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Made from modified linseed and safflower oils, Winsor & Newton Artisan Oil Colour has a soft, buttery consistency that handles just like conventional oil colour, but can be thinned with water rather than hazardous solvents. Clean up is easy with just soap and water! Of Oil and Water and Chemical Marriage Counselors Just because oil and water don't mix in your kitchen doesn't mean there aren't other methods to make them happy in each other's company. A most effective route is through the addition of a chemical emulsifier - a kind of molecular marriage counselor - that has an attraction on one side of the molecule for water and, on the other, 'warm feelings' for oil. The result? A happy match made, if not in heaven, at least in the laboratory. A marriage that is highly stable and eminently practical - particularly when you want to use water as a solvent to loosen up oil colour or to clean brushes. Artisan Water Mixable Oils work in exactly this way. Formulated with modified linseed and safflower oils, Artisan is, in every way, shape, and form an oil colour.
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- jaynemrose, Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:10:16 UTC.
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When I went back to painting in 1999, I decided to try the "new" water-mixable oil paints over the traditional oils I had used years before. Since it had been so long since I used any kind of oil paint, I had a very easy time with getting used to this new medium.
Some oil painters tend to look down on these without really giving them a chance. I now ONLY paint in these. They ARE oil paint, just processed a bit differently. I use Liquin as a medium to help loosen up some of the less-buttery paints, but there are many colors in traditional oils that are stiffer than others too. Liquin or other water-mixable mediums are readily available to assist in this manner.
My paintings sell quite well and they are always categorized as oil on board (or canvas). Depending on the thickness that I apply them, they take about a week to dry, just like traditional oils. Although since I've started using Liquin, that time has definitely been cut down.
Maybe I should do a review on Liquin!
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- uneekphoto, Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:37:43 UTC.
This is my prefered typ of oil because there is no need for expencive and smelly chemicals to clean up. it cuts the effort and time of clean into 1/4 the time of traditional oils, and they are every bit as good as other paints. once dry they are the same.
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- intuitivecat, Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:01:49 UTC.
Absolutely LOVE working with these. great for working somewhere between the speed of acrylics and the richness of oils with the ability to manage drying time rather easily. Love the fact that i do not have to use solvents.
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When I first bought this product I was a bit skeptical but after doing my first painting with them found the result to be great. It's hard to get the same flow as you would with traditional oil paints as I work in large scale, but not having to deal with the burdensome task of using turpentine, paint thinners and other wonderful poisonous materials to clean up was a breath of fresh air - both figuratively and literally!
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- Spanky_P, Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:39:03 UTC.
I developed allergies and sensitivities to toxins so when I wanted to try oil painting these paints were the only water-based oils available at the time. I immediatly fell in love with them. After using acrylics for so many years, I found that Winsor & Newton Artisan Oils handled much like acrylics with the addition of blending unlike acrylics. My oil paintings are vibrant and rich with color. I"m happy to recommend these to anyone with allergies or not!
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- Account Removed, Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:16:50 UTC.
At first I was skeptical about using them. I like the complete difference of oils and acrylics, including the mediums and solvents used. After trying a few studies with water-mixables I have found that I love them. Not only do they blend and texture like oils but you are also at peace of mind that you are not using turpentine.
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- zorthon3278, Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:28:02 UTC.
I knew that someone would would come up with something like this! I just did'nt know when....at first I thought that it would be difficult to use, but when i tried it, viola! it was GREAT........I LOVE THIS PAINT....Great for Portraits and easy to use!Leonardo would've preferred this Product for the MONA LISA if they had it back then!
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- Rayjaywarn, Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:43:52 UTC.
When I first started painting, I was using all regular oils, but I discovered these water soluble oils and I love them. They are great for when you don't have a lot of time, but you have a lot of inspiration and the clean up is super easy. They feel great and create texture easily. I love them.
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These are good paints but they are not really the feel of oil paints for me, but they are quite economical and if you don't like harmful chemicals they are a good start.
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She didn't sign a consent form and audibly objected to having her body exposed, but the jury somehow decided that the mere act of being there showed that she was totally game for having her breasts in the film.
Now, the woman, known only as Jane Doe, is getting a new trial, as ordered by St. Louis Circuit Judge John J. Riley.
The backstory: in 2004, Doe and some friends met for drinks and dancing at the now-defunct Rum Jungle in Laclede's Landing. The Girls Gone Wild crew was in the house, and they say there were signs posted in and on the club alerting patrons that they could be filmed. Doe was dancing near a camera when another woman pulled her top down, exposing her breasts. Doe visibly and audibly objected, and immediately covered herself back up.
Years later, a friend of her husband's recognized her face when the scene was spliced into a porn scene in Girls Gone Wild: Sorority Orgy 2. Doe sued GGW, and the jury found that merely by being there, she gave implied consent.
At the time, the jury foreman, Patrick O'Brien, told the Post-Dispatch, "Through her actions, she gave implied consent. She was really playing to the camera. She knew what she was doing."
Yeah, like clearly saying no when she was exposed against her will. That sure doesn't sound like consent to us.
On Monday, Judge Riley ordered a new trial in the case. In his ruling, he writes, "It is clear from viewing the video that plaintiff was an unwilling participant in the exposure of her breasts and she can be seen visibly mouthing 'no'. In the raw footage, she can be heard objecting audibly."
So now Doe gets a new trial and the frat boys at Girls Gone Wild get another chance to try to use the tired old "she was asking for it" defense.
