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I dont think I posted what started me on the W wing shapes..
it was this
When I modified my KFm4-XS-cheap-n-easy, I cut off two tip sections and a bit of wing, then replaced them with bigger tips.. Then I looked at the old tips and the MiniD was born.
The delta has a 'W' wing configuration .. The central fuz has a 6mm main layer and 2x6mm directly laminated outer front layers, making a KFm4 section.. The wings have a 6mm main layer with 2x3mm outer layers making a KFm4 section.
The angle where the wings join the fuz is 45 degrees.. and the angle at the top of the fuz is about 125 degrees.
Laid on a flat surface the wing tips measure at 3" up each side..
There are no spars..all depron layers are directly laminated to the main layer using uhu por..
Dave, that little delta pioneer looks sweet! I like how it tracks at half throttle! Must give that a try.
Anyways...just an update....never got around to building another Mini Heart after the last one broke due to me trying to hang it on the wall while being lazy at it...hehe, but always wanted to try this design from you and so far I have the 'W' set and the KFm4 all stuck on. Just sanded the LE to shape them and got an idea for some add-ons to give it a little character! Nope won't be a chicken...lol! But will post the finished 'W' wing soon and a video as well! Thanks again for a nice docile relaxed flyer. I have to many 3D like sport planes built and just wanna small little play around plane for those non 3D days! Wingspan on the 'W' in the works is 24".
Till then!!
I decided to build one also. Mine will be simple. 20" from Dollar tree foam board minus the paper. Kfm2 top section. Single rudder.
I like the 30 degree elevons so I'll use those.
I don't build as fast as a lot of guys (lack of time).
I'll post a video when it flies.
After Danford1 sugested using just a proper circle for a W wing I thought I had better try it ASAP .. It was the one option I had missed..
So today I made one.. using all 3mm and making it a KFm4 ..I do think the KFm4 is worth the extra effort.. I am pleased with how its gone so far,
The model above uses a 24" circle as per my rough drawing..
At the moment as seen above it weighs 4 3/4oz
The tail fin is 5" tall above the W and it slots through going 1" below, to the cross brace, it has a CF rod strengthener sandwiched in the build..Its made from 2x3mm depron layers and there is a cloth hinge also built in ..
The elevons are cut 3.5" in from the back, and angled at 30 degrees going out to the edge..
They are fully clear tape covered..then hinged with more tape
All bend and joins are hot glue(cool melt) beaded or filled.. And at each step when you add risers/spars or outer layers you should check and hold in the angles as you fill with the hot glue..
The wings leading edge is shaped and sanded..
When every thing is fitted , filled and sanded, the joins and bends are further taped over as seen in the pics..
Last edited by davereap; Mar 18, 2012 at 06:56 PM.
Beautiful fast work!
I'm curious as to why all the hot glue? That stuff is heavy. I like Gorilla glue. It foams up to fill voids and is very, very light. I spread it on, perhaps with a drop of water or a spritz from a spray bottle, then cover it with tape. The tape contains the expansion. Some will still ooze out on the ends but is easily cut off with a razor blade.
I like it... As with anything else, the more you use something the easier it gets as you develop your own shortcuts to using it.
What motor/prop combo are you going to use?
PS Looks like you might be the one naming it. Don't forget to video it...
Hot glue for speed, and I have never tried the gorilla glue..so I must give it a go
Motor/prop depends on the weight it ends up.. either a Blue wonder/8x4 on 3cells or the next size motor up..or perhaps another Axi like the heart shape uses..
I would like to keep the weight down, for a low wing loading, but this shape results in far less wing area than a similar size heart shape..
the 24" circle is 3.14sqft... the 21" long heart has 4.1sqft.. so the heart shape is likely to have a much lower wing loading...as the components will be much alike..for a similar area I would have needed a 27" circle
Last edited by davereap; Mar 19, 2012 at 04:53 AM.
So it's a 'W'-utball? LOL!
Nicely done once again Dave! And quick too! I never tried Gorilla Glue though it is available here at the Art Stores. Just too used to Hot Glue for quickness and ease and UHU Por. However when I build with EPP it's UHU Por for the all around felxibility!
My 'W'-wing is coming along nicely and needs a quickie paint job so tomorrow gotta go get the correct color to do it justice...hehe! KFm4 really works well I will admit. I built the W-wing with the main shape cut out flat, marked the lines for where the angle bends are to be, taped the opposing side and did the half-cut and crack open method.
Cut some pieces of scrap at the required angles for the wings and started from the middle section by masking tape them on so the angle is met and held. I then run hot glue down the line. Same goes for the outer wings. Held by the scrap pieces cut at the required angle and taped on so I can run the glue without the wing moving outta angle.
Only the KF laminates were done a section at a time. I used a new sheet of depron for this as the side ends are already straight, so line up that straight piece with the angles and UHU Por it down. Once dry I trim and repeat with the next section.Gaps filled with Hot Glue!
Anyhow, once the paint is done it's the motor mount and electronics! Gonna use the Hextronic 24g 1300kv and some of my bunch of servos which I have to dig outta the drawer! Probably a 9050 GWS since it's a nice thrust combi with the Hex motor which pretty much pulls most of my builds from EPP to Depron. If I keep the builds within 200-250g it works fine!
Will update!!
Tim, sorry, you can't name it... Dave is the closest to flying and videoing it so he will probably be naming it.
Dave, once named, please credit me for the design. No matter how good or bad it may fly...
Just be perfectly honest in your review. No need to sugar coat it if it doesn't fly well. Tell it like it is. I'll take the blame/credit where blame/credit is due.
All done the 24" circle comes in at 13.75oz with a 500 lipo thats 4.38 oz sqft.. It uses the same power system as the heart shape..
The heart flies at 15.375oz AUW with an 800 so has a wing loading of 3.75 ozsqft..
