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_EXITSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME_exit, _Exit - terminate the current process
void _exit(int status);
DESCRIPTIONThe function _exit() terminates the calling process "immediately". Any open file descriptors belonging to the process are closed; any children of the process are ... | <urn:uuid:6c5e4950-ca3a-42b8-948e-cd7453922656> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thelinuxblog.com/linux-man-pages/2/_exit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.799725 | 397 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Approximately one-third of all adults in the United States are obese and another third (including me) are overweight. The expansion of the American waistline is a major medical problem since excessive weight gain and fat accumulation are associated with a number of serious health issues ranging from diabetes to heart d... | <urn:uuid:1bd21059-a216-41d3-a38e-4b7ea451ea5d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20121108/NEWS/121109814 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958158 | 921 | 3.078125 | 3 |
How did Ireland go from being among the poorest places in Western Europe to one of the richest? How did it attract the headquarters of 1,000 international companies? How did it come to rank, by some measures, among the EU’s top 15 original members? With per capita GDP estimated at $37,800 (U.S.), Ireland is now tops ... | <urn:uuid:7079daec-aa6b-4823-8d27-ea60b02ea43c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/09/28/ireland-update-from-one-of-the-poorest-to-one-of-the-richest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963904 | 713 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The European Network for Information Security Agency (ENISA) has issued a lengthy report that outlines the finer points concerning end-to-end network resilience.
The recommendations detail best practices for mitigation efforts for those times when bad situations turn worse, or in ENISA's terms, "when incidents render i... | <urn:uuid:2b599dd6-9295-4fc5-ad75-e8d07a4b3be9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/11351-ENISA-Releases-Report-on-Managing-Network-Resilience.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915641 | 397 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Kakunodate is a former castle and samurai town in Akita Prefecture. It’s located in a remote area of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. Though the castle no longer remains, its samurai and merchant districts are relatively unchanged from its founding in 1620. At one time about 80 families lived in Kakunodate's ... | <urn:uuid:5ac62898-4e56-473d-a4e5-4a76b8c2ce97> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.japanroads.com/destinations/kakunodate.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96831 | 407 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Sept. 3, 2004
On September 8th, a daylight fireball will streak across the western United States. It's Genesis, returning samples of the Sun to Earth.
Nov. 2, 2004
You won't want to miss this: Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will be beautifully close together just before sunrise on Thursday, Nov. 4th, and... | <urn:uuid:e53c5b18-84dc-470e-9ce2-d9dcd7a43341> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/?page=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891515 | 308 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska
by Dean Kohlkoff
Reviewed June 6, 2005
Some forty years ago on an island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, the United States conducted the first of three underground nuclear tests. In Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska , author Dean Kohlkoff recoun... | <urn:uuid:9f14b47a-e170-43ef-9512-3a9f621a53cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.atomicarchive.com/Reviews/0295982551.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95346 | 437 | 3.09375 | 3 |
A Mission to Study the Reasons for Suicide
By CLIVE THOMPSON
Published: April 6, 1997
For Canadians age 10 to 44, suicide is the second-leading cause of death after motor-vehicle accidents. And while the picture is roughly the same in the United States, suicide among teen-agers in Canada is a particular acute problem. ... | <urn:uuid:eeda5b9e-242d-4bd7-a93e-d40bb23b198a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/education/a-mission-to-study-the-reasons-for-suicide.html?src=pm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951001 | 425 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Whale populations, still recovering from centuries of hunting, continue to face a myriad of threats. But it’s often a surprise that one of the leading causes of death among whales around the globe is ship strikes. Now researchers are concerned that blue whales — the largest animals that have ever lived on the planet — ... | <urn:uuid:1303ffce-52dc-4d31-a00b-c8c63fa1dbc1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceandoctor.org/worlds-largest-animals-blue-whales-threatened-by-strikes-from-ships/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955244 | 426 | 3.21875 | 3 |
September 25, 2002
This has been a near record setting year for acres burned by wildfire, lagging only slightly behind 2000. As of Sep 23, almost 6.5 million acres (2.6 million hectares) were consumed by flames, compared to a ten year average of 3.5 million acres (1.4 million hectares). This photograph was taken by Bri... | <urn:uuid:71c4ac8f-23f6-4bcd-af6e-ff4959ee5a5d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2002/09/mcnally-fire.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975293 | 150 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Rehearsing key combat actions before execution allows participants to become familiar with the operation and to translate the relatively dry recitation of the tactical plan into visual impression. This impression helps them orient themselves to their environment and other units when executing the operation. Moreover, t... | <urn:uuid:07ddbf01-e94c-49e4-95ee-ad4b1126f906> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/6-0/appf.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00151-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914723 | 5,505 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Property (as in property theory) is an intangible abstraction (concept) that describes preferred human action in relation to the subject of ownership (the owned object).
