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Infinite Jest[Paperback]
(65 ratings)
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- Publisher:
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- Publication Date:
- 05 June 1997
- Category:
- Modern & Contemporary
- 9780349121086
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I think I should count reading this book as an accomplishment of sorts... like, it should have a special place in my CV and everything.

It's been four(ish) days since I've finished reading this book, four days which I've spent trying to put at least some of my impressions into words which would hopefully form at least somewhat coherent sentences. Well, I give up. It is simply impossible to sum up my impressions, mostly because, apparently, there aren't any impressions to sum up, or – somewhat more likely – there are far too many impressions than I'm prepared (and equipped) to deal with at the moment. To put it in a less annoying manner – just thinking about my thoughts about this book is just so dashed overwhelming.

That's not to say I don't have any opinion whatsoever about <s>whatever the thing that I read is</s> this novel – it's just that all my current opinions/impressions tend to be rather contradictory. For example, at the moment, I'm utterly unable to figure out whether I actually loved it or hated it... or, not impossibly and far more likely – both. I'm not even sure whether I enjoyed reading it at all – I have a rather vague impressions I sort of did, but not in the traditionally accepted meaning of the word.

The only thing I'm certain of is that I utterly loved/hated the ending... mostly because it was so spectacularly inconclusive and unsatisfying on so many levels that it still irks me to no end, albeit in a possibly pleasant-ish way.

In any case, five stars are for the overall feat or whatsit – it made my brain ache at various stages... and any book capable of doing that deserves five stars... and a biscuit.
Set in an addict's halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the most endearingly screwed up families in contemporary fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to dominate our lives, about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect other people, and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passion that makes us human and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Volumes upon volumes have been written about Wallace and this book in particular and all off them both hit and miss the point. The book is so organic and so ambitious that it defies study and its affects each reader in a different way. It even affects the same reader differently upon re-reading. The nature of the story, the intertwined plots, and beauty of the language almost are lost in the challenge it presents to the reader; the challenge to think about not only the text but the nature of the themes are reflected in our own lives.
I either have no words for this book or about a bazillion. It's not perfect, but its sprawling messiness and flaws are just as valuable as its wit and compassion and general genius. I'll never forget Infinite Summer.
This is a cumbersome book with intricate details that weave multiple plot lines together around similar themes. While the storyline often appears disjointed, the threads come together at the end. I was very impressed with the amount of planning that obviously went into the construction of this work, but it was at times so subtle that a person could easily miss important details. This book is not for the faint of heart or for someone who wants a quick, mindless vacation read. This book will make you think - not just about the characters, but about how they fit together within the construction of this literary puzzle.
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Beautiful. You really get a sense of that diaphanous light coming through the petals, and there's a great sense of movement toward throughout. And it's just beautiful too!
Gorgeous light. Stunning!
Lovely work.
Very well. What size has the painting?
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Thanks everyone for your kind comments. My main focus was to capture the dramatic lighting on this blossom that caught my attention while wandering through the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. It was a beautiful,clear day in spring which I will always remember. Afterwards, we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge back to Manhattan. The painting is 70x110cm (27.5 x 43.3ins) on stretched Belgian linen. Thanks again, I appreciate your comments.
I love it!!!!
I like the contrast between the sharp and soft focus of the flower and the background.
I agree with everyone else, simply beautiful!
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The water tower was located on Harbor Road just about where Cottage Road is now. It was built in 1925 by Elmer E. Jameson and supplied water to the town.
Main St., Friendship ME
The group of men are building a sidewalk circa 1913. The Advent Parsonage and the Baptist Church Steeple are on the left, and the Methodist Church is on the right.
Main St., Friendship, Me
This photo shows a crew building a cement sidewalk circa 1913. Buildings owning to the Mortons had to be moved to accommodate it.
P. O., E. Friendship, Me
Several stores were located at the corner of Salt Pond Road and Cushing Road, known as Daggett Corners. The first one, established in 1878, was run by Capt. Josiah Daggett.
Ornes' Store, E. Friendship, Me
This store was on Salt Pond Road at its intersection with Cushing Road (Route 97). It was established by the Ornes after Cook's store, across the road, went out of business.
View of School "Upper" and View of School "Lower," Friendship, Me
The Corner School was located across from the Advent Christian Church. It had two floors. The lower floor was used for the primary grades, one to five.
Main Street, Friendship, Me
The photo shows Winchenpaw's General Store with a gas pump in front.
Main Street, Friendship, Maine
We know that this picture must have been taken in 1929 or later as that is the year that Hartwell Davis' Garage was built.
Stenger's Wharf, Friendship, Me
In 1928 Charlie and Ida Stanger purchased the wharf from Jameson and Wotton.
The Old Brick School House at Friendship, Me
This school house, built in 1851, was made from brick unlike the wooden ones built earlier. The wooden schools could be moved to accommodate the most number of students.
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Editor's NoteAn unconventional New England prep school teacher inspires his students with poetry and encourages them to embrace life. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Picture, Best Actor--Robin Williams, Best (Original) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay.
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Rose had responsibility for running backs at Charlotte Christian, where he coached North Carolina recruit Desmond Lawrence and helped the Knights to the 2012 NCISSA State Championship.
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1. I don't want to get on a soapbox but ...
It was fitting, really, that Texas finished another disappointing season earlier this month with a big loss to Kansas State.
No other program more clearly defines or better illustrates the state of the Texas program under Mack Brown than Kansas State.
Kansas State: winning by overachieving.
Texas: losing by underachieving.
"I really believe we're headed in the right way, in the right direction," Brown says.
And you want to believe him, you really do. There's not a more perfect fit for Texas than Brown; the charming, graceful yet punchy-when-he-has-to-be coach who has won big at Texas—but now can't stop a disturbing down cycle.
Before the Kansas State game earlier this month, Brown said he didn't have an answer for the Longhorns' struggles against the Wildcats. They've lost to K-State when they had the better team, and lost when they didn't.
They lost at home, on the road and with one of the teams playing for a championship. All told, five straight losses.
The question: How?
The answer is simple: coaching.
In the three seasons since Texas last played for a national championship in 2009, the Longhorns are 21-16 with no double-digit win seasons, no conference championships and a 2-11 record vs. ranked teams.
In those same three years, K-State—in its second stint under coach Bill Snyder—is 28-10 with two double-digit win seasons, one Big 12 title and a 7-6 record vs. ranked teams.
Now, the biggie: in those three years, Texas has finished third, third and second in the Rivals.com recruiting rankings. K-State finished 63rd, 68th and 58th.
Texas signed 54—more than half an 85-man roster—elite four- and five-star recruits. K-State signed three.
In the last three seasons, K-State beat Texas by a combined 98-51—yet there was Texas president Bill Powers earlier this month steadfastly standing behind Brown with a public statement that Mack has his "full support."
Two straight blowout losses to Oklahoma. The Longhorn Network is barely breathing. Rival Texas A&M is thriving in the SEC, and new rival TCU went into Austin on Thanksgiving Night and beat the Longhorns.
Mack Brown embodies everything that's good and right about college football. He's just not winning enough anymore.
And that's what this eventually will become—more than likely, by this time next year.
