Angel Locsin replies at netizen asking her to stop her supporters to stop bashing Jessy Mendiola.
ANGEL LOCSIN – The Kapamilya actress Angel Locsin replied to a netizen who asked her to stop her fans from bashing Jessy Mendiola.
Jessy Mendiola is just one of the celebrities who was receiving criticisms from their haters and she is also one of those who knows how to handle those people so well.
The respective fans and supporters of the artists, because of their so much admiration for their favorite celebrity, are as well affected when their idol is criticized.
And lately, in the comment section in one of the posts of Angel Locsin in her account in a particular social media site, a certain netizen has bravely asked her to stop her supporters from bashing the actress Jessy Mendiola.
Recalling, the issue between these actresses ignited after the break up of Angel and the host Luis Manzano to where Luis, after the split, jumped to another relationship with Jessy Mendiola.
The netizen asked the actress,“PWEDE BANG PAG SABIHAN MO ANG FANTARDS MO TO STOP THE HATE AGAINST JESSY!! DI BA NAKA “MOVE ON” KA NA? YUNG GINAWA SAYO NG KN TARDS MADALAS GAWIN NG BULLY MONG FANS AGAINST LIZA AND JESSY!! WALK THE TALK!!”
On another comment, the same netizen indicated, “Just look at this thread. I hope you’re proud of your fans. Full of hate and anger against someone who they don’t even know personally! At puro dummy accounts pa just to hate. Atleast mine was to promote Anne. Get a life losers!”
To which the actress has replied, “ang sad lang na kelangan mo pang gamitin si Anne para sa agenda mo. move on na tayo girl :)”
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It’s been a busy month or so, and I haven’t made much time for blogging. I’ve been going through some changes at work, and saying goodbye to friends. It’s been mentally tiring, emotionally whack, and that has resulted in me being physically lazy – not getting up for taekwondo class as often as I should and sleeping too late.
But, things have been getting a little bit more normalized, volunteering at the soup kitchen continually reminds me how lucky I am to be employed and to stop feeling sorry for myself, and a few good things have happened.
I did manage to learn my taekwondo form, Choong Jung 1, and go to enough classes to earn my next belt, brown-recommended.
Another good thing is I have been using the MyFitnessPal app and website to track my calories and exercise for about 3 weeks now. After about 2 weeks I had lost 3 pounds, and I’m paying more attention to what I’m eating and how much.
The third cool thing is I got to attend a lecture by Dr. Jane Goodall, which was awesome. She talked about her early life and the beginning of her studies of chimpanzees, and about conservation work. And, after standing in a realllllyyyyyy long line, I got to meet her for about 25 seconds and she signed one of my books! Check it out:
Also I recently listened in on a free call with SARK. She was promoting her Write It Now workshops, and while I did not sign up for the paid program, I did enjoy the free call. It was inspirational and got me to thinking about and doing a little more personal writing.
Another fun thing I’ve been doing is decorating for fall. I’m going to post about that on Monday, in conjunction with BLOGtober Fest.
It’s Banned Books Week in the U.S. It is time to remember to celebrate our freedom to read (and write) whatever we choose. Whether it’s (GASP!) sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, inequality, witches and wizards, vampires, mental illness, science, cultures, politics, drugs, or just fun fiction, don’t let someone else decide what you are allowed to explore through books.
Here are just a few of my most beloved challenged books:
Which banned books do you love?
100 Top Banned/Challenged Books 2000-2009
100 Most Frequently Challenged Books 1990-2000
In a week that has really needed some, here are my latest Little Happy Things :
- Charles Finch’s Charles Lenox mystery novels. Stumbled upon the first one, A Beautiful Blue Death, and quickly got lost in 1860s upper-crust England. As the series’s debut novel, I found a few things that bugged me, but nothing that kept me from enjoying it. This is not the murder-every-chapter type of mystery. It’s more a hot-tea-in-front-of-the-fire whodunit. An easy read and good characters to get caught up in. If you are missing your fix of lords and ladies with proper manners and servant-managed estates, this might help tide you over until the next season of Downton Abbey (sadly not showing in the U.S. until January). Yesterday I started reading the second one, The September Society.
- Green Tea. My allergies seem to be acting up. Something about green tea really helps when I have the sniffles. It’s like a magical nostril-stopper-upper. Delightful, eh.
- Pyramid Apricot Ale. Deliciousness from the Pacific Northwest.
- New underwear. Pretty panties make everyone feel good, right? (This brings to mind a quote by the character Warrick Brown on an old CSI episode: “there’s something so heartbreaking about a woman with raggedy drawers.” Indeed, Warrick.) However, one pair did make me laugh, and then, after some thought, caused me to knit my brows. Checking the washing instructions, I noticed the tag advised “Warm iron if desired.” Haha, right? But, OK, wait, does this mean there is someone out there who IRONS THEIR UNDERWEAR? Frankly, I don’t see why anyone would “desire” to do that, but particularly on a pair that is red and sheer (…have I said too much?…), as though your significant other might get distracted by wrinkles? Really?! Have I missed something? Fess up, ladies. If you are ironing your sexy panties, please tell me why. I really need to know.
What’s up lately? Let’s do bullet points!
- Got a tattoo above my ankle a few weeks ago. It says “blessed” in my handwriting. No, it didn’t really hurt much. Yes, I have a high pain tolerance. If you don’t, I don’t recommend an ankle tattoo. 🙂 I like the tattoo, and I’m thinking I may get some decoration added around it sometime. It’s been about 10 years since my last tattoo, so I was due.
- Just got back from the annual MLB trip with Honey Bear. Great time, and our team won. Twice. 🙂
- Thanks to generic Effe.xor I am feeling much better.
- Foster-to-adopt paperwork notebook is still lying in the floor…
- I’ve been reading “Sex with the Queen: Nine Hundred Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics” by Eleanor Herman. It’s nonfiction, and I recommend it if you like history without the boring shit.
- Swimming! Yay for summer.
- Got my purple belt in taekwondo last week. Woot.
- Nothing doing in TTC land. I meant to start taking that Metformin again but keep forgetting. Which probably really means I’m not committed to starting all that again…
- I’ve been enjoying all those little things that I wasn’t doing whilst TTC, including coloring my hair, getting tattoos, and drinking beer and pinot noir. Lovely.
I love to read, but sometimes I struggle to complete a book, or I don’t start reading anything at all. I’ll get really into a book, and then abandon it partway through for no reason that I can explain. Sometimes it is hard for me to read with other noises in the room or even the background, especially the TV. I haven’t made myself a comfortable reading nook that has the silence I need, so I tend to just wait until I am alone in the house to read.
Anyway, as my friend Alli said, “Stella’s got her reading groove back.” I’ve torn through 2 books in no time at all, and I’m halfway through a third. I found Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by happy accident at the library and finished reading it within a day. It was written by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. I recommend it if you like art, art history or true crime. It really is amazing the depth of the con. And it raises questions about how we value art.
The second book that I essentially ate in the last week is Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. I stayed up until 5 a.m. to finish this book in a total of about 6 hours. It is a fictionalized account of a young maid in the house of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and how she came to be the model for his famous painting. A good read.
