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If you’re running a young health tech business, here’s a resource you’ll want to know about. The healthcare industry giant athenahealth—a provider of cloud-based electronic health record, billing, patient engagement, and care coordination services with a market cap of $4.4 billion—wants to help entrepreneurs with innov... | 1.544942 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
When is it 'Too Late' for my Child to Start Montessori Schooling?
As a Montessori practitioner and teacher-educator, I can now see the reasoning behind this argument. The Montessori 3–6 classroom sets the foundation for the rest of the Montessori experience. The introductory lessons in Practical Life and Sensorial form... | 1.451463 | 969 | 967 |
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United Nations organizations are increasingly employing satellites and high-resolution imaging to combat desertification, pests and pollution. In one striking example, modern remote-sensing technology has come to the aid of Saudi Arabia's desert nomads, enabling them to locate fertile grazing ... | 1.658574 | 950 | 948 |
Women And Winstrol
Winstrol is a popular type of anabolic steroid. Known chemically as Stanozolol, it is believed by many people to be one of the few steroids women can safely take. Women may choose to take Winstrol in order to complement their strength training or bodybuilding regimen. It is important to note, however... | 1.422247 | 971 | 969 |
Topic of the day: Junk mail. I know, exciting, right?
Junk mail, which includes retail catalogs, soliciting brochures, and those pesky pre-approved credit card offers, is a huge source of trash and waste. Consider this pile of mail below…
Out of the 3 inch high stack of mail, 90% of it (or all 3.75 inches of it) is goi... | 1.714251 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Commentary by Jack Kelley
Whether you’re following commentaries by prophecy scholars on the nearness of the rapture or predictions by financial experts on the nearness of the world’s economic downfall, the message is the same. This could very well be the last time we celebrate Christmas as we’ve come to know it.
And th... | 1.364968 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
only temporary. It’s the next life that’s permanent and that’s the one we should always be thinking about ( 2 Cor. 4:17-18).
He promised to answer our prayers (
John 14:13-14) forgive our sins ( 1 John 1:9) and heal our diseases ( James 5:14-15).
He promised that if we stay connected to Him we’ll bear much fruit (
Joh... | 1.636186 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Why does BLS provide both the CPI-W and CPI-U?
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. The CPI currently tracks the spending patterns of two population groups:
all urban consumers and urban wage... | 1.130582 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. all-items index rose 1.5 percent in 2013, following an increase of 1.7 percent in 2012.
5 Aside from a 0.1-percent increase in 2008 and another 1.5-percent rise in 2010, the 2013 increase was the smallest increase in consumer inflation since 1986. Lower inflation for food, medical care, and tuition contributed to the... | 0.919774 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Poinar G Jr, Poinar R: What bugged the dinosaurs? In Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous 1:6 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-1-6
© Jacobson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
Received: 13 March 2008 Accepted: 16 March 2008 Published: 16 March 2008 Review
Have you ever wondered whatever happened to the dinosaurs? George... | 1.505929 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
But the world has changed. To achieve its mission in the twenty-first century, the United Nations must reflect those changes. It must adapt to new realities, and be equipped to deal with new challenges.
This is so, whether we are fighting disease and hunger, or working to strengthen democracy; whether we are advancing ... | 1.545016 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Transitional Reinsurance Fee — HHS Issues Final Regulation
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published final regulations that will enable plan sponsors and insurers to calculate their liability under the transitional reinsurance fee (TRF) provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. ... | 1.330694 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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Priority Access to Student Supports (PASS) is an online service that enables instructors to identify and assist those students who are at risk of falling behind. Rather than simply "hoping" that students in difficulty will seek help, instructors are able to refer students for timely and targeted support from Studen... | 1.497518 | 990 | 988 |
Record-breaking attendance numbers were seen at the PCMA 2014 Convening Leaders Event for both in-person and virtual attendees. The event held this past January in Boston had almost 5,000 attendees. 877 people attended via hybrid and 4,072 attendees participated face-to-face. Additionally, 76 of those face-to-face atte... | 1.784707 | 932 | 930 |
The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class (Nation Books) US: Mar 2011
The war on the American middle class has had its chroniclers in recent years, almost always after some new economic insult was already a fact of life. The crisis of the economy has usually been explored ... | 1.84451 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ots back to an argument against the Bush-era tax cuts, one that it’s easy to get your head around:
Do you know what Warren Buffett is saying? Do you know what Bill Gates is saying? Do you know what Ben Cohen from Ben & Jerry’s is saying? Hey, thanks very much; I don’t need it. It is more important that you invest in ou... | 2.069463 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
LETTERS Patient vs. “customer-owner” Fam Pract Manag. 2008 Apr;15(4):11.
