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I have a foreach loop that I'm iterating through. I'm trying to have a variable "exploded" into pieces and then appended onto respective arrays using list(), like so:
list($a[], $b[], $c[]) = explode(':', $loop);
Can list() not do this? It errors with
Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings
I suppose that I could just use temp variables in list(), and then append them onto the respective arrays afterward, like so:
foreach($array as $loop) {
list($a1, $b2, $c3) = explode(':', $loop);
$a[] = $a1;
$b[] = $b2;
$c[] = $c3;
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URBANA, Ohio – A total of 91 student-athletes earned recognition to the Athletic Director's Spring Honor Roll during the 2014-15 academic year. The student-athletes named to the AD's Honor Roll maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or higher.
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The Urbana University women's lacrosse team fell 21-3 at MEC frontrunner Shepherd University on Sunday afternoon. The loss came in Urbana's regular season finale. Next, the Blue Knights will wait to see if they come out on top of a three-team tiebreaker for the fourth and final position in the MEC post-season tournament.
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Since I've only been induced, I wondered if you needed to call your doctor or L&D once you were sure you were in labor and going in? Like a courtesy call? LOL. I never really thought of this...since I pre-registered at the hospital.
Calling Dr. or L&D while in labor...
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You only call your doctor if you don't think you'll have enough time. The hospital will contact your doctor.
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Thank you ladies! I figured but wanted to make sure :) We don't live that far away so it would probably be better to call so that they could have the room ready. My doctor is in a practice that they only deliver you if they are the one on call that night.
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GOOD question! With #1 I was induced..with #2...I didn't have a "great" experience...I actually called my "nurse direct" hotline cause it was on a saturday...and what they do is they take down your information (timing of contractions etc) and they give it to the OB on call and the OB usually calls you within about 15 min. SO I think 1 or 2x I talked to this BITCH of an ob (thankfully not mine) and she was not nice at all......that is probably partially why I stayed at home so long before going to the hospital (got there at 6:30 had him at 10:30!)....when I finally decided to go in I just decided...I dont' think I even bothered to call that hotline again cause I didn't want to talk with that crotch of a dr again! LOL!
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Wow!! Now this IS a surprise!!
Guess they are digging through stuff and trying to find stuff to animate for a newer generation.
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Awesome! Go Gaiking!
Does anybody else thing the kid looks like he could be from Digimon? The animation style is surprisingly similar. o.o
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Wow...the redesigned Gaiking looks scary as opposed to just plain old ugly.
*prays for a new Dancougar TV Series*
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Hahaha!! That old 'Gaiking' was pretty ugly. But a new 'Dancougar', it could very well happen.
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I just want to see Final Dancougar get animated.
Some SPT Layzner & Gundam X Remake-Sequels would be nice too.
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|I thought the kid that pilots Gaiking looked like Hayato from Cyber Formula....maybe that's just me. I was hoping it was a direct remake of the original. I liked Sanshirou Tsuwabuki, the baseball player as the main character. Speaking of Dancougar, has anyone heard if U.S. Manga is going to be putting that on DVD anytime soon? I also thought they said that the rest of Machine Robo would make it out too....
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I remember hearing about this as early as more than a year ago (March 2004 or so) and there've been some screenshots from the pilot episode dancing around the internet, but we never heard anything since, so I'm glad it's finally off the ground. It was called "Gaiking Neo" then, but now it doesn't seem to have that attached to it.
I haven't heard a thing about Machine Robo since volume three came out last year. Have they ever commented on it since or did it just not sell well enough to continue?
Because seriously, I need more Rom.
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|I wanna see the "Gaiking Bite" Attack from Super Robot Wars get animated...it'd easily be the Best SR Attack since...uh...oh, I can't even remember.
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|wow, now that's old school
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|Awesome, Gaiking was one of my first anime growing up(was part of "Force Five" where i grew up). It'll be great to see an updated version.
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Here are some story details:
The main character's name is "Daiya Tsuwabuki". He is a junior high student who meets "Daiku-Maryu" (Toei's official English spelling), a "giant machine dragon" who saved his life five years earlier, and who's head becomes the super robot Gaiking. Together, Daiya, who pilots Gaiking fights the evil forces of the mysterious world Darius. The show's website goes on to mention the mystery of Daiya's father's disappearance five years before, and if I'm translating this right, a journey to the land of Darius.
I don't want to give out the whole story, so this is just a basic summary of it.
Also, it's true that this isn't a remake of the original Gaiking series, but I for one am interested, and if it's successful enough in Japan, maybe Toei will consider a U.S. release in some form.
FYI: This show will be taking over Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's Japanese timeslot on TV Asahi.
