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Since its release two months ago, Portal has met with overwhelming popular and critical success thanks to its quirky physics and dystopian humor. Yet beneath the mainstream success lies the most subversive first-person shooter (FPS) ever created. Portal is essentially a feminist critique of the FPS genre, flawlessly executed from within the margins it assails. Gender politics just got a whole lot more fun.
Deconstructing the term "first-person shooter" reveals two fundamental concepts of the game mechanic. "First-person" is a personal pronoun that provides linguistic context, or origo, to enable discourse. It is a perspective. "Shooter" describes the discourse that is to occur, specifically the shooting and ultimately killing of the other participants. Thus, a "first-person shooter" is easily identifiable by its specific perceptual presentation of game events, and the presence of a gun or other weapon.
The gun is typically regarded as a phallic symbol of masculine agency, through which power is won and maintained. In any first-person shooter, a power dynamic is reinforced between subject (the player's subjective sense of self) and object (the rest of the game world.) The player is forced to accept militarism and conquest by violence, historically masculine behaviors, as the only course of action. To play a first-person shooter is to enter into a context in which only the male perspective exists, regardless of the gender of the character or player.
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Boosting immune therapy for cancer with nanoparticles
(Phys.org) —Activating the body's immune system to attack cancer and prevent it from recurring is one of the Holy Grails of cancer research because of its ability to specifically target cancer and to search almost anywhere in the body for rogue tumors. While the field has made some progress, and immune therapy for malignant melanoma and prostate cancer is proving its value in the treatment of human disease, it appears that no one general approach is going to work in all types of cancer. Two recent papers show how nanoparticles could become important tools for stimulating the immune system to respond to cancer.
Work from Rebekah Drezek's group at the Baylor College of Medicine, for example, is demonstrating that gold nanoparticles can efficiently deliver large amounts of immune system-stimulating nucleic acids into macrophages, activating scavenger cells and enabling them to attack tumors in animals. This work was reported in the journal PLoS ONE.
The BCM team has been working with short pieces of synthetic nucleic acids containing repeated segments of cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) that are known to reduce the immune suppressing activity of tumors. To be effective, however, these molecules have to be administered at high doses, raising toxicity concerns. Dr. Drezek reasoned, though, that since nanoparticles are naturally taken up by macrophages and other immune stimulating cells known as dendritic cells, they might prove useful as targeted delivery agents that could enhance the immune response associated with CpG nucleic acids without the associated side effects.
Experiments in mice appear to show just that. When administered to tumor-bearing mice, gold nanoparticles coated with a layer of CpG nucleic acids produced a marked immune response that inhibited tumor growth and increased survival of the treated animals. The researchers showed that nanoparticle-CpG treatment boosted immune cell movement into tumors without producing elevated levels of powerful signaling molecules known as cytokines that can cause unwanted toxicities. Based on these results, Dr. Drezek's group plans to explore if this approach can work synergistically with other types of therapy and in models of metastatic disease.
Researchers at the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute are taking a different approach, using modified carbon nanotubes as delivery vehicles of agents that will turn off cells known as T-regulatory (T-reg) cells. When present, these cells suppress the immune system. By targeting T-reg cells found specifically in tumors, Massimo Bottini and his colleagues hope to boost the effect of a wide range of cancer immunotherapies, including the type that Dr. Drezek's group is developing. Dr. Bottinis group published the results of their studies in the journal Bioconjugate Chemistry.
This recent work has highlighted the importance of T-reg cells found in tumors in suppressing the immune systems ability to destroy tumors. It has also been shown that these tumor associated cells overexpress a molecule known as the glucocorticoid-induced TNFR-related receptor (GITR) where T-reg cells found in the rest of the body do not. In an important first step, Dr. Bottini and his collaborators showed that attaching a GITR-targeting molecule to carbon nanotubes triggers a dramatic increase in uptake of this construct by T-reg cells within tumors, but not by those in other parts of the body. The researchers note that this achievement represents the first selective intratumor targeting of T-reg cells. "We hope it will pave the way to novel oncologic immunotherapies based on T-reg-selective functional manipulation," wrote the investigators.
The work with gold nanoparticle delivery of DNA, which was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute, is detailed in a paper titled, "Gold nanoparticle delivery of modified CpG stimulates macrophages and inhibits tumor growth for enhanced immunotherapy." The full paper is available free at the journal's website.
The work with carbon nanotubes is described in a paper titled,"In vivo targeting of intratumor regulatory T cell using PEG-modified single-walled carbon nanotubes." An abstract of this paper is available at the journals website. View abstract
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Nverxion - A Look Within
Artist: Nverxion
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2007. Nverxion (pronounced like "Inversion") is the name under which David Brancato records his ambient & experimental electronic works. Brancato, based in Orlando, Florida, is also a artist and photographer, and is relatively new to electronic music. Reference points for Nverxion's sound would be Numina, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Jonn Serrie and Jeff Pearce (all of whom the artist acknowledges as influences).
Of his debut CD, Nverxion says, "A Look Within began about two years ago as a series of experimental improvisations. In the beginning I was just concerned with learning my way through the process of creating and recording the sound... As I progressed, the foundations of more advanced compositions began to form, and soon I noticed a common feeling running through each of the pieces. Building on this concept, I developed what is now a complete body of work."
We at Hypnos particularly enjoy discovering young, emerging artists who need help getting exposed. If the endorsement of Hypnos isn't enough on its own, these audio clips below should help convince even skeptical ambient music listeners that Nverxion is doing something distinctive and fresh. So many new ambient artists rely too much on slow, flat drones, and it's great to hear material that evolves, with sharp sound design, and an engaging progression to the album as a whole. It's true, we said the same thing just a few months ago when we introduced Hypnos listeners to Justin Vanderberg, but we'll say it again: this is a composer and recording artist many people will be talking about after he has a few albums to his credit, and he has started out strong.
