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Well, I just bought it straight off Kubik's site. :)
Good read so far. I am on pg. 48
Flying Sprints:
For whatever reason I threw up the grape juice/ creatine JUST before I went out, so I just slurped another serving down and went right outside. I threw my pwo...
Thick Bar Elevated DL: 172x1/ 192x1/ 212x1/ 222x1/ 242x2/ 252x2/ 262x1
Thick Bar Military: 62x5/ 82x5/ 102x7- almost had 8
superset with:
No-Pinkies Chinups: BWx1/ BWx1/ BWx2/ BWx2
Sand Bag Runs: 70lbs. x 100m over each arm
Truck Push: 1x about 2 feet
Didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Sandbag was good, truck pushes not so much. I just couldn't get it to...
One Arm DB Bench: 45x5/ 45x5/ 45x5/ 45x5/ 45x5
superset with
Thick Bar Deadlift: 172x1/ 182x1/ 192x1/ 212x1/ 222x1
Chins: 15 total
One Arm DB Bench: 45x8/ 45x8
Chins: BWx6/ BWx3/ BWx3/ BWx3
Thick Bar Deadlifts: 172x5/ 192x5/ 202x3
BTN Press: 85x8/ 85x8
OK workout. I felt rushed. I just picked up the book...
Flying Sprints
320m total
Good workout. I felt fast lol.
Bench Press: 135x5 (warmup)/ 145x5/ 165x3/ 185x1
Front Squat: 155x5 :(
Thick Bar Push Press: 92x8/ 92x7/ 92x8
BTN Press: 95x8
1 mile run:
Untimed. I was dogging it regardless. I gotta...
Sandbag runs: 70lbs. x 100ft x 4 sets total
Truck Push: 1x100ft
I am starting to lift weights/ do other workouts early in the morning, so I am struggling with the time change....
My attempt at a "DE" workout:
Power Cleans: 165x1/ 165x1/ 165x1/ 165x1/ 165x1
Dumbbell Flat Bench: 40x5/ 40x5/ 40x5/ 40x5/ 40x5
Squats: 205x2/ 205x2/ 205x2/ 205x2/ 205x2
Dips: +25x10/...
Deadlift: 135x8/ 225x5/ 265x5/ 295x3
Bench Press: 135x10/ 155x5/ 195x1
Squats: 185x5/ 225x5/ 275x1
Snatch: 95x2/ 95x1/ 95x1
BTN Press: 95x8
Power Cleans: 155x5/ 155x5
Squat: 185x5/ 205x5
Bench Press: 135x5/ 145x5
Took it easy and made the workout really short today. I was going on the 3rd hour after I ate my...
Barbell Snatch: 95x1/ 95x1/ 95x1/ 95x1
OH Squats: 45x5/ 55x5
Barbell Squats: 185x8
Powercleans: 135x5/ 135x5
Clean and Jerk: 135x1
Deadlifts: 225x5/ 245x5/ 290x3- barely
Bench Press: 155x5/ 175x3/ 190x1
Squats: 205x5/ 225x5/ 265x1
Weighted Dips: + 25x10/ +35x6
Weighted Chins: +15x4/ +10x4/ BWx4
Power Cleans: 135x5/ 145x5/ 165x3
Bench Press: 135x10/ 145x8/ 155x6
Squats: 185x8/ 205x5/ 225x5/ 235x5
They closed the weight room early today for whatever reason, so I couldn't...
I also lift in my basement whenever the hs gym is closed or I don't feel like going there.
Power Cleans: 135x5/ 145x5/ 155x5
Bench Press: 135x10/ 145x8/ 155x5
Squats: 185x8/ 205x6/ 225x5
Dips: BWx10/ BWx9/ BWx8
Hammer Chins: BWx5/ BWx4/ BWx3
I remember checking ironmind a while back and I didn't find it. I know they had it a couple years ago based on some knowledge I gained searching another forum a couple weeks back.
Deadlift: (145x5 p-clean warmup) 155x5/ 225x5/ 265x5/ 285x3
DB Incline Bench: 40x8/ 50x5/ 60x3
Front Squat: 185x5
Back Squat: 205x5/ 225x4- I was tired at this point.
Weighted Dips: +25x10


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Title 17D City-wide Standards
Chapter 17D.060 Stormwater Facilities
In the event that public benefit would accrue due to modification of the natural location of drainage systems, or the modification of drainage plans for specific developments, to better implement the recommendations of the comprehensive drainage plan, the director of wastewater management may recommend that the City assume responsibility for the further design, construction, operation and/or maintenance of the drainage facilities, or any increment of the responsibility for the facilities, on a specific development property. The decision shall be made concurrently with review and approval of the specific development's drainage plan. In the event that the City decides to assume responsibility for all or any portion of the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the drainage facilities, the development project sponsor shall be required to contribute a prorated share of the estimated cost of the facilities, provided that such share shall not exceed the estimated costs of improvements the project sponsor would otherwise have been required to install. The project sponsor may be required to supply additional information at the request of the director of wastewater management to aid in such determination.
Date Passed: Monday, February 21, 2005
Effective Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005
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Inter Parfums plans to capitalize on the brand's ultra-luxury positioning; the development of a new fragrance is planned for 2012.
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Frost & Sullivan Estimates Gray Iron and Spheroidal Graphite Iron Demand in the Indian Auto Industry to Reach 480,277 and 312,090 MT Respectively by 2013 in Automobile Industry
higher operating costs has forced the closure of foundries in developing
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and tractor segment shifting focus toward higher horsepower engine, the
components, such as cylinder block and cylinder head, manufactured from iron
will increase. The passenger car and utility vehicles segment is expected by
grow at a CAGR of 10.0 percent, which bodes well for the automotive ferrous
castings market.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.automotive.frost.com),
Strategic Assessment of the Automotive Ferrous Castings Market in
finds that gray iron (GI) casting accounted for 59.6 percent of the total
production in
graphite (SG) iron castings accounted for 40.4 percent of the total
production and the demand for 2007 was 227,
in the country.
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Pune: It is a second lease of life for 35-year-old Sunita and her three month daughter who were stuck in the debris before they were rescued just in time by the rescue team. "This is not less than a miracle and it is like Gods gift for me and my daughter," said Sunita while speaking to dna.
Sunita Lambe, a villager of Malin village in Ambegaon Taluka is one of the survivors along with her three month old daughter who were at their home when the landslide took place on Wednesday. "Before I could understand that the disaster was coming, I was already under the mud and my daughter was in my arms. Fortunately, the rescue team reached in time and they took us out. When I saw my daughter, she was not reacting, I was scared and I pinched her and she started crying."
For the villagers of Malin village, rice cultivation was their main source of income. Many of the villagers were working in Pune and Mumbai and had come to the village to sow rice but some of them lost their lives in the landslide.
Hira Zanzare had lost her father on July 25 and her relatives had come her house to perform Puja but unfortunately they got trapped in the landslide. Hira however survived as she had gone to Manchar to purchase material for the Puja. Speaking to dna, Hira said, "Eight people of my family including my mother, couple of sisters, brother in law and my sister's three children are still missing."