2. Red letter day
Ladies and gentlemen, the recruiting dead period officially has begun.
Let the cheating begin!
3. The Big Little
Mike Aresco is a brilliant guy. Could've worked anywhere he wanted in the sports (or news) television industry, and instead chose to become commissioner of the Big East.
Now he looks like a novice with a toy train set. And the dang thing keeps running off track.
Founding members leaving; desperate souls added. Basketball schools giving up; television contracts withering away.
If Aresco wants to stop the bleeding, here's the first move: get rid of the Big East name. Let the basketball schools take the toxic brand—they built its strength decades ago, anyway—and start fresh with a new name.
Big Nation. Big Country. Big Area Code.
Whatever. Just get rid of a name that, in the college football world—is there anything else that matters for generating revenue in college sports?—has become synonymous with failure.
Will it help with the looming television deal? Not a chance—that opportunity went away 16 months ago when former commissioner John Marinatto recommended the league take ESPN's offer of $130 million annually over nine years and the presidents said no.
Now that same deal, an industry source told Sporting News earlier this week, "will be lucky to reach $30-40 million" with the loss of the basketball schools.
There are two ways the Big East can go here: The one with the most potential for success, and the quick fix.
The potential: forming a second-tier league with the Mountain West and Conference USA and having their own four-team playoff (four division champions) to sell to television.
The fix: change the name.
Since it's obvious the Big East isn't going to do the former—industry sources say the Big East has been steadfastly against it—it may as well settle for the latter. As soon as possible.
4. All about the W
For years now, we've heard about how "precious" it is to get a win in the big, bad SEC. You know, all the clichés.
Victories are few and far between. It's a game of inches. Every game is a war.
It is here where we introduce superagent Jimmy Sexton, whose client Hugh Freeze is the coach at Ole Miss. When Freeze was hired last year, the Rebels were in the middle of a 14-game SEC losing streak and Sexton concocted this beauty of an idea:
Ole Miss would pay Freeze $1.5 million a year plus—you ready for this?—$100,000 for every SEC victory. Those three league wins this fall moved Freeze's salary to $1.8 million (not including bowl bonuses, etc.), and paved the way for a contract renegotiation.
Ole Miss will now pay Freeze $2 million a year through 2016, and he will continue to be paid extra for SEC wins—this time, $100,000 per win after the first league win.
Further proof, everyone, that money—not fear—is the greatest motivator.
5. The Weekly Five
Nick Saban's name is again linked to the NFL, where the restructured Browns may or may not—depending on whom you believe—be taking a serious run at the best coach in college football. Five reasons Saban will stay at Alabama:
1. Tuscaloosa vs. Cleveland. Duh!
2. Choosing your roster vs. drafting your roster.
3. King of all football vs. Just another guy.
4. Offseason vacation vs. Offseason (in)Voluntary workouts/mini camps/OTAs.
5. Because "I'm not going to be the (insert team, program name) coach."
6. The Power of one
Remember when Notre Dame had to join a conference or "get left behind"?
Remember when Notre Dame had to loosen its strict academic policy to compete for elite recruits to win big again?
Remember when Notre Dame couldn't find the right coach because no coach in his right mind would work under those innate obstacles with all those expectations to win?
Say it together with me, everyone: Notre Dame will always be an independent in football because there is no stronger brand in college sports.
It took all of one season to prove it.
7. My hubris is bigger than yours
So Ohio State, king of all arrogance and defiance in college sports, has come up with a new way of monitoring its student-athletes.
The OSU compliance department has decided for a player's own good, the university will "educate" students on the complexities of—get this—bank accounts. All while watching, of course.
The university wants to help students set up bank accounts, and teach players how to balance their accounts and budget their money—all with the oversight of the university.
OSU athletic director Gene Smith told the New York Times that some athletes come from disadvantaged backgrounds and have never had a bank account, and that the university will also have local bankers speak to athletes.
I'm calling bunk on it all.
Ohio State is doing this because Ohio State doesn't want to get caught again in a situation where it's 12-0 and not playing for anything. Where it's at the mercy of the NCAA, and must fire a beloved coach after players sold memorabilia for cash and tattoos.
Where one more major NCAA infraction could bring down the entire athletic department.
Because—check me if I'm wrong, Sparky—those 13 core classes that high school athletes are supposed to pass to be eligible to play NCAA sports deal with math for daily living.
I mean, unless, you know, they're not really passing those classes in high school. Then we've got a much bigger problem on our hands.
8. More bowls, please
You may have heard that Butler beat No. 1 Indiana last weekend in a classic college basketball game that matched two great coaches, one of the sport's heavyweights and one of its king newbies—and a last-second call that got off a fantastic game-winning shot.
Meanwhile, at the same time in New Mexico, two college football teams that almost no one cares about played a meaningless bowl game. Arizona came back from a big fourth quarter deficit to beat Nevada.
TV Ratings: 1.9 (million homes) for college football; 1.5 for college basketball.
Guess which sport drives conference realignment?
9. Locked in
They keep calling and asking if he's interested.
Penn State, UCLA and North Carolina last year; Wisconsin, Tennessee and Boston College this year.
Each time, Al Golden says no thanks, and continues to grind away at a thankless job with a seemingly bleak future. Why would a coach stay at Miami, with the Canes awaiting a certain punch in the gut from the NCAA?
Why would a coach stay at Miami, where the city is a pro sports town (on its best days), and the Canes routinely played in front of a third-full (or less) Sun Life Stadium?
Here's why: "The talent didn't just dry up here," Golden said.
Translation: recruit Howard Schnellenberger's "State of Miami"—Dade and Broward counties—and win big.
Miami survived probation once before and returned to win big (national title big). Why not again?
10. Fight the good fight
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Kindergartener John Sanpierto had an exploding volcano.
"Fill the bottle with a little food coloring, vinegar until its up as high as you want it and detergent makes it explode a little bit," Sanpierto said.
People's choice winners were awarded at the end of the presentations. These categories were judged by volunteers from the community who have an interest in promoting science and math in the school.
"Any attendee was able to fill out a ballot for their favorite projects/displays and turn it in before leaving the event," Kazmierczak said.
The auditorium hosted most of the community set-up with exhibits from representatives from the Cornell Cooperative, the Wild Center, the Adirondack Museum and more.
Kazmierczak said the idea to expand the Science Slam to community members emerged after last year's event.
"The Science Slam planning team brainstormed a list of outside organizations we thought would be a good fit for our event.," Kazmierczak said. "We contacted them and were pleased at the overwhelming response to our request. We also had a few organizations that contacted us after they heard about our event. This year we had many return organizations, and some new ones too, which was great."
Kazmierczak, who studied engineering and has worked in a variety of engineering and environmental/safety regulatory positions throughout her career, said she hoped science could be influential to the students.
"I believe science is important for kids, because it encourages them to be curious, ask questions and test out their ideas, Kazmierczak said. "This teaches them problem solving and critical thinking, which they will use throughout their lives."
