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**Wyoming Memory Portal - '''On Hold as of //2015''' Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present.
**[http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ University of Wyoming American Heritage Center] - This website showcases the online multimedia collections of the University of Wyoming Libraries and the American Heritage Center.
**[http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ University of Wyoming American Heritage Center] - This website showcases the online multimedia collections of the University of Wyoming Libraries and the American Heritage Center.
Revision as of 10:05, 6 June 2015
This page lists databases produced by states or their political subdivisions that provide online access to historical photographs, documents, video, or audio. It was last reviewed for broken links on March 28, 2015.
Return to the State Agency Databases page.
- Alaska
- Alaska's Digital Archive - Multiagency database managed by the Alaska State Library. Rich collection of media including photographs, video, and audio.
- Arizona
- Arizona Memory Project - Photographs, documents, artifacts and more available from a number of AZ cultural institutions. Searchable by keyword with limit to a specific collection. A RSS feed of newly added items is available.
- California
- Online Archive of California- The OAC brings together historical materials from a variety of California institutions, including museums, historical societies, and archives. Over 120,000 images; 50,000 pages of documents, letters, and oral histories; and 8,000 guides to collections are available. Administered by the University of California.
- Colorado
- Heritage West - The Collaborative Digitization Program explains their database this way: "Heritage West is a database that brings together thousands of digital objects from the collections of museums, libraries, historical societies and archives from throughout the Western United States. Included in this database are photos, documents, artifacts, costumes, diaries, oral histories and manuscripts representing the West's cultural, scientific and historic heritage." Since the formation of this resource, it has expanded to the Western United States.
- Florida
- Florida Memory Project
- Call Family & Brevard Family Papers "contains correspondence, writings, and other papers of Richard Keith Call and his family, 1788-1916, and Theodore Washington Brevard and Mary Call Brevard and their family, 1820-ca. 1920s."
- Florida Photographic Collection & Video Clips - "Featuring over 135,000 digitized photographs from the State Archives of Florida, the Florida Photographic Collection is the most complete online portrait of Florida available--one that draws its strength from family pictures, the homes of Floridians, their work, and their pastimes."
- Florida Memory Project
- Georgia
- Digital Library of Georgia "is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. The Digital Library of Georgia connects users to 500,000 digital objects in 90 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies.
- Georgia's Virtual Vault - Digital Treasures from the Georgia Archives
- Ad Hoc Collection - miscellaneous items
- Chatham County Deed Books, 1785-1806
- Colonial Will Books, 1754-1779
- Colonial Wills, 1733-1778
- Confederate Enlistment Oaths and Discharges, 1861-1864
- Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960
- County Records from Microfilm - includes marriage records and early tax records from some counties
- District Plats of Survey - original surveys of land districts in counties made prior to distribution of land by lottery, 1805-1833, plus resurveys or renewed surveys of districts
- Georgia Death Certificates, 1919-1927 - also includes a number of certificates from 1914-1918, with the bulk dating from from 1917 and 1918
- Georgia Power Photograph Collection - photographs of lighting installations for businesses by Georgia Power - shows the interiors and exteriors of many businesses in Georgia in the 1930s and 1940s and a few outside the state
- Headright and Bounty Plats of Survey, 1783-1909
- Historic Postcard Collection - from the early 1900s through the 1970s depicting many historical buildings and landmarks throughout the state
- Indiana
- Digital Image Library - Searchable by keyword and limited by collection, this site provides a number of digital resources including various Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, information and images about poet James Whitcomb Riley, prominent African-American businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker, art from 19th century artist Karl Bodmer, letters from Ben Hur author Lew Wallace during his service as New Mexico's territorial governor, and many other resources.
- Kansas
- Kansas Memory - The Society's historical collections being shared via the Internet include letters, diaries, photographs, government records from the State Archives, maps, museum artifacts, and historic structures in Kansas.
- Kentucky
- Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Online Digital Media Database - A comprehensive collection of audio and video interviews and over 10,000 pages of electronic transcripts. All material is full-text searchable and can be sorted by county, subject or by decade.
- Kentuckiana Digital Library - Searchable database to archival collections' finding aids across Kentucky and images, maps, newspapers, and oral history.
- KHS Digital Collections - Access digital images, sound, video, and text from the KHS collections of historic photographs, manuscripts, oral history, maps, rare imprints, library resource lists, and museum artifacts.
- Maine
- Interactive Search - Searchable database of records available in the Maine State Archives in the following collections: Photographs, Maps, Movies, Newspapers.
- Michigan
- Mel Michigania - Digitized historical resources from various collections around Michigan. The collections include photographs of people, places and objects; diaries of Civil War soldiers; unique local histories and much more.
- Minnesota
- Visual Resources Database - Nearly 130,000 images of photographs, artwork, posters, and fine art photographs from pre-territorial days to the present. Information on use and purchase available with each record.
- Missouri
- Missouri Digital Heritage - Contains historical collections about MO from the State Archives, the State Historical Society, and other institutions across the state. Search by keyword or browse collections.
- Nebraska
- Nebraska Memories Images of Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials.
- New Jersey
- New Jersey Digital Highway - NJDH - Digitized historical and cultural materials in text, audio, image, and video formats from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.
- North Carolina
- North Carolina Digital Collections Digital Collections on a variety of topics produced by the North Carolina State Archives and the North Carolina State Library. Collections include North Carolina State Government Publications, Family History, and Black Mountain College.
- Ohio
- Ohio Memory an online scrapbook of Ohio history - Discover 26,000 primary sources from 330 archives, historical societies, libraries and museums that document Ohio's past from prehistory through the present.
- Oregon
- Oregon Historic Photograph Collections - This database includes over 10,000 viewable photographs and related descriptions from the holdings of the Salem Public Library, the Oregon State Archives, and the Marion County Historical Society. The images date from the mid-1800s to the 1990s and depict a wide range of subjects such as Oregon towns, homes, businesses, occupations, scenic vistas, disasters, festivities, and recreational pursuits. The database is searchable by keyword and is maintained by the Salem Public Library.
- Historic Oregon Newspapers - Part of the "Chronicling America" program), which covers various Oregon papers from 1848-1922. It is still being added to, but there is quite a bit on here. Valuable to anyone researching the Western frontier, Indian wars, etc. Searchable by keyword.
- South Carolina
- History of Public Health. The Website includes the text,photographs, references and timeline of a presentation on the history of public health in South Carolina, done by a longtime DHEC staff person.
- Tennessee
- Volunteer Voices - a state-wide digitization project that will provide access to primary sources that document Tennessee's rich history and culture. Volunteer Voices combines the collaborative efforts to Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools.
- Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA) - a program of the State Library and Archives to create a digital repository of Tennessee history and culture. TeVA provides a searchable array of historical records, photographs, documents, maps, postcards, film, audio and other original materials of enduring value.
- Texas
- Texas Heritage Online - Texas Heritage Online provides unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers. It has been developed by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative, a cooperative project to identify, describe, digitize, preserve, and make broadly accessible special collections of history and culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other institutions in Texas.
- Utah
- Mountain West Digital Library - From the website, "The Mountain West Digital Library is an aggregation of digital collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. Hosting institutions each run servers supporting their own digital collections and support partner institutions by providing scanning and hosting services. The Mountain West defines the region of contributors, but the content extends beyond the Mountain West and into different fields." Portal page hosted by University of Utah.
- Washington
- Washington History - includes historical records search, Classics in Washington History, a territorial history timeline, and maps, photographs, and documents from different periods in the state's history.