Here's hoping some sense prevails this time around. And here's wondering if the woman who pulled down Doe's top will ever face sexual assault charges for, you know, sexually assaulting her.
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Since building his famous Woodland House from his own woodland, author Ben Law has evolved his own style of natural building, now tried and tested on many other builds across England. Ben has built houses, workshops, a classroom, lean-tos, a shop and a store to industrial specifications. Whilst this styles origins can be found in traditional forms of building, Ben has developed an entirely new vernacular using many innovative ideas and techniques. Filled with detailed colour photographs and drawings, this unique and practical how to book, is unquestionably a benchmark for sustainable building. Roundwood Timber Framing encourages communication between woodsmen, planners, architects and builders, and helps to close the loop between environmental conservation, use of renewable local resources and the regeneration and evolution of traditional skills, to create durable, ecological and beautiful buildings. Ben is a now a much admired figure. His previous books have sold extremely well and this book, with its highly original and fascinating contribution to design and build, is set to capture the publics imagination and desire to increasingly learn traditional crafts.
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Recently, the Assembly passed a bill proposed by Republican Rep. Paul Tittl to raise the speed limit of our highways to 70 mph. The Senate has yet to act. I wonder how Post-Crescent readers feel about this fast-tracked bill.
I'm strongly opposed to raising the speed limit. It'll be expensive and dangerous for me, and I believe it will be inconvenient, too.
I won't have a choice about my driving speed; I have to keep up with traffic. I will have to drive faster.
It's expensive, partly because gasoline is less efficient at higher speeds. I'll be forced to drive faster and consume more gasoline. Are legislators planning to offer a tax credit to help me purchase that extra gasoline?
Believe it or not, the need for extra gasoline is harmful to the environment, tends to cause world strife and hastens the day when we eventually run out. We should work to conserve gasoline rather than legislating the requirement to use more.
I believe higher speeds deteriorate cars faster, meaning more repairs and shorter life for my car.
It's dangerous. Faster speeds simply mean more accidents, and the accidents will be worse. Injuries will be more serious and car damage will be worse.
More accidents from higher speeds, or because of more variation in traffic speeds, mean more inconvenient long waits on the highway. How does this pretend to benefit anyone?
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With a forestal perimeter, the open-plan's gathering spaces seem as if they are being embraced by trees and natural light throughout the day. The zen-like living room is draped in soothing grey and white with hints of yellow and turquoise across the contemporary furnishings and accessories. A massive stone fireplace is freestanding, creating a partition for the room without obstructing any views. The Buddha resting on the mantel contributes to the positive energy of this relaxing living zone.
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Composer R. Murray Schafer enchants the forest
BY Kelly McCarthy-Maine
Photography by Erin Seaman
Late on a summer's eve, Earth Mother floats on a candlelit lake, birds and animals talk, and the forest buzzes with fairies. As the sun sets, a majestic white stag meets its death and an evil wizard, bent on razing the forest for timber profits, threatens to destroy the delicate cycle of natural life as an old crone, a shape-shifter, and a handful of magic crystals save a wolf from a deadly plot.
Last year, the woods truly came alive before the audience of a wonderfully imaginative site-specific musical theatre production by Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer, appropriately titled Enchanted Forest. This year, in the same Haliburton, Ontario, forest, Schafer will be recreating Tang Dynasty China, using four-foot-high puppets, in The Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix. Both shows are part of Schafer's prolific Patria Cycle (10 parts in all, plus a prologue and epilogue). Written over the course of almost 40 years, Patria is a series of interwoven myths and tales of ecological sustainability, love and transformation presented as musical dramas. Each part depicts the struggle of two lovers trying to find each other across time and space. They are often staged in unusual ways, most often outdoors, sometimes before dawn, other times at night. It depends on what Schafer thinks would have the best effect.
Schafer's creativity and acoustic genius have found a home of late in the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve, Canada's first certified sustainable forest. The stunning 60,000-acre private reserve contains 300 kilometres of trails that wind around more than 50 lakes and hundreds of wetlands—just the right size for a man with Schafer's musical and theatrical imagination.
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, in 1933, Raymond Murray Schafer grew up in Toronto, eventually studying at the University of Toronto and the city's Royal Conservatory of Music. While a professor at Simon Fraser University during the 1960s and 70s, he gathered together a group of students and young composers to form the World Soundscape Project. It began simply as an exercise to study the impact of noise pollution on life in the city, but led to the collective recording The Vancouver Soundscape and, later, a cross-Canada recording, which was featured on CBC Radio's Ideas. And the project didn't stop there. Schafer went on to lead a tour across Europe, investigating the "soundscapes" of five different villages in Sweden, Germany, Italy, France and Scotland (the book European Sound Diary describes their adventures in listening).
But it was when Schafer returned home to Canada's forests and lakes that his work literally went wild. And he hasn't looked back. "I realized my music was going to change as a result of living in nature," he remembers. "I started to experiment with music, listening to the birds living across the lake, playing to each other. At various times of day, I began trying to get a dialogue going between the sounds of nature and the sounds that I produced." Thus, Canada itself, with its physical landscape and wild creatures, plays the role of collaborator in Schafer's work.
Much of the composer's work depends on active listening, which entails being attentive to what he calls the "musical perfume" that exists in most sonic environments. "If you can figure out where that is going to happen, and put the audience in the perfect spot, then they will hear something very special," he says. "Acoustically, it often sounds different than most sounds you will ever hear."
