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Improved cards for use in an automated machine to detect the presence of specific microbes and thereby identify them, enumerate them, and/or determine their susceptibility to antibiotics. Each card includes a plate having conical detection wells each with a selected medium therein, at least one filling port with a septum which is retained by a collar formed therein, and filler passages of specific length and configuration connecting the port to the wells. Discontinuities are provided in the filler passages to prevent unwanted fluid flow and to reduce migration of the microbes when the card is in use. Overflow chambers of a specific configuration are also provided adjacent the wells to entrap bubbles.
1. In card for use in detecting the presence of microbes in a specimen wherein the card is comprised of a plate having first and second sides, detection wells for containing microbe supportive media passing from a first side to a second side therethrough, at least one filling port with a septum therein, filler passageways formed in said first side of the plate connecting said filling port to said detection wells and adhesive tape on both sides of the plate to cover said detection wells and filler passageways, the improvement comprising:
at least one discontinuity in one of said filler passageways adjacent a detection well.
2. The card defined in claim 1 wherein said filler passageways are formed in said plate have a generally U-shaped configuration whose top is covered by said adhesive tape, said filler passageway having an abrupt change in height to form said discontinuity.
3. The card defined in claim 2 wherein said filler passageway has an abrupt change in width where it has an abrupt change in height to form said discontinuity.
4. The card defined in claim 3 wherein said filler passageway has first and second portions located on opposite sides of said discontinuity, said first portion being narrower than said second portion and connecting to said detecting well.
5. The card defined in claim 2 wherein said filler passageway has first and second portions located on opposite sides of said discontinuity, said first portion being deeper than said second portion and connecting to said detecting well.
6. The card defined in claim 5 wherein said filler port has first and second port portions with an inwardly facing flange therebetween, said first port portion opening out of the edge of the plate and said second port portion opening out of the first side of said plate and a curable rubber septum positioned in said first and second port portions and being locked therein when cured by said inwardly facing flange, said open second port portion allowing escape of gases formed by the rubber curing process prior to the application of said adhesive tape to said first side.
7. The card defined in claim 5 wherein said detection wells include connected bubble chambers which extend away from said wells between said first and second sides of said plate, at least one of said wells extending away from said well in the same direction as the first portion of said filler passageway extends away therefrom.
8. The card defined in claim 7 wherein said wells are generally frustro-conical in shape having a larger diameter at said first plate side than at said second.
9. The card defined in claim 8 including indicia means in said second plate side, said indicia means including 8 shaped characters formed by generally U-shaped depressions in said second side.
10. The card defined in claim 9 wherein said U-shaped depressions have relatively rough bottom surfaces adapted to permit marking thereof, access for marking being unimpeded by said adhesive tape on said second side, said tape not extending thereover.
This application covers improvements made to the cards disclosed in U.S. Patent Application, Ser. No. 647,802, entitled "Process and Apparatus for Ascertaining the Concentration of Microorganisms in a Water Specimen" by J. W. Lanham, et al, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,957,583, entitled "Apparatus and Process for Determining the Susceptibility of Microorganisms to Antibiotics" by S. F. Gibson, et al., both of which are assigned to applicants assignee. The information therein is incorporated in the specification as though fully set forth herein below.
This invention relates in general to improvements to cards containing selective media used to determine the identity, quantity and antibiotic susceptibility of microorganisms.
There are presently existing processes and apparatus for determining the presence, identity and quantity of microorganisms and their susceptibility to antibiotics which involve placing the microorganisms into micro-quantities of culture media some of which will sustain specific microorganisms. The media are chemically organized so that the optical characteristics of each changes in a predetermined manner when the medium is sustaining the desired type or types of microorganisms.
A convenient way to perform these processes is through the use of a card or cassette constructed with a rigid body in the form of a plastic plate, which includes viewing chambers or wells which pass through the plate. Each of the wells is connected to a predetermined liquid specimen supply port by means of channels cut in one side of the plate. Each port includes a septum, constructed from suitable sealing compounds, which allows passage of a hollow needle when a liquid specimen is being introduced into the port.
