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Cement plant increases production by 20 %
St Marys Cement, Ontario/Canada
1 Siemens was commissioned to supply over 12 million US$ worth of electrical equipment and a complete engineering solution for the cement plant
Canadian-based cement manufacturer St Marys Cement operates as part of the Brazilian building materials supplier, Votorantim Cimentos. To address growing demand, its production site at Charlevoix, Michigan in the USA is being extended and modernized. Siemens was awarded the contract to supply a complete engineering and electrical equipment solution for the cement plant. By expanding the existing facility, the manufacturer is seeking to increase its previous production capacity by 40 % from 1.4 million t to 2 million t annually.
St Marys Cement based in Ontario/Canada is a part of the Brazilian building materials supplier, Votorantim Cimentos, and produces a variety of cement for widely differing purposes. To meet demand, the producer is expanding its Charlevoix, Michigan production facility, with the addition of various mills for cement and coal, as well as clinker kilns and cooling systems. Modernization of the existing raw mill was also on the agenda. As part of the 130 million US$ investment project, Siemens was commissioned to supply over 12 million US$ worth of electrical equipment and a complete engineering...
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Votorantim Cimentos inaugurates new factory in Brazil
On 23.06.2016, Votorantim Cimentos inaugurated a new cement plant in northern Brazil, in the state of Pará. With estimated investments of R$ 860 million, the factory – located in the town of...
Technological innovations
On June 9th and 10th 2011 the IV Brazilian Cement and Lime Seminar was held at Anhembi Conventions Palace, in São Paulo/Brazil. The event gathered together around 400 people consisting of sponsors...
FLSmidth: Five pyro lines in Brazil
FLSmidth has been awarded a contract worth approximately 44 million US$ from Brazilian Votorantim Cimentos for the supply of five processing lines for five cement plants in Brazil as part of...
Issue 5/2016 VOTORANTIM CIMENTOS
Votorantim Cimentos project is recognized as the most innovative in South America
Votorantim Cimentos received the Clemente Greco Award, for the Best Innovation, Environmental or Cement Sustainability Project. The winning project "Use of nontraditional slag as addition to...
Votorantim Cimentos inaugurates a new factory in Bolivia
Votorantim Cimentos, together with its partners in Itacamba Cemento, inaugurated in February a new plant in Yacuses, in the department of Santa Cruz/Bolivia. The investment of US$ 220 million for the...


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Mazda's Past Inspires Its Present With 100th Anniversary Special-Edition Models
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April 4, 2020 3 min read ASNF
It's hard to believe Mazda's been building cars for 100 years. Wait, it hasn't. Then what's all this talk about Mazda's 100th anniversary? Despite only building its first four-wheeled passenger car a mere 60 years ago, Mazda's been in the business of building various things (be it corks or three-wheeled motorcycles) for a grand total of 100 years. No surprise, then, that the Japanese automaker wants to celebrate such a feat.
One way it's doing so is via a 100th Anniversary Special Edition trim for its various cars and crossover SUVs. Mazda thus far hasn't committed to offering the special models in the United States, but we imagine they'll be confirmed for American consumption at some point.
Those in other parts of the world, though, will soon have the opportunity to drive off in a Mazda that shares styling cues with the company's original four-wheeled passenger car: the R360 Coupe. High-end trims of the little rear-engine people mover sported a special two-tone paint scheme that paired a white body with a contrasting color roof, which just so happened to match the interior's hue.
For the sake of its 100th Anniversary Special Edition trim cars, Mazda is opting to use a white body and red roof/interior as inspiration. As such, all Mazda 100th Anniversary Special Edition models wear a coat of Snowflake White Pearl Mica paint and red styling details where possible, including the seats and carpets, and in the case of the MX-5 Miata, its folding soft top.
Other model-specific details include special badging on the front fenders, wheel center caps, and floormats, as well as a key fob and headrests embossed with the special anniversary-edition trim's logo. The finished products benefit from looks that are both handsome and subdued.
Notably missing from the models are any mechanical upgrades, though. As much as we'd like to see Mazda bring these handsome-looking special models to our shores, we'll ultimately make peace with whatever the company decides. We can't say we'd feel the same way if Mazda decided to withhold its 100th Anniversary Special Edition cars and SUVs from the U.S. if they also boasted noteworthy powertrain or chassis revisions. The models were initially intended to be unveiled at the canceled 2020 Geneva auto show.
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CES 2015: CES 2015 is just days away, so Lian Li has sent out an e-mail blast telling the world it will be showcasing its new open-air chassis, the O-Series, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas.
If you haven't seen the new Lian Li O-Series open-air chassis, there are a few different models to check out. We have the PC-05, PC-05S, PC-06S and PC-07S, with the company taking feedback in from the DIY community when it began constructing these new designs. All of which feature tempered glass windows, a PCI riser card, and "sleek and alum aluminum construction".
We will be on-hand with these Lian Li cases at CES 2015, so prepare for some coverage from us here at TweakTown next week.


Learn how to draw a cool looking school bus with easy geometric shapes. If you can draw rectangles, ovals, and circles, you will be able to draw this neat school bus. Come take a look at the easy-to-follow steps to see if you want to complete this lesson. Have fun!
Start off by drawing a rectangle.
Then add rectangles for windows.
Draw long, long ovals below the window. They go almost all the way across the length of the bus.
Draw wheels by drawing 2 circles.
Draw a square at the front of the bus.
Draw a rectangle at the front and back of the bus for the bumpers.
Draw a rectangle and half of an oval for the headlight.
Draw a curved line above each wheel.
Draw an oval for the mirror. Draw a smaller oval attaching the mirror to the bus.
Then draw 2 lines … in between those lines write 'STOP'.
Draw a sideways letter 'V' shape on both sides of the 'STOP', so that you connect the top and bottom lines of the stop sign together.
