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"No matter how many times I run it, it's still unique," Neinas says, paddling a raft down the river.
Neinas supports the project, partly because he knows Christo could help drive thousands of tourists to his rafts when "Over the River" is complete. He insists, however, that it's not all about money.
"How fortunate we are, in rural Colorado, to have a world-class opportunity to share the reason we live here, why we love this area, with the rest of the world," he said.
Christo has already spent two decades and ten million dollars on something that still lives only on paper. He pays for the project by selling his artwork and is quick to note that he receives no taxpayer money.
He hopes his crew can begin building "Over the River" this coming winter and have it ready for its two-week run in 2015.
"For years, our work is making people thinking," Christo said. "Bad, against the project, good, for the project. But people are thinking about art. A work of art that does not yet exist. Already, that is a great accomplishment."
The worst thing for an artist, Christo says, is to have their work ignored. That so many are arguing over the merits of "Over the River" he says, has already made it a success.


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An emboss pattern, tissue product and method of manufacturing tissue product having improved bulk and softness with minimal roll ridging. The pattern combines a plurality of aligned signature bosses with a grouping of signature bosses offset from the machine direction in a clockwise manner and another grouping of signature bosses being offset in a counter-clockwise manner.
1. A method for processing a tissue web comprising:
passing a tissue web through an embossing nip formed between a pattern roll and a resilient backing roll, said pattern roll having a surface with a plurality of embossing elements separated by smooth land areas, said spot embossing elements defining a plurality of signature emboss groupings, each grouping including a plurality of similarly aligned signature embosses, wherein one of said groupings diverges in the clockwise direction from the machine direction of said web by from about 5� to 45�, and another of said groupings diverges in the counter-clockwise direction from the machine direction of said web by from about 5� to 45�.
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This application is a division of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/471,225, filed Jun. 20, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,527,851, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/692,797, filed Jun. 21, 2005. The priorities of the foregoing applications are hereby claimed and the entirety of their disclosures incorporated herein by reference.
The invention generally relates to paper products and more particularly to embossed tissue products exhibiting a high perceived softness.
Tissue products manufactured using wet press technology can be embossed subsequent to creping to improve bulk, appearance and perceived softness. It is known in the art to emboss sheets comprising multiple plies of tissue to increase the surface area of the sheets thereby enhancing their bulk and moisture holding capacity. Tissue products are usually marketed in rolls, containing a specified number of sheets per roll. Tissue embossed in conventional patterns of spot debossments, when packaged in roll form, exhibit a tendency to be non-uniform in appearance often due to uneven buildup of the bosses as the sheet is wound onto the roll, resulting in a ridging effect detracting from the appearance of the rolls.
A tissue product exhibiting improved tactile and visual characteristics is disclosed. The tissue product is defined by a plurality of signature boss groupings, each grouping including a plurality of similarly aligned signature bosses. Major axes of one of the groupings of signature bosses diverge in the clockwise direction from the machine direction of said web, and major axes of another of grouping of signature bosses diverge in the counter-clockwise direction from the machine direction of said web.
One advantage of the present invention is to provide an embossed tissue which avoids buildup and ridging problems while heightening the consumer's perception of softness. The pattern which is formed in the tissue of the present invention may be formed by debossing or embossing. When an emboss pattern is formed, the reverse side of the sheet retains a deboss pattern. The projections which are formed are referred to as bosses. When a deboss pattern is formed, the reverse side of the sheet retains an emboss pattern and the projections are still referred to as bosses. Thus, the methodologies may be interchanged while producing the same product. When the web or sheets are formed into a roll, the tissue is aligned so that the bosses are internal to the roll and the debossed side of the tissue is exposed.
