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Norwich Bus Bash Report
The rain stayed away, the sun shone but not too harshly, and the public turned up in their droves. Thus was the first Norwich Bus Bash a success, and hopefully raised an impressive amount for East Anglian Children's Hospice.
Sometimes when your as involved as I am with the industry, albeit now as a former insider observing from the outside, it's all too easy to be super critical, to want perfection, to yearn for what isn't there rather than appreciating what is, and today was a classic occasion for doing just that. So I'm going to try and be a member of the public, and not an enthusiast. I understand on social media many enthusiasts have suggested how things could have been better, but in all honesty today wasn't for enthusiasts but for non enthusiasts, young and old, particularly young to enjoy riding on old buses, getting a pic of them in the cab of a bus, going through a bus wash etc. I only saw smiles and happy faces so job done!
As usual all the familiar faces were there, most of them friendly, I went with Tim, and on our arrival were met by Take That Superfan Sam Larke of Norwich Buses Blog, with Jamie Glasspoole, and First Eastern Counties Operations Director/Manager/Driver Chris Speed (should have seen his face when someone asked if he was a driver), whose brainchild today's event was. Most of the city centre shuttle buses were operated by the usual suspects, one of which I understand didn't last the pace and failed early on, but I will keep its identity anonymous. But there were some welcome visitors, and due to the higher than expected attendance some of First's own vehicles were pressed into action.
Our first trip was on Eastern Counties' last Greenway National. The Gardner engine boomed out and gave a pleasant ride, although it must be said it didn't enjoy the steep hill towards the end of the trip.
LG587 WAH 587S
A variety of First vehicles were in attendance, including Lowestoft Heritage liveried 8, Ipswich's Eastern Counties liveried VA479, recently named "Jim Long", X1 E400 33824, and the still striking E400 from Yarmouth, 33423.
Lowestoft 8 at Roundtree Way
33824 was a static display
33423 in need of a little TLC
Jim Long there in spirit, and in person!
The next trip was on an old friend. Great Yarmouth Transport AEC Swift WEX 685M was reunited with former owner Chris Speed, and operated a couple of trips. A lovely bus, and Chris was clearly chuffed to bits to be driving her again.
Swift 85 reunited with its old dad!
Hungry work too, as it didn't take Chris and best mate Grahame Bessey of East Norfolk Bus Blog long to get back up to the city joining Tim and myself for lunch. A really good time spent chewing the cud as well as burgers, catching up on the latest news and gossip.
Chris and Grahame went back to Roundtree Way on the Greenway, while Tim and I waited for my main target of the day, Viv Carter's immaculately restored Bristol VR VEX 294X. It looks simply majestic, sounds as awesome as a Class 37 loco, and gives a ride totally devoid of background noise. I was taken back 35 years in a instant. It was best in show by a country mile and worth the trip to Norwich on its own. Here it is in Castle Meadow
Magnificence! Bristol VR VEX 294X
A bus making its first pulic appearance in new colours was Norwich Volvo B7l 60916, now renamed VW916 (still a Volvo not a VW). Repainted into Eastern Counties Livery and, praise be, re-padded seats it looked very good. I don't know if the rattles have been sorted but I presume not!
VW916 YG02 DKU at Roundtree Way
The workshops were also partially open, and inside was ex Ipswich B7rle 66981, halfway through being repainted into Red Line livery.
66981 being "Redied" up.
There was also the chance to see all of Norwich Network's different colours lined up together for the first time. Sadly not in rainbow order but even so an impressive sight.
So impressive one small boy wanted his photo taken in a driving cab.....
Tim's Mum would be so proud!
And the day was done. Nothing reaches its peak first time round, and I hope this is the first of many Norwich Bus Bashes. What I will say is if you are going to open a depot up it needs to be all or nothing. I know Roundtree Way is operational 7 days a week but so are most depots. The engineering staff in particular seemed to resent the public's presence, and that was a shame. Having most of the other buses parked facing away from the public area was also noted, and it rather showed up less than universal co-operation in making today happen. I hope next year's date is set much earlier, so all departments can come together and work towards making the second Norwich Bus Bash even more of a success than today's was.
Kudos to Chris for making today happen, thanks to those who brought their buses and above all to the public for supporting the event in their hundreds. Good to see all the friends I did, sorry to miss those I didn't see, especially Clive, and catch you all soon.
Syd 14 August 2017 at 13:57
I rarely comment Steve, however I think you could have mentioned the East Anglia Transport Museum and Eastern Transport Collection in your report, both who sent buses at their own considerable expense in aid of the EACH charity. I realise everyone has their own views on what makes a success, but First wished this to be a family day rather than for enthusiasts.I am quite happy for you to mention it was my bus PBJ2F that had an issue requiring attention, but it was on the last run of the day...not early on...and we had done a few runs in and out of the City fully loaded already. The fault was quickly rectified but it could not have been foreseen and is a tribulation of using a 50 year old bus, these things happen as in today's operations. It should not be overlooked that private owners, three in our group, pay for all the running costs of their buses, far more than just diesel, and in this case gave the entire day to raise money for the EACH Charity. The fact we saw nothing but happy faces all day makes it all worthwhile. Not a moan Steve, just my view, and hopefully the Event will be even better should it be held again.
Steve W 14 August 2017 at 14:30
"I understand on social media many enthusiasts have suggested how things could have been better, but in all honesty today wasn't for enthusiasts but for non enthusiasts, young and old, particularly young to enjoy riding on old buses, getting a pic of them in the cab of a bus, going through a bus wash etc. I only saw smiles and happy faces so job done!"
I thanked all who brought their buses, but I'm not going to post pics of the same buses at every event. It's good the EATM & EATC sent vehicles but I'm sure it was for EACG and not for publicity which is to be commended.
As for the breakdown it happens to the best, and I'm happy to correct the info I received that it was early on - I only saw it once so must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time to see her on the other runs.
In which case Steve would have to also mention all the other preservationists other than the EATC and EATM who haven't got a group behind them but still provide their vehicles - one came from Birmingham at a considerably larger expense than coming from CC or Attleborough!
I must admit to being confused what is the difference between the EATM and EATC nowadays, seems to be run by the same people? If this is correct I think a merger of the two and having all those two groups vehicles on one site would be a great asset for Carlton Colville and ECOC fans.
Dennis Dart 17 August 2017 at 15:03
I rarely comment but give that man a Knighthood for his 'services' to charity! A true legend.
Enjoyed reading this as always Steve, was Tim planning on Spixworth, Attleborough or one of the places in between there?
I too hope it is the first of many. Once more, good to see you again.
Knowing Tim he'd have ended up in Peterborough before he realised he'd gone wrong! Good to see you too, John and here's to the next one.
suffolkraider 15 August 2017 at 22:34
Huh! lol Casting more aspersions I see lol I'll have you know my sense of direction is second to none.....none being usually a tad off course. I enjoyed the day too plenty to see and lots to talk about. "Note to Mr Speed...Tea wagon!!!"
Harry Moore 17 August 2017 at 15:10
A pleasant enough day, good to see VR294 there. As you say, not specifically geared up for enthusiasts, hence why it fell short of the Ipswich running day earlier in the year. Still, I enjoyed this day in Norwich, despite its limitations.
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We'll look at the restaurants at Disney's Hollywood Studios* in this installment of Walt Disney World Resort dining for teens. This WDW theme park has some great thrill rides and action based shows that tend to really appeal to older kids and teens. The show schedule can make dining a bit of challenge though – you need to schedule your reservations so that you get in the afternoon shows like Lights, Motors, Action! (which currently only has two shows per day) but also early enough that you can line up to see Fantasmic! in the evening. Scheduling a sit-down lunch reservation can make it nearly impossible to catch all the shows so try for an early dinner, if possible.
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Mama Melrose ~ This restaurant doesn't feature an amazing theme, it is just a nice choice for a good Italian-inspired meal. This is the restaurant we prefer for the Fantasmic! Dining Package, which is a plan that provides a voucher for guaranteed seating at the evening Fantasmic! show – the other two restaurants in this program are Hollywood & Vine (buffet) and The Brown Derby (upscale dining). The setting at Mama Melrose is fairly quiet and is a nice spot for a restful meal. TIP: The Fantasmic Dinner Package will be increasingly advantageous beginning in January 2009 when Fantasmic! will only be offered two evenings per week.
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Check back soon for tips on dining at Epcot with older kids and teens!
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Q: Itertools product of list I have found this fonction, but i don't want
A = [[1,2],[3,4]]
print list(product(*A))
[(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 4)]

