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Dave the motorhome has been out for a wee tour of three ancient troglodyte Berber villages, before returning back to base, this time in the centre of Tataouine in the sandy car park of Hotel Gazelle (N32.92748 E10.44688). We intended to go to Hotel Mabrouk, which is next to Hotel Sangho (you following this?) where we stayed last night, to see if we could negotiate a better deal than Sangho’s rather cheeky 30TD rate. However, popping into town on our way home to get supplies, Ju spotted this place, we nipped in. The rate’s 20TD (€10, without hook-up), winner, relatively speaking as it is just a guarded car park…
Although created by the French and therefore modern, Tataouine is still fascinating and we like it better here as we can walk into town in two minutes. Oh, and our Orange 3G dongle works here too. Yeah, baby!
I’ll get this off my chest from the off, some of the locals today have wound me up tight like a drum. Trying out scams, begging, shouting at us to go see their bl00dy poor camel working an indoor olive oil press, waving us down to try and flog can’t be arsed tours in indecipherable French of dubious accuracy, whining at us that if we want to look at their village we should give them money.
We’re richer by far than most of the locals could dream of. We can afford to pay for guides, even if they turn out to be near-useless to us. We can afford to buy post cards or tea. We can afford to be ripped off in some old-hat ‘can you exchange these Euros’ trick. We can afford to pay to look at a bl00dy camel grinding away in some dank pit of a room. We can afford to give to kids who stand in the street demanding we stop and give them money. Tunisia can’t afford to pull these scams though. Already there are far too few tourists to meet their expectations; acting like bullies won’t pull in the punters.
After taking a look around Hotel Sangho this morning I could understand why they charged 30TD (even if I didn’t like paying it), it was pretty plush. The swimming pool was cold, or I suspect I’d have begged Ju to go back. In the foyer they’d placed photos of the surrounding area over history, with interesting stuff on the French colonial period and the World Wars. They were happy for me to take photos so I grabbed a few.
We’d planned out a circular route around the hilltop Berber villages of Guermessa, Chenini and Douiret. The Berbers are the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa, their long brown robes being the obvious inspiration for the Jedi outfit. The Berber way of life is gradually being eroded away, and the villages we visited all acted as physical metaphors of the decline, only Chenini had any life about it, the others were fully abandoned as far as we could tell. The villages are built high on (and into) hillsides, with stunning views over the plain below. Each has its own modern equivalent, with power and running water, into which populace has shifted. Without a doubt, the old towns are eye-watering beautiful.
Guermessa is reached by walking up a path of large stones, laid with great energy at some point, and for what reason we don’t know. We climbed the path with Charlie in tow, peering into the abandoned caves just to be sure no-one was there before taking a look around inside. They’re all small, set on two levels with a walled-off dark area to the rear.
As we got closer to the higher part of the town, a few men we’d seen to one side gravitated towards the point we’d enter the town. Joy.
To be fair they were pretty easy going, trying to sell us a tour of the town and then asking for money, all gently done, and we gently declined. They didn’t harass us, we took a quick look around and left, eager to be free of them. Only a French couple in a hire car, who we’d seen at our hotel earlier, joined us in the town. Not being English, I suspect they’d just said ‘non’ to the men and brushed them off.
Back to the bottom of the hill and into the sanctuary of Dave, we grabbed a brew, and watched a rodent scrabbling about. One of the guys from the hill walked down after us, pushing his bike a short distance before coming to a halt.
Spying the map, the route over to the next town was a white road, sealed and maybe only 10km long. Driving through the new town a small boy stood in the road with his hand raised and palm flat before us, telling us to stop. I laughed at him and his stern face. He stood to one side so we could get past, his face full of fury, and pretended to throw stones as we ignored his request to hand over sweets, money, whatever. Further down to the road we passed a group of men taking a tea break from working on a wall, we shared waves again as we had on the way up. Further down the road again we couldn’t find the turn off so went back and asked them. The chap who appeared to be in charge came over, shook our hands and explained the only direct road was piste (unsealed), we had to go back to Tataouine. He declined a photo, shook our hands again and waved us off, top man.
After Ju had bought a couple of stamps in the Chenini new town post office (they don’t seem to have named the new towns as such, they share the name with the old town), we drove up the hill. Chenini is the most famous of the towns, according to the Rough Guide, who’s author says the place has ‘suffered from over-exposure to tour groups’. What he means is, I guess, the folks there have gotten used to people turning up in coaches, wandering about giving them cash for whatever or nothing, and leaving.
As we entered town a man stood up and indicated we should pull in, a sure sign we shouldn’t pull in. We stopped anyway and he quickly tried to get us to park, and when I didn’t move, to make a pitch for a guided tour or food in the restaurant. A few ‘non, merci’s’ and we shifted on, parking around the corner. Another would-be-guide. Just a quick point: Morocco had a problem with guides, many of whom knew very little and couldn’t speak European languages. They introduced a license system; those operating unlicensed faced prison: result – decent guides. No such system here, we declined this chap too, who went on a bit before finally giving up as we walked off.
The town’s beautiful, still inhabited, as the power lines and telecoms mast attests. As we walked past an open door, a man came out and started to shout at us in French that we should go inside, he has a camel, come inside, come inside, take photo. Yeah, yeah, non merci, he stared, face like thunder. At the top of town another guy pops up, a younger chap in a robe, postcard? Tea? Non, merci. As we grabbed a photo he came back, like the proverbial bad smell, this time with a handful of Euros change.
I don’t know what the scam is, if anyone does please enlighten me, I just know it’s a scam. I’m guessing as soon as you get out the local currency to swap the coins, he pops the Euros away and begs, or just offers some awful exchange rate, or they’re fakes? If anyone reading this knows, please enlighten me. I told him we use Pounds in England, he continued proffering the coins, non, merci. After a while he changed tact. You need a guide. Non, merci. You should have a guide. Non, merci. We start to walk off, he follows. Buy postcards. Non, merci. Buy tea. Non, merci. At this point his smirk and grabbing nature are bringing down a fine red mist and I round on him, entering some kind of shouted weird Frenglish language debate on whether as tourists we are duty bound to give him money, or whether he should get off his backside and do a job like I, erm, used to.
Fuming, I stomp off down the path, Ju calmly pointing out the right one and turning around. Camel man had another go. I stopped short of telling him what to do with his camel. A nipper begged for money. Non. Another tried, to find me begging back from him, childishly. People higher up in the town were making shrill noises to those below. Paranoid, I guessed some sort of code for ‘they’ll get a guide next time’. I’m not totally naive, but buying a guide just for the purpose of fending off all the other wasters just isn’t in my nature.
Onwards. I checked around Dave’s tyres to make sure no nails stood against them, and we left town via a route Rough Guide man said was for the ‘intrepid’. It was fine, sealed and empty of other traffic. I begged the gods not to see us break down and have to go back to Chenini for help. They answered, I owe them a sacrificed chicken or some such. They also threw up some great landscape for Ju to look at as I ranted quietly.
Douiret proved itself to be by far the best of the bunch in my book. A bloke tried to flog us a tour a couple of times, the second time by the ‘just start talking about the town’ approach. Apart from that, and the French couple we’d shadowed for the day, the place was devoid of life, a total delight. Selfishly we loved it there, gazing out onto the living-a-dream countryside, trying to imagine a similar ghost town scenario playing out in the UK somewhere and failing.
Cruising back into Tataouine, which was at one point a foreign legion base with French and German soldiers outnumbering civilians 3 to 1, Ju managed to get a photo of this scene:
Into the town, we popped Dave into the car park here and went shopping. In among the usual tiny little souk shops there stands a supermarket. If you’ll excuse the phrase, we nearly wet ourselves with excitement inside, completely missing the ‘deposit your bags here’ area and eagerly grabbing at Western delights – instant coffee and sugar puffs (both in bags with no other packaging), cheese, tins of tomato puree and peas, frozen beef meat meatballs. As Homer would say, head flung back in gurgling desire, ergrgrgegeggegeghhh. €25 worth of food later, we nipped into a pastry shop to buy the local delicacy: kab el ghezal, filled with honey and nuts. The owner gave us one to try, reeling off a list of ingredients in French. Once he sussed we were English, he changed tact, telling us they lasted 30 days (maybe he sussed Ju is half Scottish), holding both hands up to somehow signify 30. They were tasty, we got a few.
