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When doors open at the new location for the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) at South Lake Union this December, visitors will be greeted by an audacious, 56-foot-tall kinetic sculpture: the permanent marquee installation by Northwest artist John Grade.
Over 130 cubic-feet of computer-cut and hand-carved, old-growth timber planks, reclaimed from the recently dismantled Wawona Schooner, will be entwined with 5,500 pounds of water-jet-cut steel ribs and concealed hangar rods. The assembled parts will create a form that evokes the shape of a ship's hull, suspended vertically from the building's roof. The base of the artwork will hover just 12 inches off the floor, creating an enclosed volume of space and allowing the installation to be experienced from the inside-out, as if venturing within the trunk of a hollowed-out, old growth tree. No red velvet rope; the dialogue is open.
I have collaborated on a number of artwork projects over the years – including John Grade's Wawona sculpture – and they've been some of my most challenging and rewarding experiences as a structural engineer. But the reality is that as an engineer, my career has been primarily defined by conventional building-type projects. The engineer's role in artwork projects is not immediately apparent, especially if you focus on the stereotypes:
• Engineers are grounded—artists shoot for the stars.
• Artists live outside of the box—engineers make boxes.
• Engineers wear their pragmatism like a badge of honor—artists strive to transcend convention.
Yet in spite of these apparent paradoxes (or maybe because of them?), somehow things come together; the dialogue is opened and the vision begins to grow. Perhaps an artist is doing a project on a larger scale, working to find the right team, walking the line of control—how to let go of their work to some degree, entrusting others with the execution. When done right and with the collective parties working collaboratively, finding interplay between skills and talents, personalities and world-views provides opportunities for the art itself to exceed expectations.
As always, listening is key. In fact, for myself and others at Arup Seattle, listening might have been the most enjoyable part of the Wawona sculpture project. From the outset we had to understand John's vision. What was he after? What parts of the project did he consider sacrosanct? What pieces were negotiable? How could we ensure the integrity of the structural system while letting it complement rather than get in the way of things? This round of discussions at the concept stage led to a period during which we could settle in and define the engineering performance objectives of the sculpture:
• It has to hang exactly vertical from the ceiling as an 11,000-pound pendulum.
• It has to survive the effects of a large earthquake.
• Durability is important, with the scultpure's design life exceeding 50 years.
• There must be safety in the midst of movement. Visitors will be welcome to interact with the sculpture – to push or pull – and this cannot create a hazard.
In addition, the wood used was reclaimed from below the Wawona Schooner's waterline. This portion of the boat survived for over 100 years because it was in contact with the water. A process that included kiln drying the wood before the onset of fabrication was necessary to ensure it wouldn't warp or split too much in its future use. Finally, the sculpture had to be constructible, and in this instance, prefabricated in nine separate sections enabling it to be transported to the site and bolted in place, top down, from the building roof trusses.
With objectives and requirements firmly in place, we were off to roll up our sleeves and get down to the craft. Pencils and straight edges, calculators, spreadsheets, computer analyses, 3D visual models: We used every tool at our disposal. Permit drawings, calculations and final construction documents of the sculpture's structure were also required. Every component of the wood, steel and connections was subjected to a detailed structural analysis, so its state of stress under all conditions of its use could be quantified and validated.
Even from our first meetings with John, we knew that the actual fabrication of the sculpture would be no simple task. The wood surface geometry is curved in two directions. No two pieces of wood or steel would be exactly the same. Tolerances and fit-up between all of the components would be tight—1/16th of an inch maximum. Even though the sculpture will present itself as something organic and hand-crafted, its underlying form would be made digitally—the cutting of the steel and wood components happen via manufacturing equipment communicating directly with a fully defined 3D computer model of the sculpture.
So for the past five months, at the University of Washington College of Built Environment's Computer- Aided-Design and Manufacturing Department, each of the approximately 190 4-inch-thick wood planks for the sculpture have been individually fabricated using their 3-axis CNC mill. The resulting product comprises individual wood elements that are trapezoid shaped in cross-section and have all of their finer coping and block-out cuts at interfaces with the steel components incorporated. This allows the flat faces of each plank to fit piece-wise planar to the sculpture's double-curved surface. From this point, John has been able to get physical with the wood in his studio, hand-carving and drilling to create a fantastically textured and patterned surface topography. For the most tightly curved pieces, the digital fabrication process allows curved guidelines to be milled in the wood at intermittent intervals to ensure the localized depth of hand-carving stays true to the sculpture's overall geometric shape.
Each of the nine tiers of sculpted wood planks will be captured by 3/4 by 2 1/2 inch steel ledgers at the top and bottom which have been CNC water-jet cut from plate material to match the sculpture's curved cross-section at the given elevation of each tier. An array of slightly angled ½ inch diameter, high-strength steel rods concealed within the vertical seams of the wood planks will then fasten at their ends to the steel ledgers to complete the structural system. Each of the nine tiers will be preassembled and transferred to the museum this fall to be bolted together top down from the building's roof structure by a specialty rigging crew.
Throughout these many months of design and fabrication, the anticipation of seeing the final installed sculpture has been mounting. Everyone involved is engaged, fully invested in the outcome—and that's the way it has to be if you are ever going to achieve something that rises above the fray. The mutual collaboration between artist and engineer is allowing Wawona, initially born as an image in John's mind, to become fully realized.


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Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth, poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist, is born at Lissadell House, County Sligo, on May 22, 1870. She is the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, later known as the Countess Markievicz.
The work of Gore-Booth, alongside that of Esther Roper, the English woman who would become her lifelong companion, is responsible for the close link between the struggle for women's rights in industry and the struggle for women's right to vote. As a middle class suffragist representing Manchester, the work of Gore-Booth is mainly recognized in the Lancashire cotton towns from 1899 to 1913. Her struggle begins when she becomes a member of the executive committee of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Carrying out work at the Ancoats settlement, Eva becomes co-secretary of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council.
In 1902 Gore-Booth campaigns at the Clitheroe by-election on behalf of David Shackleton, a Labour candidate who promises her that he would show support for the women's enfranchisement. Shackleton is elected but does not act upon his promise. This leads to the founding of the Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Worker's Representation Committee by Gore-Booth, Esther Roper and Sarah Reddish. When the Women's Trade Union Council refuses to make women's suffrage one of its aims, Gore-Booth resigns from the council.
After resigning from the Women's Trade Union Council, Gore-Booth and Sarah Dickenson, who had also resigned, set up the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade and Labour Council. As part of this council, Gore-Booth and other suffragists use constitutional methods of campaigning. In the general election of 1906, they put forward their own candidate, Thorley Smith, but he is defeated.
In 1907 Gore-Booth, reluctant to give up hope, contributes an essay "The Women's Suffrage Movement Among Trade Unionists" to The Case for Women's Suffrage. In this essay Eva gives a summary of reasons for the methods of the LCWTOW campaign to gain a vote for working women.
As World War I breaks out, Gore-Booth and Esther Roper take up welfare work among German women and children in England. Gore-Booth becomes a member of the Women's Peace Crusade in 1915 and the No-Conscription Fellowship in 1916.