I would like to have just that below in answer
[(1, 4),(2, 3)]

How can i do that please ?
In fact, i don't want to have a number at the same place in the original list in my final list.
I have made that :
def afficherListe(A):
n=len(A)
B=[]
for i in range (0,n,1):
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return B

But it doesn't work I have just [2,3] in answer...

A: I think that perhaps you want to get all tuples consisting of 1 item from each column and each row, as in a determinant calculation. If so:
from itertools import permutations

def afficherListe(A):
    """A is a square matrix. Returns all tuples used in det(A)"""
    n = len(A)
    return [tuple(A[i][j] for i,j in enumerate(p)) for p in permutations(range(n))]

#tests:
A = [[1,2],[3,4]]
B = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]
print(afficherListe(A))
print(afficherListe(B))

Output:
[(1, 4), (2, 3)]
[(1, 5, 9), (1, 6, 8), (2, 4, 9), (2, 6, 7), (3, 4, 8), (3, 5, 7)]

A: [(a,b) for a in A[0] for b in A[1] if A[0].index(a)!=A[1].index(b)]

Input :
A = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]

Out put :
[(1, 4), (2, 3)]

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Congressional Black Caucus, civil rights organizations challenge CDC to provide reports on rate of infections
With evidence growing that shows African Americans disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus, just nine states and the District of Columbia have released a racial breakdown of those diagnosed with the disease.
Concerned health experts, members of the U.S. Congress, and civil rights organizations have ramped up their call for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide a detailed report.
"We know that there's a disproportionate rate of infections and death nationwide," Congressional Black Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.) stated in a conference call with the Black Press of America represented by the National Newspaper Publishers Association on Tuesday, April 7.
"It's happening in all of our [African American] communities nationwide. We feel that it's an emergency that needs to be addressed right away, and, importantly, we need data, and the CDC is not compiling data," Bass added.
Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, agreed that statistics along racial lines are vital. "The data already released shows troubling trends for African Americans that must be addressed to ensure public health," Kelly said.
African Americans make up about 18 percent of the population in Michigan but account for approximately 40 percent of coronavirus-related deaths, according to Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-Michigan).
"I am speaking as just one part of the major piece of concern, and that's the alarming way in how this pandemic is having an impact on our Black community," Lawrence said.
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The Louisiana Department of Health revealed that 70 percent of coronavirus deaths in the state are African American, despite Black people making up just 32 percent of the population. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, African Americans reportedly accounted for nearly half of coronavirus cases and more than 80 percent of deaths related to the disease.
"I have seen in my waiting room mostly Black and Brown patients who are essential workers and service workers who can't afford to stay home," Uche Blackstone, the CEO of Advancing Health Equity, told The Hill.
"These are the ones that I see presenting to the clinic with COVID-19 symptoms," Blackstone said.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) led a group from congress recently in demanding that the federal government release data about racial disparities in America's response to the pandemic. Pressley said she and her colleagues made clear in the letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar that the government is failing to collect and publicly report on the racial and ethnic demographic information for coronavirus tests and patients.
"Without demographic data, policymakers and researchers will have no way to identify and address ongoing disparities and health inequities that risk accelerating the impact of the novel coronavirus and the respiratory disease it causes," the letter stated.
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AZ-Oxford vaccine safe & efficacious: Interim analysis
New Delhi: An interim analysis of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University reveals that it is safe and efficacious, leading medical journal Lancet has reported.
"ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has an acceptable safety profile and has been found to be efficacious against symptomatic Covid-19 in this interim analysis of ongoing clinical trials," the Lancet said.
The study involving 23,848 participants was conducted between April 23 and November 4, 2020. The analysis included data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Africa.
The participants were recruited and vaccinated across the four studies. "We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials," the report said.
Participants aged 18 years and older were randomly assigned (1:1) to ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine or control (meningococcal group A, C, W, and Y conjugate vaccine or saline).
Participants in the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 group received two doses, while a subset in the UK trial received a half dose as their first dose (low dose) and a standard dose as their second dose.
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Q: Is it ok to add examples to an answer? Similar to 'editing to add links', is it also ok to add an example?
I was going to answer this question but I noticed that one answer had most of the things I needed to say, except perhaps that the questioner didn't perhaps understand the answer and  I feel that an example may help.

