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Pacific Southwest Research Station
800 Buchanan Street
Albany, CA 94710-0011
Tahoe Science Projects supported by SNPLMA
Potential for pathogen growth, fecal indicator growth and phosphorus release under clam removal barriers in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Final Report [pdf]
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When there is so much to read, there is little time for conversation; nor is there leisure for another pastime of the ancient firesides, called reading aloud. The listeners, who heard while they looked into the wide chimney-place, saw there pass in stately procession the events and the grand persons of history, were ki... | <urn:uuid:6742ad43-31da-410c-9b31-6f4442596e57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/3134/15.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979452 | 584 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Bleeding into or around the brain can cause significant pathology in and of itself. Intracerebral hemorrhage secondary to hypertension is a frequent occurrence. Degenerative changes in the vessel wall combined with increased perfusion pressure produce rupture of the vessel. This occurs most often in short circumferenti... | <urn:uuid:5925b761-fad6-4169-bdbf-3b93738cf4ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.strokecenter.org/professionals/stroke-diagnosis/neuropathology-image-library/intracerebral-hemorrhage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86561 | 173 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The family Cunningham take
their name from the district of Cunningham in northern Ayrshire. The land of Kilmaurs of
that area was granted by Hugo de Moreville, Constable of Scotland to a vassel named
Warnebald in the 12th century and it is from his descendants that the Cunningham family
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Curriculum Guide for The 39 Clues Book 6: In Too Deep
- Grades: 3–5, 6–8
Build reading comprehension and research skills as you bring the excitement of The 39 Clues into your classroom!
About The 39 Clues
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Grade level Equivalent: 2
Lexile® Measure: AD520L
Guided Reading: K
Type of Book: Read-Aloud Book
- Comedy and Humor
- Manners and Conduct
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Ho! Ho! Ho! America's favorite dinosaurs can't wait to celebrate Christmas!
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By Shelley Hoss
The ConnectOC Blog is a place for sharing insight, information and examples of how Orange County residents, donors and nonprofits are working to build a brighter, stronger, more vibrant community. We welcome you to share your thoughts by commenting below.
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EPA Releases Screening Data on 1,800 Chemicals, Announces ToxCast Data Challenges
December 23, 2013
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Long Digital Extensor (LDE) Tenosynovitis
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Positive mental health is a great way to ensure you lead a long, happy and healthy life. Maintaining your mental health is easier than most people think and will have a significant impact on your everyday life.
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There is nothing worse than watching your child struggle through the trials and tribulations that come along with friendship. There are many children books out that help children learn to make new friends, maintain friendships, and recognize what makes them desirable to other children for companionship.
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DOMINGUEZ Y VALDEZ, JUAN
DOMÍNGUEZ Y VALDEZ, JUAN (1784–?). Juan Domínguez y Valdez, who planned a colony in Mexican Texas but did not bring it about, was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1784. He began military training as a cadet in 1795 and joined the Mexican army on October 9, 1813, when he landed at Veracruz. He was a lie... | <urn:uuid:bb449047-eb67-4c81-a9f2-a77782f6417a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fdo10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954809 | 601 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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“Once stung, twice shy” are words to live by in the Southwestern United States, where about 11,000 people a year are stung by scorpions in Arizona alone.
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Q: Is the “hue” in the expression “hue and cry” related to the “hue” that refers to color?
A: No, the “hue” in “hue and cry” is a horse of another color.
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We talk about connecting to the Internet, a pipe through which travels all of the information flowing into or out of the law practice. It is not that simple, though, and that oversimplification can mean that you overlook possible holes that might make your client or law practice information vulnerable to access by othe... | <urn:uuid:1b06d259-5275-4357-901c-f968dd7fc193> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slaw.ca/2011/09/09/holier-than-thou/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951156 | 1,120 | 2.53125 | 3 |
3.3.2 Family Group Conference
SCOPE OF THIS CHAPTER
This chapter outlines the Hertfordshire approach to Family Group Conferences. The circumstances in which they may be used is described along with the process for making a referral to the Family Group Conference Service.
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In early October 2012, intense bushfires blazed in Australia’s Northern Territory, in a remote area northeast of Elliott. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of smoke from the fires streaming northeast on October 6, 2012. Red outlines indicate hot spots... | <urn:uuid:635f7cfa-b579-4678-ae68-525b856fa711> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=79366 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86073 | 282 | 4.125 | 4 |
Feel Informed. Give Blood.