I’m in the middle of Bossypants by Tina Fey. She is funny as always. I’ve gotten to the part where she is writing about performing with The Second City. However, if you are hoping for details on her facial scar, you’re not going to get any.

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I just love feeling good and as long as I'm moving and meeting new people, I feel good. My goals are to always be able to keep up with my boys especially in their sports and biking. Most of all, I want to always enjoy being active.
I walk our Golden Retriever, Lego almost every day (depending on the weather) for at least 3 miles. I use the treadmill every day after dinner for 45 minutes. I use the 30 day shred dvd every other day for 30 minutes. I use a variety of other aerobic dvds every other day and I lift weights at home M, W, and Friday.
We live in beautiful Colorado!
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, It's all small stuff
Just checking in with good thoughts and wishes for you.
And Sorry, I have been pretty busy packing for a move and not too sparky. However, wanted to wish you blessings and cheer for the upcoming Holidays. I will be a.w.o.l. for a good bit. So please have the best Christmas and New Years! Please don't forget me I will be back soon as possible.
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A London hospital has been forced to crowdfund for vital equipment, including beds, because it cannot afford to invest the money itself.
Begging for beds
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore, north-west London, set up the appeal in a bid to raise £400,000 for its spinal injuries unit. The money will go towards six extra beds for the ward, plus new rehabilitation equipment. The RNOH has so far raised £126,000.
The campaign, called the ‘Make it Possible’, is thought to be the first time any NHS hospital has crowdfunded for investment. The project works by allowing patients and families to suggest where money could be spent. Then an appointed committee selects one of the suggestions, and the crowdfunding begins. The spinal injuries unit was the first to be chosen.
Chief Executive of the RNOH, Rob Hurd said that because all the hospital’s money goes into frontline services, very little is left for investment:
We have to be frank, capital is constrained in our NHS and investment in facilities is really difficult at this time. That means the infrastructure that we have got doesn’t get replaced as quickly as we would like. So we need the help of donations and charitable sources to make those additional investments. So we really value those donations because without them we cannot even get started.
The RNOH is one of the country’s flagship orthopedic hospitals, where one in five orthopedic surgeons are trained. But it has fallen into financial difficulties. A proposed renovation of the hospital’s century-old buildings, signed off under Labour in 2010, was delayed by more than five years. The RNOH was initially looking for a private company to fund the work (paywall). But in August the Department of Health (DoH) signed off the first phase of funding. This was only possible because part of the RNOH site was sold off to private developers, and loans were taken out.
The £49.9m awarded to the RNOH will go towards a new inpatient block. The hope is that the DoH will then sign off another £31m for a training centre and biomedical facilities. But, as the crowdfunding project has shown, this only covers the bare essentials. And even on a day-to-day basis the hospital is struggling. It warned in October 2015 that it faced losing £15.2m in income in 2016/17, due to changes in the way the DoH allocates funding.


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Why Diversity in the Workplace is More Important than Ever
In today’s competitive marketplace, it is more important than ever for companies to find ways to gain a competitive edge. The fight for a competitive advantage begins with your hiring practices. However, when evaluating the quality of their staff, employers often fail to consider one important factor: diversity.
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, diversity in the workplace is more important today than it has ever been. As our country becomes more open and diverse, so too does your company’s need to find ways to appeal to those groups if it is to survive.
Encourage a Learning Culture
There are so many things that people from different generations, cultural backgrounds, and walks of life can learn from one another. Older employees have decades of wisdom and lived experience. Younger generations have a fresh perspective and a firm grasp on cutting edge technology. An employee raised in poverty likely understands the value of a dollar better than someone who has never worried about how their rent would be paid. The more diverse the cultural experiences of a group of people, the more fodder for inspiration and innovation in their creative endeavors.
Attract More Diverse Customers
If you want to attract a diverse customer base, then you have to start by hiring and promoting a diverse group of people. If your commitment to diversity goes no deeper than the skin color of the models in your ads, it won’t take long for your customers to figure it out. No amount of virtue signaling will convince minorities that you care about them or their problems.
Minority groups will assume that a company who fails to employ people like them will not consider or protect their interests. The hard truth? They are probably right. Employers’ policies and hiring practices determine the work culture and attitudes of their workplace. If the person hiring employees cannot make a commitment to diversity, their employees will take that as a cue to do the same. That attitude will inevitably filter into every aspect of your business.
It does not matter how intelligent, creative, or culturally sensitive your employees may be. If they haven’t lived the experience of a particular gender, race, religion, financial background, or mental/physical ability, they cannot have a true understanding of the people who have lived it. They need to have an opportunity to engage, create, and brainstorm with people from those diverse backgrounds on a regular basis.
If your company fails to commit to diversity, you may manage to skate through by attracting the limited demographic that your company employees. You may even attract a handful of customers from other demographics. If you are satisfied with that limited idea of success, then this may not be a concern for you. However, if you truly wish to maximize your company’s earning potential, make the effort to foster diversity. You will not regret it.
Even if you feel as though your profits are on track, there are other reasons why diversity is important. First, the law prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, age, sex, or disability. Some states also prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexuality or gender identity. If your entire staff fits only one or two demographics, it will inevitably leave your company ripe for a lawsuit.
Failing to appreciate the importance of diversity can also have an impact on profitability even within a company’s existing client base. For example, a marketing department with no minority presence is too often a recipe for disaster. No matter how well intentioned they may be, they often fail to spot issues in their marketing tactics that come across as insensitive to other groups. They simply do not recognize the harm because it is not something they encounter in their daily lives. But companies can use the demographic segmentations provided in their customer relationship management (CRM) software (find recommendations here) or provided by social media tools to help them better understand their customers, pinpoint oversights, and even understand where hiring might help them better serve their customers.
It’s the Right Thing to Do
Racial minorities, women, members of the LGBT+ community, and people with mental or physical disabilities have been fighting discrimination and oppression since time immemorial. Don’t be part of that problem. All other considerations aside, doing your part to ensure that we break that cycle of oppression is simply the right thing to do.
If you are not part of a minority group, you may not realize that people from minority groups are still struggling for representation and equal pay in the workplace. They are still fighting to have their needs addressed and their opinions heard. They are still regularly subjected to harassment and even physical violence simply because they are different. Many of them live in fear on a daily basis.
Hire for diversity. Protect women and minorities in your workplace from harassment and violence. If someone mistreats them, hold them accountable for their actions. You cannot be neutral on this issue. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem. Be part of the solution.

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Anny Aurora's Memorable Diva Encounter
Release Date: Oct.08.2018
Running Time: 1:03:24
Category: Dangerous Diva
Xandra Sixx was a skeptic, a useful frame of mind for a journalist. In several articles, Xandra had contended that the legendary Dangerous Diva was a creation of over- imaginative publicity seekers; she doubled down by challenging the Diva to come after her. When the so-called Queen of Crime failed to materialize, Xandra was convinced that she'd won, a belief she communicated to her guest from Germany, Anny Aurora, as they spoke on the phone. Shortly after ending the call, however, Xandra's house of cards came tumbling down when the nightmare- in-a-catsuit invaded her space. Once she had the regretful writer suitably subdued with rope and gagged with tape, the Diva vividly demonstrated to Xandra that the tales of bondage and domination told about her were all too true.