Asked whether he considers himself an environmentalist and an activist, Schafer answers "yep" to both questions. He believes that creativity is transformative and hopes getting people to hear the environment in new ways will help them forge relationships with nature, from which they may have become disconnected, especially since such relationships are becoming more and more precious. With increasing numbers of Canadians residing in cities, Schafer says he worries about the effect that noise pollution is having on our lives, "The rising level of sound, the hum of traffic in cities blunts our experience as human beings."
But his work, like the birds calling across the lake, is all about give and take.
"Nature participates. Nature influences the performance. Nature is the star. It is like participating with the cosmos," he says. "It is something I recovered. It is something we used to all know."
At the end of Enchanted Forest, the cycle of life begins anew. A white stag is re-born under the moon and Earth Mother reminds us that nature appears on her own terms—in much the same way that Schafer stages his performances—on his own terms.R. Murray Schafer's Palace of the Cinnabar Phoenix runs August 31 to September 3 and September 6 to 9, 2006, in the Haliburton Forest and Nature Reserve, in Haliburton, Ontario.


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Lowe's Grove school placed on lockdown after fights break out
Police and sheriff's deputies were called Thursday to Lowe's Grove Middle School after multiple fights broke out and the school was placed on lockdown, authorities said.
No injuries were reported.
Capt. Adam Clayton of the Durham County Sheriff's Office said 10 students were suspended in connection with what he described as "small fights." He said school administrators were trying to determine what provoked the fights, but said they did not appear to be gang-related.
Clayton said no weapons were found.
The first fight apparently began at lunchtime in the school cafeteria, and others followed in hallways after the commotion snowballed, he said.
Lowe's Grove normally has one deputy at the school – called a school resource officer – plus an off-duty officer who comes in at midday. But more deputies will be assigned to the school today as a precaution.
Clayton said he doesn't expect more trouble at the school today, however, because the suspended students won't be there.
Chip Sudderth, a spokesman for the Durham Public Schools, confirmed that a fight broke out in the cafeteria, but said officers were not required to break up it up. He said officers were called after that disturbance "to maintain the integrity of the instructional day."


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Bruso has nuts ! Who cares? Sarno still has been giving the voters lip service. He wants to close all the bars so his friend the casino can move right in. Remember when he said vote for me-I will abolish the trash tax? The list continues.
And once the recall passes, maybe the idiot can then reimburse them because he is the real cause of the recall. He still doesn't get it.
How much money did it cost to save people in Boston 15 minutes of drive time? All the money from the casinos will go indirectly to this project. Massachusetts will suffer financially for years because of poor decisions.
It's about time Governor.
Comparing the Minutemen to the Red Sox? The Red Sox draw from through out the Northeast. Football needed to stay in Amherst. It is only for the 'elite' now.
Comparing Lloyd's situation to Ray Allen's is meaningless in your article. What if Wes Welker left for the Giants or the Jets, would you still say you love the guy and it was ok? Ray going to the Heat was little Ray's way of taking his ball and going home. Grow up Ray, you blew it.
As long as this 'highly intelligent' individual pays for all the expenses to save his life, there should be no problem. In any sport, the risk goes down if you know what you are doing CAM. mick 99 had it right.
You know some rich CEO who just fired a thousand people and got a $1 million bonus for it will throw his money at the ball like it's nothing.
It worked for 30 years so why switch it? Is that too tough for you to understand? People I talked to at parade were unhappy with it. Does that make sense?
Why change something that was working? They could still assemble at the high school but continue the same direction as previous years-new direction didn't work in some areas.
The carnival sounds like a fun place. Other than destroying the baseball fields every year and adding to crime and pollution in the neighborhoods.
Destorys? New look-same mistakes.
We are closing our libraries yet installing new trees and 'antique' lighting. Does anyone in government have common sense anymore?
What about the massive radiation being released into the oceans every day by Japan? Does that hurt the environment? Let's solve the big problems first.
A mentor? The Patriots didn't sign him to be a mentor. This guy has skills and will make huge impact.
Bard will be a good closer. You need someone who can get the K in the ninth. Aceves can't do it. Wildness will keep the opposing hitters on their toes. Valentine is making the moves including telling Yoooouk he can't do it. Francona who?
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This explains why the Republican has been pro-casino for Springfield while the voters have turned it down...so much for the media being fair to issues !
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Carnage Nottingham: Company defends student bar crawl
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A COMPANY which arranges an annual pub crawl among students in the city centre has defended its events.
The Carnage UK event is organised by the Varsity Leisure Group.
It saw hundreds of scantily-dressed students tour round some of Nottingham's bars and clubs on Sunday night.
Students wear official Carnage T-shirts in return for bar entry and £1 drinks.
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The event has been criticised for encouraging binge drinking.
One image from Sunday showed a girl slumped in a doorway surrounded by paramedics and her friends.
A spokesman for the Varsity Leisure Group insisted they were acting responsibly.
He said: "VLG continues to disseminate useful information on personal safety. This is communicated via various communication channels, which include printable information on T-shirts, advertising flyers and posters.
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Jeff Marquez' locker is cleared out at the White Sox spring training complex, making it all but official that Lastings Milledge and Brent Lillibridge will make the opening day roster.
