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Airdrie�s own non-profit organization Stephen�s Backpacks Society is looking for a new, permanent home.
Currently the non-profit is set up at on private land, however, the owners of the property are moving east to Saskatchewan and selling the land, according to Stephen�s Backpacks Executive Director Nancy McPhee
�Stephen�s Backpacks is homeless,� said McPhee.
�We�re looking for a warehouse space or a parcel of land, we need a permanent home.�
McPhee said the local organization � which was founded in 2008 after McPhee�s son Stephen told her he wanted to help homeless children - puts together and distributes more than 3,000 backpacks per year. Stephen�s Backpacks Society helps children in need by providing backpacks filled with new school supplies. Since it was founded, the Society has adopted several other projects including the Footprints campaign to collect new shoes for children in need.
The charity has had to move locations several times over the past five years. Operations were moved from a donated 1,500-square-foot space in the Kings Heights area in March 2013 as the company that owned it needed the space back.
�We�re going to need between 3,000 and 5,000 square feet of warehouse space,� McPhee explained. �We are a registered national charity and if anyone could get a hold of us that would be amazing.�
The not-for-profit is in its ninth year and according to McPhee the demand has increased exponentially.
�We�re just taking off to the next level,� she said. �We feel we started in a bath tub and now we�re rowing a battleship.�
Stephen�s Backpacks celebrated Canada Day with its annual fundraiser with a barbecue at the Real Canadian Superstore on July 1.
�The July 1 barbecue was the most amazing we�ve ever had,� she said.
�We made an excess of $10,000, the first year I think we did $600. I wanted to thank everyone that stood in line, thank you to all the citizens of Airdrie who have supported us over the past nine years. It�s takes a community to make dream happen.�
Despite looking for a permanent location, the rest of the year is busy for McPhee and Stephen.
�The Drizzzles candy shop is putting on an amazing barbecue on Aug. 23,� she said. �(Owner Adila Faheem) is just so supportive of community events, she�s just a really humble individual.�
The barbecue will feature Tandori Chicken and according to McPhee, 100 per cent of the proceeds will be going to children in need.
On Aug. 25, 26, and 27 Stephen�s Backpacks will take part in a free kids camp that is run by Rob Allain at Kids Church in Calgary.
�Last year there was 120 kids that took part, we�re anticipating 120 to 150 this year, � she said. �We provide breakfast snacks, there�s T-ball, basketball, soccer. If they haven�t been to camp to come ours�
In addition, a new children�s book - titled On Eagles Wings Stephen Slays the Dragon - is being published about Stephen�s story and the history behind the organization, set to be released on Oct. 2 at the Royal Oak School in Calgary.
�The children at Royal Oak illustrated this book and it�s going to be very special.� McPhee said. �(At the book launch) we have an air balloon ride to auction off. The book�s front cover was illustrated by artists Rob Fiore which was very special.�
For more information on Stephen�s Backpacks, visit www.stephensbackpacks.com


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A Nassau relief fund for some of the hardest hit victims of superstorm Sandy will be getting a boost with a series of fundraising events and a 30-second public service announcement urging people to donate.
The Nassau Hurricane Recovery Fund was created in late November primarily to help county residents not entitled to Sandy-related financial reimbursement from government relief programs and who do not have homeowners or flood insurance.
Since November, about $40,000 has been raised through individual donations, with the largest single donation -- $10,000 -- coming last week from the Turkish Cultural Center of Long Island. The first fundraiser is Thursday.
The Rev. Kevin Smith, the chaplain for Nassau County's Volunteer Fire Departments and chairman of the committee that administers the fund, said, "people in Nassau are still struggling, and we're going to do all we can to provide them with whatever help and hope that we can. Applications have been pouring in." Nearly 600 residents already have applied for aid.
Among the applicants are Helene and James Rogers of Long Beach, who, like hundreds of other Sandy victims in Nassau, still can't get back into their homes. The couple had rented the first floor of a Long Beach house for four years, but Sandy drove in more than 4 feet of water and caused gallons of raw sewage to get into their house. Almost all of their possessions were ruined and they are now living with James Rogers' parents in Far Rockaway.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave the couple an initial renters grant of about $4,000, but that was used up by early January, James Rogers said.
"We had rental insurance but no flood insurance, and the company told us it was the flood that did us in, not the sewage," said Rogers, 48, an unemployed truck driver. "They gave us nothing."
Helene Rogers, 44, a secretary in the Long Beach Hospital's Department of Education, said they are trying to hold on until the hospital reopens.
Sponsors of the upcoming fundraisers are:
Cheeburger Cheeburger in Farmingdale's Airport Plaza will donate 20 percent of each check paid from opening until closing on Feb 21.
Volcanos, an Oceanside restaurant, will hold a similar fundraiser March 10.