Both have a removable U/C fitted which weighs 1.5oz..
so without the U/C the wing loading would drop to 4ozsqft..
motor here the Axi 2208/34.. prop a gws 9x5.. running on 3 cells... thrust --more than I need
Predictions...before I fly I will say that it will be fine.. most of my big Nutballs have been between 4 and 5 ozsqft and all go well in the breezy conditions that seem to be always present here abouts.. I know this wont have the same "float" as the heart shape, so would suggest for anyone wanting that "float" go up to 27" dia. on a circle, or simply build the heart..
My only pre flight concern is a worry about the elevons, will they be big enough..
Last edited by davereap; Mar 19, 2012 at 11:00 AM.
The MiniD
The way the MiniD flies is unreal. It flies so straight and true to the line of flight.
I have made it one of my favorites to watch. The video also reminds me of the many days I spent flying my paper airplanes out doors and watching them sail onto school house roof tops and into trees. Your video brings back a lot of fond memories.
Thank you for that.
Here are pictures of mine.
I went with a 'modified' kfm4 wing. The top has a doubled section 50% back.
The bottom has a doubled section 40% back. No build up for extra thickness, just one section glued to the other.
Mine has a 20" diameter and is made from Dollar Tree foam board with the paper covering peeled off. It measures .185" or about 4.7mm thick depron.
Angles are 110 and 135. Elevons are 3 1/2" near the fuse and 30 degrees up from there. That puts the end of the elevon 2" back from the top kfm step.
I will use a Big rudder/vertical fin. It is 7" tall (6" above fuse and 1" below). The rudder is 3 3/8" half circle. The big fin and rudder should turn it if the elevons don't :-) The fin will run all the way up to the kfm step.
My plan is to use a Blue Wonder 1300kv and 8X4 prop. I have both 2S and 3S batteries to try. I do not however have the motor yet. It is still on the slow boat from China... ( I ordered it on Feb 29).
No weights yet as I'm still building.
My plan is to build as much as I can today. If I get close enough to done, I'll steal a motor of another plane and mount it up so I can fly it tomorrow.
I don't have a Blue Wonder so I'll have to use the lightest motor i have which may weigh more than the BW. My battery will be on a velcro strip so balancing won't be a problem.
Last edited by danford1; Jul 16, 2012 at 02:41 PM.
the fin looks larger than mine, it might be too big, but you can always chop some off later..you will have to see how much weather cocking it does, when the wind blows..
my elevons are much the same measurements as yours ..cut in 3.5 then angled from there..
step positions are not critical, neither is the step depth..directly laminated layers are good...Ive used from 30% to 50% on top and bottom, and 50 top 40 bottom went fine on a V wing..
the mini delta was a surprise, I just made it from two tip sections I removed when modding a bigger model..it has a 40cm span and a tiny motor but it whizzes along and is quite stable.. a lucky accident bonus plane,
It was a combination of this little thing and a KFm4 dart that got me looking at the high angle W shape.. The dart has a very high dihedral and normally flies wth rudder, but when I KFm4'd it the rudder was not effective... so I added ailerons and got a beautiful roll..
The kf does some weird things.. ailerons and high dihedral should never have been that good..
I should get a flight in tomorrow.. good luck with yours..
Last edited by davereap; Mar 19, 2012 at 01:39 PM.
Yes, I can always cut it down...
Here are a couple more pictures. I'm waiting for the epoxy on my plywood motor mount to dry so I can add the depron bracing behind it.
I too plan to fly it tomorrow, in fact at 11:00 AM.
Every Tuesday I go to an indoor soccer arena to fly.
I'll have to throw on an E-Flite park 370 as it is all I have at the moment. It is a bit heavy but should have Way more power than needed :-)
Mine is done.
Mine is done and ready to fly.
As i was going to rob a motor from another plane, the door bell rang. The slow boat from China arrived with my Blue Wonder.
I installed it with a GWS 8x4 prop with a 2S battery. it seems to have more thrust than the plane weighs (8.8 ounces). I balanced it at 5" back from motor mount or 25% of the cord. I can adjust the battery fore or aft from there.
I needed stiffer wire and wheels for the landing gear but the hobby shop is closed on Monday's...
I used thin stuff i had on hand. Since no wheels, i just bent skids. it seems awful floppy might bend back under take off.
After I fly it tomorrow, I'll stop at the hobby shop and get some wire and wheels.
Wish me luck :-)
Last edited by danford1; Mar 20, 2012 at 01:36 AM.
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I certainly hope that Zylstra and the remainder have a great season. I am disappointed that Harrison decided to leave the program. I expected a lot of him this year. Best wishes for a great season to both the men's and women's basketball teams.
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He went to Clemson because of some paperwork problem with his mission.
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Wasn't there a kid named Demarcus something that was in the team last year? Whatever happened to him? I didn't see his name mentioned in the article. Did he quit the team, transfer out, or what? I must've missed an article about him earlier. Anyhow, that non-conference part of the Cougars schedule is quite a challenge. I'm curious as to how they'll handle it. Looking forward to watch them play though.
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Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR), which is made up of MPs and peers, is to question Home Secretary Jacqui Smith over the allegations today as part of a wider investigation into the UN charter against torture.
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In a sign of continuing friction among Conservative Jews over the issue of homosexuality, a ceremony in Jerusalem to mark the first anniversary of the decision to admit gays to the Jewish Theological Seminary was held away from the campus of the movement's main educational institution there.
A news release from the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary said the students agreed to move the ceremony off campus after refusing to "give equal expression" to a movement-approved religious opinion that upholds the traditional ban on homosexuality.
The movement's legal authorities adopted conflicting rulings on the status of homosexuality in 2006. One permitted the ordination of gay rabbis, another upheld Judaism's longstanding ban on homosexual intercourse.
According to the release, "the students who approached SRS stressed that they were interested only in their own personal celebration with their friends, and that they had no interest in noting the second Halakhic ruling."
One of the student organizers, Jill Levy, told JTA that the ceremony was held Wednesday "in the woods" several minutes walk from the seminary. Levy would not comment on her exchanges with the school.