The article “Transforming Your Practice: What Matters Most” [January 2008] was well done, but I take issue with one point. The authors, in discussing what the business is about, say: “It is about human beings. Alaska Native people are not just pat... | 1.598096 | 1,020 | 1,017 |
The performance of English -speaking Caribbean-American students in the psychoeducational assessment process Abstract
This study examined the important aspects of three distinct phases of the assessment process, from referral to placement, for the English-speaking Caribbean-American child. Specifically, the study (a) i... | 1.452062 | 979 | 977 |
Objectives-To assess the relation between measured levels of exposure to soluble oil mists in a plant manufacturing ball bearings, and both respiratory symptoms and airway responsiveness in the workforce.
Methods-114 male workers exposed to oil mist and 55 unexposed male controls from nearby factories were studied.
Sol... | 1.380747 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Aging & Health A to Z Fecal Incontinence Care & Treatment
Depending on what is causing or contributing to fecal incontinence, your healthcare provider may recommend one or more of the following:
changes in diet medications pelvic floor muscle exercises “bowel training” surgery other therapies a combination of the above... | 1.420566 | 1,000 | 998 |
This post is originally written Daniel Rhodes-Mumby at his blog, “This, Our Earth“. I was very impressed with Daniel’s understanding of this subject, and his ability to communicate that understanding, especially considering that he is only 15 years old. So, I figured I’d share this post on the subject of feedbacks.
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the sources. However, the ground doesn’t; it tends to absorb more heat than it reflects. Therefore, once a bit of ice melts, the ground beneath it warms more. This will warm any nearby ice as well and thus eventually reveal some more ground to warm, which will help melt more ice, which will warm more ground, and so on... | 1.617968 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
�s and 50�s, caused by an increase in aerosols, superimposed on a graph of CO2 concentrations, which have increased steadily over that time. What thie argument ignores is the complexity of our climate. It is understood that there are many other factors that influence our climate. CO2 is only one of these, but it makes ... | 1.855332 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
weather station. The screen creates, as near possible, a uniform environment in relation to the air outside. - Wikipedia
Second, NASA’s GISTEMP compares urban stations to rural stations, in an attempt to further remove any potential biases:
We modify the GHCN/USHCN/SCAR data in two stages to get to the station data on... | 1.401976 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, if not solely, by natural factors is much simpler than the idea that human activity has caused such changes. Therefore, according to Occam’s Razor, the natural variations idea is the correct theory. As I stated above, this is an incorrect use of the maxim.
First, the natural variation theory is actually no simpler th... | 1.66234 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
much lower energy than cosmic rays. When there is an increase in solar activity, the increased solar cosmic ray intensity causes a decrease in the other cosmic rays, called the Forbush decrease.
According to the cosmic ray flux theory, cosmic rays, upon entering our atmosphere, produce small particles called aerosols,... | 1.559256 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Although not everyone will be able to entirely avoid bankruptcy, most people asking the question will. That is, if they follow the right steps to realizing debt relief. That being said, here are 3 great ways to get your debts paid off, and hopefully avoid bankruptcy.