The card is constructed by first forming the plastic plate, inserting the septum and covering one side of the plate with adhesive tape. Chosen selective media in liquid form are then placed in the proper wells and freeze dried. The opposite side of the plate is then covered with another layer of adhesive tape to form, in effect, a sealed container with at least one supply port, a plurality of wells and a piping system therebetween. Unfortunately, before the liquid media are dried, they tend to flow down the connecting grooves by means of capillary or other action and mix with the media of other chambers. This is undesirable because it can cause erroneous results when the card is used.
To introduce a specimen into the viewing wells, a vacuum is drawn through a hypodermic needle inserted through the septum at the filling port. Then atmospheric pressure is used to force the diluted liquid specimen into the card. This causes both the wells and the adjacent branches to be full of liquid containing microorganisms. When no means are provided to prevent it, the microorganisms, which are sustained by the media in the viewing wells, tend to migrate with the reconstituted media through the branches to other wells. This is undesirable because it also can cause erroneous results when the card is read. There has also been a tendancy for the sealing compound which forms the septum to become dislodged during the card filling operation. This destroys the usefulness of the card.
Another problem results from the fact that some of the metabolic processes of the microbes produce gases which form bubbles in the viewing wells. Overflow chambers are normally provided adjacent the wells to provide for some bubbles such as those that result from the filling process, however, the metabolic bubbles tend to form in random fashion in the wells so that they interfere with the optical reading thereof.
The present improved card solves many of the problems discussed above by providing long passageways with discontinuities therein to prevent undesirable migration of the media before dehydration and undesirable migration of the microbes from one viewing well to another after rehydration. The wells themselves are conical in shape and include adjacent bubble chambers, which features maximumize the chances of being able to optically read the viewing well without the interference of an errant bubble. In addition, a collar is provided at the filling port to retain the septum, which extends on both sides of the collar, to assure that the port remains sealed both before and after the hypodermic needle is used to inject a diluted sample through the septum.
It is, therefore, an object of the present invention to provide an improved card for use in an automated microbial detection system.
The other object is to provide a microbe detection card having discontinuities in the liquid flow channels formed between the fill-port and the viewing wells thereof so that liquids tend to remain in a fixed position within the well and its adjacent channel.
Another object of the present invention is to provide means to prevent mixing of the media and the sustained microbes in an automated microbial detection system card.
Another object is to provide an improved viewing well in a microbial detection card which assists in overcoming the problems involved in optically reading a viewing well which may include random bubbles.
Another object is to provide means to mechanically lock an input septum in its proper position in the filling port of a microbial detection card.
These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent after considering the following detailed specification which covers a preferred embodiment thereof in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a top side elevational view of the microbial detection card including the improvements of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an underside elevational view of the card of FIG. 1 rotated 180�, about a vertical line of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-section of a filling port taken at line 3--3 on FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a greatly magnified partial cross-sectional view taken on line 4--4 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a greatly magnified cross-sectional view of a discontinuity in a channel taken at line 5--5 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a viewing well taken at line 6--6 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a viewing well taken at line 7--7 of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken on line 8--8 of FIG. 2.
Referring to the drawings more particularly by reference numbers, number 10 in FIG. 1, designates an improved card used in a process for identifying and/or enumerating microorganisms. The card is rectangular in shape, measuring about 21/2 by 31/2 inches and is about 1/8 inches thick. Cards of similar size but slightly different configuration are used for antibiotic susceptibility tests.
The card 10 includes a rigid transparent plate 12, which is preferably formed from a suitable plastic such as polystyrene and is the same size and shape as the card 10. The plate 12 has a plurality of viewing wells 14 which extend completely through the plate 12 (FIGS. 6 and 7), that is from one major surface 15 to the other 16 (FIG. 2). Each well 14 defines a predetermined volume which may be virtually any desired volume depending upon the size of the card 10. In the usual case all of the wells 14 are of equal volume.