Since there is no substitute for human blood and supplies must be constantly renewed, the need for donation is great. About three gallons of blood is required to support the entire nation’s blood need for just one minute.
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We have carried you through the more commonly known vitamins and hope the knowledge has been presented in a manner not confusing to you. There are other vitamin factors which have been isolated by the world’s biochemists, but they are a more recent discovery and their use not fully determined. Below, you will find, wit... | <urn:uuid:bf696530-483e-4053-9d4f-6bdfc4920e0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://health.yodelout.com/vitamin-factors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95135 | 646 | 2.6875 | 3 |
On December 11, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 96 (I), which declared genocide, defined as "a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups," to be "a crime under international law which the civilized world condemns, and for the commission of which principals and accomplices -- w... | <urn:uuid:6dc3ca32-c6fc-430f-8634-e218d08fe1e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/menachem-rosensaft/criminalizing-massmurder-_b_1150463.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964671 | 1,225 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Crazed squirrels: we’ve all seen them. Some dashing toward you only to stop short long enough to glare with beady eyes before fleeing, others dive-bombing the dirt, coming up with their heads waving back and forth. They’re the butt of many a joke on college campuses, providing endless amusement with their antics. Some ... | <urn:uuid:ef72fd40-9634-4619-96fc-2fef0cbe48bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2014/03/28/squirrels-nut-sleuths-just-nuts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951377 | 810 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Traditional dental restoratives, or fillings, include gold, porcelain, and composite. The strength and durability of traditional dental materials make them useful for situations where restored teeth must withstand extreme forces that result from chewing, often in the back of the mouth.
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Predict to prevent
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dance, music, and theatre. The characteristics of each discipline will be listed along with
brief explanations of how each element is unique to the discipline.
Oils are one of the oldest forms of art expression. The oils are used most often
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Poverty is Complex
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Northern cavalry are horse-mounted warriors of the north.
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Figures 1 through 3 illustrate the polar curve r = a + b cos θ for various values of a and b. What determines whether the curve exhibits a cusp (Fig.1), a loop (Fig. 2), or neither (Fig. 3)? Does your answer apply also to polar curves of the form r = a+ b sin θ? Given a and b,
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The woman in history who has meant the most to me was a thirteen year-old girl when she began the diary about which John Kennedy wrote, "Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank." With German Jews... | <urn:uuid:b5fc67d8-ea08-437b-875a-a03496b7a1e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alice-hoffman/voices-carry_b_839048.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983095 | 895 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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How Epicurean Metaphysics leads to Epicurean Ethics
1. The Epicurean position in metaphysics is materialistic.
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How Government Makes Us Fatter
January 9, 2013
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In the influential essay in which he claimed that Jeremy Bentham was one of the "great seminal minds" of the age, John Stuart Mill described the characteristic intellectual approach deployed by this father of Utilitarianism. Although on the one hand Mill's presentation of Benthamite method makes it appear the very anth... | <urn:uuid:548522fa-8a5f-444b-ac5b-6a1e208ca880> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/philosophy/bentham1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942524 | 701 | 2.625 | 3 |
Catholics remember and celebrate the life of the great Arab Church Father St. John of Damascus on Dec. 4.
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What is golden rice?
|Golden rice is the result
of an effort to develop rice varieties that produce
provitamin-A (beta-carotene) as a means of alleviating
vitamin A (retinol) deficiencies in the diets of poor
and disadvantaged people in developing countries. Because
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Global system could cut disaster toll by 2018
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A global satellite system should come on line next decade, potentially saving billions of dollars and thousands of lives by boosting preparedness for natural disasters, a top scientist said on Wednesday.
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In 1349, nearly 1,000 Jews died in one day from the Black Death in Erfurt, Germany. The plague wiped out about a third of Europe's population.
In Erfurt, the Jewish population was destroyed and Europe's oldest synagogue abandoned.
