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"Mexican America" is a sampling of objects from the collections of the National Museum of American History. The stories behind these objects reflect the history of the Mexican presence in the United States. They illustrate a fundamentally American story about the centuries-old encounter between distinct (yet sometimes ... | <urn:uuid:4478a0e0-0d87-415b-be72-f677111778d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/mexican-america?edan_start=0&ogmt_view=list&edan_fq=culture%3A%22Mexican+Americans%22&edan_fq=date%3A%221840s%22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.776935 | 1,932 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Small animals can be a lot of fun to interact with if you plan ahead and follow a few safety tips.
Most of us get a pet for companionship and for the simple joy of playing and spending time with the animal. Unlike dogs or cats, small animals such as gerbils, rabbits and guinea pigs have fewer means of communicating to ... | <urn:uuid:80c2cb4f-b93d-4090-8883-b0e0c8e7ac59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hartz.com/Small_Animals/Getting_Started/safety_tips_for_small_animal_play.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936192 | 589 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
With an increase in worldwide environmental pollution caused by non-biodegradable polymers, research on the development of biodegradable polymers is both necessary and valuable to support global sustainability and to help solve the petroleum crisis and environmental p... | <urn:uuid:2f435330-646e-4349-a3b0-ef7d70389cab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biocom.iastate.edu/team/grewell.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938234 | 255 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Life and family
Her full name is "Deborah, wife of Lappidoth." (Hebrew לַפִּידֹ֑ות) (Judges 4:4 ) That could mean the wife of a man named Lappidoth or simply "the woman of the lamps," because Lappidoth is the plural of לַפִּידֹ֑ lappid a lamp, torch, or flame. Some Rabbinical commentators identify this Lappidoth with B... | <urn:uuid:98360001-f503-49a8-9ea8-74c25db97ae9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.conservapedia.com/Deborah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98126 | 1,176 | 3 | 3 |
The Truman Show
In the movie “The Truman Show”, director Peter Weir, uses many symbols to convey ideas throughout the film. By the use an unfinished bridge, a figurehead of an eagle, and baptism, Weir plants ideas in the movie that provides the the audience more than what the viewers may actually see. In The Truman Sho... | <urn:uuid:0c164e02-32ac-4c33-8fe8-a95cb71b0397> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Bunny-Love-1403636.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960508 | 415 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Skin: Head to Toe Safety
Almost everybody has skin marks such as freckles, age spots or moles. It's important to keep a close eye on them. A sudden change in a spot or mole is a possible warning sign of a serious skin condition.
When you notice an abnormality, see your doctor immediately. Many forms of skin cancer spre... | <urn:uuid:4917f6e8-2eef-4693-9cc0-8ae28e9c61a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.bcbsal.org/web/health-focus-skin-cancer-prevention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88529 | 514 | 3.1875 | 3 |
This Day In Writing History
On July 17th, 1889, the legendary American mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After graduating high school in 1909, he entered the Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana.
Gardner later dropped out and moved to California, where he became a self-tau... | <urn:uuid:c808be61-0b91-43ee-b314-9c45d8e3a94c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://internetwritingworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/notes-for-july-17th-2013.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981041 | 999 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Sleep helps the mind learn complicated tasks and helps people recover learning they otherwise thought they had forgotten over the course of a day, research at the University of Chicago shows.
Using a test that involved learning to play video games, researchers showed for the first time that people who had "forgotten" h... | <urn:uuid:babdf88b-f170-4358-8bda-7a99a3a2f541> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Sleep-helps-people-learn-complicated-tasks-29938-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976758 | 780 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Farm Feature: Resistant Fruit Varieties Reduce Risk
Farm Feature: Resistant Fruit Varieties Reduce Risk
Suppresses annual weeds with mulches
Improves soils with animal manure
Uses disease-resistant varieties
Wisconsin fruit grower Eric Carlson pays twice the price of conventional fertilizers to feed his half-acre of tr... | <urn:uuid:1eb1f794-cbd7-414c-9799-696ca2affff1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Manage-Insects-on-Your-Farm/Text-Version/Principles-of-Ecologically-Based-Pest-Management/Farm-Feature-Resistant-Fruit-Varieties-Reduce-Risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96304 | 1,362 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Dental Care During Pregnancy
When you are pregnant, there will be many different health care professionals to visit. You will be seeing your gynecologist, general practitioner, and others. However, it is important that you remember to visit the dentist. While oral health is always important, it is more so during pregna... | <urn:uuid:efc93eb0-74c1-4a39-8756-9b69802806b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases_conditions/hic_Am_I_Pregnant/hic_Medical_Care_During_Pregnancy/hic_Dental_Care_During_Pregnancy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937087 | 625 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Christmas Trees Recycled Into Fish Habitats Across the Country
U.S. Forest Service/Public Domain
Around the country, Christmas trees are recycled for an unlikely purpose: they make for good fish habitat.