Energized by her pleasurable revenge, the Diva left one bound and gagged blonde on her way to create another -- Anny had come to visit Xandra and share her insights about what she called the Diva Myth, but like her friend she'd meet a woman whose wicked energy would brand her memory! The lovely German girl was jet-lagged from her long trip across the Atlantic, so she was about to take a nap when the Dangerous One struck. After binding Anny's wrists behind her, the Diva tape- gagged her, then coiled rope around her dark-blue nighty before hauling her onto the bed. Anny trembled as this fearsome apparition bared and fondled her breasts; briefly left alone, she rolled around the bed in desperation but there'd be no escape from the Diva on this day!
Dangerous Diva's sly sense of humor came to the fore when she costumed her luscious German captive in a colorful dirndl; once the beautiful barmaid was roped to a bedpost, black-gloved hands strapped a red ball-gag between her lips. The Diva admired her struggling prey, then produced a pair of scissors that she used to cut away the costume's frilly bodice so that Anny's enticing breasts were again on vulnerable display! As soon as the intimidated girl's nipples had been sufficiently teased, the exhilarated cat-burglar pulled down her panties and delicately stroked her pussy.
Wait a minute -- what's going on here? The ropework's on another body and it's the not-so-dangerous Diva seated bound and ball-gagged next to the bed while bare- breasted Anny revels in taking control! Hopping onto the bed, Anny dangles her long legs around the Diva's writhing body so she can play with the woman who'd toyed with her. After pushing the angry evil-doer onto her side, the laughing blonde rests her bare feet on the sleek catsuit; the Diva's humiliation concludes as she arches hogtied with Anny lying next to her, the smile of domination lighting her face! SORRY, ANNY, IT'S ONLY A FANTASY -- YOU'RE STILL TIED TO THE POST!
Working hard to ensure that Anny never forgets her visit, the Diva confined her standing in a shower stall, her naked body oppressed with black rope and her lips spread with a thick black cleave-gag -- what a contrast between the shivering bound nude and her black-clad oppressor! But there was much more in store for Anny once she was roped to a chair with her legs spread; taut strings crossed between her thumbs and big toes to hold her bare soles in place for the demonic Diva to tantalize with fingers, electronic toothbrush and rubber bands!
It was almost time for the Diva to bid farewell, but she couldn't resist having a bit more fun at Anny's expense. With her plaything sitting next to the bed, the Dark One rested her high-heeled boots on Anny's shoulders before pushing the trussed and tape-gagged captive onto her side for use as a footstool! The Diva's final touch was a tether between Anny's ankles and chest harness that folded her legs into a hogtie; as she arched on her stomach, Anny watched those black boots striding arrogantly out through her suite's bedroom door. Humiliated and helpless, she'd learned the hard way that the Diva was no myth!
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Topeka Douglas County District Court Judge Robert Fairchild and Lawrence attorney Martha Coffman have applied for the position on the Kansas Supreme Court being vacated by Justice Donald Allegrucci.
The Supreme Court Nominating Commission will review the applicants of 14 people and conduct interviews Nov. 6-7.
The commission will then submit the names of three on a list for Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to select one.
Allegrucci's retirement is effective Jan. 8.
Fairchild is the chief judge for the Douglas County District Court.
Both he and Coffman were in 2005 among the three finalists for the last vacancy on the state Supreme Court, which was filled by Eric Rosen of Topeka.
In addition to Fairchild and Coffman, the list of applicants includes: William Biles of Shawnee; Glenn Braun of Hays; Katherine Carter of Jameston; Henry Cox of Shawnee; Richard Hathaway of Tecumseh; Judge Stephen Hill of Topeka; Judge Lee Johnson of Topeka; Judge Steve Leben of Fairway; Judge Thomas Malone of Topeka; Timothy Moore of Wichita; John Parisi of Leawood; and Judge Gregory Waller of Wichita.


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Flou – Puzzle Game
Flou - Puzzle Game l Version: 1.0.15 | Size: 33.15MB Developers: Gimku | Language: English
Flou is very simple and addictive puzzle game.
Swipe to cover all the entire board. To ace the levels , you should be able to pairs the diamonds with similar color.
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I have a 2009 Jeep Liberty, the last two weeks the radio has not been working right. and now yesterday i had to get a jump to start the jeep cause the battery was dead. yesterday i took out the fuse in the fuse box to the radio thinking the radio was draining the battery and today i have the same problem my jeep wont start.
Re: problems starting
Did you charge the battery completely after the jumpstart?
If yes, i would first let the battery tested.
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By Toni Momberger
We have a second high school teacher accused of sexual crimes in our community, and people are casting stones at the people running the Redlands Unified School District, saying the administration fails to supervise and turns a blind eye to complaints.
Based on what information has been released about the cases, I’m inclined to cut the people at the top some slack. (It’s worth noting the San Bernardino District Attorney’s offices ruled in both instances that based on the evidence, school employees followed procedure correctly.)
I was getting photos for a sexual molestation story out of my own children’s yearbooks, which, you can imagine, really brought it home.
It also had me emotionally trying on all of the parties’ shoes.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families and the families of the accused. And if Megan Kelly is falsely accused, it breaks for her too. We must remember that she has never been charged or convicted in this case.
But the guilty are the most responsible for their own behavior.
Superintendent Lori Rhodes and her team are very present. They’re at academic events, sporting events and music events in and out of town. They know the students and their families.
They were hired for their ability to work on creative, effective approaches to education, extra-curricular activities and innovation; they are also there to supervise, but to what extent?
They have to trust the teachers to be good stewards of the children of Redlands, just as we parents must trust.
And just like we do when we leave our children at soccer practice, summer camp, Sunday school and Scout meetings.
These accused teachers were both adults, and both from well-known, highly respected families in this small community. In light of these recent allegations, I predict that family ties will never be a factor in future hiring or placing trust in Redlands.
As the editor, I will be working to hold people accountable where it’s due and keeping a dialogue going about how to prevent abuse and support victims.
But it doesn’t escape me that behind the doors of the district offices, people are working on creating graduates who are attractive to good colleges, well rounded in academics, the arts and sports, independent and ready to contribute to projects that will change the future.
This district, the teachers, the students and the parents work hard to bring pride to their schools and this community, and it’s not fair to let all of the achievement be overshadowed by scandal.
Not all towns still have music programs, ROTC and Destination Imagination.
We have them because the district makes them a priority.
I, too, am at the academic awards ceremonies, the choir concerts, the football games, mock trials, Academic Decathlons and band shows.
I have heard Rhodes talk about how the district is getting ahead of the curve preparing children as early as third grade to be comfortable taking tests on computers.
At yoga this week my husband learned from Shad Kirkland, coordinator of information systems and distance learning at RUSD, all about a program the district is working on that will allow students to take under-enrolled courses online, cumulating students from all over the district to reach the required numbers to justify the class.
And I want my district giving its attention to this kind of thing, not baby-sitting staff or doing damage control for something someone else did.
Budget cuts mean the personnel are stretched thin.
Student safety is absolutely a priority, but I am not ready to say micro-supervising employees is in order.
It’s reasonable, with severe legal consequences for sexual abuse, for the superintendent to expect her teachers to follow the law while she goes about the business of keeping quality education in Redlands.
