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Training at work: community food liaisons in the villages
The group "Maria Elena Bolivar," in the Valley of Comayagua, is named after a peasant woman who fought for land through the Agrarian Reform. Fifteen women formed this group in 1987 with the help of a Women's Group Organizer. The women live on the outskirts of th... | <urn:uuid:789b43f9-661f-4de8-84f4-27ad3d01c1aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fao.org/docrep/u8654e/u8654e06.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974363 | 3,050 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Professor's research study teaches students how to saveUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Mar 9, 2010
Elementary school children from eight public schools throughout Hawai‘i have saved a total of over $37,000 in the Kids’ $avings Project, developed by Dr. Michael Cheang, a faculty member in the Family and Consumer ... | <urn:uuid:306fcefd-80be-4a1e-8b5c-3b9fc813c10f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=3453 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933526 | 743 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Missionary Among The Cannibals
( Originally Published 1902 )
ALL of the Presbyterian churches of Newburg, N. Y., united in a service in the Calvary Church to listen to a missionary address by the venerable John G. Paton, of the New Hebrides. The Scotchman, seventy-six years old, arose to speak. His long hair and whiske... | <urn:uuid:2271846f-7944-4de5-9466-0cf8320bcb0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oldandsold.com/articles24/speaking-oak-100.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00156-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985288 | 995 | 2.625 | 3 |
Researchers Take Stock Of 2011 Weather
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
Across America people are sweltering through extreme heat this year, continuing a long-term trend of rising temperatures. Inevitably, many are wondering if the scorching heat is due to global warming. Scientists are expected to dig into the data and grapple w... | <urn:uuid:d8927c23-9e0f-4e66-bb1c-e7f073ed72a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/hot-weather-gets-scientists-attention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956233 | 809 | 3.109375 | 3 |
ROME (Dec. 7)
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin this week called on Europe to remember the past and cry “never again” to mounting racism and anti- Semitism.
Allowed to go unchecked, attitudes of hatred do “not just threaten the Jewish people alone,” he said.
Rabin urged European nations to combat hatred as he addres... | <urn:uuid:4da65051-eaa9-4916-80bc-3ef6cbb6b69f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jta.org/1992/12/08/archive/rabin-tells-europe-to-remember-the-past-and-say-never-again | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967214 | 563 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Mechanics: Vectors and Forces in Two-Dimensions
Vectors and Forces in 2-D: Problem Set
For each collection of listed forces, determine the vector sum or the net force.
58 N, right
42 N, left
98 N, up
98 N, down
14 N, left
16 N, up
16 N, down
12 N, up
8 N, down
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Photo: Michelle Mauser, University Hospital Medical Group
Nature vs. Nurture: The Beauty Edition
A panel of four judges analyzed photographs of 186 identical twins and estimated their ages. Since the duos share exactly the same genetic material, differences in how old they appear can be attributed to their individual b... | <urn:uuid:5122286f-b826-4893-98d0-7c9b437c09a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oprah.com/style/Twins-and-Aging-Factors-That-Affect-Aging/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968847 | 387 | 2.53125 | 3 |
"Just because you bought your chicken from a local farm, that doesn't mean it has less impact than a chicken from the local grocery store, which may have been shipped from thousands of miles away. It all depends on how that chicken was produced."In the article is something I've been looking for: a collective look at ca... | <urn:uuid:4a2e722a-506f-47ea-b1cc-c20ad64f4c24> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://maefood.blogspot.com/2012/02/another-look-at-carbon-impact.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967039 | 235 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Back in March, we shared an article about Japan successfully extracting methane hydrate from the ocean floor after ten years of research.
Methane hydrate, sometimes called ‘frozen gas’ or ‘flammable ice’, is a form of methane gas that can be found frozen below the seafloor. Extracting methane hydrate is difficult and e... | <urn:uuid:33f452c8-cac5-44bf-8740-f9ae2123197f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://marinesciencetoday.com/2013/05/16/update-extracting-and-using-methane-hydrate-in-japan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00140-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955587 | 169 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Shivaji was born in Shivner on 10th April, 1627 to Jijabai and Shahji. His father Shahji was a nobleman in the royal court of Bijapur. Shivaji was named so after Lord Shiva of the Hindu mythology as his mother was an ardent Hindu devotee. Since childhood, Shivaji was brave and never feared anything. There are many inst... | <urn:uuid:4f1d268a-bfad-4ea1-82ed-6c6332a4e05d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo1374513.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995722 | 136 | 2.640625 | 3 |
- An example of borne is when a house has held up a roof.
- An example of borne is when facts support the conclusions in a report.
- An example of borne is when boats are moved by the tides.
To be borne is defined as to be held up, supported or moved by steady pressure.
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Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010
Noel M. Burkhead
Vol. 62, No. 9 (September 2012), pp. 798-808
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2012.62.9.5
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Definition of Feed contaminant
Feed contaminant: A substance contaminating animal feed. Contaminants in animal feed can threaten human health.
There are two classes of feed contaminants.
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Physicists have solved many of the big questions about the universe, but our understanding of space is far from complete.