Responsibility of Others
If property were once face on a coin, the other side is the abstraction/concept of responsibility. The type of "implicit" res... | <urn:uuid:4025693d-d51f-434a-8850-04e47167fd8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jamescarlin.wikidot.com/property-is-responsiblity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966599 | 386 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Medical professionals today treat more than 12,000 types of human disease. Modern medicine, tools and therapies are more effective than ever in healing us from injury and disease. With thousands of ways to fix ailments, we sometimes forget the basics of wellness, which also support recovery.
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Biologists theorize that it took our ancestors well over 3,000 years to straighten their posture enough to run unsupported by their arms for long distances. It follows logically that studying the development of the market from the beginning of human history (30,000-50,000 years, give or take) to today would be a long a... | <urn:uuid:cca6ea16-e152-43d2-aba9-7af23b432e15> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/03/071803.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968727 | 1,255 | 3.390625 | 3 |
The Tell el-Balamun Excavation since 1991
Summary of results
After 10 years' work in El-Ashmunein, British Museum curator Jeffrey Spencer went on to direct excavation at the site known as Tell el-Balamun in the northern Nile Delta. This huge and relatively intact stratified archaeological mound marks the position of Be... | <urn:uuid:e718a131-e2aa-47d5-9927-567b82641504> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/excavation_in_egypt/summary_of_results.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969922 | 706 | 3.375 | 3 |
Teens who smoke marijuana see their IQs drop as adults, and deficits persist even after quitting, according to a new study.
"The findings are consistent with speculation that cannabis use in adolescence, when the brain is undergoing critical development, may have neurotoxic effects," study researcher Madeline Meier of ... | <urn:uuid:e8748de0-674d-4efe-9618-99f32727acc8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/smoking-weed-during-teenage-years-can-lower-intelligence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964373 | 577 | 2.921875 | 3 |
On February 24, 2014, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 7:49 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which keeps a constant watch on the sun, captured images of the event.
These SDO images from 7:25 p.m. EST on February 24 show the first moments of this X-class flare in different waveleng... | <urn:uuid:d6931530-3d99-425a-bbd0-109094cad126> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/02/first-moments-solar-flare-different-wavelengths-light | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919541 | 181 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Asked (Or Sometimes Asked Questions About Young Earth Creationist Geology)
Created January 12, 2000
Updated Feb 24, 2002
(Special Note: Clickable Links are used to explain some
of the concepts rather than repeat them here)
ANOTHER NOTE: A U-M student has done an excellent job detailing the arguments against thrusting h... | <urn:uuid:28d8906c-40d1-416a-b261-d05f9828e2ec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gondwanaresearch.com/hp/crefaqs.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956653 | 19,223 | 3.5 | 4 |
November 22nd, 2004, 10:41 PM
ive never done any programing before, im not even taking a class on programing but i need to learn python to be able to make models for my environmental modeling class. i have a homework assignment relating to what i need to learn but have no idea what im doing. can anyone help me with a p... | <urn:uuid:b3cb46e3-8c54-4eaa-9acc-3f9fc738ecf5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://forums.devshed.com/python-programming-11/help-204296.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846245 | 387 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Cryptography 101: Basic Solving Techniques for Substitution Ciphers
It doesn’t matter whether a cryptogram presents you with letters, numbers, arcane symbols, lines and dots, or weird alien squiggles — if you’re asked to replace each letter in the alphabet with another symbol, you’re dealing with a simple substitution ... | <urn:uuid:92dfaeb9-8c5d-44b7-bb97-ef73751c9ce2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/cryptography-101-basic-solving-techniques-for-subs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926729 | 409 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Definition of Rib, true
Rib, true: One of the first 7 pairs of ribs. A rib is said to be "true" if it attaches to the sternum (the breast bone).
All 12 pairs of ribs attach to the building blocks of the spine (vertebrae) in the back. The 12 pairs of ribs consist of:
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Glasses of three different types of juice.
- Juice is defined as liquid from a fruit, vegetable or cooked meat, or fluids secreted by the body, gas, electrical energy, or creativity.
- A drink made from squeezing the liquid from an orange is an example of orange juice.
