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Film Jockeys #15: The Life Cycle of a Film Fan
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What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the filmmakers and the movie characters that inhabit their world. Written and illustrated by Derek Bacon, it's the perfect webcomic for passionate movie fans who...
From the looks of it Django Unchained, Pacific Rim and Anything Marvel Does Forever are topping the list of the most anticipated movies hitting Comic-Con 2012. The question is, with 400 million (number estimated) other movie panels showing up in San Diego, how will you possibly see everything? And how...
It's Time to Stop Making (These) Jokes About Comic-Con
- By Robert Fure
- @RobertFure
- June 25, 2012
San Diego Comic-Con, the Western Hemisphere's nerd mecca, is rapidly approaching and with it will undoubtedly flow the inane, poorly thought out, and overused "anti-Comic-Con" rhetoric we've come to expect and loathe. While my objects will almost assuredly have little to no impact on the flux of lazily written articles,...
Officially Cool: Ron Guyatt's 'Jurassic Park' Isla Nublar Map and Pop Culture Prints
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- June 21, 2012
Imagine how impressed your dinner guests will be when they pass by the chocolate fountain in the hallway and spy the Isla Nublar map hanging on your wall – complete with detailed information on where the Raptor and T-Rex pens are. "Is that an antique from a wealthy. erstwhile relative?"...
Test Your Movie Knowledge with Evan Seitz's Keen Animated Videos
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- June 5, 2012
Evan Seitz creates excellent animations with minimalist flair. His work is hypnotizing both because the images seem to blossom from the middle of the screen – constantly attacking the viewer – and because they're playfully cool. In the case of his movie-centric videos, they're an aggravating quiz of iconography that...
Kevin Smith Turning Movie Website Comment Sections Into a Show
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- May 21, 2012
Back in the late 1990s, you only had two options for discussing movies. You could hang out with friends in the parking lot or late night waffle hut afterward, complaining about nipples on Batman, or you could go online to sites like Aint It Cool and Movie Poop Shoot to...
Would You Buy Digital Copies of Scripts From Iconic Movies?
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- May 10, 2012
Warners is hoping to start a beautiful friendship with movie fans by offering digital copies of classic scripts – complete with background information and scenes embedded amidst the dialogue and description. Their digital distribution arm has announced the "Inside The Script" program which makes available these beefed-up versions of the...
Marvel's Pre-Assembled Avengers and How Movies are Affecting Comic Books
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- May 3, 2012
Did you hear? Did you hear? Go tell Paul Revere! Joss Whedon and Marvel's The Avengers is out this weekend which marks the beginning of the summer and an end to the anticipation. To discuss the film, we turn to comic book/Avengers expert John Gholson from Movies.com. Plus, ScreenCrush critic...
'Comic-Con' Director Morgan Spurlock Does His Best Stan Lee Impression
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- April 5, 2012
Take a deep breath and prepare to learn everything you need to know about Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope straight director Morgan Spurlock's fast-talking mouth. Will it change the world? Probably. Plus, Junkfood Cinema enthusiast Brian Salisbury accepts the dangerous mission to play Movie News Roulette. Download Episode #128...
Short Film Of The Day: The Must-See, Mind-Shifting Movie Mastery of 'Rear Window Timelapse'
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- April 3, 2012
Why Watch? Whoa. Wow. Okay. Calming down just a bit, for fans of Rear Window (and who isn't? Seriously, find me these people who aren't so we can send them all to a different planet where they can't bother us), this short film is a thing of movie geek beauty....
Intimate Think-Piece 'The Avengers' To Close Out Tribeca Film Festival
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- March 28, 2012
Wow. People holding Tribeca badges and passes just got a kick in the pants from a dude in a metal suit, a guy who rips his purple shorts with rage and a host of other dysfunctional family members. According to their latest press release, the Tribeca Film Festival is closing...
Short Film Of The Day: 'VOLTRON: The End' is the Fan Film We've Waited For
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- March 27, 2012
Why Watch? It's a shrewd move that director Alex Albrecht from "The Totally Rad Show" (a person that I, in the interest of full disclosure, am friendly acquaintances with) chose to create an atmospheric character study instead of an all-out action blitz for VOLTRON: The End which, yes, features a...
Don't worry. Quivering with a giant smile on your face is a normal reaction after seeing these. A whole host of vintage movie posters was found in Berwick, Pennsylvania and recently snagged over half a million dollars at auction. We may never be able to put them on our walls...
Would You Watch Another 'Battlestar Galactica' Prequel?
- By Amber Humphrey
- March 21, 2012
During a panel about the state of the Battlestar Galactica franchise at this year's WonderCon, Michael Taylor, the co-creator of Blood and Chrome—a Battlestar prequel that you may remember was green-lighted by SyFy back in 2010—screened a trailer for the two-hour pilot. This latest extension of the Battlestar universe revolves...
Short Film Of The Day: 'Indiana Jones,' 'Ghostbusters,' and 'Back to the Future' Become Trippy Hallucinations in 'Synchronize'
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- March 20, 2012
Why Watch? This short film from Elise The might be the perfect companion piece to yesterday's short, "They Come To Get Us." They're both pop culture explosions of strikingly different kinds. The latter is a pure overload by numbers, but Synchronize is electric in its ability to use iconic images...
A Cut of 'The Dark Knight Rises' Now Exists
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- March 19, 2012
There's something incredible about knowing that a movie exists. Especially now. After years – years! – of speculation, glimmers of set photos and vague comments mined for meaning, there is actually something we can all call The Dark Knight Rises. It's no longer an idea. It's a reality. According to...
Double Oh! 7 Essential Bits of James Bond Merchandise
- By Simon Gallagher
- March 18, 2012
I invite you to imagine a scene for a minute: a handsome man, with the kind of chiseled chin you could sharpen spoons on in an embarrassingly fine suit whose intricate detail blinded three tailors in the making sits at a Texas Holdem table, sucking daintily on a Vesper and with a...
Want to Buy Iron Man's Suit, Red Skull's Face or Thor's Hammer From Marvel?
- By Scott Beggs
- @scottmbeggs
- March 6, 2012
These items would have no doubt made Simon's list this week, but they all come with a hefty price tag. Marvel is auctioning off several pieces of screen-used props, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, they're expected to go for anywhere between $100 – $30,000. So what's up for grabs?...
No One Hates Kevin Smith More Than a Kevin Smith Fan, So Who's Watching 'Comic Book Men'?
- By Amber Humphrey
- February 29, 2012
Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash—or simply "the Stash," if you're down—is a comic book shop in Red Bank, New Jersey. The sheer existence of the store when so many others are closing, in and of itself, might be noteworthy but what really gives this place some cachet is its...
The 12 Coolest Movie T-Shirts You Need To Own Right Now
- By Simon Gallagher
- February 25, 2012
This week, in place of the usual triptych of found items and a T-Shirt of the Week, Merch Hunter is dedicated entirely to the mighty tee, the single most versatile member of the wardrobe family. Why 12? Well, science has proven that 12 is the magic number in terms of tee ownership...


