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Some may represent precursors of modern phyla, but they might be separate groups, and it’s possible they’re not really animals whatsoever. There is normally a quiescent period whenever these cysts could possibly be dispersed on the feet of wading animals. These animals are normally more active and somewhat nomadic.
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Sac-like digestive has a single opening that is used both as mouth and anus. CR has been demonstrated to significantly extend lifespan in a number of organisms. Constriction of body muscle can cause infection prevention.
Eat some fruits and veggies and you’ll take in fiber, which is a kind of carbohydrate that maynot be digested. If you really need to figure it out, start looking into how much you will need to feed a big, growing carnivorous reptile. The fresh water louse is a crustacean that resembles a wood louse and it isn’t a fish louse (louse is simply https://aussieessaywriter.com.au/ the name).
Hydra cells never lose the capacity to repress transposons. Now it ought to be mentioned that this doesn’t follow that the hydra can’t be killed. However, Hydra isn’t typical of the Hydrozoa for a whole.
The third layer is known as mesoglea that’s composed of a structureless gelatinous substance that’s secreted by the call layers of the human body wall. The quantity of urine an individual produces is contingent on many elements, like the amounts of liquid and food a individual consumes and the sum of fluid lost through sweat and breathing. The consequent food shortage contributes to a rapid decline in Daphnia density.
All birds are categorized beneath this class. Sex determination in some crocodiles and turtles, for instance, is often determined by the temperature during critical amounts of egg development. Oviparous animals lay eggs in a secure place in the surroundings.
If you eat a nutritious diet full of many different high-nutrient foods, you’re more likely to relish decent health than should you eat a bad diet which is lacking in nutrients. All carbohydrates https://www.bankstreet.edu/research-publications-policy/occasional-paper-series/ come from food, but distinct foods contain various kinds of carbohydrates. The undigested food is subsequently sent out through the top layer of the cell.
There’s also substantial variability in the manner they move from 1 host species to another. All of these are aquatic and the majority of them live in the ocean. Accordingly, the organisms began as simple kinds of life during the spontaneous generation and then became increasingly more complex with time.
It seems to be a red dwarf, a category of low temperature and very low luminosity stars. Placing a container of water outside in good sunlight will normally guarantee a great development of algae within fourteen days, typically a lot less. It’s so large it can be found from space!
For that reason, it’s possible to count the amount of cells in a particular volume of fluid, and thereby figure out the concentration of cells in the fluid in general. All that bone and teeth are going to be a huge strain on calcium, so they’ll require a great deal of that. They have cell walls, which are composed of a substance named Chitin.
Cut a hydra in half, and it’ll regenerate its entire body and nervous system in a couple days. It’s possible to slice a hydra in half, and it’ll fully regenerate its entire body and its cells in a few days. This kind of reef grows seaward straight from the shore.
Because it is a easy organism, experiment results would be less difficult to interpret, states Steele. Well, regeneration could be the vital factor here. Biologically, evolution is significant as it drives biodiversity.
Developmental processes are extremely evident during the practice of metamorphosis. Molluscans form an extremely diverse group and form an significant part the ecosystem. Cell differentiation is typically the last stage of development, preceded by numerous states of commitment which aren’t visibly differentiated.
Living things have a tendency to increase in size. The Earth itself goes through a succession of changes. Hydra do not demonstrate any symptoms of aging and is apparently immortal, which might lay foundations for the future medical research.
An important number of the students may qualify after the second calendar year. Animal nutrition is just another area that nutrition scientists are necessary in. The admissions are primarily granted on the grounds of a frequent entrance test performed by the Osmania University.
It is the expression employed when a individual has abnormal quantity of fat physically. In reality, the nerve nets seem to play a comparatively limited part in movement. The term tissue comes out of a sort of an outdated French verb meaning to weave.

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Christian Benteke has made it into the BBC Sport team of the week after his sensational hat-trick against Sunderland.
Benteke led the Villa charge with three goals in the 6-1 rout of Paolo Di Canio's side.
And it was enough to earn him a place in the BBC's top XI, which is chosen by Garth Crooks.
The Belgian striker's terrific treble came in the space of 17 second half minutes.
Benteke became the first Villa striker since Juan Pablo Angel to net 20 goals, while he also now boasts the best tally of any claret and blue marksman in a single Premier League season.
"What a season this lad has had," said Crooks. "In any other campaign his exploits would have won him Young Player of the Season.
"Not that that will in any way worry Paul Lambert or Aston Villa, because it's all about Premier League survival. The Belgian looks every bit a star performer."
Benteke is joined in the team of the week by Fulham keeper Mark Schwarzer, Liverpool trio Daniel Agger, Phillipe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge, West Brom pair Steven Reid and Romelu Lukaku, Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny, Man Utd's Patrice Evra, Yaya Toure of Manchester City and Wigan's Callum McManaman.
Meanwhile, skipper Ron Vlaar has been nominated for Barclays Premier League Goal of the Week following his long-range strike which opened the scoring against Sunderland.
Supporters have until 2pm on Wednesday to vote for Vlaar in the poll.
Snap up match tickets for our final home clash with Chelsea.

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Wrestling: Zepeda, Cruz lead Gervais wrestlers in December
The Gervais wrestling team sent a small contingent of athletes to the Bill Hagerty Invitational at Nestucca High School on Saturday, placing two of six to finish 12th in the final standings.
The Cougars were led by freshman Alexys Zepeda and junior Jonathan Cruz, who have been the team's top two wrestlers through the first month of the season.
Zepeda advanced to the championship round of the 126-pound bracket en route to a third-place finish. The freshman opened the tournament with a bye past the first round, followed by a second-round pin over Vernonia's Kameron Powell to advance to the bracket semifinal.
She earned a 3-2 decision against Ilwaco's Ghannon Wheldon to earn a trip to the championship match, where she fell by 6-0 decision to Rainier's Isaiah Vasquez. She followed with a forfeit against Scio's Hunter Zeiher in the second-place match to finish the day.
Zepeda enters the Gervais program after an impressive middle school career and is coming off of a gold medal-winning performance at the U.S. Schoolgirl Pan American Championships in August. She was one of six U.S. girls to win a goal medal in their respective bracket, taking the championship in the 52 kg weight class, and was named the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler.
Zepeda has used the Pan-Am performance as a springboard into her high school career, where she has opened with back-to-back third-place finishes in December. Prior to Saturday's performance at the Bill Hagerty Invite, Zepeda made her high school debut at the Scio Holiday Tournament on Dec. 9.
After falling by 11-1 major decision to Amity senior Aaron Runion in the first round, Zepeda rallied with three straight decisive victories —one by 13-2 major decision and two by pinfall — to claim third place at the tournament.
But Zepeda has not been the lone success for the small Gervais team this year. Junior teammate Cruz has also placed in every match he's been in this month, including a sixth-place finish in the 145-pound bracket on Saturday.
Cruz opened the season with a first-place finish in the 148-pound junior varsity bracket at the Perry Burlison Invitational on Dec. 2 and followed with a fourth-place finish at the 145-pound varsity bracket in Scio a week later.
On Saturday, Cruz went 3-3 on the day, rebounding from a first-round loss in the quarterfinals with back-to-back victories via pinfall to advance to the consolation semifinal. He lost in the second round to Ilwaco's Allen Chetwood to drop down to the fifth-place match against Siletz's Tanner Clark, whom he beat to open the tournament. But Cruz had reached his daily limit and was forced to forfeit the match, finishing sixth overall.
Sophomore Alex Giron went 2-2 in the 170-pound bracket, while teammate Fabian Santos was 1-2 at 170 pounds. The two were coming off a successful trip to Scio where they each advanced to the consolation semifinals.
The rest of the Cougars were rounded out by Reynaldo Marrufo (0-2, 145 pounds) and Zamir Cortes (2-2, 145).

