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Perma bull - Dick Bove throws in the towel. Expect capitulation tomorrow. Stock price low 9.98 and then it shoots up to 18 and then if price is supported it would be 25 within a week. MS has to survive this weekend and that they will!!
There's a LOT of shorts.. I mean ALOT - just look at the options. The open volume on puts are tremendous.The selling pressure alone is enough to crush most stocks. If the market does what it usually ends up doing so far, which is to screw the most people over - then long is an against the grain bet.I'm still holding MS since $19, but my confidence is waivering
Yes, it will shoot up like FRE, FNM and AIG.
Just wanted to add - Book value is 31 and change. 0.8 times book would be around 25-26 which is the fair value of MS. It seems there are too much pressures on this stock (not company) for tomorrow - market sentiment, MUFJ capital infusement and 400B default auction of LEH debt. Underlying strengths/positives - Feds have realised that by letting LEH go under, they have created another credit mistrust situation and the Fed will act to rectify it this time around. Also, I see a major Fed/govt intervention that would pull us out of this!!Most of the downhill action on the roller-coaster has been riden out, wait for the move back up to sanity!!


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At least that's how the Ducks captain projects himself publicly as he was noncommittal in his response to GM Murray reportedly saying he will not trade defenseman Niedermayer at the March 3 deadline even if the Ducks are not in the playoff picture.
Murray reiterated that Niedermayer will retire as a Duck whenever he decides to hang up his skates. Niedermayer has danced with retirement since his 31/2-month sabbatical after the 2007 Stanley Cup championship, but the decisions each summer to continue to play have been meticulous, and he isn't about to be rash now.
"You know, I haven't really thought a lot about that," Niedermayer said Wednesday. "I think when bridges come then you deal with them. I don't think there's any sense in worrying about that type of thing right now.
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"That's really where 100 percent of my focus is. The other stuff? If it does come one day, it does. If not ..."
The added intrigue in this latest view of Niedermayer's future is the Ducks' 12th position in the Western Conference standings entering Wednesday's game against the Boston Bruins. Murray has been resolute in his loyalty to his captain, but Niedermayer would likely also bring in the biggest haul if the Ducks' fortunes go south and the team needs to rebuild.
And would Niedermayer, 36, want to be dealt to a contender if the Ducks are out of it? He does not have a no-trade clause in his one-year, $6 million contract (with bonuses that can push it to $6.75 million) and has missed the postseason only once, in 1995-96 with New Jersey.
Niedermayer said he would love the Ducks to continue their winning ways and not have to face making any such choices.
"Like I said, I haven't really put a lot of thought into the different circumstances," he said. "I haven't thought, 'What if this happens?' or 'What am I going to do if this is the case, then what?' I guess I'll wait. We'll see where we are when the time comes."
Jonas Hiller's 42-save performance in a 3-1 victory over Chicago on Sunday not only stood out because it came against the NHL-leading Blackhawks but also because it was on the back end of winning starts he made on consecutive nights.
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Grow Paul Farges up a Weeping Maple?
I planted 12 clems this fall and I have 2 left that I am unsure about. I have a Virginiana and a Fargesioides.
I was hoping to plant the Fargesioides to grow up my Weeping Japanese Maple (its full grown but a smaller tree-aprox 12-15ft high and very wide spread weeping down to the ground)). Can anyone tell me if this is a bad idea? Will the clem damage my tree? I thought the white flowers would look great against the deep red leaves but I'm worried the expensive full grown tree will get ruined. I bought the PF because I had heard it is a 'lighter' vine but now I'm second guessing myself.
Also, if it is a bad idea, which if the 2 I have left are prettier to pair with a Jackmani Superba I have planted at the base of a very visible trellis?
Thanks in Advance.
I would not call Paul Farges a 'lighter' vine by any means! I keep a framework of older stems and only cut back the growth that arose from them the previous year. Those old stems are at least 1" wide now they are 6-7 years old or so. I'm not sure how big they'll get eventually but it looks like they could get to a significant size. How would you cut it back in the tree in the spring without damaging the tree? It doesn't sound like your tree is big enough to take it. I have a friend who grows a Paul Farges into a tree - but it's a big, mature tree in a wilder part of her acreage and she just lets it be. That approach wouldn't likely work in either a smaller tree or a smaller garden.


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Most MediaWiki installation include a significant number of extensions (WMF MediaWikis often around 80 extensions). Managing the maintenance bug fixing of extensions and choosing the right version of an extension in cases where the HEAD development version relies on features not yet available in stable or oldstable MediaWiki core, is a major challenge for all maintainers of MediaWiki installations.
Extension maintainers are therefore strongly encouraged to maintain a git tag or branch for their version corresponding to the release tag the stable and oldstable version. An initial version, that simply points to the state of the code at the time of the release may be created centrally. However, it is the responsibility of the extension maintainer to fix bugs not only in HEAD but also in the oldstable and stable versions. If the extension works with all of oldstable, stable and HEAD, this requires only to update the tags. However, if some changes are specific to later versions, the lifecycle rule require that branches are created and individual merges of the bugfix to each branch be made.
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Warm grower from Mexico and Costa Rica but it seems to be OK outside in my backyard. Long arching spray. Much variation, I see all kinds of 'alats' in my travels.