It's not surprising that Milledge made the opening day 25-man roster, but it is surprising Lillibridge will join him. Milledge hit .315/.433/.556 with 11 walks, 12 strikeouts and three stolen bases—fully deserving of a roster spot despite the inherent small sample size of spring. But Lillibridge had a poor spring, posting a .239/.294/.413 with four walks and 10 strikeouts. And Marquez had a good showing in March, striking out 16 while walking two over 17.1 innings. Given all that information, it's quite surprising Lillibridge made the roster over Marquez, especially in the face of Philip Humber's impending status as the No. 5 starter.
What this means for the White Sox is...well, they'll have a deep bench. Between Milledge, Lillibridge, Mark Teahen, Omar Vizquel and Ramon Castro, the Sox won't have a shortage of players for spot starts and late-inning substitutions. Unfortunately, it also means the Sox bullpen could very well end up stretched. That's a worrisome scenario, as wearing out a bullpen early could have lasting effects for the rest of the season. But if the Sox didn't keep Lillibridge, he'd have to be placed on waivers—and it's obvious the organization didn't want to potentially lose his services. On the other hand, Marquez will be placed on waivers, so essentially the Sox valued Lillibridge over Marquez in context-neutral situation. The context of the situation seems to tell us Marquez would've been the better pick, but really, we're talking about the last player on the 25-man roster. That player won't have a serious impact anyway, so while Marquez would've seemed to make more sense, that the Sox went with Lillibridge hardly is a big deal.


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A communications cable comprising a core of at least one transmission medium and a plastic jacket includes provisions for preventing the movement of water within the cable. An impregnated tape (35) is interposed between the core and the jacket and is wrapped about the core to form a longitudinal overlapped seam. The tape comprises a substrate tape (37) which is impregnated with a superabsorbent material which upon contact with water swells and inhibits the further movement of the water. The tape and its thickness are controlled so that the thickness is minimal while the tensile strength of the tape and its porosity prior to impregnation are optimized.
1. A waterblocking tape, which comprises:
a single non-woven substrate tape which comprises a spunbonded non-woven plastic material and which prior to any treatment thereof has a relatively high tensile strength; and
a superabsorbent material which impregnates said substrate tape to fill substantially cells thereof such that said substrate tape after impregnated with said superabsorbent material has a relatively low porosity compared to its porosity prior to impregnation.
2. The tape of claim 1, wherein said substrate tape has a relatively small thickness and is a spunbonded polyester material which comprises continuous filament polyester fibers that are randomly arranged, highly dispersed and bonded at filament junctions.
3. The tape of claim 1, wherein said tape has been impregnated with a mixture which comprises water and a superabsorbent material in which the mixture comprises about 4 to 7% by weight of solids.
4. The tape of claim 1, wherein said superabsorbent material is a film comprising an acrylate polymer which includes acrylic acid and sodium acrylate.
5. The tape of claim 4, wherein said impregnated tape has a unit weight which is equal to about 1.1 to 1.8 ounces per square yard.
6. The tape of claim 1, wherein the density of the impregnated tape is about 10 to 80% greater than the density of the unimpregnated substrate tape.
7. The tape of claim 1, wherein said superabsorbent material is a film which includes acrylate acrylamide.
8. The tape of claim 1, wherein the porosity of said tape prior to the impregnation thereof is in the range of about 120 to 1000 CFM/ft2 at 0.5 inch of water.
9. The tape of claim 1, wherein said tape has a thickness which does not exceed about 0.010 inch and a tensile strength which is at least about 5 lbs/inch of width.
10. The tape of claim 9 wherein said tape prior to impregnation thereof has a porosity in the range of about 300 to 1000 CFM/ft2 at 0.5 inch of water.
11. The tape of claim 1, wherein said waterblocking material is selected from the group consisting of (a) polyacrylic acid; (b) polyacrylamide; blends of (a) and (b); salts of (a) and (b); and copolymers of (a) and (b).
This is a division of application Ser. No. 07/115,123 filed Oct. 30, 1987, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,526.
This invention relates to a water resistant communications cable. More particularly, it relates to a communications cable which includes facilities for preventing the passage of water through a sheath system of the cable and the longitudinal migration of water along the interior of the cable.
In the cable industry, it is well known that changes in ambient conditions lead to differences in vapor pressure between the inside and the outside of a plastic cable jacket. This generally operates to diffuse moisture in a unidirectional manner from the outside of the cable to the inside of the cable. Eventually, this will lead to an undesirably high moisture level inside the cable, especially if a plastic jacket is the only barrier to the ingress of the moisture. High moisture levels inside a cable sheath system may have a detrimental effect on the transmission characteristics of the cable.
Furthermore, water may enter the cable because of damage to the cable which compromises its integrity. For example, lightning or mechanical impacts may cause openings in the sheath system of the cable to occur, allowing water to enter, and, if not controlled, to move longitudinally along the cable into splice closures, for example.
Lately, optical fiber cables have made great inroads into the communications cable market. Although the presence of water itself within an optical fiber cable is not detrimental to its performance, passage of the water along the cable interior to connection points or terminals or associated equipment may cause problems and should be prevented. Further, in some climates, the development of ice within an optical fiber cable may have a crushing influence on the optical fibers in the core which may affect adversely the attenuation thereof.
