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US 4684531 A Abstract The present invention relates to a process for the preparation and heat treatment of food products.
In the process according to the invention, the mixing and heat treatment operations are carried out simultaneously by the injection, under pressure, of the concentrate and at least part of the constituting liquid, superheated to a temperature above about 100° C., into a tubular chamber which is closed so as to prevent any vaporization of the constituting liquid.
Claims(8) 1. A process for the continuous preparation of a liquid or jelled food product containing a fraction of constituting liquid and a fraction of concentrate containing the basic ingredients of said food product, said process comprising the steps of mixing of an appropriate volume of said constituting liquid with an appropriate volume of said concentrate and heat treating the mixture for preserving a reconstituted food product, said mixing and heat treatment operations being carried out simultaneously by the injection, under pressure, of said concentrate and at least part of said constituting liquid while said liquid is superheated to a temperature above about 100° C., said injection taking place in a tubular chamber which is closed and includes non-return, back pressure means so as to prevent any vaporization of said constituting liquid and wherein said injection of said constituting liquid and said injection of said concentrate are carried out in a countercurrent manner with said concentrate ascending for intimate mixing while heat treatment takes place.
2. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein, after a sufficient heat treatment time to ensure preserving of the food product, the said product is cooled directly by the injection under pressure of an additional volume of sterile constituting liquid, which is approximately at a temperature of between 5° and 50° C.
3. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the temperature of the superheated constituting liquid is between 105° and 200° C.
4. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the constituting liquid is superheated water injected under a pressure of the order of 18.105 Pa.
5. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the concentrate is injected under a pressure of the order of 8.105 Pa.
6. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the concentrate is a liquid mixture obtained by mixing a small fraction of the volume of the constituting liquid with pulverulent basic ingredients of the food product.
7. The process as claimed in claim 6, wherein the concentrate also contains pulpy fragments.
8. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the food product is directly packaged under sterile conditions, after cooling.
Description This application is a division of application Ser. No. 588,524, filed Mar. 12, 1984, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,583,453. The present invention relates to a process for the preparation and heat treatment of food products containing a preponderant fraction of constituting liquid, the said process being of the general type comprising an operation involving the mixing of an appropriate volume of constituting liquid with a concentrate containing the basic ingredients of the food product, and also a heat treatment operation intended for preserving the product. This latter heat treatment operation can equally well consist of either sterilization or pasteurization. The present invention relates in particular, but not exclusively, to the reconstitution or manufacture of liquid food products by diluting with water a concentrate containing the basic ingredients of the food product. Examples of these liquid food products which may be mentioned are fruit juices and natural milk or milk to which various flavorings have been added. However, the present invention also extends to food products which are in a more or less gelled form and which can also contain solid pieces, in particular pulpy substances such as pieces of fruit. Many countries or regions in the world do not have a local source for the production of some of these liquid food products, in particular milk or fruit juices. Consequently, the existence of uneconomic distances between producers and consumers makes it very advantageous to manufacture such products in situ from their constituents, in powder or concentrate form, and water. Once reconstituted, these liquid products must be subjected to a preserving treatment (sterilization, pasteurization, holding-hot, etc.) and then packaged under sterile conditions. The processes used hitherto consist of preliminary reconstitution of the food product with intermediate storage in a tank, followed by heat treatment for sterilization or pasteurization. Furthermore, the heat treatment is usually carried out either indirectly through walls, or directly by injecting high-temperature steam into the reconstituted product or by causing the latter to fall as droplets into a jet of high-temperature steam. The indirect heating procedure has the disadvantage of creating deposits against the walls, or a caramelization phenomenon, and the direct heating procedure has the disadvantage of incorporating into the treated product a quantity of excess water, which must subsequently be removed. As a result of what has been stated above, the known processes are complex and costly in terms of investments, people and energy. The object of the invention is in fact to overcome these various disadvantages, and the invention also makes it possible to dispense with the intermediate stage of storing the reconstituted product before heat treatment. This object is achieved according to the present invention by virtue of a process which consists essentially in using, to reconstitute the food product, a constituting liquid, for example water, heated to a temperature such that it produces a reconstituted mixture whose temperature is similar to that at which the desired heat treatment is to be carried out. Thus, by means of this process, liquid food products are prepared, in particular reconstituted, and simultaneously preserved by heat treatment. This gives the finished food products not from products reconstituted in an intermediate step, but directly from concentrates or from powders converted to concentrates by thinning with a small quantity of constituting liquid. Now, the storage of the concentrates or powders, which can be carried out without taking any particular precautions, is easier and less expensive, because of their smaller volume, than that of the reconstituted liquid products, the main component of which is, for example, water. Moreover, heating the food products in situ, in the liquid phase, by dilution with superheated water ensures that they are at a uniform temperature, reached instantaneously, without any risk of decomposition in contact with the walls, which happens when the heating is carried out externally through the walls of a container. In addition, this decomposition affects the organoleptic properties of the finished product and causes clogging of the equipment. Furthermore, the method of heat treatment according to the present invention prevents, ipso facto, the inadvertent incorporation of any excess water into the products prepared, since the superheated water is in fact added in a quantity corresponding exactly to the desired degree of dilution. According to another characteristic of the present invention, after a sufficient heat treatment time to ensure preserving of the food product, the said product