Located adjacent to each well 14 are a pair of overflow chambers, the larger one being numbered 17 and the smaller one being numbered 18. These chambers 17 and 18 extend completely through the plate 12 and hence open out of the two major surfaces 15 and 16 thereof. Each chamber, 17 or 18 is connected to its viewing well 14 through connecting passageways 20 and 22 respectively, which likewise extend between the two major surfaces 15 and 16 of the plate 12. The overflow chambers 17 and 18 assist in the complete filling of the wells 14 and in the elimination of bubbles therefrom, as will be explained in detail hereinafter.
The plate 12 further includes separate filling channels 24 leading to the viewing wells 14 from feeder channels 26, which in turn communicate with at least one filler port 28. The filling and feeder channels 24 and 26 are quite shallow with respect to the thickness of the plate 12 and open out of the major surface 15 thereof.
The filling ports 28 are relatively large and deep when compared to the filling and feeder channels 24 and 26 but the ports 28 open out of only surface 15 as can be seen by comparing FIGS. 1 and 2, with the outer ends 34 thereof enclosed by both side surfaces 15 and 16. The ends 34 open out of the edge surface 36 of the plate 12.
The complete card 12 is manufactured by first forming the plate 12 by means of a suitable mold. A rubber septum 37 is formed by insertion in plastic form through the open end 34 of the port 28. The septum 37 forms a breachable entry to seal the channels 24 and 26 and the viewing wells 14 of the card 10 from the outside atmosphere once the card is completed. An annular collar 38 is formed between the end 34 and the channel communicating portion of the port 28 to assure that the rubber septum 37 remains in the port 28. The inner diameter of the collar 38 is smaller than the rest of the port 28 and the septum 37 extends beyond both sides thereof. The septum 37 is normally constructed from a curable rubber compound which is locked securely in place by the annular collar 38 once it cures. The normally used silicon rubber liberates acetic acid as it cures. To prevent undesirable contamination, the plate 12 is then stored at suitable curing conditions long enough for the silicon rubber to stop outgassing acetic acid.
Once the septum 37 has cured, a layer 39 of transparent tape is adhesively bonded to the surface 16 of the plate 12. The type layer 39 seals what will become the bottom of the wells 14, as shown in FIG. 2. The card 10 is then oriented with respect to gravity so that the surface 16 becomes the bottom surface. Thereafter suitable culture media in liquid form are inserted in each of the viewing wells 14. Since it is undesirable that the media flow down the connecting filler and feeding channels 24 and 26 and thus mix, a discontinuity 40 is provided to interrupt any undesired flow. The discontinuity 40 is shown greatly enlarged in FIG. 4 wherein the channel portion 24a toward the filling well 14 is 20 thousandths of an inch deep and the channel portion 24b beyond the discontinuity 40 is 10 thousandths of an inch deep. The discontinuity 40 tends to restrict any media in liquid form from flowing along the channel 24. This is also assisted by the sequence of the filling process since the media is then freeze dried before a tape layer 42 similar to tape layer 39 is adhesively attached to the surface 15 of the plate 12. The use of a U-shaped channel 24 as shown in FIG. 6 rather than one completely enclosed at this point, assists in preventing capillary action from drawing the liquid media along the channel 24. The entry location 43 of the channel 24 into the well 14 is, of course, adjacent the upper surface 15 which also assists in preventing flow out from the well 14.
A similar discontinuity 40' between the wide but shallow channel 26' and the deep but narrow channel 24' is shown in FIG. 5. The channels 24' are relatively longer than the channels 24. This is because the viewing ports 14', associated therewith in the specific embodiment of the card 10 shown, are used for microbe enumeration rather than detection. Microbe mixing is much more critical in enumeration since a common medium is used in the wells 14'. The specific media in the detection wells 14 tend to protect the wells 14 from microbe migration.