You now have a finished drawing of a school bus. Color it or decorate it any way you like. I hope that you had fun!!! Come back soon for more tutorials!
Not very good but followed steps.
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'It's not healthy to live a life of luxury': Businessman whose firm turns over $500million a year still drives an $8,000 car and considers a meal at the local Indian with his wife as the perfect night out
Founder of Jim's Mowing David Penman doesn't live like the average millionaire
Mr Penman still drives a modest car and eats at modest restaurants with his wife
Now offers 50 different services and has 35,000 customers a day
His true love lies with academia and the study of 'biohistory'
By Adam Mccleery For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 07:49 EST, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 21:34 EST, 4 March 2019
A self-made millionaire who turned a $24 investment into a $500-million-a-year business still lives a simple life because he believes living in luxury just isn't healthy.
David Penman, who founded Jim's Mowing, still drives an $8,000 car, has nothing but work clothes in his wardrobe, and considers a $60 dinner with his wife at his local Indian restaurant as the perfect night out.
'Sure I can buy all the books I want and our house is nice, we have a person to come and clean once a week because my wife and I both work, but it's not healthy to live a life of luxury. It's an abuse,' he told Nine.
Founder of Jim's Mowing, David Penman (pictured left), still lives life like a normal working class man despite owning a company worth $500 million a year, describing a life of luxury as an 'abuse'
When he started Jim's Mowing, Mr Penman - who calls himself an 'accidental millionaire' - had intended on becoming an academic and was studying his PhD in history at Latrobe University at the time.
But he said he quickly realised his views were 'far too radical' for most universities.
My 2-bed terrace has earned more than me: A hardworking... Millionaire playboy abandons supercar, mansion and luxury...
His main interests lay with biohistory, but he also found that the subject wasn't popular enough to warrant study grants.
Biohistory is the study of how a person's environment and behaviour can leave 'marks' on our DNA that are then passed on to the the next generation.
He still drives an $8,000 car, has nothing but work clothes in his wardrobe, and considers a perfect night out with his wife to include a $60 dinner from the local Indian restaurant
So Mr Penman decided he would fund his own research, but never predicted that someday he would have the wealth to do so and more.
He was inspired to start something new after his first marriage collapsed, and mowing seemed like the obvious option.
'I just started mowing lawns, working incredibly hard six days week and doing a great job,' he told news.com.au.
'Customers loved me and I got repeat work.'
Life hasn't been perfect for Mr Penman, however.
He fired his own sister at one point and has not spoken to her since. Despite this, he doesn't apologise for it and says it was purely a cold business decision that had to be made.
Jim's Mowing, a gardening service, is a thriving business with 55 different divisions, 4000 franchisees and 35,000 customers per day.
Incredibly, despite the company's vast size, Jim's Mowing turned down 175,000 jobs in 2018 because it did not have enough employees to do the work.
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For the Live Playoffs, Jackie sings the Taylor Swift song "Tim McGraw." It was Swift's debut single, which was released in 2006. And yes, it's a breakup song. The narrator of the song sings about all the things that will remind her of her ex-boyfriend including the music of country star Tim McGraw. The Voice Live Playoffs begins Monday, April 16 at 8pm on NBC.


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COVER Vs ORIGINAL
CHART REWIND
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Fun Boy Three
Fun Boy Three made a Go Go's song a hit! Now that's REALLY saying something!
Short lived British trio Fun Boy Three came out of The Specials in 1981. Former band members Terry Hall (b.1959), Neville Staple (b.1955) and Lynval Golding (b.1951) developed a ska sound in to a newave pop sound that was beginning to filter through all the punk and disco that still dominating the charts. Hall, who was in a relationship with Americal artist Jane Wiedlin of punk band The Go Go's, had co-written their US hit "Our Lips Are Sealed" at the beginning of 1981 before the 'Three' launched their own career with "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)" later that year.
The song made No.20 in the UK and mid charted in parts of Europe. For their second single, they covered the 1939 Sy Oliver and Trummy Young written "'Tain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)", only slightly adjusted to the new title "It Ain't What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It)". The group enlisted an unknown trio of girls who had begun their recording career the same year. Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey called themselves Bananarama and the unlikely sextet released this new version in January 1982. With plenty of radio play, the song soon found itself flying up the charts, peaking at No.4 in the UK and making the top ten all over Europe, thus launching the career of what would become the most enduringly successful female group of all time.
Two months later, Fun Boy Three released their self-titled debut album, which went top ten in the UK and was Gold certified for sales of more than 100,000 copies. Clearly the threesome enjoyed working with these new girl comers as three months later, they were back in the studio, this time as a guest of Bananarama to record The Velvelettes 1964 single, "Really Saying Something". The song was not included on Fun Boy Three's album, but instead on Bananarama's debut, "Deep Sea Skiving". It peaked at No.5 in the UK in April 1982 and made the top twenty on the US dance chart. Fun Boy Three released one more track from their debut album in 1982, "The Telephone Always Rings", giving them a fourth consecutive UK top twenty hit from one album.
Fun Boy Three next recorded their version of George Gershwin's 1934 song "Summertime", which went to No.18 in the UK before beginning work on their next album, but the first release, "The More I See (The Less I Believe)", bombed and only made it to No.68 at home. Much more successful was the second single, "The Tunnel Of Love", which put them back in the UK top ten early in 1983. Their second album, "Waiting", followed in February and would attain a Silver certification. For the album, the boys recorded their own version of "Our Lips Are Sealed" and this was released as the third single in the Spring of '83. Whilst it went top twenty Stateside, The Go Go's original flopped in the UK, but this new recording by Hall and his band mates took them into the UK top ten, at number seven, their fourth in just over a year.