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well... I guess they remake this series so the show becomes more attracted to kids in japan?...
but yea I prefer the original characters/stories... a sequel is always nice... I don't mind seeing that kid pilot Gaking.. (actually I do), but at least tie it to the original story..
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A resin is provided comprising a mixture of at least two polymerizable components, at least one photochromic additive, at least one additive and at least one polymerization initiator. The mixture of at least two polymerizable components is preferably selected from monofunctional, difunctional and multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates. The photochromic additive is preferably selected from spirooxazine additives and spiropyran additives. And the additive is preferably selected from antioxidants, radical scavengers and ultraviolet absorbers.
1. A lens or semifinished blank comprising:
a lens or semifinished blank and a resin layer on at least one surface of the lens or semifinished blank, said layer having a thickness ranging from about 25 to about 1000 μm, the resin layer comprising a resin having a viscosity of about 25 to about 150 cps at 25� C. and that is a mixture of at least two polymerizable components selected from monofunctional, difunctional and multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates, such that the monofunctional component comprises 0 to about 70 wt percent of the resin, the difunctional component comprises about 10 to about 50 wt percent of the resin and the multifunctional component comprises 0 to about 20 wt percent of the resin; at least one photochromic additive selected from spiroxazine and spiropyran additives; at least one additive selected from antioxidants, radical scavengers and ultraviolet absorbers; and at least one polymerization initiator
wherein the resin forms a material having a glass transition temperature of about 20 to about 90� C. or a crosslink density of about 0.5 M/L to about 3.0 M/L upon polymerization.
2. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 wherein the difunctional component is selected from hydrophilic acrylates and methacrylates.
3. The resin of claim 2 wherein the difunctional component is a polyethylene glycol diacrylate.
4. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 wherein the monofunctional component is selected from hydrophobic acrylates and methacrylates.
5. The resin of claim 4 wherein the monofunctional component is an acrylate or methacrylate having a long-chain methylene moiety.
6. The resin of claim 1, in which said lens or semifinished blank comprises a thermoset material.
7. The resin of claim 1, in which said lens or semifinished blank comprises a thermoplastic material.
8. A lens or semifinished blank comprising:
a lens or semifinished blank and a resin layer on at least one surface of the lens or semifinished blank said layer having a thickness ranging from about 25 to about 1000 μm, the resin layer comprising a resin having a viscosity of about 25 to about 150 cps at 25� C. and that is a mixture of 0 to about 70 wt percent of a hydrophobic acrylate or methacrylate, about 10 to about 50 wt percent of a polyethylene glycol diacrylate and 0 to about 20 wt percent of a multifunctional component; at least one photochromic additive selected from sprioxazine and spiropyran additives; at least one additive selected from antioxidants, radical scavengers and ultraviolet absorbers; and at least one polymerization initiator
wherein the resin forms a material having a glass transition temperature of about 20 to about 90� C. or a crosslink density of about 0.5 M/L, to about 3.0 M/L upon polymerization.
9. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8, wherein said resin layer is unpolymerized.
10. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8, wherein said resin layer is partially polymerized.
11. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8, wherein said resin layer is partially polymerized and gelled.
12. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8 wherein the photochronic additive is at least one of a red chromene dye, a purple spirooxazine dye, a yellow chromene dye, and a green spirooxazine dye.
13. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8 wherein the resin forms a material having a glass transition temperature ranging from about 30 to about 60� C. upon polymerization.
14. The lens or semifinished blank of claim 1 or 8, wherein the resin forms a material having a cross link density ranging from about 1 to about 2 M/L upon polymerization.
Traditionally, plastic eyeglass lenses as well as plastic lenses designed for other applications have been fabricated by one of two ways: 1) casting the whole lens between two molds as a finished monolithic optic; and 2) casting a semi finished blank, then grinding it to the desired prescription. Both thermoplastics and thermosets may be used as optical materials. Thermoplastics are generally formed by injection molding, although compression and transfer molding techniques have also been used. Thermosets, such as resin formulations based on diethylene glycol bis allyl carbonate (DEG BAC) are formed by cast molding techniques. In all cases, what is obtained is a finished optic made of a single material. This optic may subsequently be coated to develop desired surface properties, such as enhanced scratch resistance, reduced optical reflectance, or enhanced impact resistance, mostly using conventional coating processes, such as dip coating, spin coating, or vacuum deposition. These coatings rarely exceed 25 microns in thickness.
