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Examination of the Dye-Fixing Ability of Porous χ-Alumina Flake Powders
Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013
DOI: 10.1111/jace.12268
© 2013 The American Ceramic Society
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume 96, Issue 4, pages 1118–1123, April 2013
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Yu, P.-C., Chen, C.-I., Yen, F.-S., Ray, D.-T., Max Yen, S. C. (2013), Examination of the Dye-Fixing Ability of Porous χ-Alumina Flake Powders. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 96: 1118–1123. doi: 10.1111/jace.12268
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- Issue published online: 9 APR 2013
- Article first published online: 19 MAR 2013
- Manuscript Accepted: 7 FEB 2013
- Manuscript Received: 14 JUN 2012
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Porous χ-Al2O3 is a new material for fabricating coated inkjet printing paper. Paper coated with χ-Al2O3 powders has excellent water fastness. This study investigated the dye-fixing ability of χ-Al2O3 powders through measurements of adsorption isotherms. The variations in zeta potential, pore volume, pore size distribution, and specific surface area of χ-Al2O3 powders during the dye-fixing process were also examined. The results show that χ-Al2O3 powders have a strong affinity to dye colorants. The adsorption isotherm is classified as HA-type and the adsorption data fit the Langmuir model. In addition to the positive-charged surface of χ-Al2O3 provides cationic sites for fixing dye colorants via electrostatic interaction, the porous structure on the surface of χ-Al2O3 particles plays an indispensable role in trapping the colorant.


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Will the New Full-Fare Advertising Rules Apply to Vacation Packages?
Yes—that is, if the packages cover airfare. Travel providers (including both online and brick-and-mortar travel agents) will have to include mandatory flight taxes and fees in package costs as long as the trips include flights. Two popular vacation booking sites have already publicly addressed this issue: Apple Vacations and Go-today announced price modifications on their websites. According to Apple Vacations, "Effective January 26, 2012, all Apple Vacations' advertised pricing will change. The price you see in our advertisements will be the complete cost of the vacation including all taxes and fees associated to the airfare."
How Will Travel Booking Sites and Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) Be Affected?
Just like the airlines, travel booking sites (like Intrepid Travel and Monograms) and OTAs (like Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity), have to include mandatory flight taxes and fees when advertising airfares.
How Will Fare Aggregators Be Affected?
Fare aggregators such as Kayak and our sister site TripAdvisor Flights already include taxes and fees in their listings. A spokesperson from Kayak told us, "The new ruling has not changed how we display fares. Before the DOT full-fare advertising rule, Kayak had already been displaying fares with full taxes and fees included." So basically, there's nothing new here.
Will All the Airlines Roll Out Fee-Inclusive Fares Right Away?
Most likely. We're already seeing fee-inclusive fares (as well as vacation packages that include airfare taxes and fees) on Southwest, JetBlue, United, and Continental. Spirit Airlines—the carrier notorious for its excessive fees—has yet to post fee-inclusive airfares on its site. We've reached out to Spirit Airlines for a comment, but have yet to hear back from the airline.
What Other Rules Will Go Into Effect This Week?
The DOT's new full-fare advertising rules are part of a larger of group of airline passenger protection regulations that kick in this week. The following rules take effect today (Tuesday, January 24):
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You want the best and will approach all things with an eye toward quality, even when you're out of your element. Ask questions to get educated on the difference between "good" and "great."