- Digital Archives - records from both State and Local agencies that have permanent legal, fiscal or historical value. The collection includes vital statistics, census, military, land, naturalization, and other types of records in addition to photographic collections.
- Wyoming
- Wyoming Memory Portal - On Hold as of 6/6/2015 Wyoming Memory brings the histories of Wyoming to life through a virtual gateway to the state's rich collections of manuscripts, books, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. These sources document Wyoming's past from prehistory through the present.
- University of Wyoming American Heritage Center - This website showcases the online multimedia collections of the University of Wyoming Libraries and the American Heritage Center.


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Zwilling JA Henckels Pro Wide Chef's Knife
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- Summary
The wide blade of this knife provides generous knuckle clearance as you chop, making cutting tasks more comfortable and efficient. It also excels at smashing garlic and transferring chopped foods to your bowl or pan. A unique curved bolster designed by architect Matteo Thun promotes a perfect thumb grip.
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- Arched bolster perfectly supports the thumb for ultimate comfort, safety and precise handling. Also allows the full length of the edge to be sharpened, from tip to end.
- The sleek ABS resin handle is triple riveted to the blade and contoured for a secure, comfortable grip.
- 6" knife: 6"-long blade.
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- Made in Germany by Zwilling J.A. Henckels since 1731.
- Dimensions & More Info
- 6" knife: 6"-long blade.
- 8" knife: 8"-long blade, 5"-long handle; 9.75 oz.
- Made in Germany.
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- Hand-wash with warm water and a mild detergent. Rinse and dry immediately.
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For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners, and knife storage) please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
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by David Crane [email protected] A little while back, we reported on Paul Liebenberg opening up his own custom shop, Pistol Dynamics, now located in Indialantic, FL. Well, the July/August 2002 issue of "American Handgunner" contains a rather lengthy article by Cameron Hopkins about both Paul and his new "Limited Signature" Model 1911 he created in retro Armand Swenson/Richard Heinie style ... Read More »
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New Valtro 1911
There's a new 1911 just coming onto the market that has received some very positive reviews by some very experienced people. The Valtro 1998 A1 is the brainchild of John Jardine, nephew of the late great Armand Swenson. John is a gunsmith in his own right(after all, he learned from one of the best), and can modify the pistols even ... Read More »


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Erika Schlick-Sinclair became an IIN Certified Health Coach after a personal struggle with Lyme Disease, Mold Illness and Multiple Autoimmune Diseases. Her journey to health is covered in her blog The Trail To Health, which also serves as a guide and resource for other people dealing with chronic conditions. In addition to pursuing knowledge about ways for people to heal she enjoys going to the beach, snuggling with her adorable French Bulldogs and spending time with her friends and family.
Disclaimer: This site is not intended and should not be used as a replacement for medical advise or a medical doctor. Furthermore, the information on this site is not intended to treat, diagnose, or cure any condition or disease. This is simply a place for me to tell my story of healing and share what worked for me in hopes that you can explore this knowledge with your doctor or health care practitioner. Please consult with your own physician or health care practitioner regarding any of the suggestions and recommendations made on this site. All material and information presented on this website is intended to be used for educational purposes only. All recipes, notes and photography are original creations and property of Erika Schlick – The Trail To Health. Please feel free to share the recipes and photos but you may not re-publish these recipes or photos as your own. Some links on this site may be affiliate links. All items listed are products I use and trust myself and want to share with my community. The cost to you is the same, it just means I earn a small commission if you purchase with my link which helps keep my blog and recipes active. Your support is greatly appreciated.


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Welcome to the Career Development Center
West Penn Hall, 5th floor
Career Development Center Hours
- Monday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Tuesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Wednesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Thursday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday & Evenings
Call for an appointment.
The Career Development Center is an education and resource center that helps students develop the professional skills they'll need to achieve their goals, advance their professions and serve their communities.
The programs and services offered through Career Development facilitate partnerships between students, faculty, staff, employers and alumni to maximize career opportunities.
Students and alumni who use our services will learn to:
- create tailored resumes and cover letters for specific jobs
- use the Handshake job and internship website and other technology to research and apply for jobs
- conduct a successful job interview
- participate in networking opportunities
- develop a professional network
- create career goals
- develop a plan on how to achieve career goals
Key Services
The Career Development Center offers a wide range of services to help students and alumni tap into employment resources and opportunities:
- Jobs and internships
- Career fairs and workshops
- Jobs with the U.S. government
- Resources and handouts
video: Career Preparation at Point Park
Schedule an appointment on Handshake
We'll work with you in one-on-one counseling appointments at the Career Development Center, or by telephone or email, whichever works best with your schedule.
To schedule an appointment with a career counselor, visit http://pointpark.joinhandshake.com/login.
Alumni outcomes
Interested in learning about alumni employment after graduation?
Click the links below to view our reports.
- Class of 2015: Graduate Outcomes Survey Summary | Graduate Student Data
- Class of 2014: Graduate Outcomes Survey Summary | Graduate Student Data
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- Class of 2012: Graduate Outcomes Survey Summary | Graduate Student Data
Career Development Staff
Our four career counselors are cross-trained and are assigned to one of Point Park's academic schools, creating close working relationships that support specific career directions. Career counselors also work closely with staff members in the Center for Student Success to assist students.
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Chicago: Q's Restaurant Lures with Old School Charm
Q's Restaurant & Pizzeria
4841 Butterfield Rd, Hillside IL 60162 (map); 630-833-2402; qsrestaurant.com
Pizza Style: Midwestern thin crust
The Skinny: West suburban legend, still exceedingly popular in the area, but the old school charm is bigger draw than the pizzas.
Price: Medium pizzas start at $10.75; large at $12.75
Notes: On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, pizzas are buy one get one free
Going into my inaugural visit to Q's Restaurant & Pizzeria in the western suburb of Hillside, the place had everything going for it: The place has a solid reputation; I was starving when I got there; I'm a sucker for old-school places with kick-ass neon signs (see my review of Sano's in Chicago and La Casa Pizzaria in Omaha).
Q's opened its doors over 50 years ago and the current owner, Mike Allred, is the second generation in his family (through his mother's side, the Ferrainas) to run the place. From sponsoring Little League teams to participating in neighborhood festivals, there is little doubt that the restaurant is an active member of the community. I visited on a recent Saturday night and the large restaurant was absolutely packed with families who I'm convinced have been making regular treks to Q's for years. Every table I looked at seemed to be filled with people who were more than happy with their food and I expected the satisfaction at my table to follow suit.
Pizzas are available in two styles at Q's, thin crust and double dough, the latter featuring a crust twice as thick as the regular style. For my normal thin crust pie, I kept things simple with a sausage topping; the pizza that I've found this type of place to knock out of the park. But from the look of things upon arrival, this was going to be one greasy pizza. That combined with the flavorless crust did not add up to the stuff legends are made of.
Still, Midwestern thin crust, tavern-cut pizza is typically not known for its crust and, when eating that style of pizza, I'm happy to let a dull crust slide when the other components can pick up the slack. But the oily pizza parlor cheese and slightly sweet tomato sauce (which had a cooked down flavor that tasted more like unseasoned, canned marinara) weren't up to the challenge. But the real killer was the sausage. Where was that great fennel flavor that is the hallmark of good Chicago sausage? The too chewy sausage was lacking seasoning all around.
I did get a pleasant surprise on my double dough pizza with Italian beef and giardiniera. The crust, while identical to the regular crust in terms of flavor, was much crisper and also helped along by a far heavier dusting of cornmeal on the bottom. While it added nothing in terms of flavor, I did enjoy the extra crunch on this pizza. However, the topping flavors, similar to the sausage pie, were out of balance.