Recently, methods of casting optical layers of a wide range of thicknesses on lenses have been disclosed, e.g., by Blum (U.S. Pat. No. 5,219,497). These methods utilize a substrate lens blank and a mold of specified curvature to polymerize a liquid resin on the surface of the lens substrate. The layer may be uniform in thickness, or may alter the surface geometry of the substrate in some specified and controlled manner. Layers of 1,000 microns or more at the upper end, and down to 25 microns in thickness may be deposited by this method. This method is applicable to both thermoplastic and thermoset lens substrates, and both thermoplastic and thermoset layers may be deposited through the use of a mold. A layered composite optic may be formed by this method.
The cast optical layers in thickness between 25 and 1000 microns or more may perform many optical functions. They may be added to minimize optical aberrations in the substrate lens blank, develop an achromatic optic or provide bifocal or multifocal optics through the development of refractive index gradients. The superstrate layers may also be provided to add a photochromic layer to the substrate lens blank. Indeed, the quality and range of applicability of plastic lenses is significantly enhanced by the development of composite optics, formed by adding one or more layers on a lens substrate.
Although the fabrication of composite lenses using a mold and a lens blank as described above is well established, the fabrication method requires a large inventory of molds and a separate fabrication facility in addition to the one used to cast the substrate blanks. It is therefore desirable to develop a fabrication process in which the development of the superstrate layers is integrated to the manufacture of the lens blanks themselves, and does not require additional handling of the blanks after they are formed. Previously disclosed methods of formation of photochromic lenses (U.S. Pat. No. 4,968,454 by Crano et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,286,957 by Le Naour-Sene, U.S. Pat. No. 4,936,995 by Kwiatkowski, and U.S. Pat. No. 4,637,698 by Kwak, et al.) have included application of photochromic layers on lenses or lens blanks, but have not addressed the integration of the photochromic layer to the substrate, in order to arrive at a streamlined manufacturing process at a lower cost, or to achieve a superior optical quality as well as mechanical and thermal properties by developing an interphase between the lens substrate and the superstrate layer.
According to an embodiment of the invention, a resin is provided comprising: a mixture of at least two polymerizable components, at least one photochromic additive, at least one additive and at least one polymerization initiator. The mixture of at least two polymerizable components is preferably selected from monofunctional, difunctional and multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates. The photochromic additive is preferably selected from spirooxazine additives and spiropyran additives. The additive is preferably selected from antioxidants, radical scavengers and ultraviolet absorbers.
The resin preferably comprises: 0 to about 70 wt % monofunctional component, about 10 to about 50 wt % difunctional component, 0 to about 20 wt % multifunctional component, about 0.02 to about 0.2 wt % spirooxazine additives, about 0.05 to about 0.3 wt % spiropyran additives, about 0.1 to about 2 wt % additive, and about 0.125 to about 2.5 wt % polymerization initiator.
The resin preferably forms a material having a glass transition temperature ranging from about 20� C. to about 90� C., more preferably about 30� C. to about 85� C., even more preferably about 30 to about 60� C., or a cross link density ranging from about 0.5 M/L to about 3.0 M/L, more preferably about 1 to about 2 M/L, upon polymerization. The resin preferably has a viscosity ranging from about 25 to about 150 cps at 25� C.
The difunctional component can be selected from hydrophilic acrylates and methacrylates, preferably a polyethylene glycol diacrylate. The monofunctional component can be selected from hydrophobic acrylates and methacrylates, preferably having a long-chain methylene moiety. The monofunctional component preferably has a glass transition temperature ranging from about 50 to about 120� C. upon polymerization.
The polymerization initiator can comprise a thermal polymerization initiator or a photochemical polymerization initiator.
The photochromic additive is preferably at least one of a red chromene dye, a purple spriooxazine dye, a yellow chromene dye and a green spriooxazine dye.
The resin can be provided in polymerized form as an optical layer over a lens or semifinished blank, with the layer having a thickness ranging from about 25 to about 1000 μm.
The lens or semifinished blank can comprise a thermoset material, in which case the resin and the thermoset material can be formulated with matched polymerizable components such that interfacial linkages are formed between the matched polymerizable components. Moreover, an interpenetrating layer can be formed at an interface between the resin and the thermoset material. The lens or semifinished blank can also be a thermoplastic material.
The resin can be provided in a layer over a mold, with the layer having a thickness ranging from about 25 to about 1000 μm, in which case, the layer can be unpolymerized, partially polymerized, or partially polymerized and gelled.
According to another embodiment of the invention, a method is provided comprising: applying a layer of the above resin to a mold to form a mold coated with a precoat resin; contacting the precoat resin with a casting resin; polymerizing the precoat resin; and polymerizing the casting resin. The layer can be applied by dipping, spraying, spincoating, or stereo lithography. Either resin can be unpolymerized or at least partially polymerized before contacting the other.