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your standards tend to be uncompromising, and this will prove to be a positive thing today. Someone will trust you with a job or privilege because of your proven track record.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You'll be dealing with a group of diverse personalities. It's hard to come up with ideas everyone agrees with, but you'll strive for a mutually beneficial outcome. A mutual benefit is a benefit that will endure.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You sense the inner life of your loved ones, especially when they endeavor to hide such things from you. You'll reach out to someone who is putting on a brave face while hurting inside.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You'll improve yourself by listening to music. Active listening will be a kind of meditative exercise that will help to strengthen your will, clarify your feelings and guide you in objective self-reflection.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You'll organize your assets in a way that makes the most of all you have. You won't waste time or any other resource at your disposal. There is strength in your efficiency.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You'll encounter many puzzles. Whether or not these puzzles cause frustration is entirely up to you. Relax and realize that nothing has to be solved in one day. Resist easy fixes. Playful investigation leads to solutions.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your day will have a rhythm not unlike your own breathing. You'll take in life and process and contain it for a moment before releasing your energy into the world. You'll move through all of the stages and then repeat.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Life may seem to scold you in a way you don't deserve. The echo of a childhood hurt may come back to you. It's your chance to realize that this is not about you and move into more peaceful surroundings.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You like to have a plan, though you don't always like to follow it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Thinking of adventure is different from embarking on one. You need a push. Your spirit of exploration will be awakened and encouraged by the fire-sign influences you know — that's Aries, Leo and Sagittarius.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Anything you wish to accomplish will require a balanced integration of your thoughts, emotions and physical will. Whatever you can do to engage all three categories at once will bring you joy.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (March 26). Your friends and family love you the way you are, but you have other plans. You embrace change and enjoy the new person you are becoming. There's a trade off in April, and you'll be glad you made it. Your care helps a loved one thrive in May. August begins an education and fresh financial horizons. Hot dates fill September. Gemini and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 2, 14, 39 and 28.
ASTROLOGICAL QUESTIONS: "I am making a major business deal! Should I proceed with it? Is it the right time? Also, I'm having serious problems with my husband (birthdays withheld for anonymity), and I don't know how long I can carry on with this significant compromise in my life. I feel personally, emotionally and financially insecure just by association with him. Do you think my marriage will last long?"
There's a beautiful lineup of creative, daring Leo energy and nurturing, healing Cancer energy in your natal chart, with the moon, Mercury and Mars in Cancer and the sun and Mercury in Leo. In some ways, you feel like you are a mother to your husband, and in other ways, you feel like you are a child who needs him to be a better playmate and partner.
Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and abundance, is actively angling you now. There's a lucky trine of Jupiter to your natal Jupiter that brings ease, success and optimism, especially in regard to finance. However, Jupiter forms a square to your natal Venus (love), and the tension and disharmony will be felt into April. Mid- to late April will bring increased communication, and you'll draw out definitive answers on both the career and relationship fronts.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Watching the lovely Keira Knightley battle pirates in swordplay and even become one of them in the fantasy/adventure film series "Pirates of the Caribbean," it is easy to see the fiery Aries influence at work. Knightley has her sun, Mercury and Venus all in the intensely passionate sign. Her moon in Gemini promises that Knightley is never without a witty comment or fun topic of conversation to add to the mix.
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Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 take up a lion's share of the big money, but southeastern and northern Colorado would be big winners too.
Senate Bill 272 is headed to the Senate Transportation Committee, where it is likely to get a favorable response.
The governor said he is not a supporter of renewing TRANS bonds in order to pay for about 50 projects across the state.
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A state audit of the Colorado Department of Transportation's U.S. 36 contract — the state's controversial first public-private partnership on a big highway construction project — gave the agency mostly positive marks, but also noted room for improvement in communicating about the project.
Colorado officials are issuing formal requests for qualifications from companies wanting to work on its $1.17 billion project to remake Interstate 70 across Denver.
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a) a rigid transparent conduit for said bloodstream;
b) at least one light source positioned adjacent said conduit, said light source transmitting light having a wavelength substantially in the range of 800-850 nm through said conduit;
c) at least one light receiver positioned adjacent said conduit opposite said light source, said light receiver producing a signal representative of the light intensity impinging upon said receiver;
d) an apparatus operatively connected to said receiver to provide an indication, as a function of said signal, of the number and size of microair bubbles passing said detector.
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This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 08/841,015, filed Apr. 29, 1997, now abandoned.
This invention relates to the detection and quantification of microair in blood, and more particularly to an infrared system for counting microair bubbles in a bloodstream and determining their size.
During open-heart surgery, microscopic air bubbles having a diameter on the order of 60-300 μm are frequently entrained into the blood circuit of the heart-lung machine in spite of careful defoaming of the blood passing through the machine. These microair bubbles have been suspected of causing strokes, memory loss and other undesirable effects in the patient. It is therefore important in a heart-lung machine to detect the presence and size of these bubbles remaining in the bloodstream after filtration so that their origin can be traced and appropriate remedial measures can be taken when the presence of microair is detected in the blood circuit.