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My favorite quilt i personally designed. A giant octopus swims past a Cuttlefish, Crocodile shark, and a large fish.
l like it, but it looks more silly rather than scary.
it was only supposed to be beautiful.
Well, it is good looking. But it doesn't look particularly scary, as one expects a kraken to look, I suppose. That said, I'm still impressed by the quality of needlework that you put into it.
the title is more meant to signify its large size, something i should put in the description. No one knows what the size of a truly gigantic cephalopod like an octopus actually is. the crocodile shark is a 4 foot long shark about eight feet away from the octopus, so you can guess how big it actually is.

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So there is some trolls going around...Journal Entry: Tue Dec 11, 2012, 12:28 PM
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Discovering your true identity in Jesus Christ–Jennifer's Story
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Attack Ads Are Good for You! in Praise of Negative Campaigning
Mark, David, Reason
MICHAEL STEELE encountered tough financial times in the late 1990S. Though he earned a law degree at Georgetown in 1991, the Maryland Republican failed the bar exams in his home state and in Washington, D.C. As a result, his practice at a large international law firm in Washington was limited in the high-end work it could perform and in the lees it could charge.
Steele eventually struck out on his own, founding the Steele Group, a business and legal consulting firm in suburban Prince George's County, Maryland. It seems the business rarely made a profit; Steele says it encountered financial challenges when clients didn't pay their bills. The firm eventually dissolved, and Steele's personal debts mounted. By 2002, according to financial disclosure reports, he had borrowed $35,000 through a line of credit against his home.
A fuller picture of Steele's money situation at that time remains clouded, due to gaps in his resume and his unwillingness to detail past finances. What is clear is that while his finances were plummeting, his political star was on the rise. He moved up quickly from local party activist to state Republican Party chairman and, in 2003, to lieutenant governor of Maryland, becoming the first black person of either party elected to statewide office.
Steele is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate. When Democrats raise questions about his past personal money woes, he dismisses them as negative campaigning, suggesting his opaque financial past has no bearing on public policy decisions. "What does it matter to any voter whether or not you paid a bill on time?" Steele asked in a September 2005 radio interview, shortly before declaring his Senate candidacy. "There has to be, I think, a veil of privacy, even around public figures. The expectation is, to run for office doesn't mean I turn over everything I've ever done in my life for you to sit in judgment of. It's one of the reasons why it is very difficult to find individuals who are capable, competent, and committed to public service who want to get into this business."
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Today we are going to visit the legendary and mysterious Chernobyl-2 and have a close look at a masterpiece of a constructive idea, feel the spirit of the past epoch of "the cold war".
Today we are going to visit the legendary and mysterious Chernobyl-2 and have a close look at a masterpiece of a constructive idea, feel the spirit of the past epoch of "the cold war".
Maybe they should have spent more money on the nuclear plant…
It's really amazing. Just like a timeshell 30 years ago
Very Very cool pictures. Thanks for the upload…
The brain scorcher from STALKER!
This could have been on Lost…
That's Duga-3, otherwise known as Woodpecker.
It is a large over-the-horizon radar.
If I recall correctly, the unit located in Chernobyl was the Duga-3. It was named "the russian woodpecker", as it was a repetitive noise jamming in lots of radio frequencies.
Amazing souvenir from the cold war…
Radio signals such as Wolna Europa to Poland…
And it is in such good shape still.
Get out of here, Stalker
someone had to post it
It's really nice.
I wouldn't mind get my hands on the soviet poster.
Should be fairly easy to bring it down. Just cut the bracing (the angled parts), then attach a steel cable to the top (or do this part first!) and then use a bulldozer to just pull it down.
Should think about collecting some of those signs and posters. I'd expect them to go up in value over the years.
Pity GSC Gameworld partially screwed up this part creating STALKER SoC, by replacing this Duga by 5 simple antennas… Later on Clear Sky they've brought it in, but without any usable background right into the imaginary city of Limansk…
At least on Call of Pripyat they've put in the main building, and the familarity is impressive, though ingame version is not as messy as the reallife counterpart. But watching these pics on this blog made me want to play STALKER again…
Great Soviet tech!
I especially admire the custom steering wheel in fire truck.
After seeing how much the installation cost, how much electricity did it need to operate? Probably why it was built near Chernobyl.
On September 17 1939 the treacherous Soviets ruthlessly attacked Poland, already under attack by Germans. Russians signed a pact with Germans to cut Poland in half and share the loot. Poland was once again betrayed and attacked by Soviet Russia. What followed was 50+ years of effective occupation by Russians in terms of communist government and presence of foreign army in the territory of Poland. May the memory of this hideous deed never be forgotten, in spite of continued attempts by Russians to rewrite history. Long live Poland!
There's a good Wikipedia article about the Duga-3.
To see a huge impressive structure like that abandoned and destroyed, makes me feel very sad. I think dozens of people passing by and having fun destroying all the equipments. For what? Why not just keep it intact?
In fact, makes me want to play STALKER again. Love that game.
Old electric relays commonly have gold contacts where they meet. If that's true here, there's thousands of dollars waiting for a pair of tinsnips.
Hi, can anyone with antenna elaectromagnetics background explain the peculiar zeppelin-like shape of the antenna endings ? I recently visited Odessa and noticed exactly the same shape antenna endings (yet much smaller) on top of a public building in the main historic square. Anyone any idea ?
What an amazing place! Brilliant photos, I only wish I could come over and take a close look.
Regarding the shape of the Ae's the wide cage was probably to give the system a wide bandwidth over a range of frequencies. The circular ends are rounded to minimise corona (These being at the voltage nodes). I wonder what the radiated power was.


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The Deer and the Dragon by DragonwolfRookeWatch
©2014-2016 DragonwolfRooke
For my first post of the new year, have a fairy tale.
Once upon a time, there lived a dragon. She lived in the side of a mountain surrounded all about by a wood, and it was good.
The dragon was big and dark and looked as if she were made of coal, all over. She delved deep into the tunnels and caves of her mountains. There she found jewels and veins of metal, and so she spent her days finding them, refining them. Her fiery breath molded gold and silver, and her claws carved gemstone and rock into delicate shapes. She made necklaces and rings, statues and shields, and she enjoyed creating them. And so she spent her time, busy at her work, and was happy.
The animals of the wood came to see, and they marveled at the beautiful things she made. Little creatures played about her claws and old creatures praised her talents of creation. The dragon liked this, and was happy.
But seeing the animals of the wood, she came to notice something. Other animals had sleek fur, or russet colors. She had neither - she bore scales, and she was the color of burnt stone. Other animals had long ears, or mossy antlers, or soft paws or delicate whiskers. The dragon had none of these things. All the animals in the wood were quite beautiful, in their way; a way that matched the rustling trees and leaves and the wind over the heather. The dragon resembled the mountain she lived in. Perhaps that was beautiful too, she told herself, as she went into the dark tunnels. It just wasn't the beauty of the wood she was so fond of. And looking into the eyes of the creatures who praised her, looking at the way they looked upon one another...she decided that she was not beautiful. At least, not to them.
