Unreleased album by one of the most prestigious composers and arrangers of Argentine music as a whole. Rodolfo produces a very personal brand of Fusion, via the combination of Jazz, Rock and elements culled from our territory's Popular music, through pleasant and memorable melodies, complex arrangements and constant (yet many times totally unexpected) rhythm changes, which altogether provide an amazing concoction similar to the Canterbury sound from the '70's (Hatfield & The North) or certain passages which easily remind us of Frank Zappa.
During the mid-seventies, many Progressive / Symphonic bands started to appear in several Argentine provinces; some of them linked to an independent musical movement led by the legendary MIA. In the province of Mendoza, the iconic representative of the local pack was Altablanca, a group which enjoyed a trajectory of almost eight years amidst different line-ups. This great sonic rescue offered here proves beyond the shadow of any doubt just how talented these lads were, besides their very high musical quality, and shows the symbiosis they shared with the likes of MIA, Redd, Irreal, and Trigémino.
Very interesting sonic proposal by this quartet comprised of young musicians, who have just released their first album. The combination of Progressive Fusion and Progressive Rock is the chosen genre for their debut recording. Constant rhythm changes and well-structured compositions abund in this production, which is mostly of an Instrumental orientation. We could consider Liquid Tension Experiment as the band's closest relative, at least from a strictly musical perspective.
Mega rarity discovered just by coincidence at a vinyl store !!! This group released their sole album independently to a vastly ignoring and unperturbed market. No data whatsoever on the band & album exists anywhere at all in books and/or specialized Web pages. Featuring a style of their own performed around a perfectly balanced blend of sophisticated instrumental tracks and appealing melodies sung in Spanish by a gorgeous female voice, a concoction which reminds us a bit of what Pink Floyd sounded like in the '80's.
Now under the leadership of Dario Iscaro, this Prog Fusion outfit presents personnel changes in its line-up (now consisting of guitar, bass, drums, & trumpet). The band also shows an about face in its musical direction, albeit without losing essence and identity. The group's most obvious influences are Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell and Alan Holdsworth.
In this brand new mutation, the group is now reduced to a Power Trio formed by Darío Iscaro on guitars, Augusto Urbini on drums (formerly with Panza and Resistencia Chaco) and Felipe González on bass guitar. With a more powerful sound than their previous efforts, they effortlessly transit through Avant Prog, albeit with Fusion and Math Rock overtones, nuances, shades, variations, and subtleties.
Debut album by this Argentine duet comprised of Mariano Spadafora and Tomas Barrionuevo. We could categorize their beautiful and delicate melodies within the Post Rock movement, combined with the sounds of Symphonic Rock. Autumn Moonlight have been endowed with a very high level of compositional quality, and are sonically close to the main representatives of this particular style (Sigur Ros).
The musical growth experienced by Autumn Moonlight on this, their second album, is really impressive. The very detailed and elaborate work on the arrangements, and the combination of different sonorities, enrich the duet's compositions by mixing Post Rock together with Progressive and Symphonic Rock, while going through melancholic climaxes, furious guitar explosions, and orchestral keyboard arrangements during the whole process.


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Hatiye Garip's work uses child-like simplicity to succinctly convey narrative and charm
Written by Emily Gosling
Hatiye Garip's work is charming in its child-like simplicity; using simple shapes and colours to convey an impressive depth of narrative within a single image.
Working as a freelance illustrator and designer in Istanbul, Turkey, Garip takes on projects across editorial spot illustrations, children's' books, comics, image-making for brands and some gorgeous self-initiated projects.
When she was a child, she says, her favourite drawing tools "were pencil and paper." Nowadays, she adds, she "prefers digital ones but still draws."
Garip graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Visual Communication Design in 2015 and completed her master's degree in Design, Technology and Society Program at Özyeğin University with a thesis project looking at the representation of disability in picture books.
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It's certainly an under-discussed topic, and one that seems all the more relevant in a time when illustrators are increasingly realising that they are often the ones who present a certain "body' to the world—one that's historically (at least in brand and editorial commissions) often been slim, white, able-bodied and cis-gendered.
Her illustrations have been shown in a number of exhibitions across the world, and her first picture book was published in South Korea. She's currently working on her own picture book, and we can't wait to see what that has in store—keep abreast of it all on Garip's Instagram.
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Black Days comic
illustration for Starbucks
Garip's work shown in an exhibition
Natalia Goncharova: The UK's first retrospective of the Russian avant-garde artist
Here Design creates two new children's books for 'Ladybird by Design' series
Supple Studio rebrand luxury hotel Minster Mill with a theme of discovery
Dancing on my Own: Major show celebrates two decades of Stuart Semple's groundbreaking work
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Form celebrates the 'perfect summer day out' for tennis fans in Fever-Tree campaign
Obst und Gemüse is a charming visual exploration of fruit and veg

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What is a Human Resources Manual?
A Human Resources Manual can have various names like Employee Handbook and Employee Manual. They are a set of internal rules set by the employer for governing the internal conduct of employees in a work place. They tend to serve the purpose of promoting harmony in the work place.
Am I bound by the set of rules provided in the HR Manual? What is the binding nature of the HR Manual?
Once the HR Manual bas been endorsed (signed) by both parties in a work place - that is by employer and employee – it becomes binding. It should be noted that the employer is likewise bound by the said rules set therein. In the event there is a breach of any of the said rules the breaching party will be liable to suffer the consequences associated with such a breach. In event of ambiguity of the said rule, the same will be interpreted as against the party who made the rules, in this case the employer.
Can the HR Manual over-ride terms and conditions provided under the law?
The Employment and Labour Relations Act, 2004 sets minimum standards of employment. This therefore means any internal document like a HR Manual or Employment Contract can not provide lesser terms, but they can provide equal or better terms of employment. A HR Manual must not contravene the provisions of the respective law unless the said contravention tends to improve the said term provided under the law As an example: under the law an employee is entitled to 28 days of annual leave every year. So the HR Manual could not provide for 20 days, but could improve on it and provide say 32 days (or maintain the 28 days as provided under the law).
Is it my right as a trade union representative/employee representative to be involved in the exercise of drafting the Manual?
Since the HR Manual is an internal document belonging to the company, it is at the discretion of the employer to decide who is to be involved in the preparation of the Manual. However, the Manual must be prepared with someone who possesses the skills in labour and human resources matters. If the employer decides to involve the trade union, or a representative of employees if there is no trade union, they may chose to involve the employee from the first stage or at the final stage of review before the Manual becomes operational, so as to get all inputs. However, for easy application of the HR Manual it is advised to involve a trade union representative/ employee representative at the final stages of preparing the document before it becomes operational so as to get their input and commitment.
Can my employer alter the HR Manual once the same has been signed by both parties?
Yes, the terms of the HR Manual can be altered, but since the Manual is binding to both parties, the process of changing any terms must also involve both parties. This means employees need be consulted during the exercise and give their consent to the alteration. If altering the terms is done without consulting the employees/trade union that will amount to a unilateral breach of the terms of the HR Manual and the employer will be liable for such breach.
Why should there be a HR Manual at my work place?
The law requires an employer to display the rights of an employee in a conspicuous place at a work place. In this regard, the HR Manual is very useful. It is also advised to a have a HR Manual because it will help to minimise disharmonies at the workplace, as all the rules will be made clear together with penalties associated with their breach. Additionally, the law does not provide for every labour matter, it is silent in some other areas. The HR Manual can assist in filling these gaps - for example around issues of Medical Services, Out of Station Allowance, Breast Feeding Hours etc.
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We walked down the dirt path, no sounds except that of our footfall and the birds calling in the tree canopy high above us.
The jungle was clearly master of the land here in Guatemala, and its untamed force was making its inexorable way toward once again taking over the path, and everything else around it.
We came into a sudden clearing, where the sunlight fell more freely into the forest and there it was: the first of the Mayan pyramid ruins we would see that day.
This was one of the smaller temples that had been excavated and was known as Temple VI. It was largely unearthed, with the steps revealed and cleared away only at one side.
A climb to the top of those steps would yield the first views over the vast complex that was once the thriving, prosperous Mayan city of Tikal in northern Guatemala.