The product according to the present invention may include signature bosses, macro bosses and micro bosses. Signature bosses may be made up of any embossing design. They are most often a design which may be related by consumer perception to the particular manufacturer of the tissue. Macro bosses and micro bosses may assume a variety of different configurations, for example stitch-like bosses and rounded dot-like bosses.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the boss pattern combines relatively shallow micro bosses with deeper defined macro bosses and signature bosses. Signature bosses may be formed of groupings of closed linear bosses. For example, a signature boss may be formed as groupings of closed linear bosses defining peripheral plateaus around a central region. Groupings of signature bosses are preferably linearly aligned. A pattern of mixed inclinations is selected so that some of the signature boss groupings are aligned in the machine direction, some are aligned with a clockwise offset relative to machine direction, and some of the signature boss groupings are aligned with a counterclockwise offset relative to machine direction. One effect of this mixed inclination arrangement is that the rolls possess very good roll structure and do not exhibit the ridging effect found with prior art embossed tissue patterns.
Signature bosses, macro bosses and micro bosses serve to greatly enhance the bulk of the tissue while also enhancing the distortion of the surface thereof. The signature bosses may be groupings of continuous linear embosses and embossed or debossed to significantly greater depth than the micro bosses. The signature bosses and macro bosses may be embossed or debossed to an equal height and have similarly defined boundaries. Groupings of signature bosses may exhibit the same overall pattern but may be scaled in size, e.g., the paper product may include two differently scaled signature bosses. The macro bosses can define continuous or stitchlike patterns embossed or debossed to greater depth than micro bosses. In addition, the signature bosses further enhance the puffy or filled appearance of the sheet both by creating the illusion of shading as well as by creating actual shading due to displacement of the sheet apparently caused by puckering of surrounding regions due to the heavy embossing or debossing given to the signature.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the invention, both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying figures. It is to be expressly understood, however, that each of the figures is provided for the purpose of illustration and description only and is not intended as a definition of the limits of the present invention.
The present invention will be more fully understood and further advantages will become apparent when reference is made to the following detailed description of the invention and the accompanying drawings wherein like numerals represent like elements, and in which:
According to one embodiment of the present invention, enhanced perceived softness, controlled sidedness, good roll structure and good ply bonding are provided by a tissue substrate having embossed therein a pattern which is comprised of distinct elements, the first, an array of signature bosses, the second, an array of macro bosses and the third, a pattern of micro bosses. The macro bosses preferably comprise discontinuous elements that are embossed or debossed in the tissue substrate in a pattern of a meandering linear array. In the illustrated embodiments of the invention, cells defined by the macro bosses are generally in the shape of a tapered ellipse. In alternative embodiments of the invention, the cells defined by macro bosses may be differently configured.
The macro bosses further define generally linear sections aligned in a predetermined direction, which may be offset from the machine direction. The effect is a pattern having discontinuous lines and curves defining a plurality of generally interconnected cells. In one embodiment of the present invention, each cell contains only a signature boss (
Substrates for use in the present invention include toilet tissue. The paper substrates for forming the tissue are readily recognizable to the skilled artisan. In one example, the paper substrate may have a basis weight of from about 8.5 to about 15.5 pounds per 3000 square foot ream of tissue.
One embodiment of a boss pattern according to the invention is disclosed in
Referring to
In illustrated embodiments of the present invention, signature bosses 16, 18 define tulip-shaped elements.
Signature bosses 16, 18 define tulip-shaped elements. Signature bosses 16, 18 have a major axis and a minor axis and a length along the major axis being greater than a length along the minor axis. In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the major axis length is more than 1.5 times greater than the minor axis length.