Next stop, a pavement fooderie selling crepes stuffed with an unlikely concoction of cheese slice, an oily something, chips, spam, onion, a fried egg and some unidentified stuff. At 2TD each (about 90p), they were beautiful.
Time for me to stop writing, it’s been a long old day! Jay

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Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor are on a high with the release of their film Ek Villain that has generally been received well. But what has helped the movie with an unusual story do well are the lilting tunes, especially the song Galliyan that will likely be the top chartbuster of 2014.
This will be the second time for Shraddha, whose 2013 movie Aashiqui 2‘s songs were also chartbusters, especially Tum Hi Ho that ranked No.1.
But what’s special about Ek Villain‘s Galliyan is that Shraddha herself has sung an unplugged version of it, which is equally popular as composer-singer Ankit Tiwari original. Her alleged boyfriend and Aashiqui 2 co-star Aditya Roy Kapur also swears by his lady love’s song!
The makers of Ek Villain and Ankit Tiwari have come out with an instrumental version of Galliyan now, played on santoor by Rohan Ratan.
Listen to Ek Villain’s hit song Galliyan Santoor instrumental version in the player below!


Days of Our Lives (DOOL) Spoilers: Outraged Sami Crashes Wedding, Will Eric & Nicole Say ‘I Do’
Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers reveal that Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney) is outraged that Eric Brady (Greg Vaughan) is marrying Nicole Walker (Arianne Zucker). She feels that everything she’s ever done is held against her, but for some reason, Nicole gets a free pass. She also feels that Nicole isn’t good enough for Eric. Keep reading to find out what the actress had to say.
Days of Our Lives Spoilers: Stealing Babies
DOOL spoilers reveal that Sami and Nicole have a long and complicated history. They don’t like each other at all and there is a good reason why. For Sami, she will never forget when Nicole tried to steal her baby. Sami feels that everyone is ignoring that, even though it happened a long time ago and Nicole has changed since then.
DOOL Spoilers: Sami Brady’s Bad Deeds
In the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest, Sweeney explains that part of the reason Sami is outraged over the “Ericole” wedding is that Sami’s bad deeds are always brought up. However, she doesn’t feel that anyone remembers the things that Nicole has done.
Nicole Walker Gets ‘A Free Pass’ – Soap Opera Spoilers
Days of Our Lives spoilers reveal that in Sami’s mind, she feels everyone has given Nicole a free pass. The actress explains,
“… she’s outraged. I mean, the fact that these people just glossed over the fact that Nicole kidnapped Syndey from her is just mind-boggling to Sami. Every mistake Sami’s ever made, they hold it against her and remind her of all the terrible things she’s done every day, but somehow Nicole gets this free pass.”
Days of Our Lives Spoilers 2020: Saving Eric Brady
The other part of Sami’s anger has to do with Sami feeling that Nicole isn’t good enough for Eric on Days of Our Lives. She is convinced that in the end, Nicole will just break Eric’s heart like she always does. But that’s not her only issue.
Keep in mind that Sami wasn’t even invited to the wedding. Eric did suggest it but nobody thought it was a good idea. Then, she finds out they knew Allie Horton (Lindsay Arnold) was safe while Sami was searching for her missing daughter. They kept her pregnancy a secret from Sami, too. She is furious and Sami is like a freight train — once she gets started, it’s nearly impossible to stop her rage.
What do you think is going to happen with Sami Brady when she crashes Eric and Nicole’s wedding? How will she handle Allie Horton’s pregnancy and the adoption plans? Keep watching the NBC soap opera to see what happens next.
Be sure to catch up on everything happening with DOOL right now. Come back here often for Days of Our Lives spoilers, news, and updates.


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- 2010 ScienceDirectedited by H. William Detrich, III, Monte Westerfield, Leonard I. Zon.Part I. Cellular Biology -- Chapter 1. Analyzing Retinal Axon Guidance in Zebrafish / Fabienne E. Poulain, John A. Gaynes, Cornelia Stacher Hörndli, Mei-Yee Law, Chi-Bin Chien -- Chapter 2. Imaging Blood Vessels in the Zebrafish / Makoto Kamei, Sumio Isogai, Weijun Pan, Brant M. Weinstein -- Chapter 3. Medaka Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells / Yunhan Hong -- Part II. Developmental and Neural Biology -- Chapter 4. Neurogenesis / Prisca Chapouton, Leanne Godinho -- Chapter 5. Studying Peripheral Sympathetic Nervous System Development and Neuroblastoma in Zebrafish / Rodney A. Stewart, Jeong-Soo Lee, Martina Lachnit, A. Thomas Look, John P. Kanki, Paul D. Henion -- Chapter 6. Analysis of the Retina in the Zebrafish Model / Andrei Avanesov, Jarema Malicki -- Chapter 7. Photoreceptor Structure and Development: Analyses using GFP Transgenes / Brian D. Perkins, James M. Fadool -- Chapter 8. Physiological Recordings from Zebrafish Lateral-Line Hair Cells and Afferent Neurons / Josef G. Trapani, Teresa Nicolson -- Chapter 9. Zebrafish Kidney Development / Iain A. Drummond, Alan J. Davidson -- Chapter 10. Molecular Regulation of Pancreas Development in Zebrafish / Robin A. Kimmel, Dirk Meyer -- Chapter 11. Monitoring Sleep and Arousal in Zebrafish / Jason Rihel, David A. Prober, Alexander F. Schier -- Chapter 12. Use of Flatbed Transparency Scanners in Zebrafish Research: Versatile and Economical Adjuncts to Traditional Imaging Tools for the Danio rerio Laboratory / Charles A. Lessman, Michael R. Taylor, Wilda Orisme, Ethan A. Carver.
- 2016 ScienceDirectedited by H. William Detrich III, Monte Westerfield, Leonard I. Zon.Methods to Study Maternal Regulations of Germ Cell Specification in Zebrafish -- Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Neurogenesis of Zebrafish Cranial Sensory Placodes -- Oligodendrocyte Differentiation -- Studying the Peripheral Sympathetic Nervous System and Neuroblastoma in Zebrafish -- Zebrafish As a Model for Understanding Enteric Nervous System Interactions in the Developing Intestional Tract -- Methods to Study the Development, Anatomy, and Function of the Zebrafish Inner Ear Across the Life Course -- Imaging Collective Cell Migration and Hair Cell Regeneration in the Sensory Lateral Line -- Analysis of the Retina in the Zebrafish Model -- Strategies for Analyzing Cardiac Phenotypes in the Zebrafish Embryo -- Chemical Approaches to Angiogenesis in Development and Regeneration -- Quantitative Methods for Studying Hemostasis in Zebrafish Larvae -- Zebrafish Kidney Development -- Zebrafish Pancreas As a Model for Development and Disease -- Endoderm Specification and Liver Development -- Emerging Tools to Study Proteoglycan Function During Skeletal Development -- Generation and Analysis of Zebrafish Melanoma Models -- Learning and Memory in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) -- Working With Zebrafish at Postembryonic Stages.Methods to Study Maternal Regulations of Germ Cell Specification in Zebrafish -- Patterning, Morphogenesis, and Neurogenesis of Zebrafish Cranial Sensory Placodes -- Oligodendrocyte Differentiation -- Studying the Peripheral Sympathetic Nervous System and Neuroblastoma in Zebrafish -- Zebrafish As a Model for Understanding Enteric Nervous System Interactions in the Developing Intestional Tract -- Methods to Study the Development, Anatomy, and Function of the Zebrafish Inner Ear Across the Life Course -- Imaging Collective Cell Migration and Hair Cell Regeneration in the Sensory Lateral Line -- Analysis of the Retina in the Zebrafish Model -- Strategies for Analyzing Cardiac Phenotypes in the Zebrafish Embryo -- Chemical Approaches to Angiogenesis in Development and Regeneration -- Quantitative Methods for Studying Hemostasis in Zebrafish Larvae -- Zebrafish Kidney Development -- Zebrafish Pancreas As a Model for Development and Disease -- Endoderm Specification and Liver Development -- Emerging Tools to Study Proteoglycan Function During Skeletal Development -- Generation and Analysis of Zebrafish Melanoma Models -- Learning and Memory in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) -- Working With Zebrafish at Postembryonic Stages.