However, the dragon still had her gems and her talents, and those made her happy. So she continued as she ever had, still happy creating those things of magic and beauty and shine. Compared to her joy in these things, her joy in creating and enjoying the beauty of the world, that one sadness seemed very silly and small. So she took that sadness, that she was not beautiful to the wood, and hid it deep in her heart. She laughed at it. It was such a silly sadness.
Even so. It remained, small indeed. But it remained.
Years passed in the wood and the mountain, and the dragon was quite content. Then, one day, a deer came.
He was odd, for a deer. Most deer leapt and bounded, like birds given hooves, never quite in one place but the next. This deer walked quite surely, and he walked up to her cave. The dragon saw him, and smiled, and showed him what she was doing - like she showed all the creatures of the wood. The deer showed great interest - in fact, he was similar, quite similar, in his enjoyment of creating things. And so they talked, and laughed, for many long hours. And the dragon found she quite liked the deer.
And so the deer and the dragon became friends.
Years passed, and the two remained good friends. Time went on and the dragon found she liked him more and more. He was odd, for a deer, but in the best way. His eyes were bright and his smile was wide, and he was handsome. He made her smile and laugh. And she found herself hoping that he liked her as well.
But it was a vain hope, she felt. She would smile inside and sigh. After all, she could make beautiful things, but she herself wasn't beautiful.
A day came, though, that at last she told her feelings to the deer...and was astonished to find he returned them. She was even happier than before. But still, that one small sadness remained, strangely. For the dragon felt that the deer must feel that way, because of what she was inside, not outside. She was still not beautiful like the wood.
Then one day the deer told her, "You're quite beautiful. Do you know that?"
She laughed, and the deer laughed too. But then another day, he told her again - "You're quite beautiful." And the dragon laughed inside. Surely, surely he doesn't mean that, she thought. I'm not beautiful. I'm a dragon, with heavy claws and hide like coal. He is being kind, but he doesn't truly mean that.
Days came and went, and still, the deer told her she was beautiful. She marveled at it. Finally one day she said, laughing in a sad way, "How can you tell me I'm beautiful? I'm big and dark as soot..."
The deer smiled at her, and shook his head. "You ARE beautiful - you must not see what I see. Where you see only coal and soot, Dragon, I see diamond."
"That can't be right." She said, eyes wide. "Diamond is what I make...diamonds are what I craft..."
The deer only smiled and said, "You are diamond, Dragon, and you are beautiful."
The dragon couldn't believe it.
But as the days went by, one by one, and the deer told her she was diamond...a change came. Small and slow. To the other animals of the wood, perhaps they saw it, perhaps they didn't. But the change was that the dragon came to believe the deer. She came to see herself in the way he must see her - not as the work of her claws alone, but all of her, one whole. Diamond. And she laughed, and she smiled, and she made her beautiful creations, and for the first time in her life, she felt beautiful herself. Because he saw her so.
And she was happy.
The end~
...actually...to be continued. Because this story's not over yet. The deer and the dragons' paths are separating for a season...so I don't know what will be, when two years have passed.
But I'll always be grateful.
I love you, Khoa. :3
Art (c) me
i love dragons
Finally got around to reading this! Very cute!!!!
I cried. That was truly a beautiful story. It's so inspirational, and it comes from deep within your heart, from your own life. It really touched me. This has to be one of your best pieces of art in one way or another, Rooke.
Are they based off rookenite and khoasbuck?
Awesome that was such an awesome story.
What a great story, and that drawing really fits to it.
...two years?
SO you have the mission thing for a year..what does Khona have going on?
Khoa, you mean? He's just got the same old same old, working on his college degree, taking classes, etc.
Ahhh. Well as a former long distance best advice is if you both want it to work it will work but if it doesn't friendship can last alot longer then love sometimes.
Very adorable You've got a talent for writing, that's for sure.
Oh my gosh this has to be one of the sweetest things you've ever made!! <333
I saw the picture and figured I knew what this was about. <3
I'm so happy for you Rooke! :3
random note their horns are discords horns
I suppose they are.
and you are beautiful dear sister
in ways most don't see
and in ways our language is too poor and too primitive to properly depict
I wish you every happiness
For the record, you ARE beautiful.
this was touching :')
You know, this story was beautiful, but I really think it'd be even better with narration! Morgan Freeman would be the best in my mind, but I think it'd do good with any deep voice! What do you think?
this is a beautiful and touching story and a really sweet drawing!!
Does this have anything to do with the green fluff man? :3
That is an amazing Fairy Tale, it's something i think everyone feels at some point at least, and something that needs to change, as occurs in the story. any way, Well Crafted Rooke, Well Crafted


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ABSTRACT: In vivo electroporation works as an effective method to transfer exogenous genes into postnatal rodent forebrain. Nevertheless, two deficiencies were found in the reported methods. First, surgical operation brings unnecessary trauma to newborn pups. Second, the procedure was complicated and the transfection efficiency was relatively low. Here we improved the previous electroporation method and make it more simple and efficient. The pulse voltage was decreased to 90 v. DNA injection into one pup's forebrain could be completed within 30 s without any surgical operation. More than 94% of injected neonates survived. Almost 100% of the survivors expressed the introduced gene and the expression persists as long as 20 days after injection. Thus, this method offers a powerful new way for gene function study in postnatal neurogenesis and neural development.
Article: Role of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in the Elevated Uptake and Retention of Cadmium and Zinc in Daphnia magna[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nano-TiO(2)) are now widely applied in consumer products, and the dispersion of nano-TiO(2) may adsorb metals and modify their behavior and bioavailability in the aquatic environment. In the present study, the aqueous uptake, dietary assimilation efficiency (AE), and efflux rate constant (k(e)) of two toxic metals (cadmium-Cd, and zinc-Zn) adsorbed on nano-TiO(2) in a freshwater zooplankton Daphnia magna were quantified. The biokinetics was then compared to daphnids that were exposed only to dissolved metals as controls. The aqueous uptake of Cd and Zn involved an initial rapid uptake and then an apparent saturation, and the uptake of metals was accompanied by an ingestion of nano-TiO(2). The AEs of Cd and Zn adsorbed on nano-TiO(2) were 24.6 ± 2.4-44.5 ± 3.7% and 30.4 ± 3.4-51.8 ± 5.0%, respectively, and decreased with increasing concentrations of nano-TiO(2). Furthermore, the difference between the AEs of Cd and Zn indicated that the desorption of Cd and Zn from nano-TiO(2) may have occurred within the gut of daphnids. With the use of algae as carrier, the AEs of Cd and Zn adsorbed on nano-TiO(2) were significantly higher than those of Cd and Zn directly from nano-TiO(2). The efflux rate constants of Cd and Zn adsorbed on nano-TiO(2) in the zooplankton were significantly lower than those of Cd and Zn not adsorbed on nano-TiO(2). Our study shows that the uptake and retention of toxic metals is enhanced when they are adsorbed on nano-TiO(2), and suggests more attention be paid to the potential influences of nano-TiO(2) on the bioavailability and toxicity of other contaminants.