Track listing (with mp3 sample clips):
Emergence (05:17) MP3
In This Place I Wander (18:59) MP3
From Where I Stand (06:49) MP3
Fortune of the Sky (18:32) MP3
In This Place I Rest (24:20) MP3
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Reviews"Nverxions A Look Within makes little effort to disguise its influences (Roach, Rich, Alio Die, etc.), which in this case is not necessarily a dealbreaker. Sangfroid titles such as In This Place I Wander tickle the aural ivories pleasantly enough, thanks to fluttering rattles and airborne synths that dissolve into thinning peals of light. Wont make a dent in ears galvanized by twenty years of Structures from Silence, but its still a respectable slice of genre music."
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Big Briar Inc.'s Model 500 Theremin Controller "Space-Controlled Music" black and white 1/4-page advertisement from the bottom-left corner of page 60 in the May 1984 issue of Keyboard Magazine.
"Space-controlled music"! Why does the Theremin always get thrown in to the "space" bucket?!?!
Scratch that. I know exactly why... hee hee :)
If you recall from my last blog post, I touched upon (pun intended) Big Briar's Model 331 Touch Plate. A great alternative controller, especially for live performances. I'm trying desperately to hunt one down as we speak.
But another even more nifty alternative controller from Bob Moog's Big Briar Inc. around the same time period (and one that I would also love to get my greedy, dirty little paws on) is the Model 500 Theremin Controller.
Take the coolness and interactivity of the original Theremin, strip out the audio circuitry, and replace with two control voltage outputs for pitch and volume. Actually... not just for pitch and volume. More on that later.
A quick search of the Web found one of the earlier spec sheets for the Model 500 on Spheremusic.com's Web site for one of its auctions for Big Briar's 1982 controller pamphlet and blueprints. Click on that first big image and it will allow you to scroll through the other pages, including an image of the Model 500 page. This page has some great reference info on the 500, including the fact that it came with options for digital outputs and a line-operated power supply.
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Design aside, its those control voltage outputs I love most. Let me repeat that, and maybe yell it - CONTROL VOLTAGES!!!
So, as the ad states, you can connect this baby to your favorite synth (such as a lovely Moog Modular synth) and start controlling "pitch, volume, brightness - any parameter that can be voltage controlled". According to the pamphlet, there was also the addition of a gate signal "that goes on as the right hand begins to approach the pitch antenna, thus making it convenient to squelch the tone when no musician is near the controller."
Squelch! Excellent!
What this all does is open up Theremin-like control to a much wider range of sound. Any waveform you can create with your synth can be theremized (so too is a word! And if it's not, that shizzle needs to be trademarked pronto).
All this brings me to another reason I'm stoked about this ad. NAMM has just concluded, and one of the products that stood out for me and my close circle of online synth-nuts was Moog's new Theremini.
Damn! That's the spaciest-lookin' Theremin yet! That thing would look as good in my studio as it would on the set of Star Trek's control room.
And the best news is that, like the Model 500 Theremin Controller, the Theremini opens up a whole new range of sounds to the user by including "a powerful sound engine derived from Moog's award winning synthesizer, Animoog"! PLUS you get pitch-correction for us beginners, pitch CV out, and a mini-USB jack for MIDI.
MoFo! Are you kidding me? Do I have to punch you all in the neck to show you how excited I am.
*This* has just taken #1 spot on my "next piece of kit" list.


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Ryan Defends GOP Views on Spending Cuts
In his first sit-down interview since the Republican ticket lost to President Barack Obama, 2012 vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul D. Ryan defended his party's positions on trimming spending for myriad entitlement and safety net programs — steps that critics have called draconian but which he says are necessary.
"We're not preaching austerity. We're preaching growth and opportunity," the House Budget Committee chairman told host David Gregory in a half-hour conversation on "Meet the Press."
"If you get our fiscal ship fixed, you prevent austerity," the Wisconsin lawmaker continued, adding that when opponents call deep spending cuts "savage," it does "disservice to the quality of debate we're trying to have."
Cuts to the federal food stamp program are one area where Republicans have been unfairly criticized, Ryan said: "All we're trying to say is, you have to be eligible for this program," rather than be automatically enrolled through other programs. "We need to target these things to people who actually need them."
He also disputed claims that the country's economy is in good enough shape that dramatic spending reductions are not absolutely necessary.
"If we keep going down this path, we will have a debt crisis," Ryan said. "It's not if, it's when. … It's not a Democratic thing or a Republican thing, it's a math thing."
Ryan, who said he will play a role in shaping legislative proposals to overhaul the current tax code with lower tax rates at its centerpiece, was also sharply critical of Democrats, particularly those in the Senate.
In addition to failing to pass a budget for the past four years, Senate Democrats have been unwilling to work with Republicans to find common ground on meaningful spending reductions, Ryan said. Their unwillingness, along with that of the Obama administration, will ultimately trigger the sequester that was part of the 2011 debt deal when the two-month postponement expires March 1, he added.
"I think the sequester is going to happen," Ryan said of the roughly $85 billion in fiscal 2013 spending cuts scheduled to occur in March throughout government operations, especially those linked to the Defense Department. "We think these sequesters will happen because the Democrats have rejected our efforts to replace those cuts with others and have offered no alternatives."
Although Ryan has been highly sought-after for political commentary and reflection on the future of his career and of his party since his running mate, Mitt Romney, lost to Obama in November, Ryan said he had been waiting to speak publicly until after the inauguration.
"I wanted to see what sort of president we were looking at here," he explained.
He is not happy with the one he has seen, he said.
"All of [his] statements and comments lead me to believe he is thinking more of a political conquest than a political compromise," Ryan said of Obama. "And that's why we're going to have to have a big debate this spring about how … to save us from a debt crisis, how to grow our economy.
"Obama is more concerned with 2014 than moving to the middle," Ryan continued. "He's wants to move farther to the left."


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Iran says it blocks cyberattack on oil platforms
TEHRAN - The Associated Press
Hürriyet photoIran says it has successfully blocked a cyberattack on the computer network of its offshore drilling platforms, a semiofficial news agency reported Monday.
The report by ISNA quoted Mohammad Reza Golshani, IT head of Iran's state offshore oil company, as blaming Israel for having planned the attack.
Iran periodically reports the discovery of viruses and other malicious programs in government, nuclear, oil and industrial networks, blaming Israel and the United States. In May, Iran shut down part of its oil facilities because of another such cyberattack.