Macro bosses 20 define a plurality of closed cells 24 and broken linear segments 26. Linear segments 26 associated with adjacent cells 24 are generally parallel to each other and extend across the tissue paper in a predetermined direction offset from the machine direction. Closed cells 24 are generally defined as tapered ellipses. In the embodiments of
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Consumer perception testing was carried out to rate the quality of the product using the emboss patterns of the present invention. In one example, market testing was conducted in which the embossed tissues of the present invention as described in the specification (
In another test, four sets of tissue rolls were prepared from substantially identical base sheets using the patterns of
In yet another test, two sets of tissue rolls were prepared, one incorporating the emboss pattern of
Aspects of a method for manufacturing a tissue product of the present invention are shown in greater detail in the process flow diagram of
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from the disclosure of the present invention, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized according to the present invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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Kevin Garnett was close to being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in February, but the Celtics big man exercised his no-trade clause to keep him in Boston. This version of events has been repeated so many times, it has essentially been accepted as truth among many fans and sportswriters. In a clearing-the-air column in the Boston Herald on Thursday, Celtics beat writer Steve Bulpett straightened out a number of myths from this season. One of those myths is the assumption about Garnett's trade-deadline power play, which Bulpett writes was never close to happening. "The truth of the matter is that it never got to the point where KG was asked to vote, or even declare his party affiliation," Bulpett writes. "There was, as reported here, some measure of discord within the Clippers organization on the issue. According to multiple sources, coach Vinny Del Negro was in favor of the trade, believing it would give the club the best chance to win this season." While Del Negro wanted to see the deal get done, the rest of the organization reportedly was so strongly against it that the trade was never brought to the point that Garnett would have needed to nix it. The Celtics' failure to make a major move at the deadline can be blamed on a few factors, but Garnett's refusal to budge on his no-trade clause is not one of them.
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Obesity is at the root of a major health-care crisis sweeping America, said Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet.
Boston (Vocus) July 6, 2010 -- Appearing on The Mel Robbins Show, broadcast in markets across that nation, Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet and bestselling author of The Zone, detailed the underlying causes of America's obesity crisis and talked about sensible solutions for people to become more fit and healthy.
"Obesity is at the root of a major health-care crisis sweeping America. Unless we get hold of the problem at its core and change America's prevalent pro-inflammatory diet to an anti-inflammatory diet regimen, people will continue to gain excess weight, and America will face vast financial shortfalls for medical costs connected with obesity and related diseases," said Zone Diet creator Dr. Sears.
The crisis is due to what Dr. Sears called "the perfect nutritional storm" caused in part by government subsidies that run approximately $20 billion annually for crops such as corn and soybeans, resulting in a glut of cheap refined carbohydrates in America's food supply. Combined with a prevalence of vegetable oils rich in omega-6 fatty acids abundantly consumed in the American diet and a decrease of consumption of omega-3 fatty acids, weight gain follows for people genetically predisposed to obesity.
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Pocahontas, IA : A grand edifice of local government -- the courthouse of Pocahontas county (located in the town of Pocahontas) -- was fittingly placed upon the Registry of Historical Places. So perfectly preserved is this building, that even its original clocks as well as its brass cuspidors are still in place. The War Memorial, hewn entirely of black marble, was erected on the courthouse's front terrace in mid-2007.
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New Jersey Nets guard Jordan Farmar will begin the 2011/12 season as a member of
Maccabi Tel Aviv after agreeing on Wednesday to join the yellow-and- blue until
the NBA lockout ends.Maccabi had said that it has no intention in
signing NBA players that will likely leave the team midway through the
season.However, it decided to make an exception for Farmar, an
American-Jew with strong connections to Israel, after he approached Maccabi in
the hope of playing for the yellow-and-blue."I'm very excited to be
coming to Tel Aviv," Farmer said. "My step-father is a citizen of Tel Aviv and I
spent time there as a child."Despite his original reluctance to sign a
player that will probably not be around for the business end of the season,
coach David Blatt conceded on Wednesday that he simply couldn't say no to
Farmar."This is a very exciting and special signing," Blatt said. "Due
to the unusual situation with the NBA lockout, players of the highest level have
suddenly found themselves available. It is true that we promised ourselves that
we wouldn't get involved in such an adventure, but this is an extraordinary and
rare case."I must say that in all my years as a coach, Farmar is one of
the more special players I have met. The most important thing is that Jordan has
a strong connection with the country, having deep Jewish and Israeli roots, and
we see him one day being a permanent and leading player at Maccabi once he ends
his impressive contract in the NBA."We remain loyal to our vision of
bringing the top Israeli and Jewish players to Maccabi."After two
seasons at UCLA, Farmar was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 26th
pick overall in the 2006 NBA draft.In his four seasons with the Lakers,
the 24-year-old helped the team to two NBA championships (2009-2010), averaging
9.1 points and 2.7 assists in 20.6 minutes on court in his best season in Los
Angeles in 2007/08.
