Crab

Head to the Beach for the Ocean Shores, Washington, Razor Clam & Seafood Festival

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

OCEAN SHORES, Wash., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- If you love seafood, you won't want to miss the 16th Annual Ocean Shores Razor Clam & Seafood Festival, March 15-17, 2024, at the Ocean Shores Convention Center, just two blocks from the beach.

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  • OCEAN SHORES, Wash., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- If you love seafood, you won't want to miss the 16th Annual Ocean Shores Razor Clam & Seafood Festival, March 15-17, 2024, at the Ocean Shores Convention Center, just two blocks from the beach.
  • The Food Court features 10 food booths/trucks with pan-seared scallops, cod and halibut fish and chips, razor clam chowder, razor clam fritters, oysters, grilled razor clams, seafood crepes, salmon, mussels, seafood pasta, oysters, and more.
  • ClamFest is produced by the City of Ocean Shores and presented by the Quinault Beach Resort.
  • For more information on the Razor Clam Festival go to: osrazorclamfestival.org

New antibiotic zosurabalpin shows promise against drug-resistant bacteria – an expert explains how it works

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Friday, January 5, 2024

Researchers have identified an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill bacteria that are resistant to most current drugs.

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  • Researchers have identified an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill bacteria that are resistant to most current drugs.
  • It is responsible for around 20% of infections in places like hospitals, care homes or other similar healthcare settings.
  • Antibiotics commonly work by crossing the cell wall that surrounds infectious bacteria to reach the vital machinery inside.
  • Crab is a clinical challenge as it has a double-layered cell wall, a feature that microbiologists describe as “gram negative”.

Zosurabalpin

  • Researchers tested zosurabalpin against more than 100 Crab samples from patients suffering from the infection.
  • The research team, found that zosurabalpin was able to kill all of these bacterial strains.
  • Zosurabalpin works by blocking a molecular machine called LptB2FGC that transports the lipopolysaccharide toxin from the inside barrier to the outside one.
  • The bad news is that zosurabalpin will only kill Crab infections and not those caused by other types of bacteria.
  • Zosurabalpin is now in phase 1 clinical trial for use in patients infected with Crab.
  • This early testing in humans will help the company developing the drug, Roche, to work out any side effects of the drugs as well as potential toxicity.


Jonathan Cox receives research funding from UKRI, charities and industry.

He is Co-Director of the Antibiotic Discovery Accelerator (ABX) Network

Fresh Thyme Market Reveals Inaugural Top Ten Food Trends for 2024

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresh Thyme Market, a grocer with a mission to provide communities with real quality fresh food, vitamins, and body care products, is unveiling its first trends report with a focus on Midwest shopping behaviors and brands. The report's 10 insights offer a glimpse into the emerging trends that shoppers can expect to see in each aisle of the store next year.

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  • Fresh Thyme Market is committed to offering real, fresh products inspired by its local communities that give consumers confidence to create delicious and healthy lives.
  • Fresh Thyme Market ensures that shoppers can trust the hand-selected items they find in Fresh Thyme Market's 70 stores.
  • To purchase these on-trend products, check out Fresh Thyme Market's website for easy and convenient shopping both online and in-store.
  • For more information on Fresh Thyme Market, visit ww2.FreshThyme.com and for more information on SPINS Research, visit spins.com .

Dollar General Puts ‘Food First’ Through Investment in Private Brands

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230725684286/en/
    Introduced in 2009, Clover Valley has expanded to include approximately 600 items.
  • (Photo: Business Wire)
    “We have made significant enhancements to our private brands in 2023, and we know how important these value offerings are for our customers,” said Emily Taylor, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer at Dollar General.
  • “When Dollar General pioneered the ‘dollar store’ format in 1955, few food products were offered.
  • With continual growth and changes to the Company’s business model, our product selection has evolved,” said Jackie Li, senior vice president of private brands and global sourcing.

Maggiano's Little Italy Celebrates 20 Years of Eat-A-Dish for Make-A-Wish

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

DALLAS, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Maggiano's Little Italy® marks a memorable milestone, with the kickoff of its 20th Eat-A-Dish campaign in partnership with Make-A-Wish. After raising over $10 million and granting thousands of incredible wishes, the family-friendly Italian-American restaurant seeks to raise the bar even higher in its platinum year.

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  • DALLAS, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Maggiano's Little Italy® marks a memorable milestone, with the kickoff of its 20th Eat-A-Dish campaign in partnership with Make-A-Wish .
  • Now through Wednesday, Aug. 23, Maggiano's will work to raise valuable funds for Make-A-Wish through its limited-time Eat-A-Dish menu, featuring unique chef-crafted offerings.
  • For every item ordered, including every glass of Wish Lemonade, $1 will be donated to Make-A-Wish.
  • With the momentous anniversary comes new features to the Eat-A-Dish campaign including a revamped 20th Anniversary Wish Star with a new logo.

Holland America Line Expands 'Alaska Up Close' Onboard Programming with New Culinary and Cultural Experiences

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

SEATTLE, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With Holland America Line's "Alaska Up Close," guests on Alaska cruises are deeply immersed in the local culture with informative onboard programming, sea-to-table dining and award-winning shore excursions. The premium cruise line is introducing new facets of the program throughout the 2023 Alaska season that offer an even more engaging guest experience.