I'm hoping others will chime in. Minimal success so far. This used to be a very active forum 5 to 10 years ago, as was the exchange forum and the conversation forum. I know everyone who reads this has plants in bloom, with the ease of phone cameras (I still have not figured out my electronic 'real' camera) it should be a busy place with all of us enjoying a variety of flowers.
One other forum, which shall remain unnamed, sports 6 new posts just today from 6 different authors. Unless someone takes the bull by the horn, this forum is slowly fading away. Conversation forum is DEAD, exchange forum is DEAD, discussions at times are dominated by dying Phaelies.
Hope others will join in.
Right next to 'discussions' is a link called 'exchanges'. In 2013 there have been 7 posts!
This used to be so active that we'd exchange emails all week and every Monday without fail I'd send out a few packages receiving some by Wed. It's an incredible cheap way to get new plants. Example: I'd list 3 or 4 divisions of large plants I have. Someone responds and offers me divisions of plants I don't have. Postage for a priority USPS parcel with 3 bare-root divisions would be approx $7.00 On Wed I'd unpack 3 division of plants whose total cost to me would have been the $7.00.
I'll post a few later today and see if there is a response. The principle is very simple. Offer division you won't miss and accept everything you don't have but want.
Jane, the phone camera is OK but won't photograph small things which is a shame. I have a real electronic camera but haven't figured it out yet. Still have a near professional camera with a macro lens , tripod, macro-flash etc and used to take some real nice regular photos. Need to make the switch to digital.


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A device is provided for collecting and separating a two-phase liquid, and for dispensing the light phase. The device provides improved structure such that the dispensing aperture is protected from premature liquid contact by a partition. Upon phase separation, the partition automatically allows flow of the light phase to the aperture.
1. A blood-collecting, phase separating and serum-dispensing device comprising
an elongated container having a blood collection and phase separation compartment and a dispensing chamber, said compartment including means defining a blood inlet, said chamber having means defining a drop-dispensing aperture sized to prevent gravity flow of blood serum therethrough, and means to permit flow of serum in response to differential pressures,
and means positioned within said device for blocking flow of whole blood from said inlet to said dispensing aperture prior to phase separation of the blood, said means consisting of a single unit having a specific gravity between that of blood cells and blood serum, said unit being automatically movable in its entirety, in response to a phase-separating centrifugal force directed from said chamber towards said compartment, to a second position within said container between separated blood serum and separated blood cells,
whereby only separated serum can flow to said chamber aperture.
2. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said unit includes an inorganic thixotropic polymeric gel.
3. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said unit includes a movable perforated plate covering said aperture and having a specific gravity between that of blood serum and blood cells.
4. A device as defined in claim 2, wherein said unit is disposed adjacent the serum collecting portion of said compartment and comprises a piston.
5. A device as defined in claim 4, wherein said piston comprises
a body portion which is generally cylindrical and has a diameter less than the internal diameter of the blood collection compartment; and
an elastomeric material mounted on said body portion so as to form a seal between said piston and said compartment, said material being compressible in response to hydrostatic forces so that serum can flow therepast.
6. A device as defined in claim 1, and further including a protective cover over the exterior surface of at least said dispensing aperture of said dispensing chamber.
7. A blood-collecting and serum-dispensing device comprising
wall means arranged about an axis to define a blood collection and phase separation compartment having two opposed ends;
means defining a blood inlet adjacent one end of said compartment;
means defining a dispensing chamber adjacent the other end, said chamber including means defining a dispensing aperture, said aperture being sized to prevent gravity flow of blood serum therethrough, and means to permit flow of serum in response to differential pressure;
and means positioned in said device for blocking flow of whole blood within said compartment from said inlet to said dispensing aperture, said blocking means consisting of a single unit having a specific gravity between that of blood cells and blood serum and including at least an inorganic thixotropic polymeric gel inert to blood serum;
said unit being automatically movable in its entirety by the application of a phase-separating centrifugal force directed from said chamber towards said compartment, to a position between the separated phases of whole blood, whereby separated blood serum can flow to said aperture.
8. A device as defined in claim 7, wherein said blocking means include a movable perforated plate disposed so as to cover said aperture, said plate having a specific gravity between that of blood serum and blood cells so that it moves automatically upon centrifugation to a position permitting access to said aperture by blood serum while maintaining phase separation with said gel between the serum and the cells.
(1) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a device for the collection, phase separation, and serum dispensing, of two-phase liquids such as blood.
(2) State of the Prior Art
Blood collection and phase separation devices have long recognized the necessity for a partition which will maintain phase separation of serum and cells after separation is achieved by centrifugation. Movable mechanical "pistons" were first used for this purpose. Subsequent movable partitions incorporated filters so that the clogging of the filters with fibers and cells of the heavier phase would automatically terminate movement of the pistons at the fluid interface.
To avoid the oft-times elaborate piston constructions of the type noted above, certain researchers turned to the use of thixotropic, inorganic gels for the partition, either alone or in combination with mechanical piston-like members, as disclosed for example in U.S. Pat. No. 3,909,419 issued on Sept. 30, 1975. Because of the specific gravity of the gel and/or the incorporated mechanical pieces, the phase separation interface was automatically reached by the partition.
