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Westfield lies in the Connecticut River Valley in southwestern Massachusetts. The Westfield River flows through the city, eventually joining the Connecticut River over ten miles from the center of the city. Even though the city is on the fringe of the most densely populated region of the US and has gone through suburban residential and commercial land development, its forests are reverting to almost pre-settlement conditions. Wild animals including wild turkeys, bears, coyotes, and moose have been returning to the area after a century-long absence.
Population: 40072
Local Newspapers: Springfield Journal Union-News
Local Sports Teams: Boston Bruins Boston Celtics Boston Red Sox New England Patriots New England Revolution
Local Colleges: Westfield State University
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More than 250 fire departments, including dozens in western Massachusetts, will receive grants from the state to help better educate children and seniors on fire safety. The Baker-Polito Administration announced the awards this month.Western New England Bancorp (WNEB) Upgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Buy
The firm presently has a $12.00 target price on the financial services provider's stock. Zacks Investment Research 's price target indicates a potential upside of 8.11% from the stock's current price.Southington PD: Man arrested for trying to meet with a oeminora he met online
A 50-year-old man was arrested in Southington Friday after allegedly attempting to meet up with a minor he met online . Police say Carl Bezo, of Westfield, Massachusetts , turned himself into police after learning of an outstanding warrant for his arrest charging him with criminal attempt to commit risk of injury to a minor.Western New England Bancorp (WNEB) Earns Hold Rating from Zacks Investment Research
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The 22News Storm Team's predicting most western Massachusetts cities and towns will be covered by several inches of snow by Wednesday afternoon. The heaviest snowfall is expected between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. MassDOT is warning drivers to be prepared to face "difficult travel conditions" Wednesday morning.Neighbors concerned after coyote kills small dog in Westfield
Just before it got dark last Sunday night, Anne Fox let her three Pomeranians out into the fenced-in pool area of her backyard on Rachael Terrace in Westfield. A coyote approached from the woods and snatched one of her dogs, Trixie, pulling her through the fence and dragging her into a ravine.Western New England Bancorp (WNEB) Receives "Hold" Rating from Zacks Investment Research
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A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for providing the heroin that led to a 16-year-old girl's fatal overdose. Seth Lombard-Hawthorne, of Westfield, entered the plea Monday.Milder conditions can cause plumbing problems for residents
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Westfield Deputy Police Chief Patrick Egloff told 22News the broken pipe caused issues with the sprinkler system around 3:30 p.m. From the deadly New Years' Day fire in Holyoke to a major break in the decades-old murder case of Lisa Ziegert, here's a look back at 2017.Westfield family welcomes new baby on New Yeara s Day
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Budding entrepreneurs collect enterprise awards
FINGAL'S next generation of entrepreneurs are celebrating as winners of the 13th annual Fingal Student Enterprise County Final.
Over 580 student businesses were established throughout the region since September 2013, with 59 student enterprises from 22 secondary schools and nine primary schools taking centre stage at the annual awards ceremony at the Crowne Plaza.
The three main category winners in the secondary schools competition will go on to represent Fingal at the National Student Enterprise Awards in Croke Park on April 2.
Organised by the Fingal County Enterprise Board, the Fingal Student Enterprise Awards Programme supports students in planning and managing real life businesses; helping them to trade and generate an income during the school year.
Supported by the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board and Fingal County Council, the Fingal Student Enterprise Awards Programme is the largest initiative of its kind in the country, with an overall prize fund
The Junior Category was won by Jeet Argan from Donabate Community College, with Stylets of Luttrellstown Community College, taking the runner-up prize. The Intermediate Category was awarded to Boot Drying Box from St. Vincent's Castleknock, while Safe Set of St. Vincent's Castleknock took second place.
In the senior category, Laps of Skerries Community College, claimed first prize, which includes an educational trip to Barcelona.
A Taste of Howth from St. Fintan's High School was the runner-up. The Innovation Award in the Senior Category was presented to TYI from Luttrellstown Community College.
The Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Enterprise Award for Secondary Schools was awarded to Lusk Community College.
The Enterprising School Spirit Award for Primary Schools was awarded by Joe Harford, Chairperson of the Fingal County Enterprise Board and went to Magnificent Masks from Balbriggan Educate Together.
The Social Media Award in the Senior Category went to Gaeilge Cliste from Loreto College Swords; the Intermediate Category winner was ITS Bands of Coláiste Choilm CBS while the Junior Category Social Media Awards Winner was announced as Pencil Holder from Lusk Community College.
Oisin Geoghegan, CEO of Fingal County Enterprise Board, presented the Best Display Award for primary schools to Cards from Scoil Phádraic Cailíní.
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0entrue27/09/2006Schneider Electric facility awarded one of the best manufacturing plants in North America

 Each year, Industry Week magazine names its picks for the best manufacturing plants in North America. This year, Peru's plant, in Indiana, USA, has been named one of them!
The cornerstone of the plant's lean philosophy is based on the 5S -Sort, Shine, Set in order, Standardize and Sustain, principles used by many facilities to create a clean and orderly workplace.
 With its application, Peru's plant minimizes production workers' non-value-added movements by implementing visual controls, such as labels, reconfiguring workstations and deploying a water-spider route. For example, labels for the bins that carry the breaker switches are color-coded to prevent mix-ups.

 Industry Week's Best Plants award program recognizes plants that are on the leading edge of efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments.

Plants are judged on numerous criteria including:
 - Management practices geared to achievement in customer satisfaction and continuous improvement,
 - Strong quality systems and results,
 - Extensive employee involvement,
 - Improvements in manufacturing operations,
 - A comprehensive effort to achieve world-class manufacturing capability.

 > Peru's plant - The Key figures:
 Employees: 556
 Primary products: Electrical panelboards, Square D worldwide brand
 Start-up: 1920
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Check on the flip for Yeezy's apology..
the lady doth protest too much ;-/
Did he scream that apology to us?
I think people should be banned from from using exclamations. Anywho, no apology can take away the embarrassment she felt yesterday…including Beyonce.
dats nt genuine..damage done!
