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- Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd.
- To be the Leader of microwave drying and edible oil refining equipments Manufacturer
avocado oil machine
- Qi'e
- Shandong, China (Mainland)
- 1 Set/Sets
- US $5,000 - 12,000/ Set
- paypal,UnionPay, Visa/MasterCard, Amex, Discover,T/T
- 100 Set/Sets per Day
Product Details
|expeller of oil seed
|Cold & Hot Pressing Machine
|Automatic Grade:
|Production Capacity:
|10 t/d
|Place of Origin:
|Shandong, China (Mainland)
|Brand Name:
|Model Number:
|After-sales Service Provided:
|Engineers available to service machinery overseas
|Carbon Steel/ stainless steel
|Simple Operation
|12 Months
|low residual oil
|hot and cold press
|expeller of oil seed
|Use for:
|to get cooking oil
|expeller of oil seed
|Top Level
Product Description
avocado oil machine
According to the difference of alkali thickness and oil temperature, the process of 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Lineis divided into two types, one is low temperature with thick alkali (its initial temperature is 20 ~ 30 ℃, alkali thickness is 20 ~ 30 Be) and another one is high temperature with light alkali (its initial temperature is 75 ℃, alkali thickness is 10 to 16 Be). The former of avocado oil machineis generally applied and the latter is mainly used for crude oil which has low acid value, light clour and lustre, and less impurity.
1. What is the soybean oil pretreatment of 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Line?
Soybean→Materials dosing →Magnetic separation→Cleaning→crusher→flaker→ Extrusion Puffing →Counter-current
drying→To leaching plant
2. What is the soybean oil solvent extraction of avocado oil machine?
Material embryos→Extraction→Wet meal→Evaporation→Cooling→Product meal packing
Mixed oil→Filter→Negative pressure evaporation → Crude oil
Small hydraulic expeller of oil seed
Our company is engaged in the manufacture of hydraulic equipment Professional Company, Factory always adhere to science and technology as the first, Pioneering and enterprising continuously. A full range of meeting the needs of the market. At present, has become abundant funds, advanced technology, perfect equipment, the production of hydraulic equipment has a certain amount of brand enterprises.
The machine can be cold (stir-fried dishes after) oil directly into the barrel of oil press, has the advantages of simple process, quick, direct out fragrance of pure oil without adulteration, in the user's witness, a few minutes can be finished oil, Sesame, peanut, polite, ideal press almond.
It is a new designed machine on the base of abroad similar product. The machine is specialized in processing sesame, peanut, walnuts, almonds, flax etc.
This machine presses the fried seeds in the barrel, it 's easy to operate, and you can get fragrant edible oil directly. It just takes several minutes to get the healthy product oil.
The hydraulic seed oil press machine main technical parameter:
This is some detail part picture of our hydraulic expeller. All of our steel is order for baosteel company - the most famous steel maker in China. Every detail part have specially designated person to responsible, so our quality always best.
This is processing of our machine, our parts are order from famous brands, and our worker have rich experience.
This is some part of hydraulic expeller. All of our part order for the best company in China or the world.
We have the best freight can quickly and safety to transport the goods to the port.
Most of times, we used sea transportation.Certifications
Our Service
1,How long can we get the goods?
we usually delivery in 45 working days, we will inform you shipping time based on your seaport.
2,How long is the guarantee?
we promise guarantee as one year for non-human damage factor.
3,How should I do if meet some trouble while using?
we can supply English manual book and also take a video for showing how to resolve the problems or dispatch our worker to your factory.
4,What about Payment term?
T/T(Telegraphic Transfer ) --30% as prepayment by T/T, after seen the copy of the B/L sent by fax, the balance of 70% should be effected .
Western Union ,L/C ,Trade Assurance,Etc.
5,What's your MOQ
1 set
Pre-sale services:
1) Selecting equipment type;
2) Designing and fabricating the products in accordance with the special requirements of the clients;
3) Training technical personnel for our clients;
4) Providing construction and technology consultations or working out proper construction schemes for those new, special or difficult projects
Services provided during the sale:
Respect our clients; present the clients with ease, relaxation and a surprise; devote ourselves to improve the total value of our clients.
1) Checking products acceptance ahead of delivery;
2) Introducing the service system to our clients.
After-sale services
Improve the added value of our products, and let the clients free from the using troubles:
1) Assisting the clients preparing for the first construction scheme;
2) Installing and testing the equipment;
3) Training the first-line operators on site;
Zhengzhou Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd grain and oil machinery co., LTD is a company specializing in the production of grain and oil machinery and equipment, scientific research, manufacturing, sales for the integration of large-scale private enterprises, the company with the mechanical design and research institute of Henan province, Henan university of technology (the former college of food) university-enterprise cooperation, carried out for a long time in oil machinery, preparing protein, lecithin extraction and other aspects of the research and development and application of new technology.
Our products are exported to all over the world, and always get the high praise.
Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd.is a 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Line factory specializing in the production of avocado oil machine, scientific research,manufacturing,installation, commissioning.Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd.can provide 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Linecustomers with design and services of 1-2000 tons avocado oil machine. Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd. have finished hundreds of successful projects 1-20tpd small scale oil refining lineover the years: peanut oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, sesame oil, animal oil,grape seed oil, acer truncatum oil, peony seed oil, walnut oil, hemp seed oil, pine oil, tea seed oil, papaya oil, milk thistle seed, and other special type 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Lineoil. Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd. have independent import and export department. Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd. 1-20TPD Small Scale Oil Refining Lineequipment has been successfully exported to more than ten countries: Russia, Australia, India, Afghanistan, Cameroon,and so on.
Contact us:
Carrie-Sales manager
Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd.
Web: www.epier.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Moblie:0086-15020017267(also WhatsApp)
Contact Us
- Shandong Microwave Machinery Co.,Ltd.
- AddressNo. 225, Huangqiao Village, Beiyuan, Tianqiao District, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Phone(Working Time)+86 0531 85064681
- Fax+ 86 0531 85064682
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The Baltimore Sun was named Newspaper of the Year — and recognized as having the best website among the competitors — Friday in the annual Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association awards contest.