However, none of the preceding approaches contemplate the incorporation of a dispensing chamber with the collecting and phase separating device.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,977,568 issued Aug. 31, 1976 discloses devices having a dispensing chamber coupled with a blood collection compartment to permit closed flow from one to the other. These devices obviate exposure of the serum to the atmosphere and the operator. The disclosed arrangements require the use of at least one valve disposed between the separating compartment and dispensing chamber, to protect the serum-collecting end of the phase separation compartment from whole blood contamination, and at least one step by an operator is required to actuate the valve.
It is an object of this invention to provide a blood collecting and serum dispensing device which protects the dispensing portion from whole blood but also automatically opens up the dispensing portion of the device to serum flow, by the phase-separation step.
It is a related object of this invention to provide a blood collecting device which automatically converts into a serum drop dispensing device during phase separation, without any separate intervention by an operator.
Other objects and advantages will become apparent upon reference to the following Summary and Description, when read in light of the attached drawings.
These objects are accomplished by a blood collection and serum dispensing device wherein the partition used to separate the two blood phases is also used to protect the dispensing aperture from whole blood contamination, and to automatically allow flow of serum to the aperture upon phase separation. More specifically, there is provided a blood-collecting, phase-separating and serum-dispensing device comprising an elongated container having a blood collection and phase separation compartment and a dispensing chamber, the compartment including means defining a blood inlet and the chamber having means defining a drop-dispensing platform and a dispensing aperture, and a partition having a specific gravity between that of blood cells and blood serum, the partition being disposed in the container at a first position wherein it blocks flow of whole blood within the compartment from the inlet to the aperture and being movable, in response to a phase-separating centrifugal force directed from the chamber towards the compartment, to a second position within the container between separated blood serum and separated blood cells, whereby separated serum can flow to the chamber aperture.
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal view partly in section of a device constructed in accordance with the invention;
FIGS. 2A through 2D are sectional views similar to that of FIG. 1, illustrating a preferred use of the device;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view similar to that of FIG. 1, but of an alternate embodiment;
FIG. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view, similar to that of FIG. 3, of yet another embodiment; and
FIGS. 5 through 7 are fragmentary sectional views similar to that of FIG. 4, illustrating the use of still another embodiment.
The device illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises an elongated container or tube 10 having opposed walls 14 arranged about an axis 16 to define a blood collection and phase separation compartment 18 at one end of container 10 and a dispensing chamber 20 at the other end. One porition 19 of compartment 18 is the serum-collecting portion during phase separation, hereinafter described. Chamber 20 can be considered the entire other end, and includes a recessed portion 22 in wall 14. The walls 14 can be cylindrical for the length of tube 10 or compartment 18 can be cylindrical with chamber 20 being squared, as shown, commencing at ridges 23. End wall 24 completes chamber 20. To provide a blood inlet, a removable elastomeric septum 26 is positioned at the open end 27 of compartment 18. Septum 26 is penetratable by a syringe needle or cannula 28 in a conventional manner, FIG. 2A, to allow access to the device by whole blood B.
Recessed portion 22 is provided with a drop-dispensing platform 30 which in turn has an aperture 32. Platform 30 and aperture 32 are formed to permit only pressurized flow of serum therethrough, and not flow under the influence of gravity alone. Preferably, platform 30 and aperture 32 include the features disclosed in Research Disclosure, Vol. 133, May 1975, Publication No. 13360, published by Industrial Opportunities Limited, Homewell, Havant Hampshire P091EF, United Kingdom, the details of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference. Such features permit the formation of a predictable-volume pendant drop no matter what peculiar viscosity and surface tension might exist in a given patient's blood serum.
Aperture 34 allows pressurization of the chamber, as hereinafter described.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a partition 50 is incorporated in container 10 at a first position where it temporarily prevents or blocks flow of liquid, e.g., of whole blood, to aperture 32 as it is collected at end 27. As shown in FIG. 1, this position is one in which it is adjacent portion 19 of the compartment and preferably within chamber 20. The partition contacts walls 14 around their entire circumference, but is spaced away from wall 24 a sufficient distance as to not cover aperture 32. The partition is the sole blocking means protecting aperture 32, because no movable operator-controlled valve is included. In this embodiment, the partition comprises an inorganic thixotropic polymeric gel inert to blood serum. Although the composition of such gel is not critical, so long as the aforesaid properties exist, convenient and preferred compositions include those described in Research Disclosure, Vol. 152, December 1976, Publication No. 15247, the details of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference. Preferably, for reasons hereinafter described, the gel partition is thinner at top portion 52 than at the bottom portion 54.
The gel can be inserted as shown, spaced from wall 24, by a dispenser which ejects the gel into container 10 at this position.
Optional features of container 10 include a removable cover disposed over the exterior surface of platform 30. If used, preferably it is wrapped around chamber 20 as a strip 40 so as to overlay both apertures 32 and 34. Strip 40 has a convenient pull tab 42 at one end. Such a strip prevents the apertures from being contaminated by dirt and the like and insures that the pendant drop capability of platform 30 is not upset by contact with surfactants or oils such as exist on human skin. By constructing strip 40 from a metallic foil, it can be vacuum-sealed around the entire circumference of container 10 at chamber 20, thereby sealing apertures 32 and 34 and allowing the device to be air-evacuated, a common embodiment for ease in drawing whole blood. Or alternatively, strip 40 can comprise a perforated material to permit the device to be atmosphere-vented, whereby only the patient's blood pressure is used as the filling force. Or still further, a microporous filler (not shown) can be included in compartment 18 to assist in collecting the blood in the vented mode, in the manner shown in Research Disclosure, Vol. 159, July 1977, Publication No. 15918, published as noted above.