It is sometimes said it is best to get out when you're on top and this is what Fun Boy Three did. They disbanded after just two years together and went their separate ways! Hall formed the group The Colourfield in 1984 and had a top twenty hit with "Thinking Of You". He later met and worked with The Eurythmics Dave Stewart as part of a project called Vegas. The pair had a chart hit in 1992 with "Possessed". After releasing solo material, Terry reformed The Specials in 2008 and has continually performed and toured with the group ever since. In 2019, they released a brand new album, "Encore", which went to No.1 in the UK, their first and best ever chart performance since originally forming in 1977! Neville Staple went solo and has worked with the likes of No Doubt while relentlessly touring the world with his accompanying band. Lynval Golding has also toured as a solo performer for many years before rejoining The Specials in 2008.
Sadly it was announced on 20th December 2022 that Terry Hall had died at the age of 63 after a short illness. You will be missed by many and for your music. RIP
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How well do you know Merleau-Ponty? [quiz]
By Panumas King
This July, the OUP Philosophy team honors Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) as their Philosopher of the Month. Merleau-Ponty was a leading French phenomenologist and together with Sartre founded the existential school of philosophy. He was best known for his major work, Phénoménologie de la Perception (1945, Phenomenology of Perception) which established that the body was the centre of perceptions and medium of consciousness.
Philosopher of The Month: Maurice Merleau-Ponty [slideshow]
This July, the OUP Philosophy team honors Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) as their Philosopher of the Month. Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenologist and together with Sartre founded the existential philosophy. His work draws on the empirical psychology, the early phenomenology of Husserl, Saussure's structuralism as well as Heidegger's ontology. His most famous work Phénoménologie de la […]
Karl Marx: A Reading List
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Karl Marx: 200 years on
This May, the OUP Philosophy team honors Karl Marx (1818-1883) as their Philosopher of the Month. 5 May 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of this revolutionary philosopher who is best known for The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, and the substantive theories he formulated on the capitalist mode of production, communism, and class struggles after the dawn of modernity.
How well do you know Adam Smith? [quiz]
This April, the OUP Philosophy team honors Adam Smith (1723-1790) as their Philosopher of the Month. You may have read his work, but how much do you really know about Adam Smith? Test your knowledge with our quiz.
Philosopher of the month: Adam Smith [Timeline]
This April, the OUP Philosophy team honors Adam Smith (1723-1790) as their Philosopher of the Month. Smith was an eminent Scottish moral philosopher and the founder of modern economics, best- known for his book, The Wealth of Nations (1776) which was highly influential in the development of Western capitalism.
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Philosopher of the month: Jean-Jacques Rousseau [timeline]
This January, the OUP Philosophy team honors Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) as their Philosopher of the Month. Rousseau was a Swiss writer and philosopher, considered important for his contribution to modern European intellectual history and political philosophy. He is best known for Social Contract (1762) with its famous opening line: "Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains."
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This September, the OUP Philosophy team honors Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) as their Philosopher of the Month. Wollstonecraft was a novelist, a moral and political philosopher, an Enlightenment thinker and a key figure in the British republican milieu. She is often considered the foremother of western feminism, best known for A Vindication of the Rights of […]
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Prognostic factors for maxillary sinus mucosal thickening following Le Fort I osteotomy: a retrospective analysis
Masashi Iwamoto ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0201-920X1,
Miki Watanabe2,
Masae Yamamoto1,
Masato Narita2,
Takashi Kamio2,
Takashi Takaki2,
Takahiko Shibahara2 &
Akira Katakura1
Le Fort I osteotomy is one of the surgical procedures now routinely and safely performed. It is possible to move the maxilla in three dimensions, but it is necessary to separate the bones around the maxillary sinus. Therefore, with surgery, maxillary sinus mucosal thickening occurs. By knowing the changes in the sinus mucosa after surgery and the factors affecting it, it is possible to better predict the outcomes of surgery and contribute to safer surgery. In this study, thickening of maxillary sinus mucosa before and after surgery in Le Fort I osteotomy was evaluated using multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) images, and the changes in mucosal thickening and the related factors were examined.
Using MDCT images, the maxillary sinus mucosa of 125 patients who had undergone Le Fort I osteotomy was retrospectively evaluated before surgery, 1 month after surgery, and 1 year after surgery. On the MDCT images, the maxillary sinus was judged as mucosal thickening and classified into three grades according to the proportion occupying the maxillary sinus. In the evaluation of factors related to mucosal thickening, the following eight factors were examined: sex, age, diagnosis, operating time, amount of postoperative bleeding, with/without bone graft, with/without multisegmental osteotomy, and with/without macrolide therapy after surgery.
The mean age at the time of surgery was 25.6 ± 8 years. Of all 125 patients, 66 had bilateral thickening, 19 had unilateral thickening, and 40 had no thickening. Factors that were significantly related to mucosal thickening were the operative time for the maxilla, bone grafts, and macrolide therapy after surgery.
Operative time for the maxilla, bone grafts, and macrolide therapy after surgery were found to be related to mucosal thickening. In addition, MDCT scanning 1 month after surgery was considered to be appropriate for evaluation of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening.
In orthognathic surgery for patients with jaw deformity, Le Fort I osteotomy in combination with a mandibular osteotomy is one of the surgical procedures that is now routinely and safely performed at many facilities. In Le Fort I osteotomy, it is possible to move the maxilla in three dimensions, but it is necessary to separate the bones around the maxillary sinus. Therefore, following Le Fort I osteotomy, inflammatory changes in the maxillary sinus mucosa, so-called maxillary sinus mucosal thickening, occur. Inflammatory changes in the maxillary sinus mucosa can sometimes be a risk factor for infection. However, there has been no study of the sinus mucosa after surgery, and experience suggests that the changes appear to resolve. By knowing the changes in the sinus mucosa after surgery and the factors affecting them, it is possible to better predict the outcomes of surgery and contribute to safer surgery. In this study, the thickening of maxillary sinus mucosa before and after surgery in Le Fort I osteotomy was evaluated using multidetector row CT (MDCT) images, and the changes in mucosal thickening and related factors were examined.