Article: Aqueous and dietary copper uptake and elimination in Daphnia magna determined by the 67CU radiotracer[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Among the many toxic metals, the biokinetics of copper (Cu) in the freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna have not been studied due to the lack of an ideal radiotracer. In the present study, a gamma radiotracer, ⁶⁷Cu (half-life = 61.9 h), was used to study the uptake of copper from the dissolved and dietary phase and efflux in D. magna, an important toxicity testing species. The influx rate of Cu from the dissolved phase increased with dissolved Cu concentration, with a calculated uptake rate constant of 0.055 L/g/h. The assimilation efficiency (AE) of Cu decreased significantly (from 92 to 16%) as the available food concentration increased, and the AE differed among the food types. As low as 1% of Cu AE was found in daphnids fed high concentrations (1.54 mg/L) of the green algae Chlorella pyrenoidosa. The AE decreased linearly as the ingestion rate of the daphnids increased. The efflux rate constant was 0.20/d at high food concentrations. Excretion accounted for 82 to 94% of total Cu loss from the animals, although Cu also was transferred maternally from female adults to their offspring. Under conditions of high food concentrations, approximately 6.5% of the mother's Cu was transferred to the offspring over 7 d. It was concluded that Cu accumulation is dominated by uptake from dietary sources, and there is a substantial need to understand the dietary toxicity of Cu to daphnids. The present study has implications for the choice of food particles in conducting the Cu toxicity testing in cladocerans.
Article: DIXDC1 Promotes Retinoic Acid-Induced Neuronal Differentiation and Inhibits Gliogenesis in P19 Cells[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Human DIXDC1 is a member of Dishevelled-Axin (DIX) domain containing gene family which plays important roles in Wnt signaling and neural development. In this report, we first confirmed that expression of Ccd1, a mouse homologous gene of DIXDC1, was up-regulated in embryonic developing nervous system. Further studies showed that Ccd1 was expressed specifically in neurons and colocalized with early neuronal marker Tuj1. During the aggregation induced by RA and neuronal differentiation of embryonic carcinoma P19 cells, expressions of Ccd1 as well as Wnt-1 and N-cadherin were dramatically increased. Stable overexpression of DIXDC1 in P19 cells promoted the neuronal differentiation. P19 cells overexpressing DIXDC1 but not the control P19 cells could differentiate into Tuj1 positive cells with RA induction for only 2 days. Meanwhile, we also found that overexpression of DIXDC1 facilitated the expression of Wnt1 and bHLHs during aggregation and differentiation, respectively, while inhibited gliogenesis by down-regulating the expression of GFAP in P19 cells. Thus, our finding suggested that DIXDC1 might play an important role during neurogenesis, overexpression of DIXDC1 in embryonic carcinoma P19 cells promoted neuronal differentiation, and inhibited gliogenesis induced by retinoic acid.
Article: Metal accumulation and biomarker responses in Daphnia magna following cadmium and zinc exposure[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Metal accumulation (quantified as body burden) and the responses of two biomarkers (metallothionein [MT] induction and superoxide dismutase [SOD] activity) in a freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna were quantified after being exposed to different concentrations of Cd and Zn for 3 d. The Cd and Zn body burdens increased with increasing exposure concentrations. The responses of biomarkers were metal-specific and concentration-dependent. As a detoxification mechanism, MT was induced by exposure to Cd or Zn or Cd + Zn and was dependent on the exposure concentrations. Low concentrations of Cd or Zn exposure increased the SOD activity, which was, however, inhibited at higher metal exposure concentrations. Metallothionein concentrations in daphnids were significantly related to the metal body burden. The SOD activity was inversely related to Cd body burden, while it was independent of the Zn body burden. Survivorship of D. magna was high at lower Cd/MT ratios in the animals but then decreased linearly when the ratio exceeded six. In contrast, the relationship between survivorship and Zn/MT ratio was different due to the essentiality of Zn. Overall, MT induction was a useful indicator of metal pollution in cladocerans.
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ABSTRACT: By using of Escherichia coli DH5alpha to express GST-Ccd1 fusion protein and which was purified by affinity chromatographic separation. The purified target protein was used to immunize rabbits to prepare polyclonal antibody. The previously constructed recombinant prokaryotic expression vector pGEX-5X-1-Ccd1 was transformed into Escherichia coli DH5alpha and was induced to expression by IPTG. The recombinant target protein was expressed with soluble state in Escherichia coli expression system which was separated and purified by chromatographic column stuffed with glutathione Sepharose 4B. The prepared antigen was used to immunize rabbits to get anti-Ccd1 specific rabbit original polyclonal antibody. ELISA data demonstrated that the antibody titer of the serum was up to 1:40 000. Immunohistochemistry analysis indicated that the "home-made" antibody had a specific interaction with Ccd1 protein and which could be used for extended experimental research. The anti-Ccd1 polyclonal antibody we had prepared had a high quality of potency and specificity. The antibody was demonstrated by experiments that which could totally fulfill the requirement of immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry study of Ccd1. The antibody provided an useful experimental tool to profoundly research the tissue expression profile, intercellular location and biological function of Ccd1.
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ABSTRACT: To identify the genes differentially expressed in development of human glioma, and to study the expression of some genes in different grade gliomas. Oligonucleotide microarray (including 218 genes related to neural system development) was adopted and hybridized with probes which were prepared from the total RNAs of glioma specimens and normal brain tissues. Differentially expressed genes between the normal tissues and glioma tissues were assayed after scanning oligonuceltide microarray with ScanArray 4000, and some of these genes such as smad1, Hmp19 and TRIP3 were verified by real-time quantitative PCR(real-time-Q-PCR) method. In comparison with the genes in the normal brain tissue, 5 down-regulated and 5 up-regulated genes in glioma specimens were revealed by means of microarrays, and the expression of smad1, Hmp19 and TRIP3 were verified by real-time-Q-PCR assay. Multiple genes play important roles in development of glioma. cDNA microarray technology is a powerful technique in screening for differentially expressed genes between glioma tissues and normal brain tissues. This study is helpful for judgement of invasion and prognosis of gliomas, and provides more target genes for targeted therapy.