When Gore-Booth embarks on her writing career she is visited by William Butler Yeats who is very much taken with her work. Yeats hopes that she will take up his cause of writing Irish tales to enchant and amuse. Instead Eva takes Irish folklore and put emphasis on the females in the story. Her widely discussed sexuality in later years is never declared but her poetry reflects it quite overtly. Gore-Booth is also one of a group of editors of the magazine Urania that publishes three issues per year from 1916 to 1940. It is a feminist magazine that reprints stories and poems from all over the world with editorial comment.
After years of playing a lead role in the Women's Suffrage Movement and fighting for equality of women's rights in the UK as well as staying true to her literary roots, Gore-Booth and Roper relocate to London from Manchester in 1913 due to Gore-Booth's deteriorating respiratory health.
Just weeks after the 1916 Easter Rising, Gore-Booth travels to Dublin accompanied by Roper and is pivotal in the efforts to reprieve the death sentence of her sister Constance Markievicz awarded for her instrumental role in the rising, which is successfully converted to a life sentence. She further campaigns to abolish the death sentence overall and to reform prison standards. She attends the trial of Irish nationalist and fellow poet Roger Casement thus showing solidarity and support for the overturning of his death sentence.
During the remaining years of her life, which is claimed by cancer on June 30, 1926, Gore-Booth remains devoted to her poetry, dedicates time to her artistic talents as a painter, studies the Greek language and is known as a supporter of animal rights. She dies in her home in Hampstead, London, which she shares with Roper until her passing. She is buried alongside Roper in St. John's churchyard, Hampstead.


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Human-based scoring functionalityPosted: March 16th, 2012
For the past three months, the task-force focused on the development of a new functionality in the results extension of TAO in order to support human-based scoring process. Proud of this, we wanted to share with the community information about this new feature which brings TAO one step ahead and which also improves quality and fairness in assessment conducted with TAO.
This work is achieved in close collaboration with the medical university: Karolinska Institute and is currently applied in the domain of Health-Care Education.
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Starting tomorrow I will be going on active duty for the next four months. That means that my posts will probably be less frequent and will certainly be less partisan. When I come back in September I will return with a fresh up-close perspective on the European economy, Middle East politics, and Defense Department waste, as well as the upcoming presidential election.
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Life Sciences companies make significant investments in Information Technology (IT) in implementing state of the art applications and systems to support R&D, analytics, decision sciences, clinical trials, and data security/ confidentiality.
These companies outsource their IT operations to multiple service providers, so that they can focus on their core business. Over time, the quantum of work that gets outsourced starts growing and before they know it, they end up contracting multiple IT and BPO service providers with contracts running into multiple millions of dollars per year.
There are various models for companies to engage with their service providers. These may be broadly classified into: resource-based (e.g., Staff Augmentation) and deliverable-based (e.g., Fixed Price, Managed Services). As the organization advances further in the outsourcing journey, and as their suppliers prove themselves and inspire confidence and trust, clients tend to migrate the outsourcing of their routine IT operations (such as maintenance and support of production systems) from a Staff Augmentation model to a Managed Services model, and project work (such as systems development) to a Fixed Price model.
One such global life sciences major asked Neo to review their IT outsourcing spend, and based on the initial findings, targeted one IT service provider's staff augmentation (Time & Materials) contracts to identify potential savings of at least $5MM.
Neo took a three step approach –
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- Carry out rate benchmarking for the current roles to negotiates rates and bring them in line with the market
- Create a governance playbook listing policies and procedures to ensure rate-card integrity
Rate Card Simplification: As the client's IT outsourcing operations grew, the client's rate-card had grown to include over 160 line item/ roles, some of which were duplicates and had multiple rates for the same role. With inadequate governance processes in place, ad-hoc additions and changes to the rate-card led to many inconsistencies.
The first step of rate-card simplification was to build a robust role taxonomy which was based on three key dimensions – a) role grouping, based on primary functional responsibility underlying each role b) skill/ technology category, based on availability of skill set and price-bands determined by economics of the labour market and c) skill level, based on the depth of expertise needed to perform the role.
Six role groups, three skill/ technology categories and three skill levels were created and each role on the rate-card was categorized in to a group, skill category and skill level.
Rate Benchmarking: Neo carried out a rate benchmarking exercise to get the current market rates from both Tier I and Tier II IT service providers for the roles and technologies in scope. This helped Neo create a negotiation strategy on behalf of the client to persuade the contracted service provider to bring their rate more in line with the market. After multiple rounds of negotiations involving not just rate alignment but also reclassification of some skill/ technology categories from low to high and vice versa, an agreement was reached between the client and the service provider on the new role taxonomy and new rates.
Governance Playbook: Neo created a governance playbook consisting of processes and policies to ensure that rate-card integrity was maintained going forward. Checks and balances were put in place ensure that all new roles went through a formal resource requisition process. The playbook also contained invoice verification process to ensure that billing was in line with the consumption of services.
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The new rate-card consisted of 6 groups, 3 skill categories and 3 skill levels for each of the group and skill category combination. The rate-card was easy to follow and govern with only 54 roles instead of 160.
This initiative was projected to deliver annual savings of $7.5 MM (12%) on an annual spend of $55 MM assuming spend patterns similar to the previous year.
It was able to deliver an additional $2.5 MM over the initial estimates of $5 MM.
An efficiently managed and well governed IT outsourcing operation can save millions of dollars for an organization which in turn can be utilized to fund more projects and build core capabilities.
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Tina's #randomwritingtweet #5 - Perfect Characters
Lead TV and movie actors are typically attractive. Even if the role calls for them to look like they were dragged through the mud, underneath it all, you will still detect their better attributes. Well, you are in charge of picking the cast for your book and, guess what...you will most likely have some good-looking characters.
Nothing wrong with that. The problem sets in when you paint them as so darn perfect that you've turned your character into a cliche. You don't want to sound cliche, and you don't want to lose credibility as a writer. Not only that, but the accidentally-perfect character is boring. One of the key ingredients to making a reader connect with your work is offering them characters that they can connect with. This is done in a variety of ways, and one is by revealing some vulnerability in your character. Perhaps your character doesn't even see himself/herself as good-looking. Perhaps the character has a scar that can't be missed. Perhaps the character is so insecure that they won't let anyone see them unless they have "fresh from the salon hair, name-brand clothes on, and every aspect of their face has been made-up, shaven, trimmed etc until they are virtually unreal. Or...is your book sci-fi? Is he or she actually a robot and nobody knows this yet?
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First, from Aimee, a mother of seven, ages 13 to 2 months. She blogs at www.momzoolife.com:
This is my sort of schedule; in all honestly I am just getting back to where I am following it most of the time. There are weeks when other things come up, or baby has a bad day or night and we kick into survival mode. So here goes:
Monday: I call catch up day, I generally pick up the house and get things in order from the weekend, and I don't usually plan anything big that day.
Tuesday: laundry. I hurry and get the daily stuff done in the morning so I can wash all day. If I am really on top of it I will fold as the laundry comes out, so by the time the kids get home they can put stuff away and do their folding (socks, panties, dish towels), if not (which is most of the time now with the baby) I will save the folding until that evening and do it when the kids are to bed and I watch TV. If I can focus in the evening it takes about an hour and a half to get the folding done.