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I am a research associate working within ConDuCT-II, part of the MRC Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research. My research focus is on patient reported outcome measures and randomised controlled trials in surgery. I am also undertaking a PhD exploring methods for improving the assessment of surgical site infection.
I completed a BSc in Biological Science and Psychology at the University of Swansea and went on to do a Masters in Research Methods in Psychology at the University of Bristol in 2006. I then worked in the Clinical Trials Unit at the Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol, before moving to the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol to take my first research post.
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Glass Animals on How to Be a Human Being [Interview]
An interview the magical and always psychedelic UK indie rockers Glass Animals about their latest album "How to Be a Human Being" and current tour.
Kirk Williams
Photo by Neil Krug
If you're a peanut butter lover, or a vibe enthusiast of the highest order, then you should already be well acquainted with UK's Glass Animals. They stepped onto the scene with a huge footprint in 2014 with their psychedelic indie pop record Zaba, and they've kept on marching forward ever since.
On Zaba, "Gooey" is one of those songs that slow burns like candles in a wizard's lair, and don't even get me started on "Black Mambo." Glass Animals conjure up lively music that demands you groove, and their songwriting hypnotically transports you to some far away land of their own lush design.
Immediately finishing their world tour of Zaba in December 2015, Glass Animals did not sit idly, but went straight into the studio. The infectious sonic potion that emerged from this rapid return to their creative castle is their second album How to Be a Human Being. It's fun and true to form, and this time around, it really brings some interesting character portraits to life.
Recently at Treasure Island Music Festival in the San Francisco bay, I had the good fortune to catch Glass Animals before a triumphant rain-drenched set. Here is my interview lead singer & songwriter Dave Bayley and keyboardist & bassist Edmund Irwin-Singer on the latest and greatest for Glass Animals.
It doesn't seem like you gentlemen like to sit still. Zaba in 2014, How to Be a Human Being in 2016. How do you keep churning them out?
Dave Bayley: Working too hard probably. We were really lucky with this record. We finished touring Zaba in December 2015, and then middle of December I just went straight to the studio.
Edwin Irwin-Singer: Zaba definitely felt like it took a while to make because it's the first record and you want it to be perfect, obviously. But after touring for two years on Zaba, we were keen to get just get on with it. Dave definitely had a lot of ideas. We came off tour and we were just like, "Let's get on with this."
Dave Bayley: I was sick of not writing. I can't write on tour. I really wanted to write, so I went straight to the studio before Christmas and it just came really quickly. It took like a week and a half, two weeks, and all the demos were done.
What is How to Be a Human Being all about?
Edwin Irwin-Singer: It's a collection of stories that we experienced whilst we were on tour. Dave was recording some things on his phone, we met lots of people, some really interesting people in taxis and vans. It's a mixture of stories that we heard, a bit of autobiography from Dave's life. It's just an album about people.
Dave Bayley: It's about human beings.
On both albums, the songwriting is quite descriptive and vibrant. It really communicates a lot. Can you walk me through how you approach writing a song?
Dave Bayley: In my first records, I was very much more inside of beats, electronics stuff. Then, I'd put the vocal over the top. Whereas this record, because it was about people and humans, I wanted it to go all the way around. I wanted to write some of the words first, some of the vocal melodies first. I thought it was going to help make it more human and down to earth.
I started with the vocalized lyrics and then put chords around that and, based on the lyrics, I could put sounds around that fit the character of the song. If the character sits on the sofa all day watching TV and playing video games, all the sounds of the song are versions of sounds from video games and the sounds we would use if we were to make a cartoon on Cartoon Network.
On the song "Pork Soda", how did the pineapples get in your head?
Edwin Irwin-Singer: I think that started out a long time ago. We were recording the song 'Gooey' on the first album and we were trying to get an interesting vibe in the studio and there was a pineapple sitting around in the studio. As a joke, someone put it in Dave's hands while he was recording the vocals and said, "This will capture the essence of a pineapple in the vocal style."
It started like that. Dave recalled that story in an interview and then they sent one to a show and Dave put it on stage. It started becoming a thing. That's how it happens.
Where do you gents go from here? Are you soaring high where you've always dreamed you wanted to be?
Dave Bayley: I don't know what's going to happen next week. We always like pushing things and keeping things different. We've got a lot of live shows coming up, and with that comes lots of set design ideas and staging ideas. We're still working out the set. We have an idea of how we want it to be at the end of the tour, and we'll get there. That's part of it, and there's always music flowing around.
What is one deep thought you have been having lately?
Edwin Irwin-Singer: Do I want cereal? What kind of cereal do I want for breakfast?
Dave Bayley: I looked around the dressing room the other day and everyone was drinking bottles of water, as you do everywhere. There were just bottles of water everywhere, half-finished, empty - so many bottles. I was like, "Why the hell aren't we just using one bottle each?" That would just make sense, wouldn't it? If everyone just had a bloody bottle. I've been using one bottle. That's my deep thought.
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It seems the colored jeans trend has been going on for a few seasons now but I haven't tired of it yet. Spring time is perfect for adventurous dressing but because I can't be blindly adventurous at my age, I love this pair of pastel yellow jeans from Forever 21…the yellow shade is very subtle. And it's surprisingly versatile – it can go with a ton of stuff already in my closet. You know it's a great buy when an item can easily be paired with a bunch of things you already own and at $16 a pair, even better!


The American Society for Pharmacy Law (ASPL) is the organization of attorneys, pharmacists, pharmacist-attorneys and students of pharmacy or law who are interested in the law as it applies to pharmacy, pharmacists, wholesalers, manufacturers, state and federal government and other interested parties.
Looking for someone with expertise in both pharmacy and law? Check ASPL's Attorney Referral or Expert Witness Services to find someone in your state. If you are an ASPL member and have not signed up for these two services and wish to be listed, contact us.
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Aaron Moore, ASPL board member, appeared on The Pharmacy Podcast in September, 2016. The Pharmacy Podcast has nearly 60,000 subscribers around the world and focuses on the business of pharmacy.


