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| Middle Search Plus
This database contains full text for a variety of popular middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books such as the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia; New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition; Encyclopedia of Animals; and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
Complete articles from hundreds of local and regional publications about the operations of U.S. and Canadian companies. Includes business trends, events and regional market and economic conditions. Coverage: Includes complete articles from over 550 titles from 1985-present. Searches the full-suite of ABI/Inform Products
|Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
|Access World News
Find current and archived state, national and international full-text articles on issues, events, people, government and more with over 2,000 newspapers and other news sources including the Charlotte Observer (1985-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), Washington Post (1977-Current), and the Winston-Salem Journal (11/1/97-Current).
|ACS Journals
ACS Publications Online offers access to the library's journal subscriptions published by the American Chemical Society: Accounts of Chemical Research, Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Reviews, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Chemical & Engineering News Online.
|African American Experience
Compilation of images of works published from 1693-1830, written by or about members of America's black populace. An ideal resource for individuals and students who wish to gain firsthand insight into black history in America. Carefully chosen subset of works from Early American Imprints 1639-1819. Created by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society.
|African American Poetry
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.
|Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
|American Poetry
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
|American Religion Data Archive
The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
|American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.
ArchiveGrid connects you with primary source material held in archives, special collections, and manuscript collections around the world. You will find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. ArchiveGrid also helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies.
ArchiveGrid includes collection descriptions from WorldCat bibliographic records and from finding aids harvested from ArchiveGrid contributors' websites.
|Art and Architecture Complete
Art and Architecture Complere provides full-text coverage of hundreds of periodicals and books, as well as cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for nearly a thousand academic journals, magazines and trade publications and books.
The database also provides selective coverage for additional publications and an immense Image Collection provided by Picture Desk and others. Full-text coverage dates back 75 years.
Art & Architecture Complete covers a wide variety of pertinent subjects, including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design and much more.
ArticleFirst contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
ArtNC is an educational resource from the North Carolina Museum of Art. This site is designed for educators, students, and anyone interested in looking at and learning from works of art.
Explore works of art that are teachable across disciplines and grade levels. Use lesson plans designed by teachers like you to easily integrate art into your classroom curriculum. Browse or create a concept map to discover concrete connections between works of art and concepts that you teach in the classroom. Create a portfolio to save good ideas, share them with colleagues, and personalize them to meet the needs of your students.
|Bills from the NC General Assembly
Search for bills in the current NC General Assembly session as well as past sessions back to 1985-86.
|Biography Reference Center
Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 460,000 full-text biographies, including the complete full-text run of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases. In addition to keyword searching, users can also locate biographies of interest by browsing more than 30 genre categories, including actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and many others.
|Brittanica Online
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopaedia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
|Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts on the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided more than 1,300 journals.
|Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Online offers access to over 100 Cambridge journals.
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
|Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Official web site for Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
|CINAHL with Full Text
This database covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, consumer health, and 17 allied health disciplines, and contains indexing for over 1,200 nursing journals and publications dating back to 1982, abstracts for over 250 journals, indexing for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, pamphlets, educational software packages and audiovisual material. Full text for over 300 journals is provided via integrated links to Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition and Academic Search Elite.
|Clase Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
|Communication & Mass Media Complete
Provides research solutions in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch, and Mass Media Articles Index). Communication & Mass Media Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable sources are covered.
|Company Profiles
With 10,000 company profiles, Datamonitor assesses the most important global companies, ensuring a balance between the US, European and Asian companies as well as the key vertical markets. Selected by a scoring system that takes into account: Stock exchange indices, investment bank coverage, key lists, annual turnover, and other minor factors including the number of employees, importance within the industry, future growth potential, and client feedback / customer demand for increased coverage.
|Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
CountryWatch provides information on each of the recognized countries of the world, including critical country-specific intelligence and data. Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers.
|CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. Each 12,000-word report is a unique work, investigated and written by a seasoned journalist. Published 44 times a year, CQ Researcher reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
|CQ Weekly
Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and back room maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
|Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.
|Crime in North Carolina (Uniform Crime Report)
The North Carolina Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is part of a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While the program's primary objective is to generate a reliable set of criminal statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management, its data have over the years become one the country's leading social indicators.
The American public looks to Uniform Crime Reports for information on fluctuations in the level of crime, while criminologists, sociologists, legislators, municipal planners, the press and other students of criminal justice use the statistics for varied research and planning purposes.
Since 1973, law enforcement agencies throughout North Carolina have voluntarily submitted data to the State Bureau of Investigation on specific crimes committed in their areas of jurisdiction.
The Uniform Crime Reporting Program divides offenses into two major classifications which are designated Part 1 and Part 2. Law enforcement agencies report the number of offenses and associated crime data for the following Part 1 crimes: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson. Part 1 offenses, excluding negligent manslaughter and arson, are used to calculate the Crime Index and Crime Rate. All other offenses are classified as Part 2 offenses, however, only arrest data are reported for Part 2 offenses.
The UCR Program collects data on the age, race, and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations.
|Criminal Justice Abstracts
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications.
|Digital NC
The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Digital Heritage Center works with cultural heritage institutions across North Carolina to digitize and publish historic materials online. Through its free or low-cost digitization and online hosting services, the Digital Heritage Center provides libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural heritage institutions with the opportunity to publicize and share their rare and unique collections online. The Center operates in conjunction with the State Library of North Carolina's NC ECHO (North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) project. It is supported by the State Library of North Carolina with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.
|eBooks on EBSCOhost
24,467 titles in Literature, Technology, Career & Self Help, How-to books and more!