This invention describes polymerizable resin formulations which may be used to form a polymeric layer on the molding surface of a mold which is then used to fabricate a plastic lens or a lens blank, transferring the preformed layer on the outer surface of the lens formed by this process. The use of precoated molds to cast a plastic lens is known in the art. Sandvig, et al (U.S. Pat. No. 4,758,448) disclosed the formation of plastic lenses with enhanced scratch resistance by using molds coated with a mixture of monomeric and oligomeric multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates. The resin formulations of this invention are specifically directed towards the development of photochromic layers which range in thickness between 25 microns to 1000 microns, and can provide uniform or gradient photochromic properties across the lens surface. The layers formed from these have glass transition temperatures in the range of 20 C. to 90 C., and preferably in the range of 30 C. to 85 C., and cross link density in the range of 0.5 M/L to 3.0 M/L, all preferred to ensure desirable switching dynamics, tint or color in the activated and the unactivated states, as well as the dynamic range (the change in optical transmittance between the unactivated and the activated states) of the photochromic additives as a function of the ambient temperature.
The resin formulations ("precoat resin") may be applied to the mold surface by dipping, spraying, spin coating, or stereo lithography. They may be left as an unpolymerized liquid coat, a pregel, partially polymerized layer, or a gelled partially polymerized layer. The molds may be coated with the resin layer and stocked for future use, or may be precoated immediately prior to use for casting lenses. The substrate lens may be cast from any resin formulated to undergo an addition or a condensation polymerization process.
If the resin used to cast the substrate lens or lens blank ("Casting Resin") undergoes a chemical reaction with the photochromic additive present in the precoat layer during the polymerization process, it becomes necessary to avoid diffusive mixing of the casting resin in the unpolymerized state with the photochromic additive. The photochromic additive may be isolated from the casting resin by carrying forward the polymerization and cross linking of the precoat layer bearing the photochromic additive to a point such that the diffusion of additive molecules from the precoat layer into the casting resin, or the diffusion of the casting resin into the precoat layer is held to a minimum. It is important to note that while the rate of interdiffusion of the components of the precoat and the casting resin may be slowed down, it is still necessary to maintain good compatibility between the two in order to develop a strong adhesive bond between them. It is possible to adopt one or more of the following strategies to integrate the precoating layer to the substrate.
1) During the casting process, the precoat layer deposited on the surface of the mold may retain its integrity and form an adhesive bond to the substrate; in this case, the precoating layer is at least partially cured before filling the mold assembly with the resin formulation for casting of the substrate lens. The surface energy of the precoated layer is carefully adjusted to be compatible with the substrate. It is also desirable to include matched polymerizable components in the precoated layer and the substrate lens so that these components can form interfacial linkages, such as hydrogen bonds, -Si-O-X- linkages, when X is Si or C, or other linkages, such as amides or esters.
2) Polymerizable components of the resin forming the lens substrate or the precoat layer may undergo diffusion across the substrate-layer interface and undergo polymerization during the process forming the substrate lens. An interpenetrating layer (IPN) is thus formed, forming a discrete interphase between the substrate and the precoat layer. The advantage of forming such a layer is that interfacial light scattering is minimized, adhesive strength of the interface is enhanced, and in many cases, the impact properties, especially in response to normal forces, are improved.
3) The coating on the mold may be left unpolymerized before casting the substrate lens. In this case, it is necessary to use relatively viscous polymerizable components, in order to enable the precoat layer to maintain its integrity and the specified thickness profile across the surface of the mold during the handling and resin filling steps preceding the curing of the substrate lens. The curing process may involve application of heat, light or both. For example, it is possible to utilize high viscosity multifunctional oligomers premixed with a photoinitiator to form the precoat layer, and a low viscosity thermally activated polymerizable formulation to form the substrate lens. The curing process utilizes both heat and light, which is turned on at a specified temperature. The precoated layer reaches a certain viscosity and diffusion coefficient at the point of time when the photopolymerization is initiated. In this manner, interdiffusion between the two formulations may be carefully regulated to form the optimum interfacial gradient in composition and cross link density of the superstrate layer.
4) The precoat layer on the mold is partially polymerized to consume all initiator molecules and a certain portion of available polymerizable groups, and its composition is matched to form strong adhesion to the substrate lens, following approaches outlined in (1). The substrate lens is not cast in-situ, but added in the form of a lens blank. A specified volume of a polymerizable resin is added to the mold to form an adhesive layer between the precoat layer and the substrate lens blank. The resulting lens is a three layer composite, consisting of a substrate coated with two optical layers. This lens may be further hard coated to provide an outer surface which is hard and scratch resistant.
