Abstract: A system may include processor(s) and a memory in communication with the processor(s) and storing instructions, that when executed by the processor(s), are configured to cause the system to perform a method for cross-region data processing. The system may receive data in a first processing region and may format the data into a plurality of data portions. The system may generate a copy of each data portion and may transmit each data portion copy to a cross-region processor. Responsive to determining the first processing region is functioning, the system may process data portion(s). The system may transmit, to a centralized location, the processed data portion(s). Responsive to determining the first processing region is not functioning, the system may transmit, from the cross-region processor, each data portion copy to a second processing region.

Abstract: A system may include processor(s) and a memory in communication with the processor(s) and storing instructions, that when executed by the processor(s), are configured to cause the system to perform a method for cross-region data processing. The system may receive data in a first processing region and may format the data into a plurality of data portions. The system may generate a copy of each data portion and may transmit each data portion copy to a cross-region processor. Responsive to determining the first processing region is functioning, the system may process data portion(s). The system may transmit, to a centralized location, the processed data portion(s). Responsive to determining the first processing region is not functioning, the system may transmit, from the cross-region processor, each data portion copy to a second processing region.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing chewing gum, the method including feeding one or more gum ingredients including at least an elastomer into a continuous extruder including a plurality of screws, rotating screws and mixing the one or more ingredients via the rotating of the screws within the continuous extruder, forming a partial chewing gum base via the mixing of the one or more ingredients, creating a flow of the partial chewing gum base including the one or more ingredients through the continuous extruder towards a downstream extent of the plurality of screws via the rotating, and conveying the flow of the partial chewing gum base to a region of the continuous extruder that is proximate the downstream extent of the plurality of screws, wherein the flow includes a temperature of less than 90 degrees Celsius when the flow reaches the downstream extent of the plurality of screws. Some independent claims relate to a flow reaching two different temperatures that are within 20 degrees Celsius.

Abstract: An inclined body positioning and support system is presented comprising an internal foundational wedged support encased in a chamber, an internal ventilation/comfort material encased in a chamber, first and second internal elongated positioning and support chambers each encasing a fill material, and an external cover. The foundational wedge chamber encases a respective first and second wedge plateau overlapped by the respective first and second elongated support material chamber to form a respective first and second transitional.

Abstract: An inclined body positioning and support system is presented comprising an internal foundational wedged support encased in a chamber, an internal ventilation/comfort material encased in a chamber, first and second internal elongated positioning and support chambers each encasing a fill material, and an external cover. The foundational wedge chamber encases a respective first and second wedge plateau overlapped by the respective first and second elongated support material chamber to form a respective first and second transitional.

Abstract: Enhanced flavoring compositions containing at least one flavoring agent and an effective amount of N-ethyl-p-menthane-3-carboxamide are provided. The N-ethyl-p-menthane-3-carboxamide is present at about 0.04 to about 2.2% by weight of the enhanced flavoring composition. The invention further concerns chewing gums and confectionery compositions containing a flavoring effective amount of the enhanced flavoring compositions.

Abstract: A centerfill chewing gum composition having a shell portion and a centerfill portion, the centerfill portion containing an effective amount of a calcium-containing compound suspended therein.

Abstract: A screened gravity-fed water funnel or water funnel kit may be characterized in one aspect as including a substantially conically-shaped water-permeable mesh screen, a funnel releasably mounted or mountable to, and in fluid cooperation with, the screen, and a flexible tether mounted or mountable to the screen. An anchor or other means for embedding an upstream end of the tether immobile in the stream is mounted or mountable to the tether, opposite to the screen. That is, the anchor is mounted or mountable at an upstream end of the tether and an upstream narrow end of the screen is mounted or mountable to a downstream end of the tether, and wherein an upstream wide-end of the funnel is mounted to a downstream wide-end of the screen, and wherein a hose coupler is mounted or mountable to a downstream narrow end of the funnel.

Abstract: A centerfill chewing gum composition having a shell portion and a centerfill portion, the centerfill portion containing an effective amount of a calcium-containing compound suspended therein.

Abstract: Consumable products including seamless capsules having an outer shell made of a carbohydrate material in a glassy state and an inner core.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for the production of seamless capsules comprising a shell material encapsulating a center-filled core material in which a heated carrier liquid or air is cooled by a heat exchanger.

Abstract: A method of making a hardcore honeycomb panel comprising the steps of providing a multilevel stack of planar boards of grained lumber fastened together and arranged in the stack in step-wise fashion with alternate levels comprising spaced apart board strips forming longitudinal channels in the stack sandwiched between boards having the width of the stack, cutting the stepped stack on a first cut line through the side faces thereof at a predetermined acute angle, such as 12.degree.-30.degree., between the cut line and the bottom face of the stack and making subsequent coplanar cuts in this stack at predetermined distances from each other for providing a plurality of cut segments whose top, front, bottom and rear faces are rectangular and whose side faces are rhomboidal and which have angular channels therethrough.