Contains registration statements,periodic reports9e.g., 10K, 8-K, etc), and other froms which public companies are repuired to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
|English Poetry
Essentially the complete English poetic canon from 600 to 1900. Over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
|Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for hundreds of periodicals and reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and hundreds videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs.
ESS contains: Full text for more than 125 key periodicals,135 reference books, Thousands of company profiles, and over 600 videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Seminar Series and Vator.TV
|Environment Complete
This resource offers deep coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study. This valuable database contains more than 2.5 million records from thousands of domestic and international titles dating back over 100 years with over a thousand active core titles.
|ERIC (Public)
FOR FULL-TEXT, SELECT ERIC (Subscription) DATABASE. The ERIC database (1966- present) contains 1.1 million bibliographic citations to a broad collection of education-related resources, from government reports to journal articles. Other materials include conference proceedings, project and program descriptions, curriculum guides, bibliographies, and more. ERIC will continue to index and disseminate information in the topics covered by the ERIC clearinghouses in addition to information on closing the achievement gap and educational practices that improve academic achievement and promote learning, as mandated by the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. Beginning in October 2004, ERIC provided users with online access to the full-text of approximately 107,000 ERIC documents in PDF image format. These materials are available at no cost and will continue to be updated.
|ERIC (Subscription)
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of research reports and journal articles on education research and practice. Some full text is available. This database covers materials published between 1966 and the present.
|ETS Test Collection
The collection is the largest in the world. It was established to make information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. The tests contained in this collection were acquired from a variety of U.S. publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also included in the collection, including some from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.
|Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list includes Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath covering the seventy year history of this major publishing house.
|Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Updated annually, this database includes over 25,000 full text records, covering an array of subject areas.
|Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in E-Book reference title format. Coverage: 1999 - 2005
|GPO Access
Includes records on all subjects of interest to the United States government from 1976 to present.
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
|Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications, and thousands of Essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, women's health and sports medicine. Includes results from Clinical Pharmacology, which replaces information previously obtained from USP DI: Volume II, Advice for the Patient.
|Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 400 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and provides abstracts and indexing for over 500 journals. Also includes integrated results from Clinical Pharmacology (which replaces USP DI: Volume II, Advice for the Patient) and access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Contains original page images for all documents, over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, PERSI., and other expanding collections.
This database covers public, private, and international companies. Includes overviews, major industry trends, industry links, and IPO information.
|Information Bridge
The Information Bridge provides the open source to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. The Information Bridge consists of full-text documents produced and made available by the Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward. Additional legacy documents are also included as they become available in electronic format.
JSTOR (Mathematics & Statistics, Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences II) contains full text for scholarly titles, including many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, Asian studies, mathematics, statistics, archaeology, classics, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. JSTOR also provides links to recent content for journals available in Project MUSE.
|Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
|Legal Information Reference Center
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
|Literary Reference Center Plus
Literary Reference Center Plus features all of the content in Literary Reference Center, but includes additional valuable content, such as full-text resources focusing on plays/drama, poetry, religious literature, children's literature. This database also includes volumes of Fantasy/Science Fiction, Contemporary Literature, World Philosophy and Religious Literature and literary study guides covering American Literature, English Literature and literary genres.
|MAS Complete
A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school and junior college libraries. Includes reports and special issues from over 460 of the most wanted K-12 magazines, Essential Documents in American History (a database of over 1,000 original historical documents including The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), over 3,000 charts, tables and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, Magill's Book Reviews, and searchable full text for 145 Macmillan Books. Total coverage includes over 1 million articles.
|MasterFILE Complete
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources
|Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect is highly flexible and features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate new insightful business intelligence. Powered by Mergent's expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B/Hoover's 85 million+ private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news (First Research®), facts and figures, company and executive contact information and much more.
|Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
|Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of military titles, trade publications, and news weeklies. Military & Government Collection includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.
|Morningstar Investment Research Center
Combines in one timely database all the fund and stock information necessary for in-depth research. In one database, you have comprehensive information on both mutual funds and stocks. And each fund and stock report is loaded with critical data and decisive analysis.
|NC Live Video Collection
A streaming video collection of over 500 educational and documentary programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). Includes selected episodes from "American Experience" and "Frontline," Ken Burns's "Civil War" and "Jazz," and much more.
|netLibrary (now eBooks on EBSCOhost)
24,467 titles in Literature, Technology, Career & Self Help, How-to books and more!
|Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others. The database also contains selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc.
|North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD)
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (NWLD) includes the immediate experiences of 1,017 women, as revealed in approximately 120,000 pages of diaries and letters.
A readers' advisory service that is searchable by author, title, series name, and plot (including character, topic, time period, and setting) to retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles related to books of interest. Readers may select from information provided to find similar books that appeal to them. Updated and expanded monthly, the service also includes author read-alikes, lists of award-winning fiction, and book lists arranged by genre and subgenre, feature articles, school content and more.
|Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today.s hottest social issues. It includes more than 400 titles from Greenhaven Press Series, including Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions to help students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
|Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center contains many topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). For each topic, this database also offers a Guide to Critical Analysis, which helps the reader evaluate the controversial topics. The Guide to Critical Analysis enhances students' ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.Providing a balance of materials from all viewpoints, Points of View Reference Center includes over 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from all sides of the political spectrum, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. The database also offers guides for writing position papers, developing arguments and debating.
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) contains citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).
POPLINE has nearly 370,000 records and has been maintained since 1973 by the K4Health Project (formerly INFO Project). The majority of items are published from 1970 to the present, however, there are selected citations dating back to 1827. The database adds 8,000 records annually.
