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LinRegPCR is a program for the analysis of quantitative RT-PCR (qPCR) data resulting from monitoring the PCR reaction with SYBR green or similar fluorescent dyes. The program determines a baseline fluorescence and does a baseline subtraction. Then a Window-of-Linearity is set and PCR efficiencies per sample are calculated. With the mean PCR efficiency per amplicon, the Cq value per sample and the fluorescence threshold set to determnine the Cq, the starting concentration per sample, expressed in arbitrary fluorescence units, is calculated. See: Ramakers et al., NeuroSci Lett 2003; Ruijter et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2009.Go to the FAQ
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- When I try to read dat from Excel (Office 2016) I get an "access violoation error"
This may be because you are using a 64-bit version of Office. LinRegPCR cannot connect to Office 2016, 64-bit. You have to use Office 2016 32-bit.
- I tried to import a file into LinRegPCR : the error message was "invalid variant type conversion".
This error message indicates that the program is trying to convert a text that is not a number into a number. This most often happens because: 1: you gave the wrong input range or 2: the decimal separator in Excel is different from the one in Windows. LinRegPCR works with the decimal separator in Windows, so you have to set Excel to use the system separator (in Excel: options menu - international Tab in the options dialog).
- After importing data I get the error message "floating point division by zero".
This error occurs when there are not enough data per sample to fit a straight line. This may be because no positive values are left after baseline subtraction by your PCR apparatus. Check your input file and remove the rows or columns with these 'empty' samples. Better still: leave the baseline correction to LinRegPCR (see: Ruijter et al., 2009)
- I did run LinRegPCR but in the output all the starting concentrations are 0.
This is because Excel only displays three decimal places. When you increase the number of decimal places or switch to scientific format you will see the starting concentrations are above 0. Except when no baseline can be determined or no amplification is present, then the program reports -999.
- Why does LinRegPCR use the word 'baseline' in stead of 'background'?
We use the word baseline to describe the fluorescence that is observed before the amplicon specific fluorescence can be detected. Most PCR systems already use the word background for the fluorescence of a reference fluorochrome that is used to correct for experimental variations in sample volumes and well characteristics. In these systems baseline is used as we use it.
- What is the unit of the N0 value?
The starting concentrations (N0) per sample are calculated in the unit of the Y-axis of the PCR amplification plot which are arbitrary fluorescence units. To convert this unit to a RNA concentration you need a calibration line of known concentration of the amplicon you are producing in the PCR.
- LinRegPCR reports PCR efficiency values that range between 1 and 2. How must I interpret these values?
You are probably used to describe efficiency as a value between 0 and 1. To get these values you just subtract 1 from the efficiency that LinRegPCR reports. An efficiency of 1.85 reported by LinRegPCR can be read as an efficiency of 0.85 or 85%. We use PCR efficiencies between 1 and 2 because it makes the equations a lot easier to handle.
- How is the starting concentration in LinRegPCR calculated?
LinRegPCR calculates a starting concentration (N0) per sample with the formula: N0 = Nq / (Emean^Cq) with the ^ symbol meaning 'to the power'. In this formula Nq stands for the fluorescence threshold set to determine Cq, which is the number of cycles needed to reach Nq. Emean is the mean PCR efficiency for the amplicon that is amplified in the current sample. The mean efficiency is used because the efficiency per sample is too variable to give reliable results. (see Karlen et al., 2007; Cikos et al., 2007); Ruijter et al., 2013.
- I have always used the comparative Ct method to calculate the expression of a target relative to a reference gene. How do I do that with the results of LinRegPCR?
LinRegPCR gives you the starting concentrations (N0) of the target and the reference genes. When you have replicates per biological sample you first take the average of the N0 values in the target reaction and in the reference reactions. Then the relative expression is the ratio of these two averages for the same sample. When you use 2 or more reference genes, as you should do, the denominator of the ratio is the geometric mean of the N0 values of the reference genes. When you have only one measurement per amplicon, you calculate the ratio directly from the N0 values. You do not need to use the efficiency values and the Cq values to do this. These are only displayed in the output to give you a chance to do a comparative Ct calculation. The result will be the same. See the Equations in Box 1 in Ruijter et al., 2009.
- LinRegPCR gives a warning about 'noisy samples'. How do I recognise a noisy sample?
A noisy sample is defined as a sample in which the data points do not show a continuous increase in the Window-of-Linearity. You recognise a noisy sample because in the W-o-L they have a point c that is above -or at the same level as- point c+1. Noisy samples are excluded from the calculation of the mean efficiency.
- LinRegPCR reports a lot of baseline errors but the amplification curves show a straight log-linear phase.
LinRegPCR reports a baseline error when it is not possible to find a baseline value that leads to a straight continuous set of data points in the log-linear phase. However, the program also reports a baseline error when the remaining log-linear phase is to short. This may be because measurement noise causes the lower data points to be discontinuous: the fluorescence in cycle c is larger than that in cycle c+1. The baseline estimation only uses data in which Fc < Fc+1. In version 11.3 you can 'relax' this continuity criterion and allow jumps, as long as all data in the log-linear phase are around a straight line. This leads to less baseline-error samples but also leads to more variation between individual efficiency values.
- I am wondering whether you can apply your window of linearity methodology to qPCR data obtained using a Taqman probe assay rather than the SYBR green assay? I can't think of any, as both result in fluorescence values but perhaps I have missed something?
The kinetics of the fluorescence of the Taqman probe is different from SYBR green. SYBR green is binding to dsDNA and is freed again at heating. So the fluorescence you see is proportional to the amount of DNA present at the end of each cycle. The Taqman probe binds to ssDNA, is digested by the polymerase and then becomes fluorescent. And stays fluorescent. So the fluorescence you see is an accumulation of the probe that has ever bound to the ssDNA. Therefore, this fluorescence increases more rapidly than the SYBR green fluorescence. However, on a log-fluorescence scale this amplifiaction curve becomes parallel to the curve that would have been observed when the reporter fluorescence was not cumulative. Therefore, the derived PCR efficiency is correct. Because the values in the Taqman curve are higher, its Cq value is too low. However, this bias is only dependent on the PCR efficiency and can thus be corrected. (see Tuomi et al., 2010); Ruijter et al., 2014).
- I try to read data into LinRegPCR and always get the error message Variant or safe index out of bounds.
This is the error message that occurs when you try to read only 1 sample. LinRegPCR expects data for at least 2 samples.
- The qPCR experiment I perform required more than one plate. How can I correct for differences between plates?
See: Ruijter JM, Ruiz Villalba A, Hellemans J, Untergasser A, van den Hoff MJB. Removal of between-run variation in a multi-plate qPCR experiment. Biomolecular Detection and Quantification 5: 10-14, 2015.
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- Ruijter et al. Removal of between-run variation in a multi-plate qPCR experiment. Biomolecular Detection and Quantification 5:10-14, 2015.
- Ruijter et al. Fluorescent-increase kinetics of different fluorescent reporters used for qPCR depend on monitoring chemistry, targeted sequence, type of DNA input and PCR efficiency. Microchimica Acta 2014 (DOI 10.1007/s00604-013-1155-8)
- Ruijter et al. Evaluation of qPCR curve analysis methods for reliable biomarker discovery: bias, resolution, precision, and implications. Methods 59: 32-46, 2013
- Tuomi et al. Bias in the Cq value observed with hydrolysis probe based quantitative PCR can be corrected with the estimated PCR efficiency value. Methods 50: 313-322, 2010
- Ruijter et al. Amplification efficiency: linking baseline and bias in the analysis of quantitative PCR data. Nucleic Acids Research 37: e45, 2009
- Karlen et al. Statistical significance of quantitative PCR. BMC Bioinformatics 8: 131, 2007
- Cikos et al. Relative quantification of mRNA: comparison of methods currently used for real-time PCR data analysis. BMC Mol Biol 8: 113, 2007
- Ramakers et al. Assumption-free analysis of quantitative real-time PCR data. Neurosci Letters 339: 62-66, 2003
- Lefever et al.; RDML consortium. RDML: structured language and reporting guidelines for real-time quantitative PCR data. Nucleic Acids Res. 37: 2065-9. 2009
- Ruijter et al.; RDML consortium. RDML-Ninja and RDMLdb for standardized exchange of qPCR data. BMC Bioinformatics. 16: 197. 2015
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Version History
LinRegPCR version 2018.0 released September 2018
In this version the input format for the Excel export of Mic was added.
