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Well, I picked up my axles today. $400 later....don't tell the wife, hide the receipt . I once read on the Vortex that when you start hiding the parts reciepts you know you have a VW problem.
In short:
- Purchased two 1992/1993 Eurovan (T4) front axles without ABS. Pulled CV joints off these and the two Mk1 axles and cleaned up the axles.
- Took all the axles to axle guy and he cut them up and welded them back together at the appropriate length, such that the inner end/spline was T4 and the outer end/spline was Mk1. See below for use of only Mk1 axles in this process.
Note to file: I had two driver's axles and two passenger axles that were slightly different lengths than the other. And there are solid Mk1 passenger side axles and tube passenger side axles (see photos near bottom of this post). I am not sure if I had Mk1 vs. Mk2 axles, or what, but I had two different lengths and two different styles that seemed to fit my Mk1 rabbit. I just used my original axles for this projects to be sure I was keeping apples with apples. But, to shorten the passenger side axles like I do below, you will need a solid passenger side axle!!!
The Long Story:
Problem 1:
On the 020 transmission, the distance between the axle flange seats is 9 3/16". On the 02M transmission, the same distance is 11 3/4". Therefore, the total length of both axles (COMBINED) needs to be 2 9/16" shorter on the 02M than it was on the 020.
I measured this flange to flange distance on each tranny, and also the "axle length" distance between each flange and its corresponding wheel bearing axle seat (driver's side and pasenger side). With vehicle resting on the ground (weight on tires), my original 020 driver's side flange to bearing measurement was 17 3/4" and the passenger side was 26 1/8". (This distance will vary a bit car to car depending on ride height, spring type, strut insert stiffness, etc.) With the 02M mounted, these same distances were 16" and 25 3/8". Subtracting the 02M lengths from the 020 lengths gives a 1 3/4" difference on the driver's (short) side and a 3/4" difference on the passenger (long) side, with a total measured difference of 2 8/16"....which miracuously was only 1/16" off from my measured flange to flange difference above. So, I feel pretty good about the amount of axle shortening that was needed...specifically, 1 3/4" off the driver's side and 3/4" off the passenger side axles. This should be consistent for all Mk1s, but make your own measurements.
Problem 2:
The 020 inner CV joint is 100 mm diameter but the 02M flange is for 108 mm CV joints. In addition, the spline on the 020 axles is smaller and has more splines than the original 02M axles, AND the 02M axles are a bigger diameter tube, possibly leading to axle to frame clearance issues on the longer passenger side of the vehicles.
Solutions 2: Change inner axle spline and inner CV joint to 108mm or make adapters that fit between the 100 mm CV and the 02M Flange. Since you need to shorten axles, it did not really make sense to me to create an adapter like this:
Because this adapter shortens the cv to cv distance even more (increasing angle) and you have to make short axles AND the adapters. Double effort.
So, I did some research on Vortex, wrote a few PMs and emails, and found that the 1991-1993 Eurovan (T4) had 108 mm inner CV joints that fit the 02M flanges perfectly (The T4 inner CVs look identical to the 02M inner CVs). AND, the T4 108 mm CV axle spline is the same diameter and spline count as the Mk1 rabbit axles. HOWEVER, the spline shape is slightly different between the Mk1 and T4. BUT, Even with this slight spline shape difference I found that you could pretty readily press the T4 axles onto and off the Mk1 axles without doing significant damage to the splines. In fact, I could not see any damage to either the axle or CV spline after removal. What I FORGOT to check is whether you can put the locking Circlip on the Mk1 axle when the T4 CV is pressed onto it. I think it will fit if you DO NOT put the backing washer onto the Mk1 axle first...just let the T4 CV bump up against the angle at the end of the splines. Without the washer, I think there is enough space to get a circlip into its groove, but CHECK THIS BEFORE you make your shortened axles with Mk1 inner splines.
Regardless of the "rough fit" of the T4 inner CVs on the Mk1 Axles, since I had to cut and shorten the axles, I chose to purchase T4 axles and use a section of the inner T4 axles & splines as the inner portion of my newly shortened Mk1/02M axles. Thus, assuring a true inner and outer CV fit.
There are some other potential options out there that i discussed a bit here: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3741455
Once I knew how I was going to go about the axle change, and had the measurments, I tried to cut the axles myself with a horizontal metal band saw. What to my dismay did I find, but that the axles are hardened and the saw wouldn't cut...to be expected I suppose, but I didn't really think about it until this point.
Since I didn't know how deep the hardening went, and I didn't have the tools to work with hardened steel, and didn't want to buy them, I found a local guy who does contract work for a local ring and pinion shop, and had him shorten, weld, and straighten my axles for me.
Here's the process he used:
1. Cut the axles...cutting the slightly larger T4 axles an inch longer than needed.
2. Lathed the cut end of the T4 axle so it had a 1/2 inch diameter by 1" long stem (male end).
3. Lathed a 1/2 inch diameter hole in the cut end of the Mk1 axles.
4. Beveled T4 AND Mk1 cut ends at a 45 degree angle down to the base of the 1/2" stem and down to the end of the Mk1 axle where the lathed hole started. The bevels was cut so that when the axles were mated together, the two 45 degree angles met at the bottom/middle, but instead of a "V" shape at the bottom of the bevel, he made it a "U" shape, which evidently allows for a stronger first weld (sharp weld angles are weaker than rounded weld angles).
5. Threaded the stem and tapped the hole in each set of axles, then screwed the 1" long stem into the tapped hole such that the "U"-shaped bevel met cleanly in the middle.
6. Heated the axles a bit (I guess about 600 degrees is optimal??? and heat on the entire axle just before welding helps keeps the carbon from sucking out of the hardened steel and into the hotter weld) and stick welded the first weld layer around the bottom of the bevel using a high penetration welding rod. Evidently, the stick welder penetrates better than a wire-feed, although I have been told that using flux-core wire AND shielding gas on a mig wire feed welder also penetrates very well. After a round or two around the axle splice with the stick welder, he then continued to fill the bevel with a mig welder, turning the axle so that the weld heat was applied radially around the axle, not all in one spot at one time. This helps reduce warpage.
7. Following welding, he cleaned up the weld area on the lathe and measured for straightness. The long passenger axle warped about 0.100 inches out of true, so I think he lathed off a bit on the "high" side to bring it within 0.010 of straight. then measured wobble at the ends and found them to be off only by about 0.002 inches, which should be plenty good. The shorter driver's side axle was 0.040 inches out of true in the middle near the weld, but since the ends of this axle were also within 0.002 inches and he did not get "wobble" at 600 rpm on his lathe, he just left this short axle without "truing it up".
