During the late summer of 2018, HPX deployed its typhoon technology to Ivory Coast to help better identify and map out geophysical anomalies surveyed in the February 2018 helicopter time-domain electromagnetic and magnetic survey ("HTEM"). The typhoon survey was very successful and surpassed expectations of management, according to the October 23, 2018 press release. The survey returned a very conductive zone starting from 600 metres to 900 metres below surface. Sama tested the outer upper-edge of the zone and press released the results of the initial drill hole of the anomaly and intersected 36 metres of mineralized material starting at a depth of 536 metres with grades of nickel at 3.56% starting at 569 metres below surface. The main takeaway from this hole is that there is the presence of semi-massive sulphides in the anomaly and that the next set of drill results drilling through the sweet spot of the egg shaped anomaly or "the ovoid" will indicate whether there is a large accumulation of nickel massive sulphides. Most recently, Sama followed up their initial results with 54 metres of disseminated to semi-massive and massive sulphide material from 585m to 639m from surface (see image below from Sama's corporate presentation).
Sama is continuing to do geophysical work on Yepleu, including using the Mise-a-la Masse downhole geophysics on holes YE29-556043 and YE29-553044 to better map out the system they are uncovering. They are also targeting HTEM anomalies to the south (Phase 2) that displayed the heaviest conductivity and have the potential for very large deposits; these anomalies were not tested by the typhoon technology and should produce high quality drill targets (see image below).
As indicated in the press release dated February 14, 2019, the typhoon modelled a highly conductive zone of 200m x 250 x 400m at about 600 metres from surface. This is important because it likely indicates a large accumulation of sulphide material that can result in high grade metallurgy and can easily be mined. A great example of this type of anomaly is to take a look back at the Voisey's Bay deposit when hole VB-95-07 cut right through an "ovoid zone" and returned 104 metres of 3.9% nickel and 2.8% copper.
With a significant drill hole at Yepleu, I believe the stock will soar not only based on the potential discovery of a large reservoir containing nickel sulphide, but the presence of Robert Friedland's involvement in the company. Through HPX, Robert's company completed eight months of due diligence on the Sama properties,(see video below starting 5:40) and subsequently participated in a 25,000,000 unit private placement at $0.21(1 common share and 1 common share purchase warrant exercisable at a price of C$0.28) and committed to spend up to $30,000,000 in expenditures on exploration and development of the Sama deposits.
Robert Friedland is best known for his "big score" at Voisey's Bay, a high grade nickel deposit in Newfoundland, owned by Diamonds Fields Resources Inc., where it was subsequently purchased by INCO for 4 billion dollars in 1996 (that's about 10 billion today). He is arguably the best promoter in the mining industry and a track record of being involved with world class discoveries such as the copper discoveries under the Ivanhoe brand at Kamoa-Kakula in Congo and Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia. What Robert brings to the table is the ability to get people excited about the stock and access to capital once a discovery is made. He is currently deeply rooted in Africa as CEO of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., with two projects in Congo and one in South Africa, all three considered world class deposits. He has deep connections with China, such as the $723,000,000 investment made by CITIC, a Chinese state enterprise.
As shown at the top of article, Sama owns approximately 24.65 million shares or ~30% of Sama Graphite Inc. ("SRG"), a spin off company of Sama. SRG is currently developing a graphite deposit and nickel-laterite/cobalt deposit in Guinea, the country neighbouring Ivory Coast. As indicated below, approximately $0.125 cents of the current share price is baked into the Sama share price on a stand alone basis. Sama is effectively trading at $0.265 cents a share based on the assets in Ivory Coast. The SRG acts as a backstop to the Sama share price and has big upside due to the advancement of the Lola graphite deposit. The graphite deposit at Lola is near surface, high grade and easily accessible by road. The flakes are mainly large and jumbo, which can be sold for a much higher price than smaller flakes. The key catalyst for SRG coming up is the announcement of an off-take agreement and secured financing for the development of the Lola deposit. When SRG goes up, so should Sama.
I believe with a significant drill hole the stock will go flying due to the rarity of these type of deposits and the potential size of the district. At this stage, Sama has barely scratched the surface of what they might have. The company has a very important strategic partner in Robert Friedland and the HPX geologists, including Eric Finlayson, who sits on the board of Sama. Sama has plenty of working capital and is very unlikely to seek further dilution for at least the next two years. Sama is one of the few exploration companies with blue-sky potential.
Disclaimer: I own shares in both Sama and SRG Graphite. I have not been compensated by either company nor any 3rd parties. All views expressed are my opinion.


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\section{INTRODUCTION}
\label{sec:introduction}
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\section{VEHICLE DESIGN}
\label{sec:vehicle-design}
\input{design.tex}

\section{PROPULSION MODEL}
\label{sec:propulsion}
\input{propulsion.tex}

\section{OPTIMIZATION OF THE DESIGN PARAMETERS}
\label{sec:design-parameters}
\input{optimization.tex}

\section{POSITION AND ATTITUDE CONTROL}
\label{sec:posit-attit-contr}
\input{control.tex}

\section{SIMULATION RESULTS}
\label{sec:prel-valid}
\input{simulation.tex}

\section{CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK}
\label{sec:concl-future-work}
\input{conclusion.tex}

\section*{ACKNOWLEDGMENT}

The authors are grateful to André Santos for the CAD modeling of the
vehicle and the renderings presented in this paper. This work was
supported by the FCT project~[UID/EEA/50009/2013].

\subsection{Problem statement}
\label{sec:problem-statement}

We will start by considering that each actuation signal is
bounded between $-1$ and $1$, that is,
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:ahcube}
  -1 \leq u_i \leq 1 \quad \text{for} \quad i=1,\ldots,6
\end{equation}
According to \eqref{eq:au}, this hypercube will map onto a
6-dimensional convex polyhedron\footnote{A convex polyhedron is an
  intersection of a finite number of half-spaces~\cite{jeter86}.} in
the $(\bar{F}, \bar{M})$ space.  Any other choice of bounds is
possible by appropriately scaling constants $K_1$ and $K_2$.  However,
it assumes that the maximum propeller trust is symmetric with respect
to the direction of rotation. The remaining parameters are the angles
$\{\phi_i\}$. We will base our analysis on the optimization of these
angles with respect to various criteria.

Our goal will be to find the configurations of angles $\{\phi_i\}$
that maximize the range of forces (and torques) over all
directions.
Geometrically, this corresponds to changing $\{\phi_i\}$
such that a ball of nonzero radius can fit inside the 3-dimensional
convex polyhedron in the $\bar{F}$ space mapped by the actuation
hypercube in~\eqref{eq:ahcube}, while keeping zero torque,
$\bar{M}=0$. A similar reasoning applies to the torque space
$\bar{M}$, while keeping $\bar{F}=0$.

