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21 – An Air Canada-led consortium reached a $450-million deal to acquire the Aeroplan loyalty program from Aimia Inc. The group, which included TD Bank, CIBC and Visa Canada, also agreed to assume the approximately $1.9-billion liability associated with Aeroplan miles customers had accumulated.

The platform will be primarily built of conventional materials like steel, though there were a few aluminum components on the chassis shown in Dresden, including the steering knuckles and the battery housing. Different vehicle segments are expected to get different aluminum content, with the I.D. Vizzion sedan, for example, getting more than the cheaper, compact Neo.

Before charging ahead with replacing pipes, the city first has to verify that homeowners qualify for the program.

Nersa reduced the capital expenditure component for 2018/19 to R39.1-billion, from the R76.9-billion reflected in Eskom’s application. “As a result, Eskom should not be taking an aggressive capital expenditure approach, but should rather prioritise key projects. This implies that non-priority projects can be delayed to future years when capacity will be required,” the RfD states.

Unlike pilot plants, the equipment and flow scheme in a demonstration unit should be nearly identical to the commercial plant. While it is important that equipment scaleup use the pilot data as a guide, direct extrapolation to the demonstration scale is not always possible. Pilot plants typically have higher holdup volumes, different surface-area-to-volume ratios, heat losses and lower fluid linear velocities.

When asked that question, Fuhrmann said the placement of the majority of the vehicle’s weight—between the wheels (because of the battery) instead of above the front wheels as seen on most front-drive cars of today—meant the rear wheels made the most sense from a traction standpoint. On top of that, he said, rear drive offered better vehicle agility.

2 – Canadian Donna Strickland became only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics when she shared the prize with a French colleague and an American scientist. The associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and Gerard Mourou were honoured for their work in the field of pulsed lasers. Arthur Ashkin developed “optical tweezers” that can grab tiny particles such as viruses without damaging them.

According to the deal, Rives was to pay the Lazenby family a $20,000 lump sum, followed by monthly payments of $6,000 until the purchase of the shares was complete. After negotiations wrapped, Lazenby added Rives to the company’s bank account signature cards, named him CEO and gave him control of managing the company’s finances.

In regard to this technology evolution, laser technology has produced a push in Hydracorte's manufacturing process, giving it a flexible manufacturing system to reduce delivery times and to offer a quicker and more efficient service for all clients in cutting, welding, and metal forming. To develop these activities, Hydracorte has a 6,000 m2 facility, which includes a wide range of high technology machinery for laser cutting, welding, and marking that makes it possible to manufacture parts in the most flexible and economical way, while offering a comprehensive service.

There are also cranks, extensions, hinged handles, universal joints, and other devices that are used to drive the sockets.

8 – The mayor of Victoria said a statue of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald would be removed from the front entrance to city hall as a gesture of reconciliation with First Nations. Lisa Phelps said Macdonald was a great man but was also the architect of the Indian Residential School system.

With this laser technology, manufacturing small batches and prototypes, which previously represented a great cost, is made possible by the high degree of flexibility provided by laser welding. With this flexible manufacturing system, it is also possible to introduce or adapt new piece designs.