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Monoclonal Antibodies to the Myogenic Regulatory Protein MyoD1: Epitope Mapping and Diagnostic Utility
Peter Dias, David M. Parham, David N. Shapiro, Stephen J. Tapscott, Peter J. Houghton
Monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) were developed against recombinant wild-type murine MyoD1 protein. Each of 4 MoAbs was immunologically reactive with recombinant MyoD1 protein by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and each specifically stained the nuclei of myogenic cells. Epitopes were mapped using fusion protein constructs with specific deletions of defined regions of the MyoD1 molecule. MoAb 5.2F recognized an epitope in the amino terminal region between amino acid residues (AAR) 3 and 56, whereas epitopes for MoAbs 1.1 A, 5.4G, and 5.8A were in the carboxyl terminus (AAR 167-318) of the MyoD1 protein. The epitope for MoAb 5.8A was further delineated to AAR 170-209 by Western analysis and immunoprecipitation of in vitro transcribed and translated MyoD1 protein having specific deletions in the carboxyl terminus. The 5.8A epitope was ultimately localized to the region between AAR 180 and 189 of the protein by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using 10-amino acid residue synthetic peptides. This sequence is apparently unique to MyoD1 and has little homology to other myogenic regulatory proteins (myogenin, Myf5, Myf6, and MRF4). Transfection of cDNA for murine MyoD1 into a nonmuscle cell line conferred 5.8A reactivity, confirming the specificity of this reagent. MoAb 5.8A was then used to examine the expression of MyoD1 in normal and malignant human tissues. MyoD1 was not detected in any normal adult tissue but was detected in 25 of 25 histologically confirmed rhabdomyosarcomas. Staining was localized to the nucleus and showed marked heterogeneity between cells as well as differential staining within nuclei. Specific subcellular localization of 5.8A was further determined by immunoelectron microscopy, where antibody was found to localize to electron-dense areas, more frequently associated with the nuclear submembranous region. In addition to rhabdomyosarcomas, MoAb 5.8A stained 2 of 5 Wilms' tumors and one ectomesenchymoma, neoplasms known to contain myogenic elements. The 5.8A reagent was also of value in the accurate histopathological classification of 2 of 4 tumors previously diagnosed as extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma and 2 of 3 tumors diagnosed as undifferentiated sarcomas.
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Dias, P., Parham, D. M., Shapiro, D. N., Tapscott, S. J., & Houghton, P. J. (1992). Monoclonal Antibodies to the Myogenic Regulatory Protein MyoD1: Epitope Mapping and Diagnostic Utility. Cancer Research, 52(23), 6431-6439.
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In: Cancer Research, Vol. 52, No. 23, 12.1992, p. 6431-6439.
Dias, P, Parham, DM, Shapiro, DN, Tapscott, SJ & Houghton, PJ 1992, 'Monoclonal Antibodies to the Myogenic Regulatory Protein MyoD1: Epitope Mapping and Diagnostic Utility', Cancer Research, vol. 52, no. 23, pp. 6431-6439.
Dias P, Parham DM, Shapiro DN, Tapscott SJ, Houghton PJ. Monoclonal Antibodies to the Myogenic Regulatory Protein MyoD1: Epitope Mapping and Diagnostic Utility. Cancer Research. 1992 Dec;52(23):6431-6439.
Dias, Peter ; Parham, David M. ; Shapiro, David N. et al. / Monoclonal Antibodies to the Myogenic Regulatory Protein MyoD1 : Epitope Mapping and Diagnostic Utility. In: Cancer Research. 1992 ; Vol. 52, No. 23. pp. 6431-6439.
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In this 17th clip of about 22 minutes, we finish chapter five. I'm finishing my fifth year in prison, publishing papers in graduate school and connecting with a woman.
May 12, 1992 is a day I've been working toward ever since guards processed me into USP Atlanta. I'm so excited. I feel as if I'm being released. In a way, I am. I'm being lifted above a life of insignificance, distinguishing myself as a college graduate. It's a credential I'll carry for the rest of my life. A sense of liberty comes with this accomplishment. Regardless of how the prison system tries to direct me, I know where I'm going. I will leverage my degree to pry open new opportunities, and on this day, at least, I'm more than just a prisoner.
I wrote and rewrote a speech for the commencement ceremony, four single-spaced pages. For the past six-weeks I've practiced my delivery at every opportunity. After hundreds of rehearsals I've committed each word, pause, sentence, and paragraph to memory. I knew this day would have significance. Now that it's here, I'm glad I took the time to prepare. When it's my turn to speak, I will stand onstage with confidence that the penitentiary will be powerless to repress.
Immediately after the guards clear the afternoon census count, I walk with a hundred other prisoners to the education building, which is attached to the chapel. The carefully scripted ceremony begins at five, precisely. Mr. Chandler and his subordinates have prepared. Seats are carefully aligned on the stage. Banners decorate the walls. Dignitaries from Mercer University will share the stage with Warden Stock and members of his executive staff. I strive to impress community leaders. Every time I can leave a favorable impression on leadership, I have an opportunity to move the needle. They may see me differently. If they see me differently, I can influence them. If I can influence them, I can improve my quality of life, my access to new opportunities.
Those new opportunities bring me closer to home. These incremental action steps are what keep me going.
But today, I mostly want to impress Julie and Sarah. I want them to see me. I want them to know that I've used my time well and that prison will never define me.
The prisoners who've earned their GEDs are in good spirits, eager to receive their certificates. I wrote them into my speech. When I'm on the stage and it's my turn to speak, I will encourage them to continue. If they earn higher credentials, more credentials, if they stay out of trouble, they will build a better life.
I will tell them my plans for the future, and I will ask them to join me. We must work together to influence leaders on the need for reform. We have a responsibility to change this system. The best way to bring change is to develop skills and credentials. We must persuade others that we can return to society successfully. We made bad decisions. But now we're making good decisions. During the speech, I'll encourage them to focus, to work hard, and to prepare. If they succeed, they'll return to live as well-educated citizens, ready to contribute.
If I do well in my speech, I'll influence the administrators from Mercer. I need them to open more educational opportunities for people in prison. With my speech, I want to inspire everyone in the auditorium, especially my sister and Sarah.
Julie is 29 now. She works as a sales executive with an international cosmetics company. We've only visited a few times since I arrived in Atlanta. Her professional responsibilities, an active social life, and the geographical distance between us make traveling to Atlanta difficult. For years she has accepted my collect phone calls, sent me money to buy food from the commissary. She and Tim, along with others, pay for my education. Julie is vested in every choice I make. I'm determined to show that her trust and support are well placed.
With Sarah, I have different motivations. I'm a man. I want a woman in my life, and at least for now, she is the one. I am glad that she will be here and I look forward to seeing her.
The music opens our graduation ceremony. We rehearsed all week, and everyone knows what to do. I walk at the head of the procession. As I am the only person in the prison to earn a degree from Mercer, I'm valedictorian. I lead scores of men who graduated with GED certificate s. Like me, they wear black gowns and caps with tassels.
In the audience I see a dozen people that I don't know. Since they're not staff, I presume they're from Mercer. Julie and Sarah sit in the front row. Dr. Colin Harris, one of my favorite professors, is on the stage with Jean Owens, Mercer's outreach program coordinator. Mr. Chandler sits beside them with the warden and several other staff members. I'm smiling, grateful for this opportunity. I walk to the front row to take my seat.
Mr. Chandler opens the ceremony with obligatory expressions of gratitude to the warden and other staff members. I exchange glances with Julie and Sarah. Then, we all bow our heads as Dr. Harris, Professor of Religion, gives the invocation. Next, Jean Owens delivers the keynote. She tells the audience about my work ethic and determination, saying how education can open a bright future for anyone. Using the catchy slogan to promote Michael Jordan's basketball shoes, Ms. Owens says "be like Mike," referring not to the basketball legend but to me. She urges the men that just received GED certificates to continue their studies.
When it's my turn to speak, I walk to the stage, captain of my own ship, eager to deliver the valedictory address. I'm not a prisoner. I feel taller, smarter, and stronger. I see several hundred people in the audience, all prisoners except for my two guests. I turn to my left and thank the leadership from Mercer University. Then I turn to my right to thank the prison staff. I look into the crowd of graduates, staff, and guests in the cushioned seats. I'm grateful to everyone for attending.
Without notes I deliver the speech that I've carefully rehearsed hundreds of times. Julie beams with pride in the front row, and I see Sarah grasp her hand. They've only just met, but in their support they've come together. Those 12 minutes on stage feel as if they're the most positively energizing of my entire life.
