfab-6942b17c909c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/burns | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900626 | 1,233 | 2.625 | 3 |
|a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.|
|a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.|
any plant of the genus Veronica (order Lamiales), especially the small, so... | <urn:uuid:bd6f9d5f-507d-4c34-a279-693f583f7d6a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/speedwell?qsrc=2446 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925226 | 140 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Date: August 2010
Creator: Ball, Gregory W.
Description: This study first offers a political, social, and economic overview of Texas during the first two decades of the twentieth century, including reaction in the Lone Star state to the declaration of war against Germany in April, 1917; the fear of saboteurs and foreig... | <urn:uuid:771cf435-9c8e-4ada-a606-110fe94d6bfa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNT/browse/?sort=creator&fq=untl_collection%3AUNTETD&fq=str_degree_department%3ADepartment+of+History&fq=str_degree_discipline%3AHistory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942953 | 266 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Date of this Version
I investigated aspects of mallard (Anas platyrhnchos) breeding ecology in the Nebraska Sandhills during 2007-2008. Previous work in this region suggests that nest success is low for a large area of intact grassland such as the Sandhills. My goal was to conduct a local-scale examination of age distr... | <urn:uuid:ea69b5fc-1189-4e9a-a8b9-8af211071809> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natresdiss/28/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934457 | 460 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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Far-ultraviolet photometry for 625 objects in Orion is presented. These data were extracted from electrographic camera images obtained during sounding rocket flights in 1975 and 1982. The 1975 images were centered close to the belt of Orion while the 1982 images were centered ~9° further north. One... | <urn:uuid:236db39f-5d39-4804-a4e2-aac66857b8fb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/physicsschmidt/18/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983781 | 191 | 2.59375 | 3 |
|Allergy|| Allergic Tension Fatigue Syndrome
Environmental Illness / MCS
| ||People with multiple chemical sensitivities often have multiple food allergies as well. While reactions to chemicals in the environment are generally quicker and more easily identified, food allergies are usually delayed, making it harder to p... | <urn:uuid:3e7fb15e-8f8e-4789-80f9-c98a019d7a1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://digitalnaturopath.com/cond/C38961.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939774 | 3,411 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Human genes for pulmonary emphysema
Pulmonary emphysema [DOID:9675]
Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lungs are destroyed. It is included in a group of di... | <urn:uuid:a0ed594a-1874-416b-8e07-89ab90c2569d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://diseases.jensenlab.org/Entity?network=10&textmining=10&type1=-26&type2=9606&id1=DOID:9675 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942547 | 170 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Labeling standards based on arc flash risk
A maintenance worker is about to open a non-fusible safety switch, which serves as a local motor disconnect, when he’s confronted by a co-worker. “Hey, what’s up?” inquires the co-worker. “I need to check voltages, because the motor is running hot,” answers the maintenance wor... | <urn:uuid:292d56c6-abe9-4df2-ad72-a16b9549e2c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ecmweb.com/print/design/don-t-leave-arc-flash-protection-chance-part-1?page=13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93495 | 983 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Reason To Write High Beginner Student Book
Guidelines, strategies, and practice in writing for academic success.
- Part of: Reason To Write
- ISBN: 978-0-19-431120-5
- Pages: 112
- Binding: Paperback
- Dimensions: 254x202 mm
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Tigernán Ua Ruairc
Tighearnán Mór Ua Ruairc (older spelling: Tigernán Mór Ua Ruairc), anglicized as Tiernán O'Rourke (fl. 1124-d.1172) ruled the Kingdom of Bréifne as the 19th king in its Ua Ruairc (later O'Rourke) dynasty (964-1605 CE). He was a descendant of Ui Riagain, and one of the provincial kings in Ireland in t... | <urn:uuid:43bf38f8-8998-44e8-8806-7160d5687631> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigern%C3%A1n_Ua_Ruairc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933242 | 2,042 | 2.65625 | 3 |
|Systematic (IUPAC) name|
|Pregnancy cat.||C (AU) D (US)|
|Legal status||Unscheduled (AU) GSL (UK) OTC (US)|
|Routes||Most commonly oral, also rectal, lysine acetylsalicylate may be given IV or IM|
|Bioavailability||Rapidly and completely absorbed|
|Half-life||300–650 mg dose: 3.1–3.2 h
1 g dose: 5 h
2 g dose: 9 h
|ATC... | <urn:uuid:b33b6be1-087c-4b8c-8d44-ce690e62f951> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.79371 | 18,229 | 2.6875 | 3 |
|New Netherland series|
|The Patroon System|
|Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions|
|Directors of New Netherland:|
|People of New Netherland|
The Flushing Remonstrance was a 1657 petition to Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant, in which several citizens requested an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.... | <urn:uuid:ac3c630b-15c6-45f4-9992-353df61e519b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Remonstrance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948418 | 1,277 | 2.734375 | 3 |
