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Dodgers News: Mattingly Says Bullpen Has Been 'Really, Really Good'
Staff Writer05/16/2015
In the beginning of the 2015 season, many questions arose regarding the Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen. With injured veterans and a collection of young players, consistency was a problem early on but the bullpen has recovered from their mediocre start and have been lights out the past few weeks.
Although the bullpen's collective ERA has been phenomenal at 2.28, they are also accountable for seven of the Dodgers' 12 losses and have blown six of 12 save opportunities. However, not much more can be asked of from young players such Yimi Gracia, who has unsuccessfully been the acting closer in recent games.
Although Garcia and others have had their share of recent struggles, manager Don Mattingly didn't have any complaints about the bullpen after Thursday's disappointing loss. "It's been obviously really, really good," he said.
"Up to this point it's been really almost dominating and I shouldn't say a total surprise, because we have confidence in their ability, but obviously better than you would think with a lot of these young guys and how we kind of pieced things together."
Mattingly compared the Dodgers' recent bullpen troubles to those other teams also experience saying, "We've had a couple of days where we've had some stuff go on but it's the same thing that's going to happen to any team.
"We have a lot of confidence in our guys and we'll take realistic looks at the reasons why — are we getting the ball in the right locations and the sequence, whatever it is."
Opponents are hitting just .198 against the bullpen this year and have a .273 on-base percentage. They received a boon Friday as the Dodgers activated Kenley Jansen from the 15-day disabled list and optioned Daniel Coulombe to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Jansen struck out four batters on 14 pitches in one inning of relief Friday.
Perhaps the most effective and in turn, the most surprising bullpen piece this season has been left-hander Adam Liberatore, who allowed just one hit through his first nine appearances. Although his last outing was not as memorable as he gave up two runs, Liberatore has been just as effective against right-handed batters as he has been against lefties.
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Charles William Gordon (19 March 1817 – 15 June 1863) was a British army officer and Conservative politician. He was a captain in the Madras Light Infantry. He was the son of Charles Gordon of Fyvie Castle, a son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville.

Gordon contested the 1857 general election, but was only elected Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed at the 1859 general election and held the seat until his death in 1863.

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La saison 2022-2023 de Top 14 est la  du championnat de France de rugby à XV. Elle oppose pour la  consécutive les quatorze meilleures équipes professionnelles de rugby à XV françaises. La saison débute le  et se termine le  lors de la finale pour le titre de champion de France.

Le Montpellier HR est tenant du titre après s'être imposé contre le Castres olympique en finale lors de la saison précédente. L'Aviron bayonnais, champion de France de deuxième division en titre.

Présentation

Participants

Les équipes engagées dans la compétition sont les 12 premiers au classement de l'édition précédente, ainsi que l'Aviron bayonnais promu de Pro D2, à savoir le champion de France de deuxième division et le gagnant du match d'accession 2022 :
 Aviron bayonnais
 Union Bordeaux Bègles
 CA Brive
 Castres olympique
 ASM Clermont
 Lyon OU
 Montpellier HR
 Stade français
 Section paloise
 USA Perpignan
 Racing 92
 Stade rochelais
 RC Toulon
 Stade toulousain

Depuis le début de l'ère professionnelle en 1998, quatre clubs n'ont jamais été relégués : le Stade toulousain, l'ASM Clermont, le Stade français Paris et le Castres olympique. Montpellier HR connaît également le format à 14 équipes sans interruption depuis la création du Top 14 en 2005.

Dans la liste détaillée des équipes participantes, les clubs sont classés en fonction de leur classement général au Championnat de France professionnel de la saison précédente.

 Légende des couleurs

 Légende des abréviations
T : Tenant du titre
P : Promu de Pro D2
C1 : Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Europe 2021-2022
C2 : Vainqueur du Challenge européen 2021-2022

Calendrier
La LNR publie le calendrier de la nouvelle saison le .

Compétition

Saison régulière
La saison régulière voit les 14 équipes s'affronter en matchs aller/retour sur 26 journées. Le calendrier des journées est établi par le Comité Directeur en amont de la première journée.

A l'issue de la saison régulière, les six meilleures équipes au classement accèdent à la phase finale, tandis que la  équipe au classement participe au match d'accession contre le finaliste de Pro D2 et que la dernière équipe au classement est reléguée en Pro D2.

Classement
Le classement de la saison régulière est établi en fonction des points terrain auxquels sont ajoutés les points de bonus et retranchés, le cas échéant, les points de pénalisation.

Une équipe remporte 4 points terrain par victoire, 2 points terrain par match nul, 0 point par défaite. Une équipe perd 2  points terrain en cas de forfait ou de disqualification, tandis que l'équipe adverse en emporte 5.

Une équipe remporte 1 point de bonus offensif si elle marque 3 essais ou plus que son adversaire lors d'une même rencontre, et remporte 1 point de bonus défensif si elle perd de 5 points ou moins.

Si deux ou plusieurs équipes se trouvent à égalité au classement de la saison régulière, les facteurs suivants sont pris en compte pour les départager :
 Nombre de points terrain, de bonus et de pénalisation obtenus sur l'ensemble des rencontres ayant opposé les équipes concernées ;
 Goal-average sur l'ensemble de la compétition ;
 Goal-average sur l'ensemble des rencontres ayant opposé les équipes concernées ;
 Différence entre le nombre d'essais marqués et concédés sur l'ensemble des rencontres ayant opposé les équipes concernées ;
 Différence entre le nombre d'essais marqués et concédés sur l'ensemble de la compétition ;
 Nombre de points marqués dans toutes les rencontres de la compétition ;
 Nombre d'essais marqués dans toutes les rencontres de la compétition ;
 Nombre de forfaits n'ayant pas entraîné de forfait général de la compétition ;
 Classement général durant la saison précédente du championnat.

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Leader par journée

Dernier par journée

Résultats
L'équipe qui reçoit est indiquée dans la colonne de gauche.

Les points marqués par chaque équipe sont inscrits dans les colonnes centrales (3-4) alors que les essais marqués sont donnés dans les colonnes latérales (1-6). Les points de bonus sont symbolisés par une bordure bleue pour les bonus offensifs (trois essais de plus que l'adversaire), orange pour les bonus défensifs (défaite par moins de cinq points d'écart), rouge si les deux bonus sont cumulés.

Rencontres notables

Trophée Christophe Dominici
Les deux confrontations de la saison régulière entre le RC Toulon et le Stade français sont marquées par la deuxième édition du trophée Christophe Dominici, organisé en mémoire de l'international français décédé en novembre 2020. L'équipe victorieuse du trophée est celle qui a accumulé le plus de points terrain lors de ces deux rencontres.

Le match aller a lieu au Stade Jean-Bouin le  à 21 h 05, lors de la  journée. Le RC Toulon s'impose 12 à 17 sur la pelouse du Stade français. Le Stade français à tout de même le point de bonus défensif.

Le match retour a lieu au stade Mayol, le week-end du .

Boxing Day

La 13 journée de la saison est marquée par le Boxing Day, se déroulant les jeudi 22, vendredi 23 et samedi .

La LNR se mobilise durant cette journée au profit des Restos du cœur. Des collectes de fonds sont organisées par les clubs en amont de l'événement. Les maillots et les ballons des rencontres, à l'effigie de l'initiative, sont ensuite revendus lors d'une vente aux enchères afin de récolter des fonds pour l'association.

Le premier jour du Boxing Day voit la victoire du RC Toulon sur sa pelouse contre le Lyon OU.

Le deuxième jour, dans le multi-rugby, le CA Brive remporte le derby auvergnat, contre l'ASM Clermont, la Section paloise fait match nul dans le derby basque contre l'Aviron bayonnais, le Montpellier HR remporte le derby occitan, contre l'USA Perpignan, l'Union Bordeaux Bègles l'emporte dans le derby de l'Atlantique sur la pelouse du Stade rochelais. Le Stade toulousain remporte le deuxième derby occitan, contre le Castres olympique.

Lors de la dernière journée du boxing day, le Stade français remporte le derby francilien, contre le Racing 92.

26 journée

Barrage d'accession

Le club classé à la  place au classement à l'issue de la saison régulière dispute à l'extérieur un match d'accession contre le finaliste de Pro D2. Le gagnant joue en première division la saison suivante.

Phase finale
Les six premiers au classement de la saison régulière participent à la phase finale. Les deux équipes les mieux classées accèdent directement aux demi-finales et y affrontent les gagnants des matchs de barrages, opposant les équipes classées de la  à la  place.

Les demi-finales se jouent sur terrain neutre, et les gagnants s'affrontent en finale pour le titre de champion de France.

Tableau final

Barrages
Les matchs de barrage ont lieu le weekend du  dans les stades des équipes qualifiées les mieux classées.