Astronomy may be one of the oldest sciences, but its practitioners are usually at the cutting edge of computer analysis and astrophysics. Those looking to work in this field are usually highly capab... | <urn:uuid:cee4d38b-3f24-44c7-9375-a4422d17151b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.iop.org/careers/future-with-physics/astronomy/page_58407.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955374 | 427 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Tier is a Linux kernel module that can be used to create a block device that allows automatically tiered storage. Tier can be used to aggregate up to 16 devices as one virtual device. Tier investigates access patterns to decide on which device the data should be written. It keeps track of how frequently data has been a... | <urn:uuid:f329bf00-041d-4b90-b150-22248ef822a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=776 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895215 | 435 | 2.84375 | 3 |
A torn cartilage at the knee joint is commonly seen after a twisting injury. This generally occurs in athletic activities or road accidents. The ‘cartilage’ referred to in this colloquial term, is not the articular cartilage, which normally covers the ends of bones in a joint. It refers to a specialized cartilaginous s... | <urn:uuid:fffe8a56-793e-49e6-b3f6-3eae623e2dd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.healthhype.com/torn-knee-cartilage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948973 | 684 | 3.53125 | 4 |
One Piece Flow
One piece flow means production of the product moves from one stage to the next stage one piece at a time. Compare that to lot production where several units are made at a given stage and then all are moved to the next stage at the same time. Most operational excellence practitioners promote one piece mo... | <urn:uuid:ab5d11d8-7192-49d3-8431-2820c7071344> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bexcellence.org/One-Piece-Flow.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930778 | 652 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Endorphins and serotonin are important chemicals known as neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are manufactured in your brain and affect your mood, energy levels and overall well-being. Your body naturally produces serotonin out of a chemical known as tryptophan, contained in foods like cheese, eggs and milk. Endorphin... | <urn:uuid:abf53b4f-bd6c-4568-ae45-0ea1ce0bb583> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/natural-ways-increase-serotonin-endorphins-8991.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926733 | 655 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Sheets of plywood, and sometimes other wood based panels such as particle board, are normally installed on floors as subflooring and underlayment; on walls to provide shear value and help resist stress from wind-racking and other forces; on decks of balconies and elevated pedestrian walks as a substrate to be coated wi... | <urn:uuid:eb7c4440-b408-46ea-b693-2b85da3b32d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stuccoguru.com/resources/article.cfm?articleID=B-07010&resourceID=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942378 | 1,860 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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About the Book: The world's dependence on fossil fuels is widely acknowledged to be a major cause of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus there is an urgent need to develop ... | <urn:uuid:8f6ffd21-031d-452f-80ae-87aa57947c5e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oro.open.ac.uk/4649/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887589 | 337 | 2.609375 | 3 |
story of Veronica and her veil does not, in fact, occur in the Bible, though the
apocryphal "Acts of Pilate" gives this name to the woman with a blood
flow who was cured by touching the hem of Jesus' cloak. Critics of the incidents
historicity point to the very name of the saint: "Veronica"
is a combination of Latin an... | <urn:uuid:cf6c0154-f11e-4459-97d1-fca91f7adea1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping57.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949805 | 656 | 3.125 | 3 |
While there have been some intriguing developments recently in the field of stretchable electronics and flexible OLED displays, one thing we haven't heard much about is stretchable displays. So, is it possible to make a screened device in which every part of it could be stretched? The answer could now be yes, with news... | <urn:uuid:c25edbd2-429c-460a-bd59-d5f4ce01203a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/stretchable-oled-display/19662/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922195 | 223 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Most teachers would agree with the following statement; sometimes it’s easier to be at school than it is to write lesson plans and be absent. When teachers are absent, they have to spend minutes and sometimes hours writing lesson plans. It’s easier to write lesson plans if your absence is planned, but if an absence is ... | <urn:uuid:25be7b62-c57c-4fb0-b802-d39d7c884c52> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theartofed.com/2012/09/15/an-easy-way-to-get-your-lesson-plans-into-your-subs-hands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940667 | 605 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Simple Definition of keynote address
: the main speech given at a gathering (such as a political convention)
Full Definition of keynote address
: an address designed to present the issues of primary interest to an assembly (as a political convention) and often to arouse unity and enthusiasm —called also keynote speech
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APA Policy Guide on Neighborhood Collaborative Planning
Adopted April 6, 1998
Neighborhood advocates and experts representing a variety of perspectives convened in Chicago in late 1996 for a Symposium on Neighborhood Collaborative Planning. A series of working papers were commissioned through APA's Research Department ... | <urn:uuid:8d2e12bf-d1d9-4707-8409-41fc10d79d28> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.planning.org/policy/guides/adopted/neighborhoodcollaborative.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9502 | 2,242 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Tired of getting that blank look when your children read the instructions to a math problem, especially when you are certain they know how to do the work? Often, the problem isn't the math itself that confuses the child, but rather, understanding the terminology. This booklet covers 16 commonly used and easily forgotte... | <urn:uuid:102e7672-61a4-4f0d-9f8f-8bad521fdc6c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.christianbook.com/memory-triggers-elementary-math-terms/pd/867004 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892283 | 212 | 3.71875 | 4 |
It’s been a long week of studies into that old chestnut, “meat is bad for you because it’s full of saturated fat.” On top of last week’s study about animal protein, check out what else has been going around:
- First, another study found an association between eating red meat and impaired carbohydrate tolerance – and, o... | <urn:uuid:61fffc99-f8b6-483f-a261-f06a3238448f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://paleoleap.com/whats-happening-meat-studies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949791 | 606 | 2.75 | 3 |
Flies are annual summer pests of cattle and other livestock. Controlling them could mean happier, healthier and heavier livestock, said Lee Townsend, Extension entomologist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
Horn flies are small flies that feed off the blood of cattle and in rare cases, horses. You... | <urn:uuid:1e15f300-5a7b-4a9d-bce0-4f9055752696> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://southeastfarmpress.com/print/livestock/horn-flies-can-reduce-calf-weight-gain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957194 | 625 | 3.640625 | 4 |
In Medieval Europe, centuries ago, there came to be “universities,” and today we still have organizations that are called universities. But what was the idea, the concept behind the idea of a “university?”
