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Civil Court Rejects Tax Shelter Tied To KPMG
Publication Date:February 02, 2007
Source:The Wall Street Journal
Author:David Reilly and Paul Davies
Professor Joseph Bankman was quoted in this article about whether KPMG used phony tax shelters to avoid paying taxes.
Joseph Bankman, a tax-law expert at Stanford University law school, said the ruling wouldn't directly give prosecutors ammunition. But the Texas decision robs defense attorneys in the coming New York trial of a chance to argue that a federal judge had found that the structure had merit.

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August 3, 2015
It's going to cost you more for season tickets to see the Aggie Football team play at Kyle Field this fall.
As the university transitions to the SEC, ticket prices are going up $25 per game for students and $50 more for general season ticket holders.
The new price for season tickets now averages $360 dollars a seat.
Texas A&M Senior Associate Athletics Director Jeff Schmahl tells us the move to the SEC is bringing new financial challenges.
"We've only had one season ticket price increase in the last nine years and that was 6.4 percent back in 2008. We continue to have budgetary challenges that we need to meet but there are some increased costs in moving to the SEC Conference," said Schmahl.
There are currently 4,500 on the waiting list for season tickets which athletic officials say is an unprecedented demand.
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|Total population
|Regions with significant populations
|Russia: 108,426 (2002) (in Kabardino-Balkaria only: 104,951),[1] Kazakhstan: 1,798 (2009)
|Karachay-Balkar, Russian
|Sunni Islam, Nondenominational Muslims, Muwahhid Muslims
|Related ethnic groups
The Balkars (Karachay-Balkar: sg. таулу - tawlu, pl. таулула - tawlula) are a Turkish-speaking nation of the Caucasus region, one of the titular populations of Kabardino-Balkaria. They are possibly Bulgars or are descended from them. Their Karachay-Balkar language is of the Ponto-Caspian subgroup of the Northwestern (Kipchak) group of Turkic languages.
History and cultural relations[edit]
Balkars were part of Alania and one of the Vainakh tribes who were influenced by Turkic culture after the Mongol invasion's split of the lowlands of Nakh tribes and adopted the language; genetically they are closely related to Chechens and Ingush.[2] Elements of Balkar culture indicate a long association with the Near East, the Mediterranean, the rest of the Caucasus, and Russia. In the pre-Mongol period (before the thirteenth century) the Balkars were part of the Alan union of tribes, but after the Mongol invasion they retreated into the canyons of the central Caucasus.
According to native ethnogenetic traditions, the Balkars originally settled in the basin of the main Balkar canyon, where the hunter Malkar found success and called his companions Misaka and Basiat of Majar (or Madyar) to join him. The oldest written information about this canyon dates from the fourteenth century and can be found in a Georgian epigraph on a golden cross in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Tskhovati, South Ossetia: the text refers to the canyon in question as "Basianian". In more recent times, in Russian sources, the Balkar population is also referred to as "Basian" and "Balxar".
Legends and chronicles describe the irruption into the fastnesses of Tamerlane's men, who intended to ascend the heights of Mount. Elbrus. The Balkars are mentioned in west European and Turkish chronicles at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Balkars together with the Kabardians mounted a resistance to the Crimean Gireys and maintained relations with Georgia and Russia. In 1827 the Balkars finally became Russian citizens, fixing their loyalty through the institution of amanat (with hostages). At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a small segment of the Balkars (Chegems and Basians) emigrated to Turkey and Syria. After the civil war and the establishment of Soviet power in 1920, the Balkars were integrated into the structure of the USSR and assigned their own national-territorial unit. In early 1944 Joseph Stalin accused the Balkars of collaborating with Nazi Germany and the entire population was subjected to a mass deportation to parts of Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan. The territory was renamed the Kabardin ASSR until 1957, when the Balkar territory was reestablished and most Balkars returned to their native localities.
In 1944, the Soviet government forcibly deported almost the entire Balkar population to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Omsk Oblast in Siberia. Starting on 8 March 1944 and finishing the following day, the NKVD loaded 37,713 Balkars onto 14 train echelons bound for Central Asia and Siberia. The Stalin regime placed the exiled Balkars under special settlement restrictions identical to those that it had imposed upon the deported Russian-Germans, Kalmyks, Karachais, Chechens and Ingush. By October 1946 the Balkar population had been reduced to 32,817 due to deaths from malnutrition and disease. The Balkars remained confined by the special settlement restrictions until 28 April 1956. Only in 1957, however, could they return to their mountain homeland in the Caucasus. During 1957 and 1958, 34,749 Balkars returned home (Bugai, doc. 64, pp. 279–280).[3]
Language and literacy[edit]
In the Cyrillic alphabet as used by the Karachay-Balkars there are eight vowels and twenty-seven consonants. In the past the official written languages were Arabic for religious services and Turkish for business matters. From 1920 on Balkar has been the language of instruction in primary schools; subsequent instruction is carried out in Russian. Until 1928 Arabic letters were used to write the Balkar language and after that (in 1937), Cyrillic. Ninety-six percent of the population is bilingual in Balkar and Russian. Organs of mass culture, secondary school texts, newspapers, and magazines in both Balkar and Russian continue to increase in number.
See also[edit]
- ^ Russian Census 2002: Population by ethnicity(Russian)
- ^ http://genofond.binec.ru/default2.aspx?s=0&p=239
- ^ N.F. Bugai, ed., Iosif Stalin - Lavrentiiu Berii: "Ikh nado deportirovat;": Dokumenty, fakty, kommentarii (Moscow: "Druzhba narodov," 1992).
- Robert Conquest, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities (London: MacMillan, 1970) (ISBN 0-333-10575-3)
- Alexander Nekrich, The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978) (ISBN 0-393-00068-0)


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Motions & Resolutions - April 6, 2009
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|Provost's Action
|Board of Trustees' Action
|Motion FS 08-09/04-01
|A motion to approve the Non-Tenure Track Faculty Committee's recommendation that the university return to the original policy of granting adjunct faculty and part-time staff reduced parking rates for gated and ungated lots on campus. Motion FS 08-09/04-01 passed.
- DPC and Departmental Promotion and Tenure Committees
- Faculty Morale Survey Results (PDF)
- Athletics Feasibility Committee Report (PDF)
- Athletic Department's Response to Faculty Questions Related to Athletics Feasibility Study (PDF)
- Faculty Handbook Revisions - May 22, 2012 (PDF)
- General Administration Criteria for Reviewing Programs (DOCX)
- Results of Senate Survey on Policies Affecting Tenure-Line Faculty (PPT)
- Campus Planning Committee's Report on Carnegie Classification DRU Status (PDF)
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The Link Between Diabetes and Depression
Spotlight on Type 2 Diabetes
Depression is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for depression. Patients with both conditions fare better when both conditions are treated at the same time.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania followed 180 patients over 12 weeks. All had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and depression. Half of the group was enrolled in a program that focused on treating both conditions at the same time, and the rest received standard care for the two conditions.
The integrated care plan included an emphasis on taking medications for both conditions as prescribed. It also helped patients find social support for their conditions.
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At the end of the study, the researchers found that about 60 percent of the patients who had received the integrated care improved both their blood sugar test results and their depression symptoms.
Among the group that received the standard care, 36 percent had better blood sugar results and 31 percent reported an easing of depression symptoms.
The study was published in the journal Annals of Family Medicine.
Higher risk
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) says that although most people with diabetes don't have depression, people with diabetes are at greater risk for depression than are people without diabetes.
And poor blood sugar control can cause symptoms that resemble depression, the ADA says.
Few programs
"Though research demonstrates the link between depression and diabetes, few integrated programs are being implemented in practice," says study lead author Hillary Bogner, M.D.
She says she hopes the study results will encourage more doctors to use an integrated approach to treating both conditions.
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ASEAN-India Seminar on the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity and Public-Private Partnerships
27 November 2012 | Ocean Rooms, 3 & 4, Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore
Co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, the High Commission of India, Singapore, the Confederation of Indian Industry, Singapore and the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS.
ASEAN-RoK Seminar on the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity
31 October 2012 | Island Ballroom A, Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore
Co-organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea and the ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS.
29-30 August 2012 | Hanoi, Vietnam
Organised by the Seoul National University Asian Centre and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences with the support of the Korea Foundation.