From southern California to South Carolina, fish and wildlife agencies have been collecting Christmas trees with pla... | <urn:uuid:f3c78e4d-f792-4f6e-a905-3e140acd6c52> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/christmas-trees-recycled-fish-habitats-across-country.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902894 | 216 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Remarkable Skull of Predatory Dinosaur Unearthed on Madagascar
This material is available primarily for archival purposes. Telephone numbers or other contact information may be out of date; please see current contact information at media contacts.
Several specimens of a large predatory dinosaur -- including a nearly co... | <urn:uuid:d9a5c2b4-a0ce-4190-81ce-864401f32b46> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102891 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946121 | 825 | 3.3125 | 3 |
conservation of energy/cylindrical polar coordinates
A particle moves on the smooth inside surface of the hemisphere
z = −sqrt(a^2− r^2)
where (r, θ, z) denote cylindrical polar coordinates, with the z-axis vertically upward.
Initially the particle is at z = 0, and it is projected with speed V in the θ-direction.
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Dominican Republic Designates Mangrove Park as Ramsar Site
29 January 2013: The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) has reported that the Government of the Dominican Republic has designated the Parque Nacional Manglares del Baj... | <urn:uuid:479ab268-5025-48e8-a08e-b4a1f59fe566> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sids-l.iisd.org/news/dominican-republic-designates-mangrove-park-as-ramsar-site/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924091 | 183 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The kernel sees the physical memory and provides a view to the processes. If you ever wondered how a process can have a 4 GB memory space if your whole machine got only 512 MB of RAM, that's why. Each process has its own virtual memory space. The addresses in that address space are mapped either to physical pages or to... | <urn:uuid:64212c32-14d1-40aa-ac14-2616384c4182> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12054/what-is-the-difference-between-32-bit-pae-and-64-bit-kernels/12071 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955772 | 560 | 3.40625 | 3 |
184.108.40.206 Institutional feasibility
Institutional realities inevitably constrain environmental policy decisions. Environmental policies that are well adapted to existing institutional constraints have a high degree of institutional feasibility. Economists traditionally evaluate instruments for environmental policy... | <urn:uuid:bfff71e8-2ac3-4750-9b34-8a0dc050def0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/ch13s13-1-2-4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950659 | 718 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Nasta, Susheila; Ahmed, Rehana; Stadtler, Florian; Mukherjee, Sumita; Boehmer, Elleke and Ranasinha, Ruvani (2010). Making Britain: discover how South Asians shaped the nation, 1870-1950. The Open University.
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This database is a major output from the AHRC-funded resea... | <urn:uuid:8482d55d-e03f-4a54-847c-67b6991beaab> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oro.open.ac.uk/31434/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862156 | 507 | 2.546875 | 3 |
"The law says, should any future Greek government try to default in any way on its debts – by setting up a debt commission or by any other means, even one accepted by international law and precedent, then Greece chooses to relinquish all claims on the assets of the Greek people and the nation and equally relinquishes a... | <urn:uuid:07635592-95f1-4567-a038-89262b506070> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-greek-people-and-nation-to-be-sold.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950191 | 345 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The color green isn’t as green as it seems, according to the New York Times, which reports that the chemicals typically used to pigment plastic or paper with shades of green are actually toxic and harmful to the environment. So harmful, in fact, that green-colored plastic and paper cannot be recycled or composted safel... | <urn:uuid:81b3b5aa-1417-4804-8c20-3259b318ea06> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.care2.com/greenliving/the-color-green-isnt-actually-green.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942537 | 566 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Yes, there has been 99.9% of all life forms that have appeared on Earth that are now extinct! And on average any specie has a lifespan of about 4 million years!
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(Of a body, especially in an orbiting spacecraft) not apparently acted on by gravity.
- Her body slowly felt weightless and she landed softly on her hands and knees.
- So far little is known of how the female body is affected by weightless conditions.
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A selection of articles related to bahai ethics.
Original articles from our library related to the Bahai Ethics. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Bahai Ethics.
- The 'W' Word (Witch), What Does it Mean?
- The other day I sat down and again tried to define what it is that ... | <urn:uuid:f763471f-5e42-4e74-83af-1dedaa08703d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.realmagick.com/bahai-ethics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922514 | 915 | 2.59375 | 3 |
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — The stability of West Coast nuclear plants is coming into question after a massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan and caused two explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi plant there, but officials insist that facilities here are well equipped to withstand such disasters.
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Lincoln Presidential Library celebrates 125 years of history by honoring ‘The Library Lady’ on April 6
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois built one of the nation’s leading historical libraries thanks to the vision of Jessie Palmer Weber, who guided the institution ... | <urn:uuid:f606ceb4-aed9-46c2-bfe2-288cb743fa14> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.illinois.gov/ihpa/news/Pages/Library-Lady.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946086 | 434 | 2.609375 | 3 |
What is in this article?:
- Cantaloupe outbreak a listeria warning
- Investigation farm to fork
- “This outbreak in cantaloupe is a warning. We need to learn a lot more about how the Listeria bacterium behaves throughout the food system in order to protect growers and consumers."