In this process, I found that the axles are only hardened about 1/8" of an inch or so into the shaft. So, if you are doing this, it is quite possible, using a cut-off wheel, to first grind into the axle through the hardened part, then cut the rest of the way with a good steel band saw. Once inside the axle metal is relatively soft and easy to work on. Now I know I can play with these on my own if I want to in the future.
- So, I brought the axles home and this is what they looked like:
you can see the long axle was turned most of its length to get rid of the warpage and make it the same diameter its full length. The T4 axles are slightly larger diameter than the Mk1 axles...and you can see the slight change on the shorter axle in the above picture.
I then painted the axles and put on new Mk1 larger diameter (Scirocco; 90 mm) outer CV joints and new T4 inner CV joints and the axles looked like this:
Note, the end cap like this:
was taken off of the 02M CV. It is a great addition to stop CV grease from flinging all over the engine bay, and makes the fit onto the 02M flanges just perfect
The new CV joints all came with new CV-to-flange bolts, which I used to attach the inner CVs to the 02M flanges.
When I first tried to put my axles in, with the tires hanging, I found that I could not fit the 108 mm inner CVs up into the engine compartment far enough to allow the outer CV splines into the hubs. the bigger Tranny and bigger CVs just don't squeeze up far enough to allow outer CV to clear the wheels. So, I undid my ball joint, pulled the hub out a bit, put the outer CV into the hub, then pushed the hub and axle assembly onto the inner 02M axle flange, and put the ball joint stud back into the hub/spindle. Kind of a pain, but only one ball joint bolt...so not too bad.
The fit seemed very good, such that when the outer CV was locked into its running position, and weight off the wheels, the lowest edge of the inner CV rested in position on the inner flange. Because of the unweighted angle of the axles, to insert and tighten the inner CV mount bolts, I had to pull and angle the inner CV a bit. I think this is a fine fit. Will report again later on fit once I get weight on the wheels and drive a bit. Here are some picks of axle fit:
Passenger Side
Driver's Side
And here is a comparison of my shortened axles, Stock Mk1 axles, and the stock 02M axles:
I think the stock 02M driver's side axles may be an appropriate length to be used in this swap, if you wanted to have the outer axle spline ground to fit an 020 outer CV.
A bit more information to come!!
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Graphics card upgrade
I just want to share with people a pleasant experience that I have had with
the greatly improved response of interactive 3D graphics in Mathematica 6
having upgraded my graphics card.
Old card: ATI Radeon 9600. Fill rate 1300 MTextels/s. This card is very nice
for general purpose use, but it struggles to keep up with large interactive
3D graphics.
New card: nVidia 7600GS. Fill rate 4800 MTextels/s. This choice of card was
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performance of the-new-versus-the-old graphics card.
It seems that a modest investment in a good graphics card is well worthwhile
if you plan to do interactive graphics with Mathematica 6. Presumably, a
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Re: How to produce variable substitution list?
On 2008-07-29 06:11:06 -0400, Valeri Astanoff <astanoff at gmail.com> said:
> On 29 juil, 07:47, Stoney Ballard <ston... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a straight-forward way to write a function that takes a list
>> of symbols that are bound in the calling environment and produce a
>> list such as is produced by Solve, like {var1->val1, var2->val2,...}?
>> Currently, I'm using an expression (not a function) like {Hold[var1]-> var=
> 1, Hold[var2]->var2}, which produces the right result, but it
>> looks bad to duplicate the symbols. I want something that looks clean,
>> like bindings[var1, var2,...].
>> I know this isn't lisp, and there's no binding environment as such,
>> but it would expect this to be doable.
>> TIA for any suggestions.
>> - Stoney
> Good day,
> This is a solution inspired from Roman Maeder's
> "Programming in Mathematica":
> In[1]:= SetAttributes[myRules,HoldAll];
> myRules[vars_List]:=
> With[{vv=Map[Hold,MapAt[Hold,Hold[vars],{1,0}],{2}][[1]]},
> List@@(# -> ReleaseHold[#]& /@ vv)
> ];
> In[2]:= var1=3; var2=5;
> myRules[{var1,var2}]
> Out[4]= {Hold[var1]->3,Hold[var2]->5}
> V.Astanoff
It's too bad the quoted-printable conversion made your code difficult
to read in the newsgroup. Once I realized that "With" ignored "Hold",
your solution worked fine. While investigating it, I came up with this
simplified form, which seems to produce the same result:
myRules[vars_List] := Thread[Rule[Map[Hold, Hold[vars], {2}][[1]], vars]]
Thanks for your help.
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Toxicology | Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS (Click on blue links to jump to each section)
Subject Specific Databases
Generalized Databases
Electronic Book and Document Collections
Protocols and Methods Resources
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Handbooks and Tables
Guides to Electronic, Print and Other Resources
Subject Specific Databases
- TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network)A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Includes the following databases: CHEMIDplus, Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), TOXLINE, Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS), Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and Environmental Teratology Information Center (DART/ETIC), GENE-TOX, Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER), LactMed, and Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Other resources include Haz-Map, Household Products Database and TOXMAP. {RG 12/17/13}
•How to cite TOXNET databases (Question 3)
•TOXNET Frequently Asked Questions
•TOXNET training manual (Feb 2013)PDF
- ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology)Author: EPA
Provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life which is useful for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment. Peer-reviewed literature is the primary source for the database including information on the species, chemical, test methods, and results. Another source of test results is independently compiled data files (such as the Pesticide Ecotoxicity database) provided by various United States and International government agencies. ECOTOX is a unified interface providing access to three U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) ecological effects databases: AQUIRE (all aquatic species including freshwater and marine); TERRETOX (terrestrial animal mainly wildlife); and PHYTOTOX (terrestrial plant). Ecology, Toxicology. {RG 12/11/13}
Coverage: 1972-present
- TOXLINE [via ProQuest] Offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. NOTE: ProQuest version enables UC-eLinks (not enabled in TOXNET). {RG 12/18/13}
Coverage: 2000-present
•CSA Fact Sheet
•Setting up Alerts
- Canary Database: Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health HazardsAuthor: Yale University Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Indexes 1000s of scientific studies from MEDLINE, CAB Abstracts, and Agricola to facilitate review of the evidence of animals as "early warning" sentinels of human health hazards.