Toni Momberger is the city editor of the Redlands Daily Facts. She can be reached at email@example.com or 909-259-9323.


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|Número de publicación||US4319387 A|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 06/105,252|
|Fecha de publicación||16 Mar 1982|
|Fecha de presentación||19 Dic 1979|
|Fecha de prioridad||21 Dic 1978|
|También publicado como||CA1135946A, CA1135946A1, DE2950808A1, DE2950808C2|
|Número de publicación||06105252, 105252, US 4319387 A, US 4319387A, US-A-4319387, US4319387 A, US4319387A|
|Cesionario original||Yoshida Kogyo, K.K.|
|Exportar cita||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Citas de patentes (7), Citada por (12), Clasificaciones (16), Eventos legales (1)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to slide fasteners and move particularly to a slide fastener stringer including a stringer tape and a series of fastener coupling elements sewn to the tape along its one longitudinal edge by utilizing a multi-thread chain stitch or "double locked stitch".
2. Prior Art
In sewing a series of fastener coupling elements to a stringer tape for a slide fastener, one of the most widely used stitch types is a multi-thread chain stitch or "double locked stitch", which is formed with two or more sewing threads, i.e. needle and looper threads. It has been customary to use spun or multifilament yarn as both of the needle and looper threads, because such non-monofilament yarns are flexible and less stretchable and hence enable the fastener elements to be sewn to the tape tightly on a high-speed sewing machine without breakage of a sewing needle.
A common problem encountered with such a prior slide fastener stringer is that, because the material and fabric structure of the modern stringer tape are usually of the type having less frictional resistance, the needle thread is liable to become loose from its cut end portions which have been cut as the fastener stringer of a continuous length has been severed into a slide fastener length. With this arrangement, when the opposite stringer tapes are laterally pulled at their one end in opposite directions during threading of a pair of the interengaged fastener stringers through a slider, the extreme one or two or even more of the fastener elements on each tape would be easily displaced. Consequently, it would be difficult or sometimes impossible to mount the slider onto the interengaged fastener stringers.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,783,476 discloses a slide fastener stringer having a row of fastener elements secured to a stringer tape by means of a single-needle double locked stitch formed with needle and looper threads, of which only the needle thread includes a monofilament yarn. The needle thread is disposed on the fastener element side of the slide fastener stringer, and therefore, the stitching must be done from that side. This requires a specially designed guide to support the slide fastener stringer such that the surface of the stringer tape on which the fastener elements are to be attached faces upward during the sewing operation. With this arrangement, a sufficient degree of tightness of the stitching is difficult to achieve.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,768,125 discloses another slide fastener stringer having a row of fastener elements secured to a stringer tape by means of a single-needle double locked stitch formed with needle and looper threads each consisting of a monofilament yarn. Not only because monofilament yarns have rigidity by nature, but also because loops of such monofilamentary looper thread extends across and over the fastener elements, a sufficient degree of flexibility of the slide fastener stringer is difficult to achieve.
FIG. 7 of the accompanying drawings illustrates, in transverse cross section, a fragment of a pair of interengaged slide fastener stringers 50,51 of the prior art in which a pair of rows of coupling elements 52,53 are attached to a pair of stringer tapes 54,55, respectively, by use of a single needle double locked stitch but with an insufficient degree of tightness. Assuming that the fastener stringer 50,51 are sharply bent in the longitudinal direction such that the top surface (undersurface in this Figure) of the tape 54,55 on which the coupling elements 52,53 are attached becomes concave, the tape edges with the sewing stitches 57,57 are displaced from the normal position toward respective connecting portions 58,58 of the opposed coupling elements 52,52, i.e. from the phantom line position to the solid line position. Therefore, the prior slide fastener stringers 50,51 would often accidentally split open when they are bent.
According to the present invention, sewing stitches securing fastener elements to a stringer tape are formed with a needle thread and a looper thread. The needle thread has loops each passing through the tape from the underside thereof and extending in between adjacent two of the fastener elements, while the looper thread has loops extending across and over the fastener elements on the top surface of the tape. The needle thread is interlaced and interlooped with the loops of the looper thread. The needle thread includes a monofilament yarn having a coefficient of thermal contraction, and the looper thread includes a non-monofilament yarn. The needle thread, after sewn to the tape, has been heat-set to shrink and then become dimensionally stable, whereby the needle thread as well as the looper thread can be kept from becoming loose even at their cut end portions. This prevents the fastener elements from being displaced on the tape at the end of the element row from which a slider is threaded.
According to a second embodiment, the slide fastener stringer has a nonskid means formed on the fastener elements for preventing the latter from slipping on the stringer tape.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a slide fastener stringer which enables smooth threading of a slider.
Another object of the invention is to provide a slide fastener stringer which is free from accidentally splitting apart from a companion stringer when the coupled stringers are bent in either direction.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a slide fastener stringer which can be manufactured less costly.
Many other advantages, features and additional objects of the present invention will become manifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to the detailed description and the accompanying drawings in which preferred structural embodiments incorporating the principles of the present invention are shown by way of example.
FIG. 1 is a fragmentary top plan view of a pair of slide fastener stringers embodying the present invention, with a fragment of a slider indicated by phantom lines;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along section line II--II of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along section line III--III of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along section line IV-IF of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the manner in which the interengaged pair of slide fastener stringers is threaded through a slider;
FIG. 7 is a fragmentary transverse cross-sectional view of a conventional slide fastener as it is being bent;
FIGS. 8 and 9 are transverse cross-sectional views similar to FIG. 2 but showing second and third embodiments, respectively; and
FIGS. 10(a), 10(b), 10(c) and 10(d) are cross section views of needle threads and illustrates the cross-sectional shape of each of various needle threads.
The principles of the present invention are particularly useful when embodied in a slide fastener assembly (hereinafter referred to as "slide fastener") such as shown in FIGS. 1-4, generally indicated by the numeral 11.
The slide fastener 11 comprises a pair of fastener stringers 12,13 including a pair of stringer tapes 14,15, respectively, each supporting on and along its one longitudinal edge a series of fastener elements or convolutions 16 in the form of a continuous filamentary coil made of a thermoplastic synthetic resin. Each series of coupling elements 16 is secured to the tape 14,15 by means of sewing stitches. The stitch type of the sewing stitches is a multi-thread chain stitch or "double locked stitch", which is formed with a needle thread 17 and a looper thread 18. Each of the coupling elements 16 has a pair of spaced upper and lower legs 19,20, and a coupling head 21 extending therebetween. The lower leg 20 of each element lies on the top surface 23 (FIGS. 2 and 3) of the stringer tape 14,15 and is connected to the upper leg 19 of a preceding or succeeding one of the elements 16 by a connecting portion 22, the upper element leg 19 being spaced apart from the same tape surface 23. A core 24 in the form of a textile cord extends longitudinally through the series of coupling elements 16 and is held by the sewing stitches against the connecting portions 22 in the interior of the coupling elements 16.
The needle thread 17 includes a monofilament yarn made of a synthetic resin such a nylon and having a coefficient of thermal contraction (preferably a large coefficient of thermal contraction). The looper thread 18 includes a non-monofilament yarn, i.e. a multifilament or spun yarn, which is made of a synthetic resin such as polyester.