Investigation farm to fork
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Insubordination often is a sign of disrespect for one's colleagues, whether they are co-workers or company leaders. It's manifested in a number of different ways, but insubordination is equivalent to defiance and disregard for workplace policies. Employers implement workplace policies to maintain structure and encourag... | <urn:uuid:84c6b73c-56e3-4501-af50-fe247dfeb703> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/punishments-insubordination-10850.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00155-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93866 | 749 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Maybe you were not the best history student? The case of Richard Lance McLaren, and his wife Evelyn, demonstrates why it’s important to pay attention, at least just a little bit.
McLaren and his wife, residents of West Texas, apparently forgot that the Lone Star State was, in fact, a state. After appointing himself “Ch... | <urn:uuid:6026bb13-5719-40e9-be0c-22463f9fc6fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.legaljuice.com/2007/04/remember_the_alamo.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956861 | 436 | 2.796875 | 3 |
About The Periodical Poetry Index
The Periodical Poetry Index is a research database of citations to English-language poetry published in nineteenth-century periodicals, including texts by nineteenth-century British and American poets, poets from earlier periods, and poems in English translation. We do not currently in... | <urn:uuid:26e34641-cb17-49dc-84db-f8078764f081> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.periodicalpoetry.org/poetry1/about.php | 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 | 0.930827 | 348 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Exposure to tobacco smoke—even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke—causes immediate damage that can lead to serious illness or death, according to the latest report from the US Surgeon General, which is the first by Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, and the 30th tobacco-related Surgeon General's report issued since 1964.... | <urn:uuid:802fb18b-7113-4a92-9876-ab64bf927946> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journals.lww.com/oncology-times/Fulltext/2011/01100/New_Surgeon_General_s_Report__Exposure_to_Tobacco.7.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944004 | 859 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Google issued a press release stating they want to create a research & development group with the goal of creating “electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal.” The initiative is called “RE<C” and is supposed to be receiving “tens of millions” from Google in 2008.... | <urn:uuid:33ec6633-166b-413c-b2bc-fb44da354085> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-27.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954734 | 221 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Even the most die-hard winter fan must be hoping that spring is right around the corner. I don’t fall into the category of liking winter; I simply endure it. Most days I find myself needing an attitude of perseverance to get through this time of year.
I like this quote about perseverance: “Don’t be discouraged. It’s of... | <urn:uuid:21a85d71-ad49-491e-af70-f13a8254dcac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/perseverance-correct-erosion-problems/177360.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927136 | 679 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Despite overzealous news headlines this week, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has not indentified more than 100 Earth-like planets in the galaxy.
The planet-hunting telescope, launched in April 2009, has so far confirmed only five alien planets beyond the solar system, mission scientists told SPACE.com.
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A new reportsays the number of New Brunswick women having caesarean sections remains high, and women's advocates are wondering why.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information's latest statistics for 2005-2006, released Wednesday,show 28.7 per cent of deliveries in the province were by C-section. The rate was 28.6 pe... | <urn:uuid:405a0261-5b66-454e-a282-78c4c40dd422> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/n-b-women-s-advocates-curious-about-c-section-numbers-1.664643 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959699 | 288 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Our transcription: The mass spectrometer accelerates the ions or charged atoms of an element, so that they form a beam which is then spread out into a succession of points, a mass spectrum.
From the position and intensity of the points, the mass and relative abundance of individual isotopes can be determined.
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Cross-training means including a variety of activities in your training routine, and there are many potential benefits to training this way for a marathon.
One, cross-training can decrease the chance of injury because it balances your weaker muscles with your stronger ones. If your cross-training includes low-impact ac... | <urn:uuid:e0827d5d-c660-40ff-81dd-b83f2751631a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nyrr.org/train-with-us/injury-prevention/ask-the-experts/qa-should-marathoners-cross-train | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965349 | 351 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The goal of the Google Library Project is to digitize three major research libraries and make the content available to all for free. When announced, the hope was that this would be the first step to adding real depth to the wide and shallow ocean of information that is the Internet. There is still hope, but now there i... | <urn:uuid:1d6ae693-444b-4aff-a751-b78a7d770e3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/05/4942-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962671 | 582 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Do your older clients have trouble falling asleep? Counting sheep might not work, but soft, slow music could help them achieve a restful night’s sleep, according to a study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing (2005; 49 , 234–44).
Scientists at Tzu Chi University in Taiwan studied the sleep patterns of 60 peopl... | <urn:uuid:0f0bdd90-77e1-4ffe-8fae-35ad7fbd9494> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/music-helps-older-adults-sleep | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95065 | 308 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Bavarian fairy tales going viral? Last week, the Guardian reported that five hundred unknown fairy tales, languishing for over a century in the municipal archive of Regensburg, Germany, have come to light. The news sent a flutter through the world of fairy-tale enthusiasts, their interest further piqued by the detail t... | <urn:uuid:d114c84e-5499-4978-afd6-bf4cd1c1a36c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/cinderfellas-the-long-lost-fairy-tales | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954777 | 1,479 | 2.6875 | 3 |
You have it already: writhing in pain is the usual way to express this scenario, and snakes are said to writhe.