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Very soon, probably on 30 April, a half-tonne spacecraft will plough into the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, at about 4km/s or nearly 9,000mph. The spacecraft is NASA’s MESSENGER (“MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging”), which became the first spacecraft ever to orbit Mercur... | <urn:uuid:4f4dc1a4-b8ec-4d05-a433-b210baafaaa4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://theconversation.com/after-ten-years-spacecraft-will-end-life-as-just-another-crater-on-mercurys-surface-39484 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945912 | 965 | 4.1875 | 4 |
The fact is, many, if not most large galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. My question is why? Is it because when these galaxies were first formed supermassive black holes were created out of super-dense clouds of matter, which then attracted the rest of the galaxy? Or is the black hole attracted to ... | <urn:uuid:66f28fe8-f15f-4f56-a75b-1cfa5f1552cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/4752/supermassive-black-holes-at-the-center-of-galaxies/4756 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957286 | 230 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Right food to eat
All the food we eat can be divided into five groups. Try to choose a variety of different foods from the first four groups:-
1. Fruit and vegetables-
Fruit and vegetables are a vital source of vitamins and minerals. It's advised that we eat five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables a day.
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(Of an animal) producing young by means of eggs that are hatched within the body of the parent, as in some snakes. Compare with oviparous and viviparous.
- These animals are ovoviviparous (producing eggs that develop and hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it).
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"It is as though a darkened veil is before us and these photographs have come together as a new light," says Jackie Napolean Wilson, referring to the images in his book Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War, due to be published in January by St. Martin's Press. So lacking... | <urn:uuid:a2dd83fc-523a-419e-8c66-851314526043> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/images-of-african-americans-illuminate-a-proud-past-59322976/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974618 | 439 | 3.546875 | 4 |
If you wrote it correctly you don't have any charges. Nitric acid is HNO3. That is a compound and has no charge. Same for Ca(OH)2, Ca(NO3)2, and H2O.
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The internationally known “Montessori Method” is based on the idea that education is an aid to life. Dr.Maria Montessori, Italy’s first female physician and one of the first developmental psychologists, developed the Montessori Method in 1907. Her method fosters a deep respect for each child’s innate desire to learn an... | <urn:uuid:9716e14d-3f36-4213-b948-b17abb1f73ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://juneaumontessori.org/?page_id=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929396 | 513 | 3.96875 | 4 |
What is CMC? An Overview of Scholarly Definitions
by Pixy Ferris
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a relatively new area of study, but as computers have become an integral part of society, spanning education, industry and government, the field is growing significantly. The lowered costs of and easier access to c... | <urn:uuid:c11121ab-4d1d-4842-b44a-3ebc705407b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/jan/ferris.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943816 | 345 | 2.828125 | 3 |
©2003 Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi
Figure 1 shows how to use DrScheme to produce Web pages in a simplistic manner. The special (green) box is a so-called XML box. Create it via the “special” menu in DrScheme.
Figure 1: My first Web page
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Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, together with colleagues from the U.S. and Germany, have used computer simulations to show how the unique electrical properties of a new class of materials known as layered oxide heterostructures can potentially be used to create a new type of efficient, ultra-thin ... | <urn:uuid:d67f231e-0197-4a66-9cd1-0e693de0127c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/new-materials-efficient-ultrathin-solar-cells/26296/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923142 | 720 | 4.375 | 4 |
Years ago, Cal Orey just wrote about unconventional methods for predicting earthquakes. Now she's using them herself.
"I'm getting hits again and again, within a 24- to 72-hour time frame," the author-journalist said from her South Lake Tahoe home near the California-Nevada border.
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Green Roof Technology in Fairfax
(Conservation Currents, Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District)
A modest condominium community in Fairfax County is greening up. Yes, that’s up... on the roof. Yorktowne Square has installed a vegetated roofing system, demonstrating an innovative way of managing stormwat... | <urn:uuid:a2ede579-bd1a-4515-b6ba-befc6450a157> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/nvswcd/newsletter/greenroof.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945926 | 1,252 | 2.875 | 3 |
Don't have time for a visit to the gym today? Don't worry - just pour yourself a healthy glass red wine at dinner instead. A recent study has found that resveratrol, a phenol that happens to be contained in red wine, may help prevent muscle and bone deterioration due to lack of exercise.
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Two female gibbons and a tapir were recently re-homed at London zoo and a couple of snow leopards are next in line to leave Kaliningrad.
The zoo has a troubled history.
It was founded in 1896, but there were only four animals left at the zoo by the end of the Second World War.
In the following years, it built up a coll... | <urn:uuid:c35eb43b-6742-434b-8814-175de34b93f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3258000/3258251.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989 | 125 | 2.671875 | 3 |
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
In 1979, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House to heat water and save energy; a few years later Ronald Reagan removed them, insisting that there was energy enough for all. Reagan then presided over the start of what architecture critic Chris Hume calls "America's col... | <urn:uuid:e320bcd6-6e8f-4757-8d9b-40670c418384> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.treehugger.com/culture/1973-sorry-out-of-gas.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96929 | 380 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Ever wonder why San Francisco is so foggy? Well NASA has the answer for you!