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ABSTRACT: Intermittent hypoxia has been found to prevent brain injury and to have a protective role in the CNS. To address the possible causes of this phenomenon, we made investigative effort to find out whether intermittent hypoxia affects neurogenesis in the adult rat brain by examining the newly divided cells in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and dentate gyrus (DG). The adult rats were treated with 3000 and 5000 m high altitude 4 h per day for 2 weeks consecutively. 5-Bromo-2-deoxyuridine-5-monophosphate (BrdU) immunocytochemistry demonstrated that the BrdU-labeled cells in the SVZ and DG increased after 3000 and 5000 m intermittent hypoxia. The number of BrdU-labeled cells in the SVZ returned to normal level 4 weeks following intermittent hypoxia. However, the BrdU-labeled cells in the DG had a twofold increase 4 weeks subsequent to intermittent hypoxia. From these data, we conclude that intermittent hypoxia facilitates the proliferation of neural stem cells in situ, and that the newly divided cells in the SVZ and DG react differently to hypoxia. We are convinced by these findings that the proliferation of neural stem cells in SVZ and DG may contribute to adaptive changes following intermittent hypoxia.
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ABSTRACT: To investigate the effect of hyperthermia on apoptosis of cultivated striatum neurons in the rat. After 30 min hyperthermia in 43 degrees, the Ca2+ concentration, the mitochondria membrane potential of the neuron were detected by Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy (LSCM). The apoptosis of striatum neurons was detected by TUNEL staining. Heat stress at 43 degrees C for 40 min caused an increase in the Ca2+ concentration of striatum neurons and a decrease in the mitochondria membrane potential of the striatum neurons. The striatum shows more apoptosis neurons after heat stress.
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After building the box for MegaMax I decided to try a big print. The blue 3 face cup is 130mm tall and took a little over 15 hours to print. No delamination! It's a miracle the extruder kept working!
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Electric Ice Scooter
When I recently was at the thrift store and saw a pair of ice skates next to a kick-scooter, it got my mind going. "What would a scooter look like with skates in place of wheels!?"
The next time I was at the Makerspace, I saw my old electric scooter over on the Hack Rack. This was a scooter I originally rescued from a dumpster. Although it didn't have batteries, just adding power and a little tinkering got it up and running again. A few of the EV Club and PowerWheels Racing guys played around with the scooter a bit, but eventually the controller got toasted, and who knows what happened to the front wheel.
Oh well, I'd be replacing that front wheel with an ice skate anyways.
Turns out that the heel of an ice skate is actually sturdy enough to drill right through and use as a mounting point. I simply drilled through the skate, inserted a spacer, and then ran a 3/8″ bolt through the skate and the front fork of the scooter. I finished it off with a couple of washers and a nut.
Then next thing to fix was to get the motor going again. Turns out that it's a brushless motor. While I have a fair amount of experience now with BRUSHED motors, this was my first experience with brushless. I did a little research, and then ordered a 24V, 250 watt generic brushless controller from a mail-order scooter parts company. Unfortunately, it used a different style of throttle than what was already on the scooter, so I had to order a throttle to match.
Connecting the controller was pretty easy, three wires to the motor and the black and red one to power. I first bench-tested it with an old printer power supply, and once everything was working right, bit the bullet and bought a brand new pair of 12ah SLA batteries. The two batteries are wired in series, along with a 20 amp fuse, and then go to the controller.
I still needed a deck for the scooter. I dug through some scrap materials and found a pair of cabinet doors that were about the right size. I cut them down just a bit and bolted them to the scooter. I even re-mounted a cabinet door handle to have as an attachment point for towing a sled.
With that, I was ready to go for a test ride, so it was off to the lake. Once I was on the ice, I turned on the scooter and gave it a go! What fun! It really zipped along, but it was almost impossible to steer, as the back tire would slip right out from under me! Time for more traction!
I decided to make a spiked tire. I removed the rear wheel, then disassembled the two-part rim and removed the tire and inner tube. I stuck 1/2″ self-tapping, pan-head, sheet-metal screws through the tire from the inside, so that their points stuck out. I evenly spaced out 24 screws and alternated them to be slightly off-center side to side. Next, I put some old scrap bicycle inner tube over them as a liner to protect the scooter tire inner-tube. After that, it was just a matter of reassembling everything.
Now for test #2 out on the ice. Remembering how much it hurt to fall on the ice, I was prepared this time by wearing my motorcycle jacket (which has padding built-in) and my helmet. Good thing too, as I would learn while steering with one hand and holding a GoPro camera in the other…. (Note to self, keep both hands on handlebars at all times.)
Overall, the Ice Scooter works great! I still have a few little things to do on it. For example, the motor is running "sensor less", and I'd like to learn about how brushless motors use the sensor system. I'd also like to get a small 24V dedicated charger. As it is right now, I have to remove the deck and manually charge with a little 12V charger.
From thrift store idea, to hack rack, to life on the ice, it's always fun to see what you can do with just a little ingenuity. I hope you like this project. If you want to see more on it, please check out the write-up I did on Instructables. It's even in a few contests there, and I'd love your vote!
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Our 4′ X 8′ CNC Router takes a step forward!
Laser Cutter Venting System, Version 5.0
Sometimes solving one problem creates a few new ones! As part of the Laser Cutter Room Reconfiguration, the exhaust system got an upgrade. A new, bigger, more powerful fan meant we needed a new way to control it. The previous system (Version 4.0) was a simple on/off switch. That just wasn't going to cut it for this industrial grade blower. Tom G., Tony W., myself and others spent the holidays installing this new two-horsepower beast above the ceiling in the Craft Lab. Once it was hung from the roof joists with care, Tom got to work ducting it over to the Laser Cutter Room. Finally, when all the heavy lifting had been done and the motor drive had been wired up, all we needed was an enclosure for the switch.
The request went out on the message board. Pete P., Shane T., and I all expressed interest, but life got in the way and it soon became a matter of whomever got to it first would be the one to make it. I ended up devoting the better part of last weekend to this project (much more time than I anticipated) but I can honestly say I'm pretty happy with the result.
The goal was fairly straight-forward: make an enclosure for the switch Tom had already provided. It was a color-coded, 4-button, mechanical switch that had been wired to provide four settings: OFF, LOW, MEDIUM, and HIGH. The more laser cutters in use, the more air you'd need and the higher the setting you should choose. There's four duct connections available for the three laser cutters we currently have.
There's a saying: "Better is the enemy of done." Truer words have never been spoken in a makerspace.
At first I wanted to build the enclosure out of acrylic. Then I remembered this awesome plastic bending technique that Tony W. and some others told me about. I found a video on the Tested website and got inspired. (If you don't know about Tested, please go check it out. You'll thank me later.) Unfortunately, my bends kept breaking and melting through, so after a few hours of tinkering I moved on.
Thankfully, we have a small cache of plastic and metal project enclosures on our our Hack Rack. I managed to find a clear plastic, vandal-proof thermostat guard. It looked workable.
I tried laser cutting it, but the moment I saw the plastic yellow and smoke, I knew there was probably some nasty, toxic stuff in it, so I moved to the CNC router. About an hour later I had my holes cut.
Then came the wiring. Up until this point I had been focused on the control box itself. Now I wanted to add a light!
No, two lights! Yeah!
