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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|11 Jul 1978
|Filing date
|25 Aug 1976
|Priority date
|25 Aug 1976
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Ronald Leo Sturm, James Curtis Smith
|Original Assignee
|Oxford Laboratories Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (75), Classifications (11), Legal Events (1)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates generally to pipettes and more particularly to pipettes of the repetitive liquid dispensing type.
Hand-held liquid dispensing pipettes have become very popular in recent years for use in laboratories in conducting chemical tests. A principal use of such devices is in medical and clinical laboratories wherein precise volumes of liquid and a specimen under test need to be mixed together. Such a pipette includes a piston cylinder and a piston sealed thereto. An end of the pipette that is in fluid communication with the piston cylinder is submersed in the liquid to be transferred, a precise volume drawn up, usually in a detachable tip, this liquid being discharged by the pipette into another container. Such liquid transfer pipettes are illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. RE 27,637; 3,855,867; 3,918,308 and 3,882,729.
Another type of pipette in use in chemical and medical laboratories is one wherein a volume of liquid is drawn into the pipette and thence a known portion of that volume is dispensed each time the pipettor knob is depressed. Such a repetitive dispenser type of pipette is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,161,323, a device substantially as shown in that patent having been sold by the assignee thereof for many years. A similar device is being manufactured and sold by Unimetrics Universal Corporation of Anaheim, California.
It is a principal object of the present invention to provide an improved pipette of the liquid dispensing type capable of accurate liquid volume dispensing and which is convenient to use.
Briefly, and very generally, the pipette according to the present invention includes the use of a rack and pawl mechanism, wherein the rack is advanced an incremental distance each time a knob at one end of a pipettor body is depressed. The rack is attached to a piston that reciprocates at the other end of the pipettor body in a liquid receiving piston cylinder. A separate knob is provided on the pipettor for withdrawing the piston from the piston cylinder to draw liquid thereinto when it is desired to fill the device. A mechanism is provided within the pipette so that that same second knob can also drive the piston to an overshoot position when it is desired to minimize the volume of the piston chamber, a desirable condition when first filling the piston chamber with liquid. A mechanism is also provided for the same second knob to disengage the connection between the rack and the piston which, in combination with a release mechanism for the piston cylinder, permits removal of the piston and piston cylinder assembly for cleaning or replacement.
Various objects, advantages and features of the various aspects of the present invention are given in the following description of a preferred embodiment of a pipette incorporating the various aspects of the present invention. This description should be taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates the use of a pipette incorporating the present invention for repetitive discharge of liquid therefrom;
FIG. 2 illustrates filling with liquid the pipette shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 illustrates the readily detachable components of the pipette shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;
FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the internal construction of the pipette according to FIGS. 1-3;
FIG. 5 is a sectional view taken along the length of the pipette of FIGS. 1-4;
FIGS. 6, 7 and 8 each show, in enlarged view, the upper portion of the internal components of the pipette as shown in FIG. 5 but in various different positions;
FIGS. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 show sectional views of the pipette of FIGS. 1-8 taken, respectively, at sections 9--9, 10--10, 11--11, 12--12, 13--13 and 14--14 of FIG. 5;
FIGS. 15 and 16 illustrate certain principal components of the pipette of FIGS. 1-14 in two different positions;
FIGS. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 show a sectional view of the lower portion of the pipette of FIGS. 1-16 with the internal components in various different positions;
FIG. 23 shows and exploded view of a few of the components of the pipette of FIGS. 1-22;
FIGS. 24, 25 and 26 each show the top view of each of the three components illustrated in exploded view in FIG. 23;
FIGS. 27 and 28 illustrate different sized piston assemblies usable with the pipette of FIGS. 1-26; and
FIG. 29 illustrates a variation of the pipette of FIGS. 1-28.
With reference principally to FIGS. 1-3, the overall operation of a pipette embodying the various aspects of the present invention will be described. A pipette body or housing 11 is formed of a main housing portion 13 and a spring clip cover 15. These two components form an elongated pipette housing which may be easily gripped on its outside by a human hand and which on its inside contains most of the operating parts of the pipette. A handle cap 17 is provided at one end of the pipette housing. A piston advance knob 19 is attached to a pawl rod 21 which extends into the pipette. A separate load slide knob 23 is attached to a loading slide 25 which also extends into the interior of the pipette for performing various operations described hereinafter.
A piston assembly 27 is removably attached to another end of the pipette body 11 by means of a piston assembly release collar 29 that is threadedly attached to the other end of the pipettor body 13. The piston assembly 27 includes as major components a piston cylinder 31 having a cylindrical inside surface. A piston rod assembly 33 slides back and forth within the piston chamber 31. A needle 35 is removably attached to a free end of the piston cylinder 31. Such tips are commercially available and are usually provided in a sanitary cover 37.
The general operation of the device is described with respect to FIGS. 1-3. When liquid exists within the piston cylinder 31, a desired volume of liquid, such as a drop 38, is discharged from the needle 35 by depressing the knob 19 once fully downward until a positive stop is felt. The knob 19 spring returns to its normal position and another drop of liquid may be obtained by again pressing the knob 19 in a similar manner. When the piston assembly 33 is driven as far down within the piston chamber 31 as it will go, the piston chamber 31 must again be filled with liquid, as shown in FIG. 2. By pulling up the loading slide 25, through its knob 23, the piston rod assembly 23 is withdrawn from the piston chamber 31 into the pipette body 11 and liquid is thus drawn in through the needle 35. When the pipettor 11 is to be used with a different liquid, the piston assembly 27 is detached and either cleaned or a new one attached to the pipette body 11.
The internal structure of the pipette 11 which makes possible the incremental liquid dispensing and liquid filling will now be described, principally with respect to FIGS. 4 and 5. A central internal component is a rack support slide 41 that carries a rack 43 on one side thereof. At one end of the rack support slide is a connecting block 45 which permits detachable connection of the piston rod assembly 23 thereto, as described in more detail hereinafter.
A pawl 49 having a rack tooth engaging point 51 is attached to a rod 53 which in turn is attached to the rod 21 of the knob 19. The pawl 49 is hinged at a point 55 which is made to be a thinly molded plastic region that easily bends the limited amount required for operation of this device. A cantilever spring 57 normally urges the pawl 49 to rotate about its hinge 55 so that the point 51 engages one of the teeth of the rack 43.