For each study, curators add information about animal species, exposures, health effects, location, and whether the study includes data providing evidence linking animal sentinel events to human health risk. You can browse the database by year, journal, author, exposure, risk factor, species, outcome, or by methodology. {RG 12/16/13}
Generalized Databases
- Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) [via ProQuest] This database has been replaced by Agricultural & Environmental Science Database from ProQuest.
- PubMed More than 26 million citations and abstracts for articles published in approximately 8,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, health administration, veterinary medicine, nursing, molecular biology and genetics. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine on the NCBI platform.
Coverage: 1946-present
•PubMed Tutorial & more
•Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches)
•NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout [PDF]
•NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout [PDF]
- BIOSIS Previews [via Web of Science] More than 25 million records in all life science areas, including agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, environmental sciences, genetics, microbiology, plant biology, veterinary medicine & pharmacology, and zoology. Indexes over 6000 journals, serials, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and patents.
Coverage: 1926-present
• Quick Reference Card: BIOSIS Previews, 2010
• Online BIOSIS information
• Saving Your Search & Setting Alerts
- CAB Abstracts [via Ovid] FARMED or DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. Citations and abstracts to the international agricultural literature, including veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition. Covers over 11,000 journals & conference proceedings and selected books in agriculture. Produced by CAB (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) International (CABI) with more than 9.0 million records.
CAB DATABASE PDFs: As of January 2009, hard-to-find literature may be available as CAB Database PDFs (so noted *below* the UC-eLinks button). Currently, only Internet Explorer, Chrome & Safari loads these PDFs.
Coverage: 1910-present
•CAB Abstracts Overview
•Database Guide[OvidSP]
•Saved Searches/Alerts/Automatic Updating Service
- SciFinder [Registration Required] SciFinder is the most comprehensive scholarly bibliographic research database for the field of chemistry with >29 million citations; indexes over 10,000 journals. Covers all aspects of chemistry, including chemical aspects of: biology and life sciences, engineering and materials science, food science, geology, medicine, physics, and polymer science. SciFinder also allows searching of chemical substances, chemical reactions, and includes some property data and spectra. It is the online version of Chemical Abstracts.
Coverage: 1907 - present (selected pre-1907)
•Register for SciFinder (Required)
•About SciFinder: Use On & Off-Campus, Troubleshooting & Guides
•Java Plug-in for Structure Searching (optional)
•Direct questions to UCD's contact: Cory Craig, email@example.com, 530/752-0347
- Embase Embase is a biomedical and pharmacological database containing bibliographic records with citations, abstracts and indexing derived from biomedical articles in peer reviewed journals, and is especially strong in its coverage of drug and pharmaceutical research and conference abstracts. Embase contains over 22 million records, with over 1 million records added annually. The Embase journal collection is international with over 7,500 active peer-reviewed journals more than 90 countries. {RG 12/17/13}
Coverage: 1974-current (for EMBASE records); 1966-current
•Embase Getting Started videos
•Saved Searches/Alerts/Automatic Updating Service
•Embase Indexing (Emtree)
- Science Citation Index Expanded [via Web of Science] Multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the peer-reviewed journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Search for articles that cite a known author or work.
Coverage: 1900-present
• Quick Reference Guide: Web of Science Core Collection
• How to create Author Citation Reports
• Saving Your Search & Setting Alerts
• Creating a Citation Alert
- NTRL - National Technical Reports Library NTRL (National Technical Reports Library) is from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) within the Department of Commerce. NTRL provides access to government-sponsored research, development and technical reports with full-text access to reports that have been digitized. Searches over 3 million reports with links to over 800,000 full-text reports. 1964 to present
- WorldCat [via FirstSearch/OCLC] OCLC catalog of millions of records for books, journal titles and materials in other formats from approximately 12,000 libraries worldwide.
Coverage: 1000 A.D.-present
- Dissertation Abstracts International / Dissertations & Theses [via ProQuest] Online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the UMI Dissertation Abstracts database; since 1997, provides full-text access to dissertations. Access is free to UC Campus dissertations.
Publication date coverage: 1861-present
- F1000Prime F1000Prime is a "literature awareness tool ... [which] comprehensively and systematically highlights and reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological and medical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of leading researchers. Through immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, F1000 [Prime] highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than that of the journal in which they appear."
Faculty of 1000 (F1000) Biology & Medicine are merged into one and now called F1000Prime. Includes over 40 Faculties (Broad subject areas such as biochemistry, ecology or plant biology), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections. On average, 1,500 new evaluations are published each month. Faculty members are more than 5,000 experts worldwide (assisted by 5,000 associates) and assess articles from more than 3,500 peer-review journals. {RG 12/11/13}
• F1000Prime Tour
Electronic Book and Document Collections
- Springer eBooks Package Springer eBooks include more than 60,000 titles in English (and selectively in German) from every scientific discipline and many social sciences. This online interface enables all books to be searchable at the full-text level. Scope (textbook areas are starred) ranges from Architecture and Design, *Behavioral Science, *Biomedical and Life Sciences, *Business and Economics, *Chemistry and Materials Science, *Computer Science, *Earth and Environmental Science, *Engineering, *Humanities & Social Sciences and Law, *Mathematics and Statistics, *Medicine, *Physics and Astronomy, to Professional and Applied Computing. NEW books are added monthly. Coverage: 2005-2017
- ENVIROnetBASE [via CRCnetBASE] This full-text ENVIROnetBASE collection includes over 600 environmental sciences handbooks and includes indexing of chapters and their figures, charts, tables, illustrations, formulas and rules of thumb. Environmental sciences areas covered include environmental engineering and biotechnology, agricultural and natural resources, ecology, pollution and more. {RG 12/11/13}
•ENVIROnetBASE scope
- BiomedicalSCIENCEnetBASE [via CRCnetBASE] This full-text collection includes over 500 titles in bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, biomedical imaging, biostatistics, biotechnology, epidemiology, immunology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and toxicology. {RG 12/17/13}
•Collection Scope
- Elsevier eBook Collection [via ScienceDirect] NOTE: Green symbol on right indicates if accessible.
Over ?3,000 books with 2013-2016 publication dates. The Elsevier eBook license comes with broad and favorable rights for scientific, scholarly and educational uses. The collection serves a wide range of research needs in the life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. EXCLUSIONS to the Elsevier collection are textbooks, major reference works, some professional and trade titles, and consumer books. The current year's books continue to be added to the collection throughout the year as they are published simultaneously in both online and print.