The dispute at Schechter points to the continuing tensions within the Conservative movement over homosexuality and the apparently different directions in which the movement's various international affiliates are moving.
Following the 2006 decision by the movement's law committee to permit the ordination of gay clergy, both JTS and the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University) changed their policies to admit gay rabbinical students.
But Schechter's dean, Rabbi Einat Ramon, declined to change her school's policies, basing her decision on the more conservative ruling.
Ramon is a well-known critic of the liberalizing tendency toward gays within Conservative Judaism. She has said she views homosexuality as a choice and, in a speech last year to a conference in Israel, reportedly said the family is endangered by gays with an agenda who seek to destroy it.
Ramon said further that the Conservative movement must protect the family against these homosexuals, who already have succeeded within the Reconstructionist movement.
"I think they're particularly sensitive because they've chosen what seems to be an unpopular stand among many in the Masorti movement," said Rabbi David Lazar, using the Hebrew equivalent of American Conservative Judaism. Lazar leads a Masorti congregation near Tel Aviv.
The Jerusalem ceremony was inspired by a daylong commemoration of the change held Wednesday at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. The event was mostly closed to media, but one participant told JTA an emotional high point was a panel in which rabbis and rabbinical students related their personal stories of coming out.
"We celebrate not only the admission of gay and lesbian students to our rabbinical and cantorial schools but also the process of honest outreach and spirited discussion that led up to that decision," JTS Chancellor Arnold Eisen said in a statement. "JTS has long known that our differences make our community stronger."
The Jerusalem ceremony was considerably shorter and featured an address by Yonatan Gher, the incoming director of the Jerusalem Open House, a support center for gays and lesbians. Gher is also a former spokesman for the Masorti movement.


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Nido Taniam case: Has CBI diluted charges?
Nido Taniam, the student from Arunachal Pradesh who died of injuries sustained during a brutal racist attack, was not beaten up by the accused once, but thrice over the course of an hour, says the chargesheet filed by the CBI on Friday.india Updated: May 04, 2014 01:08 IST
Nido Taniam, the student from Arunachal Pradesh who died of injuries sustained during a brutal racist attack, was not beaten up by the accused once, but thrice over the course of an hour, says the chargesheet filed by the CBI on Friday.
The CBI claimed that Taniam was tracked by the main accused and beaten up second and third time even after he had already settled the altercation by paying the accused Rs 7,000 for the damage he had done to a broken glass counter.
The agency had filed its chargesheet before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh. The charge sheet names four men Farman, Sunder Singh, Pawan and Sunny Uppal and three juveniles as the accused. They have been charged under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes Act.
Read:CBI drops murder charges in Nido Taniam's death
The court took cognisance of the charge sheet the next day and fixed the matter for May 7 for further hearing.
Despite the fact that its chargesheet mentions that the men had beaten up Taniam at least thrice, the agency dropped the murder charges which the Delhi Police had levied on the four accused earlier. An accused is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder when there is no proof that he had a pre-meditated intention of killing the victim.
However, the agency's own timeline tells a different story.
Taniam and his friends had gone to Lajpat Nagar to visit a sick friend, but did not know the exact location of his house due to which they had stopped at Farman's shop for directions. Rather than help them, he and the three juveniles, who too have been charged by the CBI, made fun of Taniam's bleached hair. Frustrated, Taniam broke the glass counter due to which the four beat him up outside the shop. Farman even used a stick to beat up Taniam on his head.
Farman later tracked Taniam around Lajpat Nagar in the hour that followed the first beating and landed blows at him on the next two occasions.
"The accused may be able to claim that the first beating took place in the heat of the moment. But the second and third times were premeditated acts, done well after the altercation of the broken glass was settled," said criminal lawyer MS Khan.
The chargesheet also states that Taniam and Farman were made to sign a compromise letter by a policeman of the area.


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This quest concludes the [500 Pound Chicken] portion of the [Blue Scepter Shard] fork of [The Scepter of the Shifting Sands] quest chain to open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Both the [Narain's Scrying Goggles] and the [Draconic For Dummies: Volume II] forks must also be complete before Narain Soothfancy will offer the conclusion of the Blue Shard fork, The Good News and The Bad News.
Objectives Edit
Deliver the 500 Pound Chicken to Narain Soothfancy in Tanaris.
- [500 Pound Chicken] (Provided)
Description Edit
I'm a goblin of my word, kid. Here's your 500 pound chicken.
What a gnome wants with a 500 pound chicken, I'll never know...
<Dirge grumbles something unintelligible.>
Probably to sleep in it... Dirty gnomes...
Progress Edit
What is that scrumptious smell?
Completion Edit
<Narain mashes two fists into the huge chicken, stuffing his face full of Dirge's delicious delicacy.>
MMmmm... This is unbelievable! Best chicken I've ever had!
Gains Edit
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 6600 XP (or 57 at level 70)
- 500 reputation with the Brood of Nozdormu
Quest progression Edit
This is part of the [Blue Scepter Shard] fork of [The Scepter of the Shifting Sands] quest chain:
- [60] Azuregos's Magical Ledger
- [60] Translating the Ledger
- [Narain's Scrying Goggles]
- [60] Stewvul, Ex-B.F.F.
- [60R] Scrying Goggles? No Problem!
- [500 Pound Chicken]
- [60] Never Ask Me About My Business
- [60R] The Isle of Dread!
- [60] Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
- [60] Return to Narain
- [Draconic For Dummies: Volume II]
- [60] Draconic for Dummies
- [60] Love Song for Narain (very helpful, but not strictly necessary quest to complete Draconic for Dummies)
- [60] rAnS0m
- [60G] Decoy!