First, we will address the problem of computing the maximum force
along a given direction specified as a unit vector $\hat{e}$, while
maintaining a zero torque.  From~\eqref{eq:au}, and assuming that
$\mathbf{A}$ is full rank, we get
\begin{equation}
  \bar{u} = \mathbf{A}^{-1}
  \left(
    \begin{array}{c}
      \bar{F} \\
      \bar{M}
    \end{array}
  \right) =\mathbf{A}^{-1}
  \left(
    \begin{array}{c}
      F \hat{e} \\
      0
    \end{array}
  \right)
\end{equation}
where $F>0$ is the force magnitude. For what follows, it will be
convenient to express the $\mathbf{A}^{-1}$ matrix as blocks of three
dimensional row vectors:
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:bici}
  \mathbf{A}^{-1} = \left[
    \begin{array}{cc}
      b_1^T & c_1^T \\
      \vdots & \vdots \\
      b_6^T & c_6^T \\
    \end{array}
    \right]
\end{equation}
where $b_i,c_i\in\mathbb{R}^3$. Then, the actuation of the $i$-th
propeller is given by
\begin{equation}
  u_i = F b_i^T \hat{e}
\end{equation}
Since $|u_i|\leq1$, we have $F|b_i^T\hat{e}|\leq1$, and thus $F$ has
this upper bound:
\begin{equation}
  F \leq \frac{1}{|b_i^T\hat{e}|}
\end{equation}
Since this inequality has to be satisfied for all propellers
$i=1,\ldots,6$, the maximum force $F^\mathrm{max}_{\hat{e}}$ is given
by the lowest of these upper bounds
\begin{equation}
  F^\mathrm{max}_{\hat{e}} = \min_i \frac{1}{|b_i^T\hat{e}|}
\end{equation}
This force is the maximum force along a given direction $\hat{e}$. The
maximum force attainable in any direction can be obtained by
minimising this force over all possible directions. Since
$|b_i^T\hat{e}|\leq\|b_i\|$, this minimum is given by
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:fmax}
  F^\mathrm{max} = \min_i \frac{1}{\|b_i\|}
\end{equation}
The same reasoning can be applied to the torques: consider a torque
$\bar{M}=M\hat{e}$ along an arbitrary direction defined by $\hat{e}$,
the corresponding actuation with $\bar{F}=0$ is $u_i=M c_i^T \hat{e}$,
resulting in the following maximum torque along any direction:
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:mmax}
  M^\mathrm{max} = \min_i \frac{1}{\|c_i\|}
\end{equation}

Now, these maximum forces and torque values depend on the design
parameters. In the following we will use an optimization approach to
find the values of these parameters that maximize the maximum force
and/or torque. We will consider the propellers to be equally
distributed radially, that is,
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:thetas}
  \theta_i = (i-1) \frac{\pi}{3}
\end{equation}
and a fixed distance $d$, as well as the constants $K_1$ and $K_2$. All the
remaining parameters will be the unknown variables:
\begin{equation}
  \bar{\psi} = ( \phi_1, \ldots, \phi_6, w_1,\ldots, w_6 )^T
\end{equation}
with the feasibility domain defined by
\begin{equation}
  \Psi = \left\{ \bar{\psi} \::\: |\phi_{1,\ldots,6}| \leq
  \phi_{max}, w_{1,\ldots,6}\in\{-1,1\} \right\}
\end{equation}
where $\phi_{max}$ is the maximum allowed deviation from the
vertical. As a mechanical constraint to allow obstructionless air flow
we considered $\phi_{max}=\pi/3$ in this work.

We can restate the maximization of~\eqref{eq:fmax}
and~\eqref{eq:mmax} using the epigraph form~\cite{boyd04}, thus getting rid of the
maximization of a minimum:
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:minp}
  \begin{split}
    &\text{minimize}\: p \\
    &\text{subject to:} \\
    &\quad p \geq \|b_i\|^2, i=1,\ldots,6
  \end{split}
\end{equation}
for the force and
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:minq}
  \begin{split}
    &\text{minimize}\: q \\
    &\text{subject to:} \\
    &\quad q \geq \|c_i\|^2, i=1,\ldots,6
  \end{split}
\end{equation}
for the torque, where $\{b_i\}$ and $\{c_i\}$ depend non-linearly on
the parameters $\bar{\psi}$ through the inverse of the actuation
matrix $\mathbf{A}$ as~\eqref{eq:bici}. In this form, the optimization
variables are augmented with the cost, that is,
$\bar{\psi}_p=(p, \bar{\psi})$ for the problem~\eqref{eq:minp} and
$\bar{\psi}_q=(q, \bar{\psi})$ for~\eqref{eq:minq}.  It can be readily
seen that these forms maximize~\eqref{eq:fmax} and~\eqref{eq:mmax},
where the resulting maximum forces and torques can be recovered using
$F^{max}=1/\sqrt{p}$ and $M^{max}=1/\sqrt{q}$.

\subsection{Multi-criteria optimization}
\label{sec:multi-crit-optim}

Since we intend to both maximize force and torque, we will make the
trade-off between the two explicit by taking a multi-criteria
optimization approach:
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:multi}
  \begin{split}
    &\text{minimize}\:(p, q) \\
    &\text{subject to:} \\
    &\quad p \geq \|b_i\|^2, i=1,\ldots,6 \\
    &\quad q \geq \|c_i\|^2, i=1,\ldots,6
  \end{split}
\end{equation}
In this problem, the optimization variables are augmented with both
$p$ and $q$, $\bar{\psi}_{pq}=(p, q, \bar{\psi})$, and we have two
cost functions, say $J_1(\bar{\psi}_{pq})=p$ and
$J_2(\bar{\psi}_{pq})=q$. The solution of this multi-criteria
optimization problem is the set $\mathcal{P}$ of non-dominated
solutions, defined by: $\bar{\psi}_{pq}^0\in P$ if and only if there is no
$\bar{\psi}_{pq}\in\Psi$ such that
$J_i(\bar{\psi})\leq J_i(\bar{\psi}^0)$ for all $i\in\{1,2\}$ and
$J_i(\bar{\psi})< J_i(\bar{\psi}^0)$ for at least one
$i\in\{1,2\}$. This set is also called \emph{Pareto optimal
  set}~\cite{statnikov95}, a subset of the \emph{objective space}
defined by all~$(J_1(\bar{\psi}),J_2(\bar{\psi}))$ for
$\bar{\psi}\in\Psi$.

Apart from very simple cases, the Pareto optimal set is not trivial to
obtain exactly. Thus, we will make a pointwise approximation using the
Normally Boundary Intersection (NBI) method~\cite{das98}. This method
is guaranteed to obtain Pareto optimal points if the objective space
is convex. But it is still capable of obtaining points in ``sufficiently
concave'' parts of the objective space~\cite{das98}.