is optionally cooled directly and instantaneously by the injection under pressure of an additional volume of sterile constituting liquid, which is approximately at a temperature of between 5° and 50° C. and which may contain heatsensitive additives. In fact, in the case where certain liquid substances such as milk are reconstituted, it may be necessary to cool the product very rapidly after a short period of mixing and holding-hot. In such a case, the heat treatment is only carried out with part of the superheated constituting liquid, the remaining part subsequently being injected, cold and in sterile form, in order to ensure sudden cooling. The temperature of the cooling liquid will of course depend on the additional quantity of sterile water injected cold. It is perfectly clear that, in the case of heat exchangers of the plate or tube type, this sudden cooling is absolutely impossible because of the large thermal inertia inherent in this type of indirect treatment. Nevertheless, the present invention makes it possible to solve this problem in a very elegant and effective manner. In the particular case of a liquid food product which is to be reconstituted from 75 parts of constituting liquid and 25 parts of concentrate, it is possible, for example, to carry out incomplete reconstitution and a heat treatment with only 45 parts, for example, of constituting water. Thus, an incompletely reconstituted liquid is subjected to the heat treatment. At the end of the mixing and holding-hot operations, for example after about 5 seconds, the remainder of the reconstituting liquid, for example 30 parts, in particular cold sterile water under pressure, is then injected, which makes it possible to complete the reconstitution of the food product and simultaneously cool the said product instantaneously. The sterile cold water is thus injected at a pressure of the order of about 8.105 Pa, for example, and can of course also contain soluble vitamins or other additives which would be destroyed or denatured during the initial heat treatment operation. In order to avoid the use of water superheated to an excessive temperature for bringing the food product to the appropriate treatment temperature, the fraction corresponding to the concentrate in the reconstituted product must not be too large. In the case of milk or fruit juices obtained from a pulverulent mixture, the concentrate fraction represents about 20 to 50% by weight of the reconstituted product. According to other additional characteristics of the present invention, the temperature of the superheated constituting liquid is, for example, between about 105° and about 200° C. If this constituting liquid is superheated water, for example, it can be injected under a pressure of the order of 18.105 Pa. The concentrate is injected under a lower pressure, for example of the order of 8.105 Pa. Advantageously, the constituting liquid and the concentrate are injected in countercurrent in order to assist the formation of an intimate mixture. It has also been found in practice that the concentrate should preferably be injected in an ascending direction. Such an arrangement in fact prevents the concentrate, under the action of gravity, from tending to migrate towards the actual mixing zone, which must remain sterile even if the process is interrupted. This point will be developed in greater detail later, especially with reference to FIG. 2. The process according to the present invention proves particularly advantageous if the food product prepared and heat-treated in this way is directly packaged under sterile conditions, after cooling. This makes it possible, without any intermediate step, to pass from the product transported and stored in the form of powder or concentrate to the final food product in a sterile pack and ready for distribution. The present invention also relates to an apparatus making it possible to perform the process defined above. This apparatus comprises a tubular mixing chamber connected on the one hand to a metering pump delivering the concentrate withdrawn from at least one storage tank, and on the other hand to a generator of superheated constituting liquid. This generator preferably comprises an injection pump feeding the mixing device with, for example, superheated water. This pump and the above-mentioned metering pump are controlled so that their chosen outputs constantly remain proportional, the proportionality factor depending on the degree of dilution required for manufacturing each food product. The tubular mixing chamber is advantageously equipped with a thermostatic sensor effecting the regulation, as a function of the temperature in this zone, of the heating module with which the superheated water generator is provided, so that the heat treatment takes place correctly. According to another characteristic of the apparatus of the invention, the latter contains, downstream of the tubular mixing chamber, a device for injecting cold sterile water under pressure and at a controlled temperature. In place of, or together with, this device for injecting cold sterile water, the apparatus can also be equipped, downstream of the tubular mixing chamber, with a heat exchanger in which the food product is cooled. Thus, in the particular case where a food product is reconstituted by simply adding to the concentrate a quantity of water equal to that which was removed during the concentration of the product, for example fruit juice or milk, it is advantageous to couple the exchanger cooling circuit to the water feed circuit of the superheated water generator. It thus becomes possible to recover heat extracted by the exchanger during the cooling of the reconstituted product, for the purpose of preheating the feed water for the said generator. The inlet and outlet of the tubular chamber of the apparatus are equipped respectively with non-return means and back-pressure means. These means are essential since it is they which ensure that a sufficient pressure is maintained inside the tubular chamber to prevent the superheated constituting liquid from vaporizing. In fact, it has already been seen that the presence of vapor in the mixture results in a number of disadvantages, for example by producing condensates which are difficult to control. A buffer tank is preferably provided at the outlet of the apparatus in order to receive the food product, preferably after cooling, this tank possessing a level sensor which acts on the pump of the generator of super-heated constituting liquid. A characteristic of this type makes it possible to regulate the rate of reconstitution of the product according to the downstream demand, which can be, in particular, that of a sterile packaging unit directly connected to the outlet of the apparatus in order to pack the reconstituted and heat-treated product. In an advantageous embodiment of the apparatus according to the present invention, the different constituent elements are controlled and regulated by a programmed computer whose program is determined according to each food product prepared. It is thus possible to obtain an entirely autonomous assembly for preparation, heat treatment and sterile packaging, which operates automatically in total safety and without any human intervention apart from the supplying of basic constituents when required. An apparatus of this type can be constructed in a simple and compact form enabling it to be installed at the points of consumption on scantily equipped premises of any kind, which will of course result in a reduction in the distribution costs of the product prepared and packaged