The audience stands, encouraging one of their own. Even Warden Stock stands and gives me an affirmative nod. Some day I'll need him, and I hope he'll remember this day. I return to my seat, squeezing my sister's hand as I pass in front of her. The other prisoners and I then receive our diplomas. Mr. Chandler gives closing remarks. He closes the ceremony right on schedule. We don't have time for a reception. After all, this is a penitentiary. Staff do not give me any time to visit with Sarah and Julie. Still, I'm so grateful. For the first time in five years, Julie saw me outside of a visiting room. And I had an opportunity to impress Sarah. For a prisoner, this is as good as it gets.
As I walk between my sister and Sarah through the corridor, an involuntary smile stretches across my face. I stop at the entrance to B cellblock. Under the watchful eyes of the warden, I hug each of my guests and say good-bye.
I only have 21 more years to go. Then I'll be able to walk out with them.
It's only been a few days after the graduation ceremony and I'm eager to move forward with Hofstra. The professor overseeing my program told me that I'd receive my syllabus and books within a month. I hear my name over the loudspeaker. Someone is paging me to go to the mailroom. As I knock on the mailroom door, I'm hopeful that Hofstra sent the books early.
I know this routine. I'm silent, waiting for the head of the education department to continue his reprimand. I don't have any idea what he's talking about or why he paged me to the mailroom.
A month has passed since my correspondence with Professor DiIulio. When I wrote that I would welcome the books, I wasn't thinking about the mailroom rules. If books come from a publisher or a bookstore in an envelope, we're allowed to receive them. For a prisoner to receive boxes, a staff member must provide advance authorization.
I tell Mr. Chandler that I thought the books would come from the university bookstore in an envelope. I didn't know there would be so many.
I explain that I don't know him, but we've been corresponding. "He teaches at Princeton and writes books. He wrote that he would send me some books but I didn't know they would come like this," I tell him.
"I hope you done learnt 'nough to stay out." Mr. Chandler likes me. My graduation from Mercer and the speech I gave during commencement put a positive spotlight on his department. His gruff demeanor doesn't intimidate me anymore because I know it's just his way.
Jubilant, I carry the box of books back to the business office where I work. Dr. DiIulio sent 17 books. He authored two of them, and others are classics in penology. I sit at my desk and clear a space on the bookshelf behind me. Reading the books will help me build a relationship with him. I intend to write about what I learn from each. I especially look forward to reading the books that he wrote. My small personal library will provide ample research material as I begin my studies at Hofstra.
Since I can't earn an accredited law degree from prison I've had to think about what I can study. I've enjoyed reading the Wall Street Journal. I really enjoy learning about the stock market. Finance interests me. But an MBA isn't really an option, because Hofstra didn't allow me into the business school. I need to focus on a graduate degree in the liberal arts.
After consulting with Bruce, I come up with a plan. I propose to Hofstra that I study prisons and the people they hold. My Hofstra advisor is Dr. Al Cohn, Professor of Psychology. He grills me on why I want to study prisons when I'm in prison. I have a lot of reasons, so I lay them out in a lengthy letter.
Our prison system is growing into a monstrosity. It confines more than 1 million people. It generates intergenerational cycles of poverty. In the prison where I'm held, I see grandfathers serving time with their sons and grandsons. I see people finish lengthy sentences. They go home for a few months. Then they return. The longer we expose people to corrections, it seems, the less likely those people are to function in society.
I consider our nation's commitment to mass incarceration as one of the greatest social injustices of our time. And it's getting worse. I tell Professor Cohn that I want to study prisons because I want to improve the outcomes of our prison system. I don't know how I can do it. But if he allows me to earn a graduate degree by focusing on America's prison system, I'll be better equipped to offer a solution.
Dr. Cohn approves of my plan. We establish an interdisciplinary curriculum. I will study sociology, cultural anthropology, and psychology. To complete the program, Dr. Cohn and other Hofstra professors will evaluate my research reports and the lengthy thesis I must write to earn a Master of Arts degree.
Prisons should deter citizens from engaging in criminal behavior.
They should punish those convicted of crimes.
Prison terms should incapacitate criminals, stopping them from committing additional crimes, at least during the term of confinement.
And prisons should rehabilitate offenders in an effort to help them return to society as law-abiding citizens.
After reading Governing Prisons, Dr. DiIulio's comparative study of management in three separate prison systems, I begin collecting information to write my first term paper on prisoner adjustments. The book provides a thread, leading me to order several other books. The books inspire me to develop a questionnaire. As part of my cultural anthropology course, I conduct original, ethnographic research. I ask hundreds of fellow prisoners to participate in the questionnaire. Then I write a paper to describe my findings.
The resulting term paper, which I entitle "The Crusonian Prisoner," earns high marks from my professors at Hofstra. I submit the paper to a peer-reviewed journal, and it's accepted for publication. They agree to present the paper at an annual conference of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. When I receive the news that scholars will present my paper to professionals in criminal justice, I get a boost. I'm not only a prisoner anymore. I'm contributing to society through my work.
My research led to findings that differed from the distinguished Princeton professor. He calls for tighter controls in American prisons. My observations and experience convince me that administrators should run prisons like leaders run businesses. They should govern through the use of incentives rather than threat of further punishments. In a letter to Dr. DiIulio, I offer reasons to support my conclusions. With the letter, I include a copy of my academic paper describing the Crusonian prisoner.
Sarah has come to visit five times since my graduation ceremony last month. Our letters have become much more personal. In her last letter, she wrote that she wanted to kiss me, and there is so much more I want from her.
Her lawyer privileges allow Sarah to visit whenever she chooses. The regularly visiting hours are irrelevant to her, and we visit in the private room reserved for lawyers.
Today is Tuesday, not a visiting day. It's early evening as I sit with her, alone. Surveillance cameras do not monitor us. The guard sits at his desk, fifteen yards away on a platform. He's down a flight of stairs. The intensity of our gaze says what we haven't expressed in words. I lean across the table kiss her.
The sweet taste of Sarah's lips, the moist warmth of her tongue, the heat of the moment makes me feel alive.
She asks me to send her a visitor's form. Sarah wants to visit regularly. Being alone in a room with me could lead to problems, she says. We kiss again, and I touch her, showing why it's so much better to visit alone, privately.
Between kisses, she tells me how much trouble she could get in for abusing privileges. The prison could deny her access if they found out that we were having an affair in the lawyer's conference room.
I stand and take her hand. We walk two steps toward the door to peer through the narrow window. She's in front of me, and I'm behind. We look through the narrow window and see the guard at the desk. He's to our right, down a flight of stairs. He sits back in his squeaky metal chair, feet on the desk. Even if he looked, the angle of the narrow window would block him from seeing us. But we can see him. If he moves, we can both hear and see. She stands in front of me, looking at him.
The only other entry to the room is in the opposite direction. Two locked doors separate us from the corridor. If anyone unlocks the first door, we can see before they unlock the second door. We're alone. We both know it. This is as close to privacy as I'll ever have.
I'm directly behind her with both of my hands on her hips. With my face I push her hair to the side and I kiss her neck.
"Stop," she whispers while pressing her body back into mine. I continue kissing her, touching her, feeling her, moving with her.
In this moment, right now, I'm not a prisoner. I'm a man, 28 and virile. I'm with a woman for the first time in five years. Right now, my prison record doesn't matter. My goals don't matter. My freedom doesn't matter. We don't think about her professional standing, or the possible consequences of our actions. The decades I must serve seem too far away. I need release. Sarah gives it to me.
We return to our seats, perspiration gluing my shirt to my skin. Sarah is disheveled, but glowing.
Her smile is a mixture of nervousness and exhilaration.
As far as anyone is concerned, we're just a lawyer and a client having a conference.
"How do I look? Can you tell?" Her hands shake as she pulls a compact from her purse. She looks into the tiny mirror.
She smiles and applies makeup. "You're going to get me in trouble," she says.