Citation: Nangia, V., Gowda, P., Mulla, D., Sands, G. 2008. Water quality modeling of fertilizer management impacts on nitrate losses in tile drains at the field scale. Journal of Environmental Quality. 37:296-307.
Interpretive Summary: Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico is a major environmental concern. A reduction in nitrate-N loading by 30% has been recommended to reduce hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Nitrate-N loadings from the Upper Mississippi River Basin accounts for roughly 35% of the nitrate-N entering the Gulf of Mexico, yet this area covers less than 20% of the Mississippi River Basin. This study evaluated alternative best management practices that include varying depth and spacing of subsurface tile drains, and rate and timing of N-fertilizer application to reduce nitrate-N loading at the field scale. Results indicate that it is possible to achieve the recommended reduction in nitrate-N loading by decreasing depth and increasing spacing of tile drains.
Technical Abstract: Nitrate-N loadings entering the Mississippi River from tile drained row crop farms in the Upper Midwest U.S. contributes to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Strategies are needed to reduce nitrate-N losses to the Mississippi River. This paper evaluates the effect of fertilizer rate and timing and tile drain depth and spacing on nitrate-N losses in two commercial row crop fields (11 ha and 9.3 ha) located in southern Minnesota. The Agricultural Drainage and Pesticide Transport (ADAPT) model was calibrated and validated using monthly flow and nitrate-N losses measured in tile drains from these fields during 1999-2003. For the calibration period, there was good agreement between observed and predicted flow and nitrate-N discharges, with r**2 values of 0.87 and 0.85, respectively. During validation, there was excellent agreement between observed and predicted flow and nitrate-N discharges, with r2 values of 0.92 and 0.91 for an 11-ha field, and 0.94 and 0.90 for a 9.3-ha field, respectively. The calibrated model was used to evaluate the effects of tile drain spacing and depth, and rate and timing of N fertilizer application on nitrate-N losses with a 50 year record (1954-2003) of daily precipitation. Reductions in nitrate-N losses are possible by decreasing depth or increasing spacing of tile drains, and by changing N fertilizer application timing from fall to spring. For instance, for a spacing of 40 m, reducing tile depth from 1.5 m to 0.9 m reduced nitrate-N losses by 31%. For a tile depth of 1.5 m, increasing spacing from 27 to 40 m reduced nitrate-N losses by 50%. For an N application rate of 180 kg/ha (tile spacing 27 m, tile depth 1.5 m), there was an 8% reduction in nitrate-N losses when switching from a fall to spring application. Further reductions in nitrate-N losses require reductions in N application rates. A twelve percent reduction in nitrate losses was found when the application rate was reduced from 180 kg/ha to 135 kg/ha (tile spacing 27 m, tile depth 1.5 m).


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Marshallese Radio
This website is designed to give voice to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands [RMI] who have firsthand knowledge - in their bodies and DNA, in their memories and permanently in their atolls - of thermonuclear weapons and their destruction, having been at the receiving end of the United States' "foreign policy."
AtomicAtolls.org's primary mission is to provide a repository of the unfiltered history of the relationship between the U.S. and RMI through an archive of audio interviews [in both Marshallese and English*] on SoundCloud (previously unavailable to the public) and photographs of downwind Marshall Islanders who were caught in the radioactive fallout from the 67 atomic & hydrogen thermonuclear bombs detonated at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946-58.
In addition to these rare and powerful interviews conducted between 1981 and 2002 [by Glenn Alcalay & Kai Erikson], numerous unclassified U.S. government documents, U.N. testimonies, NGO reports, and other educational materials regarding nuclear testing issues in the Marshall Islands will also be made available to the public. Lastly, a large archive of videos and documentary films about the Nuclear Age, from the Manhattan Project to Weapons in Space will be made available.
Our website is dedicated to aolep dri-Majol, people of the Marshall Islands - especially the youth - and all of the glorious people who reside on our dear Mother Earth. If there is a theme or a meme that truly captures the character of this website, it is this: America nuked the Gentle People.
Glenn Alcalay
Peace Corps Volunteer, Utrok Atoll 1975-1977
Jeramman wot!
Glenn Alcalay & Andrew Fuchs
www.AtomicAtolls.org
Nuclear Testing Chronology: 1970's
All that was theoretically left now in order for the people to return was for the atoll to be rehabilitated, but this effort proceeded slowly. The second phase of the rehabilitation encountered serious problems because the U.S. government withdrew their military personnel and equipment. They also brought to an end the weekly air service that had been operating between Kwajalein Atoll and Bikini Atoll. The construction and agricultural projects suffered because of the sporadic shipping schedules and the lack of air service.
October - The planting of the coconut trees was finally completed. During this period it was discovered that as the coconut crabs grew older on Bikini Island they ate their sloughed-off shells. Those shells contained high levels of radioactivity, hence, the AEC announced that the crabs were still radioactive and could be eaten only in limited numbers. The conflicting information on the radiological contamination of Bikini supplied by the AEC caused the Bikini Council to vote not to return to Bikini at the time previously scheduled by American officials. The Council, however, stated that it would not prevent individuals from making independent decisions to return.
Three extended Bikinian families, their desire to return to Bikini being great enough to outweigh the alleged radiological dangers, moved back to Bikini Island and into the newly constructed cement houses. They were accompanied by approximately 50 Marshallese workers who were involved in the construction and maintenance of the buildings.
November - John Anjain's son, Lekoj, who was one year old when exposed to fallout on Rongelap in 1954, dies of leukemia at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
AEC draft report, not publicly released, concludes that Bravo fallout may have contaminated as many as 18 atolls and islands, including Kwajalein and Majuro.
June - During regular monitoring at Bikini, radiological tests show "higher levels of radioactivity than originally thought" and it "appears to be hotter or questionable as to safety," states a Department of Interior official.
August - AEC surveys suggest some Bikini ground wells are too radioactive for safe use, and that the consumption of pandanus, breadfruit and coconut crabs needs to be prohibited. Medical tests of urine samples from the 100 people living on Bikini detected the presence of low levels of plutonium 239 and 240. Robert Conard of Brookhaven Laboratories commented that these readings were "probably not radiologically significant."
October - The Bikinians file suit in U.S. federal court demanding a complete scientific survey of Bikini and other northern Marshall Islands be conducted.
Lekoj Anjain of Rongelap at NCI in Bethesda, MD. Lekoj was one year old at the time of "Bravo" [in 1954] and died of leukemia at the age of nineteen, shortly after this photo was taken.
July - The U.S. Congress approves $20 million and military logistic support for a nuclear cleanup of Enewetak Atoll [see below]. A Brookhaven National Laboratory report on Rongelap shows that 20 of 29, or 69 percent of the Rongelap children who were under 10 years old in 1954 have developed thyroid tumors. The people of Utrik, whose original exposure in 1954 of 14 rads of radiation was less than one-twelfth that of Rongelap, suddenly show a higher rate of thyroid cancer than the Rongelap people, indicating the long latency period before health problems develop from low level radiation exposure.
For more information about the 3,000 people who cleaned up Enewetak and worked on the Runit Tomb, please go here: https://www.naav.com/ and here: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/590299/atomic-soldiers/ and here: https://www.revealnews.org/article/us-veterans-in-secretive-nuclear-tests-still-fighting-for-recognition/ and here: https://www.atomiccleanupvets.com/
and here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1628
May - The nuclear cleanup at Enewetak Atoll begins. About 700 U.S. Army personnel carry out the cleanup's first phase [and 3,000 people worked on the clean-up in total], which includes scraping and collecting 100,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris, and 125,000 cubic yards of uncontaminated debris and dumping it in a bomb crater on Runit Island to be sealed with a cap of cement.
June - A Department of Energy study reports: "All living patterns involving Bikini Island exceed Federal (radiation) guidelines for 30 year population doses." About 100 Bikinians continue living on Bikini. The U.S. Congress approves about $1 million in compensation for Rongelap and Utrik ($100,000 each goes to the Rongelap, Utrik and Bikini for building community facilities; $1,000 each to the 157 exposed Utrik people; and from $25,000 for people with thyroid tumors to Q00,000 for people the families of those who have died).
This 40-minute video about the Runit Dome [aka the
"Tomb"] was produced by ABC-TV [Australia] in 2017
May - Interior Department officials describe the 75 percent increase in radioactive cesium found in the Bikini people as "incredible." Plans are announced to move the people within 90 days.
August - A Department of Energy survey of the northern Marshall Islands reveals that in addition to Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik, 10 other atolls or islands "received intermediate range fallout from one or more of the megaton range tests." These included inhabited atolls and islands of Ailuk, Likiep, Mejit, Ujelang and Wotho.
September - The 139 people living on Bikini Atoll are evacuated by U.S. officials. The U.S. government funds a $6 million trust for the Bikini people.
Nuclear Testing Chronology
Modern History of the RMI