Demi-finales
Les demi-finales du championnat ont lieu le weekend du .

Finale
La finale du championnat a lieu le  au Stade de France, à Saint-Denis.

Statistiques

Évolution du classement

État de forme des équipes

Séries de victoires : 5
Stade toulousain (de la  à la  journée)
Racing 92 (de la  journée à la  journée)
Lyon OU (de la  journée à la  journée)
Séries de matchs sans défaite : 5
Stade toulousain (de la  à la  journée)
Racing 92 (de la  journée à la  journée)
Lyon OU (de la  journée à la  journée)
Séries de défaites : 7
CA Brive (de la  à la  journée)
Séries de matchs sans victoire : 7
CA Brive (de la  à la  journée)

Meilleurs réalisateurs

Meilleurs marqueurs

Récompenses

Joueur du week-end
Après chaque journée, les internautes votent sur le site de la LNR pour élire le joueur du week-end.

Joueur du mois
Tous les mois, les internautes votent sur le site de la LNR pour élire le joueur du mois. La récompense est décernée en partenariat avec la Société générale.

Homme du match

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Saison 2022-2023 de Pro D2
 Saison 2022-2023 de Nationale
 Saison 2022-2023 de la Champions Cup
 Saison 2022-2023 de la Challenge Cup

Liens externes

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Rugby à XV M1
France M1
Championnat M1


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After-Effects of In re Asacol: Recent District Court Decisions on Certification and Uninjured Class Members
Antitrust Class Actions, Class Certifications, Consumer Class Actions, First Circuit Decisions, US District Court - Mass, US District Court - Rhode Island
Joshua D. Dunlap
About a year ago, I observed that the First Circuit in In re Asacol Antitrust Litigation had constrained plaintiffs' ability to rely on affidavits to prove injury-in-fact. In so doing, the First Circuit substantially curtailed its prior decision in In re Nexium Antitrust Litigation, which certified a class containing uninjured consumers because class members would be able to prove injury via affidavit. In its In re Asacol decision, the First Circuit made it clear that trial-by-affidavit is a permissible means to establish injury only if the affidavits are unrebutted.
As the D.C. Circuit observed in relying on In re Asacol, that case "sharply limited" In re Nexium and established that "any winnowing mechanism" used to identify uninjured class members
must be truncated enough to ensure that common issues predominate, yet robust enough to preserve the defendants' Seventh Amendment and due process rights to contest every element of liability and to present every colorable defense.
Absent such a mechanism, individual injury issues predominate, precluding certification – at least where there are more than a de minimis number of uninjured class members.
In the past year, the importance of the landmark In re Asacol decision has been confirmed as district courts in the First Circuit have cited that decision to limit the use of trial-by-affidavit to satisfy Rule 23's predominance requirement.
Just last month, for instance, Judge Smith in the District of Rhode Island wrote in an opinion that In re Asacol
makes plain in this Circuit what may have been unclear before: in order to prevail on its motion for class certification, the class action plaintiff must provide a plan to identify and remove any uninjured . . . persons from the class in a manner that is both administratively feasible and protective of the defendant's Seventh Amendment and due process rights.
Judge Smith went on to acknowledge that a proffer of contested affidavits will not meet In re Asacol's standard. Accordingly, Judge Smith concluded that he could not certify a class of consumer plaintiffs in an antitrust action where up to ten percent of the class were uninjured because they would have continued purchasing the defendant's drug even absent anticompetitive conduct. Judge Smith went on to note that he was "troubled that over ninety percent of consumers in the proposed [consumer] class may have been injured by Defendants' alleged unlawful conduct, but now have no practical recourse." He went on to invite the First Circuit "to reconsider this holding," or, if not, for Congress to "take up the issue." Nevertheless, he held that, "with respect to consumer injury-in-fact, individual issues predominate."
Similarly, Judge Burroughs in the District of Massachusetts recently denied class certification as to a class of consumers alleging anticompetitive activity because at least 8% of the putative class was uninjured. Judge Burroughs concluded that "identifying uninjured consumers with any degree of confidence would require an assessment of individual-specific facts" and concluded that the plaintiffs had not "put forth a reasonable and workable plan to weed out uninjured class members" given the defendants' "intention to challenge individual class members' claims of injury." Judge Burroughs also voiced concern that In re Asacol might leave some consumers with no practical remedy, but nevertheless followed the First Circuit's directive.
These decisions confirm that In re Asacol truly does have "bite." Though Judge Smith has called for the First Circuit to reconsider In re Asacol, that outcome is unlikely. In its In re Asacol decision, the First Circuit already noted the problem of remedying "small amounts of damage on large numbers of people," but further observed that the problem does not justify "altering or reallocating substantive claims or departing from the rules of evidence." Rather, according to the court, it simply highlights the need to utilize "other tools," such as regulatory action, parens patriae claims, presumptions created through substantive law, and use of res judicata to induce aggregate settlements. While the First Circuit probably will not revisit this issue in the near future, the problem of uninjured class members is likely to make it all the way to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, plaintiffs will have to continue to contend with In re Asacol.
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(FOX 9) - The Wadena County Sheriff's Office is investigating a dog's death after video of the apparent shooting circulated on Facebook.
Sunday around 11:07 a.m., a deputy responded to a report of dead dog at a Wadena County campground. The caller found shell casings nearby. The deputy found the dog in the river. It was wearing a collar with a leash attached.
Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff's office received calls about a Facebook video of a person shooting a dog. In the video, the dog was laying down in the snow and appeared to be wearing collar with a leash. One person shot the dog, while another person kicked snow on top of it. The dog didn't appear to be moving before or after the gunshot.
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After testing additional bus lanes in the city of Minneapolis, Metro Transit is moving forward with the project that is expected to help improve service reliability and efficiency.
With the number of people riding the bus continuing to decline over the last several years, Metro Transit and the city of Minneapolis are hoping better reliability will win those riders over.
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A Texas woman who finished her radiation treatment for breast cancer on Monday rang the "cancer-free bell" so enthusiastically that she broke it.
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How to Figure Out the Margin of Safety
By Jim Woodruff Updated January 28, 2019
How to Calculate Inventory to Sales Ratio
What Is the Monthly and Annual Net Profit Margin?
What Does Suggested Retail List Price Mean?
How to Calculate the Total Operating Costs & Breakeven Volume
The Difference Between Revenue & Sales
Do you know the break-even sales point for your business? You should. It's a crucial target to reach, the point after which you start making a profit. You should be putting all your efforts toward reaching and exceeding this objective.
But what about a margin of safety? This is another target benchmark – unless you enjoy living on the edge. Having a reasonable margin of safety is essential to survive the vagaries of the marketplace and be able to try new strategies.
What Is Breakeven?
Breakeven is the volume of sales that exactly equals total costs of production. It can be expressed in sales volume or units of sales.
It consists of a company's fixed costs of operation such as rent, utilities, office salaries and insurance plus the variable cost of production, direct labor and materials expenses. The formula to calculate break-even sales volume is:
Fixed Costs ÷ Contribution profit margin percent = Break-even sales volume
Take the example of the Hasty Rabbit Corporation, a manufacturer of sneakers for rabbits. Their best-selling model is the Blazing Hare, which sells at a retail price of $95 per pair. Following are the relevant figures to calculate the break-even point:
Fixed costs of operations: $300,000
Retail sales price: $95 per pair of sneakers
Variable unit cost of production: $57
Contribution profit margin per pair: $38
Contribution profit percentage: 40 percent
The break-even revenue for sales of the Blazing Hare is:
$300,000 ÷ 40 percent = $750,000 break-even sales volume
Breakeven in terms of units is:
$750,000 ÷ $95 = 7,895 pairs of sneakers
What Is the Margin of Safety?
The margin of safety is the amount that sales can drop before reaching the break-even point and incurring a loss of profits. It can be calculated in terms of a percentage, a decline in units sold or a drop in sales volume. The formula for determining the margin of safety as a percentage is as follows:
Margin of safety percentage = (Projected sales volume - Breakeven sales) ÷ Projected sales × 100
Using Hasty Rabbit again, suppose the company has a current sales volume of $850,000. What is its margin of safety?
($850,000-$750,000) ÷ $750,000 × 100 = 13.3 percent margin of safety
This means that sales could decline by 13.3 percent before reaching breakeven.
How to Use the Margin of Safety
Knowing your margin of safety gives a perspective on the effects of any changes that you want to make. For example, what if you wanted to increase prices in an attempt to improve profits and lower the break-even point? This could be a good idea unless the market reacts negatively and stops buying your products.
The margin of safety gives you some idea of how much sales loss you could bear before changing back to lower prices. If your margin of safety is small, raising prices is probably a bad idea because you have little room for error.
The margin of safety is an important metric to track in addition to monitoring the break-even point. Having a comfortable margin of safety gives a small-business owner the freedom and flexibility to try out different strategies and the ability to weather attacks from competitors.
University of North Florida: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport: Break-Even Analysis
Corporate Finance Institute: Margin of Safety Formula
Accounting Tools: Margin of Safety - Safety Margin
James Woodruff has been a management consultant to more than 1,000 small businesses. As a senior management consultant and owner, he used his technical expertise to conduct an analysis of a company's operational, financial and business management issues. James has been writing business and finance related topics for work.chron, bizfluent.com, smallbusiness.chron.com and e-commerce websites since 2007. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and received an MBA from Columbia University.
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How to Calculate Break-Even Sales, Contribution Margins and Net Loss
How to Calculate Merchandising Margin
Aggregate Planning Examples With Minimum Inventory
How to Make YouTube Safe
Cost-Volume-Profit Relationship & Break Even Analysis
The Formula for ROI Using Turnover and Margin
How to Print a PDF With No Margin
How to Know if a Company Is a Worthwhile Investment
1 Margin of Safety vs. Profit
2 How to Calculate Break-Even Sales, Contribution Margins and Net Loss
3 How to Calculate Merchandising Margin
4 Aggregate Planning Examples With Minimum Inventory