Four images from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with color data from the Ralph instrument to create this sharper global view of Pluto. (The lower right edge of Pluto in this view currently lacks high-resolution color coverage.) The images, taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away from Pluto, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2 kilometers). That's twice the resolution of the single-image view captured on July 13 and revealed at the approximate time of New Horizons' July 14 closest approach.


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CERN Alumni | CERN…where else?
Where else, if not at CERN, would anyone have the opportunity to work on Nobel prize discovery machines twice in a lifetime? This happened to Lyn Evans, Head of the LHC Project from 1993 to 2010 and now proud (and tireless) CERN Alumnus.
Lyn arrived at CERN as a visiting scientist in 1969 and started a fellowship in January 1970. From then on, he worked on turning the SPS into a proton-antiproton collider, which allowed Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer to be awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the W and Z bosons. "We started to think of the proton-antiproton collider in the late 70s, because by then it was fairly clear that the W and Z bosons existed and what their mass would be," recalls Lyn. "We realised that we could get the energy we needed if we turned the SPS into a colliding beam device".
Despite the incident that stopped the machine ten days after it had started in September 2008 ("that wasn't the worst issue we had to overcome", says Lyn), the LHC got back on track and started to deliver powerful high-energy beams. In about three years, it was able to produce enough collisions to reach the point of the discovery of the Higgs Boson. "It was fantastic! The LHC is a fantastic machine, it works well above design!", enthuses Lyn.
After retiring as a staff member in 2010, Lyn went on to become the Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration that brings together the ILC and CLIC activities to build a linear collider somewhere in the world. In parallel, he is working on the proposal of a light antimatter experiment that would use CLIC technology to be submitted by the end of this year. Is he dreaming of a future huge accelerator? "No, I would not embark on any such big endeavours, I would rather go for more realistic objectives. But it's true, CERN is special in the way people collaborate and that's one of its strengths. So… nothing is really out of reach".


'Go sell everything you own and give the money to the poor; then come, follow me' (Mark 10:21).
Over this and the next Sunday I would like to talk to you about vocation, about being called by Jesus. When we think of vocation in the Church we immediately associate it with being a priest, or even a monk or a nun, this is not necessarily a bad thing because we do need more people to respond generously to these particular vocations, but today I would like to talk about vocation in a broader sense, that is about our common vocation to be followers of Jesus. This is the calling we all have received at Baptism and it is the calling that Jesus addresses to each and every person in the world; 'come, follow me'.
Today our first look at vocation is accompanied by one of the hardest sayings of Jesus where he calls his prospective disciples to give away their possessions to help the poor, and to live with the determination of following him, without looking back. The words 'Go sell everything you own and give the money to the poor; then come, follow me' have been the subject of much debate from the very beginning of Christianity. Is Jesus really asking us to give up everything? or is he exaggerating, setting the bar high, as it were, so that we would at least do our very best to follow him? Is he talking in metaphors? or is he demanding this level of commitment only form a certain number of people?
So according to Clement, Jesus is talking in metaphors here, but somehow this interpretation does not fit with the rest of the gospel reading we have just heard. Yes, as Jesus calls each one of us to follow him he invites us to detach ourselves emotionally from all those things that might weigh us down, including our possessions, but I don't think this is the only thing Jesus requires us to do here.
Another interpretation of this verse comes from the life of St Antony, the greatest of the desert fathers. Antony lived also in Alexandria; he had inherited considerable wealth and had plenty to live on. One day, as he walked into church, he heard a similar passage from the gospel being read; it said, 'If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor…; then come, follow me.' (Matthew 19:21). This verse struck him deeply, so he went out, gave away all that he had, and retired himself to a life of repentance, prayer, and manual work. He went on to become one of the founding figures of Christian monasticism, as thanks to him that world has never been the same again; a world where countless people following a monastic vocation remind all Christians about following Jesus in the strictest way possible. This is a very literal interpretation of our gospel reading, and not everyone has the courage or the vocation to follow it.
The last example I would like to put to you is from the life of St Basil, another Eastern saint. He and his siblings inherited a vast fortune but after having donated part of it for the relief of the poor, Basil consecrated the rest to the Glory of God, thus, he used his fortune not for himself, but to further the work of the Church, even to the point of building a new city composed by places of worship, free accommodations for the needy, and workshops so that both his monks and the poor could find employment and sustain themselves. In consecrating what he had to the Glory of God, Basil did not see himself as the owner of things, but as a faithful steward of what he had received, ready to administer his fortune so that the kingdom of God might advance touching those around him.
'Go sell everything you own and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me'.
These examples from the early Church show us three main ways of understanding our gospel reading, but as I said I would partly ignore the first, because it is too easy to fool ourselves with it – pretending we are emotionally unattached to possessions, whilst continuing to accumulate them. So, whichever one of these examples we decide to put into practice, one thing remains; our common vocation as followers of Jesus is to leave material things behind either entirely or administering them as faithful stewards of what we have receive from God. It is a tough thing to be asked to do; it is a hard, high calling, yet it is not something that can be done begrudgingly or out of coercion. Leaving things behind, emotionally or materially, is, like any other vocation, a generous response to God's love. See what the gospel says about Our Lord's encounter with the rich man, 'Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him' (10:21). It is only in response to the immeasurable love available to us in Jesus that we can fulfil our common vocation, it is only in response to this love that when Jesus calls, 'come, follow me', we can readily respond, 'Yes, Lord, I come!'.


