Abstract: A method and system for distributing electronic ticket status information over a network to a remote subscriber portable computing device for a live event includes providing an electronic ticket manager application to a subscriber for installation on the remote subscriber portable computing device. Ticket data for the live event is received over the Internet with a transmission server which has a microprocessor and a memory that stores a remote subscriber's preferences for ticket information format and destination address. The microprocessor filters the ticket data based on past live events and other subscribers who have attended past live events with the subscriber in a group seating arrangement. The microprocessor generates an alert that activates the portable computing device to display a message that suggests the subscriber may attend the live event and invite other subscribers to sit with the subscriber at the event.

Abstract: A diagnostic system for assessing cardiovascular health is provided that incorporates a microfluidic platform and sensors that capture inflammatory monocytes. The portable microfluidic platform shears activated monocytes in a small volume of blood (˜50 ?L) over a glass substrate that mimics the stress and molecular constituents of an inflamed artery. The sensor utilizes CD11c antibodies and/or VLA-4 ligands to capture cells. The device captures a subset of inflammatory subset of activated white blood cells that play a critical role in the progression of cardiovascular disease and whose numbers in the blood and the efficiency of capture directly correlate with risk and pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. The risk of future cardiac events can be assessed. The system can facilitate early detection of cardiovascular disease and can guide risk factor modification and therapy following treatment.

Abstract: A process for maintaining the electrostatic charges substantially at neutral levels thereby reducing or avoiding sheeting in a fluid bed gas phase olefin polymerization reactor.

Abstract: A golf club stabilizer having a plurality of rubber discs all connected to a single threaded rod. In one embodiment, all of the discs can be expanded into contact with the shaft of the golf club uniformly or they can be varied in selectively different amounts. The discs can all be tightened to make the club very stiff or they can be tightened only loosely to make the club more stiff than without the discs but less than with fully tightened discs, The kick point of the club can also be varied by leaving some of the discs in a relaxed state out of contact with the shaft and doing this with any of the discs along the several discs in the club. In another embodiment, the discs of a diameter greater than the internal diameter of the shaft can be connected to the rod, lubricated, and forcibly pressed into the shaft.

Abstract: A golf club stabilizer having a plurality of radially expanded rubber discs all energized by a single threaded energizing rod. All of the discs can be expanded into contact with the shaft of the golf club uniformly or they can be varied in selectively different amounts. The discs can all be tightened to make the club very stiff or they can be tightened only loosely to make the club more stiff than without the discs but less than with fully tightened discs. The kick point of the club can also be varied by leaving some of the discs in a relaxed state out of contact with the shaft and doing this with any of the discs along the several discs in the club.