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Q: If $f,g:U \longrightarrow R $ be twice differentiable function, $f(a)= g(a)$, $df(a)=dg(a)$ and $d^2f(x)=d^2g(x)$, then $f=g$ Let $f,g:U \longrightarrow R $ be twice differentiable function and $U \subset \mathbb{R}^m$ and $U$ a convex open set, such that $f(a)= g(a)$, $df(a)=dg(a)$ and $d^2f(x)=d^2g(x)$ for all $x \in U$, then $f=g$.
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if $v=\left(\alpha_1,\dots ,\alpha_n \right) $ then
$d^2f(a) v = \Sigma_{i,j}\frac{\partial{f} }{{\partial x_i}\partial x_j}\left( a\right) \alpha_i \alpha_j $
My approach:
For Taylor
$f(a+u)= f(a)+df(a)+r(u)$
$g(a+u)= g(a)+dg(a)+h(u)$
where
$\lim_{u \to 0}\frac{r(u)}{|u|}=\lim_{u \to 0}\frac{h(u)}{|u|}=0$
Now I use Lagrange Remainder: $U$ is a convex set, then $\left[a, a+v \right] \subset U $, $f,g \in C^1$ and are twice differentiable function in $\left(a,a+u \right) $, then there are $\theta_1, \theta_2 \in \left( 0,1\right)  $    such that
$r(u)= \frac{1}{2}d^2f(a+\theta_1 u)u^2= \frac{1}{2}d^2g(a+\theta_1 u)u^2$
$h(u)= \frac{1}{2}d^2g(a+\theta_2 u)u^2$
anyone have a tip to continue?

A: We have to prove the following claim:
$$d^2 h(x)\equiv0\quad\Rightarrow\quad h(x)=p\cdot x+ q\tag{1}$$
with constant vectors  $p$ and $q$. When $(1)$ is established we can apply it to $f-g$ in your question. When $df(a)=dg(a)$ then $p=0$, and when also $f(a)=g(a)$ then $q=0$.
In order to prove $(1)$ we argue coordinatewise. Choose a $j\in[n]$, and let
$$\psi(x)=\bigl(\nabla h(x)\bigr)_j={\partial h\over\partial x_j}\ .$$
We then have
$$\nabla\psi(x)=\left({\partial^2 h\over\partial x_j\partial x_1},\ldots,{\partial^2 h\over\partial x_j\partial x_n}\right)\equiv0\ .$$
It follows that $x\mapsto\psi(x)$ is a constant $p_j$ , and this implies $\nabla h(x)\equiv p$ for a constant vector $p=(p_1,\ldots,p_n)$. A second such step then proves that $h(x)=p\cdot x+q$, since $h(x)-p\cdot x$ has zero derivative.

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DropEvent is an online app that allows you to create a photo gallery and have others contribute to it. It is especially handy for sharing photos from one event like a party/wedding/birthday as these photographs can be taken by many guests in one place.
Usually some guests add their photos to their Facebook albums but the problem is that not everyone can access these profiles and albums. So here is where DropEvent comes in with collaborative galleries.