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This post is part of our Primer on Optogenetics and was contributed by guest blogger Derek Simon.
The actual experiments you do will be determined by the topic you're interested in studying, but, in today's post, we'll discuss some of the important considerations you should think about when developing optogenetics behavioral experiments. There are far too many behaviors that have utilized optogenetics to be fully summarized in a short blog post, but some examples I'm personally interested in include: intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) and place preference. The lab I work in (the Kreek lab) focuses on the neurobiology of addictive diseases, which means we are interested in circuits that mediate drug taking behavior. If a circuit reinforces behavior (activation of the circuit promotes subsequent, repeated activation), this is an approximation of reward or the sense of pleasure that the animal perceives through taking a drug. The ideal behaviors to test reinforcement are ICSS and place preference.
Historically, ICSS was done by implanting an electrode and non-specifically electrically stimulating an ill-defined region of the brain. With the advent of optogenetics, ICSS can now be done with neuronal cell-type and temporal precision. In ICSS, a test chamber is used in which a nose-poke at a particular hole (the active hole) induces laser stimulation of the chosen brain circuit, while a nose-poke at a separate hole (inactive hole) does not. If activation of the circuit is sufficient to induce reinforcement (instills a sense of "reward"), then the animal will repeatedly nose-poke at the active hole [1, 2]. The video above shows ICSS of a circuit in the amygdala; the animal repeatedly nose-pokes and self-stimulates the circuit indicating that the animal is rewarded by its activation .
Place preference/place aversion also models reinforcement but is considerably simpler than ICSS. The test chamber is divided into two halves that are distinguished visually through different patterns and the animal only receives stimulation in one of the two chambers (see image below). If a circuit is reinforcing, the animal will prefer to spend most of its time in the chamber in which it receives the stimulation (conversely, if the circuit is aversive, it will spend most of its times in the opposite chamber) . Laser activation is usually controlled automatically using motion capture software such as EthoVision.
Consult the literature to find all the applications of optogenetics relevant to your field. Ultimately, your question should dictate your behavioral output. However, regardless of the type of behavior, certain technical considerations still apply.
First, In lieu of electrophysiology, it would be convenient to know if you are actually stimulating or inhibiting the targeted neuronal population prior to behavioral testing. One method to determine this is to examine expression of the early response gene c-fos. For example, using Chr2 stimulation should result in robust increases in c-fos expression in the targeted brain region after stimulation compared to controls without Chr2. c-Fos is a reliable and widely used molecular marker of neuronal activation and is a sufficient readout to proceed with your behavioral experiments. Comparison of c-fos amongst animals that receive different types of stimulation may help to refine and optimize your stimulation parameters as well.
Inhibition of neuronal activation is a little more complicated since basal neuronal activity in your brain region of interest could be low or highly variable without the behavioral test. Another readout may be necessary to prove inhibition of neuronal activation, but it may still be possible to use c-fos expression to get the evidence you need. For example, as shown in this study , hippocampal neurons are activated when the mouse is placed in a novel context. As a proof-of-principle test, the authors were able to show that HR blocked neuronal activation in the novel context as determined by reduced c-fos expression, thus showing successful inhibition of hippocampal neurons.
Second, this may sound rudimentary, but before you do any type of behavior analysis, simply take a few animals and stimulate them for 30min to an hour and observe what happens. You never know how stimulation of a particular brain region may affect the animal; stimulation could induce seizures or some other unwanted phenomenon or it could reveal something fascinating. Behavior is based primarily on careful observation of what an animal does naturally so, after all the optimization, turn on the laser and watch what happens. Who knows, you may observe something that could move your project onto the exciting—and unanticipated—road of discovery.
The appropriate behavioral readout for your optogenetics experiment is contained within the hypothesis you are testing. In other words, your optogenetic experiment should be designed around a behavioral test in which your circuit of interest is putatively involved in regulating the behavioral output. For example, if you are interested in studying a brain region that may be important in memory, an appropriate behavioral test might be contextual fear conditioning (reviewed in ). Contextual fear conditioning is a behavioral experiment in which an animal is trained to "freeze" upon anticipation of a mild electric foot shock that has become associated with a visual or auditory cue. The hippocampus has long been known to be responsible for mediating this behavioral effect but the function of specific subregions within the hippocampus were only recently studied in detail thanks to optogenetics. In Goshen et al, inhibition of the CA1 region using HR was found to block the acquisition and retrieval of contextual fear memories . In a modified behavioral paradigm, the authors found that precise but not prolonged inhibition of CA1 neurons attenuated conditioning, which suggests that other regions of the brain may be involved in retrieval of remote contextual memories. This study is an excellent example in which the authors started with a brain region that was known to be generally associated with a specific behavior but that they more precisely characterized with spatial (CA1), temporal (real-time inhibition), and behavioral (remote memory retrieval) specificity. Optogenetics can be used to more precisely associate regions of the brain with many known behaviors. However, if you observe no difference in your behavioral output with optogenetic manipulation, this can be explained primarily in two different ways 1) your hypothesis is wrong or 2) there is some problem with the technical implementation of your optogenetics setup (viral expression, efficiency of laser light transmission to the target neurons, appropriate stimulation parameters, etc.) The easiest way to resolve these issues is with electrophysiology.
While it sounds like a lot of steps and a lot of room for error, optogenetics is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Like every other advanced technique in neuroscience it has a bit of a steep learning curve and many opportunities for mistakes. The easiest way to learn optogenetics is straight through the source - find a lab within your own neuroscience sub-discipline that has published using the technique and ask if they would be willing to teach you. An essential, yet sometimes overlooked, aspect of scientific research is that the field benefits from collaboration and the exchange of ideas. The rapid spread of optogenetics throughout the neuroscience field is a great example of this; research benefits when the advances of some are shared with all.
Due to the versatility and standardization of genetic tools in the laboratory mouse, most optogenetics is performed in this species. However, transgenic rat technology is improving and may one day reach the sophistication of mouse transgenics. Everything that has been described is intended for the mouse; however, all the steps and technical considerations are directly applicable to the rat . Technical differences include the ferrule implants and patch cables. One huge advantage of using rats is their superiority as behavioral models. Beyond rodents, optogenetics has even been applied to other species such as non-human primates [7, 8], zebrafish , and c. elegans . If used properly, optogenetics is sure to teach us much in all of these species.
Happy experimenting and hopefully optogenetics will help illuminate (is that pun worn out yet?) your research.
Derek P. Simon received his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Mary Jeanne Kreek at the Rockefeller University. His interests include the role of learning and memory in opioid addiction and science communication/science writing. Derek is also a pianist and an aspiring composer. View his blog drsimonsaysscience.org or follow him on Twitter @derekpsimonphd.
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Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (July 17–23, 2017).
Boskalis has been awarded a contract by Ports of Stockholm to construct the quay wall for the new Stockholm Norvik Port in Sweden.
Van Oord has been awarded the contract for Dubai Harbor marine works, a prestigious mega project in Dubai.
A Damen trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 650 has successfully completed sea trials in Shanghai and is now on its way to the new owner – Gippsland Ports in Australia.
The keel laying ceremony for new multi-purpose 5.450m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) 'DC Orisant' took place earlier this week, Reimerswaal Dredging said in its latest announcement.
Faasse Groep, a Goes based dredging contractor, has just introduced their new trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Scald.
Posted on July 23, 2017 with tags Boskalis, Damen, Royal IHC, TSHD, Van Oord.


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New York: An Indian woman, who is seeking asylum in the United States after she illegally crossed into America from Mexico, has been separated from her five-year-old differently-abled son, a media report said on Friday.
The Trump administration's controversial 'zero tolerance' policy of separating immigrant parents and their children on the US border has resulted in the separation of nearly 2,000 children from their parents and guardians, sparking a public outcry.
Bhavan Patel, 33, was granted a $30,000 bond by a Arizona court on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported.
However, it was not immediately clear if she was able to join her disabled son.
This is the first known case of an Indian national who has been separated from her child in recent months under the 'zero-tolerance' policy.
So far more than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents after being arrested by the US law enforcement agencies after they illegally crossed the border.
After a nationwide outrage, Trump signed an executive order that stopped the practice. The Post did not reveal when was she arrested.
Patel sat in an immigration courtroom, a tiny, solitary figure in a faded green prison uniform, the report said.
She fled political persecution in Ahmedabad, India, travelling to Greece and then Mexico before crossing the US border illegally with her disabled five-year-old son, Patel and her attorney said during a bond hearing.
Patel's hair had started turning white. She wrung her hands incessantly, the daily said.
"Her son is not doing well," said her attorney Alinka Robinson, as a telephonic translator relayed the proceedings to Patel in her native tongue of Gujarati, the daily said in its report from Arizona.
Robinson asked Judge Irene C Feldman to grant her client a $10,000 bond so she could 'reunite with her son'.
The prosecutor from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the court that Patel was a flight risk.
Thereafter judge quizzed her about her path to the United States and whether she had paid a smuggler.
'An asylum officer had already found she had a 'credible fear' of being hurt or killed if she were sent back to India. She told the judge that her brother arranged her passage and that she never paid a smuggler,' The Post reported.
The judge seemed skeptical and set bond at USD 30,000, making Patel one of the few separated parents at Eloy to have a bond set, according to detainees, the daily reported.
There is no official figure of Indians being detained in the US jail after they crossed the border illegally.
Recent media reports indicate that there are more than 200 illegal Indians -- mostly from Punjab and Gujarat -- in a four federal prisons in Washington, New Mexico, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
Indian Embassy in Washington DC and its Consulates in Houston, New York and San Francisco have sent its senior diplomats to all these federal prisons to ascertain facts and offer consular access to its citizens.
The public outcry in the wake of images and stories of the children caught in the middle of Trump's immigration policy has sparked a fierce debate in the US.