According to the Suresh Rongte, principal of the district school, if the school would have been conducted in the morning shift, many of the students would have survived as they would have been in school when landslide took place. Rongte said, "We had total 35 students from Malin village and all are missing. I still can not forget the faces of these children."
For this police constable, it's a double duty as on one hand, he is searching for his missing relatives and on the other, he is helping local police to control the mob. The constable Sachin Pote is from Sangli but when he came to know about his missing relatives in the landslide, he took a leave and joined the rescue teams at Malin village. "I saw the name of one of our relatives in the missing person's list and therefore I took a leave from work and rushed to the village. My five relatives are missing but I cannot sit and cry. I am helping NDRF personnel to extract the bodies and also controlling mob."
60-year-old Kisabai Zajure who lives with her son and daughter-in-law in the same village also had a miraculous escape. "I got up early in the morning and found neighboring houses were under the debris. I saw many people rushing to temple but it was also engulfed in the landslide. After this incident I do not want to stay here." she said.


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Rare Pennsylvania Fungus Named For Philadelphia Botanist
But the lichen is so rare it may never be seen again
A Philadelphia botanist who has studied rare plants for 50 years, but has never attained the honor of having a plant named for him is finally getting his due, but with a barely visible organism so rare it may never be seen again.
Dr. Alfred "Ernie" Schuyler, emeritus curator of botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences and a world expert on rare plants, recently was honored when a colleague discovered a new species of lichen and named it after him. The barely visible lichen (LIE kin), Vezdaea schuyleriana, is known to exist on a single boulder in rural central Pennsylvania, northwest of Lewisburg""and nowhere else in the world.
"This is indeed a rare honor," said Schuyler. "I love it!"
A lichen is a fungus that grows symbiotically with algae, a tiny plant. In other words, the fungus and the algae form a living partnership in which they survive together as a lichen. Lichens live on soil, rocks, walls, and trees all over the world. There are more than 14,000 known species of lichens in the world and more are being discovered.
James Lendemer, a doctoral student at The New York Botanical Garden and a research associate at the Academy, is among the relatively few scientists devoting their research to lichens. In the March 2011 issue of Notulae Natureae, Lendemer announced he named his newly discovered lichen after his Academy colleague and friend, Dr. Schuyler. Lendemer studied and curated lichens in the Academy's herbarium before going to New York. The Academy's lichen collection is among the oldest in North America and contains more than 25,000 specimens.
Some lichens are important indicators of environmental quality. Because they are sensitive to air pollution, declining populations can be a clue to degraded air quality. Lichens also are a source of food for animals, and they help in the weathering process of turning rocks into soil.
"There is a lot we don't know about lichens because so few people study them, and minute lichens are rarely collected and studied," said Schuyler. "Who is going to search for more Vezdaea schuyleriana? It's so rare, it may never be seen again."
Image 1: Vezdaea schuyleriana lichen is named for an Academy of Natural Sciences botanist. Credit: James Lendemer
Image 2: After 50 years of studying rare plants, the Academy of Natural Sciences' Dr. Alfred Schuyler (center), leading a field trip, finally has a new organism named for him. Vezdaea schuyleriana is a rare lichen found on only one boulder in Pennsylvania. Credit: Academy of Natural Sciences
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JON CARDINELLI looks at how a shift in conditioning focus could revolutionise the Springboks' attack.
The Boks' mighty reputation is built on brute strength rather than finesse. It was South Africa's uncompromising physicality and pinpoint tactical kicking that earned them the Super 14, Lions series and Tri-Nations trophies in 2009. Some claim they don't have the personnel for a running game, but you have to wonder whether a faulty system and archaic mindset has failed a generation of potential attacking stars.
The All Blacks and Wallabies fear the Boks' physicality, but you'll never catch them talking up the South African attack. The Australasians were outplayed in 2009, but 2010 has witnessed a turnaround. Their ability to match the Boks at the collisions has left the South Africans with no Plan B. If they can't outbully the opposition, their attack falls flat.
An impeccable source has revealed that poor conditioning is at the heart of South Africa's plight. As simple as it sounds, we don't coach our players to run properly.
Independent tests done in 2006 and 2007 before the World Cup highlighted the fact. It was found that the speed element of conditioning was lacking. Adjustments were made and the players benefited from the changes at the global tournament.
After the World Cup, however, players like Bryan Habana regressed. The conditioning standards set under Jake White and his extensive team of experts were not maintained. The specific knowledge and methodology died with White's resignation and the disbanding of his management team. As a result, the Boks did not evolve.
Habana admitted to not using Sherylle Calder's visual training exercises post-the World Cup, and admitted that it affected his performance. He wasn't the only player to suffer, and visual skills weren't the only standards to drop after 2007. The fact that these exercises were no longer part of Bok training contributed to the regression.
There's a specific speed conditioning system called XLR8 which has been in place in New Zealand for 20 years. Because of Robbie Deans's move across the Tasman, it is now used in Australia. It's also used by the All Blacks as well as top Kiwi franchises like the Crusaders and Hurricanes.
There's a saying in New Zealand that some live by what they know, and some live to know more. South African sport falls into the former category, and this is why even the Australians are outshining the Boks at the moment.
It seems the Boks are spending too much time in the gym and not enough on the field. The Boks spend too much time improving their strength when they should be training to use that strength in true game situations. A team like the Crusaders spends 90% of its time allotted for conditioning on the field, and only 10% of that time in the gym.
The Aussies have made great progress under Deans. You just have to look at how they've caught up to the All Blacks in terms of their speed and physique. They're trained to move laterally in the tackle – some commentators don't see the slight variation of direction, and believe 'good stepping' leads to a broken tackle – and what happens? Bok defenders are left grasping at air. According to my source, it's about the way they're trained to run and the rotation of the hips. Australasians are conditioned to step off both legs.
Speed conditioning is seen as a priority in Australasia while an emphasis is placed on strength in South Africa. The Boks should be looking at ways to train their players for specific situations, rather than spend more time in the gym trying to bench 300kg. Needless to say, there's no opportunity for weightlifting on the playing field.
Not all the blame can be laid at the current management's door. South Africa needs to rethink the way it conditions their players at every level, implementing a system that can be used across all franchises and provinces to ensure players are properly conditioned by the time they get to Test rugby. The Bok conditioning staff don't train players when they arrive in the national camp, but rather manage injuries and ensure certain standards are maintained.
I stand by the Boks' current tactics and that their recent defeats are down to faulty application, but rethinking the conditioning system will have multiple benefits. At present, the Boks are only effective when they implement one brand of rugby, and when it fails, they have no Plan B. Backing a new system could ensure the Boks develop an attacking edge to match that of the All Blacks and Wallabies. It South African rugby opens its mind, this dream could become a reality.


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DEL MAR: Drama preceeds Pacific Classic
DEL MAR ---- Make no mistake about it: Sunday's Pacific Classic might be the most anticipated $1 million race at the seaside oval since Cigar's winning streak was stopped in 1996.
The pre-race build-up has been off the charts.