I've never had a pizza with as much giardiniera as this one. The small parts of the pie that did not have any chunks of the jalapeno-heavy veggie mix seemed to have gotten more than their share of the spicy oil. In fact, the spice overpowered the pie to the extent that it was difficult to discern if there was any sauce on it or what flavor the beef was going for.
From the waitress who was more than happy to let me settle in at Q's for the night, to the paper placemats that advertise local businesses (those things need to make a comeback!), to the festive atmosphere that pervaded every inch of the place, I really did like everything about Q's except for the pizzas. Fortunately for the family that runs the place, they've done fine without me for 50 years and I hope they stick around for 50 more.
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I'm actually not sure who bloggy and Tyler Green are taking sides with in the Jack Pierson vs Barneys dustup. Barneys supposedly "forged," for its window displays, its own set of Pierson's "trademark" sculptures made out of found sign letters. Pierson is mad, and his gallery Cheim & Read wrote a pedantic letter to the clothier that stops short of asserting an actual intellectual property right but nevertheless accuses the retailer of a "fraudulent situation."
But given that those kinds of sculptures are commonplace--you see them in craft fairs, regional art shows, and T.G.I. Friday's-calibre restaurants--that's a bit like Duchamp writing an indignant letter to a urinal manufacturer. As long as the accusations of "fraud" are flying around, why doesn't Pierson have his gallery write an outraged screed to the stock photography company selling this royalty free image:
Or maybe sling a fraud allegation at painter Leslie Brack while he's at it?
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I have always had to install something, by general I have made it either from the corresponding repository or from the source code (by manually working out the dependences in this last case).
But what happens if we want to install directly a deb package? Typically we are going to employ the dpkg command.
javi@kubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i package.deb
If the package to be installed needs some dependence, the dpkg output shows it and we have to manually set it up. But so as to work around this task, gdebi can carry out all these necessary actions: to resolve the dependences and install the final package.
javi@kubuntu:~$ sudo gdebi package.deb
And finally, also say that this tool is available for Debian systems and their derivatives (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Knoppix, etc.).


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I saw a news story years ago about the use of donkeys in some Latin American countries to bring books to remote mountain villages which are difficult to reach by vehicle. The stories of the "Biblioburros" (library donkeys) has always been one of my favorites.
Now the story of the original "Biblioburro" is coming to PBS on July 19th.
From PBS:
"Biblioburro" is the story of a librarian — and a library — like no other. A decade ago, Colombian teacher Luis Soriano was inspired to spend his weekends bringing a modest collection of precious books, via two hard-working donkeys, to the children of a poor and violence-ridden province. As Soriano braves armed bands, drug traffickers, snakes and heat, his library on hooves carries an inspirational message about education and a better future for Colombia. His efforts have attracted worldwide attention — and imitators — but his story has never been better told than in this heartwarming yet unsentimental film.
It's people like this that make the world an amazing place.
Put in on your calendar so you don't forget to tune in: Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET


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4 Steps for Making Healthy Sandwiches
Good 'Wich: Go for whole wheat bread or mix things up with a whole-grain wrap or pita. Choose a variety that is high in fiber — at least 2 grams per slice — which will help you stay satisfied longer.
Wicked 'Wich: Avoid highly refined carbs like white bread, rolls, and croissants since fiber is removed during the milling process. Also beware of wheat breads disguised as whole grain — check the label carefully to make sure you're getting the real thing.
Quick Tip: The first ingredient on the bread label must say either whole grain or whole wheat.
Good 'Wich: Choose 3-ounce servings of a low-calorie and low-fat protein like turkey (2 slices), tuna (1/2 can), chicken, or salmon. For a vegetarian option, try a Mediterranean-inspired sandwich with 4 tablespoons of hummus.
Wicked 'Wich: Bologna, liverwurst, and pastrami are typically higher in calories, fat, and saturated fat. Just one slice of bologna can have up to 90 calories (about three times more than turkey) and 3 grams of saturated fat.
Quick Tip: One serving of chicken (3 ounces) is about the same size as a deck of cards.
Good 'Wich: The more, the better. Veggies like lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, cucumbers, and spinach are good sources of fiber and water, which quench hunger.
Wicked 'Wich: There's no such thing as a "bad" fruit or veggie, but watch out for pitfalls. Go easy on avocados, which contain healthy fats yet are high in calories. Stick with a few thin slices or a tablespoon of guacamole. Rinse and drain canned veggies like mushrooms or olives to get rid of excess oil.
Quick Tip: 1/2 cup sliced apples or pears adds crunch and flavor for fewer than 50 calories.
Good 'Wich: Perk up your sandwich with a spread that has 50 calories or fewer, such as honey or Dijon mustard or low-fat mayo.
Wicked 'Wich: Cheese is the biggest diet danger — one slice of the full-fat kind contains more than 100 calories and about 10 grams of fat. Cheese lovers should opt for an ounce or less of a variety marked 50% or 75% reduced fat. Even a small portion of grated cheddar, goat cheese, provolone, or Muenster adds a lot of flavor.
Quick Tip: Whip up your own condiment — blend Dijon mustard with apricot jam.
Originally published in the April 1, 2010, issue of Family Circle magazine.


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first strand cDNA synthesis not working - cannot PCR out cDNAs of interest from first strand cDNA (Feb/18/2010 )
Hello All,
I need your help in
troubleshooting a cDNA prep I made. I drug-induced my C.elegans worms and then
prepared RNA from them using Trizol, but column-purified using the Qiagen Rneasy kit. I measured RNA concentration by Nanodrop and got
1391.5 ng/ul, A260/280 =2.17 and A260/230 = 2.35. Then I made first
strand cDNA using Invitrogen's cloned AMV first strand cDNA synthesis kit
according to the instrucrtuions given there, using 3 ul of RNA as
template.I used oligo-dT primer. I tried to PCR out some cDNAs of CYPs
from this, but I got no bands. My positive control also didn't work, so
there is no DNA in the cDNA. What might have gone wrong? Do you think I
should use more RNA as template? I noticed that everyone else in the
literature ( at least for C elegans) uses random hexamers for priming, can this be the problem?
Please give me your input based on your experience with RNA. I have only
a little RNA and don't want to waste it in troubleshooting experiments.
Thank you,
I remember the 260/280 ratio of pure RNA is 2.0, how could it be over 2.0?
And what's your positive control?
bluesoul on Feb 19 2010, 10:12 AM said:
I often find that my total RNA 260/280 is over 2.0. It still works for RT-PCR as long as it looks good on a gel.
To the OP:
How does your RNA look on a gel? You should see strong rRNA bands of the appropriate size(s) (the size varies depending on organism, not sure what it should be for C. elegans).
Also, you need a positive control TEMPLATE in your PCR as well as positive control PRIMERS. You can't conclude from your results whether your taq (or other PCR reagents) went bad or if your RNA went bad. If you can show that both primer sets work on genomic or other positive control template but fail on your cDNA then yes, you have some problem with your RNA or cDNA.
As for how much RNA to use, I have noticed that I will often get a better result from my RT reaction (stronger bands, better amplification plot in quantitative PCR) if I use less RNA. This is probably because sometimes there are PCR inhibitors left over from a TRIZOL reaction. I typically use 500ng to 1ug total RNA (most RT reactions say you can use up to 5ug but I don't usually do this).
I also dilute my cDNA before running the RT-PCR reaction. Usually 3-5 fold (so if the reaction is 20uL I will add 40uL-100uL of water/buffer).
