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With almost 90,000 residents, the city of Deltona is the largest and fastest growing city between Jacksonville and Orlando andc for the first time, they now have their own funeral home.
On Dec. 11, Lohman Funeral Home opened a new location right in the heart of Deltona at 1681 Providence Blvd., just down from City Hall.
The city's business development administrator, Jerry Mayes, was quoted saying "the new Lohman Funeral Home not only adds another business to the city, but also fills a commercial building that had been vacant since mid-2009 and which had fallen into disrepair."
The vacant, 6,000 square-foot building, which formerly housed offices and a restaurant, was renovated over the past six months into a beautiful facility that includes a chapel and a reception area appointed with stained-glass and chandeliers.
"We knew the community in Deltona needed and deserved a beautiful and convenient funeral home of their own," said Lowell Lohman, President and CEO of Lohman Funeral Homes, Cemeteries & Cremation. "We will offer traditional funerals and memorial services as well personal tributes and celebrations of life.
Lohman Funeral Home Deltona will operate in-sync with its other locations, especially Deland Memorial Gardens - a Lohman Cemetery. "With both the funeral home and our cemetery, we can now offer families in the Deltona and Deland area one single continuum of care. They can go to a single place and work with one staff member for all their funeral, cremation and burial services." said Mrs. Lohman, who oversees the funeral division.
The Lohman family also owns their own local crematory for the families they serve. "Our crematory is beautiful, clean and dignified; just as we would want if it were our family," said Nancy Lohman.
For more information, call Nancy Lohman at Lohman Office, 725 W. Granada Blvd., Suite 48, Ormond Beach, Florida. (386) 615-1100 or fax (386) 615-0070.
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While scientists and engineers are working hard to build micro and nano-scale structures, nature has perfected the ability to build highly symmetrical and complex architecture at all scales. The Vanda 'Miss Joaquim' orchid – Singapore's national flower – and diatom are a couple examples of beautiful macro- and micro-scale structures among many others. Zooming into subcellular structures, ATPase and ribosome are nano-scale molecular machines responsible for the synthesis of ATP – the energy currency of life – and for translating genetic information into protein, respectively. The proteins that are synthesized can self-assemble into nanostructures of various shapes and sizes.
Protein nanocages are such structure. They are composed of multiple protein subunits that self-assemble with excellent precision forming a hollow highly symmetrical and complex caged structure of nanometer size (1/1000 of the average width of a strand of human hair). The smallest repeating unit usually consists of two, three, or five protein subunits. The repeating units subsequently self-assemble to form tetrahedral, dodecahedral, or icosahedral structures – similar to a soccer ball – of 24, 60, or more protein subunits with or without pores on the apices. The beauty of the multiple-subunit nature of the protein nanocage is that a modification on a single subunit will result in multiple modifications on the fully assembled structure. Explorations of the protein nanocages have unveiled their versatility as multifunctional nanoplatforms.
Among the myriad of natural protein nanocages a few have been extensively studied (Fig. 1): Ferritin (Ftn), E2 protein, heat shock protein (Hsp), DNA-binding protein from starved cells (Dps), viral capsids, and the vault. Most of these protein nanocages assume spherical shape while the vault assumes an ellipsoidal shape. Their natural functions vary from regulation of iron homeostasis in a physiological system by storing excess iron within its core, catalysis of glycolysis product to the substrate of tricarboxylic acid cycle in glucose metabolism, folding/unfolding of other proteins in response to elevated temperature, protecting DNA from oxidative damage, nucleic acid cargo carrier, to functions that are yet to be elucidated.
By leveraging on their natural catalytic property and ability to store molecules within the hollow core, scientists have successfully used these nanocages as reaction vessels and templates to synthesize nanoparticles.[2] This synthesis method results in highly uniform-sized nanoparticles owing to the precise natural control of the template. Beside iron nanoparticles, other metal nanoparticles such as gold, silver, manganese, platinum, as well as semi-conductor nanoparticles have been synthesized.[3] The hybrid metal core with a protein shell has been shown to be promising in applications as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent and electrocatalyst in the methanol oxidation reaction in a fuel cell.
led to the expansion of their functions beyond the natural ones. There are three surfaces that can be engineered: the internal surface, the external surface, and the interface between the subunits.[5] The internal surface of a protein nanocage does not naturally carry any therapeutic cargo. However, by substituting specific amino acids – the building blocks of protein, it is possible to provide an anchor onto which small molecule or macromolecule therapeutics can be attached to. The anticancer drugs doxorubicin has been shown to be successfully encapsulated without jeopardizing the drug efficacy.[6] Distinct from small molecule encapsulation into the lumen of the other protein nanocages that relies on chemical interactions (e.g. covalent, ionic, and hydrophobic), macromolecule encapsulation into the vault lumen is facilitated by attachment to a protein fragment called INT. The INT binds specifically to the internal surface of the vault through protein-protein interactions and acts as a shuttle to ferry the macromolecule cargos into the vault.
Towards applications in targeted delivery of the therapeutic cargo, the external surface of the protein nanocages can be decorated with peptides that can aid in binding to the surface of cancer cells.[8] Besides decorating the external surface with cancer-specific targeting ligands, display of epitopes on the external surface opens a potential of using the protein nanocages as vaccine platforms.[9] Keeping in mind that the protein nanocages are composed of multiple protein subunits, multiple epitopes and ligands can be simultaneously displayed on the surface and the only limitation is steric hindrance. The interface between subunits is the least explored surface yet the most interesting as it determines the self-assembly feature of the protein nanocages.