Israel has done little to deflect suspicion that it uses viruses against Iran.
In this case, Golshani said, the attack occurred over the past two weeks, was routed through China, and affected only the communications systems of the network. He said the main network was safe since it was isolated from the Internet, and was back to normal operations. Iran announced that it had temporarily disconnected its oil ministry and its main crude export terminal from the Internet after the May attack.
Iran earns up to 80 percent of its foreign revenue from the export of crude.
Iran is odds with the West over its nuclear program. The West suspects the program is aimed at developing weapons. Tehran denies the charge, saying its nuclear program is geared toward peaceful purposes like power generation and cancer treatment.
A computer worm known as Stuxnet briefly brought Iran's uranium enrichment activity to a halt in 2010.


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Many electronic payments will fail in Europe next month, unless the deadline for switching to the new SEPA payment system is extended, the European Commission warned Thursday.
By Feb. 1, banks and businesses within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) are supposed to accept only credit transfer and direct debit instructions conforming to rules creating a single European market for retail payments. After that deadline, set in a 2012 regulation, instructions for euro payments that do not meet the specifications for SEPA Credit Transfers (SCT) or SEPA Direct Debits (SDD) should be rejected.
However, by November only 64.1 percent of euro credit transfers were SEPA compliant, and just 26 percent of direct debits, prompting the Commission to warn Thursday that it is now highly unlikely that the target of 100 percent for SCT and SDD can be reached by the deadline.
"If no action were to be taken by the Commission and the co-legislators, banks and payment services providers would be required to stop processing payments that differ from the SEPA format," the Commission said, adding that this could result in "serious difficulties for market participants that are not yet ready, particularly SMEs, who could have their payments (incoming or outgoing) blocked."
Banks and payment institutions should be allowed to process non-SEPA payments until Aug. 1, the Commission proposed, with no further transitional period after that. The proposal requires approval from the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, composed of the ministers of member states, and could, according to the Commission, be applied retroactively if adopted after the deadline.
The Commission said its proposal does not change the "formal" deadline for migration, but will give businesses an extra six months to make their systems compliant, making sure their payments aren't blocked.
Adoption of the new payment formats varies widely across the Single Euro Payment Area. European Central Bank (ECB) figures for the third quarter of 2013 show several countries are lagging well behind. In Germany only around 14 percent credit transfers were SCT-compliant, in Ireland a little over 15 percent and in Italy almost 23 percent.
Other euro area countries with fewer than 50 percent of SEPA-compliant credit transfers in the third quarter included the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Estonia and Malta.
The only euro area countries that had fully completed the SCT migration by then were Finland and Slovakia, closely followed by Slovenia which had over 99 percent SCT adoption. Non-euro area countries Denmark and the U.K. have also managed to complete their SCT migrations, ECB figures showed. Countries outside the euro area participate on a voluntary basis only.
Germany, as one of the biggest economies in the euro area, is also one of the biggest problems. Its central bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, doesn't seem to have been able to convince German businesses of the necessity of migrating to SEPA payments.
While the adoption pace has been picking up in Germany since the third quarter of last year, only 32 percent of all credit transfers there were SEPA Credit Transfers, said Carl-Ludwig Thiele, executive board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank responsible forpayment systems, in a Dec. 19 report on the country's SEPA migration.
On a typical working day Germany handles about 25 million credit transfers worth about €227 billion (about US$309 billion), Thiele said. Germany still needs to convert 17 million credit transfers per day, he said at the time.
Germany's adoption of SEPA Direct Debits was even lower and had reached 10 percent in November, Thiele said, adding that it is evident that many SMEs and small organizations still have to make the switch. On a typical working day Germany handles about 35 million direct debits worth about €52 billion, Thiele said, adding that this corresponds to a market share in the euro area of 47 percent.
While the proposal of the European Commission to extend the migration period buys the Germans some time, it should not lead to uncertainty about migration preparations, Thiele said in a news release published on Thursday in response to the Commission's plans.
"I appeal to all market participants to consistently continue their SEPA projects and to maintain a conversion on Feb. 1," he said, adding that while the Bundesbank is "confident" the goal can still be achieved by Feb. 1, in Germany, much remains to be done.


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After her four adult children moved out, Mull, a 50-year-old former real estate broker's assistant, began looking for a …
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Londa Mull isn't your typical couch surfer."I'm technically homeless, and I chose this," she said with a smile.After her four adult children moved out, Mull, a 50-year-old former real estate broker's assistant, began looking for a smaller home in July 2016. She sold her Centennial home in February, but still hasn't found a house, condominium or townhome that meets her needs, so for now, she's staying with friends and sleeping on sofas.An empty nester with money and time to spend, Mull realizes she has advantages over most buyers looking for a single-family home. With little to choose from and prices that have skyrocketed in recent years, the Denver metro housing market can be daunting.Mull feels sorry for families trying to buy a starter house."I had a young couple in the Thornton area a year ago," she said. "We would spend an entire Saturday every week and write offers four or five at a time" but always got outbid.The couple found a home, after looking at 65 houses, submitting 25 offers and going above their agreed price range.Mull said she'll use Airbnb — an online marketplace that connects people to living accommodations — to avoid wearing out her welcome if she doesn't find a place soon. And she isn't too optimistic."The problem is there isn't that much out there," she said, but "when I found a place I liked, of course it sold like that," she said, snapping her fingers.