- [60R] The Only Prescription
- [60] Draconic for Dummies
- [Narain's Scrying Goggles]
- Maws
Patches and hotfixesEdit
Patch 1.9.0 (03-Jan-2006): Added


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The Times has reported an interesting case which concerns a bankrupt and a civil restraint order. The case is: In re Ludlam (Bankrupts), Chancery Division, October 26, 2009, before Mr Edward Bartley Jones QC. The report notes:
"For an extended civil restraint order to be issued, making someone a vexatious litigant, three unmeritorious claims or applications were the bare minimum to satisfy the requirement of persistence.
Mr Edward Bartley Jones, QC, sitting as a deputy Chancery Division judge, so stated on August 6, 2009, in a reserved judgment when making extended civil restraint orders against John Michael Ludlam and Caroline Lesley Ludlam.
HIS LORDSHIP said that, for an extended civil restraint order to be made, it was a pre-condition that the relevant person had "persistently issued claims or made applications which are totally without merit": see paragraph 3.1 of Practice Direction C in Part 3 of the Civil Procedure Rules.
When considering the making of such an order generally, the court was to engage in a graduated, and proportionate response to the identified abuse, which made it logical for the statutory scheme to have a higher precondition threshold for the making of an extended order as opposed to a limited or general order.
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Food stamp numbers soaring, By Brad Cain (AP) and Susan Palmer, December 10, 2009, Eugene Register-Guard: "The number of Oregonians receiving food stamps has risen 36 percent over the past year and is expected to climb through 2010 as the state continues to contend with high unemployment, according to figures released Wednesday. In Lane County, 70,155 people are on food stamps, or about one in five residents. The figures released by the state Department of Human Services show that more than 650,000 Oregonians now rely on food stamps, or one out of six Oregon residents. John Radich, manager of the Lane County DHS branch, said his office has seen a steady increase in applications of 1½ to 2 percent a month for the past 18 months…"
Daily Archives: December 10, 2009
Foster Care Programs – Pennsylvania, Iowa
- Nearly 25% of Phila. foster children live with kin, By Alfred Lubrano, December 9, 2009, Philadelphia Inquirer: "A new statewide child-welfare report shows a mixed picture in the region – including the encouraging finding that the percentage of Philadelphia children in foster care who live in the homes of relatives is higher than the state average. Nearly 25 percent of foster children in Philadelphia are placed in the homes of relatives, compared with around 21 percent for the state as a whole, according to the report released yesterday by Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, a statewide advocacy group based in Harrisburg. Children placed with family members do better than those in nonfamily settings, the group's analysts said…"
- Foster families to feel pinch of slashed budget, By Jennifer Jacobs, December 10, 2009, Des Moines Register: "Iowa foster parents will get about $35 less each month for expenses for the abused or neglected children they care for on behalf of the state. That could hurt the foster care system, said several Iowans who oversee the Iowa Department of Human Services. The 10 percent across-the-board budget cut Gov. Chet Culver ordered for this budget year will decrease state spending on foster care subsidies by about $315,000…"
TANF Program During Recession
- Experts say welfare safety net inadequate to aid jobless, strapped families in recession, By Jim Abrams (AP), December 9, 2009, Los Angeles Times: "The 1996 law that ended an American's right to welfare also frayed the safety net for some people trying to cope with the current recession. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that grew out of that law has responded slowly to the increasingly number of people without jobs and descending into poverty, witnesses told the House Budget Committee on Wednesday. They said that contrasted with sharply increased activity in other safety net programs, including unemployment insurance benefits and food stamps…"
- Why welfare reform fails its recession test, By Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich, December 6, 2009, Washington Post: "We all like to imagine that there'll be something to stop our fall if we hit hard times. Mulugeta Yimer, for example, is a 56-year-old Alexandria cabdriver who escaped poverty and persecution in Ethiopia 20 years ago only to be clobbered by the recession. Business is way down, and he's facing possible foreclosure on his home. He says he is averse to government handouts, but when he contemplates what might be in store for his wife, who works part-time at a convenience store, and their two young children, he muses wistfully, 'There's always welfare, isn't there?' Actually, no. When President Bill Clinton signed welfare reform into law, he didn't just end welfare as we knew it. For all practical purposes, it turned out, he brought an end to cash help of any kind for families with children in much of the country. While welfare reform was long ago declared a success in some quarters, it was deeply flawed from the beginning. The recession has shown how seriously unprepared it left us for hard times…"
Homeless Children and Families – Kentucky
Homeless families overwhelm shelters, By Marcus Green, December 7, 2009, Louisville Courier-Journal: "Shelters in Louisville and Southern Indiana say they are struggling to cope with an increase in homeless families – turning common areas into makeshift sleeping quarters, starting waiting lists, and, in some cases, turning people away. Advocates, school and shelter officials all say they fear family homelessness is reaching record levels here, and while it's difficult to precisely quantify, they cite a variety of indications, which include…"


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Vetmedin (Chewable Tablets) is used to manage certain types of congestive heart failure. It's different from most commonly used heart medications because it helps the heart pump more efficiently. Vetmedin works by opening up the blood vessels that take blood away from the heart, therefore reducing the amount of work the heart does to pump blood. Vetmedin also opens up the blood vessels returning blood to the heart, reducing pressure on the heat. Vetmedin is proven to increase the quality and length of life in pets.
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Published on June 9th, 2011 | by Mark Chesnut
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To get the deal, you've got to book by June 30 and travel between August 1 and December 15. You also need to mention code LLF when booking. For details, visit Marriott's sale site here.
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We've always had a soft spot for that whoring, brawling old monster, Caravaggio, and not just because of Derek Jarman's rollicking movie of the same name. Jarman's 1986 take on him leaned more towards the artist's partying than his creative side, but given the presence of Nigel Terry as the man himself, and Tilda Swinton and Sean Bean as the delectable other two sides of that love triangle, we don't mind a bit.
Now, though, exactly 400 years after his death (from sunstroke -- though the syphilis probably didn't help and some claim he was assassinated or poisoned by arsenic), not only were some fragments of his remains unearthed in Italy, but a heavyweight new biography has come out.