I would be shocked if "everyone" uses random hexamers for RT-priming in C. elegans. If you are trying to get an mRNA out you really want to use oligo dT not random hexamers. I don't know what "CYPs" are but obviously you need to use the appropriate primers to the RNA you are trying to amplify. At any rate, I presume that your control primers amplify a polyadenylated gene so oligo dT cDNA should work for that yes? If you are using rRNA for a control gene then you should use random hexamers.


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Corticosteroids are similar to natural substances the
body produces to help reduce
inflammation and itching. For
atopic dermatitis, corticosteroids reduce
inflammation, itching, and thickening of the skin (lichenification).
Oral corticosteroids are generally not recommended for controlling
atopic dermatitis. They are used only for severe cases of atopic dermatitis or
when topical agents (creams and ointments) and
antihistamines have not worked.
Oral corticosteroids are often effective in reducing inflammation
and itching. A high initial dose usually gets rid of the rash quickly.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
Side effects from long-term use can include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference
is not available in all systems.)
Corticosteroids are usually used in combination with preventive
measures, such as moisturizing your skin and avoiding skin irritants.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Women who use this medicine during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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What It Was
By George P. Pelecanos
Narrated by JD Jackson / 6 hours 40 minutes
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way.
Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.
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Politics in Deeply Divided Societies
Politics in Deeply Divided Societies
ISBN: 978-0-745-64849-1 May 2012 Polity 184 Pages
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This book provides an authoritative and systematic analysis of the politics of so- called 'deeply divided societies' in the post Cold War era. From Bosnia to South Africa, Northern Ireland to Iraq, it explains why such places are so prone to political violence, and demonstrates why - even in times of peace - the fear of violence continues to shape attitudes, entrenching divisions in societies that already lack consensus on their political institutions.
Combining intellectual rigour and accessibility, it examines the challenge of establishing order and justice in such unstable environments, and critically assesses a range of political options available, from partition to power-sharing and various initiatives to promote integration. The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies is an ideal resource for students of comparative politics and related disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in the dynamics of ethnic conflict and nationalism.
Table of contents
Preface vi
List of Tables viii
1 Introduction 1
2 The Characteristics of Deeply Divided Societies 13
3 Violence, Order and Justice 33
4 The Challenge of Policing 55
5 Limits to Integration 77
6 Partition and Population Transfer 95
7 Power-Sharing and Political Accommodation 113
8 External Mediation 133
9 Conclusion 154
Bibliography 161
Index 168
"A very good introductory text for anyone interested in the sources of divisions in pluralistic societies, as well as the successes and failures of the management of intercommunal differences - highly recommended."
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"An authoritative guide. It will likely remain a touchstone text for those working in conflict management or peace studies for many years to come."
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"A native of Northern Ireland, Guelke's close encounters with his home country's violent political past shines throughout this volume. He provides a rich study of Northern Ireland, as wells as wide range of contemporary examples including post-apartheid era South Africa, the break-up of Yugoslavia, communal violence in India, the 2011 referendum creating South Sudan, among others."
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"A comprehensive analysis of the poitics of moderately and deeply divided societies."
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"A distinguished expert in deeply divided societies, Guelke skilfully unpacks the challenges facing societies divided by ethnicity, religion, and race and tackles the critical dilemmas encountered by those seeking to design durable conflict-mitigating institutions. The Politics in Deeply Divided Societies will stimulate current scholarship and nurture the next generation of students."
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"This volume offers a highly readable and sophisticated analysis of deeply divided societies - countries that are at the root of both domestic strife and international conflict. Guelke's treatment is a concise but impressive tour de force of an essential area of ethnic politics. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the management of inter-ethnic conflict and in the promotion of sustainable democracy in some of the world's least stable polities."
Ilan Peleg, Middle East Institute, Washington, DC
"Politics in Deeply Divided Societies provides a comprehensive, lucid and deeply insightful analysis of societies struggling with ethnic, religious, class and other divisions that often produce violence and failed political systems. Drawing on a wide range of important cases, this excellent book also assesses lucidly the varying consequences of these struggles, for instance partition, and offers a balanced presentation of techniques for overcoming them."
David E. Schmitt, Northeastern University
- Drawing on a wide range of examples from across the world, this is an engaging and authoritative introduction to the politics of 'deeply divided societies'
- Adrian Guelke expertly explains why particular types of social structure are prone to violence, and why conflict can remain a risk even after formal peace settlements
- The book assesses the full range of political options for stabilizing these volatile regions, drawing on a rich set of contemporary examples.
- This book will be ideal for students of peace and conflict studies as well as related disciplines.


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Once upon a time search engines looked at words. Over the years the movement has been towards concepts. Or as the new mantra goes, "things not strings."
Yes, indeed, the words on the page do come into play, but more often than not, it is more about identifying the concepts of a page or a website. This helps them better deliver results in a commonly more personalized world.
The goal of this article is to give you a sense of the core concepts used in modern search. This is not a guide to Google. Nor Bing. It is a starting point to better understand the landscape so that you might venture out to discover more.
Corralling the Wild, Wild Web
While this journey is more about the elements of ranking a page or a site, one really can't get to that point without the page actually being found. The two obvious elements are;
- Crawling: The ability for the search engine to get around the site
- Indexing: Actually getting pages into the search engine's index.
These days most of this can be handled by automated tools provided by the major search engines. At least to let them know you exist.
What's not quite as evident is the level and depth of the crawling and indexation given to a website. This can often be attributed some various on-site and off-site factors we'll be looking at shortly.
Google's Matt Cutts has a nice video worth watching;
Understanding Signals
First things first: signals. It is strangely a commonly bandied about term in the world of SEO. But often misunderstood.
A search engine can use signals for many things including categorization, geo-localization, behavioral, demographic, and more. Not just for ranking purposes. Some might be used as signals of quality (task completion) while others used in display elements in the search results.
Where things get interesting are the various page-level signals and site-wide signals. How a search engines "views" your site on the web. In the strictest understanding of "ranking factors", these might not always be considered, but indeed are important concepts.
In simplest terms these can include:
Site-Level Signals:
- Authority/Trust
- Classifications
- Internal link ratios
- Localization
- Entities
- Domain history
- Thin content
Page Level Signals:
- Meta data
- Classifications (and Localization)
- Entities
- Authority/trust (external links)
- Temporal signals
- Semantic signals
- Linguistic indicators (language and nuances)
- Prominence factors (bold, headings, italics, lists, etc.)
Off-site Signals:
- Link related signals
- Temporal signals
- Trust elements (known by the company you keep)
- Entity/Authority; citations, co-citation, etc.
- Social graph signals
- Spam signals (that might incur dampening)
- Semantic relevance (of the other signals)
Please do bear in mind, 'link related' doesn't mean PageRank. Links can send a variety of signals, methods like PageRank, being just one.
While we'll avoid the specifics, you can get a sense that there are a variety of signals a search engine might use to understand what a site and/or a web page is about. And of course what types of elements might be used in scoring search results.
The Land of Graphs
Next stop in our journey is to start understanding some of the various classifications, categorizations, relations, and correlations that a search engine might employ. These days we tend to think of them as "graphs".
Some of these include;
- Link graph: Most commonly known one to SEO professionals, all the links to sites that determine relevance, authority, and trust.
- Social graph: Connections, topicality, behavioural data, etc.
- Entity graph: People, places, things, events, etc. (named entities).
- Knowledge graph: Information related to entities.
- Term and taxonomy graphs.