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- 2011 ScienceDirectedited by H. William Detrich III, Monte Westerfield, Leonard I. Zon.Zebrafish models of germ cell tumor / Joanie C. Neumann, Kate Lillard, Vanessa Damoulis, James F. Amatruda -- Dissecting mechanisms of myelinated axon formation using zebrafish / Tim Czopka, David A. Lyons -- In vivo analysis of white adipose tissue in zebrafish / James E.N. Minchin, John F. Rawls -- Study of host-microbe interactions in zebrafish / Kathryn Milligan-Myhre, Jeremy R. Charette, Ryan T. Phennicie, W. Zac Stephens, John F. Rawls, Karen Guillemin, Carol H. Kim -- Hematopoietic stem cell development : using the zebrafish to identify the signaling networks and physical forces regulating hematopoiesis / Wolfram Goessling, Trista E. North -- Zebrafish as a model for hemorrhagic stroke / Matthew G. Butler, Aniket V. Gore, Brant M. Weinstein -- A zebrafish model for VHL and hypoxia signaling / Ellen van Rooijen, Kirankumar Santhakumar, Ive Logister, Emile Voest, Stefan Schulte-Merker, Rachel Giles, Fredericus van Eeden -- Basement membrane diseases in zebrafish / Natália Martins Feitosa, Rebecca Richardson, Wilhelm Bloch, Matthias Hammerschmidt -- Zebrafish provides a novel model for lymphatic vascular research / Terhi Karpanen, Stefan Schulte-Merker -- Not all bones are created equal : using zebrafish and other teleost species in osteogenesis research / Alexander Apschner, Stefan Schulte-Merker, P. Eckhard Witten -- Zebrafish assays of ciliopathies / Norann A. Zaghloul, Nicholas Katsanis -- Infectious disease modeling and innate immune function in zebrafish embryos / Chao Cui, Erica L. Benard, Zakia Kanwal, Oliver W. Stockhammer, Michiel van der Vaart, Anna Zakrzewska, Herman P. Spaink, Annemarie H. Meijer -- Zebrafish as a model for the study of human cancer / Julia Etchin, John P. Kanki, A. Thomas Look -- Generating and analyzing fish models of melanoma / E. Elizabeth Patton, Marie E. Mathers, Manfred Schartl -- Screening pancreatic oncogenes in zebrafish using the Gal14/UAS system / Shu Liu, Steven D. Leach -- Zebrafish models of rhabdomysarcoma / Eleanor Y. Chen, David M. Langenau -- Transplantation in zebrafish / Pulin Li, Richard M. White, Leonard I. Zon -- Disease modeling by gene targeting using microRNAs / C.-C. Lan, I.U.S. Leong, D. Lai, D.R. Love -- Fluorescent imaging of cancer in zebrafish / Myron S. Ignatius, David M. Langenau -- The role of Fanconi anemia/BRCA genes in zebrafish sex determination / Adriana Rodríguez-Marí, John H. Postlethwait -- Chemical screening in zebrafish for novel biological and therapeutic discovery / Justin L. Tan, Leonard I. Zon -- Using the zebrafish photomotor response for psychotropic drug screening / David Kokel, Randall T. Peterson -- Designing zebrafish chemical screens / Randall T. Peterson, Mark C. Fishman.
- 2010 Springer Protocolsedited by Allan V. Kalueff and Jonathan M. Cachat.Zebrafish ecology and behaviour / Rowena Spence -- Olfactory behavior : making scents of a changing world / Kathleen E. Whitlock -- Modeling stress and anxiety in zebrafish / Jonathan M. Cachat [and others] -- Nicotinic receptor systems and neurobehavioral function in zebrafish / Edward D. Levin -- QTL mapping of behaviour in the zebrafish / Dominic Wright -- Genetics of ethanol-related behaviors / Cynthia A. Dlugos -- Conditioned place preference models of drug dependence and relapse to drug seeking : studies with nicotine and ethanol / Caroline H. Brennan [and others] -- Zebrafish biogenic amine transporters and behavior in novel environments : targets of reuptake inhibitors and pesticide action as tools for neurotoxicology research / Georgianna G. Gould -- Learned recognition by zebrafish and other cyprinids / Brian D. Wisenden -- Inhibitory avoidance and color discrimination learning in zebrafish / Luciana Cofiel and Rosana Mattioli -- Spatial cognition in zebrafish / Joshua. L. Haight and Joseph A. Schroeder -- The behavioral repertoire of larval zebrafish / Kandice Fero, Tohei Yokogawa, and Harold A. Burgess.
- 2011 Springer Protocolsedited by Allan V. Kalueff, Jonathan M. Cachat.Video-Aided Analysis of Zebrafish Locomotion and Anxiety-Related Behavioral Responses / Jonathan M. Cachat, Peter R. Canavello, Salem I. Elkhayat, Brett K. Bartels, Peter C. Hart, Marco F. Elegante, Esther C. Beeson, Autumn L. Laffoon, Whitlee A.M. Haymore, David H. Tien, Anna K. Tien, Sopan Mohnot, Allan V. Kalueff -- Videograms: A Method for Repeatable Unbiased Quantitative Behavioral Analysis Without Scoring or Tracking / Russell C. Wyeth, Oliver R. Braubach, Alan Fine, Roger P. Croll -- Automated Imaging of Avoidance Behavior in Larval Zebrafish / Ruth M. Colwill, Robbert Creton -- Quantifying Anti-predator Responses to Chemical Alarm Cues / Brian D. Wisenden -- Modified Associative Learning T-Maze Test for Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Other Small Teleost Fish / Georgianna G. Gould -- Zebrafish Conditioned Place Preference Models of Drug Reinforcement and Relapse to Drug Seeking / Amit Parmar, Miral Parmar, Caroline H. Brennan -- A Simple and Effective Method to Condition Olfactory Behaviors in Groups of Zebrafish / Oliver R. Braubach, Russell C. Wyeth, Andrew Murray, Alan Fine, Roger P. Croll -- Aquatic Light/Dark Plus Maze Novel Environment for Assessing Anxious Versus Exploratory Behavior in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Other Small Teleost Fish / Georgianna G. Gould -- A Novel Test Battery to Assess Drug-Induced Changes in Zebrafish Social Behavior / David J. Echevarria, Christine Buske, Christina N. Toms, David J. Jouandot -- Measuring Agonistic Behavior in Zebrafish / Henning Schneider -- Measuring Endocrine (Cortisol) Responses of Zebrafish to Stress / Peter R. Canavello, Jonathan M. Cachat, Esther C. Beeson, Autumn L. Laffoon, Chelsea Grimes, Whitlee A.M. Haymore, Marco F. Elegante, Brett K. Bartels, Peter C. Hart, Salem I. Elkhayat, David H. Tien, Sopan Mohnot, Hakima Amri, Allan V. Kalueff -- Phenotyping of Zebrafish Homebase Behaviors in Novelty-Based Tests / Adam Stewart, Jonathan M. Cachat, Keith Wong, Nadine Wu, Leah Grossman, Christopher Suciu, Jason Goodspeed, Marco F. Elegante, Brett K. Bartels, Salem I. Elkhayat, David H. Tien, Siddharth Gaikwad, Ferdous Kadri, Kyung Min Chung, Julia Tan, Ashley Denmark, Thomas Gilder, John DiLeo, Katie Chang, Kevin Frank, Eli Utterback, Patrick Viviano, Allan V. Kalueff -- Neurophenotyping of Adult Zebrafish Using the Light/Dark Box Paradigm / Adam Stewart, Caio Maximino, Thiago Marques de Brito, Anderson Manoel Herculano, Amauri Gouveia, Silvio Morato, Jonathan M. Cachat, Siddharth Gaikwad, Marco F. Elegante, Peter C. Hart, Allan V. Kalueff -- Intraperitoneal Injection as a Method of Psychotropic Drug Delivery in Adult Zebrafish / Adam Stewart, Jonathan M. Cachat, Christopher Suciu, Peter C. Hart, Siddharth Gaikwad, Eli Utterback, John DiLeo, Allan V. Kalueff -- Assessing the Maximum Predictive Validity for Neuropharmacological Anxiety Screening Assays Using Zebrafish / Amanda Linker, Adam Stewart, Siddharth Gaikwad, Jonathan M. Cachat, Marco F. Elegante, Allan V. Kalueff, Jason E. Warnick -- Deconstructing Adult Zebrafish Behavior with Swim Trace Visualizations / Jonathan M. Cachat, Adam Stewart, Eli Utterback, Evan Kyzar, Peter C. Hart, Dillon Carlos, Siddharth Gaikwad, Molly Hook, Kathryn Rhymes, Allan V. Kalueff.