Fast forward to Erfurt in 1998, when a trove of jewellery weighing nearly 30kg (66 pounds... | <urn:uuid:54f9fa92-8d56-4347-b102-df35352f6754> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/02/uk-black-death-gold-jewellery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956335 | 290 | 3.5 | 4 |
It portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930s. Bekonscot has been run by the Church Army since 1978 and donates large amounts of money to charity. It has raised the equivalent of almost £5,000,000 so far and has been visited by more than 14,000,000 visitors.
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A weed found in gardens can boost the memory, researchers in the north-east of England claim.
Academics at Northumbria University have made the discovery
Lemon balm, a shrub that resembles a small nettle, improved "secondary memory" in tested volunteers according to two academics at Northumbria University.
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Windows on American Life
Social science research offers insights into American lifestyles and opinions
What do we see when Americans allow us a glimpse into their lives through the windows of social science research? Longitudinal surveys and panel studies funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) provide research... | <urn:uuid:fb3b8f91-3618-4a99-807a-16899caed851> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108176&org=SES | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911537 | 843 | 2.984375 | 3 |
By David Bresch, Head Sustainability, Swiss Re.
When we talk of climate change, we tend to think of the frightening scenarios of melting ice-caps, rising sea-levels, growing carbon emissions and the like. However, the last decades of climate research have been a great source of innovation for insurers, the renewable en... | <urn:uuid:c70a72c4-f6e9-4745-b446-bb1339378575> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/re-thinking-climate-change-is-a-rich-source-of-innovation-2471.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943735 | 1,086 | 3.140625 | 3 |
"The heart of most jobs, especially the higher-paying more interesting
jobs, is teamwork. Teamwork involves getting others to cooperate, leading
others, coping with complex power and influence issues, and helping solve
people's problems in working with each other. Teamwork involves
communication, effective coordination... | <urn:uuid:b031939c-2c39-4a21-a79b-078f7517b054> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ag.arizona.edu/classes/ram446/lecnotes/team.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949298 | 707 | 3.625 | 4 |
Scientists from the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco report in the Journal of Neuroscience that raising levels of the life-extending protein klotho can protect against learning and memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Remarkably, this boost in cognition occurred d... | <urn:uuid:a2c90e7f-0222-41cd-b0e6-fc87bf03fed5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/gi-plt020515.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926499 | 961 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Fences have been constructed around all 20 treatment stations. Signs have been clearly posted at each fence plot site and park patrons are prohibited from handling any equipment or entering the fence plots. Each station is under police surveillance.
Centreville After an unseasonably warm winter, Fairfax County health o... | <urn:uuid:2bb8dc79-61eb-4b30-ac86-9ef4fba8a122> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2012/may/31/combatting-lyme-disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945829 | 1,022 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Parts of the island nation of Palau in the western Pacific are being affected by a powerful typhoon.
The National Weather Service in Guam says Super Typhoon Bopha is carrying winds of up to 250 kilometres an hour.
Meteorologist Derek Williams says Bopha has the potential to be as devastating as Cylone Tracy which hit t... | <urn:uuid:cd668be2-8806-44fd-bee0-2b070c5abff7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/12/palau-philippines-brace-for-typhoon-bopha.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95328 | 416 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The Mount of Olives History - An Introduction (520BC-85AD)
This brief essay is about thinking differently about Olives as well as the Mount of Olives - its history, and other things, too.
The Mount of Olives is actually a series of four hills, two of them being situated directly east of the Temple Mount (a "sabbath day... | <urn:uuid:0f395f52-10e7-4560-9092-6f17fd58a7a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ilibros.net/Mount.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96433 | 2,926 | 3.625 | 4 |
Think before you print and spend your greenPRINT funds wisely. There are a number of ways to reduce the amount of paper you print.