In addition to free text searching, the database can be searched by keywords from the POPLINE Thesaurus , a controlled vocabulary of 2,400+ terms used to index documents in the database.
POPLINE's special features include links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles; RSS feeds for topical searches; and many abstracts in French and Spanish.
|Primary Search
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.
|Project MUSE
Currently, Project MUSE offers nearly 200 quality journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers. As one of the the academic community's primary electronic periodicals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Project MUSE is setting the standard for scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences. At this time, Project MUSE subscriptions are available only to institutions.
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
Indexes over 1300 journals in psychology and related disciplines from 1887 to present.
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
|RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. The main criterion for inclusion in the bibliography is that the article be based on scientific research, or contain important information for such research. Since the inception of this bibliographic project in 1966, the editorial board has striven to include in it all of the important articles published throughout the world in the field of Judaica. Therefore, it includes offprints of articles from journals or collections not on order to the Library. Rambi also lists articles from secondary sources.
|Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Click here for a complete title list. Click here for more info.
|Research in Ministry (RIM)
RIM Online is a freely available database that indexes D.Min. projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.
|Resources for College Libraries
Resources for College Libraries contains a core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas, such as Humanities, Languages and Literature, History, Social Sciences and Professional Studies, Science and Technology, and Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. Bowker and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Choice present more than 60,000 core titles carefully considered and confidently chosen.
|Sanborn Maps North Carolina
Sanborn Maps for the state of North Carolina provides digital access to 11,173 large-scale maps of 158 North Carolina towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years.
covers scientific information through ScienceDirect, MEDLINE on BioMedNet, Beilstein on ChemWeb, Neuroscion, BioMed Central and Patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and related information on the Web.
|Serials Directory
Provides up-to-date information and pricing for popular magazines and other serials. Contains listings for over 150,000 U.S. and international titles, including 8,000 newspapers. Also includes data on over 87,000 publishers worldwide.
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
SPORTDiscus is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation, college & university sport, disabled persons, facility design & management, intramural & school sport, doping, health, health education, biomechanics, movement science, injury prevention rehabilitation, physical therapy, nutrition, exercise physiology, sport & exercise psychology, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more. With full bibliographic coverage, this database includes over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 20,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages. The content also consists of international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
|The Merck Manuals
The Merck Manuals explain disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis.
Based on the world's most widely used textbook of medicine—The Merck Manual—but written in everyday language by 300 outstanding contributors.
A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
|Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Presently includes over 6,000 poems from over 100 complete editions by 46 poets.
|Twentieth Century American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
|Twentieth Century English Poetry
Containing tens of thousands of works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry provides an overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.
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Bear Saves Crow
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Before the Genes Jumped, 1930s
January 1, 2012|
How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology
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How Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock nearly gave up genetics for meteorology
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January 2012's selection of notable quotes
December 20, 2011|
The collective intelligence of thousands of video game players is helping researchers understand the regulation of more than 500 different disease genes.
December 8, 2011|
The National Institutes of Health promises about $400 million to help get personalized genetics into the clinic.
December 7, 2011|
Researchers have mapped out the DNA of what some scientists claim to be an arsenic loving bacterium.
December 5, 2011|
Has life science reached a tipping point in how it handles mountains of genomic information?
December 2, 2011|
A new study finds key differences between established and new human embryonic stem cell lines.
December 1, 2011|
Are genes that alter the perception of fat making us fat?
December 1, 2011|
Genomicist Mark Stoeckle and three high school students have taken do-it-yourself science to a new level.
December 1, 2011|
The story of a group of high school students who, with the help of a Rockefeller University researcher, conducted and published studies on the biological provenance of sushi and teas from around New York City.


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STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - After several attempts, it is likely that Stevens Point will vote to sell an elderly apartment building to a private developer Monday night.
Edgewater Manor is owned by the city's Community Development Authority, and has been operating at a loss since Federal HUD subsidies ended. Critics of the sale say the city isn't interested in properly operating and marketing the property, and that the city is more interested in getting the property back on the tax rolls as part of a downtown TIF district.
Mayor Halverson says the proposal does protect the seniors that already live there. "Our main focus was always making sure that those tenants would be protected, and it also freezes the rent for three years and then allows for only a one percent increase in rent for existing tenants from that point forward."
Halverson believes the sale of Edgewater Manor will not only be the right decision for the city, but will also make it better for senior citizens to stay in their own homes if they choose. "We feel it's the best overall decision for the CDA from a management perspective as we get no HUD subsidy for that property. It helps us increase our housing trust funds which would take those to well in excess of three million, which would help us have a little over a hundred thousand dollars a year, along with our great partnership with CAP Services, to continue to reinvest in rehabbing owner-occupied homes."
The city first arranged a sale to Seramur Family Limited Partnership in January, but that deal fell through after criticism the deal was too secretive, the price was too low and the city hadn't tried hard enough to manage it or market it. Other developers expressed an interest over the winter. Affordable Senior Housing was recently selected from the submitted proposals to the city. They have offered 1.5 million for the property with plans to remodel the 30-year-old building.


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Temple of Heaven, Beijing
Oxford's Bodleian Library began collecting Chinese books already in the seventeenth century. But the University's formal commitment to Chinese Studies began in 1876 with the appointment of the great missionary-scholar James Legge as its first Professor of Chinese. His critical translations of the Confucian scriptures and other classic texts are still used as a standard reference today.
