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Latest 5 Dresses for New Year 2017 Celebration
Best Latest Dresses for New Year 2017 Eve
On the occasion of New Year, people enjoy and celebrate with joy and merriment. People attend in house bashes. Parties are organized everywhere. Many hotels are decked up with special arrangements for New Year balls. People have a night full of fun and enjoyment on the New Year's Eve 2017 Best Dresses
People wear different kinds of costumes during the celebration of New Year eve. The parties are attended by large number of people who wear beautiful and amazing apparels. These clothes are not compulsory but people do this to be a part of the celebrations and also to look good. The celebrations that continue till mid night and even till early morning next day are centre of attraction for all.
Female especially young girls and unmarried women wear varied kind of dresses. Let's have a look at the dressing pattern
- Red styled dress embroidered with patterns in fabric and gold trim are in vague. These dresses usually have mandarin collars and side slits. There is a fashionable adornment of Velcro in the back side. To accompany this Black Velvet shoes and Barrette with attached flowers and leaves are sported.
- Combination of a little black party dress with silver and gold is also quite common and still trendy. Needless to say that all girls look pretty in this Black and silver combination, you need to check out the black and silver look for this New Year eve's party.
- Experiment of textures and prints is also a great idea to sport for a New Year Eve's bash. If you get the right color combo you can leave a stunning impression on the onlookers that will last forever.
- Matching heels and trousers coupled with a turtleneck and a long knee length overcoat can add to your beauty on this festive occasion.
- Sparkly dresses are a nice idea to wear on the festive occasion of New Year's celebrations. Matched with casual pants and high heels the sparkly tank tops will definitely add to your beauty.
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Thailand's Cabinet lifted an official State of Emergency in Bangkok and four neighboring provinces on Tuesday, signaling the automatic disbanding of a joint military-civilian committee responsible for national security since April. The move was a first step toward possible national elections in the early part of next year, as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had made a "return to normalcy" a precondition for early polls. Human rights activists and government opponents, however, remain concerned about what they say is the creeping influence of the military in governing a country regarded until relatively recently as a stable democracy in Southeast Asia.
Although the lifting of the State of Emergency will take effect on Wednesday, the military has already requested it be replaced temporarily by the Internal Security Act (ISA), a law slightly less stringent than the emergency decree but that still allows the government and security officials wide latitude in suppressing civil rights, political and other activities to maintain order. "We welcome the lifting of the State of Emergency, but we are concerned that it is being replaced by the ISA," said Benjamin Zawacki, the Thailand representative of Amnesty International. "The fact that the government would grant the military's request to invoke the ISA shows that the military is clearly ascendant and more powerful than at any time since [the early 1990s]."
The end of emergency rule came eight months and two weeks after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva invoked an emergency decree on April 7, after anti-government Red Shirt protesters overran parliament, stripped security guards of their weapons and forced lawmakers to flee. The Red Shirts were demanding Abhisit resign and call new elections, claiming he came to power through backroom parliamentary deals and so was illegitimate to hold the premiership.
As tens of thousands of Red Shirts descended upon Bangkok, the State of Emergency was eventually extended to 24 of the country's 76 provinces. When Abhisit failed to reach a compromise with the Red Shirts many of whom were demanding the return of Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister ousted in a 2006 bloodless military coup the military moved in and dispersed the protesters who burned more than 30 buildings in Bangkok as they retreated on May 19. During two months of demonstrations that shut down Bangkok's central business district, a total of 91 people were killed, including 11 soldiers, and more than 1,400 wounded.
Even with the State of Emergency in effect, Red Shirts and other groups had staged several demonstrations in recent weeks, including the past weekend. Abhisit noted, however, that the gatherings had been peaceful and so considered them normal political activity within the constitutionally guaranteed rights of Thais. Dozens of top Red Shirts leaders, arrested in May, remain incarcerated and awaiting trial, while others have fled the country.
The lifting of emergency rule mandates the dissolution of the Center for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation, a committee of senior military officers, security officials and government ministers that some had regarded as a shadow government wielding more power than the Prime Minister or elected representatives.
The invocation of the committee and the violence and chaos surrounding the protests and their dispersal had led many to predict that Thailand's economy, and particularly its tourism sector, would suffer greatly this year. But the World Bank recently forecast nearly 8% economic growth for 2010 on the back of vigorous exports, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand said the country is on track to receive more than 15 million visitors this year, about a 10% increase over the previous year.


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WASHINGTON — The Senate's 73-to-27 vote to wipe out a $5 billion tax credit for U.S. ethanol producers may be largely symbolic.
The Senate approved an amendment to end the 45-cent-a-gallon subsidy the government gives refiners and the 54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol from Brazil and other countries.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., will be tacked on to an underlying economic development bill, which faces a difficult time passing the Senate. Even if it passed the Senate, the legislation isn't expected to be taken up by the House.
The Renewable Fuels Association responded to the vote with this statement: "We are disappointed in the shortsightedness of this vote …. As the underlying bill to which this amendment is attached is unlikely to make it to the president's desk, this vote was a freebie with no real consequences."
Both Mississippi Republican senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker voted against the amendment. One day prior to the vote, Cochran said, "This tax issue should have first been considered by the committees of jurisdiction." He had not offered further comment at press time.
Ethanol is a renewable, liquid fuel additive that comes mainly from corn in the United States.
Critics say ethanol subsidies are no longer needed for an industry that is already supported by a mandate from Congress that requires refiners to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuels into auto fuel by 2022. They say it drives up corn prices, mainly for animal feed.
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RHP Rob Purvis, who has first-round stuff, may have pitched down the draft this spring with a disappointing season. He finished 2-8 and didn't retire a batter in his final start before a throng of scouts. And that was after he'd been rested for almost two weeks with a tired arm. The season started on a sour note when he tore a deep callous on his hand. The problem lingered for most of the season, straightening his fastball and flattening his slider. When he's on top of his game, those are both plus pitches, especially the 93-94-mph fastball. He is strong and has a loose arm. There was also a concern that he was overworked at times this spring. He would often throw 150-160 pitches in a game, then would be used again with insufficient rest. His role at the pro level may be defined by his ability to develop a third pitch . . . Six-foot-4 RHP Jim Journell was the most intimidating closer in college baseball this season. He terrorized righthanded hitters with a nasty sinking fastball up to 95 mph thrown from a low three-quarters to almost submarine arm angle. His out pitch against lefthanded hitters is a solid changeup. Like Purvis, he was shut down briefly late in the season with a little soreness in his arm. That was viewed strictly as a precautionary measure . . . Six-foot-3, 190-pound LHP Tim Lavery, a former Illinois quarterback, gave up football to concentrate on baseball. His decision should pay off even as he struggled on the mound this spring. He has excellent movement and command of an 87-88-mph fastball . . . Six-foot-7 LHP Eric Eckenstahler throws a 90-92-mph fastball. Scouts are skeptical of his funky throwing motion and inability to master a second pitch . . . RHP Matt Gage has good size and a good fastball . . . No player made more of a move in the Illinois high school class this spring than C Nick Trzesniak, a strong, intelligent receiver with a blue-collar work ethic. He has an excellent arm and sure hands behind the plate. Though scouts say his bat is the weakest part of his arsenal, he smashed 11 home runs this spring . . . RHP Todd Deininger and LHP Scott Hindman traveled to Venezuela this spring with the Team USA junior squad, and both look like they're headed for college. Deininger is a little stiff in his arm action but his mechanics are consistent. He holds his 92-mph velocity well and throws strikes. He is one of the younger players in the draft and appears firmly committed to fulfilling a scholarship offer to Texas A&M. Hindman may be the most unsignable player in the draft. He is an outstanding student who has been accepted to Princeton. He touches 90 mph at times. His curveball and arm action are inconsistent . . . RHPs Ken Lutz and Jim Caine have their share of supporters, though it's not universal. Both throw in the 89-92 range with little finesse or control. Lutz is the more projectable of the two and considered the easier sign.