`There's nothing out there'A February study by consumer services website Bankrate.com found that Colorado is the eighth-hardest state in the nation for first-time home buyers. Prices are up and inventory is down — way down.Listings of single-family homes and condominiums in the metro area hit an all-time low in February of 3,878 units, according to a report released March 3 by the Denver Metro Association of Realtors.A January report from DMAR showed Denver County's inventory of single-family homes plummeted, down 44.9 percent from 2016. In Jefferson County, available single-family homes dropped by 38.9 percent, and Arapahoe and Adams counties saw decreases of 34.2 and 32.1 percent, respectively. Douglas County's inventory decreased 27.8 percent.Sandi Zimmerman, a Castle Rock Realtor, doesn't need to see the numbers to know available homes are lacking."There's nothing out there," she said.Zimmerman has had success finding homes for clients over the last couple of years, but it wasn't easy. One family she worked with throughout most of last year wrote seven contracts before closing."Be ready and be patient — those are really the two things you have to do," she said. "This process could take six months."Prices are rising, wages aren'tPatrick Holwell, workforce economist for Arapahoe/Douglas Works, said there's a gap between home prices and incomes in the region, and that gap is widening."People who aspire to own a home are looking at it going steadily out of their reach," Holwell said. "Their income isn't growing as fast as home prices."In January, the median sales price of a single-family home in the metro area was $380,000, up 10 percent from a year ago, according to DMAR.According to data Holwell compiled from the U.S. Census Bureau, a growing number of potential buyers across the region can't afford a new home.Prices are out of range for at least 205,000 households in Denver. In Jefferson County, a minimum of 150,891households are stuck where they are. At least 98,903 Adams County households and 134,818 Arapahoe County households are priced out, while Douglas County had at least 50,714 households not making enough to buy a home.Robert Smith, Lakewood's economic development director, said the cost burden of owning or renting in today's market has consequences that ripple through the local economy. More income spent on rent or mortgage payments means less money for eating out, shopping and other discretionary spending."Cost burden affects not only an individual household's quality of life," Smith said via email. It "also affects the business community that depends on their spending."Another strain on the household budget is money spent on gas and bus fare."Households that do buy in this market are forced either to enter a cost-burdened situation or find less expensive housing farther from their place of work," Smith said, "which in turn leads to greater spending on transportation."Bubble or balance?Memories of the housing market crash of 2008 are still on the minds of real estate agents, officials and homeowners. Most avoid using the word "bubble," but rising home values and readily-available mortgage loans are nonetheless raising some eyebrows.Aside from preventing first-time buyers from owning a home, Smith said there are other potential downsides to a housing market in which home prices continually escalate. The worst of these, he said, would be an inevitable shortage of labor, a perennial problem in Colorado's mountain resorts.Still, he isn't worried about a collapse."All markets will rise and fall," Smith said. "It is tempting to look back a decade ago, then view the current rising housing market and fear a bursting bubble will not be far behind."The market goes through 10-year cycles of low availability and high prices, Smith said, but a crash like 2008's only happens "once in several decades." He said the region is in its seventh year of the 10-year cycle, and apartment vacancy rates are increasing, indicating the market will level out.Zimmerman agrees that the area is in the seventh year of a cycle, but after 38 years in the real estate business, she's not as confident in the outcome."This is my third time of seeing this," she said, "I wish I had a crystal ball… I don't know how much longer this is going to last."An annual uptick in permits for new homes, easy availability of loans and the cyclical nature of the real estate business give caution to her optimism."Normally, about the end of seven years you're seeing that it's going to stop or plateau or start to come back down," she said. "What goes up must come down."
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Registration Opens for June 28 Webcast, IN FOCUS: FASB Update for Nonpublic EntitiesNorwalk, CT, June 4, 2012—Registration is now open for the upcoming Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) webcast, IN FOCUS: FASB Update for Nonpublic Entities. This live webcast, offered free of charge, will take place on Thursday, June 28, 2012, from 1:00 to 2:40 p.m. EDT. Participants in the live broadcast will be eligible for up to 2 hours of CPE credit. (Please note that CPE credit is not available for group viewing of the live broadcast.)
The webcast will feature FASB members Tom Linsmeier and Marc Siegel, and FASB staff members Jeff Mechanick, Ron Bossio, Liz Gagnon, and Rahul Gupta, providing an overview of the following topics:
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- The private company decision-making framework project and the related project reexamining the definition of a nonpublic entity
- The work of the FASB's Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee
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|Rice bran oil machine
|Solvent extraction and refining
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|19 years
|Mild steel and SS
|Solvent extraction and refinery
|Rice bran
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|1 st grade rice bran oil
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|Asia, Africa and Oceania
Product Description
This peanut rosted drum type machine is mainly used to roast various kernels, for example, peanuts, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds,beans, melon seeds and other granular material of the baking or drying. The machine with electric heating type, fuel oil type, gas type, or coal type as a heat source; Principle of adopting rotary drum, heat conduction, heat radiation and using coal as fuel; It has automatic temperature control device; Hot air as the drying medium, the heat enerLD works on roasted peanut, which is constantly propelled by propulsion device in roasting process.
When the oil leaves the screw press it contains water, sand and impurities. During a process of static de-sanding and decanting, most of the impurities in the oil are removed in a centrifugal oil purifier. The last traces of oil in the effluent are recovered in a centrifugal sludge separator.
Rice bran oil producing plant for complete prodction line
Pretreatment Process:
1.Screening:Removing the chaff and broken rice in the rice bran, in case of they will influence the oilyield and the desolvent of wet meal in the next process. In the process of puffing section, the general requirement of impurity is less than 3%, and the requirement of crude fiber is about 8%.
2.Magnetic separation :Clearing the iron impurity which migLD be in the rice brain. Since in the process of puffing, the iron impurity will be harmful to the screw of extrusion machine, affect the puffing effect. As the rice brain particles are small and poor liquidity, the iron impurities are always be wiped off by the magnetic barrels installed in the feeding port.
3.Quenching and tempering :it is the process of preheating so that to improve the temperature of
the rice bran before puffing. After quenching and tempering the temperature will be controlled at 65--75 ÃÂÃÂÃÂðC, and the moisture will be controlled at 10 ~12%. Thus, on the one side, it can increase
the output of the extrusion machine, and on the other side, it can improve the quality of the puffed rice bran.
4.Puffing: the rice bran is injecting high pressure steam and high temperature water through the
extrusion machine, so that it can improve the temperature and moisture in the extrusion machine,and can also form the high pressure to process the rice bran. All these can make the the rice bran become porous columnar structure from the original pulverized state.
All these effectively passivate the activity of various of enzyme in the rice bran, and destroy the
fat layer structure, so that it will be easier for the oil yield.