In all cases, the polymerization of the precoat layer on the mold as well as the substrate lens itself may be activated by heat, light or a combination of both. To this end, a combination of thermal and/or photochemical polymerization initiators may be employed in either or both formulations. Use of a combination of thermal and photochemical photoinitiators provides additional control of the rates of initiation of polymerization in precoat layer and the substrate lens, and allows different rates of polymerization initiation to be sustained in these two zones at the same time.
The molds may be made of glass, metal or plastic materials. Plastic molds may be reusable, or disposable, designed for a single or limited use. Metal molds may be formed from a solid piece of steel or other machinable metal, or may be made of glass coated with a metallic layer, which may be transparent to actinic radiation. For example, indium tin oxide (ITO) is metallic, yet transmits visible radiation which may be used to trigger polymerization in the substrate lens or the precoat layer.
The formulation of the precoat resin preferably contains a mixture of mono and multifunctional acrylates and methacrylates, polymerization initiators, antioxidants or radical scavengers, and photochromic additives. Cross linking resin formulations for fabrication of lenses and lens blanks have been disclosed by Toh (U.S. Pat. No. 4,912,185), and by Gupta, et al (U.S. Pat. No. 5,470,892). The resin formulations developed in this invention are specifically targeted to yield resins of a certain range in cross link density, glass transition temperature, and viscosity (25-150 cps at 25 C.). The use of hindered amines and excited state quenchers to enhance weathering characteristics of photochromic compositions have been disclosed by Chu (U.S. Pat. No. 4,720,356). The photochromic additives may be selected from a family of spirooxazines, such as spiro-(indolino)-benzoxazines, spiro(indolino)-naphthoxazines, spiro(indolino) pyridobenzoxazines, etc., ("spirooxazines"), or a family of spiropyrans ("chromenes"). Photochromic additives have been disclosed in numerous US and overseas patents, for example, Guglielmetti, et al U.S. Pat. No. 5,139,707, and references therein. Photochromic additives are available commercially, and were obtained from James Robinson Limited, Huddersfield, UK, or Great Lakes Corporation, Minneapolis. Table 3 shows a typical combination of photochromic additives obtained from James Robinson Ltd.
The formulation of the casting resin may include acrylates, methacrylates, allylics, and vinyl compounds. Generally one or more bi or multifunctional components are used in the formulation in order to form a lens body which is highly cross linked. The formulation may include ultraviolet stabilizers, antioxidants, radical scavengers, color neutralizing agents, such as bluing compounds, as well as one or more photoinitiators or thermal polymerization initiators. Alternatively, the main components of this formulation may consist of monomers or oligomers capable of undergoing condensation polymerization, e.g., multifunctional epoxides, acid anhydrides, reacted with amine or hydroxide derivatives.
Starting with a typical formulation of isobornyl methacrylate (40%), neopentyl glycol diacrylate (41%), polymethylene glycol diacrylate (400) (15%), 1-hydroxy-cyclohexyl-phenyl ketone, bis-2,6-dimethoxybenzoyl-2,4,4-trimethylpentyl phosphine oxide (2%), and a hindered amine oxide (bis-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-piperidyl-sebacate) (1%) as radical scavenger, a combination of four photochromic additives were added to develop a blue grey color upon activation (Table 3). This formulation was placed on the concave surface of a glass mold incorporating a progressive add power zone of 2.00 D, and a second mold of matching curvature (base curve) was placed on the resin pool, spreading it out into a thin layer. The spacing of the liquid layer was maintained at 200 microns at the distance portion, being thicker at the add power zone. The liquid resin layer was partially polymerized by exposing it to radiation in the wavelength range 350-700 nm for 20 minutes. The second mold was removed, and the first mold with the precoat layer was used to fabricate a semi finished progressive addition lens blank, as follows: The precoated mold was used to form a gasket assembly using a back mold and a gasket suitable for forming a semi finished lens blank. A Casting resin was injected into the gasket assembly, consisting of bis allyl diethylene glycol carbonate (96.2%), dilsopropyl percarbonate, a thermal polymerization catalyst, (3.5%), and 5-methyl 2-hydroxyphenyl-2H-benzotriazole, a ultraviolet radiation absorber (0.3%). The glass transition temperature of the precoated layer on the final semi finished lens blank was measured to be 85 C. Table 1 shows the experimental results.