His Apology is worser than Chris Browns Damn YE Really…………….WOW
You have to be careful what you do. Some things you just can't apologize for.
im glad Kanye apologized to Taylor Swift, not for what he said. though it was probably the wrong time for the outburst, Mtv has a history of missing the mark when giving out awards…
Seems like this personality he's created with Amber as a "brand" is not working-there's thousands more ready and able to take his place….
Sit down, Kanye
When you are in a hole, you need to stop digging…..
i official hate kanye & lobe
taylor!! suk it mr.westt
Poor Kanye, I wanted to visit his blog but it states that "Site Upgrades In Progress". For some reason this whole mess is very suspicious because Kanye has pulled many stunts and has apologized for them but he has never shut down his blog before.
I hate kanye now. How the hell did he get on stage? For real yall he neds to crossed off all award shows roster!! He is always running his big mouth. Hpefully next year MTV will beef up security so they can kick dumb asses like him out of the show.
oh and dear kanye,
just as gracefully janet and mandonna bridged the gap and brought us all together in MJ memory you took the opportunity to separate us all once again.
thanks for nothing stupid.
Po little girl didn't know what to do LOL
now im Kanye fan! nikka back to hip-hop!
Kanye is a Fool!
Kanye is still a jackass!
Gurl prayer wont help him he need professional help,Russel Brand got more sense than him
I'm still trying to figure out why Lil Mama showed up on stage to!!
As for Kanye, I am not sure he can apologize his way out of this one!
He has the right to his opinion about the awards programs, but he handled that very poorly!!
you idiots act like this is the first time Kanye got out of pocket at an awards show. stop pretending like you are so shocked and disappointed. smh @ fakeness.
Most of you Azz holes who are saying there not a fan will buy next album he put out because he is good at what he does.
Congratulations Chris Brown! You are no longer the most talked about black male celebrity! Pass that torch on to Kanye!!!! He's going to run with it for a while! 😉
Everyody booing him. He didn't have to get up and do what he did. But i was thinking the same thing when they gave taylor swift the award. he keeps it real said what everyone was thinking. so there now get over it
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text: Obesity, insulin resistance and free fatty acidsBoden, GuentherCurrent Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity: April 2011 - Volume 18 - Issue 2 - p 139–143 doi: 10.1097/MED.0b013e3283444b09 Lipids: Edited by Annabelle Rodriguez Abstract Author Information Purpose of review To describe the role of free fatty acid (FFA) as a cause for insulin resistance in obese people. Recent findings Elevated plasma FFA levels can account for a large part of insulin resistance in obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is clinically important because it is closely associated with several diseases including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and abnormalities in blood coagulation and fibrinolysis. These disorders are all independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, strokes and peripheral arterial disease). The mechanisms by which FFA can cause insulin resistance, although not completely known, include generation of lipid metabolites (diacylglycerol), proinflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, MCP1) and cellular stress including oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress. Summary Increased plasma FFA levels are an important cause of obesity-associated insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease. Therapeutic application of this knowledge is hampered by the lack of readily accessible methods to measure FFA and by the lack of medications to lower plasma FFA levels. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and the Clinical Research Center, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Correspondence to Guenther Boden, MD, 3401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA Tel: +1 215 707 8984; fax: +1 215 707 1560; e-mail: email@example.com © 2011 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Zilean Build Guide by Larrytheshrub
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Threats to Zilean with this build
|Since you beat every champion in the game the only opponent you should have trouble with is zilean. However, you will stomp him because you are using this guide.
Poke down enemy
Your main combo for poking down the enemy is to q w q. This will place a bomb on the enemy champion, instantly explode that bomb, and then place a new bomb on them. This will make laning a breeze since their adc will be too scared to come up and cs.
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It's easy to believe that the world is evil and to fear that our race is doomed to end in destruction. However, the laws of nature suggest that people are inherently good, and a small subset of the world's population makes us all look bad. We see it every day on the news and social media, stories of atrocities that make us feel fear, grief, anger and hopelessness.
Those of us who want to fear hope must search for it, then. I recently came across a great speech found near the end of a movie called The Great Dictator, which was written, produced, directed scored by and starring the great Charlie Chaplin. This story is about a poor Jewish barber who is mistaken for a dictator. In the speech, he rejects this position, and in the meantime delivers great inspiration.
"Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout theworld – millions of despairing men, women, and little children – victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people…."
He goes on to reassure us that:
"To those who can hear me, I say – do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed – the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish……You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure……Then – in the name of democracy – let us use that power – let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world."
This speech seems especially relevant now, when we need words of wisdom to help us remember that we are all humans, and in it together. We need reminders to not give up hope, and words of wisdom like this surely give us what we need in times like these.
This Infamous Speech By Charlie Chaplin Reminnds Us To Unite As One
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It has been over one year since Breaking Bad ended, and three months since its impressive (and well-deserved) showing at the Emmy Awards. Breaking Bad was not just about manufacturing meth. It had a lot to say about western history.
There are a number of connections between Breaking Bad and the classic Hollywood westerns of the past. First of all, the western landscape certainly contributed to the show's success. The most dramatic shots (Hank's death, Gus's threat to kill Walt's family, Walt's "say my name" speech) all took place in the New Mexico countryside, a stunning landscape of desert, mountains and tumbleweed. Such use of the visual landscape could easily be compared to films like The Searchers or 3:10 to Yuma, in which the landscape is central to the tone of each scene.
But the western themes run deeper than the land. Walter fits the image of a modern cowboy. A fierce individualist, he refuses charity of any kind to pay his medical bills for his cancer treatment and instead uses his intelligence and grit to dominate a drug underworld. He wields a pistol and even robs a train, later explaining to his partner that their plunder far exceeded the best robberies of Jesse James and Butch Cassidy. The final episode, in which Walt returns to New Mexico to duke it out with a gang of neo-Nazis, is named "Felina." The name comes from the song "El Paso," in which a cowboy returns to Texas to face a posse that wants to kill him. The connections are obvious and intentional.