A full honours degree in the subject has been taught in Oxford since the late 1940s. Among the many individuals who have taken the degree in that time some have taken up careers in university teaching, librarianship and museum work around the world, and the great majority of postgraduate students have done so too. Others have used their Chinese in careers with the Foreign Office, the British Council, the Hong Kong Government, and in banking, commerce, journalism, or broadcasting.
The nerve-centre of the present teaching programme is the Institute for Chinese Studies, which stands in the heart of central Oxford. Apart from offices and seminar rooms it holds a well-developed lending library, designed to support teaching programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels (but also containing important research material); a general common-room in which teaching staff, students and visitors can meet informally; a computer room for graduate students; an up-to-date language laboratory; and facilities for receiving satellite broadcasts in Chinese. A special unit within the Institute, the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, is developing new multimedia language-teaching materials in modern Chinese. A short walk away is the Ashmolean Museum, with rich collections of Chinese art and a specialized supporting library, all of which are open to students working on that branch of the subject. Also within walking distance is the Bodleian Library, housing the University's main research collections on China. Its holdings in Chinese language amount to more than 135,000 volumes.
Pavilion at Daming Lake
Since the mid-1990s Oxford has expanded and diversified its effort in the China field with the help of private grants and endowments and grants from public funds. The most visible result has been the creation of posts to develop teaching and research upon China since the start of the twentieth century. These posts are in social science disciplines, including Economics, Social Anthropology, Political History and International Relations. The University intends soon to extend the range of its work on contemporary China to include other disciplines. This balances the work on language, literature and history pursued in the original programme, and offers students of Chinese a wider range of optional subjects to study alongside their core curriculum. The Bodleian Library has also embarked on a plan to develop a research collection on modern China.


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-- Robert Preidt
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Women who suffer recurrent
miscarriages have a greatly increased risk of heart attack later in
life, finds a new study.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 11,500 women who had
been pregnant at least once and found that 25 percent had
experienced at least one detectable miscarriage, 18 percent had had
at least one abortion and 2 percent had experienced a
Over a follow-up of about 10 years, 82 of the women had a heart
attack and 112 had a stroke. There was no significant association
between any type of pregnancy loss and stroke, said the
Each miscarriage increased heart attack risk by 40 percent, and
having more than two miscarriages increased the risk by more than
fourfold. Women who had more than three miscarriages had a ninefold
increased risk.
The study, published online Dec. 1 in the journal
Heart, also found that having at least one stillbirth increased the risk of heart attack 3.5 times.
The degree of risk associated with recurrent miscarriage
decreased when the researchers factored in major heart attack
factors such as smoking, weight and alcohol consumption, but the
risk was still five times higher than normal.
"These results suggest that women who experienced spontaneous pregnancy loss are at a substantially higher risk of [heart attack] later in life," the researchers wrote in a news release from the publisher.
"Recurrent miscarriage and stillbirth are strong gender predictors for [this] and thus should be considered as important indicators for monitoring cardiovascular risk factors and preventive measures," they said.
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women and heart disease at
Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and an American Heart
Association spokesperson, supports that conclusion and recommends
gender-specific risk assessment.
"When evaluating a woman's risk for heart disease, her risks cannot be defined the same as a man," said Steinbaum, who was not involved in the study.
"The traditional risk factor analysis traditionally underestimates what a woman's potential for developing heart disease is," she said. "The data seen in this trial demonstrates that the obstetrical history of a woman, including miscarriages and stillbirths, must be factored into the risk analysis to determine each individual woman's risk for heart disease."
As many as one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage,
Steinbaum said.
Steinbaum noted that many women in the study who experienced
stillbirth tended to be less physically active and had higher rates
of diabetes and hypertension, which are associated with the risk
for heart disease. Those who miscarried more than three times
tended to weigh more, which is another risk factor.
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The Montreal Canadiens will have to do without the services of bruising forward Brandon Prust for up to two weeks.
Prust suffered a first degree shoulder separation on Saturday and will be sidelined 10-14 days.
Prust hit the boards hard in the third period of Saturday's win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In 25 games this season, Prust has four goals and five assists for nine points along with 81 penalty minutes.
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The twin-turbocharged Supra came with exceptionally large brakes, measuring 12.7-in and 12.8-in for the front and rear, respectively. Front and rear rotors are sandwiched by twin-pot calipers with aluminum pistons (one steel and one aluminum piston on the fronts), giving the already fast, wide-tired, stock road rocket no problems when coming to a mind-numbing halt. But we don't care, it's all coming off for even bigger and better components.
Assuming we're not just going for the "show car bling" when deciding on what wheels, tires and brakes to use, it's important to decide on brake size first. First, figure out your budget and then what you intend to use the car for (i.e., street, show, track, etc.) If your budget is under $400, a good set of pads, stainless-steel lines and high-temp brake fluid will make your car plenty track-worthy. If you plan to hit the track hard and your budget is bigger ([cough] much bigger,) then you can quit messing around and do what we did; acknowledge the fact that this powerful, yet humongous, piece of metal will be going really fast and have to stop repeatedly without brake fade. Enter Brembo North America.
In choosing the right brake size we sort of had the "bigger is better" clich in mind. Brembo's Gran Turismo brake system for the Supra features 14.0-in (355mm) vented, two-piece rotors up front and 13.6-in vented, two-piece rotors out back. They come in either slotted or cross-drilled patterns. Although I've track-tested Brembo's cross-drilled set repeatedly with a high-powered BMW M3 Turbo, I felt the heavier-and soon to be much more powerful-Supra would put a little more stress on the cross-drilled rotors. We went with slotted.