A pawl guide 59 is held fixed with respect to the pipette body 13 and contains an aperture through which the rods 21 and 53, and an upper portion 61 of the pawl 49, slide back and forth. A spring 63 is included within the pawl guide 59 in order to normally urge the top abrupt edge of the upper portion 61 of the pawl 49 into engagement with a mating ledge 65 (FIG. 5) of the pawl guide 59. Its rest position as urged by the spring 63 is shown in FIG. 5. The pawl guide 59 is oriented so that the back and forth sliding path of the rod 53 and pawl assembly 49 is parallel to the sliding path of the rack support slide 41.
In between these two parellel sliding paths is a dividing wall 65 that is part of the pawl guide 59. An end surface 67 of the wall 65 serves as a cam for the pawl 49. An underside surface 69 of the pawl 49 rides over the cam surface 67 as a cam follower and is urged thereagainst by the leaf spring 57. The shape of the underside 69 and the shape and position of the cam surface 67 are such that the rack engaging point 51 of the pawl 49 is normally disengaged from the rack 43, a position shown in FIG. 5. But when the knob 19 is depressed, the pawl 49 rotates about its hinge 55 and over the cam surface 67 into engagement with the rack 43 to move the rack a distance until feet 71 and 73 abut against a stop wall 75, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. The pawl 49 is desirably shaped so that it, with the aid of the cantilever spring 57, contacts the wall stop 75 first with its foot 73, as shown in FIG. 6. The foot 73 is the furtherest removed from the rack 43. As a result, further urging of the pawl 49 against the wall stop 75 so that its foot 71 strikes the wall causes the rack to advance the desired increment without it sliding back upwards. This upward movement is an undesirable possibility that could result if the foot 71 were to first strike the wall stop 75.
Once the knob 19 has been urged as far downward into the pipette body 13 as permitted by the wall stop 75, as shown in FIG. 7, a release by the operator of the knob 19 causes the entire pawl driving assembly to be returned by its spring 63 to a rest position, as shown in FIG. 8. So that the small drag force caused by the pawl 49 being removed from the rack 43 does not cause it to move upward, a rack puck 77 is slideably held by a puck retainer 79 and is resiliently urged by a spring 81 against the rack support slide 41. By prohibiting any undesired movement of the rack in an upward direction either upon engagement or disengagement by the pawl has an advantage of discharging a volume of liquid from the piston chamber 31 having a higher degree of accuracy and repeatability.
As can be noticed from FIGS. 5-8, a single depression of the knob 19 causes the rack support slide 41 to move only a small distance. This causes a cylindrical piston 83, as a portion of the piston rod assembly 33, to move further downward through a fluid seal 85 into the piston chamber 31 to discharge through an opening 87 at an end of the piston chamber 31 a desired small volume of liquid. A needle lock adapter 89 formed as part of the end of the piston chamber 31 permits attachment of a commercially available needle 35. The internal passage of the needle 35 is caused to align with the passage 87 of the tip adapter 89. Thus, it is in fluid communication with the piston cylinder 31.
After twenty-five or so individual discharges of a precise volume of liquid through the needle 35, the rack support slide 41 is driven downward as far as the pawl 49 can drive it. This position is shown in FIGS. 15 and 16. The structure for drawing the piston 83 upward out of the piston chamber 31 to again fill it with liquid, as previously discussed with respect to FIG. 2, will now be described with principal reference to FIGS. 4, 5, 15 and 16. The loading slide is caused to slide back and forth within slots 91 and 93 of a rack guide 95. The loading slide 25 has orthogonal projections 97 at its end removed from the knob 23. The projections 97 ride within a rectangular opening 99 that runs along the length of the rack guide 95. The rack support slide 41 includes a piston withdrawal pin 101 that also is positioned within the slot 99. The rack support slide 41 is held to slide back and forth against an outside surface of the rack guide 95 by a force exerted by puck 77 and spring 81. When the loading slide 25 is thus pulled upward out of the pipette enclosure 13, the projections 97 thereon engage the underside of the pin 101 and pull the rack support slide (and thus the attached piston rod assembly 33) upward as shown clearly in FIG. 16. If the needle 35 is submersed in liquid, as is shown in FIG. 2, such action thus causes additional liquid to be drawn into the needle and piston cylinder 31. Since the projections 97 and pin 101 provide a one way connection between the loading slide 25 and rack support slide 41, the loading slide 25 may be returned to its rest position after filling, as shown in FIG. 5, by depressing the loading slide knob 23 downward as far as it will go into the pipette body 11.
As another feature of the pipette, the loading slide 25 can also be utilized when the rack support slide 41 is in a certain position, to urge the rack support slide 41 downward to cause the piston 83 to go into an "overshoot" position. By "overshoot" is meant that the rack support slide 41 and its connected piston 83 are driven further downward than the pawl 49 and its associated assembly can drive it. Such an overshoot position is useful in filling the piston cylinder 31 with liquid, as described hereinafter.
A second pin 105 extending outward of said connecting block 45 that is part of the rack support slide 41 gives an abuttment which the underside of the projections 97 of the loading slide 25 can be urged against. But so that the pin 105 is not in the way of the rod 25 as it is returned to the rest position shown in FIG. 5 after loading, the pin 105 is permitted to extend both through a slot 108, that runs along a large portion of the length of the loading slide 25, and the slot 99 of the rack guide 95. The pin 105 serves in its abutting position if the loading slide 25 is withdrawn upward in a manner permitting the pin 105 to pass out the open end of the slot 108 at an end of the loading slide 25. But the pin 105 will still only be placed in a position for abutting the end of the projections 97 of a downwardly travelling slide 25 if the mechanism within the connecting block 45 permits such movement.
The mechanism within the connecting block 45 will now be described, with principal reference to FIGS. 4, 7 and 13. The pin 105 is rigidly connected to an end of a cam follower holder 107 that is held to reciprocate back and forth within an aperture 109 of the connecting block 45. The aperture 109 is substantially perpendicular to the path of travel of the rack support slide 41 as it moves back and forth in operating the pipette. A sleeve 111 fits over an extreme rod end portion 113 of the piston rod assembly 33, that combination being received by an aperture in the bottom of the connecting block that passes through the passage 109 and substantially perpendicular thereto. The combination of the sleeve 111 and rod end portion 113 also fits within an oval opening 115 of the cam follower holder 107. The opening 115 orients pin 105 perpendicular to the rack slide 25. A stop pin 46 passing through the aperture of the block 45 serves to provide for accurate positioning of the piston rod 33 by abuttment thereagainst at the piston rod end 113.
