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Authorities stand inside the Sacred Journey, 1103 Massachusetts St., Thursday afternoon. A bill to ban K2, the blended drug creating this controversy, is currently working through Kansas legislature.
that this would happen and I knew it would happen to me because I'm the first one here in the morning."
She said she thought the store might lose customers who think K2 was illegal because of the searches.
Bouncing Bear Botanicals, a website that sells herbs, entheogens, and K2, was also served with a federal search warrant Thursday morning. The warehouse facility for the website is located in Oskaloasa.
Ryan Vanchieri works in shipping at the company's headquarters. He said officers from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, FDA and Jefferson County sheriffs detained, handcuffed, searched and questioned employees. He said they searched computer files and seized business
"They were really nice about it." Vanchieri said. "But they were stealing private property."
property.
Jefferson County Attorney Caleb Stegall announced that Bouncing Bear owner Jonathan Sloan was arrested during the operation and was being held in Jefferson County Jail on charges of possession of controlled substances. Formal charges are expected to be filed today.
Vanchieri said he thought the business was going to be shut down for good.
He said the entire property was confiscated and employees were not allowed to return to the premises.
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BEER
The brew, not the glass, is a smash
LONDON — Soon Britons will be able to get smashed at the pub while their pint glasses won't.
The shatterproof pint glass was proudly unveiled by the government Thursday. Officials swore the country would save billions in health care costs by coming up with a glass that doesn't double as a lethal weapon.
But noticeably, no officials were talking about reforming the British
binge drinking culture at the root of the problem.
There are about 87,000 alcohol-related glass attacks each year, with many resulting in hospital visits, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said as he introduced the two prototype shatterproof pint glasses.
"Glassing causes horrific injuries and has a lasting and devastating impact on victims and their families," Johnson said. "I hope these designs will help bring an end to such attacks."
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ing off its feet that are seven inches long," Martin said. "This would be like trying to run with snow shoes that are taped onto your feet, sideways."
David Alexander, an assistant professor of biology and expert on modern animal flight, said the four-winged gliders couldn't fold their wings into a neat package like other birds because the muscle attachments didn't allow for it; the seven-inch feathers at its feet stuck straight up.
Amanda Falk, a graduate student from Milan, Mich., said the Micraptor would have had serious problems on the ground.
"Chances are pretty good that it probably moved around on the ground like a sloth," Falk said.
Team members said they used an innovative technique to mold the Microraptor fossil by making three-dimensional casts of the bones.
David Burnham, vertebrate paleontology preparator and lab supervisor at the museum, embedded an optimum clear plastic sheet to hold the bones in place, poured rubber over both sides to make an impression and made a plastic cast from the impression.
"Plastic replicas are easy to manipulate so, in that manner, we were able to reconstruct the skeleton," he said. "People think these fossils are like holy artifacts and can't be touched. But, if you're going to learn from fossils, you have to prepare them and use them as scientific objects."
Alexander said after tweaking the glider model a few times -- creating breakaway wings, distributing the center of gravity between the front wings and developing a catapult for stability -- the team received stable results.
"When we released the model, within any one session, it was pretty consistent," Alexander said. "We had a lot of good glides. Setting it off an eight-foot ladder we were getting 30 to 40 feet glides and from a ten-foot ladder we saw 60-foot glides."
A new theory emerged from the glider's success.
Burnham said an animal that uses gravity to navigate, like the Microraptor, makes sense. The ground-up theory of the origin of flight is essentially like the anti-gravity approach — it has to have special conditions.
"We just fell back on common sense and tried to see if we could have a logical, simple explanation for this," Burnham said. "It's problem solving in the simplest form."
In December, Larry Martin, David Burnham and Amanda Falk, three team members involved in the research of the Microraptor, discovered the poisonous aspect of the animal while they were attempting to delineate the different species of the Microraptor.
First Venomous Raptor
Martin said he and Burnham began to look through published descriptions of the animal and noticed noticed unique grooves in a bone in the upper-jaw called the maxillary, a bone often found in venomous animals.
The Microraptor's cousin, the Sinornithosaurus, wasn't such a friendly fellow.
OTHER NOTABLE PALEONTOLOGY FINDS FROM THE PAST
Edited by Kelly Gibson
This past summer Martin and Burnham went to China to verify what they had found and to visit with their colleague, professor Enbu Gong, who had a significant role in the Microraptor research.
Martin said their trip confirmed their hunch and, while they were looking at other museums in China, they found two more specimens of the same kind of animal.
500-Million-Year-Old Jellyfish
Three University researchers uncovered "fossil snapshots" of jellyfish more than 500 million years old. The oldest was found in October 2007.
One of the researchers, Bruce Lieberman, professor of geology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum, said the significance is three-fold.
"We showed that jellyfish probably evolved much earlier than had been suspected," Lieberman said. "Or they underwent a really incredibly rapid period of evolution."
Lieberman said some of the jellyfish they found could be described as similar to modern forms of jellyfish, which suggests the ancient jellyfish to be quite complex. In the past, jellyfish
lived similar lifestyles as modern jellyfish, but their eating habits still remain a mystery.
"Although we don't know that yet," Lieberman said, "it means that oceans early on, 500 million years ago, were ecologically much more complex than what had traditionally been thought."
Paulyn Cartwright, assistant professor of evolutionary biology,and Jonathon Hendricks, postdoctoral researcher in geology, were also part of the discovery.
Connection in Spider Evolution
For almost 20 years the evidence was right in front of their eyes.
Paul Seldon and his colleague Bill Shear didn't realize that the fossils they found almost 20 years ago would lead them to the missing connection between the species orders of today's spiders and ancient spiders from the past.
In 1989, the duo found what they believed to be the oldest-known spider preserved as tiny fragments, about 380 million years old. Seldon, Gulf-Hedberg distinguished professor of invertebrate paleontology, said the fragments could be recognized by their distinctive cuticle pattern and pieced together.
"It's like a jigsaw puzzle with only half the pieces and no picture on the box lid." Seldon said.
In the 1990's Seldon and Shear, the Trinkle professor of biology at Hampden-Sydney College, collected more samples in upstate New York. Their findings indicated abnormalities in the shape of the spider, including a tail.
In December 2008, it dawned on Seldon and Shear that what they had actually found was a new order of arachnids. They classified this order as Uraraneida, which translates to tailed spiders.
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