Toasting

The banquet began with the Chairman of the Foundation proposing a toast to the King, who then answered with a silent toast to the memory of the great benefactor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel. 

Toasted partially defatted cooked cottonseed flour... 

Toasted partially defatted cooked cottonseed flour—This product is prepared by delinting and decorticating food-quaUty cottonseed. The meats are screened, aspirated, and roUed moisture is adjusted, the meats heated, and the oil expressed the cooked meats are cooled, ground, and reheated to obtain a product varying in shade from light to dark brown. 

Bahamaholz, n. brazilwood, bahen, r.t. foment toast (bread) warm, heat force (plants). 

When I lift my gimlet for that first taste, and admire its color—a pale crystal green, like a legendary jewel—I m reminded of Lewis Carroll s Alice and her healthy sense of adventure. When confronted with a bottle with a label that instructed her to down it, she did Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off. ... 

I ordered a Ten Sage with a wood-fired grilled hamburger on a toasted-garlic bun. The drink, with a sage leaf tumbleweeding lazily on the surface of the desert-pink liquid, was presented in a 7>/2-ounce Cardinal Excalibur No. 3031428 martini glass, said Mr. Adams in Seattle. The drink was perfectly pleasant, which is its intention. 

Punshon-Explosive. Patented in 1870 consisted of NC soaked for 12 hrs in a sugar soln, and an oxidizer, such as a nitrate. Another expl, patented by the same inventor in 1875, was a 70% Dynamite contg either peat or toasted peas as absorbants, to which pulverized NC could be added. The third expl patented by Punshon (1880) consisted of nitric and picric acids absorbed on a porous material such as asbestos, and loaded into cartridges which were painted with a mixt of Na silicate and powdered glass Punshon was also the inventor of Qxonite and Victorite (qv)... 

It seemed too early to get up, and Charlie wished he didn t have to. But today was a school day, and get up he must. He quickly got ready and, after grabbing some toast, said goodbye to his mum and little sister and ran off down the road to school. On his way he passed an old house that some people said was used by local druggies and,as he walked by, he noticed a needle and syringe just by the front door. He looked at it for a while and wondered what to do. (A)... 

Adams HP, Jr., Bendixen BH, Kappelle LJ, Biller J, Love BB, Gordon DL, Marsh EE, 3rd. Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment. Stroke. 1993 24 35 1. 

The Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of danaparoid in 1281 patients within 24 hours of onset of acute ischemic stroke. A three-stage dosage regime was used to achieve plasma anti-factor Xa activity of 0.8 unit/mL. Favorable outcome was defined as the combination of a Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) score of 1 or 2 and a modified Barthel Index (BI) score of 12 or greater (on a scale of 0-20) at 3 months or 7 days. Very favorable outcome required the combination of a GOS score of 1 and a Barthel Index (BI) score of 19 or 20 at 3 months or 7 days. 

Although several approaches to stroke classification have been described, the most common mechanism-based classification in current use is the system described by the TOAST investigators." This classification describes five major subtypes of ischemic stroke based on the results of neuroimaging and other medical investigations, namely (1) LAA, (2) cardioembolism, (3) small-vessel occlusion, (4) stroke of other determined etiology, and (5) stroke of undetermined etiology. Inter-rater reliability of the TOAST scheme has been reported as moderate-to-substantial K 0.5-0.7). 

Anticoagulation in Stroke Due to LAA Disease Few clinical trials have been performed in this population. In the TOAST trial, a secondary analysis in patients with stroke due to LAA found favorable outcomes at 7 days in 54% of danaparoid-treated patients, compared to 38% of the placebo-treated group (p = 0.02). At 3 months, 68% of patients in the danaparoid group compared to 53% of those in the placebo group had favorable outcomes (p = 0.02). 

Publications Committee for the Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment (TOAST) Investigators. Low molecular weight heparinoid ORG 10172 (Danaparoid) and outcome after acute ischemic stroke. JAMA 1998 279 1265-1272. 

Small vessel/lacunar strokes have better short- and long-term (1-year) survival as compared to other stroke subtypes. In the NINDS trial of rt-PA within 3 hours of onset, patients classified as small vessel stroke on the basis of their clinical syndrome had a 50% chance of a normal NIHSS score at 3 months if they received placebo, increasing to 70% in the treatment group. In the Lausanne cohort, 95% were independent after their first event, as opposed to only 65% of the cardioembolic strokes and 49% with large vessel atherothrombotic infarctions. Eighty-two percent of patients with small vessel stroke were independent at 1 year. Even at the time of maximal deficit, between 38% and 64% of small vessel/lacunar patients were independent, with motor impairment and extent of white matter disease adversely affecting outcomes. " In TOAST, small vessel/lacunar stroke was the only subtype associated with a favorable outcome, independent of the NIHSS score. ... 

Using clinical and emergency CT findings, the TOAST investigators found that their initial designation of subtype of stroke matched the final diagnosis in only 62% of patients. No subtype of stroke was more accurately diagnosed than another by initial assessment. In a series of 100 consecutive stroke patients, the accuracy of the initial classification was reported as 1Q% ... 

Madden KP, Karanjia PN, Adams HP, Clarke WR. Accuracy in initial stroke subtype diagnosis in the TOAST study. Nuerology 1995 45 1975-1979. 

Beer potomania syndrome or tea and toast diet ° Urine osmolality >100 mOsm/kg (ADH present)... 

The trees are cleared of vines and smaller branches are cut off. These leaf-bearing branches are toasted momentarily over an open fire to reduce the moisture content, but with the avoidance of blackening . The process is known as supeco .1 Further drying is carried out by heating over a platform of poles suspended over an open fire for 12 to 24 h. An alternative procedure involves the use of a dome-shaped structure (barbaqua) over which the toasted branches are spread. Hot air is conducted through a tunnel from a fire some distance away. This procedure avoids direct smoke deposition on the leaf. The latter process requires 5 to 15 h. 

The toasting step is now frequently carried out by passing the branches through a perforated rotating metal cylinder in an inclined position over an open fire. The cylinders used are about 2 to 2.5 m in diameter and 4 m in length. Dwell time is very short. The process is called sepecadora . 

Melt the butter in a pan, adding the vegetable oil and the pecans or walnuts and toast them slightly. Remove from heat and add the rest of the above ingredients to the pan. Mix well. 

I have a long, hot bath, and unpack my small bag from our little trip. Not many clean clothes left, but enough for today jeans and a sweater. I tidy up, put some washing on. It s three by the time I m drinking coffee and eating toast, and I think I m fully awake, but the phone ringing makes me jump almost out of my skin. I pick up the receiver. Perhaps it s. .. Hello ... 

For Walter Gratzer (a regular contributor to Nature), serendipity is not that when you drop your buttered toast on the floor that it falls, as it invariably does, buttered side down, but that when you pick it up you discover the contact lens that you lost a few days earlier. 

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