The Sun has been chosen Newspaper of the Year six times in the past seven years. The Washington Post won the award in 2008.
The Sun won 51 first- or second-place awards in the editorial contest among daily papers with a circulation of 75,000 or more; The Post won 13; The News Journal, based in Wilmington, Del., won 11.
Twelve of the Sun's 27 first-place award winners were also considered Best in Show, meaning they were superior to the first-place winners from the five other circulation divisions. The Sun's coverage of the Preakness and Tropical Storm Lee both garnered Best in Show designations for sports and weather articles, respectively.
The Sun also won three second-place awards for page design and art illustration among daily newspapers.
The Sun's first-place editorial winners (Best in Show winners are designated with an asterisk):
•General website excellence: Sun staff, for baltimoresun.com.*
•Editorial: Peter Jensen, for "The hero of Baltimore," about former Mayor William Donald Schaefer.
•Local column, critical thinking: Jean Marbella, for "Baltimore celebrates Schaefer, and itself."
•Spot news: Justin Fenton, Peter Hermann and Julie Scharper, for "17 city officers charged in broad towing scandal."
•General news story: Childs Walker, for "Best friends, forever," about two servicemen who died in action and were buried next to each other.*
•Continuing coverage: Justin Fenton, Peter Hermann and Scott Calvert, for coverage of the Select Lounge shooting
•Feature story, profile: Mary Carole McCauley, for "Last dance," about the retirement of the Baltimore School for the Arts' director.
•Local government: Scott Calvert and Timothy B. Wheeler, for "City loses lead-paint funding."
•Weather, natural disasters: Sun staff, for coverage of Tropical Storm Lee
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•Sports photo: Kenneth K. Lam, for "Now, this is how you do it," from the Ravens' first practice of the season.
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•Business reporting: Lorraine Mirabella, for "Hiring inequity," about the recession's lasting influence on women.*
•Arts, entertainment reporting: Erik Maza, for a story about Baltimore's indie music scene, "Who needs a Grammy anyway?"
•Religion reporting: Mary Carole McCauley, for "Blogger uncovers Vatican secrets."
•Special section: Sun staff, for a special section after the death of William Donald Schaefer.
•Headline: Andy Knobel, for "ChA&Mps," about Texas A&M winning the NCAA women's basketball championship.
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It's only Wednesday but I am already looking forward to the weekend. We have a babysitter + new friends + Thai food in our future for Friday night. And on Saturday, Jim is taking the kids out on a daddy date for a few hours in the morning, so I have some time for myself. I am still deciding between going to get a mani/pedi or going to explore a nearby town where I have heard rumors that there is an amazing 2-story Savers thrift store. Tough decisions. Perhaps I can fit both in! Do you have any fun upcoming weekend plans? I know, I know. It's only Wednesday. It's just one of those weeks, I guess. I hope you all enjoy your hump day!
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MINNEAPOLIS >> University of Minnesota students were warned Friday that a heavy police presence will be in place during the national hockey championships to prevent a repeat of the riotous behavior that erupted after Minnesota edged North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinals.
Thursday night's unrest drew police in riot gear as hundreds of students and other hockey fans took to the streets in Dinkytown near campus to celebrate the Gophers' last-second win. Some fans threw beer bottles and cans at officers, others climbed light poles, and one video showed several young men jumping on top of a squad car. A State Patrol helicopter was called to illuminate the area.
Police arrested several people, and two officers were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center for, Minneapolis police said Friday. An undetermined amount of public and police property was damaged during the two-hour disturbance, police said.
"The actions of a few people in Dinkytown last night unfortunately marred the victory of our Gophers men's hockey team," University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler wrote in an email being sent to students Friday. "These actions are unacceptable and must not be repeated."
Kaler said that any similar outbreak of misbehavior Saturday after Minnesota's game against underdog Union in Philadelphia, "will be met with zero tolerance," the Star Tribune reported (http://strib.mn/1qnikze ).
The president said campus and city police, and "other law enforcement from across the metro area" will be on duty "to keep the peace and arrest suspects."
Campus Police Chief Greg Hestness said Friday that "planning for Saturday has been underway for two months."
In a statement, the Minneapolis Police Department said it hopes people "celebrate responsibly and lawfully" after the championship game.
Kaler said that troublemakers not only risk prosecution but discipline under the school's Student Conduct Code.
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I received an email from Caribou Coffee the other day introducing their yummy fall drinks. They have 4 new ones:
- Hot Wild Pumpkin
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I promptly sent off an email to find out if they were all gluten-free. Here is the response I got:
Dear Kimberly,
Thank you for contacting Caribou Coffee Customer Service with your inquiry. All of the ingredients used to make the new fall drinks are gluten free. However, each of the drinks contain an ingredient that is made in a facility where gluten products are used. So while all effort is made to ensure that our ingredients do NOT have glutens, there isn't a 100% guarantee. I hope this information is helpful.
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You can bet I will be in there trying the Hold Wild Pumpkin & Hot Wild Caramel Apple very soon!! YUM!!
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TCSD Conversation by Craig Zelent
I had the pleasure recently of talking triathlon with TCSD member Gerry Forman. Gerry won his age group at Ironman Arizona, but he is so much more than just a great triathlete. Read on and you'll see what I mean.
Craig: What was your athletic background before you got involved in triathlon?
Gerry: Prior to being involved in the sport of triathlon, I was an avid golfer and runner. In my earlier days, I played a lot of baseball, both in high school and later in a lot of fast pitch softball leagues. I also did a lot of running. My running consisted mostly of marathons back in the 70's while I was residing in Hawaii. My very first marathon was the Maui Marathon in 1977. That same year I also did the Big Island Marathon and Honolulu Marathon. Then in the 80's when 10k's got popular I primarily focused on those races since running marathons was very hard on my body. I did a little cycling here in San Diego in the early 2000's but pretty much limited it to weekend riding.