The four-pot calipers with sequentially sized pistons come in your choice of silver, black or red. Although considerably larger than stock, each front caliper weighed in at 9.5-lb, a savings of more than 7-lb. per corner. The much larger-than-stock rear calipers added no weight, tipping the scales at 6.5-lb. Brembo supplies the needed adapter bracket for each corner, each of which weighs an extra 1-lb.
Where we thought some weight would be added was in the rotors. Still, the larger and thicker Brembo front and rear rotors weigh exactly the same as the used-up stock units they replace.
The brake kit fit the Supra without much fuss. The stock dust shields either have to come off or be trimmed to allow room for the slightly thicker rotors. After that, everything bolts into place-no need to grind anything.
Once the brakes are on you're going to have deal with wheel clearance issues. Although our stock wheels had to go, Brembo offers a smaller, 13.1-in four-piston brake kit that fits inside the 17-in stock wheels. Given a proper brake caliper diagram, a custom wheel manufacturer can build custom wheels to fit over big brake kits. This is where iForged Performance Alloys fit into the project.
iForged modular wheels go through a high pressure and temperature forging process, which changes the non-directional grain structure of cast aluminum to the high integrity, multi-directional grain structure of forgings. The aluminum remains solid throughout the process as the forging dies come together and change the shape of the round bar to the cylindrical shape of the wheel. This forging "preform" is then placed in a spin forging machine to forge the rim section.


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In honor of National Poetry Month, join the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library for its first: The Arts Book Fair.
In the essence of celebrating poetry as an art, we will also feature other books that celebrate art and artists of all forms: dance, music, painting and so much more! So bring your library card, or sign up for one, and check out something great!
Monday, April 1 | 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2 | 5 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Small Meeting Room 1
Light refreshments will be served.
Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library
April 1 and April 2
Published on Monday, March 10, 2014
In honor of National Poetry Month, join the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library for its first: The Arts Book Fair.
Published on Friday, February 21, 2014
Juan shares with us that his favorite book is Diary Of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney. Juan says that it is his favorite book because it is very fun to read!
Description: In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
D.C. Back in the Day: Roundtable Brunch
Published on Thursday, February 13, 2014
Do you see the new D.C.?
Do you hear the new D.C.?
Do you feel the new D.C.?
Join the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, on Feb. 18 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., for our roundtable brunch: "The Way We Were: DC Back in the Day."
Here, we will discuss D.C.'s past, present, and future through the eyes and memories of our local residents. This open dialogue is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
Published on Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Jessica is back with another favorite book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. She like it because it tells you how he was a mean person and did not like Christmas and then he became nice because someone told him to.
Published on Friday, February 7, 2014
Jazmine's favorite book is The Bully by Paul Langan. She likes this book because at the end it shows that Darrell sticks up for himself.
Description: "Darrell Mercer, a ninth-grader at Bluford, is at the center of this story. Darrell and his mother move to the Bluford area in the middle of the school year. Physically smaller than his peers, Darrell quickly becomes a target for Tyray Hobbs, the freshman class bully."
Published on Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Kinayja says that her favorite book is I Had a Favorite Dress, by Boni Ashburn and illustrated by Julia Denos. Kinayja likes this book because she has a favorite dress too.
Description: "A young girl loves her favorite dress, but when it gets worn, goes out of fashion or she grows too big for it, her mother fixes up her old favorite dress into something new."
Published on Saturday, February 1, 2014
Safe neighborhoods represent a major concern for residents of the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Sixth District. Among the seven police districts, as reported in MPD's Crime Totals by Districts, the Sixth District has one of the highest number of homicides.
Published on Friday, January 31, 2014
Kyiniyah's favorite book is Judy Moody Was In a Mood by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. She likes it because Judy does the same things that she does all the time.
Description: "Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage."
Published on Thursday, January 30, 2014
DC Public Library will be participating in the ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival again this year.
ReelAbilities Disabilities Film Festival is the largest festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expressions of people with different disabilities. Initiated in NY in 2007, the festival presents award winning films by and about people with disabilities in multiple locations throughout each hosting city. Post-screening discussions and other engaging programs bring together the community to explore, discuss, embrace, and celebrate the diversity of our shared human experience.
The film festival will run Feb. 6-13. DC Public Library will screen films and host speakers at the following locations, dates and time:
Published on Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Shaniya says she loves the book Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook by Barbara Park, illustrated by Denise Brunkus. She likes it because it is funny and awesome.
Description: "Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when they disappear from the playground."


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Paul J. WatsonNovember 22,2012Paul J. Watson
SHAFTSBURY Paul J. Watson, 76, died Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at his residence, from heart disease.
Born in Bennington, Sept. 29, 1936, he was the son of Raymond O. and Jennie (Nash) Watson.
He was a 1955 graduate of Bennington High School.
Mr. Watson married Marie H. Hendricks in Bennington March 3, 1956; she died in 1994. He later married Joyce (Hawks) Watson June 10, 1997.
For 40 years, he was employed in quality control at Bijur in Bennington until retiring in 1998.
He was a 23-gallon blood donor and enjoyed camping, traveling, motorcycling and working with wood.
Survivors include his wife and a son, Michael Watson, both of Shaftsbury; a daughter, Paula Ryan of St. Paul, Minn.; two stepchildren, Scott Cummings of White Creek, N.Y., and Curt Cummings of Bennington; nine grandchildren and a great-grandson; several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Mr. Watson was predeceased by a brother, Harold Watson.
The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Mahar & Son Funeral Home, where friends may call from 11 a.m. prior to the service.