When the card 10 is to be used, a hypodermic needle, not shown, is inserted through the septum 37. The hypodermic needle is connected to a supply of diluted liquid specimen containing the offensive microbes. A vacuum is then drawn through the specimen and hypodermic needle to remove the major portion of the air in the ports 28, the channels 24, 24' 26 and 26' and the viewing wells 14 and 14'. When this vacuum is released, the liquid specimen is forced into the ports, the channels and the viewing wells by atmospheric pressure. During this operation, the overflow chambers 17 and 18 are oriented upwardly from the viewing wells 14 with respect to gravity so that any residual air or bubbles tend to congregate therein. It is important that the overflow chambers 17 and 18 are connected by the passageways 20 and 22 completely along what otherwise would be the upper periphery of the viewing well 14 so that no bubbles are trapped by surface tension along the side thereof and instead the spiral flowing action of the specimen tends to scrub the walls and cause any bubbles to form in the overflow chambers where they cannot interfere with the proper operation of the viewing wells 14. The entry locations 43 of the channels 24 also are above the wells 14 and off to one side so that the incoming flow of liquid tends to follow the side surfaces 50 of the wells and scrub off adherent bubbles through a swirling action. The liquid in the specimen reconstitutes the freeze dried media in the viewing wells 14. The swirling action also assists in the reconstitution. The card 10 is then incubated with the discontinuities 40 and 40' assisting in preventing mixing of the reliquidfied media and microbe migration between adjacent viewing wells 14. The media nurture and sustain the desired offensive microbes in the specimen.
Although the overflow chambers 17 and 18 tend to eliminate bubbles due to the filling process, many microbes produce gas as a metabolic product which forms bubbles which must be accommodated if the card 10 is to be read optically. Therefore, as shown in detail in FIGS. 6 and 7, the viewing well sides 50 are generally frustro-conical in shape with a large end 52 which extends to the surface 15. The large end 52 is normally the upper surface of the card 10 when it is optically read. This causes any bubbles present in the viewing well 14 to spread out across the relatively large upper surface 54 thereof so that suitable multiple readers can look through the well 14 from enough locations that any error due to bubbles can be statistically eliminated.
The reader, which is not shown, normally is a fixed device in which the card 10 is inserted and then withdrawn. Code numbers written at predetermined locations 60 are read upon insertion of the card 10 into the reader. Slight depressions 62 as shown in FIG. 8 are used to define the proper area for the technician to write the code numbers on the card 10. Such depressions 62 may have a slightly roughened lower surface 64 to assist in the inherence of writing material. Other similar means 68 (FIG. 2) may also be included to indicate additional information. It should be noted that the tape layer 39 does not cover such means 62 and 68.
Thus, there has been shown and described an improved card for use in an automated microbial detection system which fulfils all the objects and advantages sought therefor. Many changes, alterations, modifications and other uses and applications of the subject improved card will become apparent to those skilled in the art after considering this specification together with the accompanying drawings. All such changes, alterations and modifications which do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention are deemed to be covered by the invention which is limited only by the claims which follow.
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SOURCE: "Tainted by Misery," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4698, April 16, 1993, p. 20.
In the following review of Poet and Dancer, Messud claims that Jhabvala's depiction of New York City is less compelling than her portrayals of India in her previous works, and ultimately regards the novel as a failure for its inability to persuade the reader to care about its tragic characters.
Unlike her past fictional triumphs, such as Heat and Dust or The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's first novel for six years, Poet and Dancer, is not set amid the beautifully conjured complexities of India. It is, rather, a New York novel, but one in which location is important only in so far as its protagonists—Angel, the poet of the title, and Lara, her cousin, the dancer—refuse to engage with it.
New York appears a disordered place, where "there were Japanese businessmen moving in shoals, and stout blond Israelis who ran around on short legs with speed and purpose"; but it is a city where (as in the actual New York) characters glide between apartments or brownstones or restaurants, indoor oases of significance where the world outside does not enter or matter. This is a novel about people rather than about a place—about people's existence despite a place rather than because of it. There is no better setting for such a novel than New York.