Option #1 - Debt Consolidation
Debt consolidation is... | 1.865992 | 1,009 | 1,007 |
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Papacosta Elena - - 2011
Objectives: This paper discusses the use of saliva analysis as a tool for monitoring steroid, peptide, and immune markers of sports training. Design: Salivary gland physiology, regarding the regulation and stimulation of saliva secretion, as well ... | 1.448096 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
neurochemical alterations in the hippocampus ...
Rodrigues Letícia - - 2010
The intracerebroventricular infusion of streptozotocin (icv-STZ) has been largely used in research to mimic the main characteristics of Alzheimer's disease (AD), including cognitive decline, impairment of cholinergic transmission, oxidative st... | 1.27861 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
stress. However, most previous studies have suggested that prior exercise does not alter the ...
Liu Xin - - 2010
Exercise could play a beneficial role in stress, but its underlying mechanism especially about heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in brain has not been fully clarified... | 1.365479 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Two major issues are presented. First, a challenge is made by us that a misunderstanding of physiology has led to incomplete or wrong functional designations of genes in some cases. Normal physiological processes are dynamic, integrated and periodic, and, therefore, it is difficult to define normal physiologica... | 1.396165 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Neck and shoulder pain and injury are common ailments these days because most of us sit at a desk hunched over a computer screen for like 9 hours a day.
And while rolling out and stretching are essential to getting rid of our knots and tight spots to lessen the pain, there is one essential exercise we all need to be in... | 1.284635 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Profound Leadership Thoughts – The meaning of “Meaning” Meaning: Your Responsibility!
During a recent conversation with my colleague, Dean, a conversation had whilst driving through the beautiful Ascot in England, a thought was expressed to which Dean responded, “Keith, you really need to blog that thought”.
This then ... | 1.896725 | 990 | 987 |
Fgm: Ritual Abuse Essay, Research Paper
Female circumcision, also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), is a very
dangerous surgery. It is done to girls of any age, from a few days old to right
before their wedding. The most common age is three. In most countries where
FGM is practiced the clitoris is considered da... | 1.532105 | 968 | 966 |
Most people fear and hate reptiles and insects, but love birds and furry animals and birds. Snakes are arguably the most feared and hated creatures of the world, sentiments that are inherent even from religion. Human beings are more susceptible to snake attacks, mainly because snakes have the ability to camouflage and ... | 1.82851 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
You are strongly advised against travelling to India without a life insurance policy, seeing as India is one of the world’s most snake-infested countries, a place where the use of advanced medical transport systems such as an air ambulance, might significant improve life expectancy. The Indian Cobra, one of India’s ‘Bi... | 1.633612 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
Essential oils from plants have been found to provide relief and healing for a wide variety of human conditions.
What is essential oil?
“The term ‘essential oil’ is a contraction of the original ‘quintessential oil.’ This stems from the Aristotelian idea that matter is composed of four elements, namely, fire, air, eart... | 1.628263 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
On the basis of a supposed "leak" from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to the
Sunday Times, most newspapers today are hyperventilating about the Convention of Human Rights and the behaviour of the court in Strasbourg, announcing that the UK is variously "pushing for" or "demanding" reforms.
Buying almost comp... | 1.87796 | 920 | 919 |
SHRM Survey
According to a survey from the Society for Human Resource Management, employers are very concerned about healthcare costs and plan to curb them by continuing to shift more of the expense to employees.
The survey found 79% of organizations that provide healthcare coverage to their employees indicate they are... | 1.746207 | 912 | 910 |
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Understanding Vocational Education and Training, Productivity and Workforce Participation: An Issues Paper
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I read about a proposal (by physician groups) to add a 40% increase for all salty foods to reduce hypertension world wide.Seriously? I eat super healthy 90% of the time and exercise over 5 hours a week and now the 2 times A year I buy chips I am goi... | 2.011183 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the irritability that caffeine withdrawal causes. We'd probably cure all the lateral violence and customer service problems if we just stopped allowing nurses to have caffeine.
