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Enjoying An Active Lifestyle With Arthritis
As we celebrate Arthritis Awareness Month, we recognize that arthritis is one of the most commonly treated conditions at Arrow Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation. We use a variety of expert techniques to assist those who suffer the symptoms and side effects of arthritis.
Despite common belief, arthritis is not just a disease of old age. In fact, two-thirds of people with arthritis are under the age of 65, including 300,000 children. This makes arthritis the leading cause of disability in the United States.
There are some important lifestyle steps you can take to prevent, limit or alleviate symptoms of arthritis including maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly.
Common forms of arthritis are aggravated by obesity. Consider that every one-pound of weight loss results in four pounds of pressure taken off each knee. That’s significant relief, not to mention the other positive health benefits of losing extra weight.
Additionally, it is important to know that exercise is a cornerstone in the treatment of osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis. Walking, swimming, biking, yoga and stretching are good choices for exercise.
“I know from personal experience that by performing specific stretches, manual therapy techniques and exercise we have helped individuals delay a joint replacement for years,” said Arrow Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Owner and CEO Amit Gaglani, PT, OCS, CSCS. “In some cases that are not severe we have been able to get patients back to sports. These same patients came in feeling debilitated by their arthritis and thought they would never be active again.”
The benefits of exercise include:
- Less pain and stiffness
- Increased joint strength and range of motion
- Improved function and ability to do activities
- Potential delay in disease progression
- Increased muscle strength around joints to support and stabilize
Finally, exercise that increases your heart and breathing releases brain chemicals that reduce pain and create good feelings while helping to make or keep you fit.
For more information on an appropriate exercise routine for your arthritis, feel free to call us: (732) 494-0895

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Sunday, October 2, 2011
2011 October Horror Movie Challenge Movie 2: Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers
I don't know how many of you have heard of Asylum. They're a small moviemaking company, headed by a guy named Leigh Scott, and they release independent movies, but they've gained particular notoriety in recent years for releasing films people have dubbed "mockbusters." See, Asylum's films tend to be released direct to video at times that coincide with big-budget major studio films that have similar titles and budgets. For instance, around the time Rob Zombie's "Halloween" remake was making publicity, Asylum released a movie called "Halloween Night." When "Transformers" was in theaters, Asylum released a direct to DVD movie called "Transmorphers." You get the idea. These movies are often reviled not only for being ripoffs of major studio films but also for being pretty terrible. I've only seen two Asylum movies thus far, "Paranormal Entity" which was released while "Paranormal Activity" was making the rounds, and "Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers" (not at all to be confused with "The Exorcism of Emily Rose") and from that limited experience, I can tell you that I enjoyed both flicks. I'm not saying that they're great cinematic achievements or anything, but they've been entertaining and painless fun to watch.
"Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers" has some problems. The acting from some of the central players leaves much to be desired (see if you can keep a straight face while Rambo the blind Priest is giving his monologues) but the movie hits a lot of the right notes. Gail is a likable character, and I felt bad for her watching her succomb slowly to demonic forces. The woman who plays Gail's sister also gives a good performance. The special effects aren't very special, but the makeup is creepy and Gail's demon voice is effective as she screams and wails in anger and terror (though I often couldn't tell what the hell she was supposed to be saying because her voice is so distorted that a lot of her dialogue is unintelligible). I'm not saying this is a great film, but if you're a fan of satanic/demonic possession movies, you might want to give it a watch.

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Excellent condition Taurus Millenium PT111 G2 chambered in 9mm. Minor wear on high spots near muzzle. A lightweight, compact carry pistol, the G2 features a compact accessory rail, restrike capability, loaded chamber indicator, manual safety, and 3 dot white sights. Comes with two 12RD magazines, and manual.


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Dr. Augusto Ochoa, director of the LSU Health Sciences Center Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, has been named the inaugural recipient of the $1 million Al Copeland/Cancer Crusaders Chair in Neuroendocrine Cancer.
Ochoa, 57, joined LSU as a pediatric resident in 1997. He began and leads the school’s cancer immunology program. Ochoa is also a professor of pediatrics, an adjunct associate professor of biochemistry and a practicing physician in the field of allergy and immunology.
Dr. Steve Nelson, dean of the medical school, said LSU recruited Ochoa from the National Cancer Institute, where he led the immunotherapy laboratory. In a written statement issued by the school, Nelson described Ochoa as “a preeminent scientist whose contributions include discovering signature changes in the immune system that indicate cancer has blocked the body’s protective immune response allowing it to grow and spread.”
Copeland, a flamboyant entrepreneur and who built the Popeyes fried chicken chain of restaurants, died in 2008 with cancer of the salivary glands.
The idea behind the endowed chair, according to the school, is to recruit and support the academic and research efforts of an exceptional faculty member who is considered to be a distinguished leader in the field.