One light to tell you when everything was off, and another that lit whenever the fan was in use. People could look at the lights from outside the room and instantly know if the fan had been left on. (It should be noted that the new fan, despite being twice as powerful than our last, is actually much quieter. Tom added a homemade muffler to the inlet of the blower and shrouded the whole contraption in 3″ fiberglass batt insulation. The best way to know if the fan is running is to open a slide gate damper and hear air being sucked in.)
OK, I totally got this.
Draw myself a ladder diagram and get out the wire connectors… Remember that I need to isolate the signals from each other so any button doesn't call for 100% fan… A few more relays… Some testing… and done!
Wait a second… the motor drive doesn't have a ground for the control signal.
Guess I can't power it from the drive. I'll just tie into the drive's ground. Nope, that didn't work.
I'll read the motor drive manual. OK, it has a set of "run status" contacts I can monitor.
….and they're putting out a steady 0.4 volts DC. That's enough to light up a single LED! …except, no. It's not lighting. Doesn't seem to be any real current.
I'll just use a transistor! That's the whole point of a transistor!
….well nothing I tried worked.
I'll build a voltage multiplier circuit!
….and this isn't working either.
On Day 3 of this "little project" Ron B. made a comment about using a pressure switch of some kind.
We have a Hack Rack full of junk and I know there's this old bunch of gas furnace parts. It couldn't be that easy…
Yeah. So, three days (and a few frustrating epiphanies) later, this all came together. Press the beige button, get some air. Press the other buttons, get some more air. Any time there's suction, the red light comes on. The indicator light is powered by its own 24 volt DC wall pack. The pressure switch has both normally open (N.O.) and normally closed (N.C.) contacts so it would be totally feasible to add another light at some point. The controller could display "OFF" or "SAFE" or whatever as well as "ON" or "FAN IN USE" or whatever. The text is just a red piece of paper with words printed on it, then holes laser-cut out to fit. We can trade it out with different words or graphics if we ever feel the need. I was just glad to have it done, so I called it. Better is the enemy of done, indeed.
You can learn more about the evolution of our laser cutter venting system on our wiki!
Home Theater with Insane Subwoofer
After the mediocre commercial successes of some of my previous audio products, I decided to pursue a project that has absolutely no commercial potential. Although my Automated Gmail Assistant had a 0.1% view to purchase rate, they definitely delighted their new owners! On the other hand, my novel audio surround sound processor, audio-visual processor and audiophile headphones did not produce any revenue, despite being manufactured in an exclusive edition of one each. Not to be discouraged, the goal of this project was to expand on the core idea behind the aforementioned audiophile headphones, but to overcome the main two drawbacks of using headphones: 1) Many people find that headphones are too uncomfortable and impractical for long term listening. And 2) most headphones lack the concert-like visceral bass impact, which is that feeling of the kick drum shaking your chest that only rock and roll shows could provide.
Simply put, the Humorously Maniacal Milwaukee Makerspace Multimedia Machine (HMMMMMM) is a personal sized movie theater, with 5.16 surround sound. That's right, this theater is like a conventional 5.1 home theater, but with 15 extra subwoofers to delight the senses. While the bass in a live concert can be felt in your chest, the bass in the HMMMMMM can be felt in your soul(!). In addition altering listener's consciousness, the HMMMMMM will soon be used to screen our yet-to-be-filmed Milwaukee Makerspace orientation video as an integral part of our onboarding process for all new members. The HMMMMMM measures about 7 feet long and about 4 feet wide. An eager movie-goer can simply climb up the integral stairs (shown on the left) and jump in through the 27" diameter escape hatch in the top of the HMMMMMM. Despite its crazy appearance, the HMMMMMM offers a surprisingly comfortable reclining position, much like that of a lazy-boy. Check out this photo of the HMMMMMM under construction for a better idea of the ergonomic internal layout: There is a pillow for one's head, and ones feet extend to the right. The 27" display is mounted to the angled portion on the top surface, about 24" from the viewer. Eventually, two 24″ monitors will expand the visual experience into the periphery.
The audio portion of the HMMMMMM is a 5.16 system. The high frequencies are played by 5 uninteresting Swan/HiVi speakers that are arranged in a properly boring 5 channel surround configuration. The more exciting portion of the audio system is the subwoofer – well, the 16 (Sixteen) 10″ high efficiency subwoofers that provide that TrueBass™ sensation the masses crave. Its clear from the use of 16 subwoofers that one object of the HMMMMMM was to create an audio system that plays low bass. Playback of really low bass typically requires an extremely large speaker box, and still notes as low as 20 Hz are rarely audible. However, inside any speaker box the bass response is naturally flat to much lower (subsonic) pitches. For more on the sound pressure level inside and outside speaker boxes, check out this link. The graph below is a measurement of the SPL or sound pressure level (how loud it is) versus frequency (pitch) at the listener's ears in the HMMMMMM.
The graph shows that with a sine wave input, the SPL inside the HMMMMMM is 148.6dB at 40 Hz. That means the acoustic pressure on the 27" diameter escape hatch is 45 pounds. Excellent. Note that earplugs in addition to earmuff style hearing protectors are mandatory to safely experience the TrueBass™. To understand this strict hearing protection requirement, lets compare the sound pressure level inside the HMMMMMM to other audio systems that may be more familiar. Note that the loudness of these other audio systems are not visible in the graph above, because essentially all other audio systems (including yours) are inferior. Adjusting the margins of the graph a bit produces the following graph:
The plot shows how loud typical audio systems are, and how low they play. For example, cellphone speakers play only a bit below 1khz, and are ~90 dB if they're 40cm from you. When a Jambox-type bluetooth speaker is about 60cm from you, it plays ~10 dB louder, and another 1.5 octaves lower, to 200 Hz. Typical bookshelf speakers can get another 5 dB louder if you're 1.5 meters from them, but only play down another octave to 100 Hz. OEM installed car stereos are a big improvement, but they're still not in the same league as the HMMMMMM. Yes, the IASCA record holding car is louder than this, but it plays only from 50 Hz to 60 Hz, which isn't even really bass.
Note that the difference in loudness between a cellphone and a car is 20 dB, while the HMMMMMM is 30 dB louder than a high-performing car stereo. Also note that the frequency range of a piano, with its 88 keys, is about the same as a bookshelf speaker – a bit over 7 octaves. Surprisingly, the subwoofer portion of the HMMMMMM has a 6 octave bandwidth, but it plays the 6 octaves you've never heard before! The HMMMMMM plays 6 octaves below what your bookshelf speaker or Jambox calls bass. The HMMMMMM has a +/- 6 dB passband extending down to 2 Hz, with the output at 1 Hz being nearly still above the 120 dB "threshold of pain."
Disclaimers: For safety, the big 2000 Watt amplifier that drives the HMMMMMM to its full potential is not available when the author is not present. Ironically, the author has taught 75-100 people, the eager early HMMMMMM listeners, how to properly insert earplugs, meaning that the HMMMMMM is actually a learning tool for hearing safety! Finally, the author has some hesitancy in having the HMMMMMM reproduce recordings with 5 Hz content at 140 dB, because typical hearing protection has little effect at these unnaturally low frequencies.
