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This 2.0 star property offers limo/town car service and business services. High speed Internet access is available in public areas. Guest parking is available for a surcharge. Additional property amenities include multilingual staff and express check out. This is a smoke free property.
There are 73 guestrooms at Harvard Square Hotel. Refrigerators and coffee/tea makers are offered. Bathrooms feature makeup/shaving mirrors, designer toiletries, and hair dryers. Televisions have cable channels. Air conditioned rooms also include electronic/magnetic keys, irons/ironing boards, and clock radios. Guests may request microwaves and wake up calls. A nightly turndown service and housekeeping are available. Cribs (infant beds) and rollaway beds are available on request. Guestrooms are all non smoking.
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Today, AMR is the parent company of both American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc., and has a number of businesses and key facilities within its corporate structure. The company is also a founding member of the global oneworld Alliance. All aspects of the airline's worldwide activities are overseen from AMR's Corporate Headquarters campus in Fort Worth, Texas. AMR's businesses and key facilities include:
Founded in 1930, American Airlines, formerly American Airways, Inc., was the result of the consolidation of more than 80 small airlines into The Aviation Corporation. American Airways, Inc. officially became American Airlines, Inc. in 1934, the same year C.R. Smith became president of the company. The airline began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 10, 1939. Originally headquartered in New York City, where it continues to maintain a strong presence, American moved its headquarters to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1979 and has since become one of the largest airlines in the world, contributing nearly $100 billion to the U.S. and international economies. It has helped create more than 900,000 jobs worldwide, and supported approximately 1,400 non-profit organizations worldwide. American and its regional airline affiliates, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection airlines, serve approximately 250 cities in over 40 countries with, on average, 3,400 daily flights. American's network covers points throughout North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Pacific. American has five major cornerstone markets: New York, Los Angeles, Dallas/Fort Worth, Chicago O'Hare, and Miami where it's network resources are concentrated and which connect some of the largest U.S. population centers for business travelers and are international gateway cities. American's "Transcon" services between cities on the U.S. East and West Coasts have long been important non-hub flights. In 2009, about 38.8% of American's flying was international – Latin American and the Caribbean, 18.7%; Europe, 15.6%; and Pacific, 4.5%. The combined network fleet numbers almost 900 aircraft. In 2009, American carried approximately 85.7 million passengers, about equal to one-third of the U.S. population. American and American Eagle have nearly 88,500 full-time and part-time employees worldwide. Approximately 67% of AA's employees are represented by one of three labor unions – Allied Pilots Association, Association of Professional Flight Attendants, Transport Workers Union.
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This is not a news flash: Payments is about the most complex platform industry there is and igniting innovation in payments is anything but a given these days, even if a company is doing it within the construct of a successfully operating platform. The complexity, as we all know, rests with the discipline of having a strategy that can create the delicate balance across all stakeholders, deliver traction in a relevant timeframe and drive profits.
But this perhaps is: "An abundance of evidence suggests that greater attention to the ways in which organizations and incentives shape the innovation process can produce significantly better results," remarks Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Architecture of Innovation. This new book sheds new light on how corporations should organize their innovation initiatives in order to produce the best results: getting innovation to market and ignited. The implications to the payments industry are real and they are relevant.
This topic, The Architecture of Innovation in Payments, is one of several interactive keynote sessions at The Innovation Project 2013, a two day gathering of senior executives in payments who are driving innovation in the payments and broader commerce ecosystem hosted by PYMNTS.com.
Lerner makes the case in the book that Corporate R&D doesn't necessarily yield the desired outcome. He points out in his book that as recently as the end of the 1990s, for those companies that organized innovation that way, R&D-driven innovation contributed less than 25 percent of the value of what investments in traditional assets would have produced for that company (e.g. supply chain efficiencies, cost reductions, etc.). Venture investing isn't seen as the panacea either. Investments made by the entire venture capital sector over the course of any given year amount to much less than the R&D budgets of a single giant pharmaceutical firm like Merck or a automotive giant like GM. And, in 2011, venture-backed firms represented less than 10 percent of all publicly traded firms in the U.S.
So, what would? Well, surprisingly, what many have already started to do. Simply stated, it involves having corporations invest in promising start ups, usually through a separate entity, and then creating an operating model that is helpful enough to the venture without drowning it in the corporate bureaucracy that would only slow things down – or worse.
There are two forces of nature that are moving the industry in this direction. First, the largest players in the space are today funding dozens of "innovation experiments" focused on driving payments into the mobile realm, and more broadly expanding the reach of electronic payments. At the same time, access to new technologies and the availability of IP-enabled devices such as the smart phone and tablet reduced the barriers to entry for many an emerging venture to make a play for something new, innovative and game-changing. Hundreds of millions of dollars of venture money poured (and are pouring) into the sector to foster the "next" new thing in payments. In 2012 alone, more than $1 billion was invested in emerging payments firms by VCs. But as good (and well funded) as their great ideas might be, most of these ventures will need distribution and scale to ignite and access to the "incumbents" to make that happen in any sort of meaningful way. They'll also need access to the people inside the organization who can "school" them on what it means to be in the payments business. Many of them have no clear idea of its complicated inner-workings.