The county's Women's History Month celebration at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration on March 14 will hold a basket and raffle auction aimed at raising several thousand dollars.
The Sandy Relief Concert, (Nassau helping Nassau) will be at Eisenhower Park on June 8. Bands donating their performances include Strawberry Fields, a Beatles cover band; Michael Delguidice of Big Shot, Billy Joel cover band; and Uppercut, a tribute band for Chicago, Steely Dan, and Blood Sweat & Tears; That 70s Band; RapidFire; FiveStone; and Last Exit, a Pearl Jam Tribute band. The Guitar Center will donate the band equipment for use by most of the concert musicians.In the upcoming television PSA message, Smith, County Executive Edward Mangano and a Long Beach resident make a pitch for donations to the fund. Cablevision, which owns Newsday, produced the spot without charge.
Information about the fundraisers and where to make donations can be found on the county's website: www.nassau countyny.gov.

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Better picture of control servos layout.
Hi Stuart,
I am making progress toward flying indoor. So here I am as promised reporting on it.
To fly Indoor, this model needed much more agility than the one she had displayed so far. However, after many hours of trimming and flying, I now think we are very close to be able to do it.
The outdoors lawn where I practice lays between a soccer field and a small country road. This patch of lawn is just about as large as the gym where we fly indoors in the winter. So if I can fly just over the lawn, I am in the gym. If I fly in half the patch, say between the corn field and the soccer goal, then I am flying the half portion of the gym reserved to this type of plane and 3D Shockfliers.
This time the flying style is very aggressive for this type of flying wing architecture, sometimes the response is a bit brutal and yes at times I have flow outside the limits, but overall I think we are almost there. Have a look ...
Now the model mechanical construction is dramatically simple: one 3 mm Depron sheet, completely flat till 50% of the halfwing, then twisted brutally till 13° at the tips. You can see this very well in the initial picture. The twist is achieved like in paper airplanes, by bending the tips by an appropriate angle. Carbon tube for stiffening the leading edge, another carbon stab to stiffen the rear of the wing, and that is it.
The Silverlit motors plus propellers deliver about 6 g each static trust, time four that give the YB-35 about 24 g static trust for 60 g of weight. I like this ratio. It is more "scale" as many airplane models we see today. However in flight trust falls off with speed.
Matching the trust curve of the airframe and the trust curve of the engines, I estimate that the model flies at speeds comprised between 5 m/s and 10 m/s.
However the work is all in the programming of the transmitter.
I happen to use a Spektrum i7DX, like HerkS, so at least he will understand what I am talking about.
The four control surfaces need to be about in the appropriate position in each one of the nine focal points of the right side stick. Yes, I fly Mode 2, so there I have elevator and ailerons.
Nine times four gives 36 configurations that need to be trimmed and controlled with four servos.
In addition the model is extremely sensitive to center of gravity position, not only in the longitudinal axis, but also on the transversal axis. Finally the motor inclination needs to be appropriate.
When all that is in place, it is actually, pretty much fun to fly it !
Hi Herks,
I have now looked at your threads and I see with pleasure that we have been thinking along the same lines and making some of the same experiments related to flying wings.
My approach has been to take airplanes that have been flying in the past and try to understand the architectural decisions of their designers.
Indeed the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so after the study comes invariably a model that implements my understanding of those decisions.
A peculiarity we have in common is that we both try to reduce the model to the minimum . This has several advantages: for one it reduces their costs and accelerates the development, but more importantly it removes all those unnecessary details that may be considered critical for a given airplane, but really they are not. Reduction to the essential, I call it. If something that I removed was needed, then the model would not fly, or it would display specific problems in given flight conditions.
Of course, been the models so "basic", I can afford to modify them a number of times. This gives me the chance to learn a lot at an accelerated speed.
So if you want to know which airplanes have been the subject of my experiments, here is the picture in attachments.
I like to think of it as a summary of 50 years of flying wings development.
The airplanes were:
Type Designer First flight
Storch VIII (auch Mini-SNAH) Lippisch 1932
Me163 Lippisch 1941
Ho-IX (auch Go229) Horten 1944
YB-35 (auch XB-35) Northrop 1946
Avro Vulcan Chadwick/Davis 1952
Concorde Aerospatial/BAC 1969
You can see them flying on my YouTube Channel "Blendedwing".
There you will find also a bigger version of the Vulcan and one of the Concorde.
Last but not least a couple of bird like airplanes, I call them the "Owls" (Eule in German), because I think they are steered with the same technique owls use to fly in the forest.
I think I have read in the appropriate Forum terms like "camber flaps".
Well for these "Owls" I use "Camber wings".
Yes, they flap their wings, but not to generate propulsion, only to steer themselves through the air.
I would be delighted by your feedback.
Bigger airplanes web site and construction pictures.