Best Practices in Urban Development: Experiences from Southeast Asia
3 July 2012 | Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore
Southeast Asia is urbanising rapidly, with almost 250 million people (more than 40% of the region's total population) living in urban areas. This half-day seminar involved practitioners from around the region sharing their experiences of good practices in urban development. It also included the book launch for "Urbanisation in Southeast Asia: Issues and Impacts", jointly published by the Centre for Liveable Cities and the ASEAN Studies Centre.
Reporting Development in ASEAN
26-27 June 2012 | ISEAS, Singapore
This two-day closed door writers' workshop on "Reporting Development in ASEAN" was held at ISEAS with the support of the IDRC, Canada.
ASEAN Roundtable 2012: Examining the ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard
25 May 2012 | York Hotel, Singapore
The ASEAN Studies Centre at ISEAS, together with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung covened the ASEAN Roundtable 2012 on 25 May 2012. The subject of the roundtable discussions was an examination of the ASEAN Economic Community Scorecard with the key objectives to:
EU-ASEAN Prospects
3 May 2012 | EU-Asia Centre, Belgium
Southeast Asia Launch of ILO Global Employment Trends Report 2012
21 March 2012 | ISEAS, Singapore


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coffee is the bourgeois crack
Now, I know I've told you all before that I started this blog so that I could tell my crazy stories and hope that someone out there would read them, right? Well, in case you missed it, that's the reason. I realized I wasn't all that lonely, being a single girl and all, but occasionally I wished I just had someone to tell my funny stories too. And let me just say that this blog is the best boyfriend ever because now I have lots of someones to listen to me. My blogstalkers rock!
But aside from wanting to be heard, I have to say that I just have a lot of strange things that happen to me, and they are the sorts of things that make for good blogs. I'm not really sure if it's that strange things happen just to me, or if I just have a strange way of looking at ordinary occurances that makes for good blogs. Your call, kids. You tell me.
So today I was at a Starbucks I had never gone to before. Not the one in the picture here, however -- the one in the picture is the Very First Starbucks at the Pike Place Market in Seattle to which I made a pilgramage late last year. But anyway, today, it was a very new Starbucks.
I went in and ordered my grande nonfat latte (I miss the sugar! I miss the fat!) and then stood by the bar to wait. I noticed that the barista boy who was making my drink looked like one of those existential-thinker types. The type who wears all black when he's not at Starbucks. The type with funky facial hair and several piercings. The type who will read his poetry out loud.
Being a fan of freaks, including existential-thinker types, (I was a Philosophy major, don't forget), I said hello to him when he looked up from making my drink. Then we had a little conversation.
Existential Starbucks Boy: How's your day going?
LesleyGirl: Not too bad, how about you?
ESB: I'm tired, so tired. (yawns and shakes head to emphasize his point)
LG: you're tired? Even surrounded by all this coffee?
ESB: Nah, I can't drink it. If I did I'd be like (makes bug-eyed face). I'd never sleep.
LG: Wow, well I'm glad that doesn't happen to me. I enjoy my coffee breaks too much. (I start thinking that I'm running out of things to say here.)
ESB: Yeah, well you know we have tea now too.
LG: I need the high-octane stuff. I tell myself that coffee is the bourgeois crack.
ESB: (laughs) That's funny. But you know, I make a lot of coffee every day for a lot of bourgeois types. They're always in here.
LG: (suddenly intrigued by ESB's contempt for the bourgeois and wondering if he's part of the revolution and if so will he let me join) So what kinds of drinks do they get? What's their preferred potion?
ESB: They're all over -- brewed coffee, frappucinos -- you know, all the trappings of the middle class. Get your frappucino and go drive your big SUV.
LG: (feeling very intrigued by the ESB and wondering what his opinion is of 30-something short curvy girls) That sounds about right.
ESB: (handing me my latte) You gotta do what you can to fight the system. Don't join their fucking club. Enjoy the coffee.
LG: Thanks.
ESB: Peace out.
Peace out? Does that mean he's not part of the revolution and I won't get to join up? I was so looking forward to the dictatorship of the proletariot!
As I sat down on one of the comfy chairs that Starbucks so nicely provides, I was struck by the irony of the situation. A guy working at a Starbucks at a strip mall in a New Jersey suburb complaining about the middle class? Is that not biting the hand that feeds you? And me, nodding along like I understand what he's saying -- am I not part of this same middle class and do I not enjoy at least some of the trappings of the middle class? Not the SUV obviously (never!!!) but there are other perks to being middle class. And being able to afford expensive coffee certainly seems to be one of them.
If that makes me bourgeois, so be it. Now hand me my coffee. It is the bourgeois crack, after all.


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In order to understand the behavior of the whitetail deer it is important to know how they pick up information about their environment and respond to it.
The whitetail's sense of smell is very good allowing it on days with a slight breeze, to pick up the scent of a hunter 150-200 yards away, and this sense is the ultimate decider when it comes to warning them of danger. One decent whiff of a hunter and they are gone. You will sometimes see whitetails licking their nose with their tongue – this moistens air going in their noses which allows them to smell better.
Smell is also important for interpreting the chemical notice boards that advise on what deer are around and their status and territory. Smell is also used to follow other deer.
The whitetail's ears can move independently of each other and each ear can face opposite directions so when fleeing, they can tell if they are being chased, as well as listening for what's up ahead. Their ears can also pinpoint the direction the sound came from. Strong winds reduce the ability of deer to pick up sound and also determine its direction, making the deer nervous on windy days and so they move around less. Sometimes a close loud noise can confuse the deer's sense of hearing such that it stands around trying to determine the source of the sound, usually presenting a firearms hunter with the opportunity for a further shot.
A deer's eyes are located on the side of its head giving it 270 degree vision – the only place they can't see is directly behind them. Their eyes are able to see in daylight as well as darkness. They can pick up the slightest movement, and will often stare intently trying to determine what it is. Sometimes they try the trick of putting their head down to feed and then quickly raising it within seconds to see if the object has moved. If it has – they are usually off. There is still debate about whether deer can see colour. Some studies have said yes and some say no. Based on the cells in their eye however, if they can see colour, it is very limited mainly in the yellow-blue range, with poor vision in the red/orange range.
The Tail
The whitetail deer get their name from this distinctive feature. Although it is conspicuous white, this flag serves an important purpose by communicating to other deer. When it is raised it is serving as a warning to other deer that danger is present, and also assists deer to follow each other when fleeing. If whitetails are trying to sneak away quietly, they usually have their tail closely held to their body.
When the tail is moved up and down and the rump hair is raised, the deer is suspicious. If the deer then becomes alarmed, the tail will become erect. If the deer's suspicions disappear, the tail flicks from side to side once to let other deer know all is well.
The glands on or just below the skin produce chemicals that provide silent communication between deer, which is an advantage when you are hunted by predators. The chemicals provide a language of smells that include the pecking order of bucks, who is in town, who is ready to mate, danger sources, and a scent trail.
The glands include:
Does and bucks make a range of sounds, however in general, they are relatively quiet animals, which is helpful is not advertising your location to predators. Does and fawns communicate through bleats, grunts and whines. During the rut, grunts are made by both sexes, which may become more intense as a 'grunt-snort' sound. Bucks can make a 'grunt-snort-wheeze' which communicates intolerance of his rival. A sound not often heard is a 'tending grunt' made by a buck during the rut as he is following or tending a doe.
Bucks rub their antlers on brush and tree trunks and in doing so, leave a scent from their forehead gland as a chemical signpost. The biggest bucks in a given area rub much earlier in the autumn than young bucks, and also make more rubs, so providing a valuable clue to hunters. Rub lines are often along major travel routes and used year after year.
Scrapes are a notice board advising bucks who is dominant, and also advising does that he will be passing this way again. As the rut progresses, scrapes become more important than rubs.
A scrape is typically about 3-4 feet across, almost always with a licking branch 4-5 feet above the scrape. Chemical messages are left on the licking branch from glands in the head, as well as in the scrape with urine passing over tarsal glands.
When the rut is fully underway, the dominant buck doesn't usually freshen up the scrapes. A lot of the scrapes will also have been abandoned.
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Philippe Quint
Award-winning American violinist Philippe Quint is a multifaceted artist whose wide range of interests has led to several Grammy nominations for his albums, performances with major orchestras throughout the world at venues ranging from the Gewandhaus in Leipzig to Carnegie Hall in New York, a leading role in a major independent film called Downtown Express, and explorations of Astor Piazzolla's music and Nuevo Tango with his band The Quint Quintet. Philippe Quint plays the magnificent 1708 "Ruby" Antonio Stradivari violin on loan to him through the generous efforts of The Stradivari Society®.