Although there is a general transitive sense of writhe meaning to twist something, when referring to the human body, writhing is commonly used to describe the involuntary contortions associated with pain, lau... | <urn:uuid:c1eb0513-1762-4996-93e1-a6a9a98a917d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/312766/idiom-request-for-describing-someone-who-is-writhing-in-great-pain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968498 | 209 | 2.609375 | 3 |
It's no secret that motivated, interested students are more likely
to succeed in school than students who are apathetic or depressed.
In addition to measuring students' knowledge, reasoning, performance,
and products, teachers also need to be able to gauge students' attitudes,
feelings, and interests.
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He began his military career in the Royal Navy, but his ultimate fame would rest upon his land-based exploits against the Zulu warriors of southeast Africa. Less well known was the battle he fought against ill health and general frailty all his life. Against all, he was just about indomitable.
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Other Parts of the Series:
Part 3: Talking to Myself - Who is Listening?
The Story of Me
We are a chatty lot!
Is there a point to all of this verbiage? Why do we talk to others and to ourselves? We can do something that other animals can't do, or can't do nearly as well as we do. We can generate an infinite variety of ... | <urn:uuid:e5faa2d4-afec-422a-8690-1cb9b876b3c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://questioneverything.typepad.com/question_everything/2014/04/talking-to-myself-who-is-listening.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966877 | 5,262 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The second edition of Evolution introduces the basic mechanisms of microevolution, natural selection, and macroevolutionary processes such as speciation and extinction. It also examines key events in evolution throughout the geological record and discusses coevolution and evolutionary medicine. In addition, the text di... | <urn:uuid:4e0b5c73-b200-4aed-b19f-1dce92767508> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/evolution-2nd-edition-9780199255634-0199255636 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908335 | 333 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Swimmer's earEar infection - outer ear - acute; Otitis externa - acute; Chronic swimmer's ear; Otitis externa - chronic; Ear infection - outer ear - chronic
Swimmer's ear is inflammation, irritation, or infection of the outer ear and ear canal. The medical term for swimmer's ear is otitis externa.
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Sydney, Nov 19 (IANS) Australian scientists have edged closer to printing live tissue replacements into 3D structures for diseased or damaged body parts using inkjet printers, thanks to the development of specialised bio−ink.
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Alarmed by polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the World Health Organization is calling for a coordinated international response
to stop the spread of the crippling disease.
The agency, citing a public health emergency, on Monday released a set of recommendations. These included travel restrictions for... | <urn:uuid:40ac1485-b049-42c5-88a6-a013cdc459be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.voanews.com/content/who-polio-vaccine-is-mandatory-for-departing-pakistanis/1907808.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956772 | 565 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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The essence of the individual-based approach is the derivation of the properties of ecological systems from the properties of the individuals constituting these systems.
--Adam Lomnicki, 1992
1.1 WHY INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING AND ECOLOGY?
Modeling attempts to capt... | <urn:uuid:09ea802f-cb12-483a-b401-bf9b88911413> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8108.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940818 | 9,085 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Fuel Cell Principle
A fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity. The basic principle of the fuel cell is illustrated in the figure below. The core of each fuel cell consists of an electrolyte and two electrodes. At the negative anode, a fuel such as hydrogen is being oxidized, while at the positive ... | <urn:uuid:fb4d974c-edfd-4105-9776-05175c1e2b8b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nedstack.com/technology/fuel-cell-principle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94409 | 175 | 4.15625 | 4 |
An army officer under Benhadad of Syria who had contracted leprosy and heard from an Israelite slave‐girl about the miraculous powers of the prophet Elisha. Naaman was sent by his king to Samaria with a letter to the king of Israel (apparently then a vassal of Syria). Elisha ordered Naaman to wash in the River Jordan, ... | <urn:uuid:8a4691b2-ae49-4b61-80f2-089baa90254d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1297 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977305 | 129 | 2.875 | 3 |
Child nutrition is absolutely one of the most important issues today and will continue to be so. Everything about a child’s nutrition has a direct affect on every function of their body. It seems that all too often parents neglect to not only provide their children with the right amount of fruits and vegetables on a da... | <urn:uuid:b26eaca0-83c3-4732-9e57-c8f9cb8a4b2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.childrensheartcenter.org/childnutrition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965344 | 321 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Does the sun cause global warming? Yes.
It would be very cold on earth without the sun. But that's not the whole story. It turns out there are multiple factors that determine the temperature of a planet.
A suns age, size and distance are factors. But each planet has it's own set of factors. having an atmosphere is firs... | <urn:uuid:943d618e-2e2b-447e-9495-75059c6ce7b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/solar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00191-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900851 | 1,076 | 3.203125 | 3 |
A new theory about ancient Mars supports the idea that the Red Planet was once potentially habitable.