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Caravan and Camping Park in beautiful North Wales
The magnificent views of the Clwydian Range and Moel Fammau makes Caer Mynydd Caravan Camping Park a unique place to stay in North Wales.
The park is open for caravans, tourers, and camping from 1st March to 15th January (10½ months) each year
If you are looking for a countryside retreat where you can relax and enjoy some of the best scenery Wales can offer then look no further. Situated in the hills above Denbigh, Caer Mynydd is close to the peaceful Denbigh Moors and the breathtaking Llyn Brenig, great for fly fishing and country walks.
For the children, the seaside resorts of Llandudno, Prestatyn, and Rhyl are close by. The best sandy beaches are found in Prestatyn, with the sand dunes towards Talacre.
There's a good range of shops and retail areas in Llandudno. For bargains, the ever popular Tweed Mill Factory Outlet is at St. Asaph (Llanelwy) a few miles north of Denbigh. A retail park has recently opened in Prestatyn – an extension to the popular high street.
There's lots of history in north Wales with many thirteenth century castles to explore in the area – Denbigh, Rhuddlan, and Conwy. Or, how about a ride on the steam railway or on a horse-drawn canal barge in Llangollen?
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To help fix some of the lingering tech problems around here, we have completely overhauled our whole publishing system. That's good news in the long run — honest! — but, damn, it sure is making this morning miserable.
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Also at Games Radar today, a preview of Fury, Auran's upcoming all PvP MMO.
Fantasy-based MMOs aren't an endangered species these days, but developer, Auran has got a new angle for their upcoming title, Fury; they're cutting out one of the most sacred and monotonous cows of the genre: player vs environment. Fury will be strictly PvP; there will be no boxes of text to glaze over, no repetitive kill-the-boars quests, no four hour group raids, and no NPCs with exclamation marks over their heads to track down.
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Apparently a lot of David Gordon Green's "Your Highness" is just Danny McBride goofing off and Natalie Portman being very serious during their quest to rescue Zooey Deschanel at evil guy Justin Theroux's place. Plus, James Franco is in there somewhere doing something, and Rasmus Hardiker shows up here and there. So it's a good thing then that McBride looks pretty funny in this thing, with Portman playing the straight man (as it were) to his goofball, and constantly talking (very seriously) about avenging her dead family members and such. Check out seven clips from the upcoming comedy below.
Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who rescue fair damsels, slay dragons and conquer evil. But behind many a hero is a good-for-nothing younger brother trying just to stay out of the way of those dragons, evil and trouble in general. Danny McBride and James Franco team up for an epic comedy adventure set in a fantastical world–Your Highness. As two princes on a daring mission to save their land, they must rescue the heir apparent's fiancee before their kingdom is destroyed.
Starring Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, James Franco, Danny McBride, Damian Lewis, Justin Theroux, Toby Jones, Brian Steele, Charles Dance, David Garrick, Eva Wyrwal and directed by David Gordon Green.
The quest begins April 8, 2011.
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Researchers have been dreaming for a couple decades of taking a simple blood draw from a pregnant woman, and using it to determine whether a developing fetus has Down syndrome. Now this week, after a decade of R&D fits and starts and $100 million of investment, doctors will be able to get their hands on a commercially available genomic test from Redwood City, CA-based Verinata Health that promises to deliver that answer.
The company, formerly known as Living Microsystems and Artemis Health, is poised to make that transition to the marketplace tomorrow with the rollout its Verifi prenatal genomic test. This test, developed with technology from Steve Quake's lab at Stanford University, is the newest entrant in a market that San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM) charged into last October with a test called MaterniT21.
The companies are pursuing a multi-billion dollar market that could ultimately change the practice of medicine in the early stages of pregnancy, for as many as 4 million women who give birth in the U.S. each year. Traditional prenatal blood screens that look for biomarkers are notoriously unreliable at detecting Down syndrome or other rare chromosomal abnormalities. The gold standard tests for accuracy—amniocentesis and a procedure called CVS—are invasive, and carry a small risk of miscarriage that many women prefer to avoid. It's only now that fast and cheap gene sequencing instruments have become available, combined with algorithms to analyze the mother's blood, that Verinata says it can tell with startling degree of accuracy when a developing fetus has severe developmental disabilities like Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, or Patau syndrome.
All at a cost of $1,200.
"The promise of this eventual capability has been in play for more than 20 years. Now when it's finally here, there's a wonder and awe in the community," says Caren Mason, Verinata's CEO.
The science of the new test is made possible by some of the major innovations in sequencing instruments. For years, researchers tried to search for clues about chromosomal abnormalities in maternal blood by looking for a few precious blood cells from the fetus. That proved impractical, Verinata president Richard Rava says, as a typical blood draw might have 200 billion blood cells, and only 10 of them from the fetus, and those 10 cells are typically quite fragile. "We were literally looking for the needle in the haystack," he says.
The newest tests aspire to be "cell-free" and instead look at the DNA that's left over in those blood samples from cells that die. Looking at the problem from that perspective, about 75-80 percent of the blood contains DNA from the mother, and 20-25 percent comes from the fetus, Rava says. "You've got a lot more DNA to work with," he says.
Today's Verinata system takes the blood sample, runs it through an Illumina HiSeq 2000 genetic analysis machine at its headquarters, and comes up with a count that can tell whether there's a chromosomal abnormality in the fetal DNA.
Last week, Verinata published the key study that it says provides the foundation of evidence it needs to start selling its test. The company collected samples from 2,882 women with "high-risk" pregnancies, in their first and second trimesters, who were undergoing prenatal diagnostics at 60 U.S. medical centers. The data was published last week in Obstetrics & Gynecology (aka, The Green Journal), the official publication of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The study showed that Verinata's test was accurately able to identify all 89 cases of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21); 35 out of 36 cases of Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18); and 11 of the 14 cases of Patau syndrome (Trisomy 13). There were no false positives that could have caused unnecessary alarm.
That kind of hard data is the linchpin in Verinata's commercial strategy in the early days. "Once you have that level of proof, you're ready to go the market and speak to clinicians," says Mason, the former CEO of San Diego-based diagnostics maker Quidel (NASDAQ: QDEL).
So far, Verinata has staffed up with 40 of its 100 employees on the commercialization team. The sales group is spread around the country (with the exception of New York, where the company has to do further testing before entering the market, Mason says). The company's initial plan is to narrow down the pool of 47,000 obstetrician/gynecologists to focus on the 2,000 or so that are certified as maternal/fetal medicine specialists, ones who typically perform tasks like in vitro fertilization, which comes with higher risk of chromosomal abnormalities.
Verinata's commercial team has sought to check every box imaginable to get ready. There's promo literature to prepare. There's a snazzy website designed to appeal to doctors and patients. There are procedures established for quick and easy sample collection, and FedExing the boxes to Verinata. The company has hired genetic counselors to help doctors with communicating results to patients, and has people working on economic impact, which it hopes will persuade insurers to cover the cost of the test over time, Mason says. The turnaround time for getting an answer is estimated at about eight to 10 days, which Verinata hopes to improve on as it scales up over time, she says.
The initial market Verinata is focused on is with the 600,000 to 700,000 women each year who get classified by their provider as having a "high-risk" pregnancy. About 10,000 of those women end up actually having one of the chromosomal abnormalities in question, so that means there are a lot of women out there worrying about their status, without clear information to go on, unless they opt for the invasiveness of amniocentesis or CVS.
Several other companies are going after variations on this idea. Sequenom is marketing its test, and San Jose, CA-based Aria Diagnostics and Redwood City, CA-based Natera (formerly Gene Security Network) also are in the mix developing their own tests. This isn't exactly the friendliest of rivalries you'll ever see, as Sequenom recently sued Aria and Natera for patent infringement, and Verinata sued Sequenom for infringing on its intellectual property.