- The changes in this version have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2017.1 released September 2017
In this version the input of raw data from the qTOWER3 system of Analytik Jena (both singleplex and multiplex) was implemented. LinRegPCR expects the range of data to include 1 header row with probe name and cycles numbers and 1 leading column with probe name and well codes. The well codes and probe name will be combined and imported as sample names.
An error in handling excluded samples was corrected. When the user read the excluded samples from Excel before determining the fluorescence baseline the excluded samples were reported in the quality checks but not excluded from the calculation of the mean efficiency. The current version handles the excluded samples correctly.
- This correction has effect on the analysis results when you excluded samples before you determined the baseline fluorescence.
LinRegPCR version 2017.0 released January 2017
In this version only a non-functional edit field was removed.
- The changes in this version have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2016.2 released December 2016
This version includes an import option for the raw data exported from the Roche LC96 to a text file which is then read into Excel. Both exports, 'as rows' and 'as columns', are supported. The Excel file does contain one leading column and one header row in either format. There are no empty header rows or empty leading columns.
- The changes in this version have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2016.1 released July 2016
An error that occurred in version 2016.0 while writing RDML 1.1 files was repaired. This makes that the results of the analysis of LinRegPCR can be further analysed with the current version of qbase-plus. When more than 1 tissue annotation column is used in LinRegPCR, these columns are concatenated to a single tissue identifier in RDML 1.1. Additionally an error that occurred when the RDML file contained reactions for which all fluorescence values were negative was solved. When negative values occur in a reaction, a constant is added to all cycles that brings the minimum fluorescence to 0.001 (with as many decimals as the system exports). Note that the applied correction assumes that the negative values are the result of the same constant value being subtracted from the fluorescence values in all cycles. Because LinRegPCR later on subtracts a constant baseline, this addition does hardly affect the results. The correction is applied to all RDML formats.
- The changes in this version may affect the analysis results when your RDML file contained negative values which should not be the case.
LinRegPCR version 2016.0 released January 2016
To allow the analysis of LinRegPCR output with the current version of qbase-plus, this version of LinRegPCR also enables data export in RDML1.1 format. Because LinRegPCR allows more than 1 column of tissue annotation, whereas RDML 1.1 only allows 1 column, the tissue annotation columns are concatenated to a single string per tissue sample.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2015.4 released December 2015
In this version of the program the link to the LinRegPCR website from the About box and the online Help was corrected. Moreover, the import of data from the Quantstudio system was added. Note that the number of reactions in this format make the processing slow. Therefore, create a shortcut to LinRegPCR and, in the command line of the shortcut add an S (outside the quotes when there are quotes). the program then runs in S (=speed) mode and does not wait for user input when problems are noted during baseline correction or window-of-linearity setting. Flags are set and reactions are excluded when needed. Check the flags (Options - Display flagged subsets) and the program's output for exlcuded reactions. Minimizing the program during baseline correction will further increase the processing speed.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2015.3 released April 2015
In this version the input from an Excel file exported by the Corbett 6000 system was implemented. In this format every well is represented by 3 columns: sample description, cycle and fluorescence. The header row has to be included in the range that has to be specified in the Read-from-Excel dialog.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2015.2 released March 2015
The handling of the #N/A entries in some data formats was automated and warning messages are avoided.
Wells for which all data are missing, or all values are negative, are no longer removed before analysis, but set to a low positive constant. This makes that they are assigned the 'no amplification' flag. Their presence in the data makes that the annotation columns remain synchronized.
The elements AmplificationEfficiencyMethod, BackgroundCorrectionMethod and CqDetectionMethod were added to the RDML, version 1.2, output.
Some cosmetic changes were made.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2015.1 released February 2015
In this version, the option to read the exclusion of samples, e.g. because of a deviating melting curve, from an Excel file was extended with information or warning messages to assure the correct handling of these exclusions.
Secondly, the import format of the Step-One-Plus ViiA system was extended. The presence of #N/A as entry in the Target Name column has to be checked and replaced because LinRegPCR cannot, yet, handle this error code. Moreover, fully empty wells are no longer removed to avoid loss of synchronisation within the system export.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2015.0 released February 2015
In this version, the extended annotation of tissue samples was fully implemented. Export of these annotation columns to RDML now uses the new Annotation element of RDML 1.2. Similarly, data stored in the sample annotation element can now be read from a version 1.2 RDML file.
- Grid-to-Excel buttons were added to some pages of LinRegPCR.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2014.8 released December 2014
In this version, the annotation of tissue samples has been extended to include more than just the one column; a number of columns can be read from Excel and thus added to the output of LinRegPCR to facilitate downstream statistical analysis. Export of these annotation columns to RDML is still restricted to the first column. Full implementation of the extended annotation option of RDML 1.2 is in preparation.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2014.7 released November 2014
In this version, a piece of code that tried to calculate a SEM for a group with only 1 observation was corrected. When a group of 1 occurred, this bug prevented the results from being saved and a 'division by zero' error was displayed.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results; results that could be saved were correct.
LinRegPCR version 2014.6 released October 2014
This version in compliant with RDML version 1.2. RDML files of version 1.0 and 1.1 will be read. However,when results are saved to RDML, these will be saved as version 1.2, which includes the SE of the mean PCR efficiency per amplicon. RDML files with decimal commas can be read, but the results will always be saved with decimal points, as is required by the XML format.
- The changes in this version do not affect the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2014.5 released September 2014
In this version the assignment of the 'no_plateau' flag is repeated afer setting the W-o-L per group because this assignment is dependent on the W-o-L.
Similarly, the quality flags are reset after reading of baseline values that were manually set in an earlier analysis of the same data and then saved to Excel.
- The first change may affect the analysis results when plateau heights are very different between groups. When plateaus were similar, there is no effect. The second change only affects the results when the baseline is not determined automatically before baseline values are read. This is because not all flags can be set when fluorescence data are baseline-corrected.
LinRegPCR version 2014.4 released August 2014
In this version an input option for the Excel export of the Bio-Rad CFX software was added. The 'Quantification Amplification Results' that have been exported to Excel can be read into LinRegPCR. NOTE: the empty column A in the Excel sheet has to be included in the range to be read. Otherwise the values of the first sample are used as cycle numbers.
In this version an error was corrected that made that after import of an RDML file the results could not be saved for a second time. Changes in target and sample assignment are now also saved to an existing RDML file.
- The last change has effect on the analysis results because the change of target assignment will affect the mean PCR efficiency per group.
LinRegPCR version 2014.3 released July 2014
In this version for the Step-One-Plus format, a replacement of negative values in the raw Rn data was implemented. See version 2014.2 for an explanation.
- This change has effect on the analysis results of Step-One-Plus files that contained such negative raw data and are re-analysed.
A bug that prevented LinRegPCR_help.pdf to be opened from the Help menu was corrected.
LinRegPCR version 2014.2 released March 2014
In this version for the Illumina-Eco and the Rotor-Gene (6 leading columns) formats, a replacement of negative values was implemented. It turns out that the background that these systems subtract to correct for technical fluorescence can lead to negative values in the raw data. This is solved by adding, to all cycles, the smallest constant that leads to all positive values. Additonally, an error in the functonality of the February release was repaired.