The self-assembly process is central to the formation of the caged protein architecture. Modulation of the self-assembly process has implications on controlling molecular therapeutic cargo release from the lumen of the protein nanocage. For example, cancerous tissue environment is slightly more acidic compared to the healthy tissue.[10] Substituting amino acids located at the interface of subunits with histidines has been demonstrated to impose pH-responsive disassembly profile of a protein nanocage.[11] Histidine is an amino acid containing a side chain that is positively charged at acidic pH, while it remains uncharged at neutral and basic pH-s. If clusters of histidines are placed close enough to each other at the interface and are accessible, they will repel each other due to the same charge upon arriving at acidic pH environment. The result is the destabilization of the interaction between the subunits and the disassembly, facilitating molecular release from the lumen of the protein nanocage. Besides applications in controlling release of molecular cargo, the self-assembly process can also be used as a strategy to trap molecules into the lumen. Several studies show that by first disassembling the protein nanocages, one can reassemble them into their original caged architectures. During this reassembly process, molecules such as nanoparticles and other enzymes can be encapsulated.
Through understanding the symmetrical nature and self-assembly mechanism of the different protein subunits, scientists are able to build synthetic protein nanocages from modular building blocks derived from natural proteins. By combining 2 types of basic structural units linked by a short rigid protein structure, Yates group at UCLA builds synthetic protein nanocages of tetrahedral shape.
The modularity of the protein nanocage building blocks holds promise to further tailor their properties for specific applications. Collaborative efforts between bioengineers, biochemist, materials scientists, and computer engineers will open new ground on the bioinspired design of hierarchical nanostructures with increasing complexity.
The author thanks Dr. Barindra Sana and Tao Peng of NTU Bioengineering for the figure preparation and Prof. Birgitta Norling of NTU School of Biological Science for critical comments on the manuscript. The work is partially supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Funds Tier 1 (RG33/07) and National Medical Research Council (NMRC/NIG/1073/2012).
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If you picked up yesterday's edition of The Province, I'm obligated to advise that you bought the wrong paper. Also, you might have seen an editorial about a proposed solution to the well-publicized relationship problems between Roberto Luongo and a certain segment of the Canucks fanbase. If not, you can still read the editorial on The Province's website. I encourage you to do so, if only to marvel at the absurdity.
This is a news editorial by "The Province", not a columnist's take. It represents the paper, not one particular thinker, which basically means I'm going to hold all of them responsible, particularly since it uses plural personal pronouns throughout: "Here's our solution" and "we need a power forward." So what's their solution? What power forward are they targeting? Their proposal:
Trade Luongo straight up for Vincent Lecavalier of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Let's ignore for the moment that it seems incredibly inappropriate for a mainstream media source to call for a trade, let alone a very specific trade. In fact, let's not even address this as a newspaper article, especially since it barely manages to rise above the level of a hastily thrown together and ill-considered blog post. So let's judge it at that level: as a blog post.
I'd like to address a few of the problems with this trade proposal, which would even get laughed out of the HFBoards Trade Rumours forum.
1 Vincent Lecavalier is a centre. In case you haven't noticed, that's not really a need the Canucks have, with 5 centres on the active roster and Cody Hodgson playing on the wing on the second line. That in itself should make this proposal dead in the water, but that's just the beginning.
2 Lecavalier has a no-movement clause in his contract and Luongo has a limited no-trade clause. Lecavalier has expressed no interest in leaving Tampa Bay (in fact, just the opposite) while Luongo's first escape clause doesn't kick in until 2015.
3 Lecavalier is the captain of the Lightning. While teams have, in the past, traded their captain away, it's an extremely rare event and one not likely to happen in Tampa Bay.
4 The Lightning went all the way to the Eastern Conference Final and went to 7 games with the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins. They're in no rush to trade away their third leading scorer in the regular season and second leading scorer in the playoffs as they aim to go deep again into the playoffs. Likewise, the Canucks came one game short of winning the Stanley Cup with Luongo in net: as much as some fans blame him for the loss, I guarantee you the Canucks' management does not.
5 If those reasons aren't enough, here's the kicker: "The Province" suggested that this might be a good deal because Luongo and Lecavalier both have similar contracts. They suggest that Luongo's "12-year, $64-million no-trade contract" is "similar" to Lecavalier's "$85-million, 11-year no-trade deal." You don't have to be a mathematical genius to see that 64 is not a similar number to 85. The only similarity is that they are both numbers.
The two contracts are 21 million dollars dissimilar.
What's worse, Lecavalier's deal is one year shorter than Luongo's, making the cap hit even higher. Luongo's annual cap hit is $5,333,333. Lecavalier's annual cap hit is $7,727,273. That's an annual difference of just under $2.4 million. But the two contracts are evidently "similar."
6 The problems don't end there for this editorial. "The Province" suggests that since Lecavalier is "no longer top dog" in Tampa Bay, he "could use a fresh start." Well, he certainly wouldn't be "top dog" in Vancouver. Henrik Sedin has scored 82 more points over the last two seasons than Lecavalier, though to be fair, the Lightning captain was injured for part of last season. How's this: Henrik has scored 0.41 points per game more than Lecavalier over the last two seasons. And all for a cap hit over $1.6 million lower.
7 It gets worse: over the last two seasons, Ryan Kesler has scored more points per game than Lecavalier as well. Kesler's cap hit: $5 million, over $2.7 million lower than Lecavalier's. That would make Lecavalier the third best centre on the team for a cap hit just a million dollars lower than Sidney Crosby's. And that contract would run through 2020.
"The Province" suggests that this trade would be a "win-win-win-win solution" as it benefits Luongo, Lecavalier, Schneider, and the fans. Let's ignore for the moment whether it actually would benefit any of those four parties: what about the team that's backed Luongo all the way? What about those members of the fanbase who have no interest in seeing one of the best goaltenders in the NHL leave town? What about poor Laurence Gilman, who would go into conniptions at the thought of fitting Lecavalier's monstrous contract under the salary cap for the next 9 seasons? Is it a win for them as well?
What about their families? These guys have the security of long-term contracts and no-trade clauses and their families have laid down roots. They aren't just going to uproot on a whim or because The Province says they should.