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|Publication number||US5345693 A|
|Application number||US 07/956,021|
|Publication date||Sep 13, 1994|
|Filing date||Jun 6, 1990|
|Priority date||Jan 2, 1989|
|Also published as||CA2082175A1, EP0531288A1, EP0531288B1, WO1991019144A1|
|Publication number||07956021, 956021, PCT/1990/137, PCT/DK/1990/000137, PCT/DK/1990/00137, PCT/DK/90/000137, PCT/DK/90/00137, PCT/DK1990/000137, PCT/DK1990/00137, PCT/DK1990000137, PCT/DK199000137, PCT/DK90/000137, PCT/DK90/00137, PCT/DK90000137, PCT/DK9000137, US 5345693 A, US 5345693A, US-A-5345693, US5345693 A, US5345693A|
|Original Assignee||Nutec Spa|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (15), Classifications (15), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to a method for drying, especially waste material, such as crustacean offal, fish offal, etc., to produce a fine-grained base material or additive for foodstuffs or animal fodder, whereby the starting material, optionally after coarse comminution, is passed to a chamber in which it is accelerated in a turbulent air current into various paths of movement, so that the material lumps continuously collide with each other, whereby they are decomposed into smaller and smaller pieces, thereby continuously exposing new surfaces of rupture.
Today, waste products from the fish processing industry, e.g. heads or claws of sea crab, shrimp offal, offal from crayfish, fish etc., are today destroyed or used mainly for animal fodder. A small part of these products is, however, subjected to boiling, drying and pulverizing treatment, whereafter they are used as stock or flavour extract. Traditionally, the extract is produced by air-drying the starting material, and subsequently grinding the dried material. The material may also be boiled dry or freeze- dried, either cut into small lumps or partly boiled down. Because of the very high initial costs and the large energy consumption direct freeze-drying is only used to a limited extent in spite of the fact that this method results in the taste-wise best product. Consequently, drying a partially boiled down product or spray-drying extracts are therefore the most used processes, but at the same time they have the effect that the quality of the end product becomes so poor that it is only usable to a limited extent. A large portion of the flavour agents which are bound in the tissue of the product is not sufficiently released by the processes used today.
Normally only the "soft" part of the fish or shellfish offal is used, while the "hard" part, such as shells and claws, which also contain flavour agents and large amounts of pigments, is lost.
It is the object of the invention to devise a method whereby the product is gently dried while retaining the flavour agents and pigments under a low specific heat consumption. Additionally, the drying should be performed in such a way as to achieve optimum removal of the water in the product. The water is present in the product partly as free water and partly as bound water. Together with the traditional drying methods (convection) the speed of drying is high to begin with as the free water on the surface rapidly evaporates, whereas the capillary conveyance of the "bound" water from the interior of the product towards its surface is considerably slower.
Summing up, it is an object of the invention to provide
1. a method for drying fish or shellfish, either whole or in smaller pieces;
2. a method whereby large pieces of the product are divided into small pieces or pulverized during the drying;
3. a method whereby the water content in the product prior to the drying is high, but very low after the drying;
4. a method whereby the temperature increase in the product is low;
5. a method whereby the specific heat consumption during the drying is low, and
6. a method whereby flavour constituents and pigments in the product are released and retained quality-wise.
These objects are achieved in that the air passed to the drying chamber is imparted partly with the inlet temperature of the starting material, and partly with the temperature which is determined by the decomposition rate, and the air is added in an amount adjusted according to the amount of starting material introduced per time unit, so that the free water is immediately removed from the exposed surfaces of rupture by evaporation, and so that the material is retained in the chamber by way of an exerted counter-pressure until a predetermined size of the pieces or particles has been achieved.
According to the invention, to ensure rapid drying under minimal temperature and gradient formation in the product, a continuous exposure of new wet surfaces takes place from which the water immediately evaporates by convection.
On account of the exposure of new surfaces, the original surface area gets at least 75-250 times larger, dependent upon the size of the starting products and end products, as a result of which the drying is restricted to a strict surface drying. The drying rate thereby becomes directly dependent on the rate at which (a) new surfaces are exposed and (b) heat energy is supplied. According to the invention these preconditions can be arranged as rapid progressions, and consequently a very rapid drying is achievable.
Due to the extremely short drying time from the large drying area, the product temperature during the critical period of the drying course only increases by a few degrees above the inlet temperature of the raw material. In accordance with the invention, it is possible by feeding frozen raw materials to perform a very quick freeze-drying process. After the drying, the dried product can assume a temperature approaching the temperature of the outlet air. Even at an air inlet temperature as high as 400°-500° C., the succeeding temperature increase is negligent during the drying course, and subsequently increases in the final phase of the drying in which the water content is close to that of the dried product.
The very low temperature increase of the product during the drying means that no appreciable denaturation of the protein content of the product takes place. By the comminution of the product, flavour substances and pigments bound in the product tissue are released. This is achieved solely as a consequence of the low and consequently gradual temperature increase to which the product is exposed during the processing and drying.
The continuous exposure of new wet surfaces and the connected rapid drying course create the basis for an extremely gentle drying of the products.
The object of the drying (which is a pure preservation method) is to dry a wet, quality-wise unstable product to a dryness which entails maximum stability.
During the said drying process, the products are normally subjected to a number of decomposing and quality reducing processes, such as oxidation of flavour and aroma substances, discolouration, tissue rupture by osmosis, build-up of concentration gradients of salts and soluble substances by diffusion, biological and enzymatic decomposition etc. All these quality reducing processes are dependent on time, temperature and water activity. For example, several of these processes are characterized by having a velocity maximum at some of the water activities which the products undergo during the drying.
Because of the very low temperature increase and the extremely fast drying course which characterize the present invention, the quailty impairing processes can thus be reduced to a minimum, and the natural and high quality of the raw material can be preserved in the dried product.
Compared with traditional convection drying principles (i.e. drying in air current) which can involve a heat consumption of at least 1000-1200 kcal/kg evaporated water, the method according to the invention consumes only 700-850 kcal/kg evaporated water. This is due to the thermal efficiency being very high. The reason for this is that the supplied heat is primarily used for evaporating the free water and only secondarily for heating the product.
The advantages of the method according to the invention are also apparent when comparing with the conventional drying processes, such as freeze-drying, furnace-drying and spray-drying. By the strong heat impact from outside and inwardly, which takes place in the last-mentioned two processes, a considerable product denaturation is accomplished. This affects both flavour and quality, as a strong heat impact on a product with relatively high water content causes a kind of boiling of the product, which at least as regards the proteins is comparable with a denaturation/coagulation. In case of freeze-drying, however, it is not strictly a boiling, but a real frost burst of the cells. In this connection, spray-drying can only be used for liquid products, such as milk or the like, which can easily be pulverized. Here the principle is a direct conversion of the raw material into a powder in a hot, vertical air current, which at a controlled rate provides for conveyance of the dry product to the discharge means. The relatively heavy, moist product is kept floating until most of the water has evaporated. In case of the other methods, the product is first dried in whole state, whereafter it is decomposed to the desired size. This is a method which from a viewpoint of energy consumption is very inexpedient as the evaporation rate decreases with the size of the product introduced.
The method used for exposing new surfaces is based on the impact principle, i.e. product against product in an air current. The air current, which is used as drying media, is simultaneously used for exposing new product surfaces. Due to the rotor/stator form, the considerable air flow through the swirl drying chamber will generate many turbulent air currents which accelerate the product to a very high speed required for comminuting the material by the products impinging against each other. The turbulent flow in the swirl drying chamber is very important, as a laminar flow could not provide the desired effect as regards comminuting the product. It is a characteristic feature of the impact principle that it is capable of bursting both hard and soft tissue types, i.e. shells or bones as well as meat and connective tissue. Further, the principle makes very modest demands on the size of the raw material, and it is possible to introduce whole claws and heads of sea crab as well as whole shrimp directly into the swirl drying chamber without prior comminution.
The swirl drying chamber may advantageously be a machine sold under the tradename Ultra-Rotor which today is used mainly for fine-grinding of chemicals, plastics, etc. Such a machine has a rotor being provided with a number of horizontal discs along the periphery of which a large number of radial plates are positioned, the said discs together forming many small chambers, and a stator having a grooved surface. When the rotor rotates at very high velocity turbulent air currents arise between the chambers due to the unevennesses of the stator and due to changes in the directions, velocity and acceleration of the air currents when passing in and out between the air chambers of the rotor.
The drying course is controllable by setting the following:
the temperature of the raw material. By lowering the inlet temperature of the raw material, the temperature of the product during the drying can be limited to any desired level. Advantageously, particularly sensitive materials can be dried at a temperature below the freezing point.
the temperature of the inlet air. By increasing the temperature, the capacity is increased simultaneously with the drying time being reduced.
the amount of air contra product quantity. After setting the temperature of the inlet air and the raw material, the heat economy is optimized during the drying through a minimization of the amount of air relative to the quantity of raw material.
the counter-pressure over the swirl drying chamber. The product is retained in the chamber by increased counter-pressure, and both fineness and dryness are increased in the finished product.
The object according to the invention was used for producing a powder of offal from sea crayfish. Thus claws and heads of sea crayfish were passed to the swirl drying chamber. These claws and heads were of a size of 15-20 cm and 5-7 cm, respectively, and had a water content of about 80%. To ensure homogeneous introduction into the chamber the material was coarsely comminuted in the conveyor screw to a size of about 5 cm. 350 kg raw material were introduced per hour. The chamber inlet air had a temperature of 450° C. and was introduced in an amount of 4000 m3. After the processing in the swirl drying chamber the water content had been reduced to below 8-10%, and in the finished powder the grain size was below 85 μm in respect of 45% of the product, and below 150 μm in respect of all the product. The product was dried directly from frozen state as well as from unfrozen (or thawed) state. The state of the product before the drying was not important for the comminution properties, but only influenced the heat consumption, because extra heat energy was needed for thawing the product as well as for the water evaporation.
The conditions of the drying course entail that, under the influence of the very high temperature of the drying air, there is achieved a sterilizing effect on the product, i.e., because bacteria on the surface and in the outer material layer are killed when the material is introduced into the swirl drying chamber.
The powder from the drying chamber can be used directly, but in case of high demands on the particle size it may also advantageously be passed to classifying means of conventional type coupled after the chamber. By that means it becomes possible to remove oversize particles or material lumps from the flow of material leaving the chamber and return them to the chamber inlet.
The finished product from the swirl drying chamber is a pink dry powder which is usable as natural stock or flavour extract for processed fish products, such as shrimp or lobster soup and as additive in instant food. Due to the released flavour substances and pigments the finished product can replace a variety of the artificial additives used today.
A sea crayfish powder was produced by the method according to the invention from raw or boiled sea crayfish offal in the form of heads and claws of raw sea crayfish.
The raw material had a water content of about 80% calculated on total weight, and the product was dried under continuous comminution to a water content of about 10%.
The product was visually characterized by a pink colour and a distinct taste of sea crayfish.
After the drying and comminuting process the product had achieved a very fine granulation of the size 10-500 μm. This comminution causes a more or less total release of flavour and colour substances which otherwise would have been bound in the meat and shell structures. This makes the product especially suited for human food, as the product readily replaces a variety of the synthetic flavour substances and extracts used today.
As opposed to known flavour substances which mainly consist of a very small part of real flavour substances, and a very large part of salt and said like, the powder consists of 100% sea crayfish (apart from a residual water content of about 10%).
Due to the special process used for producing the products, there is also achieved very long storage life without use of preserving agents, as the product on account of the low water content and a certain kind of sterilization during the process does not make vey high demands on storage.
For example, the powder may form part of fish pies, soups and the like as a completely natural raw material since the gentle process by which the powder is produced in no way has denaturated the natural composition of the raw material, but has merely removed the majority of the water content.
The product or parts thereof, e.g. particles larger than 70-100 μm, may secondarily be used within the fodder industry as especially in this fraction there is a large calcium content as well as a certain astaxantine content.
When used within the fish fodder industry, it is possible to take advantage of the retained attractive parts of the product and the colourant astaxantine, in particular for use as trout or salmon fodder.
Laboratory analysis of the sea crayfish powder yielded the following results:
______________________________________Raw material: Whole fresh or frozen sea crayfish or parts thereof (Norwegian Lobster).Description: Colour: Pink. Aroma: Strong or delicate taste of sea crayfish. Freely flowing powder.Product analysis: Water max. 7-10% of the powder Protein max. 42% of the powder (N × 6.25) Fat (Stoldt) max. 9% of the powder Ash content max. 40% of the powder Digestibility min. 8% of the protein Salt (NaCl) max. 6% of the powder______________________________________
Shrimp meal was produced by the method according to the invention from shells and other offal components from the shrimp shelling industry or alternatively from whole shrimp. The raw material may be of various kinds, but the experiment was carried out on the species Pandalus Borealis, generally called North Atlantic shrimp.
The water content in the raw material was about 80% calculated on total weight, and the product was dried under comminution to a water content of about 10%
The product was visually characterized by a pink colour and a distinct taste and smell of shrimp.
After the drying and comminuting processes the product achieved a very fine granulation to a granulate size of 10-500 μm. This comminution causes a release of the flavour and colour substances which otherwise would have been bound in the meat and shell structures, which makes the product well-suited for use in the fish fodder industry, especially for trout and salmon fodder. The shrimp's natural content of astaxantine, which is retained in the powder as a consequence of the gentle process, is assimilated in the fish body via the fodder and results in the desired red colouring of the meat.
Fodder experiments have demonstrated that fish prefer fodder with admixed shrimp meal of the kind produced by the method of the present invention over fodder without admixture, since the retained flavour substances from the shrimp attract the fish.
The very fine granulation of the powder further entails that the fodder coefficient in the finished fodder is lower than in corresponding known fodder types, which is a consequence of improved assimilation of the product in the digestive organs of the fish. An improved exploitation of the fodder also means less contamination of the water in which the fish stay, as they do not give off as much of the fodder. The last feature is a very significant point as regards environmental concerns.
Besides the use as fodder, the powder may also be part of human food as a replacement of synthetically produced flavour substances.
Laboratory analysis of the shrimp powder yielded the following results:
______________________________________Raw material: Whole fish or frozen deep-water prawn (Pandalus Borealis) or parts thereof.Description: Colour: Red to violet, varying in dependence of the astaxantine content in the raw material. Aroma: Distinct taste of fresh shrimp. Freely flowing powder.Product analysis: Water max. 7-10% of the powder Protein min. 64% of the powder (N × 6.25) Fat (Stoldt) max. 5% of the powder Ah content max. 22% of the powder Digestibility min. 85% of the protein Salt max. 5% of the powder______________________________________
A fish powder was produced by the method according to the invention from raw residual products (fish meat from fish carcass after filleting), from fillet production or like fish processing. The experiments were carried out on parts from cod.
The water content in the raw material was about 80-85% calculated on the total weight, and after drying under comminution the product had a water content of about 10%.
The product was visually characterized by a pale to greyish colour and a relatively neutral smell. Like in the raw material, the taste is slightly sweet.
After the drying and comminuting process, the product achieved a very fine granulation with a particle size of 10-500 μm. This comminution causes release of flavour substances which would otherwise have been bound in the meat structure, and consequently the product is usable in foodstuffs in view of replacing the synthetically produced flavour substances and extracts used today.
Contrary to known flavour substances, which only to a very small extent consist of real flavour components and a very large salt component, the fish powder in question consists of 100% fish meat (apart from a residual water content of about 10%).
By the special production procedure, a very long storage life is obtained without using preserving agents; as the product, because of its low water content, the boiling and a certain degree of sterilization, makes no heavy demands on storage.
The powder may form part of fish pies, soups and the like as a completely natural raw material. As a consequence of the gentle production process, no denaturation of the natural composition of the raw material is effected apart from a reduction in the water content.
The powder is immediately usable in all situations requiring fish taste or requiring an extra water uptake in the product. Under normal circumstances the fish powder may take up about 250-270% of its own weight. This property is particularly utilizable in pies, fish sausages and the like, where it is in the interest of the producer to bind the free water.
The water uptake further means that the product can be used as binder in the above or like products.
Laboratory analysis of the fish powder yielded the following results:
______________________________________Raw material: Clean-offs from filleting white roundfish (cod).Description: Colour: Light brown to grey. Aroma: Delicate taste of fresh roundfish. Freely flowing powder.Product analysis: Water max. 7-10% of the powder Protein min. 89% of the powder (N × 6.25) Fat (Stoldt) max. 3% of the powder Ash content max. 6% of the powder Digestibility min. 98% of the protein Salt max. 2% of the powder______________________________________
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|International Classification||A23K1/10, A23B4/03, F26B3/10, F26B1/00|
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Walgreens is lifting an online purchase limit for pediatric fever-reducing products.
The Deerfield, Ill.-based pharmacy chain said in a statement that, “Walgreens has worked diligently with our suppliers to ensure we have enough supply to meet customer demand nationwide. Due to the improved in-stock conditions of over-the-counter pediatric fever-reducing products, we have removed the online only purchase limit.”
The company said that retailers nationwide were experiencing supplier fulfillment challenges due to increased demand for the products when it first announced the limit of six products per transaction last month.
Walgreens added that, while it continued to have products to support customers and patients, it was seeking to prevent excess purchasing behavior.
CVS and Kroger also implemented purchasing restrictions last month. Walgreens is the first of those major retailers to lift those restrictions.
CVS Health is continuing to restrict purchases of children’s pain-relief products to two per person both in-store and online, said Mary Gattuso, CVS lead director, retail communications. She said the restrictions are to ensure equitable access for consumers.
“We’re committed to meeting our customers’ needs and are working with our suppliers to ensure continued access to these items,” she said.
Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., which asked customers in December to limit their purchases to two pediatric pain medications and four cold and flu items, did not respond to a request for comment.
The purchasing restrictions were implemented at a time when U.S. hospitalization rates for the flu were reportedly the highest in a decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported almost 19,000 flu hospitalizations for the week ending Dec. 31, 2023, and 13 flu-related pediatric deaths, bring the number of flu pediatric deaths to 74 for the season.