Andrew Graham-Dixon's book makes a little less of the brawling and in fact defends Caravaggio's honor a little too robustly, but he knows his stuff, and if you're after the art and the detail, look no further. As to the man being gay, well, we've long accepted that he most likely slept with men, and had a great time doing so, and for sure slept with many women. Graham-Dixon's angle on it is that Caravaggio was likely "omnisexual" and he tries to justify a lot of the bad behavior (most that is know about him is from the detailed court reports from his frequent arrests) by saying he sort of did live under the church's ideals, in that he behaved as if it were forever Lent or carnival.
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane is not yet out in the US, but it's on Amazon.co.uk for around $27.
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You don`t have to be a chronically heavy drinker to suffer the adverse effects of alcohol. One ``night on the town`` can do it, as millions have discovered the morning after.
Hangovers have no respect for race, nationality or socio-economic status. Anyone who overdoes it can get one. To a hung-over German it`s katzenjammer, the wailing of cats. Italians call it stonato, out of tune. To the French it`s la gueule de Bois, woody mouth; in Spain resaca, surf of sea; in Norway, jeg har tommermenn, workmen in my head; and in Sweden it`s hont i haret, pain in the roots of the hair. But by whatever name, the splitting headache, searing thirst, churning stomach, furry tongue and shaky jitters of a hangover are an exacting price to pay for an evening`s indulgence.


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Special invitation to attend lecture by Professor Nora Beck
June 04, 2012
Dear Lewis & Clark colleagues,
Please join me at PSU for the following event:
THE ITALIAN PROGRAM AND NIAF NATIONAL AMERICAN ITALIAN FOUNDATION PRESENT: When you come to a fork in the road take it!
A lecture about creativity by Nora Beck
Portland State University
5:30 – 7:30
Nora Beck, the James W. Rogers Professor of Music at Lewis & Clark College, was raised in Italy and New York in a colorful family of artists. Prof. Beck has written five books, two scholarly about Italian medieval music and art, and three novels chronicling the Italian-American experience. A devoted teacher, Prof. Beck has gained numerous awards, including Master Teacher of the American Musicological Society and Teacher of the Year at Lewis & Clark College. She will read from her new exhilarating novel Cauliflower Head and discuss her experience navigating academia's treacherous waters while remaining true to her artistic vision.
Thank you,
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'We Invest in Ourselves - and Keep to Ourselves'
After 37 years, Turkey remains the world's only country to recognize Turkish Cyprus or do business with it; but Prime Minister Erdogan is already planning a new campaign to encourage world recognition if an upcoming round of talks with the Greeks does not lead to a resolution of the island's division.
KYRENIA, CYPRUS - A white marble tablet, marked with the passage of time, stands at the entrance to the mass grave on the outskirts of the village of Murataga in Northern Cyprus. Engraved on it are the words of Archbishop Makarios III, the first president of Cyprus, who in 1964 said: "If Turkey comes to save the Turkish Cypriots, it will not find a single Turkish Cypriot whom it will be able to save." Eighty-nine of the residents of the village, nearly all of them children, women and elderly people, were not saved from the slaughter carried out by Greek Cypriot soldiers before the Turkish army decided to invade the island on July 20, 1974, in order to thwart the ambition of the ruling military junta in Greece to annex the island to that country.
Kamil Maric, an impressive man of 64 wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap, was 27 at the time, a prisoner of the Greek Cypriot forces, some of whose colleagues had murdered his wife and 18-month-old son.
"They took 40 bullets out of the boy's body," he tells the group of journalists who were invited recently to visit the Turkish part of Cyprus. The occasion was the 37th anniversary of what is called "the Turkish intervention" or "peace mission" there, and in the southern part - invasion and occupation. Back then 150 Turkish Cypriots lived in Murataga, which was surrounded by Greek villages. Most of them were murdered; a few fled to Famagusta or other villages. "Only one couple, he was blind and she was crippled, remained to tell about the horror," says Maric.
And what happened to the Greek villages? The locals don't talk about it now. In Northern Cyprus there is only one tragedy. In the south they tell a different story.
Turkey is not only the "motherland" of the approximately 250,000 Turkish Cypriots: It is also their only link with the rest of the world, since no country apart from Turkey recognizes the independence of Turkish Cyprus. Whereas about 135 countries are prepared to grant the Palestinians recognition of an independent state, Turkish Cyprus comes up against a wall every time it seeks recognition.
At Ercan Airport near Lefkosa (which the Greeks call Nicosia ), named after a Turkish combat pilot, the tourist can ask the immigration official not to stamp his passport upon entry, and instead stamp a piece of paper they call a visa. Turkish Cyprus is aware of the difficulties such a stamp could cause a passport-holder, if he wants, for example, to visit Greek Cyprus (the Republic of Cyprus ). Ordinary letters from abroad to an inhabitant of the northern part of the island are sent only via Turkey, ships do not anchor in the ports of Northern Cyprus and no non-Turkish plane lands there.
"We pay double customs duty and the cost of living here is disproportionately high," says Rasih Resat, owner and editor of the Haberdar newspaper in Northern Cyprus. Resat speaks English like an Englishman, and has a wry sense of humor and a cynicism ostensibly acquired over many years of frustration. "Merchandise coming from Europe has to go through a Turkish port, where they charge customs duty on it, and then it comes here to Cyprus, where we charge customs duty on it again."
The minimum wage in Turkish Cyprus is higher than that in Turkey, about $750 a month. When all exports from the island have to pass through Turkey to reach world markets, thereby making products more costly, it is hard to find even Turkish investors who will agree to build factories in Northern Cyprus.
"What is left for a Turkish Cypriot manufacturer to do?" asks Resat, and answers: "He can manufacture 150 containers of yogurt and no more, because there is no one to sell to, and he can't aspire to produce more, to expand his production for the international market. In fact we are going into the third generation of Turkish Cypriots that can't predict its future. We invest in ourselves, we buy a villa, we buy a BMW - and we keep to ourselves."