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Coronavirus Frightens Malaria Patients in Cameroon
A song urging Cameroonians not to relent in the fight against malaria blasted through speakers Saturday — World Malaria Day — at road junctions and popular neighborhoods, as well as from publicity vans driving through Cameroon's capital, Yaounde.
Dr. Daniel Etoundi of Cameroon's public health ministry said health teams were being taken to every neighborhood to try to discourage patients from buying roadside drugs or resorting to African traditional healers for malaria treatment, because those can lead to severe health complications.
"If the product is toxic, the liver will be spoiled [destroyed]. Same with the kidney," he said. "Most of the products that we consume are eliminated through the kidney by urine. Now, if the drug is toxic, it will spoil the kidney function."
The Cameroon Ministry of Public Health reported that since March 5, when the first case of the coronavirus was reported in the central African state, many people with suspected cases of malaria or other diseases have refused to go to hospitals for fear they will catch COVID-19. As of Saturday, more than 1,500 cases had been confirmed in the country, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics.
But medical doctors say 90 percent of Cameroon's 25 million people are at risk of malaria, while 41 percent have an episode each year.
Dr. Dorothy Achu, coordinator of Cameroon's National Malaria Control Program, said people should understand that although there is much government emphasis on the dangers of COVID-19, malaria remains the nation's major killer, especially of children.
"We are trying to sensitize health workers to protect themselves well but to continue to provide services," as well as reassure the population "that it is not in all hospitals that we take care of COVID patients. So we just require them to protect themselves when they go to hospitals," she said.
Innocent Kuisseu, sensitization team member for the prevention of malaria, said members also were educating Cameroonians about how to protect themselves from malaria by systematically using insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets and visiting hospitals when they suspect they might have malaria. He said people should not think that anyone who has malaria also has COVID-19.
"Efforts are being put in to make sure that the population is more and more aware of what should be the right treatment, to make sure that in suspicion of malaria there should be a rapid diagnostic test, to make sure that they sleep under insecticide-treated nets," he said.
The International group Severe Malaria Observatory reports that malaria causes 22% of deaths occurring in health care facilities in Cameroon, and that 10% of deaths in children under 5 years old are linked to malaria.
Health officials in Cameroon blame the surge of malaria and COVID-19 cases on the fact that many people do not respect basic hygiene standards and don't visit health facilities when they have early signs of either disease. They also say there are too many people who refuse to use treated mosquito bed nets.
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USA For Africa: Biden admin launches bid to bring power to African hospitals
‹ COVID-19 cases in Africa hit 30,000 › Nigeria to ease Covid-19 lockdown for millions in key cities on 4 May


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728 Naval Air Squadron (728 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. It was formed in 1943 as a Fleet Requirement Unit, operating from airfields around the Mediterranean before settling for most of its existence in Malta.

History of 728 NAS

Fleet Requirements Unit (1943 - 1967)
728 Naval Air Squadron was formed on 1 May 1943 at RN Air Section North Front,  Gibraltar, as a Fleet Requirements Unit. The squadron was equipped with Defiant TT.1 and Swordfish I. Whilst at Gibraltar it operated detachments at RN Air Section Tafaraoui, Algeria, from 11 May 1943 to 15 June 1943, with Swordfish aircraft and also at RAF Oujda, Morroco, before moving to RNAS Dekheila (HMS Grebe), Alexandria in Egypt, on 15 June 1943.

The squadron was absorbed into 775 NAS on 4 July 1943. However, just over one month later, on the 14 August, 728 NAS reformed at Dekheila. The squadron soon moved to Malta and settled at RNAS Hal Far (HMS Falcon), from 5 May 1946, after brief stints at RN Air Section Takali (HMS Goldfinch) and RAF Luqa and just after taking up radar calibration duties from No. 255 Squadron RAF.

Helicopters were added to supplement the squadron's inventory when it started operating the Westland Dragonfly HR.3 at the end of 1952. 728B Flight was the identity given to the new RNAS Hal Far SAR (Search and Rescue) flight, this operated utilising the Westland Whirlwind HAR.3 which arrived in 1957. In March 1963, Westland Whirlwind HAS.22 became available for the SAR flight, which was then  amalgamated into 728 NAS.

On 31 May 1967 728 Naval Air Squadron disbanded at RNAS Hal Far.

Aircraft flown
The squadron operated a variety of different aircraft and versions:

 Avro Anson I
 Martin Baltimore IV
 Martin Baltimore V
 Bristol Beaufighter II
 Bristol Beaufighter X
 Bristol Beaufighter TT Mark 10
 Bristol Beaufort I
 Boulton Paul Defiant TT.1
 Hawker Hurricane IIc
 Miles Martinet TT.1
 de Havilland Mosquito B.25
 de Havilland Mosquito T.3
 de Havilland Mosquito PR.16
 de Havilland Mosquito TT.39
 Airspeed Oxford I
 Supermarine Seafire L.IIC
 Supermarine Seafire III
 Supermarine Seafire XV
 Supermarine Seafire F.17
 Supermarine Sea Otter 2
 Fairey Swordfish I
 Fairey Swordfish II
 Supermarine Walrus
 Vickers Wellington XIV
 Westland Dragonfly HR.3
 Beech Expediter C.2
 Fairey Gannet T.2
 North American Harvard T.3
 de Havilland Heron C.2
 Gloster Meteor T.7
 Gloster Meteor TT.20
 de Havilland Sea Devon C.20
 de Havilland Sea Hornet FR.20
 de Havilland Sea Vampire F.20
 Short Sturgeon TT.3
 Westland Whirlwind HAR.3
 Westland Whirlwind HAS.22

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700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons
Military units and formations established in 1945
Air squadrons of the Royal Navy in World War II


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After 10 days with no phone service I have finally received a replacement TP Link modem. Although the Phone 1 and Phone 2 leds do not illuminate, the phone works. At last! So all my time and inconvenience has been caused by faulty product supplied by TPG. BUT to add insult to injury, now TPG have the audacity to put a note in with the new modem demanding the old faulty modem be sent back to Sydney within 14 days advising to use registered post (obviously at my expence) or they will charge $99.95. I AM GOB SMACKED!!
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When it comes to a standard bloody mary, they're typically made with tomato juice. But what about making your own tomato water? It's delicious, fresh and flavorful. And so simple to make.
Combine that with Country Sweet's spicy hot sauce – and you have a drink fit for the most elegant, or laid back, Sunday brunch.
Also because this recipe calls for beefsteak tomatoes which can be grown hydroponically, the tomato water is equally delicious in the winter.
An hour before serving, place a glass pitcher in the freezer, along with 2 glasses.
Combine all of the ingredients in the chilled pitcher and stir very well.
Divide between the glasses and garnish with celery.
Stem, core and roughly chop the tomatoes. Place them, along with the salt, in a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process for 1 minute. Line a large bowl with cheesecloth, and let the tomatoes drain overnight. Discard pulp.