There has been a leading contender sold, which led to jockeys changing mounts and finally a heated exchange between connections at the draw party for the 1¼-mile race on the Polytrack.
And it all revolves around trainer Bob Baffert, who thought he was going to run three horses in the race in Game On Dude, Richard's Kid and Jaycito.
That all changed eight days ago, when Richard's Kid was suddenly sold and moved to Doug O'Neill's barn before the trainer began a 40-day suspension handed down by the California Horse Racing Board.
"That took a little bit of the fun out of it for me," said Baffert on Friday. "I was really looking forward to running all three horses. It sort of let the air out of it for me a little bit, but we're still focused. I guess it was just one of those things. It was bizarre."
The bizarre part might have come afterward when Del Mar's leading rider, Rafael Bejarano, was booted off Richard's Kid in favor of Victor Espinoza at the request of the new connections. Joe Ferrer, Bejarano's agent, wasn't happy with the move and threatened to go to track stewards, but decided to ride Jaycito and let things go.
Finally, there was Wednesday night's profanity-laced tiff between Jill Baffert, Bob's wife, and Mark Verge, CEO of Santa Anita and a 10-percent owner of the recently purchased Richard's Kid.
But that is all in the past. Now it's time to run on the track and Baffert has the morning-line favorite in Game On Dude (5-2), who some think might be the best older horse in training.
The 5-year-old gelding has been 2-for-2 since returning from a dreadful trip to Dubai ---- a trip Bob Baffert suffered a heart attack on. Both horse and trainer are fit as a fiddle these days.
"Game On Dude looks good," said Baffert. "He looks happy."
That's in stark contrast to a year ago when The Dude ran fourth in this race to Acclamation, who couldn't defend his title due to a leg injury. Baffert wasn't even sure the runner-up in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic would run in the seaside oval's premier event.
"I thought he ran well, but he just didn't kick it in," said Baffert of a year ago. "He's more mature and he's gotten stronger. He looks good.
"I thought his race off the layoff (in the Californian) was amazing. I thought he took a step back in the Hollywood Gold Cup (but still beat Richard's Kid by 1½ lengths).
"He should run well (Sunday)."
Baffert thinks jockey Chantal Sutherland ---- who will be attempting to become the first female jockey to win Southern California's three top races for older horses (Santa Anita Handicap, Gold Cup and Pacific Classic) ---- will put Game On Dude in the right spot.


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Mick Jagger's dog asked his friend, Patricia Whack, for a loan, offering a small item as collateral. Puzzled, she asked her husband what it was. "It's a knick knack, Patty Whack. Give the dog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."
Sixteen sodium atoms walk into a bar followed by Batman.
Did you hear about the man who got cooled to absolute zero? He's 0K now.
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders a beer, the second orders half a beer, the third orders a quarter of a beer, and so on. After the seventh order, the bartender pours two beers and says, "You fellas ought to know your limits."
Pavlov was sitting at a bar, when the phone rang. Suddenly he gasped, "I forgot to feed the dogs!"
Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "Do all of you want drinks?" The first logician says, "I don't know." The second logician says, "I don't know." The third logician says, "Yes."
How can you tell the difference between a chemist and a auto worker? Ask them to pronounce "unionized."
What's the difference between an etymologist and an entomologist? The etymologist knows the difference.
At a hotel, the bellhop asked a photon if he had any luggage. "Nope." he answered, "I'm traveling light."
He's more classless than a Marxist utopia.
She's so mean she has no standard deviation.
That taxidermist really knows his stuff.
A grizzly without shoes is bear foot.
A lighthouse, rose trellis, windstorm, dune, and Halloween costume got together for a beacon, lattice, and tornado sand witch.
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Negotiations for additional flight entitlements to cope with increasing demand would be held in Seoul on April 1 and 2. The talks with South Korea would be the first bilateral discussions for the Philippines this year.
"There is a lot of demand for travel between the two countries. Both local and Korean airlines have clamored for this," CAB Executive Director Carmelo Arcilla said in an interview.
Both sides seek to amend the current air services agreement (ASA) that allows for 19,000 seats between the two countries every week. Most of these entitlements are flown out of Manila, although local airlines already have flights to South Korea from secondary points like Cebu, Clark, Caticlan and Kalibo.
Next to the United States-home to millions of Filipino-born naturalized American citizens-South Korea is the top source of foreign tourists for the Philippines.
"There were 960,000 passengers from South Korea last year. This year, we expect that to hit one million," Arcilla said.
At the negotiations, the Philippine air panel has the option of signing an "open skies" deal with South Korean counterparts. This would remove restrictions on the number of allowed flights to all points in the Philippines outside of the congested Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) in Manila.
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LANSING, MI – The top Republican in the Michigan Senate says he and the Democratic House speaker are moving ahead with a plan to balance the state budget with at least $1.2 billion in spending cuts.
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"Like I said [Thursday] morning, we're going to find out quickly if it was just a little bump in the road or whether it was a step back," Julien said. "I thought our guys played hard tonight. I'm not looking for perfection, I'm looking for reaction."
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A woven synthetic fabric tubular vascular graft including, a stiffening component in the filling yarn is self supporting without crimping the walls of the graft. The graft is woven from warp ends of multifilament polyester yarns and elastomeric yarns in the warp and a filling yarn which includes multifilament and monofilament polyester yarns which have been twisted together. Longitudinal and radial compliance provide for improved kink resistance making the tubular grafts suitable for use in medium and small diameter peripheral applications. A preferred graft has an outer velour surface and a smooth inner surface.
1. A process for preparing a self-supporting woven vascular graft, comprising:
weaving a plurality of warp yarns with a filling yarn including a stiffening component to provide a woven tubular fabric;
scouring said woven tubular fabric; and
heat setting said woven tubular fabric to set said stiffening component in a generally rounded configuration thereby providing radial rigidity with resiliency to said woven tubular fabric without crimping resulting in a self-supporting woven vascular graft.
2. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric with warp yarns of elastomeric yarn.
3. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric with the stiffening component including a monofilament yarn.
4. The process of claim 1, wherein heat setting is carried out by placing the tubular fabric on a straight mandrel and heating to set the tubular fabric.
5. The process of claim 1, wherein heat setting is carried out by placing the tubular fabric on a curved mandrel and applying heat to set the tubular fabric.
6. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric with warp yarns including multifilament yarns.
7. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric with the filling yarn including multifilament yarns.
8. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric into a bifurcated tube having a main body portion and two branches connected to the main body portion.
9. The process of claim 1, including weaving the tubular fabric with warp yarns including elastomeric yarn.
This is a divisional application of application Ser. No. 08/049,230, filed Apr. 19, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,282,848, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/573,932, filed Aug. 28, 1990, now abandoned.
This invention relates to synthetic vascular grafts, and more particularly to synthetic woven vascular grafts including a stiffening component to provide a non-crimped self-supporting graft.