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IPL 2020: MS Dhoni Hopeful CSK Will be Able to Replicate Their Performance in Coming Games
IPL 2020: MS Dhoni said his side banks on consistency in selection and head coach Stephen Fleming should be given credit for it.
By Press Trust of India
| Updated : October 5, 2020 8:37 AM IST
Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said doing the "small things right" shaped their emphatic 10-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab, in Dubai on Sunday.
Veteran batsmen Shane Watson (83) and Faf du Plessis (87) remained unbeaten to help CSK chase down the target of 179 with ease.
"I think we did the small things right. That's what was important to us. The kind of start we got in batting, that's what we needed. Hopefully we'll be able to replicate this in the coming games," Dhoni said after the match.
Asked about Watson finding form after a string of failures, Dhoni said, "It's not about being more aggressive. He was hitting it well in the nets and what you need is to do that in the middle. It was just a matter of time. "
"Faf is like a sheet anchor for us, keeps playing those shots in the middle. He can always confuse the bowler with the lap shots and all coming in. They complement each other."
Dhoni said his side banks on consistency in selection and head coach Stephen Fleming should be given credit for it.
"He (Fleming) does much credit for that. The good thing is we have one plan. It's not that we don't have debates, but it's one plan, that's the relationship between us."
Asked about the earlier three losses on the trot, the former India captain said, "I feel looking at the first 3-4 games, what you really think is you restrict them to as little as possible and that can add pressure."
"Every team has furious hitter who can disrupt the bowling and our bowlers did well. We needed momentum with the right kind of shots. Watto and Faf backed themselves with the shots they're known for."
Man-of-the-match Watson said he felt something "slightly off" technically in the earlier matches.
"So it was nice for it to come off. Just a combination of technique and intent. Was able to get the weight through the ball a lot better. Faf and me complement each other well. There are bowlers he (Faf) prefers to take on and he's a great guy and good batting with him."
Du Plessis also expressed hope that his side continue the good form shown in the game.
"Credit to Dhoni and Fleming, it's obviously the CSK way, they stick with players a bit longer than other teams might. They stick with players that they feel will play in the final. Credit to the management. It's not always as easy as it looks."
KXIP captain KL Rahul said it was hard being on the losing side for so many games but promised to keep trying harder.
"There's no rocket science, we know where we're going wrong. The execution part has been bad," he said. "I thought 178 was a good score. The wicket stopped a bit when we started batting, we felt like 170-180 was par on this wicket. But we know if we don't get wickets against players of this class, we'll struggle."
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I'll never forget how I felt the day the vet told me that my dog, Rocky, was going to lose his paw due to a tumor. Rocky loved to run, it was his passion in life, and I knew that if he were to have that paw amputated, that his quality of life would suffer. I knew there was a better way, and that's when I turned to Reiki. I gave Rocky healing Reiki treatments daily and within 3 weeks that tumour went away. Rocky was able to run like the wind once again. I was able to help my friend enjoy 2 more years of quality life. It was such a blessing for me to help my furry friend, as he had given me so much in my life.
Reiki, translated "universal life energy" is a holistic healing modality that has changed millions of lives. Reiki helps one heal at all levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritually. There are different levels to Reiki. Level 1 Reiki the student learns to do hands on healing and send healing to a short distance. Level 2 Reiki the student learns symbols so they can send healing energy at a distant. That distance is in the past, present, or future. At that level the healing energy you send is stronger than level 1 Reiki. Level 3 & Master Level are often combined in the same training. At the Master Level the student not only learns new symbols that are stronger but is also opened up to become a teacher. It is only at the Master Level where one can open up others to the healing ability.
I was blessed many years ago to personally experience Reiki treatments. At the time I was challenged with Crohns Disease and searched out options for preventing surgery. I had no idea how Reiki was going to change my life in so many positive ways. Having Reiki prevented the surgery and helped me heal a disease that I was told was incurable. I healed physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I became empowered! Experiencing how powerful Reiki was at changing my life I wanted to learn this healing modality and help others heal. Now, a Reiki Master my healing with animals and people has been tremendously rewarding and made a huge positive impact for thousands of people and animals.
After Rocky, I went on to help my other dog Molly heal. Molly was a dog I rescued from a shelter. At the age of 3 months old she had been abused. She didn't trust people and was frightened of new experiences. When she got stressed or angry she turned that anger inside. As a result she developed Cancer. She had developed a tumour on her hind quarters. Again I turned to the healing power of Reiki. Molly would come to me with a look saying, "please help me" and would guide me to where she wanted the healing by positioning her body by my hand. As I would send her Reiki healing I would also share with her how she was a very good girl and I really loved her. With Molly she needed an emotional healing. Within one month that Cancer disappeared.
Recently, I was able to help my dog Willy. Willy had a stroke. He was suffering. His heart was weak and his one eye was drooped down as a result of the stroke. I thought for sure his life was over. I witnessed Willy guide me where he needed the healing. He positioned his body with the area in need of a healing by my hand. When he received enough healing in that area, he shifted his body. Now just 2 weeks later he is like a puppy again. After each treatment he turns his head for us to make eye contact then he licks my hand as his way of saying thank you for the gift.
My daily routine includes making time for each of my dogs to get a morning Reiki session. These healing treatments will last anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes. After the session each dog will make eye contact with me acknowledging the treatment is over, and then lick me to say a loving thank you to share their gratitude.
Experiencing Reiki treatments for myself, giving Reiki treatments to pets, people, and going on to train others how to do Reiki has been some of the best rewards of my life. I am very grateful to be able to give back to all the animals for the good they do me and others. Reiki can and will change your life and the lives of others around you. Having had the opportunity to help thousands of animals and people heal, I am here to help you and your pet as well. Contact me to learn how Reiki and I can help you and your furry friend!
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The Avalon, much like its sibling the Camry, has been around for quite some time. They've always been quite predictable in what they offer and what they don't. Yet like how the Camry was reimagined for the 2018 model year, Avalon was also redefined in what it should provide its owners.
Underpinned by Toyota's New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform, and powered by the Toyota Hybrid System (THS II) powertrain, the 2019 Toyota Avalon embodies the ride quality, technology, and design that sedan shoppers are looking for.
For its fifth generation, Avalon received a makeover by Toyota's U.S.-based design, engineering, and manufacturing teams at Calty Design Research Inc., Toyota Motor North America Research and Development, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky.
According to Toyota, the teams kept two words in mind throughout development: Authenticity and Exhilaration. We felt both throughout our week with the 2019 Avalon Hybrid Limited.
The Calty team penned Avalon's exterior to be longer, lower, and wider than before. Unique, stamping methods also aided in the deep draw panels that express distinguishable sculpted forms. Complex surfaces were shaped, like at Avalon's door handles that coincide with its profile's bold character line.
The slim all-LED projector headlights speak to its sportiness and elegance of the 2019 Avalon. Each headlamp is made of thin lighting modules – one for low beam, another for high – plus, an Adaptive LED Cornering lamp and a Dynamic Auxiliary Turn Signal. The cornering lamps enhance visibility around corners and curves during low- and high-speed maneuvers, as well as when changing lanes or when reversing. The lamp fades in and out for seamless activations and transitions, and adds 60 percent more foreground width to the low beam's pattern.
The hood is made of aluminum to reduce weight, and vents in the lower front fascia pass air across the front tires and along Avalon's buff flanks.
At the rear, LED tail lamps with dynamic turn signals illuminate like something out of a futuristic movie. They provide added visibility by activating each light diode in sequential fashion, rather than all on, all off.
Inside, we immediately noticed the thin structural pillars and broad windshield, which offers incredible visibility and thus safety.
Soft-touch materials are noticeable throughout – around the flowing, low-profile center console decorated in piano black trim; on the slim, tiered instrument panel leading into the doors; in the rear compartment, where doors and console mirror the impressive craftsmanship seen in the front.
A rear cup and device holder, accented in piano black and satin chrome-finish, folds up and down in the armrest between passengers. Rear air vents, controls for the seat warmers, and USB charging ports are available in the back too.
We love the door armrests which are thickly padded and buttery soft. The real wood trim on Limited looks incredibly warm.
The thin floating center stack of the dash houses Avalon's 9-inch infotainment system. Below the panel, there's easy access to the slide-open eBin containing a 12-volt plug and the standard wireless Qi mobile device charger (which worked perfectly). A trio of USB power ports (making for five total) is located inside the center console. A part cup-holder, part phone cradle located atop the front console, sits adjacent to the gear selector.
Toyota went all out by offering a color 10-inch Head-Up Display (HUD) to project important info, such as vehicle and engine speeds, turn-by-turn directions, audio settings, and drive mode. It helped us stay focused on the road and is very clear.
Aside for all the create comforts and driving tech, the big news inside the Avalon is that it's one of the few new Toyota's available with Apple CarPlay. We love the interface and the fact that Toyota touchscreen is so responsive.
We're excited to see Entune 3.0 Toyota Connected Service offered, which includes Safety Connect and Service Connect with a 3-year trial period, and Remote Connect with a 6-month trial.
Avalon also features Toyota's first integration of smartwatch and Amazon Alexa-enabled connectivity, as part of Toyota Remote Connect. It allow drivers to lock/unlock their doors, start the engine, or check the fuel level. It's voice controllable too, and compatible with select Android or Apple devices.
We're happy to report that music lovers will be more than satisfied with the 1200 watt 14-speaker sound system. Toyota worked with JBL to optimize the cabin design for optimal acoustics and it can surely be heard.
Toyota first Quantum Logic Surround combines individual signal streams of music by using patented filter bank technology and psychoacoustic modeling to create an immersive multi-channel listening experience with exceptional clarity, detail, and image specificity. Clari-Fi analyzes audio streams in real time, rebuilds key details lost in processing, and restores high-fidelity.
The story continues under the hood, where Toyota made the possible, possible. EPA fuel economy is rated at 43 across the board, making it the most efficient Avalon ever. We averaged 44 mpg across our week of commuting and errands.
A new TNGA 2.5-liter four-cylinder is more fuel efficient, runs cleaner, and is more powerful than previous iterations. Doing it all took the implementation of Toyota's vast catalog of advanced engine technologie.
Instead of oil pressure, its Dual VVT-i with VVT-iE variable valve system employs an electric motor to control variable valve timing, which aids fuel efficiency and promotes cleaner exhaust emissions (this is especially helpful in cold climates).
The hybrid system's net power output is an impressive 215 horsepower – up 15 horsepower versus the outgoing version. THS II uses two electric motors – MG1 and MG2 – to supplement the charging of the hybrid system's Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) battery pack, while MG2 assists the engine.
The compact battery sits under the rear passenger seat (instead of the trunk), thus providing a little over 16 cubic feet of cargo room.
Auto Glide Control (AGC), yet another of Avalon's fuel-saving technologies, automatically calculates efficient coasting. When driving normally, engine braking will slow the vehicle down when the driver lifts off from the accelerator pedal. However, to avoid aggressive engine braking, AGC limits the loss of vehicle speed through an automatic drive setting that acts more like a neutral gear, allowing the vehicle to coast to the stoplight.
"AGC" is illuminated on the Multi-Information Display when AGC is active to alert the driver that less deceleration torque than normal is currently being used. AGC can only be activated when the vehicle is being operated in the ECO drive mode setting. We really liked how this worked.
Avalon rides so smoothly and quietly. An entirely new suspension really makes this car feel like a Lexus in terms of comfort, but it handles better than any Avalon before it. The steering provides a lot of feedback and feels secure.
The cabin allows for a pin drop to be heard thanks to additional seals where front fenders meet front doors and where the doors merge at the B-Pillar. Sound absorption material is found in the engine bay, within the carpet pad, under the floor, and in the wheel well liners.
Standard Toyota Safety Sense (TSS-P) bundles active safety technologies including Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection (PCS w/PD), Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC), Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist (LDA w/SA); and Automatic High Beams (AHB). Additional standard safety technology includes Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) with Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) and Back Guide Monitor (BGM).
The Panoramic View Monitor on our tester makes parking a breeze, and Intelligent Clearance Sonar (ICS) with Rear Cross Traffic Braking (RCTB) ensures accidents are avoided when backing up too.
For over two decades, Avalon's sole manufacturing home has been Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky in Georgetown, KY. All Avalons sold in America and around the globe are assembled in Georgetown by about 8,000 proud American team members.