Critics have claimed that Walter is a modern cowboy by focusing on this image of the cowboy as an uncompromising maverick who uses violence in response to a dangerous world. But this popular image does not reflect the reality of western history. A cowboy, in the heyday of his industry, was a product of unprecedented government intervention and a wage laborer for big business.
Long before Americans took to the cattle industry in the Southwest, Mexicans dominated the trade in what was then their country. Only after the campaigns of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was the Mexican land that supported cattle incorporated into American territory. Although Hispanic peoples continued to make up the majority of the population in the region, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed former Mexican citizens equality under American law, American settlers used the legal system and the army to push Hispanic landowners off their property.
The American push west continued to depend on the federal government. After the Civil War, the military protected the railroad crews and the hunters that nearly exterminated the bison herds, and it forced Native American peoples onto reservations in an unprecedented and prolonged series of wars. Army engagements enabled the government to open an entire country for business. The Great Plains, which had supported an ecosystem of thirty million bison, was ideal grazing land for cattle. The cattle industry boomed, giving rise to the traditional American cowboy as men drove cattle to railheads for shipment to Chicago, home of the world's largest slaughter houses, and then transported the meat across the country with the latest technologies: trains and refrigerated box cars.
The cowboys ultimately moved twenty million cattle from their home grounds in Texas across the plains to railheads. But far from being self-reliant loners, cowboys were the employees of highly capitalized cattle companies, many of which were funded by Europeans. Cowboys were not rugged individualists; they were part of a much larger web of corporate interests and industrialization. "Cattle Kings" monopolized the industry, deliberately undercutting any lone cowboy with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The world of the cowboy collapsed in the 1880s. So many cattle companies had rushed into the industry they created an unsustainable bubble. Too many cattle overgrazed the plains, stressing the environment just before terrible droughts hit in the early 1880s. Weakened herds were finished off in the brutal winter of 1886-1887. Cattle companies lost between 15 and 85 percent of their cattle and investors withdrew their capital. There was no recovering the era of the cattle drives, since farmers and homesteaders were well on their way to closing off the land with barbed wire. Cattle industrialists switched from ranging to ranching cattle, consolidating the animals onto bonanza ranches, while smaller operations leased land and water from the government to remain competitive. The great cattle drives – the drives that gave us the cowboy image – ended as quickly as they began.
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There is a disconnect between the image of the cowboy and its historical counterpart. The former is glorified as a brave frontiersman working for himself while in truth, the cowboy was only historically possible with the backing of the government, and he was paid by major corporations that eventually wrought their own destruction.
Walter White might fit the image of the cowboy, but he also fits perfectly into the more realistic view. None of Walter's exploits are possible without federal protection and the Indian reservation system. When Walter triumphs over a Hispanic rival (Tuco), his victory is thanks to a DEA agent (Hank). Much of the show is filmed on Tohajiilee, a Navajo Reservation, where Walter and Jesse first cook, and where Hank gets shot in a suspenseful standoff. As Walter explains to Jesse in season five, he's in the "empire business." So was America in the nineteenth century.
Walter also spends much of his meth-producing tenure as a corporate entity. His best success as a meth cook is when he is able to tap distribution networks that reach into Europe. He spends a great deal of time working for Gus, essentially the world's most evil CEO. Like the cattle industry of the 1880s, Walter's business is unsustainable in the long-term, and he practices a lifestyle that leads to his demise, killed by his own bullet.
Walter White represents not just the popular image of the cowboy, but also the complex history of the American West. And that's worth a few Emmys.


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This is a release not to be slept on… New York City based retail shop, WEST, teamed up with world famous photographer Ricky Powell to bring you a series of three limited edition tshirts. Each featuring shots of Mike Tyson, DMC from Run DMC and Ricky himself. Hit the jump to read about the story behind the pictures, video interviews and detailed images of the release. DOPENESS!
The Mike Tyson photo was taken at Studio 54 during a Public Enemy show the night after Tyson's infamous street brawl with Mitch "Blood" Green in Harlem, circa 1988. Ricky snapped the picture of DMC, of Run DMC during the summer of 1987 in Hollis Queens, New York. Finally, the third image was taken in Venice Italy in 2000 when ricky was on a holiday. The tranquility, life and moment that is represented through each image is astounding.


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The invention relates to a meat processing system, and in particular to a meat processing system in which input streams are flow rate controlled and blended to yield a combined output stream.
In commercial systems for making certain processed meat products such as bologna and hot dogs, chunks or pieces of raw meat and other ingredients such as spices are ground, chopped and/or otherwise blended with one or more salts or brine to provide a mixture that can subsequently be formed into a stable meat emulsion or matrix. Similar steps of grinding, chopping and/or otherwise working are also employed in making sausages, processed ham, processed turkey, and other processed meat products. In both cases, protein holds or bonds the separate pieces together.
Creation of protein bonds in this context requires a process commonly known as protein extraction. In this process, salt soluble, heat coagulable proteins such as myosin, actomyosin, and actin bind water, swell and become tacky as a result of working or blending of the meat in the presence of a salt or a salt solution. The proteins are subsequently set when heated to create a bond. Other myofibrillar proteins, as well as sarcoplasmic or water soluble proteins, may also play a role in bonding. Salts that may be used in protein extraction include, but are not limited to, sodium chloride, sodium pyrophosphate or diphosphate, potassium chloride, sodium lactate, and potassium lactate. In protein extraction as described herein, the mechanism believed to be primarily responsible for creation of the bonds involves binding proteins and water and subsequent swelling of the proteins, rather than solution of the proteins.