If this trade was proposed in a blog, the writer would be laughed out of the blogosphere. He or she would have to resort to writing for Bleacher Report, where he or she could suggest as many trade proposals as they want. And put them in a slideshow. With pictures of the player's wives, if they're attractive or scantily clad enough. Even then, it might not get accepted with their recent tighter restrictions.
If this editorial isn't fit to publish on a blog, what made the Province think it was fit to publish in their paper?Tags: Blogs are for lists, featured, Luongo, Rant, Roberto Luongo, Seriously?, spotlight, Vincent Lecavalier
Calling 5'5″, 155 pound Lecavalier a "power forward" should have clued any and all readers of that editorial that the writer(s) haven't clue 1 about hockey.
Lecavalier is roughly the same size as was former Canuck "power forward" Bobby Lalond. (Although many gazzillion times better skilled, for sure).
If it was a sports guy's column I would perhaps agree with you but for the editorial department to weigh in like that? I am not so sure. I didn't read it as sarcasm never-the less I think that we are both agreed that in no way could it possibly be considered as a serious proposal.
Go for it. We want to be held accountable. Harrison and I have made a commitment to never call for something to be fired or for a player to be traded: it's not our place to make personnel decisions and, as I mentioned, these are people with families and real lives. We'll certainly criticize when it's called for, but we won't call for someone to lose their job or be shipped out of town. The most we'll do is speculate if a substantive rumour comes up.
So yes, hold us responsible and keep us accountable.
I can't believe a woman wouldn't move with her husband to the city he plans on playing in for the next decade. I know its nicer down there but, is there no love? "No no Lu, I'm happy down here. Just make sure you pay all the bills though." Pffft! Gold Digger.
Luongo for LeCavalier?
I'd say that's really stupid, eh!
The proposer should be henceforth
Banished to the Great White North.
As in Siberia I mean
Where he can drive the ice machine,
And beg the Russian Mafia
To let him bootleg Tafia.
And just how dumb can one man be,
Then hide behind the plural "we",
Presenting this as "our solution"?
His is a mind that's Lilliputian!
Cory Schneider for St Louis
Now there's a trade appeals to me
The Olde Coot
I read that article in the Province several times, convinced it was sarcastic. I still don't know if it was intended to be so. Honestly, my sarcaso-meter didn't pick up anything. If that's true and it was intended to be A Modest Proposal, it was a really poor choice of subject matter and only serves to further ignite the fervor of those no-minds who call themselves fans. God, I hate those people. Good rebuttal, though, PITB, as usual.
The link is at the top of this post if you can't track it down on their website.
I read it a dozen times trying to decipher if it was meant to be sarcastic or humorous or satirical (A Modest Proposal indeed!) but there was not a trace of wit or sarcastic edge to it. I tried so hard to view it in as positive a light as possible: no luck.
Since Moriarty, the Prov editor, went on TEAM 1040 to defend it, that puts to bed the thought that it might have been a joke.
The Province is a terrible, terrible newspaper. It continually makes Vancouver sport fans look bad (which says something, since some of our fans do a bang up job on their own).
Can't believe you're taking The Province to task, considering YOU WORK FOR THE SAME NEWSPAPER CHAIN. I'd tell you to check your paycheque for the "Postmedia" watermark but I'm not sure you're getting one. Hopefully someone at the Pacific Newspaper Group has a word.
The writer didn't even seem to notice that Lecavalier had a higher cap hit than Luongo, so I don't think they're aware the salary cap exists. And no, nothing about Lack.
While I'm sure there are people in the Canucks fanbase who would be comfortable with a Schneider/Lack tandem going into the playoffs, I sincerely hope they're in the minority.
The Hockey News did a really good piece last playoffs on how Vincent Lecavalier, despite the fact he won't be the team's leading scorer in the future, is still contributing in a big way and happy about his role. I don't think they post all their articles online, but it was in this (http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/40330-This-Week-in-THN-May-30-2011.html) issue, which might be available if your local library carries the magazine if you're interested. A good read, unlike certain other pieces of writing, of which the one in question here is pretty clearly just link-grabbing, controversy-stirring non-journalism.
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I see my comment hasn't been approved, and that may be due to the vagueness of my wording. Wasn't referring to PITB as non-journalism, but the article discussed in your post. Also not attempting to push THN, not affiliated, just thought it was a good read for those unfamiliar with how Lecavalier's lack of production fits into the Lightning lineup.
And Gillis weighs in on this horrible article on team 1040: http://www.teamradio.ca/news/mike-gillis-on-team1040/
This isn't a ridiculous notion at all to suggest it. It would be unbelievable if the Canucks could dump him. However, it most likely isn't at all possible with his crazy bad contract. Considering Mike Milbury is now analyzing and Richard Wang already has a 15 year goaltender, I can't see any GM in his right mind take on Luongo at this point. It's getting pretty bad in Vancouver, so it's going to be tough to imagine that 11 more years of Luongo is even liveable at this point. But the Canuck fans are stuck with him and are going to have to find a way to fight through it. He isn't going anywhere and that's the sad reality of it. It's even worse knowing a very capable, much less expensive Cory Schneider is waiting in the wings.


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Barbara Gordon???
Nightwing, man this time you will have very difficult!!
Character » Dick Grayson appears in 5182 issues.
It's between Starfire and Barbara Gordon for me.
Aren't you forgetting about Tarantula!! Just kidding, just kidding!!!
It's kind of hard deciding between Kori and Babs. I think he could be happy and we could get awesome issues with either one of this two. Maybe he could get into a more serious commitment like Superman and Lois or else he ends up like Batman!
" Barbara"
Ughhh... Really tough to decide between Kori and Babs, for me. I mean, in the Bat-books it's Barbara all the way, but if it's a Teen Titans thing it has to be Starfire. I guess since neither Dick nor Kori is on the Titans anymore, he should be with Babs. Besides, they really seem to be pushing that relationship in the comics right now.