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  • The premium cruise line is introducing new facets of the program throughout the 2023 Alaska season that offer an even more engaging guest experience.
  • Holland America Line is the only cruise line serving glacier ice, giving guests the unique experience of safely tasting real glacier ice from the waters of Alaska.
  • Holland America Line's EXC Talks continue to bring each destination to life with captivating storytelling and expert commentary.
  • For more information about Holland America Line, consult a travel advisor, call 1-877-SAIL HAL (877-724-5425) or visit hollandamerica.com .

From platypus to parsecs and milliCrab: why do astronomers use such weird units?

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

These outlandish comparisons are the invention of Jerusalem Post journalist Aaron Reich (who bills himself as “creator of the giraffe metric”), but real astronomers sometimes measure celestial objects with units that are just as strange.

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  • These outlandish comparisons are the invention of Jerusalem Post journalist Aaron Reich (who bills himself as “creator of the giraffe metric”), but real astronomers sometimes measure celestial objects with units that are just as strange.
  • The idea of a planet that’s 85% the mass of Earth seems straightforward.

Why do astronomers use such strange units?

    • Earth’s radius is about 638 million cm, or 7.5 million Astros.
    • That number of Astros is a bit ridiculous, which is why we adjust our unit choice to one that makes more sense.
    • At an even larger scale, consider the star Betelguese: its radius is 83,000 Earths, or 764 times the radius of the Sun.

Heavy stuff

    • If we want to measure how heavy an asteroid is, we could do it with camels – but in space we’re more interested in mass than in weight.
    • Mass is a measure of how much stuff something is made of.
    • On the other hand, Astro’s mass is how much stuff he’s made of – and it’s the same no matter which planet he’s on.

Astronomical units and parsecs

    • The Sun and Earth are 149 million kilometres apart, and we give this distance a name: an astronomical unit (AU).
    • For example, the centre of our very own galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 8,000 parsecs away from Earth, or 1.6 million AU.

Magnitudes

    • In the second century BC, the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus looked up at space and gave the brightest stars a value of 1 and the faintest stars a value of 6.
    • Even more confusing than a negative brightness, each single step in magnitude is a 2.512 times difference in brightness.
    • The star Vega has an apparent magnitude of 0, which is two and a bit times brighter than the star Antares with an apparent magnitude of 1.

At last, the milliCrab

    • The light we use to take pictures of your bones is called X-ray light.
    • When astronomers use X-ray light to observe the sky we sometimes measure brightness in “Crabs”.
    • It’s so bright in X-ray light that astronomers have been using it to calibrate their telescopes since the 1970s.

BONEFISH GRILL ADDS SUNDAY BRUNCH TO THE MENU

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Friday, February 3, 2023

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunday brunch is now on the menu at Bonefish Grill, joining the restaurant's shareworthy selections of freshly prepared seafood, bountiful land plates and delicious desserts. The restaurant has added the indulgent meal experience to all locations and paired savory frittatas and French toast sticks with the festive cocktails served in new Shareable Pitchers.

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  • TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunday brunch is now on the menu at Bonefish Grill, joining the restaurant's shareworthy selections of freshly prepared seafood, bountiful land plates and delicious desserts.
  • "We're pleased to invite guests to discover the sophisticated flavors of our new brunch menu," said Michael Healy, Bonefish Grill President.
  • The brunch menu also features classic cocktails such as Bloody Mary's, espresso martinis and mimosas.
  • Brunch is served at Bonefish Grill every Sunday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. For more information, visit https://www.bonefishgrill.com/ .

Blue Star Foods Selects HTH Engineering & Equipment LLC to Build Expanded Soft-Shell Crab RAS Facilities

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Miami, FL, June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Star Foods Corp., (NASDAQ:BSFC) (Blue Star or BSFC), an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainable seafood company with a focus on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS), today announced that it has selected HTH Engineering & Equipment LLC (HTH) as its the Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) technology provider for its planned expanded Soft-Shell Atlantic Crab RAS farm in Jasper County, South Carolina.

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  • Miami, FL, June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Star Foods Corp., (NASDAQ:BSFC) (Blue Star or BSFC), an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainable seafood company with a focus on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS), today announced that it has selected HTH Engineering & Equipment LLC (HTH) as its the Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) technology provider for its planned expanded Soft-Shell Atlantic Crab RAS farm in Jasper County, South Carolina.
  • Blue Star has signed a multi-phase engineering contract with HTH to provide planning, design and consulting services to create a new facility that, when fully built, will be able to harvest over 220,000 dozen a year of Soft-Shell Atlantic Blue Crab.
  • HTH Engineering & Equipment LLC is a division of HTH Aqua Group, and provides technical services for small, medium and large aquaculture systems.
  • About Blue Star Foods Corp.
    Blue Star Foods Corp. is an integrated ESG seafood company that processes, packages and sells high-value seafood products.

Fortune International to Exhibit at the Specialty Food Association’s 2022 Summer Fancy Food Show

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Summer Fancy Food Show is the largest U.S. show devoted exclusively to specialty foods and beverages and is being held at the Javits Center in New York City.

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  • The Summer Fancy Food Show is the largest U.S. show devoted exclusively to specialty foods and beverages and is being held at the Javits Center in New York City.
  • The event will also host the 2022 SFA awards for Leadership and Lifetime Achievement in addition to the induction of the 2022 class of the Specialty Food Hall of Fame.
  • Fortune International, which recently acquired DArtagnan, a leader in popularizing the farm to table movement and purveyor of sustainable meat and all-natural food products, will continue to be showcased alongside Fortunes other leading brands.
  • We are pleased to continue showcasing the growing breadth and depth of the Fortune family at the Summer Fancy Food Show, said President and CEO Sean OScannlain.