in this way, with immediate adaptation to the local market. Other characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given below, especially with reference to the attached drawings; in these drawings: FIG. 1 shows a simplified diagram of a particular embodiment of an apparatus according to the invention, FIG. 2 shows a partial view, on a larger scale, of the particular T-shaped arrangement of the tubular mixing chamber, and FIG. 3 shows a variant of the simplified diagram of the apparatus in FIG. 1. In the attached FIGS. 1 to 3, identical elements will be denoted by the same reference numbers. In order to facilitate the detailed description of the apparatus shown in the attached drawings, we will consider the case of performing a process for the reconstitution of a liquid food product prepared by dilution from reconstituting water and the concentrate containing the basic ingredients of the food product. It must be understood, however, that it is perfectly possible to use an installation of this type within the scope of a different process of preparation involving, as the constituting liquid, not water but, for example, a mixture of water and a fat such as a vegetable oil. The installation shown in FIG. 1 comprises, first of all, two tanks 10 intended for converting the constitutents of the food product to concentrates when the product is in powder form. Each of these tanks is charged with this powder and receives a small quantity of water for thinning the powder, this operation being assisted by stirring with a stirrer 12. The tanks 10 are alternately filled and emptied by means of two appropriately controlled three-way valves, namely an inlet valve 13 diverting the thinning water to one or other of the tanks 10, and an outlet valve 14 similarly ensuring the alternate withdrawal of the concentrate from the said tanks. These tanks 10 are preferably thermostatically controlled so that the temperature of the concentrate which they deliver remains constant. The outlet of the valve 14 is connected to a metering pump 16, which introduces the concentrate--with a constant solids content--into the tubular mixing chamber 20 at a given flow rate of, for example, 100 liters/hour, through the line 18. This tubular mixing chamber 20 also receives, through a line 22, water for reconstituting the product, this water coming from a superheated water generator 24 comprising an injection pump 26, which receives water through a line 28, via a feed regulator 30, and which sends this water into a heating module 32, the outlet of which is connected to the line 22. The pumps 16 and 26 are coupled by a linking device 34 (mechanical or electronic) regulated so that the respective flow rates of concentrate and water lead to a reconstituted product containing the exact proportions desired. In an advantageous embodiment, the heating module 32 comprises, for example, a boiler which works continuously and whose calorific power can be modified according to the particular treatment to be carried out. This water is heated by the generator 24 to a temperature which is generally above about 100° C. In practice, the temperature of the superheated water is generally between about 105° and about 200° C., so that the temperature of the reconstituted product inside the tubular chamber 20 is similar to the temperature at which the heat treatment is to be carried out. The process and apparatus forming the subject of the present invention prove particularly advantageous for carrying out a sterilizing treatment on the food product. A treatment of this type can be effected, for example, by injecting superheated water under a pressure of the order of about 18.105 Pa at a flow rate of 400 liters per hour, with the aid of the pump 26. It is thus possible to obtain a temperature of the order of 135° C. for in situ treatment of the liquid food product, the pressure prevailing in the tubular chamber of the apparatus being of the order of about 5.105 Pa. Under such operating conditions, the intimate mixing is effected in a fraction of a second, for example 1/4 second, and the sterilizing heat treatment, for example in the case of milk, is complete after a period of the order of 2 to 5 seconds. It is clear that, by injecting superheated water at a lower temperature of the order of 100° C., the temperature of the liquid treated becomes less than 100° C. In this case, it is nevertheless possible to use an apparatus of this type for carrying out a pasteurizing treatment on the product. It is clear that the superheated water must be injected at a temperature above the heat treatment temperature, the difference depending on the nature and the temperature of the concentrate and its proportion in the finished liquid food product. The corresponding regulation of this temperature can be carried out automatically with the aid of a thermostatic sensor 36 coupled to the tubular mixing chamber 20 and controlling a temperature regulator with which the heating module 32 of the generator 24 is provided. The tubular mixing chamber 20 is extended by a holding-hot coil 38, which, in the same way as the tubular mixing chamber 20, can advantageously be located in a heat insulating envelope (not shown). The actual heat treatment, for example sterilization, of the liquid food product is carried out entirely in this tubular chamber 20 and in the holding-hot coil 38. The lines 18 and 22 are provided with non-return valves 18a and 22a, respectively, which, in the event of a fault in one or other of the pumps, prevents the mixture from flowing back either towards the tanks 10 or towards the superheated water generator 24. The reconstituted food product coming from this holding-hot coil 38, where it has undergone the desired heat treatment for the appropriate time by virtue of reconstitution with the aid of superheated water, must then be cooled before it can be packaged. In fact, it is necessary to reduce the temperature of the liquid food product below its vaporization temperature before it can be packaged. According to the present invention, this step involving cooling of the sterilized liquid food product can be carried out according to two quite different variants corresponding to indirect cooling or direct cooling. In a first variant, the heat exchanger 40, whose cooling water circuit includes a discharge valve 41, is joined to the line 28 bringing the water to the generator 24, so that the latter receives water heated by the heat recovered from the reconstituted product by the heat exchanger 40. As shown schematically in FIG. 1, the heat exchanger 40 can be subdivided into two superposed parts 42 and 44. Thus, with the aid of a suitable system of connecting lines and valves, it is possible to use only one part (42) or both parts (42 and 44) of the exchanger 40. It should be noted that the tubular coil which passes through the heat exchanger 40 has the same internal diameter as all the rest of the tubular chamber of the apparatus. In practice, the total length of the tubular holding-hot coil 38 and the coil of the parts 42 and 44 of the heat exchanger can be as much as 100 meters, the internal diameter being 18 mm. Keeping a constant tube diameter throughout the installation dispenses with any problem of washing the installation and any problem of homogeneity in the treatment of the food product. It should also be noted that the whole of the tubular line running from the zone 20 to the outlet of the heat exchanger 40 does not contain any mechanical element which would be capable of causing any form of pollution by communication with the external environment. The