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In case you guys are wondering the the Morag Tong is they are the assasins guild in Elder Scrolls 3. I'm having a little problem with the writ quest. My last mission was the Writ for Navil and Ranes Ienith. I was to go to the Dren plantation, kill the brothers, go back to Eno Hiaalu and collect my reward. Thier is just one problem. The douche (Eno Hiaalu) won't acknowledge that I killed them.:sign04: It said in my journal that I killed both of them. The other two guys in Dren's Villa knows I killed them and attacked my straight away. Why can't I get Hiaalu to acknowledge this? Did I miss something? Was I suppose to bring back proof? Is this some sort of bug in the game?
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The online diagnostic for reading and math will help New York state school districts and boards of cooperative educational services define student growth for teacher and principal evaluations.
The vast majority of districts in six Central New York counties will start school this week with fewer students than they had a decade ago.
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Researchers investigating the use of iris recognition for biometric identification, which has been tested in some school cafeterias, have concluded that aging doesn't affect distinguishing characteristics of the average person's iris for almost a decade.
To meet the Student Growth and Academic Achievement component of Georgia's Teacher Keys Effectiveness System, teachers of non-tested subjects must implement Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) to gauge student growth.
Students across South Jersey are preparing to go back to school this week. From pencils and backpacks to sneakers and wardrobe, there's no shortage of expense for parents, but with school uniforms becoming increasingly popular, some districts are trying to cut down on the spending.
Ninety percent of education leaders, the most out of any sector for which respondents were surveyed, believe that technology has made them more imaginative and creative at work, with 80 percent saying it has also made them more productive. These insights are from a study called "Humans and Machines," conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by Ricoh.
As the first new school year begins since 20 elementary-school children and six staff members were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, security concerns are testing school officials throughout the nation like never before.
Fast ForWord is different from other reading interventions because it targets the root cause of learning issues, like weaknesses in phonemic awareness, memory, attention and processing. Students using the program can raise their reading skill level up to two years in as little as three months.
Less than 4 percent of Arizona students took an online class in the 2011-12 school year, but it's enough for some school districts to lose millions of dollars in state funding.
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Recruiting Insider: Tigers tough to beat in the Bluff City, but Vols trying hard to make inroads
Vols trying hard to make inroads
The way former Tennessee assistant and current Northwest Florida State coach Steve Forbes sees it, it takes a special kid to spurn University of Memphis basketball in favor of Tennessee.
"The city puts a lot of pressure on those kids to play for Memphis, and rightfully so," said Forbes, who recruited in Memphis often. "You have to be a pretty strong kid to tell your hometown that, 'I love you, but I don't wanna play here.' That's not easy for an 18-year-old young man to do."
So when Southwind alum Jarnell Stokes donned the orange cap last December, even though Memphis didn't have the scholarship room to take him as a midyear enrollee, it forced the age-old question to resurface: With Stokes in the fold, can Tennessee beat Memphis for prospects in the Tigers' backyard?
Stokes said last week that he hopes to find like-minded prospects in the city to recruit to Knoxville. The Tigers and Vols have both made offers to each Memphis native in Scout.com's Top 100 (Nick King, East; Johnathan Williams III, Southwind; Jajuan Johnson, Southwind; and Austin Nichols, Briarcrest).
"I definitely think (my decision) will open up the door in Memphis," Stokes told the Knoxville News-Sentinel. "For a lot of guys for a while, the city of Memphis was locked down to one school and it was definitely hard for guys to leave Memphis."
Stokes, however, is but one strike against the U of M, and the Tigers have blown out the Vols in local recruiting.
Immediately after Memphis coach Josh Pastner got the job in 2009, he emphasized his desire to recruit from the "inside-out," and he's had vast success. In his first full recruiting class, he signed White Station's Joe Jackson, Sheffield's Chris Crawford, who for a while was considered a Tennessee lean, and Ridgeway's Tarik Black.
In his 2011 class, he signed Melrose's Adonis Thomas, who had the Vols on his final list. And the Tigers are in the pole position for King and Johnson in the 2013 recruiting class.
"You can get everything that you want right at the U of M," Pastner said this weekend. "To be able to play for the name on the front of the jersey — you can't talk enough about that because it means something, and that's special. That's really, really special."
The fierce loyalty Memphis basketball prospects have shown toward the U of M started in the 1970s and '80s, when Melrose products Larry Finch and Ronnie Robinson opted to stay home.
Evan Daniels, Scout's national recruiting analyst, said while it will be tough for Tennessee and any other out-of-town school to recruit against the U of M in Memphis, they all have to try because of the deep talent pool.
"I don't think Tennessee has had much success at all, but I think the bigger aspect is they're gonna have to have a connection there because so many players come out," Daniels said. "They have to make an attempt."
Cuonzo Martin and staff held a youth basketball camp in Memphis last month to "reach out to the children of this state and nurture their relationship with UT," he said in May.
Lang Wiseman, who picked Tennessee over Memphis in the late '80s, said Stokes' decision to go to Tennessee, and his success there, has opened the minds of parents and coaches across Memphis.
"I think people are afraid that if you go away for school, somehow you'll be out of your element or lose that edge from being the hometown kid," Wiseman said.
"You see a guy like Jarnell do it and you think, 'You know what? It's possible.' "
Nichols, a good friend of Stokes who has taken multiple unofficial visits to Knoxville, said this weekend from Philadelphia that he's "always been a fan (of Tennessee)." He said Martin has used Stokes' decision as a recruiting pitch.
Recruiting is at the crux of the likely discontinuation of the series between Memphis and Tennessee, which ends next season in Knoxville.
So while the future of both programs duking it out on the court is very much in doubt, they'll assuredly continue to go at each other for Memphis high school basketball players.
And, with history as a guide, the Tigers will be heavily favored each time.
"Memphis basketball is more than about basketball in the city," Wiseman said. "You grow up with it and it's an indoctrination. As big as the Grizzlies are, as SEC football is, Memphis basketball has a special hold on the city."
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OKLAHOMA CITY – 22 month old Mariah Ford was always happy and completely healthy.
An out of the blue illness took hold in late March, 2013.
Mom, Brittany Medcalf said, "Actually, all day on the 27th she was fine. Her normal self. It wasn't until after dinner I put her to bed and we noticed she wasn't her normal self."
Like most concerned parents, Brittany took her baby to the pediatrician.
The Doctor treated Mariah for an ear infection and gave her a prescription for the antibiotic, Amoxicillin.
She said, "6.5 milligrams, twice daily. Just like the bottle said. I won't ever forget that. Did exactly what he said and she still didn't pull through. I don't know."
By the time medics made it to the house, little Mariah was already gone.
Father, Chad Ford said, "I never thought in my life I'd lose my precious baby Mariah. Plus, taking her to the doctor, I figured everything would be fine."
The overwhelming sadness and despair has lingered for more than a year.
They were assured it would take "90 days or less" for the official cause of death.
Ford said, "That's coming out of the ME's mouth and the detective. We heard it from two different people."
The Medical Examiner's Office is overwhelmed.
In July 2013, there were 1352 open cases and only 6 doctors.
The "90 days or less policy" was simply unattainable.
Chief Medical Examiner, Eric Pfeifer said, "It sounds like a broken record but it's the truth. We are sorry it's taken so long but we have stacks of paperwork on our desk. We just take them one at a time."