Rigidly attached to an end of the cam follower holder 107 opposite to that of the pin 105 is a cam follower 117. A spring 119 is captured between the cam follower 117 and a side of the connector block 45, thus urging the entire cam follower and cam follower holder unit in a direction toward the right as shown in the drawings. Within a hollow portion of the cam follower 117 is a plunger 121 urged to the left in these drawings by a spring 123. The plunger 121 is urged through an opening 125 into a V-notch receptacle 127 of the piston rod assembly end portion 113. The plunger 121 is pointed to match the shape of the groove 127. But it is preferable that an edge of the plunger 121 contact the upper edge of the groove 127 to hold the rod end 113 snuggly against the stop pin 46, rather than the point of the plunger 21 fully seating in the groove 127. This assures secure connection of the piston rod 33 to the block 45 without any relative movement therebetween. The groove 127 is formed completely around the outside circumference of the otherwise cylindrically shaped rod portion 113 so that the plunger 121 may seat in the groove without being dependent on the rotational position of the piston rod assembly 33.
As can best be seen from FIG. 13, the oval shape of the opening 115 in the cam follower holder 107 permits the holder 107 to slide a distance back and forth between extreme positons of abutting against the sleeve 111 on opposite sides thereof at the ends of the opening 115. The cam follower holder position is controlled by a cam 129 that is attached within the housing 13 in a direction along the pipettor length. The cam follower 117 is urged against the cam surface 129. Controlled lateral motion of the cam follower holder 107 and cam follower 117 is thus achieved as a function of the lateral position of the rack support slide 41 along the length of the pipette.
The particular shape of the cam 129 can be seen most completely by reference to FIG. 5, although the cam is also shown in each of the FIGS. 15-22. A first innermost cam surface length 131 extends for most of the liquid discharge cycle of the device. A transition surface 133 smoothly connects the surface 131 with a second major cam surface 135 that is removed a distance further than the surface 131 from the path of motion of the rack support slide 41. Another transition section 137 leads to yet a further and third major cam surface 139 at the bottom of the pipettor.
The rack support slide 41 can be viewed as having three distinct operating positional ranges extending from its uppermost position adjacent the knob end of the pipette body, as shown in FIG. 5, to its lowermost piston assembly releasing position, as shown in FIG. 19. Each of these segments of its operation and an explanation as to how the cam assembly takes on different positions in each of these three segments will now be described. The first segment of movement of the rack support slide 41 may be termed its "liquid discharge range" which extends from the position shown in FIG. 5 to the rack support slide 41 position shown in FIG. 15. The slide 41 is moved by the pawl assembly under the control of the push buttom 19 through this range from the top to the position shown in FIG. 15. Any further movement of the rack support slide 41 is accomplished by operation of the loading slide 25 through its knob 23. As shown in FIG. 16, the rack support slide, and thus its attached piston assembly, can be withdrawn by engagement between the projections 97 of the loading slide 25 and the pin 101 on the backside of the rack support slide 41. This operation is illustrated in FIG. 16 where, if a tip attached to the end of the piston assembly is submersed in liquid, liquid will be drawn into the piston cylinder 31 during this operation. This filling is utilized when exactly the same liquid is to be dispensed subsequently. If a different liquid is to be dispensed by the device, a different loading procedure is followed as described hereinafter with respect to FIG. 22.
It will be noted from the positions of the components shown in FIG. 15 that the cam follower 117 does not contact any surface of the cam 129. That is because movement of the cam assembly within the block 45 is restrainted against the resiliency of the spring 119 by the pin 105 engaging the backside of the loading slide 25. But because the cam surface segment 135 is displaced to the right from the cam surface segment 137, a removal of the loading slide 25 so that its end projections 97 pass by the pin 105 causes the cam assembly to snap to the right to a position limited by the cam surface 135. This latter position is shown in FIGS. 16 and 17. The pin 105 is then in a position to be abutted by the bottom of the loading slide 25 and driven through its second major segment of travel, which may be termed the "overshoot range," of the rack support slide 41. The knob 23 is then pushed downward into the pipette body until a firm resistence is felt which is an abuttment of the position 83 with the bottom of the piston chamber 31. In this position, the tip of the cam follower 117 is just leaving the cam surface 135 and entering the transistion section 137 of the cam 129.
One function of the "overshoot range" of the slide 41 is to permit miminization of dead air space within the piston cylinder 71 and tip 35 when filling an empty cylinder with liquid for the first time. This will occur when the pipette is used with a different liquid than before, since cleaning of the piston assembly will have to occur, or when the piston assemblies are exchanged in a manner described hereinafter. Referring principally to FIG. 22, such a filling operation is described wherein once the slide 41 is urged by downward force against the pin 105 to its extreme overshoot position, it is raised upward again by engagement of the projections 97 of the loading slide 25 to the pin 101 of the slide 41. The filling operation is aided by an automatic air purging system comprised of the two different diameter but concentrically held piston segments 83 and 141 that are connected by an intermediate cylindrical segment 143 having a smaller diameter than the diameter of the major piston 83. The circular seal opening 85 is provided to form a fluid tight seal to the piston 83 and a second circular seal 145 is provided for fluid tight seal to the outside of the larger cylindrical piston segment 141. The seals 85 and 145 are formed as part of a unitary seal boot 147 constructed of a soft, resilient material.
For accuracy of liquid discharge, it is desired that all of the air be removed from the cylinder 31 and tip 35 prior to beginning the liquid discharge operation with the pipette. The operation of the differential piston structure illustrated in automatically purging the air from the cylinder 31 without a separate operation necessary is described in detail and claimed in co-pending patent application entitled "Liquid Dispenser With Means for Automatically Purging Air Therefrom During Liquid Loading" filed by Ronald Leo Sturm and James Curtis Smith concurrently herewith and assigned to the same entity as the present application. Briefly, and particularly with reference to FIG. 22 herein, a large piston 141 is sized to draw air out of the piston cylinder 131 so that as the piston 83 moves upward and just makes a seal with its seal 85 that all of the air has been drawn therefrom. Further upward movement of the rack support slide 41, and thus its attached piston 83, to the extreme rest position at the beginning of its "liquid discharge range" as shown in FIG. 5 causes the piston cylinder 31 to become filled with liquid.