Sometimes was T.M.R's first ever megademo (coding under his previous handle T.C.M.) and features a large number of parts all linked together and spread over four loads. The style, like the coding in fact, is somewhat haphazard because it was all slung together from the ground upwards with all of the files being written and then linked pretty much in reverse order (so the last part is actually the oldest) but the overall effect is reasonable.
Trivia: The full name of this megademo is actually Sometimes I Wonder Why I Get Out Of Bed.


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Medical experts say Oz's medical expertise can be double-edged, especially amid pandemic
90.5 WESA | By Lucy Perkins
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This Dec. 4, 2019 file photo shows Dr. Mehmet Oz at the 14th annual L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth Gala in New York. Oz joins the Republican field of possible candidates aiming to capture Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat in next year's election.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, of daytime talk show fame, officially announced his bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania this week, saying he's running because "America's heart beat is in a code red in need of a defibrillator to shock it back to life." But some say that while he does promote some fact-based medical practices — like getting vaccinated against COVID-19 — his years spent talking up pseudoscience treatments on TV should give Pennsylvanians pause.
"He has a certain charm," said Joe Schwarcz, director for McGill University's Office for Science and Society, which works to separate sense from nonsense and fact from myth. Schwarcz has followed Oz's career for years.
"He sounds like he's reliable, he knows what he's talking about. But it's this two-face thing: Some of the stuff he says is scientifically solid and then some isn't."
Oz's approach to the coronavirus has itself been double-edged. He supports getting vaccinated against COVID. But soon after the pandemic hit, Oz repeatedly promoted taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment that lacked scientific evidence but was touted for a time by then-President Donald Trump and his allies.
Schwarcz said that early on in Oz's career, Oz did emphasize fact-based health practices, often as a guest on Oprah.
"He was quite good. He told people to exercise, he told people to eat broccoli," Schwarcz said. But later on, he said, Oz began endorsing pseudoscientific treatment, like weight-loss treatments.
Among those Oz touted was a green coffee bean supplement. On his show about the extract, Oz said, "This miracle pill can burn fat fast for anyone who wants to lose weight."
"Evidence, that's what I always look for," Schwarcz said. "Is there any proper scientific evidence for whatever is being promoted? And certainly in the case of, the green coffee bean extract or raspberry Ketone and add the red palm oil and all of this? There just is no evidence. He's kind of hyping simple solutions to complex problems, and the public just laps that up."
In 2014, the researchers who conducted a study about the pills retracted their work. The company who made the supplements paid a $3.5 million settlement to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC called the weight-loss claims baseless. Oz's show later released a statement acknowledging that the study had been pulled and that more research needed to be done.
That same year, Oz faced scrutiny at a U.S. Senate hearing, when then Sen. Claire McCaskill somewhat famously told Oz "the scientific community is almost monolithic against you."
But while many in the medical community have questioned Oz, Schwarcz said the doctor's track record of promoting some science-based medical advice as well pseudoscience can make it difficult for non-experts to parse what's true and what's not.
"The general public is not adept at that, so they are at the mercy of whatever he says." And for experts, he said, it's hard "to deal with someone who you can point at the things that he's done, which are good," but which also can be "swallowed up by the nonsense."
Dr. Lisa Parker is the director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. She said because there's so much information available on any topic, many people look to authority figures in a given field, like Oz, for guidance.
Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon credited for the invention of a heart valve. He attended Harvard University and earned a joint MD and MBA at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School before becoming a surgeon.
But Parker said such credentials can lead to what bioethicists call "a generalization of expertise," in which people assume that because someone is an expert in one area, they also have expertise in another.
"I think that's one of the concerns that we are seeing today with people who gained some notoriety in one field trying to use that celebrity to then gain prominence in another field in which they may or may not be well qualified," she said.
Oz, she said, moved from "cardiothoracic surgery over to diet and wellness. And then also from TV celebrity to political governance — issues of legislation and the public interest. And so relying on celebrity to claim expertise is problematic."
She said that as a physician, he has "gone out of his lane" by promoting products that are unrelated to his field.
"He's trading on his medical degree to attract viewers, to give them false credibility to what he is recommending on the show," she said.
Parker cited research from the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta, which looked at two medical advice shows, including Oz's. The study found that approximately half of the recommendations made on Oz's show "lacked evidence or are contradicted by the best available evidence."
Joe Schwarcz said he wishes Oz would use his platform to talk about fact-based, peer-reviewed research instead.
"It's a shame, because he's got the platform to do good science and there's no shortage of good stuff to talk about," Schwarcz said. "There is legitimate science that he could be addressing and clarifying and steer people in the right direction instead of promoting useless supplements and talking to the dead."
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Getting rid of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate is emerging as perhaps the most important issue in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, as the party struggles to use its majority in Washington to advance its agenda.


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Economic viability of biogas plants in relation to raw material input and transportation methods
Novosel, Tomislav and Irsag, Bojan and Pukšec, Tomislav and Duić, Neven (2013) Economic viability of biogas plants in relation to raw material input and transportation methods. = Economic viability of biogas plants in relation to raw material input and transportation methods. In: 8th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – SDEWES Conference, 22-27.09.2013., Dubrovnik, Hrvatska.
Official URL: http://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?rad=665861
Biogas plants are an established technology in Europe, although they are still underutilized in Croatia due to the specific state of its agricultural sector. They can reduce the environmental impact of a farm, help with manure management and can also be an extra source of income to the owner. Since they present a sizable investment, it is necessary to optimize their operation to ensure the economic viability of the project. There are several factors that can influence the economic viability of a biogas plant ranging from its size to the modes of transport used to supply it with raw material. The goal of this paper is to present the influence of the size of the installed plant, substrate used as input, utilization of waste heat and the distance of transportation of the substrate and digestate on the economic viability of biogas plants in Croatia. Three typical centralized plants with an installed capacity of 250, 500 and 1000 kWel respectively are used as the basis for the analysis. The examined substrates include animal manure, maize, bio waste and grass. The effect of the waste heat utilization and transport distance of inputs and outputs are also taken into consideration as are different economical parameters such as the investment cost, interest rates, price of electricity and so on. The results of the feasibility and sensitivity studies are presented in the paper.
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Biogas, economic viability, transportation, various substrates
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excellent beach and sports amenities the area has to offer.
Villa Cascais is a contemporary and very spacious home away from home, only available during high summer and occasionally Christmas and Easter, when the owners themselves travel.
Stylishly decorated, the interiors include some striking pieces of art complementing the modern yet comfortable living space, spread over 3 levels. Polished cement, slate tiles and wood-paneled floors combine beautifully with glass French windows all around bringing the outdoors in, so the villa is full of natural light. There is a very spacious L-shaped living room/library, a separate TV room and each of the 7 bedrooms has been individually furnished. The covered terrace overlooking the lawn and swimming pool provides a relaxing space for enjoying a sundowner or a good holiday read, and there is an outdoor dining area set within the 700 sq metres all enclosed garden.
The villa is located in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Cascais and there is plenty to do in the area in terms of leisure, sports and culture. The property is just a few minutes drive from scenic Guincho beach, Cascais centre and its Marina, and the largest Casino in Europe at Estoril. Sintra's historic centre is 15 kms away. There is a wide choice of restaurants to choose from, but fish and seafood lovers especially will be delighted with the regional offer. Lisbon city centre just half-hour away, and is a must visit.
WARNING NOTES: Due to a few low terrace drops, glass walls and French windows, as well as the owner's private pieces of art, young children must be supervised!