Thank you Stuart,
as for the bigger airplanes, I have built them with the help of a friend with experience in this field and a great web site. http://www.fly2air.com/
The pictures and the detailed description and of the build, together with more videos, are included there.
Vulcan scale 36:1 http://www.fly2air.com/a07/index-a07.htm
Concorde scale 48:1 http://www.fly2air.com/j03/index-j03.htm
Best regards
I will definitely enjoy viewing your projects.
I am sure that there will be much interesting flying there.
Also I will study carefully your owls. I think I would like to build an owl. My friend Joel K Scholz is also building bird models - His work is now on RCGroups.
Thank you for this excellent information.
Hi Stupot46,
I have promised to keep you updated on the development of the YB-35 tuning for Indoor flight.
As you know, there was a lot of work going on during the last couple of weeks to insure that the sender was programmed in such a way as to cause exactly the desired movement of the control surfaces in every flight condition. The test flight outdoor was satisfactory, but ... would that really work indoor?
Would those ominous walls slam onto the unprotected flying object before it could turn away and avoid them?
Well this week end it was time to test it in real conditions.
The program included: banked turns with 30°, 45° and 85° bank angles, soft and sharp turn inversions, high speed low pass and soft landing in the pilot's hand.
Was it really enabled to fly indoor?
Well, have a look at the video and judge for yourself.
Hi HerkS,
well I did experiment a lot, also with CG. However my starting point was 7% SSM and I ended up with 7% SSM. I have also gradually tested up to as much as 15% to see the impact of stability and controllability. There is no doubt that with 15% SSM it flies more like a normal pilot would expect: straight and level. However the climbing performance is practically wiped out. It could hardly climb anymore.
Instead, I went back to the 7% SSM and worked on the effectiveness of the control surfaces. That required changes in : material, accuracy and authority.
Material: In the first version, flying gracefully and majestic, they were built with Durofly 0,6 mm. That was way too flexible. So I replaced them with new ones built in Polistyrol 0,5 mm.
Accuracy: the DX7 sender is great, but it was not designed to implement Northrop type Elevons. The actual movements are all depending on the centering of the servos, their throw, the mixes from Elevator and Aileron to the Rudder and Flaps channels. This work was exausting. First of all I was not sure which exact position the surfaces needed to take, then I was not sure how to play with the mix values to achieve them, last but not least I was not sure how to control that these positions were actually achieved.
So I have built a simple rig to measure the surface movements, I have also taken pictures of the surfaces in the 9 key positions (up, level, down)x(left,straight,right).
Then I have built a spreadsheet to record and predict what would happen if.
Sorry that was an understatement, I have built twenty spreadsheets, the last one apparently worked well enough.
When the surfaces started moving symmetrically and with the desired amplitude I moved over to...
Authority: well if I want to steer aggressively the controls must also move aggressively. When the flight tests proved that the servo programming was accurate, I started reducing the length of the surface horns. So from the initial 18 mm, I went down to 12 mm, then 8 mm and finally 4 mm.
That's where I am now and what you have seen flying. I suspect I went may be a little too far, but I plan to introduce some expo, at least on the aileron.
Then may be I would also program the Flaps Switch to introduce three flight modes: landing, cruise and speed. I have done that with the Concorde model and I have found it very helpful.
I will keep you posted on these next evolutions.
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The Tigers led Desert Vista 2-0 during Thursday's semifinal match, and the third game was close despite what Gilbert coach Jeff Grover referred to as "a few questionable calls" which went against Desert Vista.
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Haval just can't stop themselves. Here is yet another five-seat SUV. Is is not the same car as the mysterious H6 that debuted in Guangzhou. It has the same wheelbase as the Haval H6 Coupe, and it has red Haval badges, indicating it might be the long-rumored Red Label version of said H6 Coupe.
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The Guangzhou Auto Show is running at full speed, and racing along are a lot of supercars. All major manufacturers were present with the notable exception of McLaren. The Guangzhou Pearl River Delta area is one of the richest places of China with trillions being made by exporting everything to everywhere.
That means a big market forsuper cars and the cities in the delta are full with dealers and shops. Many manufacturers that enter China start in Guangzhou before moving on to Shanghai and Beijing. Guangzhou was also the very first city in China to have a sizable population of supercars. The boom started early in the late 1980's with cars smuggled in from Hong Kong, some with the wheel on 'wrong' side.
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ty for the critique! it convinced me to change the arm now it looks SO much better! TY. nice gallery
thanks for the critique her head was suppose to be that way, was going to add super girl above it got tired of drawing though....thanks great work yourself 5/5
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Horizon Hobby Recalls Batteries Due to Fire Hazard
Jun 25, 2013, 12:00 ET from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers should stop using this product, which is being recalled voluntarily, unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
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Recall Summary
Name of product: Dynamite 7.4 V LiPo Batteries
Hazard: The positive and negative battery leads are incorrectly wired to the battery connector. The use or charging of the battery can cause the battery to overheat, posing a fire hazard.