The Magazine sale has grossed over $40,000. so far this year and Masterman will receive $16,000 of that money. It will help to subsidize the yearbook, the newspapers and literary magazines, student prizes and awards for middle and high school, and various student activities and contests.
The bad news is that we are well behind last year's income and Masterman needs your help to bring in more earnings. You can purchase gifts or photo albums as well as magazines and can do your purchase on line at gafundraising.com (Masterman number 1052604) . This is a very quick and easy way to support our school!
There will be one more collection day on Thursday, October 23rd. Middle school students will still receive prize monkeys and high school students will receive rewards although the classroom competition has finished. Congratulations to the highest middle school section, 5 -2, Ms. Brunner, and the highest high school section, 12-1, Ms. Gentlesk. Special thanks to the 5th, 6th, and 7th grades and the 12th grade for a great participation. We are looking forward to more sales from ALL grades for our LAST collection on Thursday.


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1991 March 86A
Bid To $36,250 On 7/11/19$36,250 Ended
Seller: Cunn5
Location: Wellington, Florida 33414
Chassis: 86A-11
6-Speed Hewland Transaxle
Raced 1991-1993
Formerly Owned by Harrah's Casino
Rebuilt and Dyno Tested Engine
Reported 1993 Indy Lights B-Series Champion
Category: American, Race Cars
This 1991 March 86A was reportedly purchased new by Salt Walther and competed in one race of the 1991 Indy Lights season before it was subsequently acquired by Dr. Jack Miller. Miller reportedly ran one race with the car in 1992, and subsequently ran a full season of Indy Lights B-Series in 1993, winning the championship. The car was then sold to Harrah's Casino, where it was displayed as a roller until seven years ago when the previous owner won it in a raffle and began to refurbish the car and return it to running condition. Power is provided by a 4.2L Buick-derived V6 built by George's Speed Shop paired with a rebuilt 6-speed Hewland transaxle. This March is now offered with a dyno sheet from the recent engine build and a Florida bill of sale.
The Indy Lights B Series was run for 1993 only, and allowed competitors to run the previous March-chassis cars alongside the updated Lolas introduced for the 1993 season. Jack Miller was the sole B-Series entrant to compete in every round and won the B-Series championship.
The bodywork is finished in red and carries a period Budweiser and Harrah's paint scheme with additional decals from Valvoline, Bosch, PPG, Buick, and Goodyear. The multi-piece centerlock wheels are fitted with Avon slicks.
The single-seat cockpit features a fixed seat pad, Willans harnesses, a removable steering wheel, and a set of analog instrumentation. Per the seller the fire bottle needs to be replaced, and the car has not been run on track since the refurbishment.
The 4.2-liter V6 was derived from a production Buick engine and is equipped with individual throttle bodies with velocity stacks exiting through the rear clamshell. This example has been rebuilt by Dayton, Ohio-based George's Speed Shop, the original engine builder for Indy Lights. A February 2019 dyno sheet shows that the engine produced 429 horsepower at 7,000 rpm.
Power is sent to the rear wheels via a rebuilt 5-speed Hewland FGB transaxle. The car is equipped with pushrod-actuated suspension, which the seller reports has been crack tested, and is fitted with dyno-tested shock absorbers.
A Buick OBD-I scanner is included, and the seller reports that extra wheels and tires, dyno sheets for the rebuilt shocks, and a flow chart for the rebuilt injectors are also included. A video showing the engine running is viewable below.
Auction Ended July 11, 2019 at 12:35PM PT
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A spherical cap segment is the solid defined by cutting a sphere with a pair of parallel planes . It can be thought of as a spherical cap with the top truncated, and so it corresponds to a spherical frustum . The surface of the spherical segment (excluding the bases) is called spherical zone .


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Washington renters could get more protections in 2020
By Tom and Curley Show
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The 2020 legislative session beginning Monday may see a push to make it more difficult for landlords to evict tenants in Washington state, done so as a means of lessening homelessness.
Gaining stricter protections for tenants and requiring landlords to give just cause for eviction has been a growing movement across Washington state, reports Crosscut. Using recent city ordinances in Federal Way and Burien as templates, legislators are seeking a statewide standard in similar renter's protections.
"Right now, if you're a landlord you can evict somebody with 20-day notice without any justification," KIRO Radio's Tom Tangney said. "There are 23 other states that have already that you need to have just cause. Right now the only way landlords are restricted is that they can't do it for discriminatory purposes; however, if you operate by the 20-day rule that says 'I don't have to give you any reason', they can use that as a cover and you don't know if it's discriminatory."
Report: Number of Seattle renters on par with number of homeowners
The proposed standards would require landlords to give good or just cause, covering up to 18 cited issues by Tenants Union, including nonpayment of rent, noncompliance with lease terms, and chronically late rent payments, among other reasons. Landlords would not be able to evict for retaliatory or discriminatory reasons. Recent studies have indicated a correlation between evictions and growing rates of homelessness.
"It goes back to the story of whether or not a person who own the property can get the person out of the unit in a timely manner to keep everybody safe, or at least allow the landlord to keep having money coming in for the property," said co-host John Curley.
John Curley's epic battle for room on an airplane armrest
Critics of the proposed standards cite this very issue, and are concerned such protections would make it difficult for landlords to evict problem tenants who create difficult situations for residents and landlords. An additional concern is that such legislation could unintentionally push out smaller landlords in favor of larger corporations, since only the larger ones would be able to absorb such sweeping changes.


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Windsor es un pueblo ubicado en el condado de Bertie en el estado estadounidense de Carolina del Norte. Es sede del condado de Bertie. La localidad en el año 2000, tenía una población de 2.283 habitantes en una superficie de 6.4 km², con una densidad poblacional de 357.4 personas por km².

Geografía
Windsor se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo, la localidad tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  (0.0%) es agua.

Localidades adyacentes
El siguiente diagrama muestra a las localidades en un radio de  de Windsor.

Demografía
En el 2000 la renta per cápita promedia del hogar era de $26.563, y el ingreso promedio para una familia era de $34.107. El ingreso per cápita para la localidad era de $18.006. En 2000 los hombres tenían un ingreso per cápita de $30.045 contra $20.885 para las mujeres. Alrededor del 25.80% de la población estaba bajo el umbral de pobreza nacional.