Wednesday: Kitchen day, I do any extra cooking for the week. I look at the meal plan and see what needs to be done. If we are having beans in a meal, I will cook those. I will cook whole chickens if we are having something with chicken in it, and start broth. I will bake bread; make yogurt and granola for the week. I also try to pick an area in the kitchen to deep clean, like a cupboard and I clean out the fridge. (I did this much better before baby, now I pick and choose what needs to be done the most, and if baby didn't sleep well the night before, I will skip it all and opt for a nap ;-))
Thursday: Office day (this is the one I tend to put off the most.) I attend to papers that accumulate on my desk; I recycle and clean things up. Ideally I would like to use this day for menu planning and budgeting, I have never done it though.
Friday: Cleaning day. I deep clean the house. The kids each have a stewardship to clean (these are the rooms they have been in charge of for the week, on Friday they deep clean it) So really I only end up deep cleaning the kitchen and my bathroom and bed room and I do a lot of supervising. We can usually get the whole house done in a few hours after school. If the kids do a good job without fighting they can have a late night together, they stay up late with a movie and some kind of treat. This is the day I wash sheets (have the kids strip their beds before school), bath towels and rugs.
Saturday: project day, during the warm months it is usually yard work, in the winter something inside in the mornings, in the afternoon I like to plan some family activity if I can.
Sunday: rest (ha!)
Next we'll hear from Jenifer Moss, also a mother of seven. Two boys and five girls. She blogs at www.toddnjenifermoss.blogspot.com. After graduating with a Bachelors in Human Development at BYU, Jenifer entered into her field studies. As a stay at home mother and homemaker for the past 15 years she is learning the HOW, WHEN and WHYs of motherhood and housework. She knows this is a difficult yet divine work. Jenifer believes that the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ teach us how to create a house of order so that we can be temporally and spiritually self reliant. David O. McKay said, "A true Mormon's home is one in which, if Christ would chance to enter he would be pleased to linger and to rest."
Monday- Pick up and vacuum. This is my hardest day, but the most important.
Tuesday- Clean. Bathrooms, floors, windows. (Gather laundry.)
Wednesday- Wash, Dry and Fold. ALL LAUNDRY! (I love one day laundry. I don't end up with loads of half finished laundry everywhere.)
Thursday- Food. This is my errands day. Shopping, meal planning, making bread if I am home. Doctors. Piano lessons, etc.
Friday- Beasts in all their variety. This is the day we have friends over or do projects. We always have -homemade pizza and watch a movie or invite another family over for games.
Saturday- Man. A day for my husband. We have Saturday date night. We go together to games. We do family work projects.
Sunday- Holy Sabbath. (We have our spiritual part of family home evening on Sunday night.)
I wrote an extended version of this schedule on my blog recently-- look for creating a house of order. Or, read about my original plan on the side under Creation Cleaning.
Finally, Diane Robertson is the highly-organized mom of nine:
Here is how I try to manage cleaning mayhem in a large family. I have three categories.
1. Laundry: I do laundry daily and fold straight out of the dryer. I don't like big piles of clean laundry sitting around so I found a way to fold onto shelves into plastic milk crate boxes. Most of my kids keep their clothes in the laundry room. That helps reduce putting away laundry since a lot of it belongs in the laundry room.
2. Deep Cleaning: I do one deep cleaning or large chore each weekday. Monday I scrub the kitchen floor, wash the kitchen cupboards, and clean under appliances on the counters. Tuesday is currently a preschool co-op, and I do not have time for a large chore. Wednesday I pick up and vacuum the upstairs. Thursday I deep clean all of the bathrooms. The older kids help with the bathrooms. Friday is project day. I do things like clean the fridge, or the garage. Sometimes I move furniture, or wash walls and baseboards. Saturday I like to keep open so we have extra time to spend having fun with Dad.
3. Daily chores: dishes, dusting, picking up and vacuuming the downstairs, washing counters and tables, sweeping, and wiping bathroom sinks and toilet seats. The kids help a lot with the daily chores. I do the daily bathroom todo while I use the bathroom so I don't have to schedule in the time.
Our house is never perfectly cleaned but it is maintained. I have nine children and I do not feel like I am buried alive in housework. I also try not to collect a lot of stuff. I like the open spaces more than a whole bunch of toys, crafts, and furniture.


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Scarab Knife 240 is our FASTEST Quad with long flight times - includes our own AIR3-SPi flight controller, OSD, ESC and motors ; with a strong power-to-weight ratio for hard Freestyle aerobatics ; fly fast 120kph PARK FPV - with an Australian designed/made full-house indoor/outdoor drone running 5 inch props very compact for travel - The Knife 240 design is centered around the mini-Andromeda power distribution/OSD and LOS Hi-Vis LED board which drastically reduces build time, reduces wiring and integrates a 1177 Sony FPV camera (sold separately) and a Telecommand legal Video FPV Tx system (sold separately) for the cleanest layout - reactions from pilot are very very positive totally locked in feel, fast and easy to build.
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Question - How do I increase the Roll & Flip rate to spin much faster ? Answer = OK cool - so you are ready to do fast rolls and flips - go to CleanFlight (CHROME) UI and connect - then click on the "Receiver" tab ; on the right side RC Rate - change it from 0.6 up to 1.0 then click SAVE at the bottom ; then click on the PID Tuning tab ; look on the top right, ROLL rate increase to 1.0 ; PITCH Rate increase to 1.0 - YAW Rate increase to 1.0 - press SAVE at the bottom - done Make sure you have around 65% Expo on your RC Transmitter(Tx)
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Posted by TK on 23rd Aug 2016
Fantastic quick quad, easy to build, especially if you've built one before. The packaging is easy to follow and segmented quite nicely, and the PDB is fantastic.
Cons: Only modification I'd recommend is to desolder the XT60 connector thats hard mounted onto the board if you're a newbie like me who crashes a lot. Word on the street from other friends that have one, is you can damage the connector in heavy frequent crashes, so adding an inch of wire will stop this from happening. Haven't had any issues so far though, and have yet to make the mod. The camera angle isn't high enough for my liking, as I tend to fly with the quad almost vertical, but some motor angled mounts will fix that fine.
Build notes/recommendations for new buyers:
Read the notes in the build guide. Saved me a couple of times!
Buy the black 100mm SMA extensions, and never put the antenna directly into the VTX. This is bad news bears if you crash it.
Also, if you have issues arming the quad when setting up failsafes, the quad cannot be in any mode (i.e air mode, horizon, angle) when trying to arm. If you're having intermittent arming issues like I had, this is how I fixed it: delete your modes for failsafe and arm switch, if theyre on the same switch. Then, create an arming mode on the switch, and don't assign anything else to it. This way, the arm will act as an arm, and the other position (which is unassigned) will act as a failsafe/drop/throttle cut/motor stop incase of crashes.