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Dorothy married Dr. Clark Johnson in 1953 and they made their home in Sweetwater for 22 years were Clark had an active medical practice. Dorothy was a devoted Christian and taught Sunday school for many years. Clark and Dorothy moved to Lubbock, Texas in 1975 where she was active in the auxiliaries at Methodist and St. Mary's Hospitals for many years. She loved her role as a wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed knitting, bird watching, growing roses, working crossword puzzles and reading. She was a member of Westmont Christian Church for many years.
Survivors include her children and their spouses, Craig and Nancy Johnson of Sweetwater, Texas, Mary and Steve Moore of El Paso, Texas and Bruce and Madonna Johnson of Austin, Texas. Also seven grandchildren, Katie, Christopher and Carly Johnson, Robert, Katie Moore-Cisneros (husband, Jacob Cisneros) and Karen Moore and Kristen Johnson. She has a great-grandson, Efren Cisneros.
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With a couple of notable exceptions, the rise of targeted therapies has been hampered by their relatively poor improvements in real-world therapeutic benefits relative to their sometimes eye-watering expense. The role played by pharmacoeconomics cannot be understated: health payers do not want to pay for expensive medicines unless there is confidence that the therapeutic benefit will be achieved. Companion diagnostics go a long way to providing that confidence by determining the appropriateness of a drug to a given disease state.
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Improper let go of display resources on 8800GTS with beta drivers
I know beta drivers are hard to support, and I don't expect a solution here, but just thought I shouldreport my troubles and revelations with the 8800 series here.
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I am running SuSE 10.1 x86_64 under a newly bought AMD X2 4200+,
GeForce 8800GTS (and GeForce FX5500 PCI for testing purposes)
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X initializes. It gets me to a desktop and I get to see the awesome power of this card in glxgears at 22,000 FPS. However, Ctl-Alt-Backspace or attempting to restart X in other ways results in failiure. Shutdown also takes particularly long, but that may be because I am unable to see the progress of it (when X exits, BaSH does not display). This problem is NONEXISTANT on the 5500 card, and X can stop/start/restart without problems. I assume that this is due to the splitting of the driver for the G80's new architechture, and that obviously being a beta driver, support is incomplete.
TV out does not work on the G80s yet it seems. I tried SVideo, and not HDTV outputs, so that may very well work. If someone can post that result it'd be nice. Under this driver, the 5500 TV outputs work.
I had a laptop that ran Xgl/Compiz very well. It was 32-bit SuSE 10.1 on Intel graphics, very stable, abeit slow and problematic with video. However, compiz never crashed like it does on the nvidia driver. I assume this is also due to the G80 portion of the driver being incomplete, and a fix will be out later. The symptoms are as described in another thread here, animation, windows all appearing normal with status updates, but the mouse is unable to interact with the beryl-Xgl process suddenly. Killing that process restores input, I assume that somewhere an OpenGL instruction is called that isn't fully supported yet, leaving the Xgl process stuck waiting for a result that will never come from the nvidia kernel module. If so, this will also be resolved with a new driver.
Again, most of my worries are most likely from the driver being incomplete, but I must say. nVIDIA, good damned job, even with your beta drivers. Your excellent support has not only made your products a good choice for Linux users, but the only practical choice. Back in the days of RH 7.3, we got our driver. We didn't have GUIs on anything for X config from you guys, and you didn't really have to write any, but now you've been going out of your way to bring us that support. Really, its appreciated.