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OK, So What’s an Import Car?
DETROIT (AP) _ Think of the 1992 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis and you think of big cars for a big country from an automaker emblematic of America’s industrial muscle.
Symbols of true-blue American motoring, right?
In some halls of government, they’re counted as imports when calculating what’s known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy. But they’re domestics when figuring sales. Just to muddy things up, the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis are made in Canada.
For a car to count as a domestic vehicle for CAFE purposes, 75 percent or more of its content must be made in the United States or Canada. If it falls under that, it’s a CAFE import, no matter where it’s made.
Some cars sold by General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. count as imports for fuel-economy purposes. None of the Japanese automakers’ cars sold in the United States meets the 75 percent rule.
The law says average mileage for an automaker’s domestic and import fleets each must be 27.5 miles per gallon or better.
If either or both fleet averages fall short of the 27.5-mpg standard, an automaker must either use accrued or anticipated credits or pay a fine.
The import-domestic distinction is important for automakers.
If a manufacturer such as Ford has a large car - say, a Crown Victoria - that meets the 75 percent domestic-content rule but gulps gas, the company’s domestic CAFE is reduced. That forces it to pay fines or use up credits.
However, Ford can move the car to the import CAFE list and average the mileage of that model with cars that have far better fuel economy - say, the South Korean-made Ford Festiva, which has a combined highway and city mileage of about 32 mpg. That brings Ford’s import and domestic CAFE lists into compliance with the rule.
That’s exactly what Ford has done with the ’92 Crown Vic and Grand Marquis.
″We will, in order to balance out our CAFE so that it stays above the standard but not substantially above and to ensure that we have a cushion, move the Crown Vic and Grand Marquis to the import fleet,″ said Dave Kulp, Ford manager of fuel economy planning and compliance.
For 1992, the car’s domestic content is about 73 percent, down from 93 percent in the 1991 models. That was done by switching some components, like the fuel tank, catalytic converter and some trim items, to overseas suppliers.
The ’92 Crown Vic and the Grand Marquis, both made at Ford’s St. Thomas, Ontario, assembly plant, have an average fuel economy of about 22 mpg. The ’91 versions averaged about 16 mpg.
Nonetheless, Ford switched them, perhaps concerned that the current popularity of its Lincoln cars will bring its domestic CAFE level far below the magic 27.5-mpg mark.
Matching CAFE lists against manufacturing site lists can result in a crazy quilt of what’s an import and what’s a domestic.
GM counts its Cadillac Allante, assembled in Hamtramck, Mich., as an import, mainly because the body is made in Italy. Other GM cars counted on the import CAFE list are truly made overseas, including the Geo Storm, made by Isuzu in Japan, and the Pontiac LeMans, made by Daewoo in South Korea.
The Plymouth Laser, Eagle Talon and Mitsubishi Eclipse are made at the Diamond-Star Motors Corp. plant in Normal, Ill., which Chrysler owns with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. of Japan. Those cars are counted as imports for CAFE purposes and domestic for sales purposes.
The Dodge Stealth and all Plymouth and Dodge Colt models are made in Japan by Mitsubishi and are counted as part of Chrysler’s import CAFE fleet.