A recent winner of "Ambassador of Arts" award presented to Philippe by Brownstone and Gateway Organizations at the United Nations last March, his 2013-2014 season included debuts with the London Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, San Antonio Symphony among others. This season's highlights include debuts with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Kansas Symphony and returns to Indianapolis, San Diego, Oklahoma and Santa Barbara Symphony orchestras. His recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Sofia Philharmonic led by conductor Martin Panteleev, paired with Anton Arensky's String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35 (for violin, viola, and two cellos) featuring cellists Claudio Bohorquez, Nicolas Altstaedt and violist Lily Francis will be released in September 2014 on AvantiClassic.
In the summer 2014 Philippe hosted an evening "Philippe Quint & Friends" presented by Russian American Foundation at the New York Times Center that featured John Corigliano, Joshua Bell, Michael Bacon, J. Ralph and Emily Bergl.
Along with Lou Diamond Phillips, Darren Criss and Lea Salonga, Philippe appeared at the Kennedy Center's "After the Storm" Benefit Concert for Philippines and debuted at the Hollywood Bowl as a part of a special "Joshua Bell & Friends" evening appearing along with Joshua Bell, Los Angeles Philharmonic and actor Glenn Close.
Philippe Quint is the first classical artist to star in the lead role of a major independent film Downtown Express co-starring Nellie McKay from producer Michael Hausmann (Gangs of New York, Brokeback Mountain and Amadeus) and multi-Emmy winning director David Grubin. This 2012 film premiered in New York and Los Angeles as well as at a number of national and international film festivals including Woodstock, New York, Houston (Opening Night), Mons (Belguim), Cuba, Vermont, and Florida.
Philippe Quint's formidable discography includes a large variety of rediscovered treasures along with popular works from standard repertoire. In November 2013, he released to critical acclaim Opera Breve CD with pianist Lily Maisky, a unique collection of opera transcriptions for violin and piano featuring both popular and rare songs, on Avanticlassic. In May 2014, Quint recorded the Khachaturian and Glazunov Violin Concertos with the Bochumer Sinfoniker and Steven Sloane. Always searching and exploring with genres outside of classical music, in 2015 Philippe will be releasing yet another exciting project of creative arrangements titled "Bach XXI" with Matt Herskowitz's Jazz Trio as well as a first recording with his Quint Quintet.
An active chamber musician and in addition to leading his own Chamber Festival in Mexico City, Philippe frequently collaborates with cellists Alisa Weilerstein, Gary Hoffman, Carter Brey, Nicholas Altstaedt, Zuill Bailey, Claudio Bohorquez and Jan Vogler, pianists William Wolfram, Inon Barnatan, Simone Dinnerstein, Jeffrey Kahane, violists Nils Monkemeyer and Lily Francis as well as his esteemed violin colleagues Joshua Bell, Cho–Liang Lin, Vadim Gluzman, Nicola Benedetti, Lara St. John and Chee Yun Kim. Philippe has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Ravinia, Aspen, Rome, Mortizburg, La Jolla, Lincoln Center, and Chautauqua festivals, Kravis Center, UC Davis Presents and at the National Gallery in Washington.
Quint's live performances and interviews have been broadcast on television by CBS, CNN, ABC, BBC World News, NBC, Reuters, Bloomberg TV, as well as by radio stations nationwide including NPR, WNYC and WQXR. His recordings have received multiple "Editor's Choice" selections in Gramophone, The Strad, Strings, and the Daily Telegraph. His remarkable degree of lyricism, poetry and impeccable virtuosity has gripped the eyes and ears of audiences in Asia, Australia, Latin America, Africa, Europe and the U.S. with what The Times (London) describes as his "bravura technique, and unflagging energy."
Quint's first album for Avanticlassic, a recording of the Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concertos and Beethoven's Romances with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería led by Carlos Miguel Prieto, was released in 2012. Gramophone described Quint's performance as "pure sound and refined expression. An account well worth hearing." His recordings of William Schuman's Violin Concerto (2007) and Korngold's Violin Concerto (2009) were both nominated for Grammy Awards. Other critically acclaimed albums include the world premiere recording of John Corigliano's Red Violin Caprices, Ned Rorem's Concerto, Miklos Rozsa's Complete Works for Violin and Piano with William Wolfram, Bernstein's Serenade, and a unique compilation of works by Paganini arranged by Fritz Kreisler, which BBC Music Magazine called "truly phenomenal."
Constantly in demand worldwide, Quint's most recent appearances include performances with the orchestras of London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Minnesota, Bournemouth, Houston, Weimar Staatskapelle, Royal Liverpool, China National, Orpheus, Berlin Komische Oper, Leipzig's MDR at the Gewandhaus, He has performed under the batons of Marin Alsop, Carl St. Clair, Daniel Hege, Andrew Litton, Cristian Macelaru, Kurt Masur, Jorge Mester, Marco Parisotto, Martin Panteleev, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Klauspeter Seibel, Christopher Seaman, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Steven Sloane, Michael Stern, Bramwell Tovey, and Martin Yates among many others.
Philippe Quint studied at Moscow's Special Music School for the Gifted with the famed Russian violinist Andrei Korsakov, and made his orchestral debut at the age of nine, performing Wieniawski's Concerto No. 2. After moving to the United States, he earned both Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Juilliard. His distinguished pedagogues and mentors included Dorothy Delay, Cho-Liang Lin, Masao Kawasaki, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt and Felix Galimir.
The Chicago Tribune proclaimed, "Here is a fiddle virtuoso whose many awards are fully justified by the brilliance of his playing." Among his many honors, Quint was the winner of the Juilliard Competition and Career Grant Recipient of Salon de Virtuosi, Bagby and Clarisse Kampel Foundations.
Korngold Concerto 1st Movement
Korngold Concerto 2nd Movement
Sibelius Concerto 1st Movement
Critical Acclaim
"Clad in black, with his dark hair falling over his closed eyes, Mr. Quint dazzled the crowd with a theme from the movie "The Red Violin"; Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So"; a Paganini Variations; and the Meditation from Massenet's opera "Thaïs."
NEW YORK TIMES "Quint has the power, breadth of tone and passion… "
LOS ANGELES TIMES "Quint made a smashing impression...Make no mistake, this man can play…Quint understood this tour de force pieces celebrate virtuosity and music. He is well acquainted with both."
THE STRAD "No matter what Beriot throws at him, as witness the athletic high jinks of no. 3's finale, Quint emerges completely unscathed and apparently thirsty for more."
GRAMOPHONE "Philippe Quint's panache is stunning and this CD offers some of the most attractive music for solo violin in the entire repertoire".
BALTIMORE SUN "It's a grabber from the first notes. Philippe Quint is the sterling violin soloist; the ensemble sounds taut and fully engaged. Hot stuff."
CINCINNATI ENQUIRER "With his lanky build and shoulder-length dark hair, he looked like a modern day Paganini -and he played like one, too. Violinist Philippe Quint wowed the crowd…brilliant technique and compelling personality.''
HOUSTON CHRONICLE "Philippe Quint was the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Concerto… Quint's performance was beautiful, expansive and thoughtful earning him an unusual second solo bow at the end."
DALLAS MORNING NEWS "The soloist is Philippe Quint … his performance is
elegantly sinuous and musically subtle preferable on my CD player to Gidon Kremer or Zino Francescatti among numerous others who have recorded what remains, for me, Bernsteins finest concert work…"
SUN-SENTINEL "Extraordinary soloist…A few violinists of any generation can make Tchaikovsky's evergreen Concerto spring to life these days. Quint did just that."
LOS ANGELES TIMES "Violinist Philippe Quint played it warmly and with intensity, a down payment on the blazing performance he turned in. The collaboration between Quint and Mester was tight, especially evident in the precision with which they ended the first magical slow movement..."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE "And what a terrific soloist the young Russian born American violinist Philippe Quint makes! …he vanquishes the violin writing with ease. Here is a young fiddle virtuoso whose many awards are fully justified by the brilliance of his playing".
STRAD "Dazzling performance… violinist of uncommon brilliance and flair. Intonation is impeccable and Quint brings to the score the grand gestures of his Russian training".
BALTIMORE SUN "The assured, penetrating performance of Violin Concerto by young Russian born American fiddler Philip Quint demonstrates how deserving Schuman is of attention".