Those two forces, Lerner believes, sets up exactly the right environment for the right model for innovation in large organizations – corporate venturing – something that takes the best of both worlds and devises a structure, a framework and a set of incentives for advancing strategic goals and generating good returns on those investments.
The Innovation Project 2013 interactive keynote session on The Architecture of Innovation in Payments will tackle this topic head on. Lerner and Diane Offereins, President of the Discover Network, will engage four C-suite innovators — all pioneers in designing and deploying innovation in payments — on a wide-ranging discussion of incentives, partnership strategy, innovation design, ignition obstacles and more. Offereins is credited with coming up with the idea to license the Discover network to other innovators to propel their innovation agenda four years ago. She will give Innovation Project 2013 delegates a peek inside the strategy that was used to develop and deploy this strategy internally, and use that to engage the panel on the impact of that strategy on innovation inside of the payments sector. Panel participants include:
- Chris Gardner, co-Founder and CEO of Paydiant, a cloud-based solution that enables banks and merchants to accept payments via the mobile phone. Gardner will share his thoughts on how he and Paydiant have aligned incentives for innovation with some of the biggest bank and merchant partners in the US.
- Mike Kennedy, Chairman of ClearXchange and EVP for innovation at Wells Fargo, will describe ClearXchange's blueprint for getting the three biggest banks to the table around a new idea, and how that framework may change in order to take ClearXchange to the next level of innovation in mobile payments.
- Chitra Narasimhan, Managing Director at CitiVentures, will offer her insights about how to structure and incent innovation inside huge financial institutions and provide support to emerging ventures without overwhelming them in corporate bureaucracy.
- Mike Pasilla, CEO of Elavon, will describe how innovation works at Elavon and explain how he attracts and retains key partnerships while balancing the requirements of his bank parent company, and payments regulatory environment.
The Innovation Project 2013 is being held on March 20-21 at Harvard University. For information on how to register and for a look at the entire programming line up, please visit theinnovationproject2013.com.
About The Innovation Project
Over 2 days, more than 100 speakers and 500 senior members of the payments industry will change the way that the payments and its broader commerce ecosystem thinks, talks, delivers and ignites innovation. On March 20th and 21st the greatest minds in commerce and payments will assemble at Harvard University near Boston to kick the conversation about innovation up to an entirely different level at a program called The Innovation Project. Speakers and delegates are among the most senior executives and elite innovators from literally every established payments company worldwide, along with the CEOs/founders of the most innovative start-ups. One of its five modules includes pairing industry CEOs with external thought leaders such as Al Gore (former US VP), Steve Levitt (Freakonomics), Eric Reis (The Lean Start Up), Rosie Rios (US Treasurer), Russell Simmons (Rush Card), Raj Date (CFPB), and Josh Lerner (Architecture of Innovation) to challenge the conventional wisdom around what it will take to get merchants and consumers to adopt new ways to shop and pay. Warren Buffett is the program's keynote. The Innovation Project also hosts the industry's 2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards, given to 15 of the industry's top innovators over dinner, which this year will be emceed by B.J. Novak of The Office and will introduce delegates to 40 of the hottest "next generation" payments innovators. The ThinkAThon will challenge a small group of delegates to frame solutions to tough industry problems and compete in front of delegates and judges for the title of "Master Payments Guru 2013."
About PYMNTS.com
PYMNTS.com is reinventing the way in which companies in payments share relevant information about the initiatives that shape the future of commerce and make news. This powerful B2B platform is the #1 site for the payments industry by traffic and the premier source of information about "what's next" in payments. C-suite and VP level executives read it daily for these insights, making the PYMNTS.com audience the most valuable in the industry. It provides an interactive platform for companies to demonstrate thought It provides an interactive platform for companies to demonstrate thought leadership, popularize products and, most importantly, capture the mindshare of global decision-makers. It's where the best minds and best content meet on the web.
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The Muskogee Redevelopment Authority received a $1.1 million loan from the City of Muskogee Foundation.
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I'm Thirsty: Mars Ice Melted, Turned To Water
Remember the post about the Phoenix Lander spotting ice on Mars? Well now the brave little explorer has collected a sample of the stuff and cooked it in a special easy-bake oven it has on board. The result? Water.
"The fact that it melted at zero degrees Celsius leaves very little doubt that it is standard water ice," William Boynton of the University of Arizona said. He said sensors also tested the chemical makeup of the vapor and found the familiar combination of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
HIYO, we have water! And all it took was a little oven, huh? Well I'll get to the bottom of this Montauk Monster business yet. *jamming beast into oven* What do you think, 4 hours at 450â°?
UPDATE: Mmmm, starting to smell real science-y. Anybody seen the baster?
Existence Of Water On Mars Confirmed [washingtonpost]
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You get an update that changes the branding to Skype chat.
If it's as easy as that. From what I have read, Skype is not a background service on Windows Phone 7.x as it is on Windows Phone 8.x, also there is the issue of the Facebook integration, from what I'm aware Facebook Chat isn't integrated into Skype is it?
disappointed :( I always found messenger to work so much more fluidly than skype
Try out my first Windows 8 app, ModernCalc! It's free and I would love to hear your feedback!