Burial will be in Center Shaftsbury Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Vermont Heart Association or Second Chance Animal Shelter, in care of Mahar & Son Funeral Home, 628 Main St., Bennington, VT 05201.
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Jones' pair of 2-run HRs leads O's over Angels 4-2
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Arrieta becomes bright spot for sputtering Cubs
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You don't need your own garden in order to get fresh food.
Seattle is loaded with blackberry vines. The sight of all that free fruit makes me want to forage each summer. My arms get so thorn-raked it looks like I've tried to exorcise a cat, but I fill the freezer, make jam, and eat blackberries almost every day for weeks.
On my way to pick berries one end-of-summer day, I saw a dark-purple blob in the dust. A plum had fallen from a tree in a nearby yard. I broke open the windfall and took a tentative nibble from its golden interior. Sweet as the memory of first love.
Peeking through the fence, I could see the tree was loaded. I asked the homeowners if I could trade them a jar of jam for the fruit I'd need to make some. They told me to help myself: "We're glad someone wants it."
You might be surprised where you can find bargain goods.
Want to get a roll of paper towels for 39 cents? Hit the auto supply store. Shocked at how expensive canned fruit has gotten? The drugstore might have an alternative. In the market for deeply discounted coffee, trash bags or toilet paper? Visit an office supply place.
These are some examples of the deals you can get if you stop thinking that foodstuffs and sundries can be purchased only in supermarkets. With the costs of basic foods continuing to rise, it really can pay to break out of the grocery gulag.
Yesterday I noticed long-grain rice on sale for $1.13 a pound at a local supermarket; the dollar store across the street sells 2 pounds for $1. Condensed soup is 99 cents and up at the grocery store, but I've gotten three cans for a buck on sale at Rite Aid. Five pounds of sugar costs $3.49 at Safeway but was $1.99 this week at Walgreens.
How long can you make that flattened toothpaste tube last?
A Smart Spending message board reader reports that "empty" doesn't always mean "empty." Posting on a thread about general frugality tips, "Canoes" told about cutting open a depleted tube of lotion and scraping out up to an extra week's worth of product.
Boy, am I glad I'm not the only one who does this.
Focus on 'experiences' rather than unwanted items.
This post comes from Abigail Perry, who blogs at I Pick Up Pennies.
The holidays mean joy and giving -- and garbage.
This isn't social commentary on commercialism -- I literally mean garbage. Think about the post-Christmas morning battlefield that was once your living-room floor: ripped, shredded wrapping paper and ribbon and toy boxes, waiting to be thrown in the trash.
Add to that all those "they meant well" gifts, and you have, well, waste. Household garbage levels increase 25 percent in the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's, according to this MSNBC article.
Resist the temptation to hit a drive-through.
School's back in session and retailers are trying to sell us items like breakfast cookies and individual bowls of cereal. Convenient, maybe, but also fairly pricey -- and would you really trust a 7-year-old with a bowl of cereal and milk in a moving car?
Besides, breakfast is the most important meal of the day for all ages. Over on the Smart Spending message board, some readers offer grownup strategies beyond granola bites and fast-food drive-throughs.
Your time might be more valuable than your money.
The less you earn, the more you're likely to give away. People who earn $20,000 or less per year donate more (relative to their income) than higher earners.
Or so Arthur Brooks reports in his book about American benevolence, "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism."
Charity appears to benefit the givers as well. An article from the Christian Science Monitor noted that "greater charity tends to push up income."
Here's an idea: Split lunch duty with a co-worker.
Get tired of bringing your lunch every day? Smart Spending message board reader "toucan77" has a solution: Split lunch duty with someone else.
This reader and a co-worker take alternate days bringing in lunch for two. According to toucan77's suggestion, posted on a thread about general frugality, this takes almost no extra work and it provides several very nice benefits.
Just as having an exercise buddy gets you to the gym on time, having a lunch partner keeps participants away from the Dollar Menu -- you wouldn't leave the other person high and dry by not bringing lunch, would you?
Reader nixed phone fee 10 years ago and is now $600 richer.
Recently, a Smart Spending message board reader posted a plaintively titled thread, "Can anyone list all of the proven ways of saving money? Not about cups of coffee or restaurants."
If anyone could do that, he'd publish it in book form and retire early, and rich. Besides, cutting back on restaurant meals and coffee away from home are proven ways of saving money. And small changes can mean big savings, noted a reader posting as "Great Arm."
In her case, $600 worth and counting.
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Fall Community Education booklets mailed
Pequot Lakes and Pine River-Backus school district residents should have received the Fall Community Education booklets in the mail.
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Homestead city council members discussed Wednesday evening whether their approval of Dade Medical College's proposal to build a downtown university campus would have to be reopened in light of the college's intention to build an urgent care center instead of a university theater as previously proposed.
Sold on the idea of a for-profit university to be built on a half acre at 72 NW First St., the council, acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) board, approved an option agreement for Dade Medical to purchase the property for $328,000
The December 2011 agreement stipulated that plans for the campus be approved by the city's Development Review Committee, Planning and Zoning Board and council by Jan. 9, 2014. The site would then have to be built within 24 months of the sale.
Reporting on the development review held May 21, planning director Joseph Corradino told the council Wednesday that Dade Medical College CEO Ernesto Perez had informed staff of his intentions to build an urgent care center with Miami Children's Hospital – intentions that didn't match the original application, the letter of intent, or the site plan submitted for review.
"The application was incomplete,'' Corradino said.
Perez, who was not at Wednesday's meeting, discussed the application at the May 21 review.
"I am going to be, like always, very honest with what we are doing," Perez said, according to meeting minutes.