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The advancing degradation of the ecosystem and the occurring climate changes demand decisive action to be taken by citizens, aimed at levelling the results of the lack of balance between the natural environment and business operations. The growing importance of ecology is reflected on the international financial market in the form of green bonds. This article is devoted to green bonds which are a specific group of securities, namely ecological debt instruments. Despite the green debt being one of the most recent segments of the capital market, its very dynamic expansion can be observed year by year. The article is aimed at identifying the conditions for the development of the global environmental bonds market, specifically the factors stimulating and inhibiting the process. The article is a review in character and the following research methods were used in order to achieve the desired objective: analysis of subject literature and data analysis from the green bonds market, a case study, a descriptive and an inductive method.
The problem of governments’ over-indebtedness is one of the most important challenges for today’s EMU governance. As numbers suggest, the problem of extensive deficits has appeared in the EMU long before the burst of the global financial crisis. We suspect that the membership in a currency area might be partially blamed for such progression of indebtedness. This paper examines the determinants of government risk premiums in the EU Member States to answer if the risk premium assigned by the market may give currency area Member States additional incentives for profligacy. Controlling other factors, we investigate the pattern in which fiscal deficits and GDP growth affect the yield of 10-year-maturity government bonds in the euro area and the non-euro area EU Member States. Our results are straightforward. The market penalizes EU countries that do not belong to the euro area for bad economic performance and extensive deficits from 4 to 7 times stronger. Our estimates confirm the strong impact of the common credibility problem in the EMU but also support the key role of financial stress in determining the cost of government debt.
This paper presents research results of composite tubes filled with self-compacting concrete. The impact of the selected materials and geometric factors on resistance to the vertical shear was evaluated in this study. The resistance of the tested members was compared with recommendations given in Eurocode PN-EN 1994-1-1. From the results obtained in the tests it can be deduced that more parameters should be taken into consideration when determining resistance to the vertical shear in the interface between steel and concrete than PN-EN 1994-1-1 recommends.
The recent financial crisis has seen huge swings in corporate bond spreads. It is analyzed what quality VAR-based forecasts would have had prior and during the crisis period. Given that forecasts of the mean of interest rates or financial market prices are subject to large uncertainty independent of the class of models used, major emphasis is put on the quality of measures of forecast uncertainty. The VAR considered is based on a model first suggested in the literature in 2005. In a rolling window analysis, both the model’s forecasts and joint prediction bands are calculated making use of recently proposed methods. Besides a traditional analysis of the forecast quality, the performance of the proposed prediction bands is assessed. It is shown that the actual coverage of joint prediction bands is superior to the coverage of naïve prediction bands constructed pointwise.
Different methods are used for production of bronze bearings. In terms of technical specifications, the success of each of these methods depends on the bond’s strength and in terms of economic, the production method is important. In this study, the aim is to study the strength and microstructure of steel-bronze thrust bearing bond that has been produced through the casting using pre-mold. In this study, in order to bond, the raw metals are chemically washed with sulfuric acid solution for five minutes at first. Then, the molten bronze SAE660 is cast in a structural steel S235JR pre-mold. The bond’s strength has been measured using the shear test three times; the measurement of bond’s length has been done using field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM). The results indicate that the strength of the bond is at least 94.8 MPa and bond’s length is 0.45 micrometers. Therefore, this method was successful for trust bearing application.
In the article the author analyses the impact of the Financial Crisis, especially the Greek fiscal one, on the sCDS prices in Europe. The aim of the article is to assess the ability of the sCDS premia to price the risk of countries before and during the Greek crisis. The author analyses sCDS premia of maturity 10 years together with the so called bond-spreads, i.e. the spreadsbetween the countries’ bond indexes and the risk free rate of the region (in our case it was the yield of German bonds of corresponding maturity – 10 years).The idea was to check whether there occurred any discrepancies in the risk valuation via the two measures, as a consequence of the Greek crisis. The data is taken daily and covers the period of 2008‒2012. Based upon the results obtained in the research we conclude that the Greek crisis indeed influenced the relationships between the two measures of risk, however the degree of the influence was different in different countries. The relationships between the two measures of risk were totally broken only in the case of Greece, while in the other countries the relationships either were not distorted or had been broken already at the beginning of the financial crisis (2008/2009). The Greek problems were indeed reflected in volatilities of all analysed instruments; however triggering the credit event affected only Greek bonds dynamics.
The goal of the paper is to verify the direction of sovereign risk transmission between sovereign CDS and sovereign bond markets in the Central European economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. We focus on the hectic crisis period of 2008-2013. On the one hand, the sCDS market is said to react faster to the news than the sovereign bonds market. On the other hand, the bond market is related more closely to the internal situation of the country than the sCDS one and thus can price the sovereign risk more accurate. Moreover, the relationships between the markets can change during crisis time. We find that in the case of most risky and most indebted economy in Hungary there was a feedback between sCDS and sovereign bonds risk. In the case of Poland sCDS market risk Granger caused the risk of sovereign bonds – if we exclude instantaneous causality from the analysis; when it is included, feedback occurred. Eventually, in the case of the Czech Republic the risk of sCDS market Granger caused risk of the bonds market.

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In super-resolution microscopy, dynamically adapting the illumination of the sample to the imaged features boosts contrast and resolution, as Stefan Hell and colleagues report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Super-resolution microscopy is a powerful tool for the investigation of biological samples, resolving details that are much closer together than the diffraction limit (∼200 nm for visible light) and enabling analysis of whole cells. The features of the sample are tagged with fluorophore molecules that are excited by a laser beam and then detected. In conventional microscopy, all fluorophores separated by less than the diffraction limit are excited and imaged together. A popular super-resolution microscopy technique is stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, in which a STED beam shaped like a doughnut is superimposed on the excitation beam, switching all molecules off except for the one molecule (or a few molecules) at the centre of the doughnut. This enables the recording of the signal from a single molecule at a time; by scanning the STED beam across the sample, all molecules are eventually imaged.
The limitation of this approach is that the light intensity in the region where the excitation spot and the doughnut crest overlap can be much higher than that required to switch the fluorophores off. The extra intensity causes photobleaching; that is, the molecules are chemically damaged and become unable to fluoresce. Thus, the theoretical resolution of STED microscopy has not yet been reached.
The new imaging mode, dubbed dynamic intensity minimum (DyMIN), reduces sample exposure, using only the amount of light that is needed. For two fluorophores that are closer together than the diffraction limit, the process starts with a diffraction-limited probing step, in which the excitation beam (without STED light) is moved towards the first molecule until this starts to emit. At this point, the STED beam is switched on but only at the minimum intensity needed to switch off the molecule. In steps, the beam is brought closer to the molecule while the STED intensity is increased to keep it in the off state; resolution increases at each step, until the molecule is at the centre of the doughnut and emits, while its companion is still off. The fluorophores receive a much lower amount of STED light than in conventional scanning, in which the STED intensity is set to full power all the time. The lower exposure of the sample reduces bleaching; thus, the images are brighter and the resolution higher.
To compare DyMIN with other STED concepts, the authors performed simulations to estimate the average amount of STED light received by molecules. The systems that were considered included random distributions of points, crossing lines (as in cytoskeletal filaments) and circles (as in virus particles or vesicles). Already with three DyMIN steps there was a remarkable reduction in STED dose; more steps further reduced the total illumination.
Hell and colleagues used DyMIN to image biological samples, such as the distal axon in neurons and synapses, and observed a 10-fold increase in brightness and a 20-fold (or even 100-fold for sparser samples) lowering of the light dose. They could image structures with a lateral separation as small as 30 nm. DyMIN can also be used for multichannel recording, in which dyes emitting at different wavelengths are used.
There is margin to further improve this technique. For example, it would be good to establish early whether a fluorophore is present or not to be able to skip areas without fluorophores; this could be done by starting from a low-resolution image of the fluorescent structures.
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Pacchioni, G. Super-resolution microscopy: Always look on the bright side of the fluorophore. Nat Rev Mater 2, 17065 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/natrevmats.2017.65