Where this can play into rankings is that Google categorizes the relations and can score and re-rank web pages through these graph relations. Consider things such as co-citation, topical link graphs, social associations toward authority, and much more.
Get the idea? Yes, I know it can start to get confusing. But for the purposes of this article, we're keeping it simple and moving fast here. Just fire up the desire to learn more. That's the goal here.
What I hope is emerging is that there's a whole lot going on under the hood. There's an entire article that could dig into each of the points above. Never fall for the simple answers when trying to understand what's happening to your site and your target query spaces.
Understanding Ranking Mechanisms
So now let's move along to why we're here. To get a better sense of how a search engine might rank web pages in today's environment. Again, I am trying to get you moving down the tracks to wanting to learn more. This is the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Simple concepts:
- Scoring: The major search engines use hundreds of factors nestled into many algorithms. Think about it like an onion and it's layers. All too often, people say things like "the Google algorithm" when in fact, there are many. The scoring over all of them makes up the initial rankings.
- Boosting: This is another element or signal that might raise a page's position in the rankings. One example is a statement Google made that fast mobile sites are given a boost in mobile search. Various forms of personalization also use a boosting element to re-rank results.
- Dampening: Not to be confused with penalties, a dampening factor is an element that would lower the rankings of a web page after the initial scoring process. One example is the now infamous Google Penguin or Panda algorithms. While it may seem like a penalty, it is in fact a dampening element.
Now we're getting somewhere right? We consider the various on site signals, off site signals and graphs (link, social, entity, knowledge). Within each of those, there are ranking and scoring mechanisms at play that are affecting where a website appears in the results.
Personalization and the World of Flux
While the path so far may seem daunting, it's about to get a little more convoluted
Once upon a time, life was simple. We had 10 blue links. Those links were by and large stable no matter who searched it nor where they were at the time. No longer.
The shift started most notably with Google back in 2004. At the time it was in Google Labs and users could identify preferences. By 2009, they unleashed it on the world for all users. That flavor used search history and behaviour to adapt the results.
Today, we have a few different types of re-rankings and results based on the end user including:
- Behavioral: Based on search history, query reformations, last query, etc.
- Social: The rise of the social graph has lead to logged in personalization.
- Geographic: Rankings can change based on the location of the user.
- Demographic: Somewhat linked to the social, but categorizes users.
- Temporal: Results based on user activities (daily, weekly, annual, etc.).
Some elements are tied to user accounts that are logged in, (social, behavioral) while others, can be in any state (such as geographic). We've seen instances where searching the term [hockey] produces personalized results tailored to the region, regardless if the user was logged in.
This means that at any given time, the results and rankings can be drastically different from one searcher to another. It is, in large part, the reason we've seen ranking reports become less important in the world of SEO.
The Web Spam Connection
While we might not ultimately consider it as a ranking element, web spam does bear a mention along the ride. While it may not be something that can increase your rankings, it sure can lower or demolish them. So may for the sake of this article, we might consider them as "ways a search engine un-ranks a web page".
Web spam is the term used to those that seek to manipulate the search results. As with all things in information retrieval and SEO, there are a multitude of methods they might use and associated scoring that we don't really know. But at least Google gives us this handy page to get a sense of some things that might be in play.
Some web spam elements might include;
- Cloaking and/or sneaky redirects
- Hacked site
- Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing
- Parked domains
- Pure spam
- Spammy free hosts and dynamic DNS providers
- Thin content with little or no added value
- Unnatural links from a site
- Unnatural links to a site
- User-generated spam
Again, for more read this article. And if you really want to learn more, you can also dig into this guide to web spam over here.
The point is that we should always consider what affects a ranking of a web page from a negative as well as a positive standpoint. I prefer to leverage the many factors we looked at here today more so than manipulating them. If you do this, you probably won't ever have to worry about the web spam issue.
No Pretty Bow, I'm Afraid
And so where does this all leave us? I know you might have come to this page looking for a definitive guide as to how you can go and start making bucket loads of cash ranking your pages. The reality is that it is never that simple. Indeed, SEO isn't dead, in fact, it becomes more complicated all the time.
Any one section of this article could be broken up into a post of its own. In fact, many. What we tried to do for you here today was to give a sense of what goes into the process.
There is no one way to attack SEO. Given what's involved in how modern search engines rank pages, you need to think on your feet as to how you can appeal to them and the strategy that will work for your situation.
This is your starter guide… now go forth and learn even more. Then, and only then, will you become a kickass SEO pro.
Some random reading to continue your journey;
- Crawling and indexing
- On-site V Off-site factors
- Google Freshness and Temporal Data
- The Knowledge graph; Google acquires Meta-web
- Google and the social graph
- Google Introduces Personalized Search
- Personalized search for everyone
- Search personalization and the user experience
- Google on Web spam
- SEO guide to web spam
- SEOs and Google; the real relationship
And there you have it. This is but a beginning towards learning how a search engine actually works, from the SEO perspective. Now go forther and continue to learn more. And by all means, play safe.
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I'm not sure if this is the best forum, but: is there a repository of MIDI files somewhere that are free to use?
I'm thinking old songs, traditional tunes, etc.
Are they stored in xml, so they could be easily read, modified, and stored in new xml files, or how is this done? I'm thinking about taking a MIDI file which plays the melody on a piano, for example, and changing the file to play the melody with a flute, bagpipe, saxophone, etc. ... ?


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video course for high school teachers and college level instruction; 13 half-hour video programs, online text, professional development guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
This course begins with an overview of the Earth's systems — geophysical, atmospheric, oceanic, and ecosystems — as they exist independently of human influence. Following this introduction, the course explores the effect that human activities have on the different natural systems. Topics include human population growth and resource use, increasing competition for fresh water, and climate change. Each of the 13 programs features two case studies following top scientists in the field.
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in association with the Harvard University Center for the Environment. 2007.
Check out The Habitable Planet on the new Learner beta website!
1. Many Planets, One Earth
The early Earth was a much different planet than the one we know today. Ancient rocks provide evidence of the emergence of oxygen in the atmosphere and of a frozen Snowball Earth. Scientists Paul Hoffman and Andrew Knoll look at these clues to help explain the rise of complex animal life. Go to this unit.
2. Atmosphere
The atmosphere is what makes the Earth habitable. Heat-trapping gases allow ecosystems to flourish. While the NOAA Global Monitoring Project documents the fluctuations in greenhouse gases worldwide, MIT's Kerry Emanuel looks at the role of hurricanes in regulating global climate.
Go to this unit.
3. Oceans
Ocean systems operate on a range of scales, from massive systems such as El Niño that affects weather across the globe to tiny photosynthetic organisms near the ocean surface that take in large amounts of carbon dioxide. This program looks at how ocean systems regulate themselves and thus help maintain the planet's habitability. Go to this unit.
4. Ecosystems
Scientists from the Smithsonian Center for Tropical Research document the astounding abundance of diversity in tropical rainforests to discover why so many species coexist that are competing for the same resources. In North America, the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction project explores why removing just one species dramatically changed the distribution of plants and animals up and down the food web. Go to this unit.
5. Human Population Dynamics
The human population of our planet now exceeds 6.5 billion and is rising. Much of this growth is projected for the most environmentally fragile regions of the world. Will studying the history of the world's population growth help predict the Earth's "carrying capacity"? Go to this unit.
6. Risk, Exposure, and Health
We all require food, air, and water to survive which are contaminated to some extent by man-made pollutants. Two studies, one in a rural western mining town and another in a dense urban population, reveal how these exposures impact health, and what can be done to reduce the risks. Go to this unit.