Despite some of the lofty claims being made about 100 percent accuracy, Mason acknowledges that no clinician is going to think of Verinata's test, or anyone's at this point, of being a single silver bullet of information for making clinical decisions. Over time, the hope is to make amniocentesis and CVS obsolete, Mason says. It's possible that physicians may use high-resolution 3-D ultrasound images to help confirm the findings they get from a genomic test like Verinata's, to establish when a fetus has Down syndrome, and when it doesn't.
As time goes on, Verinata's bet is that its test will eventually gain acceptance from insurers, even though right now it doesn't have dedicated reimbursement codes. As clinicians become more confident in relying on the data in their practice, the Verinata test could be incorporated into guidelines from major medical societies like the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. With an estimated 2.3 million women in the U.S. getting prenatal screening tests of some kind, at a pricing of $1,200 per test, the total potential market for such a test could exceed $2 billion a year if it gets incorporated into the standard of prenatal care, Mason says.
That might be the "blue-sky" vision for Verinata 10 years from now, but this week, Mason says she doesn't want her team to get too far ahead of itself in terms of what the technology can and can't do. "It's about appropriateness and thoughtfulness and attention to detail and providing very good patient care," she says. There are a million things that could sink the endeavor, whether it's competition, litigation, insurance resistance, or physician skepticism. There's even potential for political and moral debates to sidetrack the company, as people argue over whether it's ethical to use this kind of information to potentially abort a fetus.
But Mason says she came out of retirement to take this job, after a 30 year career in diagnostics, because she felt so strongly about Verinata's potential to provide valuable information to women about something so important to their lives. She sounds deeply determined to get this one right. "This is about execution, execution, execution," she says.
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Funeral services for Bonnie Fennell of Morris will be held Friday, July 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM at Faith Lutheran Church in Morris. Reverend Dell Sanderson will be officiating. Visitation will be held Thursday from 5 to 8 PM with a prayer service at 7:15 at the Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris and for one hour prior to services at the church on Friday. Burial will be in Our Saviors Cemetery in Sacred Heart.
Bonnie Gene Bradesen, daughter of Kent and Josie (Rogne) Bradesen, was born October 11, 1941 in Sacred Heart in Renville County, Minnesota, where she grew up on the family farm. She was baptized and confirmed at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Sacred Heart. She attended and graduated from Sacred Heart High School in 1959. She continued her education at St. Barnabas Hospital of Nursing graduating in 1962. On November 10, 1962, she was united in marriage to Merle Fennell. The couple made their home in Marshall until 1968, when they moved to Morris. Bonnie worked at the Stevens Community Medical Center for 24 years, retiring on December 31, 2007.
Bonnie was a wonderful mom, grandma, sister, aunt, nurse, and friend to all. She enjoyed shopping for "treasures", traveling (especially to Norway), going to concerts, and spending time with family and friends. Being a nurse was an extension of her caregiving personality. She treated all of her patients, both young and old, with compassion and respect. She really did live by the nurse's creed. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. She leaves us with many happy memories and fun stories to share so we can keep her spirit in our hearts.
Bonnie died after a courageous battle with breast cancer on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at the Courage Cottage in Morris, MN, having lived to reach the age of 68 years.
She is survived by five children: Christopher Fennell (Mary Wolf) of Sacred Heart, Rhonda (James) Tomoson of Prior Lake, Debra (Darryl) Holman of Bemidji, Daniel Fennell of Avon and Susan Barber of St. Joseph; four grandchildren: Jared Tomoson, Jessica Tomoson, Andrew Holman and Sebastian Holman; one brother: Wallace Bradesen of Redwood Falls; one sister: Marlys Daerda of Renville; three nephews: Kent, Nathan and Robin Daerda and one aunt: Lily Skottrud of Montevideo. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Pallbearers for the service are: Jared Tomoson, Jessica Tomoson, Andrew Holman, Sebastian Holman, Kent Daerda, Nathan Daerda and Robin Daerda. Honorary pallbearers are all of Bonnie's fellow nursing friends. Rita Lambert will serve as organist for the service. Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris is in charge of the arrangements.
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US Track Nationals – Beyond the Omnium
Track cycling has seen some significant changes in recent years with the Olympics focusing on the International Omnium and Team Sprints & Pursuits. USACycling has invested in each discipline, with Jamie Staff more than rejuvenating the sprinting programs … he's designing a renaissance. The endurance programs aren't really seeing the same kind of investment or expertise, but with a rider like Sarah Hammer carrying the program … you don't need much of either. For now.
JStaff is more than a legend, he's a transformative figure. He is, without doubt, the best investment in US track cycling made by the organizing body in decades. Staff does more than just train and mentor the top athletes … anyone who has seen him work with people at the LA facility have seen how accessible and approachable he is. This man doesn't just top-end his success, he grows it from the foundations. That's the real deal.
The men's Team Sprint national title was won by the Project London boys, with Dean Tracy firing off the starting lap, Michael Blatchford swinging big for lap 2, and phenom Kevin Mansker bringing it home for gold. The Team Sprint is an event of such specialization that teams just have to be swimming in support to be able to properly train and prepare for the world stage. The Project London boyz aren't swimming in support, but there is a small wading pool they have access to … and it's still paying off pretty huge. The PL-Boyz came close to cracking 45 seconds for the Team Sprint, which is respectable, but they'll have to go a second faster if they want to compete with the top-end nations. They'll get there.
Tracy is a crack starter – getting tutelage from perhaps the best Team Sprint starter ever with Jamie Staff. Blatchford is coming back from a 2-year hiatus, and may be the glue that keeps that team together. And Mansker is, quite literally, the fastest man in the US … and maybe the hungriest. The team has youth, they have speed, and they have the guidance to make a big splash on the 2012 Olympics. Here's cheering for them.
The women's Team Sprint was won by the Pan Am Games-bound duo of Liz Reap-Carlson and Madalyn Godby. They were just a tenth faster than the team of Tela Crane and Cristin Walker. There is a lot of parity amongst the young American sprinters on the women's scene … with Dana Feiss, Anissa Cobb, and Jennifer Valente all very talented and making big sacrifices to step up and compete on the bigger stages. They are all young and hungry racers, and if there was just enough resources from the organizing body to support a full women's sprint program in the US … we could see big things in the near future. Well, we will anyway – because these women have a huge amount of potential.
The Men's Match Sprint was won by the revamped, repaired, and resplendent Michael Blatchford. But it was his Project London teammate Kevin Mansker who posted the fastest time in the qualifying 200m TTs … with a criminally quick 10.3 … fully 2 tenths faster than the next qualifier. Mansker is potential incarnate – when you look up the word 'potential' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Kirk Whiteman holding a picture of Kevin Mankser.
But match sprinting is more than just pure speed – it's also tactics, experience, and nerves of cooled steel. And that defines Giddeon Massie. Massie would take down Mansker in textbook rounds in the semi-finals. Massie would flick, dive, draw out and sting like he was channeling Ali's Thrilla in Manilla. It was beautiful to watch.
The other semi-final sprint would see Jimmy Watkins try to do the same to Blatchford, but be overcome by the young juggernaut. Watkins would mirror Massie's first ride in the semi's, holding Blatchford high through turn 1 and 2, flicking Blatchford to keep him at bay and on the defensive. But Blatch would commit completely to his acceleration and sweep past a surprised Watkins, bolting past him with electric rail quickness. It was magnificent.
The final would be Massie and Blatchford engaged in a superb duel of wits and horsepower, tactics and speed. To try and paint the play by play is beyond this fan's ability – just let it be remembered that both men earned applause, loud and prolonged.
The women's sprint title was a repeat match between Dana Feiss and Cristin Walker. Feiss is the bulldog, the fighter, the unstoppable force clad in spandex. Feiss has more tenacity and pure power than any rider on the circuit today. The 22-year old has the potential and work ethic to be molded into an international stand-out … and the 2016 Olympics is absolutely on the horizon. Walker is the quick, the elegant Texas Bell who is the most feared rider in the women's sprinting ranks. She has an acceleration that can drop like a hammer and when you race her, you're always trying to grow eyes out the back of things.