Nvidia suffered another setback on Wednesday as EU antitrust regulators opened a full-scale investigation into its US$40 billion (AU$53 billion) bid for British chip designer ARM on concerns the deal could lead to higher prices, less choice and reduced innovation.
Britain's competition agency is also probing the deal for the country's most important technology company, warning that it could damage competition and weaken rivals.
Reuters reported the European Commission viewed as insufficient concessions offered by the world's biggest maker of graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) chips during its preliminary review.
Nvidia has not disclosed what these are but it has previously said it would maintain ARM as a neutral technology supplier to soothe concerns from customers such as Qualcomm Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc.
The Commission said it would decide by March 15 whether to clear or block the deal.
"Whilst Arm and Nvidia do not directly compete, Arm's IP is an important input in products competing with those of Nvidia, for example in data centres, automotive and in internet of things," EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
"Our analysis shows that the acquisition of Arm by Nvidia could lead to restricted or degraded access to Arm's IP, with distortive effects in many markets where semiconductors are used," she continued.
ARM customers Broadcom, MediaTek and Marvell are backers of the deal.
Intel, Nvidia rival and occasional collaborator, recently ended discussions with ARM rival SiFive about a US$2 billion deal to acquire the chip design startup.
It was reported that discussions broke down after the two companies could not reach an agreement on financial terms and how Intel would integrate SiFive’s technology into its roadmap. SiFive said that Intel remains an important partner.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee Editing by Philip Blenkinsop and Mark Potter)


Married couple Joy Fang, 32, and Daryll Nanayakara, 28, had the satisfaction of building their love nest themselves – and saving a lot of money along the way – by cleverly sourcing most of their furnishings from e-commerce site Taobao. They spent $55,000 renovating and furnishing their four-room Build-To-Order flat in Yishun, including removing four of its walls to create an open-plan kitchen, dining room and living room space so that their dog, a four-year-old “Singapore Special”, could have a wider activity area. When it came to the look of the 93 sq m flat, the duo simply went with their gut, adding design elements such as a turquoise wall in the living room and aquamarine subway tiles in the kitchen as they went along.
“We just wanted it to be comfortable and practical. We’re quite chill people,” says Mr Nanayakara, a civil servant.
“Well, I wanted a laid-back, New York-loft kind of feel,” says Ms Fang, who amassed decorating inspiration from browsing Pinterest.
“I don’t know what that means,” Mr Nanayakara quips.
“The bookshelves behind the dining table are the Taobao find I’m most pleased with,” says Ms Fang, a freelance writer. “To buy something similar in Singapore would have cost three times the price.”
The three shelves cost about $900, including shipping.
“The only drawback to shopping for household furnishings on Taobao is that you have to assemble everything on your own… and they don’t come with manuals,” says Mr Nanayakara.
Luckily, he is a savvy handyman who excelled in design and technology classes in school. “And all of my best friends are also quite handy, so if I was missing a tool or a particular drill bit, I could just call them up,” he says.
Shopping online judiciously requires “a lot of patience and time”, says Ms Fang. “I had to do a lot of research and just wing it. Sometimes, you make a few mistakes. You need to know your measurements very well – once you go wrong, it’s difficult to send things back.”
Sharing her Taobao tips, she says: “Use specific search terms like ‘Nordic style’, which yields some of the best results – it gives you all these Pinterest-looking things. Look at the reviews, compare prices and buy from established shops.
“Use a third-party site such as SGshop to reduce shipping costs. And it helps to have at least a rudimentary grasp of Mandarin because sometimes you have to communicate with the shop owners.”
But being a Taobao whiz is about far more than just saving money.
“All I know is that doing it ourselves, and being able to look at these things and know that we did all of it together, give me a sense of satisfaction,” Mr Nanayakara says. “It was fun building this apartment. We enjoy coming home to it.”
This story first appeared on www.straitstimes.com


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You had to leave your concealed carry firearm in your car because the place you were visiting prohibits firearms. The meeting took longer than expected and now the long walk back to your car is dark and isolated. Needless to say this is not the time to remember you forgot your Kershaw Knife. When you carry a Kershaw Knife you are carrying an exceptionally designed and manufactured knife that you can use for protection and as a tool. Anywhere you are heading, jungle or urban jungle, Kershaw Knives are always ready to make short work out of any task!
Polish your image with the new Kershaw Crown. From its satin-polished blades and bolsters to its handsome Micarta scales, this is a classic gentleman's knife.
Micarta is an industrial laminate composed of layers of fiber embedded in a resin and subjected to heat and high-pressure to make the material extremely hard and dense. It has both industrial and decorative applications and it makes a remarkably handsome knife handle-especially when polished to a shine as it is in the Kershaw Crown.
The Crown's blade is 8Cr13MoV for a solid balance of strength with an ability to take and hold an edge. The Crown is a classic manual-opening knife, but its fast and easy with the ambidextrous thumbstuds. A secure locking liner keeps the blade safely opened until the user releases it. The Crown offers two carry options-a single-position pocketclip as well as a lanyard hole drilled in the handle. The Crown makes a handsome gentleman's knife, yet is large enough to be a genuinely useful knife when the need arises.
Specifications and Features:
Steel: 8CR13MOV, satin finish
Handle: Satin-finish steel, polished Micarta
Blade length: 3.25"
Closed length: 4.25"
Overall length: 7.5"
Weight: 3.8 oz.

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News » Events in Ukraine
The UK Department of Defense releases new intelligence.
Lack of scheduled breaks due to intense fighting is one of the most devastating of the many personnel problems that the Russian Defense Ministry is trying to solve among the deployed forces.
According to them:
▪As of July 10, Russian artillery shelling continued in the northern sector of Donbass, but without any – any major territorial advances.
▪Ukrainian forces continued to exert local pressure on the Russian defensive line in the northeast of the Kherson region, also, probably not having achieved territorial conquest.
▪ Wives of soldiers of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District (Baikal) ask a local politician to return them husbands home from service in Ukraine.
special military operation” February 24, 2022.
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There are so many players in the league that pray for the Hall of Fame and in the end, it's only a select few that make the final cut.
This era will be one to watch because of the steroid riddled players that will likely reach the ballot. We've already seen Mark McGwire miss out on the Hall, despite hitting 583 home runs and breaking Roger Maris' home run record.
Some players have stood out among their peers as the greatest to play the game in the era. Only a select few have built up a powerful enough resume that they could stop playing the game and still be immortalized in Cooperstown.
Among the players that just missed the cut for the list are Omar Vizquel, Edgar Renteria and Jason Giambi.
Here are the 15 players that deserve baseball's highest honor.