The term or word university meant that it was a place where students who had grown up, lived and studied in their ... | <urn:uuid:df6aa4ba-b6e6-47fa-8bfc-776de7802720> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-01-11/my-turn-what-was-and-idea-university | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981589 | 820 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Born on October 2 at Zooz South Australia's Monarto Zoo, this female Southern White Rhinoceros baby is significant to the regional population of the species. Parents Uhura and Satara have bred successfully before, producing two male calves -- Watoto, in 2005 and, Jubari, in 2007.
“With only 20,150 Southern White Rhinoc... | <urn:uuid:d3f6ad3a-2b06-46e6-a2a2-c3fde54bafa6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2012/10/southern-white-rhinoceros-calf-the-first-female-ever-born-at-monarto.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941386 | 220 | 2.984375 | 3 |
E.T. A LOCAL WAY OF LEARNING
Title: NATURE'S ENGINEERS
Author: Eulalie R. Rivera Elementary School
Grade Level: 3-5
8.Values and Attitudes 2.Social Studies
Through the activities suggested, students will identify at least three
different bird nests by proper classification according to size, shape, and
materials used i... | <urn:uuid:705ab8f5-0082-44f4-8614-8b0bbc5bb1b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ufdc.ufl.edu/CA01300920/00038 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874838 | 535 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Family Monodontidae - Narwhal and White Whale (2 species in 2 genera)
This is a family of small whales (less than 6 m in length), with stocky bodies, blunt bulbous heads, broad rounded flippers, and no dorsal fins. Both species are inhabitants of arctic and subarctic areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The skull is uniqu... | <urn:uuid:7b322667-f1bc-440a-a15b-eccf93042fe6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=marine_mammals&id=21&menuentry=groepen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.859703 | 178 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Renaissance Resurrection: Linking the History of Science, Art, and Religion
The image above, from a 1592 collection of engravings based on miniatures by the Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel, offers a moralizing, emblematic interpretation of nature. Under the heading “birth, suffering, and death,” a dead mouse admonishes ... | <urn:uuid:44b2f30c-ff2c-4620-978d-a3682b6af40b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/inpictures/renaissance-resurrection-linking-history-science-art-and-religion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903742 | 181 | 3.390625 | 3 |
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Sustainability 2011, 3(2), 363-395; doi:10.3390/su3020363
Abstract: In the late 1990s, the author conducted research entitled “Modeling the demand and supply structure for food in Asia”. The research was based on a system dynamics method and, using time series datasets up to 1998 to estimate the para... | <urn:uuid:4c4233fd-32d7-419a-bd7b-77ef89d388af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/3/2/363/htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857128 | 12,136 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The concept of Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM) links up Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and sustainable sanitation on a local level. It follows a holistic approach and focuses on the human influence on the whole water and nutrient cycle from source to sea and back, its linkages to agricu... | <urn:uuid:1f581ac3-e279-4ae4-9f5e-43d0c01ec279> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sswm.info/content/sswm-toolbox-decision-makers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896563 | 2,279 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Syracuse Residents Produce More Carbon than Other Areas in New York
Oswego, NY – According to a new study, those who live in the Syracuse metropolitan area produce more carbon per person than any other major city in the state.
The study, released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, ranked cities based on how much ca... | <urn:uuid:7a74a3c5-23a6-4beb-8ae1-86a48840acc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wrvo.org/post/syracuse-residents-produce-more-carbon-other-areas-new-york | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941342 | 240 | 2.75 | 3 |
Get known :
Region : Karnataka
Belongs To : Languages of Dravidian family
Major Language : Kannada
Special Characteristic : One language among India's ancient languages
Karnataka state's language is undoubtedly Kannada, because it is an official language of this state. The origin of this language is connected to the an... | <urn:uuid:5a916a7f-46cb-4b20-b0e8-1b120a6a099b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.traveladda.com/south_india/karnataka/information/languages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942359 | 454 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Take Action: Stop Big Coal's Attack on Carbon Pollution Standards
Take Action: Finalize Coal Ash Standards
For six days, toxic coal ash gushed into North Carolina's Dan River. Ash from coal-burning power plants is full of toxic heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and lead, which coal companies then dump in pits and pon... | <urn:uuid:bebaee9a-4b40-4c81-91b2-a8bb0358957f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=355971.0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937396 | 291 | 2.71875 | 3 |
“Relief”, is the way OU researcher Dr Simon Green (pictured left) described first seeing the small, brown-wrapped parcel containing “stardust” from Comet Wild 2.