Feiss would take the Gold with two strong, fitness burns against Walker, and the Bronze would go to the youngstar, Maddy Godby. Godby would take on diehard Jen Featheringill in the bronze match, and it would be a good battle between the veteran and former Junior Champ. Godby is a big talent, and one to watch in the coming years.
The Keirins were crazy town for the sprinters … with Massie ridiculously hungry for redemption after the Team and Match Sprints. In the final, Massie would pop off a daring move underneath, then squiggle out of a tiny whole, and come over the top of the always brave and front-running Matt Baranoski. Last year, Baranoski led from the gun and held off all-chargers as Massie, Watkins, and Lakatosh bumped and bluffed each other above the stayer's line. This year, Mansker and Lakatosh would swing up, while Daniel Sullivan and Massie would stay low. Baranoski would ignore them all and try and repeat with a drive in the pole … for 600meters.
With a final few meters of desperate kick, Massie would just come over the top of Baranoski to take back his title as National Keirin Champ. What a battle.
For the women, Feiss would take the race home like she bought it online, pre-wrapped and postage-stamped. Shelby Reynolds would snag Feiss' wheel, and each would push and wiggle their way to keep position as first Jennifer Valente, then Nissy Cobb would make big runs for the front. Playing it cagey and quiet until the final 50m would be Missy Erickson out of Durango and Erin Glover out of Portland. Each surfed and survived all the mayhem and changing circumstances to steal past the rest and take 3rd and 4th respectively
Erickson is another young rising sprinter star for the future, and Glover is a punchy, saavy bike-handler who is gaining huge grounds in fitness and confidence. Watch for both in next year's track scene. But it would be a final battle between Feiss and Reynolds for the gold. Feiss will need to expand her tactical repertoire in the coming years, as Reynolds almost … almost exploited Feiss' penchant for leading it out long in this year's Keirin Final. Reynolds would put in a stellar surge in the final meters to come within spitting distance of a massive upset. Let's just say the endure-riders were jumping up and down in those final few milli-seconds.
The men's and women's Scratch Races were held on the same day as the Omnium finale … so, quite a few riders were doubling up and knuckling down in both events. Of course, leading the charge was the legend, the epic Jame Carney. Carney would suffer mightily in his kilometer Omnium event held after the Scratch Final … but, it would be worth it, as he was able to repeat his Scratch title from 2010. The men's race was fast, with moments of aggression – but, for the most part it was a tactician's last 8 laps, as the attackers did their flaming best to burn off the field, and the sprinters floated and focused on the wheels to follow for best positioning as the RPMs started to redline.
Rob Evans of McGuire Cycling was a late race hero, surging off the front in the final laps … but the inevitable speed brought it all back and with 1 lap to go it was Jame Carney and Ian Moir, shoulder to shoulder, in a tank emptying drag race. Stephen Pelaez and Jackie Simes were in contention and busting guts to match the lead two … but, it would be Carney with his patented final 10 pedalstroke seated acceleration that would fling him forward and free of the group – repeating his title as Scratch Champion.
For the women – the Scratch Race was one of the best events of the week, with pursuit specialist Kim Geist getting away and lapping the field for a well-earned victory. The action started early with Chicago's Dr. Val Brostrom pushing off the front, and as soon as she was caught – it was attack after attack. World-famed Sarah Hammer was a late addition to the field, and she spent no time waiting to uncork her patented power. Hammer would put in a crushing acceleration that split the field and sent everyone into the hurtlocker. Her teammate and defending champ, Jennie Reed, was in the field and stalking like a shark in shallow waters. With Hammer laying down the weakening blows to the field, how could anyone contest Reed's finishing speed?
With courage – it was Geist. Countering Hammer's attack, Kim Geist would put in a heroic solo effort and immediately put herself deep into the cave to find enough pain to take the lap. She would get her lap, and a chasing duo of Val Brostrom and Cari Higgins would try and do the same. Brostrom and Higgins would trade pulls for lap after lap, but Geist would truly earn the win by going to the front for some 7 straight laps to bring the duo back … close enough in the final laps that Jennie Reed would wait no longer and launch away a blistering 3 lap powerstrip. Reed would stay away for the silver, then Hanan Alves-Hyde would punch out for a clear and away 3rd, followed by Erin Glover who would erupt out of the field to snake a strong 4th on the day. Great race.
The other mass start – the bigger brother of the Scratch – was on Saturday Night and absolutely electrified the 1200 fans in attendance. The women's Points was won with a lapping effort put in by Beth Newell. Newell would take the first sprint and then time her lapping effort to perfection mid-way through the race. The RideClean/Care4Cycling trio of Erica Allar, Colleen Hayduk, and Hanan Alves-Hyde would put in a strong, strong bid to put one of their riders in the jersey, but would come just a bit short after a long week of racing. Both Hayduk and Alves-Hyde raced both the Omnium and women's Scratch … and Erica Allar had maybe the more draining responsibilities of doing race support for both them and teammate, Jame Carney. Honestly, I don't know how Allar did it. What a cool chic.
The other team working to take the jersey was the PB&Co duo of Cari Higgins and Lauren Tamayo. Both were active, and working hard during the points race – but wouldn't be able to overcome the in-form Beth Newell. Jen Triplett and Lauren Hall would round out the podium, and the crowd was psyched and primed to see more Points racing … and boy, were they in store for it.
The men's Points Race was a grueling 160 laps (after being listed as 120 laps on the schedule … way to go, USAC) and would amazingly come down between 4 riders in the final lap … final meters of the race. And man, were those last laps crazytown.
Tied on points into the final sprint, the race looked to be between Jame Carney and Ian Moir. Moir is a huge prospect for the future, as he's already got international experience and shows the complete package of fitness, speed, and tactics. But, with single digits remaining in the race – Daniel Holt would launch away for a lapping effort … and a repeat of his 2010 win.
The field, that late in the race, was decimated and barely sustaining itself on life-support. Moir and Carney were in a chess match as to who was going to chase Holt … while, the resilient, the brawler Jake Hansen out of Portland and the Cyclisme program would put in one last massive effort to bridge across solo to Holt. The crowd was going nutz.
If Holt and Hansen would lap, they would be 1st and 2nd. If they didn't, the title would go to either Carney or Moir … whichever rider finished ahead of the other in the final sprint.
And that's when controversy fit all over the shan.
The duo of Holt and Hansen got the bell for the final lap, while behind were a chasing group of 4, and the defined pack of 11 riders, including Moir and Carney. Holt and Hansen were deemed to have caught the pack in turn 3 … AFTER the chasing 4 had already crossed the finish line, and ?during/after? that group had split. So, those 4 riders were then leaders on the lap for scoring … and yet the "pack" was also given the bell for one more lap, as well. With Holt and Hansen in it.
It was a crucible call … made in the moment, and challenged by Carney and Moir immediately. But the officials held to their decision – and Holt and Hansen were given the lap, Carney given the bronze as he would finish ahead of Moir on the 'final' lap. Very, very interesting.
Carney and Moir would continue their dominance of the endurance events, taking the men's Madison in style – while the women's Madison would come down to one final throw and sprint between the winners Lauren Hall and Kate Wilson over Val Brostrom and Jen Triplett.
Great way to end the week. Can't wait for 2012.
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I'm glad I can now buy this special banana and eat it on the go. It has always been a hassle to have to sit down at the dining table with the serviette and the peel skewer and the special banana knife.
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ScreenFonts: Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, MacGruber, Micmacs, Survival Of The Dead
I am pushing some posts backwards for ScreenFonts, to avoid it being published too late in the month. I think it will be worth the wait, because there are topics both informative and controversial ahead. By the way maybe I'd better stop complaining about lean months, because this is another one. I'll stick to cheering whenever there's a particularly interesting episode. Gotta stay positive. : )
We open this episode of ScreenFonts with a bang – quite literally. The explosive blockbuster that is Iron Man 2 is announced by teaser posters that learned a thing or two from that other comic book adaptation Spider-Man. The outer posters do away with the movie logo or even any reference to the movie name. Instead they rely entirely on the "2" set in the very recognisable Armada. This shows that type can become familiar to a point that one single character does the job. I am not pretending it already generates a Nike swoosh-like recognition, but the narrow angular number rendered in bevelled metal does a spiffy job at conjuring up the Iron Man movie logo. Behold the power of a typeface indeed.