operation of the valve 41 is controlled according to the cooling needs, i.e. according to the inlet and outlet temperatures of the heat exchanger 40 and to the flow rate of the reconstituted product passing through it, by a thermostatic sensor (not shown) coupled to the outlet of the said exchanger, and according to the temperature of the water from the superheated water generator. Furthermore, the water feed pipe 46 is provided with softeners 48 and a filter 50. In the second cooling variant of the direct type, the diagram of the installation is modified in the manner illustrated in FIG. 3. In this particular embodiment, the apparatus also contains, immediately downstream of the holding-hot coil 38, a device for injecting cold sterile water under pressure and at a controlled temperature. This device also comprises a pump 52 capable of delivering cold sterile water under a pressure of the order of 8.105 Pa and at a constant flow rate, this water coming from a cold water tank 54 and subsequently passing through a bacteriological filter 55. For safety reasons, a non-return valve can be inserted between the pump 52 and the bacteriological filter 55 in order to keep the installation under pressure even in the event of a defect in the pump 52. It is clear that the temperature and the output of this device for injecting cold sterile water under pressure must be determined according to the particular nature of the product to be prepared. An example which may be mentioned of the use of such an apparatus is the case of a concentrate consisting of one part of powdered milk to which one part of thinning water is added so as to produce, in the tank 10, a pasty liquid or a slurry capable of being pumped. A premix of this type is homogenized with the aid of the stirring device 12; it can be prepared in advance and temporarily stored. In the case where the milk requires the addition of a further 7.5 parts of reconstituting water for its final reconstitution, it is possible, for example, to divide this reconstituting water into two portions. For example, 4.5 parts of water can be used in the form of superheated water for sterilizing the milk, while the other three parts will not be injected until after the sterilizing treatment, by means of the pump 52 downstream of the holding-hot coil 38, in order to ensure instantaneous cooling of the milk. In the particular case where it is desired to add to the milk adjuvants which are sensitive to high temperatures, for example vitamins, it thus becomes possible to introduce them into the product at this subsequent stage without any longer running the risk of thermal degradation. It is clear, as shown moreover in FIG. 3, that the two variants of the cooling device can be used simultaneously in the same apparatus. To optimize the operation of the apparatus according to the invention, it is advantageous to use a tubular mixing chamber 20 having approximately the configuration shown in FIG. 2. In this configuration, the tubular mixing chamber 20 adopts the general shape of a T having a vertical tubular branch 18 for the arrival of the concentrate in the ascending direction. The opposite vertical tubular branch 22 is for the feeding, in countercurrent, of the superheated constituting liquid, for example superheated water injected under a pressure of about 18.105 Pa. The third branch of the T, namely the horizontal branch 21, allows the mixture to flow in the direction of the holding-hot coil 38. As shown in FIG. 2, the line for injecting superheated water 22 ends in a nozzle 56 which comes out in the region of the extension of the lower generatrix of the horizontal tubular branch 21. An arrangement of this type makes it possible to avoid any concentrate overheating phenomenon which could result in deposits or crusts on the walls in this zone. This particular characteristic of the tubular mixing chamber also offers another fundamental advantage, namely that it ensures the presence of an entirely sterile zone 58 beyond the zone into which the horizontal line 21 comes out. Thus, in the event of a breakdown or voluntary shutdown of the apparatus, it is possible to restart the installation with total assurance that sterility has been preserved. The doubly shaded zone 60 corresponds to a buffer zone which will only be partially sterile because of the presence of a concentrate which has not yet undergone the heat treatment operation. In view of the vertical arrangement and the ascending feed of this concentrate, the latter will permanently occupy this position, under the effect of gravity, without running the risk of mixing with the preserved sterile zone 58 represented by single shading. This particular arrangement of the tubular mixing chamber 20 also makes it possible to change the food product in the apparatus forming the subject of the present invention. This change can be carried out continuously by simply modifying the nature of the concentrate. In such a case, it will be appropriate simply to discharge a certain quantity of a mixture containing both the old and the new product, but it is totally unnecessary to take any particular precautions to maintain the sterility of the apparatus as a whole. The product can also be changed batchwise with prior rinsing using a buffer of superheated water under pressure, which can be recovered after the head and tail fractions have simply been removed. This characteristic of the process and apparatus according to the invention therefore offers a decisive advantage compared with the technique of the prior art involving an external heat treatment, i.e. a heat treatment with the aid of, for example, plate exchangers. The heat exchanger 40 is then connected by a line 62 to a buffer tank 64, where a stock of reconstituted, heat-treated and cooled product is formed. A pressure reducing valve/regulator 66 with a calibrated back-pressure valve is inserted in the line 62 and prevents the superheated water from vaporizing at the outlet of the generator 24 and in the assembly comprising the tubular mixing chamber and the holding-hot coil 38, before the reconstituted product is cooled. In the event of a product change, the discharging of the mixture containing both the old and the new product, as well as the discharging of the head and tail fractions of the buffer of superheated rinsing water, can advantageously be carried out by means of a discharge valve 65 mounted on the line 62 immediately downstream of the pressure reducing valve regulator 66. This discharge valve 65 will of course be calibrated at a higher pressure than the pressure reducing valve/regulator 66, for example at a pressure of about 8.105 Pa in the case where the pressure regulation in the whole of the tubular line is about 5.105 Pa. The buffer tank 64 feeds a sterile packaging unit 68 which packs the reconstituted product into containers 70 directly, without any recycling, the sterile nature of the said product being preserved. The buffer tank 64 possesses a level sensor 72 which acts on the regulation of the injection pump 26 of the superheated generator 24 according to the output of the packaging unit 68, and it does this progressively with the possibility of stopping the said pump and, of course, the pump 16. Thus, it is possible to single out three essential parts in the apparatus described, each part fulfilling a specific function: a first part comprising the tanks 10, the valves 13 and 14 and the pump 16, which contains the product to be reconstituted in the form of non-sterile concentrate at constant concentration and temperature; a second part comprising the