Batch processes for blending meat and other ingredients and extracting protein are well known. A known method for achieving protein extraction for certain products such as processed turkey and processed ham involves puncturing whole muscle meat with needles, injecting brine through the needles, and using a batch processor or mixer to work the meat for approximately 45 minutes under vacuum to remove air. For other products such as sausages, meat is ground and added to a batch processor with water, salt, spices, and/or other ingredients and worked with or without vacuum for 15 to 45 minutes. A large batch mixer may process approximately 6,000–12,000 pounds per hour. While such mixers have been used commercially for many years, they have significant drawbacks with respect to their space requirements and cost due to their large size, as well as the length of time required for processing each batch, and the time and expense associated with cleaning of the apparatus.
The invention relates to an improved method and apparatus for use in making processed meat products that provides significant advantages with respect to the size of the apparatus, the time required for processing, the control of the process and/or other aspects of the manufacturing process.
In one embodiment, the method comprises feeding a plurality of input food ingredient streams comprising one or more meat ingredient streams, measuring at least one component of at least one meat ingredient stream, and controlling relative flow rates of the input food ingredient streams based on the measurements using a feed forward analysis to maintain a percentage of at least one component in the combined stream within a predetermined range. Where two meat ingredient streams are employed, they may be differentiated by fat content, with one having a significantly higher fat content than the other. In addition to one or more meat ingredient streams, other input streams may comprise water, salts, spices, preservatives, and other ingredients, separately or in combination.
The control system preferably includes at least one in-line analyzer for measuring a compositional characteristic of at least one meat input stream and regulating one or more input flow rates in response to output data from the analyzer(s). The system may directly measure a compositional characteristic such as fat content, or may measure a related characteristic such as moisture content from which fat content may be estimated. The control system may include a plurality of analyzers in-line for analyzing compositional characteristics of a plurality of non-homogeneous input streams. The control system preferably operates one or more pumps or valves for each food input stream. Flow may be regulated by varying pump speed, by intermittent pump operation, by opening and closing one or more valves, by varying flow rate with one or more metering valves, or by other means. The control system thus may control both the combined flow rate and the relative flow rates of the input streams. The relative flow rates may be adjusted by the control system based on analysis of the compositional characteristics by the analyzer.
Feed forward composition analysis may enable rapid adjustment of the flow rates of the input streams to enable control of fat content, protein content, moisture content, and/or other variables of the combined stream without the need to rely on a feedback loop based on measurements of components in the combined stream. By introducing the controlled components in desired proportions at the input end, the feed forward control system may also improve processing time by eliminating delays associated with adding and mixing additional ingredients to correct deviations from desired content levels. The feed forward control system thus may enable a mixture or blend having a desired composition to be produced from ingredients introduced at the input end and flowing through the processor in a single pass, without recycling any of the output of the processor.
The preferred apparatus comprises a housing within which the input streams are processed, and at least one rotatable mixing device located within the housing. Each mixing device may comprise a plurality of elements such as paddles, blades or screws or may consist of a single element such as a single screw, blade or paddle. The mixing devices may be removably supported on one or more shafts, but to facilitate thorough cleaning without disassembly are preferably integral therewith. In some embodiments, the mixing devices and shaft may be welded together or formed as a one-piece, unitary machined part.
Rapid protein extraction and/or maceration may be achieved through the use of a continuous high shear mixer for a short period of time. One mixer in accordance with an embodiment of the invention comprises a plurality of rotating paddles that force some or all of the mixture through one or more gaps of about 0.08″ between the paddles and the interior of the mixer housing, and between various pairs of paddles, as the mixture advances through the apparatus. The system preferably achieves sufficient protein extraction, blending, and in some cases maceration in less than 5 minutes of processing time, and is believed to be capable of achieving sufficient protein extraction, blending and maceration in less than one minute. In one particular embodiment, the processing time is about 45 seconds. That is, the average time required for a given element of the mixture to pass through the processor is about 45 seconds. Within that time, the mixer is capable of forming ingredients comprising chunks or pieces of raw meat, along with salts, water, spices, etc., into a mixture that, when cooked, will form a cohesive, self supporting processed meat product without further protein extraction or maceration. It should be noted that for some products, e.g., bologna and hot dogs, further processing steps may take place that may incidentally involve additional protein extraction.
In some embodiments, mixing may take place at atmospheric pressure. In other embodiments, the mixing operation may take place in a vacuum environment of, e.g., 25–29 in. Hg vacuum.
The invention is preferably embodied in a method and apparatus for making processed meat products. An apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is shown diagramatically at 10 in
While a single elongated screw as shown in
As shown in
In the illustrated embodiment, each paddle 18 has a generally ovate profile shaped similar to that of an American football, with a point or very small radius of curvature at each end (
On each shaft 19, each of the paddles 18 has a wiping action relative to one or more paddles on the opposite shaft to avoid build up of ingredients on the paddles. This self-cleaning characteristic helps to maintain flow of the ingredients through the mixer, and helps in maintaining good distribution of the ingredients. Shaft 19 is preferably a one piece unitary item that may be removed from the housing 20.
A modified screw element 30 that may be used in conjunction with or instead of one or both of the screw elements 17 and paddles 18 described above is shown in
As shown in
Ingredients are supplied as input streams by a plurality of input assemblies 66. The input streams may include a first stream comprising predominantly lean meat or muscle content, a second stream comprising predominantly fat content, a third stream comprising one or more salts such as sodium chloride dissolved in water, a fourth stream comprising an aqueous nitrite solution, and a fifth stream consisting essentially of water. Additional ingredients including flavorings such as spices, preservatives, and/or other ingredients may be introduced in additional streams, or may be incorporated in one of the five streams described above.
In the embodiment of
As an ingredient stream passes through an associated content analyzer 82, the stream is analyzed to determine, for example, fat, moisture and/or protein content. In order to achieve balance between the various ingredients in the desired ratio, a control system receives input from a plurality of analyzers, and regulates the throughput rates of the metering pumps 84 so that the ingredients flow into the inlet hopper 62 in the desired ratio.