The first step of NBI is to obtain the minimizers of the each cost
function taken individually. These are also called \emph{shadow
  minima}. Let us start by considering the first minimization
problem~\eqref{eq:minp}, where $\bar{\psi}^*_p$ is the minimizer with
minimum cost $p^*$.  Then, this minimizer both minimizes $p$
in~\eqref{eq:multi} and, together with $q^0=\max_i\,\|c_i\|^2$, is a
non-dominated solution of~\eqref{eq:multi}, and thus belongs to its
Pareto optimal set. This results from the fact that this $q^0$ is the
smallest one that still satisfies the constrains of~\eqref{eq:multi}:
any $(p^*,q)$ with $q>q^0$ is dominated by $(p^*,q^0)$.  The same
reasoning can be applied to~\eqref{eq:minq}, resulting in the
minimizer $\bar{\psi}^*_q$, with minimum cost $q^*$, that together
with $p^0=\max_i\,\|b_i\|^2$ is also a non-dominated solution
of~\eqref{eq:multi}, thus also belonging to its Pareto optimal set.

On the $(p,q)$ space, these two non-dominated solutions corresponds
to two extremal points, $(p^*,q^0)$ and $(p^0,q^*)$, of the Pareto
optimal set: no feasible solutions exists neither to the left of
$p^*$ nor lower than $q^*$. \emph{The application of NBI to a two cost
function problem amounts to scanning along a straight line joining
$(p^*,q^0)$ and $(p^0,q^*)$, and then, for each point on this
straight line, to determine the single non-dominated solution along
the orthogonal direction.}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.6\linewidth]{nbi.pdf}
  \caption{Illustration of the NBI method: given a point defined by
    $\lambda\in[0;1]$, along the search line between $(p^*,q^0)$ and
    $(p^0,q^*)$, the optimization is done along the normal direction
    spawned by vector $\bar{n}$, resulting on the $NBI(\lambda)$
    intersection point.}
  \label{fig:nbi}
\end{figure}

Figure~\ref{fig:nbi} illustrates the NBI method. This straight line
can be parametrized by a $\lambda$ value ranging between 0 and 1,
resulting in $(1-\lambda)(p^*,q^0)+\lambda\,(p^0,q^*)$. An
orthogonal direction to this straight line is spawned by the vector
$\bar{n}=(q^0-q^*,p^0-p^*)$. Using again the epigraph form, but now
along this vector, we obtain the following constrained optimization
problem:
\begin{equation}
  \label{eq:nbi}
  \begin{aligned}
    &\text{minimize}\: t \\
    &\text{subject to:} \\
    &\quad (q^0-q^*)\,t + (1-\lambda) p^* + \lambda p^0 &\geq
    \|b_i\|^2 \\
    &\quad (p^0-p^*)\,t + \lambda q^* + (1-\lambda) q^0 &\geq
    \|c_i\|^2 \\
    &\qquad \text{for } i=1,\ldots,6
  \end{aligned}
\end{equation}
with the augmented vector $\bar{\psi}_t=(t, \bar{\psi})$ as
optimization variable. For a given $\lambda\in[0;1]$, the solution of
this optimization problem yields a minimizer $\bar{\psi}^*_t(\lambda)$
from which the corresponding point in the $(p,q)$ space is
\begin{equation}
  NBI(\lambda) = (p_\lambda, p_\lambda), \quad p_\lambda = \min_i \|b_i\|^2, \quad q_\lambda = \min_i \|c_i\|^2
\end{equation}
from which the maximum values of force and torque can be recovered as
above mentioned.

Since these problems cannot be solved in closed form, we will make use
of numerical optimization methods. The following section presents the
numerical results obtained for this problem.

\subsection{Numerical results}
\label{sec:numerical-results}

The optimization problem in~\eqref{eq:nbi} shows some features that
make it non-trivial to solve: it is both strongly non-convex with
mixed continuous and discrete variables. First, we will factor out the
discrete part by iteratively trying each combination of $\{w_i\}$
values modulo rotations (also called \emph{orbits}\footnote{For
  instance, $[1,-1,1,1,1,1]$ and $[1,1,-1,1,1,1]$ belong to the same
  orbit, and thus it is redundant to try both of them.}): from its
$2^6=64$ possible combinations, only 14 correspond to combinations
where no pair can be made equal after rotating one of them. Second, we
use a random multistart initialization together with a convex
optimization algorithm: for each sample drawn uniformly from the
$\{\phi_i\::\:|\phi_i| \leq \phi_{max}\}$ cube, we run the Constrained
Optimization BY Linear Approximation (COBYLA) algorithm~\cite{powell94},
as implemented in the SciPy optimization package.

To make the relation between force and actuation dimensionless, we
divided the actuation matrix by $K_1$. This way, the only dependence
on physical coefficients of this matrix is on the parameters $d$ and
the ratio $K_2/K_1$. Using~\eqref{eq:blade}, this ratio can be
expressed as
\begin{equation}
  \frac{K_2}{K_1} = \frac{D}{2\pi} \frac{C_P}{C_T}
\end{equation}
For various small propellers (of about 4'') we found\footnote{We used the
  UIUC Propeller Data Site, Vol. 2,
  http://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/props/propDB.html (retrieved
  Nov-2015).} this ratio to be approximately~0.01. And thus we used
this value to obtain the numerical results presented in this section.
For $d$ we used the one from the design presented in
Section~\ref{sec:vehicle-design}, that is, $d=0.16$.

The extremes of the NBI search line are the shadow minima,
\textit{i.e.,} the minima of~\eqref{eq:minp}
and~\eqref{eq:minq}. For~1000 random initializations, we obtained
these values for the shadow minima: $(p^*,q^0)=(0.250, 15.01)$ and
$(p^0,q^*)=(0.4167,9.728)$.

\begin{figure*}
  \centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[height=0.3\linewidth]{nbi_pq.pdf}} \hfill
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[height=0.3\linewidth]{nbi_fml.pdf}} \hfill
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[height=0.3\linewidth]{nbi_FM.pdf}}
  \caption{Pointwise approximation to the Pareto optimal set using the
    NBI method: (a)~obtained points in the $(p.q)$ space,
    (b)~$F^{max}$ and $M^{max}$ in function of $\lambda$, and (c)~in
    the $(F^{max},M^{max})$ space. The dimensions for $F^{max}$ and
    $M^{max}$ have no physical meaning because of the division of the
    actuation matrix by~$K_1$, as explained in the text, and thus are
    to be understood in relative terms only.}
  \label{fig:nbiout2}
\end{figure*}

\begin{table*}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{l|cccccc|rrrrrr|cc}
    $\lambda$
    & $\phi_1$ & $\phi_2$ & $\phi_3$ & $\phi_4$ & $\phi_5$ & $\phi_6$
    & $w_1$ & $w_2$ & $w_3$ & $w_4$ & $w_5$ & $w_6$
    & $F^{max}$ & $M^{max}$ \\
    \hline
    0
    & 54.74 &-54.73 & 54.74 &-54.74 & 54.73 &-54.74
    &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1
    & 2.000 & 0.2798 \\
    0.25
    & 54.73 &-54.74 & 54.74 &-54.73  & 54.74 &-54.74
    &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1
    & 2.000 & 0.2798 \\
    0.5
    & 53.73 &-53.73 & 53.73 &-53.73 & 53.73 &-53.73
    &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1
    & 1.999 & 0.2844 \\
    0.75
    & 49.56 &-49.56 & 49.56 &-49.56 & 49.56 &-49.56
    &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1
    & 1.969 & 0.3009 \\
    1
    & 38.84 &-38.85 & 38.84 &-38.84  & 38.85 &-38.84
    &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1 &-1 & 1
    & 1.745 & 0.3206 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Some of the configurations obtained for 5 equally spaced
    values of $\lambda$. The values for $\{\phi_i\}$ are shown in
    degrees. As before, the dimensions for $F^{max}$ and
    $M^{max}$ have no physical meaning.}
  \label{tab:configs}
\end{table*}