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________Experimental Details for the Precoat LayerEXPT PGD TMPTA TMPTANO IBMA NGDA A LA 15 9 PEMA BADA 184 BAPO 765__________________________________________________________________________1 61 30 8 0 0 0 0 0 0.75 0.25 12 57 27 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.75 0.25 13 61 30 0 8 0 0 0 0 0.75 0.25 14 20 28 0 0 0 0 50 0 2 0 15 20 0 0 0 0 28 50 0 2 0 16 20 0 0 0 28 0 50 0 2 0 17 0 0 12 0 0 0 60 25 2 0 18 0 25 12 0 0 0 60 0 2 0 19 0 50 17 0 0 0 30 0 2 0 1__________________________________________________________________________ Ethoxylated9 Trimethylolpropane Triacrylate (TMPTA9) Ethoxylated15 Trimethylolpropane Triacylate(TMPTA15) 2Phenoxyethyl Methacrylate (PEMA) Polyethylene Glycol (400) Diacrylate (PGDA) Neopentyl Glycol Diacrylate (NGDA) Isobornyl Methacrylate (IBMA) Lauryl Acrylate (LA) Ethoxylated bisphenol A Diacrylate (BADA) 1Hydroxy-Cyclohexyl-Phenyl Ketone (184) Bis2,6-Dimethoxybenzoyl-2,4,4-Trimethylpentyl Phosphine Oxide (BAPO) Hindered Amine Oxide (Bis2,2,6,6-Tetramethyl-4-Piperidyl-Sebacate) (765)
The composition of the precoat resin was as in example 1, except that the proportion of the hydrophilic polymethylene glycol diacrylate was raised to 15%. The precoat resin was filtered by passing it through a 0.2 micron stainless steel filter, then degassed by passing argon gas through the filtered resin for 30 minutes. The resin was applied to the concave surface of a single vision glass mold by mounting the mold on a chuck, then spinning it at the rate of 200 rpm as the resin was added to the surface of the mold. The mold was irradiated with a 10 second pulse of UV light while being rotated after the addition of the resin was stopped. Additional liquid resin may be subsequently added to the surface of the mold, and gelled by a pulse of UV light, thus building up the thickness of the precoat layer to specification. In this case, five resin applications produced an overall thickness of 200 microns. The precoating step was performed in a nitrogen atmosphere in order to shorten the duration of the UV pulse needed to bring about gelation. The glass transition temperature of the precoat layer was lowered, increasing the switching rate, and the cross link density was decreased from 0.75M/L to 0.35 M/L. Table 2 provides the experimental results. The precoated mold was used to form a gasket assembly needed to cast a finished single vision lens (-2.00 D sph, -2.00 D astig). A casting resin consisting of α-Methyl Styrene (40%), ethoxylated bisphenol A Diacrylate (40%), Diethylene Glycol Diallyl Carbonate (19%), and azo-isobutyronitrile, a thermal polymerization initiator (1.0%). The lens was cured by placing the gasket assembly in a convection oven, and subjecting it to a thermal ramp starting from room temperature to 180 F. over a twenty (20) hour period. The deactivated color of the finished lens was somewhat darker, indicative of the interaction of certain spiroindolizine type photochromic additives to interact with an increasingly polar medium to form a ground state population richer in the ring opened form, which is colored.
As in example 1, except that the hydrophilic diacrylate was replaced by isooctyl acrylate, a hydrophobic monomer with a low glass transition temperature in the precoat resin formulation. A single vision mold was precoated, in order to ultimately form a semifinished single vision blank with a photochromatic layer on the convex surface. The precoat layer was formed by using a second glass mold, the precoat resin being used to fill the space between the two molds. The precoated mold was used to set up a gasket assembly needed to form a semi finished single vision blank. The indoor color of the semi finished blank was further reduced relative to example 2, although the switching speed remained unchanged, indicating that reduction of polarity of the photochromic medium serves to reduce color of the lens in the deactivated state. A second cured resin layer may be added to the semi finished single vision blank to form a semi finished FT-28 blank, following the method described in Blum (U.S. Pat. No. 5,219,497).
Table 2 shows the properties of the switching and other optical properties of the photochromic lenses made using the formulations listed in Table 1.
The Precoat Resin was formulated with a mixture of photochromic dyes such that the tint in the activated state which develops upon outdoor exposure is blue grey. The following dyes were used in various formulations: Reversacol Berry Red, Reversacol Palatinate Purple, Reversacol Corn Yellow, and Reversacol Aqua Green. Table 3 shows the composition of the dye mixture used in examples 1-3, and their chemical nature.
TABLE 2__________________________________________________________________________Indoor color, optical clarity, and darkening characteristics ofphotochromic lensesEXPT GLASS TRANSITION TEMP INDOOR OPT OPT TRANSNO INDOOR COLOR in � C. TRANSMISSION, % SOLAR SIM1__________________________________________________________________________1 GR/Y 84 84 422 GR/Y 81 84 423 GR/Y 73 85 444 GREEN5 GR/Y6 YELLOW__________________________________________________________________________ 1 Activation measurements performed using a Solar Simulator set at AM1.0 at 85F, at 20 minutes.