This retrospective study followed the guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration. It involved 125 patients who had undergone Le Fort I osteotomy at Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital (present—Tokyo Dental College Chiba Dental Center) in the 4 years from January 2011 to December 2014. Patients who had a jaw deformity with cleft lip and palate syndrome and who had marked mucosal thickening and maxillary sinusitis on preoperative imaging examinations were excluded. The details of skeletal diagnosis and surgery were shown in Table 1.
Table 1 Summary of the patients who underwent Le Fort I osteotomy
Grading of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening
In all cases, imaging examinations of the head and neck (extraoral and intraoral radiography, MDCT examination, MRI examination) were performed before orthognathic surgery, and they were diagnosed by oral and maxillofacial radiologists. For all patients, MDCT scanning was performed with an MDCT scanner, SOMATOM Definition AS 64 (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). Using MDCT images, the maxillary sinus mucosa of 125 patients was retrospectively evaluated before surgery, 1 month after surgery, and 1 year after surgery. On the MDCT images, a region showing a CT value (about 80 HU) similar to the soft tissue present in the maxillary sinus was judged as mucosal thickening and classified into three grades according to the proportion occupying the maxillary sinus (Fig. 1). Grading of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening was performed with reference to the evaluation method of the maxillary sinus mucosa by Yoshiura et al. [1], Carmeli et al. [2], and Bolger et al. [3].
Grading of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening on MDCT images. a Grade 1, thickening of the maxillary sinus occupying the maxillary sinus volume is one third or less. b Grade 2, thickening occupying one third to two thirds of the maxillary sinus. c Grade 3, thickening occupying more than two thirds of the maxillary sinus
The classification was as follows: grade 1, thickening of the maxillary sinus occupying the maxillary sinus volume is one third or less; grade 2, thickening occupying one third to two thirds of the maxillary sinus; and grade 3, thickening occupying more than two thirds of the maxillary sinus.
Factors related to postoperative maxillary sinus mucosal thickening
In the evaluation of factors related to mucosal thickening, the following eight factors were examined: sex, age (mean age at the time of 1 month after surgery), diagnosis (skeletal diagnosis of the maxilla), operating time (total operating time and operating time at the end of Le Fort I osteotomy), amount of postoperative bleeding (total bleeding and bleeding at the end of Le Fort I osteotomy), with/without bone graft in Le Fort I osteotomy, with/without multisegmental osteotomy in Le Fort I osteotomy, and with/without macrolide therapy after surgery. The ultrasonic surgical method (piezoelectric surgery) was mainly used for the separation of the maxilla [4, 5]. In addition, macrolide therapy was implemented in accordance with previously reported research and guidelines [6,7,8].
The postoperative MDCT examination including assessment of the maxillary sinus mucosa was thoroughly explained before the examination, and written consent was obtained from all patients. This study was approved by the Tokyo Dental College Institutional Review Board (Ethics Review Board Approval Number 803), and all participants provided their written, informed consent.
Open source statistical software R version 3.2.3 was used for statistical analysis [9]. The factors were analyzed using paired t tests and chi-squared tests, as appropriate, comparing patients with and without mucosal thickening. p values < 0.05 were considered significant.
Table 1 shows the mean age and summary of male and female patients by diagnosis, by movement direction of the maxilla, divided by with/without asymmetry. There were three times as many females as males. Table 2 shows the characteristics of the patients in the two treatment groups with and without maxillary sinus mucosal thickening. Maxillary sinus mucosal thickening was observed in 85 (68%) patients on MDCT images at 1 month postoperatively. In 66 patients who showed bilateral mucosal thickening, 92 sinuses were grade 1, 31 were grade 2, and 9 were grade 3. In 19 patients with unilateral mucosal thickening, 14 sinuses were grade 1, 4 were grade 2, and 1 was grade 3 (Table 3). Of the 19 patients with unilateral mucosal thickening, 2 were asymmetrical, but no correlations were found between the 2 cases and the movement direction and movement amount of the maxilla. The details of the evaluations of factors related to mucosal thickening and the analysis results are shown in Table 4. There was a significant difference in operating time at the end of Le Fort I osteotomy, with/without bone graft, and with/without macrolide therapy.
Table 2 With/without maxillary sinus mucosal thickening on MDCT images 1 month after surgery
Table 3 Breakdown of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening in 125 patients 1 month after surgery
Table 4 Details of the evaluation of factors affecting mucosal thickening and the analysis results at 1 month after surgery
Since the application of Le Fort I osteotomy to orthognathic surgery in 1927 by Wassmund [10], improvements were made by many surgeons, and it became a surgical operation that was mostly established by Obwegeser [11]. Today, it is a procedure that is frequently performed due to its diversity of movement directions.
In Le Fort I osteotomy, the bone around the maxillary sinus is separated. Therefore, after surgery, blood accumulates in the sinus, and inflammatory changes (sinus mucosal thickening, edematous swelling) occur. It is also thought that the blood is absorbed with the progress of time, and the thickening of the sinus mucosa also disappears. It is easy to imagine that the risk of onset of maxillary sinusitis will be high if the blood reservoir or thickening of the mucosa persists for a long time. In the past, maxillary sinusitis has occurred, but fortunately, in the present evaluation period, there were no cases of maxillary sinusitis. Although mucosal thickening was not observed on the MDCT images of Le Fort I osteotomy after 1 year, mucosal thickening was observed in 68% in the first month after operation. Due to the characteristics of surgery, maxillary sinusitis may occur. Many reports on events after Le Fort I osteotomy are mostly related to abnormal fractures and bleeding [12,13,14,15]. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are very few reports on the incidence of maxillary sinusitis after Le Fort I osteotomy. Although Panula et al. [16] reported it in 6 of 655 patients, Kramer et al. [17] reported it in 11 of 1000 patients and Chow et al. [18] reported it in 3 of 125 patients; thus, the incidence and factors related to postoperative maxillary sinusitis have not yet been clarified.