Barbara Gordon!!!
I would say Barbara Gordon
" Barbara. "
Barbara would be the best GF for DIcky. Catwoman? After seeing her kissing Dick out of nowhere, no effin way.
Devyn Grayson.
lol huntress with jason.
" @Silver2467 said:"THANK YOU! I swear to God, I will explode if someone says Huntress."
Sorry, the suspense was killing me. <P.A. announcement> "Cleanup on aisle 2467 - Silver explosion." "
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Sorry, the suspense was killing me. <P.A. announcement> "Cleanup on aisle 2467 - Silver explosion." "
... Starfire... I want my Earth-22 Nightstar to start existing in mainstream continuity!
have we not had enough threads about this already?????
"Barbara for sure! "
I think when everything is said and done it's Babara
I'm a huge Dick and Barbara fan. Though I have to admit his romance with Starfire was sweet while it lasted. :-)
barbara gordon and dick grayson are meant to be they are like ross and rachel or JD and Elliot reid they may have their fites but they will always love each other
Starfire ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How sad. For someone to be so arrogant in her own beliefs as to be willing to excommunicate herself from the Church. Very sad.
So Sheri Bevan Walsh thinks that no mercy should be shown to nurses who steal narcotics. Fine. I think no mercy should be given to prosecutors like her who fight to keep innocent men like Clarence Elkins in prison even after they have DNA evidence in hand exonerating the wrongly convicted. Walsh must go!
"she admires Barack Obama's "vision of where we stand as a nation and where we stand among nations" "
Does she also admire how he voted against the Infants Born Alive Act? It would have protected infants who somehow survived an attempted abortion and managed to be born. Barack apparently thinks that such infants' humanity is way above his pay grade. You can not be a good Catholic and be pro-choice on abortion or infanticide.
God save us from such nuns.
"Graduates wear traditional regalia in school colors -- girls in red, boys in black at Chardon -- as a sign of unity and togetherness."
So tell me, do members of the National Honor Society at Chardon HS wear something identifying them as having received that honor? Does that provide "a sign of unity and togetherness?" What about the valedictorian and salutorian? Those who have earned these petty honors are recognized for it. So what is the problem with recognizing those who have volunteered to put themselves in harm's way in service to this country? Isn't that a far higher honor than anything that the cretinous school administrators can deliver?
Good for Sgt. Shoulders. If the city was serious about crime, they'd make him Lt. Shoulders.
You would think that someone who, as Glen Beck says, looks like Gollum, would at least try to ACT serious. But no, Smeagol just latches on to one nutty idea after another.
Get real. It's called public ASSISTANCE for a reason. It's supposed to assist you, not act as your sole source of food. This is just a cheap publicity stunt for someone who wants new excuses to spend your money.


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NASA honored former Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham today as an "Ambassador of Exploration." The award provides special recognition for the astronauts of America's early space programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
Cunningham was presented with a moon rock at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas to acknowledge his pioneering service as a NASA astronaut. He is donating the rock to the museum, which is temporarily displaying the Apollo 7 Command Module.
NASA astronaut Charles Hobaugh represented the agency at the event and presented Cunningham with the award. Hobaugh is assigned to space shuttle crew STS-118.
He read Cunningham a letter from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin: "Congratulations on receiving NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award. What a great honor for you to share with your family and the many friends and supporters of the Frontiers of Flight Museum.
"The purpose of these awards is to recognize the tremendous contributions America's first generation of astronauts made to space exploration and to help inspire a new generation to carry the torch of exploration throughout the solar system.
"Your outstanding service on the Apollo 7 mission and your continued strong advocacy for a bold, boundary pushing space program have demonstrated the essence of what our Ambassador of Exploration Awards are all about.
"The men and women of NASA are engaged in the work that will enable our Nation to return humans to the moon, send robotic explorers and, ultimately, human pioneers to Mars, and other destinations in our solar system.
"In taking on this challenge, we welcome the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of those heroic astronauts who blazed our first pathway beyond Earth. In this regard, we owe you a great debt of gratitude."
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NIESR forecast 0.5 per cent shrinkage in 2012
Return to growth in 2013, but stagnation continues.
Return to growth in 2013, but stagnation continues.
by Alex Hern Published
The National Institute for Economic and Social Research has released its quarterly economic forecast for Britain. It predicts the economy will contract by 0.5 per cent over 2012, and then return to a low level of growth in 2013, with GDP increasing by just 1.3 per cent over the year.
The forecasts also predict unemployment taking a second upward swing, peaking next year at 8.6 per cent, 0.4 percentage points up from where it is currently. The structural deficit, orignally planned to be eliminated by 2015, will take until 2016-17 to be reduced to nothing.
Inflation should drop under its 2 percent target this year, which is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, high inflation coupled with stagnating wages has made life harder for many, but the inflation target is usually seen as a symettrical one. If it drops too low (below one per cent) that's just as bad as it being too high. In addition, of course, there are questions as to whether targeting inflation is even the right thing to be doing in the circumstances. The sort of looser monetary policy which many believe could bring us out of depression would almost certainly lead to increased inflation, and that surely isn't a bad thing given the consequences.
NIESR agrees that the second quarter was abnormally hurt by the "jubilee effect", but points out that even without that, the trend is negative. The overall conclusion on growth figures, however, mirrors a case we made in April: technical recession on its own doesn't matter, when whichever side of the barrier we fall, Britain is firmly in stagnation.


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Paris Hilton had a frightening morning today. The starlet Tweeted earlier "So Scary, just got woken up to a guy trying to break into my house holding 2 big knifes. Cops are here arresting him" and posted the photo seen here. You can clearly see a bunch of policemen at her home, apparently taking turns sitting in her driveway armchair discussing perps and donuts.