Sighting federal HIPAA privacy rules, officials were unable to give us specifics about the Ford investigation.
Less than 24 hours after our inquiry, the ME's office sent this short email: "The case was closed last week. We will contact the family. Thank you."
Chad & Brittany finally received the phone call they'd been waiting for.
The death certificate shows Mariah Ford died of a "urinary tract infection."
Brittany said, "At least I know and at least I can close the book, ya know. So, it's good to know. We can't forget Mariah. She's too great to forget. She'll always be here with us."


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Blotting out the sun has been the dream of many arch-villains, including The Simpson's Mr. Burns. Their schemes may soon be foiled by the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity.
Super villains aren't the only ones who want to shade the Earth from the sun. Blocking some of the sun's rays could slow climate change by reducing the amount of sunlight warming the Earth, say some researchers, such as Roger Angel of the University of Arizona.
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Police attempt less than lethal force, then kill man with knife near 29th and Downing in Denver
Witness: Man said, "Do you want to die?"
DENVER - A man is dead after being shot by a Denver Police officer on Tuesday morning.
Officers were called to 29th Avenue and Downing Street on reports of a man in the middle of Downing chasing cars, according to police spokesman Sonny Jackson.
Jackson said officers contacted the man, who was "very uncooperative" and was holding a knife.
A witness said the man threatened him and other people with the knife.
"As I'm crossing the street, an older gentleman runs at me with a knife in his hand saying, 'Do you want to die? I'm going to kill you,'" Santiago Martinez. told 7NEWS.
"I'm backing up going, 'Whoa,'" Martinez said. "Another guy in a Jeep sees that and he gets out of his car and then the guy goes after him."
Martinez and the other man called 911, and then saw the man with the knife run toward a woman crossing the street.
"She got startled and scared. She took off, so me and the guy ran after him," said Martinez. "That's when he turned around and seen us come after him. So he stopped and put the knife out again. He was just saying a bunch of weird remarks and just yelling and stuff."
Police arrived at 29th Avenue and Downing and ordered the man to put down the knife, according to witnesses and the police chief.
"He was running at the cop with the knife in his hand," said Martinez.
"We attempted less than lethal weapons," said Police Chief Robert White.
"Shot him a couple of times with the pellet gun and then he didn't go down. They got him with the Taser gun and he still didn't go down, and then finally you hear three to four shots and that was it," said Martinez.
The man was taken to Denver Health in critical condition, but he did not survive. He was identified Wednesday as Jack Snyder, 63, by the Office of the Medical Examiner.
"I feel kind of bad because we didn't take him down," Martinez said of himself and the other man chasing the knife-wielding man. "If we had taken him down, then maybe he wouldn't have got shot."
No officers were hurt.
Police would not reveal how many officers fired their weapons or how many shots were fired.
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An interactive information device for use as a touch panel, touch screen, digitizer panel, or pen-input device, and a method for making such a device includes a first, transparent, electrically conductive layer supported by the rigid substrate, a flexible, transparent substrate at least partially aligned with the rigid substrate and having a second, transparent, electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the second conductive layer being spaced from the first conductive layer. A plurality of transparent insulating spacer members/dots are positioned on one or both of the conductive layers to allow the conductive layers to engage when the flexible substrate is pressed. The spacer members/dots comprise polymeric material including at least some inorganic material, and more preferably, comprise organic-inorganic nanocomposites having an index of refraction optically matched to the transparent, electrically conductive layer on which they are positioned.
1. An interactive information device comprising:
at least one rigid, transparent substrate;
a first transparent, electrically conductive layer supported by a surface of said rigid substrate;
a flexible transparent substrate at least partially aligned with said rigid substrate, said flexible substrate having a surface which faces said surface of said rigid substrate, and a second transparent, electrically conductive layer on said surface of said flexible substrate; said flexible substrate being spaced from said rigid substrate to provide a gap between said conductive layers;
a plurality of insulating spacer members on at least one of said electrically conductive layers whereby said flexible substrate may be flexed by pressing to engage said electrically conductive layers; and
wherein said spacer members comprise polymeric material including at least some inorganic material;
said inorganic material comprising nanoscale particles.
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This application claims priority form U.S. Provisional Patent Application Serial No. 60/234,867, filed Sep. 22, 2000, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
This invention relates to an improved technology for the separation of a rigid, transparent, conductively coated substrate and a flexible, transparent, conductively coated top sheet as used in an interactive information device such as a computer touch panel, a digitizer panel, a personal digital assistant known as a PDA, or a computer pen input device.
In an interactive information device having opposing conductive surfaces on a flexible top sheet and a rigid bottom sheet, "spacer dots", or the like, are non-conductive insulating islands or spacer elements that separate the transparent conductively coated rigid substrate from the flexible transparent conductively coated top sheet in a touch input device when in its normal, untouched condition. When a user presses on the top sheet, such as with a finger or stylus, the flexible transparent conductive substrate is forced to make contact with the transparent conductively coated rigid substrate creating an electrical circuit for touch detection. When the device is not being touched, it is important that the flexible top sheet and the rigid back substrate do not come into contact so as to avoid creating a false touch. It is also desired that the spacer dots or elements be of minimal visibility for optimal optical performance of the information device.
The present invention includes an improved process and improved materials for producing uniformly dispersed, consistent, durable, essentially non-visible, fixed substrate-interpane-spacer elements (for example "spacer dots") for spacing the opposing conductive surfaces of the flexible top sheet and rigid bottom sheet of an interactive information device.
The invention is most effectively accomplished by the application of the non-conducting spacer dots or elements on the rigid substrate of the interactive information device using appropriately tall dots or elements separating the sheets well apart for optimum electrical performance (non false—touch) while minimizing visibility for optimum optical performance (such as by rendering the dots invisible such as by index matching the dot material to the surrounding interpane medium and/or by having a small dot diameter and/or by having few, well spaced dots). It is preferred that the performance be further improved by the use of spacer dot materials that are optically matched to the transparent conductors, typically indium tin oxide. It is preferred that the registration and/or orientation of the dots on the glass be matched to the particular touch screen design. It is preferred that the placement of the dots on the glass allow for manufacturability of more than one touch device per coated stock sheet, known as "stock sheet" or "stock lite" form substrates. It is also preferred that the spacer dots be durable to withstand post-processing requirements such as washing, cutting, baking, and the like, for the manufacturing of the touch devices.
FIG. 1 is a sectional, side elevation of an interactive information device incorporating the improved spacer elements of the present invention;
FIG. 1A is a sectional, side elevation of a second embodiment of the interactive information device of the present invention;
FIG. 1B is a sectional, side elevation of a third embodiment of the interactive information device of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a preferred method for making the interactive information device of FIG. 1 incorporating the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a photograph of exemplary spacer elements in accordance with the present invention.