The parcel from the Johnson Space Centre Texas arrived at The Open University by special delivery; inside were particles from three billion miles away.
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Originally published in Portuguese on Folha de Sao Paulo:
When Brazilians remark that their new domestic workers law will eventually make Brazil more like the United States, they mean employing often several nannies, laundresses, and housekeepers at once will soon be a luxury accessible only to the super-rich. In the U... | <urn:uuid:00f90f27-21df-4339-a0a3-bda2c1c53ae5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cfr.org/brazil/like-united-states/p30659 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944252 | 646 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical therapy used to treat many neurological disorders that are refractory to medication. Patients with severe Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression have all benefited from DBS. The therapy involves implanting small electrode... | <urn:uuid:96e8c533-f07c-44e8-96db-1b79b8aac604> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.msi.umn.edu/content/computational-modeling-endovascular-deep-brain-simulation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914275 | 230 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Facts and Events
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. She was Queen consort of the United Kingdom from her husband's accession in 1936 until his death in 1952, after which sh... | <urn:uuid:3e801cbb-de21-43fb-8e3b-9bb40e9731e8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon_(1) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983161 | 446 | 3.078125 | 3 |
As the national economy expands in areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), the teaching of this content has become vital for adults to succeed in the workplace. The US Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) is invested in accelerating the teaching and learning of ST... | <urn:uuid:17eff48d-451b-471d-8abb-dca3e9d68082> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/sectech/factsheet/open-education-resources-stem-teaching.html?exp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911494 | 464 | 2.96875 | 3 |
AIDS August 2001;15:1595-1602
Brief Review: the authors think that the cervix is the key entry point for HIV. And that by combining the use of a cap by the women which protects the cervix with a microbicide HIV can be prevented. This sort of a contraceptive approach would give the woman control in sexual situations as ... | <urn:uuid:d4ee7533-332c-441e-9bd2-352c65c1fbe7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.natap.org/2001/sep/Preventing_Disease.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950001 | 1,837 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Just saying no may not be an effective strategy in keeping kids from having sex, a newly released study reports.
The research could have major implications for the $176 million in government funds that abstinence-only sex-education programs receive annually -- funding that is set to expire on June 30 unless Congress ta... | <urn:uuid:4bf3f561-33b6-48d1-ac3b-675b78f42275> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Sex/story?id=3048738 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970085 | 1,357 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund is helping to lay the new foundation of medical research. The fund brings together national collaborators, thereby creating larger sample sizes to be made available to scientists around the world. It is increasingly apparent that a detailed longitudinal course of study is nec... | <urn:uuid:7d2374bf-a98b-489c-9886-fec13dad6800> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prechterfund.org/bipolar-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877167 | 374 | 2.703125 | 3 |
For Immediate Release, July 31, 2008
Travis Stills, Managing Attorney, Energy Minerals Law Center, (970) 375-9231
Brian Farnsworth, INFORM, (303) 881-8645, firstname.lastname@example.org
Amy Atwood, Center for Biological Diversity, (541) 914-8372, email@example.com
Megan Mueller, Center for Native Ecosystems, (303) 546... | <urn:uuid:8aefaaf5-fda9-470f-80f4-c3c05c8bf6aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/uranium-exploration-07-31-2008.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912299 | 1,051 | 2.53125 | 3 |
International Men's Month
June is International Men's Month, so we're celebrating by recognizing five men who have changed the way that society, employers, government, and academia think about gender, sexuality, men, and women. International Men's Month began in 1996 to raise media and public awareness about men's issu... | <urn:uuid:a3bb20c0-1a19-4ce8-9a0d-89fb823b0f49> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rochester.edu/College/wst/theme_archive/themes/mens_month_2012.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960925 | 856 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Adolf Eichmann - SS Obersturmbannführer
Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany in 1906. In 1932 Eichmann joined the Nazi party and the SS. His first five years of service in the ranks of the Nazi party and the SS contained nothing that could point to his future overwhelmingly crucial role in the practical executi... | <urn:uuid:09725f78-dca6-4263-996c-c2de054085f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/eichmann/overview.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965339 | 782 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Constipation is a frequent camp complaint, and is usually the result of change in diet and drinking water. The habit of having a daily movement of the bowels is of great importance to a boy’s health. The retention of these waste products within the body for a longer period tends to produce poisonous impurities of the b... | <urn:uuid:6217b636-7cb7-49b7-a2b8-3e582d5f30df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/14759/86.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947137 | 603 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Hans Kung says that the Talmudic "Noahide Laws" are "a universal code of conduct" that is "valid for all human beings:"
"A code of ethics is intended to match God’s covenant with man — a minimum code of conduct based on the principle of respect for life (the theologian and doctor Albert Schweitzer took this as the very... | <urn:uuid:678d81a3-d6e3-450d-bf1b-a95285524eca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/05/hans-kung-pied-noahide-piper.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903465 | 353 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Your peripheral nervous system connects the nerves from your brain and spinal cord, or central nervous system, to the rest of your body. This includes your:
- internal organs
The job of these nerves is to deliver signals about physical sensations back to your brain.