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Will There Be a New 'Constantine TV Series'? Here Is What We Know
By Ijeoma
One would never argue that the Constantine TV series has been one of the best that the world has ever seen. It is an American series developed by David Cerone and David S Goyer for NBC. The storyline is what one could call breathtaking with thrill, suspense, horror, not forgetting the adventure that makes the viewers glued to the screen and never wanting to attend to anything else.
The Matt Ryan led TV series graced the screen on the 24th day of October 2014 until it's 13th and final episode which aired on the 13th of February 2015. Following its first run, Constantine TV series was cancelled by the network on May 8, 2015, despite great reviews, although it attracted poor ratings.
Background Of The Show
The titular character John Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, tries his possible best to atone for his past sins after being a trickster, and redeem his soul from eternal torment. Now a demon hunter and dabbling master of the occult, he strives to protect the innocent from the oncoming supernatural threats that constantly force their way into our world as a result of the "Rising Darkness."
To accomplish his mission, John must reach into his skills and a supernatural scry map to go round the world in order to send the terrors which destruct it back to where they belong. While on the mission, Constantine keeps his hopes high that his soul would be redeemed in the process.
He also forms a powerful team with Liv Aberdine (Lucy Griffiths), a daughter to a late close friend of his named Jasper Winters, to fight demons who have targeted her as well as learn more about her father. Liv has the ability to see the other world and predict supernatural occurrences. This makes her a threat to the new evil rising from the shadows. Unfortunately, Liv was dropped after the pilot and replaced with Zed.
Besides Constantine and Liv, other characters that made up the show's cast include Zed Martin (Angélica Celaya) a psychic artist who was so captivated by John that he follows him on his exorcisms. Others are Francis "Chas" Chandler (Charles Halford), John Constantine's oldest friend and staunch companion who also possesses powerful survival skills, Harold Perrineau as Manny, an authoritative angel assigned to watch over Constantine.
Why Was Constantine TV Series Cancelled?
Constantine TV series was released to rave critical reviews in October 2014, with praises for Ryan's performance. It scored 72% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes and has an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 46 reviews. Metacritic, on the other hand, gave it a fair score of 53 out of 100 based on 25 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."
Even with the healthy reviews, the show failed to meet up with ratings, thus, leading to its cancellation. Even though the network would have loved for it to continue, we would have loved it even more but it's poor ratings led to the demise.
Will There Be a New Constantine TV Series? Here's What We Know
Considering the fact that this series is a great turn on, rumors made the rounds about several meetings between NBC and the show creator, all in a bid to give Constantine TV series another chance on network TV. Since NBC announced the cancellation of the show, we have hoped that the outcome of the supposed meetings was positive.
One fact that got our expectations higher was that the network did not rule out a possible renewal of a second season even with the cancellation. We just couldn't wait to see the continuation in episode 14, Final Girl, which showrunner Daniel Cerone released on October 30, 2015.
See Also: TNT's Claws: Season 4 is Final and Here are 5 Facts About the TV Show
However, our hearts were broken when he officially announced that the show was over. Ryan, just like Cerone, also disclosed his disappointment, stating that he can no longer pursue the journey of John Constantine. He further expressed his sadness at leaving behind a significant, dedicated and active fandom who deserves more years on the series both the cast and crew set out to make. He also added he will surely miss playing the role and we would definitely miss him too. Constantine TV series may have been cancelled but its legacy lives on.
This is shown by fan-favourite, Mark Ryan, who, for his love for Constantine, returned in spin-offs and related shows, where he reprises his role. He guest appeared in John Con Noir, CW's Arrow and was a regular in Legends of Tomorrow, marking his entry into the CW's Arrowverse. He also voices the character in the CW Seed animated web series, Constantine: City of Demons, a spin-off of the Justice League Dark film.


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#include <aws/ec2/model/ShutdownBehavior.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/HashingUtils.h>

using namespace Aws::Utils;

static const int stop_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("stop");
static const int terminate_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("terminate");

namespace Aws
{
namespace EC2
{
namespace Model
{
namespace ShutdownBehaviorMapper
{
ShutdownBehavior GetShutdownBehaviorForName(const Aws::String& name)
{
  int hashCode = HashingUtils::HashString(name.c_str());

  if (hashCode == stop_HASH)
  {
    return ShutdownBehavior::stop;
  }
  else if (hashCode == terminate_HASH)
  {
    return ShutdownBehavior::terminate;
  }

  return ShutdownBehavior::NOT_SET;
}

Aws::String GetNameForShutdownBehavior(ShutdownBehavior value)
{
  switch(value)
  {
  case ShutdownBehavior::stop:
    return "stop";
  case ShutdownBehavior::terminate:
    return "terminate";
  default:
    return "";
  }
}

} // namespace ShutdownBehaviorMapper
} // namespace Model
} // namespace EC2
} // namespace Aws

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Kelso ist eine Geisterstadt in San Bernardino County im südöstlichen Kalifornien. Sie liegt in der Mojave National Preserve, einem Naturschutzgebiet in der Mojave-Wüste. Im östlichen Teil des Schutzgebietes liegt der restaurierte Güterbahnhof Kelso Depot an der Kreuzung der beiden bedeutendsten Parkstraßen Kelbaker Road/Kelso Cima Road und dient heute als Besucherzentrum.

Geschichte

Die Stadt wurde im Jahr 1906 mit der Fertigstellung der durch die Mojavewüste verkehrenden Eisenbahnlinie Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (später Union Pacific Railroad) gegründet und nach John Kelso, einem seinerzeit dort ansässigen Lagerarbeiter, benannt. Der Bau eines Güterbahnhofs inmitten einer menschenleeren Wüste entstand seinerzeit unter dem Hintergrund einer sich anschließenden Steigung zum Cima-Hügel. Da die damals verkehrenden Dampflokomotiven den Höhenunterschied nicht alleine bewältigen konnten, wurde ein Bahnhof mit stationierten Hilfslokomotiven und Kapazitäten zum Wasserfassen erforderlich.

1923 begann die Eisenbahngesellschaft mit dem Bau eines neuen Bahnhofsgebäudes mit Übernachtungs- und Waschräumen für Bahnmitarbeiter, einem neuen Fernschreiberbüro sowie einer Wartehalle für die Reisenden. Als die Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana im Jahr 1942 mit dem Abbau von Eisenerz in der nahegelegenen Vulcan Mine begann und täglich rund 2500 Tonnen Erz von Kelso ins Stahlwerk nach Fontana befördern ließ, war Kelso mit nun rund 2.000 Bewohnern auf dem Höhepunkt seiner kurzen Geschichte angelangt. Auf Grund des hohen Schwefelgehalts stoppte Fontana die Transporte schon kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und auch die nun durch Diesellokomotiven abgelösten Dampfloks machten den Güterbahnhof bald entbehrlich. Kelso erlebte danach einen raschen Niedergang und verkam noch in den 1950er Jahren zur Geisterstadt.

Der Güterbahnhof hielt sich dennoch bis ins Jahr 1985, wurde dann aber schließlich auf Grund fehlender Rentabilität von der Union Pacific Railroad geschlossen. Einheimische Bürger, die Verwalter der East Mojave National Scenic Area sowie der Kongressabgeordnete Jerry Lewis verhinderten danach den geplanten Abriss des ehemaligen Bahnhofsgebäudes. Im Jahr 1992 erwarb das Bureau of Land Management den Güterbahnhof zum symbolischen Preis von einem US-Dollar und startete mit einer grundlegenden Sanierung des Gebäudes. Heute ist es das bedeutendste Informationszentrum der Mojave National Preserve.