Posted by karl on 30th Jul 2016
I have been loving the scarab knife 270 for a while now and have loved the balanced frames flight characteristics so was super excited when the scarab knife 240 frame was released. I was certainly more than impressed and as always with the fit and finish was top notch and the fact that everything was there to get the 240 in the air bar the receiver is awesome. Assembly was a total breeze with only the most minimal of soldering needed, otherwise it was all plug and play. In the air it is a total dream to fly, fast as can be with effortless punchouts and super nimble surefootedness. This is my absolute goto frame for awesome fun that can take a total beating when your pushing hard. I found that The fully jello ball isolated gopro mount also takes away any hint of jello in the vid which is great too
Posted by Captain Average on 29th Jun 2016
The 240 is a great machine if you are chasing 4s punch to fly acro with a GoPro or cut down the weight to have a quick and competitive naked race frame.
The Carbonbird motors work a treat and have plenty of punch across the entire throttle range and my prop of choice is the HQ 6 x 4.5 x 3 triblade.
The frame layout is very neat and a very enjoyable build as everything fits nicely and there is room to customise still if wanted. The mini andromeda board is a great addition and really reduces clutter inside the tight frame and easy to setup. The large arms are well made and very robust in crashes with good protection around the motors and I am yet to break a bit of carbon despite some serious carnage.
The camera and VTX area great combo however I prefer to isolate my VTX with a pigtail to help protect the vtx in crashes but there is plenty of room to fit one. The mounting of the camera with no screws is great and works a treat. There is plenty of camera angle however if you intend to fly hard and fast at full throttle a lot its worth adding a 2.5mm or 2.1mm lens in the camera to get a better FOV at full tilt or slowly.
I love the Knife 270 for fast flying in close proximity to objects and belting around however if you want to push inverted moves, insane rates and a machine that can turn on a dime and belt off again very quickly this is the machine for you. This machine is a lot of fun to fly and my go to frame when I want to let loose and really push my ability.
I am also really enjoying it stripped down with no GoPro tray and flying very fast with a great power to weight ratio getting my racing lines and handling down pat for Nationals. The machine handles very nicely and easy to tune compared to a number of other airframes that have a very narrow window of a happy tune making a great frame for pilots looking to build their confidence tuning frames.
A very enjoyable frame overall and my only criticism is attaching a GoPro closer to the frame to reduce the mass further away from the C of G but that is easy to work around with a strap and high density foam.
Posted by Andrew Gregg on 29th Jun 2016
I've been flying Scarab frames for a long time and I have to say that when the knife 200 came out I was blown away. The build was so quick and simple thanks to the well thought out Power Distribution Board (PDB) with integrated video feed lines etc. It is probably my most favourite build to date. So when I just thought it couldn't get any better I was told there would be a 240 size soon to be released. I was told it would be even better than the 200 which I was finding quite hard to believe after being so impressed by the 200.
Wow, the 240 didn't let me down. It had all the perks of the 200 having the same centre core frame but with larger arms to accommodate 5 inch props. Plus the next big thing are the carbonbird 2300kv motors. What an upgrade. So much power for so little weight. The bells of the motors had been upgraded from the previous revision with stronger thicker aluminium. Very important when racing a quad because if you have a crash the last thing you want to be doing is swapping out bent or damaged motors. I have crashed this frame time and time again and all I ever have to replace is props and the occasional fpv antenna. The arms are super strong and can take a real beating.
If you're looking for a well designed and easy build quad with epic performance this is certainly a fantastic option. Everything you need is supplied in the kit and the instructions on the MWC site are super easy to follow even for a beginner.
If you have ever found it hard to tune a quad and are never fully happy with how it flys or performs I have to say that the team at MWC have spent a good amount of time tuning the flight controller for the frame and you will find it flys amazing with no adjustment to PIDS etc. This is especially handy for those that are just starting out with this hobby and can easily get confused with all this tuning PID stuff.
Finally this quad has improved my flying 10 fold. It has given me the confidence to push my limits and take risks I wouldn't normally take. Having 100% confidence in the performance and predictability of a machine gives you the ability to fly harder, faster and have an awesome FPV experience every time you head out for a fly.
Highly recommended.
Posted by Tom Rosoman on 19th Jun 2016
I own lot of different quads but I seem to always want to be flying the Scarab Knife 240, which is why my other quads are gathering dust. The package deal had everything I needed. Esc's that can run multishot, integrated LED's on the PCB, really nice light Carbonbird motors and the full FPV set up.
I hate building new quads, but this is the first one that was enjoyable. It was quick and simple and required only simple soldering.
Flying the 240 is a joy! The performance is great, easy to set up and tune and the frame can take a real hammering! Simply put it is a great package.
Posted by Damien Pitt on 17th Jun 2016
As the title says. This is my go to machine whether going fast and low or high and acrobatic (or both). I know I have a fleet of Scarabs now; Reconn, Avatar, Knife 200, Knife 270 and now Knife 240 so you can take a hint from that; there is an obvious reason I keep coming back.
I reviewed the 200 when it first came out and loved it! Fast, zippy, agile; much of what I wrote there applies here as the 200 and 240 share common components and chasis design / layout with 2 main difference; arms and motors. So it's largely the same build as the 200 but just changing those 2 components to create the 240 makes a BIG difference in performance.
So what's different? Firstly the arms are extended to fit 5" props. Secondly, to swing the bigger, heavier 5" props you need a motors with more torque and power output and so the 2203 3100kv (or 3200kv depending on which 200 option you went with) is replaced by the 2204 2300kv motor. Lower rpm sure, but with the larger props and extra thrust they provide the performance between a 200 and 240 is night and day. The 200 is fast, the 240 is everything the 200 is turned up to 11.
The 240 is considerably more powerful; it's ability to punch out of corners or drive itself skyward is beyond anything in the current Scarab line up. It might feel a little intimidating for newcomers initially, but having that extra power to pull yourself out of a hard dive can make a big difference.
My only real concern when going to the 240 was that the longer arms would be a weak point compared to the 200, but thankfully, that hasn't been the case. If you want to know how strong a quad is, give me a few runs on it, I'm guaranteed to put it too it's limits. Not because I'm a great pilot (I'm not, actually I barely know how to land as I've usually hit the ground long before that) but because I am always pushing myself to fly faster, lower and perform new manoeuvres every time I'm out.
A couple of mates jokingly ask whether I have the confidence to try the things I do because I must either have too much money (unfortunately this is definitely not it) or I just don't care to smash it (I do, because of reason 1, not made of money) but I push myself and the 240 hard because I'm confident that even if I come unstuck the frame will take the beating and keep on going. My 240 (and 200) have come down from 50ft +, upside down, backward, sidways, cartwheeled, head first into trees; doesn't seem to worry the 240. The beating the poor thing has endured and continued to shrug off gives me the confidence to fly it hard and do what I do, if it didn't, I wouldn't enjoy flying it anywhere near as much as I would be paranoid every crash would put me out of the air; to date it's not been an issue.
So the only real question is; if both the 200 and 240 are so similar in build and strength, which do I go for?
Well the 200 will be a bit more relaxed compared to the 240; it might be the better frame to learn on or to casually cruise around and nail small gaps. If you fancy yourself bit of a Top Gun, go for the 240. It's everything the 200 is but like Spinal Tap, turned up to 11.