I am empathetic to everyone who struggles with weight. I do support the right of employers to make prudent decisions about whom they hire, and... | 1.918676 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Rs 15,000 crore organised retail business is having a cracking Diwali this year. Consumer spending at retail outlets in urban India is estimated to have grown by more than 50 per cent this festive season compared with last year’s season.
"With the economy doing well and gold prices shooting up, the middle-class is ... | 1.69601 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Dance Your Way to a Healthier You!
Some people can't help but start tapping their feet, when music is playing. Others notice their body swaying in time to elevator music. Are you one of those people? I happen to recall being in elementary school and seeing a long, grocery aisle as an opportunity to perfect my leaps! Mu... | 1.811998 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The 10 PLANKS stated in the Communist Manifesto and some of their American counterparts are...
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Americans do these with actions such as the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property t... | 1.643188 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio’s latest report on the
global high-performance alloys market provides an analysis of the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2016-2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute... | 1.383729 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Human Auditory Development Lab (HADL) is located on the 3rd floor of the Boys Town National Research Hospital – East Campus. We study auditory development, and are particularly interested in understanding how infants and children hear and process target sounds in the presence of competing background sounds.
Infants... | 1.144713 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
With next year’s election looming over Washington, housing may become a more critical political issue than ever as it becomes increasingly clear that the economy’s anemic recovery is unlikely to improve without a boost from the housing sector. What’s more, a recent poll of 2,000 likely voters found that Americans have ... | 1.309089 | 921 | 919 |
Since Lesman started focusing on level instrumentation 15 years ago, we’ve seen a lot of change. High-tech solutions bring higher accuracy, the ability to automatically eliminate tank obstructions for fewer false readings, the ability to measure level in almost any medium, and even send data from remote tank level syst... | 1.748751 | 952 | 950 |
The goal of this research is to create a collection of iPSCs reprogrammed from a unique source - the adult human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) - and use this to create a model of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases of aging. AMD is the leading cause of bli... | 1.397418 | 994 | 992 |
I'm here because I love genetics and football, but why have our other participants turned out? Matt Mealiffe MD is here because there's nothing worth watching on TV. Live results of genetic tests for breast cancer susceptibility really are a new low in televised entertainment, and going outside to play is a much more s... | 2.147992 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
HBW 10 - Family text: Troglodytidae (Wrens) Class AVESOrder PASSERIFORMESSuborder OSCINESFamily TROGLODYTIDAE (WRENS) Very small to medium-sized, mostly insectivorous birds with finely pointed and often decurved bill, tail variously long and graduated to extremely short, one species with sturdy legs and bill; plumage c... | 1.186127 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria). In addition, these genetic data emphasized the groups to which the wrens appeared not to be closely related: the babblers, which were moved to the family Sylviidae, the mimic-thrushes, which were found to be a sister-group to the traditional starling family Sturnidae, placed in an... | 1.332722 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
genus Troglodytes, carried out by N. H. Rice and colleagues, is consistent with some suspected relationships, but it also offers some surprises. Most of all, it encourages further study not only of this genus but also of others within the family, especially the speciose Thryothorus. The genetic data obtained by Rice a... | 1.399394 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, with, for example, Thryomanes nested within it, would not be so surprising in view of the large number of species currently contained in this little-studied genus, but the removal of the Carolina Wren to so distant a location is a rather novel hypothesis.
Clearly, these genetic data provide hypotheses for relationshi... | 1.636952 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
), far more species of wren would be recognized. New species are rather routinely described for various suboscines, such as the tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae), the songs of which are not learnt and therefore represent a vocal signature for the genotype of the bird; in the case of Thamnophilus punctatus, another subosc... | 1.509028 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
orhynchus and a few of the genus Thryothorus, juveniles do differ markedly in plumage from the adults of the species, but in most genera the distinctions between adult and young plumages tend to be minor and subtle.
Although the troglodytid bill tends to be long and often substantially decurved, considerable variation ... | 1.419043 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
lt of all North American wrens is complete.