So, look, we know that Twitter is Twitter and people make grammar mistakes all the time and we're certainly not perfect, but it made us sad to see that Paris actually wrote "2 big knifes" in her tweet. We're glad she's okay (wait, are we?) but we kind of have a feeling that this isn't poor grammar, Paris just thinks the plural of knife is knifes. She's not known for her smarts, is the thing. It's sad to think that all those millions of dollars at her disposal were spent at Kitson instead of kollege. Sorry, we mean collage. Whatever. Hey, let's go tanning!
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Every once in awhile I'll run the "What's Hot" Ebay search from the "Shop for Antiques" page to see what people are buying in the 19th century space and I just ran it this morning. Judging by what is there, it seems that Quartersawn, Horner style, Griffin-laden furniture is what is selling. Of the 10 items shown by my search (those over $400, 19th century, and with active bidding), 4 of them are from Bradford's Antiques who does a great job refinishing and selling quality pieces of this style. The above Chifferobe from Bradford's has been bid up to $4,600. The griffin mantel below is currently at $3,028 and both have 3 days to go yet.
There is another popular seller, North Wind Antiques who has 3 items seeing active bidding. All told, that means that 70% of the active mid-level 19th century furniture on Ebay is being sold by two popular sellers.
Another side observation is that 3 of the 10 active items are bedroom sets. The high-end ones have not seen reserve-exceeding bidding action recently but these $1,000 or less sets are seeing interest.


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LinkedIn sees news as an important part of its ongoing push to become more than just a professional networking site. Now it has made a big hire from the traditional media world to oversee that prong of its strategy. Daniel Roth, editor of Fortune.com and Fortune Digital, is leaving Time Inc. and joining the Mountain View, California-based company as its first executive editor.
A big part of Roth's job will be building out LinkedIn Today, a news product introduced in March for members. It's essentially a customized news feed that delivers headlines other members have shared, personalized with the aid of a proprietary algorithm. Roth will be tweaking it to make it more useful and readable. "It's always going to be based on what members are sharing and what their algorithms are saying are the right news items, but combine that with editorial leadership to bring in new content sources or surface other ones," he says.
Beyond that, he'll be exploring ways to turn the massive amount of information LinkedIn generates — data on which companies or industries are doing the most hiring, for instance — into editorial content. It already does some of this. "It's all about how does LinkedIn get its members the absolute most vital information they can to make their professional lives better," he says.
Roth, who has also worked at Wired and Conde Nast Portfolio (where we were briefly colleagues), says he first got to know his future colleagues at LinkedIn while partnering with them to build the Fortune 500+ web app, which uses the site to tell users who they're connected to at the companies on the list. He'll continue to be based in New York, with frequent trips to Mountain View.
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David Walsh: Bradshaw is ready for golf tournament in Pittsburgh
Come Monday, David Bradshaw tees it up in a $150,000 golf tournament in Pittsburgh, and Sam O'Dell puts on the white coat and goes back to seeing patients at his dental practice in Hurricane. Those are the career paths of one pro and one amateur golfer.
Bradshaw, who beat O'Dell by four shots Friday to win the 80th West Virginia Open at Parkersburg Country Club, is defending champion in the 72-hole Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational at the Pittsburgh Field Club. He got an exemption into the 2012 event and shot even-par 280 to take home the $30,000 first prize. Top prize for 2013 has been bumped up to $35,000.
In watching Bradshaw win seven Opens, the first as an amateur in 2004 and six as a pro, it's clear he can adapt to any course layout. He'd never seen Parkersburg Country Club until the Open, yet shot 69-69-67 for an 11-under 205. The week before, he posted a 10-under 206 to finish fifth in the e-Golf Tour's Spring Creek Classic in Gordonsville, Va. Before that, he shot a 6-under 66 in the Monday qualifier for the web.com Tour's Mid-Atlantic Championship in Potomac, Md. He ended up in a 9-way playoff for one of six tournament spots and didn't make it.
"Every week I'm learning a new course," Bradshaw said. "You break it down back from green to tee and try to carry out that plan. It's a grind. The competition is good. You don't quit."
Bradshaw is No. 2 on the all-time Open win list. The leader is legendary Sam Snead with 17 in 20 attempts. Snead had one each at Guyan Golf and Country Club, Spring Valley Country Club and Riviera Country Club.
Bradshaw was asked how it felt to have his name mentioned with Snead's.
"What would he think of me? He'd probably wonder why I'm not playing on tour," Bradshaw said. "It was a different era. He played in this (West Virginia Open) and won the Masters the same year.
"I guess it's awesome because Sam happened to be from here. If he were from North Carolina, he probably would have won that 17 times. But he happened to be from here, and it's awesome for the state of West Virginia, and it's awesome to have my name next to him."
It's no secret, though, that Bradshaw wants to be full time on the PGA Tour. He just turned 30 and believes he still has time to earn that Tour card. For now, it's life on mini-tours, Tri-State PGA, Monday qualifiers for PGA Tour events and, yes, even the West Virginia Open.
The 2014 Open will be held on the Cobb Course at The Resort at Glade Springs. Bradshaw knows that course, the home of the Greenbrier Classic's Monday qualifier. He'll be there again for that event on July 1. In 2006, he secured his first Open win as a pro at Glade Springs.
"If I'm there," Bradshaw said in looking to an Open title defense. "When I play in the Open, I want to win. My goal is to play on Tour. I want to win on Tour. I need the opportunity to play at a higher level."
O'Dell, who played at Marshall University, shot 5-under 67 on Friday, the same as Bradshaw, and finished as the low amateur. The closest amateur to him was Bosten Miller, another former Thundering Herd golfer who is in medical school, at 214.
"I couldn't be happier," O'Dell said. "That's as good as I can play."
O'Dell will pass on Greenbrier Classic qualifying. He has to strike a balance between work and golf, so he can't be out of the office for extended periods. The next big event is the West Virginia Amateur on Aug. 5-8 at The Greenbrier Resort. A win there would get him an exemption into the 2014 Greenbrier Classic.