With these values, we ran our optimization method for $\lambda$
ranging from~0 to~1 on 0.01 steps, for 1000 random initializations
each. The result is a set of points approximating the Pareto optimal
set, shown in Figure~\ref{fig:nbiout2}. The (a) plot of this figure
suggests a convex Pareto front. For a range of $\lambda$ values from 0
to about 0.4, the $(p,q)$ values are constant. As $\lambda$ increases
over 0.4, there is a drop on the values of $q$, meaning a slight
increase on $M^{max}$

\begin{table}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ccccccc}
    propeller ($i$) & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \\
    \hline
    $\theta_i$ & 0 & 60 & 120 & 180 & 240 & 300 \\
    $\phi_i$ & 55 & -55 & 55 & -55 & 55 & -55 \\
    $w_i$ & -1 & 1 & -1 & 1 & -1 & 1 \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Design parameters of the selected solution. Both
    $\{\theta_i\}$ and $\{\phi_i\}$ are expressed in degrees.}
  \label{tab:selected}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{tab:configs} shows some of the optimal configurations
obtained for some values of $\lambda$. In our choice we decided to
prefer maximum force, and thus we selected a configuration found in
the lower range of $\lambda$ values. We rounded off the angle values
to the closest integer degree, resulting in the configuration shown in
Table~\ref{tab:selected}. All of the following results shown in this
paper employ this selected configuration.

\subsection{Individual motion mode}

For this validation, the robot is holding on position $(0,0,1)$, while the reference is set at $(1,2,4)$. The total movement of the robot is 1, 2 and 3 meters along X, Y and Z axis. On Figure~\ref{fig:position_errors} we provide the obtained results for position convergence with the proposed controller in~\eqref{eq:fctrl} and~\eqref{eq:pctrl}. Convergence rates are equal across all axis as expected. It only depends on the gains (equal for all axis) and the mass of the vehicle.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{error-p.pdf}
  \caption{Translational mode error convergence, from top to bottom: $e_x$ and $e_v$.}
  \label{fig:position_errors}
\end{figure}

On the attitude simulation, we start the vehicle at $(0\degree,0\degree,0\degree)$ and the reference is set as $(70\degree,-50\degree,30\degree)$ (both in $XYZ$ Euler angles). The results are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:attitude_errors}. Attitude convergence is approximately the same on all axis. As it depends only on the gains (equal for all axis) and the inertia of the vehicle (almost diagonal due to its symmetry), this result was also expectable.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{error-a.pdf}
  \caption{Attitude mode error convergence, from top to bottom: $e_R$ and $e_\omega$.}
  \label{fig:attitude_errors}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Waypoint navigation and payload transportation}

To validate the joint position and attitude control, we used waypoint navigation: we created a virtual path composed by 6 waypoints, varying on both position and attitude. The trajectory followed by the vehicle is represented on \ref{fig:trajectory}. Plotted are both the X and Y axes of the body frame~$\mathcal{B}$ to represent its attitude. We retrieved the errors across the whole trajectory following, for both position and atitude. These are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:nav_errors}.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{3d-trajectory.pdf}
  \caption{Trajectory followed by the robot without load. Plotted are X and Y axis of the inertia frame~$\mathcal{I}$.}
  \label{fig:trajectory}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{robust-noload.pdf}
  \caption{Position (on top) and attitude (on bottom) errors along the no-load trajectory of Figure \ref{fig:trajectory}.}
  \label{fig:nav_errors}
\end{figure}

Then, we added a non-modeled payload to the system: a sphere with 6Kg of mass --- about the same mass of the vehicle. Even with such payload, the controller was able to converge to the required positions, though taking significantly more time. Shown on Figure~\ref{fig:loaded} are screenshots of the vehicle along its 3 waypoint trajectory: 1~meter up along Z and 1~meter right along Y. The position and attitude errors for this trajectory are plotted on Figure \ref{fig:nav_errors_load}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.99\linewidth]{snapshots.jpg}
  \caption{Trajectory followed by the robot with 6kg non-modeled load. Pictured are six positions of the robot along its trajectory.}
  \label{fig:loaded}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{robust-load.pdf}
  \caption{Position (on top) and attitude (on bottom) errors with non-modeled 6kg load along the trajectory of Figure \ref{fig:loaded}.}
  \label{fig:nav_errors_load}
\end{figure}

A video showing simulations of Space CoBot in V-REP can be found here: \url{https://youtu.be/M4kdZjxf6-Q} .

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James Darcy (29 January 1875 – 3 October 1932) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Family
James Darcy was born on 29 January 1875.

Football
Recruited from West Melbourne Juniors, and playing on the half-back flank, he was one of the 20 who played for Essendon in its first VFL match against Geelong, at Corio Oval, on 8 May 1897:  Jim Anderson, Edward "Son" Barry, Arthur Cleghorn, Tod Collins, Jim Darcy, Charlie Forbes, Johnny Graham, Joe Groves, George Hastings, Ted Kinnear, George Martin, Bob McCormick, Pat O'Loughlin, Gus Officer, Ned Officer, Bert Salkeld, George Stuckey, George Vautin, Norman Waugh, and Harry Wright.

Death
He died on 3 October 1932.

Notes

References

 Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996.

External links

1875 births
1932 deaths
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Essendon Football Club players