Most wrens do not undergo a pre-breeding moult, a spring moult that in some families, such as the parulid warblers, results in a characteristic bright breeding plumage. The exceptions to this are the Cistothorus wrens, which have a partial moult before breeding. In the case o... | 1.385791 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2100 m on tepui summits in Venezuela.
Four troglodytids are closely associated with rocks. Ironically, the American Rock Wren exhibits the least morphological adaptation to this habitat, not differing greatly, in external form, from members of the genus Thryothorus. It occurs in habitats that range from fairly dry to ... | 1.572031 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ages away from such areas, it invariably nests only in marshy vegetation.
In North America, the Northern Wren occurs in such boreal-type habitats as moist coniferous forest with extensive underbrush, but also in mixed hardwood-conifer stands. In addition, it is also found, in an extensive range of subspecies, on treele... | 1.521946 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
slopes of the Munchique massif. Although all three taxa can be seen within a distance of 1 km in some areas, no two of them have ever been found together.
The genus Cyphorhinus contains three species which, in appearance and habits, seem to be evolving convergently with the terrestrial antbirds, the habitat of which t... | 1.281227 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Wren, although, in areas where the two are sympatric, the former tends to be found in the wetter habitats. The Band-backed Wren is, in fact, a very adaptable species, occurring in a wider range of habitats than does any other member of the genus; it inhabits humid forest at sea-level in Mexico and Guatemala, palm grov... | 1.50486 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, for instance, build nests throughout the year, and the juveniles may make tentative efforts at nest-building within days of fledging, with serious construction by ten weeks, obviously long before there is any chance of the youngsters themselves breeding. Wood-wrens, too, construct special roosting nests. In the case ... | 1.588362 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Conservation). In southern Ontario, nest predation by the wrens is one of the major causes of nesting failure among the warblers.
Although egg predation by Northern House Wrens has attracted the most attention by virtue of the species' close association with humans, other, non-cavity-nesting troglodytids, notably the ... | 1.532349 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ually dust-bathe, but they will bathe in water when it is present, even visiting suburban birdbaths for that purpose. Marsh Wrens, but not Sedge Wrens, have been seen to bathe in swamp water. Curiously, water-bathing has not been reported for Northern House Wrens, although both this species and the Carolina Wren do dus... | 1.524958 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
as with Marsh Wrens. If a ten-day-old Marsh Wren is removed from the nest and hears no songs over the next year, he sings "nonsense" songs, songs that are unrecognizable as to species. If he is allowed to hear some Marsh Wren songs over loudspeakers, however, he attends to the minutest of details in those songs, imita... | 1.631055 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
from one another, creating song dialects over relatively short distances. In Brazil, neighbouring male Sedge Wrens answer each other with identical songs, such behaviour being possible only if the birds learn their songs from each other. Similarly, the Merida Wren (Cistothorus meridae) of the Venezuelan Andes and the ... | 1.625528 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
differences are based on genetic differences between eastern and western birds, as nestling males taken from eastern and western populations, respectively, behave differently when they experience the same laboratory environment. Juveniles from western North America still imitate about three times as many songs as do e... | 1.73158 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ren do not sing, but those of the two Andean species do; female Merida Wrens emit a simple trill as their mates sing a more complex, whistled song, and female Apolinar's Wrens utter a prolonged trill that slowly rises and falls in pitch, the male then chiming in with a briefer, more complex song. In southern Mexico, Su... | 1.543426 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
rules for conveying the appropriate information are not necessarily the same for all species.
What appears to be one of the most complex duets is that of the Canebrake Wren (Thryothorus zeledoni), a species restricted to the Caribbean slope of Central America. A study of this wren was recently undertaken in north-east... | 1.40458 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to take calcareous matter, such as mollusc shells, and to feed such inorganic items to its young, presumably as a calcium supplement at a time when it is needed for bone growth. Larger, vertebrate prey is occasionally found in stomachs. The American Rock Wren, for example, will take young lizards. It is of interest to... | 1.521784 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
-billed and Grey-mantled Wrens, which are regularly found 30 m or more above the ground in the upper levels of tropical and subtropical forest.