Various methods may be used for analyzing the fat moisture or protein content. Known methods include use of microwave energy or infrared light. Commercially available in-line analyzers may be programmed to analyze characteristics of a wide variety of substances ranging from, e.g., petrochemicals to processed cheese. Examples of such analyzers include in-line analyzers GMS#44 and GMS#46 manufactured by Weiler and Company, Inc., of Whitewater, Wis., and the Process Quantifier manufactured by ESE Inc. of Marshfield, Wis. These analyzers typically must be calibrated for each individual application, either by the manufacturer or by the end user.
The process preferably employs one or more additional input streams to supply moisture, flavor enhancers, preservatives, and/or other ingredients. In the process of
To produce a mixture with desired moisture, protein and fat content levels, the control system 100 regulates the flow rates of the input streams by adjusting the speed of a pump or valve associated with each input stream. In the embodiment of
Adjustments are made using a feed-forward method whereby the pumps and valves provide the proper relative amounts of the input streams based on upstream analysis. To determine the need for adjustments to the various flow rates, the control system 100 utilizes the content analyzers 82 to determine the protein, fat and/or moisture content levels of ingredient input streams 102, 104 upstream of the metering pumps 110 and 112. In some embodiments, for each input stream element that is analyzed, analysis is completed before the element reaches the metering pump associated with the input stream so that the flow rate of the associated input stream may be adjusted as needed to maintain the desired compositional parameters of the combined output stream continuously within the target range. In other embodiments, analysis may take place after the element has passed through the metering pump, and flow rates may be adjusted as necessary to account for the delay. Thus, the percentages of protein, moisture and fat entering the mixer are preferably regulated so that adjustments to variations in input stream characteristics are made as the input streams flow into the hopper, rather than being made in response to characteristics of the mixture measured downstream from the mixer 10.
The mixer 10 preferably includes an output port 122 for discharging the mixture, and may include an outlet hopper 124 to receive the mixture and channel it to a delivery pump 126. To maintain the process at subatmospheric pressure, one or more vacuum lines may be in communication with the apparatus in one or more points.
As the protein extraction is a function of time and shear force in the presence of a salt solution, the power drive 12 is a variable speed motor so that the constituents are contained within the housing 20 for mixing for a time necessary to allow both salt solution infusion and shearing action.
After being processed by the mixer 10, the mixture may be subjected to further processing steps, e.g., a diffusive chemical process such as curing. Curing may be effected using, e.g., sodium nitrite and/or sodium chloride. In processes for making products such as bologna and hot dogs, the mixture may be subjected to a further step of particle size reduction to produce an emulsion from the mixture
In connection with sensing fat, moisture and protein content of meat components, it has been found that moisture content may correlate to fat and protein content. It is believed that the correlation may be sufficient to enable moisture content of meat components from a known source to be used as a predictor of fat and/or protein content with sufficient accuracy that fat and/or protein content may effectively be measured simply by measuring moisture content. Accordingly, in certain embodiments of the invention, the step of measuring fat and/or protein content may consist of measuring moisture content after having calibrated the moisture meter appropriately. The control system can then control fat and/or protein input based on the moisture content readings of one or more input streams.
From the foregoing, it should be appreciated that the invention provides a new and improved method for effecting protein extraction and mixing of meat components for certain processed meat products. The term "meat" is used broadly herein to refer to meat such as beef, pork, poultry, fish and meat byproducts, including cuts or pieces that are all or primarily all fat, as well as lean cuts or pieces that have relatively higher protein content. The terms "meat product" and "meat ingredient" are used broadly herein to refer to products or ingredients that contain meat, alone or in combination with other components.
The preferred embodiments described above relate to continuous processes, i.e., processes in which ingredients are input during discharge of a combined output. In these processes, the input and/or the output steps may be interrupted periodically or may be intermittent.
The preferred embodiments of the invention are believed to be effective for achieving rapid protein extraction and mixing of food components in a much smaller apparatus than that used in certain prior art batch mixing processes. In addition to reducing floor space requirements, the preferred embodiments of the invention also may reduce cost and cleanup time as compared with these prior art processes and apparatus. The invention may also result in significant cost savings by enabling more precise control of the composition of the combined output stream.
While specific embodiments have been described above, the invention is not limited to these embodiments. The invention is further described in the following claims.
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The Ploughshare® mixer's inventor, Brothers Lödige Maschinenbrau GmbH, is one of the leading equipment and subsystems providers in the world for industrial mixing technologies. Since 1938, Lödige has been a proud manufacturer of high quality equipment. Its manufacturing sites and offices are located around the globe.
Lödige manufactured equipment is cross industry and is consistently of the highest quality. They are providers of subsystems for applications in process engineering in areas of granulation, mixing, coating, drying, as well as allied processes.
Lödige Mixer Equipment:
Mixing occurs when a minimum of two different substances are brought together in order to create a single homogeneous mixture. The beginning physical state of the materials that are mixed together can be solid, liquid, or gaseous.
Good quality mixing equipment will create either a system that is either static or dynamic. A static mixer is a system that has been permanently installed. Here, a product flows through the mixer, and that equipment's mixing effect occurs as a result of the swirling flow through those items which have been permanently installed. The starting materials must be able to be pumped if they are to be used within a static mixer.
On the other hand, there are also dynamic mixers. There are several forms of this equipment, one of which is the free fall mixer. Among the most commonly recognized examples of a free fall type is the cement mixer, which has a drum that continually rotates within a mixer chamber in order to combine the elements that it contains. When the elements are mixed together, the materials that were added to be combined are selectively accelerated and are moved around relative to each other. Different states of motion can occur depending on the mixing elements' design.
One of the most popular mixers that is produced by Lödige, which first introduced it into the processing industry, is the Ploughshare® mixer. Its geometric shovel shape and peripheral speed, within a cylindrical and horizontal drum lift the mixing components from the product bed by rotating the shovel close to the wall, and scooping them from the drum's wall, counteracting the centrifugal force.
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While Team Obama is working on overdrive to secure the "Obama Legacy" and the outgoing POTUS is rallying the Democrats on Capitol Hill to save Obamacare, Team Trump is already making plans to redecorate the East and West Wings of the White House while rearranging the political furniture here in our Nation's Capital.