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Justin Bieber spoke about how many kids he'd like to have with his wife, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin), on Tuesday's episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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100 years later, Harvard's Rose Bowl win still surprises
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP)Potential Harvard football players can expect to be sold on the school's elite academics and a history that includes eight U.S. presidents, more than 150 Nobel laureates and too many CEOs to count.
What often surprises them when they walk into Harvard Stadium for the first time is seeing the seven national championships celebrated along the colonnade – the last in 1919 – and even a Rose Bowl banner from when The Granddaddy of Them All was still just a baby.
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Out in Pasadena, California, the Tournament of Roses Association was hoping to give its football game the 20th century equivalent of a reboot after the inaugural game between Stanford and Fielding Yost's Michigan in 1902 was such a blowout that the westerners quit in the third quarter, trailing 49-0.
"The game didn't meet a lot of our standards and goals. It was kind of chaotic," said Scott Jenkins, the current chairman of the Rose Bowl Management Committee. "We gave it up until 1916."
And then came the war.
"It wasn't easy finding teams. A number of military teams were brought in," Jenkins said this week. "This was kind of a return toward normalcy. That was the feeling of January 1920: to get beyond World War I."
Unbeaten Oregon, known as the Webfoots, was the top team in the West. Harvard had been invited before but declined because the school's Christmas break was too short for the transcontinental train ride that would take them five days, one-way.
This year, the schedule worked out.
The 22-man team boarded the train west, stopping in Detroit, Chicago, Omaha, Reno, Green River (Wyoming) and Oakland, with alumni groups greeting them along the route. Players exercised on station platforms when the train stopped to refuel; according to the book "Crimson in Triumph," a history of the school's athletic program, coach Bob Fisher held practices on the streets of small towns along the way.
Arriving in California, the Harvard contingent hobnobbed with movie stars Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin.
"How cool is that?" Johnson said. "They became the darlings of the community out there. I'm surprised no one's written a movie script about it."
The crowd for the sixth Tournament East-West Football Game, on New Year's Day 1920, overflowed the 30,000-seat capacity at Tournament Park into the standing room – the biggest attendance for the event yet. Fred Church scored the game's only touchdown on a 13-yard run in the second quarter. Oregon made it a one-point game before the half, then missed three drop-kick field goal attempts in the second.
Eddie Casey was responsible for more than half of Harvard's total 205 yards of offense, with 49 yards rushing and 59 yards receiving. The 155-pound halfback and defensive back, who spent the previous two years in the Navy, was the game's MVP.
"Certainly a lot of the rules have changed. And the nature of the athletes have changed," Jenkins said. "Back then having a school like Harvard in our game, those people typically weren't there to go on to professional sports. They were there for the academics."
Jenkins was in Boston this week to help Harvard commemorate the only bowl berth in its 145-year football history. The Crimson are wearing Rose Bowl patches on their uniforms and commemorative helmet stickers this season; at halftime of Saturday's game against Dartmouth, the bowl delegation presented the school with a plaque.
Casey will be inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame this year, and Murphy will represent Harvard in Pasadena.
"We were at the forefront of football for a long time. We take a lot of pride in that," said current Harvard captain Wesley Ogsbury, a defensive back and economics major who is listed at 185 pounds.
"Us being such a historic university, I think that's part of the reason why people look at Harvard, people look at Harvard sports, and they have such respect for it. A lot of famous people, great athletes," he said. "I enjoyed coming here knowing we had such a storied tradition."
But, since 1920, the history hasn't included any other postseason play.
Harvard, Yale and Princeton voted a few years later to turn down bowl invitations. Future Ivies continued to rank among the best in the nation into the 1920s before the sport's balance of power shifted south and west.
The conference, which was formalized in 1954, also sits out the FCS playoffs, meaning Harvard's all-time postseason record is still 1-0 and likely to remain that way.
That gives Murphy mixed emotions: He is the only coach among Harvard's 42 varsity teams that can't play for a national championship, but he also knows that a postseason would diminish the importance of the season-ending grudge match against Yale, known as The Game.
"Every year we end our season with a bowl game. Whether at Harvard Stadium or the Yale Bowl, that is by far the biggest game we play, even if we went to the playoffs," he said.
"For me, nothing is better than that."
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His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader graced the holy city of Nashik this Saturday. He cam e down to Nashik after a hiatus of 22 years to attend the 'Dharma Niripekshata Niti Parishad', organised by the Indo-Tibet Mangal Maitry Sangh in the city.
The day-long conference is being held in a local hotel, informed Atul Bhosekar, one of the conveners of the programme. Lama will deliver a discourse at the event after inaugurating it.
His Holiness is a Nobel winner and was given a warm welcome at Ojhar airport from where he proceeded to his hotel. Tibetan leaders Tashi Dolma and Gyeshyeishi Gyaltsen are also attending the meet along with the spiritual leader Dalai Lama.
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eCommerce giant Amazon launched a music streaming service that will compete head-on with Spotify, Pandora, Beats Music and Apple. With its Kindle tablets, Amazon has shown its ability to sell premium content in other categories such as books, film and TV successfully to its customers. As music streaming is becoming more popular, Amazon – like also Apple – are jumping onto the music streaming bandwagon.
Good news for the music industry as more legal alternatives by mainstream companies are made available. But again, the downside is that streaming royalty rates are lower. Oh well, you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
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The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index® is the world's leading source for original data on the rule of law. The 2016 edition covers 113 countries and jurisdictions, relying on more than 110,000 household and expert surveys to measure how the rule of law is experienced and perceived in practical, everyday situations by the general public worldwide. Index findings have been cited by heads of state, chief justices, business leaders, and public officials, including coverage by more than 1,000 media outlets worldwide.
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VIDEO: Lady Blues win, flawless victory
Jordan Loomis and Brad Pechanec / Washburn Review / Video By: Ashley Hartman, Washburn Review
With the bleachers quickly filling up and the student section growing by the minute, Lee Arena was anything but quiet last Wednesday night. A large crowd had gathered to cheer on Washburn's very own Lady Blue Volleyball Team as they faced their fellow MIAA opponent, the Missouri Southern Lions.
Match one started out with a bang right from the opening serve, with both teams going point for point in the very beginning until halfway through the match, when the Lady Blues took a commanding 18-11 lead. The Lady Blues then moved on to take match one in a standing score of 25-15.
At the start of match two, both teams came out struggling as they both made early mistakes. However, the Lady Blues ended up using MSU's errors against them to bust out a 17-13 lead. They then added three more points to make the score 20-13. The Lion's head coach, Trish Knight, concerned that her team was losing momentum, called a timeout to try and talk things out.
After the timeout, the Lady Blues came out confidently, with swagger, and junior captain Jessica Fey responded with a ferocious kill that echoed through Lee Arena. MSU reacted quickly to that attack and put two more points on the board, nevertheless, it was not enough to diminish the burning confidence of the Lady Blues as they took the second match 25-15.
"We came out excited for our first home game," said Fey. "Sure, we didn't play as well as we initially wanted to but we ended up with a win—which is always good."
Senior captain, Courtney Wallman, agreed with her teammate.
"Jessica is right," Wallman said. "Last week was a good experience for everyone in learning about where we're at as a team—it gave us a good feel of who much we need to improve on and what we still need to practice before our game against Northwest Missouri State next week."
After the 15-minute break, The Lions and The Lady Blues came back into the gym ready for game two. Urgently, the MSU Lions struck the first point off of the Lady Blues error. The blues then countered back with three more points to make the score 3-1. Soon afterwards, the Lions scored twice as the Blues struck net. Both teams continuously seemed to go kill for kill, dig for dig and block for black—at this point, the Lions played like they had something to lose, scrapping for everything they could get to make the score 8-11 in favor of MSU.
Not pleased with the current standing, Coach Herron called timeout to get his team refocused. "We weren't responding well after the break," said Herron, "which is always disheartening, but that's volleyball."
However, the timeout did not seem to help as the Lions added two more points to their lead and it continued to grow to a 5 point lead.
Finally, Freshman Marissa Cox stepped up and scored a thunderous kill, igniting the Lady Blues' momentum. The Blues went on to score 5 consecutive points to cut the score 14-16. It looked as though the Lions would go on to survive another match, but the Lady Blues had other plans in mind. The score became 20-19 in favor of Washburn when the Lions called timeout. The Blues came out firing on all cylinders adding two more points to make the score 22-19. Another tomahawk kill by Fey would seal the deal on the Lions as the Lady Blues won 25-21. "We had a great fan based crowd that helped motivate us during the last few moments of the match," said Fey.
Senior Mollie Lacy continues her stellar season, capping the night off with 8 points accompanied by 4 blocks. Junior Jessica Kopp racked up 8 kills with Sophomore Kelsey Lewis totaling 11 digs. The Lady Blues next game will be against Northwest Missouri State on September 20th and according to Coach Herron, the team is ready. "We want to play well," said Herron, "with practice and strong leadership—that will be our primary goal every time."