"What we've done is, we have a memorandum of understanding. I don't know if we've done a letter of intent yet, as far as Miami Children's' Hospital. And they are interested in bringing an outpatient/urgent care center. The idea would be that we do a lot of work for Miami Children's Hospital, and the idea possibly could be as far as taking this theater idea and maybe retrofitting that so that would be the eventual permanent house for a Miami Children's Dade Medical College Learning affiliate facility."
Corradino said the planning department had not received a new letter of intent or site plan from Dade Medical.
"I'm a little confused," Councilwoman Judy Waldman said Wednesday. "I sat through all those meetings and thought the whole intention was a school. To me, that's not full disclosure. They have a letter of understanding with Miami Children's Hospital, and this is the first I've heard of it? This opens a whole big bushel of concern."
Councilman Stephen Shelley questioned the timeline and asked how staff would reconcile the mismatch between the site plan they received and the college's new intentions. Corradino's answer was the same one he gave during the review:
"He is getting approved for what is on this sheet of paper. You want to change the theater into something else, you need to get that reapproved."
The committee review minutes reveal the sweep of Perez's involvement in downtown Homestead, from proposing a college to retail to residences.
He told review staffers of his plans to buy the Art South building on Krome Avenue and to refurbish a neighboring building for 12 tor 16 apartments. He added, "Right now, as you know, there used to be prostitutes and people smoking crack in front of the Montessori school, and [Police] Chief Rolle came to me and said, 'Hey Ernie, would you mind buying this property so that we can get this element out of here?' "
Yet the CEO was oblivious to the site plan requirements. The planning staff noted that zero parking spaces had been provided, yet 130 spaces would be necessary. The traffic study contained conflicting data. There was no expected number of students, description of activities, or reasons given for approving the plan.
To Perez's statement, "It's in the ball court of what we are trying to do," staff had to explain, "The application needs to be for what's going to be in the building, you know, exact measurements."
The change of use to a downtown urgent care center appeared to dampen council members' enthusiasm for the project. Shelly said he supported the original idea of a university because it would be good for downtown. "So, yes, this could change the decision. I would have to see the proposal," he said after the meeting.
Vice Mayor Jon Burgess reacted similarly. "My concern is that an urgent care center isn't a part of a university. To me, that's different. I was sold one bag of goods and am getting another."
In the city's option agreement with Dade Medical, however, one of the allowed uses of the CRA property is a medical outpatient facility such as the one Perez was talking about.
Throughout the CRA project discussion on Wednesday, Mayor Steven Bateman remained seated on the dais, despite telling The Herald two weeks ago of his wife's real estate work for Dade Medical.
According to a Jan. 16th memo sent by Joseph Centorino, executive director of the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics, to elected officials across the county, the county code requires those with a voting conflict to "absent himself or herself from, [the] meeting during the discussion of the subject item."
"He should not have been part of that discussion,'' said Waldman. "I was shocked."
Bateman has denied any conflict. He did not respond to an email sent on Friday afternoon or to several phone messages.


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Steuben Expanded Stemmed points were first defined at the Steuben
site in Illinois. McCoy Corner-Notched points are named after the Silver
Creek Site I within the bounds of Fort McCoy in the La Crosse River
valley of west-central Wisconsin. Monona Stemmed points are named after
the Black Hawk Village site near Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.
Other Possible Names or Related Points: Steuben points are
also known as Lowe Flared Base in southern Illinois, and the type has
been divided into three varieties: long and slender, squat and thick,
and small and thin. Preston Notched points, a recently recognized Late
Archaic type, are similar to Steuben points and they may be mistaken for
one another.
Age: 1,700 to 1,500 B.P. The type is diagnostic of the
Millville phase in southwestern Wisconsin.
Distribution: Steuben points are common throughout Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa, and into southern Wisconsin.
Description: These are small to medium spear points. The
blades are triangular with convex edges, and shoulders are straight to
sloping. The basal edge is straight to slightly convex while stem edges
are concave. Stems expand from the shoulder to the base and account for
approximately one-quarter of the point's length. Basal edges are rarely
ground. These are sometimes difficult to distinguish from Durst points
of the Late Archaic. Both are characterized by expanding stems, but
points within the Steuben family usually have sharper shoulders and are
made of chert, whereas Durst points tend to have rounded shoulders and
may be made of chert or silicified sandstone.
Length: 3–10 cm/1.5–4 in. Width: 2.5–4 cm/1–2 in.
Material: These points are typically made of local cherts that
may be heat-treated.
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Summer Grilling: 101 Fast Recipes from Mark Bittman
The New York Times
Mark Bittman does it again! Just in time for the Fourth of July, The Minimalist offers a list of 101 mouthwatering, inspiring, and fast recipes for grilling. From figs to bacon, there's something for everyone to try this summer.
In his latest 101 list, Bittman gives new ideas for old standbys, as well as ingredients you might never have thought of grilling. There are suggestions for every craving and course: vegetables and fruits, meat, fish and shellfish, kebabs, salads, burgers, sandwiches and breads, and desserts ... and even a drink!
We've highlighted tahini tofu steaks, pineapple with peanut butter-sriracha chili sauce, Italian sausage and figs on a bun, and bread salad on a stick to try at our next barbecue.
Check out the full list:
• 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling
Related: Grill Out! 21 Good Grilling Tips, Recipes, and Ideas
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Mmmm, I just recently discovered the deliciousness that are grilled pineapples!! I'm not a big pineapple fan, but I LOVE them grilled!


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Cover: Bronze head of an Oba from Benin.