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Breaking and entering, trespassing, and vandalism were an everyday part of Italian photographer Marco Mendia's life for nearly a decade. Before he became his own boss and founded a creative studio in Milan, Mendia ran with teenage graffitos who used Europe's metro systems as subterranean playgrounds to explore, take pictures, and practice spray-can calligraphy. From the mid aughts through 2015 they ran the tunnels, mostly without incident.
In 2015, Mendia was arrested in Milan, and then again in Paris while shooting. "While I was in jail, I lost faith for a moment," he said. "When I was younger I enjoyed escaping from the police. As I grew up it became less fun." Now 28, some of Mendia's friends are still tagging. Others have moved on to other creative careers in the art and fashion world.
Below are some of Mendia's best photos. He captioned a few of them for context, but they're not hashtagged or geo-filtered, and he didn't say exactly where they were taken, so they're one-of-a-kind.
"I want to dedicate this interview to the mates who shared with me best and worst moments in the graffiti game," Mendia added. "AVIDO - 031, ZOOW24m, and HERS & SANCHO. Best buddies ever."
We were in Milan at the red line, a usual spot for us. After a while they installed a camera in order to catch us. We went to paint at night and as soon we got the train in the tunnel, in a couple of minutes we've herd a voice from the speaker demanding we leave. Before we ran, we found the camera and tore it off. Once we got the place we used to chill, we didn't know what to do with it. I think one of us just kept it as paperweight.
This cop was pointing at me, and yelled something like, "I will destroy your camera!" I was with a crew of friends in Barcelona and they were doing tags and bombing during the day. It was summer-time so the area was full of people, mostly tourists. Somebody called the police, and this guy came on a motorbike and walked towards us. I ran—but then I just turned back, looked at him and took a picture. Only after we both heard the camera shutter did I realize what was going on. That time, I made it in one piece, and so did my camera.
We found this puppy in the backyard of a subway deposit in Bucharest. The dog needed help because a train ripped off one of its paws. We took care of him by buying food from the supermarket and bringing it to the yard. We chilled there for about a week with regular access to this spot. We paid local security with money, cigarettes, and beer so they let us go inside and paint.
Follow Marco Mendia on Instagram and check out his work at Molto Studio.
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Paramount Pictures is in early negotiations with Jonathan Entwistle, who is best known for his Netflix series "The End of the F***ing World", to develop a new take on "Power Rangers" for the studio.
The was a popular '90s TV series involved a group of kids who become superheroes. The show first aired on Fox Kids, then in the 2000s on Disney-owned channels and included a movie in 1995.
Lionsgate produced and released a feature in 2017 that rebooted the title, making it less kid-friendly and giving it a more brooding YA edge. The hope was that the film would become a fresh new franchise for Lionsgate but when it bombed, grossing only $142 million worldwide on a budget of around $100 million, plans were scrapped for a sequel and the rights were taken back on the market.
Paramount recently acquired the rights and tapped Patrick Burleigh, who wrote the upcoming "Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway," to pen the script.
Hasbro, which bought the property from creator Haim Saban in 2018, is producing the feature via its film arm, Allspark Pictures.
Entwistle is coming off the critically acclaimed first season of "The End of the F***ing World," which ultimately helped win him the job and is currently in post on "I'm Not Okay With This," another Netflix show he co-created, exec produced and directed.
He is repped by CAA, Grandview and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Werthemier Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein. Burleigh is repped by UTA and Kaplan/Perone Entertainment and also recently was a story consultant on "Ant-Man and the Wasp."