In the prior art, various techniques have been used to prevent the ingress of water through the sheath system of a cable and into the core. For example, a metallic shield which often times is used to protect a cable against electromagnetic interference is provided with a sealed longitudinal seam. However, because lightning strikes may cause holes in the metallic shield, it is not uncommon to include additional provisions for preventing the ingress of water into the core. Filling materials have been used to fill cable cores and to coat portions of cable sheath systems to prevent the movement longitudinally thereof of any water which enters the cable. Although the use of a filling material causes housekeeping problems, inhibits line speeds because of the need to fill carefully interstices of the core and presents problems for field personnel during splicing operations, for example, it continues to be used to prevent entry of the water into the core.
Presently, many commercially available cables also include a water-swellable tape. The tape is used to prevent the travel of water through the sheath system and into the core as well as its travel longitudinally along the cable to closures and termination points, for example. Such a tape generally is laminated, including a water swellable powder which is trapped between two cellulosic tissues. Further included may be a polyester scrim which is used to provide tensile strength for the laminated tape. Although such a tape provides suitable water protection for the cable, it is relatively expensive and thick. If the tape is too thick, the diameter of the cable is increased, thereby causing problems in terminating the cable with standard size hardware.
What is needed and what does not appear to be available in the marketplace is a tape which is relatively thin and relatively inexpensive. Such a tape should be one which is compressible and which has acceptable tensile properties. Also, because in some optical fiber cables, the tape is engaged by helically wound metallic strength members, it should be able to conform to the configurations of those members and to allow those members to become bedded therein. If the tape has this capability, commonly used strength member wires will not move about and will provide torsional stability from layer to layer. On the other hand, if the tape does not have this capability and if all the wires were to assume positions on one portion of the periphery, the cable would not be balanced torsionally and would be very difficult to bend.
Care also must be taken to avoid problems caused by what is referred to as bleed-through of molten plastic jacketing material. With a tape comprised of a highly porous substrate material, the greater the linespeed the greater the flow of the molten plastic material into the tape and the more difficult it becomes to strip the jacket to expose the core. As a result, it has been known that the use of such a highly porous substrate material severely limits the line speed.
Seemingly, the prior art does not disclose a cable which is provided with a water arresting tape having all the hereinbefore-identified properties and which is relatively easy to incorporate into a cable. The solution to this problem should bring rewards in that smaller size cables and higher line speeds will be achievable.
The foregoing problems of the prior art have been overcome with the cable of this invention. That cable includes a core which may include optical fibers or metallic conductors and a plastic jacket. Interposed between the core and the jacket is an elongated substrate member which comprises an impregnated non-metallic, non-woven web-like material in the form of a tape. The non-woven, web-like material of which the substrate member is comprised has a relatively high tensile strength and is relatively thin. Such a material is relatively compressible and has sufficient porosity to permit entry of sufficient impregnating material so that it provides enhanced water-blocking capability after it has been included in a cable. Before being impregnated with the water-swellable material, it has a relatively high porosity.
The substrate member is impregnated with a material which is held in the non-woven, web-like member in suspension without its being reacted. When exposed to water, the impregnating material reacts to swell and cause the tape to prevent the passage of water through the sheath system toward the core and its migration in a direction longitudinally along the cable. In a preferred embodiment, the impregnating material comprises a film of a water swelling or so-called superabsorbent material. In another embodiment, a tape may be treated with a paste comprising a superabsorbent material. The impregnating material may be a polyacrylic acid having a saponification in a relatively wide range or it may be a polyacrylamide. Also, the impregnating material may comprise blends or salts of polyacrylic acid or polyacrylamide, or copolymers or derivatives of the acrylic acid and the acrylamide.
Other objects and features of the present invention will be more readily understood from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a communications cable having a sheath system which includes a water blockable tape with various layers of the sheath system broken away and some of the layers exaggerated in thickness for purposes of clarity;
FIG. 2 is an end sectional view of the cable of FIG. 1 which illustrates some elements of the cable in greater detail;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another cable of this invention which includes a water blockable tape; and
FIG. 4 is an end sectional view of the cable of FIG. 3;
FIGS. 5 and 6 are perspective and end sectional views of still another cable of this invention which includes a water blockable tape;
FIGS. 7 and 8 are perspective and end sectional views of another embodiment of this invention; and
FIG. 9 is a perspective view of yet another embodiment of a cable of this invention.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 and 2, there is shown a communications cable which is designated generally the the numeral 20. It includes a core 22 comprising one or more optical fibers 24--24 and being filled with a material 26 such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,701,016 issued on Oct. 20, 1987 in the names of C. H. Gartside III, et al. The core is enclosed by a sheath system 27 which includes a core tube 28 which encloses the optical fibers, a corrugated metallic shield 29, one or more layers of strength members 30--30 and an outer jacket 32. Disposed between the shield 29 and the core tube 28 is a water blockable tape which is designated generally by the numeral 35. The water blockable tape 35 comprises a substrate or carrier tape 37 which is made of a hydrophobic material and which has been treated with a water blockable material. Advantageously, the treated tape is hydrophilic. A hydrophilic material is one that has a strong affinity for water in that it absorbs water easily.
In a preferred embodiment, the tape 37 is a spunbonded nonwoven polyester material and includes a web structure comprised of randomly-arranged fibers which are bonded primarily at the filament crossovers. Continuity of the fibers of the web, while not necessary to the invention, will provide the web with an increased tensile strength. The fibers may be formed of any plastic resin, or other appropriate material, which is substantially nonhygroscopic, and which has the capability of maintaining its shape in the presence of the temperatures encountered during the extrusion of the jacket 32. The fibers of the web structure are arranged so that air cells or pockets are formed.