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Q: How do I setup a Master Page with ASP.net? I'm normally a ColdFusion developer, but I'm having to work on a new site using some ASP.net hosting only, so forgive me if my questions seem very trivial.
For numerous reasons, the website will be relatively static in the sense that it will mainly be using includes etc...that's about as complex as it will get with this.
Now, I heard about the ability to set a master in ASP.net. Would anyone please be able to explain to me in a step process on how to do this? I have of course been searching for some time now on this topic but most results yield little help or no help at all since the search terms are slightly ambiguous.
It would be nice to have this functionality for the long run. Any help or advice would be great.
Many thanks.
Michael.

A: Here's a great walkthrough video on creating and using Master pages in ASP.NET.
Basically, the steps are:

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*Add a Master page to your ASP.NET project. This is the same for webforms and ASP.NET MVC

*Style it as you like. This is where most of your <head> content will be... CSS, JavaScript, etc. The key steps are to have ContentPlaceHolders. Those areas around the CPH will be static, and not change.

*Add a new Content page. You'll then choose the Master to inherit from.

*Add content to the Content page as you like. You'll see (in Design View) that the Master's look and feel will be uneditable. In Source view, you'll only be able to specify the content that will go into the Master's ContentPlaceHolders.

It'll be much easier to fit into the .NET ecosystem and all the built in features. Try it free -- download Visual Web Developer Express. Using other editors would waste an order of magnitude of your time! The install takes maybe 4 mins. There's no wizard here, it's just a File->New Document scenario.

A: The second section on this page (http://www.asp.net/web-forms/fundamentals/) has 10 links to various tutorials about masterpages.

A: Here's yet another tutorial - it's all text, but brief and to the point.  You can see the source and demo.  Definitely second the VS Express recommendation.
http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/masterpages/default.aspx

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Old Tjikko is a 7006349208600000000♠9,561-year-old Norway Spruce, located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree." Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age. Old Tjikko is recognized as the oldest living Picea abies and the third oldest known clonal tree.
The age of the tree was determined by carbon dating of genetically matched plant material collected from under the tree, as dendrochronology would cause damage. The trunk itself is estimated to be only a few hundred years old, but the plant has survived for much longer due to a process known as layering (when a branch comes in contact with the ground, it sprouts a new root), or vegetative cloning (when the trunk dies but the root system is still alive, it may sprout a new trunk).
The root system of Old Tjikko is estimated to be 7006349208600000000♠9,561 years old, making it the world's oldest known Norway spruce. It stands 5 metres (16 ft) tall and is located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. For thousands of years, the tree appeared in a stunted shrub formation (also known as a krummholz formation) due to the harsh extremes of the environment in which it lives. During the warming of the 20th century, the tree sprouted into a normal tree formation. The man who discovered the tree, Leif Kullman (Professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University), attributed this growth spurt to global warming and gave the tree its nickname "Old Tjikko" after his late dog.
The tree has survived for so long due to vegetative cloning. The visible tree is relatively young, but it is part of an older root system that dates back thousands of years. The trunk of the tree may die and regrow multiple times, but the tree's root system remains intact and in turn sprouts another trunk. The trunk may only live for about 600 years, and when one trunk dies another eventually grows back in its place. Also, each winter, heavy snow may push the tree's low-lying branches to ground level, where they take root and survive to grow again the next year in a process known as layering. Layering occurs when a tree's branch comes in contact with the earth, and new roots sprout from the contact point. Other trees, such as coast redwoods and western redcedars are known to reproduce by layering. The tree's age was determined by carbon-14 dating of the root system, which found roots dating back to 375, 5,660, 9,000, and 9,550 years. Carbon dating is not accurate enough to pin down the exact year the tree sprouted from seed; but, given the estimated age, the tree is supposed to have sprouted around 7550 BC. For comparison, the invention of writing (and thus, the beginning of recorded history) did not occur until around 4000 BC. Researchers have found a cluster of around 20 spruce trees in the same area, all over 8,000 years old.
Trees much older than 10,000 years would be practically impossible in Sweden, because until around 11,000 years ago the area was in the grip of a world-wide ice age. Nature conservancy authorities considered putting a fence around the tree to protect it from possible vandals or trophy hunters.
A guided tour, pre-booked only, takes tourists to the tree in summer.
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Short Lets Malta Blog - Family Vacation Time!
Travelling with kids on a family vacation is a great way to bond and grow as a family. Now that summer is approaching and children worldwide can enjoy a time of relaxation school-free, many families decide to embark on a family adventure, and venture out into an unknown location for a much-needed family holiday. Travelling with kids in tow can be a challenging experience, sometimes proving to be even more stressful than everyday life. Yet some of these stresses can be kept at bay with a few simple tricks, ensuring a peaceful and tranquil holiday for both kids and parents. Planning on exploring a new location with your family this summer? Check out our tried and tested tips for a smooth-sailing family vacation!
When deciding where to stay on your family trip, it is always best to choose the ideal accommodation for you and your family members. Opting for a vacation home instead of a hotel room works much better for families, providing you with ample space and with a home environment, which helps children adapt to their new accommodation better. Family rooms in hotels tend to feel cramped and claustrophobic, leaving kids annoyed and cranky. Make sure to choose a vacation home to suit your budget and family needs – if you're planning on exploring for most of your stay, then an apartment would be a great option, whereas if you're planning on relaxing for most of your holiday, then a vacation villa, complete with pool and various amenities would be the ideal choice.
This is especially relevant if your kids are still young and get bored easily. Bringing a tablet full of their favourite TV shows and cartoons can be a life-saver when travelling, and make sure to pack your HDMI cable so that you can connect the tablet directly to the TV feed. Downloading some colouring apps or educational games will also keep kids entertained and happy, and you can choose apps depending on your child's interests. Children, whatever their age, get bored easily, so while the National Museum of Archaeology may seem like a wonderland of artefacts for you, it sounds like the most boring thing ever for your kids. Be prepared and avoid meltdowns with distractions as soon as irritability hits!
Travelling is generally awesome, and a great way to expand your kids' world-view. However it can also be tiring, especially when long travelling times are involved. Even adults get cantankerous on long-haul flights or coach rides, let alone little ones. There is no sure way to avoid tantrums or melt-downs, and the best way to deal with these outbursts is to go with the flow and not worry too much about them before they actually happen. However it never hurts to be equipped for the worst, and this includes bringing 'rewards' such as small toys or colouring books to recompense good behaviour. Kids will be entertained by the novelty of the 'reward' for their manners, keeping them busy and happy for more precious travelling time.
When travelling with kids, it is always better to travel as light as you can, thereby avoiding long waits at the luggage retrieval section at the airport, problems with fitting your entire luggage on transport and unnecessary headaches of lost luggage. Whatever equipment you can rent on site, rent it! From strollers, to high chairs and cots, most locations will offer rental options which will save you time and packing space. Vacation rental properties offer high chairs and baby cots on demand as well, meaning less worrying for vacationing parents!
Travelling alone and travelling as a family have their similarities – yet day planning is not one of them. While it may be tempting to pack as many activities as you can into one day, and while this plan may work when travelling alone, it will generally result in very grumpy and very tired kiddos. While planning day to day vacation activities even when travelling with kids is a smart way to travel, make sure to not over-plan your days, as anything and everything may happen when vacationing with kids in tow. Keep your days light, plan one or two activities per day, and take it from there. If your kids are feeling up to it and still have high energy levels then wing it and decide on a new activity there and then. You'll be thankful for not over-stuffing your days after a tired kid's meltdown at the end of a tour.
By now most travellers swear by the packing list – you can start compiling this list as early as you wish, adding essential things to pack as you remember them. The list becomes even more vital when travelling as a family, where each family member has their own indispensable items to bring on holiday. You can involve older kids in the packing fun by giving them their own list to compile, thereby ensuring that they bring their favourite items along too. Younger kids can be given a pictographic list of important items to pack, transforming packing their bag into a little game. Also, give each child their own personal bag – younger children will feel more responsible and grown-up carrying their very own luggage!
While we do encourage that you pack some disposable items (such as nappies and wet wipes) for your trip, don't stuff your bags with them. Chances are you'll be able to buy these items from the local supermarket wherever you're visiting, often finding the same brands you find at home. Pack a few nappies and wet wipes to last your journey, then head to the local supermarket or pharmacy and buy these items on arrival. You'll save up so much luggage space using this method – meaning you'll have more room for items which are truly indispensable for your trip.