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Use of Sulesomab, a radiolabeled antibody fragment, to detect osteomyelitis in diabetic patients with foot ulcers by leukoscintigraphy
Clin Infect Dis. 1999 Jun;28(6):1200-5. doi: 10.1086/514791.
S J Harwood 1 , S Valdivia, G L Hung, R W Quenzer
1 Bay Pines Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Florida 33744, USA. harwood.steven_j@bay-pines.va.gov
Diabetic patients suspected of having osteomyelitis secondary to foot ulcers underwent scintigraphic imaging with Sulesomab, an anti-granulocyte antibody Fab' fragment labeled with technetium-99m. Among 122 patients who had osteomyelitis confirmed or excluded by histopathologic and/or microbiologic techniques, Sulesomab had a 91% sensitivity, a 56% specificity, and an accuracy of 80%. One planar imaging session was usually sufficient for diagnosis, typically requiring 20-30 minutes of camera time 1-2 hours after injection. Compared with ex vivo autologous white blood cell (WBC) scans, Sulesomab performed comparably but with significantly greater sensitivity (92% vs. 79%; P < .05). Sulesomab results were more sensitive than radiography (90% vs. 62%; P < .05) and more specific than bone scans (50% vs. 21%; P < .05) and would have altered management plans in most patients. No related adverse events occurred, and there was no induction of human anti-mouse antibody. Sulesomab is an effective and rapid imaging agent that is diagnostically comparable or superior to WBC scans in this setting, with significant advantages in safety and ease of use.
Antibodies, Monoclonal* / adverse effects
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
Diabetic Foot / diagnostic imaging*
Leukocytes / diagnostic imaging*
Osteomyelitis / diagnostic imaging*
Radionuclide Imaging
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sulesomab


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Q: MFC: RadioButton not working(grayed out) in a class subclassed from CWnd INTRODUCTION: I have a class(custom window) derived from CWND. This custom class has a radio button(CButton) and a bunch of other static controls.
The PROBLEM: When the radio button is created it's grayed out and clicking it does nothing.
Code used for creation is pretty simple:
m_radioButton->Create(_T("rButton1.1"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON , CRect(5,5,300,15), this,2001);

I tried to add the

ON_BN_CLICKED(2001, method())

event but that isn't getting triggered.
I also have the ShowWindow() and EnableWindow() methods on it but that didn't work either.
The QUESTION: Since this class isn't derived from a CDialog means DDX isn't available. Can that be the problem? Is there a way to get around it? My message map only has a SIZE, CREATE and DESTROY other than the ON_BN_CLICKED.
Any suggestion are welcome.
SIDE NOTE: MFC newbie here, your help is much appreciated.
Research: I found only this relevant stack overflow question  but that doesn't help my case. Also came across this cool page on mfc subclassing but it doesn't answer my question.
SIDE QUESTION: Since I'm not getting any answers, Is this situation not that common and Is this fundamentally wrong should I not derive from CWND at all and derive from CDialog or something else?

A: I tried to replicate the scenario, but could not reproduce. Deriving from CWnd should not be any problem. I have provided sample code below, I have created a custom class named "CTestWindow" derived from CWnd and create a ribbon button inside OnCreate() of CTestWindow. I am able to click on radio button and method() is also being called as expected.
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CTestWindow,CWnd)
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CTestWindow, CWnd)
    ON_WM_CREATE()
    ON_BN_CLICKED(2001, method)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

int CTestWindow::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
    CButton *m_radioButton = new CButton;
    if (CWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
        return -1;
    if(!m_radioButton->Create(_T("rButton1.1"), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON , CRect(5,5,300,25), this,2001)){
        return -1;
    }
    return 0;
}

void CTestWindow::method(){
    AfxMessageBox(_T("I m clicked"));
}

Find below code for creating a instance of custom window:
CString strMyClass;
    try
    {
        strMyClass = AfxRegisterWndClass(
            CS_VREDRAW | CS_HREDRAW,
            ::LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW),
            (HBRUSH) ::GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH),
            ::LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION));
    }
    catch (CResourceException* pEx)
    {
        AfxMessageBox(_T("Couldn't register class! (Already registered?)"));
        pEx->Delete();
    }
    if(m_wndTest.Create(strMyClass,_T("Custom Window"),WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_VISIBLE,CRect(0,0,400,400),this,200,NULL) == -1){
        return;
    }
    m_wndTest.SetWindowPos(NULL,120,120,500,500,SWP_SHOWWINDOW);

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Q: Sylverster's law of inertia Any bilinearform $s$ is Diagonazible and if we tweek the Basis vektor's just a little and order them accordingly,say $\mathcal{B}:=(v_1,\ldots,v_n)$ we achieve that the transformation matrix takes the following form
$$\begin{bmatrix}
I_k & & 0 \\
& -I_{r-k} & \\
0& & 0 \\
\end{bmatrix}$$
where $r:= \text{rank}(s)$.
It's obvious that the quadratic of $q(v) = s(v,v) = 0$ for all $v \in \text{span}(v_{r+1},\ldots,v_n)$.
Now assume we find another basis $\mathcal{A}:=(w_1,\ldots,w_n)$ such that it's transformation matrix takes on the same form as above. Also here $q(w)=0$ for all $w \in \text{span}(w_{r+1},\ldots,w_{n})$. Now to my question: I know that $\dim \text{span}(w_{r+1},\ldots,w_{n}) = \dim \text{span}(v_{r+1},\ldots,v_{n})$, since I've proven earlier that the rank is invariant of Basis, but my book says that $\text{span}(w_{r+1},\ldots,w_{n}) = \text{span}(v_{r+1},\ldots,v_{n})$ and I don't see why. A proof would be appreciatet.


Lucrative small businesses can rapidly fail if they lack cash. Likewise, struggling unprof small companies can be kept afloat for a long time if they have a decent money balance. In other words, money is the life blood of American small businesses.
Naturally, when times are difficult, failure to get capital to pay day-to-day operating costs often becomes a source of concern, anxiety and diversion for small business owners.
Regrettably, most of huge city and village traditional lenders have rigid and stringent criteria that their clients should meet.
Organisations have a different credit score from business owner. Even if business owner has a high credit score, the business might not have an established credit history (particularly if recently developed). For that reason, prospective lenders have to offer services with that take business owner's personal credit into consideration which accepts applicants with less than perfect credit.
Frequently, physical loan providers just service businesses doing 20k or more in month-to-month profits. This disqualifies smaller sized businesses doing 10k-15k in regular monthly earnings.
Because of the strict abovementioned qualification criteria enforced by conventional lending institutions, increasingly more business owners are turning to the myriad of online lending solutions now offered to small business owners in Gurdon, Arkansas.


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Al Warkentin of Summerland, BC passed into the presence of Jesus on September 28th, 2018 at the age of 91. Al, born August 9th, 1927 the youngest of 12 children, moved with his family from the Prairies to Vancouver BC in 1941.
He had an adventurous spirit which lasted a lifetime. Whether homesteading, building, playing or telling a story or good joke, he did it all with a twinkle in his eye and a love of life, family and God. He particularly loved music and passed many happy hours working passionately on music for the various choirs he directed. He was a man of many talents and trades and worked as an electrician, corrections officer, furniture refinisher, to name a few. In recent years, he worked as a Summerland Thrift Store volunteer, which afforded many community friends and hours of fulfillment. His upbeat attitude and sense of humor were endearing qualities to those his life touched.
Al will be greatly missed by the love of his life, Lynn, to whom he was married for 68 years, his 3 daughters, Gloria, Debra and Melody, their spouses, along with 6 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Al left this verse to give us assurance. "I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."IITim4:7 As he said in his own words,"I'm going to my forever home".
We will celebrate a life well-lived at a later date when the family is able to gather. Date will be posted.
Condolences may be left for the family at www.hansonsfuneral.ca.