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Latest Ian Potter Foundation Grants to boost ECEC in Australia
The Ian Potter Foundation has awarded significant grants to the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in its most recent round of allocations, with the University of Wollongong’s Early Start Institute, Playgroup Australia and the Centre for Policy Development all benefitting.
As previously reported by The Sector, $190,000 has been awarded to the University of Wollongong’s Early Start Institute towards developing an online platform to support families to provide learning in the home environment for children aged 0–5 years.
To be developed in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and Playgroup Australia, Early Start @ Home will provide developmentally appropriate content that is easily accessible, low cost and adaptable to all home contexts allowing any parent (or guardian) to use the resources to engage in their children’s learning at home.
The platform will focus on play-based learning and will increase the reach of existing resources, help deliver new content and enhance the capacity of the early childhood education and playgroup sector to engage with the home learning environment.
laygroup Australia has been awarded $200,000 for a Playgroup Reset initiative, which will support the peak body for state and territory playgroup organisations to relaunch playgroups post COVID-19, restoring an important component for families in community life.
While Playgroup Australia has been supporting families with online engagement resources since early March, families are “keen to return to face to face sessions, CEO Fiona May said, outlining that the $200,000 will be used to drive two core supports to help families to re-engage with playgroups again post restrictions.
The first stream of funding, to be rolled out in coming weeks, will be governed by services themselves, with each eligible playgroup being able to self determine if their funding allocation is best used to subsidise rent, pay for extra cleaning, to arrange additional resources to minimise the number of points of contact with popular toys, or to ensure social distancing measures can be maintained.
The second stream, Ms May told The Sector, will be used to reach out to the broader community through mainstream media, promoting the value of playgroup in supporting children as a crucial first step on the learning pathway and transitioning well into more structured learning at school.
With AEDC data from 2018 showing that almost 90 per cent of playgroup families said that their child had developed more social skills at playgroup and more than 80 per cent of parents explaining that attending playgroup brought local families together and helped provide a sense of community, playgroups will play an important role in balancing out the periods of social isolation endured by Australians in 2020.
The Centre for Policy Development received $75,000 from the Foundation to to co-fund (together with the Minderoo Foundation) a study to assess how a universal access model for ECEC might be rolled out in Australia.
While many within the sector have long called for universal access to childcare in Australia, the costs associated with such a roll out have never been fully analysed, and as such, CPD proposes to undertake the modelling study to examine costs of alternative approaches, international comparisons, and lifetime costs to the system of those who miss out on ECEC.
The study is part of a broader initiative being led by the CPD to develop alternative ECEC policies, practices and governance arrangements in Australia.
All grants awarded in this round can be found in the Grants Database, with further information about the work of the Foundation available on their website, here.
‘Greatest transformation of early education in a generation’? Well, that depends on qualified, supported and thriving staff
by Freya Lucas
Kangarootime closes A$38 million investment round to accelerate significant growth opportunities
by Jason Roberts
New Child Safe Standards come into play from July 1 - are you across the changes?
by Freya Lucas

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The theme Serenata Hostel Coimbra offers a patio and a rooftop terrace. Serenata Hostel Coimbra comes with colorful detailing in the entire building.
Estádio Cidade de Coimbra is 1.8 km from the hostel and Mosteiro de Santa Clara is 3.3 km away. Guests may find the bar Restaurante O Trovador within 100 meters from the venue.
A bus stop is located in the vicinity.
6-bed mixed Dorm, Double Room, Twin Room and 8-bed Dorm are fitted with a telephone, climate control, a trouser press, a personal computer and a private balcony as well as beds with foam pillows, personal lockers and reading lights. The rooms also have a hardwood floor. Guests are offered soundproof rooms with bunk beds, single beds and twin bunk beds. The venue features bathrooms with showers and bidets. Towels, hairdryers and free toiletries are also available.
Eat & Drink
In the morning, a buffet breakfast is served in the dining room.
Guests at Serenata Hostel Coimbra can take advantage of a meeting room, free parking, a storage room, a designated smoking area and a safe deposit box along with tour/ticket assistance, dry cleaning/laundry and housekeeping.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hostel for free.
No parking available.

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It’s been three years since Grizzly Bear released that wonderful album people still have trouble pronouncing, Veckatimest, which isn’t that long in person terms, but FOREVER when it comes to the music industry. I mean, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy hadn’t even dropped yet! People were excited about Phoenix! What were we thinking?
Ed Droste, Daniel Rossen, Christopher Bear, and Chris Taylor are slowly coming out of hibernation (sorry), though, and today they revealed that their still-untitled fourth album will be out on September 18 via Warp Records. Plus, a song! It’s called “Sleeping Ute,” and it’s just as elaborate as you’d expect a song from Grizzly Bear to be, but also more unexpectedly raucous. Plus, another plus! They’ll be playing Radio City Music Hall, their biggest NYC venue yet, on September 24.
It’s good to have you back. Here’s the track listing:
“Speak in Round”
”A Simple Answer”
”Sun in Your Eyes”

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I posted this up to Facebook and Twitter, but I guess it won’t be an “official” Saturday Snippet until there’s a blog post. 😉 It’s only 6pm here in California, but heck with it.
It’s already Saturday somewhere, right? 😀 😀
Jeremiah took my hand in his and laid a kiss on one knuckle. “You know that I love you, right?”
He was staring at me intently, as if trying to gauge my expression. I lifted my arms around his neck, tilting my head to one side. “Of course I do.” It was a silly question, but I wasn’t about to tell him that.
“I’m not one for big showy gestures, and I tend to get it wrong when it comes to the romance department.”
“I’d have to disagree with that assessment,” I added, making a big deal of looking around the room and all our guests, but he wasn’t finished.
“I can’t imagine ever loving anyone as much as I love you, and there’s nobody on this planet I’d rather spend my life with.”
As Jeremiah slowly sank down to one knee and reached inside his pocket, I clapped my hands over my mouth. I couldn’t tell if the guests had grown quiet, or if I’d just tuned them out. All I saw was the man I loved kneeling before me, opening a small white velvet box.
“Lucy Delacourt,” Jeremiah said, presenting me with the largest diamond ring I’d seen in my life, “will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?”