- These changes have effect on the analysis results of Illumna-Eco and Rotor-Gene files that contained such negative raw data. You are advised to re-analyse those raw data.
- Note that raw data (so-called component data) of the Illumna-Eco can only be exported after closing and re-opening the data file in the system software.
LinRegPCR version 2014.1 released February 2014
In this version we included the option to read the 'User excluded sample' assignment from a column in Excel. When you have, based on your melting curve analysis or gel electroforesis decided that some samples should be excluded from further analysis, you can easily add a column to the Excel file and thus keep the structure of the raw fluorescence data untouched.
- These changes have no effect on the analysis results, provided you had already assigned these exclusions by hand.
LinRegPCR version 2014.0 released January 2014
In this version we implemented a coupling between the display of amplicon groups and the display of flagged subsets of samples: only flagged samples in the chosen amplicon group are shown, and vice versa, when you browse through subsets or groups. When amplicon groups are defined, the Amplicon Groups Tab now shows a table with statistics (mean efficiency, standard deviation, SEM and RSE) per group.
- These changes have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2013.1 released December 2013
In this version the processing of data files originating from monitoring with different chemistries has been extended. The user can choose the applied chemistry in the Read dialog. For each chemistry, the shift that occurs in Cq values because of accumulation of fluorescence or lag in occurence of fluorescence will be corrected. Based on Ruijter et al., Microchimica Acta, accepted for publication.
- This extension has no effect on the analysis results; the described Cq corrections were implemented since version 12.5 (August 2010).
- Note that the choice of targetted sequence, when a probe-based chemistry is used, has been removed. The latest paper shows that the probe target does not noticibly affect the Cq value.
Very rarely 'no amplification' samples escape the criterion that amplification should at least result in a 7-times increase of fluorescence (after subtraction of the minimum observed fluorescence as temporary baseline) between the first and last cycle. Therefor, an extra criterion was implemented: the two cycles directly before the SDM should both show increasing fluorescence. Samples that do not fullfil this criterion are also assigned the 'no amplification' flag.
- This change may have effect on the analysis of samples that were borderline between 'no amplification' and 'noisy' but has no effect on samples with more than 4 cycles in the exponential phase.
LinRegPCR version 2013.0 released March 2013
In this version the input format for the PikoReal system of Thermo Scientific was added in the Read-from-Excel dialog. Export the raw data, resulting in an Aquired_dat_1 sheet in Excel. Ommit the 10 lines header and read only the range of data, including the header row with well identifiers and the 3 leading columns, labelled Channel, Cycle and Temp.
- These changes have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2012.3 released December 2012
In this version the input from RDML was updated to enable import of RDML files that use comma as decimal separator. The definition of RDML states that floating point values have to be written with a point as decimal separator. Therefore, the analysis results will always be written with decimal points to maintain compatibility with downstream analysis programs that use RDML. RDML files containing decimal commas can be read by LinRegPCR, but results will be saved to a new RDML file with decimal points. To avoid having to save to a new file: set your computer system to decimal points when you use RDML files.
- These changes have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2012.2 released October 2012
In this version the input from RDML was updated to enable import of RDML version 1.1 and version 1.0. The analysis results will always be saved in RDML version 1.1 to maintain compatibility with downstream analysis programs.
Other corrections made in this version of the program are:
- Note that the XML file in an RDML file is essentially a text file. Therefore it is very important that the decimal separator of the qPCR apparatus is the same as the decimal separator of the computer on which the data analysis is performed.
- Zip files that cannot be handled will be captured. The online Help and the Manual tell you how to re-zip those files.
- Formatting of results in Excel is now conditional upon checking a box in the Save-to-Excel dialog. In some computer configurations formatting should be turned off.
- These changes have no effect on the analysis results.
LinRegPCR version 2012.1 uploaded October 2012
In this upload only a few lay-out errors were corrected
LinRegPCR version 2012.1 released August 2012
In this version the input format for the Illumina Eco system was added
- Export 'Component data' from the Eco system
- Start the input range with the 'Well' cell
- The sample name will be composed of the entries in the Well and the Dye columns
- Excluded and Empty wells will be ignored
The ViiA7 format was added to the Step-One Plus format option
- Note that ViiA7 has a different number of header rows
LinRegPCR version 2012.0 released April 2012
In this version the following features have been implemented:
- This version is fully RDML compatible
- Data can be read from an RDML file
- Results can be saved to an RDML (version 1.1) file
- Saved results can be imported in qbasePLUS for normalisation and statistical analysis
- For RDML input into LinRegPCR it is very important that the qPCR machine is using the decimal separator that is set with the Regional Settings of Windows
- Keep in mind that also the RDML export of the qPCR machine should contain raw, not baseline-corrected, data
- The RDML output of the BioRad CFX software is based on RDML, version 1.0, and can therefore not be handled (yet)
LinRegPCR version 12.18 released March 2012
- Release in preparation of the full RDML compatible release
- Added tab page for assignment of Tissue Samples per reaction
- Added option to read amplicon group, tissue sample and baseline from Excel
- Note that spaces will be removed from the given identifiers
- Moved user choices to separate tab page 'User Settings'
- Note that the LinRegPCR_help.pdf is not yet updated
- When you want to test the RDML input and output: please contact us at email@example.com
LinRegPCR earlier versions
- A full update history (versions released since March 2008) can be found in the file UpdateHistroy.pdf that is distributed with the program
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Game over: Orioles 3, Red Sox 2: The Orioles bullpen was very solid as they held on to their one-run lead for the win. Jim Johnson gets the save. The game was played in 3:15 before 27,704.
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Bottom 3rd: Red Sox 2, Orioles 1: -Stephen Drew reached by walk, Shane Victorino moved him to third with two outs with a single to right. Dustin Pedroia singled to right to tie the game. With runners at first and second and two out, Mike Napoli worked the count to 3-2 before sending a sharp lined rive single to left to score the go-ahead run.
Top 3rd: Orioles 1, Red Sox 0: Aceves got three infield outs after allowing an infield hit to Nate McLouth with one out.
Bottom 2nd: Orioles 1, Red Sox 0: Tillman retires the Red Sox (Middlebrooks, Nava and Salty) in order.
Top 2nd: Orioles 1, Red Sox 0: Chris Davis homered deep to rightcenter on a 3-0 fastball right down the middle of the plate served by Aceves. Davis has been red hot. He has hit six homers.
Bottom 1st: Orioles 0, Red Sox 0: Jacoby Ellsbury reached on an infield single, but Chris Tillman retired the next three batters.
Top 1st: Orioles 0, Red Sox 0: Alfredo Aceves took the mound in his first start in place of John Lackey (DL, biceps strain). He allowed a double to the rightcenter gap to Manny Machado, who got a bit greedy and tried to stretch to three. The relay from Victorino to Pedroia to Middlebrooks cut down a key runner.
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I haven't spent a whole many words on Google Glass on OSNews thus far, partly because these things are quite expensive and only available to a select group of Americans.
Since this is as good a time as any to show my cards on Glass: I think Google has been botching, and continues to botch, the publicity around Glass in a spectacular way. They've been positioning it as a consumer product that you wear all the time, through all your daily activities, but I don't think that's where the real value of Glass (and technology like it) will come into its own.
Glass is geeky, and while that's not really a bad thing in my book (no matter what certain looks-obsessed bloggers say), it does limit the device's appeal. They can make it really small and unobtrusive, but that'll raise concerns regarding privacy even more than Glass already does today. On top of that, I simply doubt that most people have any need for Glass in their regular, day-to-day life.