"I look forward to it. It'll be the same thing there," O'Dell said. "I'll have numbers I want to shoot, and get there, hopefully, on the last day. David Bradshaw won't be there, that will help."
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Siblings may resent the relaxed rules a college student can now follow or just miss spending time with their brother or sister, while moms and dads face decisions about how to communicate and relate to a child transitioning from high school to college.
"It's normal to take at least a whole semester for everyone to adjust to the changes and challenges," said Cindy Webster, TTU's Counseling Center director. "Don't put pressure on yourself to have everything worked out in a few days or weeks."
Webster says parents and siblings often feel hurt when a child doesn't come home from school very often or when they do, they spend a lot of time with new friends.
"Parents, don't take it personally. Remember, your child's independence means you've done your job in teaching them how to be adults," said Webster. "Take pride in seeing your child grow.
"Brothers and sisters need to realize that they are missing their sibling because they must have had a good, solid relationship with him or her," she added. "Realize that adjusting to college and finding new friends in order not to be lonely is scary and uncertain, and it takes a lot of time and energy.
"The irony is that because your brother or sister feels confident and loved in your relationship, you get less attention so that he or she can work the new, less secure ones."
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"It's best not to change a student's bedroom into a study, workout room or a guest bedroom without letting your child know what you plan to do," said Webster. "Communicate what your plans are before you shock them the first time they come home and their bedroom is no longer their personal space."
Lisa Macke, TTU's assistant director for clinical services, says the responsibility for smooth transition does not just lie with family members left at home. College students need to anticipate changes and be willing to communicate.
"Negotiate with your parents in a mature way about the changes in curfew or other household rules now that you are a college student," said Macke. "Don't willfully misbehave to try and get your way, but discuss what changes are acceptable to both you and your parents."
And what if a brother or sister is jealous and argumentative about the relaxed rules a college student may be allowed to follow?
"I suggest that they discuss their feelings with their sibling because he or she may be the best source for advice on handling parents," said Webster. "See if there is some compromise to be struck. And siblings should remember that their time is coming."
There are some don'ts Webster suggests parents follow when it comes to communicating with your student.
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In a separable fastening sheet having clasping elements which are designed to co-operate with corresponding clasping elements of another sheet and at least some of which have at their end an enlarged or bulbous terminal head connected to the base by a stem, web or foot, the heads of at least part of these elements having a widened head have at least one flexible lip or edge adapted to bend with respect to the remainder of the element for penetration of said heads between or into the corresponding elements of the other sheet and the locking thereof by the last-mentioned elements by elastic retraction of said lip on contact thereof with said corresponding elements and its at least partial return to its position of rest.
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[ SEPARABLE FASTENING SHEET [75] Inventors: Patrick Billarant, Nantes; Robert Goubeau, Bois Le Roi; Jacques Langlois, Paris, all of France [73] Assignee: Velcro France, Paris, France [22] Filed: Dec. 1, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 203,754
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3,494,244 2/ 1970 Layland 24/208 A 3,101,517 8/1963 Fox 24/204 3,015,869 1/1962 Rapata.... 24/213 R 3,020,613 2/ 1962 Morin 24/204 3,266,113 8/1966 Flanagan 24/204 Primary Examiner-Bernard A. Gelak Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Toren and McGeady [5 7] ABSTRACT In a separable fastening sheet having clasping elements which are designed to co-operate with corresponding clasping elements of another sheet and at least some of which have at their end an enlarged or bulbous terminal head connected to the base We stem, web or foot, the heads of at least part of these elements having a widened head have at least one flexible lip or edge adapted to bend with respect to the remainder of the element for penetration of said heads between or into the corresponding elements of the other sheet and the locking thereof by the lastmentioned elements by elastic retraction of said lip on contact thereof with said corresponding elements and its at least partial return to its position of rest.
6 Claims, 13 Drawing Figures 1 SEPARABLE FASTENING SHEET This invention relates to separable fastening sheets in which the clasping elements of one sheet co-operate separably, for fastening purpose, with the corresponding clasping elements of another sheet, the elements of the two sheets being either identical or similar, or of different and complementary forms.
Among such sheets, the invention applies to those in which at least part of the elements include an enlarged terminal head which co-operates, for fastening purposes, with corresponding elements of another sheet. Connection between these heads and the base or bed is achieved by means of a thin portion. Fastening is obtained by the penetration of the enlarged heads either into the interior itself of the elements of the other sheet, or between at least two elements of said other sheet.
The invention relates both to sheets in which the clasping elements are separate and include a thin or taperedstem bearing the enlarged head, and to those in which the elements are in the form of continuous parallel profiles or ribs.
According to the present technique, so that the enlarged heads of the elements of one sheet may be able to penetrate into or between the elements of the other sheet and remain in the fixed or locking position in or between the elements for fastening purposes, it isnecessary, in the case where the elements are set or distributed densely, either to give the bases or beds a certain flexibility, so that two adjacent elements of a sheet may be able to move apart for a head of the other sheet to pass between them and move nearer to one another to clamp or lock the head, in the manner of an engaging or meshing action, or that an element be able to open to receive in its interior the enlarged head of an element of the other sheet, or to produce an irregular location of the clasping elements on the same sheet or from one sheet to the other, so that the elements may be able to bend laterallyin order to spread adjoining heads, filling the free spaces not furnished with elements. I
The first solution has the drawback of imposing on the sheets the need for a flexible bed, which implies that the surfaces on which they are placed must also be flexible; the second solution has the drawback, because of the irregular location or distribution, on the one hand of reducing the firmness of the fixing by reason of the free spaces and, on the other hand, of increasing the cost by reason of the non-uniformity of the positioning or location.