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Etalon is a series Soviet passive geodetic satellites; Etalon means "standard." Each
is spherical and covered with 306 antenna arrays, each array containing
14 corer cubes for laser reflection. Etalons were designed and launched
to enable the complete characterization of Earth's gravitational field at
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Ever wonder whether a Twitter account is run by a real person or a bot? So did these British scientists, who have developed a way to tell the two apart. In this study, the authors use Bayesian statistics to distinguish between human, corporate, and robot Twitter accounts, primarily using the tweet timing. They found th... | <urn:uuid:9ddb05df-7ac7-4ac1-a47c-96fc40020a47> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2013/10/24/statistical-method-distinguishing-humans-robots-twitter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930677 | 619 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Howe's History of Virginia
The account of the massacre which the monument is designed to commemorate, is thus given in a communication to the American Pioneer:
About the time of the attack at Wheeling, which occurred in September, (1777,) Capt. Foreman and his men were surprised at the head of Grave creek narrows; the ... | <urn:uuid:f0998f07-a299-4cb1-9ec9-6cfb936ab221> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wvculture.org/history/revwar/foreman01.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98986 | 819 | 3.140625 | 3 |
By Harvey Rice
A house is engulfed in flames as water and waves inundate homes on Galveston Island as Hurricane Ike approaches the coast Sept. 12, 2008.
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Findings that showed faster-than-light travel were released to the public too soon.
What do you do as a scientist when you know a research result that is almost certainly wrong is about to become a media sensation? That is the quandary I found myself in last month as I awaited the announcement from CERN, the European O... | <urn:uuid:3783da3c-3d9c-4255-b5ea-006ca7a1dc78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-10-06/cern-and-colliding-theories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961354 | 1,093 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Ancient China Ancient Civilizations Curriculum Foreign Languages Grades 6-8 Unit Studies World Religions
Ancient China Unit Study
We spent 30 days on Ancient China. I could have spent more, but I think it was about all he could take.
History Odyssey Ancients Level 2
Intellego Ancient Civilizations I
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The Carignan-Salières Regiment
The Salières Regiment had first been raised in 1630.
The Carignan-Salières regiment derived its name from Colonel Thomas-François de Savoie, Prince of Carignan, who raised it in 1644 in Piedmont in northern Italy. During the following decade, the recruiting for the regiment was done in Fr... | <urn:uuid:8648f567-d3c6-456e-8322-a92b01725992> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.laferriere.us/Carrigan%20Salieres%20Regiment.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981162 | 1,992 | 3.109375 | 3 |
George Galster, a professor of urban planning at Wayne State University, is encouraging policy makers to stop taking a myopic view of Detroit's blight problem. He contends that blight in Detroit is not a problem the city can solve in isolation because it is the result of regional economic forces related to excessive ho... | <urn:uuid:320fec0e-c351-40e9-9d17-62160c196ce0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.modeldmedia.com/inthenews/GalsterSprawl061014.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967007 | 236 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Verse Chorus Song Form
Learn the definition and structure of the verse chorus song form
The verse chorus song form, also called ABAB song form or pop song form, is without a doubt the most commonly used song form today. 90% of the songs you hear today on the radio will be this song form or a slight variation of it.... | <urn:uuid:5fbf4c14-33ba-4de8-ab75-0d302f6d839c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.world-of-songwriting.com/verse-chorus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960192 | 571 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Anything that results in a cooling coil that is not cold enough to remove the moisture from the air will raise the indoor %RH. A properly charged system with the right amount of air flow over the coil will remove moisture. Excess fresh air infiltration will also raise the indoor %RH. A 45^F coil temp is minimum to get ... | <urn:uuid:182b437a-2d92-4b0d-812c-6f5e94c2be2f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?910262-humidity-proplems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917441 | 258 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Dec 10, 2010
Microsavings 101: How do people save when they earn so little?
Kiva and Financial Access Institute (FAI), a consortium of leading development economists focused on substantially expanding access to quality financial services for low-income individuals, are partnering to bring you a three week educational s... | <urn:uuid:91ab86af-dc0d-404c-b15c-da600f688640> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pages.kiva.org/node/9475 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957763 | 831 | 3.09375 | 3 |
created 2002 · complexity basic · author Salman Halim · version 6.0
In a complex project you may be working with many files (buffers) in Vim, or you may be working with many instances of Vim. In addition, you may be working on files in different directories.