- 2012 Springer Protocolsedited by Allan V. Kalueff, Adam Michael Stewart.Measuring larval Zebrafish behavior : locomotion, thigmotaxis, and startle / William H.J. Norton -- Light-dark preference test for larval Zebrafish / Peter J. Steenbergen, Michael K. Richardson, and Danielle L. Champagne -- Assessment of thigmotaxis in larval Zebrafish / Stephanie J. Schnorr [and others] -- Zebrafish and drug development : a behavioral assay system for probing nicotine function in larval Zebrafish / Henning Schneider [and others] -- Olfactory-evoked activity assay for larval Zebrafish / Ganive Bhinder and Keith B. Tierney -- Qualitative and quantitative measurements of the optokinetic response in larval Zebrafish / Kaspar P. Mueller and Stephan C.F. Neuhauss -- Automated imaging of visual recognition memory in larval Zebrafish / Ruth M. Colwill and Robbert Creton -- Automated conditioning in larval Zebrafish / Ruey-Kuang Cheng and Suresh Jesuthasan -- Methods to quantify basal and stress-induced cortisol response in larval Zebrafish / Peter J. Steenbergen [and others] -- Method for sorting Zebrafish on the exploratory-bold behavioral axis / Cory D. Sailer, Sonny J. Radenic, and Brian D. Wisenden -- Nocifensive behavior in adult and larval Zebrafish / Monica Gomes Lima [and others] -- Use of a split depth and visual cliff apparatus to measure the diving response in Zebrafish / Rachel Blaser and Kelly Goldsteinholm -- Adapting the open field test to assess anxiety-related behavior in Zebrafish / John Godwin [and others] -- Behavioral and pharmacological aspects of anxiety in the light/dark preference test / Juliana Araujo [and others] -- High-throughput and inexpensive assay for anxiety-related behaviors in the Zebrafish, based on place preference and latency to feed / Barrie D. Robison [and others] -- Automated Tracking of Zebrafish shoals and the analysis of shoaling behavior / Noam Miller and Robert Gerlai -- Assessing social behavior phenotypes in adult Zebrafish : shoaling, social preference, and mirror biting tests / Mimi Pham [and others] -- Measuring effects of psychostimulants on egocentric spatial learning and memory in adult Zebrafish / Rabia Nasir [and others] -- Cued fear conditioning in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) / Masakazu Agetsuma [and others] -- Assessing learning and memory through the active avoidance paradigm / Xiaojuan Xu and Stefan Goetz -- Assessing habituation phenotypes in adult Zebrafish : intra- and inter-trial habituation in the novel tank test / Jolia Raymond [and others] -- Assessing startle responses and their habituation in adult Zebrafish / Simon Chanin [and others] -- QTL mapping using behavioral traits in the adult Zebrafish / Dominic Wright -- Assessing epilepsy-related behavioral phenotypes in adult Zebrafish / Daniel Desmond [and others] -- Rapid method for acute intracerebroventricular injection in adult Zebrafish / Augusto Barbosa Junior [and others] -- Western blotting assay for Egr-1 immediate early gene in brain tissue of Zebrafish applied to neuroethological study / Augusto Barbosa Junior [and others] -- Utilizing the Zebrafish neurophenome project (ZNP) database for analyses of complex neurophenotypes in Zebrafish models / Ivan Zapolsky [and others].
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- 2014 SpringerKenshi Yao.Since magnifying endoscopy of the stomach, or zoom gastroscopy, was first performed at the beginning of the 21st century , there have been numerous findings in the field worldwide. The author of this volume has developed a standardized magnifying endoscopy technique that enables endoscopists to constantly visualize the microanatomy (subepithelial capillaries and the epithelial structure) within the stomach. With this technology, it has become easy to obtain magnified endoscopic findings. Techniques differ, however, depending upon the endoscopist. Endoscopists around the world do not have a standardized magnifying endoscopy technique, which is mandatory for the scientific analysis of their findings. In addition, there is no logical explanation for how and which microanatomies are visualized by magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging in the glandular epithelium of the stomach. This inconsistency results in considerable confusion among researchers and clinicians and a lack of terminology for the purposes of analysis. As magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (NBI) becomes more popular throughout the world, there is increased demand for a specialized reference book focused on this subject. The aims of the present volume, Zoom Gastroscopy: Magnifying Endoscopy in the Stomach, are manifold: (1) to illustrate the standard magnifying endoscopic technique that can visualize subepithelial mucosal microvessels as small as capillaries, the smallest unit of blood vessels in the human body, (2) to explain the optical phenomena and principles for NBI and its application to magnifying endoscopy, (3) to clarify which microanatomies are visualized by magnifying endoscopy with NBI and how this is achieved, and (4) to present a diagnostic system so called VS classification system for early gastric neoplasias. With a single author, the book consistently uses uniform anatomical terms to describe endoscopic findings, providing an essential reference for endoscopists in the world.
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Schumer To NYC Park Commissoner Benepe: Dont Throw In The Towel On Sunset Park Boxing Gym
Founded and Run By Off-Duty NYPDers, Sunset Park Boxing Gym Offers City Youth Exercise, Guidance and Protection from Crime, Drugs and Gangs
Schumer Letter Calls on Parks Department to Either Stop Eviction Orders on Gym or Find it a New Home
Following a recent decision by Commissioner Adrian Benepe of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to evict the Sunset Park Boxing Club from its current home at 4302 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the Parks Department to repeal the eviction order and reinstate the valuable afterschool program at its current location. For the past twenty years, the boxing gym based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and run by the Police Athletic League has offered neighborhood children a safe outlet to exercise, socialize and develop discipline under the supervision and instruction of New York City Police Officers. Benepe, however, recently ordered the boxing gym to leave its twentyyear old home in order to make room for a new program that will be housed there. Concerned that the children of Sunset Park could lose an invaluable afterschool program that is vital to protecting them from crime, gangs, and violence, Schumer called on the Parks Department to either stop the eviction process or, at the very least, find the boxing gym a new location nearby.
No one wins if the Sunset Park Boxing Club is evicted from its current location, and, sadly, it will be a knockout blow for many children who have come to rely on the gym as a place for both exercise and guidance, said Senator Schumer. Therefore, I strongly urge Commissioner Benepe to reinstate the Sunset Park Boxing Club at the address it has called home for the past twenty years.