The only source of optimism for Resat is Europe's demographic trends, he says: "Europe is growing older, and in a few years there will not be enough workers to maintain its industry. It will need more foreign workers [who will send their earnings home] and maybe then there will be an opening for our future." Until then, Turkey will continue to provide about one-third of the Turkish Cypriot budget, approximately $400 billion annually.
'Our tomorrow is one'
We meet in the lobby of the Jasmine Court Hotel on the beach at Kyrenia, the beautiful city where the Turkish forces landed in 1974. The previous day, Resat was invited along with a group of journalists to a meeting in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan - who two days later came to Cyprus as the guest of honor at the celebrations to mark the anniversary of the Turkish "intervention" - wanted to transmit a message to the effect that if there is no progress in the talks between Greek Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus at the meeting planned at the United Nations in October, he will move to Plan B: enlisting international support for recognition of Turkish Cyprus as an independent state.
"Our yesterday is one, our tomorrow is one and our heartbeat is one," says the slogan at the bottom of the huge portraits of Erdogan that decorated the streets in advance of the anniversary. Large Turkish flags fly alongside the flag of Turkish Cyprus, and pictures of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, hang in government offices and university classrooms. Turkish Cyprus and Turkey also have the same national anthem - the "Independence March." The words were written by Turkish poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy in 1921, two years before the founding of the Turkish Republic. The opening lines of the anthem's 10 stanzas are devoted to "our heroic army," which was victorious in the War of Independence, and the song is full of expressions of love of the homeland, liberty and power. For many long minutes the guests on the platform of honor erected on one of the main roads of Nicosia stand and sing the entire thing.
The president of the unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Dervis Eroglu, is greeted by the public with loud cheering as though he were a beloved king. Cypriot generals bedecked with medals and gilded swords belted to their waists, and a large crowd of citizens and journalists rise to their feet and join in the singing of the anthem, amplified through powerful loudspeakers.
An old friend, an important columnist and former editor of a Turkish newspaper, who volunteers to translate the main points of Erdogan's long speech for me, breathes a sigh of relief when the announcer - an army officer with a deep bass voice - declares the proceedings will begin. "A folk-dance troupe is better than a military parade," he comments. And indeed, a small group of men and women in traditional dress perform a series of pleasant dances on the burning-hot asphalt in the 40-degree heat, followed by five paratroopers parachuting and landing perfectly across from the platform of honor.
But there is also, of course, a military parade. Hundreds of Turkish soldiers wearing helmets and with packs on their backs march in unison, commandos in blue berets salute the guests of honor, and a few tanks, artillery pieces and even Katyusha-carriers also file past. During the whole parade the 73-year-old president, who has already had two coronary bypass operations, stands erect and honors the thousands of soldiers.
Elmaz, a Turk who moved to Turkish Cyprus seven years ago to earn a living, tells me after the ceremony: "Look how they stand and exalt the Turkish army. Look at how they fawn over the Turks, but they treat me like garbage. They think they are already part of Europe, while we [native] Turks are inferior to them. I came here with my wife and children but they didn't allow the children to attend school until my wife and I received a residence permit. They know how to take Turkish money but they also know how to stick a knife in our back."
"There is something in what he says," confirms a lecturer at the Eastern Mediterranean University, the largest of the six universities in Turkish Cyprus. "We do feel like a single nation, but among us there are those who are more equal and those who are less equal."
The six universities, attended by about 40,000 students from around the world (the language of instruction for foreign students is English ) are the most important source of income in the local economy. Every foreign student pays $7,500 to $9,000 for a year of studies, and many receive scholarships and housing. The problem is that only 150 universities in the world are prepared to cooperate with and give academic recognition to the universities in Turkish Cyprus.
"Higher education is a matter of right - it shouldn't be a political issue," complains the rector of the Eastern Mediterranean University, Prof. Halil Nadiri. He is right, but since Cyprus is a political issue by nature, and Greek Cyprus became a member of the European Union in 2004, the academic struggle of Turkish Cyprus cannot be anything but political.
The Annan plan
"It's impossible to go on like this," asserts Resat, the newspaper editor. "The knife is already cutting into the bone," Erdogan declared in his speech. "We are ready for Plan B," warned the president of Cyprus. Thus it seems everyone is preparing for the next "critical moment" and opportunity - and yet another "last chance," similar to those that have arisen since the Cypriot state was founded - that will come in October when representatives of Turkish Cyprus and Greek Cyprus will meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to decide on the future of the Turkish part of the island.
Back in April 2004, Ban's predecessor Kofi Annan proposed a plan on which inhabitants of the two parts of Cyprus voted in a referendum. In essence, it imagined a federal state in which each part of Cyprus would have a government of its own, subordinate to a federal government with a joint presidential council, and a federal supreme court and constitution. Sixty-five percent of the citizens of the Turkish part voted in favor of the plan, and 76 percent of the Greek part voted against.
In any event, the Greek Cypriots had little to lose by objecting to the UN federation plan; in doing so they showed it would not be to their benefit to share the wealth they have accumulated with their poor, infrastructure-deprived Turkish counterparts on the island. The Greek Cypriots also believed that the reparations offered to them by the UN plan for property over which Turks took possession were not sufficient. They assessed that when they became members of the EU, as they did the following month, they would be able to apply to the European Court of Human Rights and demand far higher compensation.
The possibility that a relatively large Turkish army will remain on the island until Turkey is accepted as a member of the EU also does not appeal to the government of Greek Cyprus, in Nicosia, which has demanded the withdrawal of the forces in the near future. And thus, in the absence of real sanctions for voting down the 2004 UN plan, and with EU membership, the Greek Cypriots attempted to settle a historical account with their Turkish foes.