It may help to automatically change the color scheme to clear... | <urn:uuid:9c1444c9-4eb4-4d93-9dc6-5e6c050e4343> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_the_color_scheme_to_show_where_you_are | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.719741 | 1,023 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Some carbon nanotubes deplete beneficial microbes in certain soils
January 24, 2013
Turco found that raw, non-functionalized, single-wall carbon nanotubes damage
active microbiology in low-organic soils. (Purdue Agricultural Communication
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Granite quarry, Hancock County
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Granite quarrying began as early as 1870 on Mount Desert Island at Hall's Quarry. It required the brute strength of both m... | <urn:uuid:74f9d0e3-4a75-46d2-b6d0-5d2cf629d866> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mainememory.net/artifact/14053/zoom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953437 | 214 | 2.84375 | 3 |
New Deforestation and Logging Tracker Reveals Tree Loss in South America in (Almost) Real-Time
A team of researchers has developed the first ever "near real-time" monitoring system for tracking deforestation across all of South America. The new system, called Terra-i, is being launched to coincide with the Rio+20 UN en... | <urn:uuid:be53ac94-0ffb-420b-b8b5-80b569ce2f6c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/new-deforestation-and-logging-tracker-reveals-tree-loss-south-america-almost-real-time.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947226 | 532 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Graphite has not been on the radar of most investors until now. This is more than a flashback to the #2 pencils you had to use to fill in those annoying answer sheets in school. Graphite is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity and has the highest natural strength and stiffness of any material known to man. It... | <urn:uuid:7898a9cf-90d0-43bc-8b36-d406dd0216d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2011/12/27/how-to-invest-in-graphite-the-future-of-graphene | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967336 | 1,273 | 2.625 | 3 |
The following post is by contributor Amy Anderson of Let’s Explore and originally appeared in November of 2011.
There is really nothing like the imagination of a young child. Long before they can write their own stories, children are ready and eager to tell their own stories. It is wonderfully empowering for a child to... | <urn:uuid:ac707f63-8257-4500-bf43-131e48343ce6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://simplekids.net/2012/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978726 | 115 | 2.5625 | 3 |
If you're hoping to conceive, don't leave it to luck. Understand how to get pregnant — starting with predicting ovulation and do's and don'ts for maximizing fertility.By Mayo Clinic Staff
Some couples seem to get pregnant simply by talking about it. For others, it takes patience and a bit of luck. If you're looking for... | <urn:uuid:cdf3b852-a329-4834-b28c-0f7b8c5f63b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/getting-pregnant/in-depth/how-to-get-pregnant/art-20047611?pg=2&p=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908394 | 1,673 | 3.125 | 3 |
Our children like to embroider their drawings. The following one was created by our eldest daughter (the ballerina) when she was 8 years old. Just this week she created another one (she is now 10). Below is a tutorial that originally posted in 2006 on my homeschool blog:
First, draw a picture. This is a picture that ou... | <urn:uuid:adf65191-d5b0-47d0-9d1a-85150bf59485> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://justpurelovely.typepad.com/justpurelovely/2008/02/turning-a-child.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950543 | 480 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This cute and compact shipping container home was built to provide shelter for researchers studying the rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. Made of two conventional shipping containers, the house has a full 90 square meters of living space and stays dry and free of insects and vermin despite the heavy tropic... | <urn:uuid:cc405032-74cf-4052-aa45-a341f7fefee3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://inhabitat.com/shipping-container-rainforest-home-survives-category-5-cyclone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944001 | 371 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Please provide a summary of "The Mark Of The Beast" by Rudyard Kipling.
I am not quite sure what Rudyard Kipling is talking about. I just need a little help with a summary. If anyone can help me... thank you.
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In many of Rudyard Kipling's works, his background and love of India is apparent and he i... | <urn:uuid:3de251f0-15f6-48f1-8cf6-fc3c705086a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/summary-about-mark-beast-by-rudyard-kipling-94693 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9745 | 1,018 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The Essential Guide to Wireless Security
What you need to know about protecting your wireless network.
As more businesses deploy wireless networks to connect employees, professional partners and the general public to company systems and the Internet, the need for enhanced wireless security grows increasingly important.... | <urn:uuid:fdb28687-0fea-4940-9cfa-64a9c656fee5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.itsecurity.com/features/essential-guide-wireless-security-071708/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914945 | 829 | 2.625 | 3 |
March 1, 2012
By: Elizabeth Decelles
Snowy owls (Nyctea scandiaca) are known for their striking white plumage, bright yellow eyes, and black beaks. They are a nomadic creature typically found in the arctic tundra, and travel wherever abundant prey resources exist. Snowy owls mainly subsist on a diet composed of lemming... | <urn:uuid:83884f8d-3585-4f49-90c3-47718869f084> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://greatecology.com/snowy-owl-invasion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956797 | 411 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Photo: Rita Willaert (flickr)
Antarctica. Picture desolate plains of ice, lifeless, bitten by a fierce, bitter wind.