A: If it will improve the answer, go right ahead. Take a cue from the FAQ

Like Wikipedia, this site is collaboratively edited. If you are not comfortable with the idea of your questions and answers being edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you.

If the original author doesn't think so, they'll just roll it back.

A: The only thing that I wouldn't do is change the character of an answer. If an example is consistent with the answer and contributes to bettering answering the question, I might add it, I might comment that an example would help, or I might answer the question myself if I felt that the example was the most important thing or the answer would be significantly different with an example (e.g., the example would need elucidating).
I wouldn't add an example that wasn't consistent with the answer, though. If an answer talked about foo, bar, and baz, I wouldn't add an example that used widgets and gadgets. I also wouldn't add an example to an incorrect answer to demonstrate that it's incorrect. In that case I would use my own answer, with an example, to show the correct solution.
My opinion is that, while this site has some wiki-like characteristics, it's not like Wikipedia in that we aren't trying to formulate a single, correct answer. If that were the case there would only ever be one answer to a question and we would all just contribute to it. Rather we each have our own answers -- or ones we agree with that we can vote up -- and the wiki-characteristic that is in play is editing and amplifying to improve clarity, not to change content.


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Response to McGettigan et al.
Task-based accounts are not sufficiently coherent to explain articulatory effects in speech perception
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Rastle, K., Davis, M. H., & Brysbaert, M. (2010). Response to McGettigan et al. Task-based accounts are not sufficiently coherent to explain articulatory effects in speech perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(12). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000982107
Rastle, Kathleen ; Davis, Matthew H. ; Brysbaert, Marc. / Response to McGettigan et al. Task-based accounts are not sufficiently coherent to explain articulatory effects in speech perception. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2010 ; Vol. 107, No. 12.
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Khirbet Suruj
Abu al Hija
Farmers Origin/Family
from Ein Houd
official refugee status
Refugees Details
UNRWA Cards
When the community first arrived the lands were Jordanian state lands , which were supposed to be given by the Jordanian government to the community. Out of the 180 Dunam that originally were promised, 120 Dunams are owned by the community today.
The road from Al Yamoun is unpaved
The community is connected to a water network since 2012, through the initiated of the joint services council
The community is connected to electricity since 2010, through the Ministry of energy.
clinic in neighboring village
The nearest clinic is in Al Yamoun village. They are eligible to treatment in the UNRWA hospital in Jenin, since they hold refugee certificates, but it is too far away for the community and they rarely go.
Al Yamoun
El Yamoun
Schools - details
Many drop out of school because of the difficulties to reach school, the road is destroyed and the public transportation does not access the village.
The community was expelled from Ein Houd in 1948. In the 50s' they arrived to the area of Jenin, to the lands of El Yamoun. Some from the community (mainly Yahia family) moved to Al A'raqa village, as it welcomed refugees. The Sofian family went to El Yamoun which offered lands suitable to raise cattle in, which the community had.
no Initiatives
General Livelihood - details
Originally they are shepherds but since the building of the separation barrier they lost most of their grazing areas. The areas close to the separation barrier became dangerous, and a child was killed by the IDF there. Since then the community sold their herds.
separation barrier
Since the building of the separation barrier they lost most of their grazing areas. The areas close to the wall became dangerous, and a child was killed by the IDF there. The building of the barrier also caused two houses to be demolished.
Demolitions - details
Two houses were demolished when the wall was built.
Northwest West Bank


My starting point has been this exhibition itself. Having no time for undertaking textile projects in the past couple of years due to family illness, I found the upcoming exhibition to be a welcome catalyst for my beginning to work again.
I spend some time each year on the West coast of Scotland, in splendid isolation, and am able to absorb the landscapes and seascapes, colours and light – and wanted to create an impression of these effects.
I used open and closer-woven fabrics and painted and plastered them to suggest the textures and erosion found on the shoreline. The layers of fabric can represent sea movement as well as the different surfaces found as one walks up a sandy or stony beach. Folds, tucks and stitching were added, echoing the patterns in the sand left by the sea, and strata in rocks.


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Q: how to make an advanced searchbar in wordpress without plugin I'm new to PHP and I don't know how write a wp_query for search by category. basically i have a website in which i have posts now i want to search accurate post by its name model and year i also attached the screenshot.
i was searching for code but i didn't find anything only find this code but i didn't know what to do in this.
check this website their is a reference searchbar
https://www.thecarconnection.com/
code:
<?php
                        $text=$_GET['car'];

                        $model=$_GET['model'];
                        $year=$_GET['year'];

                        if($text!="" && $model=="" && $year=="" )
                        {

                        $the_query = new WP_Query( array(
                        'post_type' => 'Posts',
                        'paged' => $paged,
                        'meta_query'=>array(
                             array(
                              'key'=>'prp_ulocation',
                              'value'=>$text,
                              'compare'=>'LIKE'
                                  )
                           )));
                        }
                        else if($text=="" && $model!="" && $year!="" )
                        {
                            $the_query = new WP_Query( array(
                            'post_type' => 'BMW',
                            'paged' => $paged,
                            'meta_query'=>array(

                                array(
                                  'key'=>'model',
                                  'type'=>'NUMERIC',
                                  'value'=>array($model,$year),
                                  'compare'=>'BETWEEN'
                                      )
                               )));
                        }
                        else if($text=="" && $model=="" && $year=="" )
                        {
                            $the_query = new WP_Query( array(
                                'post_type' => 'Kia',
                                'paged' => $paged,
                                'meta_query'=>array(

                                    array(
                                      'key'=>'model',
                                      'type'=>'NUMERIC',
                                      'value'=>$model,
                                      'compare'=>'<='
                                          )
                                   )));
                        }
                        else if($text!="" && $model=="" && $year=="" )
                        {
                            $the_query = new WP_Query( array(
                                'post_type' => 'Toyota',
                                'paged' => $paged,
                                'meta_query'=>array(

                                    array(
                                      'key'=>'model',
                                      'type'=>'NUMERIC',
                                      'value'=>$model,
                                      'compare'=>'<='
                                          ),
                                    array(
                                      'key'=>'year',
                                      'value'=>$text,
                                      'compare'=>'LIKE'
                                          )

                                   )));
                        }

                        while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
                        ?>

their will be a form

A: Modify this hook. You can retrieve get params and apply it to wp-query. Don't forget to sanitize params you receive from the request
function custom_search( $query_object )
{
    if( $query_object->is_search() ) {
        // Your wp query params
    }
}

add_action( 'parse_query', 'custom_search' );

Documentation here


Calgary wanted to rock and roll all night – and KISS gave them a great show.
The iconic rock band hit the Scotiabank Saddledome Friday night and thousands rocked with the popular 80s band. The concert was the rescheduled show after the original show was cancelled earlier this year because of the flooding in Calgary.
If you weren't able to see the show, this is the next best thing. WARNING – lots of tongues.