PS: Please don't hesitate to contact me if you'd like to help with the video scripting, filming or editing.
MegaMax 3D printer lives!
After a year's work designing, building, scrapping, redesigning, building, and working through software and firmware issues, the MegaMax 3D printer is now functional. It has some common 3D printing issues like printed objects peeling up off the glass printbed. Tweaked settings in Slic3r, ABS "juice", and Aquanet hairspray have all been tested with moderate success in attempts to improve adhesion to the printbed. Finally, have_blue gave me a block of foam out of the Stratasys printer to try out and it seems to work better than the other methods and doesn't require heating the bed! Further experiments to be conducted post-haste.
More info on this project can be found here: http://wiki.milwaukeemakerspace.org/projects/megamax_3d_printer
Moving On Up!
Milwaukee Makerspace is moving! Our new home will be 2555 South Lenox Street in Bay View! Over the next few weeks we'll be packing up our soldering irons and bench grinders, loading them into our Power Wheels (OK, not really) and hauling them 1.5 miles over to a newly renovated, 16,000 square foot building. We expect to be moved in by Jan. 1, 2013. We're very excited and we'll be sharing more news as it develops. Contact us at info {at} milwaukeemakerspace.org with any questions or comments!
Today, I stopped in at the Makerspace with the plan to work on a small project for a Halloween party this Saturday.
The plan was to take a "Roomba" robot vacuum cleaner that I got for $1.00 at a rummage sale, and covert it into the robot base for a giant spider or some other scary creature that could wander around at a Halloween party.
I started pulling screws out of the bottom to figure out how to remove the brushes and vacuum blower. It took some tinkering to figure out what I could and couldn't remove and not cause a fault. In the end, it didn't look like I could remove the blower motor and still have the thing run, so I simply removed the fan blades from the blower.
By that time, I was now thinking about video cameras and how easy it would be to run a 1/4-20 bolt right through the plastic. A bolt and two nuts quickly made a camera mount.
In the other room were some ping-pong balls, and I had a black sharpie. A little hot glue and Roomba-cam has some personality.
Look for Roomba-cam running around the Milwaukee Makerspace and please treat Roomba-cam nice – he is watching you and WILL upload to YouTube!
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MegaMax Lives!
The video shows the last few layers of the calibration cube "printing" at 414% speed (according to my LCD display).
The Bucketworks 3D printing meet-up on 8/12 paid off big-time! Gary Kramlich helped me debug a problem that was preventing me from flashing the firmware on the controller board for the MegaMax 3D printer. After a few tweaks I was able to get it moving.
Fisker Karma at the space
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Jerry Malek drove his son's Fisker Karma to the space yesterday. It is a sweet ride! Here are a few photos to give you a taste of how the other half lives… Yes, I asked, but for some reason he wouldn't let anyone take it apart to see how it works or see if we […]


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Each Saturday and Sunday from Oct. 13 to 28, the Western Railway Museum will run special pumpkin trains. Celebrating its 15th year, this old-time harvest festival is a highlight of autumn and for many, a family tradition.
The museum opens at 9:30 a.m. and the first express train leaves the museum at 10 a.m., with departures every half-hour until 4 p.m. The ride on a historic life-sized electrical-powered train takes visitors back in time on a scenic 5-mile trip to Gum Grove Station, a wooded glen far from the trappings of modern life.
Local Rotary Club members from Fairfield-Suisun, Cordelia and Dixon are rallying together to make the event a success, providing a hay bale fort, food, tractor rides, music, games and of course, pumpkins for sale, just in time for Halloween.
Admission to the museum during the Pumpkin Festival is $12 for adults, $11 for seniors (65 and up), and $9 for children (ages 2 -14). Prices include admission to the museum and to the Pumpkin Festival, unlimited train rides, use of the museum's spacious and shaded picnic grounds and free parking. Please note that there are no advanced reservations.
All proceeds benefit the Western Railway Museum (a nonprofit educational institution) and the local Rotary clubs who provide thousands of dollars to local communities and youth activities each year.
The Western Railway Museum is located at 5848 State Highway 12, Suisun City.
For more information visit wrm.org or call 707-374-2978.


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Herpetology Blog
Curator Emeritus Bill Duellman's book on the history of herpetology at the University of Kansas is now available. From the back cover "The University of Kansas has long been recognized as having one of the world's leading centers for research and education in herpetology. This book chronicles the people - faculty and student alike - who have contributed to maintaining and expanding KU's herpetology program and details their lives, education, research, and fieldwork. The book also describes how a true institutional program, one that transcends individuals, was created and sustained over such a long period through innovative planning and social development. The KU herpetological collections comprise one of the largest and most comprehensive museums of amphibians and reptiles in existence, now numbering in excess of 332,000 alcohol-preserved specimens, together with ancillary collections of osteological preparations, color images, frozen tissues, audio recordings, and the associated scientific literature. This book provides an insider's in depth review of the many successes as well as plans that went awry or even courted disaster. Altogether this book represents a substantial and critical chapter in the history of the discipline of herpetology."
Curator Emeritus Bill Duellman saw two books published in the Summer of 2015: Herpetology at Kansas: A Centennial History (published by SSAR) and Marsupial Frogs: Gastrotheca & Allied Genera (published by Johns Hopkins Press). Here, from it's back cover, is a bit more detail on the marsupial frogs book that is now available via Johns Hopkins Press: "This scientific masterpiece reveals many aspects of the lives of marsupial frogs and closely allied genera. Native to central and south America, these amphibians differ from other frogs in that they protect their eggs after oviposition by either adhering them to the female's back or placing them in a specialized dorsal pouch (thus the common name, marsupial frog). During mating, the male typically collects the eggs from the female with his feet - often one at a time and always out of water - fertilizes them, and then tucks them into the female's pouch or attaches them to her back. In some species these eggs hatch as tadpoles, but most emerge as minatures of the adults. Even among the tadpoles there is remarkable convergence, with some behaving in the typical manner (feeding and metamorphosing) and others not feeding until they metamorphose. In Marsupial Frogs, William E. Duellman's synthesis of all that is known about the unique family Hemiphractidae is largely based on decades of his own careful laboratory and field study. He reveals the diversity of the frog's exotic color patterns and geographic distribution. More than 200 photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany the detailed text. This exceptional reference should find its way into the libraries of serious herpetologists, tropical biologists, and developmental biologists."
Congratulations to Scott, who passed his orals yesterday! In this picture he celebrates with Herpetology Division members at the Bird Dog Cafe. Next week, Scott departs for a month of field work in the Solomon Islands. What a life. The rest of us will stay put, to take care of the many preparations leading up to the SSAR meetings at KU in late July. Wait a minute....I see what's happening here!
Second year KU Herpetology student Carl Hutter has just been awarded a Rosemary Grant Graduate Student Research Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution. This $2500 award will help further Carl's work on the systematics of Madagascan frogs. Congratulations to Carl!