What’s New at Sony – CES 2020
Ready to take you to a new level of immersive content is Sony’s 8K screens, and deep blacks in it’s OLED 4K range along with an audio experience to match.
While utilising the same X1 Ultimate processor as last year, there are still new additions to its range including Ambient Optimisation that enhances picture and sound quality for viewers in any environment.
While TV’s are generally a significant drawcard for the Expo from Sony, there were a few other significant announcements that are bound to excite. Including a 360 reality audio experience.
With an update to some of Sonys headphone range, you can immerse yourself in a whole new way into your audio.


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Engineering graduate student receives Killam Scholarship
Mechanical Engineering, PhD student, Robynne Murray, was recently awarded a Killam Scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year.
The Killam Scholarship is the most prestigious graduate award offered by Dalhousie University, and is an extremely competitive scholarship.
The Faculty of Engineering would like to congratulate Robynne on receiving the award, and to wish her continued success in her studies.
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As every year, mercedesblog.com presents the list of Mercedes new models that will be launched in 2022.
Despite the semiconductor crisis and the shortage of some raw materials, Mercedes has a very long list of news for 2022. For the first time, the number of electric and electrified Mercedes new models is higher than conventional models.
Here is the list of Mercedes new models for 2022 and the period of launch.
Mercedes EQB: The electric version of the GLB with the same 66.4 kWh battery from EQA and two top versions at the start both with all-wheel drive and two motors: EQB 300 (168 kW/390 Nm,) and EQB 350 (215 kW/ 520 Nm)
Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4Matic +
Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4Matic+: The first electric AMG with a large 107.8 kWh battery from the EQS 580 4Matic +. The two engines develop 658 HP and 950 Nm or 761 HP and 1020 Nm with the AMG Dynamic Plus package.
The more luxurious passenger version of the Mercedes Citan which will be followed in the autumn of 2022 by the electric version Mercedes EQT
The electric version of the E-Class has the size of the CLS and promises an interior space similar to the S-Class thanks to the 3120 mm wheelbase (90 mm shorter than the EQS and 14 mm larger than the S-Class with normal wheelbase) . Mercedes EQE will start with two versions: the EQS 350 with a single engine with 215 kW on the rear axle and a version with two engines and all-wheel drive about which no official details have been given yet. Compared to EQS, it does not have a tailgate but a separate trunk.
The second generation Mercedes GLC takes over the platform and the new interior from C-Class with the new generation MBUX system and portrait display.
Developed by AMG, the new Mercedes-AMG SL is built on the new MSA (Modular Sports Architecture) platform and receives integrakl steering and all wheel drive for the first time. Give up the retractable rigid roof in favor of a soft top and switch to 2 + 2 seats configuration. Replaces both the old SL and the AMG GT Roadster. At the start will be available two 4-liter twin-turbo V8 engines with 476 and 585 HP. Later the range will be completed with an inline 6-cylinder engine and a V8 PHEV.
Mercedes G 500 4×42
The second generation of the super off-roader based on the G-Class with portal axes that offers a ground clearance of about 45 cm.
Mercedes-AMG EQE 43 4Matic +
Mercedes-AMG EQE 43 4Matic+: The second AMG electric model about which Mercedes has not yet given technical details. We believe it will have two engines, electric all-wheel drive and a power of around 500 HP.
The Mercedes-AMG One supercar will finally be delivered to the 275 customers who paid 2.275 million euros plus VAT with a delay of almost two years.
Mercedes GLC PHEV
The new GLC will take over the propulsion system from the new C 300 e which combines the 2-liter and 204 HP turbo engine with a 129 hp electric motor for a total of 313 HP. Also, the future GLC PHEV will take over the larger battery from the new C 300 e which promises a range of over 100 km (99-111 for limousine and 95-107 for estate).
Mercedes EQS SUV
Mercedes EQS SUV: The electrical equivalent of GLS will debut on the EVA platform from EQS and EQE. We only expect versions with two engines and standard all-wheel drive. Of course, the integral steering will not be missing.
Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 4Matic+
Mercedes-AMG EQE 53 4Matic+ : We expect the second AMG version of the business limo EQE to get the same propulsion system from Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4Matic+.
Mercedes A-Class facelift
Launched in April 2018, the Mercedes A-Class will go through a facelift. The front part will be modified and the new radar camera will be mounted behind the Mercedes logo.
We expect the engines to receive more power and consume less.
Mercedes B-Class facelift
Just like the A-Class, the Mercedes B-Class will go through a slight facelift.
And the top versions of the Mercedes-AMG A35/45 will go through a facelift.