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Innovations, News, Products
JBT Proseal: boosting safety and productivity through innovation
Keeping production and packaging lines moving in these challenging times has become a key consideration for companies across the food processing industry, with worker illnesses and absences placing pressure on supply chains. Add to this the need to minimize downtime and the continuing growth of internet shopping and companies have a lot to think about.
JBT Proseal, which has a strong record in packaging innovation, is rising to meet these challenges with new developments in automation and data analysis, which have been designed to improve both productivity and food safety.
Limiting downtime
Focused on making life easier for processing companies, ProVision is a downtime analyser which gives managers a dashboard providing an overall view of all production lines and pinpoints any problems that might occur. "If you are the CEO of a business and you have 10 production lines and one of those has failed for a day, you will want to know about it," says Proseal's Head of Sales & Control Systems, Tony Burgess. "If, in all your 10 production lines, for one minute of every hour the line stops because of a failing piece of equipment, in a month's time that will could have added up to one day's lost production.
"ProVision will capture all of these micro instances and build a series of data. It will tell you exactly the downtime and cause of downtime over the last 24 hours. It allows the user to focus attention on the piece of equipment on the production line that is causing the downtime and do something about it, so it has an enormous productivity benefit."
Dynamic growth
A further area where Proseal sees an opportunity is in the booming online market for food ingredients and ready meals driven by increasing consumer interest in cooking at home. Proseal, Burgess reveals, is supplying eco-friendly Halo tray forming equipment to Dineamic, an Australian company which delivers chef-cooked meals to consumers across the country. "Dineamic produces their own foods, seals them with Halo pack trays made in house with a Proseal tray sealer and then sends them mail-order," says Burgess. "Similar work is being done in other geographic locations."
However, such developments are not just taking place in the food industry. Proseal, Burgess adds, is currently working on a project in the Netherlands for online flower orders by designing packaging options suitable for sending flowers by mail-order.
Courses, Events, News, Products
JBT to host free Prepared Food webinars
JBT will be hosting free webinars on September 7, 14 and 21 – in English, Spanish and Polish – focusing on JBT's innovative solutions for secondary processing of prepared foods, including effective systems from pre-mixing ingredients, preparing recipes, sterilization and pasteurization, to filling and post filling treatments.
Prepared Foods is a big field of discussion, but the webinars will focus on Liquid Prepared Foods such as Sauces and Soups with or without particles. From chunky fruit and vegetable pieces to thick vegetable soups, viscous products – especially those containing large particles – are not always simple to handle, but JBT provides solutions that can process viscous products (of over 600 cP) and large particles measuring more than 9mm.
"JBT can provide a solution for medium to high volume preparations and soups that are either high in viscosity or have large particles that are sensitive to damage," says JBT's Miguel Sánchez, who explains that after meeting with the customer to better understand their needs and requirements, JBT presents a customized solution using a combination of JBT machines.
The objective of the webinars, Sánchez continues, is to give customers an awareness of the technology and an understanding of how JBT can provide a source of knowhow across a range of different product areas. "We are the perfect partner for improving quality using the brands we have," he adds. "We also support customers through R&D and via our tech centers, which is quite unique."
The JBT Prepared Foods webinars will be held on September 7, 14 and 21. To register free-of-charge for the English, Spanish or Polish sessions, simply click on the link below:
07 September 10 am CET in Spanish: https://bit.ly/32JWyjx
14 September 10 am CET in English: https://bit.ly/2YNzCig
21 September 10 am CET in Polish: https://bit.ly/2Ey0Mml
SeamTec seamers strengthen JBT's leading role in infant formula industry
JBT has announced the shipment of seven more SeamTec high-speed closers for powder to serve the Global Infant Formula Powder industry, further strengthening JBT's leadership position in the infant formula key growth areas of Europe and Asia Pacific.
Requested by three new customers, the SeamTec seamers, which feature line speeds ranging from 150 to 550 cans per minute (cpm), have been developed and manufactured at JBT's Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, site.
Since its introduction some 10 years ago, JBT's SeamTec for Powder Seamer has led the market for medium-to-high speed clinchers and closers for the infant formula powder industry. SeamTec seamers set new standards in terms of hygienic design, can and cover format change-over, reliability and cleanability.
JBT's SeamTec for Powder Seamer is a leading system for the infant powder industry
"Recently three new customers confirmed their confidence in JBT and the JBT SeamTec seamer technology by placing orders for a total of seven new machines with JBT Sint-Niklaas, Belgium," says JBT's Produce Line Director for Filling & Closing, Bart Mertens. "All three customers are currently using non-JBT clinching and closing technology."
Three of the machines are being supplied to a leading player in the infant formula can making industry, while two more are being shipped to a global market leader in the infant formula filling industry. During August 2020, a further two SeamTec seamers successfully passed the Factory Acceptance Test and have been made ready for shipment to Asia.
"These new machine shipments to Europe and Asia-Pacific further strengthen JBT's leadership position in these key growth regions for the infant formula industry," adds Mertens.
Learn more about the JBT SeamTec Seamer for Powder
News, Products
JBT Proseal: meeting the quality petfood challenge
JBT's Proseal tray sealing technology is enabling pet food manufacturers meet growing demand for high quality products and packaging, as well as providing mass customization solutions that can help businesses diversify and introduce online ordering for home delivery services.
A recent report from Transparency Market Research has predicted a CAGR of 6% in the global pet food market over the next decade, reaching an expected value of US$168.3 billion by 2029. Increasing consumer demand for premium quality products has led manufacturers to use high quality materials and ingredients while streamlining production techniques and processes, with the corresponding need for appropriate quality packaging to reflect this premium image.
The comprehensive Proseal tray sealer range has the flexibility to perform in a wide range of disciplines, including Gas Flush Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP), Vacuum MAP with lid control and Skin Packaging. In particular, the company's advanced sealing systems ensure absolute control and integrity of the seal between the lid and the tray, a vital requirement for applications that incorporate a substantial controlled-retortion-process or other High Pressure sterilization processes after sealing.
The tray sealers also include several Proseal-developed features that help to maximize performance, reliability and efficiency, such as the company's pioneering Eseal® energy saving technology, ifilm™ intelligent film monitoring, and ProTect™ RFID access login system that provides full audit trail visibility and layered security.
In addition, Proseal's AP60 linear conveyor tray sealing system is able to provide bespoke automated solutions for high speed applications and demanding production conditions, based around individual customer production processes and requirements.
Among the system's many features, the length and width of the indexing conveyor can be customized to accommodate de-nesting and filling requirements. Full or partial vacuum systems can be incorporated to enable post seal processes such as retort or High Pressure Processing (HPP), and X-ray inspection systems and checkweighers can be included after sealing for enhanced quality control. The AP60 also offers seamless integration with third party process equipment including depositors, multihead weighing applications and CIP systems with sealing speeds of up to 240 packs per minute.
Furthermore, Proseal's AP60 benefits from shared technology across the Proseal machinery range. Options can be specified and retro-engineered, allowing a more flexible approach to each distinct application. All Proseal machines offer a user-friendly interface and easy to maintain design, with a rugged and hygienic food industry approved construction geared to full washdown protection.
"As the pet food market continues to expand, we are keen to provide solutions for companies requiring a significant upscale in their production of core products in new packaging formats, which can be met on one machinery platform," says Tony Burgess, Head of Sales and Control Systems, Proseal. "The flexibility of our technology and the wide variety of machines available, including fully integrated conveyor systems, mean we can offer a full turnkey production line solution which is key for this particular market. We are delighted that our expertise can help companies to achieve a point of differentiation in the competitive pet food sector."
Learn more about Proseal's packaging solutions
JBT AGVs: the automated solution to labor problems
Among the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps one most keenly felt by the global food industry has been pressure on traditional labor sources. Worker absences due to illness or localized outbreaks can play havoc with the supply chain, increasing pressure on processors. One growing area offering a practical, cost-effective solution is JBT's innovative AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle) range; a solution that is enabling companies to save labor for higher value tasks and increase social distancing.
More than simple robotic systems, JBT AGVs feature an advanced navigation system which creates a virtual map of the surroundings in which it operates, allowing it to safety move around the working area. Further, JBT AGVs now come with 2D and 3D cameras for safe positioning and vertical stacking of pallets above the level of the AGV.
Different applications
According to Mark Longacre, Application Engineering Manager for JBT's AGV division, such innovations are helping spark an expansion in the use of AGVs from manufacturing areas – where the vehicles would be used to move raw materials or finished goods – to warehousing and distribution. "In the past, AGVs were more of a horizontal transport solution and now they are getting much more vertical where we are storing in warehouses, in some cases quite high," he says. "It's not to say that those manufacturing applications have gone away. They really haven't, but now we are also seeing this growth in the warehousing side."
As demand for different applications has grown, so has the advancement on what Longacre describes as natural environment navigation, where the AGVs create a baseline map by sensing the features and contours of the surrounding environment. "As the AGVs operate, they compare what they see with their sensors to that baseline map, and accurately navigate in that environment," explains Longacre. "By recognizing the natural environment and not adding special navigation aids or markers , it makes installation quicker and less costly."
Strong ROI
Longacre believes much of the recent increase in interest in JBT AGVs can be put down to pressure on the labor market as well as greater awareness of the strong ROI offered by the solution. "Companies in the past were looking at it purely as a financial equation where they looked at how many forklift operators they had and how much labor they were going to save, but now I think they are starting to understand some of the risks associated with the labor force," he says.
"I don't think they are going to abandon the financial models, but I think they are going to weigh things a little differently. You want to save labor for the highest value added task and driving forklifts is not something where you have to use labor."
Learn more about JBT AGVs
Comment, Products, Sustainability
JBT's solutions for a post-pandemic future promise fruitful results
For the global juice industry as it operates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of ensuring stringent food safety – combined with sustainability – has surely never been more important. But given the economic challenges many companies face, the ability to become more efficient during processing and keep waste to a minimum is arguably just as crucial.
JBT's approach to both food safety and sustainability is encapsulated in six key Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles for juice processors: aiming for food security and nutrition; ensuring economic viability; encouraging good governance; being environmentally responsible; creating acceptable working conditions; and promoting the transfer of knowledge.
"One of the six principles of sustainability is food safety: that foods are not just sustainable, but that they have to be safer," explains JBT's Technology Assistance Manager for Liquid Foods, José Lorente. "If you don't clean properly, you can't be sure of eliminating micro-organisms, and if the sterilization process is not adequate, this can result in serious problems."
Improved profitability
While food safety is undoubtedly important, another significant element of achieving sustainability is maximizing yield. Getting more out of the same volume of fruit – including valuable by-products or ingredients – means far less wastage and potential contamination, and improved profitability at the end of the process; a massively important consideration given the current economic pressures driven by the global pandemic.
"Recovering by-products, such as citrus essential oils, generated during citrus juice processing, enables companies not only to be more environmentally friendly, but also more profitable by being more efficient during the extraction process using the same raw materials," explains Lorente.
"Over recent years, we at JBT have been working on maximizing and optimizing yield by developing solutions that help customers obtain more juice and by-products. Being efficient is part of sustainability. The more efficient a company, the more sustainable it becomes and the more profitable."
A clear example of how JBT solutions can help juice customers maximize yield is when it comes to essential oils, which can be recovered during the extraction process. These include valuable d-Limonene, a natural organic solvent used as an ingredient across a wide variety of applications, from cleaning products to the aroma industry. However, what makes JBT solutions different from standard extractors is their ability to recover significantly more essential oil.
"With a standard extractor, you can recover around 55% of the essential oil present in the fruit, but thanks to the efficiency of JBT's ORES (Oil Recovery Extraction System), customers can recover up to 65%," says Lorente. "You have to bear in mind that otherwise this 10%, which is a contaminant, would be thrown away. By recovering that extra 10%, customers not only earn more money, they also help protect the environment."
To achieve even better results, JBT has developed the MORE (Modular Oil Recovery Extractor) system, which recovers essential oil before it reaches the extractor. By softly scraping the peel, without damaging the integrity of the fruit, more than 90% of the essential oil available can be recovered.
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JBT's READYGo™ LIQUIFUSION™: the single solution to make complex systems simple
JBT's READYGo LiquiFusion Tanks present an innovative solution for combining multiple operations into a single tank processing system, saving money and delivering a smaller footprint in the process. Dan Wolff, Technical Sales Manager for Sales, Engineering and Estimating at JBT's A&B Process Systems, explains how the concept works.
When a process professional starts to consider purchasing new equipment, a whole array of questions and issues come to mind. What if I need to perform multiple operations? How will I protect my product from contamination? How can I fit this equipment into the space I have?
To address these common concerns, experts across many industries are moving towards single tank processing where a single piece of equipment is used for blending, dispersion, emulsification, heating, and cooling operations. This is the concept behind JBT's READYGo LiquiFusion Tanks; a solution which delivers a lower capital cost, reduced material handling and product transfer, and a smaller system footprint.
READYGo LiquiFusion Tanks are available in six standard volumes and can be customized to handle a broad range of products and processes, including four separate agitator options that can be combined to create ideal mixing for almost any application and can handle viscosities up to 100,000+ cPs.
The optional ASME dimple jacket provides efficient heating and cooling compatible with a variety of heat transfer media. This system has been used for products such as gums, flours, cocoa, yeast, powdered egg, caseinates, condiments, juices, purees, whey, slurries, cheese, lotion, gel, shampoo, toothpaste, and more.
In addition to all its other benefits, the LiquiFusion system offers superior low-level mixing, reduced batch time, elimination of agglomerated powders, a more homogenous blend, and increased batch uniformity. Furthermore, if the customer is interested in automating their system, a full range of optional instrumentation can be included to reduce manual processing and further protect their product from damage due to human error.
While the user should be excited that combining these processes results in less equipment to clean, they can also rest assured that the LiquiFusion is designed to be fully CIP (Clean-In-Place) ready. Our sanitary design is extremely versatile and is ready for installation in any food, dairy, confectionary, cosmetic, personal care, or pharmaceutical plant.
Dan Wolff has worked at A&B Process Systems for seven years as a Mechanical Engineer in the Tank and Vessel Group, specializing in pressure vessel engineering, agitator design, structural analysis, and standard product development. Recently, Dan moved into the role of Technical Sales Manager supporting A&B's Sales, Engineering, and Estimating teams.
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New Proseal analysis platform maximizes production efficiencies
JBT's tray sealing specialist Proseal has launched an advanced automated platform that captures and analyzes valuable machine data to improve the efficiency and performance of the entire production line. The new Proseal ProVision™ system enables companies to maximize the benefits of Industry 4.0 and the fully automated factory.
Using cutting edge technology, the web-based analysis platform has been developed for Proseal's GTe and GTs range of tray sealing machines to help identify and understand the causes of downtimeand other inefficiencies, in order to maximize the production capacity of the tray sealer and increase overall equipment effectiveness. Importantly, ProVision can also be easily integrated with existing third party equipment to accurately deliver information and drive improvements throughout the whole production line.
ProVision's easy to use reporting tools can be used to generate advanced reports that inspect machine data and compare historical performance analysis over any given time. This helps to identify any line inefficiencies and pinpoint factors that may affect productivity in terms of both personnel and operating procedures. Additionally, data patterns can be monitored to identify root causes of problems which could otherwise be hard to diagnose.
The versatile ProVision can be viewed on any web-enabled device, including a PC, smartphone and smart TV. The Live View function allows real time and remote performance monitoring, enabling operators to work away from the line and efficiently operate multiple machines, allowing engineers to check on machine performance and provide timely interventions if any problems are detected.
ProVision is offered at no extra cost to all new Proseal GTe and GTs machines that are supplied with an Ewon device to allow internet connection. As part of Proseal's futureproofing of its equipment, updated software and Ewon devices can be retrofitted to pre-existing GTe and GTs machines. In addition, a scaled down version of the platform, ProVision Lite, has been devised to deliver many of ProVision's key benefits, to older legacy machines.
"The development of our new Industry 4.0 advanced analysis platform demonstrates Proseal's commitment to technological innovation," says Rob Watson, Proseal Control Systems Manager. "ProVision offers benefits to all levels of factory personnel, from managers and engineers to line supervisors and operators, delivering invaluable, fine-detailed performance data that will help production lines to operate consistently at maximum efficiency."
Learn more about Proseal's new ProVision system
JBT's Unifiller innovations reduce Total Cost of Ownership
JBT has introduced new, unique features for the JBT Unifiller, the volumetric piston filler for high value products, with key attributes such as a unique seal-less and self-draining fill station concept, which substantially differentiates the Unifiller from conventional piston filling technology.
A new Configure to Order (CTO) option and in-line check weighting are now being included with the Unifiller as a means of significantly enhancing existing processes, enhancing safety and minimising giveaway.
The two innovations will help further boost the three key benefits of the Unifiller: Clean In Place (CIP) without fill station disassembly; unmatched fill accuracy; and high product particle quality. These also make the Unifiller an even better solution for filling high-value segments, including sauces, jams and sweet spreads, ready meals, cream and condensed milk in metal or glass containers.
JBT has recently completed a Configure to Order (CTO) exercise on the Unifiller with the objective of reducing the cost and delivery time, says Bart Mertens, JBT's Product Line Director for Filling and Closing Equipment.
The CTO exercise also includes an upgrade of the basic machine with features that were previously optional, including: sealed upper guarding with standard safety glass for enhanced operator safety and chemical resistance; a stainless steel central column for longer life, lower risk of blockage and improved hygienic; easy-to-clean, hygienic electropolished fill stations; and a single point container height adjustment for more convenient can format change-over.
How the JBT Unifiller valve filling principle works
Minimize giveaway
To further reduce the Total Cost of Ownership, JBT is also now offering optional in-line check weighing technology, for speeds of up to 700 cpm (containers per minute). "The use of this technology in combination with the Unifiller allows for the monitoring of the fill accuracy performance of each individual fill station and features automatic on-the-fly fill volume adjustment to minimize giveaway," explains Mertens.
Additionally, the Unifiller, ensures E-mark compliance by rejecting under- and over-filled containers that fail to comply with the standard in order to protect downstream sterilization equipment.
Learn more about the new JBT Unifiller
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Stelios is best known for starting up easyJet, the airline which changed the face of air travel, in 1995 at the age of just 28. By 2011 easyJet had become one of Europe's largest low cost airlines, by revenues, with a fleet of 204 jets which had carried 55 million passengers that year.
Stelios was born and educated in Athens before coming to Britain in 1984 to continue his education at the London School of Economics. He graduated from the City University Business School with an MSC in Shipping Trade and Economics. Funded by his father he then set up his first business, Stelmar Shipping which he floated on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001. By the time he sold it four years later to OSG Shipping Group it was worth approximately $1.3 billion.
In the meantime he founded the budget airline easyJet. After floating the massively popular airline on the London Stock Exchange in 2000 he stepped back to concentrate on extending the easy brand to several businesses, all dedicated to offering consumers more value for less. These include easyHotel, easyCar, easyBus, easyOffice and easyGym, which are all owned through his private company easyGroup. Stelios and his family continue to own 38% of easyJet in which he retains a keen interest.
He has established hugely successful enterprises in 17 different industries, from personal finance to pizza delivery. In 2006 he was given a knighthood for services to entrepreneurship.
Stelios remains grateful for early help, in terms of education and support. He is interested in education for under-privileged students and in sustainable development. In 1992 he founded CYMEPA, the Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association, which is a non-profit making association of ship owners and Cyprus-based business people who believe in sustainable development.
In 2005 he made a £3 million pledge to both his alma mater, the London School of Economics and the City of London Cass Business School, to fund 100 scholarships over 10 years in each establishment. The students will be known as the Stelios Scholars.
In 2006 he established the Disabled Entrepreneur of the Year Award with the disability charity Leonard Cheshire. The same year he sold his private art collection for a total of €730,000, the proceeds of which went to a Greek children's charity.