Vascular grafts of synthetic materials are widely used for the replacement of segments of human blood vessels. Synthetic vascular grafts have taken a wide variety of configurations and are formed of a wide variety of materials. Among the accepted and successful vascular graft implants are those formed from a biologically compatible material in tubular form which retain an open lumen to permit blood to flow normally through the graft after implantation. The biologically compatible materials include thermoplastic materials such as polyester, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), silicone and polyurethanes. The most widely used are polyester fibers and PTFE. The polyester fibers, usually Dacron, may be knit or woven and may be of a monofilament, multifilament or staple yarn, or combination of each.
There are a wide variety of synthetic vascular grafts presently in use. An important factor in the selection of a particular graft is the porosity of the substrate of which the graft is formed, the resiliency of the tubular construction and the strength requirements for the implant. Porosity is significant, because it controls the tendency to hemorrhage during and after implantation and influences ingrowth of tissue into the wall of the graft.
Synthetic fabric vascular grafts may be of a woven, knitted with or without a velour construction. A synthetic vascular graft having a warp-knit construction is disclosed by William J. Liebig in U.S. Pat. No. 3,945,052. Another graft having a warp knit double-velour construction is described by Liebig and German Rodriquez in U.S. Pat. No. 4,047,252. William J. Liebig and Dennis Cummings describe a synthetic woven double-velour graft in U.S. Pat. No. 4,517,687; the velour loops being formed of warp yarns which are preshrunk texturized multifilament yarns. These three issued United States patents for synthetic vascular grafts are assigned to the assignee of this application.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,892,539 issued to Durmus Koch describes a synthetic fabric woven graft with a single velour on the outer surface. The graft is described as woven from multifilament polyester yarns, specifically described as texturized, with the single outer velour formed of filling yarns with each velour loop extending outside a plurality of warp yarns.
After knitting or weaving multifilament yarns into tubular forms, the grafts are compacted by a method such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,853,462 to Ray E. Smith and No. 3,986,828 to Harmon Hoffman and Jacob Tolsma also assigned to the same assignee as this application. Compaction results in shrinking of the yarns and generally reduces the overall porosity of the fabric substrate. These tubular grafts after compacting generally have a diameter from about 6 mm to 40 mm.
Subsequent to compacting, synthetic tubular fabric grafts are crimped. Crimping involves forming ridges in the wall of the grafts to eliminate the danger of kinking or collapse of the tubing when flexed and results in uniform, regular, circular corrugations which maintains uniform strength over the entire surface of the graft tubing. This applies to both the woven and knit fabric vascular grafts. Examples are shown by L. R. Sauvage in U.S. Pat. No. 3,878,565 who describes a tubular textile synthetic fiber prosthesis of a body having a multiplicity of outwardly extending fiber loops. In FIG. 2a, the graft body is crimped into irregular, circumferential corrugations. The degree of protection afforded by irregular corrugation varies over the lengths of the tube and can fall below the required level of protection at specific regions. The warp-knit and woven grafts described above in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,945,052, No. 4,047,252 and 4,517,687 are circularly crimped graft in U.S. Pat. No. 4,892,539 is crimped in a spiral fashion. Crimped or corrugated walls can disrupt blood flow and create areas of thick tissue buildup, due to the profile.
S. Polansky in U.S. Pat. No. 3,304,557 avoids crimping in vascular prothesis by forming a tube with repeating reinforcing ring sections. These reinforcing ring sections incorporate reinforcing picks adjacent only the outer surface. He proposes that the annular rings can be in the form of a helix, alternating rings and helix-loops. These latter suggestions are similar to the tubular prosthesis of I. B. Medell in U.S. Pat. No. 3,479,670 wherein an open mesh tube is wrapped with two polypropylene monofilament right-hand and left-hand helices and fused to penetrate partially the exterior of the tube. In U.S. Pat. No. 3,272,204 to C. Artandi and L. D. Bechtol sew a Dacron fabric to Teflon rings or a helix to prevent an absorbable collagen reinforced graft tube from collapsing.
Selection of a particular type of graft substrate by a vascular surgeon depends upon several factors. Among the factors included is the particular location of the implantation. This also dictates the size of the graft in order to maintain a sufficiently large or small lumen to accommodate normal blood flow in the region of implantation. The ultimate strength requirements and blood pressure in the location of implantation also affect the selection. Generally, the woven grafts provide greater strength and reduced porosity, but are generally considered to be more difficult to handle and suture. Velours are often preferred because the velour surfaces facilitate growth of tissue into the loops extending from the surface of the velour fabric. The knitted grafts are generally softer and more easily sutured, but are generally more porous. Depending on the location of the implant and heparinization condition of the patient, synthetic fabric grafts generally must be preclotted with the patients blood before implantation. Preclotting may not be essential with a woven graft, but is generally recommended nonetheless.
Tubular grafts of smaller diameter, for example, 6 mm and below are often utilized in peripheral regions of the body and appendages. Today, the most successful in this respect are grafts of PTFE of the material disclosed by Robert W. Gore in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,187,390 and No. 3,953,566. These grafts are formed by extrusion of the PTFE material. While accepted for use in small diameter applications, PTFE grafts often require surgical replacement within relatively short periods of time compared to the larger diameter fabric vascular grafts described above.
Accordingly, it is desirable to provide a synthetic fabric vascular graft suitable for a wide variety of dimensions and diameters providing the benefits of woven grafts, but which do not require crimping and will be self supporting and maintain an open lumen.
Generally speaking, in accordance with the invention, self-supporting woven synthetic vascular grafts having improved kink resistance including a stiffening component in the filling yarn is provided. The stiffening component of the filling yarns provides radial burst strength, dimensional stability and radial rigidity with resiliency to maintain the lumen of the tubular structure open and provide the necessary burst strength properties. The graft may also include low modulus elastomeric warp yarns. In one preferred embodiment, a plurality of elastomeric and multifilament warp yarns are woven in tubular form with a filling yarn of stiffer monofilament and multifilament yarn which have been twisted together. The elastomeric warp yarns provide longitudinal compliance (stretch) which aid in bending flexibility. The graft surfaces may be smooth or as a single or as a double velour.
In a single velour self-supporting vascular graft, the inner surface is provided with a fine, low profile woven surface to promote smooth, thin pseudointima formation. The loops on the exterior surface are formed multifilament warp yarns which provide the necessary texture cover for tissue adhesion and ingrowth. The multifilament warp yarns and the multifilament component of the filling yarns control blood porosity. The filling yarn is a monofilament yarn twisted with a multifilament yarn to provide required strength and reduce porosity.
The self-supporting woven grafts prepared in accordance with the invention are particularly well suited to 2-6 mm diameter peripheral vascular prosthesis, but are suitable for larger dimensions up to about 40 mm as well. Kink resistance is provided without the necessity to crimp the vascular graft.
Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide an improved woven synthetic vascular graft.
Another object of the invention is to provide a self-supporting woven synthetic vascular graft which resists kinking without the need to crimp the graft.
A further object of the invention is to provide a woven synthetic fabric vascular graft which is suitable for peripheral use in small diameters of 6 mm or less.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a small diameter woven synthetic fabric vascular graft which resists kinking and provides a desirable amount of longitudinal stretch without crimping.