Measure the brown sugar into a glass coffee mug. Pour prepared coffee into mug and stir to dissolve sugar. While stirring, pour in the whiskey shot. After the beverage has stilled, using an extra large spoon, carefully place thick cream over the coffee. Drink the beverage through the cream for a delicious, caffeinated and slightly boozy morning.
You know you'll love this one simply from reading the name, but I guarantee this is even more delicious than you'd think. It does involve a little planning ahead: first, brew unflavored, bold coffee and chill (covered) in the fridge for at least two hours. Using either a traditional Guinness pint glass or a regular pint glass (holds 2 cups or 16 oz.), take a scoop of high quality vanilla ice cream (we like Breyers® Natural Vanilla) and scoop it out into the bottom of the pint glass. Next, pour in a half cup of cold coffee over the ice cream. Finally, top off with Guinness draught. Ideally, you would use an actual nitrogen keg from a bar — but unless you own or manage a restaurant, this isn't going to happen; no worries, though: just use a can or bottle of Guinness draught (READ: DO NOT confuse with Guinness Extra Stout). To properly pour (and this is very important when you tend with Guinness), open bottle or can and quickly turn completely upside-down over the pint glass. A "widget rocket", an ingenious device by Guinness, will enhance the nitrogen solution to impart a smooth taste and also will allow the beer to develop a creamy head. When it's full, stop pouring even if there is beer left in the container (we don't imagine this will be a problem).
If you haven't heard of this, you didn't go to college. Or maybe you did, but studied too much. Either way, here's how to pull off this classic late night beverage. Reading over ingredient list, you may notice that the exact measurements aren't important. What's important is chugging this beverage as quickly as you can, or it will curdle (gross). Impressively (and this may surprise you), Guinness is one of the easiest beers to chug because there is no carbonation (only nitrogen) and although dark in color and rich in taste, it is low in calories. Do not be afraid: Pour a half pint of Guinness. Next, fill a shot glass halfway first with the Irish Cream and float (i.e. pour very slowly) whiskey on top of the cream. Now, in one fell swoop, drop the shot glass in the pint glass and drink as fast as you can!
Our cocktail runner-up is, unsurprisingly, the White Russian (featuring Kahlua: coffee-flavored rum). Also imperative to mention is just a few of the world's rich variety of coffee-flavored liqueurs: Patron "XO Cafe" or Patron "XO Cafe" Dark Cocoa Coffee Liqueur (both coffee flavored high end tequila); Van Gogh Espresso Vodka, and Baileys. We didn't even list any delicious coffee-flavored porters, stouts, and other microbrews. Any other boozy coffee beverages that you love that didn't make our list? Leave your tips and tricks in our comments!


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At that time, Great Britain was trying to honor its Royal Proclamation of 1763. . 75 In many places, the landscape was altered beyond recognition.
So its not surprising that we see no third-party candidates elected to offices higher than Representative or Senator after the Democrat/Republican system solidified in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated Duvergers Law in practice with his 1912 Progressive Party (and Ralph Nader. 400 See Marc Herold's "A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting December 2001. The site demands an absurd fee for the original image, but scans of the university yearbook are available and it is relatively trivial to download, find the relevant page, extract it from the PDF, and upload it: pg114 of the 1943 University of Maine yearbook. At the superhuman level, no longer does any human do the task on their own except for learning purposes or debugging; those humans now focus on things like when the task should be done or from what perspective it should be described. King Philip II had little liking for the Netherlands, and his solution to the Protestant Reformation there was to send in the Spanish Inquisition. . Plus, everyone grows hair so it seems like a relatively egalitarian aspect of attractiveness - its not set in stone like so much of ones appearance. 294 The charges by Ramsey Clark, the tribunal judgment and the ongoing effort by his organization to stop what he called "genocide" in Iraq is readily available on the Internet. His account deeply influences European merchants. See Richard Flint's No Settlement, No Conquest,. He wrote about this in his New In Chess column (NiC Magazine 5/2005,. .