Eight gorgeous new faces from We Are Models Agency featured on Vogue Portugal online.
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What About the Children Ministry was birthed from First Lady Simon hearing the song by Yolanda Adams. First Lady was so inspired by the song because she loves children and wants to see them grow with a love for God. The bible tells us to train up a child in the way he should go and when that child is old it will not depart from him. It is important to nuture and support our children. It really takes a village to raise a child. Galilee sponsors free hot breakfast for children every Sunday. The children learn songs, bible stories and craft activities related to the bible lessons studied every week. We are in need of more support for the children. We would love to have tablets for the children to work on as we studied the bible lessons.
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Warning signs of false religion
Copyright 2013 by Bob Rogers
There are many religions; how can you tell which one is true and which is false? Some people say it doesn't matter, because all religions have truth, but don't tell that to the former followers of Jim Jones or David Koresh.
In 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan went to the South America to investigate a controversial cult based in San Francisco, named the People's Temple, that had established a commune in Guyana. There were charges that Jim Jones, the founder of the People's Temple, had defrauded members and was exerting total control over members by threats of violence. At the airport, Congressman Ryan and four others were shot to death, and then 913 members of the People=s Temple, including Jim Jones, committed mass suicide. ("Jones, Jim." Encyclopedia Britannica 2005.)
In 1993, David Koresh, leader of a religious cult known as the Branch Davidians, stockpiled weapons with his 130 followers at a compound near Waco, Texas. Four federal agents were killed in a shootout with his followers, and for 51 days the government laid siege to the compound. Finally, they attacked the compound and 80 Branch Davidians, including David Koresh, died in a fire. ("Branch Davidians." Encyclopedia Britannica 2005.)
Many other false religions are not as violent, but equally false. So how can a person tell which one is true and which is false? In the ancient Book of Deuteronomy, we find answers to this question.
I. Beware of False Words (Deuteronomy 18:14-22)
Deuteronomy gives us one of those tests in Deuteronomy 18:21-22.
Verses 21-22 specifically answer the question, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the Lord?" The answer is, "If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken." So the first test of false religion is false words. If the religion makes false predictions, the religion is false.
I know of a false religious cult that has predicted the end of the world many times, evening naming the date. They failed this test.
Contrast them with Jesus, who is the true prophet. Deuteronomy 18:17-18 says the Lord will raise up a prophet.
In Luke 19:41-44, Jesus prophesied that Jerusalem would be destroyed, and in A.D. 70, it was destroyed exactly as He said. No wonder Acts 3:20-22 says the prophet Moses spoke of is Jesus!
Jesus Himself claimed to be the way, the truth, and the life. He speaks the truth; he IS the truth.
II. Beware of False Ways (Deuteronomy 18:9-13)
With the popularity of the Harry Potter novels, witchcraft has almost been sanitized today. And while I realize that the Harry Potter stories are just fantasy, we need to understand that real witchcraft is not taken lightly in the Bible. Beware against thinking that it is okay to delve into magic.
Back up a few verses in Deuteronomy and we find the second test of false religion. Deuteronomy 18:9 warns against the "detestable ways" of the nations in the land the Israelites are entering. Then it proceeds to describe every kind of witchcraft and occult practice you can imagine in verses 10-11.
It gives a specific list here of seven kinds of witchcraft:
1. Human sacrifice. Even today human sacrifice is sometime associated with the occult.
2. Divination and sorcery – using objects to foretell the future, such as psychics, tarot cards, and horoscopes.
3. Interprets omens – interpreting things like cloud or bird movements to reveal the future.
4. Witchcraft – rituals such as charms, spells, and potions
5. Cast spells
6. Medium and spiritist. (Leviticus 20:27 says a medium or spiritist must be put to death)
7. Consults spirits of the dead. Saul did this with the Witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28) and he was condemned.
Why is this so wrong? Isaiah 8:19 says that when people say let's consult a spiritist or consult the death, shouldn't a people consult their God? It is wrong because it is an attempt to get answers to life and foretell the future by consulting dead spirits and earth spirits, rather than depending upon the Holy Spirit of God who indwells the believer in Jesus Christ.
III. Beware of False Worship (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)
Remember that we saw in Deuteronomy 18 that false predictions were a warning sign of false religion? But in Deuteronomy 13, scripture informs us that some people might make true predictions and still be false prophets because of false worship. Listen to Deuteronomy 13:1-3: "If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spokken of takes place, and the prophet says, 'Let us follow other gods,' (gods you have not known) 'and let us worship them,' you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul." So add to false words and false ways, a third test: false worship. Even if people in a religion do good deeds and say some good things, it is still false if their worship is false.
Many cult leaders started out well as members of Christian churches, but then they began to exert total control over their members, making themselves the "Messiah." Many world religions teach good deeds, but they do not believe in the one true God of the Bible. They often worship other gods and have their own books that they claim are inspired by God.
Galatians 1:6-9 says that even if an angel should bring a different message, let him be accursed! 1 Corinthians 12:3 says that no one who is speaking by the spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. The ultimate test is, does this religion exalt Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior? If not, the religion practices false worship.
Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life." He IS truth. This is the true religion. Have you trusted in Christ, and Christ alone to save you?
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Tags: cult, cults, faith, religion, religions
Mormonism: A Snapshot of Its History
With the candidacy of Mitt Romney, many people have questions about his religion. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), often called "Mormons." This is the first in a series of posts I will do on Mormonism.
HISTORY OF MORMONISM
Mormonism began with Joseph Smith, Jr., who was born in upstate New York in 1805. In 1823, while living in Palmyra, New York, he claimed to have visions of an angel named Moroni who told him all churches were false, and to join none of them, and instead to go to a hill and uncover some golden plates. Mormons believe that Smith found the plates, written in ancient Egyptian, and was able to translate them. The Book of Mormon tells stories of Jews fleeing the Babylonian conquest in a ship, settling in the Americas, and becoming the ancestors of the Native American Indians. The more godly Native Americans were killed off by the godless ones, and God cursed the godless Native Americans, changing their white skin to "a skin of blackness" (2 Nephi 5:21, Book of Mormon).
In 1830, Smith published his "translation," the Book of Mormon, and established his new church. Immediately, many of his neighbors considered him a fraud, although his church grew. In 1831 he relocated his church to Kirtland, Ohio, just north of Cleveland. In the 1830's and early 1840's, Mormonism grew rapidly, establishing large settlements in places like Far West, Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois. There was violent conflict between Mormons and non-Mormons in Missouri and Mormons were greatly persecuted for what their neighbors considered a hoax. During this time, Joseph Smith began to secretly teach polygamy. He recorded in the Mormon scripture, Doctrine & Covenants, chapter 132, how God told his wife Emma to accept the idea of multiple wives, but she was resistant to the idea.
In 1844, a newspaper was published in the Mormon town of Nauvoo, Illinois, publicly exposing Joseph Smith's polygamy. Smith had the newspaper shut down, and for this, Smith was arrested and put in jail in the nearby town of Carthage, Illinois. An anti-Mormon mob stormed the jail, and Smith was killed. Thus Joseph Smith became a Mormon martyr.
With the death of their leader, Mormons had to decide what to do. Some remained behind and established the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, now known as the Community of Christ, which has 250,000 members and headquarters in Independence, Missouri. But the majority followed Brigham Young in a trek west in 1846-1847, settling in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah, and he became the new prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). In Utah, Brigham Young began to openly practice polygamy. He himself was said to have had so many wives he could not remember them all.
In 1857, a wagon train of non-Mormons from Arkansas were passing through Mountain Meadows, Utah on their way to California. Apparently the Mormons felt threatened by the possibility that some of them might be from Missouri, which had a history of violent conflict with Mormons. Thus a group of Mormons and Native Americans massacred 120 men, women and children. Ironically, this attack culminated on September 11.
In 1890, the president of LDS church, Wilford Woodruff, added a new declaration to the Doctrine & Covenants, saying that polygamy was no longer required. Afterwards, Utah was admitted as a state into the Union. While the main group of Mormons no longer teaches polygamy, groups of fundamentalist Mormons have continued the practice, especially in some towns near the Utah-Arizona state line.
In the 1970's, another revelation from the LDS prophet allowed dark-skinned people to be elders in the church, reversing a policy based on the Book of Mormon's claim that American Indians were cursed with dark skin. The church also quietly changed a verse in 2 Nephi 30:6, which used to say that upon conversion they would become "white," replacing the word "white" with "pure."
The LDS church has grown rapidly through the years, especially by encouraging thousands of young people to go on a two-year mission before or during their college years. Today there are over 6 million Mormons in the United States, 1.2 million in Mexico, and over a million in Brazil.
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Champions League Preview: Group D
Perhaps the most evenly split of the eight groups, Group D doesn't feature any European giants, but rather regulars who fail to make it into the later stages of the competition. This could be the chance for all four teams to have a memorable run, with little to separate one another. Gregor Kerr previews Group D in the UEFA Champions League.
The most fancied of the four, the Portuguese champions have found progression to the round of 16 a regular occurrence of late, three times in the last five years. With the parity in quality they will expect the same result this year.
As so often is the case with Dragões, high profile players left over the summer for handsome fees. The promising Diego Dalot left for Manchester United, while Ricardo Pereria isn't too far away, now residing in Leicester.
Their strong core of players such as Hector Herrera, Vincent Aboubakar and Yacine Brahimi should be enough to carry them through, but keep an eye out for the youthful Riechedly Bazoer and Jorge, both arriving on loan in the summer.
Their season has started as expected domestically, with a loss to Vitoria de Guimaraes preventing a 100% record after four games.
To the surprise of many Lokomotiv were placed in Pot 1 for the group stage draw, thanks to winning the Russian Premier League the previous season, of a tightly packed group, they by far have the least European pedigree. Years of mid-table obscurity were consigned to the past with their first league title win since 2004, under familiar manager Yuri Semin.
Their last experience in the group stages came back in 2003-04, making it successfully out of a group containing Arsenal's Invincibles team, though Monaco stopped them from progressing any further than the first knockout round. Semin, in one of his four spells at the club, was the man in the dugout that season,
Striker Fedor Smolov arrived as a source of goals recently from Krasnodar, though they are still to arrive with one in five games. A hopeful partnership with Manuel Fernandes, also a regular in Portugal's World Cup campaign, is yet to sparkle and a lack of goals appears likely.
Moscow, in 9th place, are already ten points off the pace of league leaders Zenit, and as their schedule becomes more packed, you can anticipate that gap to grow. They can of course take inspiration from their national team, who upset the odds recently. On the realistic side of things, they face a huge challenge.
FC Schalke
Unlike their Portuguese opposition, the start to Die Knappen's Bundesliga season has been nothing short of disastrous. Three losses in as many games has been compounded by a clear lack of discipline, having been reduced to ten men on two of those occasions.
Had such a strong core of players not left in the summer then the results may have been tipped in the opposite direction. Max Meyer, Leon Goretzka and Thilo Kehler all departed and most concerning, the first two left without a fee, meaning summer replacements would have to be on the cheap, and it has appeared that way.
Their finest campaign in the Champions League came at the start of the decade, when despite a poor league campaign, they reached the semi-finals, under the watch of two different managers during the season. Under Felix Magath they negotiated past a tricky Valencia side, before Ralf Ragnick stepped in to defeat Inter Milan in the quarter final.
Manchester United in the semi-final proved a step too far, and a 5-1 aggregate defeat followed.
Gala rank amongst the most feared of away trips, the ferocity of the home crowd and the pressure put on visiting teams ensure that matches should be tight.
But for all of their external qualities they do have talent in the team, particularly in the attacking department. At 6'3 Eren Derdiyok is a useful target-man and could be the required foil for the more diminutive Henry Onyekuru, the young Nigerian forward on loan from Everton.
Manager Faith Terim is undergoing his fourth spell in charge of the Super Lig champions, with the first being the most fruitful between 1996 and 2000, with four league titles sandwiched in those years.
In that time he mastered Gala to their first, and only ever European title, defeating Arsenal in the 2000 UEFA Cup final, with the UEFA Super Cup following soon.
Last season Terim won his seventh league crown with the club, finishing three points ahead of Fenerbahce to claim their first title in three years, and this season has started just as promising.
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