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Tablet: Surface for Windows RT - 11-07-2012, 09:27 AM #6
Well, I think I would be happy if they could run Skype as a background service like they do with messenger - maybe instead, maybe windows 7.9 will solve that one!
I think MS will have a lot of unhappy customers otherwise, as Windows Phone 7.x is still a currently sold operating system, with new phones still coming out utilizing it. You can't sell something with one thing on the box and take it away two minutes later. - 11-08-2012, 07:16 AM #7
So most of you think the Messages app for WP7.5 isn't going to work anymore?
I really hope that it will continue to work, but if it doesn't, one of the greatesr WP7.5's functionalities will be blasted!
I'm just gonna wait for Microsoft's official pronouncements about all this... - 02-18-2013, 11:13 AM #10
Of course, but what about the messenger integration - surely Microsoft will not still be promoting sales of a mobile operating system that has visible but unusable features baked into the handset - I can't see the consumers that have purchased, or are about to purchase a windows 7.8 phone being very happy about the fact that they have buttons that they can both look at and press but that in fact do nothing?
I received an email from Microsoft and at the bottom it said:
Can I upgrade to Skype on my mobile or tablet?
Yes. Skype is available on iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone 8. While you can still use Messenger on your mobile until a future date, we encourage you to download the latest version of Skype on your mobile or tablet. You will be able to sign into Skype on your iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 8 mobile apps with your Microsoft account over the next few weeks.
Sent from my Windows 8 device using Board Express Pro - 02-18-2013, 11:40 PM #12
Our phones don't use the conventional WLM client, we have some other thing that hooks in with MS' back end servers which gives us access to people signed in with their @live,@hotmail accounts + FB etc. If MS doesn't **** this up, the transition should be 100% smooth on our end, your friends will upgrade to Skype as forced, and since they'll have the same credentials, they should appear online when they log into Skype. It all goes through MS' servers anyway.
I really hope they don't screw up the Messenger integration in WP7. If they force us to use the Skype app instead, I'll be more pissed than I've been at anything else they've done. I really don't think they'll do that though, it seems very shortsighted. Then again, they might not care, due to there not being that many of us anyway...


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Pepco and union negotiate, won't share details
Pepco met today with the union that represents 1,150 of its line mechanics and underground cable splicers.
Md. couple indicted after son drinks methadone
Anne Arundel County police say a Severn couple has been charged after their 5-year-old son drank methadone and became unconscious.
Prominent Md. lobbyist fined for lead violation
Prominent Maryland lobbyist Bruce Bereano has been fined $13,000 for lead paint violations at two Anne Arundel County rental properties.
Md. veterans groups can apply for pull tabs Oct. 1
Veterans organizations in Maryland can apply next week for a license to have up to five instant lottery pull tab machines at their facilities to help raise money for veterans, but it is expected to take months before the machines will be playable because regulations still need to be adopted.
Maryland's top judge to speak in Annapolis
Maryland's top jurist will be speaking to students at a high school in Annapolis.
Fort Meade suicide prevention sessions mandatory
Fort Meade is taking a day out for suicide prevention training.
Woman accused of leaving kids to commit robbery
Anne Arundel County police say a woman left her five young children alone in an Odenton hotel room while she committed a robbery.
Anne Arundel teachers to get cost-of-living raise
The Anne Arundel County school board has approved a pay raise for teachers, counselors and others.
Man enters Alford plea in wife's death
A 57-year-old man has entered an Alford plea to first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his wife in their Pasadena home.
Boy carrying stick hurt when it touches power line
Fire officials say a 10-year-old boy was seriously injured when a stick he was carrying came into contact with a power line in Severna Park.
Companies to be put on notice about law on Iran
Maryland has a new law prohibiting companies from investing in Iran's energy sector, and the Board of Public Works is set to put companies on notice about it.
10 removed from boat, too drunk to operate vessel
Natural Resources police say 10 people were removed from a boat in the Chesapeake Bay because officers feared no one was sober enough to operate the vessel.
Democrats endorse LaFerla in the 1st district
The Maryland Democratic Party is officially endorsing Dr. John LaFerla to run as a write-in candidate in the 1st district congressional race.
'Gangnam Mids' gyrate into Annapolis (VIDEO)
The Korean pop song by PSY, named for the affluent district of Seoul, has taken the internet by storm with more than 2 million page views since it was uploaded in July.
Child playing with lighter causes fire
Anne Arundel County fire officials say a child playing with a lighter caused a house fire in Pasadena.
LaFerla says he will run as write-in candidate
John LaFerla, who barely lost the Democratic primary to run in Maryland's 1st District congressional race, said Friday he will run as a write-in candidate.
Ex-employee admits to stealing $200K in jewelry
A woman has admitted to stealing more than $200,000 worth of jewelry from the Arundel Mills store where she worked.
Arundel Mills casino completes its slots parlor
Operators of the Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover are marking the completion of their slots parlor.
Naval Academy ranked top liberal arts college
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the U.S. Naval Academy as the best public liberal arts college in the country for the second consecutive year.
O'Malley announces trade mission to Israel
Gov. Martin O'Malley will be going on a business trip to Israel in November.