Microair detection in the prior art has conventionally been done by transmitting an ultrasound beam through a bloodstream flowing past the detector. The problem with this approach is that ultrasound is expensive and is neither able to accurately evaluate the size of individual bubbles, nor detect them as individual bubbles when they are close together. Also, ultrasound measures discontinuities in the bloodstream and therefore cannot distinguish between microair and tiny blood clots. Also, the accuracy of ultrasound measurements becomes poor for very small diameter bubbles. Furthermore, in pulsing ultrasound applications, the propagation velocity of sound required ultrasound pulses to be at least 10-20 μsec apart for a fast-moving 1.25 cm diameter bloodstream, so that tracking is not continuous. Consequently, a more accurate and discriminating method of detecting microair was needed.
Prior to the present invention, optical detection of microair was of limited use because it only operated in a binary (bubble present or absent) mode. Quantitative detection was considered impractical because light transmission through a bloodstream is strongly affected by hematocrit and oxygen saturation, which vary unpredictably during surgery.
The present invention allows highly accurate detection and measurement of microair over a wide range of bubble sizes by detecting the translucence of a bloodstream to infrared radiation having a wavelength of about 800-850 nm in at least two directions at a substantial angle to each other. The detection is made by detecting spikes in the amplitude of infrared signals received by an array of infrared sensors disposed around a column of blood when microair bubbles pass the field of view of the sensors.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a microair detector according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a section along line 2—2 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a front view of an infrared emitter/receiver useful in the invention;
FIG. 4 is a wavelength-absorption diagram showing the light absorption coefficients of various media as a function of wavelength;
FIG. 5 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 6 is a time-amplitude diagram showing the amplitude pattern produced by the passage of microair bubbles through the detector.
FIGS. 1-3 show an optical microair detector system 10 according to the invention. Blood 11 containing microair bubbles 13 flows through a rigid, transparent tube 12 preferably formed of polycarbonate. Rigidity of the tube 12 is necessary because the pulsations of the blood flow in a heart-lung machine expand and contract the walls of a flexible tube enough to create a rhythmic noise in the detector and degrade the signal quality.
Disposed around the tube 12 in a light-tight enclosure 14 clamped around the tube 12 by fasteners 15 are two or more opposed sets 16 of combination light sources 18 and photodetectors 20. The light source 18 and photodetector 20 of each set 16 may be nested within each other as shown in FIG. 2, or disposed side by side as shown in FIG. 3. The light sources 18 illuminate the opposing detectors 20 through the blood in the tube 12. The number of sets 16 will depend upon the diameter of the tube 12 and the dimensions of the sets 16, but they are preferably so disposed (FIG. 3) that the entire cross section of the tube 12 is either directly in the light path of a set 16, or at least is substantially illuminated by the side scatter of a light beam from a set 16.
In the above-described apparatus, the detection of intensity changes in light signals passed through the tube 12 is the key to detecting the presence of a bubble 13. These changes in the light intensity can be caused either by highly obstructing particles (clots, bone chips, etc.) or by air emboli or bubbles 13 that reflect light at their surfaces and allow the remaining light to pass through without the absorptive effects of blood. It is possible to determine what kind of obstruction has passed through the detector, as well as the size of that obstruction, by tracking the resulting variations in the light signal impinging upon the photodetectors 20.
The variations in the impinging light intensity caused by bubbles 13 are due to the difference between the optical properties of the blood 11 and the bubbles 13. Light travelling through the blood 11 is both scattered and absorbed by the different component particles of blood, such as red blood cells, water molecules, and platelets. Light is absorbed both by the hemoglobin found in red blood cells and the water molecules. Scattering, where the light is deflected by some angle, generally results when the light interacts either with red blood cell bodies or phospholipids.
In very simple (non-blood) media where scattering is negligible and absorption is the primary effect, Beer's law can be used to model the light intensity as it passes through the medium:
where I(x) is the intensity of the transmitted light at a distance x travelled through the medium, Io is the incident light intensity, and μa is the absorption coefficient.