No, I think the real value of Glass lies in an entirely different area Google seems to have been ignoring so far. It's a far less sexy area than the world of designer glasses and paragliders, but one that offers far, far more potential: 'traditional' workplaces. Construction. Road works. Law enforcement. The military. Farmers. Firefighters. Plumbers. Roofers. You name it. People who work with their hands in potentially dangerous environments, who can use the heads-up display for at-a-glance, crucial information while out in the field.
In short, I think Glass could be huge for people who do what I admiringly refer to as "real work" (to differentiate it from my own job, which comes down to sitting behind a desk translating crap). Sadly, Google seems to ignore this area, overflowing with potential, completely, continuing down its path of trying to make Google Glass hip and fashionable. I am much more interested in seeing what Glass can do for the kinds of professions I just mentioned.
Those traditional workers might not be VC-sexy, but I'm convinced they'd benefit a whole lot more from Glass than privileged tech bloggers, supermodels, and translators.


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Federal officials trapped 116 chinook salmon at Hills Ferry Bridge near Newman in November and released them live at Camp Payshayan near Fresno in attempts to revive the historic run on the San Joaquin River for the first time in 68 years.
Federal officials trapped 116 chinook salmon at Hills Ferry Bridge near Newman in November and released them live at Camp Payshayan near Fresno in attempts to revive the historic run on the San Joaquin River for the first time in 68 years.
The translocation effort is an attempt to jump-start the migratory salmon run along the entire river - from the ocean to below Friant Dam - and is the first such attempt since the structure was completed in 1944. The dam and diversions that took 95 percent of the water left 60 miles of the river in Fresno and Merced counties bone dry, wiping out the fall migratory salmon run that used to number as many as 500,000 adult spawners.
Following an 18-year court battle over a lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, water was finally order back into the San Joaquin in 2009. Under the settlement, the court required the Bureau of Reclamation to release adequate flows to restore the river for salmon and to conduct a translocation effort to aid the fish.
Don Portz, biologist for the BOR, said the translocation effort was responsible for at least seven redds being established in the river, with salmon making nests in other suitable areas downstream of the dam, including the Merced River.
Sturgeon tagging: The Department of Fish and Game completed its annual sturgeon tagging program in the Bay-Delta Estuary to manage green and white sturgeon populations. Working in Suisun and San Pablo bays from Aug. 1-Oct. 30, state agency personnel tagged 170 white sturgeon and 13 green sturgeon and collected information on nearly as many sturgeon that were either too small or too large to tag.
Sturgeon tags are white plastic disks that are smaller than a dime, said Marty Gingras, program manager or the DFG. "Anyone who catches a DFG-tagged sturgeon is encouraged to return the tag," he said. "DFG pays a reward for the return of certain tags, and those tags are clearly labeled."
Information received from anglers about tagged fish complements the details submitted on sturgeon fishing report cards, as well as data from party boats, creel surveys and other studies. This information is used to set bag limits and harvest goals.
Sturgeon can live more than 100 years and weigh more than 500 pounds. Most anglers catch sturgeon measuring 3-4 feet in length. To be kept, a white sturgeon must measure 46-66 inches. Green sturgeon is a threatened species and must be released.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers are the southern-most spawning grounds for both white and green sturgeon. To learn more about the tagging program go online to: nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=34559 or call (209) 948-3702.
New sport fishing licenses: Starting Jan. 1, a 2013 California Fishing License is required for all anglers 16 years and older. The license extends for the entire calendar year.
Eric Johnston at The Outdoor Sportsman said the new license costs $45.93 and covers angling in both fresh and salt water. Boys and girls 15 years and younger do not need a fishing license.
New Year's Day Outing: The Delta Fly Fishers Club has a long standing tradition of meeting Jan. 1 on the Mokelumne River at Van Assen Park below Camanche Dam. The public is invited to join club members for steelhead fishing and fish storytelling.
Activities start at sunrise with lunch served at 11 a.m., said Earl Summers, leader of the annual event. For details go to: deltaflyfishers.com or call (209) 369-7246.
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In two weeks, after the required training, Brockton firefighters will begin carrying Narcan with them as they respond to calls across the city.
BROCKTON - When first responders arrive at the scene of an overdose, the difference between life and death may be just a matter of minutes. That is why in two weeks, after the required training, Brockton firefighters will begin carrying Narcan with them as they respond to calls across the city. Narcan, known generically as naloxone, is a drug that can reverse the effects of an opiate overdose, such as heroin or oxycodone, saving the person's life. "They're (firefighters) always the first ones on the scene, and the thing is they usually beat the ambulance by anywhere between 5 to 8 minutes," said Mayor Bill Carpenter. "Why are we going to let someone die on the sidewalk for 5 minutes if they could've just given them the Narcan instead of waiting for the ambulance." Carpenter said the decision to begin supplying firefighters with the drug has been a priority since he first took office to combat what he called an "overdose epidemic" sweeping the city. "There's been at least 15 overdoses and at least three deaths in the last 10 days in the city of Brockton due to overdose," Carpenter said. "What it comes down to is I'm tired of people dying on the streets of my city." As opiate abuse continues to plague communities across the commonwealth, Narcan, which is administered as a nasal spray, has become a valuable tool in trying to turn the tide against the wave of overdoses. In December, police officers in Stoughton underwent training to begin carrying the medication and, on Tuesday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced his intention to equip all first responders in his city with Narcan. The BAMSI C.O.P.E. Center in Brockton has been distributing the medication since Feb. 25, 2009, as part of a pilot program in conjunction with the state Department of Public Health. "Nasal naloxone is a valuable resource for our program because it is easy to use, effective, with no risk for abuse," Heather Kennedy, the center's program director, said in an email. "It tells our program participants that we, as a community, value your life, have hope for your future and your life is worth saving." Kennedy added that the program has received multiple reports each month from people who have successfully reversed an overdose. Hilary Jacobs, director of the DPH's Bureau of Substance Abuse Services, said the agency has documented more than 2,500 overdose reversals across the state since the program was implemented. The Narcan and the atomizer used to administer it costs the DPH $20.28 combined and comes in packages of two, putting the total cost at $40.56. However, the effects the drug have are priceless. "Narcan keeps people alive, hopefully long enough for them to engage in treatment," said Jacobs.


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I recently completed two novels with very similar themes, "Black Hills" by Franklin Schneider and Jennifer Schneider, a brother-sister writing duo, and "Coyote" by Kelly Oliver. Both focus on the fate of exploited native women and Indian reservation communities in boomtowns where oil workers are forcing oil out of the ground through fracking. Apparently, the authors of both books used similar source material and reached many of the same disturbing conclusions.
Both books were pretty rough to read because they pull no punches about what happens to sex slave workers in these oil boomtowns, the mountains of synthetic drugs ("dust") that is consumed, and the fraud and murder that occurs in order to keep the people involved in business.
The heroine in Oliver's "Coyote" is a philosophy graduate student from Montana who returns home for the summer to work at Glacier Park, Jessica James. Her roommate is a member of the Blackfeet tribe who is distraught that her younger sisters seem to have been kidnapped by sex slavers. Jessica takes a Glacier Park bus to help her roommate, Kimi Redfox, to find the missing sisters, and to investigate the death of her cousin, Mike, in a lumber mill accident. They are assisted by a Russian emigre named Lolita, who seems to know her way around the big-shots in the community who own the fracking and lumber mill businesses. "Coyote" is a straight-forward detective and mystery story with a likeable amature sleuth.
The heroine of the Schneiders' "Black Hills" is Alice Riley, a Brooklyn Private Investigator hired by the wife of an employee of the fracking company in Whitehurst, South Dakota, to investigate why he has been taken into custody for assaulting a prostitute. Alice befriends the Native American prostitute girlfriend of the man who has been jailed and they go after the truth together. Neither Alice nor her friend, Kim, are innocents in this story. They both partake in plenty of drugs and sex in their effort to gain information and take down the CEO of the fracking company. The fracking company, they learn, is also behind a huge drug operation, the sex trafficking in the area, and nearly everthing else that is killing Native American people and their heritage.