Although ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered by thick ice, there are bare patches where the rocky surface shows through. These so-called “dry valleys” are some of the most inhospitable places o... | <urn:uuid:a621ec60-a35f-46e1-93ee-95002fce9c9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/cryptoendolith-antarcticas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00029-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950201 | 378 | 4.1875 | 4 |
On the morning of June 5, 1948, 42-102368 crashed just north of Muroc Dry Lake. The co-pilot, Air Force Captain Glen Edwards, and all four other members of the crew were killed. What caused the crash is not known, but it was suspected that the flight crew managed to surpass the "red line" speed of the aircraft while de... | <urn:uuid:eeac2ab5-dc52-45c0-bc5d-44c25e5c816e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/YB-49_crash_site.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962849 | 586 | 2.6875 | 3 |
You probably have your genealogy online in some form or another. But is it accessible to your grandmother? To your niece in the Girl Scouts? To someone with a slow dial-up connection? People with disabilities can surf the web, but only those sites that meet “Web accessibility” standards. My site, www.epcrowe.com, is cr... | <urn:uuid:a152d931-f3c7-4d1e-9e14-fc3ff45d238b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.epcrowe.com/archives/104 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886516 | 855 | 3 | 3 |
The pump is basically a jerk type with a plunger moving in a matched barrel, using two helical grooves machined in the plunger to control the end of injection by uncovering spill ports and causing the discharge pressure to drop rapidly, thus causing the needle valve in the injector to close.
Oil is supplied to the barr... | <urn:uuid:d230de26-c97b-48a1-9252-9b12dc9b5d50> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.marinediesels.info/2_stroke_engine_parts/Other_info/MANBW_VIT_pump.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917969 | 954 | 2.875 | 3 |
Off-road navigation allows you to navigate in nondigitized areas (no digital map data available for this area on the hard drive).
Observe the applicable regulations in the country in which you are driving. Driving a vehicle off official roads is not permissible in all countries.
Off-road navigation is generally perform... | <urn:uuid:a0442ec5-0e95-46bb-9b35-ddbc65b9a602> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.porscheownersmanuals.com/2011-911-carrera-owners-manual/100/139/Offroad-navigation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891383 | 399 | 3.125 | 3 |
Last name origins & meanings:
- English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of
Free, from the Old English byform frīg.
- English: nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small
person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).
- Americanized spelling of German Frei,
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Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era
Central Americans and Asylum Policy in the Reagan Era
The year 1980 marked the opening of a decade of public controversy over U.S. refugee policy unprecedented since World War II. Large-scale migration to the United States from Central America began, as hundreds of ... | <urn:uuid:3b90203f-55ec-4083-a2de-0f2bd87abd4b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/central-americans-and-asylum-policy-reagan-era/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95551 | 3,378 | 3.21875 | 3 |
There likely won’t be any helium-filled balloons depicting a farmer, tractor, combine, or cotton picker in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
As millions watch the spectacle, it’s doubtful any thought will be given to the agricultural connotations of the day’s origin, or of the scant numbers of modern era farmers who ... | <urn:uuid:8c26a0ac-071e-4c9f-844e-e7ab109e2d1e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://southwestfarmpress.com/preaching-choir-thanks-farmers-food-aplenty | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963589 | 666 | 2.875 | 3 |
The image from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite shows the area around the Italian town of L'Aquila after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake which struck on 6 April 2009. Two images from the satellite were combined into a differential interferogram. For the analysis, two TerraSAR-X images in stripmap mode were used with ... | <urn:uuid:20cc8921-df16-4802-9162-ec38ab962f9f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dlr.de/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-5103/8592_read-17678/gallery-1/gallery_read-Image.1.9471/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963397 | 187 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Texts comprising only quotations of somebody else's work are often referred to as plagiarism. Many researchers have also rejected Late Antique Latin cento poetry - cento means patchwork in Latin - as being of no literary merit. However, recent years have seen an increase in interest in cento poetry, and a thesis on Lat... | <urn:uuid:0ca09bc1-3ab8-4fb8-aa59-3a16e0e7ea0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/uog-lal060711.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975789 | 765 | 3.125 | 3 |
New Species of River Dolphin Discovered in Brazil
A new species of river dolphin has just been discovered by scientists in Brazil, making it the first new river dolphin to be discovered since the end of World War One.
Named after the Araguaia river, the species is the only fifth known of its kind to be found in the wor... | <urn:uuid:b41d91d1-61ce-4e44-bcdd-504ddfca85ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/12371/20140123/new-species-of-river-dolphin-discovered-in-brazil.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965936 | 408 | 3.25 | 3 |
Apr. 2, 2003
The catalogs and magazines from colleges and universities are
impressive: slick paper, full color, attractive layout, lots to read.
But several items of useful information are usually missing.
Getting a bachelor's degree now takes five or six years instead of
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By Miriam Kramer
Scientists may have discovered the first meteorite from Mercury.