More specifically, and as shown in FIG. 1, this invention relates to the improved process and materials resulting in an interactive information device such as a resistive touch device 60 comprising rigid substrate 10 such as soda lime glass with a transparent conductive thin film 20. The spacer dots or elements 30 are deposited most preferably by silk screen methods on thin film 20. The flexible substrate 40 with transparent conductive thin film 50 provides the top sheet of the resistive touch device 60. Optionally, the transparent substrate 10 of the present invention may be an optical plastic comprising a conductively coated cyclic olefin copolymer plastic substrate as disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/946,228, filed Sep. 5, 2001, entitled IMPROVED PLASTIC SUBSTRATE FOR INFORMATION DEVICES AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. Such rigid plastic substrate may be formed from a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) such as is available from Ticonca of Summit, N.J., under the trade name "Topas." Cyclic olefin-containing resins provide an improved material for a rigid, transparent conductively coated substrate suitable for use in an information display. The improved information display incorporating the improved plastic substrate is lightweight, durable, flex resistant, dimensionally stable and break resistant as compared to other, more conventional substrates. A rigid plastic substrate can be formed by extrusion, casting or injection molding. When injection molding is used such as when forming a substrate from a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), a non-planar curved (spherical or multiradius) part can be formed, optionally with at least one surface roughened (such as by roughening/patterning a surface of the tool cavity used for injection molding) so as to have a light-diffusing, anti-glare property.
A transparent, plastic substrate such as one formed from cyclic olefin polymer resin can be used to form a rigid panel or back plate for use in a resistive membrane touch device where the cyclic olefin panel functions as a transparent back plate for a flexible, conductive, transparent touch member assembly as is also described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/946,228, filed Sep. 5, 2001, incorporated by reference above.
The transparent thin film conductors 20 and 50 are typically metal oxides such as indium tin oxide, tin antimony oxide, fluorine doped tin oxide, or tin oxide. The spacer dots 30 preferably consist of organic-inorganic nanocomposites (Nanomeres�) utilizing methyl tetraethylorthosilicate, tetraethylorthosilicate, or glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane as network formers hydrolyzed using hydrochloric acid prepared initially in a paste form. Silica sols, silica powders, ethyl cellulose, and hydroxypropyl cellulose may be utilized as additives to adjust viscosity. Cyracure, (Union Carbide, UV 6974) serves as the photoinitiator allowing for the use of ultraviolet light for curing. The resulting improved spacer dots 30 can be enhanced optically by nano-particle metal oxides and pigments such as titanium dioxide (TiO2), barium titanium oxide (BaTiG), silver (Ag), nickle (Ni), molybdenum (Mo), and platinum (Pt). The resulting index of refraction of the dots 30 for substantial optical matching to the transparent conductor is preferably about 1.49 to about 2.0, most preferably about 1.75 to about 1.95 (for light having a wavelength at the sodium D line, i.e., at about 589 nanometers).
The preferred spacer dots, such as those shown in FIG. 3, are produced by silk screen printing using fine mesh sieves with appropriate hole patterns. The nanoparticles can be used to adjust the refractive index of the dots easily; for example, the nanoparticles can include silicon dioxide for decreasing the index; or zirconium dioxide, titanium dioxide, and tantalum pentoxide for increasing the refractive index. The nanoparticles can be used to adjust the viscosity of the paste. The incorporation of nanoparticles leads to reduced shrinkage during the curing of the spacer dots. The ultraviolet (UV) curable silk screen printing paste is preferably synthesized using a nanocomposite material as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,910,522 "Composite Adhesive for Optical and Opto-Electronic Applications" by Institut fur Neue Materialien gemeinnutzige GmbH, Saarbrucken Germany, invented by Helmut Schmidt, Saarbrucken-Gudingen et al, dated Jun. 8, 1999, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein. The preferred screening paste contains the following:
a) transparent polymers and/or polymerizable oligomers and/or monomers,
b) nanoscale inorganic particles,
c) optionally, compounds for the surface modification of said inorganic particles,
d) optionally, a crosslinking initiator.
In some forms of the invention, it may be useful to incorporate a reduced glare, conductive coated panel having increased visible light transmission and suitable for use as a touch screen, digitizer panel or substrate in an information display and incorporating one or more thin film interference layers forming a thin film stack on opposite surfaces of a substrate such as that described herein and a transparent electrically conductive coating on the outer most layer of one or both of the thin film stacks, such as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/883,654, filed Jun. 18, 2001 entitled ENHANCED LIGHT TRANSMISSION CONDUCTIVE COATED TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
The present invention may also include the use of a reduced contrast, increased transmission, conductively coated panel wherein optical in-homogeneity is reduced between the transparent conductively coated regions and the non-coated regions rendering these delineation regions essentially visually indistinguishable when viewed so that there is no substantial contrast apparent when viewed in reflected light as described in U.S. provisional patent application Serial No. 60/239,788, filed Oct. 12, 2000, entitled REDUCED CONTRAST IMPROVED TRANSMISSION CONDUCTIVELY COATED TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The preferred process, and as shown in FIG. 2, for the application of the spacer dots 30 starts with the use of conventional glass cleaning techniques for preparation of the transparent conductively coated rigid substrate or lite 10. The substrate is in the form known as stocksheet allowing for the subsequent cutting from and manufacture of multiple touch devices from one lite. Lites can be processed in the flat or bent product configuration. Prior to the deposition of the transparent conductor thin film 20, a pattern of a mask material may be applied to the raw glass using a silk screen coating method, 325-mesh stainless steel screen. This allows removal of the thin film conductor, indium tin oxide for example, in the areas coated with the mask material following the deposition of the conductive film. The conductive thin film 20, indium tin oxide, is then deposited on surface 24 of the lite, over any mask material, preferably by the sputtering physical vapor deposition technique or evaporation physical vapor deposition technique. A thick film conductive electrode pattern, typically a silver frit such as Dupont 7713, is then applied using a silk screen coating method, 325 stainless steel mesh silk screen with glass frit as required based on the touch screen design. The thin film conductor 20 and the thick film conductor are then cured using a conventional baking process, such as 480 degrees C. for 60 minutes. The thin film may be chemically reduced in an inert forming gas curing environment. Following curing of the thick film and thin film conductors, the coated lite is washed using conventional glass washing techniques. This prepares the lite for the application of the spacer dots and removes residual mask material for the deletion of specific areas of the thin film conductor as required by the touch screen design. The transparent conductor may also be deleted in selected areas following curing using photolithography or laser deletion methods.
The spacer dots 30 are then applied to the transparent conductor 20 on substrate or lite 10 using conventional silk screening techniques using a 400-mesh stainless steel. Alternately, the dots 30 a, may be applied to surface 51 of transparent conductor 50 or to both conductors 20 and 50 as described below. The dots are arranged in an orientation based on the design of the touch screen. Optimum design calls for dots 30 to be non-visible minimizing diameter with maximum height for electrical functionality. Spacer dot dimensions for width are about 125 microns to about 15 microns, preferably about 100 microns to about 25 microns, most preferably about 80 microns to about 40 microns in diameter. Spacer dot dimensions for height are about 25 microns to about 3 microns, preferably about 15 microns to about 5 microns, most preferably about 12 microns to about 8 microns. The spacer dots are then cured using ultraviolet light energy level of less than about 1000 mJ/cm2, preferably less than about 500 mJ/cm2, most preferably less than about 400 mJ/cm2 and/or drying at less than about 300 degrees C. for less than about 40 minutes, preferably less than about 200 degrees C. for less than about 20 minutes, most preferably less than about 100 degrees C. for less than about 10 minutes. The coated lites with dots 30 thereon are then washed using conventional glass washing techniques, inspected, and cut to final touch screen dimensions using conventional glass cutting techniques. Dielectric materials and adhesives are applied to the resulting rigid glass coated substrate. The flexible conductive top sheet 40 is then bonded to the conductive glass substrate 10 with the spacer dots 30 separating the top sheet from the coated glass substrate. A flexible electric connector is electrically connected to the complete assembly for attachment to the information device. The device is then inspected and tested electronically. The resulting product is the complete interactive information device 60.