Craig: What inspired you to become a triathlete?
Gerry: I started doing triathlons because I wanted to have a new challenge. On 1/1/08, I was thinking about goals for the year and decided to do a triathlon. I have always been open to unique challenges having done sky diving and Outward Bound. So, I attended a Steve Tally session on Triathlon 101 at B&L in Feb 2008, and again in March 2008. I went two times because I wanted to make sure I learned as much as possible from Steve. Steve commented about me being there the second time and I told him I couldn't believe how easy he made it sound. He got a big kick out of that and Steve and I have been good friends ever since that evening. That's when I decided on Mission Bay.
Craig: What was that first triathlon like for you?
Gerry: My first race was really quite an experience. Dee went with me and I made my first big mistake. I arrived so early that we sat in the parking lot for an hour waiting for the transition area to open up. I think that's when Dee decided she would not go to any more races. I also had a good friend from my former company come watch. He had done several Ironmans, including Kona, so I was really happy to see him. I was worried about the swim, but it was uneventful. The bike went great but I struggled on the run. I was passed by the two eventual 1st and 2nd place finishers. Actually, I finished last, but it was also 3rd, so I got on the podium in my first race! Bob Palmatier was 1st and Bill Haines finished 2nd. I recall seeing their ages on their calf as they passed and was really ticked off at myself, and swore to improve my running for the future. I see Bob and Bill often and have really benefitted from their encouragement and friendship.
Craig: What are your thoughts about the TCSD volunteer coaches?
Gerry: I believe the TCSD volunteer coaches are fantastic! The amount of time they commit, along with such a high level of expertise is truly amazing. I did not know how to swim more than 25 yards, so I started going to the JCC twice a week. It was really a struggle. Rachel and Chad were very patient with me and I made some good progress. The best thing about the JCC was being able to stand up in the shallow end when I got tired during each lap. I also met Hank Montrose there and he later sold me my first (and only) Tri bike, a LOOK 576. I then started attending the beginner swims at Glorietta Bay and DeAnza Cove and received great instruction from Jonathan Jefferson and Steve Koci. They really helped me gain speed and confidence in using a wetsuit. They also conducted several transition clinics which were very helpful.
I received great cycling coaching from Andy Concors. His weekly sessions were fantastic. So you can readily see that I used many of the great resources offered by TCSD. I owe a lot to the beginner coaches. In addition to the beginner coaches, we are so fortunate to have other top local coaches lend their time on a weekly basis. All the swim coaches at the JCC, the Thursday beginner swim coaches, the track coaches (Mike Plumb, Jim Vance and Tom Piszkin) and the advanced swims led by Jim and Bill at Ventura Cove. Julie Dunkle leads a Friday morning swim and all the coastal beach swims every day of the week led by our wonderful volunteer swimmers. Wow, are we lucky or what!? I also want to thank all of our many volunteers and sponsors. I have not volunteered enough these past two years and I will change that going forward.
Craig: How has your life improved since you became a triathlete?
Gerry: My life has improved significantly since I've been doing triathlons. I've been blessed with great health all my life, so have been able to participate in many sports. But to be able to meet all the wonderful people I have met these past 5 years has been amazing. A life full of friends is a life full of happiness. I have also dropped 25 pounds, from 175 to 150. That sure makes climbing hills easier! I also made a pledge to my youngest son during my first year of training. He was struggling with some addiction issues, so I told him that if he stopped I would stop drinking. Neither one of us has gone off this commitment in 4 ½ years. I'm pretty proud of that. Several TCSD members have approached me for tips and support on this issue, and that makes me proud, too.
Craig: What is your perspective on the unique ability of the sport of triathlon to develop friendships among all ages?
Gerry: I think the sport of triathlon has a unique feature that no other sport has. It brings people of all ages and abilities together for training and racing. Training and racing with people gives you the chance to forge new friendships that can last a lifetime. I recall going to Quad Cities, Iowa to race and qualify for the Sprint World Championships in 2009. I met Raja Lahti there and then we later went to Budapest for the Worlds and raced there together. Since then, Raja and her husband, Dave and I have been good friends and we have raced together many times. Another example is my Three Amigos: Melik Hernandez, Guillermo Escobedo and Julio Gonzales. I've been training with them for about 4 years now on a regular basis. I've met their families, spent time socially and have regular In N Out sessions with them. Even if we don't train, I talk with them weekly. They have become a part of my life. There are many others that I see on a regular basis that I truly feel close to. This is all a result of being involved in the sport of triathlon. I love it!
Craig: I recall racing with you in Budapest, Hungary in 2010. What was your experience like racing for Team USA at the Sprint Triathlon World Championships?
Gerry: Participating on TEAM USA and racing at Budapest, Hungary in 2009 was truly an epic experience. I met so many great people from all over the world. I was able to meet and spend time with Scout Bassett, who was competing for TEAM USA on the Paralympic Team. I shared an apartment in downtown Budapest with Raja and Dave and was able to train with them for several days. I gained invaluable experience from their input. The race itself was really interesting. We swam in the Blue Danube, and I had a good swim. We biked in rain so it was technical and tough. The run was along the Blue Danube and finished coming up and over a bridge in to downtown Budapest. Having people yelling USA! USA! And handing out American Flags was so emotional and exciting. I had a good race. I finished 5th overall and was the 2nd fastest American. I had a PR so I was happy about that. We raced on Saturday and on Sunday, got to watch the world class athletes race the Olympic distance race. It was a beautiful sunny day and the course was blazing fast. In fact, I recall seeing you coming over the bridge to the finish line. Marisa Rastetter was also there and I believe finished in the top ten of her age group.
Craig: Congratulations on winning your age group at Ironman Arizona. How did your race go?