The green rock found in Morocco last year may be the first known visitor from the solar system's innermost planet, according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, who unveiled the new findings this month at the 44th annual Lunar and Plan... | <urn:uuid:499d3337-1514-4d27-b64a-ed06017d2544> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theufochronicles.com/2013/03/green-meteorite-may-be-from-mercury.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.855436 | 228 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Perhaps the single most revealing performance indicator of the state of Guyana’s sugar industry is to be found in its annual production figures. For this purpose, I have updated a table that I had previously used in columns dealing with sugar and offer it below in the form of a long-term series of Guyana’s annual sugar... | <urn:uuid:c58dbf2d-9a93-4234-95d1-44080c1e0328> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stabroeknews.com/2012/features/09/30/sugar-the-poor-performance-continues/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950336 | 928 | 2.6875 | 3 |
57. Pencils of rays of the second order. Similar investigations may be made concerning the system of lines joining corresponding points of two projective point-rows. If we project the point-rows to any point in the plane, we obtain two projective pencils having the same center. At most two pairs of self-corresponding r... | <urn:uuid:2c61d6b5-6250-441b-89dd-1b6e861c2b5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/17001/19.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959416 | 599 | 3.46875 | 3 |
|Cybernetic culture research unit|
The modern binary code, essential to every digital circuit from alarm locks
to super computers, was first introduced by Leibniz around 1670.
Leibniz has been inspired by the binary-based 'logic machine' of Raymond Lull, which was in turn inspired by the alchemists' divination practice... | <urn:uuid:2db371e2-d913-45c4-9574-fbe3fa275fc2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ccru.net/digithype/Afrobinary.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944311 | 848 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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The above answers do an excellent job of treating situational irony, so I'll deal with dramatic irony.
Dramatic irony occurs when the reader/audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does. The one main effect is that it gives the reader a sense of superiority, or detache... | <urn:uuid:d80e2e62-4699-4d01-8413-d7c30b87a94b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-effect-situational-irony-145049 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961112 | 914 | 3.21875 | 3 |
The professions of doctors are always looked up to as people consider them a rescue ranger; they are considered the most reliable professional people after God who is always ready to save the endangered life. When you want to improve your personal life health is an important issue since to be healthy and to have good l... | <urn:uuid:9e310de6-efcc-404c-ab0e-6f829ac4a5e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/cardiac-surgery-reduces-the-chances-of-heart-attack | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959465 | 637 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Learning a new instrument takes a combination of skill and dedication. Those considering beginning guitar lessons should plan to dedicate at least 30 minutes almost every day to practicing the guitar. Students will learn different ways of reading music, including tablature and notation. Basic music theory is taught alo... | <urn:uuid:ad8a4294-ae3b-471d-aab9-97153dc0aef1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amyhiteguitar.com/Lessons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978533 | 1,257 | 3 | 3 |
Caritas is urging all sides in Sri Lanka’s civil war to end their hostilities immediately to prevent further loss of lives to children and other innocent civilians.
The 25-year old conflict has reached a peak in the last year with between 70,000 and 250,000 people displaced in last remaining pocket of fighting in Vanni... | <urn:uuid:e1761b91-b9f5-4564-a12c-004a4e076dc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.caritas.org/2009/09/enough-to-sri-lankas-pain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938227 | 319 | 2.53125 | 3 |
For a country where an estimated 4,500 women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth, surely the Philippines is not among the safest places to become a mother.
In fact, according to the United Nations Fund for Population Agency, the Philippines’ Millennium Development Goal No. 5—to lower maternal mortality rate to ... | <urn:uuid:a9242615-7b95-4d96-a86d-c20463ef2448> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://business.inquirer.net/120037/p70m-fund-for-projects-against-maternal-death | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00173-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929474 | 881 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Haiti’s cholera outbreak was likely initially brought to the nation by United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This news really should come as no surprise. A study released by the U.N. in May also concluded that the cholera strain found... | <urn:uuid:3cd833d9-fc9a-4c8d-9578-4cbe69c8e83a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bet.com/news/global/2011/07/01/study-u-n-forces-likely-brought-cholera-to-haiti.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00076-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96102 | 612 | 3.421875 | 3 |
A Guide to Eyeglass Lenses
Eyeglasses can be prescribed for a number of conditions: myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism (a defect in the eye that causes blurred vision), or age-related presbyopia, which robs your eye's lens of elasticity and makes it tough to focus on nearby objects.
Your ... | <urn:uuid:f797d728-71b3-4e42-ae2d-444911edc095> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medcentral.org/Main/StaywellProducts/A-Guide-to-Eyeglass-Lenses-152.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00148-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935509 | 928 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Children's Literature - Beverly KobrinFor basic research on Insects, keep Jenny Tesar's volume readily available. Writing clearly and simply, Ms. Tesar details physical characteristics and how they function, how various species survive and reproduce, and the insects' niches in the food chain. Among the choice, well-ann... | <urn:uuid:0cf0b942-cf4d-4949-8c90-6a7080aa458f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/insects-jenny-tesar/1014522664?ean=9781567110371 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858388 | 196 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Life appears to have originated in an atmosphere devoid of free oxygen, which only appeared in significant quantities after the origin of photosynthesis. The sudden appearance of oxygen presumably came as a bit of a shock for the early life forms around at the time, as many cellular proteins can be inactivated by oxida... | <urn:uuid:dcf565a0-5e3b-4f84-9fa6-ca3232c992e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://arstechnica.com/science/2006/11/5888/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983303 | 461 | 4.1875 | 4 |
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