New Labour refers to a period in the history of the British Labour Party from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the Labour Party in 1994 which was later seen in a draft manifesto published by the party in 1996, called New Labour, ... | <urn:uuid:416f5fbc-fe03-4105-963b-f4c8bea91f31> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Labour | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930349 | 6,206 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn; Wade–Giles: Wu Ch'êng-ên, ca. 1500–1582 or 1505–1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, and is considered to be the author of one of the Four Great Classical No... | <urn:uuid:6266a535-fd64-428e-ae27-24c8a01685e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Cheng'en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983364 | 1,369 | 2.75 | 3 |
Rail gauge is the distance between two rails of a railroad. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a 4 feet 8½ inch (1435 mm) gauge, which is known as standard gauge or international gauge. Rail gauges larger than standard gauge are called broad gauge, and rail gauges smaller than standard are called narrow gauge. A... | <urn:uuid:e0b017c0-b7c6-4a16-b14e-d10f328a4913> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://enc.slider.com/Enc/Rail_gauge | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958527 | 2,684 | 4.125 | 4 |
The way in which a Commonwealth heritage place is managed can have an impact on the heritage values of that place. It is important, therefore, to understand your responsibilities as a manager and the professional expertise and tools available to ensure that those values are protected and conserved for future generation... | <urn:uuid:73e68200-32e3-4b31-bafb-38fb956aaaeb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://environment.gov.au/heritage/management/commonwealth/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878887 | 651 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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BiologyA resident intertidal species with homing behavior (Ref. 32612) found in shallow waters of rocky coasts. May remain out of water under rocks or seaweeds (Ref. 31184). Mostly active at daytime during high tide. Feeds on small benthic invertebrates, especially gastropods, b... | <urn:uuid:7162eb94-e468-4422-9075-e9ea82089e39> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eol.org/pages/222239/overview | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896588 | 143 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Photographer Kate Milford
Since ancient times, tea has been one of China's most important exports to the world, along with silk and porcelain. All tea plants originate from China even though tea is grown in countries throughout the world today.
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IPM TECHNICAL RESOURCE CENTER
Integrated Pest Management for Schools and Childcare Facilities
Pest Management Practices - Text Only Version
Writing an Integrated Pest Management Policy
Why Write an IPM Policy? IPM Policy: Factors to Consider Example Pest Management Policy from Indiana Notification
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November 08th, 2012
Field Museum scientists and an international team of collaborators conducted fieldwork in New Caledonia - where they collected a group of plants commonly called bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), ferns, as well as a group of organisms called lichens. New Caledonia is one of the world’s ... | <urn:uuid:96f1c6f4-d8f5-4f31-a191-92b550395be6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fieldmuseum.org/about/news/5+20/1371 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905647 | 553 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Here is some innovative research being done with 3D printing technology at U. Cal Berkeley. Prof. Ronald Rael has developed a new process that enables the printing of production-ready building components. Following is his guest blog.
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There is something about the winter months and curling up with a good book by the
fireplace. But did you know that heating appliances are a leading cause of home
fire deaths? With a few simple safety tips and precautions you can prevent most
heating fires from happening.
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The redistribution of wealth may be described as simply taking from one individual and giving to another. Usually it’s the Government doing the taking – income, savings and/or property – most often through progressive taxation. The objective of the redistribution is social justice – taking from the rich an... | <urn:uuid:ef3c3911-7564-45c0-9b25-ea4481bbf9de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://foundingfathersknowbest.com/on-redistribution-of-wealth-what-do-obama-and-romney-believe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96168 | 675 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Parable of the Bridge
Once upon a time there was a tiny hamlet in the Swiss Alps. This hamlet was in serious trouble. The well that supplied water to the village had run dry. The people began to panic. A river was near the community but located at the bottom of a deep, deep gorge, hence, no one could reach the water. A... | <urn:uuid:4d60fb64-802c-43d7-8ab7-3c6fd50e2304> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://fredpeatross.blogspot.com/2005/01/parable-of-bridge_110662124003134322.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991429 | 357 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Federal Agencies Are Engaged in Various Efforts to Promote the Utilization of Woody Biomass, but Significant Obstacles to Its Use Remain
GAO-05-373, May 13, 2005
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New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction.
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This blog was originally published on Huffington Post.