The Sunset Park Boxing Club, founded twentyyears ago by retired cop Patrick Patty Russo and other police officers determined to contribute to their local community, offers Sunset Park children extracurricular activities in a neighborhood where positive outlets are scarce. The club has trained several Golden Gloves champions and a U.S. Junior Olympic champion, and today continues to be managed and financed by police officers and firefighters at virtually no expense to New York City taxpayers.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation recently announced it will evict the boxing gym in order to make way for an alternative afterschool program. Despite having enough space to house both programs, the Sunset Park Boxing Club was ordered to leave the address its been at for twenty years. While the Senator commends Commissioner Benepes efforts to offer additional opportunities to city children who all too often lack recreational activities, he is troubled that the livelihood of the boxing club is threatened under the new arrangement.
By introducing an afterschool program at the expense of an existing one, you will be punishing a program that has been so effective in inoculating our citys young minds against the temptations of drugs, crime and gangs, said Senator Schumer. Thanks to the efforts of the NYPD and the FDNY, The Sunset Park Boxing Club has been an inspirational archetype for afterschool programs across the city. We must protect it.
Because there is enough available space for both afterschool programs, Senator Schumer is urging Commissioner Benepe to reinstate the Sunset Park Boxing Club at the address it has called home for the past twenty years. If Commissioner Benepe can offer the Senator and other concerned individuals involved a compelling argument on why the Sunset Park Boxing Club needs to be evicted, the Senator requests he at least find an alternative location for the club nearby.
The sport of boxing has long been a celebrated part of Brooklyn athletics and the entire citys competitive nature. Historically a vital source of opportunity for immigrants and native born alike, boxing has rallied New Yorkers behind homegrown legends including: Rocky Graziano, Riddick Bowe, Jake LaMotta, Mark Breland, Floyd Patterson and Zab Juddah. Boxing is credited with keeping countless numbers of kids out of the streets, teaching discipline and creating a positive outlet for youthful energy.
Attached is the letter Senator Schumer sent to Commissioner Benepe.

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Writing and publishing a book is your dream. It’s the career you’ve always wanted, and you want to get your story out there right. now.
There’s only one problem – you have no idea where to start. Thinking about all the hoops you have to jump through is overwhelming.
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Either way, you need to practice. Yes, we’ve seen people who’ve never written anything a day in their life write once and publish a million-dollar bestseller, but it’s extremely rare. That’s why they become such big news.
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There’s also plenty of online training classes you can take if you don’t want to rely on practicing on your own.
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One of the best ways to get started is by immersing yourself into a writing community. Connecting with other authors is a great way to get the support that you need in your journey because they’ve already been there, or are right there with you.
Depending on where you live, you may be able to find a local group of writers. There are also tons of online writing communities that offer guidance, advice, and support to each other. Seasoned members can show you how to become an author based on their own experiences as well.
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Now that you’ve practiced and made some new connections, it’s time to devise a plan. You don’t have to (and shouldn’t) wing it by writing about the first thing that comes to mind.
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Create an Outline
Every draft should start with an outline. Figuring out what kind of story you want to write and breaking it down into specifics makes the actual writing part easier.
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Editing is the hardest part. It might be a good idea to outsource for a fresh pair of eyes on your work. Once you’ve made all the corrections and feel like your book is at its absolute best, take it to a publisher.
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You have two options to publish your book. You can either use an agent, or you can self-publish.
Anyone can learn how to become an author and self-publish their book, but the expenses that come with it, particularly for paperbacks – production, marketing, design, distribution, and storage – you are responsible for. Those costs can add up fast if you are not careful, and learning how to self-publish can be a very stressful process. On a positive note, you also keep more of the royalties earned when your book sells, and you retain more control over your work.
Going to a publisher as a first-time author can be ideal for you, but it depends on what your goals are. It’s a common method used, and you’re not liable for the publishing costs. If they like what they see, they’ll offer you a contract stating what retailers you can use to sell your book and the royalties you want. (NOTE: Publishers pay you, not the other way around. If a ‘publisher’ asks you for money, that’s not a publisher – that’s what is known as a ‘vanity press.’ Remember, in a traditional publishing agreement, money flows TO, not FROM, the author.)
If you opt to try submitting to a publisher, you might face rejection at first – it’s a competitive business – but don’t let that break you. Sometimes you’ll have to submit your work to multiple agents before you find the one. Take it as an opportunity to improve, not a failure.
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PiSwitch is Christopher Foote’s take on the retro-gaming handheld console. It combines a Raspberry Pi with Nintendo’s latest innovative Joy-Con controllers.
This article first appeared in The MagPi 68 and was written by David Crookes.
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PiSwitch: The Nintendo Switch console built with Raspberry Pi
One of the most popular things to do with a Raspberry Pi is to put it at the heart of a retro gaming setup. There are myriad multi-system emulators – programs which replicate the gaming systems of old – along with some slick graphical front-ends, making it a rather straightforward process. But we still see projects that go the extra mile such as this one. PiSwitch makes great use of the Joy-Con controllers of the Nintendo Switch console to produce a beautiful handheld machine.
PiSwitch is the brainchild of 32-year-old Christopher Foote who, as a child, would get one game a year to play (“two if I was lucky,” he says). He recalls spending countless hours trying to accomplish everything he could in those titles. “But there were always many games that I wanted to play but I couldn’t,” he laments.
Spurred on by this, he began using RetroPie a few years ago to enjoy games made for systems as diverse as the Atari 2600 and Mega Drive. But although he ran it on a Adafruit’s PiGRRL2, he found the buttons were sticky and he didn’t like the screen. “Then my wife got a Nintendo Switch for my son and when I played with it I realised the controllers were exactly what I needed for my device,” he tells us.
Having discovered the Switch Joy‑Cons were Bluetooth devices, Christopher got to work pairing them with a Raspberry Pi. “I spent a lot of time trying to connect two of them to work as a single controller and I thought if I could solve that problem, then the rest would be a cakewalk,” he says.
Mapping Joy-Con controls to Raspberry Pi
He compiled Linux Joystick Mapper on his Pi 3 before mapping the controllers to keyboard keys and mouse buttons. “It worked great apart from the analogue sticks, so I looked through the code for a few hours, figured how Linux Joystick Mapper worked, and reprogrammed it for Joy-Con compatibility.”
Knowing his project was possible, he could then get to work on refining it. He soldered a headphone jack to the Raspberry Pi so that he could listen to the games when commuting. He then sought to boost the battery life by soldering a power board and switch. A speaker was also added, along with a Pi V2 Camera Module (although this, he admits, was optional and included for fun). A case was printed and the components assembled inside before a 7-inch touchscreen was added.
Fitting Joy-Cons perfectly
One of the lovely parts of the build is the way the Joy-Cons click into place to the left and right of the screen, just like on a Nintendo Switch. “I took my Switch and a pair of digital calipers and I measured the inserts for the controllers,” Christopher says, getting the fit just right.
The two controllers make the PiSwitch versatile. “I can play one-player with both controllers to fully emulate a Nintendo 64 or PlayStation controller,” he explains. “The Joy-Cons also load different controller maps.” This ensures they work well with retro games whether as a single controller or separate ones, but also as a mouse or to flip through media on Kodi, which he also installed.
In the near future, Christopher is going to work on refining the case and the overall look of the console. “I’m also looking to add support for streaming via Steam,” he says. “I think being able to play games from your desktop anywhere in the house with the comfort of a handheld device would be a really cool feature.”
Step-01: Connect the controllers
The controllers must be woken at the boot menu by tapping the + and – buttons. “Nintendo makes the Joy-Cons go to sleep when they’re not in use, to save battery,” says Christopher.
Step-02: Select RetroPie
Christopher created his own touchscreen menu and included RetroPie, Kodi, and Debian. “RetroPie has a huge community, so with research you’ll find someone who’s done part of what you’re trying to figure.”
Step-03: Play a game
You need to copy a game ROM to the microSD card. This is a digital version of a game cartridge. By selecting the right console and the game in RetroPie, you can have some fun.


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Batches of sheets are arranged in the desired order in a series of parallel racks. Pushers simultaneously entrain the upper sheet of each batch and cause the upper sheets to protrude from the racks, ready for collection. The protruding sheets interrupt a light beam passing from an emitter to a photo-sensitive cell. The operation of the pushers is interrupted by a control means, including the photo-sensitive cell, upon interruption of the light beam.