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The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season smashed rainfall totals across the Northeast and pushed some streams and creeks over their banks but sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.
A weakened Andrea shifted away from New England on Saturday morning with winds gusting up to 45 miles per hour.
In the Cayman Islands, light to moderate easterly winds and seas were forecast to continue across the area for the next 24 hours in association with a high pressure system over the central Atlantic Ocean.
After bringing rain, strong winds and tornadoes to Florida, Andrea lost most of its tropical characteristics late Friday into Saturday. But it brought record rainfall for the date of 7 June for many cities and towns in the Northeast.
Andrea dumped 6.64 inches of rain on Gales Ferry, Conn. The 4.16 inches that fell on New York City's Central Park was more than double the previous record for the date, set in 1918. The 3.5 inches of rain that fell at Philadelphia International Airport doubled the 1.79 inches that fell in 1904. Newark, New Jersey, saw 3.71 inches, breaking the previous mark of 1.11 inches set in 1931.
Elsewhere, cars were submerged in floodwaters on Long Island, and about 50 residents were displaced by a rising stream in Chester, Pa. A retaining wall collapsed early Saturday in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighbourhood, sending an avalanche of rubble sliding into an apartment building and leaving three families homeless. The storm was blamed for one traffic-related death in Virginia.
Late Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami discontinued all tropical storm warnings but cautioned about possible coastal and localised flooding from New Jersey to New England.
Officials in the Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast had prepared for it Friday night. New York City activated its flash flooding plan, and heavy rainfall resulted in flash floods, causing some sections of roadways to be closed throughout Long Island.
A number of roads were flooded in the Boston area. A flight that left Boston on Friday night headed to Palm Beach, Florida, was diverted to Newark Liberty International Airport after being struck by lightning. No one was injured.
The weather service reported that small streams and creeks in southeastern Pennsylvania were going over their banks Friday night. New York City's airports experienced flight delays, and Connecticut reported numerous lane closures on highway as cars spun out amid heavy rain.
The rainy weather washed out events such as NASCAR's Sprint Cup qualifying in Pennsylvania's Poconos and MLB games in Washington, New York and Boston.
The heavy rain from the storm's outer bands was being blamed by authorities in Virginia for a fatal accident on Interstate 77 in the state's western mountains. William Petty, 57, of Lexington, South Carolina, died after a car in which he was a passenger hydroplaned while passing a tractor-trailer. He survived the crash, only to be killed moments later when the car was struck by a second tractor-trailer, authorities said.
In Chapel Hill, North Caroline, heavy rains forced the forced the postponement of Friday's NCAA super regional baseball series opener between No. 1 seeded North Carolina and South Carolina until Saturday. A second game between North Carolina State and Rice in Raleigh was also postponed.
In Florida, the weather service estimated that feeder bands from Andrea's remnants dropped more than 9 inches of rain on eastern Miami-Dade County and more than 6 inches of rain on eastern Broward County on Friday.
In Cuba, days of torrential rains associated with Andrea caused rivers to jump their banks in the western province of Pinar del Rio. More than 3,300 people evacuated endangered homes, and nearly 10,000 acres of croplands suffered "serious damage," state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde said Friday.


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After our Unity runtime SpriteSheets generator, it is a good idea to optimize the generated pngs files.
pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images. The conversion reduces file sizes significantly (often as much as 70%) and preserves full alpha transparency. In other words this is a must have tool if you're working with many pngs!
We use custom batch file (for Windows) and shell script (for Mac OS X) for launching pngquant. It will take the path to pngs to compress and overwrite them.
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Be sure to have a look to PngQuantNativeProcess's git repository to be up to date!


LEWIS SMITH LAKE - A wooded water front lake lot with a solid rock shoreline. Deep crystal clear water. This lot is located at the mouth of Bear Branch off of the main channel of the Sipsey. There is a beautiful building site close to the water. Located on the end of a cul-de-sac for lots of privacy. The water depth in front of the lot is 35 feet deep going into deeper water. This may be your dream location.