superheated water generator 24, which supplies at least part of the constituting liquid performing the functions of dilution as well as heat treatment of the non-sterile concentrate; and finally a third part in which the dilution and heat treatment operations take place, and which comprises the tubular mixing chamber 20, the holding-hot coil 38 and the cooling device (or devices) 40, 52, 54, which comes out into the buffer tank 64. In addition to these three parts described above, there is a fourth complementary part consisting of the sterile packaging unit 68. It is thus observed that the treated product, both before and after reconstitution, flows through this assembly with constant protection from the air and in liquid form, without ever being in the form of steam. To ensure complete sterilization of the installation prior to any operation for the preparation and heat treatment of food products, superheated water is circulated through the whole of the installation as far as the stage of the buffer tank 64 of the sterile packaging unit 68. To sterilize the buffer tank 64, it is necessary to place the whole of the installation under pressure by bringing the pressure reducing valve/regulator 66 out of the circuit, the pressure being provided by another back-pressure means, for example a pressure reducing valve/regulator 67 inserted in the line connecting the buffer tank 64 to the packaging unit 68. The operation of the entire apparatus, including the said packaging unit, can advantageously be controlled by a microprocessor 74. It suffices to adapt its program to each particular food product to be treated, so that the running of the operations and the correct regulation points of the apparatus are determined automatically without any manual intervention and hence secure from any risk of human error. In a stage in which the apparatus is started or restarted after a shutdown, the injection of water into the tubular mixing chamber 20 should not begin before this water has effectively reached the required temperature in the heating module 32 of the generator 24. For this purpose, a valve 76 is inserted in the line 22. This valve, which is controlled by a thermostatic sensor 78 coupled to the said pipe, directs the water from the heating module first towards a relief line 80 and then, when the required temperature has been reached, towards the tubular mixing chamber 20. During the relief stage, the sensor 78 also operates the coupling device 34 of the pumps 16 and 26 in such a way that the pump 16 delivering the concentrate is stopped. The pump 16 is not started until the injection of the superheated water into the tubular mixing chamber 20 begins. FIG. 1 also shows that the valve 14 placed upstream of the pump 16 possesses a third intermediate inlet connected to a water feed line 82. This particular arrangement makes it possible to rinse and clean the apparatus, for example between the introduction of a concentrate from one of the tanks 10 and the introduction of a concentrate of a different type from the other tank. Finally, it is possible to make provision for a means ensuring that the prepared concentrate introduced into the metering pump 16 is kept at a constant concentration, such as a concentrate weighing device acting on the flow rate of thinning water so as to keep this concentration constant. The desired value can then be set by simply indicating it with the aid of a control button, if appropriate with intervention by the computer 74. Of course, the present invention is in no way restricted to the particular method of performing the process and to the particular embodiment described above, and it is perfectly possible to envisage a number of variants thereof without thereby exceeding the scope of the present invention. Patent Citations
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This is taken from a first person perspective so your feet are at the very bottom of the screen. So you are standing on safety squares when the bottom of the screen intersects the square.
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I don't know whether you simply used scaling along to achieve the corridor effect, but it worked really well, some very nice pseudo-3d. The game was entertaining enough, although I could see greater potential in the gameplay and graphics.
If you were to re use the game design or make another version ,you could possibly expand to include corners coupled with a dungeon map (this seems within reason and possibility), as well as decorations/props, perhaps some fountains and plants to get an Aztec theme going (this is what sprung to mind when thinking of the whole temple boobly trap premise).
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tricky at first
I wasnt sure when or when i wasnt on the safe zone... either way... it was cool until those tricky fucking lazers... I thought they went diagonally....
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Nice job man, dont listen to anything people say, the game was great, i couldnt stop playing, i got to the end, and unlocked hard in 198.1 seconds. Keep up the good work, i hope to see more from ya!
Cheers, I do read peaoples comments and ones like that, do really cheer me up.
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god damit that games impossible I cant get past the middle ages omg whenever you think your safe the thing far away from you hits you and you die...seirusly thats fucking gay
You are safe when the bottom of the screen intersects the red square...Its quite easy if you can get the hang of it, honest.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
yea...what bila said...hard to know when you're safe...but nice game
im sorry..
I did say, in the comment above, in the instructions and in the preloader, ur safe when the bottom of the screen intersects the red square..but I know it doesnt seem instinctive


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The best restaurants possess a trifecta of attributes: good food, charismatic personalities, and unique ambiance. The ratios of these factors may vary – food may outweigh ambiance or personalities might trump food – but the best of the best balance these perfectly. And, they make it look easy.
Tres Carnales is a rare find among restaurants anywhere and not just in Edmonton. Lively illustrations and Mexican artifacts adorn the walls and lend an air of authenticity, rather than kitsch. Owners Daniel, Chris and Edgar infuse their hard-earned brainchild with knowledge, hilarity and a most welcoming, casual ease that makes the first-time diner feel like an old friend.
Tres Carnales, which has only been open since early summer 2011, is a taqueria. They create tacos, which are widely known to North Americans (albeit, not necessarily in their authentic state), and tortas, which are Mexican sandwiches. At least eight incarnations grace their menu at any one time, and it behooves every diner to inquire about specials. Case in point: a recent special featured pork simmered in its own fat with beans. This unctuous delicacy graced a quartet of corn tortillas that were gently adorned with a savoury layer of melted cheese. The result? Pure, unadulterated decadence. Regular features, such as Rajas Con Crema (which includes grilled poblano chilies, cilantro and corn in a cream sauce) and Carnitas (braised pork shoulder) can be obtained as a taco or a torta.
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"We got tattoos," says Coyne on Ke$ha. "We got fucking drunk, we made a lot of music, and we absolutely had one of the best days of our lives."
