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Just remember to paraphase, "You fly a model helicopter, a toy helicopter you push across the floor." The model in question might not decapitate but would really ruin your day if you got hit by one. The rotor blades are made from carbon fiber. They can do things a full scale heli just can't do.
hopefully this will give you the scale of these things and what they can do:
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The official Academy of Model Aeronautics statement:
"Model aviation community mourns loss
Yesterday, September 5, 2013, at approximately 3:30 p.m. EDT, the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) lost one of its members in a fatal accident involving an electric-powered RC helicopter.
Roman Pirozek Jr., 19, of Queens, New York, was flying at Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn in an area set aside for model flying. Roman reportedly lost control of his RC helicopter and was struck by his own model aircraft. Roman was an accomplished and experienced RC helicopter enthusiast.
AMA and the entire aeromodeling community are deeply saddened by the news of this tragic and extremely unusual accident. Our hearts and prayers go out to the Pirozek family, friends, and fellow modelers who loved and admired him.
The Academy will be working with the local AMA chartered club, the Seaview Rotary Wings, and local authorities to get a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding this heartbreaking accident.
Plans for services and a remembrance for Roman have not yet been determined.
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Note that it wasn't a "gasser" but electric these are just as big as nitro or gas powered models but with a BFB Lipo! They are alot quieter so would be more in line for park flying.
[ONLINE.WSJ] An updated tax rule is causing restaurants to rethink the practice of adding automatic tips to the tabs of large parties.
Starting in January, the Internal Revenue Service will begin classifying those automatic gratuities as service charges--which it treats as regular wages, subject to payroll tax withholding--instead of tips, which restaurants leave up to the employees to report as income.
The change would mean more paperwork and added costs for the restaurants--and a potential financial hit for waiters and waitresses who live on their tips but don't always report them fully.
Darden Restaurants Inc., owner of Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and Red Lobster, has long included automatic 18% tips on the bill for parties of eight or more at its more than 2,100 restaurants, but is experimenting with eliminating them because of the IRS ruling, said a spokesman.
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An "Automatic Tip" Is nothing more than a mandatory price increase (Which the government taxes) it's NOT a "Supplement".
If I give to a waiter/waitress it's intended to go to THEM, not the government.
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I generally tip higher than this automatic tips but when a restaurant includes the tip automatically I don't feel obligated to make up the difference. Its like, they decided already what the service was worth.
I know that is unfair to the wait staff because they are occasionally stiffed but its just easy to consider the tip paid when its embedded.
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Just a couple weeks ago the news was full of some restaurants getting away from tips. I assume automatic tipping built into the bill but perhaps they really just bury it in the price as to be non-tips. Wonder if this hits them as well.
[BBC.CO.UK] Kenyan MPs have approved a motion to leave the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) following an emergency debate.
A bill to this effect is expected to be introduced in the next 30 days, after opposition MPs boycotted the vote.
The ICC has charged President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto with crimes against humanity, which they both deny. Mr Ruto's trial is due to start in The Hague next week. The ICC said the cases would continue even if Kenya pulled out.
The charges against both Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto stem from violence that broke out after disputed elections in 2007, in which more than 1,000 people were killed and 600,000 forced from their homes.
Remind me, how has the ICC trial on Pencilneck been going? I seem to recall his body count being a lot higher so I'm sure the ICC has been all over it...
Mr Kenyatta is to go on trial in November.
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[Al Ahram] Labour lawyer Haytham Mohamadein, a leading member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists, was arrested at a military checkpoint close to Suez and is currently being detained, the group announced on Thursday.
Mohamadein, who is also a member of El-Nadeem Centre for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, was on his way from Cairo to Suez on Thursday when he was arrested at a military checkpoint on Suez Road. He was then transferred to Attaqa police station in Suez.
Mohamadein is expected to be referred to the prosecution on Friday. The charges he faces are yet to be officially confirmed and the army has not made any statements yet on the issue.
Aida Seif El-Dawla of El-Nadeem centre told Ahram Online that Mohamadein spoke with her shortly after his arrest.
"He told me that army forces stopped him at the checkpoint and took hold of his bag, which contained documents and legal records of his clients," she said. "He refused this action."
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If you have a Muslim Brother, a "Revolutionary Socialist", and only one cartridge---what do you do?
[An Nahar] Rebels from the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... 's M23 movement are "ready" to resume talks with Kinshasa in the Ugandan capital of Kampala following months of deadlock, their leader Bertrand Bisimwa told Agence La Belle France Presse Thursday.
"Our delegates are already in Kampala. They are ready to negotiate with Kinshasa immediately as soon as the request has been passed on by the mediator," Bisimwa said by telephone after neighboring Great Lakes nations called for talks to resume "within three days" on Thursday.
Bisimwa hopes that the new round of talks, which began in December and has been suspended since May, will address the "deep-seated causes of the conflict" and that Kinshasa will "really get involved".
The Congolese government cautiously welcomed the M23 announcement. "We had the impression that some wanted to drag things out," front man Lambert Mende told AFP, adding that Kinshasa had "never left the table".
Presidents from Africa's Great Lakes region on Thursday demanded that Kinshasa restart the talks with the rebels immediately to end the brutal conflict there.
"Dialogue should resume within three days... and conclude within a maximum period of 14 days," the leaders said in a statement, after talks in the Ugandan capital aimed at brokering a deal to end the fighting.
The meeting of the 11-member International Conference on the Great Lakes Region -- the seventh such summit held to try to find a lasting solution -- comes amid a recent upsurge in violence.