Alternately, as shown in embodiment 60′ in FIG. 1A, transparent, insulating spacer members or dots 30 a, which are substantially similar to spacer dots 30 described above, may be arranged and located on surface 51 of conductive thin film coating 50 in the same manner as described above for dots 30 on surface 22 also to avoid false-touch sensing of the touch screen.
In yet another embodiment 60″, shown in FIG. 1B, spacer members or dots 30 b may be located and arranged on surface 22 of conductive coating 20 while spacer members 30 c may be arranged and located on surface 51 of conductive thin film coating 50. Spacer members or dots 30 b and 30 c are substantially similar to spacer members or dots 30 described above. In embodiment 60″, however, spacer dots 30 b, 30 c alternate on opposite sides of the gap on coatings 20, 50 and are spaced at greater a distance from one another on each of the opposing surfaces so as not to be aligned with or engage one another but allow the conductive coatings 20, 50 to engage one another between the spacer dots when flexible film 40 is touched or pressed.
A preferred synthesis for the spacer dot paste was produced with a mixture of 118.2 g glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane, 13.5 g bidistilled water and 4 g hydroxypropyl cellulose refluxed for 24 hours. The mixture was filtered afterwards. In addition, a mixture of 10 g of 30% by weight colloidal silicon dioxide in isopropanol and 2.4 mg 40% by weight tetrahexylammoniumhydroxide in water was produced under stirring. 20 g of glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane and 3 g of 30% by weight colloidal silicon dioxide in isopropanol/40% by weight tetrahexylammoniumhydroxide in water mixture were mixed, water and alcohol were removed by distillation (temperature at 60 degrees C., pressure at 200 mbar, removal of 25.4% of the mixture). Afterwards 2 weight percent of the photoinitiator Union Carbide Cyracure UVI 6974 were added.
While several forms of the invention has been shown and described, other forms will now be apparent to those skilled in the art. Therefore, it will be understood that the embodiments shown in the drawings and described above are merely for illustrative purposes, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention which is defined by the claims which following including the doctrine of equivalents.
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iPhone 3G in the Beginning of Wal-Mart sales: It is reported that the world's largest chain retailer Wal-Mart at Friday local time announced, the company will be held on December 28 from Apple's iPhone 3G handset sales. The United States is at a recent Christmas holidays, sales of technology products and Internet retail industry, the industry has become a major concern.
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All-America candidate ... Team Captain ... Can become only the third two-time Patriot League Player of the Year selection in conference history, as the only previous players to accomplish the feat are Adonal Foyle (Colgate, 1996 and 1997) and Brian Ehlers (Lafayette, 1999 and 2000) ... Holds the Holy Cross career records for three-pointers made (159) and attempted (450) ... Enters the season needing just 55 points to become the 41st 1,000-point scorer in school history ... Also needs 57 steals to break the all-time Holy Cross career record ... Will be in his third season as a starter at shooting guard ... Outstanding outside shooter, who can also score off the dribble ... One of the top players in the Patriot League at both the offensive and defensive ends of the court.
Named the Patriot League Player of the Year, in addition to being a first team All-Patriot League selection ... Earned All-Patriot League Tournament honors ... Named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press ... Played in all 32 games on the season, starting 31 times ... Averaged 15.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.9 steals and 2.8 assists per game ... Shot 35.5 percent from three-point range (82 of 231) and 72.7 percent at the foul line (96 of 132) ... Grabbed 157 of his 181 rebounds at the defensive end of the floor ... Led the Patriot League in scoring, steals, three-point field goals made and defensive rebounds, in addition to placing sixth in total rebounds, seventh in assists, 13th in free throw percentage and 15th in three-point field goal percentage ... Ranked eighth in the nation in steals ... Totaled 12 points, four assists and three rebounds at St. Joseph's in the second round of the NIT ... Recorded a career-high 26 points, seven rebounds, two assists and two steals at Notre Dame in the first round of the NIT, while hitting 10 of 12 free throw attempts ... Had 21 points, five steals and three rebounds against Bucknell in the Patriot League championship game ... Totaled 16 points, five rebounds and two steals in the Patriot League semifinal win over Lehigh, while going six of six at the free throw line in overtime ... Recorded 16 points, four rebounds, three assists and two steals in the Patriot League quarterfinal victory over Army ... Had 16 points and eight rebounds in the win over Bucknell ... Totaled 14 points, nine rebounds and two steals in the victory at Colgate ... Recorded 20 points, six rebounds and three assists in the home win over Lehigh, while hitting three of four attempts from three-point range ... Had 16 points, five rebounds, five assists and five steals in the home victory over Lafayette ... Selected the Patriot League Player of the Week following his performances against Lehigh and Lafayette ... Totaled 14 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two blocks and two steals in the overtime win at American, while playing all 45 minutes ... Recorded 17 points, five rebounds and three steals in the victory at Lehigh ... Led the team with 22 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals in the win at Lafayette ... Scored a team-high 23 points in the home victory over American, in addition to totaling seven assists, five steals and four rebounds ... Named Patriot League Player of the Week following his performances against Lehigh, Lafayette and American ... Totaled 12 points, six rebounds and six steals in the home win over Navy ... Recorded 24 points, five steals and three assists in the victory over Iona, while hitting seven of 11 field goals and five of eight three-pointers ... Led the team with 19 points in the home win over Colgate, in addition to totaling six steals, five rebounds and two assists ... Had 18 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals in the victory at Army, while hitting five of eight attemtps from three-point range ... Named the Holiday Inn Express Crusader of the Week following his performances against Colgate and Army ... Recorded 17 points, three rebounds, three steals and two assists at Bucknell ... Totaled 16 points, eight rebounds, four assists and four steals in the win over Dartmouth ... Led the team with 12 points, seven rebounds and three steals in the victory at Rhode Island ... Had 12 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals against Vermont ... Recorded 13 points, six rebounds and five assists in the win over Northeastern ... Totaled 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and four steals in the victory at Brown ... Led the team with 17 points and eight rebounds in the win at Fordham ... Scored 22 points at Minnesota, while hitting six of eight attempts from three-point range ... Also had team-highs of six points, five assists and four steals at Minnesota ... Recorded 11 points and five rebounds against Princeton ... Totaled 10 points, nine rebounds and three assists in the victory over Marist ... Led the team with 18 points in the win at Harvard, in addition to totaling five rebounds, five steals and three assists ... Scored a team-high 17 points in the victory over Boston University, in addition to recording six steals, five rebounds and three assists ... A preseason All-Patriot League selection. AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2003-2004