The theatrical poster however doesn't take any chances. It clearly puts the movie title front and center, and plasters the stars floating heads-style all over the upper half of the poster. Yet the art directors and designers at BLT & Associates are no strangers to sophisticated humour. See how the Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow performs an impressive "fart with lighter" trick, and marvel at Mickey Rourke's dexterity with the disco skipping rope. By the way the movie version of Whiplash looks way more badass than the original in the comics.
Now this is as brutal a contrast as could be – from metallic war machines to cutesy babies. Everybody loves babies. At least, that's what the movie poster for Babies is trying the persuade us of. It does so in a comforting soft rounded sans: Arial Rounded. Personally I think merely rounding the corners of a typeface is a halfhearted solution. The skeleton underneath still is rather rigid, and does not particularly invite hugs and cuddles.
This would have been so much better with a truly warm and humane rounded sans, like Tempera Rose, FF Masala or FF Cocon. Even the more tech-inspired Chevin looks friendly thanks to it's slightly bulging diagonals and outwards curling spurs. If I had to redo the typography in this poster I would use Alex Scholing's FF Engine or FF Roice, because they evoke youthfulness without being childish nor condescending, and their unusual design manages to strike that delicate balance between innocent playfulness and typographic soundness.
As for the movie logo, I wouldn't really know what it could be. It comes in the territory of David Berlow's FF Berlinsans, based on a poster alphabet from the late twenties, originally released by Bauer (now Neufville Digital) with the name Negro, the very first sans that Lucian Bernhard ever designed. This design is ideally suited for headline composition. Because every letter in the all caps Alternate weights exists in a wide and a narrow variant, it is possible to fine-tune the running length of headlines very precisely.
The design is something we've seen many times before. Dividing a poster in horizontal bands is a tried and true concept, yet the composition of the photographs and their distinct hues make it a lovely poster.
A man. A bow. An arrow. Wide all caps typography – Aviano and ITC Blair. It's no rocket science. The movie poster for Robin Hood is basic, in your face and very efficient …
… except it looks like a mirror image of the poster for Rambo – a little too close for comfort. I like how the movie title in Neue Helvetica 93 Black Extended across Sylvester Stallone's face evokes war paint. Its position right beneath his eyes increases their intensity.
Designing posters for parodies can be quite tricky. Not going far enough produces lukewarm results, and how far is too far? The fun part for designers is that – instead of carefully avoiding platitudes – they can unashamedly cut their inner child loose and wallow in every possible excess. Sadly cold open plays it very safe on the movie poster for MacGruber. It has the cliché protagonists striking the cliché poses, with all type set in the cliché action movie face Bank Gothic. But then it all comes to a screeching halt, and nothing really happens. This could have been much louder, more exuberant and exhilarating.
This alternate poster with its fiery explosions in the background is a little more convincing, but the design still isn't very imaginative. Plus it looks very similar to that other action movie parody Hot Fuzz, whose composition and typography are far better. Despite the fireworks the MacGruber poster still is rather static, while the one for Hot Fuzz has a swagger to it that makes it fluid and dynamic, and lends it an undeniable cool. Meh, the posters for MacGruber are clunkers.
The posters for Jeunet & Caro films are often as wondrous and intriguing as the movies they advertise (check the trailer below). Rather than attempting to tell a story in one single image, they try to convey a mood. So does the movie poster for Micmacs à tire-larigot (shortened to Micmacs for the English-language market). The man in the image seems dazed and confused, the green three-wheeled vintage car sets the tone and atmosphere, while the ghost images around him hint at what singular and colourful characters populate the world around him. It makes you wonder what it's all about, but it also leaves you craving for more. The typeface used for the movie title is Woodstamp, a free font by the popular Japanese Flat-It Type Foundry that was recently featured on my other blog Unzipped.
I couldn't resist adding the delightful trailer for Micmacs. Instead of the overused Rosewood Fill it features John Downer's Ironmonger, squooshed™.
It has come this far that these days I find it remarkable when the poster for a thriller or horror movie doesn't sport the demoted Trajan – formerly known as The Movie Font, and called upon to make a poster "Oscar material", but currently relegated to mostly second- and third-rate movies. The movie poster for George A. Romero's latest zombiefest Survival of The Dead is a happy exception. It features a distressed face based on the classic Trade Gothic Bold. The overall design is simple and effective, as all posters for zombie movies should be, although I think I'd have preferred the movie logo to be custom distressed. But that's just me being fussy.
Whoa, that's it? A lean month it is indeed. I think the studios may be saving up for blockbuster season.
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Good work Yves, I always look forward to ScreenFonts and revel in your wry commentary. It's a good way to start the day :)
I'm struggling with two things this time around though…
1) Where are "the ghost images" in the Micmacs poster? All I see are clouds. Is the image above just reduced too much?
2) Are you implying it's an issue that the Robin Hood poster "looks like a mirror image of the poster for Rambo"? I agree the Rambo poster is far more striking – particularly with regards to typography – and you make a good point about the positioning of the text. The Robin Hood poster perhaps isn't helped by the relatively small font size being used and up-front positioning of "Gladiator" top left (which made me skip over the image to find out if they'd given "Robin Hood" more prominence below – which they really haven't). Feels like they're relying entirely on the image to sell the film.
However, my point is: are you expecting *all* movie posters to be unique to the point where they don't look "a bit like" a.n.other poster produced at some point in history, if you flip it, rotate it, and perhaps squint a bit? Isn't that a bit harsh? :)
Having said all that, I eagerly await the next bumper installment of ScreenFonts. Stay positive :)
PS: Actually, I have a third problem…
Babies *The Movie* ?!
I think that it takes a lot of visual culture to remember and make the comparison of the 2 posters rambo/robin. I agree with Yves. The idea is the same. Anyway the medieval-foggy-forest atmosphere created is quite believable. Survival of dead has something very wrong but not for type. Something same-type-red on the image (or vice-versa) would be nice and the moon isn't a lamp for god sake :)
if anyone's actually seen the movie Robin Hood, they'd probably agree the legends and type treatments are beautiful
can be seen here (forgot to post in last comment)
Thanks for the response(s)…! Those clouds look quite different now :)
The distressed font on Survival of the Dead is called Downcome, it is a freeware font made by Misprinted Type. It is a distressed font that I am seeing more and more now commercially.
i find the title for survival of the dead very tragic due to the repeating characters with the exact same distress right next to each other. that's simply lazy imo.
I think that the type on Babies is Akzidenz Grotesk Rounded and Quanta (filled in manually, with the A flopped).
Does somebody know which font was used in the Whiplash (2014) movie? There seems to be no info about it around the internet…?!
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"This New Year we're looking forward to getting rid of 2012 and welcoming in a much happier 2013."
Those are the words of Louise Ayre, the 26-year-old who should have been celebrating her first New Year's Eve as a newlywed.
Tragically three months ago, her fiance, Adam Swanwick, from Catterall, died after a sudden heart attack at the age of 28 on the way to taste the food for their upcoming wedding.
Louise, from Garstang, said: "Adam loved this time of year. His dad died just before Christmas eight years ago, and even though he had lost his dad around Christmas he still loved the time of year, so we have to try and hold our heads up and do the best we can."
Adam died after a massive heart attack on September 2 as the couple were on their way to try food at what would have been their wedding reception venue.
But despite the devastation, Louise is determined not to be beaten by the tragedy.
She said: "Adam's mum said he isn't going to be here no matter what we do, so we just have to make the most of it and try and get through it and try and enjoy it a bit.
"We've had such an awful year. but we've got to try and have some fun, especially around the holidays.