Still a further object of the invention is to provide a self-supporting woven synthetic fabric vascular graft which includes an outer velour surface to promote tissue ingrowth.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a self-supporting woven synthetic vascular graft having a fine, low profile woven surface to promote smooth, thin pseudointima formation.
Yet a further object of the invention is to provide a self-supporting woven synthetic fabric single-velour vascular graft having improved kink resistance without crimping.
Another object of the invention is to provide a method of preparing an improved self-supporting woven synthetic fabric vascular graft in accordance with the invention.
Still other objects and advantages of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part be apparent from the specification.
The invention accordingly comprises the several steps and the relation of one or more of such steps with respect to each of the others, the apparatus embodying features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts which are adapted to effect such steps, and the product which possesses the characteristics, properties, and relation of constituents (components), all as exemplified in the detailed disclosure hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the invention will be indicated in the claims.
For a fuller understanding of the invention, reference is had to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a weaving diagram of a woven synthetic fabric vascular graft prepared in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view in schematic in the warp direction of a finished graft section showing the interlacing ends of filling yarn of a graft fabric of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view having the weave pattern of a tubular woven single-velour vascular graft prepared in accordance with the invention; and
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a bifurcated woven single-velour vascular graft prepared in accordance with the invention.
The woven synthetic vascular grafts prepared in accordance with the invention are applicable to a wide range of diameters, including the small 2 to 6 mm diameter range suitable for peripheral use as well as dimensions up to about 40 mm. Accordingly, the grafts woven having inside diameters which range from about 2 to about 40 mm and are self-supporting and resist kinking without being crimped.
The stiffening component in the filling yarns may be a textile material, such as a monofilament yarn. Selection will vary depending on the desired characteristic of the tubular graft. However, the stiffening component must be sufficiently stiff to impart dimensional stability and radial rigidity to the tube without crimping. The stiffening component should have the following minimum physical properties:
Tenacity: ≧3 grams per denier (53,000 psi )
Initial Modulus: ≧50 grams/denier (800,000 psi )
EI: ≧3.9�10-8 in2.
Where EI is the bending stiffness, E is the initial modulus of elasticity, I is and moment of inertia. The diameter can vary depending on desired characteristics, but will typically be in the range of about 2 to 10 mils.
In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the woven graft has a diameter less than about 6 mm. In another preferred embodiment the woven graft has an exterior surface with loops and a smooth interior surface. The grafts are self-supporting and resistant to kinking without crimping the fabric surface. The grafts possess longitudinal elasticity imparted by including a plurality of thermoplastic low modulus elastomeric yarns as a component of the warp yarns. Elastomeric Yarns have properties which exhibit high stretch, low modulus, and good elastic recovery. Typical properties for yarns suitable for use would be:
Elongation to Break: >100%
Modulus of Elasticity: <1 gram per denier
Elastic Recovery: >80% or
Tensile Set: <20%
The resin can either be thermoplastic or thermoset, but should possess good biocompatibility. The remaining yarns utilized are those which are compatible biologically. Such yarns include polyethylene terephthalate, polyurethane, polytetrafluoroethylene and silicone.
Preferably, the majority of the yarn utilized in the woven graft is polyethylene terephthalate, such as DACRON available from du Pont. The remaining component is the elastomeric yarn which may be present in amounts ranging from about 2 to 20 percent by weight. The graft substrate is formed by weaving a plurality of warp yarns including elastomeric yarn and multifilament yarn with filling yarns of stiffer monofilament yarn and multifilament yarn which have been twisted together prior to weaving. The stiffer monofilament component of the filling yarn provides mechanical strength, dimensional stability and radial rigidity with resiliency which maintains an open lumen for normal blood flow and provides the necessary burst strength. The elastomeric warp yarn component provides longitudinal compliance which aids in bending flexibility.
The monofilament polyester utilized as a stiffening component in the Examples which follow is a 5 mil polyethylene terephthalate yarn. The yarn has the following physical properties:
Diameter: 0.005 inch (5 mils or 0.127 mm)
Tenacity: 6.2 grams per denier (110,000 psi)
Initial Modulus: 112 grams per denier (1,980,000 psi) ##EQU1## Calculated Bending Stiffness=E�I EI=3.8�106 lb.in2.
The multifilament warp yarns and multifilament component of the filling yarns provide the necessary texture and cover for tissue adhesion ingrowth on the outer surface and assist in controlling porosity of the graft. The velour loops are of multifilament warp yarns on the outer surface only. The inner surface has a fine, low profile which promotes smooth, thin pseudointima formation.
The particular selection of elastomeric and multifilament warp yarns together with the stiffer combined monofilament and multifilament filling yarns provide a graft having improved kink resistance over a wide range of diameters. Thus, smaller bending radii can be achieved without occluding. In the preferred single velour construction, the external velour surface promotes tissue ingrowth.
FIG. 1 illustrates the weaving pattern-of a woven vascular graft substrate 11 prepared in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention. Substrate 11 is woven from a plurality of warp ends 12 and filling yarn 13. FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of substrate 11 in cross-section with a smooth interior surface 14 and a velour exterior surface 16 having loops 17 of warp multifilament yarns 19 which stand away from the surface of the graft.
Referring to FIG. 1, warp yarns 12 include alternating ground warp ends of a first multifilament yarn 18, and a low modulus elastomeric monofilament yarn 19. In the illustrated embodiment multifilament yarn 18 is a one ply seventy denier preshrunk untexturized (flat) polyethylene terephthalate (DACRON) yarn (1/70/54) with a 5z twist. Elastomeric yarn 19 is a 140 Denier polyurethane (LYCRA Spandex) or an S-E-B-S (styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer). Two ends of multifilament ground warp yarn 18 alternate with one end of ground warp elastomeric yarn 19. The loop or pile component 19 of warp yarns 12 is a multifilament warp yarn 21 which alternates with each end of warp ground yarns 18 and 19. In substrate 11, multifilament yarn 21 is an untexturized unshrunk 2/40/27 with a 1.5s twist polyethylene terephthalate (Dacron) yarn.
Filling yarn 13 is a combined yarn of a monofilament yarn component 22 twisted together with a multifilament yarn component 23 to form filling yarn 13. In substrate 11, monofilament yarn 12 is a 5 mil polyethylene terephthalate monofilament yarn twisted with multifilament yarn component 23 which is a untexturized preshrunk yarn 2/40/27 (1.5s). This is the same yarn as untexturized preshrunk warp yarn 21. The components are twisted 1.5 turns per inch. in the s" direction.
Elastomeric component 19 of warp yarns 12 may be formed of any one of the biologically compatible materials having a low modulus of elasticity as noted above. The modulus of elasticity is typically less than 1 gram per denier with an elongation to break greater than 100 percent. For example, the elastic component may be a polyester, polyurethane, silicone or other compatible copolymers such as a styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer known as a C-Flex resin available from Concept Polymers. The elastomeric component is present in substrate 11 in an amount between about 2-20 percent by weight. Preferably, elastomeric component 19 is present in an amount about 5 to 10 percent by weight. The styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene block copolymer monofilament yarn is 5 mil C-Flex. An alternative preferred yarn suitable for elastomeric component 19 is a Lycra polyurethane yarn of 140 denier.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a tubular graft 31 prepared in accordance with the invention. Graft 31 has a smooth inner surface 32 and external velour surface 33 having a multiplicity of outwardly extending loops 34. Similarly, FIG. 4 illustrates a bifurcated graft 41 having a main body segment 42 and two legs 43 and 44. Legs 43 and 44 are joined to main body 42 at a crotch 46 which is generally reinforced by a row of stitches 47 to maintain as tight an initial porosity of the graft as possible. Graft 41 has a smooth interior surface 48 and an external surface 49 having loops 51.