Remedy: Refund, Replace
Consumer Contact: Horizon Hobby; toll-free at (877) 504-0233 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT on Saturday, and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. CT on Sunday, or online at www.horizonhobby.com and click on Product Recalls at the bottom of the page for more information.
Recall Details
Units: About 117
Description: This recall involves Dynamite 7.4 volt LiPo batteries that are used to power Horizon Hobby's Losi Micro remote control vehicles. The batteries measure about 2 inches long by 1 inch wide by ½ inch thick. The batteries were sold separately from the vehicles and have red and black wires coming out of the end into a white plastic connector. Dynamite, 180 mAh, 2S, 20C Li-Po and DYN1429 are printed on the side of the black and orange batteries.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the recalled battery immediately. Disconnect it from the product or charger and return the battery to Horizon Hobby for a full refund or a replacement battery.
Sold at: Hobby stores nationwide and online at www.horizonhobby.com from December 2012 through April 2013 for about $20.
Importer: Horizon Hobby Inc., of Champaign, Ill.
Manufacturer: Kiel Technology Ltd., of Hong Kong
Manufactured in: China
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about your experience with the product on SaferProducts.gov.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals – contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
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Sabin: Barry Church's run-stopping ability could earn him starting nod over Brodney Pool
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Who do you like starting at strong safety: Church or Pool?
Rainer Sabin: I like Church starting at that position. I think the coaching staff likes him. Ryan even deployed Church as an inside linebacker last season. So, they obviously think he has the ability to stop the run.
Is Tony Romo the problem or the answer for the Cowboys?
Rainer Sabin: He's certainly not the problem. I don't know if he is the answer, either. He can't do it all. The Cowboys need their offensive line and defense to perform better in order for Romo to realize the playoff wins he desperately wants.
Will Jerry Jones do all that he can to draft Tyler Wilson of Arkansas?
Rainer Sabin: I think the Cowboys will be hesitant to make such a move if they intend to work out another deal with Tony Romo. Romo's contract expires in 2013 and the Cowboys seem to believe he can perform at a level for many years to come. So, while I don't know if the Cowboys will be invest a top pick in a quarterback like Wilson, who could be selected in the first round, I could see them taking a quarterback later in the draft.


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After being together for nearly 40 years and in the midst of a health crisis, a local same-sex couple finally tied the knot at a local hospital.
Staff members at Riddle Hospital in Media, Delaware County held a wedding ceremony for Carol and Bobbie Wednesday afternoon. The couple, who have been together for 38 years, say they've wanted to get married for awhile but were unable to do so due to Pennsylvania's marriage law.
With same-sex marriage now legal in the state, the longtime couple finally got their chance. Due to Carol's deteriorating health which landed her in the hospital, the couple had to push up the wedding date. Staff members at the hospital were more than willing to help and pitched in by buying bouquets and ordering a cake.
A minister, friends and family all arrived at Carol's hospital room for the ceremony on Wednesday.
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Bloomingdale Park
The Daily Plant : Monday, September 27, 2004
On September 21, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro, Design & Construction Commissioner David J. Burney and City Council Member Andrew Lanza to cut the ribbon at Bloomingdale Park. The $20.2 million project included new ballfields, basketball courts, a playground and bocce court, as well as a network of landscaped pathways and improved vehicular access. More than 15 acres of the 138-acre park were developed as part of the project.
The construction of Bloomingdale Park is the largest new park construction project begun and completed during the Bloomberg administration. On a snowy day in February 2003, the Mayor and Commissioner Benepe broke ground on the project. The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) managed the construction of the Bloomingdale Park project. Bloomingdale Park includes three fields for softball, baseball and soccer that will be open to all permitted teams. A new playground with a spray shower and swings will attract neighborhood children. There are also two basketball courts, a bocce ball court and a comfort station. The park is landscaped with interior nature trails weaving through the existing wooded areas. An exterior bicycle path surrounds the park.
"Bloomingdale Park continues the great Renaissance of Staten Island's parkland," said Commissioner Benepe. "These 15 acres of active and passive recreation offer something for everyone."
As part of the project, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department Environmental Protection (DEP) provided additional public access and improved drainage at Bloomingdale Park. A new road was extended about 450 feet from Ramona Avenue into Maguire Avenue, complete with a cul-de-sac. Ramona Avenue was reconstructed with curbs, a storm sewer, a new concrete base, and resurfacing from Maguire to Lenevar Avenues. Curbs were installed on Lenevar Avenue from Ramona Avenue to Drumgoole Road West.