On May 9, 2017, Greenville Women Giving, a philanthropic women's organization, awarded Fostering Great Ideas (FGI) a $47,000 grant to fund a college success program at Greenville Tech for students from foster care.
College Fellows will provide intensive academic and peer support for students coming from foster care into Greenville Tech. Nationally, only 7% of students who leave foster care graduate college with an Associate Degree and far fewer with a Bachelor Degree. Fostering Great Ideas analyzed the data with Greenville Tech and found an opportunity to create a solution.
They studied four college programs nationally and decided to focus on building a sense of family and belonging among the students, building academic excellence through high quality tutors, and establishing fellowship learning opportunities. This program will be a capstone for Fostering Great Ideas' current mentor program, which provides one-to-one mentorship of 75 youth in foster care and another 40 who have left care. Mentors walk with the youth through the struggles of care.
About Greenville Women Giving: Celebrating its 11th anniversary, Greenville Women Giving (GWG) has reached a milestone of $4.8 million in total grant funding over the eleven years. To learn more about GWG, visit greenvillewomengiving.org.
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Montreal police have turned to the public in an effort to find Selisha Robb, a 16-year-old who left her home in Lachine early on March 19 and hasn't been seen since.
Police describe the English-speaking teenager as "vulnerable" and say when last seen she was wearing a black coat and fur hood. She was carrying a beige purse and wearing beige boots.
Anyone with any information on the girl or her whereabouts is urged to call 911, contact their local police station or call Info-Crime Montreal at 514-393-1133.