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I was mightily relieved to hear in your issue of 11 July 2013 that the cost of health insurance in California, one of our most populous states, will face no increases. I guess that's the reason four of the largest insurance companies have canceled all of their existing policies and are abandoning the state. They just can't make money there under the ACA!
All this trash-talk about insurance costs rising by an average of $2,500 per year were worrying. I'm so glad to hear that all the organizations investigating where insurance premiums will go are wrong. As for a family of four having to pay an average of $20,000 per year for insurance surely can't be true, can it?
Just thinking of all those lousy doctors abandoning their practices due to the ACA? They don't care about the health of the people, do they? They should all go to Cuba and leave us alone with those who are left, most of whom will not be our regularly visited doctors. I say get rid of all those money-grubbing doctors and depend on those who are left – most of whom really will give good service, but only for cash on the counter, although there may be a problem getting gin in front of those tens of thousands of Canadians who drift down here to get what they can't get under their only form of the ACA.
The rest of the information given you by an ACA promoter is so insipidly wrong that it needs no comment. I'm glad though, to hear that a lot of money is being spent on instructing school kids on how to tell their parents how great the ACA is. It takes time away from them being instructed on how to put condoms on bananas.
What form should health care insurance take? I say let's do what Australia does. They have plans which provide for those insured to pay what they can for casual and uncomplicated care, but the plans then cover all the really disastrous illnesses. Seems to work quite well and maybe people should be required to take care of some part of their routine health problems but be covered if things get nasty, and really expensive.
As for the young taking over the healthcare costs for the elderly? Turns out that in Japan, more nappies are used by the elderly than by babies. The U.S. is facing this same problem of a declining birth rate. How long will the young agree to pay through the nose for the healthcare of elderly people in this country?
I think we're reaching an impasse under the ACA, and my feeling is that the ACA is not going to survive for this and other reasons of high taxation and high costs involved with governmental oversight and control.
If you want it done at a reasonable cost, don't have the government leeches involved.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The July 11 article did not say that health insurance costs would not increase in California. It said that costs "appear to be lower than projected."
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Regarding the cleanup of the old mine tailings in Cooke City, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's Tom Henderson recently said:
"The removal of tailings from the impoundment is over 80 percent complete. This upcoming year should see all the mines wastes placed in the repository at the site, and possibly the placement of the final cap over the repository. Reconstruction of Soda Butte Creek and Miller Creek will occur this year.
I expect that the major work at the project will be complete this year, but expect there will be additional re-vegetation work and final site work will be conducted in 2014. The project work is being done by Knife River."
This $20 million project by DEQ would not have occurred without the efforts of Beartooth Alliance, an affiliate of Northern Plains Resource Council, at Cooke City.
The threat of the unattached dam above Cooke City washing out from large snow-melt or rainfall into the town will now be eliminated. Also the poor water quality that ran down Soda Butte Creek for years will not continue.
The creek will run in its original channel with clean water and good fishing. It has been a truly remarkable project. Thank you, Montana DEQ and the Beartooth Alliance.
Nellie Israel
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"The most precious gift of God is a child." So said Mother Teresa.
I remember a picture of her holding a tiny baby who was recovered from a trash bin in Calcutta, India. This wrinkled and saintly nun, face beaming, held aloft that child as though he were the infant Christ Himself. And to her, he was.
That babe in the trash bin sums up much of what has gone wrong with our world. Children are discarded like so much garbage not only in Calcutta, but also in the cities of America.
Countless unborn babies are killed in their mothers' womb through abortion. The old and disabled are "put down" like cats and dogs that have outlived their usefulness.
If only we could take the words of Mother Teresa to heart. A child is precious. He is of infinite value even before he is born. Human life is sacred. Even the old and feeble are made in the image of the living God.
How dare we treat them as disposable trash?
Mike Kecskes Sr.
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During this year's legislative session, lawmakers and Gov. Steve Bullock put the interests of landowners ahead of the corporations that condemn property for private, for-profit purposes when they passed HB 417, a bill that helps restore some fairness in the eminent domain process.
It was sponsored by Rep. Kelly Flynn, R-Townsend.
While Montana's property owners are eager to build our state's economy (most are business owners themselves), I believe that the power of eminent domain should only be used for public projects that advance the public good. The process should be fair, and landowners should receive just compensation for the property taken.
HB 417 makes the condemnation process more fair by requiring that the entity condemning the property give a landowner a final written offer before initiating condemnation proceedings, preventing bad actors from playing manipulative games with various offers that leave the landowner unsure of where they stand.