"When we broke ground here two years ago there was little active recreation space on the South Shore of Staten Island," said Mayor Bloomberg. "With the completion of Bloomingdale Park we are changing that. The highly anticipated ballfields and playground will serve the growing population of the South Shore for years to come. We are committed to growing and improving our parkland and making our neighborhoods more livable throughout all five boroughs."
Bloomingdale Park is 138 acres of mainly woodland on Staten Island's South Shore. It was acquired in the 1960s to protect southern Staten Island's natural areas from development. The park's woods contain several species of wetland trees native to Staten Island, including swamp white oak, pin oak, sweet gum, and red maple.
"On behalf of the Staten Island community, I want to express my thanks to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his leadership in bringing our dreams for Bloomingdale Park into reality,"said Borough President Molinaro. "This magnificent park represents the perfect marriage between preserving passive natural areas and providing active recreation areas for local residents to enjoy."
Written by Ashe Reardon
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
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Directions to Bloomingdale Park
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South Africa National Parks appoints an interim Operator for restaurants in the Kruger National Park
Date: 2005-12-15
SOUTH African National Parks (SANParks) has appointed the Compass Group as an interim service provider for all restaurants in the Kruger National Park. The appointment is for a one-year period, with effect from 15 December.
This follows SANParks' successful application back in November for the liquidation of Vilayet (Pty) Ltd – trading as Nature's Group – which forced the organisation (SANParks) to look for an operator in an emergency situation.
"Essentially, during this one year period, we will be appointing a replacement operator for nine-and-a-half-years after following due tender procedures as prescribed by the National Treasury," said Giju Varghese, SANParks Senior Manager: Business Development.
Varghese added that the organisation was confident that the Compass Group possessed the institutional depth that is required to cater to KNP guests. "We are also satisfied that during this whole process, the interests of the public were given prime consideration.
"We are also proud to announce also that during this transition there was never a period in which there was a lapse in services and none of the employees lost their job. And this is a great achievement on the part of SANParks," he said.
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Thanks to an engineering student, a 6-year-old boy has been given an incredible gift: A prosthetic arm and hand that allowed him to hug his mom for the very first time, among other things.
Alex Pring is one of 1,500 babies born each year in the U.S. with a missing or deformed arm or hand.
"He was like 2 or 3 the first time he realized. He was in preschool and they were showing him sames and differents. And he was just sitting in the car and he looked down and goes, my arms are different. And I said 'What do you mean?' And he goes, 'I don't have a hand,'" Alex's mother, Alyson, told Fox News.
After the family's insurance company refused to pay for a prosthetic arm (which can usually run up to $40,000), Alyson reached out to an online volunteer organization, e-NABLE, who put her in touch with Albert Manero, a University of Central Florida aerospace engineering student.
Using a 3-D printer and off-the-shelf gears and batteries, Manero and his team designed and built a "bionic" limb for Alex — costing less than $350.
"When Alex flexes his upper arm, electrodes relay a little voltage from his muscle and activate the hand," Manero told Florida's Sun Sentinel.
After working on a prototype for six weeks, it was time for Alex to test out his new arm. He immediately took to it — quickly picking up how to open and close within minutes of the trial run. Then he moved onto something he hasn't done since he was born – hug his mom with two arms.
"When he hugged me, he just didn't let go," she said. When she told him to look up for a photo, he said into her neck, "'I'm going to need a minute.' It got to him," said Alyson.
Manero and his team have publicly shared the designs and instructions for building the "bionic" limb so that anybody can make one and for a little one who is missing an arm or hand.
"We've already heard from another family who needs an arm," Manero said. "We're committed to helping who we can."
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How do you mount your bike?
I'm reading a old bicycling book from the '90s and it says the way I always mounted my bike can "wrench" the frame.
The way I've always done it is: hands on bar, left foot on left pedal, stand on pedal and as bike begins to roll swing right leg over rear tire and place right foot on right pedal and start riding.
But the book says stand astride the bike first. Place foot in pedal and then start pedaling.
And can somebody describe a "wrenched" frame for me so I know what to look for when shopping for a used bike?
The old school method is fine unless you're in a group ride......you'll be smacking someone behind you with your right foot.
Yah, like you, I've been doing it the "wrong way" too for the past four decades. I'll let you know when I wrench a frame.
What were falling from the writer's lips may have been small and roughly spherical, but pearls of wisdom they weren't - I leave it up to you to work out what I think he was talking.
If doing that "wrenched" the frame, what do they think that mountain biking or sprinting eyeballs out at the end of a race would do to it.
Interesting, as the Fount-of-Internet-Bicycle-Wisdom Sheldon Brown has much the same to say about this, except that it is bad for the wheels, not the frame.
If my bike frame was so flimsy that it couldn't handle the stress of me getting on it, I'd be lookin' to trade it in quick.
And although I wouldn't want to dispute the Fount-of-Internet-Bicycle-Wisdom, I don't think the sideways forces that SB is concerned about are significant. At least not with my hybrid wheels.