WEST PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS "A legend in the making, Russian violinist Philippe Quint gave a thrilling performance…"
DALLAS MORNING NEWS "Philippe Quint, a Russian-born American, sounds like a first rate violinist here. He is especially eloquent in those passages where the violin enters in a still, small voice after an orchestral cataclysm".
DETROIT FREE PRESS "Philippe Quint's high powered reading would be easy to recommend even if there were a competition".
LONDON TIMES '"The eye and ear were gripped by the soloist…a young Russian-born New Yorker called Philippe Quint....(Stravinsky Violin Concerto).... he displayed bravura technique, unflagging energy, a convincing approach to this theatrical and often sardonic music, and the instincts of a showman. One senses he is heading for even more glamorous destinations..."
HOUSTON CHRONICLE "Performed by the Russian-born violinist Philippe Quint, the Korngold Concerto was the audience favorite. Quint performed with shining tone and large scale of emotions".
LOS ANGELES TIMES "Quint's appearance combined with charismatic articulation and Mozartean grace; here was a tight, stylish and affable reading with minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of tone color. One can hardly remember a performance of a familiar piece at once so complete and so moving."
LOS ANGELES TIMES "The concert continued with the premiere of a violin concerto commissioned from Lera Auerbach, played smartly by twice Grammy-nominated Philippe Quint, to whom the work is dedicated. Quint, also a Soviet defector, played with lyricism, energy and devotion".
THE INDEPENDENT "This Russian born American (Philippe Quint) is not only a superb technician, negotiating Stravinsky's complex rhythms and lyrical flights with equal ease, but also a compellingly mercurial and vivid player, totally at home with this concerto varied moods; Quint is up for a Grammy Award, along with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra itself, for a NAXOS recording of the William Schuman Concerto''.
Quint remains an ardent, technically masterful advocate of the concerto, playing the piece with the utter conviction of one who believes it to be the equal of any work in the standard repertory. His articulation and command of every textual element, particularly in the clarity of his rapid spiccato, were impressive."
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Shoprite, unlike Walmart, Ikea, and Home Depot, is not immediately associated with the concept of "big box store". But the Shoprite planned for Wyckoff, at over 60,000 square feet, falls into that category and has many residents concerned over the exterior architectural design.
Most supermarkets follow trends in marketing which determine how the interior of the store is designed. Fruits & vegetables are usually near an entrance, while milk and other staples are usually in the back to optimize a shopper's time spent in the store. This is helps to encourage the well known impulse buy as people need to pass numerous other items.
The outside of the box stores is what has many communities, including Wyckoff, paying closer attention to the facades of big box stores. Plans for the Shoprite in Wyckoff have been presented publicly twice, and will be presented again prior to going to the Planning Board. The accompanying photograph above represents examples of two different styles.
The supermarket's architects have added dormers and a corner tower to soften lines of the traditional design, but it is still dramatically different than the brick style. This style, which was used for the Lodi Shoprite, is being promoted by some residents who feel it fits in better with Wyckoff's historic nature.
Many stores who routinely fall into the big box category have been working to appease communities who are apprehensive about the typical big box design not fitting into community standards. Several years ago Walmart instituted its "Store of the Community" concept which has developed different designs for communities like North Miami Beach .
Lowe's hardware in Charlotte, NC worked with city planners to incorporate the mega store into the master plan with more curbside appeal than most Lowe's outlets. "It's not just a big gray box," said David Walters, an architect, urban planner and local resident. "It sets a precedent that developers and town planners can use, and it helps raise expectations in other communities."
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AT&T Continues To Build 4G LTE Android Portfolio With The Addition Of Three Smartphones And One Tablet From Samsung
Friday, September 28, 2012
AT&T Continues To Build 4G LTE Android Portfolio With The Addition Of Three Smartphones And One Tablet From Samsung10:39 EDT Friday, September 28, 2012DALLAS, Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T* and Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC (Samsung Mobile)1 announced three new 4G LTE Android? smartphones? Galaxy Express?, Galaxy Rugby Pro? and the Galaxy Note® II ? and one new 4G LTE Android tablet, Galaxy Tab® 2 (10.1), available in the coming months.Samsung Galaxy ExpressFirst-time smartphone users will find their perfect match with the Samsung Galaxy Express, a 4G LTE smartphone that combines high performance features at a great price. Galaxy Express runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and sports a clear and bright 4.5-inch Super AMOLED? Plus screen. The 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 2000 mAh battery helps users stay productive throughout the day; while the 5-megapixel rear facing camera lets you capture and share images easily through text messages, email and social networks. Samsung Galaxy Rugby ProAn ideal mix of brains and brawn, the Samsung Galaxy Rugby Pro gives customers with active lifestyles access to a 4G LTE smartphone that can handle whatever life throws at it. The Rugby Pro is built to military specifications (810g specifications) and is waterproof**, shock resistant and dust proof. It features a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display and a 5-megapixel rear facing camera that lets you record HD video in 720p. Business customers can rest assured that in addition to being protected from every day wear and tear, Rugby Pro also comes with full device encryption and EAS corporate email support. The device will have access to Enhanced Push-to-Talk functionality upon launch of the service. Samsung Galaxy Note IIAnnounced earlier this month, Samsung Galaxy Note II continues to expand the popular category created by the Galaxy Note with improved battery life, a thinner and narrower design and enhancements to the S Pen?. Arriving later this year running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), Galaxy Note II with 4G LTE combines the productivity of a tablet with the convenience of a smartphone and the S Pen features you need to unleash your creativity in a single device. With a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED? display and 1.6 GHz quad-core Exynos? processor with integrated graphics processing unit (GPU), the Galaxy Note II provides PC-like processing power and advanced features like Popup Video, new Gallery views and great gaming performance in a truly pocketable device. Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1"This 4G LTE Android 4.0 tablet delivers entertainment and productivity to fit your whole life. Galaxy Tab 2 10.1" offers a 10.1-inch display and premium entertainment options including Media Hub, Smart Remote and AllShare® Play. Features like on-device encryption and VPN access ensure your tablet is secure for business use. The 7000 mAh battery allows you to stay connected throughout the day. 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This year's theme for children in preschool through fifth grade is "Dig into Reading." The middle- and high-school theme is "Beneath the Surface."
And the Winners are...
Congratulations to the winners of the bookmark design contest for our 2013 Summer Reading Program! Look for the winning bookmarks at all FCPL branches. Click on any of the images below to see them full size.
High School: Zoe Maliszewskyj, 14,
Middletown High School, Middletown Library
Middle School: Cole Mercer, 14,
Thurmont Middle School, Thurmont Regional Library
Grades 3–5: Ailee Miner, 10,
North Frederick Elementary, Brunswick Library
K–Grade 2: Francesca James, 6,
St. John, Middletown Library
PreK: Tegan Yarmus, 5,
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A protective garment, such as a surgical gown, includes a garment body defining sleeves. A cuff may be secured at respective ends of the sleeves. An elastic fiber layer is disposed on the sleeves beginning at the sleeve or cuff. The elastic fiber layer has a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over the elastic fiber layer is inhibited from rolling or sliding back over the elastic fiber and down the sleeve. The elastic fiber may be formed of a polyolefin or other polymers according to known processes and may include a dye or colorant that may be used to indicate the fluid protection level of, for example, a surgical gown.
1. A protective garment, comprising:
a garment body;
a first sleeve and a second sleeve extending from the garment body, each sleeve having a proximal end at the shoulder of the garment body and each sleeve having a distal end in which the material forming the distal end of the sleeve is a multilayer nonwoven laminate including a meltblown fabric layer, and wherein the outermost layer of the multilayer nonwoven laminate consists essentially of an elastomeric spunbond fabric; and
a cuff secured at respective ends of said sleeves; wherein the elastomeric spunbond fabric provides a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over the elastomeric spunbond fabric layer is inhibited from rolling or sliding back.
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a garment body, and
a first sleeve and a second sleeve extending from the garment body, each sleeve having a proximal end at the shoulder of the garment body and each sleeve having a distal end in which the material forming the distal end of the sleeve is a multilayer nonwoven laminate including a meltblown fabric layer and wherein the outermost layer of the multilayer nonwoven laminate consists essentially of an elastomeric spunbond fabric;
wherein the elastomeric spunbond fabric provides a high friction surface such that an end of a glove pulled over the elastomeric spunbond fabric layer is inhibited from rolling or sliding back.
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The present invention relates generally to protective garments for use with gloves, for example surgical gowns used with surgical gloves.