The hair transplant procedure basically a Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery that requires extreme artistic mind and set of skills from the Surgeon's side and the rest of procedure success depends on the post-operative measures that are needed to be applied in order for regrowth of hair effectively. The hair transplant procedure must perform by the expert hair transplant Surgeon having a number of years' experience in the same field with a many good numbers of the result. Generally, the hair transplant in India is the best and most selective decisions among the hair loss patients and offers the cost-worthy procedure with a very satisfying success rate of the restoration surgery. The hair transplant cost has been a most attractive factor in India that plays a major deciding role in the restoration surgery taken by the bald patients. First of all, the patient thinks and research regarding the best Surgeon and the best clinic and then goes into the in-depth research about the procedural techniques. There are a lot of inputs mentioned in the reputed hair restoration forums and platform to inform the patient about the procedural outcomes and benefits of the techniques in terms of a number of patients' feedback.
The hair restoration surgery applies the process of hair root transfer from the donor location to the recipient bald area of the scalp that involves the direct contribution of hair follicle extraction, either by the FUT method or the FUE hair transplant. The procedure of restoration is quite easy and a healthy practice to sort out the problem of baldness that is both surgical and an artistic job requires an extreme artistic mind and précised surgical understanding in order to offer the utmost original outcome of the procedure.
It is recommended by the hair transplant Surgeons that after the surgery you need to refrain yourself from going outside without wearing the cap. The first and foremost important job after the surgery is to save your scalp from infection and allow the wounds to heal quicker. It is good to wear a cap for a several weeks after the surgery. It must be noted that your hat or cap will be loose fitting as it prevents the new graft from scrapping. You do not require putting up the cap for a long and after several weeks you can replace the cap with sunscreen lotion that must have 30 SPF.
It is very important to maintain a continuous blood flow to the scalp area in a healthy manner to support the hair follicles to grow after the hair restoration surgery. Surgeons recommend the patient to sleep in a posture that lifts your head upright. You can use the pillow or wedge-shaped pillow to lift your scalp. The upright sleeping posture helps in maintaining enough blood supply to the head.
The first head wash after the hair transplant surgery is given by the reputed hospital where you received the procedure. You'll likely to be given the instructions about the way of shampooing. You should wash your scalp gently, but thoroughly in order to save the new graft from scrapping. You must refrain yourself from using the chemical-based shampoo and use only mild or baby shampoo, which is prescribed by your Doctor. The post-surgical job of head wash is the most concerning jobs that must follow by the given instructions and methods.
As a matter of fact, it is not required to regularly visit with the clinic/Doctor after the hair transplantation, except for one or two head wash, which is done in the clinic to educate patients about the post-care instructions. Yet, you must visit the respective clinic to show the growth of new graft onto the scalp. The evaluation will help you to know about the progress of hair transplantation. You may ask your Doctor about when should start the combing after experiencing the regrowth of hair. Perhaps, you can thrill at how soon you are allowed for combing.
On the whole, we can say that the procedure of hair transplant is one of the smooth plastics and cosmetic surgical procedures that require a bit preparation after the procedure in order to get the best cosmetic benefits of the restoration surgery.


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Former Saint Francis Medical Center Executive Teaches New MBA Health Administration Course at Southeast
By southeast on	 November 29, 2005 older
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.,
Nov. 29, 2005 – The latest opportunity offered to students in Southeast Missouri State University's master of business administration (MBA) program, a health administration option, equips them with the skills and expertise needed to plunge into a career in the nation's vast health care industry.
"This program represents our MBA program's effort to respond to the educational needs in our region," said Dr. Kenneth Heischmidt, director of graduate programs in Southeast's Harrison College of Business. "Medical care is one of our region's major employers, and we're trying to meet the educational needs of that segment," he said. "This option provides a foundation of knowledge for managers and executives in the health services industry to be more effective."
Southeast's MBA students not only have an additional opportunity available to them through the new health administration option, but they also have the added privilege of learning from Dr. John Mackel, who recently retired as vice president of medical affairs at Saint Francis Medical Center. Mackel is teaching "Health Care Strategy and Quality," the first course to be offered through the MBA's health administration option.
"Dr. Mackel has impressive credentials, including an extensive background in family practice, health education and health administration, and he has multi-national experience," Heischmidt said. "We're very lucky to have him."
Megan Price, an MBA student from Sullivan, Mo., agrees.
"This is a great class," she said. "Dr. Mackel has lots of experience with different health systems and gives students real-world applications to the information we're learning."
Mackel is enthusiastic about the health administration program, agreeing with Heischmidt that training students in this specialty will be beneficial to the region.
"I'd been telling the business college that they should consider offering a program like this for the past couple of years, because health care is a huge industry," Mackel said. "In Cape Girardeau alone, 8,000 to 10,000 people derive their livelihood from health care, between the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors' offices, physical therapy practices and other health care agencies. All of these things have to be managed, and health care is sufficiently different enough from regular commercial business that it needs its own focus," he said.
Mackel feels the program's benefits are two-fold, commenting that the knowledge students gain from the courses will increase their marketability across-the-board.
"I think it's important for students at this University to have the opportunity to obtain some qualifications that will open doors for them into the health care community," he said. "It's a huge, huge industry all over the country, ranging from the small doctor's office to huge corporate America. It doesn't matter where their interests lie, health care is so vast that there's something in it for everyone, from health care marketing to health care statistics to health care construction management. It's almost like a nation within a nation. People need to have an awareness and an understanding of that. It's a real plus for young people. The opportunities are available and will continue to be available," Mackel said.
"Health care is one of the largest expenditures in the national budget, $1.5 trillion, and it will go higher because of the rising baby boomer expense," he added. "Only eight countries in the world have a gross national product higher than the U.S. health care budget. This is too big to ignore," he stressed.
Mackel, who is originally from Northern Ireland, earned his medical degree from Queens University in Belfast. He also holds a master's of health service administration degree from the University of Alberta in Canada, a Canadian certification in family medicine, and he is certified by the American Board of Family Practice.
In addition to serving as vice president of medical affairs at Saint Francis Medical Center for five years, Mackel has international experience in health care administration and education. He has worked in the Canadian health care system and has experience with the British National Health Service as well as HMOs. Mackel has taught, developed and directed programs at the University of Alberta and Misericordia Hospital in Canada, and served on the faculty at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore. He has served as president of the Alberta College of Family Physicians of Canada and as chief medical examiner for the Medical Council of Canada. Mackel also has served on the medical staff and as a family medicine director of Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Ore., on the medical staff of the University of Alberta's Misericordia Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and in private practice in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Mackel also has received fellowships from the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and has been recognized for his services to family medicine in Alberta, Canada.
The course Mackel is currently teaching, Health Care Strategy and Quality, consists of three main segments, the first being an overview of the various health care segments in the United States as well as other countries.
"There's no question that once the baby boomers become senior citizens, there will be an extreme increase in demand," Mackel said. "Most experts in this area say the current system will not serve the need. This course explores the advantages and disadvantages of the major health systems in other first-world countries, and what might be adaptable to the United States."
The course also covers the creation and operation of specific strategies for particular health care organizations, as well as administering quality care in individual segments within a health care organization.
"This course covers the progression of the overall system to the individual segments within a health care organization," Mackel said. "It's like dipping your toe in the ocean," he added. "Trying to cover all of this in one semester requires a tremendous oversimplification, but it's a start.
"I'm pleased the University is doing this program," he added. "I think it's been needed and will be a useful addition to the University's offerings."
The Harrison College of Business will be adding another course to the MBA health administration offerings for the spring semester, and is planning a third course for the fall 2006 semester, according to Heischmidt.
For additional information on the MBA health administration program, view the Harrison College of Business Web site at www6.semo.edu/mba or contact the Southeast Missouri State University MBA office by phone at (573) 651-5116 or by e-mail at mba@semo.edu.


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