Several members of the KU herpetology division joined the Kansas Herpetological Society recently for their biannual herp survey which took place near Russell, Kansas from April 24th to the 26th. Russell is in the heart of post rock country. This term comes from the presence of many old limestone fence posts built by the early settlers to this prairie. With few trees, the abundence of limestone just beneath the surface provided an excellent resource for building barbed wire fences. Much of this same rock, having been exposed, cracked and weathered, provides excellent hiding spots for an array of snakes, lizards, and frogs not found in Lawrence, KS.
Rafe Brown and Jackson Leibach search beneath exposed rock along a hillside
Just one of the many neat finds. This milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) from just a couple of hours drive to the West looks a bit different than the ones we are used to finding around Lawrence.
KU Herpetology received this photo recently of a lizard found inside of a shipping container arriving from the Philippines. Can you identify this species? It's unlikely that this lizard did in fact come from the Philippines. How it got into a shippment of goods from Southeast Asia is quite a mystery.
Led by undergraduate collections assistant Matt Buehler, other undergraduate help remove beetles and their frass from a python skin. A recent inspection of the KU Herpetology dry specimen holdings indicated that several specimens were infested with descructive dermestid beetles. The specimens in danger are being frozen to kill all the beetles and cleaned by hand.
The KU Herpetology Division was in attendance at last night's Sexy Science event held at the Natural History Museum. The event, which was very well attended, invited attendees to explore the suggestive side of natural history and hosted representatives from Herpetology as well as Entomology and Ornithology. Matt Buehler, Andressa Bezerra, Manuella Folly, Jackson Leibach and myself were there with a display of reptile and amphibian specimens which typify some of the fascinating reproductive biology in these organisms. For example did you know that some species of lizards are able to clone themselves? That's right. And you might be surprised that they can be found here in our own backyard. The New Mexico whiptail of the American Southwest is one well studied example. The entire species is composed of females which reproduce by cloning themselves. What makes them even more interesting is that the entire species is the result of a hybridization between two closely related species, the little striped whiptail and the western whiptail. This cloning phenomenon may actually occur more frequently that we thought. Species that typically reproduce through sex such as the copperheads, which are quite common around Lawrence, Kansas, have shown they have the ability to clone themselves as well. Why they do so is still a mystery. A mystery that if solved may tell us something about the evolution of sex in animals.
Matt Buehler talking to some visitors about reproduction in frogs.
Jackson Leibach pointing out the hemipenes of a reticulated python
News has been circulating recently of work conducted by Dr. Rafe Brown along with other members of the Herpetology Division, which was focused on Philippine wildlife trafficking in Manila's black markets. The story even shared the top of KU's facebook page with news of president Barack Obama's visit to the campus last week. Follow the link to read all about Brown's unexpected findings during a 5 year investigation into Manila's illicit wildlife trade http://bit.ly/15552Sa


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H.R.1409 - Employee Free Choice Act of 2009
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.
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To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California (for himself, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. DOYLE, Mr. KILDEE, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. WALZ, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. FILNER, Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. SUTTON, Mr. MARKEY of Massachusetts, Mr. HARE, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. TIERNEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. HOLT, Mrs. MALONEY, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. CAPUANO, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. ELLISON, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. SCHIFF, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. OLVER, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. ACKERMAN, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. WILSON of Ohio, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. WELCH, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. HINOJOSA, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. COSTELLO, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. FARR, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. PETERS, Mr. ANDREWS, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mr. CARNAHAN, Mr. WU, Mrs. DAVIS of California, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. SERRANO, Mrs. HALVORSON, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. MOORE of Kansas, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. WEINER, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. KIND, Mr. PETERSON, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. MAFFEI, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. MCMAHON, Mr. SCHRADER, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. LOEBSACK, Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey, Mr. GRAYSON, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. BEAN, Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. WAXMAN, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. ADLER of New Jersey, Mr. MEEK of Florida, Ms. KILROY, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. MASSA, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. ORTIZ, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. VELAZQUEZ, Mr. RUSH, Mr. HODES, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. BOSWELL, Mr. MOLLOHAN, Mr. MICHAUD, Mr. KISSELL, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. MELANCON, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. DELAHUNT, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. BOCCIERI, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. DRIEHAUS, Mr. HONDA, Mr. CLAY, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. TONKO, Ms. WATERS, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. VISCLOSKY, Mr. MILLER of North Carolina, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. SPACE, Mr. LUJAN, Mr. CROWLEY, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. STARK, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. BACA, Mr. PASTOR of Arizona, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. HOYER, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. WATSON, Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. SIRES, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. NORTON, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. BAIRD, Ms. KOSMAS, Mr. DICKS, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. TEAGUE, Mr. MURTHA, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. LOBIONDO, Mr. REYES, Mr. HIMES, Mr. OBEY, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. KANJORSKI, Mr. HOLDEN, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. ARCURI, Mrs. DAHLKEMPER, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. ALTMIRE, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. RODRIGUEZ, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. KAGEN, Ms. MARKEY of Colorado, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. PIERLUISI, Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. DONNELLY of Indiana, Mr. WATT, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. SESTAK, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. POLIS of Colorado, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. COSTA, and Ms. TITUS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and LaborCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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'(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, whenever a petition shall have been filed by an employee or group of employees or any individual or labor organization acting in their behalf alleging that a majority of employees in a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining wish to be represented by an individual or labor organization for such purposes, the Board shall investigate the petition. If the Board finds that a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in the petition as their bargaining representative and that no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit, the Board shall not direct an election but shall certify the individual or labor organization as the representative described in subsection (a).CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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the preliminary investigation of such charge shall be made forthwith and given priority over all other cases except cases of like character in the office where it is filed or to which it is referred.'.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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'(b) Any employer who willfully or repeatedly commits any unfair labor practice within the meaning of subsections (a)(1) or (a)(3) of section 8 while employees of the employer are seeking representation by a labor organization or during the period after a labor organization has been recognized as a representative defined in subsection (a) of section 9 until the first collective bargaining contract is entered into between the employer and the representative shall, in addition to any make-whole remedy ordered, be subject to a civil penalty of not to exceed $20,000 for each violation. In determining the amount of any penalty under this section, the Board shall consider the gravity of the unfair labor practice and the impact of the unfair labor practice on the charging party, on other persons seeking to exercise rights guaranteed by this Act, or on the public interest.'.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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All-Fill Inc: Auger filling machine
The Advantage Line Model DHAA-400 automatic auger filling machine from All-Fill (Exton, PA) consists of dual All-Fill filling heads, an independent motorized chain conveyor mounted on a frame base, and all accessories.
Microprocessor-based control system provides selection and adjustment of fill amounts and machine functioning.
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1 Kings 1:7-10New International Version (NIV)
7 Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they gave him their support. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei and Rei and David's special guard did not join Adonijah.
9 Adonijah then sacrificed sheep, cattle and fattened calves at the Stone of Zoheleth near En Rogel. He invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, 10 but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the special guard or his brother Solomon.
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