Coverage: 2013-2016
- EPA National Service Center for Environmental PublicationsEPA's central repository of all EPA documents with over 7,000 titles available in paper or electronic form.
- Science of Synthesis [Thieme} Science of Synthesis provides an authoritative review of synthetic methods from the early 1800s to the present, for the field of organic and organometallic chemistry. Science of Synthesis is full-text, structure, and reaction searchable. The database also provides links to the primary literature and to related information in the Houben-Weyl electronic archive. (All 4 editions, and the supplemental "E-series" volumes, of the Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations are included in Science of Synthesis.) {Revised RG 12/18/13}
Coverage: 1800's to present
NOTES: 1) Pop-up blockers must be disabled to use Science of Synthesis. 2) Structure searching requires either Java applet capability, or the presence of ChemDraw or ISIS/Draw on the user's computer
•Getting Started: 62 pgs PDF
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters with each yearly data analysis being completed in the summer of the following year. JCR indicates: most frequently cited journals in a field: highest impact journals in a field; and largest journals in a field. JCR Science Edition contains data from over 7,300 journals in science and technology. JCR Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 2,200 journals in the social sciences. NOTE: For disciplines that have longer timespans for citation, consider sorting for ranking by using the 5-year Impact Factor sort.
Release Coverage: 1997-2015 (for 1996-2014 data)
•Information for New JCR Users
•Impact Factors in Wikipedia: validity, manipulation, and misuse of Impact Factors
•Using JCR
- Safari Tech Books Online A collection of computing books that includes the full text of over 300 O'Reilly Press books dating from 2004 to the present. Safari will grow to include all new O'Reilly titles, including the popular In a Nutshell books on important computing topics. The full-text is searchable across titles and searches can be limited to code fragments. Books can also be browsed by topic. Books can be read online, or individual chapter sections can be printed out or emailed. Access is limited to 28 simultaneous UC connections.
Coverage: 2004-present.
• RSS feed of new titles in Safari
Protocols and Methods Resources
- Current Protocols Series [Wiley] Covers over 20,000 updated, peer-reviewed protocols. UC CDL/UCD Library subscribes to THIRTEEN major laboratory methods and protocols series including the classic comprehensive work "Current Protocols in Molecular Biology" with other titles being CP in: Bioinformatics; Cell Biology; Cytometry; Human Genetics; Immunology; Microbiology; Mouse Biology; Neuroscience; Nucleic Acid Chemistry; Protein Science; Pharmacology; and Toxicology. Includes basic, alternate, and support protocols with literature cited and information on suppliers for standard materials and preparation information for reagents and solutions. IMPORTANT NOTE: UC Davis does *NOT* license the following FIVE protocol titles: "Chemical Biology", "Essential Laboratory Techniques", "Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "Plant Biology" (new as of May 2016 with very little content) and "Stem Cell Biology".
Updates: Quarterly or more frequently
- Springer Protocols Springer Protocols contains more than 34,000 (as of September 2014) molecular biology and biomedical peer-reviewed protocols, mostly from the classic series Methods in Molecular Biology, formerly published by Humana Press. Other series included are: Methods in Molecular Medicine; Methods in Biotechnology; Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology; and Neuromethods. Also included are protocols from laboratory handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals.
Coverage: 1980-present
• Ten-page User Guide
- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols A definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database covers specific sections on: Antibodies, Bioinformatics/Genomics, Cell Biology, Chromatography, Computational Biology, DNA Delivery/Gene Transfer, Electrophoresis, Genetics, High-Throughput Analysis, Imaging/Microscopy, Immunology, Laboratory Organisms, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Plant Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Proteins and Proteomics, RNA Interference (RNAi)/siRNA, Stem Cells, and Transgenic Technology. Unique to this resource is the ability to submit a protocol. Other unique features include protocol recipes and protocol cautions. Coverage: 2006-present {RG 12/11/13}
• Search Help
- Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) Author: MYJoVE Corporation
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.
July 2014: JoVE Science Education section in process for licensing {still not accessible September 2014}
Coverage: Access currently to JoVE General section and all journal subsections
Date: 2006- (General) 2013- (subsections)
- Methods in Enzymology [Science Direct -- Elsevier] Methods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. As of 2017, videos are selectively being added to accompany the written methods. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 500 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
- Bio-protocolA rapidly growing collection of peer-reviewed, life science protocols organized by 11 different fields of study and 10 different organisms. Protocols are organized chronologically with a detailed guide on how to reproduce a given experiment. Each protocol also contains an interactive and moderated Q & A section to facilitate open communication between protocol authors and the research community. Coverage: Jan 2011 – present.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Comprehensive Toxicology [via ScienceDirect] Author: Charlene McQueen (Editor in Chief)
This 14-volume set covers all aspects of toxicology: Volume 1: General Principles; Volume 2: Cellular and Molecular Toxicology; Volume 3: Toxicology Testing and Evaluation; Volume 4: Biotransformation; Volume 5: Immune System Toxicology; Volume 6: Cardiovascular Toxicology; Volume 7: Renal Toxicology; Volume 8: Respiratory Toxicology; Volume 9: Hepatic Toxicology; Volume 10: Gastrointestinal Toxicology; Volume 11: Reproductive and Endocrine Toxicology; Volume 12: Developmental Toxicology; Volume 13: Nervous System and Behavioral Toxicology; and Volume 14: Carcinogenesis. Useful for "Toxicology researchers, academic and medical practitioners, food science researchers, environmental researchers and consultants, forensic scientists, and occupational health and safety institutes." {RG 12/17/13}
- Dictionary of Toxicology [via ScienceDirect] Editors: Ernest Hodgson & Michael Roe, 3rd edition.
This "compendium of definitions of all current toxicological terminology" is an "authoritative reference" illustrating and describing "words, concepts, acronyms and symbols for both the toxicological theory and applied risk assessment, as well as providing guidance on the correct selection of problematic, similar and frequently-misused terms." All sections are peer-reviewed and updated with this 3rd edition. New to this edition is the "inclusion of all terminology and concepts relating to molecular toxicology, nanotoxicology and computational toxicology."
- Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology [Springer] Author: Editors: Jean-François Férard, Christian Blaise
Includes 104 chapters over two volumes. The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Ecotoxicology "reveals the diversity of issues, problems and challenges that have faced, and are facing today, receiving environments. It also indicates ways by which tools, strategies and future investigations can contribute to correct, minimize, solve and prevent water quality degradation."