Angel and Lara are first cousins. Angel, who has always lived with her mother Helena in a cosy brownstone belonging to her grandparents, the Manarrs, is contented, reclusive, plain and adored by her family. Lara, the daughter of Helena's brother Hugo, spends her childhood being taken round the globe; when she surfaces in New York, she is glamorous, dazzling, beautiful and mysteriously tainted by misery.
Jhabvala captures Lara's nature perfectly when she writes of her as a child visiting the Manarrs in New York:
"She threw herself into her performance. To help the audience, she called out 'Now I am a flower!' 'Now a princess!' 'See the deer!' Although her movements were always the same … her audience obligingly saw what she wanted them to see. She was pleased, she ran faster, she attempted to spin around; her tread was not light and she was flustered and breathing hard …".
As the reader might expect, Angel, to whom Lara appears an exotic and precious butterfly, devotes herself adoringly to her cousin; but Lara proves dangerous and ultimately mad, and the result of their closeness is their mutual destruction. Up to a point it is a familiar scenario—the intimacy between doomed creatures of beauty and devoted observers is a powerful literary convention, from Brideshead Revisited or The Great Gatsby to Donna Tartt's The Secret History—although in most cases side-kicks do not perish alongside the objects of their affection.
Angel, sadly, is not as fortunate as most, and though an observer, she does not survive to narrate the novel (had she done so, it would presumably be called simply "Dancer"). Rather, the narrative is framed by a prologue, in which an unnamed writer explains how she has pieced together the tale that follows from the outpourings of Angel's grief-stricken but now deceased mother, Helena, and from snippets told by Roland, a former bellhop in a hotel Lara inhabited, and her sometime lover.
The prologue's failure is, ultimately, the failure at the heart of the novel; despite Jhabvala's precise and often lovely prose, the premiss does not persuade the reader. Helena is too murky a figure for us to comprehend the narrator's obsession with her story. The dispassionate tone (for example: "Unfortunately it was impossible to tell whether the daughter ever developed as a poet, for there was nothing beyond the juvenilia I had seen on the park bench") does not bring any urgency to Angel and Lara's bond.
That the relationship at the book's core does not come alive is all the more disappointing because of the emotion and skill with which Jhabvala draws the surrounding figures: the Aroras, an Indian mother and son who befriend Helena and Angel, overflow with intriguing detail; the book follows Grandmother Koenig, Angel's paternal grandmother, through a decline into senility (which parallels Lara's descent into madness, but is more affecting); and Rose, the maid who tends her, is rendered charming in her slovenliness. Even the thumbnail sketches of Hugo, Lara's father; of Peter, Angel's father and Lara's lover; of his wife Lilian; and of Roland, the bellhop, suggest more complexity and animation than do the poet and dancer themselves.
It is, on one level, inevitable that this should be so; the bond between any couple is unknowable from the outside, and as long as it is imagined from a distance rather than told from within, it must lose focus and immediacy. It is not mere coincidence that Brideshead Revisited, The Great Gatsby and The Secret History are first-person narratives. Perhaps Ruth Prawer Jhabvala intended to convey the mystery, puzzlement and dissatisfaction about Lara and Angel's relationship with which those characters around them were left. But she seems unaware that her readers are likely to share those sentiments.
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The IT systems failure, which stopped consumers from being able to pay bills or access their money, took nearly a week to resolve and was put down to problems with a software upgrade at an IT centre in Edinburgh.
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However, RBS has cut back on permanent IT staff in the past two years, as part of its 3,500 job cuts announced in 2010 as a result of its sale of branches to Santander.
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RBS's first half revenues fell 8% to £13.2bn, and its pre-tax loss nearly doubled to £1.5bn.
Hester said the first half results were in line with the same period last year however, before the £125m deduction and another £50m set aside for mis-selling interest rate swaps.