Ancient acidic seas, similar to those found in one region of Spain, may explain the Red Planet's uniquely tinted geology.
In an article posted on space.com by senior science writer Robert Roy Britt, he asserts: "Orange... | <urn:uuid:90ba9812-437e-445d-95b6-9c1782a171d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wwdmag.com/print/9141 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925427 | 313 | 3.96875 | 4 |
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Cheer up the children
t Put a positive outlook in kids, counselor Sue Anderson says.
Life is hard. Most kids learn that lesson fairly early on.
But while some youngsters dwell on lifes difficulties, research shows that optimistic k... | <urn:uuid:11ba5ead-4cc7-48e1-9894-44b75ebbe103> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/19688754.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956307 | 1,096 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Today is Presidents' Day, marking the births of Washington and Lincoln, and naturally there is a Beethoven connection. True, history fails to note any opinions about LvB expressed by Washington (who died before Beethoven reached full fame) or Lincoln, but there's this: When Lincoln was killed, the slow movement of the ... | <urn:uuid:6d0863e7-349c-4b50-b464-3d0200a55079> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journeyswithbeethoven.blogspot.com/2012/02/precedents-and-presidents.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965678 | 212 | 2.515625 | 3 |
UNITED STATES SPACE AGENCY Nasa has sent the artistic icon Mona Lisa to the moon using a laser.
More or less. A black and white copy of the Mona Lisa has been beamed to Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), travelling 240,000 miles and retaining a decent portion of its image quality.
The image made it all the way ... | <urn:uuid:0085fa72-2c09-4000-8cd0-e151daff8927> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2237431/nasa-fires-the-mona-lisa-at-the-moon-with-a-laser | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961139 | 432 | 3.296875 | 3 |
With stories about the E. coli outbreak in Europe dominating the news, this is a good time to reflect on food safety and contamination risks.
The New York Times reports that the cause of the outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli known as 0104:H4 may have been sprouts grown on a farm in Germany.
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Students will watch a video that shows scientists collecting lava samples from an active volcano. They use similes and metaphors to write an original poem about the segment.
Why is this an important concept?
Learners that can identify similes and metaphors in creative texts can also analyze the figurative meanings that... | <urn:uuid:62525391-c97f-4eac-b543-ea602294d6cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.style.lpvolcano/writing-original-literary-texts-the-world-of-volcanoes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930321 | 794 | 4.125 | 4 |
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell had a powerful impact on the way climate change was marketed to the public, without even knowing it. Gladwell’s marketing book, published in 2000, embedded the phrase “tipping point” into the public’s imagination, and this in turn was used to raise the urgency of climate change.
It ... | <urn:uuid:936a6457-98a0-4cef-8a39-f11a72b301f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://andreworlowski.com/tag/climategate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962159 | 435 | 2.890625 | 3 |
America's Massive Debt Has Come Back to Bite Us
January 11, 2013
After a difficult fight over the fiscal cliff, politicians must come together once again to debate over the debt ceiling, despite raising it a little over a year ago, say Antony Davies, an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University, and James... | <urn:uuid:7e424c3f-b3e3-43d3-8750-e359574de13e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=22724 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956624 | 461 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Pie Graphs: "like pieces of a pie"
A pie graph allows us to compare parts of a whole with each other, or the fraction of the whole each part takes up. That might sound a bit complicated, but it's easy when you think about it in terms of cake.
Let's say you eat half of the cake (you were hungry!) How much of the cake is... | <urn:uuid:d2448e86-56be-4491-8290-3d1331e5447e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/DataandScience/piegraphs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978507 | 313 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Whenever people decide whether the advantages of a particular action are likely to outweigh its drawbacks, they engage in a form of benefit-cost analysis....
What if a change benefits some people at the expense of others? John R. Hicks, biography from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
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See what’s on your child’s mind in this colorful, creative exercise. Combining past experiences with present routines and future goals, your child can express himself using images he finds in magazines to create a collage. Get ready to have a blast gluing the contents of your child’s mind in his self-portrait silhouett... | <urn:uuid:2fad66d0-5c92-46cc-9c5b-e74f9416304f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.education.com/activity/article/whats-in-my-head/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961785 | 364 | 2.546875 | 3 |
King Ranch bluestem was introduced from Asia and found growing at the King Ranch about 80 years ago. It was apparently introduced to reduce erosion on degraded rangeland and was planted along many roadsides for the same purpose. It is a poor quality forage for cattle compared with some of our native grasses. Because it... | <urn:uuid:1a12a343-a451-4b04-aea5-e313e823a6d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wildflower.org/mobile/expert/show.php?id=9935&frontpage=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969401 | 208 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of preventable blindness in the world today and occurs as mesoendemic, endemic, or hyperendemic disease. The distribution is primarily in tropical developing countries of the world including North and sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the Northern Indian subcontinent. The... | <urn:uuid:f559ca3c-47b1-4104-a8a0-17bc0e91b7d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.intechopen.com/books/common-eye-infections/trachoma-and-inclusion-conjunctivitis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397567.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930711 | 8,031 | 3.40625 | 3 |
History, culture, ritual, spirituality... these are some common adjectives used to describe African masks.