Gerry: Thank you. This was my most challenging and rewarding race experience. The amount of training that is required to complete a 140.6 Ironman is huge. At least, for me it was. I had done two 70.3's and felt I was ready to step up and give it a go. Towards the end of the training it seemed that all I did was eat, train and sleep. But, I could feel myself getting stronger, and the longer rides were lots of fun because so many people stepped up and joined in with me to give me support. I have to thank Tony Berg for sticking it out with me on my longest ride. It was tough. I also want to thank Brian Long and the Thursday ride folks who helped me so much during the training. The race itself was different than I thought it would be. The swim was far more challenging, the bike about right and the run easier than I thought it would be. I am really happy with the results. I wanted to break 16 hours and I finished in 15:17. During the entire race, and the four days leading up to the race, my friend Julio Gonzales was there looking out for me. He was such a big help to me! Qualifying for Kona was unbelievable and to do it in my first full Ironman was really lucky. I feel fortunate and proud to say "I am an Ironman".
Craig: Why did you decline the slot to Ironman Hawaii?
Gerry: A lot of people have asked me why I turned down the Kona slot. For most triathletes this is the ultimate goal. And, it was a goal that I had: to qualify. However, I am a very poor swimmer without a wetsuit. I have been working on this for over a year and still cannot swim 1 mile in a pool without a pull buoy. So, the mental anxiety that I would have for the next 8 months would be unbearable. Also, I'm not sure that I'm mentally ready to do the long training again. On the other hand, I have big plans for 2013. I age up to 75-79 and want to compete for national rankings at the Nationals in August and this would not be possible if I took the Kona slot. I hope I have not offended anyone because I turned the slot down. By the way, the slot I passed on rolled out of my age group and into the men's 40-44 age group. I understand the guy who got my slot is Mike Morgan from San Diego. I was so happy that someone from San Diego will go in my place.
Craig: Mike Plumb has been your coach. How has Mike helped you to improve and achieve your goals?
Gerry: I have raced a lot over the past 5 years and Mike Plumb, TriPower Multisports has been my coach during this entire period of time. His plans have always had me race ready and injury free. His experience in all three disciplines is outstanding. Being local, I have the benefit of group rides and frequent one on one contact. I followed his plan for Ironman Arizona to a "T" and the results were there! He also hooked me up with Brian Shea, Personal Best Nutrition who put together a great nutrition plan for me. I was able to race without one cramp or any stomach issues. Mike also has a lot of local clients so I have plenty of folks to train with for individual races.
Craig: What are your future triathlon goals?
Gerry: Regarding my future goals, I want to compete in both the Sprint and Olympic distances at the Nationals in August and win my age group. I also want to be nationally ranked in my new 75-79 age group and achieve All American ranking. I've been selected, once again, for the Wattie Ink Elite Team and we will be having a larger presence during 2013. I want to do as much as I can to help them increase their national prominence. After 2013, I want to cut back on racing and spend more time volunteering and helping new people in the sport. I have found this rewarding in helping at the Thursday night beginner swims and would like to do more of this. I love this sport and want to remain in it the rest of my life: Volunteering, training and a little competing.
In closing, I'd like to thank my wife, Dee, for being so supportive and giving me the freedom to my thing these past 4 ½ years. I'm a lucky man!
Craig: Gerry, thank you so much for sharing your story. It was an honor to be on Team USA with you in 2009 and it is a similarly great honor to call you my friend. Good luck in 2013 and beyond!
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- British Grand Prix
Silverstone aiming to avoid 2012 repeat
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Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips says the circuit is working hard to ensure there is no repeat of the 2012 problems at the British Grand Prix.
Last year's race was victim of torrential rain which saw car parks turned in to mud baths on the Friday, leading to fans being asked to stay away on Saturday to avoid further problems on Sunday. Phillips said the circuit has been putting in place measures to prevent similar problems occurring this year as well as improve the race weekend.
"We are investing significant time and money to further improve the fans' British Grand Prix experience and ensure there is no repeat of the weather-related issues that affected some fans on the Friday of last year's event," Phillips said. "With four British drivers to cheer on, the atmosphere promises to be electric."
Phillips added that he is confident last year's problems will not affect the attendance of this year's race.
"If the first two races are anything to go by, it's going to be a breath-taking season. Last year's British Grand Prix attracted an outstanding attendance of 297,000 over all three days, despite the extreme weather conditions. If the drivers maintain this level of excitement, I'm sure we will be looking at another capacity crowd at the end of June."


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FlightCar offers wheels at SFO
STARTUPS FlightCar matches arriving travelers with available wheels
When he drove to San Francisco International Airport for a recent flight to Los Angeles, Garry Tan could have shelled out $18 per day to park his car. Instead, he let someone else rent it.
Tan used FlightCar, a kind of online matchmaker for airport car rentals. Travelers who fly into SFO and need a car can rent one from people who are flying out, don't want to pay for parking and, most crucially, don't mind someone else driving their ride.
Renters and lenders alike get curbside service, with FlightCar valets meeting them at the airport to either whisk the car away or deliver it.
When the lenders return from their trips, their cars will be waiting for them, freshly washed. They'll also get a $10 prepaid gas card if someone rented it while they were gone. FlightCar, based in San Francisco, officially starts its service Friday.
"I could pay $50 to take a cab or car service to the airport, I could drive there and park in the long-term lot and wait for the bus, or I could just call these guys," said Tan, a partner at the Y Combinator startup incubator, which helped fund FlightCar. Tan became one of the young company's first customers, and says he'll use the service again.
"They meet me at the terminal, I walk into the terminal and they meet me at the curb when I get back," he said.
FlightCar is the latest entry in the "sharing economy," a burgeoning group of companies built on helping people borrow each others' stuff. Airbnb, which lets people rent out their homes to travelers, is perhaps the movement's best-known member. Several startups - including Getaround, RelayRides and Wheelz - are already applying the idea to cars.
What distinguishes FlightCar is its focus on a particular place - the airport.
Online bookings
Travelers driving to an airport before their flight usually have to prowl the long-term parking lots in search of a space, then take some kind of shuttle to the terminal. All of that adds time to the trip. And the parking isn't free.