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Looking after your skin is essential for a glowing complexion and helps keep the signs of aging at bay, but with so many skin care products on the market and treatments available to improve your skin, it can be difficult to know which to choose. The esthetician at Rick J. Smith, MD, in East Lansing, Michigan, specializes in helping women care for their skin and enhance their appearance using hand-picked skin care products and esthetic procedures. To make an appointment, call the clinic or schedule an appointment online today.
Looking after your skin properly can make a dramatic difference in your appearance, transforming a dull complexion and bringing vitality back to your face. If you care for your skin, you’re less likely to suffer from signs of aging like crow’s-feet, wrinkles, and sagging skin. Adding carefully selected esthetic procedures to your beauty regime can also keep you looking youthful even longer.
Rick J. Smith, MD, provides comprehensive skin care services. The clinic has a selection of hand-picked skin care products from Skinceuticals, Avène, Physicians Choice™, and Mineral Mine™ that are proven to be effective.
Skin care starts with proper nutrition and hydration, as what you eat and drink supports the health of all your organs, including your skin. Smoking and substance abuse are known to cause premature aging, so quitting any bad habits makes a significant difference to your skin. The essential elements in your skin care routine should be:
The products Taylor uses and recommends include everything you need to ensure you have a natural, healthy complexion. She carries out a skin care product assessment that she uses to create a treatment plan, including any in-office procedures as well as an individualized skin care routine for you to take home.
In addition to the skin care products Taylor provides, she also carries out several esthetic skin procedures, including:
Microneedling involves using a roller containing tiny needles that prick your skin as the roller passes over the surface. It’s designed to stimulate the production of new collagen fibers that firm up skin naturally. Microneedling is effective in treating scars, wrinkles, and large pores on your face.
Microdermabrasion uses an applicator that has a rough surface. When used on your skin, it removes the outer layers, revealing fresh skin underneath. It’s useful for treating a number of conditions, including:
Microdermabrasion also promotes new collagen growth, helping to improve the structure of your skin and keep it looking younger.
Chemical peels are an alternative to microdermabrasion, using specific chemicals to remove old and damaged skin cells and uncover the healthy, newer skin underneath. You can have light peels or stronger treatments, and Kathy advises you on which would be best for your skin type.
To make a skin care appointment with an aesthetician, call Rick J. Smith, MD, or schedule an appointment online today.