Hester said the Libor situation, in which RBS is being investigated over its part in the interest-rate rigging scandal, "is on our agenda", calling it a "stark reminder of the damage that individual wrongdoing and inadequate systems and controls can have in terms of financial and reputational impact".
Rival Barclays has already been fined £290m for its part in fixing the inter-bank lending rate, and last month issued press ads apologising to consumers for the affair, which resulted in the departure of chief executive Bob Diamond.
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- Wow, I am a Virgo and my man is aquariums and I cant believe what these zodiac signs say about us NOT getting along. We get along so greatly! As many people have said already, your background REALLY has a lot to do with it. For example, Virgos are very caring. If your Aquarius man has had a rough background, he wll adore how caring you are of him. Our relationship is always fun and one day very soon we're getting married, i just know it. I guess the only difference between us is that hes so carefree and Im always like "you shouldn't do that" and what not but that doesn't pose a threat to our relationship. It just shows how I care. But also keep in mind that I am not a average Virgo, for instance I'm not so tidy and LOVE to do things that are crazy and unexpected unlike many Virgos and like many Aquariuses.
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go for it
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Aqua blue
- Im Aquarians with Virgo man. He is very fact driven person I am more open minded towards life and it can be annoying. I prob wouldn't think that it's the best match for couples. They can be very needy and Aquarians need space
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- Met a Virgo man and he is so frustrating, trying to have a coffee with him is impossible! He knows im interested and i don't understand why he wont just come out and say he isn't interested cause I really feel like he gives me the run around half the time
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Virgo and Aquarian Lezzie Love
- I am a virgo lezzie and I met my x gf aproximately a year ago. When we first met we hit it off immediately because everything fit. While we are complete opposites, myself being very grounded and logical and my x being emotional and a big picture type of gal, we worked out perfectly. In our relationship we never once argued about anything and we were devotedly in ove with one another. We broke up not because of any relationship issues but because she was going thru family issues. We maintained peace thru understanding and communication. I (the virgo) understood commitment and consistance wasn't one of her strong points but knew w.o a doubt she loved me and she knew tht though I am practical and a perfectionist tht in my eyes she was my everything and I wouldn't ever judge her or try to change her. Once we came to tht understanding we worked perfectly. I'm currently working on gaining my ex wife back because as I'm sure u cn tell I'm still very much in love with her.
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Aquarian woman 's worst nightmare !
- I registered for the sole & only reason to post this opinion /experience with Virgo men . I was married 4 years to a virgo man and that was the most horrible and by far the worst period of my life he was so ugly from the inside & outside ...I tried my very best to please him and love him but he did nothing except criticising , swearing , picking up the slightest mistakes , cursing me for being his wife , hating our life and even hating himself ! In bed he was so weak ,cold and never loving or passionate , using a vibrator alone would have been much more friendly ! Aqua girls beware such a guy he is your WORST NIGHTMARE EVER , I divorced him happily before I either kill him or kill myself and lived happily ever since that time ..
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- I am an aqua woman and from the time I met my virgo man has been attentive, caring, a so sweet. I feel grounded when I talk to him for hours on phone. Sex is Awesome! He likes to please me in every way! I feel lucky to have had this virgo man find me. I know that he will have the time of his life with me. He might wonder where is this relationship going, but I know that he will never regret meeting me because I have sure taken him out of his comfort zone and given him a few things to dream about.