Posted by Unknown on 18th Apr 2016
Ultimate quad from the ease of setup all the way to the characteristics of the machine flying, would recommend.


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Does the human eyeball grow as the human ages?!
Question: Does the human eyeball grow as the human ages?
People say yes and no and the majority says no, but i have a friend that is 10 and blind and her glass eye has to be replaced every six months as she grows is this because she grows or just because it needs to be replaced?
Tony is mostly right, except that the eyes aren't the same from birth.
Our eyes grow about 20% larger from birth until about the age of 5, then they stay the same after.
Yes, it's because her head is still growing. Every 6 months is surprising though.
nope, the eyes stay the same size from the day you're born, the reason your friend needs to have different glasses is because the face itself changes over time and the head gets bigger.


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Welcome back, everyone! I'm neonangel and we're going to start the League of Explorers Adventure and we're going to start on the first boss, which is Zinaar. And his special power is Djinn's Intuition. It costs him 0, it's on auto-cast – he's going to draw a card and gain a mana crystal, but he also gives you a Wish. And these wishes are Wish for Companionship, that's if you're a Hunter, you're going to have the ability to get another companion. Then you've got Wish for Glory, to Discover a minion; Power to Discover a spell; and Valor to Discover a 4-cost card. And it's random whichever one you end up getting. And this deck that I use is really going to try and abuse that, uh, the power of Wishes, and mainly you do that from the Flamewaker that's in the deck, cause whenever you stack up those zero-cost spells you can just do a ton of damage.
Another good card that goes in there is Questing Adventurer. If you get him you can really build him up to be something huge! And Animated Armor is great because he does a ton of damage to you and he'll end up prioritizing face over anything else most of the time, so a lot of times it can really cut down on damage. So we'll go ahead and get started today and see how we do here. And whenever you mulligan you want to hard mulligan for a Flamewaker. It's THE most important card you can have, and there, I got one, so that's great! If you don't draw one, then you know, you may have a hard time. You may have to use an alternative way to try and win, such as the Questing Adventurer or something else. But umm, and Flamewaker is not a guaranteed win. You can still lose even if you have him. It's just if you have him though, you can do a ton of damage if you play it right. You just have to be really cautious. And whenever you put him out he'll almost always kill him right away, because he has just a ton of removal.
So it's really good if can have one of your Duplicates out there, just to backup the Flamewaker and give you some extras. That's why the Mad Scientist is here to help you try and get to those Duplicates a little bit sooner and be able to have something for when the Flamewaker hits the board. Most of the time you aren't even going to put out the Flamewaker before like turn six. Uhhh, but around that time you can just pile on an amazing amount of damage. You can usually clear his entire board with just one Flamewaker. See, now I'm going to have the Duplicate here, so hopefully the Flamewaker is going to come out next, here in another turn or two and have the Duplicate there. Or, I'm sorry! Well, the Duplicate unfortunately got the Mana Wyrm there.
I wasn't paying attention! But, that's okay. One thing that you have to watch out for is you're drawing so many cards from all of the Wishes, if you aren't paying close attention you'll just start burning cards because your hand's too full. The Explosive Sheep are great, especially in the early game, because you can just wipe out most of his board from his early stuff. I'm hoping he'll toss out some more so I can maximize the Explosive Sheep, but I think he's going to kill it here. So, still going to kill the other stuff on the board, but it would have been nice to have ran it into something.
It will probably be good enough to where I can clear most of the board and I have a Duplicate here for the Flamewaker, so this has worked out really well. And I'm probably being really greedy here, because I'm hoping that he doesn't kill the Flamewaker right away. If he does, it's okay though because I can drop two of them and then just unload with all of the Wishes there. Now this is where – oh wow! He Silenced his, his Elemental there. I thought he was gonna Silence my Flamewaker, which he does a lot of times, and that just pretty much destroys your ability to do anything when he Silences your Questing Adventurer or your Flamewakers. It really, really messes with you, so I would say that the Ironbeak Owls are really a pain to face. I don't think I'll need the Echo of Medivh here, but why not pick it up? I'll just go ahead and hold onto some cards and see what I can do here on this next turn.
See, there's his last Ironbeak Owl, but it is still so frustrating to get your Flamewaker Silenced like that. It just wrecks him. Arcane Missiles is pretty funny here. So unless he does something crazy I think I've go a pretty good shot here [haha] against him. Cause if you have a couple of Flamewakers on the board, well, if he doesn't continue killing them all, then you have a pretty good shot. See, he'll just use multiple cards to get rid of your Flamewakers. Like I said, he has a ton of removal. He…all in all, he has like 42 damage or so in his deck, and since he's drawing extra cards he just gets to it, like consistently, so he's really hard to keep up with on the damage charts.
I was thinking about building the Adventuring, uhh, the Questing Adventurer up a little bit more because that way he couldn't be killed quite so easily, but it's not going to matter anyway. I've got another Fireball and should be able to do a ton of damage here, so it doesn't matter what happens – he's gonna be dead this turn. And it doesn't really matter what I draw here. This is just for fun at this point cause he's dead. But that is going to be win number one for me. That one worked out pretty well with the Duplicates there and the Questing Adventurer. And I'm gonna go ahead and play through until I've won five games. So sit back and relax! I had originally recorded all of these games a week or two ago and discovered that there was a problem with the recording where evidently they had made some change to OBS that I wasn't aware of.
I'm not sure what happened, but it stopped recording my cursor, so I didn't have the mouse on anything. Now it's really a minor thing and I think you all would have probably been [haha] able to get the gist of what was happening without seeing my mouse, but I went back and re-recorded everything. So, I had completely finished this entire wing, umm, all five games for every single boss, but I decided to go back and record them all, so that's why it took me a little bit longer this time around.
And unfortunately he got rid of the Flamewaker there. Now the Animated Armor should really help here because he's probably gonna keep trying to smash me in the face. Flamestrike is gonna be really good here. Ahh, so I've got the Questing Adventurer, it looks like I'm gonna have to build him up because it's late in the game here, he's almost out of cards, and I've got to start doing something though and who knows when I'll draw the other Flamewaker, so that's why the Questing Adventurer is there, so you have a backup. So now he's out of cards [haha], so he's gonna be dead pretty much no matter what here.
I'm just gonna make the Adventurer huge. So that is going to be win number two. See, you don't absolutely have to have the Questing, er, I'm sorry, the Flamewaker, but a lot of times it's the best route to go. Umm, but you can certainly win with a Questing Adventurer, as you saw there. I'm gonna be hurting here, really bad. And that certainly hurts whenever he silences my Explosive Sheep, because you know that limits my ability to take out his line, so I'm probably gonna be dead here. If he kills the Animated Armor, I'm definitely dead.
Yep [haha]. So there's my first loss. Sometimes he just churns out the big minions really fast and if you aren't able to freeze 'em or if you don't already have a Flamewaker, then it's going to be tough to do anything. See, I've got two of the Flamewakers here, but he's already got two Windfury minions here so I've got to do something pretty quick. The Stormwind Champions always screw everything up too. This next turn I'm going to drop both Flamewakers and try and blow everything up. I was able to pick up another Flamewaker there, so that's gonna come in handy.