Entries range from: Acid Rain Toxicity, Biomarkers of Ecological Relevance in Ecotoxicology, Estrogenic Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals, Nanomaterials in the Environment, Polychaetes in Ecotoxicology, to Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Ecosystems. [RG 1/15/14]
Date: 2013
- Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry [Science Direct -- Elsevier] Author: Editors-in-Chief: William J. Lennarz and M. Daniel Lane
The 2nd edition of this four-volume comprehensive work covers all aspects of biological chemistry including: Bioenergetics; Cell Architecture and Function; Lipids Carbohydrates Membranes and Membrane Proteins; Metabolism Vitamins and Hormones; Molecular Biology; Protein/Enzyme Structure Function and Degradation; and Signaling. {RG 12/17/13}
Date: 2013
- Dictionary of Scientific Biography (complete) [via Gale Virtual Reference Library] This classic encyclopedia covering scientists from all time periods and all fields of science has been completely revised. This "complete" online version includes all the entries from both the new (2008) edition and the original edition.
Handbooks and Tables
- Handbook of Toxicology [BIOMEDICALSCIENCEnetBASE] 3rd edition. This extensive 1,000+ page handbook "provides an updated practical reference source for practicing toxicologists in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, contract laboratories, regulatory agencies, and academia. Written by experts in their specific toxicology fields, the chapters provide both fundamental and applied information. Topics range from General Toxicology, to Genetic Toxicology, Human Clinical Toxicology, Histopathology, Clinical Pathology, Metabolism and Toxicokinetics, Risk Assessment, and more."
- Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals [via ScienceDirect] Editors: Gunnar F. Nordberg, Bruce A. Fowler & Monica Nordberg. 4th edition. Comprehensive 2-volume set on " basic toxicological data, emphasizing toxic effects primarily in humans, but also those of animals and biological systems in vitro." The 4th edition also "contains several new chapters on important topics such as nanotoxicology, metals in prosthetics and dental implants, gene-environment interaction, neurotoxicology, metals in food, renal, cardiovascular, and diabetes effects of metal exposures ..."
- Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)Free, up-to-date MSDSs (Material Safety Data Sheets) provided by manufacturers. {RG 12/18/13}
•MSDS via ChemQuick
- RightAnswer® Knowledge Solutions [MicroMedex] NOTE: Individual registration required--although access is free to UC Davis affiliated users.
Includes information (some full-text) on thousands of potentially hazardous chemicals, focusing on effects of hazardous substances on humans and the environment. Most information duplicates what is already in TOXNET but the major resource unique to RightAnswer is RTECS (Registry of the Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances). {RG 12/18/13}
- Household Products DatabaseProvides information on many common household products which includes: a listing of chemical ingredients (with CAS number), health effects, handling, disposal, and manufacturer (with contact information). Can be searched by: brand name, chemical name, health effects, type of product, manufacturer, product category or alphabetical list of products. {RG 12/18/13}
•How To Search the Household Products Database
- Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials The primary source for those who need to evaluate the hazardous potential of substances used in commerce. Combines data on toxicological, flammability, reactivity, explosive potential, and regularity information on approximately 26,000 substances, including 2600 new entries. Also includes Immediately Dangerous Life or Health (IDLH) levels for approximately 1,000 chemicals. It also covers exposure-level classifications for a number of regulatory agencies, from OSHA to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Especially important in areas of industrial hygiene, safety, emergency response, law, and policy making. {Added RG 12/18/13}
Date: 2005
- Merck Index: an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicalsThe Merck Index contains over 11,000 entries (referred to as monographs) mostly for single substances and related compounds (isomers, salts, etc.). Some families of natural products and biological substances are included as well. Data provided include: chemical, generic, and brand names; CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) registry numbers; physical data and literature references; structures and stereochemistry; toxicity; and information on therapeutic and non-medicinal uses.
The Merck Index Online also includes sections on: organic name reactions, and additional tables. The Merck Index can be searched by structure with installation of a free ChemDraw plug-in available on the structure search page. {RG 12/18/13}
•Merck User Help Guides
•Also in print Shields Ready Ref (1st Flr Ref) & PSE Reference (Chem Ref Table) RS 51 .M4 -- 2013 on order (Shields) & 1996 (PSE)
- CHEMnetBASE [via CRC Press] Collection of searchable major chemical reference works. {RG 12/17/13}
•Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD)Includes Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds, Dictionary of Drugs (formerly Pharmasource), Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds, Dictionary of Natural Products, and Dictionary of Organic Compounds
•CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics
•Dictionary of Carbohydrates
•Dictionary of Food Compounds
•Dictionary of Natural Products
•Dictionary of Marine Natural Products
•Properties of Organic Compounds
•Polymers: A Property Database
- Open-iAuthor: National Library of Medicine
This open-access biomedical image search engine in is Beta test but has good retrievals for most major biomedical topics. Open-i helps "users retrieve not only the MEDLINE citation information, but also the outcome statements in the article and the most relevant figure from it. Further, it is possible to use the figure as a query component to find other relevant images or other visually similar images." {RG 12/16/13}
- AP Images [via EBSCO] This site is an ever-changing collection of over 700,000 photographs from the Associated Press news service, historic images. Most of the images are contemporary and date from 1995 forwards and all include descriptive captions and source information.
Coverage: 1844-present; current file contains 1995-present
Guides to Electronic, Print and Other Resources
- Environmental Health and Toxicology Portal [SIS]Free portal which organizes topic pages on Chemicals and Drugs, Diseases and the Environment, Environmental Health, Occupational Safety and Health, Poisoning, Risk Assessment and Regulations, Toxicology, and Pesticide Exposure. User-focused portals for the Public, Researchers/Scientists, Health Professionals, Students/Educators, and Emergency Responders. Includes excellent Reference tools section with AtoZ list of resources. {RG 12/18/13)
- Chemical Info. Sources/SIRCh/Chem. Safety Searches & Toxicology SearchesIncludes material safety data sheets, guides to chemical safety, toxicology information, environmental sources, laws and regulations. {RG 12/18/13}
- Toxicology: Open Directory ProjectHighly selective guide to free Web resources and websites on topics such as ecotoxicology and medical toxicology. Includes information on associations and education and also provides related topics links. {RG 12/18/13}


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Journalist, tap dancer among 2015 genius grant winners
(Reuters) - A journalist whose work focuses on race and racism in the United States and a New York City tap dancer and choreographer are among the 24 winners of $625,000 genius grants, the U.S. organization awarding them said on Monday.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation annually makes the awards as "seed money for intellectual, social, and artistic endeavors," according to the organization. The grants are paid out over five years.