I'll continue to be a "cowboy" except maybe in a tight-packed group start.
But I am working on my right-side "cowboy" mount. That should even things out. ;)
added - The fact that I use toe clips instead of clipless probably makes a difference.
Mounting a bike sounds so kinky. I get on my bike and ride
Personally, I stand beside the bicycle with one hand on the handlebar and one hand on the saddle. I tip the bicycle away from me. Then I lift my right leg over the top tube, bringing the bicycle back to a vertical position as soon as my heel has cleared the top tube. Then I clip in my left pedal, bring my left foot to a 1:00 position, push down to set the bicycle in motion, lift myself into the saddle, and then clip into my right pedal.
It just seems so much safer.
That said ... I think I might have cracked my tailbone catching my heel on the dismount. :(
Since I raised my seat to be the proper height, the only way I can mount my bike is to:
- Stand over frame with both feet on ground
- Clip in left foot and bring it to 11 o'clock position
- Push down & stand on left foot which lifts me into the air and propels the bike forward allowing me to balance
- Sit down in saddle and clip in right foot
Or if I'm lazy and don't want to get in and out of the saddle:
- Position bike parallel to right curb that is around 6" off the ground
- From curb, sit down in saddle and clip in left foot
- Bring left foot to 11 o'clock posiiton and push off
- Clip in right foot
You know, I've never thought about this one way or the other. Ever. Sitting here now, I still haven't got the faintest idea how I get on or off my ride. I'm pretty certain though that I won't be able to go for a ride without thinking about it from this point forward.. Thank you for that. :crash:
I always start by dimming the lights and lighting a few candles. Then I softly mummer sweat nothings before I try to mount my bike. :love:
This alternative view to Sheldon's is from Jobst Brandt, who wrote the definitive book on the bicycle wheel:
"If our clunkers that we rode to
school could take the stress, why shouldn't the wheels of a high
priced bicycle be any less able to take the load of a rider on one
pedal? A good test of wheels, after building them, is to stand on one
pedal leaning as far out as possible while rolling along to see if any
spokes untwist. Of course no such sound should be audible but this
does the wheels no harm. In fact if they don't survive this test they
are probably not safe to be ridden.
I think your (Sheldon's) section on "the right way and the wrong way is unduly
restrictive and conjures an image of a frail bicycle that cannot take
even light side loads. I think typical rough road riding puts more
load on the bicycle than any of these mounting styles."
I'm with Jobst and with school kids everywhere.
I've found that nibbling tends to chip the finish. I usually lick the bar tape while I handcuff the frame to the bed.
I think it depends on how big the rider is. If you are thin enough you could probably jump off the roof on to the saddle and ride off. If you big like me I think the a stride method makes more since.
We used to get a running start and jump on in the good old days of the 60's. Most of the time we would put the left foot on the peddle and start pushing with the right foot until we got up some speed and then swing our right leg across the frame. Hi Ho Silver!!
They were good old days.
No one is going to tell me that my bike smiles as I do 4 foot drops, careen through rock gardens, and climb using freewheel-breaking sprints, but it grimaces because I mount it funny. Pfffffff.
OK, now I've got to know. Do you suppose there might be a relationship between how a person mounts his bike and the sexual disfunctions that have been attributed to bicycle saddles? How does Sheldon mount his bike and does he have any kids?
I naturally gravitate toward slow technical stuff, but for curiosity's sake:
- I stand over the frame, and move the bottom pedal slightly forward
- Apply front+back brakes
- Step on bottom pedal, then lift my other foot to the upper one, still standing
- Release brakes and start rolling
- Sit down
Dismounting is identical, but reverse order. I've only started using this tech. because my seat used to be too low. Now when I stand over the frame, the tip of the seat is at/above my tailbone, so I had to find a way to start and stop off the seat.
I can see logically how the "cowboy" method could hurt your rims on a race bike or something, and probably isn't good for road bikes with aluminum rims, but unless you're at an extreme angle trying BMX flatland stuff (look at THOSE tires!) it's probably no big thing...
Here's a better question:
How do you mount your bike when you're on a steep grade and want to ascend?
I doubt the Cowboy Method would work.
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Neil Young Honors Bob Dylan + Other Classic Rockers With New Song, 'Twisted Road'
Neil Young remains one of the most unpredictable men in rock music. At the opening show of his new tour with Crazy Horse in Albuquerque, N.M. on Friday (Aug. 3), he debuted six songs, yet only one of them was from his most recent album, 'Americana.' In addition, he also chose to leave 'Albuquerque,' from 1975′s 'Tonight's the Night' off the evening's agenda. That has to violate some unwritten setlist-making rule, right?


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CARLSBAD, Calif., July 20 (UPI) -- Eighth-seeded Christina McHale moved within one victory of her first semifinal appearance of the year Thursday at the Mercury Insurance Open.