In the present results, correlations with mucosal thickening were suggested, and factors that showed a significant difference were the operative time for the maxilla, bone grafts, and macrolide therapy after surgery. In 40 patients, no mucosal thickening was shown. One of the reasons for this may be that there was less blood retention in the maxillary sinus after surgery.
Due to the significant difference in operating time during Le Fort I osteotomy, it was suggested that a safer and faster procedure leads to the prevention of mucosal thickening. We believe that using the ultrasonic surgical method (piezoelectric surgery) and preoperative simulation by patient-specific 3D models made with a 3D printer contribute to safer and faster surgery [19]. Depending on the amount of movement of the maxilla, gaps between the bones may increase. Bone grafting promotes the formation of surrounding bone, and consequently, it was thought to contribute to the reduction of mucosal thickening. Furthermore, the results of this study support the role of postoperative macrolide therapy in reducing mucosal thickening. Opinions are divided on the timing of postoperative MDCT scanning to evaluate the maxillary sinus mucosa. Frequent MDCT scanning for the purpose of observation should not be done, since X-ray exposure should be avoided. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the validity of performing MDCT imaging. Currently, MDCT scanning is performed 1 month after surgery in our practice. Although it aims mainly to evaluate the condition of the bone, it also evaluates inflammatory changes of the maxillary sinus mucosa at the same time. If maxillary sinus mucosal thickening has been prolonged at that time, it is thought that the risk of infection remains high, and macrolide therapy is continued. Three-dimensional evaluation of the maxillary sinus by MDCT scanning is not performed to track the inflammatory changes of the maxillary sinus mucosa after scanning at 1 month postoperatively. If CT is performed, it is a two-dimensional evaluation such as Waters' view. Therefore, it is difficult to demonstrate the dynamics over time. Therefore, while the period of continuing macrolide therapy is empirical, it is about 1 to 2 months. It is natural to observe the patient's status carefully after surgery. In addition, it was demonstrated that MDCT 1 month after surgery looking for maxillary sinusitis can be helpful for deciding whether to continue postoperative macrolide therapy.
In observation of maxillary sinus mucosal thickening using preoperative and postoperative MDCT images, shortening of the operative time, bone grafting, and macrolide therapy contributed to the prevention and reduction of mucosal hypertrophy following Le Fort I osteotomy. In addition, the usefulness of MDCT 1 month after surgery for determining whether to continue macrolide therapy was shown.
HU:
Hounsfield units
MDCT:
Multidetector-row computed tomography
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Department of Oral Pathobiological Science and Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, 2-9-18 Kandamisaki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0061, Japan
Masashi Iwamoto, Masae Yamamoto & Akira Katakura
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, 2-9-18 Kandamisaki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0061, Japan
Miki Watanabe, Masato Narita, Takashi Kamio, Takashi Takaki & Takahiko Shibahara
Masashi Iwamoto
Miki Watanabe
Masae Yamamoto
Masato Narita
Takashi Kamio
Takashi Takaki
Takahiko Shibahara
Akira Katakura
MI conceived the study and drafted the study outline. TT and TK collected the requisite data. MI, MY, YK, TT, TS, MN, and AT carried out the analyses. MI and TK interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript. All authors have read and have given final approval of the final version to be published.
Correspondence to Masashi Iwamoto.
The postoperative MDCT examination including assessment of maxillary sinus mucosa was thoroughly explained before the examination, and written consent was obtained from all patients. This study was approved by the Tokyo Dental College Institutional Review Board (Ethics Review Board Approval Number 803), and all participants provided their written, informed consent.
For all patients, we have obtained written agreement on the use of CT images. Also, we are careful not to identify individuals from images and data.
Iwamoto, M., Watanabe, M., Yamamoto, M. et al. Prognostic factors for maxillary sinus mucosal thickening following Le Fort I osteotomy: a retrospective analysis. Maxillofac Plast Reconstr Surg 41, 12 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40902-019-0195-3
Accepted: 19 February 2019
Le Fort I osteotomy
Maxillary sinus mucosal thickening
Prognostic factors


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Q: Excel - highlight differences in column I have 2 columns that are unordered. One contains 4800 results and one contains 4700. In theory they should have the same values, but they don't. How do I compare to make sure that a value in column A is in column B.
Please note, the columns are unordered so straight comparing with conditional formatting etc doesn't work. Ideally I would like to do a find on column B to see if which values are missing.
Contains 4700  Contains 4800
B     |        A
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12            14
13            12
14            13
              15

I hope I have explained it enough.
Thanks in advance.

A: You can add a formatting rule which applies formatting based on a formula.
If you apply such a rule for column A, you can use the following formula to determine whether or not a specific value is in column B:
=VLOOKUP($A1,$B:$B,1,FALSE)

Hope this helps you out.
P.S. Please pay attention to use the right cell reference so it determines the formatting based on the right field.

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Do you know the vaccine schedule for newborns and infants in the United States? In 2017, there are currently 27 doses of 11 different vaccinations that are currently injected, or orally dispensed, to children up to fifteen months of age. All of these are approved and recommended by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). These vaccines include Rotavirus (RV), Hepatitis B, Influenza, Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), Tetanus, diphtheria & acellular pertussis (Tdap), just to name a few. The complete list can be found here. All of these vaccines that your pediatrician willingly supplies to your new baby allow foreign and toxic substances to flow into their bloodstream and brain causing unknown damage.
In 1950, as reported by VacTruth.com, a child would only receive "7 vaccines by the age of 6." In 2013, by the time a child was six years old that number shot up to 36. That's an increase of 414 percent! How much did the profits of pharmaceutical companies rise in the last 67 years? We can only imagine. But the parents of children injured by this ever multiplying number of required toxic vaccinations don't always fare so well. WakingTimes.com reports that during the first half of the current fiscal year, $142 million was awarded to 337 vaccine injured families who had the tenacity, support and appropriate documentation to claim damages in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VCIP). That seems like a paltry sum compared to the enormity of damage and pain that families have endured at the behest of pharmaceutical companies.