- Print Preview is your friend! Always select File, Print Preview to see just how many pages your document contains. This feature is available in most software packages and Internet browser... | <urn:uuid:447713b0-c622-4cab-aaae-4f4e16ef8d9a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bristolcc.edu/students/bcccampuscard/greenprint/printingtips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897437 | 424 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The greatest dispute in early Indian thinking took place between Ashoka, the emperor of India in the third century BC, and Kautilya, an adviser to a previous emperor. Ashoka argued that justice was contained in good behaviour. Kautilya countered that justice was protected by institutions. If India does not change its b... | <urn:uuid:4a9295ae-e23a-446e-a550-ebc28ef410a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/leaders/article3316651.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960289 | 120 | 2.625 | 3 |
Ocracoke Island is a dynamic, ever-changing island. To illustrate, consider First Grass, an area on the northwest side of South Point Road, about one and three quarters of a mile from NC Highway 12. As Roger Payne comments in Place Names of the Outer Banks "the sparse vegetation on Ocracoke Island is evident in this de... | <urn:uuid:77627f32-a6c8-4a76-a005-8171e129cf5c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://villagecraftsmen.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-grass.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953548 | 351 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Ketubot 44 - 50
Worse Than the Cruel Raven
- Ketubot 49b
There are two stages in the life of a child in regard to the support due him or her from the father. In a later gemara (Ketubot 65b) it is clearly stated that he must support his child until the age of six. But in our own gemara we learn that when the seat of the... | <urn:uuid:b4606e35-e457-46cd-ac5b-e4f897a5c3e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ohr.edu/this_week/talmudigest/3240 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983811 | 306 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Amy DeStefano was a single mother juggling family life and a full-time job three winters ago when she caught what at first was just a persistent February cold. Then it spiraled into pneumonia and spread to her heart.
By last January, DeStefano, at 39, was on the waiting list for a heart transplant at Massachusetts Gene... | <urn:uuid:e2881f7c-4c97-4a19-b36f-6610689b4303> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/01/11/beating-heart-transplants-could-boost-success-rate/XG4Jzwy4ER9K1rIvGZfGyM/story.html?p1=ArticleTab_Article_Bottom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959563 | 1,268 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Keep Lighting Green from Start to Finish With Proper Packaging and Disposal of Used Fluorescent Lamps
- Created: Thursday, 11 March 2010
- Dr. Lisa Brosseau, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health -
Laws and Regulations
Organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are ta... | <urn:uuid:1f38caa9-5b58-45b6-8d0e-40189eb13dc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/1058-gdm/features/7722-keep-lighting-green-from-start-to-finish-with-proper-packaging-and-disposal-of-used-fluorescent-lamps?start=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906531 | 495 | 3.359375 | 3 |
EAST LANSING -- Farmers and field scientists can now instantly identify diseases attacking crops and plants, thanks to the invention of a Michigan State University professor.
Syed Hashsham, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has developed the Gene-Z device, which performs genetic analysis using a low-cos... | <urn:uuid:ed5ce6f8-60ca-4133-a724-85d090bd69df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2011/11/msu_professor_invents_device_c.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934275 | 550 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Treasury of Scripture
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
by. Heb. by the hand of. dwell
Leviticus 23:34,40-43 Speak to the children of Israel, saying...
Deuteronomy 16:13-15 You shall observe the ... | <urn:uuid:dea3d98e-c606-4dab-8198-16d5064fac4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bibleapps.com/nehemiah/8-14.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966275 | 354 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Symbols of Australia: Uncovering the stories behind the myths
Symbols of Australia offers an entertaining, provocative and often surprising look at 26 of Australia's best-loved symbols. Some are quirky and frivolous and others get taken for granted, but these symbols have the power to make a nation.
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Nasa's robo-helpers floating on the ISS: This week they will get an upgrade giving them 3D vision. The photo is taken from the Daily Mail website.
Nasa plans to send Google's 3D smartphones into space to function as the "eyes and brains" of free-flying robots inside the Space Station.
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The bells tolled across Bundaberg in south-east Queensland this morning to signal the start of the turtle season at Mon Repos Beach.
The area is known as the largest loggerhead turtle rookery in the South Pacific, and the heaviest population of nesting marine turtles along the eastern mainland of Australia.
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Lewis Carroll Introduction
What Lewis Carroll did... and why you should care
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll - was a mathematician, photographer, and writer of stories, books and poems that he liked to call "nonsense." His best-known works were the stories he wrote to entertain Al... | <urn:uuid:d5203ebc-c3cb-43b3-8a81-9637d15785a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/lewis-carroll/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979885 | 318 | 3.25 | 3 |
Pillow Lava in the Trinity Mountains
November 25, 2006
The formation of pillow lava shown above lies over a strata of volcanic ash and diatomite in the Trinity Mountains of Nevada, an area once covered by a fresh water sea, called Lake Lahontan. Pillow lava is formed when lava is extruded under water. The outer rind is... | <urn:uuid:96b3262b-d071-4717-bc60-58846f0b8824> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2006/11/pillow-lava-in-the-trinity-mountains.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933069 | 121 | 3.3125 | 3 |
28th November 2012
A large gas tanker ship is set to sail across the arctic from Europe to Japan, now possible with changing climate conditions, officials said.