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Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying creature ever to evolve. Its wingspan was somewhere around 40 feet, which is as wide as some small jet fighters. But it was light as a kite, with hollow bones that were almost paper-thin. Quetzalcoatlus is a member of the extinct pterosaur lineage. Pterosaurs (pronounced tair-o-saurs) lived during most of the Mesozoic Era and diversified into a tremendous array of different forms. Often mistakenly called "flying dinosaurs", the pterosaurs are not members of the dinosaur lineage. Instead they are a side branch from the main stem leading towards the dinosaurian family tree and are only "cousins" to the dinosaurs.
Quetzalcoatlus and most other pterosaurs were probably predators and scavengers. Several pterosaur specimens contain the skeletons of fish in their bellies, and most of these were found in marine rocks. But many other pterosaurs, including Quetzalcoatlus, were discovered in rocks formed by lakes and streams, which indicates that they flew over dry land and probably hunted terrestrial (land-living) animals as well.
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Quetzalcoatlus was the largest and also one of the last of the pterosaurs. It soared over Texas right up until the end of the Cretaceous Period, looking down on dinosaurs like Alamosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. It did not survive in the great extinction event that marked the end of the Mesozoic Era.
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We wrap up the 13th Sunday of the NFL season by looking at a handful of players who exceeded expectations and a handful who failed to deliver. Surprises Russell Wilson, Seahawks: I know Wilson shouldn't surprise me anymore, but the guy led an unbelievable 97-yard touchdown drive in the final minutes against a great Bears defense on the road and then never let Chicago touch it in overtime. That was the rookie's most impressive effort yet. Brady Quinn, Chiefs: Jamaal Charles was the key to Kansas City's emotional victory over the Panthers, but Quinn had his best game since -- well basically since his Notre Dame days. The much-maligned custodian quarterback completed 83 percent of his passes, threw two touchdowns and didn't turn it over on Sunday. Greg McElroy, Jets: Small sample size, I know, but McElroy relieved Mark Sanchez after Sanchez threw three interceptions and ended up playing very well. He completed five of his seven passes and led the game's only touchdown drive. Who knew we'd have a quarterback controversy in New York this year and it wouldn't involve Tim Tebow.... Donnie Avery, Colts: He hadn't scored since Week 1 and had gone over 65 yards only once since Week 2, but Avery had 91 yards and two touchdowns in Indy's dramatic victory over the Lions. Jacob Tamme, Broncos: He hadn't caught more than six passes or picked up more than 50 yards in a game this season before catching nine for 89, leading all Denver receivers as the Broncos won their seventh straight game. Disappointments Ryan Tannehill, Dolphins: Against a weak New England pass defense, Tannehill was completely ineffective in a crippling loss to the Patriots, completing only 13 of 29 passes and failing to find the end zone. Rookies will have off days, but this was a big home game for Tannehill, and he fell on his face a little bit. C.J. Spiller, Bills: This isn't on Spiller, really. The guy played well against Jacksonville. I'm more disappointed in the Bills, who pissed off Spiller fantasy owners again this week by giving Spiller only 14 carries while Fred Jackson ran it 25 times. Ridiculous. Frank Gore, 49ers: Gore had his worst game of the season Sunday in St. Louis, providing almost no support for Colin Kaepernick as the Niners fell short against their division rival. He had just 58 yards on 23 carries. Arian Foster, Texans: Only 53 total yards on 19 touches for Foster against Tennessee. He and the Texans probably don't care because Houston won, but fantasy owners have to be bothered by how much Justin Forsett is cutting into his reps. Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals: I sympathize with Fitzgerald and his quarterback situation, but he still has to do better than this. The future Hall of Famer had just one 23-yard catch in the loss to the Jets.
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