It will be noted principally from reference to FIG. 18 that when the rack support slide 41 is in its "overshoot range" that although the cam assembly has moved to the right from its previous position during most of its "liquid discharge range" and has resulted in the pin 105 being placed in position for downward operable movement by the slide 25, the plunger 121 still engages the slot 127 to hold the piston rod assembly 33 in place. This is accomplished, as can be seen best from FIGS. 7 and 13, by providing a space 151 when the cam follower 117 is riding upon the furthest left positioned cam surface segment 131. This space 151 disappears, as can be seen in either of FIGS. 17 or 18, when the slide 41 is at the bottom of its liquid discharge range or driven into its overshoot range. Any further movement to the right of the cam follower 117 and its attached cam follower holder 107 will cause the plunger 121 to become disengaged from the notch 127 of the piston rod assembly end 113. This is shown in FIG. 19. In order to overcome the positive abuttment that is felt against the piston cylinder 31 at the bottom of the overshoot range, the piston assembly release collar 29 on the outside of the bottom of the pipette body is unthreaded to permit movement downward of the piston cylinder 31. The collar 29 is permitted to rotate only one full turn, without disengagement, to effect this release. This removes the stop and permits the loading slide 25 to urge, through the pin 105, the slide 41 downward even further through its third range, which may be referred to as the "piston disengagement range."
Once the piston rod assembly 33 is disengaged from its connection with the block 45, the piston cylinder 31 itself is disengaged from its connection to the outside of the bottom of the housing 13 by rotation in a manner explained thereinafter. The result after removal of the piston assembly 27 is shown in FIG. 20. The piston assembly 27 may be cleaned or a new piston assembly inserted in a manner shown in FIG. 21, wherein retightening of the collar 29 causes the block 45 and rack support slide 41 to return to the bottom of the overshoot position whereby liquid may be loaded therein in a manner previously described with respect to FIG. 22. The piston assembly described is illustrated in prospective in FIG. 27 and it should be noted with reference to FIG. 28 that the same pipette body may accept a piston and piston cylinder assembly having a larger diameter for different volumes of liquid discharge each time the knob 19 is depressed.
Referring principally to FIGS. 23-26, the structure permitting easy rotational release of the piston chamber 31 from the pipettor body is described for the removal of the entire piston assembly 27 therefrom. An upper end of the piston assembly 31 has an enlarged portion 161 for receiving the sealing boot 147. A free end of the cylindrical portion 161 is terminated with surfaces in a plane perpendicular to an axis of the cylinder 31. In that plane is an outer circular portion 163, having a center of curvature coincident with the axis of the cylinder 31, and three externally extending flanges 165 extending therefrom. Each of the flanges 165 also has an outer circular surface with a center of curvature coincident with the axis of the cylinder 31 and are equally spaced around the circular extremity 163 to provide spaces therebetween. Each of the flanges 165 terminates along a radial line having a center at the axis of the cylinder 31.
A mating component to the piston cylinder flanges is a washer 167 having internally extending flanges 169. These flanges extend inward from a circular ring having an internal circumferential surface 171. The internally extending flanges are adapted for fitting between the flanges 165 of the piston cylinder 31. These cooperatively shaped flanges provide a mating so that when the flanges 165 of the piston cylinder 31 are pushed through the spaces between the flanges 169 of the washer 167, a relative rotation between the parts 31 and 167 will cause the flanges 165 to lie on top of the flanges 169. To facilitate such engagement, the flanges 169 are sloped on a leading edge thereof for easy rotation.
The washer 167 is held at the lower end of the pipettor body 13 beneath a bottom end plate 173 of the pipette. The washer 167 is held adjacent that end plate 173 in a non-rotatable manner by positioning of a plurality of washer posts 175 within correspondingly positioned apertures 177 in the bottom pipette plate 173. As can be seen best by comparing FIG. 18 with either FIGS. 19 or 20, an upper internal cylindrical portion 179 of the collar 29 clamps the washer 167 upward against the bottom of the plate 173 with the piston cylinder flanges 165 forced therebetween. This occurs when the collar is tightly threaded on the bottom of the pipette housing. When it is loosely threaded for disengagement of the piston assembly 27 from the pipette body, as shown in FIGS. 19 and 20, the washer 167 is still loosely retained. The washer 167 is held against rotation with respect to the pipette body but yet is permitted axial movement for removal and insertion of the piston cylinder flanges 167 therefrom.
It will be noted that when the piston assembly 27 is installed it is automatically self centered onto the end of the pipettor body 11 by the construction outlined above. The aperture in the block 45 into which the end 113 of the piston rod assembly 33 is placed automatically positions the enlarged portion 161 of the piston cylinder and its flanges 165 in a position so that the piston portion 83 is properly centered within the piston cylinder 31. This is, of course, of great advantage in preventing binding of the piston 83 to the cylinder 31.
Referring to FIG. 29, a substantial modification of the use of the pipettor described with respect to FIGS. 1-28 is illustrated. Instead of a tip 35 being attached to the adapter 89 at the lower end of the pipette 11, an alternative member 201 is shown attached thereto. The cylindrically shaped member 201 is designed for receiving a standard pipette tip 203 by frictional engagement on its outside. The tip 203 is chosen to be large enough to hold all of the liquid therein to be dispensed, rather than having the liquid drawn into the piston cylinder 31 and in contact with the piston portion 85. The accuracy and repeatability of the liquid volumes dispensed by this technique is not as great as those dispensed by using the device as previously described since in the embodiment of FIG. 29 there is an air interface between the piston 85 and the liquid dispensed. This air interface is subject to compression. However, in many applications the high degree of accuracy permitted by the device is not necessary and the convenient use of standard, disposable pipette tips 203 is preferable. By using such tips, the piston cylinder assembly will need cleaning less often since liquid does not protrude thereinto.
Although the various aspects of the present invention have been described with respect to a preferred pipette embodiment, it will be understood that the invention is entitled to protection within the full scope of the appended claims.