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7. The Orchard House
Built in 1938, The Orchard House has served as a dormitory, infirmary, and photo lab throughout its history. Eleanor Sawin lived here in the 1940s. In the 1950s, the late Yanko Cajnar and his wife Maria (Mitzi) lived in Orchard Cottage with their three children: Hansi, Martina and Annie. Yanko was from Slovenia and Mitzi from Austria. An outstanding carpenter and groundsman, Yanko was highly respected by all, but especially by boarding school boys, whose hair he cut while listening to the teenage shenanigans. Yanko gave fatherly support to the boys who came back 50 years later to honor him. After Yanko's death in 2005, his wife, Mitzi, lived in the house until she passed away in 2016.
In 2017, the home was renovated and is once again used for faculty housing.


In a step towards a full service agency for real estate developers we created the complete marketing roll-out for two Viennese housing projects.
For us it felt natural and a logical step to combine our expertise in visual communication with content creation and brand development. Delphis, our client, was really happy to get everything in one complete package in less time and with a clear, straight communication.


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That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Perth having the opportunity of outlining to the House the detailed comparison between the Martin Donnelly Electrical Services AWA and the collective agreement currently covering sparkies working at the new Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet site in Canberra, including and in particular the fact that:
The collective agreement goes from 28 May 2004 to 4 December 2006; the AWA goes for three years from 1 October 2006. Under the collective agreement there are six pay increases during the 2.5-year life of the agreement and under the AWA there are no guaranteed pay increases during the three-year life of the agreement.
Under the collective agreement they work 36 hours per week and under the AWA they work 38 hours per week. Under the collective agreement ordinary working hours are Monday to Friday between six am and six pm, with a minimum eight-hour and a maximum 10-hour shift. Under the AWA ordinary working hours are Monday to Friday between six am and six pm.
Under the collective agreement any hours above 36 hours or outside the ordinary hours above are paid at overtime rates. Under the AWA there is a requirement to work 'reasonable additional hours' beyond 38 hours per week.
With regard to Saturday penalty rates, under the collective agreement it is 150 per cent for the first three hours and 200 per cent of the ordinary rate thereafter; under the AWA it is 150 per cent of the ordinary rate. Under the collective agreement the Sunday penalty rate is 200 per cent of the ordinary rate, with a minimum payment of three hours. Under the AWA, it is 200 per cent of the ordinary rate.


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How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Rewriting the Rules
Smarter Healthcare: How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Rewriting the Rules
Imagine a world where a doctor or hospital bill is as clear and easy to understand as a restaurant tab. Or where a mammogram is co-read by a machine, thereby significantly reducing the impact of normal human errors encountered during the reading process. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are making both of those scenarios possible and will converge to revolutionize in the next several years, says Change Healthcare.
The amount of money being invested in AI solutions continues to grow. According to a global IT research firm, spending on AI across a number of industries, including healthcare, banking, retail, and more, reached $9.6 billion in the U.S. last year. By 2021, that number is expected to skyrocket to $43.2 billion. Nick Giannasi, Ph.D., chief data officer for Change Healthcare, says AI and machine learning—when a machine can learn a process without having to be programmed by a human—can enable tasks to be done "faster, better and cheaper" than the way they are currently done. "AI has the power to really change the cost and quality curve in healthcare," he says.
Among the biggest contributors to the high cost of healthcare in the U.S. are the complexity and competing interests of payers, providers, and patients, Dr. Giannasi says. AI and machine learning can help solve that. For instance, if a patient has a car accident and is taken to the hospital by ambulance, EMTs perform a series of labor-intensive tasks in order for the hospital and doctor to be paid. The information gathered about the patient's accident, condition and injuries must be recorded and then coded properly. That information is sent to the payer for reimbursement. If anything in the coding is incorrect, the claim is sent back, which creates delays and increases the cost.
By applying AI and machine learning to the process, that same patient information can be compared with millions of other patient records containing similar pieces of data. In a matter of seconds, a machine learning tool can determine the correct diagnosis along with the primary complaint and apply all the correct codes. "In the time it would take a human to code one of these records, machine learning can code more than seven million encounters with 95% accuracy," Giannasi says. "The performance is amazing."
Image-based AI promises to deliver groundbreaking improvements in medical imaging, especially when applied to the more challenging, repetitive and sometimes error-prone aspects of image detection performed by even the most highly trained radiologists.
Dr. Patrick McLaughlin, chief medical officer at Change Healthcare, says that dedicated AI algorithms for screening mammography are already performing to the standards of radiologists. "Mammograms are very difficult to read and sometimes there is variability of interpretation between different radiologists, so one of the main benefits we currently see is the ability for AI to standardize the radiologist's accuracy," he says. "Currently we find that humans and computers together perform better than humans alone or computers alone, so we're actively working on the use of AI to standardize, accelerate, and improve multiple clinical workflows."
In fact, the company announced in November 2017 an agreement with Zebra Medical Vision, an AI company, to create AI solutions aimed at improving workflow speed and reading accuracy for radiologists. Change Healthcare also has a strategic relationship with Google, which among other initiatives explores how Google Cloud's machine-learning technology can help uncover actionable insights for healthcare providers.
As for concerns that AI and machine learning will eventually render radiologists unnecessary and obsolete, Dr. McLaughlin isn't too worried. "AI will reduce the time spent on challenging and laborious detection tasks, and will ensure that radiologists are performing to the best possible standards of quality. When it comes to diagnostic accuracy, it is likely that a computer and a radiologist working together will be the gold standard," he adds.
AI and machine learning can also play a significant role in bringing cost savings to patients. "Many companies are trying to solve the healthcare cost issue with better transparency, but that does nothing to get at the real issue," explains Giannasi. "It has to be solved from the other end." That's because payers typically use third-party firms to look for overpayments and providers do the same for underpayments. By using AI solutions to reconcile underpayments for healthcare providers and overpayments for insurance companies, costly inefficiencies can be weeded out from the start. "If you make it easier for payers and providers to do business, the patient isn't caught in the middle and you solve that transparency issue while lowering costs," he says.
While Giannasi concedes that more accurate coding and greater cost efficiencies aren't as intriguing as diagnosing rare diseases with AI, the end results are still significant: "Making healthcare more efficient and cost-effective is a huge contribution to make, as it enables us to shift more attention to better outcomes and better health for all."
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Rodin isn't a brand I have had a huge amount of experience with in all honesty, but this new Rodin olio lusso Mermaid collection caught my eye and I jumped at the chance to try it. If you like a glow, then take a seat and read on because this collection is one for you.
First things first, a little about Rodin olio lusso – just in case it might be a brand you're less familiar with. A brand created by stylist Linda Rodin after she couldn't find a skincare range that was both simple and satisfying. She ended up creating the combination of oils she wanted based on essential oils and seeds. The range has a core of 11 oils and the brand has a key belief that keeping things simple is key. With the whole brand being geared towards the idea that luminous skin, healthy hair and a bold lip is all a girl needs. Which I can pretty much agree with. Maybe with a generous coating of mascara and I'm all on board.
The core range in general is really interesting. With strikingly simple packaging but still products that feel both luxurious and just a touch playful. It seems to focus on quality but not too serious products. With things like a lip balm ring or bold lipsticks in clear plastic packaging. Some of the lipstick shades are right up my street – with one called Winks (a super-bright pink) looking absolutely gorgeous. But this isn't really about the core collection, this is a look at the limited edition Mermaid collection that caught my eye.
The Rodin olio lusso Mermaid Collection is a collection of four products and one kabuki brush all geared towards glow. The outer packaging has been designed by US artist/illustrator Donald Robertson and features brightly coloured mermaid images. But it's the products inside that are real stand outs.
Starting with the first 'WOW' one in my opinion, the Mermaid Collection Luxury Illuminating Powder. A gel-powder texture (think gel-powder type things from previous Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess type collections where the powder is so fine it almost feels like a smooth light gel). The colour of this is my ultimate highlight. A champagne type of shade with a hint of pearly pink throughout. The powder itself is embossed with a gorgeous mermaid scene which if it wasn't for how gorgeous the colour is I'd be reluctant to use and keep in my 'too good to use' pile of collectors items. But seriously, the highlight is just the most beautiful shade.
Then, to compliment the sheen of the highlighter there's a gorgeous Luxury Lip Oil and Liquid Illuminator that would be just perfect for adding a complimentary sheen to shoulders, chest area and legs. Or of course on your face too if you fancy it. No rules here! The lip oil is the same warm champagne type of shade and is a blend of pigment in oil that if you leave it does settle at the bottom. So just needs a shake to get going and then apply and you get a combination of glowy sheen and moisturising lip oil.
There's also one product I don't have to show you but a Luxury Body Oil – that has a combination of three oils that settle into different coloured layers. So a pretty dressing-table-worthy as far as product goes. Plus a whole lot of moisturising goodness. One of those ones you shake up so you get the benefit of all the oils blended. But then it will settle into layers again after a short time.
All in all, this is really a beautiful collection. The shade of glow created by these products is just the sort of thing I personally love. That flattering golden champagne is just ideal if you have a paler skintone. I can't speak for darker skintones really but I expect it would still suit well but perhaps be a bit more stand-out type highlight rather than naturally glowing? But feel free to comment below if you agree/disagree on how it might suit various skin tones.