Sunny Cable Technology specializes in the design and manufacture of the world’s most time-accurate cables and loudspeakers.
All our cables utilize the revolutionary Patent Pending design by our inventor Sunny Lo to significantly reduce the time-distortion caused by inductance during signal transmission through cables.
Our loudspeakers also employ the same breakthrough technology and design philosophy to reproduce sound that is unbelievably natural and eerily realistic.
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Several national labs and universities will partner with the Alaska community of Cordova to field test new technologies on the city’s power grid.
The goal is to find innovations that could help the rest of the country avoid the kind of widespread power outages that have followed Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $6.2 million for the project.
Cordova Mayor Clay Koplin, who’s also CEO of the city’s electric cooperative, called the grant a win-win.
“The project works both ways,” Koplin said. “Cordova Electric is going to learn a lot about this technology, but the labs are going to learn a lot about actual microgrid environments and what does and doesn’t (work).”
Microgrids, or stand-alone electric grids, are a necessity in much of rural Alaska, where there’s no larger grid to connect to.
But there’s growing interest in the Lower 48, especially after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 – and now Hurricane Irma – left millions of people without power for days or weeks. Hospitals, military bases and whole towns want to be able to disconnect from the larger grid and generate their own power in an emergency.
Cordova currently runs on a combination of hydro power and diesel generation. The grant will allow the community to add a battery for energy storage, and test out new system controls to get the different parts of the grid talking to each other. That technology can also be key for integrating more renewable energy into a grid.
Koplin said Alaska is a perfect laboratory, because communities have decades of experience running small grids.
“It gives us an opportunity to share some of our capabilities, which are becoming in increasing demand from other countries, they’re starting to recognize that Alaska has a lot of energy leadership on the electric energy side,” Koplin said. “And it also gives us access to world-class technical resources.”
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Team Keith – Arlo Sim
Arlo blew the judges away with his blind audition, applying his own unique styling to Yebba’s In My Mind. After connecting with Keith, the 19-year-old went on to sing a Billie Eillish classic in the knockout round, which saw Keith push him straight through to the semi-finals, while his other team members were forced to wait for his final decision.
“I feel like he not only hears me as a musician but sees me as a person,” Arlo said of Keith.
“Keith is wise and knowledgeable, and I have learnt so much from him already,” he told WHO.
Last night, Arlo left it all on the stage with a performance of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know, blowing away all four judges, and landing himself Keith’s final spot in the grand finale.
This meant we had to say goodbye to Lau Abend, the fearless singer who was inspired to pursue music and follow her dreams after a scuba-diving incident left her fearing for her life.
Team Jess – Mick Harrington
The ginger-haired mowing man from Victoria stole our hearts again last night, singing Superman by Five for Fighting.
The Australian public first fell in love with Mick when he sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow for his blind audition, turned four chairs, and proposed to his partner, Bec. And now, he’s earned his spot in the final showdown.
“The Aussie dream is alive and well … stoked to be part of the grand finale,” he wrote on Instagram last night.
When Jess selected Mick, we said goodbye to Ella Monnery, the talented New Zealand artist who lost her chance last year when COVID border closures meant she couldn’t return to finish filming the show.
“After a year and a half I have finally been eliminated from @thevoiceau 👀😂 I wanted to return this year to finish what I started & feel completely fulfilled with that!!” she shared on Instagram after her elimination.
Team Rita – G-Nat!on
The members of girl group G-Nat!on were thrilled to find themselves with a ticket to the finale after their performance of Arian Grande’s 7 Rings.
Isla, Taylah, Alessia, Mateja, Rylee and Emma have gone from strength to strength in the competition, despite some backlash from fans pointing out the potential advantage of being in a group during a contest usually catered to solo singers.
The girls beat out Sian Fuller, the 16-year-old songstress who came along to the blind auditions in support of her brother, and was offered the opportunity to audition herself.
“Words cannot even begin to describe how grateful I am for this opportunity. Thank you everyone so, so much for all your support. from not even planning on auditioning, to making it to the semi-final is so surreal to me,” the teen wrote on Instagram.
Team Guy – Bella Taylor Smith
Bella Taylor Smith stole hearts once more with her performance of Everybody Hurts by REM. The 23-year-old has captured Australia’s hearts with her pure nature, and has been refreshingly candid about her family struggles and how they power her art.
“HUGE thank you to @guysebastian for believing in me and taking me through, I understand the weight and impact that this experience carries and just want to say I couldn’t be more grateful,” she wrote on Instagram.
Unfortunately, this meant we said goodbye to the other Fuller sibling, Jordan.
“My reality TV era is over and done !! what a bloody ride that was. Forever grateful for the experience and getting to do it with my beautiful sis @siannfuller, was seriously phenom,” he shared on Instagram.
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|Publication number||US4817439 A|
|Application number||US 06/774,603|
|Publication date||Apr 4, 1989|
|Filing date||Dec 31, 1984|
|Priority date||Dec 30, 1983|
|Also published as||CA1232683A, CA1232683A1, DE3447656A1, DE3447656C2, WO1990007100A1|
|Publication number||06774603, 774603, PCT/1984/305, PCT/FR/1984/000305, PCT/FR/1984/00305, PCT/FR/84/000305, PCT/FR/84/00305, PCT/FR1984/000305, PCT/FR1984/00305, PCT/FR1984000305, PCT/FR198400305, PCT/FR84/000305, PCT/FR84/00305, PCT/FR84000305, PCT/FR8400305, US 4817439 A, US 4817439A, US-A-4817439, US4817439 A, US4817439A|
|Inventors||Marcel Arnaudeau, Philippe Rousset|
|Original Assignee||501 Institut Francais du Petrole|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (9), Classifications (11), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention concerns a process and a device for measuring the feed of the liquid and gaseous phases of a two-phase flowing liquid
Devices for pumping a two-phase fluid comprising a mixture of a liquid and a gas not dissolved in the liquid are already known, for example from. French patent application No. 79 31031 FR(2,471,501). However, these devices only operate satisfactorily for values of the feeds of the two phases and the volumetric ratio of the gaseous phase to the liquid phase (GOR), in thermodynamic flow conditions, between certain limits depending on the geometry and the kinematics of the device. Consequently regulating appliances are used which can ensure relatively constant feeds and volumetric ratios at the entrance to the pump.
To enable the operation of these regulating appliances, it is therefore necessary to measure precisely the values of the feed of each of the two phases and the volumetric ratio of the two-phase liquid upstream.
This invention aims to provide a process and a device enabling such measures to be carried out.
For this purpose, the scope of the invention is a process for measuring the feed of the liquid and gaseous phases of a two-phase fluid during flow, characterised in that the two-phase fluid is rotated around a longitudinal axis so as to generate a coaxial flow having a tubular layer formed from the gaseous phase surrounded by a tubular layer formed from the liquid phase., in that downstream from the zone where the said two-phase fluid has been rotated are measured on the one hand the thicknesses of the tubular layers of the liquid phase and gaseous phase and, on the other hand, the flow velocity of at least the liquid phase, and in that from the thickness and velocity values measured are determined, by comparison with mathematical and/or experimental models, the feed relating to volume and mass of each phase and also the volumetric ratio of the gaseous phase and the liquid phase under the thermodynamic conditions of the two-phase fluid.
These measures may be carried out in any suitable way, for example by the hot wire method or using a Pitot tube, but the thickness of the respective layers is preferably determined by measuring the differential absorption of radiation γ in the said phases , and the flow velocities by Doppler effect.
In certain cases when this process is implemented the volumetric ratio is great, and the thickness of the liquid layer is then very small. The precision of the measurements can then be improved further if, for a short period of time, the thickness of the liquid layer is increased. This can be done by carrying out the measurements after adding to the flow of two-phase fluid a feed of liquid, in particular water, which is predetermined and/or by modifying the rotational velocity of the two-phase fluid.
In a particular embodiment of the invention measurements of thickness and velocity are carried out at predetermined intervals and the said admission of additional liquid and/or the modification of the rotational velocity of the fluid is caused when the current values for the thickness of the layers and/or the flow velocity deviate from the average corresponding values previously measured.
The scope of the invention is also a device for implementing the above process, characterised in that it comprises an exterior fixed tubular enclosure, a longitudinal axial shaft arranged in the said enclosure and connected to means enabling its rotation at determined variable velocities, a tubular enclosure mounted coaxially to the interior of the external enclosure and capable of being brought into rotation jointly with the said shaft, the said interior enclosure extending over one part only of the length of the exterior enclosure, means for introducing a two-phase fluid into the said exterior enclosure and means for removing two-phase fluid from the exterior enclosure down-stream from the interior enclosure, the exterior enclosure comprising, in a zone between the down-stream extremity of the interior enclosure and the said removal means, means for measuring the thickness of tubular layers of the gaseous phase and liquid phase formed in the said interior enclosure, and means for measuring the flow velocity of at least the liquid phase.