- The foggy trend over this Californian city is due to something called marine layers which are formed in the Pacific Ocean.
- A marine layer is cool, heavy which occurs when the cold ocean surface meets with the above warm air.
- Winds from t... | <urn:uuid:75a42430-585c-43ac-9dd2-5c0546596db3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kids.mongabay.com/facts/2012/09/14/san-francisco-fog-explained/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945871 | 180 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Battle of Fort Sumter Online Exhibit
The Steamship Star of the West
Caption: The steamship Star of the West.
Source: Illustration of Harper's Weekly, January 19, 1861, page 40.
The Star of the West carried provisions and additional soldiers intended to support Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. However, when she tried to e... | <urn:uuid:4631e468-411a-4b5b-9731-c1e75bb10508> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/ftsumter/starofthewest.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978156 | 267 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Point-of-Use Water Treatment Beneficial in Refugee Camps
Point-of-use water treatment and improved water storage reduced the incidence of diarrhea by 90 percent when compared to improved water storage alone in camps for the internally displaced in Liberia, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomb... | <urn:uuid:0c8d839e-5d47-4c52-9754-32b21226520e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wqpmag.com/point-use-water-treatment-beneficial-refugee-camps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958971 | 413 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Denmark to be 42% Wind-Powered by 2020--100% by 2050?
This is an entry in my series on Denmark's myriad efforts in the climate and clean energy arena, and why they seem to work. I'm trying to find out if Denmark-ifying societies around the world might stop climate change ... Photo credit: C.G.P. Grey via Flickr/CC BY
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FAU Biology Professor Presents Ocean Acidification Research in Monterey, California; Review Published in Highly Ranked International Journal
BOCA RATON, FL (September 24, 2012) – Marguerite Koch, Ph.D., biological sciences professor in Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and assistant di... | <urn:uuid:1f46a3b6-2a3c-4cda-b629-c961f585eb56> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fau.edu/mediarelations/releases0912/091226.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915294 | 919 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Mennonite German Soldiers traces the efforts of a small, pacifist, Christian religious minority in eastern Prussia—the Mennonite communities of the Vistula River basin—to preserve their exemption from military service, which was based on their religious confession of faith. Conscription was mandatory for nearly all mal... | <urn:uuid:8fe61301-af1c-4ad3-a9bb-16fdac0990a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://undpress.nd.edu/books/P01406 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934789 | 1,691 | 3.125 | 3 |
Heart of Darkness Good vs. Evil Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
[The brickmaker to Marlow]: "'You are of the new gang - the gang of virtue.'" (1.59)
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Reducing U.S. climate emissions enough to avoid a 2-degree Celsius increase in global warming could prevent up to 175,000 pollution-related premature deaths nationwide by 2030 and generate health benefits of about $250 billion annually, according to a new analysis by researchers at Duke University and t... | <urn:uuid:10139c10-1ea3-42f6-9f3b-1e93ec11fab6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/du-lpc022216.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948536 | 879 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), a disability is a physical or mental impairment that has a long-term or substantial effect on a person's ability to carry out day to day tasks.
This ranges from people with physical and sensory impairments to people with diabetes, disfigurements, heart disease and epi... | <urn:uuid:724e05e9-9c00-4fcc-8e3c-207822478400> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thingstodoinnottinghamshire.co.uk/categories/173/History_and_Heritage/Robin_Hood_related__on_today_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954775 | 485 | 3.078125 | 3 |
If the benefit to our environment isn’t enough to get some people to recycle, Georgia Tech’s Valerie Thomas has come up with the concept of offering a cash incentive enabled by “Smart Trash”. The concept involves a scanner integrated into a trash receptacle that automatically records what is being disposed of using Uni... | <urn:uuid:1a458fec-dba6-490f-af14-def6fd2ccef8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/smart-trash-recycling/13254/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00071-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946185 | 654 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Ms. Terrie is a clinical pharmacy writer based in Haymarket, Virginia.