This compact unit dramatically reduces joint impact created by the ocean's waves.
Paul Nowack developed a love affair with the sea at an early age. His knees, back, and joints, however, saw the Florida man's passion more as a love-hate relationship that grew more challenging with each new ocean adventure.
In response, Nowack combined his passion for boating with his skills as a machine tinkerer to design Sea Knees, a shock mitigation unit that dramatically reduces the impact on knees and other joints from boat shock caused by waves and chop. Sea Knees are designed for the fast-growing center console boating industry and make for a far more comfortable ride for boat operators.
The Sea Knees help to shock mitigation to dramatically reduce the impact from waves and chop on the operator's knees and other joints.
Nowack's model includes a platform upon which the boat operators stand. Under the skid-proof panels are compressive devices that hinge and swivel to reduce the impact on the legs. The compressive units hinge on plastic bearings. "The bearings are taking the brunt of the impact,'' he explained.
The bearings in Sea Knees are manufactured by igus, inc., a motion plastics manufacturer based in Germany that runs its North American operations out of Providence, R.I. Each Sea Knees unit includes eight igus bushings to help mitigate the shock from the ocean surf.
The igus iglide R bushings offer low absorption and low coefficients of friction. The bushing also has a thick wall—it has a density of 1.39 g/cm3 and offers superior chemical and moisture resistance, which was essential for Nowack's application. Perhaps most importantly for him, the unit costs about 80% less than the bushing he had been using before switching.
Sea Knees were developed by Paul Nowack, a tinkerer and long-time sea lover.
In testing, boat operators and a mate traveled for five minutes in 3 to 5 ft. seas with winds around 13 mph. The boats traveled at about 30 knots—about 34 miles per hour—and both people were fitted with G-force measuring devices that measured data across three axis: left to right, vertical, and front to back. In every measurement, G-force impact was reduced substantially with Sea Knees.
In one particularly harrowing moment, the G-force without Sea Knees surpassed 8—which is more than Apollo 16 astronauts absorbed on re-entry into the atmosphere in 1972—and fighter pilots often have to endure G-forces of 8-9.
The chart above records the different G-forces experienced by the captain and the first mate. The captain is using the Sea Knees device while the first mate is standing on the deck.
Boat operators have been searching for shock mitigation systems for years. Some solutions have been developed for people who sit while guiding their boat, but center console boats have become much more popular in recent years. They represent more than 50% of all saltwater fishing boats, according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Sales of saltwater fishing boats climbed 34.8% in 2014 and have remained strong.
Sea Knees offers permanent and portable models and can be made in single and double units. Nowack said he started designing the product about 30 years ago but couldn't dedicate extensive development to it until after he left full-time employment. Now he has a product that protects the joints of his seafaring colleagues and makes for a far more enjoyable ride.
Thomas Renner writes frequently on manufacturing, building, and construction for U.S.-based trade publications.


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How to View the Profile of All Members in WhatsApp Group with a Code
Whatsapp has been releasing so many features lately to its Messenger app, but almost all the features are not yet available on the official Whatsapp application on Google Playstore, iTunes and Windows store, as it's been tested on Whatsapp Beta before arriving to the public on the regular Whatsapp application on App stores.
Do you know that you can view all participants profile pictures in Whatsapp group without going to the group settings to view them? Well, it's just a simple trick. It only requires a code to do this, which i will show you guys.
Meanwhile, there are some Whatsapp features and tricks i will like you to read. It's interesting and helpful. I'm sure you would like it.
How To Create Whatsapp Group Invitation Link
How To Mention Users In Whatsapp Group Chat
How To Stop Someone From Adding You To An Unknown Whatsapp Group
How To Share and Send Files and Android Apk Apps On Whatsapp
HOW TO VIEW WHATSAPP GROUP MEMBERS PROFILE WITH A CODE
==> Open to your WhatsApp
==> Locate the group you want to view its members profile
==> While on the group, type [email protected]
==> Immediately, you should see the list of all the members in the group. Just tap a member to go to the members' profile, and then view his/her picture.
That's all friends! Hope you enjoyed it? Kindly comment and Share this post.
Just Simple as ABC
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Wow. Nice. But I will like to know how to see the direct link to join a group so I can post it on Facebook for people to join.


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Vroom! Ignite Raises $7.5 Million For New Live Auto Racing Game
Online gaming company Ignite Game Technologies has raised $7.5 million in Series B financing from private investors in a round led by Steve Bellotti and Bill Budinger.
The company raised a $3 million Series A round in 2010 and has raised a total of $12.2 million in funding.
The company will use the additional capital for the development of a "new form of auto racing game".
Exactly when it will launch and what it will bring to the table remains unclear. The company operates a website at SIMraceway.com where you can sign up for a beta of a game, which I assume is the one they're referring to, although this wasn't made clear in the press statement.
In it, the startup posits that it will provide gamers with an entirely new online auto racing experience that is "bound to shake up traditional racing gameplay" by emphasizing live online multiplayer gaming, a high-fidelity physics engine and "proprietary player skill quantification technology".
The product will debut later this year in the fall.
Ignite is based in San Francisco and founded in 2008 by Jonathan Haswell and James Synge.


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Together, these modules abstract OpenGL ARB, Cg and GLSL shading languages, simplifying the use of 3D vertex/fragment shaders, and increasing portability between various GPUs.
The POGL team adds new APIs to PerlMagick 6.3.5 to provide direct C pointer access to IM's image cache - resulting in tight OpenGL / ImageMagick integration, and significant increase in perfromance.
In parallel, the POGL team also releases OpenGL::Image, which abstracts loading/processing/saving images for OpenGL textures, FBOs and VBOs.
PyOpenGL's author explains why OpenGL is slower on Python than Perl.
use.perl.org headlines a Perl vs Python and a POGL vs sDL::OpenGL OpenGL benchmark.
OpenGL.org headlines a Perl vs Python and a POGL vs sDL::OpenGL OpenGL benchmark.
Graphcomp hosts and launches the official POGL developer site, with documentation tutorials, and 3D galleries.
The POGL team submits Perl OpenGL 0.55 to CPAN.
This release adds support for MacOSX, FreeBSD and 52 new openGL extensions - including VBO, FBO and Vertex/Fragment Program extensions.
Bob Free is made the primary owner of CPAN's Perl OpenGL module.
Free has been developing 3D systems since 1973, and has been doing object-oriented Perl development since 1995.
O'Reilly's Perl.com site posts a Lightning Article describing the benefits of using Perl OpenGL.
OpenGL.org headlines a Perl vs C OpenGL benchmark.


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Wedge salads make really weird hangover food... but its soo tasty.
This looks really good. What is it?
i guess i should have been more specific: what are the ingredients.
haha, i figured... i just wanted to be a jerk.
cut a head of lettuce into quarters, add a balsamic dressing, a bit of bleu cheese dressing, bleu cheese crumbles, tomatoes, and black pepper.
make sure you add the dressings when it's upside down like this so they pour into the layers of lettuce.


Is there anyone out there that is going on this trip. I have just come back from Morrocco doing Mount Toukbal and have realised that i need to get much fitter to do Kili. I thought that i was fairly fit but didnt take into account the pain in the knees and toes on an asscent.