Some tropical species have developed a technique employed by antbirds and many other Neotropical birds, that of following swarms of army ants, opportunistically snapping up inv... | 1.553831 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
istothorus marsh wrens, and a peak in the Marsh Wren itself. Male Marsh Wrens may, in the course of a season, construct up to twenty separate nests. From among these the female will then choose a suitable one, which she then completes, or she may even, apparently, induce the male to build yet more. It takes the male pe... | 1.537296 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to lay fewer eggs and to rear fewer young when compared with females in a monogamous relationship, and they rarely attempt a second brood; furthermore, their nestlings tend to weigh less than do those of monogamous parents, no doubt because they receive less food.
Polygamy is known to occur in those species of Troglod... | 1.512091 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
population, only 15% of nests had a helper, and then only a single one, whereas more than half of the nests in the other population had assistants, often several of them and of both sexes. Some other Campylorhynchus species show some degree of co-operative breeding, but the strategy seems to be less pronounced in the ... | 1.556489 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
cases, the form of the nest is dependent on the selected nest-site. Thus, the Carolina Wren usually builds a domed nest, but in totally enclosed sites, such as nestboxes, it may reduce or omit the roof. Bewick's Wrens, too, will build either an open nest or a domed one according to circumstances.
There is much variati... | 1.429673 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that are more brightly coloured. Similarly, the Sedge Wren lays white eggs in most parts of its huge range, but in Tierra del Fuego the local race hornensis lays speckled eggs, and an Aleutian race of the Northern Wren, meligerus, has white eggs, in contrast to the heavily marked eggs of other subspecies. A further ex... | 1.435687 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
terms of "the selfish gene" than does the enhancing of the survival of one's siblings.
The domed nest form of most wrens and the cavity-nesting habit of the remainder appear to provide these birds with some protection from parasitic species. Nevertheless, brood parasitism is a significant factor in reducing the nestin... | 1.423846 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
subspecies, hornensis, experiences very harsh conditions during the austral winter, although the type specimen of this taxon was taken on a ship "twenty leagues south-east of Cape Horn", suggesting that some movement may occur at times.
A similar distinction in the movements of different populations is exhibited by th... | 1.511756 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
entary. The numerous endemic subspecies of the Aleutian chain and the Pribilof Islands are known to be totally sedentary, and those breeding in the region from Alaska south through northern California appear to be so. In southern California and Arizona, however, the species does occur in winter but is absent in the sum... | 1.530425 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, which had concealed itself among the eagle's back feathers or, in some versions, under his wing, popped out and flew a few feet higher. The origin of this widespread legend is obscure, but it may have come from one of Aesop's fables, since lost. Aesop himself probably acquired many of his fables from Indian sources, ... | 1.598164 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
extraneous objects in its nest and, according to local legend in Bolivia, if one loses a banknote, one should examine all the local wren nests to ascertain whether the thrifty birds have incorporated it into their own nest structures.
Finally, there is the curious fact that, in the Creole languages of the West Indies,... | 1.47513 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
by the sadly familiar practices of habitat destruction and the introduction of alien predators. Two island subspecies of Bewick's Wren have been lost: brevicauda was one of several Guadelupe endemic taxa that vanished from that island, off Baja California, prior to 1892, and leucophrys, of San Clemente Island, Califor... | 1.468864 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
species of concern occur in Colombia, a country in which an almost permanent state of severe civil unrest is not conducive to conservation efforts in remote regions. The species at the most serious and most immediate risk is Niceforo's Wren (Thryothorus nicefori), which was described in 1945 from a small area near Buc... | 1.425104 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
than is its congener. Some parts of its range are protected, but the viability of both species can be guaranteed only by further land protection, either by direct acquisition for reserves or through long-term agreements with landowners.
