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Gray wolves range in color from grizzled gray or black to all-white. As the ancestor of the domestic dog, the gray wolf resembles German shepherds or malamutes. Though they once nearly disappeared from the lower 48 states, today wolves have returned to the Great Lakes, northern Rockies and Southwestern United States.
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Over the past couple of years, I had toyed with the idea of creating a custom weekly vegetarian meal plan as a service on the site. It can be a struggle to know what to cook, let alone trying to actually prepare the meal. Of course, planning meals for the week takes time. So I let the dream go, until now.
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Many sunscreens contain toxic ingredients or endocrine disrupting chemicals that in many cases can actually promote skin cancer growth and free radical production in the body. In fact, in the years since sunscreen use began, skin cancer rates have actually risen, and a 2007 document from the FDA stated that: “The FDA is not aware of data demonstrating that sunscreen use alone helps prevent skin cancer”.
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Going to bed hungry — or eating anything that can give you indigestion — may make you wake up more easily during the time you’re dreaming, meaning you’ll remember your dreams, according to Woman’s Day. One study by J. Catesby Ware, Ph.D., a sleep medicine specialist, showed that anorexic patients almost always dreamed about food.
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There’s no rush more intoxicating than putting your faith in yourself and taking a leap. In trusting in your abilities and adaptability alike, in deciding that you will have your own back, for better or for worse. In fully relying on and believing in you. Take the risk, do the scary thing, get uncomfortable, and watch that fortitude morph into a bulletproof, deeply rooted confidence.
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Technology is everywhere in education: Public schools in the United States now provide at least one computer for every five students. They spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content. Led by the federal government, the country is in the midst of a massive effort to make affordable high-speed Internet and free online teaching resources available to even the most rural and remote schools.
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New opportunities for engaging students in education emerge with the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, and their applications designed for novel interactions with content, coupled with ubiquitous communication capabilities. Because these technologies are evolving rapidly, instructors may find it difficult to keep up. Faculties should be helped to support their teaching and learning goals.
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The Experience API is a web service that allows software clients to read and write experiential data in the form of “statement” objects. There is also a built-in query API to help filter recorded statements, and a state API that allows for a sort of “scratch space” for consuming applications. Experience API statements are stored in a data store called a Learning Record Store.
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One big trend for schools involves trying to make sure that what happens online is connected with what happens during face-to-face interactions with teachers. That could involve giving teachers a say in selecting the software that students use, for example, or making a concerted effort to ensure online programs provide teachers with data that is useful in making timely instructional decisions.
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Sleep is blamed in more than 100,000 crashes and 1,500 deaths each year. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 100,000 police-reported crashes are the direct result of driver fatigue each year,” according to the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “More recent data suggests that the true number is likely much higher.” More than 1,500 deaths a year are reportedly caused by drowsy drivers.
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