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Grasping with Straws: Make a Robot Hand Using Drinking Straws
Imagine how cool it would be to build a robot hand that could grasp a ball or pick up a toy. In this robotics engineering project, you will learn how to use drinking straws, sewing thread, and a little glue to make a remarkably lifelike and useful robot hand. What will you design your robot hand to do? Pick up a can? Move around a ping pong ball? It is up to you! With these starting instructions, you can design any type of hand. You will simulate human finger anatomy as the basis for a fully functional robot hand that is easy to build and does not require complicated tools.Objective
To build a working hand/gripper out of common, inexpensive materials that demonstrates how a real robot hand/gripper might work.
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Your hands are amazing. With them you can play the violin, cook a meal with your parents, or design a robot. When people design robots, one of the parts they spend the most time on is the hand, or whatever other "grabber" the robot might have. Robots do useful and important work, and unless they can grab and move things, they cannot get the job done.
Watch this video to see how a three-fingered robot hand handles a wide range of objects. |
In this project you will study the physiology of the hand to see how human fingers work and design a robot hand that uses human-like fingers to perform a task. Best of all, you are going to make your robot hand from everyday drinking straws. By simply applying some creativity and your engineering knowhow, you can make a useful robot hand.
The straw-hand design shown in this project mimics the way that tendons bend your fingers even though the muscles that control the action are actually in your forearm. To make your finger bend, a muscle pulls on a long string of collagen called a tendon. The tendon connects the muscle to the bone in your finger. It is kind of like remote control: When the muscle pulls, the finger bends at the joint. You will use a drinking straw as both bone and skin, sewing thread as a tendon, and you will provide the muscle. When you have finished this engineering project, you will have made a working robot hand, with multiple fingers that you control just by pulling threads. (See Figure 10 below for an example.)
Terms and Concepts
- Tendons
- Muscles
- Collagen
- Joints
- Physiology of the hand
- Shim
- How does a human finger bend?
- How are fingers arranged and connected in a human hand?
- Give examples of tools that are used for picking up and/or grabbing things. How many finger-like projections do they have?
- Give examples of different animal hands and/or feet. What do those animals do with their hands and feet?
- Based on the tool and animal examples, how might you design a hand for grabbing a ball? How about for holding a fork?
- Ross, V. (n.d.) Six innovative robot hands. Popular Mechanics. Retrieved May 17, 2012, from http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/robots/6-innovative-robot-hands#slide-1
- Wikipedia contributors. (2012, May 10). Hand. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 17, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand
- Smith, Miranda. Human Body: The Animated 3-D Guide. Charlotte, N.C.: Silver Dolphin Books, 2012. Available online through Amazon.com.
- Muscolino, Joseph E. Musculoskeletal Anatomy Coloring Book. Philadelphia: Elsevier Health Science, 2009. Available online through Amazon.com.
Materials and Equipment
The choice of materials for this robotics engineering project can vary depending on what type of hand you choose to build. Look at the list below (the items are displayed in Figure 1), and read the Experimental Procedure before purchasing your materials. Alternatively, for your conveience, a kit of materials is available for this project from the Science Buddies Store.
- Disposable drinking straws, 7 to 8 millimeters (mm) in diameter (at least 10). You will need to find straws that pop back into shape when you squeeze them. Straws that crack when squeezed will not work. These wide-diameter straws, often called milkshake straws, can be found for the asking at many fast food restaurants, through online vendors like Amazon.com or purchased at grocery stores.
- Upholstery thread or dental floss (5 meters). Regular sewing thread will not work well.
- Sewing needle. The eye of the needle should be as small as possible while still accommodating the upholstery thread or dental floss. Longer needles work better.
- Rubber washers (such as those used in garden hoses), knitting stitch markers, or other rings (at least 5, more if you want to experiment with different hand configurations). The washers should be just large enough to put your fingers in comfortably. Look in garden supply stores or online retailers like Amazon.com.
- Wood, cardboard, tubes (toilet tissue or paper towel), or polymer clay. These materials will be used to connect the fingers; see the Experimental Procedure for more details.
- Glue; the type of glue will depend on what materials (wood, cardboard, etc.) you chose to connect your robot fingers. Elmer's® GlueGuide can help you make an appropriate choice.
- X-ACTO® knife or similar craft knife. These knives can be purchased at craft or hardware stores or online at vendors like Amazon.com.
- Ruler with millimeter divisions
- Fine-tip permanent marker
- Sharp scissors
- Cutting surface (cardboard or a clean kitchen cutting board)
- Lab notebook
- Optional: Needle-nose or beading pliers; useful for pulling the threaded needle through the straw.
- Optional: Scrapbooking punch intended to handle heavy materials (as shown in Figure 1).
Figure 1. Sample materials you might use for this project. Drinking straws should be about 7 or 8 mm in diameter. Sewing thread or dental floss should be strong and sturdy and fit through the eye of the needle. For rings, look for garden-hose washers or large knitting markers. You might also want polymer clay, craft knife, ruler (mm), fine-tip permanent marker, scissors, needle-nose pliers, or a scrapbooking punch. |
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These instructions will help you build a robot finger from an everyday drinking straw. They will also provide some ideas on how to hook several straw fingers together to make a hand. As the robotics engineer, you will need to figure out what you want your hand to do and play around with the design to make the best hand possible for that job.