With FlightCar, people willing to rent their car list it on the company's website. A valet meets them at the terminal - not at some remote location - and drives the car off to a warehouse nearby while they check in and board their flight.
People flying into the airport can check for available cars on FlightCar's website and reserve whichever one they want. Prices, which include insurance, range from $15 to $40 per day, depending on the vehicle. The price will be less than travelers would pay for a comparable car from a traditional rental outfit.
So far, the service is limited to SFO. But after its soft start earlier this month, FlightCar already has had about 100 bookings and 30 rentals, said Shri Ganeshram, the company's chief technology officer. He founded the company last year along with friends Rujul Zaparde, now the chief executive officer, and Kevin Petrovic, the chief operations officer. Airbnb provided the inspiration.
"Kevin was like, 'Well, I'm always at the airport - why doesn't someone do this for cars?' " Ganeshram said. "There's this parking garage where you have to pay to park, and there's the lot with cars you have to rent. This doesn't make sense."
The three dropped out of college to pursue the idea - Ganeshram from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Zaparde from Harvard and Petrovic from Princeton. Born in Cincinnati, the startup moved to the Bay Area to tap the region's growing pool of people familiar with the sharing economy. The three founders received funding and advice from Y Combinator, the Mountain View startup accelerator that helped launch Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit and Hipmunk.
Broader shift ahead?
FlightCar does have its quirks. Car owners don't get a cut of the rental fees. Instead, they receive the $10 gasoline gift cards if someone rents the car while they're gone. (Owners of compact cars will receive just one gift card per rental, while owners of larger cars will receive one for every day their vehicle was rented.)
If no one rents it, the owners receive nothing - except valet service, free parking and a car wash. The company also won't accept every car. Vehicles can't be older than 1999 or have more than 150,000 miles on them.
To ensure that no renter pulls a Ferris Bueller and trashes a car, all prospective renters must agree to background checks of their driving records. Renters can't have any major traffic violations or incidents involving drugs or alcohol in the previous three years. The company provides $1 million in liability insurance and covers any damage to the car.
Ganeshram sees the service as part of a broader shift in society's attitude toward ownership.
"A couple of years down the road, I might own half a car in New York and half a car in San Francisco, or something like that," he said.
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Bobby McFerrin: Born to Music
Bobby McFerrin singing in the Bronx Feb. 4th
Bobby McFerrin is best known
for his #1 chart topping Grammy Award winning song "Don't Worry, Be Happy." But Bobby has moved on since that song, far
surpassing it with a genius of talent that deserves every accolade he receives in
the music world he dearly loves. Mr. McFerrin
has a truly amazing vocal gift in the genres of jazz, pop, spiritual, blues, classical
and R&B. His musical prowess is so
appreciated that McFerrin is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.
McFerrin will be performing on Saturday, February 4th at Lehman
Center of the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, in
the Bronx, NY, at 8:00 p.m., he can thrill your a.m. hours with his song "Sweet
in the Morning," performed with Voicestra, a group he founded, comprised of 12
a cappella vocalists and whom he featured on his CD Medecine Music. Bobby and Voicestra also released
Circlesongs, a Sony Classical album of meditative works comprised of eight improvisational
tunes steeped in Middle Eastern and African tradition. Via the classical genre
Bobby's version of Stravinsky Minuetto & Finale Pulcinella Suite and
Vivaldi Concierto en Sol Menor (G Minor) had me enraptured by the beauty of his
vocals and music composition. To claim
that Bobby McFerrin knows his way around all forms of music with ease and pure
genius is no understatement.
This writer was
not as familiar with the music of Bobby McFerrin outside of "Don't Worry, Be
Happy," when I began this article.
However, I have resolved to remedy my lack of exposure to McFerrin's
music, after visiting YouTube, which opened up a brand new world for me in reference
to the music of Bobby McFerrin. I only
had to close my eyes to be transported into the melodic harmonies of the
Islands or carried away to South Africa.
Bobby's music awakened an innate rhythm within me that hoisted my
imagination into the tropics, savannahs, deserts, and grasslands of the
Motherland via his song "The Garden," also on his Medecine Music CD.
McFerrin is the
master of improvisation. His vocal
skills, his creativity, diversity and four-octave range has been known to turn live
audiences into a virtual orchestra as he leads the crowd down the pentatonic
scale. His music is unique, inspiring,
as well as haunting as is emphasized in Bobby's "The Elephant's Child."
Bobby McFerrin was born to
music. His soul chose it when he entered
life in 1950. What else could he be destined
for having been born to two classically trained parents. In fact, his father, Robert McFerrin, Sr., was the first African-American male to
perform solo at the Metropolitan Opera. So was it any wonder that Bobby took to music
like a fish to water. At 8 years old, he
began playing piano and clarinet. Versatile
in all music genres, Bobby listened to the music of Count Basie, Duke
Ellington, James Brown, Sergio Mendes, George Gershwin, Led Zeppelin and Brazil
'66, et al. He tried it all: bands,
cabaret, even dance. Then at 27 years of age, Bobby declared himself a
singer. Bill Cosby gave him his first
big break by arranging for this 'human orchestra' known as Bobby McFerrin to
perform at the Playboy Jazz Festival.
The Kool Jazz Festival followed, leading to a contract with Elektra
Records. By 1984, he was ready to
release his first solo vocal jazz album which was titled The Voice, wherein he recorded with no accompaniment or
Oftentimes, McFerrin has performed
spontaneously without rehearsal, using his own body to produce percussion
sounds, while singing various vocal parts, employing his arsenal of vocal
Mr. McFerrin won Grammys
for "'Round Midnight" with Herbie Hancock, "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Don't Worry, Be Happy," and "Spontaneous
Inventions," etc. After the release of
another of his masterpieces "Simple Pleasures," Mr. McFerrin demonstrated
he had other talents and became an orchestra conductor. He started his
conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and led dozens of world
orchestras thereafter. In 1990, the talented performer recorded the first
of two albums with Chick Corea, entitled "Play." 1992 saw a collaboration with cellist Yo-Yo Ma,
the outcome of which gave the world Hush,
a set of Bobby's original and classical standards. His teaming with YellowJackets, a jazz fusion band resulted in Bang! Zoom. By1994, he was named creative director of the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In
2010, Bobby released his first new album in eight years, VOCAbuLarieS, in collaboration with composer and
vocalist Roger Treece, a Voicestra
Bobby McFerrin has appeared in a number of films and television programs, including
NBC's The Sing Off.