The first step in the use of the device, FIG. 2A, is to insert needle 28 through the septum 26, whereby either the vacuum assists in pulling in whole blood B, or the patient's pressure fills the device if vented as described above. Partition 50 prevents the whole blood from contaminating aperture 32. No matter which of these collection modes is used, eventually the pressure will build up to a level P1, which exceeds the pressure P2 in the chamber 20, and punch-through 56, FIG. 2B, will occur in the gel of partition 50, equalizing the pressures. By coating the gel so that it is thinner at its upper portion 52, the punch-through forms at the upper portion and does not jeopardize the protection of aperture 32.
Alternatively, the gel can have uniform thickness if its thixotropic flow characteristics are such as to automatically seal over any punch-through which occurs during pressure equilibration.
Phase separation is achieved by centrifugation, which utilizes a centrifugal force F directed from chamber 20 to compartment 18, FIG. 2C. During centrifugation, and in automatic response to the force F, partition 50 reforms at the phase separation boundary while blood serum, the lighter phase, flows through the gel. When reformed, partition 50 provides a barrier to maintain separation between the blood cells C and the serum S. At the same time, the partition is now in a position, without any need for operator intervention, where it no longer blocks aperture 32 from the flow of serum thereto, obtained from the whole blood during the phase separation. That is, the gel when reformed no longer is between aperture 32 and separated blood serum, so that serum flows freely to the aperture. Removal of strip 40, if used, uncovers platform 30, FIG. 2D, and aperture 34 can be used to pressurize the device (against partition 50 acting as a plug), as described in the aforesaid U.S. Pat. No. 4,012,325, to form a pendant drop 58 to be touched off to a substrate 60 for analysis.
The container 10 is preferably formed from a moldable plastic, such as copolymers acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene, or polymers such as polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene, etc.
Although the preferred location of platform 30 is as shown, it can also be located in end wall 24, in which case container 10 would be oriented vertically for drop dispensing, instead of horizontally as in FIG. 2.
It is possible to draw the serum out through aperture 32 by the use of a negative pressure differential, that is, by using a pressure at the exterior of platform 30 which is less than the pressure inside chamber 20 (e.g., a partial vacuum). In such a case, aperture 34 can be eliminated and aperture 32 can be used after drop touch-off to equilibrate the system. That is, after touch-off, air bubbles into chamber 20 through aperture 32 to replace the volume of the dispensed drop.
The partition can be gel, as described above, or it can comprise a combination of gel and a so-called rigid member, FIGS. 3 and 4, the currently preferred embodiments. Parts similar to those previously described have the same reference numberal, to which the distinguishing suffixes "a" and "b" have been added. "Rigid" is used here to distinguish from materials having variable shapes and forms, such as that of gel. Preferably it also remains at the cell-serum interface after phase separation, and thus has a specific gravity between that of blood cells and blood serum; e.g., about 1.06. Materials suitable for such rigid members include polystyrene.
Thus, FIG. 3, container 10a comprises a tube having walls 14a shaped as before, with septum 26a and end wall 24a closing the ends of the tube. Platform 30a, apertures 32a and 34a, and optional strip 40a function as in the previously-described embodiment. The partition, however, comprises the gel 50a of the previous embodiment together with a perforated member or plate 70 initially in contact with wall 24a and comprising a base 72 having a plurality of spaced apertures of orifices 74 oriented generally parallel to tube axis 16a, and an annular flange 76. Flange 76 extends far enough away from base 72 to cover apertures 32a and 34a. To properly initially bias the plate within chamber 20, flange 76 is preferably formed so that, when plate 70 is free-standing, the flange projects outwardly beyond the maximum width of base 72 a distance sufficient to cause a biasing seal of the flange to chamber 20a, when inserted therein, to prevent any blood leakage to aperture 32, but insufficient to prevent the plate from moving, when centrifuged, with gel 50a.
Gel 50a can be disposed entirely within flange 76, extending into orifices 74, or it can extend into contact with walls 14a.
As will be apparent, orifices 74 serve to allow serum to pass through plate 70 while it moves with the gel during centrifugation to the forming phase interface. In this manner, the combined gel-plate partition unblocks flow of serum to aperture 32a.
Alternatively, FIG. 4, the device of the invention can comprise container 10b wherein the compartment, chamber and gel are as described before, but there is included a rigid disc 70b of specific gravity of about 1.06, the disc having a plurality of apertures or orifices 74b formed as in the previously-described embodiment. No flanges are provided, however, and a force-fit of disc 70b in chamber 20b is unnecessary due to the sealing contact of gel 50b with walls 14b.
Therefore, the partition temporarily blocking liquid access to the dispensing aperture, capable of automatic movement during centrifuging to unblock the access, can be either just a gel or it can be a gel-rigid member combination. The gel-rigid member combination has the advantage of requiring less gel.
Such a combination of rigid member and gel functions as a single unit that performs the blocking and unblocking functions attributed in the previous embodiment to the gel alone. As used in this context in the specification and claims, the term single "unit" thus includes such a combination, the gel alone, or as described hereinafter, a mechanical equivalent of the gel alone.