A survey conducted by the National Council on Patient Education reports that an estimated 78% of individuals surveyed used OTC analgesics for the management of pain.1 Various OTC analgesics are frequently used for the treatment and management of hea... | <urn:uuid:bf5df31b-ff0c-4b89-9370-d9fa24efb8a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pharmacytimes.com/publications/issue/2010/March2010/OTCFocusAnalgesics-0310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897341 | 2,195 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The urban population in many developing countries continues to grow at more than six percent per year. The number of cities with a population of over 10 million inhabitants is expected to double within a generation. More importantly, within a generation, more than half of the developing world's population and between a... | <urn:uuid:8cdbb916-b09d-4fba-b30d-e3af4525a7a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/cities-on-the-move-1st-edition-9780821351482-0821351486?ii=14&trackid=876109c5&omre_ir=1&omre_sp= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951687 | 172 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Follow WWⅡ US Veteran Frank's Footsteps 2
On October 13th, Frank and his party departed from Guiyang for Dushan County. Frank firstly visited the War Monument and laid flowers. Then he walked to visit the Anti-War Culture Garden and Qiannan Incident Museum. There were two carvings on the wall of Culture Garden, one was... | <urn:uuid:44edcca6-e6fc-4d27-bd87-592524224149> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chinahighlights.com/world-vip/frank-story.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973503 | 734 | 2.703125 | 3 |
- Climate justice
- Coastal communities and fisheries
- Economy & debt
- Foreign investment
- Forests & forest fires
- Human rights
- Indigenous Peoples
- International Financial Institutions
- Land and food security
- Laws & regulations
- Mining, oil & gas
- Politics & democracy
- Regional autonomy
- Water and dams
Do... | <urn:uuid:3da3e935-2eaa-462d-9783-c1e0311e6070> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.downtoearth-indonesia.org/story/climate-change-avoided-deforestation-and-indonesia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929363 | 4,376 | 3.125 | 3 |
How can I stop procrastinating?
Students usually procrastinate because a task feels too overwhelming, boring or difficult.
The best way to stop procrastinating is to ‘break down’ a big task into smaller steps.
For example, an essay requires you to do a series of steps:
1. Understand the question
2. Brainstorm ideas
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A powerful combination of circumstances is transforming the fundamental problems of international security, requiring a substantial redesign of policy. Threats of concern are smaller in scale than the massive deterrent operations and conventional force contingencies that dominated the Cold War, and they are also more d... | <urn:uuid:f6838235-399e-484b-be93-05246ae05985> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cissm.umd.edu/projects/past.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928609 | 1,044 | 2.625 | 3 |
Yesterday was a great day for space images. First, celebrating Hubble’s 20th anniversary (via Wired):
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” or a Dr. Seuss book, depending on your imagination. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image... | <urn:uuid:9c4a2f45-2847-4378-a46d-f12ff7276923> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2010/04/24/space-is-awesome-and-beautif/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926496 | 310 | 2.875 | 3 |
Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS); the organization expects 1.6 million new cases will be diagnosed in 2013. While medical treatment is paramount in managing a cancer diagnosis, psychological intervention also plays a key role.
Ellen Dor... | <urn:uuid:d5f8f2ee-686a-4f42-bbbe-47618f7ec56f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nepsy.com/articles/leading-stories/psychosocial-oncologists-a-critical-niche-in-the-field/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955738 | 1,418 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Pilates Doctor
Important body awarness
Core stability is essential to good health for everyone: from young to old, from athlete to couch potato. Core stabilization exercises should be part of every person’s health regimen.
Exercises should be part of every person's health regimen.
Every time you move, your body dep... | <urn:uuid:9e4e9727-4c55-4540-b00c-d4b8edf4b1e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pilates101.co.uk/page10.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954011 | 1,319 | 2.90625 | 3 |
JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENYS, CHARLES, (known between 1689 and 1698 as the Sieur de Beaumarchais), lieutenant and captain in the colonial regular troops, first lieutenant general of the royal jurisdiction of Montreal, receiver of beaver for the Compagnie de la Colonie [see Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye], trader, entreprene... | <urn:uuid:51ca58b2-333a-4cd6-a6b6-fc374e3f25e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/juchereau_de_saint_denys_charles_2E.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947809 | 2,173 | 2.8125 | 3 |
diabetes (mellitus) due to insulin secretory defect
insulin resistant diabetes (mellitus)
A disease in which the body does not control the amount of glucose (a type of sugar) in the blood and the kidneys make a large amount of urine. This disease occurs when the body does not make enough insulin or does not use it the ... | <urn:uuid:a1b62005-a90a-44ec-ad28-eee71d15b18e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/E00-E89/E08-E13/E11- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918683 | 724 | 3.296875 | 3 |
It is an unusual horse Mr. Shebala is stroking. This cross between an appaloosa and a rare Central Asian breed called akhal-teke is the centerpiece of a campaign the Nez PercÚ Indians hope will resurrect their horse culture, a proud tradition of selective breeding and horsemanship that was destroyed by a 19th century w... | <urn:uuid:5d010f9f-8d9c-467b-a94c-5552a73a1b1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nezpercehorseregistry.com/11-96.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976991 | 1,210 | 3.09375 | 3 |
|part of speech:
||related to what is being discussed or is presently important.
His comment about cooking was not relevant to our discussion about sports.