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CyberAgent Ventures invests in Vietnam food review site Foody.vn
CyberAgent Ventures has just announced their investment in Vietnam-based Food Corporation, an online gourmet search and review site.By Jacky Yap 21 Nov, 2012
CyberAgent Ventures is the venture capital arm of Tokyo-based CyberAgent, Inc., and is expanding its business in the South East Asian market. The investment is made through CA Asia Internet Fund I, L.P., a venture capital fund specialized in the South East Asian market.
According to the official announcement, Foody.vn was launched in August this year, and is currently the fastest-growing food review site in Vietnam. In a short period of three months after launching, Foody.vn has reached over 10,000 restaurant listings with over 5,000 reviews.
The fund will be used primarily to facilitate further growth of its users and content. The official announcement also highlights the potential of food-based applications in the country.
"As there is a void for this type of media in Vietnam and successful business models have been executed off by existing gourmet searching & user-review media in Japan and China, CyberAgent Ventures believes that Foody has strong potential to become the leading media in such kind of content in Vietnam and will take advantage of CyberAgent Inc.'s wide network of resources to enhance the company's growth and value."
The food review sites are really active in the region recently:
- In Thailand, Wongnai is dominating the food review site with an amazing growth of over 400% this year alone.
- Singapore also seen its own food review site HungryGoWhere recently exited to SingTel for S$12 Million.
- In the similar space, Taiwan's food recipe social sharing network iCook also received an investment by the same VC arm CyberAgent three weeks back.
- In Japan, food sharing app SnapDi.sh just closed their funding round with Digital Garage earlier this week.
- Back in Vietnam, too, MJ Group recently acquired Orderfood.vn (now Hungry.vn), adding onto its existing portfolio of Nhommua.com and Diadiem.com, among others.
- Singapore also saw Dealguru, the company behind Deal.com.sg and one of Singapore's largest group buying sites, acquiring Asian Room Service, which runs Room Service Deliveries.
Looks like investors and venture capitalists are actively snapping up food review portals and food social sharing networks around the region. So, who's next? And what do the investors know that we do not know?
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They sell foodstuffs, out of their homes in the case of certain of the women and at the market in other cases. The president of the group (who is raising her hand) is the mother of four children, of whom two are attending school. Her business allows her to cover their school fees and to help her husband with expenses for the family. In order to bolster their small businesses' working capital, the group is requesting a loan of 500,000 francs to buy foodstuffs.
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Hi everyone. All help is appreciated.
My wife and I were out riding recently when suddenly there was a very loud bang. Sounded somewhat like a more powerful .22 rifle. Anyways, it was one of our front tubes popping. When we looked at the tube, there was a large rip, maybe 7-9" long running along the blue stripe that runs the circum. of the tube. The bikes had been on the back of the car for a couple of hours in the hot sun prior to riding. The tires were inflated to close to spec. at 50 psi, +/- 3lbs or so. We noticed on the tire side-wall that the max load was something like 195 lbs (we're both larger than that), though I'm not sure how that would affect the tube.
My question is, is there anything I can do in the future to prevent this from happening, and has anyone experienced the same?
Would running at a lower psi, say 45 psi, help at all?
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Saratoga | Costumed Old-Fashioned 4th of July & Free Popsicles | 2015
Dang! This event has already taken place.Saturday, July 4, 2015 - 9:30 am to 11:00 am | Cost: FREE*
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If you're looking for a reason to wear that Uncle Sam costume you've got in your closet, then Saratoga's 2015 Independence Day Observance is the place for you on July 4, 2015.
Held at Kevin Moran Park, the event will feature a Color Guard presentation of the flag, patriotic song sing-alongs, costumed historical characters, and free Popsicles.
2015 Saratoga's Independence Day Observance
Saturday, July 4, 2015 | 9:30-11 am
Kevin Moran Park, 12415 Scully Ave, Saratoga
2015 Activities:
- Color Guard presenting the flag
- McCartysville Volunteer Band playing patriotic tunes
- Actors in costume as American historical characters
- Youth chorus and sing-alongs of patriotic tunes
- Children's/Family parade
- Free Popsicles for all and flags for children
- Montalvo Arts will host a crafts table for the youth
- The local branch of Bank of America will host an area where kids and adults can draw pictures and write letters to our troops, to be forwarded to military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan by Operation: Care and Comfort
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Shiny metal balconies and sun shades project outwards from the banded facades of this apartment building by architect Christophe Rousselle in the Parisian suburb of Colombes (+ slideshow). More »
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Christophe Rousselle adds reflective balconies
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Steel structure provides storage and seating
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French studio CUT Architectures have used a steel grid structure to create shelving, seating areas, a kitchen and a climbing frame for this apartment renovation in Paris' 6th arrondissement (+ slideshow). More »
Monolithic concrete silos by VI.B Architecture
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An alternating-tread staircase doubles as storage cupboards in this tiny Paris apartment by French architects Schemaa (+ slideshow). More »
OMA to create contemporary art gallery
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A folded fabric canopy helps to shade the interior of this glazed extension to a nursery in Paris by local firm h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). More »
Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton
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to be won
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Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates
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Golden louvred shutters add a warm contrast to the otherwise monochrome facades of this child welfare facility in Paris by French architects Marjan Hessamfar & Joe Verons Associates (+ slideshow). More »
Renzo Piano designs glass "organic creature"
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White ceramic tiles create a brickwork pattern across the walls and roof of this Paris boutique designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for Chinese lifestyle brand Shang Xia (+ slideshow). More »
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As some of you may know, I need to get a rear wheel. I now have 4 wheels to choose from, and I can't decide on which.
Sun Mammoth - 135.99
Sun Single track - 129.99
Sun MTX - 150
Sun S-type - 129.99
The wheel needs to be strong enough to take at least 6 foot drops on my hardtail, and some trialsy stuff. I'm not so sure about the single track for this usage, and I've heard some bad reviews about the Mammoth too. Although, I know that the MTX are really good, but they're a bit more pricey. I don't know anything about S-types(I know that they're OEM rims and are sleeved whereas MTX are welded.) And they have the same shape as the MTX rims. What's the difference between pinned, sleeved and welded? Would the S-type be as good as the MTX? Should I go with one of the others? I can't make up my mind.