It is further contemplated that a rigid member can be used in place of the gel as the movable partition which protects the dispensing aperture from whole blood. For example, the pistons disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,891,553; 3,894,951; 3,894,952; and 3,897,340, utilizing filters to insure automatic relocation of the pistons at the phase separation interface, can be used.
Alternatively, a piston with a collapsible o-ring seal, FIGS. 5-7, can be used. Parts similar to those previously described bear the same reference numeral to which the distinguishing suffix "c" has been applied. Thus, container 10c is constructed as described above, walls 14c defining blood collection and phase separation compartment 18c and dispensing chamber 20c. The gel however has been entirely replaced by a piston 80, disposed a sufficient distance away from end wall 24c as to be inbetween compartment 18c and dispensing aperture 32c. Piston 80 is constructed similarly to that shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,897,343, issued July 29, 1975, although its location in the device is different. Specifically, piston 80 comprises a body portion 82 of a general cylindrical shape, which terminates at opposite ends in cones 84 and 86 of essentially identical construction. Each cone has a shoulder 88 and a point 90, the outer diameter of shoulders 88 being sufficiently greater than that of body portion 82 (and less than the inner diameter of walls 14c) as to longitudinally confine between the shoulders an elastomeric, compressible, annularly-shaped material 92. A preferred construction of material 92 is an o-ring of a closed-cell polymeric material, such as rubber, having a free outer diameter (e.g., at zero hydrostatic pressure) which seals it both against walls 14c and against body portion 82, preventing flow of whole blood B, FIG. 5, to aperture 32c. However, under hydrostatic forces of the type generated in blood during centrifuging, ring 92 collapses, FIG. 6, and for this reason the axial spacing between shoulders 88 is greater than the non-compressed cross-section diameter of ring 92, FIG. 5, by an amount sufficient to accommodate the collapsed shape of the ring, FIG. 6.
The total specific gravity of the piston 80 is, of course, between that of the blood cells and serum, or approximately 1.06. Polystyrene can be used, as noted above. Points 90 of the cones are utilized solely to facilitate flow of the piston relative to serum during centrifuging, and the primary reason for using two cones 84 and 86 is to make the piston non-end-specific. It can be inserted into the device either way.
The use, then, of container 10c is as follows: As centrifugation starts, FIG. 6, hydrostatic pressures build up and collapse o-ring 92, to allow the light phase, serum, to flow relative to the piston. The piston then seeks out the serum-cell interface with the o-ring so collapsed. After centrifugation ceases, the o-ring returns to a sealing configuration with walls 14c, FIG. 7, leaving the serum free access to dispensing aperture 32c.
Ring 92 of piston 80 will also allow equalization of air pressures in the container during the blood collection phase. Until such equalization occurs, it may be desirable to orient container 10c so that chamber 20c is oriented above the septum. Thereafter, container 10c can be handled without concern about blood flow to aperture 32c, as o-ring 92 will maintain the necessary seal against such flow.
Additional embodiments which can utilize the disclosed invention are those illustrated in Research Disclosure, Vol. 159, July 1977, Publication No. 15918, the details of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference. Specifically, the devices therein illustrated use a sliding dispensing head which acts as a valve. The head is slid into a closed position during blood collection, to prevent whole blood from reaching the dispensing aperture, and after phase separation is slid into an open position by an operator. However, by using this invention, such head is permanently fixed in an "open" position, and only the partition comprising the gel phase separator is used as described above to provide the blocking means preventing premature flow to the dispensing aperture.
The invention has been described in detail with particular reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, but it will be understood that variations and modifications can be effected within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Howard Voss-Altman: But sadly, most people do paint with a very broad brush. Why does the U.S. Congress hold hearings on the dangers of radical Islam? To fan the flames of bigotry and to distract people from the real, substantive problems that the United States faces. People who wish to dismiss Christianity and Islam don't need more quivers in their bow.
Michael Higgins: I wonder if the larger question is not so much the authority or abuse of religious authority around the end days, but the extraordinary explosion of interest in apocalypse in the popular media and what that says about our political and cultural insecurities and, therefore, our collective vulnerability to false prophets.
Guy Nicholson: Howard, what does Judaism have to say about "end times?"
Howard Voss-Altman: The Hebrew Bible, as far as I know, does not specifically mention any end times or end of days. Following the destruction of the Temple in the year 70, rabbis began writing about the Messiah and the "world to come," as a response to our darkest hour. Today, certain ultra-Orthodox sects speak regularly about the Messiah, when all the Jews will be resurrected - body and soul - and the world will be at one with God. However, this represents the beliefs of a very small minority of Jews. Reform Jews believe we are all working toward the day when, inspired by God, our world will resemble the kind of place that God envisioned for us in the Torah. Such days will be due to the work of our hands.
Lorna Dueck: Sometimes I have great hope in the work of our hands to bring about the shalom that the Hebrew Bible presents to us, but I'm discouraged at how evil can present with ferocity, or insidious systemic ruin in each new generation. I'm acting on, but also anticipating, a world where "there will be no more death, or mourning, or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." ( Revelation 21:4) That is where history is going … we just have no idea of when.
Howard Voss-Altman: As a voice of religious dissent, I must confess that I have no desire to see a world where "there will be no more death." If there were no more death or mourning or crying or pain, there would also be no life, no joy and no happiness. The old order of life and death (with some much-needed improvements) gives me great comfort and solace.