"Black Hills" is a strong literary achievement by Franklin Schneider, who is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, but many will also find the unrelenting drugs and sex and the very dark take on the fracking business to be disturbing.
I'm glad I read both "Coyote" and "Black Hills," despite their strong thematic and character similarities. They both leave a very concerning message about fracking and the companies and communities swallowed up by that business.
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The Minneapolis Police Department is announcing new strategies to help fight crime and violence on the city's north side over the summer.
Several different federal, state, and local agencies will be involved in putting the plan to work to keep streets safe.
A few details of the plan have been released. Among them, authorities say they'll seek to aggressively prosecute crimes of gun violence in federal court. The plan also calls for putting school resource officers on bike patrols.
Community faith leaders will also be involved, and there will be "faith patrols" in the community.
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Kovacevic: Hoka Hey! Why change a thing?
It's been nearly a month since the Pirates completed their second straight epic collapse, and so far they're off to their second straight offseason of doing nothing about it.
Not one personnel move has been made, unless you count hitting coach Gregg Ritchie quitting for a college job he'd been plotting for months.
Not one member of the front office has spoken to any change in processes.
There's been nothing at all.
I took Bob Nutting's word when he told me for a Sept. 28 column that "it's obvious the status quo is not an acceptable option" and that he'd undertake a no-job-is-safe organizational review. And I have ample cause to still believe him. I know — for a fact — he's doing his due diligence, just as I appreciate that it takes time.
In the meantime, though, all that's obvious is more status quo, in people and in practice.
Remember those Navy SEALS exercises the Pirates put their prospects through to open their Florida Instructional League session last month in Bradenton?
If not, maybe the term "Hoka Hey" will jog the memory.
Thought so.
Management stressed at the time it was only a three-day event, Sept. 14-16. But it turns out that, even though those ex-SEALS have long since left Pirate City, their methods didn't.
Pull up a stool, all you aspiring hippies and Hell's Angels ...
On Oct. 14 at 11:45 p.m., the Pirates' minor-league coaches and instructors broke the midnight silence by banging on dorm rooms throughout the complex shouting, "It's Hell Week! It's Hell Week!"
Players were told to be dressed in 20 minutes and to meet outside by the batting cage. Waiting there were Kyle Stark, the assistant general manager and architect of the team's "Hoka Hey" ways, as well as Larry Broadway, the first-year farm director who never before held any instructional position at any level of baseball.
Look it up.
Broadway told the assembled players this would be their "rite of passage" to become Pirates, then sent them on a two-hour scavenger hunt for envelopes hidden across the complex.
(Don't ask. No idea.)
At 5 a.m., after a wink or two of sleep, they were bused over to Bradenton Beach for a two-mile run, followed by relay races in which they ran back and forth filling garbage cans with sand.
(Don't ask. No idea.)
This garbage — pardon the pun — went on all week.
On the "Hell Week" finale Friday, with a 10 a.m. road game on tap, the players again were awoken at 5 a.m. This time, it was to perform sliding drills on a still-dark field lit by a solitary quartz lamp. The coaches took turns manning second base and tried — not always successfully — to leap over players sliding into the bag, generally making a mess on the basepaths.
(Now this one explains a lot.)
I know about the above because I continue to hear from prospects worried about injury (some among the team's most expensive draft picks), from parents who wish their sons had never signed with the Pirates, from angry agents, even from men who answer to Stark and GM Neal Huntington.
I'll repeat: The Pirates' development system is the laughingstock of baseball.
And most unfortunately, it isn't just a harmless sideshow.
Gregory Polanco is one of the Pirates' top five prospects. He's a 21-year-old, 6-foot-4 outfielder who was named Most Outstanding Prospect in the Single-A South Atlantic League after batting .325 with 16 home runs, 85 RBI and 40 steals for West Virginia.
The kid can do it all, but that apparently isn't enough.
Polanco's ankle was sprained in mid-August, and it cost him most of his final month of play. But the Pirates still saw fit to have him participate in that first day with the SEALS last month, and as you might guess, the ankle was reinjured.
Worse than before.
It happened during a drill in which Polanco sprinted across the outfield, through an above-ground pool of ice water, then leaped into a sand pit.
(You're still seeking logic?)
I know this because I asked Polanco himself. Through an interpreter, he described it in vivid detail.
I know this because a pitcher in his drill group independently described it the same way.
But sadly, I wouldn't have known this if I had relied solely on the Pirates' word.
When I initially asked the team two weeks ago about Polanco, this was the emailed reply from baseball operations — no name assigned — through a team spokesman: "Polanco was NOT injured during that workout. He actually injured his ankle during the season. He opted out of those workouts, as he has continued to battle swelling but no pain."
If you believe the players — and I do — the statement was a bald-faced lie.
Not from the spokesman, but from baseball ops.
The truth: Polanco asked to be removed from a later workout on the beach when the pain worsened on the bus ride. By day's end, the team had to fit him for a boot, which wasn't the case when he first hurt it.
Why try to hide this?
Maybe Nutting will start uncovering the answers.


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Angela Hawse is a jack of all trades. She has been guiding for over 25 years and is one of the most experienced female guides in the world. The current "AMGA Guide of the Year," Hawse has been guiding in the Tetons in Wyoming this summer and took a bit of time out of her busy season to reflect on her time spent there.
Dominating the landscape, 7000 feet above the valley floor, the royal Grand Teton claims the attention of everyone passing through. This compact range packs a punch. It's the youngest range in the Rockies, yet has some of the oldest rocks in North America. Thrust up boldly from the valley floor without foothills, it is one of the most stunning geological landscapes in the U.S. It teems with wildlife, coniferous forests and alpine meadows chocked full of wildflowers. This Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the one of the healthiest and intact remaining on our planet. Grizzly bears on down the line to pine martens, pikas and peregrines are all present. Well above tree line, small glaciers are shadowed by summits that make up the brunt of the range with some the most unique alpine rock anywhere: The Grand, Middle and South Tetons, Mt. Moran, Mt. Owen and Teewinot.
For 12 seasons I've had the privilege of guiding here with Exum Mountain Guides. I look forward to it every summer and it never gets old or seems routine. The diversity of climbing in the range, good friends in a solid guiding community combined with frequent encounters with creatures large and small make everyday unparalleled. My guests range from experienced folks I've climbed with for many seasons to walk-ins that see the Grand for the first time and feel that unexplainable need to climb it.


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Brinks, Mason selected by their colleagues
Ionia County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Brinks has been named Deputy of the Year by Sheriff Dale Miller.
Brinks, who has been with the sheriff's office for five years, was recognized and selected by his peers for his dedication and outstanding service and knowledge about the job, according to Miller.
"His fellow employees enjoy working with him," he said. "He does a professional job for us in Boston Township, and we're proud to have him with us."
Wendy Mason, food service director at the Ionia County Jail, has been named Support Person of the Year by Miller.
Mason, who has been in her position for about a year, has worked for the Ionia County Sheriff's Office for 18 years. She was nominated by her co-workers, who all feel comfortable with her, Miller said.
"She is easy to talk to, willing to listen, and works well with the inmates," he added. "We're extremely pleased she was selected by her fellow employees, and agree with their choice."


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Happy Friday, friends! Hope you had a great week. I'm so looking forward to this weekend…celebrating all things fall with a visit to a corn maze, sleeping in with the windows open, plaid and boots. I'm soaking up as much of it as I can before winter rolls in.
Oh, did you catch me over on the Washingtonian this week? I shared a few of my favorite work outfits including the cutest under $30 Target dress. I hope to have more photos to share with you next week!