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The Earliest Representations of Royal Power in Egypt: The Rock Drawings of Nag El-Hamdulab (Aswan)
Hendrickx, Stan, Darnell, John Coleman, Gatto, Maria Carmela, Antiquity
Sometime during the early 1890s, Archibald H. Sayce (1845-1933) made a sketch copy of a rock drawing at Gharb Aswan (Upper Egypt) that was subsequently included in a catalogue of inscriptions between Aswan and Kom Ombo published by de Morgan et al. (1894: 203) (Figure 1). At that moment, hardly anything was known about the earliest history of Egypt, and the Early Dynastic royal necropolis at Abydos would only be discovered a few years later. Famous documents such as the Narmer palette or the Scorpion mace head, both found at Hierakonpolis in 1898, had not yet been excavated. Consequently, Sayce had no documentation at his disposal that would have allowed him to recognise the early date of the scene, and he may not even have been aware that what he had copied was actually a very early royal representation. The brief description and rudimentary drawing of but a portion of the overall imagery at the site remained unnoticed for over a century until, in 2008, Nabil Swelim made available to one of the authors a photograph of a rock drawing (Figure 2), said to be from near Aswan (Hendrickx et al. 2009b). The photograph came from the unpublished documentation of the late Labib Habachi (1906-1984, see Kamil 2007), and a search of his archive kept at Chicago House in Luxor at the end of 2009 revealed a series of related photographs. Meanwhile, Maria C. Gatto had rediscovered the site itself (Hendrickx & Gatto 2009), thereby revealing that Sayce's imperfect hand copy did not concern a single rock art scene, but was rather an excerpt from one of a number of scenes located at short distances from each other. More recently, while working in the local ancient quarries, the QuarryScapes project encountered some of those drawings (Storemyr 2009). The ensemble of the site, presented here for the first time, makes up the most important iconographic source for the period of state formation in Egypt.
The rediscovered and newly discovered rock art sites that form the Nag el-Hamdulab ensemble are located on the rocks confining a sandy plain west of the village of Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of the Nile, about 6km north of Aswan (Figure 3). Unfortunately, several inscription areas at the site have been heavily damaged during the last decades. At present, seven sites, most of them consisting of more than one tableau, are known at short distances from each other (Figure 4). Important portions of the lost or damaged tableaux--but unfortunately not all of the lost and damaged elements--may be reconstructed on the basis of photographic documentation from the Labib Habachi Archive. Stylistic and technical peculiarities suggest that all the main tableaux with human figures are the work of only one or two hands. All representations are pecked with a pointed implement; the contour lines of the individual representations are clearly delineated but a number of them were more elaborately worked by pecking the interior surface to achieve a flat, sunken surface (Figure 2).
The rock inscriptions at Nag el-Hamdulab comprise a series of discrete vignettes that represent elements of an overall cycle of images involving hunting, warfare, nautical festival events, and the regalia of political authority. An anonymous king wearing the White Crown appears in three tableaux and defines the context for all the discrete portions of the overall site.
Before discussing individual tableaux, a consideration of the chronological position of the Nag el-Hamdulab rock art is fundamental for understanding the ensemble, and has already received some discussion (Hendrickx & Gatto 2009; Hendrickx et al. in press). The royal scene at site 7 (Figure 2) shows several similarities to the Scorpion mace head (Oxford AM E.3632), the Narmer mace head (Oxford AM E. …


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Standing on stage and receiving a plaque and a "Blue Ribbon" flag to fly above Inglemoor High School was one of the "coolest things" Principal...
Standing on stage and receiving a plaque and a "Blue Ribbon" flag to fly above Inglemoor High School was one of the "coolest things" Principal Vicki Sherwood has ever done, she said.
"This is a confirmation, our efforts are being validated," she said after the awards ceremony Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
Inglemoor was one of three schools in the state to be honored by the U.S. Department of Education as a No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon School. The Kenmore school is one of 238 public schools nationwide to be honored, and one of 40 high schools that met the high standards of achievement to win the honor in 2007.
Blue Ribbon selections are based on consistently high performance, or dramatic improvement, in reading and math. Inglemoor was recognized for consistent, high performance in both subject areas.
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"You don't become a Blue Ribbon School without a lot of hard work from the staff and the support of the community and parents," Sherwood said. You have to have a solid, willing staff that is amenable to changes that need to take place … . They are the ones that deliver services on a day-to-day basis."
Also recognized as a Blue Ribbon School for 2007 was Madison Elementary School, in Spokane, and South Whidbey High School, in Langley.
Inglemoor, which is the largest of Northshore's three comprehensive high schools, is home to the district's International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which offers a rigorous international curriculum. About 700 of the school's 1,850 students participate in the program, said John Loy, assistant principal at Inglemoor.
Having an IB program in the school tends to raise the level of academic success among all students, Loy said.
"And there is a tremendous impact from the teachers who teach IB, who tend to address all their classes in that manner," Loy said.
The school also has several programs geared to helping struggling students. About 100 students participate in a Distance Learning program, a daily teacher-monitored class in which students take core subjects online. Students work at school and at home.
The district also has independent study and an afternoon P.M. Program for students who aren't able to be in school during regular hours. A Credit Advancement Program helps 10th-graders who have fallen behind in credits get caught up while moving forward with regular sophomore classes.
Inglemoor is the third Northshore School District school to receive the Blue Ribbon award in the past three years. Last year, Wellington Elementary, in Woodinville, received the award and Northshore Junior High, in Bothell, was honored in 2005.
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- $70 for half-marathon registration for two (a $160 value)

Taking off on the morning of Saturday, December 15 at Brookland-Cayce High School, the 5K and half-marathon races follow over rolling halls, near the state capitol, and alongside picturesque riverfront trails. Each race concludes with live entertainment, refreshments, and an awards ceremony.

USRA Half Marathon Series
The USRA Half Marathon Series spans 25 cities, where locals unite to test their competitive spirit in distance road races suited for runners of all physical endurances. Runners can choose from a half marathon or a 5K. Once they cross the finish line, racers in multiple age categories can snag awards for a job well done, regardless of whether they ran individually, as part of corporate teams, or to fundraise for a sanctioned charity program. Postrace activities also include live entertainment at a finish line party.
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look this up, so many reasons homosexuality is so wrong.
" The Negative Health Effects of Homosexuality "
Anal Cancer: Homosexuals are at increased risk of cancer, which is fatal if the anal-rectal tumors metastasize to other bodily organs.