However, the situation in the blood 11 is not so simple. In blood, the scattering effect cannot be neglected, and in fact, is a much larger factor than absorption. The absorption coefficient (μa) for light in blood at a wavelength of 800 nm is approximately 1 cm−1. This value is the inverse of the mean free path (the mean distance travelled by the individual photons through the blood medium before absorption). This number is highly dependent on several factors, including the oxygen saturation of the blood, the hematocrit (% by volume of red blood cells), and the wavelength of light used. FIG. 4 shows the three major blood components and their absorption coefficients' dependence upon wavelength. In FIG. 4, curve 30 denotes de-oxyhemoglobin, curve 32 denotes oxyhemoglobin, and curve 34 denotes water. The values for oxygen saturation (fraction of oxyhemoglobin to total hemoglobin) and hematocrit may change over the course of the surgery, which may in turn cause variation of the absorption of the blood as the relative concentrations of the three absorbing components in FIG. 4 change. Because slight concentration changes cause large changes in absorption in certain parts of the spectrum (e.g. 900-1000 nm), the invention uses a wavelength in the 800-850 nm range, where the de-oxyhemoglobin is level (i.e. the dependency on oxygen saturation is eliminated) and the water absorption is minimized.
The scattering coefficient (μs) for light in blood is approximately 300 cm−1 assuming μs=Σ (fraction of component) (μs of each component) for components such as water, platelets, red blood cells with oxy-hemoglobin and de-oxyhemoglobin, etc. This coefficient describes all scattering occurrences, including both forward and backscattering. Another factor, g, is introduced to describe the mean cosine of the scattering angle during scattering events. The effective scattering μ's=μs (1g) is a measure of the degree to which large angle scattering events occur in the medium.
In, blood g≈0.974 so μ's≈8 cm−1, still much higher than the μa≈1 cm−1.
The apparatus of this invention can distinguish between microair bubbles 13 and small particulates such as blood clots and bone chips. Because of their increased absorption over blood, the light intensity drops significantly behind these particles, forming an effective shadow, instead of the increase in intensity due to a bubble. This makes particulates and bubbles easy to distinguish.
In order to increase the accuracy of the bubble size determination, it is advantageous to use a plurality of axially spaced detector sets 16 (FIG. 5), or to use CCD arrays which can track individual bubbles as they move through the detector's field of vision. Because bubbles rise within the bloodstream at a rate generally proportional to their size, a time correlation can be obtained by observing the intensity signal at spaced points along the tube 12. This time correlation in turn can be used to check and increase the accuracy of the optical bubble measurement.
FIG. 6 shows the effect 22 of the passage of bubbles 13 of different sizes past the detector 10 of FIG. 1 (the more negative the output voltage in FIG. 6, the more light has passed through the blood 11). By measuring the amplitude (and, in the embodiment of FIG. 5, the timing) of the peaks 22, and the relation of artifacts 23 to the peaks 22, a conventional comparator 24 can provide an indication, to a numerical display 26, of the count of bubbles 13 in various size ranges.
It is understood that the exemplary optical detection and quantification of microair in blood described herein and shown in the drawings represents only a presently preferred embodiment of the invention. Indeed, various modifications and additions may be made to such embodiment without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, other modifications and additions may be obvious to those skilled in the art and may be implemented to adapt the present invention for use in a variety of different applications.
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The election of A C Wharton as mayor of Memphis marked the end of 18 years of corruption, incompetence and racial divisiveness in the mayor's office. Now, Memphis finally has what it needs to thrive as a city: a true mayor-statesman.
As a mayor-statesman, Wharton conveys a quality of leadership that organically brings people together; he cares for others and for the city as a whole. After years of his predecessor's self-serving brand of politics that divided the city and its people, Wharton's approach to governing is a breath of fresh air and is just what Memphis needs and deserves.
While Wharton possesses the qualities, experience and skills necessary to lead Memphis into a new era of government efficiency and accountability, he cannot do it alone. Apathy and complacency on the part of the Memphis electorate will doom any efforts by him to change the culture and provide good government. We need not look any further than the special election itself to see that Wharton's challenges will include mobilizing an apathetic electorate -- only 25 percent of which voted in the election. This is an astounding and embarrassing number in light of the transformational nature of the election and what was at stake.