"Two of my friends get married next year – one friend in January and my best friend in April – so we're looking forward to happier times really. Adam would have been an usher at the wedding in April, so we want to make sure we have a happier 2013.
"If we have a bit of a laugh and a joke it doesn't mean we're not missing him and we're not bothered that he isn't here – we're just getting through it."
Since Adam's death, Louise, her friends, family and local community have been raising money for charity, CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) and have set up the A.D.A.M. Foundation.
On the day which would have been their wedding, Louise held a charity football match at Garstang FC and raised over £15,000 and a recent ladies' night event made £1,500.
Louise, who went back to work as a legal secretary at the beginning of December, said: "All that I've been able to focus on recently was the charity stuff, but as that has died down and Christmas has come up it has been quite good to have something to focus on and I've slipped right back into it.
"It is an awful time of year when you have lost somebody because it's just so sad.
"People think I'm crazy, but I still think about other people rather than myself. Some of my friends are going through a tough time – they're missing Adam too – and for other people it will be the first time they don't have somebody there too.
"You have to make the most of the people who are here – absolutely."


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Ajith Kumar's next movie, which is currently referred to as "Thala 57," is scheduled to take off on May 1 to coincide with the actor's birthday. The makers are expected to have a formal ritual on the special day to mark the beginning of shooting.
The makers are yet to announce the female leads and technicians who will be part of the forthcoming Tamil flick. However, the names of Nayanthara, Kajal Aggarwal, Tamanna Bhatia, Kriti Kharbanda and many others have been doing the rounds. Anushka Shetty is reportedly a strong contender for the role, while Kriti Sanon has been approached to play the second female lead in the flick.
"Thala 57" is produced by Sathyajyothi Films, which has made a lot of notable films in the past three decades, like "Moonram Pirai," "Uthama Puthiran" and "Kalyana Parisu."
Siruthai Siva has written the story and directed "Thala 57," which is an urban-centric film. It is the third collaboration of the director and the actor after "Veeram" and "Vedalam." The movie will be shot in foreign countries and it is speculated that one of them will be Australia. But the regular shooting will only commence in June.
Anirudh Ravichander is said to be composing music for the film. He had successfully scored the music for Ajith and Siruthai Siva's previous film "Vedalam." Vetri will handle the cinematography of the flick.
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The Apple iPhone 3G S has been torn apart to identify what was inside. Impressions on the phone.
The big thing happening right now is the release of the iPhone 3G S.
Or I should say, the biggest thing happening, which isn't
saying too much. I've read some reports of long lines and
outsold stores from a few locations, but on Friday morning in Ottawa...
not so much. A collegue went to the "flagship" Rogers store
at 5:30AM just in case. That store was scheduled to open at
10AM, so I was to go to a smaller store as that store opened at 9AM and
we figured the line up would be smaller as it was out of the way.
We didn't need to worry. At 5:30AM there was one
person in line. They decided to open the store a little after
8, at which point there was only 3 people in line, including my
colleague. At the store I was at there was no one, and on the
drive back to the office I passed a few more stores without anyone
waiting in front.
We were not the first people to get a teardown done, but we were able to get into more detail than some of the initial teardowns, thanks to some decapping and collaboration with Semiconductor Insights and Portelligent. We were also able to get a few parts correctly identified, as many places were labelling the Nymonyx NOR flash as being from Infineon. Our full findings can be seen here (including a humerous, yet educational, video of the teardown).
I only got a few minutes to play with the iPhone 3G S before we had to take it apart. It seemed decent, but nothing revolutionary over the iPhone 3G. A few nice features, and maybe the faster processor could be useful (didn't have enough time to really do solid comparisons), but nothing that made me decide I needed to go out and get one. Anyone out there pick one up and have impressions on it?


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This invention relates to a new all season tire tread rubber comprising low vinyl polybutadiene, polyisoprene, and a diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of about -5° to about -20° C.
Tire tread compositions are engineered to produce traction, speed, stability, and casing protection, simultaneously providing frictional contact for the transmission of driving, braking and cornering forces as well as wear resistance. Typical tread rubber compositions employ elastomers having a relatively high tensile strength and high abrasion resistance. However, compounding elastomers for improved traction may adversely affect abrasion resistance and tire rolling resistance; conversely, tire traction can suffer when trying to improve rolling resistance. To balance these counteracting considerations, blends of styrene/butadiene and butadiene rubber are commonly employed in passenger tires (Bhakuni, et al., Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, 2nd ed., volume 16, John Wiley, 1989, page 838); other elastomers such as natural rubber may be used to modulate cure, dynamic, or physical properties, or the flex fatigue life of the tire. Fillers, notably carbon black, are added to reinforce the elastomers and improve strength (Eirich, F., Science and Technology of Rubber, Academic Press, New York, 1978, pages 374 and 375 and Bhakuni, et al., cited above, page 842).
For example, Studebaker and Beatty described three tread compositions: two had styrene/butadiene elastomers and one had natural rubber (Eirich, F.R., Science and Technology of Rubber, Academic Press, 1978, pages 374 to 375; compounds 188, 208 and 211 are treads). Bridgestone disclosed a tire rubber composition comprising 50 to 85 parts by weight of natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene, 5 to 20 parts by weight of high styrene styrene/butadiene, and 5 to 45 parts by weight of low styrene styrene/butadiene (Jap. Pat. Ap. Pub. No. 2,129,240). Takino, et al., disclosed a tire tread rubber composition having a two-peak loss tangent curve and comprising isoprene containing more than 50% total 3,4- and 1,2-vinyl bonds and styrene/butadiene in a ratio of 5/95 to 60/40, with 50 to 200 parts by weight carbon black (U.S. Pat. No. 4,946,887).
It is an object of this invention to provide a new tire tread rubber. It is another object of this invention to provide tires having treads that exhibit good traction properties in all conditions (dry, wet, snow, and ice), good handling characteristics, and decreased rolling resistance without abnormal tire treadwear.
These and other objects are accomplished by the present invention, which describes rubber blends comprising low vinyl polybutadiene, polyisoprene, and a diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of about -5° to about -20° C., in amounts effective to produce a blend suitable for use in automobile and light truck tire treads and tire retreads. Preferred rubber blends comprise about 30 to 50 parts per hundred low vinyl polybutadiene; about 25 to 60 parts per hundred natural rubber and/or synthetic polyisoprene; and about 10 to 25 parts per hundred high styrene styrene/butadiene rubber and/or other diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of about -5° to about -20° C. A preferred embodiment comprises about 40 parts per hundred low vinyl solution polybutadiene, about 40 parts per hundred natural rubber and about 20 parts per hundred high styrene solution styrene/butadiene. A method for producing tire tread rubber compositions according to this invention is also disclosed.
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross section of a tire employing the tire tread rubber composition of this invention in tread component 20.
FIG. 2 shows viscoelastic curves for a tire tread employing the rubber blend of this invention, and FIG. 3 shows analogous viscoelastic curves for a control tire tread. The curves plot hysteresis loss (tan δ), dynamic modulus (G') and loss modulus (G").
In the practice of this invention, rubber blends comprising low vinyl polybutadiene, polyisoprene, and a diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of about -5° to about -20° C. are employed in all season tire tread rubber compositions for passenger cars and light trucks, tire retreads and the like. Preferred rubber blends comprise about 30 to 50 parts per hundred low vinyl polybutadiene; about 25 to 60 parts per hundred natural rubber and/or synthetic polyisoprene; and about 10 to 25 parts per hundred high styrene styrene/butadiene and/or other diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of about -5° to about -20° C. Tires having the tread rubber blend of the invention exhibit a superior dynamic response in wet and winter driving conditions, good handling characteristics, and improved abrasion resistance without increased rolling resistance.