- similar words:
- applicable, appropriate, apt, related, timely, to the point
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Using natural systems to meet environmental challenges in urban, rural and coastal settings
What is green infrastructure?
Green infrastructure is a nature-based approach that uses a combination of engineering and nature's own systems to address environmental challenges like erosion, flooding, and air and water pollutio... | <urn:uuid:f21bbc0e-4185-4f1e-bd28-efe8323115a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/GI/Pages/index.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911545 | 656 | 3.625 | 4 |
Colorado Civil Rights Act
On March 26, 2004, the Colorado Senate defeated legislation --18 to 17 -- that would have eradicated equal opportunity programs in the state.
Although supporters had dubbed the measure the "Colorado Civil Rights Act," civil rights advocacy groups, including Colorado Unity, a diverse statewide ... | <urn:uuid:b561c9bc-c14a-4de6-a6b3-05ba7f243338> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.civilrights.org/equal-opportunity/colorado/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921225 | 237 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The Birth of a Cicada.
A. Hyatt Verrill
Although most of our readers of Popular Science News are no doubt familiar with the life-history of our common cicada, or "locust" as it is commonly called, I doubt if many of them have actually witnessed the metamorphosis of this extremely interesting insect taking place. The ex... | <urn:uuid:bb4e8588-590d-4802-8c12-007305fb8ec7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://stillwoods.blogspot.com/2011/11/birth-of-cicada.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983999 | 1,184 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (nyĭkəlĪˈ mēkhĪˈləvĭch kərəmzēnˈ) [key], 1766–1826, Russian historian and writer. His Letters of a Russian Traveler, 1789–90 (1792, abr. tr. 1957), dealing with a journey to Western Europe, brought a cosmopolitan awareness into Russian writing. Karamzin made the Russian literary language ... | <urn:uuid:fbff8068-6e37-40be-8283-2ae35d481973> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/karamzin-nikolai-mikhailovich.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89903 | 255 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Our interest areas incorporate early literacy, math, science, social skills, and physical development through both independent and teacher-guided play activities. The interest areas include Dramatic Play, Blocks, Music, Art, Sensory, Technology, Writing, and Language.
Jean Piaget depicted children as little scientists ... | <urn:uuid:5aa09d93-1c29-4190-b489-228d1801f050> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://futurekidsrus.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920072 | 522 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Ultra-wideband technology (UWB) allows for low-power wireless communication, ideal for wireless sensor nodes. The IEEE 802.15.4 standardization committee who defined the MAC and physical layers adopted by ZigBee recently proposed an alternative physical layer relying on UWB technology.
The advantages of this new UWB ai... | <urn:uuid:a2fc91b9-7e4c-4245-8e58-51f239e82746> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1273490 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00169-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924715 | 1,093 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Fading Fast
2004 09 12
John Roach for National Geographic News
September 9, 2004
Earth's magnetic field is fading. Today it is about 10 percent weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss started keeping tabs on it in 1845, scientists say.
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New Titles in Art
power of this revolutionary phase of the Catholic religion. The essays by the scholars in this book explore the historical, social, theological and philosophical perspectives of Franciscan art.
Welcome to the subject guide for the Art.
This guide will direct you to the various resources available for ... | <urn:uuid:ceebe796-c49b-4d41-babf-92e864900f00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://udallas.libguides.com/art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394605.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.853783 | 347 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Note to journalists: Please report that this research was presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society
A press conference on this topic will be held at 2:45 p.m. Eastern Time, March 26, 2012, in the ACS Press Center, Room 15A, in the San Diego Convention Center. Reporters can attend in person or access live ... | <urn:uuid:4662652d-3274-47cf-a150-95a021c2b79a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2012/march/more-economical-way-to-produce-cleaner-hotter-natural-gas.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948148 | 961 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Routine childhood immunisations
|Girls aged 12 to 13 years old
||Cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 (and genital warts caused by types 6 and 11)
||HPV (two doses 6-12 months)
|14 years old (school year 9)
||Tetanus, diphtheria and polio
||Td/IPV (Revaxis), and check MMR status
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From Watershed Management Planning to Adopt-A-Stream, all of HRWC’s programs continually address the issue of land use planning. It may seem odd that an organization focused on river protection gets involved in land use planning, but it is necessary because every activity that takes place on the land in the Huron Water... | <urn:uuid:6aa6534c-cbb6-48d0-a2ee-abf8676c4e16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hrwc.org/our-work/programs/land-use-planning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91332 | 196 | 2.953125 | 3 |
While many of us were concentrating our attention on other areas, such as the recent elections in Mexico, Venezuela and the United States, something dangerous has been happening almost unnoticed in Latin America: an attack on the system of human rights throughout the region. At the beginning of last week the Latin Amer... | <urn:uuid:644df92c-33c0-47ca-9196-c2e11af350f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/11/22/inenglish/1353592099_186313.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954694 | 716 | 2.578125 | 3 |
1. Who is the character of Lucifer as seen in chapter one of the novel?
2. Why does Lucifer travel to his friend and mentor's house in Colyton?
3. Describe what happens when Lucifer visits Colyton and goes to Horatio Welham's manor.
This section contains 3,393 words
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The Republican Party in Georgia From Reconstruction through 1900
Olive Hall Shadgett
“A thoroughly documented study of the details of internal state politics of a minority party hampered by a multitude of problems.”