A polyethylene terephthalate fiber product, formed into a web structure as described above has been identified under the registered trademark "Reemay" by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated of Wilmington, Del. Presently, the Reemay« web structure is available in various thicknesses and densities from Reemay, Inc. of Old Hickory, Tenn. The properties of Reemay« tapes are further defined and described in Bulletin R-1, dated March, 1986, entitled "Properties and Processing of Reemay« Spunbonded Polyester" from E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Incorporated, Wilmington, Del.
Although in a preferred embodiment, a spunbonded polyester tape is used, others also are acceptable. For example, the tape which is to be impregnated may be a nylon spunbonded fabric, non-woven glass, polypropylene melt blown non-woven fabric, polyurethane spunbonded fabric or TCF cellulose fabric, for example.
Advantageously, the carrier tape 37 of this invention also acts as a thermal barrier. As the jacket is extruded over the shield 29, heat is available for transfer into the insulated conductors. The tape 35 of the cable 20 has the ability to insulate against the heat caused by the extrusion of the jacket.
Another important characteristic of the tape 37 is the stiffness of the body of the material which comprises the tape. Within limits, as the material of the tape 37 is made increasingly stiffer, it is still relatively easy to form the tape longitudinally about the cable core 22, without wrinkling. However, it is important that the material be supple and flacid enough to conform readily to the contour of the outer surface of the core so that a minimal peripheral dimension is presented over which the dielectric jacket is applied. As a desirable consequence, a minimum overall diameter is achieved for the cable which will meet all the necessary requirements.
Stiffness of the material for the tape 37 is controlled by a combination of factors such as the number of fibers per unit volume, thickness of the material, size of the fibers and the amount and type of binder used in the material. Increasing the thickness of the material obviously increases the cost of the material per unit of surface area of cable covered. Increasing the number of the fibers per unit volume or increasing the amount of binder tends to decrease the ability of the material to prevent heat transfer. Thus, at least four factors, formability of the tape 37, cost of the tape, insulative capability of the tape, and its water blocking capability must be considered and balanced in providing the proper material for use on a particular cable.
In a preferred embodiment, the spunbonded polyester tape 37 combines the thermal, chemical and mechanical properties of polyester fibers with a spunbonded structure to provide a tape which is suitable for use in a communications cable. These properties include a relatively high tensile strength and elongation, excellent tear strength, and resistance to temperatures as high as about 400░ F.
In order to render the substrate tape swellable upon contact with moisture, the carrier tape 37 is impregnated with a suitable water swellable material which herein is referred to as a superabsorbent material. As will be recalled, the impregnated tape is designated with the numeral 35.
Superabsorbents are hydrophilic materials which can absorb and retain water under pressure without dissolution in the fluid being absorbed. See J. C. Djock and R. E. Klern "Review of Synthetic and Starch-Graft Copolymer Superabsorbents" prepared for the Absorbent Products Conference held Nov. 16-17, 1983 in San Antonio, Tex. and incorporated by reference hereinto. Properties such as enzyme stability, biodegradability, absorbent capacity and rate of uptake are used to characterize a superabsorbent material. One of the early superabsorbents was a saponified starch graft polyacrylonitrile copolymer. See U.S. Pat. No. 3,425,971. The above-identified patent disclosed saponifying starch-graft polyacrylonitrile copolymers with aqueous bases.
The two major superabsorbents which are available today are cellulosic or starch-graft copolymers and synthetic superabsorbents. There are two major broad classes of synthetic superabsorbents. These are the polyelectrolytes and the nonelectrolytes. The polyelectrolytes are the most important and fall into four classes--polyacrylic acid superabsorbents, polymaleic anhydride-vinyl monomer superabsorbents, polyacrylonitrile-based superabsorbents and polyvinyl alcohol superabsorbents. Of these, the polyacrylic acid and polyacrylonitrile-based superabsorbents are most common. As with cellulosic-graft copolymer superabsorbents, the capacity of synthetic superabsorbents decreases with increasing salinity.
The polyacrylic acid class of superabsorbents includes both homopolymers and copolymers of acrylic acids and acrylate esters. The monomer units usually are polymerized to produce a water-soluble polymer which is then rendered insoluble by ionic and/or covalent cross-linking. Cross-linking of the polymer may be accomplished with a multivalent cation, radiation, or with a cross-linking agent. The absorbency of the product is determined by the number of ionizable groups, usually carboxylates, and the cross-linking density.
The cross-linking density affects not only the absorbency, but also the time required to absorb and the strength of the gel formed. Generally, the higher the cross-linking density, the stronger is the gel which is formed. The time to reach absorbent capacity decreases as the cross-linking density increases, and the absorbent capacity decreases.
The spunbonded carrier tape 37 may be impregnated with any of several water blocking superabsorbent materials. In a preferred embodiment, it is impregnated with a superabsorbent material which is derived from an aqueous solution comprising acrylate polymeric material which combines acrylic acid and sodium acrylate functionalities and water.