Shifter Zerus is a lot of fun to pick out of there because you just never know what you're going to get. You just hang on to him. I would have loved to have used King Krush there, but I don't think it was a good time to put him out. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to build up the Questing Adventurer here again like in the game before last.
And he should be dead. At least one or two more turns. Next turn he should be. There he goes. That's gonna be win number three for me. That was a really good start. I really couldn't ask for better. I had a Duplicate, which is a good thing, because he silenced my Mad Scientist. And hopefully I can have a really good turn here. Thankfully he did not kill him, so that's gonna make all the difference in the world. Having 3 Flamewakers out is pretty awesome, and now four [haha], so if you have four Flamewakers you are going to easily clear the board! Cause you're doing, at the minimum, 8 damage every single spell you cast. So there's win number four. Just need to get one more. Now see, unfortunately he killed the Flamewaker that I had and I didn't have Duplicate out there, so… But now I'll be able to build up the Questing Adventurer – until he gets Silenced, and he's still got another Ironbeak Owl in there too.
Like I said before, it can be extremely frustrating whenever he's Silencing your Flamewaker or Questing Adventurer. It just wrecks you, pretty much. Now if he wouldn't have frozen my Annoy-o-Tron I could have done something there. I'm totally dead. Couldn't quite pull that one out, unfortunately. But there, he killed key minions there. Killing the Flamewaker and Silencing the Questing Adventurer really hurt. Again, silencing right away the Explosive Sheep. It just gets very frustrating. Now he's got an entire board full, so this is gonna be tough here. Now I built up the Adventure just enough so he couldn't Fireball it, but he nearly killed it there anyway. I've got some huge Adventurers here, so he's gonna be dead next turn unless he does something. That's not gonna save him. So that is win number five! Anyway, I appreciate you joining me for this. It's good to be back on the next Adventure and hopefully you'll join me for the rest of the bosses that will be coming up here soon.
Like I said, I had to re-record this entire wing last week, so I should be getting that out here pretty soon. So join me next time and I'll see you later!.
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SOMETHING FOR ALL The economics paper was a mix of difficult and easy questions.
While class 12 students agree that the economics exam came as a sigh of relief after the disastrous mathematics exam, it wasn't a cakewalk. Akshita Verma from Amity School, Noida said, "My paper went well, it should compensate for my mathematics exam. But the paper was difficult as compared to last year. It had some application and analysis-based questions. I am not expecting more than 80% because I wasn't able to attempt all the questions."
Subah Singh, a class XII student said, "After a fairly difficult math paper, the economics paper definitely seemed simple. But compared to last year's exam, it was complicated. Questions were not direct and the paper was lengthy. I am hopeful that the overall percentage will improve as I am expecting around 90%."
The paper comprised of one mark, three marks, four marks and six marks questions. The exam paper consisted of two sections – Section A: It consisted of questions on price floor; production possibilities curve, revenue, law of variable proportions and the all-time favorite equilibrium which could be attempted easily. Section B: This section had four long answer questions based on deficient demand, budgetary policy, estimation of national income and net domestic product at market price.
According to Manju Arora, head of the department (Economics), Studymate, "This year 20% were easy questions, 50% were of medium difficulty level and 30% were difficult questions. There were 17% numerical questions which would help students to score high marks. There were also some direct questions to enable the average students to score better. The paper also had some application and analysis-based questions on current topics like Clean India Mission and Jan Dhan Yojna. Only those students who had thorough understanding of the concepts will be able to sail through."
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Prevention of Anaphylaxis: The Role of the Epinephrine Auto-Injector
Allergies are the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States, affecting more than 50 million Americans and costing the healthcare system more than $18 billion annually.1 Individuals in hyperallergic states are at chronic high risk for the occurrence of acute anaphylactic episodes, and as many as 49 million individuals are thought to be at risk in the United States.2 Annual direct costs of anaphylaxis are estimated at $1.2 billion.2Anaphylactic episodes are serious, multisystem, life-threatening, and generalized or systemic hypersensitive or allergic reactions that are rapid in onset and potentially fatal.3, 4, 5 Anaphylaxis may be immunologic (immunoglobulin E mediated or non–immunoglobulin E mediated) or nonimmunologic; both forms are referred to as "anaphylaxis" in this review, in line with international guidelines and consensus statements.3 Risk factors for anaphylaxis include age,5, 6 comorbidities (eg, asthma7), and certain medications (eg, beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors).5, 6
Anaphylaxis occurs on a continuum and can begin with relatively minor symptoms before progressing, in an unpredictable manner, to a life-threatening condition.3 The most common signs and symptoms include changes in the skin (eg, itching, erythema, pruritus, urticaria, angioedema) and respiration (including bronchospasm, laryngeal edema, cough, respiratory arrest); effects on the gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems also may be evident.3, 5 Anaphylaxis often is underrecognized by healthcare professionals both in general practice and in emergency care,6 particularly if cutaneous signs and symptoms are not present (these are absent in 10%-20% of patients).5
International guidelines concur that anaphylaxis is a medical emergency and requires rapid intervention.5, 6Prompt treatment with epinephrine, the only first-line intervention for anaphylaxis, is recommended to prevent the progression of an anaphylactic episode.4, 5, 6, 8 For patients experiencing an anaphylactic event, epinephrine is the only medication proven to prevent hospitalization and fatalities.6 Because the onset of anaphylaxis symptoms often occurs in the community setting,3 at-risk patients should be prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors to provide rapid intramuscular administration of epinephrine.4, 7, 9 However, a large number of patients prescribed epinephrine auto-injectors do not have access to one at the time of an allergen exposure, leading to delayed medication administration and increased risk of progression to severe anaphylaxis.10, 11, 12, 13
Currently, many high-deductible healthcare plans include epinephrine auto-injectors among those medications to which the plan's deductible applies rather than as a preventive medicine exempt from cost sharing. Because high deductibles and high cost sharing, such as those in high-deductible healthcare plans, may lead to decreased use of medical care,14, 15, 16, 17 the recognition and classification of epinephrine as a preventive medicine could improve patient access. Recommended preventive services or medications (ie, those graded A or B by the US Preventive Services Task Force [USPSTF]) are not subject to any cost-sharing requirements for the patient, (eg, deductibles, copayments) (as discussed next), as per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010.18 The role of epinephrine auto-injectors in the prevention of anaphylaxis progression and their potential classification as preventive by the USPSTF and inclusion on healthcare plan preventive medication lists are reviewed.
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-Leonard Fromer, MD
This article originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of The American Journal of Medicine.


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Marriage handouts by Debra B
Debra shared these marriage handouts. The quotes read "Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all decisions and has the most far reaching effects for it has to do not only with immediate happiness but eternal joys as well." by Spencer W Kimball. The Salt Lake temple is on each handout. One is poster size and the other is 4 per page.


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Charles Johnson continues to produce mind-boggling results in documenting the outrageous bias and outright fraudulence in the mainstream media depiction of the Lebanon war. Yesterday Charles demonstrated still more staged photojournalism from Lebanon by an AP photographer. (Charles linked to "Al-AP at it again with staged photos.") Other striking instances of similar phenomena are on display in "Leading BBC reporter caught lying," in "Green Helmet Man admits staging photos, AP spins furiously," and in "Azzam Tamimi uncensored." For Charles, it's all in a day's work.