The Ob River, a large tanker carrying liquefied natural gas, left Norway Nov. 7 and has sailed north of Russia on its way to Japan, using an arctic route that ... | <urn:uuid:ebbe944b-830c-4fd7-820e-a84220c74e84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=83533 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948296 | 291 | 2.53125 | 3 |
A multinational team headed by medical geneticists at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center has discovered a gene responsible for a serious and even life-threatening inherited disorder.
The gene causes inflammation of blood vessels and damage to the immune system.
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Kidney stones form in the kidney. If they stay in the kidney, they typically do not cause pain. When they travel out of the body through the tubes of the urinary tract (including the ureters, which connect the kidney to the bladder, or the urethra, which leads outside the body), their movement may cause:
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In 2007, scientists writing in the British medical journal the Lancet caused a stir when they ranked 20 often-abused drugs in terms of their degree of harm.
Few readers had objections to the scientists’ naming heroin as the worst drug, or khat (a stimulant popular mostly in the Arab world) coming in as least dangerous.... | <urn:uuid:b0f4c85d-e224-4709-85dd-eded6b403868> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.silive.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2014/03/attitudes_toward_drugs_evolve.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963346 | 247 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Editor's Note: Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer and founder ofDyson Company. Fareed Zakaria recently interviewed
By James Dyson - Special to CNN
Last week, President Obama granted 10 states freedom from the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The decade-old act holds states to a 2014 deadline to have all s... | <urn:uuid:7718a51c-9aef-411c-86eb-6409c56dc5cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/21/dyson-from-standardization-to-inspiration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953715 | 1,069 | 2.75 | 3 |
When someone dies in their prime, in the light of public adoration and the height of worldly fame, it will almost always be the death that becomes the focal point. This is a sad fact of our media-dominated culture. Amelia Earhart is well known for disappearing, never to be seen again, while she was piloting a flight ar... | <urn:uuid:ab806473-e1e3-4841-8f83-847cd424ea68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.curledup.com/eastdawn.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989203 | 944 | 2.75 | 3 |
Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania have developed a deep and mutually beneficial relationship with the Greater Honeyguide bird, which, as its name indicates, leads people to sources of wild honey. Yale anthropologist Brian Wood has studied in great detail the intricate, and often surprising, interactions betwe... | <urn:uuid:80999d83-42d1-439e-ab0a-d336fe33ad0f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.yale.edu/2014/09/11/hadza-foragers-say-hungry-honeyguides-lead-them-more-honey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961179 | 426 | 3.28125 | 3 |
From: Luis Abril, Alcatel Alenia Space
For an RF application, which SPDT is better: an absorptive one or a reflective one?
In general it is always better if everything in a system is matched in all conditions. However, an absorbtive switch frequently costs more and may have more insertion loss. If the reflection does n... | <urn:uuid:9bd59a2d-205f-4126-89ba-9edf70e24ace> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/4484-ask-harlan-march-20-2007 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92447 | 1,284 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Republic of Kenya
Area: 582,646 sq. km. (224,960 sq mi.); slightly smaller than Texas.
Cities: Capital--Nairobi (pop. 2.9 million; 2007 est.). Other cities--Mombasa (828,500; 2006 est.), Kisumu (322,000; 1999), Nakuru (219,366; 1999), Eldoret (193,830; 1999).
Terrain: Kenya rises from a low coastal plain on the Indian ... | <urn:uuid:6027c925-fe9a-4c1d-ba83-1e1a504b287a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bgn/kenya/113547.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95503 | 6,653 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Robinson, Edward; Ahmad, Rafi; Phillip-Jordan, C.; Armstrong, M.
Author Affiliation, Ana.
Geography and Geology; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
The Burlington landslide, mouth of the Rio Grande, Jamaica: Example of an ancient slide dam?
Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica
Date of Publication
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Art in Thailand is mainly found in Bangkok, where it is still very wide spread across the world. Bangkok has been the capitol of Thailand since 1782. It has many elegant and beautiful ancient buildings, the oldest originating around 5,000 years ago. Since this time, the style and color of the architecture and art has c... | <urn:uuid:5552db55-427c-4f5f-ab4c-7318432bd1f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/36959.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988516 | 397 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Inclusion in IMSHSP
The Illinois Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Project believes that each child is unique and supports the right of all children to be fully included. We see inclusion as a value, not as an educational strategy. Inclusion means equity and a climate of acceptance, where opportunities are constantly cre... | <urn:uuid:f9a30b07-e0f0-48bb-9fa8-11e8245849a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=51550 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939418 | 951 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The Andean condor that hatched at the Denver Zoo in 2007 is about to fly the coop. The bird, brought up with limited human contact, was airlifted to Colombia, where it will be released into a native habitat it has never seen: the Andes Mountains. There, the condor will spend 45 days in quarantine, joining 80 other cond... | <urn:uuid:a3487a42-c54c-4757-bff7-6649779e5107> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.5280.com/blogs/2010/12/17/denvers-zoo-helps-reintroduce-condors-colombia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970485 | 251 | 2.90625 | 3 |
(a) An aqueous solution containing 10 g of optically pure fructose was diluted to 500 mL with water and placed in a polarimeter tube 20 cm long. The measured rotation was -5.20°. Calculate the specific rotation of fructose.
(b) If this solution were mixed with 500 mL of a solution containing 5 g of racemic fructose, wh... | <urn:uuid:c2a627c9-6c0d-4aff-8993-49df4d1da8f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/homework-help/aqueous-solution-containing-10-g-optically-pure-fructose-dil-chapter-7-problem-42p-solution-9780077218980-exc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952977 | 94 | 3.078125 | 3 |
What is Crab Theory?
The "crab theory" is used in the Deaf community as a metaphor to describe the tendency of some Deaf people to criticize or put down the successes or achievements of other Deaf people. It may take several different forms: malicious and negative gossip, grudges, social rejection, etc., and is directe... | <urn:uuid:40c3b1ae-5bd2-48ad-aa26-a807f320bb63> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=351730 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963769 | 914 | 3.25 | 3 |
A very common question which arises in every health conscience person's mind is how late is too late for dinner? Does it really affect your health if you eat late?
The answer given by most dieticians and doctors is: There is no cut-off time of dinner. An early dinner proposition is designed to cut down on late-night sn... | <urn:uuid:36c78195-4f73-4720-988f-51ffcf8ed49c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sooperarticles.com/food-drinks-articles/what-constitutes-healthy-dinner-11647.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979226 | 471 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Students with disabilities often have motivational issues. Motivation is needed to be a successful learner. A positive attitude can make all of the difference. Ways to motivate children is often a concern when children have had negative experiences with education.
Student motivation is essential to learning. Motivation... | <urn:uuid:5720be1d-c344-4973-99e5-89a5a2856bc4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art4888.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968291 | 514 | 4.34375 | 4 |
HPV vaccination: A public health priority
Cancer Centers issue consensus statement urging action
Today, National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Centers across the country issued a consensus statement urging action to increase vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV).
The American Cancer Society’s Debbie Saslo... | <urn:uuid:71a6a65a-84c7-4c43-b9ba-0d7b35341cab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pressroom.cancer.org/HPV2016 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942759 | 460 | 2.59375 | 3 |
by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien)
© 2000-2002 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.2, updated 13 November 2002
What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when the Ann... | <urn:uuid:ea2a6c09-eb9b-4e2e-8c55-9f4654e1e4cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Conn.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873501 | 1,302 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Skip to comments.Hunt begins for Civil War sub [USS Alligator]
Posted on 08/25/2004 10:05:58 AM PDT by Constitution Day
Hunt begins for Civil War sub
Researchers use high-tech equipment to scan the ocean floor for the USS Alligator
In the battle for submarine fame, the CSS Hunley has far outclassed the USS Alligator.