· Dr. Joel Palefsky, a leading expert in the field of anal cancer, reports that while the incidence of anal cancer in the United States is only 0.9/100,000, that number soars to 35/100,000 for homosexuals. That rate doubles again for those who are HIV positive, which, according to Dr. Palefsky, is "roughly ten times higher than the current rate of cervical cancer."[49]
· At the Fourth International AIDS Malignancy Conference at the National Institutes of Health in May, 2000, Dr. Andrew Grulich announced that the incidence of anal cancer among homosexuals with HIV "was raised 37-fold compared with the general population
what a BS, Didnt u have other Problems then the sexuell life of others?
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Fund-raising for Golden Grove station
Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee handing out sprinkles to children of the Golden/Grove/Diamond community on Saturday. The Golden Grove/Diamond Station Management Committee on Saturday held a fund-raising exercise on the lawns of the Golden Grove Police Station, the proceeds of which will go towards enhancing the station's infrastructure. (GINA photo)
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Skip to comments.INTERVIEW WITH MCCAIN HECKLER ADAM KOKESH. (Admits that Ron Paul delegate gave him a pass)
Posted on 09/05/2008 12:52:41 PM PDT by mnehring
.....Why were you here in the Twin Cities? And how did you get into the Excel Center?
I was here in Minneapolis for the IVAW convention and thought Id stick around for this.
Well Ive been a Ron Paul supporter since the beginning of this campaign. Since before this campaign started, actually, Ive been a fan of Paul. So Ive got a lot of friends in the Ron Paul crowd. And hes got a lot of delegates in there. More than the Republican Party is willing to admit. And the fact that I got into there is proof of that. One of Pauls alternate delegates got me a guest pass....
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
Question is, why isn't he in jail? It's not just a trespass, it's a security risk to a Presidential nominee.
How can you trust the source?
His own words? Not like this is a reporting that someone said that someone said that someone said...
Ping follow up from last night.
Go to Elvis Kokesh's blogspot and he admits to abusing Xanex and gin.
They clown was thrown out of the USMC and told NEVER come back.
One Code Pinko said she got a pass to a Pro-Life rally and Palin's speech from MSNBC- this is the first admission of how demonstrators got into McCain's speech last night.
I remember he signed up here to whine about the Marine's prosecuting him for demonstrating in his uniform (guess he though we would be sympathetic) and the FReepers tore him a new one and he was zotted.
What the heck was a guest pass? And were they being handed out like candy? If this guy really got one, I wonder what the procedure was.
Why would he want to blame Ron Paul? He was at Paul's counter rally the day before as one of the guest of honor speakers and introduced Jesse Ventura and Amiee Allen.
Last night on the live FR convention thread we were on, a link was posted to the Ron Paul Forums.
One poster, The Constitutionalist Commentator said
Adam Kokesh! That's our boy!
The Paulites were aware of this POS and bragged abut him last night with his pic off the TV
They will now be heroes, suffer no penalties and get lots of air time.
Next convention needs to be help in Phoenix. The protestors will be outside in 120 degree heat while the delegates go from their air conditioned cars to their air conditioned arena. They can pass an ordinance that makes disrupting the convention a felony, and then hand the offenders over to Sheriff Joe, who will house them in his tent cities for 12 months or more.
I posted the link. The thread started before that evening and they where calling for this and cheering it on when it happened. This is just admission that it did happen the way the paulnut gallery was cheering.
As I said in another comment, why would he want to blame Ron Paul? He was at Paul's counter rally the day before as one of the guest of honor speakers and introduced Jesse Ventura and Amiee Allen.
They aren't really blaming Ron Paul, they are blaming one of his delegates. Just like newsletters and books written in his name by ghostwriters, we can't really blame Paul himself for what his followers did.
A Paulista responsible for this?
Figures lol.
That's the 'winner'.
I understand that they are not blaming Paul directly, but the Paul delegate that they got the pass from. I just think that is a ruse. We know that some of the passes trace back to MSNBC. We also know that criminals prefer not to roll over on their friends.
Here's a better way to divide - hold your own separate convention for your assclown supporters at the same time as the RNC.
This moonbat disruptor was a guest of honor at Ron Paul's Truther/Nazi festival.
ping the usual suspects
And some people here still support Paul, knowing he's a tinfoil hat leftist tool.
As I mentioned last night. Having delt face to face many times with Paulites and Code Pinkos,
their talking points on the war, 9/11 etc are the same.
When are some going to get it with the Paulites, Baldwin and Barrbets.
Their supporters don't want to outright vote for Obama, so supporting the third party idiots eases their conscious, giving Obama the vote that way.
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I know of at least two or three who are honest, true intention Conservatives here, who honestly believe that Paul is a Conservative hero like Reagan. Debating them, they are real Conservatives, but I believe they are projecting a lot of their beliefs on Paul. Paul is like silly-puddy (or a Rorschach test) really just a reflection of the viewers belief.
I saw several folks holding Ron Paul signs who were participating in protests of the conventions, including individuals participating in the assault on Michele Malkin.
Shouldn't surprise anyone. He is a wingnut and, from what I have seen on here, many of his supporters are wingnuts too.
Ron Paul's catamite, nutbar Truther-In-Chief Alex Jones, is the ringleader of the assaults on Malkin.
I wonder if this is true, if actions can be taken against the delegates or whomever screened or sponsored those delegates- such as stripping them of party credentials.
But, as usual, no one in a position to do anything about it will follow up.
This guy was up in a corener of a dark balcony - I thought it was strange they knew EXACTLY where to find him for the camera.
We may not need to.... I am finally catching up on my RSS Feeds and it seems the Paulution is tearing itself apart right now. First you have factions splitting over Baldwin/Barr/Ventura/CFL. Then, you have a lot of mad 'ron paul republican' candidates in various positions pissed at the CFL for not giving them money or a voice and being shut out by a couple of establishment candidates. Finally, and this is the biggie, all of the delegates that either didn't show up to vote, abstained from voting, or switched their vote during the roll call are being put up on pikes.
Code Pinko or Paulhriod; what's the difference?
MSNBC for sure. Olbermann was overheard talking about 'freebies"
Ping to the other article
Something I mentioned on another thread, I wonder if both accusations are true? There where several protesters, Adam isn't a part of Code Pink so he did most likely get it from whom he said (a Ron Paul delegate), maybe some of the same delegates worked with MSNBC to find these Pinkos to give their passes to. Its not like someone could freely just walk out of the RNC and up to code pink and not be yelled down. There had to be a friendly go-between that helped the protesters stand-down and know the delegates where 'friendly to their cause'.