McHale rallied past Misaki Doi in their second-round match 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to earn a quarterfinal meeting with No. 1 seed Marion Bartoli.
McHale has improved from a world ranking of 42nd at the start of the year to a current position of 27th. She reached the third round of each of the year's first three major championships.
Second-seeded Dominika Cibulkova also advanced, routing Marina Erakovic 6-2, 6-4. Cibulkova will take on Urszula Radwanska in the quarterfinals after Radwanska coasted past Melanie Oudin 6-2, 6-1.
Jelena Jankovic was the last to reach the quarterfinals, doing so with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 decision over Melinda Czink.
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Why is homeopathy, at present, popular in some countries and less popular in other countries?
This question, fundamental to this research, grasped me from the beginning and it never let me go.
Was it the culture, the history, the traditions in a country that caused homeopathy to be either popular or not, or were other factors playing a decisive role? When the opportunity arose to choose a research topic for my MA thesis, this interest, this question, was eventually what I wished to pursue.
I soon found out that not much research has been done regarding the history of homeopathy, certainly not on the causes of popularity and unpopularity. On the one hand it seemed very challenging for a student to be one of the few explorers in this area; on the other hand it was also very motivating. What could be more satisfying to make a scientific contribution to a subject that, due to its enormous growth over the last decades, is very interesting and yet almost untouched?
Despite homeopathy's global overall growth in popularity, the question on a national level nevertheless remains: which factors have caused homeopathy to be either very popular or unpopular in various countries. It is the present, existential situation which demands an explanation.
As much as I am proud to be the first to formulate a profound and legitimate answer, I realize that with this pioneering task, accompanied by a rather unique methodological approach, a lot of questions, gaps and criticism may appear as well. And for that I am only happy. If this thesis produces an academic, or at least some form of debate between either historians, sociologists or people inside the homeopathy or regular medical community then this thesis has reached, by far, beyond its goal.
This thesis is the product of many people, not just the author. Of course, the idea was mine, the setup was also mine but without the inspiration and help of a lot of people, I would have had a much more difficult time finding the right sources and accessing the data I needed. First of all, methodologically, Professor Maarten Prak has been a great inspiration to me. He is the creator of the MA Comparative History program. Without this initiative, many students (including myself) would not have found out about this fruitful and interesting method of research, named Comparative History. Besides the individual talks I had with him over the last couple of months, Professor Prak also organized regular meetings between all the MA students: insightful debates and correlations followed between the attendants which was very enlightening and rewarding. Right from the start, Professor Prak was very enthusiastic about my research topic and later on about my progress.
Second of all, I would like to thank my direct supervisor Fia Dieteren, and my co-supervisor Joost Vijselaar. They have helped me reflect on my thoughts from the beginning of my research, advised me on literature search and checked my progress while still allowing me to pursue my research interest and ideas about how to plan and conceptualize my master thesis. Fia receives a itional praise for carefully reading and correcting several versions of my thesis. Her comments proved vital for the progress of my thoughts and the development of the thesis. A wonderful cooperation emerged between the two of us, on which I reflect with pleasure.
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Kourtney Kardashian gave birth just five weeks ago, but the new mom of two seems to have bounced back in record time. The reality show star attended her sister Kylie Jenner's 15th birthday party looking amazingly polished for having a newborn baby at home.
You can see the photo of a beaming Kardashian en route to Jenner's fiesta on Us magazine's website. In the picture, Kardashian is wearing a flattering printed blouse and black skinny jeans. She found the time to pull her shiny dark hair into a pert ponytail and it appears that she even snuck in a few moments to make up her face.
The star tweeted this sweet message to Jenner on Friday, "Happy birthday to my little rock star sister!" Wow! She even has time to tweet! I just have to laugh as I think about what I was doing five weeks postpartum with my second child. I'll give you a hint: Showers were few and far between.
I recall struggling to find something to wear to the grocery store let alone to a party where I'd be photographed for the world to see. Maternity clothes weren't really fitting me anymore, but I couldn't get my pre-pregnancy jeans past my hips at that point. My daily wardrobe consisted of yoga pants and a black t-shirt — if I had time to change out of my pajamas that is.
And makeup? Ha! No way! I don't even want to talk about my hair. When four-inch roots are in style, I might unearth a photo of myself during that time. Nevermind how exhausted I felt and probably looked.
I don't envy Kourtney Kardashian having to doll herself up for a family party. It can't be easy to be evaluated on your appearance just five weeks after giving birth to daughter Penelope Scotland. Still, it seems the star pulled it off, managing to look bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for one of her first public outings.
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C&L's Late Nite Music Club With Tom Jones
Ladies and Gentlemen! Tom! Jones!