1. A device for collating sheets, comprising:
a. a series of racks arranged substantially parallel to each other one above another, to receive respective batches of sheets each rack having a front entrance for allowing sheets to be projected out of the respective racks;
b. a plurality of pushers which are to rest on the respective batches, the pushers frictionally engaging the uppermost sheets and pushing said uppermost sheets into a projecting position only during movement of the pushers in one direction relative to the racks, wherein the projected upper most sheets are manually collected, the pushers running freely on the uppermost sheets during relative movement in the opposite direction;
c. drive means for reciprocating the pushers simultaneously and in synchronism; and
d. control means for automatically stopping the drive means when sheets project from the racks ready for manual collection and starting the drive means when the projecting sheets have been collected, the control means including a light emitter which directs a light beam past the series of racks, and a photo-sensitive cell in the path of the light beam beyond the series of racks whereby the beam is interrupted when a sheet projects from any of the racks.
2. The collating device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising delay means for delaying the stopping of the drive means until the sheets have projected further from the racks after interrupting the light beam.
3. The collating device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the delay means comprises a switch which is actuated to allow stopping of the drive means only when the pushers are at an extreme forward position during reciprocation.
4. The collating device as claimed in claim 3, further comprising a cam rotating in synchronism with the drive means, said switch being actuated once during each revolution of the cam.
5. The collating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drive means comprises an eccentric, a lever having two ends, one end linked to the eccentric, a bar linked to the other end of said lever, and guide means for guiding the bar for motion parallel to the racks, the pushers being connected to the bar.
6. The collating device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each pusher comprises a rotatable member which frictionally engages the uppermost sheet upon rotation in one direction and which runs freely relative to the uppermost sheet upon rotation in the opposite direction.
This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 464,191 of R. Dezoppy, filed Apr. 25, 1974, entitled "Device for Collating Sheets," and now abandoned.
The invention relates to devices for collating sheets such as sheets of paper.
Devices for collating sheets such as sheets of paper are known per se. They usually consist of a number of racks placed adjacent to each other and containing the sheets which are to make up the fascicle, the sheets being arranged in batches of identical sheets in each rack.
Entraining pins are usually used to retrieve the sheets from the racks of these devices. The pins use friction to push the upper sheet of each batch out of each rack, this sheet being intended to form part of a fascicle.
Local labour conditions usually require that machines of this type be very small and that collection be as easy as possible, so it is advantageous to have the different sheets emerge simultaneously at the different rack outlet points for manual retrieval.
Devices of this type do exist but all have some disadvantages.
Continuously operating devices do not give the operator who is collecting the sheets sufficient time to ensure that each fascicle is complete. Nor do they allow the operator to correct a mistake, for example if one of the sheets does not project quickly enough from its rack or fails to project.
Intermittent devices, i.e. devices where the operator has to stop and start the device to collect the sheets making up the fascicle, suffer from the disadvantage of being very slow.
If the number of sheets to be collected from either of the devices above is even slightly above average, the operator has to constantly display a high level of skill either in continuously matching the rhythm of the machine without faltering or in maintaining a sufficiently high rate of production by rapid starting and stopping of the machine and collection of the sheets irrespective of his own tiredness, which will certainly slow his working rhythm and thus that of the machine.
What is desired is a very simple device which offers an effective and practically foolproof way of overcoming the above-mentioned disadvantages.
The present invention provides a device for collating sheets, comprising:
A. A SERIES OF RACKS ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER ONE ABOVE ANOTHER, TO RECEIVE RESPECTIVE BATCHES OF SHEETS,
B. A PLURALITY OF PUSHERS WHICH ARE TO REST ON THE RESPECTIVE BATCHES, THE PUSHERS FRICTIONALLY ENGAGING THE UPPERMOST SHEETS ONLY DURING MOVEMENT OF THE PUSHERS IN ONE DIRECTION RELATIVE TO THE RACKS, THE PUSHERS RUNNING FREELY ON THE UPPERMOST SHEETS DURING RELATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION;
C. DRIVE MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING THE PUSHERS SIMULTANEOUSLY AND IN SYNCHRONISM; AND
D. CONTROL MEANS FOR AUTOMATICALLY STOPPING AND STARTING THE DRIVE MEANS, THE CONTROL MEANS STOPPING THE DRIVE MEANS WHEN SHEETS PROJECT FROM THE RACKS READY FOR COLLECTION AND STARTING THE DRIVE MEANS WHEN THE PROJECTING SHEETS HAVE BEEN COLLECTED, THE CONTROL MEANS INCLUDING A LIGHT EMITTER WHICH DIRECTS A LIGHT BEAM PAST THE SERIES OF RACKS, THE BEAM BEING INTERRUPTED WHEN A SHEET PROJECTS FROM ANY OF THE RACKS, AND A PHOTO-SENSITVE CELL IN THE PATH OF THE LIGHT BEAM BEYOND THE SERIES OF RACKS.
In a preferred embodiment, the collating device includes delay means for delaying the stopping of the drive means until the sheets have projected further from the racks after interrupting the light beam. This facilitates collection of the sheets, while allowing the light emitter and photocell to be mounted close to the racks. The delay means could comprise a timing circuit, but preferably it comprises a switch actuated only when the pushers are at their forward position.
The design of the pushers allows the protruding sheets to be withdrawn without disturbing the drive means. Preferably, each pusher comprises a rotatable member which frictionally engages the uppermost sheet upon rotation in one direction and which runs freely relative to the uppermost sheet upon rotation in the opposite direction.
The operation of the device is thus very simple. It stops automatically when sheets protrude from the racks. All the operator has to do is to collect the protruding sheets by hand; the device starts to operate again as soon as all the sheets have been retrieved and thus no longer interrupt the light beam. The device will stop again after the sheets protrude from the racks and interrupt the light beam again.
The invention will be described further, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a collating device;
FIG. 2 is a side view of the collating device;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a pusher in the collating device; and
FIG. 4 is a diagram of the electrical control circuit of the collating device.
The illustrated collating device has a housing 25 containing parallel horizontal racks 26 on which batches of sheets are to rest. A pusher 38 acts on the uppermost sheet in each batch and is hinged to one of a vertical series of parallel horizontal rods 17 whose ends are journalled in vertical bars 11 and 12. Each bar 11, 12 is fixed on a carriage 13 which runs along a horizontal rail 15.
Through a reducing gear 2, an electric motor 1 turns an eccentric 5, mounted on a shaft 3, which causes an arm 6 to move to and fro. The arm 6 is pivotally connected to the upper end of a lever 7 fixed on an axle 9; a lever 10 similar to the lever 7 is also fixed on the axle 9, so that the two levers 7, 10 oscillate in synchronism. The lower ends of the levers 7, 10 are linked to the respective bars 12, 11 by links 14, so that the bars move back and forth.
During the leftward movement of the bars 11, 12 as viewed in FIG. 2, the pushers 38 each eject a sheet partially from the respective racks 26. The motor 1 is then stopped, as explained below. Each pusher 38 comprises an arm 29 mounted on the rod 17. At the lower end of the arm 39 a pair of shoes 41 are mounted on an axle 40. The shoes 41 have rearwardly cut-out portions 43. In the front end of each shoe 41 a spongy friction pad 44 is mounted and extends from the bottom of the shoe. Upon movement of the pusher 38 to the left (FIG. 2) the shoes 41 will, via their pads 44, frictionally engage the uppermost sheet and partially eject it from the rack. Upon relative movement in the opposite direction (either when the sheet is withdrawn by hand or when the pusher moves rightwards) the shoes 41 will tilt about the axle 40 until they rest against a stop 45, whereupon the cut-out portions 43 will slide along the sheet.
Alternatively, the feet 41 may be replaced by a ratchet wheel, or by a roller whose turning is limited and which is smooth over one part of its circumference and rough over the other part.