He has performed on A Prairie Home
Companion and has sung the themes for Son of the Pink Panther and
The Cosby Show. McFerrin has been profiled on 60 Minutes and Nightline.
tickets to hear Bobby McFerrin on Saturday, February 4th at 8:00 p.m.,
call the Lehman Center Box Office at 718.960.8833
or go on line at www.LehmanCenter.org
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As we are pretty busy with the website development these days, I just wanted to share a video which I recently found on the internet with you.
It's called "Where the hell is Matt?" and is from this crazy U.S. guy who travelled around the world for one year, doing hilarious dances in different places.
He made a similar video in 2005 which has already received quite a lot of press coverage. That's why the chewing gum company Stride Gum decided to sponsor him for his next world trip in 2006 in order to create another video. As this was an even a bigger success, they supported him in this last video again – there he travelled for 14 months to 42 different countries in order to do his weird dance again.
Check it out:
I think its really a nice viral video (over 8,5m views!!) which makes me want to go on a world trip one day again!! :-))
Additionally, we were wondering how many languages you have to speak in order to be able to communicate in all these different countries…I will send this guy an email and let's see whether busuu.com can help him for his next trip! 😉


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HiTel FCU is always active in the community, lending a helping hand to many different organizations. For the past decade, the credit union has put on a company bake sale in efforts to raise money for Aloha United Way.
This year there were many generous donors – fried rice omelet, brownies, strawberry cookies, maple bacon cupcakes and much more scrumptious goodies. Employees got their fill and it was a great success.
In addition, in the past few years, HiTel FCU added a company garage sale to their fundraising efforts. This year employees brought in a number of donations from ceramic pottery and baby toys to various make up products and home appliances. All proceeds from both events will go to AUW, and the credit union is donating over $10,500!


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Join our pastry chefs in preparing classic French desserts such as profiteroles, crème brûlée and soufflés. In this class, we will demystify the secrets behind these delectable dishes, teaching you the techniques so you can make them in your own kitchen whenever your heart desires. This is a more advanced class, so be prepared to be challenged!
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Adorable baby shower gift ideas
Celebrate the impending pitter-patter of little feet with gorgeous gifts for parents and newborns. It's fun when the gender of the baby is kept a secret, but it can make finding a gift a little more challenging, being mindful to steer clear of pink and blue. Read on to find the perfect gender-neutral baby shower gift.
Whether it's toys or a bath support, there are endless things to make bath time easy and safe for both the baby and soon-to-be parents.
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If you stick to neutral colours such as beige, grey and even mint or yellow, there are plenty of options for blankets and swaddles. You can never have too many blankets when you have a newborn, especially in winter.
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Safety kit
One gift that people often forget about, but an expectant mother will love, is a safety kit. This can include anything from a bath thermometer to baby nail clippers.
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New parents are going to need as many towels and sheets as possible, so they'll be thankful for good quality manchester to add to their linen closet as their family expands.
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For Mum
The last few weeks of pregnancy may be hard, so give almost-mums some encouragement with a gift just for them. Look for pyjamas, a gorgeous dressing gown, decadent moisturisers and lotions, or even a gift voucher to make sure she is feeling happy and relaxed.
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Schools 'should ban gas masks'
Wartime helmets and gas masks should be banned from classrooms because they pose a health and safety risk to pupils and teachers, a watchdog has warned.
The historical items are inappropriate for youngsters and school staff to handle or wear as they may contain traces of asbestos, according to updated advice drawn up by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Schools often use these types of relics in history lessons to teach pupils about the conflicts, and the new information comes as events begin taking place around the country to mark the start of the First World War a century ago.
The HSE's document warns that schools which have items of war memorabilia that are suspected to contain asbestos should stop using them, double bag them in plastic and tape them shut. Arrangements should be made to have the items destroyed, unless they can be made safe by a licensed contractor or contained in a secure display case.
It says that replica gas masks and helmets that do not contain asbestos are available for schools to use as teaching aids.
The updated advice has been published after the HSE conducted an analysis of a number of vintage gas masks and held discussions with the Imperial War Museum about how they store artefacts containing asbestos.
This work confirmed that "no gas masks should be worn or handled by children or teachers," the HSE said.
The HSE's analysis found that the majority of vintage masks contained asbestos, often the more dangerous "crocidolite" or "blue" type of the substance, adding it is very difficult to decide whether or not a mask contains asbestos simply by looking at it, and that some will be in very poor condition.
The advice goes on to say that the Imperial War Museum had reviewed its collections for its First World War Galleries and discovered that the majority of the British Army "Brodie" helmets that were issued during the Great War contain "chrysotile" or "white" asbestos in the helmet liner.
"Accordingly, the advice in relation to these items is the same as for gas masks," the document says, "it is not appropriate for children or teachers to wear or handle any artefacts that potentially contain asbestos."
Paula Kitching of the Historical Association said such items should be made safe were possible.
"Now this information has been found it has got to be taken seriously," she told The Times.
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Target Field's distinctive flavor
Target Field® might be best known for the action on the diamond, but it's fast gaining an exciting and renowned culinary reputation. With recognized global leader Delaware North Sportservice and Executive Chef Kurt Chenier providing inspiration in the kitchen, your event will be meticulously catered to, with refreshing fare and surprising choices from course to course, from start to finish. And beyond being delectable, you'll enjoy attention to detail and a flawless presentation. Rest assured - the dining aspect of your event will be tasteful in every way.