Over the course of their serpentine, three-decade career, proud Oklahomans the Flaming Lips have been an upstart punk rock act, one-hit-wonders (with their lone radio single "She Don't Use Jelly"), wily experimentalists, an oddball cover band, a surrealist art-pop troupe, and perennial festival favorites. Add to that list celebrity whisperers, as evidenced by seemingly unlikely recent collaborations with big time pop stars like Ke$ha and Miley Cyrus. With their Sgt. Pepper's recreation, With a Little Help From My Fwends, due in October, SPIN sat down with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne in front of an audience at their Toyota Soundwave stage at Outside Lands to discuss breakfast, weirdness, and why working with Miley makes total sense.
What'd you have for breakfast?
I didn't really do any breakfast. I did some yoga, and some coffee and some water, and now I'm here.
So you're running on empty.
No, I feel pretty good. Well, I'll get some food or something eventually. I like the idea that you're like the Charlie Rose.
The Flaming Lips back were a punk-rock band back in 1983. Wayne, how do you connect the band you started as, and the band you are now?
Well, when it's you doing it, it doesn't feel like anything, I suppose. We've done so many different incarnations of what we consider to be not just music we like, but our art and our ideas, all of those. I think occasionally previous to the early '90s, we weren't really that famous for anything. And so you could kind of evolve and do whatever the fuck you wanted, 'cause so is everybody else and your audience was too. Then, once we got this minor hit, "She Don't Use Jelly,"…
You're gonna play that tonight?
We always play that. I love that song. I think then we would realize that there would be some people that would come to the show and perhaps only know that song. And as we would go along, we'd feel like we're not really that same band. Not all the time, but occasionally we would struggle with thinking we want to play this type of set, and do we include "She Don't Use Jelly" in that? But that's really just us feeling insecure or something. And the more that we would not have a choice, that we could play whatever we felt like was our mission statements artistically at the time, we could also play the songs that people knew, and it didn't really matter. I think that's the only thing we felt like we kinda had to struggle with or something.
You mentioned the '90s when you guys had the good fortune of being swept up by the culture of the music going on at the time.
Very great, great fortune.
And that's something not every band does. You kept it weird.
Well I think you give us too much credit as if we had a choice or something. I say this all the time because we get compared to other groups and sometimes a group like Radiohead comes up. I sort of feel like, in their case, they really maybe do or care or consider that they have a choice of what they would do. I can say to the best of what I now about the Flaming Lips, we simply have no choice. The thing that we want to do, the desire that we have, whatever it is that we feel like music and the art and whatever the creation is, that's what we do.
I don't think we've ever been in the position where I felt like, 'If we did that, we'd sell 10 million records, but if we do this, everyone's gonna think we're weird.' It's never really been that. I think we've done some things that have occasionally been more popular than we thought it would be. I think for the most part, we were just doing our thing. I hope it works.
You guys have done some really crazy experiments: the headphones concert, the four-CD record [1997's Zaireeka]. Were there any failures?
You know, I'm sure there are. We just don't really remember them. Or they evolve. That's a little bit of the freedom of being considered, we're supposed to be a weird band. I don't think if people show and don't always understand what we're doing because we're weird, I think that's one very lucky thing that's happened to us. We've been able to do our thing, and it can evolve and you can try ideas and some of them work, and some of them you keep trying and then they work better and better. I think that's a really lucky thing that we've got. Even with our music that we record—we've always, as much as our labels will allow us, produced our records, dictated what the songs were and what the sounds were, the dynamics. All the things about the music that are for better or worse our own design, our own creation, our own state—whatever it is you want to call it.
Let's talk about the new record.
The new record? What's the news?
With a Little Help From My Fwends.
Oh, right. The Sgt. Pepper's cover.
You guys have had this adventurous career, but you've always stayed connected to a pop music sound in my mind.
I guess in a sense. We don't have any rules, really. We have a song that lasts for 24 hours straight. If you know a lot about music, you could say that it has some elements of pop music in it. I don't really know if that means…I don't mean it in a bad way, but everybody has their own playlist now. You don't have to wait for music to be popular before you can embrace it and like it. And even if it's not popular rock now, you can listen to whatever the fuck you want. You don't have to wait for anybody to find it for you. Of course it was never exactly not this growing up. We heard a lot of things on the radio, but mostly we heard my older brother and older sister had a lot of cool friends that did drugs and listened to music. That's where you heard most of the cool music was from their record collection.
So it's all out there.
Now it is. We were driving down the fucking road just the other day, and Steven and I were thinking of a song. We just went right to Google, and in a minute we're hearing a song we hadn't heard in 30 years.
[Addresses audience] Have you guys been keeping track of who the band has been collaborating with? There's some pretty big names...
[Cheers] Really, we've been a band now for 31 years. And I think we've been just really lucky that the things we want to do, we're allowed to do them. And this freedom to just do the stupidest things or the bravest things or the freakiest things, it never really occurred to us. We're just doing what we like to do. Like when we first collaborate with someone like Ke$ha. I mean I didn't know that much about her. I knew that she had a few radio hits—I don't call them pop hits as much as a radio sound.
Hit singles.
Yes. But even when I met her, I realized there were a couple songs I thought weren't her, and she would admit that there's sometimes a generic-ness to the Dr. Luke production that I think really works. You can hear a song and kind of feel like, 'I know this song!' But I just really liked her because I think from meeting her and being around her, and that's the spark that makes you think, "Let's do some music together." Because I don't know the perception is of someone like a Ke$ha or even like a Miley Cyrus. I can tell you absolutely, as much as people think I'm into music, so are they.
Didn't Ke$ha contact you first?
She did. All these things, there seems to be something in the air that you're supposed to call Wayne on his birthday. I think that's out there now, 'cause Ke$ha actually called me on my birthday in 2012, I think. And that record that we made with her came out in April, just a couple months after that. And so it gives you some idea of anybody who's ever made records and recorded, it gives you some idea of how much shit you have to do in such a short time. And if people were not interested in music and recording and listening and trying and all that stuff, it would never happen.