As shown in FIG. 3, the needle thread 17 has loops 25 each passing through the tape 14,15 from the underside thereof and extending in between adjacent two of the fastener elements 16. The looper thread 18 has loops 26 extending across and over every one of the upper legs 19. The loops 25 of the needle thread 17 are interlaced and interlooped with the loops 26 of the looper thread 18 such that the interlacings and interloopings 27 are disposed between adjacent upper element legs 19.
After sewing of the fastener elements 16 to the stringer tape 14,15 as described above, the needle thread 17, which consists of a monofilament yarn having a coefficient of thermal contraction, has been heat-set by applying a heated medium, for instance, during a dyeing process discussed below. At that time, because of its coefficient of thermal contraction, the needle thread 17 shrinks to bring the interlacings and interloopsings 27 toward the surface 23 of the tape 14,15, causing the looper thread 18 to extend around every one of the upper element legs 19 with an increased degree of tightness, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. Meanwhile, the tape 14,15 is held by the tightened needle thread 17 against the lower legs 20 of the fastener elements 16 so that the individual lower element legs 20 are slightly depressed in the top surface 23 (FIGS. 3 and 4) and hence can be kept from being displaced in a longitudinal direction of the element row.
As a result of the heat-setting, the needle thread 17 becomes dimensionally stable; that is, the bent configurations 28,29 (FIGS. 3 and 4) of the needle thread 17 are maintained against further dimensional change, thereby preventing the needle thread 17 as well as the looper thread 18 from becoming loose at the cut end portions 30,31 of the slide fastener stringers 12,13, respectively.
More specifically, in case the needle thread 17 has been cut such that its cut end 32 point upward (FIG. 3), the needle thread 17 would not become loose because of the bent configuration 28 which is kept stable. And the loops 26 of the looper thread 18 would not become loose because of the bent configuration 29 (loop 25) of the needle thread 17. In case the needle thread 17 has been cut such that its cut end 33 point downward (FIG. 4), the looper thread 18 is held at its cut end portion by the extreme needle thread loop 25 of which the bent configuration 29 would not change. Accordingly, the extreme one or two of the fastener elements 16 can be nicely prevented from being separated apart from the tape 14,15, no matter where the cut of the slide fastener stringer 12,13 is located.
The interengaged slide fastener stringers thus constructed can be threaded through a slider 34 (FIGS. 5 and 6) from its rear end mouth 35 with maximum ease. In such threading, the interengaged slide fastener stringers 12,13 are inserted into the slider 34 from the rear end mouth 35 thereof until the leading end of the interengaged rows of fastener elements 16 reaches just in front of a slider neck 36, as shown in FIG. 5. At that time, the opposed stringer tapes 14,15 are supported at their respective leading ends by the fingers. Then, the opposed stringer tapes 14,15 are pulled in the directions indicated by arrows 37,38 (FIG. 5), respectively, to disengage the mating of the opposed rows of fastener elements 16 at their leading end portions, as shown in FIG. 6. Subsequently, the opposed stringer tapes 14,15 are pulled beyond the front end 41 of the slider 34 in the directions of arrows 39,40, respectively. Thus, the mounting of the slider 34 onto the interengaged slide fastener stringers 12,13 has been completed. During this threading operation, the extreme one or two of the fastener elements 16 on each tape 14,15 would be kept stable in position even when relatively great pulling forces (37,38) act on the opposed stringer tapes 14,15.
In order to keep the individual fastener elements 16 from being displaced especially laterally on the tape 14,15, the fastener elements 16 may be provided with a nonskid means such as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9.
According to an embodiment of FIG. 8, the lower leg 20 of each fastener element 16 has a corrugated surface 40 which is in contact with the tape surface 23.
According to an embodiment of FIG. 9, the lower leg 20 of each fastener element 16 has a roughened surface 41 which touches the tape surface 23. The roughened surfaces 41 may be formed by heat-setting, for instance, by applying a heated medium. Such heat-setting is discussed in my commonly assigned U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 8,102, filed Jan. 31, 1979. In this embodiment, the stringer tape 14,15 has a warp-knitted structure having on its underside a plurality of laterally spaced wales 42 and hence interwale grooves 43, and the needle thread 17 is received in one of the interwale grooves 43 and is kept stable.
To obtain an increased degree of functional resistance, the needle thread 17 may be of a noncircular cross section, such as ellipse (a), triangle (b), square (c) or rectangle (d) (FIG. 10).
In any one of the embodiments described above, the needle thread 17 is disposed on the tape side of the slide fastener stringer 12,13, while the looper thread 18 is disposed on the fastener element side. With such an arrangement, the slide fastener stringer can be guided in such a manner that the surface 23 of the stringer tape 14,15 on which the fastener elements 16 are to be attached faces downwardly during sewing operation, requiring no specially designed guide means and hence no expensive and complicated sewing machine.
Although various minor modifications may be suggested by those versed in the art, it should be understood that I wish to embody within the scope of the patent warranted hereon, all such embodiments as reasonably and properly come within the scope of my contribution to the art.
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|US3487531 *||9 Nov 1967||6 Ene 1970||Scovill Manufacturing Co||Method of making slide fastener stringers|
|US3750605 *||4 Ago 1971||7 Ago 1973||Textron Ltd||Sliding clasp fasteners|
|US3820202 *||15 Jun 1972||28 Jun 1974||Yoshida Kogyo Kk||Slider operated zip fasteners|
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|US4060886 *||14 Jun 1976||6 Dic 1977||Textron Inc.||Method and apparatus for manufacture of slide fastener stringer|
|US4134185 *||28 Sep 1977||16 Ene 1979||Optilon W. Erich Heilmann Gmbh||Warp-knit slide-fastener stringer half and method of making same|
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|US6497015 *||25 Jul 2000||24 Dic 2002||Ykk Corporation||Linear slide fastener|
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|Clasificación europea||A44B19/40C, A44B19/12, D05B93/00, D05B3/18|
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The Week in Review: Home News
Saturday 18 July 1992
As a backbencher he will take a substantial pay cut, lose his car and staff and may find the 38 per cent rise in allowances that MPs voted themselves, despite ministerial opposition, extremely useful.
A further inquiry to discover if we are paying too much for our CDs by the Office of Fair Trading is to begin shortly, drawing an angry reaction from the British Phonographic Industry, which said it earned valuable foreign revenue and lamented that the success appeared misunderstood at home.
A Serbian boy of 16 fled his home in Pje, in the Kosovo region, and was found wandering on the quay on Tyneside after hitch-hiking across Europe without a passport and stowing-away on a North Sea ferry.
Ganesh Sittampalam, Britain's youngest graduate who obtained his maths degree at 13 after attending university for just one day a week, showed an equally adventurous spirit when he ran the Sun newspaper for a day, upbraiding hacks and editors.
Motor racing fans also came in for some severe criticism after they invaded the track at Silverstone following Nigel Mansell's victory in the British Grand Prix to overtake Jackie Stewart's record of 27 Grand Prix wins.
Drivers of rather slower cars that attract the attentions of private wheel clampers may stand a better chance in future. The Government says that the 'cowboy clampers' may be committing the criminal offence of demanding money with menaces and is urgently examining what can be done to curb their excesses.