The Twins were honored that Target Field was chosen to host the 2010 Major League Baseball Owners Dinner, as well as the prestigious Diamond Awards dinner for ALS research. Here's to another rewarding year.
2010 "Best of the Cities"
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2010 "Food and Beverage Excellence"
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2010 Peta Vegetarian-Friendly Ballpark Award
Chef Kurt began his career with Delaware North in 2003 at Soldier Field in Chicago. He started as an hourly purchasing manager and assisted the Executive Chef. In the span of 3 years he helped open the stadium, was promoted to Sous Chef, attended Kendall College for Culinary Arts and was promoted to Executive Sous Chef. In 2006, Kurt decided to pursue a business venture. He spent 2 years building his own restaurant business before eventually selling his shares to his business partner.
In 2009, Kurt agreed to rejoin Chef Pastor, after the two had teamed up previously in Chicago, and undertake the challenge of opening Target Field. He relocated his family and moved to the Twin Cities. He has taken on many roles at Target Field including 3 years as Suites Chef, 2 years as Legends Club Chef and in July of 2014 he was promoted to Executive Chef.
In addition to the many roles at Target Field, Kurt has traveled to the CIA in Napa Valley both in 2011 and 2013 and earned certifications from the ACF and CIA. He also cooked for the ownership groups at the 2013 NLCS and World Series in St. Louis as well as Super Bowl XLVIII in New York at Met Life Stadium. His most recent travels took him to San Diego for the 2016 All-Star Game.
Chef Kurt plans to continue to set the standards for ballpark dining, both in premium areas and in concessions. He makes huge efforts to work with local partners, sponsors and suppliers to uphold the status of Target Field as the best ballpark in America.
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In July 1914, Charles Johnson Maynard visited the Albany Road burying ground in Deerfield, Massachusetts, to look at its historic gravestones, and became "greatly interested in the gradual changes which took place as the years had passed." Aided by Edith James and Winnifred L. Greene, Maynard included an illustrated chapter on the stones in his book "Records of Walks and Talks with Nature." He focused largely on the stones' "pictorial representations" (motifs, or iconography), from the skull-and-hourglass on a stone dated 1695, to later cherub-like heads and portraiture, to the "radical change" ca. 1790 to an urn-and-willow design. Maynard noted other interesting finds as well: a roughly crafted, undecorated stone from 1696; the mass grave from the 1704 raid on Deerfield during Queen Anne's War; four stones with an open-coffin design; the motif of a circle enclosing a six-pointed rosette on several headstones and footstones (a smaller stone at the foot of a grave); and the presence of epitaphs (a verse or other commemorative statement), ranging from references to the person whom the stone memorialized to "stock" verses with phrases such as "Prepare for Death and follow me." Romantic prose was popular in the early 20th century, and Maynard used this style to record his observations and to ponder questions such as, "What mystery is here involved? Who was this M.A. who 'dyed' in chilly November so long ago . . . ?"
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Thoughts On Scalable XMPP Bots
August 4, 2008
It used to be that chat bots were toy projects written by young programmers to impress their friends in their favorite IRC channel. These days, some bots are much more ambitious projects. For example, both identi.ca and Twitter are using XMPP bots to distribute messages to users in real-time. At Chesspark, we have chess playing bots that must be able to play hundreds of games at a time. It's no longer good enough just to have a bot; now the bots have to scale.
Client Bots
The first step along the bot programmer's journey is to write the bot as an XMPP client. Many client libraries already exist, and the client protocol is well understood. It doesn't take long to have a working echo bot in any number of languages.
There is a huge problem with client bots - rosters. If part of the client bot's functionality depends on subscribing to the presence of its users, the roster size becomes the limit to scalability. There are two reasons for this.
First, querying large rosters from persistent storage is an expensive task for the XMPP server. Many servers are written with the assumption that all rosters are fairly small. Once rosters become tens of thousands of entries long, this starts to affect performance elsewhere in the system.
Second, a large roster means an enormous stanza in the connection startup. As I've written before, large stanzas are bad. Pretty much all processing will stop for the bot while it receives and deals with this stanza. If that stanza takes more than a few seconds to receive, users will notice this delay when the bot starts up.
Both of these issues affect startup only. It's not a big deal if your bot has 100% uptime, but this is unachievable. Even worse, if you run into a crash bug, the bot can start to destroy performance of itself and of the server it is connected to. In May of last year, this is what happened to Twitter as its bot passed the 40,000 roster item mark.
What can the bot developer do? Rewrite the bot as a component.
Component Bots
A component is a trusted piece of an XMPP server that can send and receive arbitrary stanzas. Components speak a different protocol to communicate with the server. Because the name of a component is a domain (example: arbiter.chesspark.com), a component can pretend to be many users. Any stanza addressed to firstname.lastname@example.com will be delivered to component.server.com no matter what the value is of 'user'.
Because the XMPP server has no idea what services a component will perform, it does not require a component to maintain a roster for any users it pretends to be. This means that the large roster problem does not exist for components.
If the component still needs to keep track of user presence, it is easy to subscribe and handle subscription requests to and from users. In most cases, the bot won't even need to keep track of this information. Even if it needs to know the presence of all users, it can just put these values in memory as they change and send presence probes to get them on restart.
S2S Bots
It may turn out that your bot needs super-scalability; in that case, the next step is to have the bot speak the server to server (s2s) protocol directly, and pretend that it is an entire XMPP server. There are several reasons why you might want to do this.
The XMPP component protocol does not currently provide for load balancing or clustering. Some servers may allow this using extensions or by writing server specific components. In order to horizontally scale a component, one must handle this scaling by implementing some inter-component protocol and then using a custom load balancer that speaks the componenent protocol to the server. Since s2s connection endpoints are managed via DNS SRV records, an s2s bot can use DNS as a load balancer and only have to handle communication between the partitions of the bot. While this doesn't get you scaling by itself, it at least reduces the problem considerably.