Lorna Dueck: That makes me smile Howard - so, in other words, this world is as good as it's going to get? No, I'm holding out for better.
Sheema Khan: It's interesting how the end seems to be similar in all three faiths. How we get there, is another matter.
Guy Nicholson: Sheema and Lorna have noted how lives have been ruined by following the type of prophecies we're discussing. Should a religious or spiritual leader bear any responsibility if his or her teaching encourages a follower to make bad choices? It's a much wider question than this case, wider even than religion itself.
Michael Higgins: Those who exploit the credulous and/or the innocent bear a heavy responsibility. Admittedly, this is difficult terrain to police or judge, but a rhetoric that endangers lives or incites hatred should be held to account.
Lorna Dueck: Yes, a religious leader bears the responsibility for false teaching. That too is part of the end times warnings of Scripture - your actions do impact your individual death.
Howard Voss-Altman: The spiritual leader must bear responsibility for his or her hateful teachings. The recent example of the killing of the physician in Kansas (just outside the doors of his church) was triggered by the fanatical rhetoric of the anti-choice movement and its agents. In 1995, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, who was under the influence of a rabbi who called for Mr. Rabin's death. One cannot light a fuse and then be surprised when an explosion occurs.
Sheema Khan: Wholehearted agreement here. We all bear responsibility for our own actions and words. If our deeds inspire others to do harm to others, then we also carry some of the responsibility. This, however, does not diminish the responsibility of those who choose to harm - they can't just say "So and so made me do it." We are responsible for the choices we make.


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I have been trying to find out where my clean out was for the past month and can't find it. I live in a raised house and went underneath the house to see if I could locate a T coming out of the house to the exterior, but didn't see any.
There is a white PVC tube coming out of the ground in my front yard not to far from the S marked on the street. The thing is that the cap is white and not screwed on. The bottom of that tube is filled with sand. Could this be my clean out even it is white and the cap is not the treaded kind?????????
I live In sand diego california
Definitely could be. Guess you have to clean the sand out of it and smell. This will tell you if it's connected to the sewer line. If it is, it can probably be used as a clean out. Are you plugged up? After you've used it I would suggest purchasing a clean out with a screw in plug for future use and to keep the kids out of it.
By code definition the buried line from the municipal main or septic tank to the structure is called the "House Sewer" while the main line within the structure is defined as the "House Main Drain". Code states that there must be a "Main Cleanout" at the junction of the House Sewer and the Main Drain. The cleanout is generally required to be within 3Â of the point where the house sewer enters the structure. For houses with basements the main cleanout can generally be found within the first three feet inside the basement wall while for slab construction the cleanout will generally be found 3Â outside the footer wall. For structures with a crawl space often there is a limited access in the crawl space so they elect to put the main cleanout outside in the same manner as a slab construction.
There are two commonly accepted methods of installing the main cleanout on the exterior:
1. A "Rodding Tee" is installed on the line. A rodding Tee is a specialized Tee that has a radius curve in both directions which would permit rodding, or snaking" the line both upstream and downstream from the point of the cleanout. The line is required to be buried a minimum of 6" below the average frost line of in climates where frost is not a issue it must be a minimum of 12" below finished grade. A vertical riser is then attached to the side opening of the rodding tee and it is to be extended up to finished grade and capped. Keep in mind that the cleanout is generally installed long before the final grade-work is completed and it is extended to the theoretical grade level. It is not uncommon for the riser to be slightly buried during the final grade-work or landscaping phase.
2. An alternate method is to install a Wye & 1/8 bend with the side opening of the Wye pointing in the downstream direction and a riser extended from the side opening up to finished grade. A second Wye & 1/8 bend with riser is then installed slightly downstream of the first one but this time the side opening of the Wye is pointed in the Upstream direction. In this manner the line can be snaked in both directions dependant upon which riser you select. Here again, the risers are initially installed to the theoretical finished grade elevation so they may have been slightly covered during final grading or landscaping.
Ok a plumber came to my house and told me to look for the clean out under the ground cover. It's going to take for ever. otherwise no sign of the clean out. The white pvc tubing was a "dummy" according to the plumber. I m not plugged up, but really really want my clean out.
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"Inspirational and devastating." — Eric Kohn, Indiewire
A lost key and an accidental touch of cold hands in the dark – so begins one of the great romances of all opera. In his depiction of the tender and ultimately tragic love between Mimì and Rodolfo, Puccini achieved an immediacy, warmth and humanity that have rarely been equalled.
One of the strangest and most twisted films of the silent era. Cheated and cuckolded, a brilliant scientist (played by Lon Chaney, "the man of a thousand faces") takes refuge behind the make up of a circus clown, where his shame can at least inspire laughter in others. He becomes famous, but his hapless love for a bareback rider sends the movie spinning towards revenge tragedy. This first feature produced by the famous studio MGM, He Who Gets Slapped blends naturalism and expressionism with high melodrama - all accentuated in the Alloy Orchestra's extraordinary live score.
"A picture which defies one to write about it without indulging in superlatives … so beautifully told, so flawlessly directed that we imagine it will be held up as a model by all producers." NY Times, 1924
A charming comic drama inspired by the true story of a high school English teacher who drove across Spain in 1966 to meet his idol John Lennon in hopes of clarifying some lyrics he couldn't quite understand. On the way, he picks up two runaway teenagers — a pregnant girl fleeing a convent, and a boy escaping his dictatorial father.