The co-inventor of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, Joe Jones, wants to do the same thing with weeds in your garden that he did with dirt on your floor: banish the mess with the help of a robot.
Weeding your garden can be a meditative and stress-relieving activity, but there's probably some times when you have a million other things to do. Imagine if you had a little helper that could keep your garden weed-free 24/7, without any work on your part? That dream could soon be a reality.
That's because the co-inventor of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, Joe Jones, wants to do the same thing with weeds in your flower or vegetable garden that he did with dirt on your floor: banish the mess with the help of a robot. Jones and his team at Franklin Robotics recently unveiled Tertill, a weed-killing robot.
The cute little device is solar powered and waterproof; it lives in your garden, collecting sunlight during the day. Once the battery is fully charged, it starts roaming and hacking away at any weeds it passes over.
"Tertill treats short plants as weeds, cutting them down with a string trimmer/weed whacker," the Franklin Robotics team explained. The robot "uses proprietary algorithms to ensure that it finds as many weeds as it can" and has sensors that cause it to turn away from your actual plants. It also comes with "plant collars" to put around seedlings, so it won't accidentally chop them down.
Sound like something you need in your life? Sadly, Tertill is still in development, and there's no word as to how much it will cost, or when it will be available. If you're interested, you can sign up on Franklin Robotics's website to get updates about Tertill's progress.


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Q: Disable close button of MSBuild child process I have a PowerShell script that launches an MSBuild child process. I would like to disable the "close" button on the child process window, so that the user cannot interrupt the process. However, I have not been able to find any information indicating whether this is possible.
If someone could either confirm (and tell me how I would go about doing this) or deny whether this is possible I would greatly appreciate it.

A: MSBuild.exe is a console application, and as such by default it will run in a console window. You can't really "disable" the close button anymore than you could stop someone (with the right privileges) from just terminating the msbuild.exe process...
What you could do to mitigate some risk would be to use the the jobs feature that was introduced in PowerShell 2.0:
$job = Start-Job -ScriptBlock {
  & msbuild app.csproj
  if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "MSBuild failed. Exit code: $LASTEXITCODE" }
}

This will schedule the script block to be run on a background thread of your PowerShell session and it will not show a window for msbuild. All of the output will be captured and held until you decide to retrieve the job. You can check the status of all background jobs with the Get-Job cmdlet, and receive the results with Receive-Job
Wait-Job $job # this line pauses PowerShell/your script until the job returns
$output = $job | Receive-Job

You can do whatever you want with the output - it is worth noting that the exception thrown if the msbuild exit status code is non-zero will be held until you receive the job, at which point it will be raised to your code like any other exception would be. You may want to consider wrapping your call to Receive-Job in a try/catch block to deal with a failed build.

A: Another option if you don't want a separate window to appear:
$buildArgs = "MySolution.sln", "/t:Build", "/p:Configuration=Debug"
Start-Process -FilePath "msbuild" -ArgumentList $buildArgs -NoNewWindow -Wait

Start-Process has other flags to control redirecting output as well.


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A world-class railway for a modern Britain
Targeting digital systems to improve capacity and performance on the railway
A digital railway benefits passengers, freight, UK businesses and the economy
By targeting digital system upgrades in the places where we can increase capacity and improve performance, a digital railway will deliver:
More trains, reduced crowding, better connections and improved performance and safety for passengers. It also enables the industry to provide real time information about journeys.
Increased freight capacity for moving around goods, greater availability of paths, optimised running (energy efficiencies), a stable environment for growth, timetable flexibility and greater customer satisfaction.
Jobs, housing and economic growth. Greater workforce mobility through improved connectivity that links more people with higher paid jobs. Creation of new high skilled engineering jobs.
Regional and national growth and jobs through increased opportunities to export expertise internationally, building our world leading rail industry.
The Digital Railway programme is the industry transformation programme that will make this happen.
Capacity for Growth
Passenger numbers have doubled since 1996 and are set to double again over the next 25 years. We are running more trains and adding more carriages, but with these changes alone we cannot meet projected demand. And the Department for Transport's (DfT) Rail Freight Study also shows the growing demand for rail freight services in recent years.
Long term demographic trends like population growth and urbanisation mean more people travelling within and between major cities and city regions. People in urban areas use public transport to get to work but major stations like Birmingham New Street, Kings Cross, Leeds, Euston, Manchester Piccadilly, Paddington, London Victoria and London Bridge which connect into and between our major urban areas are already full at peak times.
Better performance and additional capacity will enable more people and goods to travel more reliably into and between cities.
A digital system upgrade will deliver benefits safely and cost effectively
We need to find a way to get more performance out of our existing railway and manage our network more efficiently. Where capacity is needed and we have exhausted low disruption conventional enhancements, a system upgrade of digital + enabling conventional works is the best option to address the challenge.
This will deliver capacity and performance improvements sooner and at comparable or lower cost than conventional only works. It does this through unlocking the maximum capacity potential of the existing infrastructure through a system upgrade.
A better experience for passenger and freight customers
Early analysis shows that performance can be improved by up to 10% in terms of reduction on current delay minutes and significantly more capacity can be released from the network where it is most needed. This means more trains, improved punctuality and better recovery from incidents for passengers. Greater availability of the network and improved fuel consumption will enable rail freight to better compete with road haulage.
Together we can deliver More trains, Better connections, Improved Performance
Britain's network is the fastest growing in Europe. But the traditional options to meet this demand are too slow, costly and disruptive.
With the right strategy, built for the digital age, the railway can achieve a step-change in capacity for both passenger and freight trains to run safely on existing track.
Our economy relies on the right connections to link skills to jobs, and goods to market. But the network is failing to keep up with changing demand.
Modernisation will create new choices for passenger and freight customers about how where, when and how fast trains travel.
Without action to tackle root causes of delays, passengers will face longer waits for trains.
Digital Traffic Management is boosting performance on leading railways. We need to apply these benefits to Britain's national network.


A Septuagintaoctingentillion (1 Septuagintaoctingentillion) is 10 to the power of 2613 (10^2613). This is an excessively astronomical number!
How many zeros in a Septuagintaoctingentillion?
There are 2,613 zeros in a Septuagintaoctingentillion.
A Novensexagintaoctingentillion is smaller than a Septuagintaoctingentillion.
A Unseptuagintaoctingentillion is larger than a Septuagintaoctingentillion.
A Septuagintaoctingentillionaire is someone whos assets, net worth or wealth is 1 or more Septuagintaoctingentillion. It is unlikely anyone will ever be a true Septuagintaoctingentillionaire. If you want to be a Septuagintaoctingentillionaire, play Tap Tales!
Is Septuagintaoctingentillion the largest number?
Septuagintaoctingentillion is not the largest number. Infinity best describes the largest possible number - if there even is one! We cannot comprehend what the largest number actually is.


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Inside and out, the Ford Transit was built to handle whatever work throws at you. For one, the Ford Transit already comes equipped with up to 13,795 litres worth of cargo space to carry everything you need in one trip. Plus, if you need to carry even more, the Transit comes with a maximum towing capacity of 7,500 lbs along with the option to add TBC (trailer brake control) for a more stable drive. The Ford Transit is also built with a strong, lightweight unibody construction that makes it more durable and fuel-efficient than the competing cargo or passenger van. Step inside the Ford Transit to be treated to a completely modernized interior, giving you today's technological features including Lane Keeping Alert with Driver Alert, high-Capacity Upfitter Switches, and you have the option to add SYNC® 3 for an even more advanced driving experience.
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