Protective garments, such as coveralls and gowns, designed to provide barrier protection to a wearer are well known in the art. Such protective garments are used in situations where isolation of a wearer from a particular environment is desirable, or it is desirable to inhibit or retard the passage of hazardous liquids and biological contaminates through the garment to the wearer.
In the medical and health-care industry, particularly with surgical procedures, a primary concern is isolation of the medical practitioner from patient fluids such as blood, saliva, perspiration, etc. Protective garments rely on the barrier properties of the fabrics used in the garments, and on the construction and design of the garment. Openings or seams in the garments may be unsatisfactory, especially if the seams or openings are located in positions where they may be subjected to stress and/or direct contact with the hazardous substances.
Gloves are commonly worn in conjunction with protective garments, particularly in the medical industry. Typically, the gloves are pulled up over the cuff and sleeve of a gown or garment. However, the interface between the glove and the protective garment can be an area of concern. For example, a common issue with surgical gloves is glove "roll-down" or slippage resulting from a low frictional interface between the interior side of the glove and the surgical gown sleeve. When the glove rolls down or slips on the sleeve, the wearer is at greater risk of exposure to patient fluids and/or other contaminants.
An additional problem associated with the use of surgical gloves is that as a result of the gloves being pulled up over the cuff and sleeve of the gown, a phenomenon known as "channeling" occurs. That is, the sleeve of the gown is bunched up under the glove as a result of pulling and rolling the glove up over the cuff and sleeve. Channels may develop along the wearer's wrist which may become accessible to patient fluids running down the outside of the sleeve of the gown. Such fluids may enter the channels and work down along the channels between the outer surface of the gown and inner surface of the surgical glove. The fluids may then contaminate the gown cuff, which lies directly against the wearer's wrist or forearm, particularly if the cuff is absorbent or fluid pervious.
Surgeons and other medical personnel have attempted to address concerns with the glove and gown interface in different ways. For example, it has been a common practice to use adhesive tape wrapped around the glove portion extending over the gown sleeve to prevent channels and roll down of the glove on the sleeve. This approach unfortunately has some drawbacks. Many of the common adhesives utilized in tapes are subject to attack by water and body fluids and the seal can be broken during a procedure. Another approach has been to stretch a rubber band around the glove and sleeve. This practice is, however, awkward to implement and difficult to adjust or to vary the pressure exerted by the rubber band other than by using rubber bands of different sizes and tensions, which of course necessitates having a variety of rubber bands available for use. Yet another approach has been to incorporate a band of elastomeric polymer on the gown around the sleeve just above the cuff to provide a surface for the glove to cling to. This approach has also proved less than completely satisfactory.
A need exists for an improved device and method for providing an effective sealing interface between a glove and sleeve of a protective garment, wherein the device is easily incorporated with the protective garment and economically cost effective to implement. A further need exists for a gown sleeve that provides a more effective barrier to fluid while retaining a glove.
The present invention provides a protective garment incorporating an effective and economical means for improving the interface area between the sleeves of the garment and a glove pulled over the sleeves. The improvement inhibits the proximal end of the glove from rolling or sliding back down the garment sleeves once the wearer has pulled the gloves on. In this way, the garment according to the invention addresses at least certain of the disadvantages of conventional garments discussed above.
It should be appreciated that, although the present invention has particular usefulness as a surgical gown, the invention is not limited in scope to surgical gowns or the medical industry.
The protective garment according to the present invention has wide application and can be used in any instance wherein a protective coverall, gown, robe, etc., is used with gloves. All such uses and garments are contemplated within the scope of the invention.
In an embodiment of the invention, a protective garment is provided having a garment body. The garment may be, for example, a surgical gown, a protective coverall, etc. The garment body includes sleeves, and the sleeves may have a cuff disposed at the distal end thereof. The cuffs may be formed from or include elastic fibers, and may be liquid retentive or liquid impervious.
In one embodiment, the sleeve is formed with a layer of spunbond elastomeric fibers on the outside, where it may be contacted by a glove. The entire sleeve may advantageously be made of the elastomeric fiber or it may be a component of the outer layer along with non-elastomeric fibers. The elastomeric fibers are by their nature more tacky than non-elastomeric fibers and so provide a higher surface friction between the glove and garment to help keep the glove in place.
The elastomeric fibers prevent glove roll-down while not causing the sleeves to adhere to the gown body when the gown is folded.
Embodiments of the protective garment according to the invention are described below in greater detail with reference to the appended figures.
Reference will now be made in detail to one or more examples of the invention depicted in the figures. Each example is provided by way of explanation of the invention, and not meant as a limitation of the invention. For example, features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment may be used with another embodiment to yield still a different embodiment. Other modifications and variations to the described embodiments are also contemplated within the scope and spirit of the invention.
As used herein the term "spunbonded fibers" refers to small diameter fibers which are formed by extruding molten thermoplastic material as filaments from a plurality of fine, usually circular capillaries of a spinneret with the diameter of the extruded filaments then being rapidly reduced as by, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,340,563 to Appel et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 3,692,618 to Dorschner et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,802,817 to Matsuki et al., U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,338,992 and 3,341,394 to Kinney, U.S. Pat. No. 3,502,763 to Hartman, and U.S. Pat. No. 3,542,615 to Dobo et al. Spunbond fibers are generally not tacky when they are deposited onto a collecting surface. Spunbond fibers are generally continuous and have average diameters (from a sample of at least 10) larger than 7 microns, more particularly, between about 10 and 20 microns. The fibers may also have shapes such as those described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,277,976 to Hogle et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,466,410 to Hills and U.S. Pat. No. 5,069,970 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,057,368 to Largman et al., which describe fibers with unconventional shapes.
As used herein the term "meltblown fibers" means fibers formed by extruding a molten thermoplastic material through a plurality of fine, usually circular, die capillaries as molten threads or filaments into converging high velocity, usually hot, gas (e.g. air) streams which attenuate the filaments of molten thermoplastic material to reduce their diameter, which may be to microfiber diameter. Thereafter, the meltblown fibers are carried by the high velocity gas stream and are deposited on a collecting surface to form a web of randomly dispersed meltblown fibers. Such a process is disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,849,241 to Butin et al. Meltblown fibers are microfibers which may be continuous or discontinuous, are generally smaller than 10 microns in average diameter, and are generally tacky when deposited onto a collecting surface.
As used herein "multilayer nonwoven laminate" means a laminate wherein some of the layers are spunbond and some meltblown such as a spunbond/meltblown/spunbond (SMS) laminate and others as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,041,203 to Brock et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,169,706 to Collier, et al, U.S. Pat. No. 5,145,727 to Potts et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,178,931 to Perkins et al. and U.S. Pat. No. 5,188,885 to Timmons et al. Such a laminate may be made by sequentially depositing onto a moving forming belt first a spunbond fabric layer, then a meltblown fabric layer and last another spunbond layer and then bonding the laminate in a manner described below. Alternatively, the fabric layers may be made individually, collected in rolls, and combined in a separate bonding step. Such fabrics usually have a basis weight of from about 0.1 to 12 osy (6 to 400 gsm), or more particularly from about 0.75 to about 3 osy. Multilayer laminates may also have various numbers of meltblown layers or multiple spunbond layers in many different configurations and may include other materials like films (F) or coform materials, e.g. SMMS, SM, SFS, etc.
The garment 10 is depicted as a surgical gown for illustrative purposes only. The garment 10 may be any type or style of protective covering that is generally worn about the body and includes sleeves.
The terms "lower" or "distal" are used herein to denote features that are closer to the hands of the wearer. The terms "upper" or "proximal" are used to denote features that are closer to the shoulder of the wearer.
It should be appreciated that the type of fabric or material used for garment 10 is not a limiting factor of the invention. The garment 10 may be made from a multitude of materials, including multilayer nonwoven laminates suitable for disposable use. For example, gown embodiments of the garment 10 may be made of a stretchable nonwoven material so that the gown is less likely to tear during donning or wearing of the gown.
A material particularly well suited for use with the present invention is a three-layer nonwoven polypropylene material known as SMS. "SMS" is an acronym for Spunbond, Meltblown, Spunbond, the process by which the three layers are constructed and then laminated together. One particular advantage is that the SMS material exhibits enhanced fluid barrier characteristics. It should be noted, however, that other multilayer nonwoven laminates as well as other materials including wovens, elastic fibers, foam/elastic fiber laminates, and combinations thereof may be used to construct the garment of the present invention, provided a layer containing elastomeric spunbond fibers is provided as the outermost surface. Examples include SMS laminates where one of the outer layers is spunbond elastic fiber.