There is more work to do to restore balance to our eminent domain laws, but HB 417 was an important start and now a good law.
Tom Reeves
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Editorial critic Jack McKenzie sounds a bit paranoid stating that a May 2 Outpost editorial suggested "repeal" or "taking the power out of the Second Amendment."
The Outpost editorial certainly did not suggest such an extreme position, but McKenzie's response proved the editorial's point that some gun advocates "imagine that the founders would have unhesitatingly ascribed constitutional protection to the array of weapons available today."
With the array of weapons and the serious social problems of today, it is only sensible to do careful background checks to keep those weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. That is not "repeal" of the Second Amendment, or even "weakening it." That is plain modern common sense.
Joan Hurdle
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It's not just me.
It seems that everyone I know has been touched personally by Alzheimer's. My precious mom slipped away from us, day-by-heartbreaking day, over the course of 10 years. My beloved father-in-law suffers now. So do a staggering 21,000 Montanans and 5 million across the country. About 15.4 million Americans are Alzheimer caregivers. And the numbers are rapidly growing.
We are at a critical moment in the epidemic, and it is urgent that our leaders ensure the promise of the first-ever National Alzheimer's Plan — it will advance research, improve the quality of care given to those with Alzheimer's, and increase support for the millions of caregivers across America.
We Montanans are blessed by Sen. Jon Tester and his dedication to our families. Please join me in urging the senator to support a strong National Alzheimer's Plan with the needed resources, including $100 million in fiscal year 2014, for Alzheimer's research, education, outreach, and caregiver support activities.
Alzheimer's is already America's most expensive disease. It is devastating physically, emotionally and financially to all it touches. And the number of families impacted by Alzheimer's will only continue to escalate if resources are not allocated now. Please contact Sen. Tester as soon as you can and ask for his crucial support to help Americans affected by Alzheimer's.
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Alzheimer's Association Montana
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This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb).
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When you set a database password for a Microsoft Access database, and then you try to open the Access database, you may not be able to open the Access database successfully. You may receive the following error message:
This problem may occur even when you are sure that you have entered the correct database password.
Not a valid password.
This problem occurs when the database password ends with a backslash character (\).
You can avoid this problem when you first create your Access database. You must make sure that the database password for your Access database does not end with a backslash character (\). However, if you have already set the database password for your Access database, and the database password ends with a backslash character (\), you cannot open your Access database. To recover your Access database, import the database objects from your Access database to a newly created Access database. To do this, follow these steps.
Note The sample code in this article uses Microsoft Data Access Objects. For this code to run correctly, you must reference the Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library. To do so, click References on the Tools menu in the Visual Basic Editor, and make sure that the Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library check box is selected.
You must also make sure that no reference to Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects is selected in the References dialog box.
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/209953/ )How to use the OpenDatabase method to open password-protected databases
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We often talk about good reads here, so I thought I'd share a link to this post about a new book called "1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up" by Julia Eccleshare. According to the post: Russell Hoban's "Bedtime for Frances," Virginia Lee Burton's "The Little House" and "The Phantom Tollbooth" by […] [Read More]
Writer seeks to inspire kids to read
Check out this New York Times story on Katherine Paterson, author of "Bridge to Terabithia" (also known as book that made Jennifer cry during elementary school read-a-loud.) Paterson has been appointed the national ambassador for young people's literature, and will be part of an effort to encourage every child to enjoy books. Paterson follows the […] [Read More]
Rock for Reading on Saturday
The Junior League of Albany will present Rock for Reading at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Red Square in Albany. There will be three bands: The Stynals (rockabilly), The Foy Brothers (R&B, soul) and The Bent Rail Blues Band (blues) as well as comedian Donnell Ellis as emcee. Admission is $10 at the door, and you […] [Read More]
Calling all 'foodie' parents
I'm working on an article for an upcoming food section about foodies having kids and having to marry their passion for food with their children's food preferences. There were two books released last year "Hungry Monkey" and "The Gastrokid Cookbook" that deal with this issue, and in addition to discussing the books, I'd like to […] [Read More]
Good books for moms who don't want to read about parenting
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Best children's books of 2009
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Sesame Street to publish electronic books for kids
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'The Elf on the Shelf' craze
Although the book came out in 2005, "The Elf on the Shelf" has become one of this year's popular holiday items. What is it? According to this article from BookLovers: "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition," (2005) by the mother-daughter team of Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell, is illustrated by award-winning […] [Read More]
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Reddit user Mantees posted a story of coming across a tiny kitten baking in the sun in southern Italy and soon discovered that she was completely blind, and always will be. He took care of her infections and fever and took her home. She's now all grown up, named Skunky, and is his beloved pet. (via lovemeow.com)
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