As is evident from the weaving pattern of FIG. 1, loops 34 and 51 of grafts 31 and 41, respectively are formed from multifilament warp pile yarns. In substrate 11 the pile yarns are untexturized unshrunk polyester yarns 21.
After weaving substrate 11 in the pattern as shown in FIG. 1, grafts 31 and 41 are scoured and washed in a hot water and detergent bath which results in about 10 to 30 percent longitudinal shrinkage. The washed tubes are cut to desired lengths and heat-set in a convection oven on straight aluminum mandrels at about 175� C. for about 15 minutes to one hour. The grafts can also be heat set in a non-straight condition to create shaped grafts, such as an aortic arch, which will not have to be bent or shaped by the surgeon during implantation.
As discussed above, and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, tubular woven vascular grafts 31 and 41 prepared in accordance with the invention are not crimped in order to maintain an open lumen. This is due to inclusion of the relatively stiffer monofilament component 22 in filling yarns 13 and elastomeric component 19 in warp yarns 12.
The specifications of the yarn utilized and substrate 11 are set forth in the following Examples. These Examples are presented for purposes of illustration and are not intended in a limiting sense.
Tubular grafts were woven with the following yarns on the pattern of FIG. 1.
Ground-weave for lattice structure: plain
Warp float weave for loop or pile surface: crowfoot (floats on outside surfaces, See FIG. 2) alternates every other end (See FIG. 1)
Warp Ground: 1/70/54 (5z) Untexturized Preshrunk
DACRON 56 Polyester & 5 mil C-Flex, alternating 2 ends of DACRON 56 Polyester and 1 end of C-Flex.
Warp Float: 2/40/27 Texturized Unshrunk DACRON 56 Polyester (1.5s).
Filling: 5 mil PET Monofilament wound together with 2/40/27 Texturized Preshrunk DACRON (1.5s).
WEAVING DENSITY 320 ends per inch (40 dents/inch�8 ends/dent)
Picks 60 picks per inch per layer (120 total) inserted.
Greige Inside Diameters: 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 mm
Finished Inside Diameters: 4, 5 & 6 mm.
In another preferred embodiment in accordance with the invention a 140 Denier LYCRA Spandex monofilament yarn is utilized as the elastomeric component 19 in the same pattern as substrate 11. Tubular vascular grafts having an identical weaving pattern as shown in FIG. 1 are formed with the following specifications:
Ground-weave for lattice structure: plain Warp float weave for loop or pile surface: (floats on outside surface, See FIG. 2) alternate on every other end (See FIG. 1);
Warp Ground: 1/70/54 (5z) untexturized unshrunk DACRON 56 polyester and 140 Denier Lycra monofilament, alternating 2 ends of polyester and 1 end of Lycra.
Warp float: 2/40/27 (1.5s)-DACRON 56 Texturized Preshrunk polyester
Filling: 5 mil PET Monofilament wound together with 2/40/27 WEAVING DENSITY: preshrunk DACRON texturized 56 polyester.
Sely: 320 epi (40 dents/inch�8 ends/dent)
Picks: 60 picks per inch inserted per layer in tubular form.
Greige Inside Diameters: 8 mm
Finished Inside Diameter: 4.8 mm
The velour for both grafts was formed by weaving every other end in a crowfoot pattern, which allows the warp yarn to float over three picks and under one pick. The remaining adjacent ends form a lattice structure. Every third ground end in the weaving plan is LYCRA or C-Flex, which in total means that one in six warp ends is elastomeric yarn. The elastomeric yarn causes the fabric to retract in length which raises the floats of the warp weaving in a crowfoot pattern to form loops.
After weaving, the self-supporting woven single velour graft material of Example 2 was scoured and dried and then rinsed to remove trace chemicals and dried again. Scouring shrank or relaxed the graft tubing about 20.5%. The relaxation which occurs contributes to the ultimate longitudinal stretch.
The tubing was pressed along the tubing edges to remove the crease line formed during weaving. The tubing was then cut to 36 cm lengths and heatset by sliding them onto straight aluminum mandrels at the cut length and placed into a convection oven at 121� C. for 20 minutes.
The Dimensional changes before and after finishing were as follows:
______________________________________Property Example 2______________________________________Longitudinal Shrinkage 20.5from greige to scoured, %Longitudinal Shrinkage 11.3from scoured to heatset, %Total longitudinal shrinkage 29.5from greige to heatset, %Fabric count after 192 � 0 � 70.5 � 2.2weaving, epi � ppiFabric count after 192 � 0 � 88.1 � 1scouring, epi � ppiFabric count after 192 � 0 � 100 � 1heat setting, epi � ppi______________________________________
The porosity of the grafts was measured using a Wesolowski permeability tester. Six specimens were tested at two locations. The paired values were added together and reported as a single value. The grafts were tested both relaxed and stretched using a 4 lb weight. The results were as follows:
______________________________________Permeability (ml/min/cm2)Graft Relaxed Stretched______________________________________WSV (Lycra) 1004 � 96 1284 � 124______________________________________
The average burst strength of the graft was determined by measuring six graft samples on an Instron Tensile Tester and was 509�58 psi.
A woven single velour graft woven with-LYCRA Spandex [WSV (LYCRA)] was tested for the force required to pull a suture from the end of the graft. One 2-0 Dexon suture was inserted through the graft 3 mm from the edge. The graft was mounted in the bottom pneumatic grip of the Instron Tensile Tester and the suture in the top grip. The tensile tester was activated to cause the suture to be torn from the graft. The graft exhibited a suture pullout of 7.50�.3 kg for a cut edge and 7.66�.21 kg for cauterized specimens.
Observations of the failed specimens disclosed that the cut edge grafts had an elongated hole before the filling yarns ruptured. The cauterized grafts had a more circular hole before rupture. This suggests that cauterizing the graft end is preferable to minimize distortion of the suture hole as well as prevent unravelling of the yarns during handling.
The graft wall thickness and pile height was determined using SEM analysis. The average overall wall thickness was 0.80 mm with a pile height of 0.48 mm.
Longitudinal Compliance
The longitudinal compliance is a relative measurement of the ability of the graft to elongate at a given force and is expressed as the percent elongation per kilogram force. The longitudinal compliance was measured on an Instron Tensile Tester using pneumatic grips as follows.