Charles and Little Green Footballs are notable examples of what Professor Stephen Cooper of Marshall University calls Watching the Watchdogs: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate in the title of his new book. (The linked publisher's page offers access to the book's introduction, first chapter and index; the book's Amazon listing is here.) The book is excellent. Judging it by its account of controversies in which Power Line played a role — Rathergate, the talking points memo, Krugmania, the Haifa Street photo — it meticulously reconstructs several of the most interesting engagements of the blogosphere and the mainstream media.
Professor Cooper has become both a student and an advocate of the role played by blogs like ours in connection with the mainstream media. In his conclusion, Professor Cooper writes:
Quite simply, the blogosphere exists because it fills a need. It was not brought into being by fiat; it evolved through the accumulation of individual acts. The many people who find it worth their investment in time and effort to create blog content surely do it because they find it fills a need for expression, for giving voice to their thoughts, in a way the previous outlets available to them did not. So, too, does the blogosphere fill a need for those who read the content, and participate in discussion by adding their comments. In this sense, then, the blogosphere represents a vox populi the technology did not determine, but did, instead, facilitate. This is clearly a free market perspective on the blogosphere; the author finds it the most satisfying understanding of it.
Probably the critical theorists, as a school of thought, would be discomfited by the notion that a blatantly commercial marketplace in communication technology has facilitated the evolution of a genre of computer-mediated communication (viz., blogs) with such a relentlessly individualist ethos, yet having such a clear public benefit. Probably they would not have expected that a genre with such inconsequential roots (viz., personal web pages) could have opened up public discourse to a collective level only considered a theoretical ideal. Probably they would have assumed that even an approximation of that ideal discourse could come into being only through some sort of concerted political action, not through the accumulation of voluntary interactions in a decentralized, unmanaged virtual space. Yet, that is precisely what has happened.
This author is inclined to think that social structures which evolve through the voluntary interactions and exchanges among people—such as the blogosphere—tend in general to be more beneficial than structures created through the deliberate exercise of power, however well-intentioned—such as regulatory bureaucracies. That idea cannot be fully explored here. For our purposes, we can simply note that the blogosphere would seem to be a near-perfect instantiation of the ideal discourse.
Real life can often be a pleasant surprise. And that is a good thing about it.
Forgive Professor Cooper his small lapse into academic jargon to cloak his celebration of the role played by the part of the blogosphere that he respectfullly documents and analyzes in the rest of the book.
UPDATE: TCS has posted a Podcast interview of Professor Cooper by Ed Driscoll that is accessible here.


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Blackberry PlayBook
Of all the tablets we've tested in recent months, RIM's Playbook has the loudest and clearest speakers
The PlayBook is RIM's first tablet whereas firms such as Apple and Samsung have already released second generation devices.
Given that RIM is best known for its smartphones which are geared more for business use, we were surprised by the PlayBook's entertainment capabilities.
The speakers produced the loudest and clearest audio in this round-up, which made watching movies a treat. The device's LCD screen is also brilliant in terms of the visuals it creates. Colours look like they're ready to jump right off the screen and there's an undeniable sharpness to everything you see - the PlayBook's screen is easily one of the best we've seen.
The tablet also sports strong rear and front facing cameras. The rear facing camera delivered excellent photos and videos though the lack of a flash limits you to shooting when there's sufficient light. The front facing camera is also spectacular when it comes to video calls as it produces great image quality.
The PlayBook offers considerable business functionality too, though this depends on whether or not you already have a BlackBerry smartphone, as you have to tether the two together to reap the business benefits. When we tried tethering the two devices together we found it a quick and painless process and this holds true even when the two are disconnected and reconnected abruptly.


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"Emboldened by Women in High Heels" (an adventure on the Great wall of China…)
In Whose Panties Are These? More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road. Ed. by Jennifer L. Leo (Travelers' Tales, 2004).
In Whose Panties Are These? More Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road. Ed. by Jennifer L. Leo (Travelers' Tales, 2004).
…loaded with hilarious stories from women who have gone to the ends of the earth only to hear the sniggering of the cosmos. From an African Village to the Great Wall of China, these stories that weren't so funny when they happened prove once again that travel, like laughter, is the best medicine.
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"Kicked Into the Mediterranean" (The Egadi Islands)
Thirty Days In Italy
Ed. by James & Sean O'Reilly & Larry Habegger. (Travelers' Tales, 2006)
What would you do if you were sentenced to 30 days abroad?… whether you have 30 days off or just a few, these true stories from other travelers will give you ideas of where to go, what to do, and what it's like to be there.
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"Eritrea: A New Country By Land and Sea"
The New York Times, Travel, feature
December 10, 1995
"Saudi Arabia: An American Woman Comes Face To Face with a Kingdom Long Off-Limits to Westerners"
Chicago Tribune, Travel, feature
November 19, 2000
November 19, 2000
"A Westerner's Eye on Saudi Arabia"
Saudi Gazette (Saudi Arabia's English language national daily newspaper)
July 12, 2000
"Italian Workers in Saudi Arabia, 1944-54"
Saudi Gazette
July 31, 2000
"Still on Cortland Street" (a Chicago narrative…)
In In The Middle of the Middle West, Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland, Ed. by Becky Bradway
(Indiana University Press, 2003)
"Italian sun and a cerulean sea? That's amore, and it's all on the Egadis"
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1. Opening in theaters is "Life of the Party" rated PG-13, a comedy about dedicated housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) who turns regret into reset by going back to college but winds up at the same school as her less-than-thrilled daughter; "Breaking In" a PG-13-rated thriller about a mom (Gabrielle Union) fighting to protect her family during a home invasion.
2. Saturday is National Miniature Golf Day, so if there's a course near you, consider taking the family for an outing. You also could set up a mini-golf course in your backyard, using cans, holes or croquet wickets.
3. Sunday is also International Hummus Day. The delicious garbanzo bean spread can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner and is high in protein while being low in fat. Make your own at home by combining a 15-ounce can of chickpeas with a clove or garlic, ¼ cup of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of tahini (sesame seed paste), and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in a food processor. Blend until smooth and creamy. Season to taste with salt and fresh or dried herbs.
4. For 1 in 6 Americans, the availability of nutritionally adequate or safe food is limited or uncertain. This Saturday, leave out a bag or two filled with nonperishable foods by your mailbox for the 26th annual Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, one of the nation's largest hunger relief efforts. Mail carriers, postal workers and other volunteers collected about 71 million pounds of food last year. For more information, go to the official website, http://www.helpstampouthunger.com/.
5. Last but definitely not least, Sunday is Mother's Day. You still have time to get or make the perfect card and/or gift, or plan a special day for Mom – just don't forget to tell her how much you appreciate her!


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Newton & Co are delighted to present for sale this quaint stone cottage situated in a unique position overlooking lawned gardens to the front within the much admired Eagley Bank conservation area. This idyllic Grade II listed property is set back off the road and is immaculately maintained and beautifully presented throughout whilst retaining its charm & character. The local area is steeped in local history. Its it conveniently located for Bolton Town Centre and close to excellent amenities including shopping, schools and leisure facilities.