This year's winners include Ta-Nehisi Coates, 39, whose journalism for the Atlantic and book "Between the World and Me" have provided context to a national debate on racism and police violence raging in response to numerous high-profile police killings of unarmed black people over the last year.
"These 24 delightfully diverse MacArthur Fellows are shedding light and making progress on critical issues, pushing the boundaries of their fields, and improving our world in imaginative, unexpected ways," MacArthur President Julia Stasch said in a statement.
The group, which began its program in 1981 to provide money to help fund the specialized work of ambitious free-thinkers, uses anonymous nominators and selection committees to decide who gets the grants.
Recipients, who usually do not know they are being considered unless they win, join 918 other MacArthur fellows, the group said.
Among the 2015 winners are:


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I have a strong interest in Theravadan Buddhism. Over the last couple of years I've read an entire bookshelf of Buddhist books, listened to hours of podcasts, developed a disciplined meditation practice, but have only attended one formal Buddhist meeting; Against the Stream in Santa Monica. I can't make the excuse that there are no opportunities to take part in a sangha--since I do live in Southern California.
As a matter of fact just about a mile from my house is Wat Padhammachart in La Puente, CA, a Thai Buddhist temple. I pass by it often and have visited their web page, but it's entirely written in Thai. The pictures show no Westerners. Moreover it seems to have more of the feel of a Thai cultural center that a spiritual center, which is alright, but . . .
Is there anyone here who is familiar with Wat Padhammachart? It would be good to talk to someone about the place who's been there before I visit. Or failing that just some general advice on visiting the temple and inquiring about classes.


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I have listened to the interview, and the subsequent short commentary on Area 51. I have not seen the book and do not particularly want to. Presumably Jacobsen's narrative about Area 51 is reasonably close to the truth (?) but the part about the Roswell affair is, we can say with near certainty, total trash.
Yet there are plenty of people who will rush out and buy this book. It will have a few days, maybe weeks, of fame, then fade from the news. In other countries, such as the UK and Europe, it will most likely never even get into the news.
By cda, at Friday, May 27, 2011
You Brits, CDA, are more sensible than we Yanks.
Media here, of which most of he RRRGroup is part, is not objective in any sense of the word.
Media constantly seeks out sensational items, to garner ratings, readers, and thus advertisers.
It's shameful, despicable almost, as journalism is or should be a calling like the priesthood.
The buying of the book goes to my constant harping on the nature of the rabble, whom Nick Redfern finds to be okay and "nice."
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I posted an essay yesterday regarding another form of the same phenomenon of ignorance posing as insight which centers around the connections between a recent essay connecting the Men In Black with Aspergers Syndrome and then then turns a full circle back to Peter Gersten when the author changed the title of his piece based on my own and another's comments. Lunacy in it's many forms can also draw blood. Is all this a case of massive cross contamination in the information field as opposed to critical thinking?
We luv ya man, but your comment really belongs inside another posting here, not this one.
(I'll leave it up, but you might consider re-sending it to its proper venue. Thanks.)
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I drink beer, I watch loads of reality TV, I watch English football every day, I go down the pub. I like the rabble cuz I'm one of them, and proud in the process!
By Nick Redfern, at Friday, May 27, 2011
Anthony Bragalia has also done something on the Jacobsen book, having contacted her "source" for the alleged Roswell bits.
See it at:
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
Well, you may be right and yet isn't this a war of vested propaganda that is a competitive sport of narratives post editorially attempting to apply euclidean rationality to a ( as of yet) undetermined series of entangled anomalies? A narrative myth to sell a book about Area 51, a Heavens Gate myth to commit suicide by, a myth about aspergers attached to MIB, a myth that is informative only in the sense that we cannot fit square pegs into round holes by recycling them as "psychic" propaganda in the information field in order to keep our old conceptual models from vanishing, and the attempts are getting more deluded in many a stunning example of a form of cross contamination. You of course could be right, and I of course could have posted this in the wrong venue. Sorry about that.
Since you believe that everything is connected, I guess posting your comment hither rather than yon makes sense.
I just thought that persons would find it more relevant in a spot where the contents matched.
No need to aplogize.
Insights from you are grist for enlightenment where ever they appear.
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I'm having an e-mail dialogue with Bragalia at the moment.
He thinks that the O'Donnell story, passed on to Jacobsen, is true, but O'Donnell experienced a satged event -- ostensibly, if I understand him rightly, to throw off scientists at Area 51 about the ET nature of the 1947 Roswell "crash."
I told Tony the story gets loopier and loopier, so you and I are in agreement it seems.
Roswell will not die! It is the summa bonum of UFO believers I'm afraid.
(And yes, we're abetting the damn thing by posting at our blogs ongoing Roswell nonsense. You have a mea culpa from me for that.)
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I have read Bragalia's article and agree with Paul Kimball's conclusions. Bragalia is as guilty as Annie Jacobsen and is peddling more garbage about Roswell, garbage of a different kind, but still garbage.
Instead of the old guy McDonnell being the one who (mis)informed Ms Jacobsen, we now have him portrayed as an innocent victim of someone else, who is anonymous. And the case gets more and more complicated, as usual.
Boy, are we making progress!
By cda, at Friday, May 27, 2011
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
Paul and CDA:
Tony's interview is not journalistic, I agree.
His training is not in the methods of the Fourth Estate, obviously.
But he thinks he has a story, which I told him earlier was trumped by ABC's Nightline segment last night (5/26).
Be that as it may, we (mostly me) try to accomodate all views, goofy and otherwise, here.
I have few loopy insertions of my own, as you know and won't dispute.
If someone makes an effort to present an item, and offers it graciously and with some attempt at creativity, even if lacking logic or common sense, I'll give them a venue.
After all, I don't want to be a total fascist....
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
You know Paul, you are all talk. I'd like to see you be able to find and interview Annie Jacobsen's source.
And guess what: I've found several other of her EG&G sources! So you must give some credit to me that I am resourceful in researching documents and successfully hunting people down.
And Paul, you do not know what my firm does, but it involves speaking with high-level executives at our nation's defense contractors every day who are my clients. I make professional calls.