Each finger in your robot hand will be made up of a drinking straw with one or more notches cut in it to make joints. Upholstery thread or dental floss will be threaded through the finger and knotted at the joint(s) then attached to a ring. Tugging on the ring will pull on the thread and cause the straw to bend at the joint(s). This is how the finger will flex.
Note: In the photographs for this project you will see several different colors and types of straws from our testing. Any color straw will work as long as it is wide enough, and flexes well without breaking. See the Materials section for more details.
Deciding How to Cut Straw Joints
Before making your final design, you need to find the best way to cut joints in the drinking straw. How big should the notch be? How close should you come to cutting all the way through the straw? Use one of your straws to find out. If you have straws from different sources, try a few notches in all the different types of straws to see which straws work the best.
Note: The Science Buddies Kit comes with a single type of straw with the right flexibility. It also includes scissors that work well for cutting notches. No other cutting implements are included but you should feel free to look around your house and see if you find a better tool for making the joint notches. With the Science Buddies Kit you will still want to try notches of different sizes to see what works best.
- To protect your work surface, place a piece of cardboard on the table (or ask an adult if you can borrow a cutting board from the kitchen).
- With the help of a parent, use the X-ACTO® knife, scissors or punch to cut several notches of different shapes and sizes. Each notch should be at least 2 centimeters (cm) apart. For safety's sake, always place the straw down on your cutting surface and point the knife blade away from you (as shown in Figure 2).
- Put your finger on the back of the straw and bend it as shown in Figure 3. Is it easy to bend? Does it spring back nicely or does it stay bent after you let go?
- Try making the cut less deep and leave more straw. Does this make it easier or harder to bend? Is it more or less springy?
- You can also try using a scrapbooking punch on half of the straw to punch out a section (as shown in Figure 4) rather than using the knife or scissors.
- Keep track of your observations in a table, like Table 1 below, in your lab notebook.
Figure 2. When cutting notches in the straw with a craft knife, always cut away from you for safety. |
Figure 3. Press the cut straw into a curve to see whether the notches you cut make good joints. |
Figure 4. As a safer alternative to using a craft knife, squeeze the straw into the scrapbooking punch about halfway and punch out a notch. One point of a star-shaped punch does a great job. |
Brand of Straw (if using more than one) | Tool Used to Make Notch | Notch Depth (shallow/medium/deep) | Does It Spring Back When Bent? (Yes/No) | Other Notes: |
Table 1. Make a table like this one to keep track of how different notching techniques work. In the end, choose the brand of straw, tool, and notch depth that is easiest to work with and results in a notch that quickly springs back when bent. |
- Look at the data you have collected. Choose the straw type and notching technique that make the joint nice and springy but not too hard to bend.
Planning the Robot Hand
- Before building the robot hand you must decide what it needs to be able to do. The Science Buddies Engineering Design Process guide has a page on how to
Specify Requirements that can help you think about how to do this. A few questions you might want to ask yourself :
- What will my robot hand do? Does it pick up items? What are some of the items it can grab?
- Suggestions: empty soda cans, paper cups, ping pong balls, paper towel cores.
- Note: The straws are not strong enough to support heavy items.
- What special features should my robot hand have? Look at your own hand and think about how you grab things. If you could have as many or as few fingers as you needed, what is the very best way to grab these items?
- Can I arrange the fingers on my robot hand to make it better at picking things up?
- What will my robot hand do? Does it pick up items? What are some of the items it can grab?
- Once you have answered the questions, sketch what your robot hand will look like.
- Decide how you will test your hand.
- Do you want to attach it to an arm of some kind to make the testing easier?
- What item(s) will you have it pick up?
- How many tries will the robot hand get with each item?
Preparing the Straws
- Here is a tip we found when testing this project. In order for the fingers to bend nice and straight, it is helpful to make sure there is a straight line running down the length of the straw. Cut the notches centered on this line. If the brand of straw you chose already has a straight line or lines as part of its design, skip this section and go on to Making the First Finger. Otherwise, mark each straw with a straight line.
- Find a straightedge at least as long as the straw that is half as high as the straw is wide. For example, if you found straws 8 mm in diameter, your straight edge should be 4 mm thick. Your ruler may have a nice metal edge. If you place it flat on the table, is the edge 4 mm off the surface? You may be able to cut a thin piece of cardboard (a shim) to raise that metal edge up until it is 4 mm from the table.
- Place the ruler and the cardboard shim on the table. Have a friend help you hold it firmly to the table or tape it down. You don't want it to move during this step.
- Place one of your straws up against the edge of the ruler. Use your fine-tip marker and run a line down the length of the straw as shown in Figure 5. Hold the straw up to your eye like a telescope and look down the length. The line should be straight. Repeat this step with your remaining straws.
Figure 5. Marking a straight line down the length of the straw helps keep the joints lined up so the finger bends more naturally. |
Making the First Finger
- How did you draw up your plan? Did you make a sketch of how the robot hand will look? You should include that sketch in your final presentation. However you planned your final robot hand, it is time to make the first working drinking-straw finger.