The impregnating material of the preferred embodiment comprises a sodium salt of polyacrylic acid in which all the carboxylic groups may or may not be reacted with sodium. In other words, it is saponified in whole or in part. The level of saponification which may fall within a relatively wide range depends on desired properties. After the substrate tape 37 has been impregnated, the superabsorbent material is dried to provide a film on the tape. It is desirable to impregnate the tape 35 with a film of the impregnating material instead of a powder. The impregnated tape 35 has a density of about 1.1 to 1.8 ounces per square yard which includes the density of the untreated tape 37 increased 10 to 80%, i.e. the add-on, by the treating material.
In another embodiment, a Reemay« spunbonded polyester tape is impregnated with an aqueous solution comprising acrylates and acrylamide polymer powders mixed with water. The tape impregnated with such a composition has a density which may represent an increase as high as about 80% of the density of the untreated tape 37. In each of the embodiments just described, the impregnating material is a mixture of water and a superabsorbent material in which the mixture comprises about 4 to 7% solids when the impregnating material is an aqueous solution and applied.
In general, the tape 37 may be impregnated with (1) a material comprising polyacrylic acid, or (2) a material comprising polyacrylamide or (3) blends of (1) and (2) or salts thereof or (4) copolymers of acrylic acid and acrylamides and salts thereof as well as other similar superabsorbents.
Advantageously, in response to contact with water, the superabsorbent material in a cable structure swells to block the flow of water including that in a longitudinal direction. The superabsorbent material also forms a gel and changes the viscosity of the ingressed water at the point of contact with the superabsorbent material, making it more viscous and consequently developing more resistance to water flow. As a result, the flow of water longitudinally along a cable from a point of entry is reduced substantially.
The carrier tape 37 also possesses specific properties such as porosity and thickness which enhance its use as a water blocking element for a cable, particularly for a communications cable. Of importance is the need for the tape to be made of a material which has a relatively high porosity. It has been found that the water blockability of the tape 37 increases as the porosity of the tape increases. Porosity may be measured by air permeability in units of cubic feet per minute at a specified water pressure. At 0.5 inch of water pressure, typical porosities are in the range of about 120 to 1000 cfm/min.
The water blocking capability of a Reemay« spunbonded polyester impregnated tape is a surprising result. Inasmuch as the Reemay material has a relatively high porosity, it would be expected that moisture would penetrate it rather easily. In at least one catalog which discloses a superbonded polyester tape having a relatively high porosity, mention is made that the tape has a relatively low moisture pickup, presumably by surface tension. This seemingly would lead one away from its use as a water blockable tape for use in communications cables.
Evidently, because it is so porous and hence substantially cellular in structure, the tape 37 is capable of accepting a substantial quantity of the impregnating material. As a result, entering water contacts a substantial area of the impregnating material which is water blocking. There is a surprisingly fast reaction between the water blocking material and the water causing the water blocking material to swell and block off further longitudinal movement of the water along the cable.
The porosity of the untreated tape 37 decreases with increasing thickness for a given thickness. In a preferred embodiment, the Reemay« tape is style 2014 which at 0.5 inch of water has a porosity of 800 CFM/ft2. Reemay tape marketed under code designation 2014 has a density of 1.0 ounce per square yard, has a thickness of 0.008 inch and is formed of substantially straight polyethylene terephthalate fibers. Reemay tape having a code designation of 2024 has a density of 2.1 ounces per square yard, has a thickness of 0.012 inch, has a porosity of 350 CFM/ft2 at 0.5 inch H2 O and also is formed of substantially straight polyethylene terephthalate fibers. Reemay tape having a code designation of 2415 has a density of 1.15 ounces per square yard, has a thickness of 0.014 inch, has a porosity of 700 CFM/ft2 at 0.5 inch H2 O and is formed of crimped polyethylene terephthalate fibers.
Obviously, various other grades and thicknesses of Reemay spunbonded polyester tape or other similar materials may be used. Material densities of up to about 2 ounces per square yard are practical values. Practical material thickness may range from 0.005 inch to 0.012 inch thick. These values by no means limit the invention but represent the presently preferred ranges.
Although the porosity of the substrate tape 37 is relatively high, that of the impregnated tape, if any, is relatively low. As a result, if the tape 35 is disposed adjacent to the cable jacket, bleed-through of the molten jacket plastic does not occur.
The porosity of the substrate tape 35 must be balanced against other properties. For example, because the tape is to be embodied in a cable, it is beneficial for the tape to have a relatively high tensile strength. For a given tape width, the tensile strength decreases as the thickness decreases. Although a larger thickness is desired insofar as tensile strength is concerned, a larger thickness may result in less porosity, at least for those tapes which are available commercially. Therefore, these two properties must be balanced against each other to arrive at a final thickness. As mentioned hereinbefore, the style 2014 preferred Reemay« tape has a thickness of 0.008 inch which is suitable for use in the cables of this invention.
Thickness of the tape 37 also is important from another standpoint. In order to allow the cable to be terminated by standard size hardware, the diameter of the cable must be maintained within a desired range. Accordingly, the thickness of each element of the sheath system must be considered. Therefore, the thickness is established while being mindful of the porosity and the tensile strength. The tape 37 must not be too thin, else the tensile strength is affected adversely, and if too thick, the porosity and overall cable outside diameter are affected adversely.