These African masks almost always have a spiritual meaning that may not be readily apparent to most people . The unorthodox edges and odd caricatures of certain masks may appear frightening to some people not fami... | <urn:uuid:5651d5df-5b9c-41c9-912c-ee58b20c541a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.africanart.com/africanmasks.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956067 | 375 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Merton Rules Apply
by Edward Thompson
When Merton Council won £1.5 million from the London Development Agency towards building the first purpose built Intergenerational Centre it relished the challenge, but faced two issues. The first was how to build to a restricted budget, and the second was how to follow its own Mer... | <urn:uuid:a07ae4d0-7fa7-4213-b9c5-b2f52572f6da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://icax.co.uk/Merton_Rules_Apply.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949881 | 1,666 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A population of resident type orcas – whose feeding strategy is remarkably parallel to that of the Southern Resident orcas – are disappearing from their home range in the Ross Sea. Scientists know that the whales are decreasing in number, the only question that remains is whether the orcas have moved on or if they are ... | <urn:uuid:9d29934a-32f2-4ac3-ada6-980ce6da0856> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2010/03/13/dont-let-this-happen-here-hungry-orcas-are-disappearing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00104-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948339 | 403 | 2.96875 | 3 |
In this week's Ask a Physicist, we answer a question that's on everyone's mind: Can we use quantum entanglement to make a mockery of the speed of light, and create intergalactic communications devices like Le Guin's "ansible"?
This week's Ask a Physicist comes to us from a huge number of you, but was first posed by Mic... | <urn:uuid:260700da-36f2-431a-bbe8-d04ddf040688> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://io9.gizmodo.com/5584356/can-i-build-an-ansible-to-communicate-across-the-cosmos | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954944 | 1,822 | 2.984375 | 3 |
A New Zealand beach was the location of a grisly carcass, one that resembles a sea monster that was found half buried in the sand and measuring about 30 feet long.
It’s scary head houses gaping jaws bearing a dozen or so pointed, cone-like teeth. However, it’s probably an orca.
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by Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2013
The Anthropocene is the name of a proposed new geological time period (probably an epoch) that may soon enter the official Geologic Time Scale. The Anthropocene is defined by the human influence on Earth, where we have become a geological fo... | <urn:uuid:d088a224-1d0b-401c-bfac-70098f6c95ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.terradaily.com/reports/The_Anthropocene_Humankind_as_a_Turning_Point_for_Earth_999.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941569 | 2,234 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The U.S. National Park Service classifies altitudes greater than 3,000 feet as montane forest, subalpine and alpine zones. Winters are long and severe; growing seasons are short and cool. Gardeners growing vegetables at these altitudes can improve their chances of success with plants specifically adapted to high altitu... | <urn:uuid:7010a7ea-977a-4058-9336-0115078ec1dc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/125737-types-vegetables-grow-above-3000-feet-elevation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910381 | 588 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Excerpt from Disability Blog: (click for entire article)
The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act considers the issues of “self-determination, independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion in all facets of community life” for individuals with developmental disabilities. All of these ... | <urn:uuid:ee713ec3-1a84-4a26-9dd7-259bfb2cf065> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pattidudek.typepad.com/pattis_blog/2012/03/from-awareness-to-respect.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968702 | 327 | 2.515625 | 3 |
During the mid 1980s Warhol returned to the newspaper adverts that had informed his paintings in the early 1960s. He created a group of works called ‘Ads and Illustrations’ that differed from his photographic screenprints and highly stylised images of celebrities. They are mostly black and white and were created by tra... | <urn:uuid:8924043f-03b3-44b4-be06-3fe05071571c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-repent-and-sin-no-more-ar00234/text-online-caption | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991079 | 136 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Nontraditional Schools Chart the Waters of Common Core
Since the inception of national Common Core curriculum and testing standards, how they would affect charter schools has been unclear. Some charter schools are finding a growing rift between their unique missions and government-imposed accountability measures such a... | <urn:uuid:58ce06d4-631a-457c-9d5b-eef9f234aace> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/12/06/nontraditional-schools-chart-waters-common-core | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956768 | 905 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Fast Facts :
Situated : Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir
Famous as : (Tibetan New Year)
Festive Month : December
Losar Festival :
The History of this Losar Festival is very interesting. As the story moves in the dawn of the 17th century, King Jamyang Namgyal was determined to lead an excursion opposing the Balti force in the ... | <urn:uuid:29b3dd5e-f8b0-4541-b9cc-21496efac3c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.traveladda.com/north_india/jammu_and_kashmir/fairs_and_festivals/losar_festival.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954346 | 530 | 3 | 3 |
Social Justice and US Emergency Disaster Services EDS
Social Justice & US Emergency Disaster Services (EDS)
What exactly is social justice, and why is it rarely discussed within the context of Emergency Disaster Services (EDS) training within the United States? Is the stumbling block that social justice resonates too c... | <urn:uuid:7ead6a74-a6fe-4f14-be32-2703a97f829b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.salvationarmy.org/isjc/news/News310114 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9466 | 655 | 2.765625 | 3 |
A banana equivalent dose is a concept occasionally used by nuclear power proponents to place in scale the dangers of radiation by comparing exposures to the radiation generated by a common banana.