7. Agriculture
Will world population outrun food resources? The "Green Revolution" of the 20th century multiplied crop yields, in part through increasing inputs of pesticides and fertilizers. How can farmers reduce their use of agricultural chemicals and still produce enough food? Go to this unit.
8. Water Resources
While essential to the lives of humans and animals, fresh water only accounts for six percent of the world's water supply. Scientists in Florida's Everglades and the water challenged Southwest consider the optimum use of existing sources of fresh water for both humans and ecosystems. Go to this unit.
9. Biodiversity Decline
Species are being lost at a rapid rate in rainforests and coral reefs. Yet many species still have not been discovered. Tropical scientists struggle to keep ahead of the bulldozers as they work to understand this complex ecosystem. And an ocean biologist predicts the death of life and the "rise of slime" in the sea. How can we protect the biodiversity of these vulnerable ecosystems? Go to this unit.
10. Energy Challenges
Global energy use increases by the day. Polluting the atmosphere with ever more carbon dioxide is not a viable solution for our future energy needs. Can new technologies such as carbon sequestration and ethanol production help provide the energy we need without pushing the concentrations of CO2 to dangerous levels? Go to this unit.
11. Atmospheric Pollution
Once released, air pollutants react chemically with each other under solar radiation to become even more dangerous secondary pollutants. A company in the Northeast U.S. tracks the emission of pollutants at street level, while an international long-term study follows plumes of pollution from Mexico City across the continent and beyond. Go to this unit.
12. Earth's Changing Climate
Tropical glaciers are the world's thermometers; their melting is a signal that human activities are warming the planet. A California project tries to predict whether natural ecosystems will be able to absorb enough additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the next 50 years to mitigate the full impact of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. Go to this unit.
13. Looking Forward: Our Global Experiment
Earth's essential systems are being stressed in many ways. There are many tipping points in the environment, beyond which there could be serious consequences. Will human ingenuity, resiliency, and cooperation save us from the worst outcomes of our global experiment? Go to this unit.
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So I'm walking on a side street in Milan trying to get to another show and I hear this music almost blaring from somewhere nearby.
It just sounded so unusual for Milan that i just had to follow it. I have found when something seems unusual, it can usually lead to something special.
Anyway, I quickly find a church hosting "Accordion Jazz Night", The church is packed with senior citizens dancing the early evening away.
Understand, these were not a lot of 70 year olds, these were a lot of 17 year olds trapped in 70 year old bodies.
I mean, i wish i could just say this to you because i will never be able to type or articulate in words what I saw.
Their faces…their joy….their youth
It was people moving past the psychical and living on the emotional.
There was joy, there was fun, there every look, every flirt, every expectation that you could see a a senior prom.
Immediately I was struck by this gentleman in the top image. He wasn't so much dancing with this woman as he was speed walking, but he was there, he felt it, he was in the moment.
Eventually he came out to the foyer and took a rest right next to me and started talking to another gentleman. I have no idea what they were saying but it was about girls. I'm a guy and i can tell when other guys are talking about girls (no matter what their age).
I had to get to the next show but I was so happy to have stumbled on this this little, tiny slice of life.


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When Apple showed off iOS 7 earlier this summer, it also took the wraps off iTunes Radio, a streaming music service that has long been in the works. During a presentation at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple executive Eddy Cue said it would be an ad-supported service that's free to everyone, and that iTunes Match customers would hear music without ads.
In other words, if you don't cough up $25 a year for iTunes Match, the experience you get from iTunes Radio will be a lot like old-school, terrestrial radio – though hopefully without the smarmy, overly chatty DJs.
For those developers currently testing the iOS 7 beta, iTunes Radio is all ad-free. I've talked to a few who've been playing with it and they really like it. Brian S. Hall, writing at TechPinions, calls it one of iOS 7's "game-changers":
Radio is built right in to the Music app which is built right in to the OS. This is a key benefit of controlling your ecosystem, and here it pays off handsomely for users. "Radio" is simple to use, works well, is free, setting up new channels is a snap, and the selection is nearly endless. Not coincidentally for Apple, Radio's clever design beckons users to spend even more money in iTunes.
Analysts have noted that while iTunes revenues continue to grow in the aggregate, per-user spend has dropped rather significantly. This at a time when Apple makes its hardware products almost fully dependent on iTunes. I can't say this new service will help stem that tide. I do know, however, that iTunes Radio will be a smash hit.
For those hundreds of millions who have not yet settled on a streaming music service, iTunes Radio is the obvious choice. For those that have, the ease of use and superior integration of Radio may lead them away from their current provider. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, for example, it will be hard to justify getting your (free) music anywhere else.
On Tuesday, AdAge gave us a look at what the ad-supported version of iTunes Radio will be like when the service launches next month. Apple reportedly has signed some major advertisers, so you'll hear commercials from familiar names: McDonald's, Nissan, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and more. Writer John McDermott says the ads will come in different forms:
Advertisements on iTunes Radio will come in three forms: interstitial audio and video ads and "slate" ads; interactive display ads that will take over whatever screen the consumer is using. That includes iPhones, iPads, all desktops and laptops loaded with iTunes (including Windows PCs) and Apple TV, the Apple device that brings Internet connectivity and apps to TVs.
Audio and video ads
Users will be served an audio ad once every 15 minutes and one video ad every hour, the sources said. The video ads will only be served to consumers at times when they are likely to be looking at their device screen, such as immediately after hitting play or choosing to skip a track.
In addition, advertisers will sponsor playlists they have curated. These blocks of songs will have fewer ads, and will be "brought to you by" the advertiser.
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New "details" have emerged about the arrest of two San Francisco Bay Area journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea for "illegally intruding." But these details need to be taken with a grain of salt.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, which is backed by the North Korean government, reporter Laura Ling and editor Euna Lee video taped their crossing into the country as they walked up a frozen river bank three months ago -- and the news agency reports that it was all for a "smear campaign."
Contrary to their families' claims of innocence through ignorance, KCNA alleges that the two Current TV journalists specifically noted that they had passed into the communist dictatorship also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"We've just entered a North Korean courtyard without permission," the narration on the videotape said, according to KCNA. One of the women also picked up and pocketed a stone as a memento of the moment, according to the state-run news agency.
Ling is from the Sacramento, Calif. area, and her sister, journalist Lisa Ling has said many times that if her sister crossed into North Korea, she did so by accident.
Laura Ling and Lee were arrested in Kangan-ri in North Hamgyong Province, the report said. A third person, Current TV executive producer Mitch Koss, and their Korean-Chinese guide managed to flee, KCNA said.
Last Monday, they were sentenced in North Korea's top court to 12 years of hard labor for what KCNA called politically motivated crimes. They were accused of crossing into North Korea to capture video for a "smear campaign" focused on human rights, the report said.
"The accused admitted that what they did were criminal acts committed, prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of (North Korea) by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it," KCNA said.
The women were detained March 17 at a time of rising tensions between North Korea and the United States over the communist nation's nuclear and missile programs. Weeks earlier, North Korea had announced its intention to send a satellite into space aboard a long-range rocket -- a launch Washington called a cover for a test of a long-range missile designed to strike the U.S.
North Korea went ahead with the rocket launch in early April, and in an increasingly brazen show of defiance, conducted a nuclear test on May 25 and fired off a series of short-range missiles in the days before the journalists' trial.
The women's families claim Lee, 36, and Ling, 32, had no intention of crossing into North Korea, and many feared they would become political pawns in any negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang. The families have pleaded for leniency and urged their release on humanitarian grounds.