With a bit more than two weeks to go before Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, our country is on the edge of a precipice and most of us here in Washington are proceeding as if it's just another news day.
As President Obama prepares to pass the baton of leadership to Donald Trump, there are almost too many ongoing world crises that threaten our international stability to count.
So, we might have wished that Providence could have taken pity and given us a Franklin Roosevelt or an Abraham Lincoln or a Ronald Reagan to come to our rescue.
Sorry, that's not how it works!
A rather wise, though youthful, President John F. Kennedy put it this way:
"For, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'holds office'; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve."
So after a most grueling and exhausting GOP Primary and a general election that had a lot more in common with our Civil War than most any other presidential campaign, the American people chose a businessman, Donald Trump, to become their 45th President.
Trump will join a very short list of individuals who had never been elected to public office before becoming president: Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In contrast to Trump who is a Reality TV Star, CEO of a private company (answerable only to himself) and a successful promoter of his own brand, these prior presidents were very accomplished individuals in the public service arena.
Grant and Eisenhower were victorious generals responsible for extraordinarily-successful military campaigns that saved this country…. and they both understood bureaucracy!
Taylor was a war hero in the Mexican-American War and Hoover headed the American Relief Administration after World War I and was Secretary of Commerce responsible for the St Lawrence Seaway project and the construction of what is now known as the Hoover Dam.
As the American people and the world community prepare for the transition from the Obama administration to the Trump administration, what do we know and what can we except?
Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump, the ultimate prompter, sold "himself" alone as the answer to all America's ills – as opposed to offering any specific policy prescriptions.
So far in his official acts, pronouncements, and tweets since becoming president-elect, we have learned a few important things.
Clearly, Trump intends to be a non-traditional president, making up the rules of the game as he goes along…and there are also a few things that President-elect Trump may not understand yet about being president of the United States.
All presidents campaign with promises of bright new ideas; however, when they first sit behind that Oval Office desk, the problems of world become their personal burden…and as Harry Truman was fond of saying – "The Buck Stops Here."
These crises have a way of dominating a president's attention and distracting them from their intended agenda. World events, dear Donald, events, I fear, simply will not and cannot wait.
Trump campaigned, as most presidential candidates do, on a heavily-domestic agenda…"Making America Great Again"… building a wall…repealing Obamacare…bringing lots of jobs back to America and rebuilding an elusive American Dream of the 50's.
Although some of this might be possible, it will be hard for Trump to stay focused on his U.S. domestic agenda since America's peace and security are now threatened every day.
His first presidential choices tell us that he plans to work with a non-traditional Cabinet and staff as well, consisting basically of business tycoons with almost no Washington insiders to assist him as he attempts to re-invent Washington…and "Drain The Swamp."
Unlike other successful newcomers to this job, Trump has not picked many seasoned Washington veterans to rely on – who know where all the "bodies are buried," and can maneuver here in D.C. as Trump has done back in the "Big Apple."
Others before him have tried to stay focused on their agendas and set a new course for the ship of state. This is a daunting task under the best of circumstances with Washington insiders on your side.
So like it or not, this may mean the "Boss" will need to get involved in all the nitty-gritty, sometimes boring, bureaucratic details…or suffer the consequences if things do not go as he has planned.
We will now just have to wait and see how all of this plays out in the first hundred days or so of this new administration…or until the Mid-Term Elections, when the voters have another chance to speak their minds.
And we are just going to have to trust the American people and the American system of checks and balances, because this democratic experiment, which began in Philadelphia 241 years ago, is the best we have and, so far, it has stood the test of time.
Jon-Christopher Bua is a White House Correspondent and Political Analyst appearing on-camera and radio via Talk Media News. Twitter: @JCBua


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Promoter Offers Chris Brown & Drake $1 Million To Hop In Boxing Ring
Following the now-infamous W.i.P. brawl, Chris Brown & Drake just got an offer of a lifetime: settle their differences by boxing it out in the ring for a couple of rounds—and a million dollars.
According to CNN, celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman is willing to shell up $1 million to both entertainers to get in the ring for three minute-long rounds, wearing oversized gloves and protective head gear.
With addition to wanting Rihanna as a ring girl (but also acknowledging that she'll never agree to that), Feldman also says he'll donate $1 million to a charity that helps abused women if the fight takes place.
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For our last activity the girls put together their very own time capsule. I did this when I was in Young Womens and I just opened it last month. It was fun to go through and see what "treasures" I had put in there. I had my girls camp necklace, sunglasses, a CD (I thought we'd be on to some new technology in ten years), notes from friends and a form that the young women's leader had put together for us to fill out. Before our activity I went to the cannery and picked up number ten cans and made up a form for the girls to fill out. The one I did in young women's was lengthy and had questions like "What ten traits do you want in your future spouse?" I doubt the little activity day girls would want to fill that out. They all gagged at the question "When do you think you'll get married?" I just put that on there because you really don't know. Some of the girls were like, "I'll get married when I'm thirty." Another girl said she wants to be a old cat lady and never get married. Another question was "Which temple do you want to get married in?" They all wrote down the one that their parents got married in. Then at the activity I showed them the can that I had put together and we talked about what a time capsule is and they filled out their own little information sheet. They took their cans home and filled them up with their goodies and brought them to the next activity. I sent them home with a list of suggestions like: last family Christmas card, pictures of your bedroom, souvenirs from trips, write down your testimony, etc. This is what the cans looked like when they brought them back.
I took them into the cannery and had this kind Brother put lids on them.
Then when I got them home I put their names on the top in vinyl. At the activity I had them write their names on the bottom in marker because once their sealed up there's no guessing who's is who's.
It was a fun activity and the girls loved them! I hope they wait a good ten or twenty years before they open them!
Activity Days is an LDS activity for eight to eleven year old girls.
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Anime and Manga
- In Fullmetal Alchemist, after Alphonse uses his alchemy to restore Ed's arm in exchange for his own life, Al tells the Truth that he knows that his brother will come for him. And he does.