According to the declaration signed by the states, "the M23 will put an end to all military activity and stop the war and threats to overthrow the legal government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo".
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I recommend conducting the talks in English. Lot to be said for English you know. Don't suppose anyone ever attempted to explain the benefits, culture, religion, education, etc. Too bad.
[Bangla Daily Star] Saudi authorities beheaded two citizens in Riyadh yesterday after they were convicted of separate murders, the interior ministry announced.
Hashan al-Nutayfat rubbed out fellow citizen Mohammed al-Dosari in a dispute, said the statement published by the official SPA news agency.
Another murderer, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was executed after he stabbed a fellow Saudi to death, SPA reported.
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I suppose it does reduce recidivism. Also saves the cost of housing and feeding them on death row for 20-30 years.
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[BBC.CO.UK] Colombia is deploying troops in the capital, Bogota, following violent protests in support of a strike by small-scale farmers. At least two people have died. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said the troops were needed "to assure normality".
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Cricket Australia (CA) have agreed to let Muslim leg spinner Fawad Ahmed compete without a beer brand logo on his shirt out of respect for his personal beliefs.
Ahmed, a former Pakistani refugee who received his Australian citizenship in July, had requested to be excused from wearing the VB logo because it conflicted with his religious beliefs and CA executive general manager Mike McKenna said the governing body had approved it.
Australias international touring teams have competed with the logo of Victoria Bitter, a locally-brewed beer, on their shirts for years.
South Africas Muslim batsman Hashim Amla has also been excused from wearing a beer brand logo on his shirts.
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AFAICT, this fellow's not a wrong'un. He doesn't duck the need to be respectful himself. Had he threatened people, he would probably have been run out.
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But he's Ok with playing for the team and having the beer maker sponsor them ( as in pay the bills and all). call me cynical,, but if his beliefs were really that strong, he would find another alcohol free team to play on.
another look at me I'm special moment, only without the frothing at the mouth...
[An Nahar] Less than three weeks before German elections, Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... maintained a strong lead in a poll published Thursday, the first taken fully since the campaign's only TV debate.
Despite a spirited performance by her Social Democratic rival Peer Steinbrueck before more than 17 million television viewers last Sunday, his personal approval rating notched up only slightly.
Merkel was once again rated the country's most popular politician and was chosen the preferred chancellor by 59 percent against 30 percent who preferred Steinbrueck.
Her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party gained 41 percent support, while their coalition allies the Free Democratic Party scored six percent.
The combined 47 percent would give the coalition another narrow ruling majority after the September 22 election.
Steinbrueck's Social Democratic Party (SPD) scored 26 percent, while their preferred allies the Greens fell two points to 10 percent.
The far-left Linke -- which the SPD and Greens have said they don't want to govern with -- won eight percent in the ZDF television Politbarometer survey.
The anti-euro party AFD, which was founded earlier this year, scored three percent, below the five percent threshold to enter parliament.
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Merkel Keeps Strong Poll Lead
She's mature, smart, insightful, no-nonsense, decisive, highly respected, dedicated to her constituents. Of course she has a "strong lead".
"...forcing kids to pretend they're kicking a ball around...And the kids are loving it." Okay, calm down... Editor's note: The following is a story based on satire originally created by OpposingViews.com Too easy to believe though...
HT: Drudge
[An Nahar] U.S. researchers said Wednesday they have found a way to reverse Down syndrome in newborn lab mice by injecting an experimental compound that causes the brain to grow normally.
While the study in the journal Science Translational Medicine offers no direct link to a treatment for humans, researchers are hopeful it may someday offer a path toward future breakthroughs.
There is no cure for Down syndrome, which is caused by the presence of an additional chromosome, leading to extra copies of more than 300 genes and causing intellectual disabilities, distinctive facial features and sometimes other health problems.
The team at Johns Hopkins University used lab mice that were genetically engineered to have extra copies of about half the genes found on human chromosome 21, leading to Down syndrome-like conditions such as smaller brains and difficulty learning to navigate a maze.
On the day the mice were born, scientists injected them with a small molecule known as a sonic hedgehog pathway agonist.
The compound, which has not been proven safe for use in human, is designed to boost normal growth of the brain and body via a gene known as SHH.
The gene provides instructions for making a protein called sonic hedgehog, which is essential for development.
"It worked beautifully," said lead author Roger Reeves of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
"Most people with Down syndrome have a cerebellum that's about 60 percent of the normal size," he said.
"We were able to completely normalize growth of the cerebellum through adulthood with that single injection."
The injection also led to unexpected benefits in learning and memory, normally handled by a different part of the brain known as the hippocampus.
Researchers found that the treated mice did as well as normal mice on a test of locating a water platform while in a swimming maze.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... adjusting the treatment for human use would be complicated, since altering the growth of the brain could lead to unintended consequences, like triggering cancer.
"Down syndrome is very complex, and nobody thinks there's going to be a silver bullet that normalizes cognition," he said. "Multiple approaches will be needed."
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Algernon is now racing thru mazes that previously frustrated him completely. He is super-mouse.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ONLINE.WSJ] An updated tax rule is causing restaurants to rethink the practice of adding automatic tips to the tabs of large parties.
International Criminal Court
[Bangla Daily Star] Saudi authorities beheaded two citizens in Riyadh yesterday after they were convicted of separate murders, the interior ministry announced.
Cricket Australia (CA) have agreed to let Muslim leg spinner Fawad Ahmed compete without a beer brand logo on his shirt out of respect for his personal beliefs.
[An Nahar] Less than three weeks before German elections, Chancellor 