While there have been many payouts from the court, the majority of families affected by vaccines do not receive the justice they deserve. There are untold vaccine injured families that couldn't get the support, the documentation, the right representation or the funds they needed to fully prepare their case in order to bring it in front of the court for consideration. One tragic example of this is the case of little Aysia Hope Clark. Aysia was the daughter of Louisiana residents Hope Doucet and Joseph Clark. She was born on May 11, 2015, and sadly, died on July 4, 2015.
Similarly, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program compensation numbers are, not only not reassuring, but, frankly astonishing, and should give not just all parents, but all people in general, serious pause. If vaccines are "safe and effective" as our medical practitioners and politicians constantly tell us via mainstream media outlets, then why are there already over 370 compensated cases in fiscal year 2017? Why is there a running payout total from 1988 up to now of "around $3.6 billion," according to the US Health Resources and Services Administration?
Why are we not seeing any double-blind randomized controlled trials with true placebo groups demonstrating clearly and honestly that flu (or other) vaccines are safe and not causing children any harm – as well as being "effective"? Until 2005, based on the HRSA document, the ONLY petitions filed for flu vaccine injuries were on behalf of injured children. Where are those safety studies again? Where are the weight adjusted doses again? Why isn't anyone taking up RFK Jr's $100,000 mercury challenge if mercury-containing vaccines are so demonstrably safe? Why, why, why, Mr Anderson?
This doesn't look good at a time when proponents of removing freedom of health choice are campaigning for "no jab no fly" policies that would prevent much of Australia from functioning (particularly economically). This fear-mongering and vaccine hysteria is all the more absurd when one pauses to consider that in Australia, as in the US, the clear majority of adults are FAR from being "up to date" with their shots – and have been for decades. We simply don't worry about it. And yet, the much-feared epidemics never seem to materialize. In fact, most outbreaks seem to follow in the wake of intensive vaccination campaigns – but that's just a coincidence, right? Just as it's a coincidence that within hours of getting your baby home from the doctor's surgery they were seizing, turning blue, and in the nascent stages of encephalopathy…Right?
You also need an attorney to file on your behalf. And did you know that injury claims may take from two to ten years to resolve through the VICP? Imagine being a bereaved parent and pondering that life-sucking prospect. The system is very clearly weighted against any kind of justice for vaccine-injured people. This is why I say that nearly 1-in-3 cases receiving compensation so far is actually quite an achievement – all things considered.
You may support blanket vaccination on the way IN to the doctor's surgery, but you may not support it so much when your child is brain-dead (or just dead) 72 hours later. It happens. I personally know many vaccine-injured people – so many I've lost count. My partner is one (thank you very much, Gardasil). The media hides it. Politicians lie about it. Doctors parrot fallacious medical dogmas without thinking. Big Pharma continues doing what Big Pharma does best: poisoning us while we pay them for the privilege.
The x-factor is YOU, the wild card, the ghost in the machine, the one who can stop, think, and say "NO." You have the power to recognise something that doesn't make sense and to try a different way – and if you have children then, more to the point, you have the responsibility.
Next fiscal year, let's aim for $0 in compensation payouts through 100% non-compliance – meaning no vaccine injuries and deaths at all – and a public that understands REAL disease risk and how to actually be resistant and robust rationally. Wouldn't that be something?
I've covered this subject in various ways. Here I'm going to use a Q & A format to highlight vital points.
Q: What do people need to know about names for diseases?
A: A disease-label of any kind is something you need to look at the way you'd look at a scorpion on your porch.
A: Because the label is meant to make you think there is a specific condition.
Q: Isn't that the case?
A: Not necessarily. For example, autism.
Q: Isn't autism a specific condition?
A: Well, start with this. There is no defining diagnostic test for autism. No defining physical test. No blood test, saliva test, urine test, brain scan, genetic assay.
Q: How can that be?
A: Autism is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the bible of the psychiatric profession. The definition of autism is basically a menu of behaviors. There is no defining diagnostic test. You'll find, in the official lexicon, other names for various so-called "developmental neurological disorders," too. And none of them in the DSM have defining diagnostic tests, either.
Q: What are you driving at? Are you saying autism is some kind of illusion, that there is no damage or problem?
A: Of course not. Of course there is damage.
Q: So what is your point?
A: If a parent applies to the US federal vaccine court, for compensation, because her child was severely damaged by a vaccine, and if she or her doctor calls that damage "autism," there is almost no chance the government will award her compensation.
A: Because the government is committed to saying, come hell or high water, vaccines don't cause autism. But if that same parent says her child developed "encephalopathy"—a generalized term meaning a condition that adversely affects the structure or function of the brain—her chances of receiving compensation increase by a small percentage.
Q: Even if she says a vaccine caused the encephalopathy?
A: Yes. It's all a word game, and if the parent doesn't know how to play it, she'll almost certainly lose.
Q: If none of these neurological disease-labels in the DSM has a specific and defining diagnostic test, then why doesn't the parent just tell the vaccine court, "My child's brain was damaged by a vaccine"?
A: Because the rules demand that she present evidence that the vaccine caused a known and officially accepted disease condition with a disease label.
Q: But the truth is, the vaccine caused brain damage.
A: Truth is not the goal of the government's game.
Q: Are you saying there is no such thing as autism?
A: I'm saying there is no conclusive evidence for the existence of autism as a specific condition. Otherwise, there would be a defining diagnostic test for it, and there isn't. There are various causes for neurological and brain damage. When a vaccine is the cause, it should be called VACCINE DAMAGE, and compensation should be awarded on that basis. Period. Stop the fiddling and game playing.
Q: But the government doesn't want to admit that vaccines cause severe damage.