The Instron was set to the following settings:
Full Scale Load: 2 kg
Crosshead Speed: 10 in/min
Chart Speed: 10 in/min
Gauge Length: 3 in
Load Cycling Limits: 0.1 kg to 1.0 kg
The specimens were mounted in the grips with a preload tension of 0.04 kg. The specimens were cycled between 0.1 and 1.0 kg for a total of 50 cycles. On the 50th cycle, the strip chart recorder was activated to record the event. After the last cycle, the crosshead was returned to the 0.1 kg force and stopped. The extension indicated on the digital readout was recorded. This value was added to the original gauge length of 3 inches to arrive at the effective gauge length for calculating the percent elongation and compliance. The average longitudinal compliance was 23.4%/kg.
Kink Resistance
The relative kink resistance was measured in a dry, non-pressurized condition. This was a quick test to see if the graft could be bent longitudinally without kinking. If or when it did kink, to what extent, as determined by the inside radius of curvature.
Four graft specimens, 15 to 20 cm in length, were looped in a circular fashion such that the ends were facing in opposite directions. The ends were slowly and gently pulled so as to reduce the diameter of the loop. The ends were pulled until the first evidence of kinking occurred in the wall of the grafts. This procedure took place on the surface of a metric ruler so that the inside diameter could be continuously monitored to capture the point of kinking.
The WSV (LYCRA) grafts kinked at a diameter of 18�1.7 mm. If we divide the diameter by two to obtain the inside radius of curvature and then divide this by the inside graft diameter of 4.8 mm, we obtain a 1.9�.2 Rad./Graft Diameter value which can be used for comparing to other grafts.
These grafts prepared in accordance with the invention are considered kink resistant, since they are flexible longitudinally and can be looped or bent to a significant degree. Typically, rigid or non-longitudinally compliant grafts or tubular structures will kink immediately upon the application of sufficient stress to deform the structure about their longitudinal axis.
Radial Compression
Radial compression of the graft was measured to determine the crush resistance of the graft. Four specimens between 15 and 20 cm in length were individually mounted into an Instron Tensile Tester with a flat plate compression apparatus, which measured 4 inches in diameter. The specimens were mounted into the compression apparatus so that the ends of the grafts extended beyond the ends of the plates. The gap between the upper and lower plates was reduced so that they came into contact with the specimens and exerted a preloaded force of 0.02 kg. The distance between the plates was measured with a Vernier to the nearest 0.5 mm, which is the initial gap. The crosshead travel was started at a rate of 0.5 inches/min and stopped when the grafts were completely compressed.
The strip charts generated were analyzed by measuring the slope of the curves to determine the compression moduli. The compression modulus is calculated by the following formula: ##EQU2##
In order to compare the values of two types of grafts with different diameters the modulus values can be normalized by multiplying them by the inside diameters of the graft. The resulting units are grams--millimeter diameter per centimeter length.
The self-supporting WSV (LYCRA) grafts exhibited a radial compression of 2850�182 g-mm/cm. The radial compression is an important property in contributing to the ability of a graft to resist kinking when deformed. If the radial compression is high with respect to longitudinal compliance or stiffness, then kink resistance is achieved. If radial compression is low, the wall of the graft is more flexible and consequently kinks more readily.
Graft substrate 11 in FIG. 1 includes every third ground warp end of elastomeric component 19 resulting in one in six warp ends being elastomeric component 19. Elastomeric component 19 causes substrate 11 to retract in length which raises the floats of the warp yarns in a crowfoot pattern to form loops 17. Filling yarn 13 includes texturized preshrunk polyester, but may be either texturized or untexturized depending on the shrinkage characteristics desired. The only requirement is that these yarns be multifilament to assist in reducing porosity of the graft and facilitating tissue adhesion ingrowth and after implantation. The stiff monofilament component of filling yarn 13 provides radial burst strength, dimensional stability and radial rigidity with resiliency to maintain an open lumen for normal blood flow and provide the necessary burst strength of the graft.
The characteristics and properties of the graft woven in accordance with the invention can be varied as desired by selection and combination of the starting warp and filling yarns and the weaving pattern. In the illustrated examples, the warp ground yarns are multifilament (or flat) polyester, but could be texturized or untexturized, or preshrunk or unshrunk, and elastomeric yarns. The preferred loop yarn is a multifilament texturized polyester yarn, but could also be untexturized preshrunk or unshrunk. The sole limiting feature is that there be sufficient multifilament yarns considering the desired end results. The filling yarn is a composite monofilament twisted with a multifilament component of texturized preshrunk yarn, which can also be untexturized or unshrunk.
It will thus be seen that the objects set forth above among those made apparent from the preceding description, are efficiently attained and, since certain changes may be made in the above article without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description and shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
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PORT SALERNO - Early Saturday morning, more than a dozen miles offshore of St. Lucie Inlet, the crew fishing aboard Aqua Love hit pay dirt. A wahoo swam into their bait spread and swiped a trolled ballyhoo. A few minutes later, the striped speedster was in the fish box and team member Marty Romstadt was ready for an early celebration.
"Even though we only had a small wahoo, I thought we'd be in the money because it had been years since a wahoo was caught in the Treasure Coast Builders Association tournament," said Romstadt about his team's 11.30-pounder caught by Justin Antolini.
The TCBA fishing tournament, held annually for 27 years on Memorial Day weekend, had fished since 2009 without seeing one wahoo weighed. But Romstadt knew his team wouldn't be alone because figuratively speaking, the wahoo were snapping Saturday. At least three of them were.
Stuart-based fishing team Blade Runners capitalized on an early bite of their own. Trolling in 210 feet of water, angler Brad Potter picked up a rod to do a routine bait check. While reeling it in, he and Dave Wichser suddenly saw a large wahoo greyhound out of the water behind the blue and white Ilander lure fitted on a ballyhoo slam the bait on its way back into the water. The whole action sequence played out a mere 100 feet behind their Everglades 295 CC center console fishing boat.
"It was pretty cool to see it bite like that," Potter said. "We knew we could probably play with it as long as we could get it in."
Potter took care of his job, allowing the wahoo to make its typical blistering long runs before tiring the fish out and getting it back to the boat. Wire leader and 50-pound test tackle helped subdue the fast fish. Brandon Smith sunk the gaff shot and Travis Forster and Lisa Wichser helped clear lines during the fight. The team also caught three small dolphin and a small kingfish on the way back in.
Potter's wahoo weighed 41.02 pounds, earning top prize money of $1,500. The tournament drew an offshore fleet of 61 boats, and 10 boats in its inshore division. Offshore anglers fished for cash and prizes in five species categories — dolphin, kingfish, wahoo, grouper and snapper — as well as special prizes in cobia, cubera snapper, blackfin tuna, lady angler and junior angler categories.
Seas offshore were calmer than the National Weather Service forecast from Friday, although there was a great deal of current, bottom fishermen reported. It also made for sporty seas on the edge of the Gulf Stream, about 12 miles out. Inshore of that, however, seas were quite fishable.
The kingfish division was won by Jon Douglass' 35.18-pounder aboard Greenside. The team aboard Port St. Lucie's Gator Fan nabbed second and fourth place spots in the division with Ashley King's 34.45-pounder and David Albritton's 27.58-pounder. King's king also earned her top lady angler honors.