The sleeves 16 may incorporate a cuff 26 attached to the distal end 22 thereof. The cuff 26 also has a distal end 28 and a proximal end 30. The configuration and materials used in the cuff 26 may vary widely. For example, short, tight-fitting cuffs made from a knitted material may be provided. The cuff 26 may be formed with or without ribs. The cuff may be formed of a liquid repellant material or a liquid retentive material. Cuffs suitable for use with garments according to the present invention are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,594,955 and 5,680,653, both of which are incorporated herein in their entirety for all purposes.
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Many types of protective gloves, particularly elastic synthetic or natural rubber surgical gloves, have a thickened bead or region at the open proximal end 36. This thickened portion or bead is intended to strengthen the glove 32 and provide an area of increased elastic tension to aid in holding the glove 32 up on the sleeve 16.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the garment 10 includes an elastic fiber layer 40 formed on the outside of the sleeves 16 from the proximal end 30 of the cuff 26 (
The elastic fiber layer 40 may extend up the sleeve 16 a distance greater than the proximal end 36 of the glove 32 extends when the glove is normally donned. The dimensions of the elastic fiber area may vary as the size of the gown may also vary. As shown in
It should be appreciated that the elastic fiber layer 40 can take on many different configurations.
The inventors have surprisingly found that a relatively uniform elastic fiber layer of a low-tack, high-friction polymer is quite effective and lends itself easily to modern manufacturing techniques. The elastic fiber layer 40 may be formed on the sleeve in various known ways and from a variety of materials. It is contemplated that the most cost-effective and rapid is the direct formation of the elastic layer onto the meltblown layer in, for example, as the spunbond layer of an SMS laminate.
The elastic fiber layer 40 may be formed of an inherently low-tack material with high frictional characteristics. This type of elastic fiber increases slip resistance between the glove and sleeve 16 and may be applied directly onto the exterior surface 24 of the sleeve to form the elastic fiber layer 40. In general, the elastic fiber could be any polymer that is sufficiently soft and pliable so as to cling to the inside surface of the glove 32 but at the same time should not have too high a tack level so as to cause the garment sleeve 16 to stick to the garment body 12 when the garment 10 is folded, hence the term "low-tack". The term "high frictional characteristics" means that the coefficient of friction of the fabric having the elastic fiber is higher than the same fabric without an elastic fiber.
Polymers such as metallocene based polyolefins are suitable examples of acceptable elastic fiber formers. Such polymers are available from ExxonMobil Chemical under the trade names ACHIEVE® and Vistamaxx™ for polypropylene based polymers and EXACT® and EXCEED® for polyethylene based polymers. Dow Chemical Company of Midland, Mich. has polymers commercially available under the names ENGAGE® and VERSIFY®. These materials are believed to be produced using non-stereo selective metallocene catalysts. ExxonMobil generally refers to their metallocene catalyst technology as "single site" catalysts while Dow refers to theirs as "constrained geometry" catalysts under the name INSIGHT® to distinguish them from traditional Ziegler-Natta catalysts which have multiple reaction sites.
Vistamaxx™ polymers are advertised as having a melt flow rate of 0.5 to 35 g/10 min., a glass transition temperature of from −20 to −30° C. and a melting temperature of from 40-160° C. Two new Vistamaxx™ grades, VM-2120 and 2125 have recently become available and these grades have a melt flow rate of about 80 with the VM-2125 grade having greater elasticity. Commercial ACHIEVE® grades include 6936G1 and 3854.
Dow's VERSIFY® polymers have a melt flow rate from 2 to 25 g/10 min., a glass transition temperature of from −15 to −35° C. and a melting temperature of from 50-135° C.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,204,429 to Kaminsky et al. describes a process which may produce elastic copolymers from cycloolefins and linear olefins using a catalyst which is a sterorigid chiral metallocene transition metal compound and an aluminoxane. The polymerization is carried out in an inert solvent such as an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon such as toluene. The reaction may also occur in the gas phase using the monomers to be polymerized as the solvent. U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,278,272 and 5,272,236, both to Lai et al., assigned to Dow Chemical and entitled "Elastic Substantially Linear Olefin Polymers" describe polymers having particular elastic properties.
Other suitable elastic fibers include, for example, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers, styrene-butadiene, cellulose acetate butyrate, ethyl cellulose, synthetic rubbers including, for example, Kraton® block copolymers, natural rubber, polyurethanes, polyethylenes, polyamides, flexible polyolefins, and amorphous polyalphaolefins (APAO).
In the practice of the instant invention, elastic polyolefins like polypropylene and polyethylene are desirable, most desirably elastic polypropylene. Elastic fiber may be from 100 percent of the layer to as little as 10 percent, more particularly between 50 and 100 percent. The basis weight of the fabric may be between 0.1 and 10 osy (0.34 and 34 gsm), desirably between 0.5 and 5 osy (0.6 and 15.8 gsm) more desirably between 0.5 and 1.5 osy (0.6 and 51 gsm).
Other materials may be added to the elastic fiber to provide particular characteristics. These optional materials may include, for example, dyes, pigment or other colorants to give the elastic fiber area a visually perceptible color such as yellow, green, red or blue (e.g. Sudan Blue 670 from BASF). These colors may be used to indicate the protection level accorded by the gown according to, for example, the standards of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), e.g., ANSI/MMI PB70:2003. A user would thus be able to select a gown for a surgical procedure where the sleeve color corresponded to or indicated the fluid protection level of the gown.
Fabrics were produced by the spunbond process in order to test the invention. These fabrics were then tested for the coefficient of friction (COF) according to ASTM test method D1894. A control sleeve fabric made from ExxonMobil's PP3155 homopolymer polypropylene (36 g/10 min. melt flow) had a COF of 0.414 in the machine direction (MD) and of 0.538 in the cross machine direction (CD). An inventive fabric made from ExxonMobil's Vistamaxx™ polypropylene had a COF of 0.868 in the MD and of 0.1.332 in the CD. An inventive fabric made from Dow's VERSIFY® polypropylene had a COF of 0.858 in the MD and of 0.1.042 in the CD. The inventive sleeve fabric, therefore, had a COF in either the machine or cross-machine directions that was at least twice that of a traditional spunbonding polypropylene like ExxonMobil's PP3155. Fibers that produce fabrics with such high frictional characteristics will result in less glove slip-down and better protection for the wearer. In addition, these fabrics were not so tacky as to cause "blocking" or the inability to separate them, after they were folded over onto themselves.
It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the embodiments of the present invention described and illustrated herein without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. The invention includes such modifications and variations coming within the meaning and range of equivalency of the appended claims.
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I know many otherwise confident city cooks who are intimidated by the thought of making a soufflé. You really shouldn't be. Despite a name that suggests delicacy and a fragile appearance, soufflés are actually easy to make, sturdy to cook, and a pleasure to eat. I used to think that the slightest error or tremble would cause a soufflé to collapse into an unappetizing puddle. This is not so. For the uninitiated, I'm here to tell you to have a little courage. If you do, I predict that soufflés could become a kitchen favorite. Although soufflés may seem a bit old fashioned and in the same nostalgic food category as fondue, in fact they turn plain eggs into something special, whether savory or sweet. In The Way To Cook, Julia Child's masterpiece (a book for the kitchen counter, not the bookshelf), she explains:
"A reasonably well-assembled soufflé can be an automatic happenstance: a flavor base into which stiffly beaten egg whites are incorporated. When the mixture is baked, the heat of the oven expands the air bubbles in the egg whites and the whole mass rises. It stays puffed the few minutes needed to serve it; then, as it cools, the air bubbles deflate and the soufflé collapses. Soufflés are not difficult when you have mastered the beating of egg whites and the folding of them into the soufflé base."