The sheets projecting from the racks are collected by the operator while the motor 1 is inactive. The starting and stopping of the motor is performed automatically by a control circuit. A lamp 18 directs a beam of light vertically upwards past the front edges of all the racks 26 throughout the operation of the collating device. The light beam falls on a photoelectric cell 20 so long as no sheets project from the rack 26. The shaft 3 (FIG. 1), on which the eccentric 5 is mounted, also carries a cam 8, which opens a switch 22 whenever the pushers 38 (FIG. 3) are at their front positions, in which the sheets project from the racks. The control circuit is shown in FIG. 4 and includes the photocell 20 and the switch 22.
To start the collating device, an on-off switch 24 in series with the motor 1 is closed, and the lamp 18 is switched on. Consequently, the photo-cell 20 is energised and allows current to pass through a solenoid 26 which closes a switch 21 in a relay circuit 27. (The switch 22 is normally closed, and is opened by the cam 8 only when the pushers 38 reach their forward positions.) Closure of the switch 21 allows current to pass through a solenoid 28 which closes a switch 23 in series with the motor 1 and the switch 24 (closed). Thus the motor 1 starts and, consequently, the pushers 38 are moved forwards, carrying with them the uppermost sheet of each of the batches on the racks 26.
As soon as the sheets project sufficiently to interrupt the light beam, the photo-cell 20 is de-energized and current ceases to flow through the solenoid 26, whereupon the switch 21 opens under the action of a spring 21a. However, the switch 22 (in parallel with the switch 21) remains closed, so that current still flows through the solenoid 28. Not until the pushers 38 are at their front positions does the cam 8 open the switch 22, at which time the sheets project from the racks sufficiently to facilitate collection by the operator. The switches 21, 22 being open, current ceases to flow through the solenoid 28, the switch 23 opens under the action of a spring 23a, and the motor 1 stops.
The operator collects the protruding sheets by hand. As soon as all the protruding sheets have been collected, the light beam from the lamp 18 again energises the photo- cell 20, and the above-described sequence is repeated.
As well as the cam 8, the shaft 3 carries a cam 19 which periodically actuates a switch 16 controlling a circuit which counts the number of sheets ejected from the racks. 9n


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Warzone 2 DMZ is an incredibly popular addition to the Call of Duty franchise and it has taken the world by storm. The game comes with a lot of exciting features and modes that have thrilled avid gamers.
However, there are a few parts of the game that are quite challenging and any bit of additional help will be helpful. One of those is the challenge of finding the item Captain Silver’s Briefcase Key. If you are in the same boat, then this guide is helpful for you. In this guide, you will get to know how to find Captain Silver’s Briefcase Key in Warzone 2 DMZ.
How to find Captain Silver’s Briefcase Key in Warzone 2 DMZ
A briefcase key is a special item that must be used for opening the briefcase located in the Environment near Sattiq Cave Complex (D5). The briefcase is locked and you will need a key for opening it. Once it is opened, you will find a set of rewards, which may include armor, special weapons, and other items.
Captain Silver’s Briefcase Key is an important item in Warzone 2 DMZ and it unlocks the briefcase, giving you access to items and resources. The location of the key isn’t as straightforward as some other items in the game and will likely require some detective work.
For finding the key, you will have to head out to the northeast of Sattiq Cave Complex (D5) and go inside the plane’s cockpit. Here, you will find Captain Silver’s Briefcase Key inside a box. The key will be a silver-colored key with a star on it. Once you have the key, you will have to head to the locked briefcase, which will be located north of the plane. To confirm that it is the right briefcase, check for a star on top of it. After getting the briefcase, you should use the key for opening it. Once you have done that, you will be able to gain access to the valuable items and resources in it.

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‘Grandad was a Romantic’ by Maryam Mohajer wins for British Short Animation; Roger Deakins wins for Cinematography on ‘1917.’
At a gala ceremony held Sunday night, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled the winners of the 2020 EE British Academy Film Awards.
1917 won for Best Film and Outstanding British Film, with Sam Mendes receiving the BAFTA for Director and Roger Deakins taking Cinematography. 1917 also won for Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
Klaus took the award for Animated Film; Grandad was a Romantic, by Maryam Mohajer, won the award for British Short Animation.
Joker won three awards: Joaquin Phoenix won Leading Actor, Shayna Markowitz won the inaugural Casting award, and Hildur Guðnadóttir won Original Score.
Parasite won two awards: Original Screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won and Film Not in the English Language.
Leading Actress was won by Renée Zellweger for Judy.
Supporting Actor went to Brad Pitt for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
Laura Dern won Supporting Actress for Marriage Story.
The Special Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was presented to Andy Serkis. Through his pioneering work in the evolving art of performance capture he has widened the parameters of what it means to be an actor in the 21st century.
The Fellowship, the highest honor the Academy can bestow, was presented to producer Kathleen Kennedy by HRH The Duke of Cambridge, President of BAFTA, and Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.
The ceremony, hosted by Graham Norton, was held at London’s Royal Albert Hall and featured performances by Cirque du Soleil and Jessie Buckley.
As part of BAFTA’s year-round program of learning events and initiatives, 50 of this year’s nominees took part in ‘BAFTA Film: The Sessions’ on Saturday 1 February at The Savoy Hotel. The Sessions saw the nominees discuss their craft in interviews that will be available online on BAFTA Guru soon.
Other year-round film activity includes initiatives such as our new talent activity and scholarships program, BAFTA Crew, BAFTA Elevate, as well as masterclasses, the David Lean Lecture delivered by a leading film director, and the 'BAFTA A Life in Pictures' series.
Source: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.

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2 Blueprints vs. Floor Plans A floor plan (floor plan, remodeling plan, room plan) is a scaled drawing of a building, room or home as viewed from above. It will show placement of rooms, doors, windows, major fixtures and appliances, etc.Blueprints are far more detailed and technical plans for your remodel or other construction project.The name ‘blueprint’ is derived from the material and the coating used to produce these plans in the past.A complete set of blueprints will include a floor plan, elevation drawings of each side of the structure, basement or foundation plan, including footings and bearing walls, a complete electrical layout, a framing plan, drawings of all plumbing and mechanical systems, cross section drawings of structural elements, a roof plan, and a site plan.
3 Site PlanA site plan is an architectural plan and landscape architecture plan for the building and the plot that the building sits onA site plan usually shows a building footprint, travel ways, parking, drainage facilities, sanitary sewer lines, water lines, trails, outside lighting, and landscaping and garden elements.
4 A site plan also includes... Property linesOutline of existing and proposed buildings and structuresDistance between buildingsDistance between buildings and property lines (setbacks)Parking lots, indicating parking spacesDrivewaysSurrounding streetsLandscaped areasEasementsGround sign locationUtilities
5 Elevation DrawingsAn elevation is a view of a building seen from one side, a flat representation of one façade or side.This is the most common view used to describe the external appearance of a building.Elevations drawings are labeled with the direction they are facing
6 Room elevationsYou can also have elevation drawings of individual walls inside the house
7 Cross Sections Drawings A cross sections in a drawing like the elevation drawing but cut into the outside wall of the house on each side.In a cross sections you can see what is right behind the outside walls used to see and understand the structural elements of a house such as stairs, fireplaces, rafters ect….
8 North Wall- 15 feet with one 6 foot window, 2 outlets 7. Floor Plan Practice RoomComplete a Floor Plan Practice Room Draw using the exact instructions below, ¼” graph paper, and a pencil. This is a ¼” = 1’ scale so remember each graph square is 1 foot and the 6” walls are drawn as 1/8” thick. Once the pencil draft is complete, trace everything with a black marker and a ruler. Write the dimensions of each wall and label the north wall. Complete the room by designing the inside using the template provided.North Wall- 15 feet with one 6 foot window, 2 outletsSouth Wall- 15 feet with two 3 foot windows, 1 outletEast Wall- 20 feet with one 3 foot door that swings into the room, one outlet, 1 light switchWest Wall- 20 feet, a wall light, a closet with bifold doors Place a ceiling light in the center room.