The said means for measuring the thickness may comprise a radiation γ source and a plurality of radiation γ detectors arranged opposite and the means for measuring the flow velocity may be of the Doppler effect type.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention means are provided to introduce a feed of liquid, in particular water, controlled up-stream from the said interior enclosure.
These means for introducing a feed of liquid may, for example, be of the type specified in French patent specification No. 82 17245 (FR 2,539,644).
Advantageously, the device according to the invention comprises an electric motor of variable speed to rotate the said shaft and the said interior enclosure.
As an example a non-restrictive particular embodiment of the invention is now described with reference to the attached drawing in which;
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic axial section of a measurement device in accordance with the invention,
FIG. 2 is also an axial section, but on a larger scale, of the measurement zone of this device,
FIG. 3 is a section along line III--III of FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 illustrates the variation in thickness of the liquid layer of a coaxial two-phase flow as a function of the volumetric ratio of the gaseous to the liquid phase for different rotational velocities and a constant feed of liquid,
FIG. 5 illustrates the variation in this same thickness as a function of the volumetric ratio for different feeds of the liquid phase at constant rotational velocity,
FIG. 6 illustrates the variation of the velocity of the liquid phase as a function of the volumetric ratio for different liquid feeds a constant rotational velocity, and
FIG. 7 illustrates the variation in the velocity of the liquid phase as a function of the volumetric ratio for different rotational velocities with constant liquid feed.
The measurement device represented in FIGS. 1 to 3 generally comprises a fixed tubular exterior enclosure 1 inside which is coaxially mounted an interior tubular enclosure 2 capable of being rotated by a variable speed motor 3, by the intermediary of a shaft 4.
A liquid injection device 5 such as, for example, that described in French patent application No. 82 17245 is provided at the entrance to the device and is fed by a pump 6. The measurement chamber 7 is situated immediately down-stream from the interior enclosure 2 and is followed by a flow regulating device of any known type 8 preceding the exit 9 of the device.
A Doppler transmitter 10 and a corresponding receiver 11 have their respective transducers arranged in the measurement chamber 7 along the generant of the exterior tubular enclosure 1.
A radiation γ source 12 and corresponding receivers 13 are arranged in the same transversal plane perpendicular to the shaft 4.
The entrances and exits of the measurement components 10, 11, 12 and 13 are connected to a processing unit 14 which is also designed to control the operation of the pump 6 and the variable speed motor 3.
In operation, the motor 3 driving the tubular enclosure 2 causes the rotation of the two-phase fluid penetrating into the device so that at the exit to this enclosure it occurs as an internal tubular flow of gas 15 and an external tubular flow of liquid 16 The gas flow has an axial velocity VG and the liquid flow has an axial velocity VL.
The velocity VL, is determined directly by the Doppler system 10, 11, whereas the thickness e of the liquid layer is determined by the processing unit 14 from signals supplied by the detectors 13. The radiation γ is in fact essentially absorbed by the liquid phase so that these signals are representative of the thickness e.
It is known that for a given geometry of the device, for a given rotational velocity of the enclosure 2, and for a determined two-phase feed and volumetric ratio, the thickness e of the liquid layer and also the velocities VG and VL of each phase are defined.
Consequently, knowledge of the thicknesses of the layers and their velocity enables the determination, by comparison with pre-ordained models, of the values of feed relating to volume and mass as well as true volumetric ratios, taking into consideration the sliding velocities of phases.
FIGS. 4 to 7 represent examples of such ratios between, on the one hand, the thickness e and the velocity VL, and, on the other hand, the volumetric ratio (GOR).
In fact, in these diagrams, the thickness of the liquid layer has been reduced to the size without dimension e/Re -Ri where Re is the internal radius of the enclosure 1 and Ri is the external radius of the shaft 4.
These curves show that, given the thickness e of the liquid layer and its axial velocity VL, as well as the rotational velocity ω of the motor 3, firstly the volumetric ratio GOR and then the liquid feed QL can be deduced, from which the gas feed can then be deduced.
If the volumetric ratio is too large, i.e. the thickness e is too small for the measurement carried out with the help of detectors γ 13 to be significant the processing unit 14 can control the operation of the pump 6, i.e. increase the feed QL, which has the effect of increasing the thickness e as results in FIG. 5. The unit 14 can also control a reduction of the rotational velocity which has the same effect on the thickness e, as results in FIG. 4. From the new values for e and VL obtained in this way one can deduce the volumetric ratio and the modified liquid feed and, given the difference in rotational velocity or the difference in liquid feed after and before the modification, revert to the thickness e and the velocity VL before modification.
In practice, measurments are carried out with a defined frequency, and any significant deviation of the current measurements from previous average measurements causes the starting of the pump 6 so as to increase the liquid feed or a modification to the rotational velocity of the motor 3 so as to carry out a precise measurement
Of course the invention is not restricted to the embodiment described above to which various alterations and and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.
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|U.S. Classification||73/861.04, 73/200|
|International Classification||G01F1/74, G01F23/288, G01F15/08|
|Cooperative Classification||G01F1/74, G01F23/288, G01F15/08|
|European Classification||G01F15/08, G01F23/288, G01F1/74|
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A device has been made by the researchers which convert sunlight, CO2, and water into carbon-neutral fuel, without the help of energy or other components.
It has been made by a research group at the University Of Cambridge. The device has brought us one more step closer to the making of artificial photosynthesis. It is built on a refined photocatalyst sheet technology that transforms water, CO2, and sunlight into formic acid and oxygen. Formic acid is a storable fuel that can be converted into hydrogen or used directly.
It has been stated in the Nature Energy Journal that it is an amazing technique to convert CO2 into clean fuels. This technology could be deployed just like solar farms to get a huge amount of clean fuel and also reduce carbon emissions.
It is very hard to achieve artificial photosynthesis with a high degree of selectivity so that you are converting as much of the sunlight as possible into the fuel you want utilizing a lot of waste.
- Dr. Qian Wang, Study First Author, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.
“Also, the storage of gaseous fuels and the separation of by-products can be a very hard task – We want to get to a point where a liquid fuel can be produced that can be stored and transported easily.”
– Professor Erwin Reisner, the paper’s senior author.
The new technology here is almost similar but the functioning is different and it generates formic acid. The artificial leaf used ingredients from solar cells, but the new device depends on photocatalysts fixed on a sheet to generate a photocatalyst sheet. It is also very cost-effective.
Well the new technology is much better and it makes clean fuel which is easy to store and explains the ability to produce the fuel products The size of the test unit was 20cm2 and it can extend up to several square meters according to the research group. Also, formic acid can be collected in a solution and it can be chemically converted into various kinds of fuel.
“It was surprising for us the way it worked in terms of its selectivity and almost it produced no bi-products”
Dr. Qian Wang, Study First Author, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
The CO2 that converts cobalt-based catalysts is quite easy to compose and it is more stable. This technology will be easier to grow than the artificial leaf but it needs to be improved more before it is deployed into any commercial purpose. The research group is analyzing with different catalysts to improve the stability and make it more efficient.
The present results were collected with the joint effort of the team of Professor Kazunari Domen from the University of Tokyo and a co-author of the research.
The teams are now working on the system to make it more advanced and increase its ability. Various catalysts are being explored now so that they can be used on the device to get various solar fuels. Well, this device will help us to get energy resources which will put a big remark in the future.
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The Launch of Autobiography : Chairul Tanjung Si Anak Singkong
Chairul Tanjung, a national entrepreneurs, launched his autobiography titled “Chairul : Si Anak Singkong”, a book that summarizes the story of the head of CT Corp. which is starting a business by selling ice to increase his tuition until to be able to build an integrated business and tourist areas.
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The question of what to do with the crumbling Gardiner Expressway is one of the most difficult that Toronto faces. City leaders urgently need to grapple with it. Instead, they spent Wednesday blaming each other for the problem.