Ok, so what are you doing this weekend? Pumpkin picking? Brunching? Baking this easy apple galette? Whatever you do, have a great one!


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This site from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has information on relationships and sexual health for teens.
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Preview Video Released For 'Rush ReDISCovered' Reissue
A new unboxing trailer has been released for the forthcoming deluxe vinyl reissue of Rush's eponymous debut, now officially titled 'Rush ReDISCovered.' The set, housed in a custom box and due on April 15 via Anthem-Universal, marks the seminal project's 40th anniversary.
'Rush ReDISCovered,' which will list at $35.99, has undergone a Direct Metal Mastering for this 220-gram LP release, under the supervision of Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios. Magee earlier oversaw the remastering of the Beatles catalog to vinyl.
Originally released in March 1974 on Canada's Moon Records imprint, 'Rush' eventually moved over to Mercury Records - which remixed the project for a July release after Rush broke in the American market via WMMS in Cleveland. This new reissue uses the original analog stereo masters.
Also included on 'Rush ReDISCovered': The original jacket art, complete with MN-100-A/B etching, a 16-by-22 inch reproduction of the initial Rush promo poster (of which only 500 were originally printed) three 5-by-7 inch lithos of the original lineup, a 12-by-12 Rush Family Tree poster and a digital download card for the remastered release.


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Pink Covers The Advocate in Sexy Tux, Says She Was 'Honorary Lesbian of L.A.'
Pink is not just a CoverGirl. She's a cover girl, for The Advocate, a gay publication. While the 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' songstress is not a gay icon on Lady Gaga's level, she's full of spunk and there is an androgynous quality to her look and style.
She looks stunning, with her punky, white hot hair and averted stare. She's wearing a Madonna-like, sexy tux-style outfit, pairing a sheer corset and blazer with statement shoulders. Pink avoids looking like she came screaming out of the '80s with the shape of the shoulders on her blazer; they are pointy and modern in the most fashion-forward way. There are studded taped Xs over her nips, so no slips there.
In her feature, sexuality is discussed, since rumors of Pink being bisexual surfaced years ago. She never labeled herself on any level, sexual or professional, but she did confirm that she is not bisexual. She also explained how those rumors took off.
"Honestly, I've never defined myself," Pink said. "I've never felt the need to. I still don't. It's just like how everyone's like, 'Well, what kind of music do you do?' And I'm like, 'I don't. I just do it.' And f— it, if you can't understand it, I'm a mystery bag."
She also shares that when she first moved to the West Coast, she was "an honorary lesbian of Los Angeles," which sparked the false reports of her dating preferences. "I loved my little girlfriends and we kissed and we had a great time and we held hands," she recalled. "I wasn't gay, but all my girlfriends were. So no, it wasn't a big deal for me, but when [a tabloid] comes out and says, I just said I was bisexual, it's like what? That wasn't my truth, and I like truth. I like absolute truth."
Pink is stoked to get back on the road to promote her No. 1 album 'The Truth About Love,' likening it to therapy. "That's why I do it, because I know it's more important than what I'm wearing, it's more about what we're doing or what we're saying together, me and this audience," the singer said.
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Courtesy Pacific Legal Foundation
RED BLUFF, Calif. — A property rights group is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of a family-owned nursery that was ordered to stop farming a wheat field south of here without being given a hearing.
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the suit Oct. 10 in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on behalf of Duarte Nursery and its president, John Duarte, who say they were deprived of a crop this year.
In February, the Corps issued a cease-and-desist letter and a notice of violation that accused Duarte of illegally filling wetlands. While Duarte disputes the accusation, the PLF also argues the government violated the business' Fifth Amendment due-process right in not allowing it to answer the charge.
PLF attorney Tony Francois called the stop order an example of "dictatorial behavior" by federal officials, and said the suit will enable the Duarte family to "get their day in court."
"They're entitled, just like anyone else who's accused by the government of breaking the law, to an opportunity to present their case and set the record straight," Francois told the Capital Press. "In this case it's clear that they didn't do what the Corps said they did."
A Corps spokesman in Washington, D.C., did not immediately return a call and email seeking comment.
The suit also names members of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, which also claimed Duarte violated the Clean Water Act, Francois said. State water board spokesman George Kostyrko said the agency could not comment on the litigation.
The PLF asserts the agencies should have advised Duarte before taking an enforcement action and given him a reasonable opportunity to "set the record straight."
Founded in 1989 near Modesto, Calif., Duarte Nursery and its subsidiary, Dry Creek Farms, produces rootstock for a variety of agricultural products, including prunes, almonds, pistachios, walnuts and citrus, according to its website.
The PLF maintains a federal hearing before a shutdown order could have shown that Duarte hired a consultant to identify wetlands on its 430-acre property on Paskenta Road in rural Tehama County and that no plowing took place in those areas.
The organization contends that areas where plowing occurred did not meet tests the U.S. Supreme Court has set for wetlands subject to Clean Water Act oversight. Francois said the Corps relied on a wetlands map created in 1994, when the legal definition of a wetland was much more widely applied.
As a result of the enforcement action, Duarte Nursery lost the $50,000 it cost to plant the wheat and has lost the ability to farm its property, Francois said. In a statement, John Duarte said the family was "blindsided" by the stop order.
"We have always been careful to conserve and protect the land, and the Corps is wrong to suggest we've harmed any wetlands," he said. "But beyond that, the Corps is wrong to deny us our constitutional right to answer their allegations in a hearing prior to enforcement."
Francois asserts the stop order is part of a larger pattern of federal officials failing to recognize that Congress exempted normal farming practices from requiring wetlands permits from the Corps.
"All the Duarte Nursery did was use a tractor to plow and plant a winter wheat field," he said. "So if the Corps is going to now be going around issuing violation notices basically for farming, this is a serious problem. This is something Congress has told the Corps they have no authority over."
Pacific Legal Foundation: http://www.pacificlegal.org
Duarte Nursery: http://www.duartenursery.com
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: http://www.usace.army.mil/Home.aspx


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When you purchase anything, most times the reason for that purchase is based on an informed decision. How informed are we though? With commercials hyping up products and manufacturers specifications right in front of you most of the time, without even digging deeper for information, we purchase a product because we believe what we are told.
Why do you purchase a computer case, fans, water-cooling systems and other components? Of course it would be to protect your components, to cool your components and to receive the maximum performance for your hard earned money. Or are you an impulse buyer? Just because something looks good and one or two friends recommend it, you make that purchase and believe you will get exactly what you expect because of that impulse.
Evidently you are not an impulse buyer and you must want to be informed before you make a purchase, or you wouldn't be reading this review. With this in mind, let's go over a few details. So far I've shown you what the case looks like, what components it comes with, and even its specifications and features. Just like any other review, you are now in anticipation about how the case will test out. Why? Considering this is a liquid cooled system, you'll be focused on temperatures, specifically the temperatures of your CPU, maybe system temperature and why not throw in video card and hard drive temps too? For the rest, you will probably rely on the specifications and features you just read.
Is this enough? Maybe. I have written many reviews and have purchased a multitude of products and have always taken for granted that if a manufacturer or commercial leads me to believe a product can do what it states, then I should believe it. Today, we at OCC will be introducing another type of testing to the arsenal: Airflow! The volume of air passing through an area for a given period of time is the airflow. This is commonly calculated by multiplying the air velocity by the cross sectional area through which the air is passing. We all want the maximum airflow around our components to cool them and to maintain a proper balance of air exchange.
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Female attorney guilty of bringing 14-year-old to Canada to make pornBy DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 10. 2013 1:49PM
CONCORD - A U.S. District Court jury Thursday convicted Manchester attorney Lisa Biron on all eight counts of a federal indictment charging transportation of a minor with intent to commit criminal sexual activity, sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography.