A: That's why they play their word games.
Q: What are some causes for neurological damage?
A: A blow to the head, a fall, almost drowning in a pool, oxygen deprivation at birth, severe and long-term nutritional deficits, toxic pesticides, toxic medical drugs, vaccines.
Q: Why are these and other causes hidden under fancy medical names?
A: Because, for example, for each disease-name, drugs can be developed and sold.
Q: What are some names for neurological disease or damage?
A: Fragile X syndrome, Asperger, Rett syndrome; Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, Intellectual Disability, autism.
Q: Are there overlaps of symptoms?
Q: Is it possible that any of these could be caused by vaccines?
A: The actual DAMAGE that is at the heart of these disease-labels could be caused by vaccines. Or other factors. Each child must be assessed uniquely.
Q: You're suggesting that, in a sane world, parents and doctors and government officials would call vaccine damage VACCINE DAMAGE, and forget all the rest of it.
A: Neurological vaccine damage, yes. Because that's what it is. You can say, "Well, we think this group of nerve cells is affected or that group is affected, or possibly this part of the brain is affected or that part," but when a vaccine is the cause, it's vaccine damage, plain and simple.
Q: Any other medical tricks people should be aware of, relating to autism?
A: Yes. Researchers can say they know vaccines don't cause autism, because there are children diagnosed with autism who have never been vaccinated. That assertion is a hoax. The label and the definition of autism are worthless, to begin with, because there is no specific test that invariably diagnoses autism. Instead, as I keep saying, vaccine damage is real and it should be labeled as such. Then, there is no argument about what is and isn't autism, or what does and doesn't cause it. There is just naked straightforward truth.
Q: But the doctor wouldn't admit that.
Q: Suppose he did admit that. Suppose all doctors admitted that.
A: Then there would be a whole new world. Doctors would be tasked with trying to find out what caused the damage in each child. And in talking to a parent, who was there and saw the radical change in her child after vaccination, a doctor would realize that a vaccine was the cause.
Q: It sounds like the government is leading a parent with a vaccine-damaged child into a blind alley with its vaccine court.
Q: This is pure insanity.
Q: Let me see if I can sum all this up. First, we have a meaningless label called "autism." It's meaningless because there are no defining diagnostic tests for autism. Therefore, there is no proof that autism is a specific condition, beyond the fact that a child has been neurologically damaged in some way. But most people, and the government, and the medical system, ALL BUY INTO THE IDEA THAT AUTISM IS REAL AND SPECIFIC…AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT TURNS AROUND AND SAYS: A PARENT WHO IS SEEKING COMPENSATION FOR VACCINE DAMAGE, ON THE BASIS THAT A VACCINE CAUSED HER CHILD TO "DEVELOP AUTISM," WON'T BE COMPENSATED, BECAUSE THERE IS NO PROOF THAT ANY VACCINE CAUSES AUTISM. THE GOVERNMENT IS ESSENTIALLY SAYING: THERE IS NO PROOF A VACCINE CAN CAUSE A CONDITION WHICH HASN'T BEEN PROVEN TO EXIST.
Q: This is even crazier than I thought it was.
A: You can add in one more factor. There are parents with vaccine-damaged children, and these children have been diagnosed with autism. If you tell these parents there is no proof that autism exists, and their child simply has devastating neurological vaccine damage, they will protest. They're caught in a situation they don't fully understand, and they're determined to hold on to the idea that their child "has autism." They want that label to be applied to their child. For them, it provides an "explanation" for what happened to their child. They won't let it go. And THEN, they will go to the federal vaccine court and ask for compensation, not realizing that if they use the word "autism," that's doom. The court will deny their claim.
Q: It's like being caught in a maze.
A: That's exactly what it is.
This has been an unusual week for blogging. Normally, as most know, I schedule blogs on the Thursday or Friday preceding the week they appear. But this week has been unusual in many respects, not the least of which is because it has been very difficult to make a selection among the articles I have received. So, I'm "behind schedule", but this one from Mr. G.F. caught my eye, and I decided to blog about it, because of another friend of mine.
And I have to stop and tell this story about that friend, even though I do not like to engage in anecdotes or personal stories on this website: Monday morning, after being awake all night as usual, I received a phone call from that friend. I had been getting concerned, as I had not heard from him in a few weeks. Needless to say, I was worried. What had happened? He proceeded to inform me that he had been in the hospital for a couple of weeks, and had only been released about a week ago. What had happened? My friend, who had never taken a flu vaccine in his life, was persuaded to get one. He ended up collapsing at a sports event, ended up in an ICU on a respirator and in a coma… the reason? He had contracted the corona virus, a.k.a., SARS, a respiratory flu common to birds. He informed me his doctors had put him on a regime of "shock and awe" anti-biotics.
Needless to say, there's now a lawsuit from him, and from the hospital, against the manufacturer of the vaccine. His experience, I'm afraid, is not unique among those in my circle of friends and acquaintances. My own mother would always "get her flu shot,"… and end up tired and vaguely sick.
Of course, the preceding article presents the usual spin we've come to expect from corporate controlled media: vaccines are "scientific" and opposing science and scientists are simply ignored or tossed aside. And perish the thought we rely on actual testimony such as my friend's experience. Recall just a few weeks ago I blogged about a study that was based on hundreds of such stories that was presented in a paper to a major medical journal, accepted for publication… until, that is, big pharma stepped in and quashed the paper, and therewith, the science. Its objection? The paper was based on anecdotal stories and not hard research. I pointed out at the time that the patients' stories are the basis on which, under normal circumstances, the diagnostic process begins. And at a certain point, stories of "my child was fine, then was vaccinated, and now she's autistic" cease being a coincidence and start being a pattern. It's that pattern that big pharma is fighting so hard to dispel through a variety of conjurations from discrete legal and medical grimoires. But in the end, it remains deception dressed in verbiage: I know what I see in those around me and what they experienced from their crud-filled vaccines.