Ultimately, travelling by rail may be a safer bet following the Government's long-awaited announcement that the network is to be privatised. The hope is that it will increase efficiency and offer greater choice to the passenger when the services are split into 30 or 40 franchises, some to be sold to the private sector in 1994.
Another institution which the Government has shown a marked reluctance to support financially is London Zoo, which might still have to close despite the gift of pounds 1m by the Emir of Kuwait, again throwing the lives of many of the specimens into doubt.
And finally. After a break of more than five years, ITN is to restore its winsome 'and finally' endpiece to round off News at Ten. So does this mean endless footage of sunbathing rabbits floating in jacuzzis? A spokesman attempted to reassure: 'We won't necessarily be concentrating on skateboarding ducks . . '
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The more I see of the world the more it strikes me that people want more science, rather than less, and that they want to use it in odd ways: to abrogate responsibility, validate a hunch, or render a political or cultural prejudice in deceptively objective terms.
As long as you cherry pick the data and keep one eye half closed, you can prove anything with science.
Last week’s Independent on Sunday splashed with the headline: Cannabis – An Apology. It went on: “In 1997 this newspaper launched a campaign to decriminalise the drug. If only we had known then what we can reveal today record numbers of teenagers are requiring drug treatment as a result of smoking skunk, the highly potent cannabis strain that is 25 times stronger than resin sold a decade ago.”
Twice in this story cannabis is said to be 25 times stronger than it was a decade ago. For Rosie Boycott, in her melodramatic recantation, skunk is “30 times stronger”. In one inside feature the strength issue is briefly downgraded to a “can”. It’s even referenced. “The Forensic Science Service says that in the early nineties cannabis would contain around 1% tetrahydrocannabidinol (THC), the mind-altering compound, but can now have up to 25%.”
Well I’ve got the Forensic Science Service data right here, and the earlier data from the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, the UN Drug Control Programme, and the EU’s Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. I think that people are well able to make their own minds up when given true facts.
The LGC data on mean potency goes from 1975 to 1989. Resin pootles around between 6% and 10% THC, herbal between 4% and 6%, with no clear trend. The Forensic Science Service data takes over to produce more modern figures, showing not much change in resin, and domestically produced indoor herbal cannabis doubling in strength to between 12% and 14%.
The rising trend of cannabis potency is gradual, and driven largely by the increased availability of intensively UK grown indoor herbal cannabis. You could argue that intensive indoor cultivation of a plant that is easy to cultivate outdoors is the cannabis industry’s reaction to illegality. It is dangerous to import in large amounts, dangerous to be caught growing a field of it. So perhaps it makes more sense to grow it intensively indoors, producing a more concentrated product. There is little incentive to produce a perversely strong skunk product for the mass market, since most people tend not to pay any more for unusually strong skunk.
There is exceptionally strong cannabis to be found in some parts of the UK market today: but there always has been. The UN Drug Control Programme has detailed vintage data for the UK online. In 1975 the LGC analysed 50 seized samples of herbal cannabis: 10 were from Thailand, with an average potency of 7.8%, the highest 17%. In 1975 they analysed 11 samples of seized resin, six from Morocco, average strength 9%, with a range from 4% to 16%.
To get their scare figure, the Independent compared the worst cannabis from the past with the best cannabis of today. But you could have cooked the books the same way 30 years ago: in 1975 the weakest herbal cannabis analysed was 0.2%; in 1978 the strongest was 12%. Oh my god: in just three years herbal cannabis has become 60 times stronger. This scare isn’t new. In the US, in the mid 1980s, during Reagan’s “war on drugs”, it was claimed that cannabis was 14 times stronger than in 1970.
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NEW BRITAIN -- — When the court docket reads "Jorge Hernandez" and two brothers, both named Jorge Hernandez, step forward before the judge, what's the logical question to ask?
"Will the real Jorge Hernandez please stand up."
That's one thing Judge Howard Scheinblum said Tuesday as he and others tried to figure out whether it was Jorge E. or Jorge A. Hernandez who got arrested Sunday in New Britain on motor vehicle and other minor charges.
"You're brothers? And you're both named Jorge? How original," said the judge to the men, both in their mid-20s. "Who's on first?"
The brothers spoke through a Spanish interpreter in court but were not able to shed enough light on the mystery to clear it up.
As near as prosecutor Mary Rose Flaherty could determine, one brother has a suspended license and can't legally drive. The other brother has no license.
"Did you give your brother's name, your brother's initial, when police stopped you," Flaherty asked Jorge E. Hernandez. There was no answer.
"What is this? Some kind of joke?" Scheinblum asked.
Exasperated by the confusion, the judge asked for a check of the brothers' motor vehicle records. But it didn't help much. So he set the case down for trial on Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. and told both brothers to appear. He also asked for the arresting officer and a motor vehicle inspector to be present that day.
"This court will not be the butt of any jokes," the judge said.


There seems to be more sparkling wine at Cannes than sparkling performances this year, but there are some gems worth the Palme D'Or, or at least the effort to leave the party by the Med and head into a theatre.
After watching Natalie Imbruglia perform at the Replay Jeans party last night in front of the likes of Paris Hilton and co, I went to bed early (1am) and contemplated just how much rosé win is consumed over this festival. Think the phrase ‘like a sea of wine’ might be apt. I’ve done a few gallons myself. But that is part of the whole shebang. Meeting, greeting, letting people know you’re still alive – although too many of these festivals might just test my mettle.
Catching films comes first, though there haven’t been too many films to rave about this year. Yesterday, I did see a few pictures that must win something.
The excellent Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois, tells the story of a gang of monks ensconced in a monastery atop a mountain in Maghreb who live in harmony with their Muslim counterparts despite the ever-growing violence that surrounds the region. It’s strongly tipped for the top award.
Poetry, by Korean director Lee Chang Dong, is also a cracker that tells the tale of an elegantly dressed sixty-something, Mija (beautifully realised by Yun Junghee), who takes up poetry and whose optimism and courage is juxtaposed against the cruel world in which we live. Intelligent, funny and delightfully observed, it is a joy.
Maybe the prize for the most violent and amoral flick must go to Takeshi Kitano who, with Outrage, goes back to his roots with another dyed-in-the-wool Yakuza picture that might be his best in a decade.
Outrage opens with a time-honoured Japanese banquet hosted by the Sanno-kai mob. Minor boss Kato (Tomokazu Miura) berates Ikemoto (Jun Kunimura), the boss of an offshoot outfit, for being too friendly with the less prestigious Murase Mob. This seemingly small conversation subsequently triggers off a series of vendettas and convoluted double crosses that provoke much traditional cutting-off of fingers, gangland executions and a rather harrowing scene in a dentist’s chair robbed from Marathon Man – all of which give the director ample opportunity to wow us with his bone dry sense of humour.
Of course, Takeshi stars, and when asked at the press conference why he always features in his own films, said in his gruff downtown Tokyo growl, “If I put a famous actor in to play a part, then the film is not about me any more, as the audience will look at him and not my work. I want all the credit.”


Sunday, April 20, 2008
REVIEW: Tara Tinsley - Sail Away
Tara Tinsley – Sail Away
2007, Tara Tinsley
Tara Tinsley went all the way to Japan to record here second album, Sail Away. The result is a nuanced collection of folk & rock tunes about love and heartache. Dancing back and forth between the painfully honest vibe of Jewel and the gritty determination of Emm Gryner, Tara Tinsley has crafted an album full of highs and lows and some great songs.