1. The name 'roulette' derives from 'little wheel'. It's often called the King of Casino Games on account of its strong connections with Monte Carlo.
2. Another name for roulette is 'The Devil's Game'. That's partly because all of the numbers on the wheel add up to 666.
3. Probabilities whizz Blaise Pascal created the concept of the roulette table while he was trying to invent a perpetual motion machine to enhance his calculator, the Pascaline.
4. The game itself may have been inspired by a 17th century English game called Roly Poly, featuring a ball spinning around on a wheel. After the banning of this game, Beau Nash came up with an even simpler variation, EO, or Even-Odd.
5. Gambling took off in the 19th century, after the Blanc Brothers turned Monte Carlo into the casino capital of the world. Francois Blanc was so successful and envied that he was rumoured to have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for the secrets to roulette..
6. Whereas the European-style tables have a single green zero square, the American-style table includes an additional green double-zero. This means that the house edge on American-style tables is almost twice as much – 5.26% rather than 2.7% on European-style tables.
7. Don't settle for the 2.7% edge. French-style tables have La Partage and En Prison rules. If the ball lands on the green zero on outside bets, La Partage lets you recoup half of your stake. With En Prison, you have the option of leaving your stake on the table for another spin. These rules cut the house edge to just 1.35%.
8. The house edge remains fairly constant, except in one case. American-style tables may offer a 'Five' bet, where you cover squares 1-3 and the two zero squares. This bet gives a 7.89% edge to the house, making it the worst choice of all.
9. The double-zero actually dates from the early days of roulette, and Jacques Lablee's 1796 book 'La Roulette ou le Jour', one of the earliest written descriptions of the game, mentions a table with both a zero and a double-zero square. When German designers started building casinos around their spas, they dispensed with the double-zero so as to attract customers away from the Paris houses. The ruse worked, especially after Monte Carlo resorted to the single-zero, and even today, the European- and French-style tables only have a single zero – the double-zero is associated with the Vegas casinos.
10. Early American tables not only had fewer numbers (going up to 28 rather than 36), but also incorporated a zero, a double zero, and an 'Eagle Slot'. The latter was actually larger than the other squares, and quickly become very unpopular with bankrupt players. Today, the Eagle Slot tables are extremely valuable.
11. Joseph Jagger became immortalised in song as 'The Man who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'. He had suspected that some of the roulette wheels had mechanical imbalances that would increase the chances of some numbers coming up with greater frequency. In 1873 he hired six clerks to stand and take note of every number spun. He then used this information to identify possibly defective wheels, and made considerable sums before being barred.
12. 18 years after Jagger, Charles Deville Wells became the next man to break Monte Carlo, arriving with £4,000, and emptying out the place after winning 23 times out of 30. Many years later, Wells was jailed for fraud. He died penniless, but to the end, he maintained that his Monte Carlo exploits had been sheer luck.
13. In 2012, a wheel at the Rio Casino in Vegas supposedly hit 19 seven times in a row. The odds of that happening are 3 billion to 1. It's not clear whether or not the feat was down to a seating problem.
14. 'Impossible' runs against you aren't as impossible as they may seem. Even without the zero and double zero squares, if you bet red or black every time, you have a 1 in 32 chance of hitting 5 losses. You have a 1 in 1024 chance of getting 10 colours going against you. Even a seemingly ridiculous run, like 15 straight colours against you, has a 1 in 32,768 chance of happening. Seasoned roulette players are likely to see such an event happen to them. In a Bristol casino, 36 reds in a row were supposedly hit.
15. The 2004 series Double or Nothing followed Ashley Revell as he sold all of his possessions (for close to £77K), and risked them on the spin of the roulette wheel. Luckily, the bet came good, and he walked away with £153,860.
17. The ball is made of ivory or plastic, and lands in 'pockets' on the wheel that are separated from one another by tiny walls known as 'frets'.
18. The frets are designed to be highly springy so that the ball bounces off them. If a fret is loose, this will result in the ball bouncing off with less force, and it may quickly come to rest in a nearby pocket. This'll make certain numbers or sets of numbers come up more frequently. Loose frets can be a great source of money to those players who can identify them.
19. Wheels that aren't seated properly will cause the ball to land in a certain section of the wheel more often than it should. Poorly seated wheels can often be detected by looking at the way the light bounces off the wheel.
20. Some players claim that it's possible to predict where the ball is going to land by watching its bounce. Oxford University don Doyne Farmer became famous in the roulette world after disclosing that he had used an early computer to compile extensive information from a table, and then use that gen to successfully predict the outcome of a spin. This had happened in the 70s, but he disclosed it decades later after reports that a pair of students had just achieved pretty much the same thing with a smartphone.
21. In 2004, the 'Ritz Gang' took £1.3 million from the casino at the Ritz hotel. It was rumoured that they had used a laser scanner hidden in a mobile phone to measure the velocity of the roulette wheel, and then fed this information into a computer to work out where the ball would land. While section 17 of the 1845 Gaming Act precludes the use of any unlawful device, the definition is vague, and the Ritz Gang were allowed to keep their winnings.
22. The plastic marker used to signify winning bets is called a 'dolly'.
23. The easy availability of '50/50′ bets (Red/Black, Odd/Even, 1-18/19-36) combined with its high popularity makes roulette the first choice for system players – Martingale, D'Alembert, Fibonacci, and Paroli are all great examples of systems that involve altering the bet size to try and escape the house edge.
24. Despite attempts to find a system that defeats the odds, none has been conclusively proven. Indeed, flat betting (placing the same amount again and again) is statistically more successful than just about any progressive system ever devised. When it comes to roulette, you might just as well enjoy the freedom of placing your bets randomly, as no system can help.
25. The Martingale system is the most famous of all progressive betting systems. Its appeal lies partly in its simplicity – you simply double your bet every time until you win – and its '100%' winning record. Unfortunately, you only win all of the time if you have unlimited bank funds and no table limit. Otherwise, you'll eventually see a long run against you that bankrupts you. The Martingale system, despite its fame, will lose you far more money than a flat betting approach.
26. Ian Fleming, writer of the James Bond books, was a keen gambler himself. Although he preferred baccarat, he did regularly try his hand at roulette. His favoured system (as outlined in the Monte Carlo section in his sequence of travelogues, Thrilling Cities) was Labouchere, where you write down a sequence of numbers (eg, 2 2 6 3 3) and then calculate your next bet by adding together the first and last numbers. If you lose, you add the amount of the bet as the next number in your sequence. Win, and you cross off both numbers. When you have crossed off all numbers in the sequence, you will have made a profit equal to the value of the starting sequence. Like the Martingale System, it doesn't work in the long term, though, and will lose you more than a flat betting system.
27. James Bond pops up quite frequently in gambling circles. 17 is believed to be the character's favourite number, and this (plus its central location on the table) has led to it being played more than any other. Newcastle United owner (and founder of Sports Direct) Mike Ashley reportedly banked £1.3 million when he placed £480K across a string of bets revolving around 17. When he attends matches, he wears a shirt with the number 17 on it.
28. 17 isn't the only number to feature widely in movies about roulette. A famous scene in Casablanca has Rick Blaine fixing it so that a newly-wed wins a sizeable sum at the roulette table, thus saving the man's wife from having to sell herself to a corrupt chief of police in return for the money the couple need in order to flee the country. Rick tells the man to bet on 22. This same number comes up again in Indecent Proposal. There, the bet loses, setting off a complete reversal of the events of Casablanca, culminating in the wife sleeping with a rich businessman. The number 22 is also the bet that repeatedly loses in the comedy Lost in America.
29. A variation on the game is 'California Roulette', which uses cards rather than slots to pick the winning numbers. This version is designed to get round anti-gambling laws.
30. Roulette is very much an equal-opportunities game! Despite its supposedly male-dominated base, 46% of those who play online roulette are female.