In some cases, the XMPP server may be too much overhead if your service is essentially just an XMPP bot. Why send traffic through a routing process inside a server if it is already known that it is for use externally? Even small amounts of overhead can add up quickly at scale. In terms of managing infrastructure alone, taking out an XMPP server from the equation saves a lot of work.
Further Thoughts
We've built a lot of bots at Chesspark. To date we have used client bots and component bots to achieve our goals, but in pursuit of high availability, we will need to address the single points of failure. Speaking s2s or developing custom load balancing for XMPP components is on our agenda for the future.
Christopher and I have a bunch of example code that we've been preparing showing how to implement XMPP bots in Twisted Python. Look for some tutorials in the near future.


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Android: Netrunner is a two-player card game set in a dystopian future. In each game, players take on the roles of a mega-corporation and a hacker battling for control of data. The Android: Netrunner Card Database is an online database of cards from the game. Users can search the site directly from the site's main page or programmatically using its API. The Netrunner API operates via REST calls issued in JSON and JSONP.


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These developments include direct-to-consumer personal genetic profiling and body imaging, and websites that provide health advice, storage of health records and medicines for sale. This report weighs up the benefits and harms, along with the ethical values that come into play.


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Building-Stone Geology
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Collection
Resources in this top level collection a) must have scored Exemplary or Very Good in all five review categories, and must also rate as "Exemplary" in at least three of the five categories. The five categories included in the peer review process are
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For more information about the peer review process itself, please see http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/review.html.
This page first made public: Apr 1, 2004
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
Learning Goals
- Learn to recognize various rock and mineral types
- Understand the relationship between the physical properties of a rock and its practical usefulness in a building context
- Appreciate the diversity of rocks, even in your own downtown
- Perform acid and hardness tests
- Sketch and photograph the chosen rock type
- Identify minerals in the rock
- Writing a clear report on the practical properties of rocks
- Giving an informative oral presentation
Context for Use
This is a great lab for a class in an urban setting with no means to leave the city. There are also many parts of the world (like Florida) where the geologic setting is simply a little limited.
In part because of the paper, this is a multi-part lab. Reserve at least one lab period for the initial visit to the site and tests, another for the walking tour, and a third for the oral presentation, with a little time in between for library research and writing.
Teaching Materials
The first step is for the students to choose building sites and be introduced to building owners. The students are told to take the perspective of an impartial geologist consulted by the building owner to advise on the best rock type for a given job. They will be examining the rock type currently in use and comparing it to three others. Once they have permission from the owners, the students will perform test (hardness, acid, and visual) to identify the rock type (something they have learned to do earlier in the term). They will be provided with thin sections and hand samples of the same rock type and will perform mineralogical analyses on them.
Two thirds of the way through the term, the class goes on a walking tour of the downtown area with a stop at each student's building site. Each student gives a brief summary of their findings about their rock type when the class arrives at their site. At the end of term, each student turns in a paper describing their rock type, comparing to others, and making a final recommendation, and gives a brief presentation describing their rock type.
Teaching Notes and Tips
There are two graded components for this project:
- Written report: intended to persuade a client (educated, but not a geologist) whether or not to build with a particular sort of stone and made up of four elements:
- Description of the current building stone: its mineralogy, geologic history, probable origin (quarry), and other uses for that rock type
- Descriptions of three other building stone types
- Comparison between the current building stone and the three others described, emphasizing advantages & disadvantages
- Conclusion recommending one of the four stones
- Oral report: is short, a description of the properties of the current building stone
References and Resources
This exercise is described in Wetzel, L.R. 2002. Building stones as resources for student research. Journal of Geoscience Education. 50(4): 404-409.
Sites that include information (and photos) of building stones include:
- Building Stones of Maryland (more info) : Descriptions of some of the most common stones produced from Maryland quarries emphasizing their history and detailing some of the more famous places where they are used (some of which are outside the state).
- A Geologic Walking Tour of Building Stones of Downtown Baltimore, Maryland (more info) : The Maryland Geologic Survey offers a map, lots of photos and descriptions of twelve structures built from a variety of rocks.
- Building Stones of Our Nation's Capital (more info) : A USGS site detailing the stones common in Washington D.C., their descriptions and origins, how they've been affected by acid rain, maps for a walking tour, and the DC area's geologic history.
- The City Rocks: Exploring the Hidden World of Building Stone ( This site may be offline. ) : Very basic descriptions of stones used to build major public buildings around the U.S. Includes a nice bibliography.


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According to Ballentine, an irreducible tensor of degree k can be defined as a set of $2k + 1$ operators $\{T_q^{\;\;(k)}:(-k \le q \le k)\}$ satisfying the following commutation relations: $$ [J_\pm, T_q^{\;\;(k)}] = \hbar \left( (k \mp q)(k \pm q + 1) \right)^\frac{1}{2} T_{q \pm 1}^{\;\;(k)} $$ $$ [J_z, T_q^{\;\;(k)}] = \hbar q T_{q}^{\;\;(k)} $$ The usual examples employ scalars, vector operators and the irreducible subspaces of cartesian tensor operators. The irreducible tensors that arise from these constructs all have integral degree.
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Fans posing with a person in a Spider-Man mask at the Comic-Con convention in America may actually have been standing next to Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe, who played the boy wizard in the on-screen adaptations of JK Rowling's fantasy book series, has said he donned a Spider-Man mask at the San Diego event this weekend in order to make his way through the crowds unnoticed.
In an interview Radcliffe said it was a great experience.
"I did an American accent for the whole time," he said. "I even took a rucksack, so I look like I'm just coming to Comic-Con. I had a whole look. But it was great ... I took lots of pictures with people who did not know that it was me."
The 25-year-old said he was delighted to become his favourite superhero character for a few hours during his first ever appearance at the convention.
"I always loved that character. I love the comics, actually, as well," he said. "I almost got a picture with two girls dressed as Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy, but the moment had passed."
Radcliffe's latest film Horns sees him play a character who sprouts horns on his head that are invisible to others but provoke them to confess their darkest truths to him.
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