Don’t Tell Me is perhaps the best song on the album (for this reviewer). Other highlights include More Than I Should, Where To, Controlling Me, Just Because and Roommate. These songs display just a bit of a punk attitude. These songs are concise and convey their message in a tight musical package that is fun to listen to. Some of the more vulnerable songs (More Than I Should, Sail Away, When You Leave Me) sound a little young too me. They convey the feelings of loss and regret in love that we have all felt, but have yet to acquire the distance and narrative that capture a listener’s empathy.
So what we have here is a worthy effort from a songwriter who, at 23, is still learning her trade (and learning it well, I might add). Ms. Tinsley is a very capable songwriter who has produced some great folk-rock songs on Sail Away. Her voice is perfect for the material she has written, and her backing band is more than proficient. She reminds me quite a bit of another Indie folk-rocker by the name of Jess Klein.
Any problems with this recording are not a matter of talent or production, but of maturity. This recording is uneven in the same way that Jewel’s first release, Pieces of You was uneven. Both recordings balance great folk-rock songs that we are perhaps a little young in their perspective and are therefore given to an emotionally honest but immature perspective that is more interesting to the person feeling it than the person hearing about it.
Given the talent of Ms. Tinsley for writing songs, this issue will take care of itself over time. This is a worthy effort, and should be a great stepping stone on her way to the Rolling Stone cover she so very much desires. This is an opportunity to watch a young singer-songwriter with great talent develop into a great artist. Don’t miss her on the way up.
Rating: 3.5 Stars (Out of 5)
You can check out Tara Tinsley at www.TaraTinsley.com, where you can purchase a copy of Sail Away. She also has a presence on My Space.


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Rate hikes for parking downtown are on the city council's calendar to be approved next week.
It's a move to raise revenue for the City of Rochester.
But, News10NBC learned there are a lot of parking fees that the city has failed to collect.
"It's kind of like a cash grab, like they're trying to just get the money from somewhere and I think it's the wrong place," said Christopher Wilke, a Rochester resident.
You take a quick poll downtown and you'll find a majority feel slighted by the plan to raise parking prices.
"Obviously, 50-cents or a dollar isn't going to make a big deal all the time, but it adds up," said Kelly Cheatle who works in downtown Rochester.
The city's original plan to extend parking meter hours would have raised about $225,000 in additional revenue.
The 50-cent hourly increase that will be voted on next week is projected to bring in about $300,000 annually.
Chief of staff for the City of Rochester Alex Yudelson explained, "In the grand scheme of a $47- million budget gap, that's not a huge difference or huge amount, but there's a lot of things we had to do in order to balance our budget."
But, News10NBC learned parking tickets add up to big bucks for the city.
In 2016, the last year we have the full data for, the city handed out over $5.5 million in parking tickets and fees.
"It doesn't seem like a good idea to promote your city and have people that want to come from the suburbs and the outer lying areas only to try and find places to park, to end up with a parking ticket," added Wilke.
The problem is, how many of those fines and fees go unpaid?
In 2016, the city lost out on about $1.5 million in unpaid parking tickets.
The biggest offender owes $3,600 in fines and over 100 people have a tab of over $1,000 in unpaid tickets.
And it's not a small problem. Thirty-five thousand vehicles currently owe money in overdue parking tickets.
The total over the past four years, over $5 million uncollected.
That could offset the 50-cent meter increase for the next 18 years. Instead, residents like Wilke are forced to pick up the tab.
A frustrated Wilke added, "This isn't right. You're putting this burden on people. That's not really fair."
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So Marvel Now, last seen give years ago, is coming back, because, as Morrisey reminds us, it’s always now. I’ll have to do a round-up of what we’ve seen so far but it’s all pretty cryptic. A primer arrives on July 13th with all the bean spilling. This promo features the original bro Thor on one side and Miles Morales Spiderman on the other. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
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How mighty is Alabama? Well, even a season of stops and starts, of postponements and cancellations, of false positives and contact tracing … even this most irregular of seasons has been forced to acknowledge the inevitable. King Crimson again heads to the College Football Playoff as the team to beat and, for all the strange doings of the past four months, we’ve seen nothing that would be as strange as the sight of Nick Saban’s men losing.
COVID-19 has skewed everything in our world, sports included. We’ll never know for sure what would have happened had the Big Ten and Pac-12 worked full schedules, had Jaime Newman and Ja’Marr Chase not opted out, had Trevor Lawrence not tested positive. Here’s what we do know: Alabama in 2020 played 11 games against SEC competition, something without precedent, and only on the 11th try did an opponent come within 15 points.
Such was Florida’s lot Saturday night in Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Gators scored four second-half touchdowns. They finished with 462 yards. And yet: They never led. Only once did they run a play on which they were closer than seven points, and that play was the game’s last. It wound up with Kyle Trask, who threw for 408 yards, being sacked. Final score: Alabama 52, Florida 46.
“It was probably good for us to be in a dogfight,” Saban told CBS viewers afterward, even though it was clear throughout who was the lead dog. By the time Florida really got going, the game was all but gone.
We can’t say the Crimson Tide caught a scheduling break. As ever, they faced their six SEC West brethren, but – due to pandemic-driven slate-rearrangement – they also saw the teams that finished second, third, fourth and fifth in the East. On Saturday night, Bama ran into the East winner. In the SEC championship, Florida was, as everyone else has been, a runner-up to Alabama.
The Gators spent their halftime break Saturday contemplating what they’d just done. They’d scored on three of their first four possessions. They’d forced a turnover. And yet: They trailed by 18 points, having been outgained 336 yards to 213, having yielded four touchdowns to Najee Harris, the tailback who might finish third in the Heisman voting if Heisman electors could choose only among Tide players.
Harris would add a fifth in the fourth quarter. He rushed for 178 yards; he had 67 more receiving. He was the best player on the field, but only just. The great receiver DeVonta Smith caught 15 passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns, his second being the clincher; he also recovered a fumble and covered an onside kick. And quarterback Mac Jones? He passed for 418 yards and five touchdowns. In all seriousness, that could be your Heisman podium right there.
SEC coaches entered the season doubting that any team could navigate an all-SEC schedule without tripping. Ten games, all against teams that call the conference where It Just Means More home. Every team except South Carolina and Vanderbilt took a swing at Bama. The Tide scored 38 points in its opener against Missouri. That would be their seasonal low. They broke 50 seven times.
For all the great teams Saban has had, this is the most exhilarating. Even with the quicksilver Jaylen Waddle lost in midseason to an ankle injury, this offense – under coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who washed out as Kyle Shanahan’s replacement with the Falcons – has been an astonishment. (And yes, we have vivid recall of how sleek LSU and Joe Burrow were last year.)
Saban said in midseason that stalwart defenses no longer win championships, and for him that marked a difficult concession. But the guy who has won multiple national championships with such defenses had, yet again, stayed ahead of the game. It’s now possible to score big against the Tide – Mississippi, which finished under .500, put up 48 points – but nobody this season has outscored them.