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- Im an aquarius woman nd I date a virgo woman. If you didnt get it yet, yes we're lesbians nd very much in love. I met my gf online 2 years ago nd we got along immediately. She's sweet, fun, silly, a great cook, nd just all around amazing. I like to think that there are two sides of me bcuz I can be sweet nd friendly but also cut-throat nd cold hearted so the thing I love most about my virgo baby is that she brings out the best in me. When Im with her I try my hardest to be sweet, clean &cook, nd Ive learned from experience to never yeall around her or near her. I once made her cry b4 by yelling curse words at someone else who just really made me mad. But as I was saying, we get along great, the only prob she has with me is that sometimes I clean up right away nd Im always doing to stupid stuff just to see if I can do it. My only prob with her is that she can be too much of a perfectionist sometimes lol nd she can be too shy..but I love my beautiful virgo anyway. :)
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- So far my experience of dating a virgo man I seem to have a sense of respect for him that I never had for anyone else(zodiac). He is everything i was looking for and i can wait until he brings the mushy side. Yes he plays hard but deep down i feel the love right back. If someone would of told me i would be with a virgo i would say ha, but now im thinking i should of been gave this a try. Hes outgoing, funny, providing, sencere, loyal, and attractive. He might not be to everyone else but im the one that matter and this is how he makes me feel. Its hard but worth it cause behind his critiques is a loving person. He also keeps me gtounded and i can say im all the way respectful, faithful, and loyal to him.
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Anything is possible
- I am the Aquarian and my now husband is a Virgo... While we find some characteristics right about us we r so different from what we r " supposed to b" we have a great relationship! Known him for 10 years and we get along great...don't really argue and can b around each other for days and b great! Anything is possible when two people r supposed to b together I guess!! Don't get discouraged!!!!
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- I've recently broken up with my partner of two years. We fought for two years to stay together all the while admitting that we never understood each other. It's interesting for me to read these responses as I still grieve the loss and realise that it should be so hard, shouldn't be so stressful when you're not compatible regardless of how desperately we both want to make it work.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- State labor officials say Georgia's jobless rate rose to 9.3 percent in July, which is up from 9 percent in June.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says a main reason for the increase is a large number of temporary layoffs in manufacturing. However, Butler says many of those workers who were laid off have already gone back to work.
The seasonally adjusted numbers were released early Thursday.
Labor officials say there were 56,540 first-time claims for unemployment insurance benefits in July, up 15.7 percent from June, with the temporary manufacturing layoffs accounting for most of that increase.
Georgia's labor force increased by 7,731 new jobseekers to 4,765,132 in July. That's up from 4,757,401 in June. Georgia's labor force has increased 14 of the past 15 months.
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There were no wild celebrations at the final whistle, only yellow-clad Tampines Rovers players falling to their knees in relief.
After a 24-game campaign, they had finally done it - becoming only the fourth team (after the 97-98 and 06-09 Warriors and the 04-05 Stags) to seal back-to-back successes in the Great Eastern-YEO'S S-League.
Going into last night's title decider at Jalan Besar, Tay Peng Kee's side knew that a win would be enough to clinch the title. And they duly delivered, with a 1-0 victory over Malaysia's Harimau Muda thanks to Fahrudin Mustafic's 41st-minute penalty.


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Old wine bottles become new art
Former aerospace engineer parlays mail-order bottle-cutting kit into business with a mission to divert 10 million bottles from landfills.
Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:55 AM
Photos: Refresh Glass
Ray DelMuro is turning trash into cash — and utilitarian works of art.
DelMuro, a former manufacturing engineer for a Southern California aerospace company, is the founder of Refresh Glass LLC, a Phoenix-based company that gives empty wine bottles new lives as drinking glasses, carafes and planters.
The notion for the business sprouted in 2008 when DelMuro (shown at right with one of his products) started playing around with a mail-order bottle-cutting kit. The kit included a small scoring jig and a candle to separate the bottle, along with sandpaper to smooth the sharp edges.
"The first glass took me hours," DelMuro says. "It became an engineering challenge."
A somewhat difficult challenge.
"Glass wants to not melt at all or melt completely," DelMuro says. The trick is to melt just the rim of the repurposed wine bottle without altering the shape or having it sag into a blob. That trick — a closely guarded secret — "is part of our juju," DelMuro says.
Drinking glasses with a melted rim are smoother than those with sanded rims, he says. And more durable. It is what sets Refresh Glass apart from competitors.