—Journal of American History
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Contrast that vision of a right to so-called rights to medical care, food or decent housing, independent of whether a person can pay. Those are not rights in the sense that free speech and freedom of travel are rights. If it is said that a person has rights to medical care, food and housing, and has no means of paying,... | <urn:uuid:8e1380cd-be7e-43fc-9154-598b5fc79fe8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2006/02/08/bogus_rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971789 | 594 | 2.859375 | 3 |
The LDS Church (Mormons) & homosexuality
Church statements: 1976 to 1999
Church statements and positions on homosexuality (1976 to 1999):
|1976: The LDS Church was one of the major players among the religious organizations fighting
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by Marcel Williams
In 2009, President Obama inherited an annual manned spaceflight related budget from the previous administration of approximately $8.4 billion. Approximately $3 billion was for operating the Space Shuttle. Another $2 billion was for the ISS program. And an additional $3.4 billion was for the future Co... | <urn:uuid:5381f20d-62e1-4b8d-94c2-c4df135575f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-sls-and-case-for-reusable-lunar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937923 | 2,507 | 3.125 | 3 |
The Pharisees and Herodians in today’s Gospel, who pose the question to Jesus about paying tax to Caesar, are not seeking guidance in making a difficult moral decision. They are trying to trap Jesus into a no-win situation with a sticky question that has no easy solution. Since the Roman occupation of Palestine in 63 B... | <urn:uuid:641a6eff-ebd6-41be-9cc7-4e3b5b6b1ad5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.americamagazine.org/content/the-word/pay-or-not-pay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971833 | 839 | 2.953125 | 3 |
The experiment showed that those who believed in a forgiving god, rather than a punitive god, were significantly more likely to ignore the instructions to suppress the correct answers.
Some of Shariff's comments on the findings:
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Nucleosynthesis is the process of creating new atomic nuclei from preexisting nucleons (protons and neutrons). The primordial nucleons themselves were formed from the quark-gluon plasma of the Big Bang as it cooled below ten million degrees. A few minutes afterward, starting with only protons and neutrons, nuclei up to... | <urn:uuid:8ff98e9e-61b4-4255-b63d-18188e905c00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wikidoc.org/index.php/Nucleosynthesis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918511 | 2,566 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The animal kingdom gives us many metaphors for human hoarding, including “squirreling things away.” But squirrels often lose track of just where those treasures are buried and so we at least get new, nut-bearing trees out of the deal. Human hoarding has few such benefits.
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Today, earthquakes are becoming more common worldwide due to the Earth’s increased seismic and geophysical activity. Seismic charts show a clear upward trend in large global earthquakes over the past few years, according to the America Daily Herald
and the U.S. Geological Survey’s
Analysis of seismic charts
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BOONE—Wind energy, geothermal systems, photovoltaic systems and use of methane gas are just some of the ways UNC system campuses are reducing their energy costs.
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Status Report, December 1999
Microhole Drilling and Instrumentation Technology1 - Jim Albright, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Microhole technology development is based on the premise that because of the historic advances in electronics and sensors, large conventional-diameter wells are no longer necessary for obtainin... | <urn:uuid:02bf5637-9625-4d70-ab52-8ae3faa9e251> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ees/ees11/geophysics/drilling/microhole/status/statusreport.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906599 | 2,128 | 2.625 | 3 |
Over the past week I have been assembling, debugging and testing my own BlackfinOne board:
During this time I have had a lot of help from the BlackfinOne community, in particular via ongoing chat sessions with Wojtek (pronounced Voycheck) Tryc. Yesterday, I booted uClinux on hardware that I had helped design, soldered ... | <urn:uuid:b7d0db78-1c5e-427d-b9de-c1615c734f35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?p=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941283 | 7,447 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Posted by Chelsea on Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 1:35pm.
Maximize z=4x+2y subject to:
- Algebra - Reiny, Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 1:59pm
make a sketch and shade in the region.