The alleged details of the case involving the two women working for the San Francisco-based media venture founded by former Vice President Al Gore were released by state media just hours before President Barack Obama was to sit down at the White House with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
The two leaders, whose countries fought together against North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War, were expected to discuss the North and make a strong show of unity.
Kim Yong-hyun, a professor at Seoul's Dongguk University, said North Korea was trying to remind the U.S. ahead of the Obama-Lee summit that the women remain in its hands.
"I think the North is sending a message ahead of the summit: 'Don't take your eyes off this. This is a card we have,"' Kim said. "The North is pressing the U.S. to decide whether it's going to resolve the journalist issue through dialogue or not."
After being transferred to Pyongyang and being kept in separate quarters, the women went on trial June 4 on accusations of entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."
The KCNA report said Lee and Ling were allowed to choose their interpreters. Ling was represented by a defense lawyer of her choice, but Lee -- referred to by her Korean name, Lee Seung-un -- voluntarily gave up the right to legal defense, it said.
They were sentenced to prison June 8.
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I had a great day at the Family History Expo in Mesa. I spent the day in the book for the Family History Society of Arizona. I met so many great people. And some came by more than once just to "chat." I gave some of them names of free web sites (like familysearch, rootsweb and heritage quest). I waved at many others that I knew. I "met" Byron again. We talked last year; he joined FHSA; I saw him at FGS in Springfield in August 2011; and now he's presenting. That was really great to hear.
I was going to have dinner during one of the late afternoon sessions. I ended up not eating until almost 7 because 1-3 people were at the booth continuously from about 4:30 to 6:40. Isn't that great? And I certainly wasn't going to get up and say, "Excuse me, but I want to eat instead of talking with you about genealogy and FHSA."
Mary Lu came by between sessions a couple of times and really helped out, answering questions and visiting with some researchers while I visited with others. Thank you Mary Lu.
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Peter O'Mahony cannot even begin to imagine capping the biggest week of his career with the RBS 6 Nations trophy.
The fit-again Munster captain admits it is impossible to ignore the pressure ahead of Ireland's Six Nations title decider against France in Paris on Saturday.
The 24-year-old said he could not watch when Ronan O'Gara's late drop-goal helped Ireland secure their first Grand Slam since 1948, against Wales in Cardiff back in 2009.
The combative loose-forward had just returned to Ireland from Under-20s Six Nations duty, and remembers watching through his fingers at Leinster fly-half Ian Madigan's house.
Half a decade on O'Mahony struggles to contemplate his potential role in history, as Ireland chase just a third win in 42 years in France.
"I don't think I could explain what it would mean, no," said O'Mahony.
"In 2009, we'd just come back from our own Six Nations game, and we watched the game at Ian Madigan's house.
"I remember I couldn't watch for the last kick, because it meant so much to everyone, so you definitely remember where you were for that one.
"Of course the importance comes through, you feel the pressure: without any doubt this is the biggest week of my career so far.
"You're certainly put pressure on yourself, trying to turn it to your favour and use it as motivation.
"Since you're small you want to play in games like this for trophies, it's the reason the game is so great, to compete for these sorts of trophies.
"Then you've got to try to stay away from the pressure side of things, and not listen to any of the talk about it."
Ireland are confident of breaking their long-running Paris hoodoo as Brian O'Driscoll makes his 141st and final Test appearance.
O'Mahony said Ireland will hope routine and reason can help them shrug off the intimidation factor that always creates a daunting Paris atmosphere.
"It's just such a tough place to come and play," said O'Mahony.
"The French are hugely passionate, and a hugely able team, and when they're at home they're even stronger again.
"It's a very intimidating place to come and play, it's one of the toughest stadiums to come and get a win.
"That's the main reason we've struggled.
"The great thing about this competition is you go week by week.
"We're not looking back on last week, and we're not looking at momentum.
"We've taken confidence out of the way we've gone about our work and the way we've trained this week.
"We haven't talked about us being special nor this game being anything other than what it is.
"It's a cup final for us: we've got to get our job roles right from the start tomorrow."
O'Driscoll and Ireland have fought desperately this week to fend off talk of the iconic centre ending his international career in fairytale style with a second Six Nations title.
O'Mahony echoed the sentiment, but vowed not to let it unhinge Ireland's steely focus.
"It would be great for Brian, but I think everyone has enough to worry about, about their own jobs," said O'Mahony.
"It's such a big week for everyone, you have to make sure you've got your own things right.
"It is an important week for Brian obviously, and it would be great to help him finish on a high, but I've got to worry about myself to be honest."
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BALTIMORE- Junior attackman Joe Lustgarten (Wading River,N.Y.) smashed a career highs with five goals and eight total points, leading host UMBC to a 16-12 victory over Hartford in the America East Conference opener for both squads.
The Retrievers improved to 3-4 overall with the victory, while the defending league champions slid to 3-7.
Lustgarten had surpassed his previous single game previous top totals of three goals and four points by the 6:27 mark of the second quarter as contributed a point on five of UMBC's first seven goals, scoring four times and helping on another. He is the first Retriever to score eight points in a game since Ryan Smith had five goals and three assists vs. Albany in the 2008 campaign.
Junior attackman Scott Jones (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) added four goals and an assist for UMBC, while sophomore attackman Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) added three goals in his first start of the campaign.
Lustgarten was UMBC's America East Player of the Game, while Hartford junior midfielder Jared Franze, who scored three goals and added an assist for the Hawks, earned the honor for the visitors.
UMBC never trailed as they took advantage of an early Hawk non-releaseable penalty and scored a pair of man-up goals in a 46-second span. Lustgarten opened the scoring 4:31 into the game, converting a feed from junior midfielder Nick Doub (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's), followed by a Jones goal on a pass from junior midfielder Scott Hopmann (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's).
The Retrievers built the lead to 5-0 after 15 minutes and 8-2 at halftime.
The floodgates opened in the second half as each team scored six times in the third quarter and when the Hawks started the fourth quarter on a 3-0 run, they crept to within 14-11 with 8:47 remaining. But Gregoire broke the run, by putting a rebound past Hawk goalkeeper Scott Bement 62 seconds later and Lustgarten scored the Retrievers' fourth man-up goal of the night 58 seconds after that to restore a five-goal margin at 16-11.
Hartford got one back on a goal by attackman Aiden Genik with 5:44 to play, but Retriever junior goalkeeper Adam Cohen (Arnold, Md./Severn) made four saves in the final 2:42 to preserve the Retriever victory.
Hopmann added two goals and an assist for the victors, while Hartford attackman Carter Bender shared scoring honors for Hartford with three goals and one assist.
Cohen matched his career high, just recorded seven days ago vs. Loyola, with 15 saves. Bement, who entered the game 4-0 vs. UMBC, had 10 stops in the Hawk cage.
UMBC outshot Hartford, 38-36, and converted on 4-of-5 extra-man chances.
The win snapped a four-game losing streak by UMBC to their conference foes and boosted their all-time record vs. Hartford to 6-4.
The 16 goals scored by UMBC is a season high and the most since opening the 2011 campaign with 16 goals at Presbyterian. The 28 goals scored by the two squads is the most in a UMBC contest since a 15-13 loss at North Carolina in the 2009 NCAA Tournament contest.
The Retrievers are now 19-3 at home at UMBC Stadium in America East regular season contests.
UMBC travels to Towson for a Wednesday evening contest vs. the Tigers, before heading north to take on Vermont on April 7.