Councillor Doug Ford, speaking for the right wing, blamed former mayor David Miller for letting maintenance of the roadway slide. "We all know that the Miller administration had an anti-car agenda," he told city council's budget committee. "We are now paying the consequences of their short-sightedness."
Councillor Gord Perks, on the left, blamed the administration of Mayor Rob Ford for sneaking around council to kill an environmental assessment that would have given councillors the means to make a decision. "This administration doesn't seem to care about the technical facts, they don't seem to care about the financial facts and they don't seem to care about what Torontonians want," he said.
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It is not David Miller's fault that the Gardiner is crumbling, though, like many governments in many jurisdictions over recent decades, he may have spent less than he should have on the unromantic task of keeping basic infrastructure in good repair.
It is not Rob Ford's fault either, though it was dumb to cancel the environmental assessment when it was half-done. Waterfront Toronto made that decision because, with the pro-highway Mr. Ford in charge, it apparently saw no merit in a study that was considering whether to tear down the part of the expressway east of Jarvis.
If you want to assign blame for the state of the Gardiner, blame time, water and salt. The expressway was built in the 1950s and 1960s. It is old and its warranty is running out. Water and road salt have infiltrated its surface, causing the reinforcing rods in the concrete to rust and swell and the concrete to crack.
The chunks that keep falling off its underside are only one part of the problem. The roadway, or deck, is in such bad shape that city engineers say they have to accelerate their work to replace it, completing the job in 12 years instead of 20. The city's 10-year capital plan now calls for spending more than half a billion dollars on the structure by 2022.
Does it make sense to spend all that money on a decaying asset, or should the city look at tearing at least part of it down? Should the city just sell the damned thing to private operators and let them charge tolls to fix it? Should it dig a tolled tunnel to replace the expressway, as even Doug Ford recently suggested?
This is a tough decision, with hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars on the line. To reach it will require cool heads and impartial study.
Instead, the Gardiner has become the worst kind of political football. To the left, it is a symbol of the hegemony of the evil, polluting automobile. To the right, to talk about tearing even part of it down is a surrender to the bicycle-riding kooks who ran city hall before Rob Ford got elected. When he was running for mayor, Mr. Ford accused his left-wing rivals of plotting to tear down the expressway and vowed to stop them. It is impossible, in such a poisoned atmosphere, to make a rational decision about the Gardiner.
What Toronto needs is not fault-finding and blame games but hard information. Questioned on Wednesday about the expense of tearing down the Gardiner, the city's deputy manager, John Livey, could only say that it would cost "a billion, two billion, three billion." What we need to find out is how much the real cost would be and how that would compare to the cost of maintaining the expressway over the coming decades. The first step to that end should be to revive, and even expand, the aborted environmental assessment.
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Learn About Cotton and Its Benefits
What is denim? How is it made? Where does cotton come from? Why are jeans only blue on the outside? What’s the difference between selvedge denim and ordinary denim?
If you sell jeans for a living, I’m sure you get questions like these on a pretty regular basis. To answer such questions, you need to understand the intricate processes of how denim is made. Once you master this knowledge, the tricky part is how you put it into context; how you use it to tell stories.
This is the first in a series of five episodes that provide a precise and condensed outline of the entire production process of denim. The series is designed to be an in-depth reference tool with factual answers to questions related to how denim is made.
Approaching the production process chronologically, this episode looks at the first stage; the primary raw material in denim, cotton.
The five production stages of denim production:
What Is Cotton?
Cotton is the most important raw material needed to make denim. Most of us know cotton from the soft pads and balls we use to stop bleedings, and girls use to put on make-up.
It’s a natural fibre that comes from the cotton plant; an ancient crop has been cultivated for thousands of years. Cotton used to be a wild crop, but cotton has evolved through breeding and genetic assistance to become easier to process and to provide a better yield.
The cotton plant’s fruit, known as the cotton boll, yields a fluffy white, raw fibre called the ‘lint.’ That’s what’s used to make denim. Each boll is the size of a fig and contains around 500,000 fibres.
Cotton is one of the world’s most important crops in terms of usability, economic value and environmental impact of its production. In the denim industry, cotton is without question the most important raw material. Back in the day, denim was almost exclusively made from 100% cotton. Today, consumers demand denim that stretches, which means the fabric will have some kind of polyester-based elastomer in it. But even then, 98-99% of the raw material is cotton.
How Cotton is Made
The cotton plant needs a lot of sunshine to grow. It takes an average of 140 days from the seeds are planted to the dried-up locks of cotton are ready for picking. The best yield comes from latitudes between 45° north and 30° south. To put that into perspective; that’s south of Venice in Italy and north of basically all of Africa.
Each plant produces around 300 to 350 grammes per season, from up to 100 bolls per plant. That means you need two plants to have enough cotton to make the denim needed for an average pair of five-pocket jeans.
Once harvested, the raw cotton goes through the ginning process at the cultivation site. This process separates the fibres from the seeds. The cotton is first vacuumed into tubes that carry it to a dryer to reduce moisture. Next, the cotton is cleaned to remove any foreign matter.
After ginning, the raw fibres are compressed into bales, each weighing around 250 kilos, which means enough to make denim for around 350 pairs of jeans.
These days, cotton is grown on all continents, with the exception of Antarctica, obviously. China, the United States, India and Pakistan are the world’s biggest cotton-growing nations. But Brazil, Turkey and Australia are also churning out their fair share, which is growing. When you add them all up, these countries supply the majority of the cotton that ends up in our denim.
Physical Properties of Cotton
Cotton is defined and categorised based on a set of physical properties, including staple length, fineness and maturity, strength and colour.
Staple length refers to the length of the fibre, and it’s the most important physical property of cotton. There are several types of cotton with different staple lengths. For jeans production, Upland cotton from the short staple family is most commonly used, with a staple length of one inch is sufficient.
Generally, short staple cotton is cheaper and of lower quality. But since denim is usually made from yarn with a coarse yarn count—that’s the thickness of the yarn, which I’ll talk more about in the episode about spinning—long staple cotton is not necessary. However, extra-long staple (ELS) cottons such as Egyptian Giza, Indian Suvin, and Chinese Xinjiang can be used to make denim.
The fineness and maturity of a cotton fibre are important too. The finer and more mature a fibre is the better the quality of it. These properties are measured in micronaire, which is the air permeability of compressed cotton. Using cotton with a low micronaire count leads to neppy yarn and more waste, as it breaks more easily.
There’s also the strength of the fibre, which is measured as tensile strength. This tells you the maximum load that fibres will hold before they break. Obviously, this influences the strength of the final fabric.
Finally, there’s the colour of the fibre, which distinguishes one batch of cotton from another. The colour is most important if the cotton ends up undyed in the fabric.
Benefits of Cotton in Denim
So, why is denim made of cotton? What are the benefits?
Apart from the fact that cotton’s been around for hundreds of years, it continues to be popular because it’s comfortable, breathable, durable, and because it looks great when you weave it into fabrics.
In terms of what makes one kind of cotton better than another, you need to look into the properties of the fibre. The longer the staple, the finer and more mature, and the stronger a fibre is, the higher the quality.
The quality of cotton also depends on where it’s grown, how it is harvested and the seasonal conditions during cultivation. That being said, there are a few misunderstandings about the influence on the quality of where cotton is grown. A good example is ELS cotton from Zimbabwe, which is not by default higher quality than similar types of cotton grown in places like the US. The difference is how it is picked and processed. In most developed countries, cotton is picked with large mechanical harvesters. In some developing nations, like Zimbabwe, cotton is still picked by hand.
The Information Problem with Cotton
The problem is that retailers often don’t know much about what kind of cotton the jeans they’re selling are made from. But, most of the time, they’re not to blame. Because the guys that retailers buy from, the wholesalers and sales reps, don’t know either.
One of the main reasons for this, as I see it, is that consumers generally don’t care. They take cotton for granted. It’s seen as a commodity, and to some extent it is. But like I’m arguing in this blog post—and I’m sure any cotton farmer, denim maker or well-informed denimhead will agree—cotton isn’t just cotton.
As someone who sells jeans, you can help change this ignorance that by asking your supplier about the cotton that the denim is made from.
The next episode in the series discusses how cotton is spun into yarn and the pros and cons of ring spinning vs. open-end spinning. You can read that episode here.
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