Soufflés are actually stable and forgiving and there's nothing flimsy about them -- neither in their structure nor their flavor. They're also affordable: 6 eggs and a little cheese can be transformed into an impressive and big flavored centerpiece for lunch or supper for four persons. As Julia Child described, the essentials of a soufflé are a flavored base -- usually a béchamel made with flour, butter and milk -- plus a cloud of beaten egg whites that have been whisked to full volume. If you're a purist with a strong arm, you can whisk the whites by hand in a copper bowl. But a big mixing bowl and an electric mixer are more practical and efficient to use. The process is one of assembly: in a saucepan melt butter, stir in flour, add milk or cream and flavorings, separately beat your egg whites and gently transfer the combination to an oven-proof baking dish that has been prepared with a matching dusting of either savory cheese or sweet sugar. The dish goes into a hot oven with a temperature high enough to prompt the egg whites to rise, giving the soufflé its lift. And will it fall? Should you walk softly while the soufflé is baking? Not to worry. This is the myth of making soufflés, maybe started by some French chef who wanted mystery to surround one of France's gifts to cuisine. The soufflé will rise in about 20 minutes and will only fall about five minutes after it's finished cooking and removed from the oven -- usually while you're serving it. You can even take a soufflé from the oven, jiggle it a bit or use a spoon to check for doneness, and return to the oven for additional cooking without causing it to deflate. It's that sturdy. How do you know it's finished cooking? It will have risen above the top of your baking dish with surfaces that, while not exactly crispy, will be dry and golden in color. The cooking will also produce an aroma of the main ingredient (cheese or chocolate or lemon, etc.). It will have a structure that will barely move as you take the dish out of the oven. If the surface jiggles while you go to remove the baking dish, leave it in the oven for a few minutes longer until it's set. Tips For Cooking Soufflés
I love being able to take a familiar and quotidian ingredient (an egg) and turn it into something unexpected and flavorful -- and what does this more than a soufflé? I hope I've convinced you that despite their reputation, they are almost bulletproof. We've added two recipes: one is savory and made with goat cheese; the other is a dessert version with Grand Marnier. Add a salad and a loaf of favorite bread and a soufflé is a main course. Make space in the top of a just baked sweet soufflé for a pour of custard sauce or softly whipped cream and dessert will be magic. As Julia wrote, what you really will have created is "an automatic happenstance." I would add, perhaps also a little glamour.
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WVU, Marshall Square Off Wednesday Night
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia and Marshall will battle it out for state bragging rights in Charleston on Wednesday night in the Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic at the Charleston Civic Center.
Wednesday night's game is the 41st meeting between the two schools with West Virginia holding a 29-11 all-time advantage. Last year, the Mountaineers defeated the Herd 78-62.
Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and the game can be seen throughout West Virginia on the Capital Classic Network as well as on ESPN Full Court. ESPN3 will also carry the game online in certain areas. Check your local listings.
Game Information
DATE: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012
LOCATION: Charleston Civic Center (12,500) in Charleston, W.Va.
TIPOFF: 7:30 p.m.
SERIES: West Virginia leads 29-11
TV: Capital Classic Network (John Sanders and Frank Giardina)
RADIO: MSN (40 affiliates) Tony Caridi, Jay Jacobs and Kyle Wiggs
OFFICIALS: Announced on game day
Game Notes
• The game will be televised by the Capital Classic Network. It will air on WBOY (Clarksburg), WOWK (Charleston), WVNS (Beckley), WTRF (Wheeling), WTAP-DT3 (Parkersburg), WJAL (Chambersburg, Pa.), ESPN3 and ESPN Full Court.
• West Virginia is 58-20 all-time at the Charleston Civic Center. WVU is 66-22 all-time in Charleston.
• West Virginia's 16-point victory last year snapped a trend of close games. Prior to last year's game, 11 of the last 13 meetings decided by single digits, including two overtime contests.
• It was the largest margin of victory by either team since 1990 when Marshall defeated WVU, 97-80, in Huntington.
• In the last five games in the series, the teams have committed 242 fouls (48.4 per game) and shot 273 free throws (54.6 per contest).
• The Mountaineers have won 47 of their last 54 games in the month of December.
• West Virginia is playing its first season in the Big 12 Conference in 2012-13. The Mountaineers were members of the Big East Conference for the previous 17 seasons.
• The Mountaineers have three transfers on the roster in 2012-13. Junior center Aaric Murray led La Salle in scoring (15.2), rebounding (7.7) and blocks (2.3) in 2010-11. Sophomore guard Juwan Staten led the Atlantic 10 in assists with 190 as a freshman at Dayton in 2010-11. Senior guard Matt Humphrey has one year left after transferring from Boston College where he was second on the team in scoring at 10.3 points per game.
• WVU has won 84 of its last 104 games against unranked teams, including 42 of its last 46 at the WVU Coliseum.
• West Virginia is 54-14 in non-conference regular season games under Bob Huggins, including a 28-1 mark at home.
• West Virginia is 85-20 against non-conference teams in regular season games in the last nine seasons.
• WVU has won 73 of its last 92 non-conference games and 78 of its last 98 non-league contests (includes postseason).
• Bob Huggins recorded win No. 700 against Missouri State on Dec. 22, 2011. Huggins became the 20th Division I head coach to win 700 career games. Huggins' record now stands at 712-270 in his 31st season as a head coach. He recently passed Denny Crum for 20th place on the NCAA Division I all-time winningest coaches list. Next on the list is Don Haskins, who had 719 wins during his career. Only two active coaches have won more games (Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim).
• Sixty-two of Bob Huggins' 122 victories have been away from the WVU Coliseum.
• West Virginia has made at least one 3-point field goal in 428 consecutive games. The last time WVU did not make a 3-point field goal was against Robert Morris on Nov. 27, 1999.
• WVU is predicted sixth in the Big 12 Conference poll. In eight of the last 10 seasons, the Mountaineers have finished higher or equal to their preseason prediction.
• WVU made its ninth straight postseason appearance last year: 2012 NCAA Second Round, 2011 NCAA Third Round, 2010 NCAA Final Four, 2009 NCAA First Round, 2008 NCAA Sweet 16, 2007 NIT champions, 2006 NCAA Sweet 16, 2005 NCAA Elite Eight and 2004 NIT Second Round.
• It was WVU's fifth straight NCAA appearance and seventh in the last eight seasons. In the year the Mountaineers didn't make the NCAA tournament (2007), they won the NIT.
• Bob Huggins has led WVU to the NCAA championship in each of his first five seasons. The last time WVU made five consecutive NCAA appearances was from 1955-60, when the Mountaineers went six consecutive years to the NCAA tourney.
• West Virginia has won 58 of its last 68 games when holding its opponents to 69 points or less.
• West Virginia is 36-0 under Bob Huggins when shooting 50 percent or better from the field.
• West Virginia is 99-19 under Bob Huggins when leading at halftime.
• West Virginia is 106-11 under Bob Huggins when leading by 10 or more points in a game.
• West Virginia is 99-5 under Bob Huggins when posting a higher shooting percentage than its opponent.
• West Virginia has won 68 of its last 79 games when scoring 70 or more points in a game.
• The Mountaineers are 91-14 under Bob Huggins when scoring 70 or more points in a game.
• West Virginia is 102-24 under Bob Huggins when outrebounding its opponent.
• This is the 104th season and 110th year overall for West Virginia basketball, which began in 1903. The Mountaineers own a 1,623-1,008 all-time record in intercollegiate basketball competition, ranking WVU 21st among all Division I schools.
• West Virginia has allowed its opponent to shoot 50 percent or better only 29 times under Bob Huggins (182 games).
• Bob Huggins has wins over 20 ranked teams since he has been the head coach at West Virginia, including eight over a Top-10 ranked team in the last five seasons.
• Twenty-four of the last 25 senior members of the men's basketball team have graduated on time or early since 2004.
• WVU is 13-4 all-time on Dec. 5. The Mountaineers are 363-152 all-time in the month of December.
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Since I posted my previous blog, I have been feeling it is important to explain a little bit about Domestic Violence.
Before I start, I need to beg all lonely women out there, do not cloud your judgement due to loneliness. Because the most dangerous thing women do is to c hoose a partner. I don't want you to be paranoid and ruin the possibly good relationship. Just don't ignore warning signs of violence and your gut feeling.
In this post, I will be mentioning the victims as 'she' because more than 95% of the victim is women. But please do not forget that male can be a victim as well.
1. Trust Your Gut Feeling
o It is possible that your family, friend, religious mentor would not believe your concern, and encourage you to stay in the relationship.
o When you feel that something is wrong and/or fears for you and your children's safety, trust your gut feeling. They are right.
2. Make Safety Plan and Safety Exit Plan
o Set up some safety plans for you and your children. It is important that you don't let your partner see the plan.
§ Teach your children how to make emergency call.
§ Keep some money, house and car keys in your pocket.
§ Keep legal documents handy to take with you in a hurry. eg. you and children's birth certificate, Centrelink reference number, medicines/prescriptions, and etc.