What are the logistics of working with someone like Miley?
I'm, like all creative people, I'm persistent and obsessed and a little bit crazy about the shit I want to do. And luckily when your run into someone like a Miley Cyrus or a Ke$ha or a Chris Martin—people that are in an echelon where everybody knows their life—they are too. So I think when I am around these people, it's almost incidentally like, "This is music." I'm lucky enough to know Damien Hirst. And the same is true of him. Exactly, if you were around me, if you were hanging around, we wouldn't just do nothing. That really is the secret. If we really know each other, we're gonna make music together, we're gonna be in each other's houses. We're gonna do things. That's really how it works.
Maybe with someone like Ke$ha, we don't have very much time together. I'm doing my shit, and she's doing shit. And in the time that we're together, we just get down to biz. And it's impressive. I was with Ke$ha really just one long day, start 2 or 3 in the afternoon till like 5 o'clock in the morning. We had a lot of things we had to do. We had a lot of ideas, and we had a lot of freedom of things we wanted to try. And it's fucking fun! And I think that's the secret. People think there's gonna be like 20 handlers there and producers and everybody ordering their cocaine and all that.
Somebody is.
I think that's the thing that people are surprised by, even with myself. We just show up. There doesn't have to be that much fanfare about it. We already all know what we're doing. When you work that way, you can almost do anything. So even when we recorded with Miley Cyrus, she did a show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is near Oklahoma City, where I live. The same was true of Ke$ha. We got tattoos, we got fucking drunk, we made a lot, a lot, a lot of music, and we absolutely had one of the best days of our lives. Fun and friends, it was great.
I do want to mention With a Little Help From My Fwends comes out on October 28.
We have begun to do this thing where we take really they're just records I like. There's no other agenda. If I think it's a really great record, I'll set to task anybody that I run into or in my studio: "Let's try to do a song-by-song complete cover of this album." I think we accidentally started doing that with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Then we secretly did that with King Crimson's first record, In the Court of the Crimson King, which is one of my favorite records. We also did that slightly secretly with Stone Roses' first record. They're friends of ours. And when we played last New Year's Eve, we did a John Lennon Beatles set, and we took eight or nine John Lennon Beatles songs, and during the middle of our big set, we did this stuff in the middle just to make it a different experience if you've already seen us a bunch. And one of the songs that really worked, our own version of it, was the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." And we continued to sort of play this in our sets after that. We would continue to play "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." And we rehearsed in our own studio at my house, so we're always recording. If we rehearse something we like, we'll record it. So we're recording "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," and we had already been playing it, and we played it on the David Letterman Show with Sean Lennon. It had become one of these things that we were doing.
So when I ran into Miley Cyrus, we were doing a couple of our own Flaming Lips production things that we'd gotten ready to do with her, and we'd done a couple things that she had ready. But we also said, "Let's try this 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,' and if we like it and it works, that'll be the beginning of us doing the Sgt. Pepper's like we've done with King Crimson and Pink Floyd. And so we did "Lucy in the Sky With Diamond," and it's just amazing, it's beautiful. And then Moby showed up at my house a couple weeks ago. He just shows up once a week. He came by, and we had him sing on "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." So again it's that kind of thing: People not being afraid; people not being precious; people saying, "Sure, let's do this. Let's see what happens."
Sounds like a rotating cast of talented people.
It is. I'm very lucky.


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"He loves living in LA and loves playing in the MLS and we have just got to accept he will not be staying, but he has been fantastic for us and let's hope that continues.
"He has come in at a time when we needed a bit of a spark and he has provided that and he has fitted in superbly."
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Istanbul is fast becoming Europe's capital of cool, and its hip-o-meter certainly clocked up a couple more notches with the April 2008 opening of the W in the...more
see the Istanbul guideThis "classy and secluded" hotel overlooks the Bosphorus on the former garden of Dolmabahçe Palace. Guest rooms are warm and modern, with rich woods,...more
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Here's a sentence we NEVER wanted to write... Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson hung out with Lindsay Lohan and it was fun.
Uhhh, what?
Apparently Lindsay and Kristen have a mutual pal who introduced them and the girls bonded over their hatred for the paparazzi. Coooool.
Lindsay went over to Kristen's house and it was a jolly good gabfest, apparently. Oh, Rob was there too.
"Lindsay and Kristen discussed their careers, creative ideas and how they deal with living under the focus of the media and the paparazzi," a source told the New York Post.
The source adds that they have a lot in common. Really? Because last we checked Kristen's career is AWESOME and Lindsay doesn't have one.
Lindsay: I just had fake sex with Charlie Sheen for an episode of his crappy sitcom "Anger Management" because he's the only person willing to hire me because apparently you can't repay tax debt with sexual favors, so yeah. What are you up to?
Kristen: Oh, you know, just waiting for my final "Twilight" payout before I go and star in the sequel to the blockbuster, "Snow White & The Huntsman."
Maybe Lindsay thought associating with Hollywood's biggest stars would rub off.
They probably also talked about their love of hipster culture as Lindsay is reportedly trying to push her rehab stint back so she can go to Coachella this year. Apparently going to the desert to do shrooms and listen to indie bands is the most important thing in Lindsay's life right now and she insisted she could absolutely NOT miss Coachella for something as silly as court ordered rehab.


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Title: Naruto
Volume: GN 50
Pages: 200
Distributor: Viz Media
Release date: 2011-02-01
Suggested retail price: $9.99
Age rating: 13+
Killer Bee vs. Kisame! Plus, the realization of Naruto's worst nightmare seems inevitable as the war he's tried to stop for so long looms on the horizon. And Sakura corners Naruto with a reveal that's gonna knock him for a serious loop. Then, a truth behind the modern ninja world sheds new light on Naruto's true role in the fate of his universe.