Oklahoma is a winner take all state and yet we had some Paul people that wanted to vote for Paul. One was in a district won by Huckabee and he released his delegates but the other one was in my district and we went solidly for McCain.
Everyone going to the Convention said they would support the nominee but guess what some "lied" but they had Sen Inhofe to deal with. Paul didn't get enough votes in OK to mention but yet they wanted to vote for him.
Don't think you realize what a tough time some of us have had with his people at our local Conventions. You should see the OK GOP Platform where they managed to themselves on the Platform Committee thanks to someone at OK GOP. It was only good for the trash can.
Code Pink are all-around leftists.
Paul supporters are generally your old-fashion Robert Taft conservatives: strongly anti-war and strongly anti-big federal government. Ron Paul and the vast majority of his supporters hold pretty outstanding views on domestic issues.
Several states are winner take all and this happened with. I laughed that some didn't show up because there where at parties put on by Paul's own counter rally, and the Paul delegates in Massachusetts freely swapped their votes to McCain when asked if they wanted to provide a unanimous show of support.
You keep telling yourself that...
no surprised then
I met a bunch of paul supporters when in NH and they were total nutcases
You know, that is actually kinda low for Mr. Inhofe. It is not like Paul was going to win the convention vote or anything. I especially found it bad that the speaker woman didn't mention Paul's name when he got votes from Alaska, Washington, West Virginia and Oregon.
Paul recieved 1.2 million primary votes. It doesn't do anyone any good to push that wing of the conservative movement under the bus while allowing a leftist like Joe Lieberman to freely speak at the convention.
Dont think you realize what a tough time some of us have had with his people at our local Conventions. You should see the OK GOP Platform where they managed to themselves on the Platform Committee thanks to someone at OK GOP. It was only good for the trash can.
What'd they do? Add an anti-federal reserve plank to the platform like some Paul supporters reportedly did in Idaho? Oh no....
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So before I cave in and Buy Spec-D Projectors. I was wondering if the is anyone close to Edmonton that does Retro Fitting? If so let me know I would much appreciate it.
I don't think many people have even retrofitted and those who have usually use the mini H1s.
Hopefully you get an answer though. You can always email them on the dimensions to make sure it's going to work
Im more looking for someone that does it close to me. As i dont have the guts to do this.
Send them down to me. Ill do them.
I have someone else sending me a set to do right now.
You will, Thanks. I order the Morimotos payday. and contact you then.
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Be it the beautiful Ladakh in "3 Idiots" or the serene Kasauli in "Krrish", "Filmi Escapes - Travel With The Movies" will show India as seen through the eyes of filmmakers who have presented beautiful locations to the viewers through their craft.
Travel expert Lonely Planet's new travel guide revisits these cities, towns, hills, beaches, lakes, waterfalls, historic forts, palaces, temples and more, made memorable via cinematic moments over the years.
Specialised information on hotels, transport, food and sightseeing accompanied by interesting trivia, anecdotes and images have also been incorporated in it.
"Over the years, travellers in India have evolved seeking more informed and fascinating travel experiences. With this launch, we are hoping to tap into the most talked about and cherished topic in the country - Indian cinema," Daniel Houghton, chief operating officer, Lonely Planet, said in a statement.
"The reach of Indian cinema is phenomenal, with a great influence over many international travellers as well. With this launch and many other interesting launches in the pipeline, we hope to reach out to Indian travellers across demographics and geographies," Houghton added.
"Filmi Escapes" lists the must-see sights and experiences of over 20 domestic destinations like Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, Varanasi, Shimla, Kasauli, Nainital, Amritsar, Kashmir, Ladakh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Mumbai, the Western Ghats, Goa, Gujarat, Kolkata, Darjeeling and Ooty.
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Talking about the influence of Indian cinema on travel, Sesh Seshadri, director, Lonely Planet India, said: "Cinema has always proved to be a great influence on the Indian society in every manner. Movies have familiarized us with our own country, often inspiring us to travel to locations where they have been shot."
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Help is coming for Washington residents who have questions about the state's health insurance exchange.
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange, the organization tasked with implementing the exchange, will open its customer support center today. The helpline — 855-WAFINDER (855-923-4633) — will be open 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday. Help will be available in 175 languages.
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Genome size. The most recent estimate of the size of the genome of D. melanogaster is just under 200-Mb [5]. Of these 200-Mb, about one-third is heterochromatic, contained on the Y-chromosome (of the male) and the chromosomal regions that surround the centromeres. About half of these heterochromatic sequences are satellite sequences, of very simple sequence, and about half are complex sequences largely, but not entirely, composed of transposable elements.
Sequences. D. melanogaster is one of the few multicellular organisms to have its genome "completely" sequenced. This was first published in 2000 [6] as the result of a novel collaboration between a commercial company and the academic sector (see [7]). Since then efforts by researchers in Berkeley have improved and revised this sequence, and the current version (R5) is available from GenBank with the following accession numbers: AE014134, AE013599, AE014296, AE014297, AE014135 and AE014298. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence is available as GenBank:U37541. {note 1}.
There are over 765,000 other sequence records for D. melanogaster available from GenBank as well as over 31,000 protein sequences available from the protein sequence databank UniProt.
Despite this wealth of data the genome of D. melanogaster is not yet complete. The sequencing of the complex portion of the heterochromatin is still in progress in Berkeley <http://www.dhgp.org/>, and the simple sequence satellite DNA will probably never be fully sequenced.
In addition to D. melanogaster, genomic sequences have been achieved for 11 other members of the family Drosophilidae, including D. simulans, D. yakuba and D. erecta, closely related sibling species of D. melanogaster [8].
What distinguishes the genomic sequence of D. melanogaster from that of many other species is the depth and detail of its annotation. Within the sequenced chromosome arms there are now only seven sequence gaps (all numbers will be from Release 5.5 of January 2008) and 15,186 genes are located to genome. The great majority of these (14,146) encode proteins, the remainder non-coding RNA species (e.g., transfer RNAs, ribosomal RNAs, small nucleolar RNAs, microRNAs). The annotation of this genome is the responsibility of FlyBase, the community database for Drosophila genetics and genomics.
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