- From your experiment earlier, you have an idea of how much material to cut out of the straw for each joint. Look at your index finger. It has three sections. Whether your final design has a finger like this or not, use one of your straws to try making a finger that bends like yours. Hold the straw up next to your finger. With the other hand (you can also have a friend help you), mark the straw where the joints should go (generally about 2 cm apart). Somewhere in the middle of your hand, mark the straw so you know where to cut it to length.
- Keep the straw at its full length for now. Starting at the finger tip, measure from the end and make a mark where the first joint will go. You will be cutting out the section from the side where you drew the line earlier. Make your mark on that side. Continue from there, measuring and marking the joints.
- Place the straw flat on the surface with the line facing up. Make the cuts for each notch according to the technique you developed earlier. (See Figure 6 for an example.) When you have finished, try bending all of the joints at the same time. The straw should gently form a nice curve if you lined up all of the cuts along the straight line you drew.
Figure 6. Cut each joint in the finger before cutting the finger to the length you need for your design. Make sure to leave the straw long enough to attach to the 'palm' or main structure of your robot hand |
- Cut the straw to length with your scissors. The length will depend on your design. Make sure to leave the straw long enough to attach to the 'palm' or main structure of your robot hand.
- Cut a piece of thread at least four times the length of the finger. Close to one end, tie a nice fat knot. A figure eight knot is a good knot for the job. Thread the other end through the needle.
- Stick the needle (carefully!) through the straw just above one of the joints (as shown in Figure 7a). Using the needle-nose pliers, pass the needle down the length of the straw until it comes out of the opposite end of the straw. Repeat steps 6 and 7 with threads on the other joints (as shown in Figure 7b).
Figure 7 (7a, left; 7b, right). Push the needle carefully into the straw just above the joint (7a). Work it through with the needle-nose pliers and pass it down the length of the straw (7b). |
- Cut the threads from the joints so they are all the same length, at least a few inches from the end of the straw. Tie one of your rings to each thread (see the example in Figure 8).
Figure 8. A finger with three joints and one tendon for each joint. Pulling a ring makes the joint it is attached to bend. |
- With one hand, hold the straw upright, and place fingers from the other hand through the rings. Gently pull the rings one at a time and see what happens. Can you bend each of the joints independently? Look at your index finger again and see if you can bend each of the joints independently. Is your straw finger different than your real one? Is it the same?
- Can you bend the joint closest to the fingertip without bending the others? Can you guess why? Can you bend your real finger that way? Because of the way the tendons in a real finger work, it is almost impossible to bend just the one joint.
Assembling the Robot Hand
- Now that you have made one finger that is a lot like a human finger, it is time to make your complete robot hand. Using your design sketches and the techniques you just practiced, make several fingers. Cut as many straws as you need into as many fingers as your plan calls for. You can use thread tendons on each joint if you like. Or to make the hand simpler to control, you may decide to simply use one tendon per finger. If you do that, connect it to the joint closest to the fingertip.
- Think about how your own hand has the fingers attached around the palm of your hand. Your robot hand needs some structure to join the fingers as well. Attach all of the fingers together in some way so that they look like the robot hand you designed. You can glue them to cardboard or wood, or mold some polymer clay around the straws. If you decide to use the clay, form the clay around the straws and then remove the straws, as shown in Figure 9. Have an adult help you bake the clay in the oven according to the manufacturer's directions. When the clay has cooled, reinsert the straws.
Figure 9. Mold the polymer clay around the straws first, then remove the straws and bake the clay according to directions. The small strip shown here could be part of a larger 'palm'. |
Our test robot hand was made by gluing the straw fingers to a piece of wood. It is shown below in Figure 10, but yours will look different.
Figure 10. The hand we made at Science Buddies to test this project. The thumb is jointed separately and has a rubber band in the back to provide the return spring. Since our hand is shaped somewhat like a human hand, it fits inside a medical glove which makes the fingers a little less slippery. You could use something like this if you find the hand needs a little more grip. Besides gloves (or just the glove fingers) for extra grip, you can also use skinny balloons of the kind used to twist balloon animals. |
Testing Your Design
Part of engineering is testing your creation to see if it works as well as you want it to.
- Hold the robot hand steady on a support or have a friend help you. Place your fingers in the rings and pull the tendons. Do the fingers curl correctly? Does it look like it closes and grabs the way you planned it?
- See if your robot hand will pick up the object or grab the item or do whatever you designed it to do. If it does, congratulations! Can it do a better job? What could you do to improve it? If it can't pick up or grab the object, why not? This is your chance to figure what went wrong and make changes, or just make it better. Are the fingers too long? Too short? Do they bend in the right place? Try some experiments to figure it out then go back and remake the parts.
- Use your robot hand to pat yourself on the back - you did it!
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- Does your robot hand need more reach? Perhaps you can design an arm out of wood or cardboard tubes to reach farther. If your arm needs to bend, hinges from the hardware store for joints and some extra thread for tendons could be a great start.
- What other materials can you think of to make a robot hand from?
- Engineering is often inspired by nature. What else can you see around you that you can build from simple materials?