Then comes the "it's not a significant statistical amount of the vaccinated population" argument. Readers of my and my co-author's book Rotten to the (Common) Core will recognize this as the "statistics show" argument, so useful to the corporations behind standardized testing. It is, in effect, not only an argument from authority but a limited hangout: so what if a tiny minority react adversely to vaccines(or, in its standardized testing context, "so what if a few questions on a test are bad? It's the overall Gestalt of the test that matters" &c &c). Vaccines are "still effective against the majority," &c &c.
Notice that what's avoided here is any real understanding of why that is so, and that means there's no scientific search on for the explanation. To do that would be a huge admission that those statistics could change… and we don't want that.
The problem is: juries are not panels of "scientists" bought and paid for by big pharma.
Now, I have no doubt that Mr. Kennedy's skepticism toward vaccines is sincere. But let's assume, just for the sake of argument, that it is not. Or let's assume that big pharma will use other methods of pressure to get an "acceptable" result from the panel (and we all know with billions of dollars at stake, they're perfectly capable of tossing articles and debate aside – after all, they're already involved in the lobbying- story suppression business – and reaching into the "Bag of Very Dirty Tricks," the blackmail control files, the wet works operators, and so on). The possibility arises that a government panel headed by a vaccine skeptic could issue a glowing report on the wonders of vaccines and the glories of Big Pharma. In that case, watch the pressure build for forced vaccination not as state policy, but national policy.
Personal experience and anecdotes be damned.
But my bet is, you'll now see a campaign of "limited hangouts" by big pharma to buy time… and lawyer up.


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Latin name : Aloe vera Var.
Description : Aloe Vera has amazing health benefits. The herb is known for its medicinal properties and is useful in several health conditions. It helps in halting growth of cancer tumors, eases inflammation, helps in arthritis, lowers cholesterol, prevents kidney stones, soothes ulcers, lowers blood pressure in people suffering from high blood pressure, hydrates skin, provides essential minerals to the body, helps in preventing colon cancer, heals intestine, lubricates digestive tract and ends constipation. Aloe Vera is also helpful in stabilizing sugar levels in diabetics.
It has been studied around the world and results show that aloe vera offers wonderful support for our immune system and helps ward off illness of all sorts.
Aloe vera is a versatile plant that can be used both internally and externally, offering multiple benefits for the skin as well as for the inside of our bodies.
The benefits of aloe vera have been broken down into three groups, including, anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory.
When used on the outside of the body, aloe vera can help cure many ailments dealing with the skin.
Conditions of the skin that may benefit from the use of aloe vera are minor cuts, scrapes, burns, sunburns, razor burn, acne, dandruff, dry skin, eczema and psoriasis.
When taken internally in the form of a juice, aloe vera can offer even more rewards. Because the aloe vera is so rich in nutrients it is able to serve many purposes.
Aloe vera helps the body release pepsin, which is the gastric juice enzyme that we need to digest our food. This helps conditions such as ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, heartburn, constipation, colitis and any other digestive tract irritations.
Those with HIV or other diseases that cause the immune system to be weakened can benefit from taking high doses of aloe vera.
Recommended Dosage : Juice : 10-20 ml; Dried Latex : 125 mg to 500 mg powder.


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Джеймс «Большой Джим» Колозимо (при рождении Винченцо Колозимо; 16 февраля 1878 год, Колосими, Калабрия, Королевство Италия — 11 мая 1920 год, Чикаго, штат Иллинойс, США) — американский гангстер итальянского происхождения, один из первых главарей Чикагской мафии, был известен своим вульгарным образом жизни и империей, построенной на организации проституции, азартных играх и рэкете.

Биография
Джеймс «Большой Джим» Колозимо родился от брака Луиджи Колозимо и его второй жены Джузеппины Маскаро в городке Колозими и иммигрировал в 1895 году в Чикаго, штат Иллинойс, из города Козенцы итальянской области Калабрия. Начав мелким рядовым, Колозимо был замечен членами городского управления Майклом «Хинки Динк» Кенной и Джоном Кулином. Он работал на них сначала как участковый партийный босс, затем занимался распределением денег, полученных путём рэкета. Здесь он приобрел политические связи, которые помогли ему в будущем стать главарем группировки. Затем Колозимо приобрел прозвище «Джим Бриллиант», которое получил за то, что часто надевал белый костюм и носил бриллиантовые булавки, кольца и другие украшения.

Публичные дома
В 1902 году Колозимо женился на Виктории Мореско, содержательнице публичного дома в Чикаго. Вскоре молодожены открыли второй публичный дом. В течение нескольких лет Колозимо расширил свой бизнес до 200 публичных домов и занялся азартными играми и рэкетом. К 1909 году Колозимо серьёзно угрожала банда «». Он обратился за помощью к своему племяннику Джону «Лису» Торрио, которого привез в Чикаго из Бруклина и сделал вторым в своей команде. В следующем году Колозимо открыл ресторан в Чикаго по адресу 2126 South Wabash, назвав его в честь себя — Кафе Колозимо. В 1919 году Торрио и Колозимо открыли публичный дом по адресу 2222 South Wabash, названный «Четыре двойки».

Убийство
Торрио привел своего знакомого Аль Капоне для работы в качестве бармена и вышибалы, тем самым познакомив его с Чикаго. Когда в 1920 году вступил в силу «сухой закон», Торрио уговаривал банду начать заниматься бутлегерством, но Колозимо отказался. В мае 1920 года Колозимо уехал из города для того, чтобы жениться на Дейл Уинтер (он бросил свою первую жену). Вернувшись в Чикаго, Колозимо был застрелен среди бела дня. В убийстве подозревали Дейла Уинтера, Джона Торрио, Капоне и других, но никто не был арестован. После его убийства группировку Колозимо контролировали сначала Джон Торрио, затем Аль Капоне.

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