Alabama’s next stop will be in New Orleans on New Year’s Day for the CFP semifinal. The Tide will be seeded No. 1, and they’ll probably face Clemson again for the title. Those two have become epic rivals, the collegiate equivalent of Wilt versus Russell or Brady versus Peyton. It might take 60 points to win such a final.
Said Saban: “I’m really proud of our team for how they’ve competed all season. ... To win 11 games is pretty phenomenal.”
By Saban’s exalted standards, being pretty phenomenal is itself pretty phenomenal. But this was an Alabama team in Year 1 after Tua Tagovailoa, in what was for Bama a year of redemption. (The Tide spent New Year’s Day in the Citrus Bowl.) And this, as we can never forget, was the COVID year. Saban himself tested positive twice – once before the Georgia game, again the week of the Iron Bowl. And still: 11-0, with nary a directional school on the schedule.
Saban again: “I really love this team.”
When you win as big for as long as Alabama has, it’s impossible to be seen as a cuddly underdog. But there is about this team a likeability that previous editions haven’t had. Mac Jones wasn’t a huge recruit. This time 13 months ago, DeVonta Smith was considered the Tide’s fourth-best receiver. Najee Harris was rated a good back, but not a Heisman candidate on the order of Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry.
But this new Big Three has grown into one of the Biggest Threes ever seen on a college campus, and this Alabama team has done something none of its predecessors had to do. It worked 11 games against SEC-level competition. It went 11-0. Pretty phenomenal.


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- Visualizing GroEL/ES in the Act of Encapsulating a Folding Protein
Cell, Volume 153, Issue 6, 6 June 2013, Pages 1354-1365
Dong-Hua Chen, Damian Madan, Jeremy Weaver, Zong Lin, Gunnar F. Schröder, Wah Chiu and Hays S. Rye
SummaryThe GroEL/ES chaperonin system is required for the assisted folding of many proteins. How these substrate proteins are encapsulated within the GroEL-GroES cavity is poorly understood. Using symmetry-free, single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, we have characterized a chemically modified mutant of GroEL (EL43Py) that is trapped at a normally transient stage of substrate protein encapsulation. We show that the symmetric pattern of the GroEL subunits is broken as the GroEL cis-ring apical domains reorient to accommodate the simultaneous binding of GroES and an incompletely folded substrate protein (RuBisCO). The collapsed RuBisCO folding intermediate binds to the lower segment of two apical domains, as well as to the normally unstructured GroEL C-terminal tails. A comparative structural analysis suggests that the allosteric transitions leading to substrate protein release and folding involve concerted shifts of GroES and the GroEL apical domains and C-terminal tails.
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- GroEL/GroES-Mediated Folding of a Protein Too Large to Be Encapsulated
Cell, Volume 107, Issue 2, 19 October 2001, Pages 235-246
Tapan K. Chaudhuri, George W. Farr, Wayne A. Fenton, Sabine Rospert and Arthur L. Horwich
SummaryThe chaperonin GroEL binds nonnative proteins too large to fit inside the productive GroEL-GroES cis cavity, but whether and how it assists their folding has remained unanswered. We have examined yeast mitochondrial aconitase, an 82 kDa monomeric Fe4S4 cluster-containing enzyme, observed to aggregate in chaperonin-deficient mitochondria. We observed that aconitase folding both in vivo and in vitro requires both GroEL and GroES, and proceeds via multiple rounds of binding and release. Unlike the folding of smaller substrates, however, this mechanism does not involve cis encapsulation but, rather, requires GroES binding to the trans ring to release nonnative substrate, which likely folds in solution. Following the phase of ATP/GroES-dependent refolding, GroEL stably bound apoaconitase, releasing active holoenzyme upon Fe4S4 cofactor formation, independent of ATP and GroES.
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- Asymmetry of the GroEL-GroES Complex under Physiological Conditions as Revealed by Small-Angle X-Ray...
Biophysical Journal, Volume 94, Issue 4, 15 February 2008, Pages 1392-1402
Tomonao Inobe, Kazunobu Takahashi, Kosuke Maki, Sawako Enoki, Kiyoto Kamagata, Akio Kadooka, Munehito Arai and Kunihiro Kuwajima
AbstractDespite the well-known functional importance of GroEL-GroES complex formation during the chaperonin cycle, the stoichiometry of the complex has not been clarified. The complex can occur either as an asymmetric 1:1 GroEL-GroES complex or as a symmetric 1:2 GroEL-GroES complex, although it remains uncertain which type is predominant under physiological conditions. To resolve this question, we studied the structure of the GroEL-GroES complex under physiological conditions by small-angle x-ray scattering, which is a powerful technique to directly observe the structure of the protein complex in solution. We evaluated molecular structural parameters, the radius of gyration and the maximum dimension of the complex, from the x-ray scattering patterns under various nucleotide conditions (3mM ADP, 3mM ATPγS, and 3mM ATP in 10mM MgCl2 and 100mM KCl) at three different temperatures (10°C, 25°C, and 37°C). We then compared the experimentally observed scattering patterns with those calculated from the known x-ray crystallographic structures of the GroEL-GroES complex. The results clearly demonstrated that the asymmetric complex must be the major species stably present in solution under physiological conditions. On the other hand, in the presence of ATP (3mM) and beryllium fluoride (10mM NaF and 300μM BeCl2), we observed the formation of a stable symmetric complex, suggesting the existence of a transiently formed symmetric complex during the chaperonin cycle.
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- The chaperonin GroEL is a double toriodal assembly that with its cochaperonin GroES facilitates protein folding with an ATP-dependent mechanism. Nonnative conformations of diverse protein substrates bind to the apical domains surrounding the opening of the double toroid's central cavity. Using phage display, we have selected peptides with high affinity for the isolated apical domain. We have determined the crystal structures of the complexes formed by the most strongly bound peptide with the isolated apical domain, and with GroEL. The peptide interacts with the groove between paired α helices in a manner similar to that of the GroES mobile loop. Our structural analysis, combined with other results, suggests that various modes of molecular plasticity are responsible for tight promiscuous binding of nonnative substrates and their release into the shielded cis assembly.

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Hi I’m Sarah!
I started paddling this year and I fell in love with this wonderful sport, joined a club, upgraded my board (twice!) and fell head over heals for everything SUP.💙
As it gets colder, I found it increasingly challenging to find kit in women’s sizes. Most brands only go up to a Women’s UK16 and as a UK size 18, barely plus size, I’m excluded from purchasing from the leading brands. It turns out, that’s a challenge that lots of women are facing, based on the messages I’ve received!
Paddle boarding is a wonderful sport, one which has been beneficial for both mental & physical health. The community has been nothing but welcoming and inclusive and I feel strongly that the kit should reflect that so I started campaigning for change.
That’s when #PaddleKitHerWay was born – calling for manufacturers to improve their sizing so more women can enjoy the sport. I’m also passionate about challenging other societies norms because we can be strong and healthy regardless of our size. SUP has shown me that finding a sport you love, means you can enjoy exercise for no other reason than you absolutely love it – your body doesn’t need to be changed!
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Everything paddle boarding from kit to skills but much more. I’ll be sharing about my mental health, body confidence and other women’s stories after all ‘We rise by lifting others’! Let me know what you think and I can’t wait to meet you all!


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