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Explore choral music
The Boosey & Hawkes choral catalogue ranges from repertoire classics, both sacred and secular, to music for school singing and training. To listen to a selection of choral recordings visit our sound samples area.
Leading choral composers
Music by Boosey & Hawkes composers occupies a central position in the choral repertoire, perfomed in the concert hall, church and the recording studio.
Benjamin Britten
Choral best-sellers by Benjamin Britten include Saint Nicolas, Hymn to St Cecilia and A Ceremony of Carols. Large-scale works with orchestra include War Requiem and Spring Symphony. Britten's music is recorded widely including discs on all major labels.
Aaron Copland
Copland's choral music ranges from the folk song style of Old American Songs and The Promise of Living, through the Four Motets on biblical texts, to his a cappella masterpiece describing the Creation, In the Beginning.
Gerald Finzi
Choral music by this popular British composer includes anthems such as God is Gone Up and the reflective Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs setting poetry by Robert Bridges. Finzi's works with orchestra including the Christmastide In Terra Pax and the Wordsworth cantata Intimations of Immortality.
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
Meditative religious gems by this leading Polish composer include Totus Tuus. He has also written choral songs in folk style such as My Vistula, Grey Vistula and Broad Waters. Recent Górecki choral works include Kurpian Songs and Lobgesang.
Karl Jenkins
Following the success of Adiemus, Karl Jenkins has written two major choral works, both available on best-selling CDs and widely performed. The Armed Man: a Mass for Peace is a call for peace at a time of strife, and Requiem combines the Latin Mass for the Dead with Japanese haiku poetry.
James MacMillan
MacMillan's extensive choral output ranges from simple Scottish ballads, through church settings, to largescale concert works. His most renowned works include Seven Last Words from the Cross, Mass, Cantos Sagrados and Quickening. For a full list of choral works with performing notes, click here.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Rachmaninoff's rich choral writing ranges from the religious ceremonies of the Vespers (All Night Vigil) and the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, to his masterly Edgar Allen Poe setting of The Bells and the cantata Spring.
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Everything you need to train young choirs. Choral Music Experience is a performance-based curriculum for music education developed by award-winning educator Doreen Rao. It brings a new integrated approach to music education, combining the development of performance skills with the acquisition of musical knowledge. In the past, these complementary aspects of music have been taught and treated separately. Today we know that when students perform, they are demonstrating their knowledge - they are singing their understanding. Guided by this performance model, Doreen Rao's Choral Music Experience focuses on distinctive, diverse, multicultural choral repertoire in which students can experience the joy of learning through singing. An invaluable resource for conductors, teachers and student teachers.
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Betty Bertaux's works have expanded the body of quality repertoire for young singers. Her original compositions are tonally based and characterised by 20th century freshness. Her folk song arrangements are carefully conceived to capture the essence and spirit of the song material. Betty Bertaux's music combines the best elements of musicality and pedagogical concerns.
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Transient Glory introduces newly commissioned choral music by the world's major composers created to celebrate the profoundly transcendent nature of young singing voices. Launched in the year 2000, Transient Glory began as a concert performance series of the Young People's Chorus of New York City conducted by Francisco J. Nunez to advance the art of children's choirs throughout the world. The Transient Glory choral series is designed and developed by its editor as a commitment to young voices singing glorious music during that short, transient period of childhood.
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Rouse's Requiem premiered in LA
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Springsteen now has the third-most albums to reach the top of the Billboard chart, surpassing Elvis Presley and trailing only rapper Jay Z and the Beatles.
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Actor/musician Steven Van Zandt writes, produces and stars in Netflix's original series "Lilyhammer." And, yes, he's still playing a mobster.
'12-12-12′ funds Hurricane Sandy relief, which is all you need to know
The film spinoff of the 12-12-12 mega-concert to raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief is competent enough for a movie whose box office goes to charity.
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Bob Marley & the Wailers opened for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at a tiny club! Listen to what went down as told by the lucky few who were there.
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Bruce Springsteen played then entire "Born in the USA," album as the centerpiece of a three-hour show in London on Sunday night.
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I was recently asked to try out the LifeStraw personal water filter from GreenBeetleGear. Two days later my package came with a new toy to try out.
Inside was the LifeStraw, a simple to understand manual and a break-away lanyard(quarter added for scale).
The manual explains the purpose and operation of the LifeStraw. It also says that it has a 3-year shelf life and on the straw is a sticker clearly showing the production date
The manual is printed in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese with simple to understand pictures. Since these filters were designed for the expressed purpose of being deployed to disaster areas and areas with little to no clean water around the world, they must be easy to use.
This thing is designed to remove a minimum of 99.9999% (0.2 microns) of all waterborne bacteria, including Escherichia coli, Campylobacter, Vibrio cholerae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shigella and Salmonella and removes minimum 99.9% of waterborne protozoan parasites, including Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium Parvum and Entamoeba histolytica. Simply put, all the nasty stuff that makes you shoot goo out both ends.
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There was still a bit of color to the water but it didn't smell fishy, and no sediment passed through.
Next test was to take a drink. It tasted ok, it wasn't as good as mama used to make, but not bad. Drinking through the straw takes some suction, but considering how tight the filter is, it's no surprise.