(I used the intercepts of the corresponding equations to draw the lines)
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Agatha Christie’s 1970 novel Passenger to Frankfurt might seem like an unusual place to start a history of the Children’s Crusade in 1212. To capture the radical youth-culture of the 1960s lying at the heart of her plot, Christie invoked the Children’s Crusade as a familiar symbol of misguided and ultimately dangerous ... | <urn:uuid:ee817afe-f9b4-4cf1-8fb5-f1fdf6d75da0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/print/review/785 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944675 | 3,862 | 2.625 | 3 |
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A team of scientists, speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the A... | <urn:uuid:005c013d-95b7-4249-9bb1-3d38004d7530> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090213_antibiotic.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951661 | 1,358 | 2.828125 | 3 |
What’s worse bad breath or smelly feet? If you live in a country where taking off your shoes when entering someone’s home it would have to be smelly feet. besides who has breath mints for feet? When the weather gets hot or we have to wear shoes that make our feet hot (such as winter boots) our feet live in an environme... | <urn:uuid:a7496381-1edd-4d66-9abf-79409dfa946a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.functionalwellbeing.com/smelly-feet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939264 | 685 | 2.890625 | 3 |
|Official Language(s)||Latin (official), English (vernacular)|
|Established||March 22, 2008|
(3,023 days old)
|Statistics as of September 30, 2008|
|Total Area||1,183.541 mile diameter|
Nova Capitalia is a small nation, noted for the influence of Catholic philosophy and social justice in its government. Its capital cit... | <urn:uuid:2292fa60-9ed7-4492-9e91-92136f1d0b86> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/Nova_Capitalia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913803 | 756 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Essay Topic 1
Choose two characters that act as a foil to one another. In what ways do these characters serve as opposites? Are these differences indicative of good and evil?
Essay Topic 2
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Originally a four room cottage, it is not known when the oldest parts of the house were first built. However there is some evidence which suggests that a house may have existed on the site before 1854. Records do reveal that by 1854 the land was occupied by a four - roomed cottage with detached iron outbuildings, known... | <urn:uuid:3378ae5c-36e6-4830-914d-d3ca5b78bfb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.angelfire.com/al/aslc/donbank.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973226 | 1,138 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Old Parliament House
Construction of Australia’s ‘provisional’ Parliament House in Canberra began on 28 August 1923, with a ceremonial turning of the first sod. This landmark event, along with the construction, official opening on 9 May 1927 and day-to-day life of the building, are all part of Mildenhall’s unique recor... | <urn:uuid:12fa4532-76ee-4da1-ad05-68c2909c2f22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mildenhall.moadoph.gov.au/set/oph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913911 | 123 | 3.125 | 3 |
Part of the Genealogy Guys Podcast on 5 Feb 2007 discussed information literacy. Information literacy includes six items:
- Knowing what information you need for a family history problem
- Knowing where to search for the information you need to solve the problem
- Knowing how to search for the information needed
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The cheapest way to keep Lake Banook free of rudder-clogging weeds involves applying herbicides to the water, a report shows.
The report prepared for the city by Stantec Consulting Ltd. will be presented at a public meeting this evening at the Mic Mac Amateur Aquatic Club on the shores of Lake Banook.
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Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
An ICD is an electronic device that constantly monitors your heart rate and rhythm and automatically corrects abnormal rhythms.
Even though ICDs are equally effective in men and women with heart failure, they have traditionally been less likely to be implanted in women. At B... | <urn:uuid:d4131cf9-d1ce-4972-ad3d-d00680bb6e4a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.brighamandwomens.org/departments_and_services/womenshealth/hearthealth/your-care-explained/devices/implantable-cardioverter-defibrillator-icd/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910335 | 605 | 3.03125 | 3 |
SAVE THE TURTLES (KURA KURA) OF GILI MENO
The Green sea Turtles and the Caretta Caretta or Loggerhead Turtles are common to the waters of the Gili islands off the northern shores of Lombok. Growing to a diameter of approximately 1.5 meters, their shells have marking which allows identification of the turtle species. Tu... | <urn:uuid:2458c640-7ea1-4108-abcb-253567c72a6e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gilimenoturtles.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960954 | 1,030 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Central Problems in Philosophy
An intensive introduction to central problems in philosophy. Topics may include free will, the existence of God, skepticism and knowledge, and the mind-body problem.
History of Ancient Philosophy
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- How the Titanic Disaster Forever Changed Telecommunications
- Aftermath and Hearings
Without the tireless work of the RMS Titanic's two radio operators, the toll on that night 100 years ago would have been far worse. At the same time, had more effective communication procedures between ships been in force, the traged... | <urn:uuid:ac45dee2-a0e4-49b1-9edc-d4f13c40a0b2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402893,00.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982132 | 1,768 | 3.796875 | 4 |
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