Earned second team All-Patriot League honors ... Played in all 28 games on the season, starting 27 times ... Averaged a team-best 11.0 points and 4.5 rebounds per game ... Grabbed 104 of his 127 rebounds on the defensive end ... Also totaled 69 assists and a team-high 72 steals ... Hit 41.3 percent from the field (100 of 242), 38.7 percent from three-point range (53 of 137) and 63.5 percent on the foul line (54 of 85) ... Ranked second in the Patriot League in steals, fourth in defensive rebounds, fifth in three-point field goals made, 10th in assists, 10th in three-point field goal percentage, 12th in rebounding, 13th in scoring ... Had a career-high 19 points against Bucknell in the Patriot League Tournament ... Scored 12 points in his first career start against Harvard, connecting on five of nine shots from the field, while adding four steals and four rebounds ... Scored 11 points and pulled down four rebounds against Boston College ... Notched a career-high 11 rebounds and three steals against Louisville in 31 minutes ... Totaled nine points, six rebounds and four steals against Fordham ... Recorded 15 points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals against Brown ... Scored 17 points against Marist at Madison Square Garden, hitting five of seven three-point attempts ... Notched 16 points with eight rebounds with three steals at Dartmouth ... Scored nine points and added seven rebounds against Army ... Scored 13 points against Colgate ... Scored 15 points with five steals against Lafayette ... Tallied 11 points with a career-high seven assists against Navy ... Scored 14 points to go along with five rebounds and five assists against Army ... Scored 15 points with five steals against Colgate ... Tallied 14 points and recorded three steals against American ... Scored 13 points and notched a career-high six steals against Navy ... Totaled 17 points, six assists and five rebounds against Lehigh in the regular season finale. AS A FRESHMAN IN 2002-2003
Selected to the Patriot League All-Tournament team ... Two-time Patriot League Rookie of the Week selection (on Nov. 23 and Dec. 16) ... Played in all 31 games, averaging 13.4 minutes per contest ... Scored 4.4 points and pulled down 2.2 rebounds per game ... Ranked third on the team in steals with 26 ... Played 15 minutes in his collegiate debut against Kansas, scoring seven points ... Scored 12 points against Yale, hitting four of eight shots from the floor ... Pulled down a season-high seven rebounds against Hartford, to go along with three assists and three steals ... Scored 10 points in 24 minutes against Fordham ... Scored 12 points on four three-point field goals against Army ... Notched four steals against Navy ... Scored 14 points and added six rebounds, two assists and two steals against Lehigh ... Averaged 12.7 points and 4.0 rebounds in earning All-Patriot League Tournament accolades ... Connected on 63.2 percent of his shots from the field (12 of 19) and 54.5 percent of his three-point attempts (six of 11) during the Patriot League Tournament. HIGH SCHOOL
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The Derry City youngster recently had a week-long trial at the City Ground and says he would be delighted to sign a professional deal in England.
McLaughlin will have a medical in Nottingham on Tuesday and it has been reported that Forest will pay around £200k plus add-ons for his signature.
He told the Londonderry Sentinel: "It has been a long couple of weeks, not knowing what was going to happen, but hopefully now everything will be sorted out.
"If I get the opportunity to sign for Forest then yes I'll be over the moon. Who wouldn't be delighted?
"I enjoyed my trial with Forest. It's a massive step up from League of Ireland, because there are better players, better facilities and better training."
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Technology update
Nov 13, 2008
SAW sizes particles for drug delivery
Surface acoustic wave (SAW) atomization is a straightforward and rapid route to producing particles and droplets with a controlled and narrow size distribution. What's more, the technology is extremely compact and portable, which is opening the door to applications such as drug delivery.
Researchers in Australia have demonstrated a SAW device for releasing monodisperse aerosols and particles to suit various drug-delivery routes. In particular, the group from Monash University has used its 20 MHz SAW design to generate insulin aerosols for pulmonary delivery and solid protein nanoparticles for transdermal and gastrointenstinal pathways.
The chip features an interdigital transducer consisting of 25 pairs of 400 nm electrodes that are sputter-coated on to a piezoelectric lithium niobate substrate. To generate a series of surface acoustic waves, the operator simply applies a sinusoidal electrical signal across the electrodes. The waves disrupt liquid placed on top of the chip to produce a fine mist of micron-sized material.
By allowing the atomized droplets to evaporate in-flight, the team has successfully formed nanoparticles in the 50–100 nm range.
The group's vision is to develop simple-to-operate, portable devices that can be carried around by patients to provide treatment on demand. In addition, by arranging the chips in parallel, the technology may also turn out to be a useful way of producing correctly sized material in bulk.
Back in the lab, the team is now looking to simplify its apparatus. "We need better prototypes, ones that are programmable and easy for an average person to use," James Friend, who co-directs Monash University's micro and nanophysics research laboratory with Leslie Yeo, told nanotechweb.org.
Mar Alvarez, James Friend and Leslie Yeo presented their work in Nanotechnology.
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Well, the OC Fair is now over and my only regret is that I made it there just once and that was only for a couple of hours--not including the Martina McBride/Little Big Town concert. Here are a few pictures from Saturday, July 28.
The main reason for driving 60 miles to Costa Mesa was to see the aforementioned Martina McBride concert in the Pacific Amphitheatre. Since our tickets were so expensive (7th row orchestra!), we had free admission to the fair. Unfortunately, we only got there a couple hours before the concert, so we didn't do much but wander around to take in the sights. And eat. And drink.
Cowabunga! That's the theme of this year's OC Fair. Elvis-cows optional.
Now, that's going pretty darn low to limbo. Very impressive!
There's no more skyway in Disneyland, but you can ride one at the Fair. Needless to say, we would be going up on that thing.
They even had a ride like Soarin'! This one is Soarin' Over Costa Mesa.
A colorful funhouse.
Hercules the Giant Horse was quite popular. There was a non-stop stream of people willing to pay to see Hercules.
The Giant Steer? Not as popular.
Skyway. Oh yes. We are SO riding that thing.
A green Aladdin? Well, I guess it would be pretty easy for a genie to change colors.
Whatever this carnival game was. It sure wasn't popular. The stools made for a nice photo op though.
While heading for one of the skyway stations, we noticed an unusual passenger on an incoming chair.
Taking off from the Skyway West Station...
Wheeeee! I have a confession to make. I actually felt a little nervous up on the bench and I normally don't have a fear of heights. Hmmm.
My only consolation was that if I fell, there was a pretty good chance that someone below would break my fall. It was fairly crowded.
Fairly crowded. Get it?
Sorry, that was bad.
That's a lot of turkey legs!
Picnic tables for eating turkey legs. Or hot dogs. Or churros. Or pizza slices. Or...well you get the picture.
And what's a county fair without a sampling of the various food vendors?
I didn't know Krispy Kreme made chicken sandwiches. Is it a fried chicken breast between two donuts?
I'll take one please...
...with a generous portion of peppers and onions. Yum.
My friend Kristine thought I was taking a picture of tanned OC girls. Um...no, really, I was taking a picture of the funnel cake stand.
BBQ chickens. I'm not sure what the fan is for though.