And he's still got It. And a new album. As he says,
We wanted to go back to basics, go back to the source, it was just me singing live with a rhythm section - no overdubbing, no gimmicks, no complicated horn and string arrangements, just get the song down in an entire take, capture the meaning of the song, its spirituality, its life, and capture that moment, right there.
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EUGENE, Ore. – (Oct. 22, 2012) – This fall, University of Oregon students will provide as many as 75 free energy assessments to students living off-campus through the Student and Community Outreach for Residential Efficiency ($CORE) program. The project aims to teach students easy ways to save money on their utility bills through a peer-to-peer education model.
Student energy auditors visit students living off-campus and provide assessments consisting of a home evaluation and learning what the residents are doing to reduce energy consumption. The energy auditors identify simple behavior changes that residents can implement to become more energy efficient and provide free energy conservation devices such as CFL's, weather stripping, pipe insulation and energy-saving showerheads. If more than half of the tenants are present for the assessment, the household gets a free large pizza from Track Town, one of the program's sponsors.
Another program sponsor, Focus the Nation, is the country's leading clean energy youth empowerment organization. $CORE kicked off when two Focus members, James Walton and Weston Cooper, held the Sports and Sustainability Summit on the UO campus last spring. Their mission was twofold: use sports as a platform for advancing sustainability in the Oregon student population and offer a free service with the support of local businesses.
Jerry's Home Improvement provides weatherizing products, EWEB provided a Partners in Education Grant, and the UO Office of Sustainability supported the project by institutionalizing it within the university. In addition, the Net Impact undergraduate chapter within the Lundquist College of Business has established $CORE as an experiential learning opportunity for students.
Steven Boone, one of the UO student energy auditors hired by the program says, "Students in houses around campus need a program like this to realize and understand their relation to the energy grid."
The program's goal is to complete 75 energy assessments at off-campus student houses before the end of fall term.
About the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is among the 108 institutions chosen from 4,633 U.S. universities for top-tier designation of "Very High Research Activity" in the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO also is one of two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities.
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Efficient Parallel Partition-based Algorithms for Similarity Search and Join with Edit Distance Constraints
The quantity of data in real-world applications is growing significantly while the data quality is still a big problem. Similarity search and similarity join are two important operations to address the poor data quality problem. Although many similarity search and join algorithms have been proposed, they did not utilize the abilities of modern hardware with multi-core processors. It calls for new parallel algorithms to enable multi-core processors to meet the high performance requirement of similarity search and join on big data. To this end, in this paper, the authors propose parallel algorithms to support efficient similarity search and join with edit-distance constraints.
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Ajay specializes in advising a wide range of alternative asset managers, including private equity, hedge funds and business development companies. He has performed valuations of portfolios of illiquid equity interests including common equity, straight and participating preferred equity, loans, senior secured debt, junior/unsecured subordinated debt, mezzanine debt, and high yield loans. Ajay has worked for clients in numerous industries, including technology, personal care, telecommunications, real estate, education, manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, business services, alcoholic beverages, chemical, private equity, hedge funds, asset management, and banking.
Ajay's engagements include large portfolio valuations and reviews for hedge funds and private equity investments, purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment testing; valuation of minority and control equity interest for tax purposes; and legal entity valuation for tax planning and restructuring purposes. Ajay also possesses expertise in the valuation of intangible assets that include core deposits, time deposits, customer relationships, contracts, trademarks, noncompetition agreements, in-process research and development, etc.
Ajay joined American Appraisal (now Duff & Phelps) in 2012. Previously, he was a manager in the New York City office of Ernst & Young Valuation Services. Prior to joining Ernst & Young Valuation Services in 2006, he was a senior consultant at Bearing Point, Inc., Valuation Services.
Ajay received his M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York.


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U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross (FL-15) welcomed Rev. Dr. John B. (Mike) Loudon of First Presbyterian Church in Lakeland to the U.S. House of Representatives to give the opening prayer today.
Rep. Ross's remarks:
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
"I rise today in gratitude that my good friend, Pastor Mike Loudon from my home church in Lakeland, Florida could give the opening prayer in the United States House of Representatives.
"Pastor Mike, as he is known back home, and his wife Joyce, have lived a life of dedication to their faith and their family. Pastor Mike's ministry serves as an inspiration to everyone. Truly, he is a great man with a legacy of what counts in life and the life hereafter.
"Pastor Mike is a pillar in the Lakeland and Polk County communities. He is active in Rotary Club, and is a strong leader, a man of God, and has a fantastic sense of humor.
"Pastor Mike has served churches across the country prior to coming to First Presbyterian Church in Lakeland in 1999. His messages are uplifting, encouraging, and always resonate with me. I am honored to have him as my pastor and as my friend.
"I join countless others in expressing a deep thankfulness for his willing spirit to serve and the privilege of having him give the opening prayer today.
"With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield back."