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Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc. (NYSE: POT) appears to have the fertilizer and potash sector off to some concerns during earnings season. The culprit appears to be weaker than expected demand followed by soft pricing. While shares had been weak ahead of earnings, selling is the trend.
Earnings came in at $0.56 EPS versus Thomson Reuters expectations of $0.63 EPS. The drop was 33% in raw earnings based on lower sales and volumes meeting higher operating costs per output unit. The company’s CEO noted that demand has taken longer to surface than it originally expected earlier this year, but he does expect that demand will accelerate through the rest of 2012. Weaker potash prices have been seen based on lower demand and based on higher competition.
As far as guidance for the second quarter, the company sees earnings in a range of $0.90 to $1.10 EPS against estimates of $1.07 EPS. The company is also lowering its fiscal 2012 annual earnings target to $3.20 to $3.60 per share from a prior range offered of $3.40 to $4.00 in earnings per share. The top of the range is now under the $3.61 or so consensus target.
Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) shares are indicated down about 2.3% at $43.25 against a 52-week range of $38.42 to $62.60 and the weakness appears to be elsewhere in competitors. The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) has not traded but the bid/ask range is indicated lower than the $53.20 close and its stock has been weak as well.
JON C. OGG

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Pressure of Rugby World Cup semi-final took its toll on Wallabies fly half Quade Cooper, Will Genia says
- FOX SPORTS
- October 21, 2011
The pressure of last weekend's Rugby World Cup semi-final got to Quade Cooper, Wallabies halfback Will Genia says.
Cooper, the target of constant abuse and booing throughout his time in New Zealand, had a forgettable evening in Auckland as the Wallabies crashed out of the tournament at the hands of the All Blacks.
And Genia, who earlier this week was shortlisted for the IRB Player of the Year award, believes the significance of the occasion and the unrelenting negative media attention were behind Cooper's patchy performance.
"You could sort of see a little bit that the pressure had got to him in that game and afterwards," Genia told Fox Sports’ The Rugby Club.
Despite his stunning admission, the Wallabies No.9 is backing Cooper to bounce back against Wales in the third-place play-off at Eden Park on Friday night.
"I think so," Genia said when asked whether Cooper could rediscover his attacking best.
"Well he came out last week saying he’d have the best game of his life in that semi-final and I guess that didn’t eventuate.
"But we’ve prepared well and all you can do is, I guess, go in judging your performance based on your preparation during the week.
"And, based on that, we’re looking forward to him (Cooper) playing well and the team playing well."
Watch the full interview with Will Genia at the top of the page.
Fox Sports is the place to watch both matches Live and Uninterrupted on the weekend.
Wallabies v Wales kicks off at 6.25pm (EDT) on Fox Sports 3 HD on Friday. Coverage from 5.30pm.
The World Cup final between New Zealand and France is on Sunday at 6.55pm (EDT). Pre-game show from 6pm.
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All about Dolphins! New multilingual manual for young readers launched
A multilingual educational manual for young readers promoting conservation of dolphins and their habitat.
UNESCO, UNEP Convention on Migratory Species, the private sector and civil society join forces and launch an educational campaign and manual for young readers promoting conservation of dolphins and their habitats.
Paris, 2 May: A multilingual booklet entitled "All about dolphins" was launched today at UNESCO headquarters.
The initiative, supported by the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences of UNESCO, is also part of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
"There cannot be a sustainable future without awareness amongst young generations about the threats that our environment is facing. This manual is a fun way to learn about serious problems affecting not only a charismatic group of species like dolphins, but also their habitats and the marine environment in general. It will help to increase awareness of the fragility of the planet amongst youngsters and, who knows, perhaps inspire some future environmentalists!" commented Mr. Natarajan Ishwaran, Director of Ecological and Earth Science at UNESCO.
UNESCO actively promotes positive interactions between biological and cultural diversity; the coastal marine biosphere reserves under UNESCO (more than 70 sites in more than 30 countries) can provide useful laboratories for promoting appropriate management practices in favour of dolphins.
Dolphins worldwide face several threats to their survival.
They are threatened by by-catch, pollution, habitat destruction, over-fishing and climate change.
Other human activities that may frighten displace or harm these species such as underwater noise pollution from sources such as shipping traffic, seismic surveys and military sonar.
In order to increase awareness of the threats and challenges for cetacean conservation, UNEP/CMS initiated a campaign to last throughout 2007: the Year of the Dolphin (www.yod2007.org).
Within this initiative a number of activities focus on education and public awareness, and are meant to reach the young readers.
UNEP CMS Executive Secretary, Mr. Robert Hepworth, stressed how the booklet was the result of a unique partnership, between the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and TUI, the largest tourism group in Europe and the two UN bodies.
He believes that a major result was the "involvement of the private sector not only for the financing of the project but also for distribution and outreach in key tourism destinations in coastal areas and adjacent local villages".
Dr. Michael -2- Iwand, Executive Director, Group Corporate Environment Management, TUI-AG, added that: "At TUI, we see ourselves as ambassadors of this important educational message from the United Nations, and are glad to be able to offer our destination network to reach out to tourists as well as local communities, both experiencing, from different angles, marine life and the need to protect the sea."
The Dolphin Manual is a tool kit for primary school children (age 6 to 14) and their teachers. It explains more about these marine mammals and indicates different ways to protect them.
The study booklet with exercises and action ideas to learn all about dolphins is a major component of the educational activities during the Year of the Dolphin.
It has been produced in several languages and is available in two editions (English, German, Italian, French, Spanish) and (English, German, Turkish, Greek , Arabic). The publication will be distributed through the UNESCO network of schools, UNEP channels, and in major tourist destinations thus reaching a wide audience worldwide.
The booklet is available on the dedicated website www.yod2007.org, published by UNEP/CMS 2007, 64 pages.
Talking about the importance of the manual, Mr. Niki Entrup CEO of WDCS Germany, stressed that as an expert organisation for the protection of cetaceans WDCS is happy to see that science and education can go hand in hand and such important messages can be delivered in an effective manner to a large audience.
"Dolphins are a living treasure of our blue planet, but this treasure can be lost if we don't act on what we know. Wild dolphins need clean and quiet oceans, protected areas and people who care. This manual can better equip the next generation; to empower them to become aware and responsive to the challenges their world is facing", he added.
The partners of this project invited other organisations to join the project by printing more copies of the booklet and distributing it through channels available to them.
The call is addressed to institutions, governments, other non-governmental organisations as well other private businesses.
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The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.
The process of making an action of a higher animal reflexive.
the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware;
‘automation replaces human workers by machines’;
the condition of being automatically operated or controlled;
‘automation increases productivity’;
equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation;
‘this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment’;
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes. Human intervention is reduced by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions — and embodying those predeterminations in machines.Automation, includes the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers, and heat-treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering, and stabilization of ships, aircraft, and other applications and vehicles with reduced human intervention.Automation covers applications ranging from a household thermostat controlling a boiler, to a large industrial control system with tens of thousands of input measurements and output control signals.