5.Drying:The moisture of puffed material comes from the extrusion machine is too big and the
temperature is too high for direct leaching, the must be experience to process of drying and coo-ling, thus the moisture will reach 7%--9%, and temperature will reach 50--55ÃÂÃÂÃÂðC. After puffing, the rice brain are usually dried and cooled by plat dryer.
Solvent extraction process:
First, send the rice bran meal to the roary extractor, the meal will be fully soaked in the extractor by the solvent. Thus, the oil in the rice bran will be absorbed in to the solvent.
1. Solvent pumps: continuously spray solvent to the rotary-type extractor
2.Roary extractor: Spray and soak the pretreatment rice brain with solvent so that oil fats can be dissolved in solvent(form miscella). After processing, you can get wet meal and miscella (mixed oil) .
3. DTDC: usd to separate the solvent from the wet meal.
4. Miscella tank 1st: pump the miscella (oil with solvent) in to the miscella 1st , and then add 10% saline water to it. The phospholipid and impurities in the miscella will react with the saline wter, at last the reactant precipitate, reaching the goal of purifying.
5. Miscella tank 2nd: the purified miscella will be pumped into it.
6. 1st evaporator, 2nd evaporator: used to separate the solvent from the oil. After this process,
the solvent can be removed 85%.
7. Miscella stripping: it will remove the remaining solvent in miscella. And the solvent will be
discharged to condenser for recycling.
8. condensers: used to cooling the solvent gas separated from the wet meal and miscella for recycling.
Refining Process:
Our developed oil refining equipments has unique skill, stable performance, high mechanical, and advanced technoloLD index. Besides series products, we also can make reasonable combinationaccording to customersÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàrequirments to make the professional proposal . Our equipment has multi-functions, can be used not only to produce international first, second oil , but also high cooking oil and salad oil.
1. Deacdification:Adding a little P-acid to react with the collioid and a certained concentration lye to neutralize the free fatty acid, after reaction , producing many nigre, then we using the ce-ntrifugal machine to separate the nigre from the oil.Then washing the oil to separate the rest nigre and lye. After wash-ing , using the dehydration centrifugal to dehydrate the oil .
2.Decoloring section:Pre-mixing the a certain amount of clay with 20% degumming oil in the pre-mix tank , then using the oil pump pump the pre-mixing oil and the rest 80% oil in the vacuum decolorization tower to get rid of the pigment, then using plate-type filter to separate the oil and the waste clay.
3.Deodorization Section:In the condition of the high temperature and high vacuum, injecting a cert-ain amount of superheati-ng direct steam, the steam completely contact with the surface of the oil li-quid , taking the varities odors away .
Dewaxing Process:
To get the highest class of rice brain oil, it need the dewaxing section after the above de-gumming section, decoloring section, deodorizing section.
The process of removal of the wax in the oil called dewaxing (also can be called winterization). It's fundamental is remove the wax in the oil by refrigerating crystal in the condition of los temperature. After the wax becoming crystal, then use plate type filter to separate it form the oil.
Functions of main parts:
1. crystallizing and maturing tank: used to form crystal in the tank.
2. refrigerating set: used to make the temperature of oil become low, so that the wax can be crystallized.
3. brine tank: used to add brine in the oil to make the the crystallization point of the wax become low, thus, can save enerLD and time.
4. Plate type filter: used to separate the wax from oil.
We can supply a complete production line .
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Shandong Leader Mechanical Equipment Co., LTD believe that whatever the field is, quality has always been at the heart of the companyâÃÂÃÂs performance. We treat quality and service as a way of life and hope to serve you in the LD possible manner on a long term and mutually beneficial basis. If you want to know more information about our sunflower oil plant or any other seed processing plant, please contact us in the following form. Our responsible, experienced sunflower oil processing technical team is always ready to serve and guide you at any time.
All the other oil seeds pre-treatment and oil refining equipment, lLD sheller, cleaning sieve, cooker, filter and others is available at Guangxin. If you want to know to start a vegetable oil pressing line with oil press machine, please contact us, we will offer you the LD plan.
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American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at least, never run out of energy thanks to it being fuelled by hydrogen.
Constructed from a set of smart materials, which have the ability to change shape or size as a result of a stimulus, and carbon nanotubes, Robojelly is able to mimic the natural movements of a jellyfish when placed in a water tank and is powered by chemical reactions taking place on its surface.
"To our knowledge, this is the first successful powering of an underwater robot using external hydrogen as a fuel source," said lead author of the study Yonas Tadesse.
The creators of Robojelly, from Virgina Tech, presented their results 21 March, in IOP Publishing's journal Smart Materials and Structures.
The jellyfish is an ideal invertebrate to base the vehicle on due to its simple swimming action: it has two prominent mechanisms known as "rowing" and "jetting."
A jellyfish's movement is down to circular muscles located on the inside of the bell -- the main part of the body shaped like the top of an umbrella. As the muscles contract, the bell closes in on itself and ejects water to propel the jellyfish forward. After contracting, the bell relaxes and regains its original shape.
This was replicated in the vehicle using commercially-available shape memory alloys (SMA) -- smart materials that "remember" their original shape -- wrapped in carbon nanotubes and coated with a platinum black powder.
The robot is powered by heat-producing chemical reactions between the oxygen and hydrogen in water and the platinum on its surface. The heat given off by these reactions is transferred to the artificial muscles of the robot, causing them to transform into different shapes.
This green, renewable element means Robojelly can regenerate fuel from its natural surroundings and therefore doesn't require an external power source or the constant replacement of batteries.
At the moment, the hydrogen-powered Robojelly has been functioning whilst being clamped down in a water tank. The researchers admit that the robot still needs development to achieve full functionality and efficiency; however, the potential can be seen in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2OSJQhHQp8) where the robot is powered by electricity.
"The current design allows the jellyfish to flex its eight bell segments, each operated by a fuel-powered SMA module.. This should be sufficient for the jellyfish to lift itself up if all the bell segments are actuated.
"We are now researching new ways to deliver the fuel into each segment so that each one can be controlled individually. This should allow the robot to be controlled and moved in different directions," Tadesse continued.
This study is part of the MURI program sponsored by Office of Naval Research.