The jury of three women and nine men returned the verdict quickly. They were given jury instructions by Judge Paul Barbadoro shortly after noon and sent to lunch, with the option of beginning deliberations immediately.
By the time court resumed at 1:15, the jurors had made their decision. A juror later said: "The evidence was pretty overwhelming."
Juror Peter Evans of Manchester said: "It was a difficult case ... I'm not sure I could come up with one (deciding factor)."
Evans said one juror took a little bit of time to join the rest and make the decision unanimous, but he declined to say whether it was a male or female juror.
As for a sentence, Evans said: "She is going to deserve whatever she gets."
U.S. Attorney John Kacavas said the mininum sentence Biron could get at the sentencing hearing set for April 22 is 25 years.
He said the transportation charge carries a minimum of 10 years, each of the exploitation charges carries a minimum of 15 years, and the possession charge carries a maximum of 10 years.
Kacavas, who prosecuted the case with Assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Fitzgibbon, said he was not surprised at the quick verdict. "You don't often have the graphic evidence. The defendant is seen and heard (on the videos)."
He said the defendant "made video evidence that speaks for itself. . . It was overwhelming."
One of those videos, made with a cellphone, shows Biron and the victim engaged in sexual activity in Biron's home. Several others showed the 14-year-old victim engaged in sexual activity at a Canadian hotel.
Biron and the teen went to Niagara Falls over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend to meet a 19-year-old Canadian, Kevin Watson, who the teen had met online, so the girl could have sex with the Canadian.
Watson testified that the trio smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and had sex, with Biron videotaping Watson and the young girl. Watson said he had sex with Biron, too, and she took a photo of him on the bed between her and the young girl.
A former Merrimack teen, Brandon Ore, 18, testified he met Biron when he answered a Craigslist personal ad, "2 girls looking to party, 18 and 33."
He said he had sex with Biron the first time he went to her house in July 2012, and she told him to bring a friend the next time because her "roommate" would be there. Ore testified he brought a friend the next five or six times he went to
Biron's Pratt Court residence. He said he had sex with the young girl, and his friends had sex with Biron.
Ore testified Biron showed him on her laptop video of the 14-year-old having sex with the Canadian youth. He said she also wanted him to have sex with the young girl on the couch of her living room. "She was filming us with her iPhone," said Ore, although he didn't realize it at first. When he and the girl asked if Biron was filming, she said "no" but then she laughed, he testified.
Ore said he wasn't happy with his parents' rules, so he moved into Biron's house and lived there for a couple of months. But after another man moved in, Ore said he left and went to Manchester Police to report what he had done and what Biron had done.
When he told Biron what he'd done, she drove him to the police station, telling him to tell police he'd filed a false report and take the misdemeanor consequences. Instead, Ore said: "I asked if I could make a report of her lying."
Ore's September report to police - about having sex with an underage girl and about Biron's videos of the 14-year-old having sex - started the investigation by Manchester Police that led to Biron's arrest in Manchester on child pornography charges and later the federal investigation, indictment and trial, which ended with a guilty verdict.
The final witness, who testified Thursday morning, was FBI forensic examiner James Scripture Jr., who testified that he had copied the hard drive from Biron's laptop and cellphone memory and was able to pinpoint where and when videos and pictures on the laptop were created.
He said the video of Biron engaged in sexual activity with the young girl had been created May 18 at Pratt's Manchester home. That was a week before, Biron told several witnesses, that she took the young girl to Canada and created a "keepsake" video of the girl's first sexual experience.
Biron, who had put her hands over her ears and put her head down Wednesday when the sounds from a video of her with the young girl was played for jurors, did not have a visible reaction to the verdict.
Biron's lawyer, James Moir, said Biron will appeal
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CONCORD - A U.S. District Court jury is now deliberating in the trial of Manchester lawyer Lisa Biron, 43, who is accused of taking a 14-year-old girl to Canada to make a child porn film with a Canadian youth, sexually exploiting the girl in making videos of her with another man, and making a cellphone video of herself engaged in sexual activity with the girl.
The final witness in the two-day trial was an FBI forensic investigator who examined Biron's laptop and cellphone.
James Scripture Jr. identified when and where the videos were made, including the cellphone video of Biron and the girl, which he said preceded the Memorial Day weekend visit to Niagara Falls.
In the government's closing argument, assistant U.S. Attorney Helen Fitzgibbon played brief portions of phone calls between Biron and her parents in which Biron appears to blame the teen for her troubles.
"It takes away any doubt of the defendant's guilt," Fitzgibbon told the jury of three women and nine men.
Fitzgibbon said witnesses testified that Biron planned to make the video before taking the girl to Canada, the girl is a minor and Biron exploited the girl in the making of the videos and several still photos.
Fitzgibbon acknowledged the girl wasn't dragged kicking and screaming into making the sex videos, but said she was just 14 and was given marijuana and alcohol.
Defense attorney James Moir told jurors that the case is not about whether Biron is a good or bad person.
What this case is about, he said, is whether the government has proved each and every element.
One charge alleges she transported the girl to Canada to make a pornographic film, but Moir said the issue is her purpose in traveling. "Did she intend to make a pornographic movie," he said, or was it to meet Kevin Watson, to have sex and to see Niagara Falls?
If she didn't decide to make the movie until she got there, he said, she's not guilty.
He also questioned the veracity of witnesses, some of whom stand to avoid any prosecution for sex with a minor as a result of their testimony.
As for sexual exploitation, said Moir, the victim appears to be a willing participant. While the filming is not a nice act, he said: "You have to find that in some way (Biron) caused this. What was the inducement (for the girl)?"
Moir said Biron's friend, Lisa Brien, testified they met at church, and she had known Biron for 12 years and nothing seemed out of the ordinary until her husband left in July 2011.
After that, Moir said: "(Biron) went down this deep hole." Moir said jurors can hate what Biron did, but they must put their feelings aside and decide whether the government has proved the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
To say, "I'm almost positive" is not enough, said Moir.


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Many witnesses saw small , fast moving
objects - red or silver in colour, which flying in formation
dodged their way through anti-aircraft salvos at speeds
up to 5 miles per second or 18000 m.p.h.
An original
photo taken of a UFO (amongst search lights and exploding
shells) involved in the Los Angeles Air Raid.
The most recent winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize, former President Jimmy Carter, has long been interested
in the peaceful co-existence of humans on this planet.
If historic records are any indication, however, it
appears that the former President has long held a similar
interest in peaceful relations with extraterrestrials who
might be visiting this planet, since his sighting of a
strange unidentified object in Leary, Georgia in 1969.
Carter has always been open to talking about the 1969 UFO
sighting, which he described as a "very remarkable sight," and "the
darndest thing I have ever seen." Carter has talked
about it in many
question and answer sessions following speeches, or on
open-line talk show promoting the many books he has written.
In a recently released audio tape of a 1976 reply to questions
put to him by National Enquirer reporter Jim McCandlish,
Carter described the now infamous 1969 sighting, and how
if he became President he would release all the UFO files
to the United States people. The transcript of that encounter
is as follows.
Q: Governor, you once saw a
UFO. If you were President would you reopen inquiries
into UFOs?
Carter: Well, no. What I would do is make information we
have about those sightings available to the public (three
words unclear). I have never tried to identify what I saw.
You know, it was a light in the
western sky that was very unique. I had never seen it before.
There were about 20 of us who saw it. None of us could
figure out what it was. I don't think it was anything solid.
It was just like a light.
It was a curious aberation, so I don't make fun of people
who say they've see unidentified objects in the sky.
Q: The United States used to have
a body that investigated UFOs, but
that's been discontinued. Would you reopen it?
Carter: I don't know yet.