§ Try to remember phone number for Domestic Violence Support Centre. If you cannot memorise it, keep it in convenient spot, hidden away from your partner. (For people in Queensland, Australia, the number is 1800 811 811 )
o Some of the safety tips.
§ Safety Tips by American Bar Association.
§ Safety Tips by American Bar Association summarised by Queensland Police Service
§ If you share a computer with your partner, make sure youdelete all records of activities from current session.
o If you are in Domestic Violence, please leave as soon as possible. Longer you stay, more dangerous the situation becomes.
o Leaving can be the most dangerous time. Make a safe exit plan before you act.
§ Consider the safe accommodation. Eg. Family's place, friend's place, women's shelter, and etc.
§ Ask your family and friends if they could look after your pets while you are in women's shelter. Significant number of women does not leave Domestic Violence because they concerns about safety and welfare of her pets. (In Australia, if you go to women's shelter, RSPCA will look after your pets for up to 28 days with small cost. However, it can be very difficult to find an accommodation where you can keep your pets.)
§ Some partner starts stalking and/or harassing after the separation. It is advised not to give out new address and telephone numbers. If you have children, please contact Domestic Violence Support Centre for the best option for your case.
§ If you are concerned about leaving, contact Domestic Violence Support Centre. Women's shelter can help you with children's school, transport to school, social security issues, financial issues, legal issues, court procedures if required, house hunting and etc.
3. Contact Domestic Violence Support Centre
o For people in Queensland, Australia, the number is 1800 811 811. This is a toll free and the number will not show up on your telephone bill.
o From my experience, they are very understanding and compassionate.
o You do not have to prove to them that you are victim. They trust your gut feeling.
o They will listen to your situation and give you advice and options. They will not force you to do anything, as decision has to be yours.
The following information is copied from Queensland Police Service web page. The page from Fremantle: Domestic Violence Committee would be easier to understand.
Domestic violence is characterised by a number of stages and tends to be cyclical in nature. A graphic representation of this cycle is outlined below.
Build-Up Phase Tension builds up in the perpetrator/respondent for any number of reasons - family pressures, work stress or the individual's own thought patterns. Other individuals and couples will have a range of reactions to this tension which do not include violence, but in the abusive relationship it leads to the…
Stand-Over Phase Because of the perpetrator/respondent's physical strength and/or realistic, frightening threats to hurt the victim/aggrieved, the aggrieved feels that they are held under the respondent's control. Further verbal attacks reduce the self-esteem and self-confidence of the aggrieved. Frequently the aggrieved will not seek assistance during the early stages of 'build-up' and 'stand-over', hoping that everything will be alright and believing that they will only aggravate the situation if they involve outsiders.
The Explosion and the Assault The assault is usually carried out in a fit of rage. After the assault the perpetrator enters the…
Remorse Phase One or both of the partners may feel guilty for what has occurred. They may even try to rationalise what has happened and so minimise its effects. Unfortunately the aggrieved may accept that they are the cause of the violence and blame themselves. This makes it easier for the respondent to rationalise their violent behaviour.
Pursuit Phase The perpetrator will try to buy back the victim, with gifts, promises or both. If this doesn't work the respondent may revert to threats. However, many aggrieved succumb to this phase and move into the…
Honeymoon Phase Having come so close to separation and destruction, the parties cling to each other for comfort. This is often a time of intense intimacy where earlier difficulties are denied. During the 'pursuit' and 'honeymoon' phases, the aggrieved may seek the withdrawal of applications for orders and show animosity towards persons attempting to assist. Unfortunately, the cycle inevitably continues as the relationship, still bearing all its original problems, weakens again under the growing weight of tensions.Research has indicated that the phases outlined in the cycle constitute a common pattern to domestic violence. However, it is important to realise that not all stages of the domestic violence cycle are necessarily applicable to all perpetrators/respondents and every situation, i.e. stages may be skipped altogether, or movement may occur back and forth between stages. Periods of time in which cycles are completed may also vary for different individuals and different circumstances. Unfortunately, research has also shown that the cycles tend to become more frequent and more violent (even fatal) unless early and effective intervention is made.
Last updated 09/12/2005
The following information is copied fromDomestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast.
Abusein relationships can take many forms and ranges from physical attacks to emotional abuse. Whatever its form, violence has its roots in distorted power relations. Abusive behaviours could include:
Fear:is a key element in domestic violence and is often the most powerful way a perpetrator controls his victim. Fear can be created by looks, gestures, possession of weapons (even when they may not have been used), destruction of property, cruelty to pets – or any behaviour which can be used to intimidate and render the other person powerless.
Intimidation:includes harassing her at her workplace either by persistent phone calls or text messages, following her to and from work, or loitering near work. It could also include smashing things, destroying her property, putting a fist through the wall, handling of guns or other weapons, intimidating body language (angry looks, raised voice), hostile questioning, reckless driving.
Verbal abuse: includes screaming, shouting, put-downs, name-calling, sarcasm, ridiculing her for her religious beliefs or ethnic background.
Physical Abuse:Physical violence can range from a lack of consideration for physical comfort to permanent damage or death. It could include such behaviour as pushing, shoving, hitting, slapping, choking, hair-pulling, punching etc. and may or may not involve the use of weapons. It could also be threats to, or actually destroying prized possessions.
Emotional Abuse:Abusing the woman by deliberately undermining her confidence, leading her to believe she is insane, stupid, 'a bad mother' or useless. This type of abuse humiliates, degrades and demeans the victim. Threats include those to harm them or someone else, threats to take the children, to commit suicide. Behavior can include silence and withdrawal.
Social Abuse: This behaviour includes isolation from social networks, verbal or physical abuse in public or in front of friends.
Economic Abuse:Domestic violence can include economic abuse which results in the victim being financially dependent on their partner. She may be denied access to money, including her own, demanding that she and her children live on inadequate resources. These can be contributing factors for women becoming 'trapped' in violent relationships.
Sexual Abuse: Sexual assault is an act of violence, power and control. It can include many behaviours including forced sexual contact, rape, forcing her to perform sexual acts that cause pain or humiliation, forcing her to have sex with others, causing injury to sexual organs.
Controlling Behaviours:Controlling what she does, who she sees and talks to, where she goes, keeping her from making any friends, talking to her family, or having any money. Preventing her from going to work, not allowing her to express her own feelings or thoughts, not allowing her any privacy, forcing her to go without food or water. Not allowing cultural, religious or personal freedom. Controlling behaviours are often linked to jealousy.
Separation Violence and/or Stalking:Stalking can involve various activities such as loitering and following, receiving persistent telephone calls and mail, and being watched. To be classified as stalking, more than one type of behaviour has to occur, or the same type of behaviour has to occur on more than one occasion.
Spousal Homicide:Research indicates that 25% to 31% of homicides in Australia involve either spouses or sexual intimates (Esteal, 1993).
Most of us know that physical or emotional, any form of violence cause serious damage to the victim. But have you ever thought about just "refusing to pay household bill" can be a sign of violence? It all depends on the cases. TRUST YOUR GUT FEELING, if you are not sure. Contact Domestic Violence Support Centre, and they will listen to your concerns and give you some advice and options if you request.
The followings are some of example of violence also copied fromDomestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast.
Has your partner ever:
The information I displayed here don't cover whole Domestic Violence issues. If you are in Australia, and your family consists of mother, a sister and a daughter who all had been or be in relationship, one of you, including you have experienced Domestic Violence. It is that common, but you may not notice it. So I feel it is very important for us to open our eyes and ears.
Not all Domestic Violence is something like you watch on TV dramas. However, victims has been murdered, physically injured or emotionally scarred. Survivors are battling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, self-esteem issues and all sorts of depression for a very very long time. Do not forget children who were also involved or witnessed the Domestic Violence. It is important to give them support and education. I read it from somewhere that more than 60% of boys are likely to become abusers and more than 60% of girls are likely to become victims when they grow up.
I only started learning about Domestic Violence. So my knowledge is not much. If you would like to add more advice and/or information, I will always appreciate it.
Followings are some of the websites give you more information about Domestic Violence. Some of the sites have links to other information.
· Domestic Violence Prevention Centre, Gold Coast
· City of Fremantle: Domestic Violence Committee
· Mayo Clinic; Domestic Violence toward women: Recognize the patterns and seek help
· Home Sweet Home: A blog about crime within relationship.
· And of course, you can Google.
Thank you for your time and attention.
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