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UK: Tesco plans DNA tests on meat, ends Silvercrest contract
Tesco plans to introduce DNA tests on all its meat products in the wake of the horse meat scandal, an affair that has led the UK retailer to drop one of the suppliers at the centre of the contamination.
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Astronauts Repair Hubble with Ease
Spacewalking astronauts outfitted the Hubble Space Telescope with a new cosmic time machine Saturday while pulling off planetary camera repairs unprecedented in complexity.
Anchored at the end of a 50-foot robotic arm, shuttle mission specialist John Grunsfeld surgically cut into a near-comatose camera, transplanting new computer circuit boards and a new low-voltage power supply.
Grunsfeld and partner Drew Feustel were understandably elated when Mission Control told them they had successfully resuscitated the scientific instrument.
"Woo-hoo!" Feustel called out.
"Oh, that's unbelievable," Grunsfeld said.
"Nice work, guys," Atlantis mission commander Scott Altman said. "Congratulations to you, John and Drew, for the great effort."
With the four-story telescope looming in the shuttle's cargo bay, Grunsfeld and Feustel carried out the third of five back-to-back spacewalks planned during the final Hubble servicing mission.
Crewmates Mike Massimino and Mike Good have an equally challenging job Sunday: repairing a spectrograph that broke down in 2004.
Hubble project scientists warn that the job — which involves working with 117 tiny screws that could float into the telescope and damage sensitive optics and electronics — might not go as planned.
"We've warned from the very beginning that this is a very ambitious mission. We've set the bar very high, and please don't get mad at us if we don't get absolutely everything done," said Dave Leckrone, senior Hubble scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
But he predicted that Massimino and Good would rise to the occasion.
"I think Mike Massimino and Mike Good are probably feeling pretty competitive," Leckrone said. "They saw how things went (Saturday), and they don't want to be shown up. So I think it's going to go extremely smoothly."
After two opening spacewalks fraught with trouble, Grunsfeld and Feustel breezed through what was expected to be the toughest excursion of a highly demanding mission.
They encountered no major problems removing Hubble's 16-year-old set of "contact lenses" — the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, or COSTAR.
At the size and shape of a phone booth, the instrument was devised to correct for a debilitating flaw discovered in the telescope's 94 1/2-inch primary mirror two months after its April 1990 launch.
The mirror was ground to the wrong prescription, so it didn't focus light properly.
COSTAR contains small mirrors that sharpen the focus of light before it enters Hubble spectrographs — instruments that help scientists deduce the chemical makeup of stars and galaxies.
Now all Hubble instruments have built-in corrective optics, so Grunsfeld and Feustel removed COSTAR to make way for a new state-of-the-art spectrograph.
The $88 million Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, will shed new light on mysterious dark matter that makes up 90 percent of the universe's mass. It also will detect faint light from faraway quasars, providing insight into the birth and evolution of the universe.
"We haven't said a lot about COS, and it's sort of the quiet instrument back in the background waiting to come out and be a superstar," Leckrone said.
The instrument's installation paved the way to the unparalleled repairs on the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
The planetary camera was inserted in the Hubble in 2002. A critical power supply for the camera failed in 2007, shutting down two of its three channels.
In what amounted to orbital surgery, Grunsfeld sliced through camera shielding, then unscrewed 32 bolts to remove a plate that covered four failed circuit boards.
Then, he transplanted a new set of circuit boards and a new electrical power supply, waltzing through a job that originally was spread over two separate spacewalks.
"John Grunsfeld went into this being challenged by the clock. He was playing a big game of beat-the-clock," Leckrone said. "Adversity somehow led to a superhuman effort to get the job done."


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|Perpetual motion machine and every-so-often folk artist Caleb McAlpine has (finally) released his new EP, entitled All Things New. The album is McAlpine's first release in four |
years and sees him make a slight style shift from the alternative/folk mix of Science Fiction to more straightforward folk/Americana. All Things New features six
different vocalists over six songs, and according to McAlpine, is "a strange thing."
The album can be bought from his Bandcamp page.
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The dust has now settled on coverage of a so-called “secret deal” which resulted in NSW receiving additional Pfizer doses.
There has previously been a lack of transparency in exactly how vaccines are allocated, and in what quantities they are being sent to each area.
With that in mind, we requested as much information as possible (here’s the data if you want the raw numbers) about how vaccines are distributed in our rollout program, and the exact number of doses that have been distributed to every state and territory by type of vaccine.
How does the government decide how many doses to give to each state?
The distribution of doses depends on a number of factors. Health minister Greg Hunt has previously said that “every state and every territory receives a per capita allocation”.
Related: Australian children under 12 could be vaccinated this year as minister urges Pfizer to seek approval
However, the population of a state isn’t the only factor, according to a spokesperson from Operation Covid Shield, who says the number of people in priority groups in each state and territory has also been a factor in the allocation of vaccines in the earlier stages of the rollout. In states with large populations the contribution of these priority groups in shifting the allocation away from a population-based one is negligible, but in smaller states and territories the differences are more pronounced.
As reported previously, the extra New South Wales doses were due to a greater number of GPs in NSW being added into a vaccine rollout program enabling them to administer Pfizer, as opposed to being AstraZeneca-only. These additional doses, when added to the state total, meant that NSW received a larger number of doses than you’d expect if allocation was done on a purely per capita basis – however, this is not the full story. More on this below.
How do the number of Pfizer doses delivered vary from what we might expect under a per capita distribution?
Looking at the number of Pfizer vaccines each state receives, versus the expected number of vaccines if they were delivered in proportion with the states’ population, shows that the delivery of doses is rarely as expected:
While NSW has recently shot up into more vaccines than a per capita allocation – due to the doses brought forward, bought in, and allocated to GPs – for most months NSW has actually been receiving fewer vaccines than expected. Smaller states and territories like the ACT and NT consistently receive more, which could be due to a larger proportion of priority demographics relative to the general population. Also Pfizer deliveries are grouped into trays of a set amount – so each delivery must be in multiples of around 1170 doses.
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Victoria received a larger amount than expected in June, due to extra doses being allocated in that month, and then a lower amount after this.
And now that Pfizer is being delivered via GPs, Lt Gen John Frewen has made a commitment that there will be an equitable share of these GP-delivered Pfizer doses between the states and territories, and more GP clinics being added to the Pfizer program.
This has been the strategy throughout the outbreak – where more serious outbreaks occur, vaccines are brought forward and re-directed to hotspots, with the intention that over the course of the entire rollout the distribution will remain in line with a per capita allocation.
What else affects the number of doses a state receives?
However, the allocation amount is not the only factor that determines the number of vaccines a state will receive. From the allocation amount, each state and territory can order a number of doses up to the total allocation amount. This is also the case for GP clinics, pharmacies, and other clinics, which are grouped together by the government as “commonwealth primary care”.
Surprisingly, this ordering amount is not always 100% of the available allocation, even for Pfizer.
Here you can see the percentage of how many doses from each state’s allocation they have actually ordered up to week 28 of the rollout:
The figures show, unsurprisingly, that take-up of AstraZeneca is nowhere near 100%, but also that several states – Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory – have not been ordering the maximum possible amount of Pfizer.
This ordering percentage also makes it impossible to look at the delivery of all doses – both Pfizer and AstraZeneca – versus the expected per capita allocation, as some media outlets have done.
Different states have taken different approaches to getting people vaccinated
This chart shows the proportion of vaccination doses delivered by type, across all administration sites within that state:
Looking at the data this way shows that even though some states (such as NSW) might seem to have a low utilisation of AstraZeneca based on the state-run clinic ordering figures above. In fact the delivery of AstraZeneca and Pfizer is relatively similar across the most populous states, what varies are the places it is being administered.
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That is, states vary on how much they rely on state-run vaccine hubs versus GPs and pharmacies, with NSW and Queensland having a relatively higher proportion of vaccines going through primary care, and Victoria and WA having a relatively higher proportion of vaccines going through state clinics:Internet Explorer Channel Network