The object of the invention is in particular to overcome these drawbacks by providing a separable fastening sheet which may not be flexible, which can be placed on a rigid surface and in which the distribution of the clasping elements is regular and uniform.
To this end, a separable fastening sheet according to the invention, having clasping elements of which some at least have at their end an enlarged or bulbous terminal head connected to the base by a stem or web and designed to co-operate with at least one corresponding clasping element of a second sheet, is characterised by the fact that the enlarged or bulbous terminal heads of at least part of the clasping elements have at least one flexible lip adapted to bend with respect to the remainder of the element for penetration of said heads between or into the corresponding elements of the other sheet and the locking thereof by the last-mentioned elements by elastic retraction or drawing aside of said lip on contact thereof with said corresponding elements and its at least partial return to its state of rest.
The heads therefore have an external form which is modified through the flexibility of their lips so that they can be inserted between or into the elements of the other sheet and return at least partly to their rest positron.
The invention will be clearly understood with the aid of the following description relating to various embodiments of the invention and by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows two portions of facing sheets provided with respective clasping or gripping elements and in the disengaged position;
FIGS. 2 and 3 show the sheets of FIG. 1 in the course of engagement and in the engaged position, respectively;
FIG. 4 shows a modified constructional form of the sheets of FIG. 1 in the'disengaged position;
FIG. 5 shows diagrammatically in plan view a preferred location and engagement pattern for the clasping elements of the sheets of FIG. 1 to 4;
FIG. 6 shows another embodiment, the sheets-being in the disengaged position;
FIG. 7 shows the sheets of FIG. 6 in the engaged position;
FIG. 8 shows diagrammatically in plan view a preferred location and engagement pattern for the elements of the sheets of FIGS. 6 and 7;
FIGS. 9, 10 and '11 show another embodiment, the sheets being respectively in the disengaged position, in the course of engagement and in the engaged position;
FIG. 12 shows yet another embodiment, the sheets being in the disengaged position; and
FIG. 13 shows another embodiment in perspective.
Referring first of all to FIG. 1, two separable fastening sheets 1, 2 are shown, each of these being constituted by a base 3, 4 bearing circular and separate clasping elements 5, 6. Each of the elements 5, 6 is constituted by a stem 7 surmounted at its end remote from the corresponding base 3, 4 by a widened or enlarged head 8-projecting beyond the contour of the stem.
The heads 8 are shown in a slightly convex form, so that the elements 5, 6 assume the shape of mushrooms, but it is understood that the heads could have any other form. As an example, in FIG. 4, inwhich the same references have been adopted, the heads 8 are all flat and thinned down at the edges.
This being the case, mutual fixing of the two sheets 1, 2 is achieved when the elements 5 are inserted at least partially between the elements 6 and vice versa. The engaged position of the two sheets is shown in FIG. 3.
As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 4, the free space between the heads 8 of one sheet is smaller than a head 8 of the other sheet and vice versa, so that if the heads were rigid or not very flexible there could not be any interpenetration of the elements 5, 6 of the two sheets unless the heads of at least one sheet were to move aside by bending of their stems 7 with respect to the bases 3, 4 or unless the bases 3, 4 were flexible.
According to the invention, at least some of the heads 8 are arranged so that they comprise at least one flexible lip or edge 9 adapted to draw aside or yield on contact with the elements of the other sheet so as to permit in this way the passage of a head between heads, of the other sheet without the bases 3, 4 being necessarily flexible.
As can be seen in fact in FIG. 2, the flexible lips 9 of the elements 5, 6 bend towards the bases 3, 4 when they come into contact with heads of the other sheet so as to reduce their overall size and permit the passage of a head, which is itself in a compressed state, between the adjacent heads of the other sheet. I
In the engaged position, the elements 5, 6 of the sheets of FIGS. 1 to 4 occupy the relative positions shown diagrammatically in FIG. 5, in which a head of one sheet is engaged between four elements of the other sheet and vice ve'rsa, the elements of each sheet being disposed in regular lines and columns. It will be noted that FIGS. 1 to 4 correspond to views on the line A-A of FIG. for the various relative positions of the sheets.
In the embodiments of FIGS. 1 to 4, all the elements of the two sheets have a circular contour in the form of a flexible lip. Various modified forms may be provided, however. For example, the heads of one sheet alone may have a flexible contour, while the heads of the other sheet may be rigid or very slightly flexible. It is also possible to provide a flexible lip only over a portion of each head. This asymmetry enables the sheets to be oriented with respect to one another. Whatever the constructional form adopted, however, a flexible lip 9 bends in a direction substantially parallel to its stem 7 and, therefore, perpendicularly to the corresponding base 3, 4.
The dimensions of the clasping elements 5,6 are defined in accordance with requirements; thus, in the engaged position, the clasping elements may have a certain play, or, on the other hand, they may be under elastic tension (FIG. 3), for example by giving the slender portion of the stems 7 a-small height, so that the heads 8 of one sheet bear against the base 3, 4 of the other sheet and/or so that their flexible lips do not return completely to their rest position, but are in contact with the enlarged feet of the stems.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 1 to 4, the heads 8 have been able to bend in a direction substantially parallel to that of the stems 7; it is also possible to arrange the heads so that they bend in any other direction, for example a direction perpendicular to that of the stems.
Thus, in FIG. 6, the stems 7 of the elements 5a, 6a are surmounted by a bulbous head 8a substantially in the form of a ball. The bending of the heads is obtained by hollowing out at least some of these heads 8a by means of a notch 13 communicating with the outside for ease of manufacture; if need be (FIG. 8) two notches 13 at right angles may be provided so as to obtain cruciform balls 8a. It is likewise possible to provide several notches or slots per head so as to form several flexible lips or petal,s." Some at least of the heads 8a therefore have lips 14, as a whole vertical, forming petals and connected to the stems 7, the junction providing the desired flexibility. It is to be noted that the lips 14 converge towards the top of the heads and close up to avoid being torn away, As before, it is not necessary for all the heads to be flexible; in fact, a head may be only partially flexible or some heads may be rigid, To obtain rigid heads, it is sufficient not to provide any notches 13. The mutual engagement of the heads 8a is effected by transverse yeilding or drawing aside of the lips or petals 14 towards the inside and, in the engaged state,
the heads occupy the position shown in FIG. 7, in
which a head of one sheet is lodged between at least two heads of the other sheet.