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? Book Blurb ?Experience the world's most enchanting and timeless love story—retold with a dark and realistic twist. A BEAST LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF HIS PAST Reclusive and severely scarred Prince Adam Delacroix has remained hidden inside a secluded, decrepit castle ever since he witnessed his family's brutal massacre. Cloaked in shadow, with only the lamentations of past ghosts for company, he has abandoned all hope, allowing the world to believe he died on that tragic eve twenty-five years ago. A BEAUTY IN PURSUIT OF A BETTER FUTURE Caught in a fierce snowstorm, beautiful and strong-willed Isabelle Rose seeks shelter at a castle—unaware that its beastly and disfigured master is much more than he appears to be. When he imprisons her gravely ill and blind father, she bravely offers herself in his place. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Stripped of his emotional defenses, Adam's humanity reawakens as he encounters a kindred soul in Isabelle. Together they will wade through darkness and discover beauty and passion in the most unlikely of places. But when a monster from Isabelle's former life threatens their new love, Demrov's forgotten prince must emerge from his shadows and face the world once more… Perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast and The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty of the Beast brings a familiar and well-loved fairy tale to life with a rich setting in the kingdom of Demrov and a captivating, Gothic voice. Beauty of the Beast is the first standalone installment in a series of classic fairy tales reimagined with a dark and realistic twist. Disclaimer: This is an edgy retelling of the classic fairy tale. Due to strong sexual content, profanity, and dark subject matter, including an instance of sexual assault committed by the villain, Beauty of the Beast is not intended for readers under the age of 18.
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? EXCERPT ?~ The East Tower ~ Arms sprang out from the darkness. They spun her full circle and slammed her body against the king's portrait. Isabelle gasped, more in shock than from pain, as she stared into Adam's deformed face. The lantern flickered behind his massive form, casting his cloaked body in silhouette. But she saw enough to know he was far from pleased. Rage and frustration radiated from his body like a palpable force. "I warned you to stay out of here," he said, his voice dangerously cold and deep. Those rugged vocals vibrated against her body and seeped into her marrow. "What part of forbidden didn't you comprehend?" His voice lashed out from the darkness like a hurtled knife, and the word "forbidden" seemed to whisper another meaning altogether. Isabelle tried to answer but failed to find her voice. Indeed, her vocal cords had turned to solid ice, as numb and cold as the blood rushing through her veins. She couldn't breathe; she felt like she was suffocating. "My mother gave me that musical box on my fourth birthday," he said, the sensual lull of his voice causing the fine hairs on her nape to stand erect. "And now your recklessness has destroyed it. Have you nothing to say?" "I—I'm sorry." He offered no reply; only the ragged sound of his breathing and the hammering blizzard broke the silence. "Please—I didn't mean any harm." She struggled under the weight of Adam's colossal body and battled to free herself. He merely gave a low chuckle and pressed her firmly against the portrait. He looked otherworldly at that moment, like an angel of death seeking vengeance. Both beautiful and monstrous, his cool, sapphire eyes overflowed with warring emotions. In spite of his harsh and ruthless exterior, she detected a quaver in his voice and saw that his large, cloaked shoulders trembled. The darkness in his soul cast a shadow that embraced her; as she peered up at him, she knew he was drowning in the turbulent waters of a past time. "What a disappointment," he went on, his voice growing deeper still, mocking her words from so many days ago, "You're like any other woman." "I—I'm sorry. Please, Adam. I—" Her gaze shot past his body and over the wreckage of a past life. She thought of her private chamber again—of the stale perfumes and outdated garments. Her flight or fight instinct seized hold of her. She attempted to scramble free, but he merely grabbed her shoulder and whirled her back against the portrait. Gloves wrapped his hands; his long, silk-clad fingers grasped her shoulder and kept her firmly in place. He stood intimately close. Far too close. As close as Raphael had been that night. "Going somewhere, ma belle? After you've worked so hard to find my East Tower?" Hands like two steel bands held her wrists in place. Hot breaths, which faintly smelled of wine, seared her cheeks and assaulted her senses. Her breasts flattened against the pressure of his strong chest, and she felt that same chest swell and deflate in perfect sync with her own. One large hand slipped down her elbow and glided across her extended arm. The lush material of his gloves drew a shudder from her heaving chest. His breathing grew more ragged, shallower, and the erratic beat of his heart banged against her own. Anger and desire warred on his face, twisting his features into a mess of both monster and man. "Find anything of interest, aside from my musical box? Come, come. You went through such great trouble to get here," he asked, his voice now threaded with both anger and something else. Yes, Isabelle recognized that something else. It was the same note that had entered Raphael's voice that night… She attempted to duck under his arm, but he moved swiftly, capturing her in the crook of his elbow. Reeling her toward him, he emitted a low, haunting chuckle that swelled the eastern tower to its rafters. She was back where she'd started—pinned against the portrait, Adam's body serving as a flesh-and-blood blockade. Hunger radiated from him, enfolding her in a current of sizzling power. His silk-clad hand grazed the curve of her breast as it moved down her body in a painfully slow caress. Even more alarming was her reaction to him. Her treacherous body responded with a crush of hot and cold pulsating waves. Then he whispered a taunt in her ear, and his liquid baritone slid down her backbone like honey; it swirled inside her, finding its home in her most intimate area. He leaned closer still. His face's uneven skin brushed against her neck, the black waves of his hair tickled her chin... His thick arousal expanded against her, reminding her of what he was capable of—and of her sheer vulnerability. His lips teased the base of her throat. Cursing her traitorous body, Isabelle gasped at the gentle scraping of his teeth. His tongue and lips tormented her throbbing pulse—just barely, stirring her skin in a mere ghost of a touch.