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Bert Bush was a fixture in Vancouver's film & video scene for over 45 years. He supervised printing for Trans Canada Films before opening his own post-production firm, Bush Edit House, at the foot of Lonsdale in 1971. Bert cut film & video, rented equipment and mentored young filmmakers until his death in 2006. When archivists were invited to investigate his legacy, they found nearly 100 films of all kinds — mixing BC tourism titles (A Date with BC, A Place To Be) with cautionary tales of alcohol abuse (Voices) & heart disease (Heartbeat), a 'how-to' film about placing a long-distance call without operator assistance (DDD- Direct Distance Dialing) and rare examples of locally-produced 50's & 60's TV ads. Curated by Colin Preston and Christine Hagemoen.
Puccini's first triumph returns to Covent Garden for the first time in 20 years in a new staging by Jonathan Kent. The exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings the title role. A consummate Puccini soprano, Opolais caused a sensation as Madama Butterfly in 2011, and with Manon Lescaut, the bold but impressionable heroine, we will see a very different side of her. She is matched in star power by Jonas Kaufmann as her lover, Des Grieux, and Christopher Maltman as her cynical brother Lescaut. Kent's vision of a young girl who faces temptation in the big city will surely resonate with today's audience.
The charismatic Giuseppe Marinoni has been making some of the most desirable bicycle frames in Canada for decades. A competitive cyclist in Italy in his youth, he decides, at age 75, to attempt a World Record for distance cycled in one hour for his age group. Giuseppe's determination and perseverance lead him back to his native Italy for his training and, ultimately, his attempt at the record. This is a film not only for the spandex-and-helmet crowd but for anyone who believes that a man's reach should exceed his grasp.
The fifth film from 25-year-old Dolan invites extreme reactions: it's the story of a deeply troubled teen, his tumultuous relationship with his single mom (Anne Dorval), and the timid part time teacher who agrees to tutor him (Suzanne Clement). It's a pulsing, live-wire movie, kicking and screaming to make itself heard.
The entire Indian continent sets its annual clock by the coming of the monsoon season. The rains bring life to barren fields, stave off drought and starvation, bring the economy back to life… But they also bring disaster, death and destruction. Gunnarsson traces the trajectory of the season from the southeastern state of Kerala, where the monsoons first hit land, across the continent to Assam in the northwest. In a word: elemental.
"Awe-inspiring sights... unforgettable vistas." — Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter
Daniele Abbado explores themes of identity, exile and religion in a powerful staging of Verdi's epic opera. War has broken out between the Babylonians and Israelites. The Israelites have captured Fenena, younger daughter of the Babylonian King, Nabucco. In revenge, Nabucco vows to destroy Jerusalem, aided by the vengeful Abigaille.
"Domingo's career, 42 years at Covent Garden and counting, continues to be a wonder of the age." The Guardian
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In the first of our series bringing you opera productions from London's Royal Opera House, a chance to enjoy the company's new staging of Richard Wagner's epic, his final masterpiece. A young man ignorant of everything, including his own name, arrives at the Kingdom of the Holy Grail. Is he the 'pure fool, enlightened by compassion', who, it has been prophesied, will purify the kingdom?
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Reel 2 Real features thought-provoking films from around the world for kids and the young at heart, and includes hands-on activities for the whole family. On Friday, April 10, R2R's Opening Night Film, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, is a 'reel' treat. Saturday morning check out the Pajama Party. Keep your PJs on and enjoy free breakfast snacks, unlimited coffee, and the Family Shorts program. On Sunday, get ready for an afternoon of shorts + workshops during Sunday Fun Day! Imagination, wacky props, and paper cut-outs make for a truly irresistible day—all for only $5! Film highlights include: Lola on the Pea, All the Time In the World, True Son and Giovanni's Island.
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Return of the River vividly portrays the epic story of the freeing of Olympic National Park's mighty Elwha River from two salmon-blocking dams. It is a story of hope and possibility amid grim environmental news. It is a film for our time: an invitation to consider crazy ideas that could transform the world for the better.
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Wrenched reveals how author Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and '80s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, director ML Lincoln captures the outrage of Abbey's friends who were the original eco-warriors. With tree-spiking, forest occupation and high-profile publicity stunts such as the cracking at Glen Canyon Dam, this group became the eventual target of FBI infiltrators, leading to the arrest of various members.
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Postcard prose – Issue 10 | September 2010
Grammar Lesson
by Mandy Berman
The first day I meet the children, we sit in the dirt, on a flat ground beneath the rolling hills of beanstalks and maize and pumpkin patches, pulling bean pods from their stalks. The women and children laugh and talk in Timbuka. I sit and do my work. A girl with thin arms and full lips sits next to me, separating the brown bean pods and the green ones into two piles. We are quiet until I ask for her name.
Charity, she says.
That's a very pretty name.
Thank you. Beside her is a plastic bowl, and she begins to place stray beans in it, ones that had fallen out of their pods.
How old are you, Charity?
I am twelve years old. Her English is measured and clear, a mix between the British accent she learned in school and the thick Malawian dialect, with its interchangeable r's and l's, its emphasis on the last letter of every word.