Farther south, in El Salvador, the local subspecies nannoides of the Rufous-browed... | 1.4728 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bart & Tornes (1989), Belles-Isles & Picman (1986a, 1987), Bent (1948), Borror (1956), Brewer (2001), Brewer et al. (2000), Brodkorb (1943), Brumfield & Capparella (1996), Brumfield & Remsen (1996), Bruner (1934), Bump (1986), Burns (1982), Catchpole & Rowell (1993), Christian & Roberts (2000), Clench et al. (1982), C... | 1.213124 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The Headstart ABI Service has operated in the Hunter region for the past 27 years. We provide specialised support services for people with an acquired brain injury to live as independently as possible.
Brain injury is unique, complex and individual. The success of our service is a result of this long standin... | 1.765443 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
During the summer, faithful Mormons put on musicals (or pageants) as a way of illustrating their religious history, as well has encouraging the seeker to convert to their uniquely American faith. The early Latter-Day Saints were among the pioneers who trekked into the American West, carving out a place for themselves w... | 2.130232 | 1,010 | 1,007 |
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, that secretive band of Pentagon geeks that searches obsessively for the next big thing in the technology of warfare, is 50 years old. To celebrate, DARPA invited Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Defense Secretary well aware of the Agency's capabilities, to help blow out... | 1.666235 | 1,001 | 999 |
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Labour Market Information (LMI) is data collected on a particular occupation or sector of the economy. Regularly collected labour market information is important because ... | 1.658967 | 1,022 | 1,019 |
Students at Kipp Academy of Opportunity in Hyde Park, part of a charter group… (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles…)
The Arkansas-based Walton Family Foundation announced Wednesday that it is donating $20 million to a nonprofit that recruits talented college graduates to teach in public schools for two years. The largest n... | 1.517653 | 984 | 982 |
Sometimes You Need a Good Cry, but Why?
Over the weekend, my husband and I put our little guy to bed and snuggled up on the couch to watch the Tina Fey/Amy Pohler movie, “Sisters.”
While a bit crude at times, the movie has some incredibly hilarious parts and one scene made me laugh so hard that my stomach started to hu... | 1.754949 | 982 | 980 |
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers t... | 1.757699 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The CGAP Technology Blog, operated by US-based think tank CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), recently posted an article by Kabir Kumar and Yanina Seltzer that reviews branchless banking in Brazil, whereby agents such as retailers and post offices serve as links between banks and customers. The article is the... | 1.185863 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
By Maya Salem
Chicago’s Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart takes a deviant, anomie approach towards residential foreclosures. On Thursday October 9, 2008 Mr. Dart ceased evictions on foreclosed properties claiming that mortgage lenders maintained a false consciousness unwilling to acknowledge that they too are part of the bl... | 2.456889 | 996 | 994 |
Gold is steady on Tuesday, as the metal trades at a spot price of $1074.19 in the European session. In the US, all eyes are on Preliminary GDP. As well, the US will release CB Consumer Confidence. On Wednesday, there are two key major events – Core Durable Goods Orders and Unemployment Claims.
The guessing game continu... | 1.002243 | 966 | 965 |
Visit Freedom's Zone Donate To Project Valour Friday, September 09, 2005 Please Think Hard Overall, I cannot do justice to all the good I saw today just by writing. I wanted to try though. Basically, the operation set up down there at the New Orleans Airport is one eerily similar to that of Baghdad Int'l airport when I... | 1.816288 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bush could have intervened and ordered (if he were controlling troops on the ground) that the Red Cross and Salvation Army be permitted into New Orleans to provide food and water to the flooded-out groups in the Superdome, the Convention Center and other gathering points. I am sure the local authorities didn't let the... | 2.015943 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Beatrice Webb
challenges and difficulties
Webb fears of becoming emotionally dependent upon others, and may distance herself or deny her needs for relationships of closeness and intimacy so that she will not be vulnerable to rejection or abandonment. On the other hand, Beatrice Webb may cling excessively or need consta... | 1.843769 | 1,021 | 1,018 |
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