This is our city. Memphis is a city of choice for my wife and me, who moved here from Washington, D.C., a little over a year ago. We chose to move here because of the city's unique culture and history, and because we saw in Memphis what can be. Wharton's election can be a catalyst for change, but only if we the people are willing to be the engine for change. Let's all work to do our part.
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I am a native Memphian who resides in Atlanta. I have lived in Cleveland and Harlem as well. My dream has always been to move back to my city, which seemed to be on the upswing about 10 years ago, and make a difference in the community I love and still visit often.
I read this newspaper almost every day online, and very rarely are the great things that happen in this city ever highlighted. It is always the negative, and the same negative people who seem to comment on every posting. Memphis is a great city, but has a small-town mentality.
If I didn't know Memphis the way I do and just believed everything I read in this newspaper, I would be scared to move here, too. Memphis has the same problems every major city has, and not to a greater extent, but we love to air our dirty laundry and constantly complain about what we "ain't got." A lot of it is simply racist, and not just white against black, but black against white.
Atlanta also has majority black leadership, but the whites have quit fighting against it. Instead, they have decided that a good leader is simply a good leader, no matter his or her color. Money and progress have no color, and that's not arguable when you see cranes everywhere and stop noticing new skyscrapers in a city that now has too many to count.
Memphis and Atlanta were once considered peers, but no more. The only difference between Memphis and Atlanta the past 20 years is leadership, and a city of people who decided that "we" deserve better.
Memphis is too big and has too much potential to let race, class, education and leadership stall its progress. Stop being so bitter about the past. This newspaper doesn't have to put every negative story that pops to mind on the front page. You set the tone for the mentality in this city. Do better. Thanks to those progressive young people who decided to stay. Your value is priceless to this city. Now let's go get it!
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It takes more than innovation
Your Oct. 27 editorial "School reform the Gates way" pushed all kinds of buttons for me. Not so much because of the Gates agenda, which I know little about, but mostly because of one line in the piece: "... (I)n Memphis and beyond the circumstances call for a non-traditional approach and as much innovation as the system can muster.
Do you not understand that we've been innovating and reforming education for the last 30 years? We've wallowed in "innovation" -- and there's obviously more to come. Find me a high-profile education administrator who claims not to be an innovator, and I'll eat my hat.
Are there semantic issues here? Of course there are. But education has been all about "talking the talk," and not so much about "walking the walk." This has always been about semantics. We've reaped exactly what we've sown. Even the best teachers have had to play the game to stay employed.
Good teachers don't need a checklist to remind them to ask "Do you want fries with that?" before each lesson. But that's exactly the kind of "innovation" that's become the "grading" criteria for education professionals. If the media haven't figured some of this stuff out by now, then it truly may be beyond the capacity of this society to fix these problems.
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Our president is to make public his decision on how to further handle the problem of Afghanistan: to increase the troop strength as requested by the leading American general in the theater, who is requesting an additional 40,000 military personnel, or to possibly change the direction and strategy of our country in that war.
A large percentage of our citizens believe that the president should listen to those in command for they are the professional soldiers who are to achieve victory.
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I remember on the day following 9/11, our Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated on television that it is known that Osama bin Laden is solely responsible for the activities involving deaths of thousands in this country. He further said we would hunt him down and kill him. And how long ago was that? What have we achieved in Afghanistan since 9/11?
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Before all of the sunshine patriots who have never heard a shot fired in anger descend on your Oct. 28 letter writer ("If an invader occupied the U.S.") for basically asking how would we respond if our country was invaded, let's just answer the question.
Did we not learn anything from our misadventures in Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and Iran? The South Koreans now in power were not born or were very young in 1952. We backed Castro in Cuba. Even after the French lost in Vietnam and warned us not to commit ground troops, we sent 58,000 Americans to their deaths; we lost the war and the world was not taken over by the bogeyman. We forced the Shah to grant democracy to his country against his will and we see the results of that "attempt at nation building." We invaded Iraq when it was the Saudis and Egyptians who pulled off 9/11, then we further destabilized the region by killing Saddam Hussein, who was the one person who could keep Iran in check.
Now we are stuck in Iraq and we are escalating the war against the Afghans, who defeated the Russians and caused their demise as a world power.