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The Barred Owl Calls
Barred Owls are very territorial, and they don't migrate. Solitary calls from a male in early spring probably mean that he has not attracted a mate. In May and June, he continues to hoot, though less frequently. By summer, breeding season has passed. Maybe this solitary Barred Owl is w... | <urn:uuid:d3c685f5-1422-4528-85be-2357a5067095> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://birdnote.org/show/barred-owl-calls | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970111 | 570 | 2.71875 | 3 |
By Martin Asser
BBC News Online
Since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, Israel has spent 30 years at war with giant neighbour Egypt and another 25 years in what both sides admit is a "Cold Peace".
Optimism in 1979 has failed to develop into close ties
The wars and subsequent peace have always been determin... | <urn:uuid:ef92203d-91b0-4850-96f3-b33926a246f9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3726502.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969338 | 1,039 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
COAL-MINER REGISTRY BEING COMPILED FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO MINERS
In a feature article, the Columbus Dispatch reported that a registry of coal miners in southeastern Ohio as far back as the 1800s will be available next year. Such a database looks to be a major watershed for tracing this region... | <urn:uuid:928cb818-3c89-4988-a53a-be59c2e6844a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://statelibraryohiogen.blogspot.com/2007/10/coal-miner-registry-being-compiled-for.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96333 | 365 | 2.75 | 3 |
University of Phoenix, AustinInnovation, Design, and Creativity for a Competitive Advantage - OI/461March 2, 2009The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss the four basic phases of the innovative process and how the team will apply the innovative process to change the Greyhound bus lines the team has chosen t... | <urn:uuid:23198e07-88dd-49b7-8204-7470481878d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.writework.com/essay/innovation-process-paper | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930869 | 354 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The HP Way
The HP Way
Hewlett-Packard began as an instrument company, but it was the second-largest minicomputer maker by 1978. One of the few to survive an industry downturn in the 1980s, it absorbed many competitors, including Compaq, DEC, and Tandem.
Founders David Packard and William Hewlett established a legendary... | <urn:uuid:169eb3e4-f87d-4c1a-9acd-274adbe6f6fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/337 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96189 | 432 | 3.078125 | 3 |
University of Texas -- AUSTIN, Texas-A new low cost test for acute pancreatitis that gets results much faster than existing tests has been developed by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin.
The sensor, which could be produced for as little as a dollar, is built with a 12-cent LED light, aluminum foil, gelati... | <urn:uuid:b2704895-46ef-4e61-b0e5-9511463ec350> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biospace.com/News/self-powered-blood-activated-sensor-detects/218216 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94414 | 662 | 2.859375 | 3 |
ITHACA, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Researchers in New York have found a way to clone an aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum that could boost crop yields in developing countries.
In soils that are too acidic, aluminum locked up in clay minerals dissolves into the soil as toxic, electrically charged ions, making it hard for most pla... | <urn:uuid:ff767209-5a6a-4991-a69f-d98bccb9ce34> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2007/08/27/Scientists-create-sorghum-for-toxic-soils/UPI-12921188272467/?rel=32721347913997 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945332 | 192 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Players’ Code of Conduct
- Play by the rules and the laws of the game.
- Never argue with the referee’s decision.
- Play for the fun of it, not just to please your parents or coach.
- Control your temper.
- Work equally hard for yourself and your team, thus your team’s performance will benefit, and so will your own.
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The dry conditions we are seeing is giving us a break from a frequent summer pest. Laura Jesse, Director of the Interdisciplinary Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic at the ISU Extension says the mosquito population is lower not just in this part of the state but in all of Iowa. She notes this is one of the lowest popul... | <urn:uuid:ca5a7b17-7c72-4d25-a837-8e672f31ad37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kciiradio.com/2012/07/lack-of-summer-pests-blamed-on-dry-conditions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938947 | 114 | 2.59375 | 3 |
While some people give red roses as a lovers gift some are a bit more mischievous and give anthuriums instead. Anthuriums are also known as Boy Flowers because the “flower” of the plant has a resemblance to male anatomy. Other common names for the anthurium include Flamingo flower and Tail flower. Anthuriums may be fou... | <urn:uuid:3150d681-f609-4949-8d7e-6b267456ec54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-grow-anthurium-or-boy-flowers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943003 | 1,182 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Everyone remembers kindergarten: the days of finger-painting, singing the alphabet, and having an excuse to put unidentifiable objects in their nose. As the grades got higher, the memories of finger-painting morph into studying, songs turn into taking notes, and finally our nasal passages are clear. The memories of kin... | <urn:uuid:6b60e9ac-4d13-4c4a-a754-70a1d7e9af16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://msaek.blogspot.com/2007/10/mainstreaming-analysis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970818 | 1,408 | 4.0625 | 4 |
There are 78 organs in the human body.It is difficult to give the right answer. There are 13 major organ systems in human body. The organs work together systematically to keep you alive and active and each plays a specific role related to your health and development. By definition, an organ is a structure that comprise... | <urn:uuid:23e79b2c-52f6-409f-a38a-3cd38a8a2548> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.howmanyarethere.net/how-many-organs-are-in-the-human-body/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.842201 | 783 | 3.625 | 4 |
major difference between procedural,structured and object oriented language.please any one ask me..........