Many foods are naturally radioactive, and bananas are particularly so, due to the radioactive potassium-40 they contain. Th... | <urn:uuid:d6528f69-f787-4f28-bf74-5f5bd7147fd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/02/radioactive-bananas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918397 | 482 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Identified in the 1925 State Conservation Plan as an important area for prairie chickens, south central Iowa once was 95 percent rolling prairie. Intensive use of these grasslands has encouraged exotic pasture grasses and the lack of fire has altered the “openness” of the region. Nevertheless, this area harbors large p... | <urn:uuid:80730ab1-a140-4c78-85d6-308aea442e00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/iowa/placesweprotect/grand-river-grasslands-region.xml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893751 | 293 | 3.59375 | 4 |
June 19, 2015
Access to electricity is linked to reduced sleep
Blame smartphone alerts, constant connectivity and a deluge of media for our society’s sleep deprivation. But the root cause of why we get less sleep now than our ancestors did could come down to a much simpler reason: artificial light.
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WASHINGTON -- Staying active increases the chances that a person with diabetes will stay alive, a study finds.
This is the first study to find a lower risk of death from any cause among those who report being physically active, researchers say. Previous research has found that exercisers have a lower risk of developing... | <urn:uuid:00e4db92-5c5c-48fe-be29-2c7bf8dd7626> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2000/05/01/tec_286790.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966667 | 783 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Tips for Reading Workshop in Pre-K and Kindergarten
What is Reading Workshop?
I’ve heard of Reading Workshop in the older grades, but is it appropriate for Pre-k or Kindergarten?
Yes, Reading Workshop can be adapted and made age appropriate for the younger grades.
Reading Workshop is one of the key components in a bala... | <urn:uuid:33ea06a4-7a40-4363-8b88-6fe6f48cc3f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pre-kpages.com/reading-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947488 | 755 | 3.921875 | 4 |
Napsterisation of learning: Democratisation, decentralisation and disintermediation of learning
It is estimated that getting on for half of all internet traffic is file sharing. Something like a quarter of a billion users in 2012 used BitTorrent technology (at any one time, this is more than YouTube and Facebook combin... | <urn:uuid:11404bf6-ca4e-46a0-9749-63151abae0e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2012/10/napsterisation-of-learning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960777 | 1,493 | 2.734375 | 3 |
What is Aspiration?
Aspiration is the inhalation of fluids, usually referring to stomach fluids which have come up into the esophagus and throat. Aspiration can cause many serious diseases, including pneumonia, and the most dire circumstances result is choking and even death. When a patient is unconscious or sleeping, ... | <urn:uuid:c79510a4-c7ac-4113-bca1-244642927ec5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.infoaboutgerd.com/gerd-aspiration-overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963357 | 1,169 | 3.625 | 4 |
Welcome to our book talk about Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. We're talking about her chapter on plot today. Even if you haven't read it, please feel free to add to the conversation. We're all teachers here!
We aren't going to learn all we need to know about plotting from the "Plot" chapter in Anne Lamott's book, Bird by... | <urn:uuid:0ae532f2-e02f-4fbc-adde-c27bcf0272b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.novelmatters.com/2011/05/holding-lantern.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974848 | 1,075 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Science in Christian Perspective
Allan A. MacRae, Ph.D.
From: JASA 11 (September 1959): 14-15.
During the past two or three years excavation has been carried on intensively at various places in Palestine. Much of the work has been concerned with the period before 1,000 B. C. Since our Biblical material relating to Pale... | <urn:uuid:a17a67fe-ed0c-4e8f-8cd7-048d278469c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1959/JASA9-59MacRae.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978002 | 1,544 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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QUESTION: My sister is currently being treated for breast cancer. She is type A and I believe is being given an antibody against a "Growth Factor" the tumor is producing, can she do anything with your program to help? Thanks!
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Winter 2003, Vol. 35, No. 4
The Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom Reopens at the National Archives
Archivist John W. Carlin and President and Mrs. George W. Bush stand with the four encased pages of the U.S. Constitution during the rededication ceremony. (Photo by Richard Schneider) [larger image]
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Eighty skeletons and stockpiles of textiles found in caves near the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu may shed light on the role that the so-called Lost City of the Inca played as a regional center of trade and power, scientists say.