FIG. 8 shows in plan view, in a similar manner to FIG. 5, the relative position of the elements of the two sheets in the engaged position. A head is lodged between four elements of the other sheet, the elements of the two sheets being distributed in' regular lines and columns.
It is likewisepossible to combine the embodiments of FIGS. 1 to 4 with that of FIGS. 6 and 7 by making a head comprise at the same time at least one vertical lip and at least one horizontal lip so as to obtain bending actions in both directions.
The invention is therefore not limited to the geometrical forms described and shown so far.
In the foregoing embodiments, the corresponding elements of the two sheets are geometrically identical. The embodiments of FIGS. 9 to 12 are similar to that of FIGS. 6 and 7, as regards the elements with an enlarged head, by the fact that the heads have lips which bend transversely. However, in these embodiments, in which the elements are likewise separate, the corresponding elements which cooperate with these elements each receive an element in their interior and are of different geometrical form.
In FIG. 9, the sheet 1 bears male elements 15 similar those of FIG. 6, while the sheet 2 bears complementary female elements 16 provided with an internal cavity 17 for receiving the head of the element 15. The entry orifice 18 is smaller than the head 15, so that penetration of the head is effected with deformation of material. The flexibility of the heads permits this deformation, the elements 16 being then non-deformable, but, if needbe, the elements 16 may also be given a certain flexibility.
FIG. 10 shows the intermediate relative position of I two elements l5, 16 in the course of engagement. The element 15 is partially engaged, its lips being brought together so that the head is able to pass through the ori-' fice 18. In FIG. 1 l, the head has moved beyond the orifice l8 and has at least partly resumed its opened-out state in the engaged position.
In the embodiment of FIG. 12, the male elements 19 are again of the type having transverse flexibility and the female elementsare formed in the thickness itself of the outer part 20 of the sheet 2. These female elements are constituted by cavities or sockets 21, the profile of which corresponds to that of the elements 19. The penetration and co-operation of the elements 19 and 21 are similar to the penetration andco-operation described in connection with FIGS. 9 to 11.
There are described in the foregoing, with reference to FIGS. 1 to 12, elements with enlarged head which are separate, in the sense that the heads are independent of one another and the elements are connected only by their base or support.
According to another constructional form of the invention, it is also possible, however, to provide not only isolated elements, but also or only elements produced in the form of continuous profiles, a profile, rimor band of one sheet penetrating either into a corresponding profile, rim or band of the other sheet or between two profiles, rims or bands of this second sheet.
Referring again to FIGS. 1, 4, 6, and 9 and 12, at least some of the profiles, rims or bands ,.according to this second kind of embodiments, have a constant section such as that which is shown in each of these drawings. The flexible lips then extend on the entire length of the profiles. If some elements of a sheet are'not profiles, they may, for example, be of the separate" type, but co-operate with at least one profile of the other sheet.
' constituted by continuous profiles parallel to one another and to the lines of elements 22. An element 22 penetrates between two profiles 23 and a profile 23 penetrates between two lines of elements 22. In the same way, all the projecting elements may be profiles.
In the case of hollow-type elements (female elements 21 of FIG. 12), the profiles are naturally replaced by grooves.
On the separation of the sheets, the lips bend or yield in the other or the same direction in a similar manner.
With sheets according to the invention, the feet, stems or webs connecting the clasping elements to their base undergo practically no elastic deformation on engagement and separation. Likewise, the nature of the bases or beds does not'play any part, since their deformation is not necessary; it is therefore. possible to use rigid bases or, in an equivalent manner, fix these bases to rigid surfaces, which was impossible in the prior art with a homogeneous and identical location of the elements on both sheets. Furthermore, the invention permits a regular and homogeneous location of the clasping elements, whether they are separate or continuous,
it being possible for the two wheets to be identical. v .As is apparent'from the foregoing, the'invention is not limited to the embodiments which have been mentioned; on the contrary, it would be possible to conceive various modified constructions without departing 6 from the scope of .the invention.
What we claim is: l. Separable fastening sheet designed to cooperate with another fastening sheet, comprising a sheet-like base member, a plurality of clasping elements attached to said base member, each said clasping element comprising a connectingportion secured to and extending outwardly from said base member and a head portion secured to the end of said connecting portion spaced outwardly from said base and said head portion extending outwardly from said connecting portion, at least a number of said head portions each having a laterally extending widened portion as compared to the end of the connecting portion to which said head having the widened portion is attached, at least a part of said widened portion comprising a flexible lip arranged to bend in a direction substantially perpendicular to said base member, whereby the flexible lip deflects with respect to the remainder of said clasping element for penetration of said head portion into locking engagement with head portions on another fastening sheet and the deflected flexible lip undergoing at least a partial return to its original undeflected rest position in its locking engagement position.
2. Fastening sheet according to claim 1, wherein the head portion of one said clasping element of one sheet is arranged in locking interengag'ement between at least two adjacent said clasping elements on another said fastening sheet.
3. Fastening sheet according to claim 1, wherein said sheet is arranged for locking engagement with an identical said fastening sheet.
4. Fastening sheet according to claiml, wherein the flexible lip of said widened portion occupies at least a part of the lateral edge of said head portion.
5. Fastening sheet according to claim 1, wherein the connecting portion is a stem, and the clasping elements are separate from one another.
6. Fastening sheet according to claim 5, wherein said clasping elements are located in a regular homogeneous arrangement in lines and columns on said base member.
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