Meanwhile, the EU has spared itself the problems involved in accepting as members an additional population of about a quarter of a million Muslims, and its commitment to the northern part of the island has been a moral one only. Turkey was hoping that a solution to the Cyprus crisis would open a fast track to discussion of its own membership in the EU. Though no such condition has been explicitly stipulated, the question of Cyprus has come up in many forums and has been depicted as a stumbling block that Turkey must eliminate.
Now Turkey will likely try to explain that the EU should content itself with showing appreciation for various good-will efforts made by Ankara, and see it as a worthy candidate, despite the fact that the status of Turkish Cyprus has not changed. Therein lies the hypocrisy of the EU, which declares it is "eager" to solve the problem of Cyprus and at the same time is slowing down efforts to arrive at a solution - because the moment the Cyprus problem is solved, yet another hurdle will be eliminated from the path of Turkey's entry into Europe. Then it will no longer be a question of only a quarter of a million Muslim Turkish Cypriots, but rather of about 75 million Muslim Turks.
Lessons for Israel
For its part, Israel also does not recognize Turkish Cyprus as an independent state. Indeed, Jerusalem has adopted the international rhetoric that describes Turkish Cyprus as existing on occupied territory, and of being responsible for finding a solution to its status within the framework of the existing situation on the ground on the island, or as part of an agreed-upon resolution at the UN. This view has not impeded several dozen Israeli businesspeople from investing in the northern part of the island and opening a number of tourism sites there.
In any case, Turkey - as an occupying, invading, liberating country vis-a-vis Cyprus - can teach Israel a lesson when it comes to dealing with abandoned property. The shoreline along the blue sea at Famagusta, with its colorful parasols and vacationers paddling in the water, is crossed by a scary barbed-wire fence behind which is a tall iron wall preventing entry into the ghost town of Varosha. Beyond the wall, on which Turkish soldiers are stationed to prevent the entry of outsiders, are visible high-rise residential buildings, what once was the Sheraton Hotel, and even parts of tree-lined neighborhoods. The Greek inhabitants of Varosha abandoned it in a panic when the Turkish army arrived. There are stories of inhabitants even leaving behind eating utensils on their tables and towels in their bathrooms.
Turkey decided to keep this town as a "deposit": not to build a settlement or bring Turkish civilians there. Turkey even invited the Greek inhabitants of the town to return, reestablish their businesses and live there; they refused to do so until a comprehensive solution is achieved.
If a diplomatic solution to the Cyprus problem is found, promises Turkey, the Greek inhabitants will be able to return whenever they want. Until then, the Turkish army will continue to guard the town.
"I am certain that if Israel had occupied the town, it would have turned it into a tourism site or a settlement, about which you would say, 'This is another fact on the ground, and there is nothing to be done about it,'" laughs Sinan, a Turkish journalist who accompanies the group (and requested that his full name not be published ).
"We are taking every possible step to prove that our intentions are good," the president of Turkish Cyprus explains to me. "We accepted the Annan plan, we are paying reparations and are prepared to come to a property agreement. But we cannot possibly agree to a provision that says the Greek owners will decide what solution there will be for their [abandoned] property. What will we do with the houses Turkish Cypriots are already living in? We are prepared to pay compensation, but we will not allow the Greek owners to determine that residential buildings should be demolished only because they are the [legal] owners. It is also necessary to consider the people who are living in those buildings."
The Greek right of return, it emerges, also has its "red lines," but there is no dispute that such a right exists - yet another lesson that can be learned from Cyprus.
On the way back from Famagusta we pass through Nicosia along the border between the two parts of the island. The narrow streets of the capital, its low buildings, remnants of the attractive colonial architectural design, lovely lemon trees, palm trees and pines - all of this makes one forget for a moment that this is a border of loathing and hatred. Even though Turks can now cross to the other side and vice versa, passage of goods is still prohibited.
A week before our visit a power station on the Greek side blew up and the Turkish Cypriot government hastened to offer to help with the supply of electricity. An agreement was signed, but during our trip, the Greek archbishop's harsh view of the subject was published. "It is better," he ruled, "to live by candlelight than to import electricity from the Turks." He also called upon Greek citizens not to purchase cheeses and other products from the Turkish side of Cyprus.
Thus, the political conflict between the two parts of the island will perhaps be solved on paper, but how many generations will it take for the difficult memories to be totally forgotten?
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Extreme Design: Ultra-compact embedded computer overcomes multiple design challenges
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(Editor's note: This is the second in a series of Extreme Design stories, where we look at design issues and tradeoffs at the system level, for applications where one or a few objectives dominate and define the design challenge. There is a link to the previous story in this series at the bottom.)
New generations of defense imaging systems, using sophisticated sensor technologies, generate invaluable information for modern warfare. On large platforms, such as ships, planes, or ground vehicles, the systems use onboard integrated-computing engines that can immediately process sensor data, communicating useful images to users rather than streams of raw data.
In recent years, the trend has been to put many of the intelligence-gathering sensors on unmanned vehicles, and now the trend is to use increasingly smaller unmanned vehicles such as UAVs. One option is to relay the raw sensor data to ground stations for processing. However, to be truly effective, these smaller sensor-based systems must be supported by a new generation of signal processing computers--powerful, rugged, and ultra-compact. Mercury Computer Systems' PowerBlock 50 computer, Figure 1, was conceived as a way to meet this need, but the design challenges were significant.
Figure 1:The PowerBlock 50 computer was designed under some tight performance and environmental constraints
A small subset of the design goals helps to understand the scope of these challenges.
- Weight of less than 10 lbs: A range of weights could have been targeted. However, there is a class of tactical unmanned aerial vehicles with a total payload capacity ranging from 60 to 200 lb (27 to 90 kg). In a general sense, it is reasonable to allocate up to half of that payload capacity to computing, but not much more.
- Volume of less than one-half cubic foot: New generations of unmanned vehicles are not built to fit human dimensions. As with weight, a range of sizes could have been targeted. A one-half cubic foot system (15 cm3) will fit into many unmanned platforms. It is a volume target that current standard computer form factors are not able to meet.
