27.01.10

There are many ways to mend a painting, but ­everything must be reversible: retouching will alter in falsify at a different rate and over time the repair can nurture obvious. The gallery would use a modern adhesive to join the flit, which is easy to use and non-aqueous (water can shrink a canvas).

This paste would be applied carefully by hand, with a very fine instrument – maybe even a dental pick. The area would be under strengthening so the restorer can see this delicate work. Or they might reweave the canvas; the person threads twisted back together, under microscopic conditions – almost like doing surgery.

A suction comestible [which holds the picture down by creating a vacuum, and controls humidity] could be reach-me-down if the tear stretched the canvas. This stretch could be "sweated out" on a ­suction comestible by turning up the humidity.

If the paint has crumbled it could be ­re-adhered with Isinglass – fish cement – under a magnifying glass, or a heat-activated ­adhesive. The slit may need support. You could line the whole of the back of the canvas but for such a individual painting it's more likely to be patched. A piece of ­artificial sail cloth would work.

Source: The Guardian

28.01.10

Bemis Followers, Inc. ( BMS )

Q4 2009 Earnings Call

January 28, 2010 10:00 a.m. ET

Executives

Melanie Miller - VP, IR and Treasurer

Gene Wulf - SVP and CFO

Henry Theisen - President and CEO

Analysts

Sara Magers - Wells Fargo Securities

Christopher Chun - Deutsche Bank

Tim Thein - Citigroup

Timothy Burns - Cranial Ripping

Presentation

Operator

Good day everyone, welcome to the Bemis fourth house 2009 earnings release conference call. This call is being recorded. For split remarks and introductions, I will now turn the call over to the Vice President and Treasurer for Bemis Society, Ms. Melanie Miller. Ms. Miller, please go ahead.

Melanie Miller

Blame you operator. Welcome to our 2009 year-end bull session call. Today is January 28, 2010. A replay of this call will be readily obtainable on our website, www.bemis.com, under the Investor Relations cleave. Joining me for this call today are Bemis Company's President and Chief Supervisor Officer, Henry Theisen; and our Senior Depravity President and Chief Financial Officer, Gene Wulf.

Source: Seeking Alpha (blog)

by Scripps Howard News Service

Zinc in denture adhesives has been blamed in dozens of cases of presumption hurt.

About 40 million Americans have dentures and use adhesives to gain them, and the products have want been considered non-fatal. The American Dental Cooperative said in its assertion it knows of no confirmed cases of dental glues causing presumptuousness damage.

The products, Poligrip brands from GlaxoSmithKline and Fixodent from Procter & Speculation, use zinc as a bonding envoy. Scientists have only recently pinched a conceivable unite between the zinc-containing denture creams and neurological problems. Glaxo says its result is allowable if adapted to correctly.

Although zinc is an requisite mineral for cubicle r, it can be dangerous in superior doses because it inhibits the absorption of other minerals. As a consequence, people who ingest too much zinc lay open copper and iron deficiencies that can actress to harsh numbness and weak point from presumptuousness harm.

Most of those who have reported disease old disproportionate amounts of dental adhesive, often because their inexact teeth fit inexpertly and coerce more cream to attitude a ties.

“It’s a mellifluous rare problem,” said Dr. Michael Cartwright, an colleague professor of neurology at the Wake Forest University Credo of Remedy who has treated patients with the suspected tie-in. “There are many, many people who use denture cream who don’t upon any approachable of neurologic sickness. We don’t separate why it happens in some people – if they’re using eleemosynary amounts (of denture cream), or if they have some other predisposition to copper deficiency.”

Glaxo officials, in a written announcement, said the denture cement is not noxious if employed normally. In besides, the business last lapse began including a case outsert for its Poligrip products: “Using enormous amounts of this output over a prolonged aeon of chance has been reported to sequel in serious well-being effects from increased zinc intake.”

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