Things I love about New York City.
New York City is truly a melting pot where so many cultures come together from so many different places, with different histories and backgrounds.
They – all of these cultures – are all forced to be together, to take the subways, to interact and pass each other on the streets. There's a language of 'respect' in New York that I've rarely witnessed in any other city in the US and in many cities in the world. NYC is its own unique culture.
If you want a taste of traveling to foreign countries but not having to worry about the exchange rate, come to New York!
Head to Brooklyn with your Cyrillic dictionary and have a perogi washed down with pure Russian vodka in Brighton beach.
On your way, visit the heart of South Brooklyn in Sunset Park where you can get the most amazing tacos and Mexican pastries, and then wash them down with a beer and conversation with an old Irish police officer. Slainte!
Head to Bay Ridge and I hope you like halal and Lebanese sandwiches.
Want more culture? A free ferry runs to Governors Island where you'll find a large population of Hasidic Jews and cheap eats. Le Chaim!?
Did we neglect the upper west side? Mofongo! Fried mashed plantains speak to my heart, and the Dominicans do a mean (and very affordable) breakfast.
And of course, a good ole fashioned slice of pizza pie in the heart of manhattan or just across the Brooklyn bridge – if you don't need a pile of napkins it's not greasy enough.
And all of these cultures blend. Take the East Village. If you aren't a postwar era Ukrainian, or even if you are, you've had Rays pizza, a shwarma, momofuku, pho, a pork bun, belgian fries, falafel, and boba tea – all on your street.
Every day people with unique stories of passion, of persistence, dreams, different backgrounds, languages, and cultures – all take the same subways, pass by each other on the streets, and interact in the office, in coffee shops, or in commerce.
New York City is truly a city of the world – with its history and diversity. From Ellis island and the Statue of Liberty standing by, arms open, creating and paving this greatness of the world in one city.
Always seek the differences wherever you travel. Cultural differences are never 'wrong' or 'right' they are just different.
Rude is just a perception. We all have a view of the world we live in, based on our experiences from our environment.
This is an important lesson, for us all, wherever we travel.
Why do people in NYC rush past you? Why do they not stop to hold the door for you? Or why, in the grocery store line, do you have to fend for your position?
People are people everywhere. There are good people, there are bad people. Instead of labeling a culture as one or the other, recognize that it's simply that – culture – and not a good or bad characteristic. Learn why people act that way and you can gain a better understanding. Expand your world, and I challenge you to make a list of differences every place you travel.
Even though people will rush past you or fight for their position on the train, people are incredibly helpful and they want to help you out. When faced with a problem, New Yorkers have a real 'stick together' attitude.
The other day I was on the LIRR (Long Island Railroad). I wasn't sure I was on the right train. I asked 1 person if I was going the right way. Then the magic started to happen. Everyone in my car on the train got involved in helping me out. One guy even shouted "where you goin'?" after he put his friend on hold while speaking on the phone.
People are real, generally speaking, and they are always willing to lend a helping hand.
Not only is it the world in one city, but NYC brings out the 'you' in yourself.
In most cities, you still stand out. You will probably run into someone you know. There are more unspoken 'laws' with respect to how to act, how to dress, and so on. You don't want to disrupt the underlying societal mores.
But in NYC, all rules have changed. There is a mix of everything. Walking up the stairs on the subway I am surrounded by a sporty guy Brooklyn-raised to my left, a hispanic non-native New Yorker to my right, an old Jewish man in front of me, an Italian tourist just behind me. There are so many different blends of cultures that there just simply are no rules. There is a basic human condition we default to, which is an underlying form of communication that embodies respect and non-judgmental equality.
You could wear the same outfit every day for a year and nobody in the city would even notice. You can dye your hair a different color every day. You can hold hands with your best friend without any second looks.
What would your world look like if you could unveil the pressures of conformity and allow yourself to be your real you?
Disclaimer – one time I did see a man dressed up in a Tinky Winky outfit and there were some giggles. But that's what this city is all about. You can be a giant purple teletubby and that is the only way you'll stand out.
Tell me about a time when you noticed that a culture had very big differences from what you were used to and how you handled it.
First, you should let us know when you're conimg, since we can plan something when you're around :)Second, for the last con we had people at the St Mark's Hotel which is cash-only, but dirt cheap and centrally located. I'd avoid Nancy Spungen-murder scenes in the Disneyified NYC since it will only increase the price.Third. To ask what to do here is difficult. It's more like what do you want to do ? Hopefully a NYC*BUG meeting could be on your agenda!Ping me offlist JS!
Fortunately I haven't experienced that, Christopher, and I'm sorry to hear that you have. I believe that all cities in the world have a balance of good and bad people, and that racism exists everywhere (sadly) to a certain extent. I have seen plenty of men dressed different, of all ethnicities, including one dressed as a teletubby in the subway! – with no bashing. Perhaps it matters what you are exposed to. Also there are now stricter laws in place against stop and frisk. Less harassment but higher crime has been the result. There's always a balance. The higher the population is a city, and the more diversity, the more problems we tend to have until we realize that we are all humans, we all have experiences of sadness and joy, all have families, we all have love and hate, we all eat food, and we all sleep. As the world becomes more diverse, yet more connected, I believe we'll have these types of problems until we iron them out and that one day if we can let go of grudges, realize we are all the same, with just differences, and learn to embrace these differences.


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Back to Conveyancing Law - Australia
Lane Cove MC v Lujeta (1986) 58 LGERA 157
This case considered the issue of existing uses and whether or not a property used to repair boats was affected by a town planning provision that prohibited such a use unless it conformed with an existing use at a certain date.
Kytherian Association of Queensland v Sklavos (1958) 101 CLR 56
Leigh v Dickeson (1884) 15 QBD 60
Payless Superbarn v O'Gara (1990) 19 NSWLR 551
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