Low vinyl polybutadiene is employed in the rubber blends of this invention. By the term "polybutadiene" is meant polymerized butadiene or butadiene rubber, herein abbreviated BR. The vinyl content of polybutadiene refers to the weight percent of monomer in the 1,2-configuration. By the term "low vinyl" is meant having a vinyl content of about 10 to about 30 weight percent. The vinyl groups, or 1,2-monomers, can occur anywhere in the butadiene polymers: in clusters or groups, or interspersed regularly or irregularly among 1,4-monomers.
Polybutadiene prepared by any known means including free radical, emulsion, ionic, coordination, bulk, solution, or suspension polymerization of butadiene may be employed. However, low vinyl solution polybutadiene prepared in a solution polymerization process employing an organic solvent and using lithium or the like catalyst is preferred, or its chemical equivalent.
Polyisoprene is also employed in the rubber blends of this invention. The polyisoprene may be natural or synthetic, or a mixture of the two. By the term "natural polyisoprene" is meant natural rubber obtained from natural sources, or its chemical equivalent, such as cis-1,4-polyisoprene. By the term "synthetic polyisoprene" is meant any polyisoprene produced synthetically, regardless of the isomeric configuration of the isoprene monomers. Blends of synthetic polyisoprenes with natural rubber can be used in the rubber blends of this invention. Natural rubber is employed in preferred embodiments.
A diene polymer having a glass transition temperature of
about -5° to about -20° C. is also employed in the rubber blends of this invention. Diene polymers having glass transition temperatures in this range include high styrene styrene/butadiene (hereinafter referred to as SBR) co-polymers, polymethylbutadiene polymers (methyl rubber), butadiene/acrylonitrile copolymers, styrene/isoprene/butadiene terpolymers, ethylene/ propylene/diene, high 3,4-polyisoprene, and the like elastomers, including thermoplastic elastomers having a diene component. Mixtures of rubbers may also be employed.
High styrene solution SBR is employed in preferred embodiments. By "high styrene" is meant about 30 to about 50 weight percent bound styrene. By "solution" is meant prepared by the polymerization of styrene and butadiene in a solution, or a process yielding a chemical equivalent thereof, rather than in a free radical, emulsion, ionic, coordination, bulk, or suspension polymerization process.
In one embodiment of the invention, the tire tread rubber blend comprises about 30 to 50 parts per hundred low vinyl solution polybutadiene, about 25 to 60 parts per hundred natural rubber, and about 10 to 25 parts per hundred high styrene solution styrene/butadiene. A preferred rubber blend comprises about 40 parts low vinyl solution polybutadiene, about 40 parts natural rubber and about 20 parts high styrene solution styrene/butadiene.
Tire tread rubber blends of this invention are processed with effective amounts of processing aids, accelerators, cross-linking and curing materials, antidegradants, fillers and the like to make tire tread rubber compositions. Processing aids include, but are not limited to, processing oils, plasticizers, tackifiers, extenders, chemical conditioners, homogenizing agents and peptizers such as mercaptans, petroleum and vulcanized vegetable oils, resins, rosins, and the like. Accelerators include amines, guanidines, thioureas, thiazoles, thiurams, sulfenamides, thiocarbamates, xanthates, and the like. Cross-linking and curing agents include sulfur, zinc oxide, and fatty acids. Antidegradants include antioxidants and antiozonants. Fillers include carbon black and mineral fillers such as silica and clay. Example formulations are set forth hereinafter.
The materials are mixed in a single step or in stages. Two or three-stage processes are preferred. For example, the rubber blend can be processed with filler, wax, some antidegradants, and effective amounts of processing oils in one step, with accelerators, curing and cross-linking agents, and the remaining antidegradants added in a second stage. Additional stages may involve incremental additions of filler and processing oils.
The tire tread compositions of this invention are employed in tire treads. As is known to those skilled in the art, in the conventional manufacture of a radial ply tire, the extruded tread composition is wrapped over the belt area of a green tire in the final stages of tireassembly prior to curing. For further understanding of the position of these components, reference is made to accompanying FIG. 1, which depicts a cross-sectional view of tire 10 which employs the tire tread composition of this invention in tire tread component 20.
The tire of FIG. 1 consists of a carcass structure comprising one or more carcass plies 50, provided with textile cords disposed according to a radial extension, folded back from the inside to the outside around a metal bead core 55 disposed in the area of the tire bead, over which, at a radially external position, a filling strip 60 of elastomeric material of substantially triangular cross-sectional shape is placed in a manner known by those skilled in the art. Disposed crown-wise to the tire carcass, in the usual manner, is a tread component or band 20, and inserted between the carcass and the tread band is a belt structure 30 consisting of two radially superposed layers 31 and 32 of cords disposed at angles with respect to the midcircumferential plane of the tire in opposite directions, preferably symmetrically. The belt layers are formed in any appropriate known manner and in particular can comprise textile and/or metal reinforcing cords.
Tires so formed with the tire tread rubber blends of this invention have an array of desirable characteristics. In tire road tests comparing the performance of tires having the tread rubber of this invention with control tires, wet ice traction and dry ice traction was improved, and snow traction was significantly improved. The overall ride and handling was also improved. Abrasion resistance was good; preferred tire tread compositions exhibited superior treadwear and less abrasion when compared with controls. Goodyear-Healey rebound of preferred tread compositions embodiments show good resilience (e.g., ˜37% to ˜39% rebound at room temperature). The physical properties of example compositions are set out hereinafter, as are tire road test results.
Measures of dynamic response of preferred compositions predict good traction without increased rolling resistance, especially in wet and winter conditions. An industry accepted measure of tire traction, for example, is hysteresis loss, denoted by loss factor tan δ, as determined by any number of dynamic viscoelasticity tests. Traction improvement is obtained through an increase of the loss factor in the mid-range temperature region (e.g., between about, -20° and 30° C.) without the rubber composition becoming too hard. On the other hand, increased hysteresis loss at higher, operating temperatures of the tire (e.g., about 30° C. and above) results in higher rolling resistance and lower fuel economy. At very low temperatures (e.g., below about -20° C.), flexible compositions are preferred over stiffer ones. To balance these counteracting considerations, the desirable tread compositions of this invention are flexible at very low temperatures and exhibit low hysteresis loss at higher temperatures, with hysteresis loss at intermediate temperatures (in the wet traction zone) superior to a control. Example hysteresis loss measurements, as well as dynamic modulus testing and loss modulus response, are plotted hereinafter.
Thus, employment of low vinyl polybutadiene with polyisoprene and high styrene styrene/butadiene as the rubber in tire treads provides improved all season tires having superior wet and winter traction, abrasion resistance and treadwear.
The following examples are presented to further illustrate and explain the present invention and should not be taken as limiting in any regard. Unless otherwise indicated, all parts and percentages are by weight, and are based on the weight at the particular stage of the processing being described.
This example illustrates the preparation of a tire tread rubber composition comprising the rubber blend of this invention (C, below) and two control compositions (A and B below).
TABLE I______________________________________ Composition, partsMaterial A B C______________________________________Natural Rubber 25 40 40Low Vinyl Polybutadiene 0 0 40(20% vinyl)High Styrene Styrene/Butadiene 0 20 20(Tg, -10°)Low Styrene Styrene/Butadiene.sup.1 0 40 0Butadiene Rubber 17 0 0Styrene/Butadiene (1712 Type) 48 0 0Polynorbornene 10 0 0Filler.sup.2 69 80 80Processing Oil 26 45 45Zinc Oxide 1.7 2.0 2.0Fatty Acid 1.7 2.0 2.0Sulfur 1.3 1.5 1.5Other.sup.3 6.43 7.4 7.4______________________________________ .sup.1 18% styrene .sup.2 Carbon black and/or silica .sup.3 Accelerators, antidegradants, tackifiers, peptizers, resins, waxes and the like
In this example, the physical properties of the rubber compositions of Example 1 are compared and contrasted. The values are presented in Table II below.