The water swellable tape may be used as a portion of a sheath system in cables other than that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. For example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,241,979, issued to P. F. Gagen and M. R. Santana, there is shown a cable 40 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) having a core 41, a core tube 42 filled with a waterblocking material 43, an inner jacket 44 and an outer jacket 46 of plastic material. The cable also includes two layers of helically wound metallic strength members 48--48, the layers being wound in opposite directions. An inner layer of the strength members is disposed between the core tube 42 and the inner jacket 44 and the other between the inner jacket and the outer jacket 46. Underlying each layer of strength members in accordance with this invention is a bedding layer which comprises a spunbonded tape 35 which has been impregnated with a water swellable material. Not only do the tapes 35--35, each of which is wrapped about the cable to have a longitudinal overlapped seam 49, assist in preventing movement of the strength members circumferentially of the cable during handling and placement because of its compressibility, but also they prevent the movement of water through the sheath system and serve to inhibit movement of water longitudinally of the cable.
In another cable 50 (see FIGS. 5 and 6) which is used for optical fiber transmission, a core 51 comprising at least one optical transmission media 52 is enclosed by a core tube 54 and two superimposed layers 56 and 57 of strength members. The core is filled with a waterblocking material 53. The strength members comprise a first plurality 62--62 which occupy the first or inner layer and a second plurality 64--64 which occupy only the outer layer. Several of the first plurality also may be disposed in the outer layer. The second plurality provide the cable with a predetermined compressive strength whereas the first and second cooperate to provide tensile stiffness. A plastic jacket 66 encloses the strength members. A spunbonded tape 35 which has been impregnated with a water swellable material is disposed between the strength members and the core tube.
Going now to FIGS. 7 and 8, there is shown another cable 70. The cable 70 includes a core 72, a core tube 74, a corrugated metallic shield 76 and a plastic jacket 78. Extending longitudinally linearly are two strength members 80--80 which are diametrically opposed. These strength members are embedded at least partially in the plastic jacket and engage the shield 76. A water blockable tape 35 is disposed between the core tube and the shield.
In FIG. 9, there is shown a cable 90 which includes a centrally disposed strength member 92 and a plurality of optical fibers 94--94. The optical fibers 94--94 are enclosed in a core tube 96 which is filled with a waterblocking material 97. Over the core is wrapped an impregnated tape 35. The impregnated tape 35 is enclosed by a plastic jacket 98.
An impregnated tape 35 also may be used to cover only a portion of the periphery of a portion of a cable sheath system. Such an arrangement is disclosed and claimed in application Ser. No. 07/115,459 filed of even date herewith in the names of C. J. Arroyo, H. P. Debban, and W. J. Paucke, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,815,813.
It is to be understood that the above-described arrangements are simply illustrative of the invention. Other arrangements may be devised by those skilled in the art which will embody the principles of the invention and fall within the spirit and scope thereof.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The America East conference announced Wednesday that both the University of New Hampshire men's and women's indoor track and field teams were chosen second in the preseason coaches' poll.
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The men, who received one first-place vote and 55 total points, trailed only Albany with 64 points. Binghamton was picked third with 51 points, while UMBC (39 points) narrowly edged out Boston University (38 points) for the fourth-place spot. Rounding out the league was Stony Brook (27 points), Maine (23 points), Vermont (19 points) and Hartford (8 points).
The men are ranked one spot higher than their third-place finish from a year ago. The 2008 Most Outstanding Track Performer, senior Robert Edgerton (Cornish, N.H.), who won the mile and 1,000-meter events last year, will return to defend his titles. The Wildcats only graduated one athlete from their first-place finishing 4x400 relay team and are returning key members in sophomore Gabe Dano (Merrimack, N.H.) and junior William Brehm (Pembroke, N.H.).
The women, who also received one first-place vote and garnered 56 total points, trailed Boston University with 64 points. Albany was third with 50 points, while fourth through seventh place were only separated by four total points. Maine earned fourth (34 points), Binghamton fifth (33), Stony Brook sixth (31) and UMBC seventh (30). Vermont (18) was eighth and Hartford (8) was picked ninth.
The women return last year's Most Outstanding Rookie in sophomore Kaitlin Kwiecien (Hampstead, N.H.) after her impressive first-place time of one minute, 15.40 seconds in the 500 meters. Also returning is junior captain Rita Ciambra (Hanover, N.H.), who won the pole vault with a 3.6-meter jump and went on to earn fifth at the ECAC Championship with a leap of 3.85 meters.
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Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound
I never got my head around
his magnum opus: The Cantos
I've tried so hard but goodness knows
he didn't intend it to be easy
for me or his mate Mussolini.
Perhaps obscurantism was his policy
or perhaps it was not the meaning but the sound.
Whatever it was I went to ground
thinking: "Is this poetry or prose?"
Mascagni would never have him write librettos
not for all the tea in Chinee.
I carried his Cantos everywhere with me
and read them aloud to anybody
who happened to be around.
Who may have liked the sound
and would have, maybe, tapped their toes
to some missed arpeggios.
Perhaps if I had a (Roman) nose
for this formidable prosody
it would be so much clearer to me.
I could tell my friends that I have found
more meaning than the pints I had downed
before the barman called a close.
I've read the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and I propose
the these cantos are harder than any of those
scribes who spend their lives de-meaning poetry
so it is devoid of mystery
(though it still is likely to confound
the loftiest don of an Oxbridge mound).
I'm sure they were written to astound –
filled with tales of forgotten heroes
(Americans, Chinese and some Latinos).
And The Cantos made way for 'A' by Zukofsky
(a much better poet as far as I can see).
Now there nothing more for me to expound.
Except to tell you that my hound,
whose taste improves much as he grows,
has now eaten up my sole copy.


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