Accommodation comprises of a lounge with stained original floorboards overlooking the front garden, a country style kitchen with stone flagged floors and stable style door leading out onto the rear patio. To the basement you will find a converted cellar with window making a useful space ideal for a gym, storage space etc. To the first floor you will find two bedrooms and a three piece bathroom. Externally you will find a large south facing front garden offering a lawn and patio space. To the rear of the property is a paved patio with gated access onto the parking spaces on the unadopted road behind.


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it is your arrogance that brings this out and it is the arrogant responses you make that re-oinforces this but I will not differ with you on your clarification. I will say though that it would take a lot of money and a lot of years to come up with metrics and even they might be worthless depending on how far reaching they are and how much the technology has changed by then. I'm not against metrics but I have seen two things come out of metrics that scare me. One is that attempts to measure often distort what is being measured and thus the results are distorted and two there is often a biass in the measurements that can invalidate them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kynn Bartlett" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "David Poehlman" <email@example.com>; "Harry Woodrow" <email@example.com>; "Charles McCathieNevile" <email@example.com> Cc: "Scott Luebking" <email@example.com>; "WAI IG" <email@example.com> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: WCAG usability Re: Multiple versions of a web page At 8:26 AM -0500 12/27/01, David Poehlman wrote: >Kynn, it seems that web accessibility was borne with you if we are to >take what you say litterally. Excuse me? I beg your pardon? >I am going to take one statement and >paraphrase it and refute it. If this statement is not attributable to >you, we can blame it on my screen reader and I would think you would >know better than to make such a statement so I am in doubt that I heard >it from you. Okay, let's see that statement. This is it? >wcag was never tested. I don't believe I said "WCAG was never tested", no. And certainly if you read it in context, I stated that there were specific types of tests which have not been done in a vigorous manner. >As wcag was being developped, there was a lot of testing that went into >it. In fact, you can see lots of test pages that were created aand lots >of techniques for following the guidelines that were developped based on >lots of feedback from lots of users under varying circumstances and the >addition is still going on. Good, so where are the hard statistics in measurable numbers on how much accessibility is improved if you follow WCAG 1.0 Single-A, WCAG 1.0 Double-A, and WCAG 1.0 Triple-A? Kindly point them to me, or more properly, kindly concede the point that the type of testing I'm _talking_ about has not yet been done, and these particular bits of information are not available. Please don't accuse me of thinking "web accessibility was borne with me" as a way of avoiding issues. Nothing annoys me more than personal insults in lieu of addressing legitimate criticism and identification of a valid need. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <email@example.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201Received on Thursday, 27 December 2001 11:49:29 UTC
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Michael Samuelson, a giant Twins fan who's battled health emergencies for years, is heading home from the hospital Friday after cancer treatments and entering end-of-life hospice care.
"Sammy" railed against the Dome but still attended games there because he loved the team.
Jay Weiner wrote a touching MinnPost piece about "Sammy" in 2009, when his total of kidney transplants already topped the number of Twins' world championship pennants.
Sammy had been a longtime community organizer and activist. He and his wife, former St. Paul City Council Member Kiki Sonnen, live in St. Paul.
This note went out this week from Sammy's fellow Twins fan Julian Loscalzo:
There comes a time when every veteran ballplayer realizes he can't catch up with the fastball & it's time to hang up the spikes. Sammy's cancer is terminal. His heart, soul and spirit wants to fight on but his body is just plain worn out. He and Kiki have decided it is time to wait for the closer on their own terms. He's hoping to foul off a few more pitches over the next few weeks but if it is all fastballs, he's cooked.
He's lived a great and full life. I've been blessed to have shared so much of it with him & many of you. He comments daily that his friends have given great meaning to his life and wonderful memories. Hopefully, all of us will carry those forward and share those laughs as well as the 'cringes' with others. The guy celebrated life every day and his battles with health issues gave many of us strength when we faced our own challenges.
I realize by writing this with Sammy's admonition to use 'proper grammar,' he's got me saying something nice about him but hell, I don't care especially since he recently forgave me for abandoning him in a hospital in Detroit in 1998!!!!
And Sammy says in a Facebook post and email to friends:
I have treasured my time knowing all of you these many years. It will be tough but I'm sure that with the love from you, other friends and family I'll make this transition work as best it can. Please read the attached message from Julian. What a beautiful note it is.


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Fantastic Grecian Print from Versace (Spring/Summer 2011 Accessories) Versace bags look fantastic with this wonderful impression on a blue, red and beige background. Most of the rooms come with long strips, but it can be used as clutches as well. Shoes from Versace spring/summer 2011 range looks nice. Some styles are reasons, while others are […]
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In this week's show we discuss where the 0-2 Roughriders are as a team and examine the club's kicking situation.
We also answer the question, "Who's the best team in the CFL?" and look forward to Saturday's home game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
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A manta ray sighting is one of the most breathtaking experiences a diver can have. Watching such an enormous creature glide through the water with such grace and effortlessness, it's easy to fall under the manta's spell. Just don't be surprised if, after you've seen your first one, you start planning your upcoming dive trips around where you can see another one.
Learn more before you meet your first manta by studying up on these facts:
1. A manta's skin is covered in a mucusy film which serves as protection. A touch from human hands can remove the film, so hands off!
2. They are some of the largest animals in the ocean. Manta rays can weigh as much as 1,350 kg (3,000 lb) and have wingspans of up to 7 m (23 ft). Because of their size, very few aquariums can accommodate mantas, so there are not many in captivity.
3. Swimming is essential. Mantas have to swim constantly to stay alive – the forward propulsion flushes water over their gills.
4. The name "manta" comes from the Spanish word meaning "mantle" or "cloak" and it's easy to see why. The common nickname for mantas, "devilfish", was given because of their cephalic fins, which look like horns.
5. While they're found throughout the world in tropical and sub-tropical waters, there are some places where mantas tend to gather, including the Bahamas, Fiji, Indonesia, Thailand, Spain and the Maldives. The furthest north a manta has been recorded was near South Carolina in the United States; the southernmost record was around the North Island of New Zealand.
6. Despite their enormous size, mantas feed on tiny creatures. They are filter feeders and they typically feed on zooplankton, such as segmented worms and shrimp-like crustaceans.
7. Baby mantas are born looking like miniature adults, and receive no further care from their mothers. Fertilized eggs cases grow inside the mother until the pup is developed – this is estimated to take as long as one year, from mating to birth.
8. Mantas have large brains, relative to their size. It's thought that their brain structure, unique among fish, might help to explain mantas social and curious natures.
9. Mantas seem to love being cleaned. They'll return over and over again to cleaning stations to have smaller fishes, like wrasses and sergeant major fish, clean them of parasites.
10. Humans and human activity pose threats to mantas. Whether they become tangled in nets or are hunted for their body parts (for traditional medicines), we humans are more of a threat to mantas than ocean predators.
To learn about how you can help protect mantas and their environment, visit www.scubaearth.com or www.projectaware.org.