TABLE II______________________________________ CompositionPhysical Property A B C______________________________________Mooney Viscosity (ASTM D3646)ML 4' @ 100° C. 60.9 59.8 66.0Mooney Scorch @ 135° C. (ASTM D1546) 2 pt. rise 13.3 15.1 13.7 5 pt. rise 14.4 16.3 15.510 pt. rise 15.0 16.9 16.1Hardness IRHD (ASTM D1415)25' @ 148° C. 66.9 69.2 68.435' @ 148° C. 67.7 68.9 67.6Specific gravity (ASTM D297) 1.139 1.132 1.130Unaged Stress/Strain (ASTM D412)M 300% 25' @ 148° C., MPa 9.537 8.196 7.46835' @ 148° C., Mpa 9.531 8.876 8.199Tensile 25', MPa 17.584 17.306 16.73135', MPa 17.431 17.776 16.975Elong. @ Break, 25' 517 553 59235' 514 551 552Rheometer (1d · 100 cpm · 148° C., ASTM D2084)M.sub.L 3.58 2.80 3.55M.sub.H.sbsb.2 18.42 16.48 19.10t.sub.R 6.69 7.77 7.38t.sub.50 8.73 9.42 9.07t.sub.90 14.81 14.57 14.06BFG Flexometer (35' @ 148° C., ASTM D623)Final Temp, °F. 187 186 180% Set 11.65 13.22 11.94% Static Compression 38.05 37.28 38.91% Dynamic Compression 37.05 35.29 33.43% Final Dynamic Comp. 40.30 41.15 40.70Goodyear-Healey Rebound (35' @ 148° C., ASTM D1054)% Rebound @ RT 40.30 38.30 40.30% Rebound @ 100° C. 59.00 56.40 58.40Penetration @ RT 0.192 0.191 0.195Penetration @ 100° C. 0.258 0.276 0.260______________________________________
This example compares and contrasts tire tread compositions comprising a control rubber blend (composition D), rubber blends comprising low vinyl polybutadiene, polyisoprene and high styrene styrene/butadiene blended in particular proportions (compositions E, F, and G), and rubber blends comprising natural rubber and low vinyl polybutadiene (compositions H and I). Components of the compositions are set out in Table III and the physical properties of the compositions are given in Table IV.
TABLE III______________________________________ Compositon, partsMaterial D E F G H I______________________________________Low Styrene Styrene/ 40.0 0 0 0 0 0Butadiene Rubber.sup.1Natural Rubber 40.0 40.0 25.0 60.0 25.0 75.0Low Vinyl Polybutadiene 0 40.0 50.0 30.0 75.0 25.0(20% vinyl)High Styrene Solution 20.0 20.0 25.0 10.0 0 0Styrene/Butadiene.sup.2Filler 80.0 80.0 80.0 80.0 80.0 80.0Processing Oil 45.0 45.0 45.0 45.0 45.0 45.0Antidegradants 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.75 2.75Curing and Crosslinking 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5AgentsOther.sup.3 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0______________________________________ .sup.1 18% styrene .sup.2 Glass transition temperature = -10° C. .sup.3 Processing aids, fatty acids, waxes, and the like.
TABLE IV______________________________________Physical CompositionProperty D E F G H I______________________________________Mooney Viscosity (ASTM D1646)ML 4' 67.3 69.3 69.1 66.7 76.3 67.4@ 100° C.Specific 1.131 1.126 1.126 1.120 1.117 1.120Gravity(ASTMD297)IRHD Durometer (ASTM D1415)30' @ 151° C. 63.9 66.1 64.3 64.7 62.9 62.7Unaged Stress/Strain (ASTM D412)300% 5.991 6.354 5.738 6.666 5.478 6.257Modulus, 30'@ 151° C.,MpaTensile, 16.128 16.389 15.223 16.555 15.174 16.19330', MPaElong. @ 650 650 674 624 654 622Break, 30'Rheometer (1d · 100 cpm · 148°C., ASTM D2084)M.sub.L 8.50 9.20 8.80 8.80 10.10 8.80M.sub.H.sbsb.2 24.90 26.90 26.80 26.60 28.80 28.80t.sub.S 13.12 11.00 20.80 16.02 15.90 13.83t.sub.50 16.53 14.73 29.90 19.55 20.60 18.92t.sub.90 23.53 22.58 43.77 25.97 29.88 28.38BFG Flexometer (40' @ 151° C., ASTM D623)Δ T 188 191 191 184 220 178% Set 11.36 12.21 12.69 1.09 8.03 9.57% Static 45.94 43.15 42.46 43.50 42.46 43.23Compression% Initial 35.77 33.99 35.01 35.57 35.01 35.14DynamicCompression% Final 39.22 40.68 41.86 41.42 42.95 40.76DynamicCompressionGoodyear-Healey Rebound (40' @ 151° C., ASTM D1054)% Rebound 37.0 37.0 34.9 40.3 44.2 43.7@ RT% Rebound 54.4 52.0 53.5 56.4 54.9 57.9@ 100° C.Penetration 0.218 0.212 0.217 0.226 0.218 0.240@ RTPenetration 0.285 0.274 0.281 0.291 0.267 0.296@ 100° C.______________________________________
This example illustrates the hysteresis response for compositions D and E of Example 3 compared by testing samples over a broad temperature spectrum ranging from -80° C. to 80° C. at 1 Hz and 0.1% strain using a Rheometric-Dynamic Analyzer RDAII. The viscoelastic curves are plotted in FIGS. 2 (composition E) and 3 (composition D). The tan δ peak at the low and intermediate temperature region for composition E indicates good traction, better than the control, while at the same time a lower than typical loss factor in the upper temperature range indicates good rolling resistance. At intermediate temperatures, the tan δ plot is higher than the control composition D, indicating superior wet traction.
In this example, professional drivers ranked performance of tires having treads comprising the control tread rubber composition D of Example 3 are compared with tires having treads comprising a tread rubber composition of this invention, composition E of Example 3 above. Cars equipped with four tires having the respective tread compositions were exhaustively road tested for handling and performance characteristics on various surfaces and seasonal conditions, including a high speed racetrack.
In these tests, tires having the tread rubber of this invention performed better than control tires in the following categories:
______________________________________ Superior by______________________________________Snow Traction (Hill Climb) 16%Wet Ice Traction 4%Dry Ice Traction 4%Treadwear, 32,000 miles 5%Rolling Resistance 5%______________________________________
Moreover, on a scale of 10, a professional drive at a high speed racetrack gave tires having the tread rubber of this invention an overall ride and handling rating of 71/2, as compared to 7 for the control tires.
Additional test results are summarized in Table V below.
TABLE V______________________________________Characteristics______________________________________ Composition D EAbrasion Resistace (DIN Abrader)Volume Loss, mm.sup.3 146 95Wet Traction (Skid Trailer) Superior by20 mph 6%40 mph equalDry Traction (Skid Trailer)40 mph equal______________________________________
The above description is for the purpose of teaching the person of ordinary skill in the art how to practice the present invention, and it is not intended to detail all those obvious modifications and variations of it which will become apparent to the skilled worker upon reading the description. It is intended, however, that all such obvious modifications and variations be included within the scope of the present invention, which is defined by the following claims.
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|U.S. Classification
|525/233, 524/518, 152/905, 525/210, 524/515, 525/237
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|10 Jul 1991
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A Bivariate Distribution for Inflation and Output Forecasts
The contribution of this paper is to derive a bivariate distribution for inflation and output uncertainty with a well-defined role for subjective judgements. The marginal distributions for inflation and output growth are derived from uncertainty in the macro variables that are deemed to be important for future inflation and output growth. The uncertainty in the macro variables is based on their historical standard deviations, but we allow these to be subjectively adjusted if there is reason to be more or less uncertain than historically. We also allow for a subjective assessment of the balance of risk, i.e. whether the distributions are symmetric or not. Given the marginal distributions for inflation and output growth we derive a bivariate distribution using the translation method. Having derived the bivariate distribution we are in a position to discuss inflation forecast uncertainty conditional on the growth of output (or vice versa). The analysis can readily be extended to the case of more than two variables.
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