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- 1 lb baby red potatoes
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- 2 hardboiled eggs
- 1 tbsp garlic mayo
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 stalks celery, diced
- 1 small red onion, sliced
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- Freshly ground salt and pepper to taste
- Wash and cut potatoes into bite-sized pieces, keeping the skins on. Boil in a pot of salted water until potatoes are tender, but not overcooked (check with fork). Rinse with cold water when finished cooking.
- While potatoes cook, hard boil 2 eggs on the stovetop. Clean and dice 3 stalks of celery into bite-sized pieces, finely slice red onion, and chop up some fresh dill.
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The La Cañada High School varsity boys’ water polo team lost its CIF-SS Division IV first-round matchup at Vista Murrieta, 9-3, on Tuesday.
Ian Wipfli, Nathan Honbaum and Travis Pung each scored one goal for the Spartans, who finished the season third in the Rio Hondo League standings with a 3-5 league record (5-17 overall).
La Cañada previously edged host South Pasadena in its regular season finale, 4-3, which created a tie between the two schools for the final playoff spot and third place in the league standings. Tait Landswick scored a pair of goals while Wipfli scored once.
The Spartans and Tigers returned to the pool that same day for an abbreviated two-quarter game, with LCHS winning 6-5 to secure the final CIF playoff berth. Wipfli produced three goals, while Landswick, Jack Kabassian and Max Hong each scored once.


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Charles Simic Has a Secret and it Takes Place in Bed
See this little essay in the New York Review of Books blog, in which Charles Simic lets us in on a secret that takes place between the sheets: his writing.
Here's a little teaser. Then make the jump.
All writers have some secret about the way they work. Mine is that I write in bed. Big deal!, you are probably thinking. Mark Twain, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Truman Capote, and plenty of other writers did too. Vladimir Nabokov even kept index cards under his pillow in case he couldn’t sleep some night and felt like working. However, I haven’t heard of other poets composing in bed—although what could be more natural than scribbling a love poem with a ballpoint pen on the back of one’s beloved? True, there was Edith Sitwell, who supposedly used to lie in a coffin in preparation for the far greater horror of facing the blank page. Robert Lowell wrote lying down on the floor, or so I read somewhere. I’ve done that, too, occasionally, but I prefer a mattress and strangely have never been tempted by a couch, a chaise longue, a rocker, or any other variety of comfortable chairs.
How did this all start? Well, it began even before Simic came across the following Breton line: "“Poetry is made in bed like love”. See:
This habit of working in bed had its beginning in my childhood. Like any other normal and healthy child, I often pretended to be sick on mornings when I hadn’t done my homework and my mother was already frantic about being late for work. I knew how to manipulate the thermometer she would insert in the pit of my arm and produce a high enough temperature to alarm her and make it mandatory that I skip school. “Stay in bed,” she would yell on her way out of the door. I obeyed her conscientiously, spending some of the happiest hours in my memory reading, daydreaming and napping till she returned home in the afternoon. Poor mother.

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I REMEMBER PATRICK MURPHY: HE SAVED BLACK LIVES!
During the 1968 riots the Public Safety Director was a man by the name of Patrick V. Murphy. In 1967 Mayor Walter Washington the city’s first black Mayor hired him as the Director of the DC Police and Fire Departments.
Mr. Murphy moved up through the ranks of the New York City Police Department. He became recognized as a leader among law enforcement officials seeking ways to deter the violence and racial unrest that simmered just below the surface of American life in the 1960s.
He was a reform-minded law enforcement official who hailed from New York City. He was nationally known for trying to defuse tensions between police and inner-city residents. He shaped and supervised the District’s efforts to deal with the historic rioting of 1968.
Mr. Murphy was recognized as a champion of restraint. In particular, he tried to minimize the use of force and trained police officers to respect the rights and dignity of the poor and the voiceless.
Mr. Murphy came to Washington in 1965 as a Justice Department official before being appointed the District’s first director of public safety in 1967.
In 1967 I became a Roving Leader for Department of Recreation & Parks as a Youth Gang Task Force member. Mr. Murphy quickly brought the Roving Leaders into the department and made us Community Partners.
Eager for improvement in the interaction between citizens and government, Mr. Murphy became an advocate of what later became known as community policing. He greatly increased the recruiting and promotion of members of minority groups in the police and fire departments.
When all hell broke loose on April 4, 1968 our Prince of Peace the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, we were ready thanks to Mr. Murphy.
My co-worker the late Willie Wood of the NFL Green Bay Packers and me were standing on the corner of 9th U Streets NW on a bright sunshiny day. Someone in a car drove by and yelled “Harold Bell they just shot and killed Dr. King in Memphis, Tennessee”.
Willie looked at me and said, “I think we got trouble my man”, within an hour smoke and flames had broken out all over the city. The terror and the disorder that broke out in Washington, DC caught everyone by surprise. Mr. Murphy, as the city’s public safety director, became the leader. The Nation’s Capital became the center of attention all over the world. Mr. Murphy had already reached out to community activist, youth advocates and the DC Department of Recreation & Parks Roving Leader Program Youth Gang Task Force. We were ask to assist police officers in community reach-back programs and it paid off. I thought we held the loss of life to single digits because of our training under Mr. Murphy, it was later reported that twelve people were killed. It was still the lowest loss of life compared to other cities.
First, Willie Wood and I would team up with our friend pioneering U. S. Marshall in-charge, Luke C. Moore. We walked the U street NW corridor arm and arm until I was called by my boss Stanley Anderson. I was told Ass’t Chief Tilmon O’Bryant at the 3rd District HQ wanted to meet with me.
Chief O’Bryant was the highest ranking black official in the DC Police Department. He was so smooth I called him, “Cool Hand Luke”. He was a man of the streets, ‘The Original Officer Friendly’.
I made my way to the 3rd District HQ and to my surprise Chief O’Bryant was having Roll Call. He summoned me to come to stand by his side. I was in for another surprise, he swore me in and gave me a police badge, but no gun. The badge would allow me to pass through the police and military barricades set up around the city to contain the looters. The three days as a cop with no gun are three days I will never forget.
There was one incident according to a story written in the Washington Post in 1978 by James Lardner, a former D.C. police officer. He wrote, “I remember well from the 1968 riots, there was an episode that illuminated Mr. Murphy’s policies and how he put them into practice. On the second full day of the riots, he encountered a confrontation at Sixth and M streets NW. As residents complained about how their neighbors had been treated. The police were on edge, Mr. Murphy stepped in and quietly told the people to go back to their homes.”
“He told the police, be courteous to these people. He then removed police
officers from the street and left it to military troops to disperse the crowd”.
The most significant move by Mr. Murphy to me was when he and Mayor Washington stood their ground against FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover sent an order out “shoot looters on sight”. Mayor Washington and Murphy both said, “Not on my watch”.
Mr. Murphy was widely quoted as saying, “I will resign rather then carry out orders to shoot those making off with merchandise”. His thoughts, ‘lives were more important than merchandise’.
The rioting in Washington was among the most destructive in the nation. Thousands of federal troops were sent into the city, and thousands of residents were arrested. A dozen people were killed, fewer than the number who had died in rioting in other cities.
Merchants who had seen their businesses destroyed complained that the police had not been forceful enough, and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill lent a sympathetic ear.
But Mr. Murphy, while deploring the destruction, was satisfied with the restraint shown by the police “Violence begets violence,” he said.
The businessmen were right to complain, but Mr. Murphy was right on, he put human life before merchandise. I recalled, the very first day of the riots the looters had a field day. They took everything that was not nailed down and there were no arrest. Evidently, Mr. Murphy decided to crack down the second day and friends of the looters and the looters didn’t like it!
Shortly after the 1969 inauguration of Richard M. Nixon as president, Mr. Murphy left his city government post and I left the DC Recreation Department’s Roving Leader Program for the Richard Nixon White House (Presidential Appointment).
As a decade of turbulent change drew to a close, Mr. Murphy was not In 1970 Hattie and me are in the Oval Office with President Richard Nixon and Secretary of Statewithout detractors. But he was widely viewed as a spokesman for police reform (50 years ahead of his time).
In 1970, he became police chief in Detroit. In the same year, when scandal threatened the department in his home town, he was called on by Mayor John V. Lindsay to head back to the New York City Police Department in the wake of devastating corruption.
In New York, he changed the formal policy on use of deadly force, permitting it only to defend life. The new approach became influential across the country.
“If you were a big-city mayor with a slightly berserk police department on your hands,” Washington Post reporter, James Lardner wrote, “there was one preferred remedy. You hired Patrick V. Murphy.”
Where is Patrick Murphy when we need him? I never got the chance to thank Mr. Murphy for saving so many lives in my hometown. He died 2011 at the age of 91. RIP to a real life “Officer Friendly”.
Footnote: Keeping Patrick Murphy’s Police Community Relations forums and community policing hopes alive decades later.