Researchers found the artifacts and remains at two sites within the Machu Picchu Archa... | <urn:uuid:657bb06a-8e94-44ec-b47c-e061312bca45> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/rare-mass-tombs-discovered-near-machu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965951 | 193 | 2.828125 | 3 |
celebrates Arbor Day
Arbor Day is a National Holiday that is celebrated in all 50 states as well as many countries around the world. The idea originated in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton. It is estimated that over one million seedlings were planted on that first day.
The holiday is currently celebrated in Idaho... | <urn:uuid:0f83d82d-72de-43de-970e-f1a25b4f6d83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cottonwoodchronicle.com/2013/042513/two.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97016 | 280 | 3.40625 | 3 |
The edge, where land and water meet, hosts an incredible community of seabirds, shorebirds, herons, and ducks collectively known as “waterbirds.” Due to their position within the aquatic food web and their broad range of requirements, waterbirds represent some of the best ecological indicators of aquatic health known t... | <urn:uuid:a7371435-5f72-4d71-ae9f-b022207155ba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ccbbirds.org/2014/01/02/ccb-2013-annual-report-available-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941692 | 299 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Democracy and Power: 104 Future Debt Burden
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill. – Hans F. Sennholz
The federal government has created gigantic debt. Ag... | <urn:uuid:2d1aee93-94d0-40d7-9858-3532d955166c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.freedomworks.org/content/us-deficit-reduction-painful-commission-chiefs-warn | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915063 | 304 | 2.6875 | 3 |
It is needless to start this article by talking about the rise of mobile devices in the last few years. We all know how smart phones have swept the world. But with mobiles you always look for concepts or solutions that are computationally cheap. For example, Android OS uses a dex compiler to convert the Java bytecode t... | <urn:uuid:e906ca93-1f9a-465a-9350-457d23827f9e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/ecc-case-mobile-encryption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945353 | 1,953 | 3.390625 | 3 |
A rule of thumb I have is that “everybody is sane”.
I don’t mean this literally exactly.
But I want to put it starkly like this to emphasise the importance of the point, which is that:
I Make Sense (to me)
The point is that almost always a person’s way of behaving makes sense to them.
Even if, from an outsiders perspec... | <urn:uuid:a0ef5d86-4363-464a-adfd-e6db010e78a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.livingauthentically.org/2012/01/everybody-is-sane/?wpmp_switcher=desktop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00168-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951532 | 963 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The popularity of soccer among American youth is at an all-time high. Nearly 14 million young athletes (13,832,000 ) under the age of 18 play soccer at elite and recreational levels in the United States.
The rapid growth of youth soccer participation in recent years, coupled with an increased need for qualified and cer... | <urn:uuid:73945cdb-9bec-4970-8c8c-4cded61be0e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usyouthsoccer.org/news/hydration_and_heat_illness_guidelines_from_ussf/?CategoryId=14481&Year=2009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952843 | 211 | 3.484375 | 3 |
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You’ll be seeing these words on posters around town, and LINCCK encourages teens in dating relationships to treat one another with respect. Our mission is to b... | <urn:uuid:fbbc99f1-f81c-4afd-9d15-05dbf0cabd66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.courierherald.com/community/243413051.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892818 | 283 | 2.59375 | 3 |
This course will delineate the methodology of Postcolonial theory as a specific critique of the discourses of modernity. We will study this critical method in relation to Postmodernism, from which it will be distinguished, and other contemporary theories such as Psychoanalysis and Post-Marxism. Some broad questions tha... | <urn:uuid:a77fc0bb-0c1c-40cb-bbd2-aad1085750bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www2.bc.edu/~seshadrk/Courses/postcolonial_method.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.843171 | 1,230 | 2.640625 | 3 |
is the process in which particles in water are clumped together into
larger particles, called
floc. In a well-run water treatment plant,
adjustments are often necessary in order to maximize the
coagulation/flocculation process. These adjustments are a
reaction to changes in the raw water entering the plant.
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Doubly articulated consonants are consonants with two simultaneous primary places of articulation of the same manner (both plosive, or both nasal, etc.). They are a subset of co-articulated cons... | <urn:uuid:400f47d5-e7d1-43df-b760-f057a8064572> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Doubly_articulated_consonant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931845 | 1,364 | 3.765625 | 4 |
In February Symantec conducted an in-depth survey of 2800 children and 7000 adults in 14 countries to try and get a better perspective of what kids are doing online and how aware the parents are. The survey covers Cyber-Bullying, Adult Content, Social Networking, and other areas of online activity.
Some of the informat... | <urn:uuid:a2e3fecf-17af-4336-97d2-78f4276af85b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/tag/norton-online/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965561 | 236 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Where It All Goes Down
Turn-of-the-Century Rural Russia
An Empire on the Verge
At the time of Uncle Vanya, Russia was still ruled by tsars (basically, Russian kings; "tsar" comes from the word Caesar and means "emperor"), even if their power was being challenged by socialist ideas and a guy named Lenin. These rabble-ro... | <urn:uuid:3302fb28-3041-4850-beca-e23ad8cf51ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/uncle-vanya/setting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985541 | 513 | 2.625 | 3 |
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