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A Garden Party Wedding at Chicago Botanic Garden in Chicago, Illinois
Hanging blooms, gemstone hues, flower crowns, folk music and margaritas created a whimsical atmosphere for Maggie Gelber (29 and a graduate student) and Joseph Meador's (29 and a securities analyst) Independence Day affair. Focusing on sustainability, the couple included locally sourced ingredients on the menu and treated guests to a welcome bag full of farmers' market provisions. They printed the stationery on recycled papyrus and even exchanged recycled yellow gold wedding bands. "We wanted the wedding to be as local, sustainable and eco-conscious as possible," Maggie says of the creative ways the couple kept their garden party environmentally friendly, including the hand-painted seed programs: Guests could take them home to plant them in their gardens. —Stephanie Cain


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When consumers protested with Facebook pages like "I hate the noise the Sun Chips bags make," chip maker Frito-Lay came up with a quieter biodegradable bag instead of simply scrapping the whole idea. That's not just because SunChipsconsumers wanted a quieter bag. It's because they didn't want the bag to be made out of plastic.
A growing industry of so-called bioplastics — plastics made out of plants like corn or sugarcane, or plastics that simply biodegrade — is rising to meet the need of a small but dedicated group of consumers who want green products.
"Really, it has come down to consumer demand, and consumers being willing to pay a little bit of a premium for products that contain bioplastics," said Kent Furst, author of a report on the bioplastics industry for The Freedonia Group, a research firm.
Also driving demand are consumer products makers who are willing to pay a premium for materials "to have eco-friendliness, to say their package is packed in bioplastics," Furst says.
Bioplastics are showing up in all kinds of packages. Procter & Gamble uses sugarcane-based high-density polyethylene, HDPE, made by Braskem in some of its Pantene, Covergirl and MaxFactor brands, while Papermate has a line of pens made with Mirel, a bioplastic made by Metabolix .


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WILSON, N.C. – The nationally ranked No. 7 Cobra men continued their hot play with a 1-0 victory over Conference Carolinas foe Barton College on Wednesday evening. Junior Carlos Recinos (Houston, Texas) scored his eighth game-winning goal of the season, improving the Coker to 13-1 overall and 8-0 in conference play.
The win extends the Cobras winning streak to 12 games; the longest active streak in NCAA Division II men's soccer.
Recinos put away the eventual game winner for the Cobras with an assist from Noah Lascell (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) in the opening 10 minutes of play.
Coker outshot the Bulldogs 16-9 with James Sweeney (Huntingtown, Md.) making four saves in the match, while Barton's Brian Riesenberg made nine stops.
The Cobras will be back on the pitch again on Saturday for a home match against conference rival Lees-McRae. Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Coker College Soccer Field.


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One of the major goals of Lent is to force us to reflect on our own death and to see our way through it. We all must die, as much as we dont like the fact. We try to hide it, dodge it, deny it. Yet we cant in fact escape it. Jesus came into the world, not so much to do away with death (not immediately) but to teach us how to die by his example and then to assure us that death does not say the last word on. When we walk into the valley of death we do not walk alone. Jesus is with us because hes been there before and knows what it is like. Moreover he promises us that just as he rose from the dead so will we. We will all be young again. We will all laugh again.
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Once upon a time there was a young grandmother (well all grandmothers are young arent they?) who totally adored her oldest grandson (like most grandmothers do). He was a good young man too. Handsome, friendly, courteous, more mature than you could reasonably expect any teenager to be. He was also an excellent athlete and was to be valedictorian of his class. Then, just a week before graduation, another teen (quite drunk) plowed into the car in which the young man was returning from a baseball game. He died three hours later in the hospital. Everyone in the family was, devastated, as you can well imagine. The grandmother was furious. Why do such things happen, she demanded. Why did it have to happen to my grandson? What kind of God would permit this to happen to me? He must be a cruel and vicious God. Why should I believe in him? I dont believe in him. My grandson was so young, he had the rest of his life ahead of him. Its all right for old people not to die, but not for someone who had a right to a long and happy life.I dont believe in heaven. I dont believe in anything. She carried on like this for months, making the tragedy even harder for her family. She stopped going to Church and refused to talk to the priest who dropped by her house to talk to her. I hate God, she insisted. Then one night, maybe she was dreaming, maybe she was half away, her grandson, in his baseball uniform, came to visit it her. Cool it, Grams, he told her. Im happy. Life is much better where I am. Youre not acting like my grams any more. We all have to die sometime, young or old, but here were all young and were all laughing. So the grandmother began to let go of her grief and rage.
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New Features Released on Breakthrough
January 2014 Release Notes
Breakthrough is pleased to announce the release of new features, designed to bring you more clients and make it easier to work with them. The new features include the following capabilities: FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING
In addition to starting appointment times of every 30 minutes, our new feature allows you to offer starting appointment times every 15, 30 or 60 minutes. We built this feature to accommodate your clients who require shorter consults or for medication management.
How does it work?
In your profile under "Appointment scheduling" you can select 15, 30, or 60 minutes. The default setting is set for starting appointment times every 30 minutes. If you select starting appointment times every 15 minutes, appointments would be available to clients every 15 minutes (e.g., 1:00p.m., 1:15p.m., 1:30p.m., 1:45p.m., etc.). If you select starting appointment times every 60 minutes, appointments would be available to clients every 60 minutes (e.g., 1:00p.m., 2:00p.m., 3:00p.m., etc.). Please make sure to check all client appointment requests against your calendar to avoid any calendaring conflicts. You are still required to confirm appointment requests as you currently do today.
Clients will now have the ability to sign up for Breakthrough services under contracted and non-contracted payers (payers that do not have a contract with Breakthrough). A prospective client will have the ability to request an appointment with you even if their insurance is not contracted with Breakthrough, but you are a contracted provider with the appropriate payer network.
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Your profile displays the insurance you accept. You can change this by going to your profile, under "Insurers Accepted" click "Add insurance" and select the insurance you accept in the "Edit your insurance providers" box. If an insurer is not listed in the selection, please contact us at 888-282-2522.
A prospective client can search for a provider by a specific payer, and only providers contracted with that specific payer will show up in the search results. Additionally, during the sign up process a client is asked to provide insurance details if payment is by insurance. The client can select from a list of payers or select "Other." If the payer selected is not contracted with Breakthrough, the client is directed to enter the insurance carrier telephone number and insurance ID number. If "Other" is selected, the client is directed to enter the insurance carrier name, telephone number and insurance ID number. In the first contact and with each subsequent appointment request from the client, the notification of appointment request/confirmation you receive will show the client's payer name and if the payer is contracted with Breakthrough. For all clients, particularly for non-contracted payers, please verify eligibility and reimbursement for behavioral telehealth (i.e., payment for the GT modifier) as Breakthrough cannot guarantee reimbursement with non-contracted payers.
Now, a physician/office staff, care manager, or community resource can refer a patient to Breakthrough using our new online referral feature. As Breakthrough begins to expand its marketing efforts to PCP and specialist offices, we anticipate increased referrals to Breakthrough and your practice. The "Refer a patient" link is located in the footer of the page under "Navigate."
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Once a referrer identifies a potential client for services, the referrer completes a simple online form on Breakthrough. Breakthrough is notified of the incoming referral and will contact the potential client. The Breakthrough team will assist the client in identifying potential providers, and if a referring physician has provided your name, we will assist the client in connecting with you. If your referral sources would like to direct a patient to you, please instruct them to enter your name in the "Is there anything you want to tell the Breakthrough team about this referral?" section of the online referral form.
Potential and existing clients can now search for you by name on Breakthrough. So now you can tell existing or potential clients to easily find your profile page simply by entering your name in the "Find by name" option.