Story and art by Masashi Kishimoto.
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VIDEO: X Factor star Ella Henderson thanks home fans in Lincolnshire for support
Posted: October 20, 2012
|X Factor star Ella Henderson has thanked her fans in Lincolnshire for the support that keeps her going.
The teenager from Tetney is the odds-on favourite to win this year's competition and stole the show last weekend with a stunning performance of Minnie Riperton's classic Loving You.
This weeked, she again wowed the judges with her version of Candi Staton's You've Got the Love.
But despite appearing calm on stage, she told the Echo that it is the encouragement she receives from her home county that helps her through the "nerve-wracking" X Factor experience.
"The support I've received, not just from my family and friends, but everyone in and around Tetney has been amazing," she said.
"My sister keeps telling me that wherever she goes people are stopping her on the street and pulling her to one side to give me support.
"My dad sends me all the links every day and I read all the newspapers online. It's crazy to see that.
"It makes me really happy and proud that everyone from my home is supporting me through it and it's given me a massive confidence boost.
"Without seeing that kind of support, I wouldn't feel as comfortable as I do."
Since first appearing on the X Factor back in August, Ella became an overnight sensation – and it is her mentor Tulisa who has been helping her and giving her advice with her new-found fame.
She said: "I'm learning new things every day and, being so young, it's not normal to be thrown into this kind of limelight.
"You can't really prepare yourself for anything but the advice from Tulisa has been to stay grounded and not let it all go over your head."
Watch Ella Henderson's performance of Candi Staton's You've Got the Love from this week's live shows...
Watch Ella Henderson's performance of Loving You on last week's show...
Our Ella has received support and praise from all manner of celebrities, from X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson and Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp to superstar icon Cher.
But this weekend, she got the seal of approval from one of the most successful artists on the planet – Adele.
The Someone Like You singer took to her Twitter account and pledged her support for 16-year-old Ella.
She said: "Ella Henderson on X Factor is absolutely incredible.
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The talented teenager had already been compared to Adele earlier that night by Louis Walsh, who complained that Tulisa was styling her too much like the chart-topping phenomenon.
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Elite Beat Agents rock Nintendo DS during trip
Many, many months ago, I wrote here about the game that lured me into caring about the Nintendo DS - a highly original, visually intense music title called Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! Illustrated with classic Japanese manga-style artwork, the game was half comic book, half rhythm and percussion, and 100% rockin. To this day, it's one of the best titles to demonstrate the DS's unique double-screened, touch-sensitive design and audio hardware.
It took more than a year, but Nintendo and original developer iNiS have just released Elite Beat Agents, a thorough remake of Ouendan designed to appeal - well, more - to American audiences. Elite Beat Agents (EBA) preserves Ouendan's gameplay, art and storytelling styles, and even its key theme - various people in troubling situations call out a team of three guys to help rock them out of their blues. You use the touchscreen to tap your way through a number of songs, each increasing in number and speed of beats as you go along, and watch the scenarios play out on the top screen while you're tapping or taking a breather. As a brief recap of our prior article, a number appears on screen with a concentric, ever-shrinking circle; you use the DS's stylus to tap the number at the second the circle directly overlaps the number, keeping the beat. A mediocre but explanatory video can be found here.
During this trip to Japan, EBA has been receiving more than its fair share of attention relative to the iPods we've been carrying. It's taken me several days worth of airplane, subway, and train rides to beat just the beginner level version of the game, which was more than modestly entertaining throughout its entire run thanks to both the scenarios and music. There was the babysitter who's forced to take care of kids while on a date of sorts, the Paris and Nicky Hilton wannabes marooned on a desert island, the washed-out baseball player, and the bankrupt oilman with the big-spending wife - all short comic-strip presentations, set to songs recognizable by Westerners. David Bowie's Let's Dance, Jamiroquai's Canned Heat, Avril Lavigne's Sk8tr Boi, and The Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash are just a handful of the tracks.
The nice surprise here: unlike Nintendo's earlier Donkey Konga drum title, which used almost repulsively bad remakes of the featured songs, EBA's versions are close enough to the original songs that you won't mind any of them - they actually sound good enough to just enjoy while you're tapping through the game. And even having finished the Beginners' version of the game, complete with a real and exciting ending, there were tracks - such as one from the Jackson 5, and one from Madonna - that I hadn't heard yet. All the more reason to replay, which I intend to do as we prepare to fly to Singapore tomorrow.
Elite Beat Agents is the sort of game the iPod needs if it wants to be a credible game playing device - a nice mix of music and art that takes advantage of a unique control scheme and keeps you rocking. It's definitely one of my favorite DS titles, and hugely worth your time if you have a system - otherwise, a good wish list item for the holidays.
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I think the downside is something which is typical of consulting projects - maintaining a healthy work life balance can besome a problem especially when staffed on long-distance projects
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Cons- Staffing process is broken. Period. Your resources (buddy and counselor) are most likely too busy to help. Your HR staffing manager is too incompetent to understand your skill set and will forward your resume to some projects that are complete mismatch. You can be on the bench for 2-3 months or more if you're a new hire. Project teams only want Deloitte veterans instead of new hires (yes, I was told this as a reason the project teams rejected me even though my skills and background fit the profiles perfectly).
- Extremely unwelcoming culture for new comers. It could be due to the consulting nature of the firm. Nobody would be in the office except Fridays. After the 2-day orientation you'll be on your own, from booking/checking-in/locating your desk, meeting people, to finding work to do. You'll most likely be sitting in your cubicle all alone with nobody to talk to. You'll need to email/im/call strangers locating in some random remote area to 'put yourself out there', who half the time don't respond to you because they're too busy with their projects. If you have any question, there's no human being who'll explain how to do things to you because everyone is too busy and they'll only tell you to do a search on DeloitteNet.
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