Do you have any brothers and sisters? This to me is a universal question to ask a twelve-year-old.
Yes, she says. I have five-ee.
Five! That's a lot. Are any of them here? I point to the other children pulling bean pods from their stalks.
No, she says. There are no more.
I decide my first lesson will be on the past tense.
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Mandy Berman recently returned from teaching English and Math to AIDS orphans in Malawi, Africa. She currently writes for the online travel guide, Dguides.com, and blogs at prettierworld.blogspot.com. She is currently teaching English in the Dordogne region of France.
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Sarah Palin's numbers have slumped so much a new survey suggests even Charlie Sheen would get more votes from independents than she would.
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WASHINGTON— As Sarah Palin's public opinion numbers slump to such depths that a new survey suggests even Charlie Sheen would get more votes from independents than she would, the former Alaska governor is heading to Israel this weekend to sit down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Palin is embarking upon her first trip to the country following months of criticizing U.S. President Barack Obama's policies on Israel. Her most recent barb came earlier this week, when she slammed his handling of a recent Palestinian terror attack in the West Bank.
"As Israel makes concessions (and is still criticized by the Obama administration), Arab leaders are just sitting back waiting for the White House to further pressure Israel," she wrote on her Facebook page, her primary mode of communication.
"It's time for President Obama to push the reset button on our relations with our ally Israel."
Palin will meet with Netanyahu and visit various holy sites with her husband, Todd, on her way back from India, where she's delivering a speech on her vision for America.
Her visit to Israel comes two months after she found herself in hot water with Jewish groups for using the term "blood libel" when raging against her critics in the aftermath of the assassination attempt of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
"Blood libel" is a reference to a false, centuries-old allegation that Jews killed children so they could use their blood for religious rituals. The national director of the U.S. Anti-Defamation League said at the time that he wished Palin had chosen "another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history."
That episode seems long forgotten as Palin says she's "thankful" to be able to travel to Israel.
"As the world confronts sweeping changes and new realities, I look forward to meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel," she said in a statement posted to her website on Thursday.
Although Palin, 47, hasn't said yet whether she's running for president, two of her biggest would-be rivals for the Republican nomination in 2012 _ Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney _ have also made recent jaunts to Israel.
But her high-profile visits come at an inauspicious time for Palin, who quit her job as Alaska governor a year after Republican John McCain chose her as his vice-presidential running mate in the summer of 2008.
A series of new polls suggest her popularity is sinking even among the Republicans who once viewed her as the party's energetic guiding light.
A Washington Post-ABC News survey found that for the first time in their polling, fewer than six in 10 Republicans and conservative-leaning independents see Palin favourably. That's a significant drop from a sky-high 88 per cent in the days following the 2008 Republican National Convention and 70 per cent in October.
Another poll on Thursday suggests that more of America's powerful bloc of independent voters would cast their ballots for the troubled Sheen than they would for Palin.
In self-described "frivolous" survey done by a Democratic-leaning pollster late last week, only 36 per cent of independents said they'd vote for Palin, compared to 41 per cent for Sheen, if given the option to cast ballots in such an unlikely showdown.
By comparison, Obama would crush Sheen 57-22 among the same group of independent voters surveyed by Public Policy Polling officials, who confessed on Twitter "we may have set a new bar of frivolity."
A recent Des Moines Register survey also found that Palin's popularity had slipped six points in the past 18 months.
Palin hasn't travelled to Iowa, a key primary state, and has opted against attending several high-profile Republican events in recent months, moves that have befuddled the sea of political pundits who have been trying to read the tea leaves to see if she's running for president.
And yet new rumours are swirling in the state of Arizona that Palin may make a bid for the seat of retiring Republican senator Jon Kyl instead of running for the White House.
Palin's oldest daughter, Bristol, recently bought a home in suburban Arizona, and a pair of Republican strategists believe the speculation could be true.
"We believe it has legs," Ford O'Connell, who heads Civic Forum PAC, and the organization's co-founder, Steve Pearson, wrote on the Daily Caller website on Thursday.
"This is a path well-blazed by nationally renowned politicians with senatorial ambitions, and it is quite common for folks to relocate to Arizona to start over," they wrote. "Assuming Palin can meet the residency requirements, the southwest might be fertile ground for her brand of politics."
They argue Palin's only real competition would come from Giffords, still recovering the attempt on her life in January, if she opts to run for the seat. Giffords had expressed interest in the Senate before she was shot in the head during the Tucson attack that killed six and left 19 wounded.
Giffords' shooting, in fact, spurred fierce criticism of Palin for using gun imagery in some of her political messaging, especially given the Arizona congresswoman herself had once chastised her for it. That in turn resulted in Palin's rant about "blood libel."
The events are thought to have contributed to Palin's decreasing popularity in public opinion polls over the past several weeks.
It's not unusual for a national politician to parachute into another state to make a run for the U.S. Senate. Hillary Clinton, now U.S. secretary of state, did it when she moved to New York and ran for a Senate seat more than a decade ago.
Nonetheless, the notion of Sen. Sarah Palin from Arizona has irked the Arizona Democratic Party.
"Help us send a strong message that Arizona should not be a stepping stone for extremist politicians and their radical agendas," said Luis Heredia, the state party's executive director, in a recent fundraising appeal to voters.
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