We wished we had more time for the fair, but we weren't going to miss the concert!
Little Big Town -- minus one. Band member Kimberly Roads gave birth to a baby girl just two nights before this concert. Understandably, she wasn't with the group for this show.
This was my first time seeing Martina McBride in concert. Wow. Two very big thumbs up. She has a great stage show!
The amphitheatre sign as we exit the venue. It was a terrific concert and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves for a few hours during the fair. You can click on any of the photos to be taken to my Flickr set with more pictures, especially of the concerts. Next year, we'll plan on going earlier in the day to truly take advantage of all that the fair has to offer. Including fried oreos, assorted BBQ, and cool refreshments.


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Storage Dome Collapse At Nucor Steel Louisiana
Direct reduced iron is one of the raw materials used in steelmaking and is produced by using natural gas to convert iron ore pellets into DRI. The iron ore pellets are stored in domes. The collapsed storage dome was one of three on the site. Once in full operation, the DRI plant is anticipated to produce 2.5 million tons of DRI per year, making it the largest DRI plant in the world and the first one operating in the U.S. in several years. Construction and hot commissioning of the plant are continuing during the incident investigation and damage assessment.
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Md. Man Sentenced To Life For Plot To Kill Witness
A Maryland man convicted of conspiring to kill a witness who was going to testify against him in a drug case has been sentenced to life in prison.
State Rests Case In Trial Of 2 Brothers Accused Of Beating African-American Teen
The trial resumes for brothers accused of beating an African-American teenager. On Tuesday, several witnesses took the stand.
Md. Police Seek Witness In Silver Spring Shooting
Police in Montgomery County are urging a woman who they believe witnessed a killing in Silver Spring last year to come forward.
Witness Ordered Jailed At Dog Burning Trial
A Baltimore Circuit judge has ordered a witness jailed for six months for refusing to testify at the trial of twins accused of setting a pit bull puppy on fire, causing fatal burns.
Man Guilty Of Killing Witness Against Him
A Maryland man has been found guilty of conspiring to kill a witness who was going to testify against him in a drug case.
Westminster Woman Charged With Threatening Witness
A woman has been charged with threatening a witness in a court case against her boyfriend.
Prosecutor Hosts Witness Intimidation Summit
Witnesses are crucial to the criminal justice system's success, so Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein says it's no wonder that the "enemies of justice" try to stop them from cooperating.
Hearings Set In 4 Cities On Children And Violence
The first public hearing will be in Baltimore on Nov. 29-30 at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Slain Baltimore Co. Man's Mother Speaks Out
A man is murdered in his Baltimore County neighborhood. Now the victim's mother says her son was killed because he was a witness to another crime.
Aruban Authorities Seek New Witness In Robyn Gardner's Disappearance
Aruban prosecutors are looking for the driver of a white Hyundai spotted on surveillance cameras right around the time Robyn Gardner vanished.
Md. Man Convicted Of Killing Federal Witness
Antonio R. Hall murdered a witness after a leaked FBI report tipped him off that the victim was cooperating with investigators.
Police Search For Clues In Murder Of Mother And Daughter
Both Baltimore County and Baltimore City police are trying to track down the person who murdered a mother and her young daughter


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Walleye can't complete third period comeback, lose 3-1 to KometsWritten by Vincent D. Scebbi | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Trailing by a goal going into the third period, it almost seemed as if the Toledo Walleye (30-19-6) were going to repeat a come-from-behind victory for the second time in as many nights.
Despite a late third-period goal by Toledo forward Nino Musitelli, the Fort Wayne Komets (27-27-2) answered back with a little over three minutes left and eventually won the game 3-1.
"It was a hard-fought game by both teams, but when you have a goalie like that, and we had chances to score, we just didn't capitalize which resulted in us losing the game, but there's always tomorrow," Musitelli said.
Komets goaltender Jeff Deslauriers, who finished the game with 28 saves, stopped every puck thrown at him until Musitelli's goal with 5:56 left in regulation.
"Credit the goaltender. He was fantastic for them," said Walleye head coach Nick Vitucci. "We had eight or nine great scoring opportunities and he turned them aside and as a team, you hope to generate that and take advantage of some of them but once in a while you have to tip your hat to a great goaltender and he played very well for them tonight."
Toledo had a few solid scoring opportunities turned away by Deslauriers throughout the game, including a one-timer by Musitelli in front of the net that Deslauriers used his 6-foot four-inch frame and lateral speed to turn and deflect the shot during the second period.
Later in the period, the Walleye had similar chances by two different shifts, both times stopped by the netminder.
Forward Willie Coetzee sent a pass to Kyle Rogers, who redirected the pass from the right side of the net, but saw it turned aside.
The following shift, Travis Novak and Byron Froese tried something similar, but again saw the same result from Deslauriers.
Musitelli scored when he took a pass from forward Tyler Brenner and moved inside the right faceoff circle, then fired the puck over the goalie's shoulder after he went low.
Toledo's power play went 0-for-3 tonight and they have not had a power play goal in the last 23 attempts.
Their last power play goal was scored by Joey Martin on Feb. 1 against the Elmira Jackals.
"We're changing everything. We're changing setup formation and we're generating all kinds of offense on it and obviously if you're not generating anything, you really got to look hard at it," Vitucci said. "We are generating things, but we're not finding the back of the net. We will continue plugging away at it."
Fort Wayne got on the board first on a power play goal by left winger Matt Syroczynski with 8:18 left in the second period. Syroczynski took a rebound off a Brett Smith shot and fired the rebound under goalie Kent Simpson's leg pad.
Musitelli's third period goal was his fifth of the season and third in as many games for Toledo.
"It's just taking it game by game and doing the little things and if it results in scoring a goal or an assist, then so be it," he said. "It's just doing the little things and whether it's taking a hit, giving a hit, whatever, doing the simple things to get the puck to the net and the line mates do a great job, getting the puck down low and getting the puck and stuff like that."
The Komets took the lead with 2:54 left in regulation on a Brandon Marino goal that beat Simpson on the short side.
Syroczynski fired a shot off the right-side post, chased down the rebound and passed it to Marino, who finished the play.
The goal is Marino's second against the Walleye and he has a team-high nine points (2g-7a) against Toledo.
Jean-Michel Rizk added the insurance goal with 5 seconds left in regulation when he scored an unassisted goal on an empty net.
Tonight's game also marked the sixth sellout game of the season. When the Huntington Center is sold out, the Walleye are 2-3-1 on the season.
"Whether you're playing in front of 4,000 fans or 8,000 fans, it's loud, it's energetic in this building," Vitucci said. "Obviously we're very appreciative of the fans who come out and support us and wish we could've scored a few more goals for them tonight."
To cap off the weekend, the Walleye host division leading Cincinnati Cyclones on Feb. 24.
Despite the fact Cincinnati has a six-point hold on first place, the Walleye have the season series edge, winning four of the six meetings so far.
"We always have great games against Cincinnati," Vitucci said. "It's almost an NHL-like pace. They're very similar to us, a lot of speed, a lot of skill. They're fun games to be involved in."
The division rivalry matchup is scheduled to start at 5:05 p.m. at the Huntington Center.
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