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The 35th annual Beach & Riverside Cleanup returns Sept. 29, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. The Oregon Lottery joins SOLVE to host cleanup events at 18 Oregon state parks. A tradition since 1984, more than 5,000 volunteers come together to clean beaches and riversides as part of the International Coastal Cleanup and National Public Lands Day.
To register as a volunteer for the local UPPER DESCHUTES RIVER Cleanup, visit https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000FEXvS (or follow the link for Tickets). This is a free event!


YPII is one of 15 sites across the country participating in Opportunity PassportTM, a package of resources designed by the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative that teaches young people who have been in foster care how to manage their finances, and matches their savings toward approved asset purchases such as a car to get to work, a computer for school, or housing.
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a national foundation that supports young people transitioning from foster care into adulthood, commissioned a recent report that examines the impact of this matched assets and financial education program on young people aging out of foster care. Carol Behrer will discuss the report’s findings, her experience on the ground in Iowa, and the importance of programs that target asset accumulation among vulnerable young people in the child welfare system.
Enduring Assets: Findings from a Study on the Financial Lives of Young People Transitioning from Foster Care
By Clark Peters, PhD JD AM; Margaret Sherraden, PhD AM; and Ann Marie Kuchinski, MA
This report, published in September 2012, examines the impact of the Opportunity PassportTM‘s asset matching and financial education resources in the lives of young people aging out of foster care. The report found that these supports have a tangible impact on the ability of young people to lead financially stable lives long after they have left the foster care system. This summary presents major findings of the full report. For more information, download our news release.
The Jim Casey Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Initiative is the force behind the research on this invaluable topic. The Foundation designated Carol Behrer the Executive Director of the Youth Policy Institute of Iowa (YPII) to participate in our Twitter Chat.
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Here are a few of the tweets during the Live Chat.
Money management is number 1 worry of young ppl leaving foster care #SWunited
— Jim Casey Initiative (@jimcaseyyouth) October 16, 2012
View Complete Chat Here
A live twitter chat was held on October 15, 2012 at 8 PM EST for a #SWUnited Twitter Chat which will discuss the Financial Lives of Young People in the Foster Care System. The Jim Casey Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Initiative is the force behind the research on this invaluable topic. The Foundation has designated Carol Behrer the Executive Director of the Youth Policy Institute of Iowa (YPII) to participate in our Twitter Chat.
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The old fortress was built at the confluent of two important valleys: the south valley(continuing straight in the picture) leading to Bhutan, the east one (left on the picture) going to the Karo La and Lhasa.
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...picture! Nice colors!
good place to place a castle
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text: The first men’s residence on campus renamed Elrod Hall, opened in 1923 with seventy student rooms. Like its near-twin Brantly Hall, the facility was originally intended to be part of two U-shaped residential complexes. The Helena architectural firm of Link and Haire drew the blueprints for the Renaissance Revival style hall, which reflects the exuberance of spirit in campus buildings constructed under the Carsley-Gilbert campus master plan. Each floor is organized into horizontal divisions typical of the style. Red-brown brick, cream-colored terra cotta, and green Spanish roof tile label the building part of the Carsley-Gilbert group.


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The Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library is proud to host a new exhibit of paintings by Caryn King: “A View to the Souls of Animals”
Caryn is a narrative painter who began her artistic career with clay. After 14 years of making her living as a sculptor, intermingled with a few years earning her BFA in Illustration, and stints as a toy designer and art teacher, King came home to painting. “My love and appreciation for animals came full circle when I started painting animals exclusively.”
As you would expect from a former clay artist, texture is very important to King’s paintings. This feature is one of the things that allows her animal paintings to become intensely expressive without becoming sentimental. “I love the process of painting, the textures and effects the paint creates,” says King. “Sometimes the drag of the brush and the layers of paint that show through are my primary goals.” Her paintings also emphasize a tactile appreciation of the animals themselves. She believes the animals she paints reflect a peace that sometimes seems so elusive to humans. “The feathers of a chicken, the wool of a sheep, the snout of a pig, are some examples of the remarkable visual elements that I strive to enhance in order to capture a viewer’s attention and ultimately an emotional response founded in reality, not sentimentality.”
“A love of nature and a respect for life in all its forms have provided me the basis of my artistic vision. Currently my subject matter focuses on animals. I find my subjects close at hand…with my seven amazing “pet” chickens! One of my main concerns is conveying emotion. When painting animals I paint to convey the individuality and inner spirit of each of my subjects,” she says.
Working in both acrylics and oils, her paintings are created over long periods of time. “I start the individual paintings, move to others, and come back eventually to each. Many paintings begin on a textured surface I create on canvas, paper, or board, a process to give depth and variety to the paint and ultimately to the mood of each painting.” Caryn King is a full-time artist, painting in her hillside studio in South Newfane, Vermont, and sometimes outdoors for some plain air.
“A View to the Souls of Animals” will be on display at the Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center until December 7, 2018. The Matthews-Fuller Library is open to the public: Monday-Friday from 8:00am-6:00pm.

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Originally Posted by Zopilote
Had the fight itself been remotley competitive, then you would have a point, have you seen the fight?
Yes I love that fight. 2 ring generals playing chess, and Mayweather checkmated his ass early. It would be like Bobby Fisher vs Gary Kasparov in a chess match,....just because Kasparov blows him away the first game doesnt mean he will do the same in the 2nd match


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This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that spatial variations in soil microbial variables in a Thai rice paddy are accurately described by multivariate profiles of the soil bacterial communities. We found that community-level physiological profiles of soil bacterial communities could better describe the population density of Rhizoctonia solani in soil than the physicochemical profiles do. However, soil dehydrogenase levels were closely correlated with soil fertility (𝑃 < 0.05), and these were better described by the physicochemical profiles. Hence, the hypothesis was rejected, and we suspect that soil microbial variables react differently to the same physicochemical changes. The average population density of R. solani (35 colony-forming units/g dry soil) was relatively high in the soil we studied, and the soil fertility was found to be among the poorest in Thailand. The soil quality was comparable to the most degraded bare ground soil in an adjacent bioreserve in terms of Shannon diversity index based on the community-level physiological profile as well as values of soil fertility indices. Overall, the soil microbial and physicochemical indicators showed that the paddy soil needs to be supplemented with soil nutrients. Otherwise, R. solani may cause a significant reduction in rice production.
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is looking for multi-talented 2D and 3D artists to join our team and work alongside a group of experienced developers having worked on some of the most popular mods including Zombie Panic: Source, Dystopia, Insurgency, Decadence, Sven Co-op and many more.
We boast an active and professional development environment, which is ideal for anyone looking to expand their knowledge and develop their skills, and to join a team with an aggressive plan for commercial viability.
Information about Overwatch
can be found in the project's announcement, located here: http://www.ModDB.com/mods/overwatch/...2-modification
The candidate's skill set as an artist should include any combination of the following:
- Concept Artist (levels, environments, objects and/or characters);
- Texture Artist (levels, models);
- 3D Artist (models, ranging from simple props to complex organic entities).
We are also looking for one Technical Artist interested in taking on a lead role. The candidate must have at least 2-3 years of experience working with the Source engine. It is preferable (but not required) that this individual be living in Canada at the time of application.
Send us your resume (with a cover letter) including a link to your online portfolio to: email@example.com


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- Dodge Ram 1500 (2019, 2020, 2021)
Specs & Features
- Accommodates up to 12,500 lb rated winch
- Promotes airflow
- 3 -piece reinforced design
- Excellent flow with OEM body lines
This Ram 1500 Front Bumper is designed to protect your 2019-21 RAM 1500. It can accommodate a winch rated up to 12,500 lb. The bumper flows with the body lines of the RAM perfectly and adds protection to your front end. It is made out of 3/16 inch cold rolled steel with ¼ inch reinforcement where necessary and has aluminum mesh to allow cold air to permeate the bumper and flow properly to your trucks OEM components.