And in my UFO investigations, I have interviewed dozens of retired elderly who held high-level intelligence or military posts. There is a way that you must go about approaching them. You must appeal to their sense of things that are larger than themselves, remind them subtly that they are in the winter of their lives, etc.
Remember that O'Donnell said that he would not say anything to me originally? But he wound up saying and confirming much because I did press..
And Paul, using a string of derogatory words such as "shoddy" "wild" and "pitiful" to describe me is unbecoming of you...
Anthony Bragalia
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
Bragalia has an inordinate respect for old people I think. (He treats me well.)
Just as Joseph Capp and a few other "ufologists" do; they treat old witnesses and old people involved in the UFO debacle with kid gloves.
That's nice -- not journalistic or scientific perhaps, but nice.
I, too, was sympathetic to the old man, O'Donnell, as Tony was relating to me, in real time, his contact with the man.
O"Donnell has issues, those that come with being 88 years old.
He was treated with deference by Tony and I give Tony props for that.
But I would have gone for the jugular.
That's just me, however...I'm a bastard.
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
You may have "written about it over the years" but you could not possibly have talked to as many people as I have re Roswell and related areas.
You seem to forget (and I believe now purposely):
O'Donnell would not speak to me at all!!!
He knew that I had "found him out" and he wanted to get off of the phone...
What use would that have been to anyone? What part of that do you not get Paul?
So I tried to keep on truckin'...
I moved the conversation along till he began to 'loosen' somewhat and continue to speak...
Your "old journalism Professor" Paul?- have him contact me directly. There are some that teach and some that do. Get it? And I am new-school, ambush journalism...and as your Uncle Stan says, "we're chasing the undertaker" to get to the truth...
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Again I have to agree with Paul. Tony Bragalia is kind and polite to ageing witnesses, which is well and good. But this is not the point when dealing with important historical facts. Showing respect and deference is simply not enough. As far as I can tell from his interview, this ageing witness had nothing useful to say, nothing at all. What did we learn from him?
Bragalia was out to impress him with his knowledge of Roswell and the USAF cover-up of it. Just like Stan Friedman is out to impress witnesses with his qualifications in nuclear physics, and his knowledge of the grand UFO cover-up. What new info was gained from Tony's interview? Absolutely zilch. The interview was so one-sided that it got nowhere. Meanwhile he promises more revelations to come. There is always "more to come". The perfect way to keep people glued to this blog. "Stay tuned" as they say. Indeed.
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
Well, I did chuckle when I read the ambush journalism thing.
As a bona fide reporter, with a few sons and people here who are also journalists or media staffers, Tony's entitlement tickled me.
But, you're right, I have decried such boasting at UpDates and elsewhere, and our Media web-site eschews such braggadocio when it is so blatantly off the mark.
But Tony Bragalia has credibility in his profession and cachet as a serious researcher with his business, so we cut him some slack when he goes over the top.
See, I treat (some) younger people with deference, just as he treats older folks.
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By Paul Kimball, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I've taken your comments, CDA's, and even Redfern's (privately) to heart.
That's why we've given Tony his own blog, although it's housed in our conglomeration of blogs; not in this set but in another which also houses Nick's files that don't exactly fit with our purposes here.
You'll note that you're commenting inside our presentation of ABC's Nightline segment about Jacobsen from 5/26, not Tony's blog.
We haven't even linked, in a post, Tony's blog posting, although I did give him a nod, here, in comments.
So there is no direct imprimatur, although I wouldn't have been loath to provide Tony's posting here, had ABC not beat him to the punch with Jacobsen's source, unnamed by ABC but known to cognoscenti and us because Tony divulged it earlier in the day, Thursday.
I don't find Tony's "onslaught" to be anathema, no matter how much it rankles a few people -- you, CDA, and maybe Redfern.
Now let's allow the matter to terminate under its own normal volition, or to go forth should others wish it to do so.
By RRRGroup, at Friday, May 27, 2011
I am asking this in all sincerity:
What the hell are you on? Or is there no substance involved and you are just naturally an asshole?
Dear God, you sound as if you have become unhinged. You are embarrassing yourself as and overwrought and rabid wannabe with an inflated sense of self. You're begging for money on your site I see, go beg for the attention that you also seek, elsewhere.
You are rambling on and on between two other people (one a yes-man skeptic, CDA) and trying to incite me and draw me in.
I just realized that maybe I should have used you, Paul, as a prime example when composing my article on UFOs and the Descent into Madness...
Anthony Bragalia
"I think you must forget about your oaths and clearances. The Soviet threat is no longer. It is more than six decades on Alfred! I sometimes almost get emotional about all of this…doesn't, does not truth mean anything? Why have our children's children believe in fantasy, if this is what it was?"
"I will think about it. I will give it some consideration…"
Alfred, have other people called you about this?
"I'm not going to say anything at all about that."
The first response left the door open, it did not completely close and the second response appeared to indicate that others had called, otherwise a simple defensive no or a simply no is a shorter route of response. An act of consideration on this gentleman's part appears to have led him where he does want to go, that is to say being entangled in controversy. Was anything lost in this effort to attempt a dialog? No, this does not appear to be the case. Would a face to face interview been more productive? Of course. I, for one am interested in Mr Kimball's reasoning as to what constitutes shoddy oral research in this example. A narrative appeared necessary to be conveyed inasmuch as that may have just as easily prompted a refutation just as the affirmation regarding Linus Pauling. If the truth is what is paramount, I suggest as well as the history of Roswell suggests, no single narrative supplied by anyone, including this elderly fellow will ever suffice. All of these competitive narratives wag the dog. In the end, it is always about the context of events whether it is a murder case, a Cryptozoic creature or the cold war. Inference in the place of facts is the story of Roswell. It may be a chimera due to the fact it never happened, that it was a feint, an effective intentional ruse. Why did R Regan use the same extremely effective ploy against the Soviets with a non existent Star Wars? Perhaps because it worked before. Look at the same that the U.K used against the Third Reich. Again history tells us it was very effective. On and on.
There is nothing wrong with the man's answer if he thinks her book needed to be released for whatever reason. He did NOT say he wanted to help her make money off the sales of the book.
Furthermore, I think an 80 year old 'confused' man might still prefer to NOT display his emotions on national television. And that's what a deep sense of patriotism is -- it's an emotion.
The two answers are not even exclusive to each other. They don't conflict. He can certainly want to get the word out -- which is accomplished by helping her sell as many books as possible. And he can also feel an emotional need for doing so -- patriotism.