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Oksana Sobolevskaya: My life is a dream that's already started to come true
Marina Mosyakova
"I'm alive, in good health and ever so grateful." Oksana Sobolevskaya and her brother Anton are the first stars of the Blood Family project.
In the Blood Family project, we tell the stories of people who share the same blood flowing through their veins. They had to undergo bone marrow transplantation surgery, one needing new bone marrow due to disease while the other was able to become their donor. The first to tell their story are two siblings, Oksana and her brother Anton. Oksana is 22. She is a student and a Podari Zhizn volunteer. Anton is 31 and a civil servant. They seldom recall the experience, but their tears, which neither of them manages to hold back during the conversation, show that everything that happened is still with them. It hasn't gone anywhere, hasn't faded away, even though over fourteen years have passed since the transplant.
It's a pleasure to see how happy and satisfied Oksana looks as she poses in front of the mirror, tries on outfits for the photo shoot and asks for long-lasting makeup so it can stay on through the evening. "Yes, I was sick, but I got better, and now I have a huge number of plans."
Anton, a mature, serious man, is more restrained, but it's clear to see that he can't refuse his beloved little sister anything—still "little" even though she's long since grown up, and beloved as someone who shares a close family bond twice over.
"My dad carried me to the hospital in his arms"
Please tell us what you remember about that time.
Oksana: I was about four, and I was a perfectly ordinary child. I remember playing in my room. Then I wanted to go see my mum, so I stood up, but I immediately fell over, and couldn't get up again. I had to crawl on all fours. I got there and climbed up onto the sofa. My mum was on the phone, and I sat next to her with no idea how to tell her what was wrong with me. So, what if I fell over, but why couldn't I then stand up?
She was very frightened. My parents knew I needed an urgent examination, but they had no idea where to go. It was a critical situation, just like it would be for any family. Where do we go? Who can help? Just what is happening anyway?
I was taken to our local hospital in Podolsk, but I didn't spend long there. Nothing helped: not drugs, not drips, not injections. I was very sad. I remember that my dad gave me a toy, a dog, and I was so happy that now I had a friend. Of course, there are some things I only remember because the adults told me. I spent a long time thinking about this even after I grew up. At the time I thought that I'd deal with it all, that I'd definitely get better and live happily ever after. And it turns out I was right to be so confident!
We were advised to go to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital, and my dad carried me there in his arms because I couldn't walk. We were met by Galina Novichkova (now the medical director of the Dmitry Rogachev Haematology Centre – ed.). I was given some kind of medicinal drip, and I started walking again. But this was the only good news because they tested me and found out I had 90% lymphoblastic cells in my blood! I had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
What do you remember about your time in the hospital? These were the late '90s, such a long time ago…
Oksana: I only have fond memories of the hospital. Maybe I didn't fully understand how serious it all was. But, as I said, I was convinced that everything would be all right. That must be what let me avoid thinking unhappy thoughts. And then I was surrounded by the most wonderful and caring doctors, like Alexei Alexandrovich Maschan! I remember how he showed affable surprise at my round cheeks—they grew because I was on hormones. I was very lucky to meet doctors like him. They deserve the highest honours for their work and the way they treated every child. I am really, truly thankful to them.
Anton, what was happening with you back home at that time?
Anton: Every weekend, my dad and I would go visit Oksana and Mum in hospital. We'd bring food, medicine, and all the daily necessities. I was about fifteen. I remember being afraid. And not just me—we were all very frightened. They couldn't give Oksana a diagnosis for a long time, and it made us all anxious. We couldn't predict what was going to happen, and we couldn't see a way out of the situation.
"Girls, your hair will grow back for sure"
And then one day the treatment was over, and you came home.
Oksana: Yes, I went through all the necessary stages and they released me. I spent a long time on maintenance, so I'd come back to hospital and have tests done. Then I started my first year of school and everything was fine. But once I got to the second year, I started having difficulties. Someone accidentally pushed me and I broke my arm. I had trouble writing as a result, and I had to stay home. But I kept studying. My mum and I would check my Russian homework, and she paid me a lot of attention. She'd always be examining me and asking me how I felt. That's how she found the lymph nodes.
We were terrified of a relapse. I started going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I'll be honest, I was shocked when the medicine made my hair start to fall out. Mum warned me that it would happen, but I hadn't taken it seriously. Then when it really did… But still, I found the strength to accept it within myself. I kept telling myself, "What matters is that I'm alive and well. Everything else will sort itself out." And I really want to tell that to everyone having the same worries right now: girls, your hair will grow back for sure. I really don't want anyone to stress over it. Yes, it's unpleasant and it's hard to bear. But it'll pass.
Oksana and Anton were a 100% match
You have a big age difference, nine years. How did you get on as children?
Anton: We never fought. We loved to mess around together, to have pillow fights, jump and run around. I wasn't home very often as I was very into sports—I did Greco-Roman wrestling—so I was always away for trips and tournaments. But when we did meet up, we always had fun.
What did you call each other?
Oksana: He called me a macaque. I called him a bear.
Anton: In 2003, Oksana went to school as a first-year, while I was having my graduation ceremony. I was carrying her on one shoulder, and she was ringing the symbolic "last bell" for me. There's even a photo—I'm carrying her, and she's ringing the bell. We have many photos in general, and they let us remember everything: here's New Year, the first one after her illness, and everything's fine. At the time, nobody knew that the illness would come back. Here's Oksana in kindergarten, still with long hair, and here's us all going to the circus together…
Why did the doctors decide that Anton would be your bone marrow donor?
Oksana: Neither my mum nor my dad were compatible with me, so they decided to test if Anton was. If he hadn't been, we'd have had to look for a donor abroad, but I was running out of time.
Why didn't they test Anton to begin with?
Anton: I suppose our parents wanted to avoid getting me involved if they could. But it turned out my sister and I were a 100% match. That's when we started preparing ourselves for what lay ahead.
How did you prepare yourselves?
Anton: Above all, emotionally. In 2013, I was already in higher education. But I decided to take a year off to save my sister. I knew that I couldn't afford to fall ill no matter what. And then they injected me with a drug that stimulated stem cells to enter the bone marrow—they are what you need for a transplant.
What were you thinking about back then? What did you feel?
Anton: I was aware that we'd gained a real opportunity to help Oksana get better. We finally had something we could use. I remember being worried when I went for the stem cell extraction. I was in a half-sitting half-lying position, and they connected me to a device that cycled my blood and collected the cells. My dad was sitting next to me, and the doctors were in complete control, so in that sense everything was, of course, completely safe. The procedure took an hour and a half. And then I got up, took one step and collapsed in a dead faint. It was that emotionally intense an experience.
How did your parents feel at that time?
Anton: They had tears in their eyes. We were all extremely anxious. Dad was next to me, and Mum was next to Oksana. When I came to and realised that it was all a success, that there were enough cells, it felt great and I was very happy.
"I always knew it would all work out"
Oksana, how did you prepare for the transplant?
Oksana: I had radiotherapy, then intensive chemotherapy. I felt awful, nauseous, and I wasn't strong enough to do anything more than lie down. It was no fun at all. My hair fell out. And then they took me to the transplant ward, into a sterile room.
It sounds like you lost your resolve after all?
Oksana: No. I was sad, but not afraid. I believed, even knew, I felt deep down that everything was going to be all right. So, I never gave up. It was hard and painful, and at one point I even needed saving… but you can see for yourself that everything is all right now. I think right now, I could do with the determination and positive outlook I had back then. Maybe it's because I was a child, and I believed in miracles, in fairy tales. It was a kind of childish naiveté. But you always have to believe in the best possible outcome, and even when you feel like giving up, you have to keep moving forward. And do what the doctor tells you.
Have doctors played a big role in your life?
Oksana: Yes, I was surrounded by love, goodwill, and care. They always asked me how things were, how I was doing or whether I wanted to eat anything. In fact, food was interesting. There's a lot I wasn't allowed to eat. Everything had to be cooked in a pressure cooker and fruit had to be baked. Then when they prescribed me hormones, I suddenly fell in love with… chicken! Some people start eating yoghurt by the pack, but I could eat an entire chicken in one go. The entire ward came to look at me! But I couldn't drink carbonated water, only the ordinary kind, and powdered herbal tea. When they finally permitted me Coca-Cola, I was delighted like you wouldn't believe. It was so delicious!
Anton: We followed the doctors' instructions to the letter. Not allowed meant not allowed. We kept going to the very end. And the miracle did happen. Everything healed. It was like she'd been born again. I talked to Alexei Alexandrovich and found him to be a very positive man who always knows how to cheer someone up, when to crack a joke and how to chat. Our doctors are godsends. I'm eternally grateful that they exist.
"After the transplant, it was as if I'd started my life anew"
Oksana, how did you get back to your ordinary life?
Oksana: It was as if I'd been born again and started my life anew. I learned to walk and got used to ordinary life bit by bit. I spent a long time wearing a mask. I remember how my mum and I went shopping and people started laughing at me. It was unpleasant, but I learned to ignore it. They're just lucky nothing like this ever happened to them. What matters most to me is what my family thinks, the people closest to me, and I don't care about strangers.
Anton: I remember one nasty situation as well. My sister went for a walk, and when she came back, she told me that some older girls were making fun of her for walking around in a headkerchief or a mask. Naturally, I went out and started explaining to them what she'd been through. I think I got through to them. One even started crying, but I don't think I hurt her. Rather, she must have understood what it's like to end up in a hospital with cancer, with a relapse…
How did you feel about having your own brother be your saviour?
Oksana: I was over the moon. I still think I was extremely lucky. It was a genuine miracle. It's one thing when the donor lives abroad, and you have no way to find out who they are and what their life is like. But here my donor was the person nearest to me. It's great!
Have you already had the chance to thank him?
Oksana: Yes, of course. I think we understand each other.
"I just keep moving forward"
What's happening in your life now?
Oksana: I'm a fifth-year student at the department of foreign languages. I study, I go out, and I love my life very much. I see the world in very bright colours. If something good happens to me, I take it as a source of true happiness. To some students, getting top grades is just good, but to me it's a feeling of fulfillment, of another step forward. I feel proud of myself for every victory and keep going. Sometimes I feel like my life is a fairy tale. I'm going to graduate, find a job and get married. That's the very definition of a dream!
I'm a little naive, and I don't know how to be rude. It's hard for me to take a stand or to defend myself. But I find upsides to that as well. Yes, I am the way I am. Sometimes I get sad, sometimes I cry, but I understand that everyone is different. I have many friends, and we often go to the cinema together or sit in cafés. I'm also a volunteer for the Podari Zhizn charity, so I come to play with the children, and I want to start teaching them foreign languages.
How do the people around you who know your background treat you? Do they try to keep you safe?
Oksana: My parents still try to keep me away from the outside world. They realise that I'm growing, and I have to keep moving forward, but they're still afraid to give me more freedom. I think that'll pass with time.
How do you handle it?
Oksana: I tell them that I want to be more responsible and more independent. They understand, but they still constantly ask me where I am, how I'm feeling and whether anything hurts. The past has left a big mark on us all. I try not to recall it and just to get on with life. Yes, it's my past, it's part of me, but I live in the present and I have a future. The past doesn't need to affect it.
Do you ever talk about your illness and reminisce about what you went through?
Oksana: I don't.
Anton: No, we don't recall it, we don't bring it up and we don't talk about it.
Anton, what's happening in your life?
Anton: I work. In my free time, of which there isn't that much, I go swimming and I exercise at the gym. I often travel for work. In reality, we don't see each other that often. I live on my own.
Do you feel like you've become closer to each other?
Anton: We could hardly get closer than we are! We have the same star sign, Gemini. Our birthdays are next to each other, May and June. We share the same blood, and now the same bone marrow as well.
Can you say something encouraging to the people undergoing treatment now?
Oksana: Don't lose hope. Keep moving forward and everything will work out. Take action and know that everything is going to be all right. Never give up.
Gift of Life thanks all donors and supporters! Together we give children and young people like Oksana a better chance to beat cancer.
Together we make great things shine brighter
Read our anniversary feature Power of 10 with Gift of Life Trustee and Zima Group co-founder Lyuba Galkina to learn how the joint effort and community support save lives.
Music is my biggest hobby
Nearly a thousand pounds was raised recently by Gift of Life long-term supporter Evgeny Kuznetsov in collaboration with Locals.org, a new social discovery app that aims to turn every meet-up or experience into an opportunity to do good within your community.
Hard times will pass
When three-and-a-half year old Dima developed a severe allergy to standard chemo, Gift of Life provide him with an expensive alternative medication, unavailable in Russia. It couldn't have been done without one birthday donated to the charity. Carry on reading Dima's story in the Power of 10 feature.
Long awaited remission for Kirill
Thank you ever so much for supporting Kirill's treatment and giving him a chance to beat leukaemia! He's in remission and studies hard to finish a high school in just a year's time.
There is no reason not to help
Power of 10 with Vadim Levin, our Trustee, former VTB Bank Deputy Chairman, photographer. Carry on reading to know how the Russian community in the UK unites to help children back home.
Enjoy every little gift of this life
To support the crucial needs of our patients and raise funds, Chulpan Khamatova has been pledging her birthday to benefit the charity for years now. Meet our amazing heroine of Power of 10 as she celebrates her birthday today!
Rewarded with a smile
Thanks to your kind help, in 2019 four-year-old Vanya from Belorechensk, a town in the south of Russia, received life-saving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common cancer in children.
I believe in good returns
The Power of 10 has worked yet again giving little Dasha a chance to survive cancer. Every donation from the modest to the significant can change the life of a seriously ill child and their family. We talked about this life-saving effect of collective help with Dasha's mum, Venera.
May every child become healthy again
Olga Levi from Krasnodar was just 15 y/o when she was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma localised in her iliac bone. With your help Olga underwent life-saving surgery in a clinic in Moscow. Thank you so much for this!
Never be afraid to help others!
Why is it important to help children in Russia? Olga Kotilevskaya, a London-based photographer explains what motivates her to support our cause.