Fordham released two important papers today as part of the Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series. The first, Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction, is by the co-directors of Public Impact. Bryan and Emily Hassel are the Gladwells of education—they ... | <urn:uuid:c79880ed-9d71-4c70-8c30-148cc6d862d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://gettingsmart.com/2011/11/creating-sound-policy-for-digital-learning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942998 | 1,396 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Biology, Eighth Edition (Raven)
Learning OutcomesChapter 45
- Describe how stimulation, transduction, transmission, and interpretation are necessary for neurosensory communication in the central nervous system.
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You'll lose an extra hour of light but gain an hour back this weekend as daylight saving time officially ends.
As standard time resumes at 2 a.m. Sunday, it's time to "fall back," so set your clocks back one hour when you go to bed tonight.
Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.
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The major problem with wind as a power source is that it doesn’t blow all the time. To remedy that, Texas is spending $30 million a year to bolster its back-up power, in a change to the electricity grid that began on Nov. 1.
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People from all walks of life are drawn to gorgeous Hawaii. But human outsiders are not the only transplants eager to settle down there. The mongoose is one of the most detested of these invaders. It has wreaked havoc on native birds on Maui, Oahu and Molokai for more than a century, and now, it seems, it is spreading.... | <urn:uuid:2a9bb0ec-5ed2-4934-9ec6-c90c04dc944a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/mongoose/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957514 | 251 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The opening pages of Rebecca Stott’s engaging “Darwin’s Ghosts” find Charles Darwin in his study at Down House. It’s December 1859 and “On the Origin of Species” has been on sale in Britain for a month. Darwin holds a letter from the physicist and theologian Baden Powell accusing him of taking credit for a theory devel... | <urn:uuid:db147a38-2f26-4bf9-906a-0161ac8ee624> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/15/12754381-revolutionary-theory-darwins-ghosts-the-secret-history-of-evolution | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976237 | 881 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Since the first paleontological expedition to Mongolia by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History in the 1920s, the allure of discovering exotic Asian dinosaurs has been the dream of every paleontologist. Since then, dinosaurs from China have been unearthed, revealing their relationships to birds ... | <urn:uuid:6f45415b-fefd-4f88-86cd-1d33aaad8bf6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://greenwich.patch.com/groups/events/p/ev--chinasaurs-dinosaur-discoveries-from-china | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924808 | 199 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Growing Grapes in South Carolina
South Carolina’s varying climatic conditions are the biggest difficulties that the region’s grape growing industry has to overcome. This part of America has a hot and sub-tropical climate and hurricanes often occur during growing season. Snow and sleet also occur as often as three times... | <urn:uuid:f54b87a5-9de8-442e-9d95-cf0f0d2b5604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://growinggrapesguide.com/growing-grapes-in-south-carolina.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967578 | 222 | 2.828125 | 3 |
We pause in our celebration to remember the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Holocaust, and the ways that those in the present who choose to testify to the possibility of transformation become the focus of everyone’s anger and displaced frustrations, and eventually their murderous rage. Being a spiritual or moral vanguard i... | <urn:uuid:7c2db253-712e-4b54-a4fb-9fc96b305e65> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://haggadot.com/clip/shefoch-hamotcha | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928491 | 1,383 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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FRIDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Genetics seem to play an important role in whether people respond to anti-smoking policies and may help explain why the number of smokers in the United States has remained stable in recent years instead of declining.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
3 volumes, List of Maps (vol. 1), List of Genealogical Tables (vol. 1), Abbreviations(all volumes), Illustrations, charts
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The Vijayanagar Empire with its capital at Hampi in the southern Indian state of Karnataka is one such example. The genesis of this place (343 km from Bangalore) dates back to the age of the epic "Ramayana", when it was the site of Kishkinda, the mythical monkey kingdom. Hampi flourished between the 14th to 16th centur... | <urn:uuid:e351bde2-3888-457f-87aa-d3a38445bf37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hinduism.about.com/cs/history/a/aa112303a.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963146 | 1,050 | 3.1875 | 3 |
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Future military tech: Soldiers talking through their shirts
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AP and Green Light Learning Tools publish iBook on US presidencyJan. 10, 2013
Starting today, “The Presidency,” a new educational e-book geared toward students in fourth through eighth grade and educators, is available for download at the Apple iBookstore.
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|Recommended Name:||Bavarian Soldiers pattern (Bayerisches Soldatenbild).|
In previous publications called "Bavarian pattern with historical scenes on the pip cards" (Hoffmann/Dietrich 1987) or "Bavarian pattern with soldiers’ scenes" (Hoffmann/Dietrich 1995).
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