- Samurai Champloo: In the finale, Fuu is kidnapped by thugs using her as bait against Mugen. Fuu tells them that He Won't Come For Me, you idiots, since she believes Mugen won't risk his life for her. Cue CMOH and Fuu's shock when Mugen shows up and tosses away his weapons to save her.
- Togari: The first time Itsuki is held hostage to threaten Tobe, Tobe couldn't care less about her. The second time, the now-cynical Itsuki◊ is openly scornful◊ of her kidnapper, since of course Tobe Won't Come For Her. And of course Tobe comes to the rescue, thanks to Character Development. An excellent example of this trope, and explicitly a Call-Back.
- In the second-to-last chapter of Inuyasha, Kagome thinks this pretty much verbatim when she is trapped inside the Shikon no Tama and hears Inuyasha's voice.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Both times Nia Teppelin finds herself captured, she is adamant that Simon will come for her. And he does.
- Sweet dreams are made of this has a retroactive example: after Harry's death and resurrection, Molly says this.
"I always knew youd come find me," she mumbled, already half asleep, and clinging to me. "I always knew."
- When the Lord Inquisitor is kidnapped in All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, the first thing he says when he sees Cassandra again is that "I knew you would find me."
Films — Animated
- Megamind: Roxanne has been saved by Metro Man so many times she doesn't even feign concern when Megamind kidnaps her. She is shocked (and Megamind is too) when Metro Man appears to be killed by one of Megamind's Death Traps. He isn't.
- Disney's Peter Pan: Wendy assures the boys that "Peter Pan will save us" from Captain Hook, who then explains to her his plan to kill him with a Time Bomb. It should probably come as no surprise that Pan survives the blast and comes to the rescue.
- Occurs twice in Joseph: King of Dreams. Firstly, when Joseph tells the Ishmaelite slavers who pull him out of the well My brothers will come for me! (and subsequently subverted when they do show up, but it isnt to rescue him). Secondly, in an Ironic Echo when an imprisoned Simeon throws out the same line after being imprisoned by Joseph.
Films — Live-Action
- The Dark Knight: Used to great effect when Rachel and Harvey are kidnapped. It turns into a Hope Spot by playing straight Rachel's faith to the last second that Batman Will Come For Us, but subverting the Big Damn Heroes moment expected to follow. That juxtaposition is what makes it so sad. Even better, Rachel knows that Batman is coming to save her, but he's not, because the Joker, being savvy enough to know Batman will save Rachel instead of Harvey, switches up the addresses. So Batman saves Harvey instead.
- Pitch Black: Jack says "He's not coming back, is he?" when Riddick leaves Jack and Imam in the cave. Zigzagged when Riddick WAS going to leave them to die, but Fry convinces him otherwise. Their return prompts Jack to say, "Never had a doubt!"
- The Princess Bride has three Will Come For Me moments.
- A variation while Buttercup is held prisoner by the Man in Black.
Buttercup: No matter where you take me, there's no greater hunter than Prince Humperdinck. He could track a falcon on a cloudy day. He can find you.
- While Buttercup is waiting for Westley to come take her away.
Buttercup: Any word from Westley?
Humperdinck: Too soon, my angel. Patience.
Buttercup: He will come for me.
- A third variation, at the wedding.
Buttercup: (hearing the sounds of fighting) Here comes my Westley now.
- Of course in the end, Westley doesn't show up on time, causing Buttercup to almost have a Heroic B.S.O.D.: "He didn't come..." Then he shows up after all, late for the wedding but Just in Time to face Humperdinck in the bedroom.
- A variation while Buttercup is held prisoner by the Man in Black.
- Chase Meridian makes a comment about Batman coming to save her in Batman Forever. Riddler replies that he's counting on it.
- Lampshaded in Superman Returns:
Lex: No, not that, the other thing. Cmon, I know its just dangling off the tip of your tongue. Let me hear it just once, please?Lois: Superman will stop y—Lex: WRONG!
- Waterworld: Enola is kidnapped by evil smokers, who taunt her that the surly Mariner won't rescue her: "He's not here. And he ain't coming. And no one's gonna save you." Enola retorts that "He'll Come For Me, he will," and gives a speech about the Mariner being a Memetic Badass who will kill them all in their sleep. Of course the Mariner shows up and blows the smokers' base sky-high to save Enola, because "She's my friend."
- In A Brother's Price, Jerin Whistler has nearly thirty sisters, and is married to five adult wives. When he is kidnapped, he is very certain that at the very least a couple of them will come to his rescue. His only angst is about being Defiled Forever before this happens.
- In The Bible, the Children of Israel are certain that The Messiah Will Come For Them.
- In The Golem's Eye, the second part of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Nathaniel has Kitty's childhood friend Jacob as hostage in order to lure and arrest her. Jacob informs him she would never come to save him, as they were inseparable as children but they've not seen each other for years. She comes.
- In the second book of Protector of the Small, Lalasa is abducted to either disgrace Kel or keep her away from the final page exams, whichever Kel picks. Kel chooses to rescue her, and Lalasa says that she kept herself from going completely mad with fear with the knowledge that Kel would come.
- Subverted in the BattleTech novel Bred for War. Not only does the "hero" of the Zurich subplot not come for his girlfriend, who honestly believed he would, it turns out that he never intended to and instead purposefully sacrificed her to distract his enemies' attention long enough for him to take them out as he'd planned to all along.
- As in the film, Buttercup in The Princess Bride is very confident that Westley will come to stop her wedding.
- Sparhawk, the Queen's Champion, spends the first two and a third books of the Elenium searching for what's needed to save Queen Ehlana from a fatal poisoning; she's being sustained by magic. The first thing she says, when she's finally able to speak to him, is that she knew he would come.
Live-Action TV
- Angel: When Cordelia is trapped in the Pylea dimension.
"I have friends back in LA. They're gonna come rescue me. Any time now."
- The A-Team:
- "Bounty": An example which involves the hero talking to another hero and not to the villain. While at Kelly's, Murdock keeps fiddling with the radio, trying to find the transmission the others will probably use to locate him. Kelly says that he should relax and that they'll find him, and Murdock replies that he knows.