? Meet the Author ?Rachel L. Demeter lives in the beautiful hills of Anaheim, California with Teddy, her goofy lowland sheepdog, and her high school sweetheart of fourteen years. She enjoys writing poignant romances that challenge the reader's emotions and explore the redeeming power of love. Imagining dynamic worlds and characters has been Rachel's passion for longer than she can remember. Before learning how to read or write, she would dictate stories while her mother would record them for her. She holds a special affinity for the tortured hero and unconventional romances. Whether crafting the protagonist or antagonist, she ensures every character is given a soul. Rachel endeavors to defy conventions by blending elements of romance, suspense, and horror. Some themes her stories never stray too far from: forbidden romance, soul mates, the power of love to redeem, mend all wounds, and triumph over darkness. Her dream is to move readers and leave an emotional impact through her words. Don't be a stranger! Rachel loves to connect and interact with her readers:
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Imagine inviting some new neighbors to a dinner party. The first couple tells you they'd love to come. But, they warn, they think it's immoral to eat animals, so please—vegetarian options only.
The second couple also wants to come, but—they're almost embarrassed to mention it—they only eat locally grown food. No strawberries from Chili, or shrimp from Asia. Importing food from faraway countries damages the environment, they explain.
Couple number three also wants to attend—but, they ask, you aren't serving genetically enhanced vegetables, are you, or meat produced by industrialized breeding practices?
At this point, you might be tempted to cancel the party and go out for a cheeseburger, followed up by a banana split—made with bananas from Ecuador. But you might wonder, as you bite into that greasy hunk of beef, just why it is that people have become so moralistic about food. Especially when so many are immoral in other areas—like their sex lives.
One person who has wondered about this is Mary Eberstadt, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. In her article "Is Food the New Sex?," Eberstadt notes that food is cheap and plentiful in the West. The same can be said for sex. Technology has tamed many of the dangers associated with sex, like pregnancy and disease. Moreover, social and religious strictures have all but disappeared.
Which leads to an interesting question: What would happen, Eberstadt wondered, when, "for the first time in history . . . [people] are more or less free to have all the sex and food they want?" Would they pursue both food and sex with equal ardor?
Oddly enough, they don't. Instead, many engage in a sexual free-for-all—but put stringent moral strictures on anything to do with food. A modern young woman might think nothing of living with several different men, and having abortions when she gets pregnant. But she would not dream of eating anything from a factory farm. That would be immoral. . . (continue reading)


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Syrian Kurds battle al-Qaida-linked rebel faction
BEIRUT: Kurdish militias battled al-Qaida-linked rebel groups in northeastern Syria on Tuesday in the latest round of heavy fighting that has helped fuel a mass exodus of civilians from the region into neighboring Iraq, activists said.
Clashes between Kurdish fighters and Islamic extremist rebel groups have sharply escalated in Syria's northern provinces in recent months. The violence, which has left hundreds dead, holds the potential to explode into a full-blown side conflict within Syria's broader civil war.
Tuesday's fighting, which pitted Kurdish militiamen against rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was focused in three villages near the town of Ras al-Ayn in the predominantly Kurdish Hassakeh province, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Another 4,000 made the trek across the frontier Tuesday, said Youssef Mahmoud, a spokesman for the UNHCR in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The new arrivals join some 1.9 million Syrians who already have found refuge abroad from the country's relentless carnage.
With belongings loaded onto mules, thousands of Syrian refugees continued to flow into northern Iraq through the border town of Peshkabour Tuesday, some describing hometowns where food, water and electricity have become scarce amid the combat.
Among them was Ali Balash, a Kurd from Hassakeh province who walked some five kilometers to cross the border with his 18-member family.
"War is rattling our areas, we were so scared to stay," said Balash, a day laborer dressed in traditional Kurdish baggy pants and a scarf tucked into his belt.
A father of four children aged between 6 and 9, Balash's face was pale as he reached the Iraqi territories. "We couldn't go anywhere, we had no bread, no work and no stability," he added.
Riding a mule into the area, a 65-year-old woman who identified herself only by her nickname, Um Abdullah, for security reasons, said she had made the journey with her sisters and children but left her husband behind to guard their house in Hassakeh.
"We saw dead bodies in the streets and heard shootings and bombings all day," she said.
The massive exodus has put a severe strain on Iraqi Kurdistan's regional government and aid agencies ability to accommodate them all.
As many as 9,000 of the Syrians to just arrive have found temporary refuge at a transit site in Kawergost, north of the regional capital of Irbil, UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva. The scale and speed of the influx however has made it difficult to provide shelter for all of the families, he said, forcing some to camp under tarpaulins or other makeshift shelters.
The UNHCR said it is sending 15 truckloads of supplies — 3,100 tents, two pre-fabricated warehouses and thousands of jerry cans to carry water — from its regional stockpile in Jordan. It said the shipment should arrive by the end of the week.
Some 55,000 Syrians already live at the Domiz refugee camp in Dohuk, west of Irbil, according to the UNHCR.
Nancy Lindborg, A USAID Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, told reporters in Amman that the United States is "watching closely" the Kurdish exodus from Syria to northern Iraq.
"Today, there are about 40,000 people who already crossed," she said. "Iraq opened its borders and we applaud their generosity in taking in more people."
She said Washington had allocated $45 million out of $1 billion in aid for Syrian refugees in Iraq and "we're looking at how we can contribute more."
Kurds are Syria's largest ethnic minority, making up more than 10 percent of the country's 23 million people. They are centered in the poor northeastern regions of Hassakeh and Qamishli, wedged between the borders of Turkey and Iraq. There are also several predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods in the capital, Damascus, and Syria's largest city, Aleppo.
Long oppressed by President Bashar Assad's regime, Syria's Kurds now find themselves enjoying near autonomy in the northeast after Assad's overstretched forces pulled back from the region last year, ceding de facto control to Kurdish fighters. Some Kurds openly call for an officially autonomous region in Syria similar to that of northern


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When Social Search was released, Google displayed a small OneBox at the bottom of the first search results page that included relevant pages shared by your friends. A few weeks ago, Google started to show social search results anywhere on the page.
If that wasn't enough, Google added huge lists of social search results at the bottom of the second, third and fourth page of results. After the ten regular results, Google shows other ten results from your social circle. Sometimes Google's social results are useful, but that's not always the case. For example, a search for [Firefox 4] returns many outdated pages about Firefox.