Ally Oop II's fishing team collected first- and fourth-place dolphin for the 33.70-pounder caught by Jonathan Ally Sr. and the 19.78-pounder caught by Dennis Parker.
Two of the biggest fish to be brought to the scales at Pirates Cove Resort and Marina in Port Salerno were cubera snappers weighing 49 pounds and 41 pounds. The species has been broken off into its own category by TCBA tournament officials since they are often so much larger than mutton and mangrove snappers typically caught off the Treasure Coast each spring. Robert Allred of Pahokee did not disappoint again catching the tournament's heaviest snapper for the fifth time since 1999. His 102-pound cubera snapper caught in 2005 still stands as the TCBA event's heaviest fish ever.
Bryan Williams fished aboard the Safari I party boat with Capt. Rocky Carbia to win the grouper division for the third time since 1995 with a 19.89-pound fish.
"We were in 70 feet out on the Six Mile Reef and he fished with a cut grunt to catch that grouper," Carbia said. "We worked all day for just a few bites."
Shane Dixon on Cowboy Up from Loxahatchee and teammates Conan Hoehn and Tom Harris enjoyed some good mutton snapper fishing with a limit of fish in that 10- to 14-pound range including the tournament's largest two snappers that were not cuberas.
"We were in about 74 feet of water and the tide was slow for a while," Dixon said. "We did have one bigger cubera up to the boat that probably went 80 to 90 pounds but he broke us off just before we could get him in."
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The one sophomoric objet trouvé sculpture (made of two chairs and a sword) doesn't spoil the proceedings. Using diverse materials such as resin, lacquer, and varnish, Althoff makes paintings with a pearly, nervous touch. His colors are mostly murky; his outlook, ominous yet tender. A half-dozen abstract pieces function nicely as palate cleansers and mood setters. Among them are two so-so hazy rainbow paintings, a couple of Emile Nolde-ish looking landscapes, and one muddy-colored slab I don't know what to make of.
The figurative workswhich are the best part of this showare peopled with androgynous, brooding males, who hug, harass, and tryst with one another. Some are as cute as sock dolls, others are sinister. Violence erupts, skeletons and spirits appear, and Jesus crops uponce in the midst of a vision, twice crucified, and once carrying his cross. History is alive in these paintingspresented, not as Thomas Mann said in The Magic Mountain, "covered with historic mold," but in a pensive present tense. While placepresumably the 35-year-old artist's native Germanyfeels fixed, time shifts incessantly. From canvas to canvas, a flawed but exquisite family tree arises, real and illusory ghosts of the fatherland emerge, and the frightful Nazi motto "Blut und Boden" (Blood and Soil) is given new meaning.
Althoff has a lyrical gift for depicting what Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, director of the 1980 epic Our Hitler, speaking of Germanness, called "the monstrousness from which we are made." Dealing in the cultish and something very male, Althoff uses nostalgia, fairy tale, irony, and sentimentality as levers to update the past. Foregoing the clean, urban, German cosmopolitanism of Gursky & Co., Althoff depicts a mysterious, demonic past.
In several works we see what might be the artist's great-great grandparents in Prussian World War I uniforms. In one untitled painting, a dead soldier is preyed upon by hounds and skeletons in a snowy Saxon forest. A young boy hides nearby. In another work, soldiers pry the boots off a dead victim. In essence, they're lost in what Mann called "the epoch when crisis shattered its way through life and consciousness and left a deep chasm behind."
In other paintings, we see that chasm in the faces of Althoff's characters, many of whom are being watched, as if the future were already wary of them. In a crimson-and-black stunner, a couple of young men with scars on their faces and dressed in boarding school outfits walk arm in arm under the eerie glare of a street lamp, as a menacing, Ensor-like figure leers at them. In another foreboding canvas, Althoff portrays two starving between-the-war types. One is in Alpine garb; the other cowers under sheets. Something bad is about to happen.
Chillingly, the World War II generation is absent, as if simply swallowed whole by history. But their children are here as '60s hippies, '70s club kids, '80s punks, and '90s ravers. Althoff, who is self-taught and also a musician, still lives in his native Cologne. His art emerges from what feels like a very German context, which includes the specter of the Catholic Rhineland, the brothers Grimm, 19th-century German romanticism, and sundry 20th-century expressionisms. Judging from the jutting angularity of his skinny figures, he seems to have absorbed much of Egon Schiele. Unlike Beuys, who believed art should "show its wound," or Kiefer, who turns history into myth, Althoff only alludes to feelings and is never operatic.
Nevertheless, Althoff isn't merely a regionalist. It's interesting to compare him to Americans like John Currin, whose show is up at Andrea Rosen, and Elizabeth Peyton, whose exhibition at Gavin Brown just closed. Like Currin, Althoff draws on historical sources. But Currin is more enamored of art history, and, lately, of himself. For the moment, he has veered into some buggy, self-referential, John-and-Yoko territory. Still, he toes a fabulously dangerous line between the conservative and the twisted, the academic and the out-there. Althoff also plays with devalued styles, like illustration and folk art, although he's never overtly autobiographical. For Peyton, history has always been in the air of her work, while love is in its blood. Her art is steeped in a coltish eroticism, something at once personal and pop. Althoff is the exact opposite: Pop is incidental, love is in the air, and history is in the blood. He doesn't separate dominance and submission, barbarism and sex. Which may connect him to someone like Collier Schorr, whose intense photographs of contemporary German youths in Wehrmacht uniforms are on view at 303 Gallery. Both Schorr and Althoff present shadowy images that evoke historic schizophrenia, male fragility, and the return of the repressed.
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We happened to catch a screening last night of New York, I Love You, the new anthology movie coming out later this month from the producers of Paris, je t'aime, and, well, we can't say we loved it. For one thing, it's upsetting to see characters in a movie light up inside a bar, something real New Yorkers haven't been able to do in years (or not, at least, without getting scolded for trying). For another, we can't say that watching a teenage boy screw his paraplegic prom date—who has suspended herself from a tree in Central Park for the purpose, after leaving the party at Tavern on the Green—bears any resemblance to anything we've ever heard of happening in real life. (But thanks for the idea, Brett Ratner!)
Thankfully, the brief segment starring Natalie Portman as a Hasidic diamond broker—and bride-to-be—who has a brief romantic fantasy about the Jain diamond merchant she deals with in Midtown is one of the few that made sense, and that reflected something real about the city. (It makes a difference that the director, Mira Nair, actually lives in New York.) Plus, Portman dresses up both as a Satmar bride, and a Bollywood one—though we've seen that trick before. She may wind up looking roughly like she always does on-screen—that is to say, gorgeous—but paired with Slumdog Millionaire star Irrfan Khan, she manages to open a little window into the awkwardness of reconciling the cloistered insularity of the Hasidic world with the cosmopolitan noise of the New York we love.
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BEIJING (AFP) - The US and China, the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, Saturday announced they were joining forces to share more information on trying to combat climate change.
In a joint statement announced as US Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up a two-day visit to Beijing, both countries said that they would work together "to collaborate through enhanced policy dialogue, including the sharing of information regarding their respective post-2020 plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions".
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