Presidential candidate Carter also made a similar promise
in Appleton, Wisconsin on the morning of March 31, 1976,
during a question and answer session. Carter was asked
by Thomas Heiman,
Associate Director of the UFO Education Center in Appleton
Wisconsin whether he would as President, "air what's" behind-closed-doors" today
in regards to UFOs?"
Carter replied, "Yes, I would make these kinds of data
available to the public, as President, to help resolve
the mystery about it."
"On a public basis?" asked Heiman. "Yes," replied Carter, "on
a public basis."
Once Jimmy Carter became President, however, records at
the Carter library show that the Carter White House did
everything in its power to avoid the Wisconsin group even
though Carter had promised " a meeting could be arranged
sometime after the election" when he could meet with
the group and review the UFO material they had.
The McCandlish and Wisconsin encounters illustrate the
very few times Jimmy Carter ever talked about UFOs in relation
to the White House. When asked about presidential knowledge
and involvement in the UFO mystery, Carter has almost always
sidetracked the issue to talk about the 1969 UFO sighting.
An example of this reluctance to discuss his presidential
role can be found in the most recent encounter between
Jimmy Carter and the UFO question, which occurred last
year. Documentary producers Tim Coleman and James Fox approached
the ex-president about UFOs while he was doing a book
signing. The men planned to use the segment in their soon
to be released UFO documentary called "Out of the Blue."
When asked about his UFO sighting Carter was very forthright
quickly saying that it was interesting and mysterious.
However, when he was asked the second question about whether
or not he did look into the UFO issue during his presidency,
the enthusiasm ended. Carter simply replied, "Yes, but
there's a lot of different answers and nobody knows...has
proof of things."
This reluctance to discuss the government's role could
be partly due to wake-up call that the President-elect
Carter got while being briefed by then CIA Director George
Bush. According to prominent civil rights attorney Danny
Sheehan, Bush made Jimmy Carter aware of how UFOs would
be treated once he became President.
Sheehan stated that he had been told the story by Marcia
Smith, then Director of the Science and Technology Division
of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service.
In 1977, shortly after Carter entered the White House,
she had been asked to do two studies for the Chairman of
the Science & Technology Committee of the House of
Representatives. The reports would then find their way
to the White House.
Sheehan, then General Counsel to the United States Jesuit
National Headquarters - National Office of Social Ministry
in Washington, was invited to participate in the two studies,
which he described as
a "highly classified major evaluation of the UFO phenomena,
and extraterrestrial intelligence."
According to what Marcia Smith told Sheehan in 1977, President-elect
Carter had asked Bush for the material on UFOs during his
November 1976 intelligence briefing provided by the CIA. "I
want to have the information that we have on UFOs and extraterrestrial
intelligence." Carter had asked. "I want to know
about this as President."
George Bush, according to Marcia Smith, said, "No . . .
that he wasn't going to give this to him . . . that this
was information that existed on a need to know basis only.
Simple curiosity on the part of the President wasn't adequate."
" If he was going to do this he would have to follow a
different procedure," recalled Sheehan, "that was going
to involve all the different branches of government in
authorizing this information, because they were afraid
that President Carter was going to somehow publicly reveal
this. Bush told him that he was going have to go to the
Science and Technology Committee of the House of Representatives,
in the legislative branch, and have them ask the Congressional
Research Service to issue a request to have certain documents
declassified so that this process could go on."
President Carter followed the instructions given to him
by Bush, and Marcia Smith did produce two reports, which
have never been made public. One was on UFOs, and one was
on extra terrestrial
intelligence. Sheehan stated that in one of the reports
he reviewed it was concluded, "There are from two to six
highly intelligent, highly technological developed civilizations
in our own galaxy over and above our ours." Sheehan
added that the report stated that the investigation was "unable
to discount" that one of these vehicles was not from one
of these two to six civilizations.
Carter went on to request a number of other UFO inquiries
and studies in his first months as President. These included
a study known as the "Carter Extraterrestrial Communication
Study" contracted to the Center for the Study of Social
Policy at the Stanford Research Institute. The initial
contact within the Carter White House for the proposal
was Stewart Eisenstatt, with the Domestic Policy Staff.
The Pentagon reportedly killed it three months later.
Efforts included the Carter transitional people contacting
or meeting with UFO researchers such as Robert Barrow,
Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek, and Bill Pitts. Barrow,
for example, was contacted about participating in another
undefined UFO study. Barrow was not contacted again, so
it is not known if this particular study went forward.
Another study of UFOs that was done for President Carter
in the early days of the administration was known as the "L.A.
Study." It was put together for the President by a number
of UFO researchers in the Los Angeles area. The researchers
have told their side of the story, but no records of this
study appear at the Carter library. Trusted Carter staff
members made most of the approaches to the various government
agencies about UFOs. One such case was Press Secretary
Jody Powell who approached the FBI about their past UFO
efforts. The FBI files tell little of this request, probably
because it was done by phone. Authors Lawrence Fawcett
and Barry Greenwood reported, however, that once Powell
made the inquiry, the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia
suddenly "began monitoring and collecting newspaper
clippings that dealt with the UFO subject...under the curious
file reference of TRANSPORTATION."
Dr. Press, President Carter's Science Advisor,
made the UFO contact to NASA. He wrote NASA administrator
Dr. Robert Frosch, asking for help with the UFO mail problem,
(the Carter White House was being inundated with UFO mail
because of his campaign promise to release the UFO files)
but also suggesting it might be time for another study of
the UFO issue. Press suggested that a panel of prominent
scientists such as Carl Sagan might "conduct an investigation
of the validity and significance of UFO reports." NASA, aware
of the probable public relations problems involved with reopening
the UFO can of worms, declined Dr. Press's request for a
new UFO investigation.
Although Carter's attempts to get a new study on UFOs failed,
he presided over what is sometimes known as the "golden years"
of government UFO disclosures. During the Carter administration literally
thousands of UFO documents were released through FOIAs by
various government entities such as the FBI, NSA, NASA, State,
Air Force, Navy, and Army. What Carter's role was in the
releases is unknown, but there has been nothing quite
like it since Carter left the White House.
Although President Carter made many attempts to get the answer
to the UFO mystery, as he promised during his presidential
campaign, most efforts failed. The Washington insiders, who
Carter had run his entire campaign against, cut him off from
the UFO answers which they controlled.
The military industrial complex, usually more in line with
Republican administrations, was upset at Carter for his canceling
of the B-1 bomber program, a $5 billion dollar cut in defense
spending, plans to shelve the neutron bomb, veto a nuclear
aircraft carrier, and his leak during the 1980 presidential
campaign where he publicly told the public, and the Russians,
that secret work was taking place on a thing called the Stealth
George Bush described the negative feeling also held towards
President Carter by the intelligence community. He had been
the first CIA Director in four administrations to be effectively
fired by the new Carter administration. Hundreds of CIA agents
followed him out onto the street once Carter entered the
White House.
In his autobiography, Bush described Carter's attacks on
the CIA as "frequent and vituperative." The hatred for the
CIA, according to Bush began even when he was briefing Carter
on intelligence secrets in 1976. Bush wrote, "Beneath his
surface cool, he (Carter) harbored a deep antipathy to the
CIA." It is then no wonder, that when it came to the deepest
darkest secret held by the government, that Carter found
himself on the outside looking it.
As Jimmy Carter receives his Nobel Peace Prize, it might
be important to note that other important Peace Prize winners
have also taken an interest in the extraterrestrial angle
of world peace. Former Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B.
Pearson actually brought up the extraterrestrial possibilities
during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in
"Perhaps there is a hopeful possibility here in the conquest
of outer space. Interplanetary activity may well give us
planetary peace. Once we discover Martian spaceships hovering
over Earth's air-space, we will all come together."
"How dare they threaten us like this!" we shall shout, as
one, at a really United Nations!"