It's interesting to notice that social search results need more space than the regular results:
March 31, 2011
More Google Social Search Results
Posted by Alex Chitu at 3/31/2011 03:31:00 AM
Labels: Social, Web Search
3 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2011 at 3:51 AM
I don't want social search - Can we turn this off?ReplyDelete
yeah, don't want social search here either, its bound to skew results in an unfavourable fashion, i never took to personalised results either and often sign out to see unbiased serpsReplyDelete
The Google +1 is the new social search :) I wonder if it has an effect on ranking :)ReplyDelete
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We are the ideal place to rest after the Cancun nightlife, with clean rooms, relaxing music and good coffee.
We have spacious rooms with mixed-bed area and separate bedrooms for women and men, as well as private rooms for one, two and up to four people, and desks are decorated with Maya, have permanent connection Wi-Fi, Fans, private lockers for all guests, new shared bathrooms with shower and hot water all day and night.
In the Maya Hostel Cancun we strive to keep all our areas clean and sheets and towels. We also include continental breakfast, complimentary drinking water, terraces and gardens for breakfast and meet other guests from all over the planet, specialized library on the Mundo Maya and Receive for 24 hours.
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The marathon U.S. Senate trial sprinted down the homestretch Thursday as DFLer Al Franken called his final witnesses and Republican Norm Coleman posed his last challenges, setting the stage for judges to hear closing arguments today.
After seven weeks of testimony and thousands of bits of evidence, the end of the trial -- if not the final outcome -- is finally in sight.
Even as the finish approaches, one major uncertainty lingers. The panel has yet to rule on a bid by Franken to dismiss all or part of Coleman's claims.
And the judges face decisions on what to do with scores of absentee ballots that Coleman claims were wrongly rejected because of errors by election officials or voters.
Throughout the trial, the panel kept to a tight schedule and accelerated at various turns by excluding most of the evidence that Coleman cited in his bid to overcome a 225-vote lead by Franken. About 4,800 rejected absentee ballots that Coleman wanted counted were the centerpiece of his drive to find more votes. But by this week he was down to 1,360 such ballots, forced to lower his sights after a series of rulings by the judges.
The panel also wasn't moved by Coleman's argument that disparities in election practices from county to county were unfair, resulting in valid ballots being rejected and similar ballots being counted.
Coleman lawyer Joe Friedberg, sometimes feisty during the trial, posed only mild rebuttal questions to Franken witnesses Thursday. Coleman's legal spokesman, Ben Ginsberg, said after the session, "We feel very good about where we are."
Franken's lead lawyer, Marc Elias, said his review of the list of rejected ballots that Coleman wants counted show that only six included documents needed to verify them. Franken also is asking that other rejected ballots be counted, but Elias has not divulged how many.
Hourlong closing arguments
Closing arguments are expected to begin this morning. Each side will have about an hour.
The judges can begin deliberating after the arguments. Besides sorting out absentee ballots, they will deal with Coleman's claim that Franken avoided a net loss of 46 votes when 132 ballots went missing in Minneapolis and a machine count was used for the precinct, and enjoyed a net gain of 125 votes elsewhere in the city after ballots were counted twice. Franken's camp has argued both claims.
Before Franken closed his case Thursday, the judges heard testimony from several presumed Franken voters who brought a separate legal action seeking to have their rejected ballots counted. They are among 61 voters whose case was supported by Franken. The panel earlier in the trial accepted ballots from 35 of those voters, who are represented by attorney Charles Nauen.
Those 35 ballots and 12 others sought by Franken that apparently will be opened could push his lead to 272 votes.
Catherine Brigham, 68, of White Bear Lake, who was among those who testified Thursday, said she felt "really cheated" when she learned her vote was not counted and started pressing for an answer. "I'm not a very quiet person," she said.
As the panel limited the ballots Coleman could seek to count, his campaign became more vocal in criticizing flaws in the Minnesota election system, saying real-world practices may violate state law and the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. It is a theme Coleman is likely to repeat today, even though Ginsberg acknowledged, "The court has not shown a great deal of sympathy with this argument."
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June 24, 1817. | 7 Stat., 154. | Proclamation, Dec. 26, 1817.
A treaty of peace and friendship made and concluded between William Clark and Augusta Chouteau, commissioners on the part, and behalf of the United States of America, of the one part; and the undersigned chiefs and warriors, of the Ottoes tribe of Indians, on the part and behalf of their said tribe, of the other part.
The parties being desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship between the United States and their said tribe and of being placed, in all things, and in every respect, upon the same footing upon which they stood before the late war between the United States and Great Britain, have agreed to the following articles:
Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the contracting parties against the other, shall be mutually forgiven and forgot.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizens of the United States of America and all the individuals composing the said Ottoes tribe, and all the friendly relations that existed between them before the war, shall be, and the same are hereby, renewed.
The undersigned chiefs and warriors, for themselves and their said tribe, do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of the United States of America, and of no other nation, power, or sovereign, whatsoever.
In witness whereof, the said William Clark and Auguste Chouteau, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the United States the forty-first.
|William Clark, [L. S.]
|Mantoeignet, the Little Bow, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Auguste Choteau, [L. S.]
|Wapontraska, White Nostrils, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Chongatonga, Big Horse, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Tarposta, Son of the Priest, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Histashone, Big Eyes, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Kahhehpah, Crow Head, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Mihahande, Eldest Daughter, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Harahkraton, the Sparrow Hawk, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Kanseepa, the Kansee Head, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Tawequa, the Little Deer, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Montistonga, Pewter, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Chanohato, Buffalo Hump, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Pahagranga, Auguste, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Watokieka, the Runner, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Mantoeakiepa, Meeting of Bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Achieya, Broken Arm, his x mark, [L. S.]
|Wathapayignet, the Small Bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
Witnesses present:
|Lewis Bissell, acting secretary,
|P. J. Nalsisor,
|Manuel Lisa, United States Indian agent.
|Sam. Solomon, interpreter,
|Benjamin O'Fallon, United States Indian agent,
|Stephen Julien, United States Indian interpreter,
|W. Suigely,
|Gabriel S. Chouteau, second lieutenant, M. M.,
|Geo. G. Taylor,
|Joseph Lafleche, interpreter, his x mark.
|W. Tharp,
|Michl. E. Immell,


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