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A Collector Like No Other
Historian Doug McChristian's collection finds a home at Fort Concho.
Jana Bommersbach
Of course, he'd become one of the frontier's most ardent historians and collectors because history called early to Doug McChristian.
He'd always been a reader because his grandmother was the county librarian and his mother was a teacher—besides, his dad read those Western history books. But it was a family vacation visit to the Custer Battlefield when he was nine years old in 1956 that brought his love of reading and the West together—for his entire 71 years, he kept the handbook his folks bought him at the battlefield gift shop.
And then a second visit to the same battlefield as he was about to finish high school added the wrinkle that would define his life. He admired a park ranger and said to himself, "Now that would be the job to have, working where history happened."
By the time he died in 2018, Doug McChristian had spent almost 35 years as a ranger and research historian with the National Park Service, become an award-winning author of several books on Western forts, amassed a vast and detailed collection of frontier life from 1860 to 1890 and emerged as a national expert on the life of the frontier soldier.
"There wasn't anyone who knew more about what frontier soldiers ate, wore, shot and used," says Bob Bluthardt, director of Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas—one of the nation's best preserved frontier forts west of the Mississippi, established in 1867.
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Fredericton, New Brunswick (November 16, 2018) – The official opposition shadow cabinet was announced today by Opposition Leader Brian Gallant. The Liberal MLAs will act as advocates for policy alternatives and provide constructive criticism to the government, rather than the traditional approach of adversarial opposition.
"As a team we will continue to advocate for economic growth that benefits all New Brunswickers, the strengthening of education and childcare, and investments to address wait times to our health care system," said Gallant.