Before we decide to commit more troops, let us recognize that we are no different than the Russians -- no matter our intent. Thus far we have 8,000 killed in action -- maybe when we lose 50,000 more we will realize that the Afghans see us for what we are, "invaders," and we are being used as the private army to keep the current government in power.
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There has been ample evidence presented in the past several years to suggest shareholder activism exhibited via proxy resolutions not only wastes time but, as well, corporate funds. And yet, unions and "social justice" advocates such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and As You Sow perpetuate the practice to the detriment of targeted companies.
And, according to a recently released study, this activism also works to the shareholders' detriment as well. In effect, these proxy resolutions shoot the shareholder perpetrators in their own collective foot by reducing the profitability of the companies in which they hold stock – while simultaneously wounding other shareholders who don't necessarily share the whole leftist/liberal magilla against hydraulic fracturing, free political speech and genetically modified organisms while advocating for network neutrality.
"Analysis of the Wealth Effects of Shareholder Proposals – Volume III" was released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Workforce Freedom Initiative on May 2. The study was conducted by Navigant Consulting's Allan T. Ingraham, Ph.D., and Anna Koyfman, whose analysis of proxy resolutions by shareholder activists concludes:
[T]here is no conclusive evidence of measurable improvements in (short-term or long-term) stock market or (long-term) operating performance in target companies as a result of shareholder proposals. Therefore, we find no evidence that shareholder activism has a positive impact either on firms or on the entities offering shareholder resolutions. (more…)


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Hockey fans had a lot to be thankful for after the last week we've experienced in Minnesota....Read More
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"Rivalry and Respect" is marked on the blade of the silver-painted hockey stick serving as a traveling trophy between Anoka and Elk River since the 2004-05 season. ...Read More
High school seniors official put pen to paper during the NCAA's early signing period Nov. 13. Several area prep standouts made their future plans be known for most sports. Football signees will announce decisions on Feb. 5....Read More
Andover posted back-to-back 4-0 shutouts after Tuesday's win over Coon Rapids in the its home opener Nov. 12....Read More
Wayzata scored four times in the third period to pull away from Anoka for a 6-2 win in the girls' hockey season opener for both teams at the Anoka Area Ice Arena Nov. 7....Read More
Anoka (4-0-1) picked up right where it left off before the Thanksgiving break as it pounded Coon Rapids 8-0 at the Anoka Ice Arena Nov. 27. ...Read More
It is hard to believe we're already into the final handful of girls' hockey games with just over a week left before sections and the road to the Xcel Energy Center starts to take shape....Read More


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Company Overview of IMPCO Technologies, Inc.
Company Overview
3030 South Susan Street
Santa Ana, CA 92704-6435
United States
Founded in 1958
Key Executives for IMPCO Technologies, Inc.
IMPCO Technologies, Inc. Key Developments
IMPCO Automotive announced the development and availability of its bi-fuel CNG fuel system for the Model Year (MY) 2014 Chevrolet Cruze 1.4L sedan. These complete fuel systems are currently the only EPA Certified Bi-Fuel CNG systems for MY2014 sedans in the U.S. market. The systems will be available throughout Fuel System's IMPCO Automotive nationwide certified installation network beginning September 2013. The IMPCO Automotive powered Chevrolet Cruze includes a trunk mounted Type 3 tank providing over 200 miles of additional range while allowing for nearly 7 cubic feet of available storage space. The entire gaseous fuel system adheres to IMPCO Automotive's strict quality, durability, and safety testing requirements to ensure a superior product. IMPCO Automotive plans to pursue development and compliance for this bi-fuel CNG system through MY2016.
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Her giant step backward, a return to noncompliance, comprises a sad if familiar aspect to many of these stories.
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Jobs Preview Lifts Stocks
Investors were cheered by hints of an improving employment picture, pushing U.S. stocks higher Wednesday ahead of closely-watched official jobs numbers on Friday that could shed light on the durability of the recovery.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 44.05 points, or 0.4%, at 10680.43. The advance puts the blue-chip index 2% higher than where it started the month, close to a three-month high.