Refresh Glass collects more than 15,000 wine bottles a month from more than a dozen Phoenix-area hotels and bars. Recycling empty wine bottles saves the restaurants and hotels money in garbage hauling fees. It also adds to their green street cred with customers.
"We add to their brand," DelMuro says. "We have a waiting list of people wanting to help," he adds.
DelMuro says his company's goal is to divert 10 million bottles from landfills. The company website keeps an updated tally of "bottles rescued." The total is now more than 348,000.
Glass bottles can be recycled endlessly with no decline in quality, and an estimated 80 percent of recovered glass containers are made into new glass bottles. Recycling just one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours, power a computer for 30 minutes, or a television for 20 minutes, according to the Glass Packaging Institute.
Recycling wine bottles into something you use every day, DelMuro says, "makes life a little less vanilla."
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"He'd never loved. But she was irresistible." As reigning Vampire Prince, Damien has tasted every pleasure the world has to offer--consorting with kings and queens and delighting in sensual adventure. Now, tired of such pursuits, he devotes his energies to protecting his people. The war between human necromancers and Nightwalkers has escalated, and when the enemy makes a daring move, kidnapping Syreena, a Lycanthrope Princess, Damien boldly follows. He succeeds in rescuing her, but is unprepared for the erotic longing her lush sensuality awakens in him. Gifted with rare abilities, Syreena grew up in a cloistered setting and was forbidden to form attachments to others, yet the connection Damien feels with her is immediate, intoxicating, and impossible for either to resist. But claiming Syreena as his mate could have shattering repercussions for every Nightwalker--and leave their enemies more dangerous than ever before.
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Do social networks affect the use of residential aged care among older Australians?
1 Department of Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
2 Discipline of Statistics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
3 School of Psychology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
4 Centre for Ageing Studies, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
BMC Geriatrics 2007, 7:24 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-7-24Published: 4 October 2007
Older people's social networks with family and friends can affect residential aged care use. It remains unclear if there are differences in the effects of specific (with children, other relatives, friends and confidants) and total social networks upon use of low-level residential care and nursing homes.
Data were drawn from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Six waves of data from 1477 people aged ≥ 70 collected over nine years of follow-up were used. Multinomial logistic regressions of the effects of specific and total social networks on residential care use were carried out. Propensity scores were used in the analyses to adjust for differences in participant's health, demographic and lifestyle characteristics with respect to social networks.
Higher scores for confidant networks were protective against nursing home use (odds ratio [OR] upper versus lower tertile of confidant networks = 0.50; 95%CI 0.33–0.75). Similarly, a significant effect of upper versus lower total network tertile on nursing home use was observed (OR = 0.62; 95%CI 0.43–0.90). Evidence of an effect of children networks on nursing home use was equivocal. Nursing home use was not predicted by other relatives or friends social networks. Use of lower-level residential care was unrelated to social networks of any type. Social networks of any type did not have a significant effect upon low-level residential care use.
Better confidant and total social networks predict nursing home use in a large cohort of older Australians. Policy needs to reflect the importance of these particular relationships in considering where older people want to live in the later years of life.


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In an article about the mayor's photo feed, the New York Times describes the 43-year-old's torrent of photographs as both artistically and politically ambitious. By publishing artsy snapshots of LA on social media, Garcetti is both celebrating his city and attempting to reach younger voters.
Ultimately, though, he's just being himself. As Rex Weiner wrote in his December 2013 profile of the newly elected Garcetti, "But as a politician, Garcetti is less about being all things to all people than about being his own, somewhat irreverent, self." Weiner noted Garcetti's Instagram presence as one such example.
There is no confusing Garcetti's Instagram account with a politician's conventional, sanitized online presence. Instead of chronicling handshakes and high-fives with important people at national landmarks, Garcetti posts colorful, eye-catching pictures. "I find myself in these unique places with a unique angle that nobody else can get to," the mayor explained about his handiwork, which ranges from a panorama of the city's skyline to a close-up of an insect on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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