- Maximum processing power; no fewer than 100 GFLOPS: Imaging systems can certainly be implemented with less than 100 GFLOPS of processing power, but image-exploitation algorithms, such as change detection, geo-registration, or automatic target recognition, demand at least that level of processing.
- High-speed, inter-processor communication infrastructure: In distributed-processing applications, the need for a deterministic high-speed inter-processor communications fabric is paramount. Such a communications infrastructure must be scalable for varying system configurations, support any-to-any simultaneous full-duplex data flow, and provide the performance and reliability defense applications demand.
- Ability to function in extremely harsh environments: Despite their technical sophistication, defense electronics systems must deliver uncompromised performance under difficult environmental conditions, including excessive heat, humidity, poor air quality, high altitude, shock, and vibration. Embedded computers must be able to keep their electronics from overheating, even when temperatures range up to 55?°
C and the air is too thin to be used for cooling. At the same time, they must possess the enhanced mechanical integrity to withstand high-shock and vibration forces at various frequencies.
Cooling challenges
The next challenge was cooling the system. Functioning in extremely harsh environments means a tightly enclosed system chassis, while any processing elements delivering 100 GFLOPS of processing power are also going to generate significant amounts of heat. The design of the PowerBlock 50 had to incorporate the most effective means possible to dissipate heat in its confined space.
Conduction-cooling and spray-cooling were two potential options for removing heat from the individual processor modules. Because the overall system and module design was already constrained to a small size, conduction-cooling provided an efficient means to draw heat outward to the chassis, without the spatial requirements or mechanical complexities introduced by nozzles or pumps.
Furthermore, using a wedge-locking mechanism between processor, aluminum heat sink, and side walls of the chassis would ensure maximum heat conductivity, with the positive side-effect of increasing reliability across a range of environmental conditions (including shock, vibration, and temperature changes).
The final step in dealing with heat dissipation was to remove the heat generated by multiple processor modules from the chassis. The choice here was to use flow-thru liquid side-walls because the thermal capacity of a liquid is much greater than that of air. In addition, unlike air, the cooling capacity of a liquid is unaffected by altitude.
This approach does put the final cooling burden on the platform, to supply the liquid flow to take away the heat, but many platforms already support some form of liquid-cooled electronics. Almost any liquid can be used, provided the liquid temperature and flow rate are sufficient. Platform cooling strategies can also be very creative, such as platforms which use their own fuel, moving from storage tank to engine, to cool electronics.
Computing power
To deliver maximum computing power within the defined size and cooling envelope, the design team had to select a number of slots for the chassis that would both provide an adequate power budget for processor and FPGA designs, and enough slots that the total processing performance of the system would exceed the 100 GFLOPS objective. The team selected a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package and used it to analyze the thermal performance of several designs, before finally choosing a six-slot chassis design, Figure 2.
Figure 2:The unit shown with its cover removed
As its high-speed communications fabric, the PowerBlock 50 design team integrated a PCI Express switched backplane, providing four lanes of simultaneous point-to-point full-duplex communication to each of the six processing modules. With an aggregate bandwidth of 10 GBytes/sec raw data between processing cards and the reliability and maturity of an industry standard communications infrastructure, the PCI Express fabric makes the PowerBlock 50 an effective platform for distributed computing and provides a deterministic data path separate from Ethernet for high-speed inter-processor communications. It also ensures the overall architecture of the product is processor independent, so that any device which supports PCI Express can be considered for inclusion in future product designs.
Given this defined power budget, the designers next sought the processor, or processors, with the best possible GFLOPS/watt characteristics. Maximizing this ratio ensured that the selected device could handle the floating-point math essential to signal-processing algorithms and that the complete processing modules could be adequately cooled.
Processor selection
After evaluating dozens of processors, the team selected as its first candidate the P.A. Semi PA6T-1682M PWRficient processor, a dual-core AltiVec-enabled PowerPC vector processing engine, Figure 3.
Figure 3: A board for the PowerBlock 50 computer using the P.A. Semi processor
Figure 4: A board with the Xilinx FPGA, for the PowerBlock 50 computer
This offers a roadmap for increased processing capability in the months and years ahead. By integrating a SATA carrier module that supports standard laptop-sized storage drives, the PowerBlock 50 can currently provide up to 128 GB of solid-state storage capacity, and will continue to advance with solid-state technology to support greater volumes of data.
For further configuration flexibility, each processing module is fitted with a customizable daughter card that brings I/O signals to front-panel external connectors via an internal flex-circuit interconnect. The system's initial I/O daughter card supports Gigabit Ethernet and RS-232 links. By re-spinning this simply designed daughter card, the PowerBlock 50 can be customized to bring in an abundance of industry-standard and proprietary interface protocols to address a wide variety of signal processing applications. v
Design goals exceeded
The final result is a system that exceeded the design goals listed above. A fully configured PowerBlock 50 weighs just below 7 lb (3.2 kg) and measures only 4.1" x 5.3" x 5.8" (105 mm x 134 mm x 148 mm). It can be held comfortably in one hand. Configured with six high-performance PWRficient vector-processing modules, it delivers 192 GFLOPS of processing power and is fully capable of dissipating the heat generated by those modules. Rugged features include o-ring sealing for pressure, humidity, and EMI isolation, high-reliability connectors, extended temperature ranges, and locking modules for shock and vibration immunity.
The system is available now as the PowerBlock 50 EDK (Engineering Development Kit), a complete software development platform. The EDK includes a PowerBlock 50 system, Linux BSP development environment, and a desktop heat-rejection unit (HRU) to support the PowerBlock 50's cooling requirements. The PowerBlock 50 EDK is designed for desktop use in a laboratory or software development environments, focused on the development and optimization of run-time software deployable on PowerBlock 50 systems.
About the author
Thomas Roberts is a product marketing manager at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (www.mc.com), Chelmsford, MA.
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