Whatever this guy intended to prove about this woman, he failed in doing so. Instead, this interview proved to me that the person asking the question has a very poor understanding of logic.
By Parakletos, at Saturday, May 28, 2011
The ABC reporter fails to interview objectively. This account of the infamous "Roswell" incident sounds a little far fetched, specifically because none of these claims have ever been made before. That alone does not make it untrue, however one would think if such a story was created in the creative, and or delusional mind of an old man, there would be better points to attack in this story. The ABC reporter fails to be objective and ask any relevant questions. He was intent on attacking this account from the start, and for no good reason from what i can tell. Remember the good old days? When news was news and personal opinions had no place in reporting it? Remember when an interview consisted of objective questions designed to get the facts? Gone are the days of old. C'est la vie.
By Adam, at Saturday, May 28, 2011
The argument between Paul Kimball and Anthony Braglia sums up what is wrong with ufology today.
Take a chill pill and grow up, Paul.
Tony, learn to take criticism, even if you don't think it's fair.
Personally, I think Tony did what he could with an old man who didn't want to say "boo". I've conducted interviews that were like squeezing water out of a rock -- but I didn't use filler to get what was nothing printed into something.
Spare a thought for Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt, who interviewed hundreds of people for their Witness To Roswell.
The transcript of the telecon on Bragalia's blog should be shown to two or three attorneys experienced in courtroom procedures, to see if they agree with me that the questioner (Bragalia) is guilty of 'leading' the witness by the nature of his questions. This is the sort of thing Stanton Friedman does. It has nothing to do with the age or memory of the witness. It is known as suggestibility, using leading questions.
There may be bits of the conversation omitted, but it seems to me that O'Donnell is being very coy about his classified work at Area 51 (which is only to be expected), but that Tony Bragalia has planted, or maybe reinforced, the idea in O'Donnell's mind that ETs were involved at Roswell. My conclusion is that O'Donnell never heard of Roswell when he was at Area 51, but has picked up bits here and there during the past decades, from all the publicity it had. He has told Annie Jacobsen one thing; then Bragalia comes along, reinterviews him and gently persuades O'Donnell that he was the victim of a cover story by his bosses at Area 51. There is nothing in the transcript suggesting that O'Donnell knew, or suspected, the 'truth' during his time at Area 51.
I'd be interested to know, for example, if O'Donnell had read Nick Redfern's book of 5 or 6 years ago. It would also be interesting to see the full transcripts of the Jacobsen-O'Donnell interviews. Do they exist?
Truth will out, Bragalia says. Yes, but only if there is a 'truth' to come out.
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In the late nineteenth century, Rose McQuinn, daughter of a police officer and herself a private investigator, has had to cope with many losses in her life. She lost her husband, Danny McQuinn, when he vanished in Arizona. Her latest beau, Jack Macmerry, seems to have found happiness with another another lover. Then her step-brother, Vince, informs her that he has found the original owner of her deerhound, Thane. Although Rose refuses to hand the dog, her constant companion, back without a fight, she does agree to pay a visit to Thane's original owner, Hubert Staines, who lives in Northumberland. Leaving her beloved Edinburgh, she travels to Northumberland, where she finds that Hubert Staines had an ulterior motive for inviting her to stay. Moreover, there is something suspicious about Hubert's past and deaths that have occurred to his family members. Can Rose unravel the mystery without succumbing to death herself?
To be honest, when I first looked at this book and saw that Rose McQuinn calls herself 'Lady Detective, Discretion Guaranteed', I gave a mental groan and started the book expecting it to be as twee as its main character's title. Within two pages, I had changed my mind. Rose McQuinn is a character with whom I could immediately identify; she has had a hard life and now has found herself single once again, concerned about the future and facing loneliness. Her worry that she is going to lose her beloved pet also struck a chord with me. At the same time, she refuses to give in to her fears and uses her feistiness to forge ahead and get on with her life. I really enjoyed her as a character and, as she tells the story in the first person, I quickly began to enjoy myself.
There is a mystical element to the book. Thane, Rose's deerhound, seems to have almost magical powers and is therefore able to save Rose on many an occasion. Then there is Wolf Rider, a Sioux Indian, who is a shaman and former Circus performer. Again, he seems to have certain powers that enable him to do things that ordinary mortals cannot. Then towards the end of the book there is a situation that is very definitely difficult to explain in terms of our world. I quite liked this otherworldy aspect to the book, although I much preferred it to be hinted at rather than actually happen, which all seemed a bit unnecessary.
I really enjoyed the way that the story was told. Right from the beginning, there is a hint that things are not as they seem at face value, but it is quite a way into the book before the action starts. Far from being a disadvantages, this gives the author plenty of time to build up the atmosphere and I thought she did this really well with plenty of time to set the scene. The fact that the story is set in Victorian England adds another element to the story and although not overly dwelled on, it is interesting to read about Rose's place in society and her family's involvement with the Royal family. My only gripe with the story is that the ending could have been better. I do like a page-turning climax to my crime fiction and although this one was good, it wasn't brilliant.
The style of writing is quite simple and straightforward and I doubt the author will win any literary prizes for it. Nevertheless, it suits the type of book very well and allows the reader to concentrate on the story, rather than being bogged down by superfluous language. The chapters are generally very short, which made the book easy to read - I managed to gallop through it in just a couple of days.
I was really pleasantly surprised by this book. I thought it was going to be stuffy and pretentious; instead, it is unaffected and entertaining. It isn't brilliant, but it certainly kept me occupied for a few hours and I think that fans of crime fiction will enjoy it, particularly if they like historical crime fiction. The author has apparently written a number of other books featuring Rose, as well as some featuring her father, the legendary Inspector Faro, so I am looking forward to reading more of her work.
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The autumn of 1897 began well, but within days Rose McQuinn lost two precious things - her fiance, Jack Macmerry, and her elusive dog, Thane. Her stubborn refusal to give up her job as Lady Detective cost her the man whose love she had taken for granted. A police sergeant couldn't be expected to have a female sleuth for a wife, and so he found comfort in the arms of a more accommodating woman. And now it seems that Thane's real owners have been found. But when Rose tries to return the hound to the Staines family she is called upon to discover the identity of a blackmailer and thief. The family's tragic past colours Rose's search for the truth and plunges her into ever more dangerous waters. Just who can she trust in this isolated haven, and what type of life will she be returning to when she finally leaves?


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