In procedural programming the main emphasis is on procedure while in object oriented, the data is important part and is more secured in object oriented program while structured programming uses only the sequence ... | <urn:uuid:58a2b86c-e98e-4237-90d1-286f82b2bdaf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.roseindia.net/answers/viewqa/Java-Beginners/13530-java.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857871 | 111 | 2.921875 | 3 |
This was 195th day of the year and 170 days remained in the year.
July 14 in History
Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a crime to publish false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the U.S. government.
Billy the Kid was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett in New Mexico.
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With its 300-plus days of sunshine annually, Arizona would seem a perfect place to produce solar power. Elected officials and solar developers alike are touting the positive effects of solar power in Arizona and the nation - claiming it will create hundreds of thousands of “green” jobs and replace energy production usi... | <urn:uuid:bbc41c95-f6cf-474d-a9d0-aa65c06e3550> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2010/jun/08/realities-solar-energy-production/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940211 | 848 | 3.296875 | 3 |
U of M Earthducation Expedition 6 heads to the land of Everest
University of Minnesota team will explore links between education and sustainability in Nepal
April 18, 2014
What does education look like in remote mountain villages where electricity is nonexistent or unreliable? How does a developing country seeking to g... | <urn:uuid:dd648885-8e8d-4f63-813f-34d379e7f3ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discover.umn.edu/news/environment/earthducation-expedition-6-heads-land-everest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926872 | 763 | 2.75 | 3 |
Talking to your kids about sex can be daunting, no matter how close you are. But discussing issues like abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and birth control can help lower teens’ risk of an unintended pregnancy or contracting an STD.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supports sex education that in... | <urn:uuid:8d08c2ed-5519-463e-8fdd-27f7c649ced9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rchsd.org/health-articles/about-condoms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938001 | 1,475 | 2.765625 | 3 |
In late June of 1988, just under 24 years ago, NASA’s James Hansen testified before the U.S. Congress about global warming. He noted that the Earth had been remarkably warm in the months leading up to that moment, and said he was 99 percent certain that the overall warming trend in the temperature data was due to human... | <urn:uuid:007a8369-a92e-4add-970a-ff4ba1f9e973> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3981 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975054 | 298 | 2.84375 | 3 |
( Originally Published 1911 )
Casualty insurance defined.—Under the general heading "Casualty Insurance" are embraced all forms of insurance which do not strictly come under fire, life or marine. Of the fifty-one types of insurance listed in the first chapters of this work, nearly thirty would fall under this group. Th... | <urn:uuid:35850557-f002-48d6-8e25-1c1121551fe7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oldandsold.com/articles17/insurance-22.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982536 | 4,313 | 2.9375 | 3 |
December 6, 2004
Former NHTSA President Delineates History of Automobile Safety and Liability
“The nut behind the wheel,” was the automobile industry’s refrain 50 years ago in response to car crashes. Crashes were the driver’s fault, and the solution to deaths and injuries was driver education. “The auto industry avoid... | <urn:uuid:60359c79-b61d-4cab-9516-9e82c9e11042> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jhsph.edu/news/stories/2004/claybrook.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97502 | 911 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Being able to focus your mind and keep your attention directed is really the foundation of every kind of mental training. Thatís why we are so delighted to be bringing these concentration techniques to you.
We have distilled the essence of over two millennia of inner science teachings and technology along with the late... | <urn:uuid:185fb5d3-0c99-4d51-91af-9450e4c27358> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://self-guided.com/concentration-techniques.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942173 | 632 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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