- "Hot Styles": Face, having been captured by the antagonists of the week and waiting to be dumped into the ocean, tells fellow victim Rina that they just have to wait until Hannibal comes up with a plan. Sure enough, not that long thereafter, Hannibal and Murdock storm the boat to rescue the two of them.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Spike: (whispering) She will come for me... She will come for me... She will come for me...'The First Evil (taking the form of Buffy): ... No I won't.
- Spike says it repeatedly over the Season 7 episodes Bring on the Night and Showtime.
- When held captive by Glory, Dawn insists repeatedly that Buffy is going to save her. As Dawn is an Apocalypse Maiden, Glory says Buffy may indeed turn up...to kill her before she can cause the destruction of all reality.
- The Adventures of Superman: "Don't worry. Superman will save us!" OK, not a direct quote, but c'mon, they did it at least once every other episode. Jimmy, Lois, Perry, or Inspector Henderson would be in a trap or some kind of predicament but be confident that Supes would rescue them.
- Doctor Who:
- Amy Pond gives a speech to her newborn daughter about how Rory will come for her. He does.
- When they're about to kill him, the Silence taunt Rory by telling him Amy will let him die alone. She saves him with a machine gun.
- Princess Aurora of Once Upon a Time tells Season 2 Big Bad Cora the "won't come for me" version when Cora announces her plan to trade the captive Aurora for the magic compass her companions possess.
- Batman: Catwoman once held Batgirl captive to lure Batman out of the way. Batgirl said he'd not save her because stopping Catwoman would be a priority. Batman sent somebody else to rescue Batgirl.
- Teen Wolf has a non-romantic variant. When Stiles is captured by the werewolf hunters, he tells them that Scott will come for him.
"He knows my scent. It's pungent."
- Subverted in Battlestar Galactica (2003) episode "Hero". Bulldog escapes from a Cylon basestar where he's been held prisoner since before the war, after taking part in an illegal mission into Cylon space that ended with Bill Adama destroying his spacecraft to prevent his capture. When Bulldog finds out about the latter, he beats Adama with a pipe.
Bulldog: All those years... You know what I kept telling myself? What stupid, frakked-up dream I held onto? I kept thinking: Just hang in there, Bulldog. Bill Adama's coming. He won't leave you to rot in here, not him. He won't leave a man behind. Just hold on. But you weren't coming. You didn't think I was alive. You weren't even hoping I was alive!
- In the season three finale of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries the villain kidnaps Miss Fisher's father, planning to kill her in front of him when she comes to the rescue. This one is a sort of balance between the two variations: Baron Fisher says she won't come because he's always been a lousy father, but it seems like he's more hoping this is true and is worried that she might come for him after all. Naturally, Phryne and Jack pull off a Big Damn Heroes moment and rescue him in the nick of time without getting hurt themselves.
Video Games
- In Fatal Frame 2, a flashback to Sae and Yae's attempted escape from the village shows Sae thinking this while she is in captivity.
Sae: Yae will come back for me... she will...
- In Solatorobo, The Kurvaz capture Elh to use as bait to make Red turn over the medallion, but Elh says that won't work because she betrayed him, tried to sacrifice him in the Rite of Forfeit, and he won't come. He does, though.
- In Dragon Age: Origins, when the Warden (with or without Alistair) gets captured by Ser Cauthrien and taken to Fort Drakon, you get the option to either break out yourself or wait for help. You can even specify which two party members (except for Shale) come to break you out, even if they don't like each other... or you.
- Towards the end of Bioshock Infinite, Elizabeth ends up getting re-captured by the Songbird and taken back to her father. Booker immediately gives chase, intent on rescuing her... only for trans-dimensional hijinks to transport him to a reality where the Bad Future results of Elizabeth's capture play out: this version of Elizabeth spent months, possibly even years, insisting that Booker would eventually come for her and enduring every possible torture Comstock could devise for her in the meantime. Unknown to her, this version of Booker was killed by Songbird before he could reach her; because of this, she eventually came to believe that Booker had abandoned her and gave in to her father's demands, becoming his successor and Apocalypse Maiden. Worse still, it turns out that this sequence of events keeps playing out across dimensions - and the very reason why the Player Character edition of Booker ended up getting transported to this reality in the first place was so that Bad Future!Elizabeth could give him a means of stopping Songbird.
- During the Cliffhanger ending to Wind Child Black, Alexia is imprisoned by Commander Set for aiding the Black Knight (all she did was survive his attack on a fortress), she defiantly says that her friends will break her out. She's crushed when Set informs her that her friends were all killed when the Black Knight attacked their airship. Luckily, they all survived, but they're stranded with no way of getting to her until the sequel gets released.
- In Dubious Company, as Sal is being hauled off for execution she begins fretting. Sue tells her to cut the act, saying she knows Sal is expecting the pirates to save her. Sue is partially right. Sal knows the pirates will try, but she calculated the odds of their success. It was 0%. She's fretting because she made a deal with General Izor to spare them.
- In L's Empire, Timpani is confident that her husband will come rescue her after she's kidnapped by the Pixl Queen's army, saying that they have no idea how far he'd go for her (for those not in the know, the last time she disappeared he went on a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum when he couldn't find her.) Subverted since Indx didn't let him come along and demanded he get some therapy after having another Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum. Timpani is rescued, but it was Daisy (who had also been kidnapped) that rescued her.
Web Original
- Dr. Horrible: "Don't worry, Billy. Captain Hammer will save us..."
Western Animation
- In a Aladdin: The Series/Hercules crossover, the kidnapped Icarus and Abu tell Hades and Jafar that Herc and Aladdin will come to save them. Unfortunately, their respective heroes attempting a rescue was what the villains had in mind.
- A hero-to-hero example occurs in the DuckTales (1987) episode "Hero for Hire". The first thing Doofus says to Launchpad after being saved from the Beagle Boys is that he knew Launchpad would come to rescue him.