The manual says that it will filter 1000 Liters (264 Gallons) of water and once it has reached it's limit it will stop water flow. Since there is no mechanical pump to force water through, it makes it easy to prevent over usage and contamination.
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XV, no. 2 TUSCULUM COLLEGE LIBRARY October-November 2004
The library is delighted to announce that Elaine Gorman has joined its staff as the new Knoxville library assistant, succeeding Billy Shewbrooks who has moved on in his career. Elaine is working closely with Mary Halliburton and we hope that many of you will have a chance to greet and work with Elaine.
The block-break and holiday hours for the main library at Greeneville have been posted on the library website for the period through the end of the year; those for the Knoxville branch will follow.
The library offers kudos to Sukhi Bedi on the publication of his Rendezvous: A Conversation between a Sikh and Christian. An autographed copy is being cataloged into the library collection.
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While developing a library use instruction session for Dr. Diane Robinette, Reference/Instruction Librarian, Charles Tunstall recently created a presentation on locating professional journal articles. With recent developments and refinements in a number of our research databases, students exposed to his sessions have more success in accessing this type of literature. If readers would like an individual demonstration of the presentation or would like for him to address a class, please contact Charles at ext. 5124 or send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com
Progress continues apace on the reborn library. The library staff, which has had several meetings with architect John Fisher of late, is informed that the turn-over date for the building is now March 2.
New databases:
Three new databases have been added to the library's subscription collection, bringing the total number to 51. Two of these are provided via the Tennessee Electronic Library and the third via ACA: Appalachian College Association. Those from TEL are listed under Infotrac I on the library database page, while ARTstor, the ACA contribution, has its own link on the database page. The TEL titles are:
Infotrac Religion & Philosophy. This Gale title features a selection of over 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion, philosophy, and the related areas of archaeology and anthropology. Bibliographic coverage commences in 1980 with full-text of some of the periodicals dating from 1983.
Infotrac Military and Intelligence, another Gale contribution via TEL, includes references from the same time periods and in the same fashion as Infotrac Religion and Philosophy. This database includes coverage from 500 journals plus several annual reference books and 80% full coverage.
Like other TEL databases, the content of both of these new additions can also be located via Infotrac OneFile.
ARTstor, made available to us via ACA, allows students, faculty, and other members of the TC community to access online approximately 300,000 visual images and related catalog data, as well as the tools to make active use of the images. The world art, architecture, and material culture images included are from the Carnegie Arts of the United States collection, the Hunting Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, and the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design collection. This is a particularly valuable collection that should find use across the curriculum.
Statistics (September 2004)*:
In the data which follows, the first of two figures is that for Tate Library – Greeneville and the second is for Tate Library – Knoxville; where there is only one number, it is combined for both. Some items do not lend themselves to this easy breakdown and are addressed as appropriate; several people log on to visit our links library or free databases for which we have no figures, e.g., FirstGov. The various database vendors all provide access to more than one database; however, the complete list (51 different titles) is too long for breakdown here.
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19 |
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Periodicals |
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27 |
Reserves |
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3 |
Videos |
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Ebooks |
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150 |
Phone |
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DE 5 Residential 2 |
17 |
180 |
210 |
Library Instruction Sessions |
5 |
4 |
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4 |
Website (library only) Visits: 8,745; Subscription database searches (total): 17,434; Total electronic visits to Tate Library: 26,179.
Subscription Database Searches Breakdown by Vendor:
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Interlibrary Loans:
Greeneville to Knoxville, 0; Knoxville to Greeneville, 0; via OCLC from other libraries for both campuses, 18; via ARIEL from other libraries for both campuses, 0. Books by Mail: 0.


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Smaller scores may be accommodated by the strong nylon pockets on both inside covers (unlike many choir folders which have clear plastic pockets which stretch).
The spine is wide enough to accept a Watkins Shaw Messiah score [one of the thickest], as well as Carmina Burana [one of the biggest].
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3650 COUNTY LOCAL LAWS ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY Bill No. 120-76 AN ORDINANCE to add new Sections 13-600 through 13-615 13-614, inclusive, to the Anne Arundel County Code General Development Plan of 1968, and prospective amendments to Title 13 of the Anne Arundel County Code Development Plan; and matters generally related thereto, AND TO PROHIBIT SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS Approved January 18, 1977. Bill No. 133-76 AN ORDINANCE to add new Section 9-204 to the Anne Arundel County Code (1967 Edition and Supplements), Title 9, "Finance", Subtitle 2, "Budget", to follow immediately after Section 9-203 thereof, to provide for the inclusion of certain information in the capital budget Approved January 18, 1977. Bill No. 139-76 AN ORDINANCE to repeal and re—enact, with amendments, |
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I'm never ever ever changing my unlimited data plan with AT&T. I'll raise hell if they ask me to, too.
It was only a matter of time before Nokia fell to someone else...
How exactly is it that Nokia "ceded" the top spot to Apple?? They just waved their arms in the air, and said "we give up" and suddenly a bunch of people with Nokias stopped using their phones? I think Apple TOOK it...Nokia had no say in the matter.
If CONSUMERS didn't rely on subsidies AT&T wouldn't have to increase monthly rates in order to make a larger profit.
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