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A hybridization-chain-reaction-based method for amplifying immunosignals
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Immunosignal hybridization chain reaction (isHCR) combines antibody–antigen interactions with hybridization chain reaction (HCR) technology, which results in amplification of immunofluorescence signals by up to two to three orders of magnitude with low background. isHCR's highly modular and easily adaptable design enables the technique to be applied broadly, and we further optimized its use in multiplexed imaging and in state-of-the-art tissue expansion and clearing techniques.
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We thank R. Vale (UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA) for the pHR-scFv-GCN4-sfGFP-GB1-NLS-dWPRE plasmid, K. Deisseroth (Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA) for the pAAV-EF1α-DIO-hChR2(H134R)-mCherry plasmid, and J.H. Snyder for manuscript editing. M.L. is supported by China MOST (grants 2012YQ03026005, 2013ZX0950910, and 2015BAI08B02), NNSFC (grants 91432114 and 91632302), and the Beijing Municipal Government.
School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Rui Lin
National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing, China.
, Qiru Feng
, Peng Li
, Ping Zhou
, Ruiyu Wang
, Zhe Liu
, Zhiqiang Wang
, Xiangbing Qi
, Nan Tang
, Feng Shao
& Minmin Luo
Peking University-Tsinghua University-NIBS Joint Graduate Program, NIBS, Beijing, China.
School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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R.L. and M.L. conceived of the application of HCR to immunosignal amplification. R.L. and P.Z. designed and constructed the clones. F.S., P.Z., and P.L. designed the S. Typhimurium infection experiments, and R.L. and P.L. performed S. Typhimurium infection experiments. R.L. and P.L. performed protein purification and western blotting. X.Q. and Z.W. designed and synthesized the chemical linkers. Q.F. packaged the AAV vectors. Z.L., R.L., and N.T. designed the tissue-clearing experiments, and R.L., Q.F., and Z.L. performed the tissue-clearing experiments. R.L., R.W., and M.L. analyzed the data. R.L. and M.L. wrote the manuscript.
Correspondence to Minmin Luo.
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Supplementary figures
Western blotting using isHCR.
isHCR dramatically increases the fluorescent intensity while maintains the spatial resolution of membrane-bound GFP (mGFP) immunosignals in cultured cells.
TH immunostaining using isHCR reveals much richer catecholaminergic innervations in the brain.
Optimization of isHCR that reduces background noise.
isHCR dramatically increases IHC signals in mouse brain sections.
isHCR specifically amplifies VGLUT3 immunosignals in mouse brain sections.
isHCR effectively amplifies various immunofluorescence signals.
isHCR dramatically enhances the detection of GAD67 with a biotinylated monoclonal antibody.
isHCR amplification enables the detection of low-abundance proteins.
Multi-round amplification using isHCRn.
Simultaneous detection of multiple targets with isHCR.
Optimization of isHCR for nanobodies and genetically encoded tags.
Application of isHCR for expansion microscopy (ExM) and uDISCO clearing.
Experimental steps for applying isHCR to various types of samples.
Schematic of isHCR initiators and amplifiers designed for various applications.
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