Gruber brought PLA samples to more than a dozen plastics makers, including DuPont, Monsanto and BASF.
Born in 1940, he joined the PLA in 1955 and began publicly exhibiting his artwork in 1958.
While waiting for Caroline to return from school, Seal Pla said her daughter taught her a powerful lesson.
After Seal and George Pla were told the bad news, they immediately set out to challenge the decision.
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The PLA supports the plan to get more people on the river but insists that safety is paramount.
Cordoba is operated by George Pla, a California businessman and longtime Democratic fund-raiser.
After 18 months studying Cargill's PLA, Dow signed on as a 50-50 partner.
The next generation of the Cube can also use ABS and PLA interchangeably.
The Archdiocese conceded and permitted Pla to finish the season, but said after that no more CYO football for her.
ConAgra and DuPont tried a PLA venture in the mid-1990s, but failed to get the biochemistry right in early tries.
According to Patrice Pla, ACSA's marketing manager, SeaExplorer's lack of wings reduces the chance of its getting tangled in nets.
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The sale includes several objects that conjure up the Playboy (nyse: PLA - news - people ) mystique.
"The PLA Air Force has deployed several types of unmanned aerial vehicles for both reconnaissance and combat purposes, " the report said.
Making PLA from petrochemicals, the leading source of the carbon that lies at the heart of plastic's makeup, is too costly and complicated.
Budd and the Archdiocese conceded and agreed to let Pla finish the season, but said no more CYO football for her after that.
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Fluid Interfaces Group Research Assistant Pol Pla i Conesa presented several such scenarios for his Display Blocks, which consist of 128 x 128-pixel OLED panels.
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The new plant will account for only 0.1% of the 270 billion pounds of plastics produced every year, but right now the PLA market is all but nonexistent.
Cube offers a choice of print mode fill density: Lite, Medium and Solid in both PLA and ABS plastics with optional easy, breakaway supports for the most complex prints.
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In addition, the requirements of the PLA empower users to control access to user or device data, and require user consent before user or device data can be collected.
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Pla played two full seasons on they CYO team, the full majority of the second one after seeking and being granted permission by the ultimate authority, the Archdiocese, to do so.
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Cargill's NatureWorks has a four-year-old factory in Blair, Neb. that can turn out 300 million pounds of PLA plastic each year, but it is said to run at only half that capacity.
But the perception the Romans Football organization got from the phone call from the Archdiocese was that one of their recent opponents did and they successfully forced the issue to have Pla removed.
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Is this enough for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to allow Pla to continue to play on here CYO team and change their rule so girls like Gracie can play football in the future?
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The Port of London Authority (PLA) imposes a 12-knot (14-mph) limit west of Wapping, which means that boats can show their exhilarating 30-knot cruising speed only on the eastern stretches of the river.
However, while current leading bioplastics, such as PLA, primarily use feed grains as a plant resource, the possibility of future food shortages has emphasized the importance of using non-edible plant resources to produce bioplastics.
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Although PLA has been around for decades, it is only in recent years that advances in production techniques, particularly by Cargill, a big American agricultural group, have made it feasible to produce the material commercially.
Now a group of researchers led by Lee Sang-yup of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology say they have come up with an even better way to make PLA, using the emerging science of synthetic biology.
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