Consumer-discretionary stocks led the charge, with Priceline.com PCLN 3.94 % surging 22% to a 10-year high after its quarterly earnings jumped 72%, easily topping Wall Street forecasts. Goldman Sachs raised its target price on the stock, calling Priceline.com one of the best growth stories on the Internet. Fellow online merchants Expedia EXPE 2.24 % and Amazon.com RL -1.10 % also gained, rising 6.4% and 4.2% respectively. Polo Ralph Lauren RL -1.10 % added 7.8% and Coach COH -1.09 % gained 5.9%.
Pfizer PFE -0.18 % rose 1.7%, adding to a 5.6% gain on Tuesday, to help the health-care sector gain. The sector gained after a measure intended to provide emergency aid to state and local governments to expand Medicaid cleared a key Senate procedural hurdle. UnitedHealth Group UNH 0.67 % rose 1.5% and Tenet Healthcare Corp. THC 1.78 % rose 5.2%.
Bulls were helped by a surprise increase in private-sector employment as well as encouraging signs of expansion in the U.S. service sector.
A monthly job survey showed private-sector payrolls adding a better-than-expected 42,000 jobs in July, fueled by hiring at small- and medium-sized businesses. The data offered relief ahead of Friday's release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' nonfarm-payroll data, which includes government workers. Forecasters expect a drop of 60,000 due mostly to Census-worker layoffs, with unemployment edging upward in July.
"That number Friday will be very important for the market," said Colleen Supran, portfolio manager at San Francisco-based Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, which manages $2.1 billion in investments. "Corporate America seems to be doing well, but can they take the next step and do some hiring? Corporations have to be very concerned about any expansion plans when they don't have a sense of the final consumers."
A separate monthly jobs survey showed planned layoffs increasing for the third straight month in July, though the increase was slight. Employment is being closely scrutinized by investors, given its importance for consumption.
Meanwhile, the Institute for Supply Management's nonmanufacturing purchasing managers' index bucked forecasts to rise to 54.3 in July, from 53.8 in June, indicating expanding activity.
"I wouldn't get too enthused; it's one data point that's positive," said Christian Hviid, chief market strategist at Genworth Financial Asset Management. "At the end of the day, the headwinds are still out there. It's a pretty weak employment landscape, and there's this concept of austerity out there, and potentially slower growth going forward."
The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9% to 2303.57, while the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index advanced 0.6% to 1127.23. Trading volumes were soft, with about 3.2 billion shares changing hands in New York Stock Exchange Composite volumes, less than the daily average of about 4.2 billion shares.
In stocks in focus, home builder PulteGroup PHM 0.35 % pared intraday gains to slip 0.5% after reporting strong quarterly profits and revenues as home buyers took advantage of federal home-buyer tax credits, though with their expiry on April 30 the outlook for the housing market has gotten bleaker.
Barnes & Noble BKS 0.66 % jumped 19% after putting itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to mounting pressure from shareholder activists concerned about how digital books are eroding the traditional business of the nation's largest book-store chain.
Walgreen shed 1.1% after same-store sales for July fell short of analysts' expectations, though that figure gained for a second straight month on improved customer traffic and basket size.
Time Warner TWX 1.02 % inched up 0.3% after second-quarter profits beat analysts' estimates. CBS CBS.A 0.58 % rose 4.1% after reporting soaring second-quarter profits and revenue gains across its portfolio of media assets.
American depositary shares of European banks fared well on positive earnings, with Lloyds Banking Group gaining 4.1% and French banking group Société Générale rising 1.6%.
In Japan, the Nikkei Stock Average fell 2.1%, as export firms felt the weight of the rising yen, near its recent highs against the U.S. dollar. On Wednesday, the U.S. dollar regained 0.5% on the yen.
The euro fell back against the dollar as the latest euro-zone data disappointed growth prospects and lowered inflation expectations, trading recently at $1.3163, down from $1.3231 late Tuesday in New York. The U.S. Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against six other currencies, was up 0.4%, breaking a five-day losing streak.
Gold futures broke above $1,200 an ounce before slipping to $1193.70, buoyed by strong investment demand and news that China has liberalized its domestic gold market. Copper was also strong, adding 1.4%. Crude-oil futures fell to $82.47 a barrel.
Treasurys fell on the positive services sector data, with the price of the two-year note falling to yield 0.578% and the 10-year dropping to yield 2.952%.
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