Hard copies of this issue are sold out.
The Art of Benin
Margaret Plass
Tikal 1959
William R. Coe
"The Head"--A Neurosurgeon's Analysis of a Great Stone Portrait
Temple Fay, Jack L. Benson, L. Arnold Post, and Reuben Goldberg
Ancient and Primitive Art in Philadelphia Collections
David Crownover
Archaeological Visitors
Alfred Kidder II
Siberians of the New World--An Archaeologist Spends the Summer on St. Lawrence Island
Robert Ackerman
Portrait of a Hero
Kenneth D. Matthews, Jr.
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Photographer Cowboys Up For Kids In Haiti [1]
Like most photographers, Frank Lozano has a varied portfolio of subjects - scenics, head shots, action, you name it. Some of the most precious in his collection are those he has on display currently at Out West in Old Town Newhall - a collection of shots from the Three Angels Children's Relief in Haiti and the surrounding areas.
Lozano is hoping to raise some money for the orphanage, which suffered significant damage in the January 12 earthquake and will donate the proceeds of any sales of Haiti photographs during this week's Third Thursday Art Walk.
In addition, OutWest is donating a portion of this week's sales to Three Angels.
"I've been very blessed to have been to Haiti three times, been to all these cool places and taken pictures, so I put them up on Facebook for my friends to enjoy," he said. "It was the encouragement from my friends, that made me really go into this."
One particular friend, who lived in Texas, used to call him weekly with a new subject challenge. One week it was "shoot things that are red," another was "motion." One week, it was "cowboys and their stuff," which Lozano felt was kind of unfair because "they were in San Antonio where there would be all sorts of that kind of stuff" - until he visited Hart Park.
"I spent two hours there and came away with 250 pictures, so I called Bobbi (from OutWest, who he met during the Fine Art Festival in October) and asked her how I could get my stuff into the museum."
Bell's response was to invite him to be her featured artist on Third Thursdays for the first three months of 2010. And when the earthquake hit Haiti - and the subject of some of his photographs - he knew this month's gallery should be not just artistic, but helpful.
"I'm so grateful that people are finally being able to appreciate and see art that's only been for friends and families in the past," Lozano said.
Along with being a still photographer, Lozano is also a documentary filmmaker and had gone to Haiti to help Three Angels Children's Relief make a video for their fundraising efforts. The orphanage also serves as a school and medical clinic for the community and was somehow spared as multi-story buildings around it collapsed to the ground during the temblor.
He is especially touched because a young girl he photographed during his first trip four years ago was among the 26 children brought to Florida last night to join their adoptive families.
"Mantanya is on my Facebook page. She used to fit in this little bucket they used to wash the babies. Her parents died in a flood and she was brought to the orphanage; she is just the most beautiful child," he said.
"I was given a picture of her from last night, when she joined her new family," he said, choking back tears. "It has come full circle."
Many of his Haiti pictures will be on display at OutWest, and anyone purchasing the pictures will be asked to make their check directly to Three Angels Children's Relief. Funds are needed to stabilize the building, which was damaged, but not destroyed.
"Now that it's empty, it's going to fill up again," Lozano explained. "Hopefully we can open the doors again soon."


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A Platte County R-III High School football player has been accused of assaulting a Winnetonka High School player with a football helmet during a game in October.
Colin W. Byrd, 17, of Kansas City, was charged on Nov. 19 with misdemeanor assault. The penalty for misdemeanor assault ranges from probation to one year in jail.
"Football players consent to physical contact and the possibility of injury every time they walk onto the field. And even conduct that draws a penalty is almost never criminal. In this case, however, we allege what happened that night was not football," said Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd in a news release.
According to court documents, during the third quarter of the Oct. 18 game between Platte County R-3 and Winnetonka, Byrd assaulted the victim by allegedly ripping off the victim's helmet and striking him in the head with it. The alleged assault occurred after a play in which Byrd and the victim ended up out of bounds.
An official and a Winnetonka school official who both saw the play told authorities they believed Byrd intentionally hit the victim with the helmet.
Byrd's conduct drew a flag, and he was ejected from the game. The official told investigators he had been officiating football games for more than 20 years and had never seen anything like it, said the release from Zahnd's office.
The school official said he believed Byrd had the opportunity to simply drop the helmet, but appeared to be "angry and frustrated" when he intentionally struck the victim with the helmet.
Zahnd said he has never seen a case like this before.
"I've been a prosecutor here for 11 years, I've never charged an assault arising from a sporting event and hope I never had to charge one again, but what we think happened here, what we intend to prove in court is this wasn't football as usual. This went beyond the game when we alleged that the defendant ripped off the helmet of his opponent and hit him in the head. That that was an assault," Zahnd said.
The victim suffered a significant injury resulting in a concussion and remains under a doctor's care. The victim has not been cleared by the doctor to return to school due to ongoing nausea, dizziness, memory loss and other symptoms.
The victim scored an 84 on a 0-125 concussion scale. A doctor indicated that lesser concussions score in the 20-30 range.
If convicted, Byrd could receive probation or face a maximum of one year in the Platte County Jail. A summons will be issued to Byrd and a court date will be set at that time.
Students at Platte County High School said Byrd is a popular, well-liked star football player in his senior year. Byrd's attorney said it was an unfortunate situation that resulted in injuries.
"I would say it's an unfortunate situation," defense attorney Anthony Bologna said. "He is a senior in high school, and he is an honor society member, so obviously a lot to lose. Any time somebody that age is facing criminal charges long term, there's a lot to lose there."
KCTV5's Chris Oberholtz contributed to this report.
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