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After the last aerial survey over the Sallyhamna area in the afternoon of August 16th, Polarquest2021 UAV-based observation campaign has completed its activities. Preliminary data processing has started onboard S/Y Best Explorer as the boat is heading to its next leg at Ny-Ålesund scientific station. The drone mapping was specifically focused on expeditive geographical observations of relevant sites in Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet, to provide information regarding different kinds of phenomena. Four sites were surveyed by GREAL/FTD tethered drone, yielding over 2000 images in the visible light (in Signehamna, Hansøya, Lågøya, Bockfjorden) and thermal infrared (Jotunkjeldene); a fifth survey was conducted by technical coordinator Michael Struik using a free-flying DJI Mavic mini drone over the Sallyhamna archaeological site. All surveys provided data for image-based modeling; final processing and analysis will take place at the European University of Rome (Italy) and the University of Gdansk (Poland) in the next months.
The two missions over archaeological sites were conducted for geo-history-related scientific research purposes and to provide information regarding the current status of the areas for long-term monitoring. The flights over Hansøya and Lågøya were aimed to obtain sample-maps of the accumulation of driftwood and macroplastics on specific target sites of the shores of the two islands. Considering their different locations in the region, in particular their shore exposition, it is expected that the Hansøya flights will also provide valuable data about the geological character of the island and will produce a partial high-detail rendering of its topography.
The Bockfjorden flights allowed for a local mapping of two warm-water springs (~24°C) in the Jotunkjeldene area, associating visible-light images with thermal infrared frames, towards a more comprehensive description of this rare example of geothermal activity in Svalbard. The activity was a follow-up of a previous test-survey carried out during Polarquest2018. The survey was made possible by the use of a special drone configuration prepared by FlyToDiscover (Italy) upon GREAL’s specifications. High-detail, visible light and thermal infrared maps of the warm springs area will be prepared by Prof. Gianluca Casagrande at the European University of Rome and will be associated to a geological description of the area developed by Dr. Dominik Palgan (University of Gdansk).


GRB 990123: An Extraordinary Example of an Ordinary Gamma-Ray Burst?
R.M. Kippen, M.S. Briggs, R.D. Preece
J. van Paradijs
G.H. Share, R.J. Murphy
C. Winkler, O.R. Williams
M.L. McConnell, J.M. Ryan, C.A. Young
One of the most interesting gamma-ray burst discoveries in recent
years was the simultaneous detection of GRB 990123 at optical, X-ray
and gamma-ray wavelengths. Subsequent observations of this burst
revealed optical, X-ray and radio afterglow counterparts, which
eventually led to a redshift measurement, z ³ 1.6. During the
prompt emission phase, this burst was fortuitously observed by nearly
all the instruments on the Compton Observatory, providing us with a
detailed account of the gamma-ray emission properties. Although the
burst was a large event in terms of its gamma-ray flux and fluence,
its spectral properties are similar to the majority of the burst
population. We will review the gamma-ray spectral and temporal
properties of GRB 990123, concentrating on their relation to the full
burst population and their relation to the prompt optical emission.
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OpTic NaDeSHoT is probably a name that many of you will have heard of even if you don’t follow competitive Call of Duty. NaDeSHoT has been one of the best players in the world for years and is perhaps the biggest star in the Call of Duty scene, however after a disappointing 7th place finish at worlds he has decided to step down from professional play.
Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag is a co-owner of the OpTic organisation so will still be involved with Call of Duty and made sure to say that he is taking a leave of absence instead of officially retiring.
Replacing NaDeSHoT will be Damon “Karma” Barlow, a member of OpTic’s second team OpTic Nation.
Below is the video in which NaDeSHoT announces and explains his leave of absence.

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“This funding round is validation of the work we are doing and the role our technology is set to contribute to developing and assuring self-driving,” said Stan Boland, FiveAI’s CEO, in a statement. “We’re excited to be able to accelerate development and engagements with partners.”
Founded in 2016, the company has been heavily focused on the research end of self-driving vehicles. Its cofounders have backgrounds in developing algorithms and processors. And the company says 40% of its staff have Ph.D.s in fields such as engineering, math, and computer science.
As part of that work, the company is leading a coalition called StreetWise, which is conducting extensive self-driving testing in the U.K. In 2019, StreetWise conducted hundreds of test rides using a predefined 19km stretch of public road in London.
The company is trying to better understand how the entire self-driving system can integrate existing components as well as new ones developed by FiveAI. It is also puzzling out questions such how to define safety metrics and the tech needed to measure them. In addition to creating the autonomous system for the car, FiveAI has built a cloud-based platform for managing some of the challenges that couldn’t be addressed within the car.
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A 46-year-old recreational league soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player and slipped into a coma has died.
During a game last week, Ricardo Portillo called a foul on a 17-year-old player and issued a yellow card. The player took exception to the call and punched Portillo in the face.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," said Justin Hoyal a police spokesman in a press release.
The teenager was playing goalie during a game at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville when Portillo issued him a yellow card for pushing an opposing forward trying to score a goal. A yellow card is given as a warning in soccer for a violation of the rules.
The player, who was reportedly larger in stature than Portillo, then punched him in the face.
There was no immediate sign of trauma after the punch landed. But eventually, Portillo began feeling dizzy and sat down. He then began vomiting blood and an ambulance was called to the scene.
The teen has been booked into a juvenile detention center on suspicion of aggravated assault. Authorities will consider additional charges now that Portillo has died.

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A late night fire destroyed and damaged over a half-million dollars in hay Saturday by Lewis Flats Road in Luna County. The fire began at approximately 9 p.m. at GH Dairy located at 2685 Lewis Flats Road, just off State Road 549 (Old Las Cruces Highway).
A GH Dairy supervisor reported the fire to Luna County Central Dispatch. Both Florida and Sunshine Volunteer Fire Departments responded to the call.
The large hay fire could be seen burning for miles. Over 2,000 bales of hay were destroyed at an estimated value of $250 per bale.
The fire continued to burn throughout the weekend and was finally extinguished on Sunday, according to Luna County Undersheriff Arturo Baeza.
The Luna County Sheriff's Office provided traffic assistance, as fire crews battled the large blaze along the busy stretch of highway.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The Sunshine Volunteer Fire Department was unable to comment on the incident, citing county policy on providing information to the Headlight.
According to the Deming Fire Department, hay fires are tough to knock down because stacked bales create their own oxygen.
"We basically put a lot of water on it and protect the surrounding area from exposure," said a DFD spokesman. "Once we get it knocked down we overhaul the scene and take down hot spots."


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Washington area’s Nonprofit Roundtable to offer fellowships (WBJ, 3/31) “nine-month fellowship to 25 local nonprofit professionals, designed to teach them the expertise and skills needed to become executive directors.” Funding from WG members Meyer Foundation, Casey Foundation, Cafritz Foundation, the Freddie Mac Foundation, and the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. Applications due May 30.
[D.C.] A grant from the Women’s Foundation’s African American Women’s Giving Circle makes a big difference for Anacostia nonprofit Ascensions Community Services. (WaTimes, 4/1)
Report Sketches Crime Costing Billions: Theft From Charities (NYTimes, 3/29) – Yes… but the $40 billion theft number is based on a cross-sector average of 6%. So maybe the headline should read “Nonprofits Are Better than For-Profits at Preventing Fraud.” The report’s authors can’t say for sure and neither can anyone else. Fraud is a problem for all organizations, but I don’t understand the logic for singling out nonprofits. If the argument is that nonprofits should be held to a higher standard, it would be nice if someone would actually say that in the report or article.
Economy Slows Charitable Giving, Fundraising in 2007 (wire, 3/31) – so says AFP report.
– [Va.] Two-thirds of adults in Fairfax’s 311 homeless families have full-time employment (!) (WaPo, 4/1) – 36 percent of Fairfax’s total homeless population are children.
– [DC] Fenty’s proposed 2009 budget would create a $19 million housing fund (WaPo, 4/1) –
– Nation’s Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization (4/1) – “Around here, you used to be able to get a Fair-Trade latte and a chocolate-chip croissant for only eight bucks… “Now it’s all tearooms and private salon gatherings catered with champagne and suckling pig. Who can afford that?” *
(* Happy April 1.)


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The video is to show that the media, and society as a whole sees a male having sex with a 15 year old as rape or pedophilia. But when a woman has sex with a 15 year old, it is called cute things like "an affair". Furthermore, women tend to not even get "into trouble" for their "indiscretions". A pedophile is a pedophile, regardless of the gender and they should be treated equally in the eyes of the law!