![]() ![]() Just casually Wafering in 90 degree San Diego. She’s petite, sweet, a bit quiet, but she can ride the fck out of any dirt, is an expert scuba per, caves, wrecks, all the scary stuff, is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, can quarter an elk, won Rock Cobbler in 2018 and is one of only a handful of women to Everest on a MTB four weeks before this. I emailed the race director begging for a spot for Echo, and they got her in. We had always talked about doing something epic to celebrate. Then it dawned on me that my fellow “sick b*tch” and best friend of 20 years might want to go with me to celebrate our 20 year “frienpersary”. I signed up for 2020, then after a year of pandemic cancel/reschedule/cancel again I said “screw it” to most of 2021 except this one. “It’s awful, but you’re a sick b*tch, you’ll love it.” – this from my friend who did the race in 2019, she gave me her early access entry code, and from our shared experiences at The Rock Cobbler and Kansas, I figured I knew what I was in for. The landscape has a an ominous lack of trees. There’s a reason the adorable wild Icelandic Ponies (don’t call me a pony, I’m a grown-ass-man-horse) are hearty, low to the ground and seem to have a sense of humor. Not quite all of them, there are a few off-brand Fcks left in the clearance bin, but most of the Fck store has been entirely decimated. ![]() Not the first word that one would typically hope to describe a “vacation,” but that’s not how we roll over here.ĭire. The following account was originally published on Casey's blog, NoFcks Given Gravel.ĭire. A landscape that is remote, rugged and unpredictable! ![]() The growth is evident with vast lava fields all around creating a surreal landscape. It traverses the continental rift between North America and Eurasia - a rift that grows one inch every year. But of course, ”we want to be closer to the consumer”, mhm.Casey Cohenmeyer describes her brutal experience at The Rift in Iceland. The Rift is a 200 km (125 miles) off-road bike race through the dark lava fields in the Highlands of Iceland. When Madison dropped them, it was game over. He also said they will go direct ”to be closer to the consumer”, when in reality they were impotent to build a dealer network in relevant countries, even when they had the Athertons, and they were notorious for changing sales people who played hardball on the dealers and tried to screw them over, forcing them to make preorders larger than they could sell etc. Of course, throughout the years Max said a lot of things. Otherwise, why are limiting our views, only thinking of Commencal, or, if it is Commencal, they won't do carbon? I recall the Skin days very well also, I actually was at the press conference of their launch and there was no talk about environmental impact. ![]() I am honestly wondering how it compares in quality of workmanship to a top alloy bike of today, considering there still is such a thing. It has an integrated headset and a pressfit BB and, of course, the Gradient tubing Klein was famous for. Writing all this, I am looking on my closet at a late generation Attitude Team, with a leftover frame that was still made in Chehalis, Washington, before Trek took over. How light and safe to ride can you make a Cannondale Super V? What a about a Raven? What about a first generation Scalpel in CAAD guise? A Klein Adept? A Klein Palomino? And I am sure the list doesn't end just here. Regarding the XC alloy bikes of yesteryear, we could take a peak a bit back in history. And said machining is done on the inside of the frame, where tooling access is far from what acces on the outside (facing the usual pivot locations and the BB, the headtube and the seat tube for example) is. Similar story with the twin-mast 'seat tube' and the upper rocker going driving the shock via the pivot axle, tolerancing that must be a PITA and machining probably has to be done after the frame is fully welded. Milling the insides to dimension isn't that hard, but has to be done after the fact, after the welding process, unlike with a machined/forged tube end that can be machined to size before welding. The seatstay is just a folded over tube with bosses welded in there, capturing the rocker. You can do a lot with correct design (minimise the amount of flexing for example), but you give the frame an expiration date even more so than with just general riding (all aluminium frames have a finite lifetime).Īs for the Supreme, not impossible. How many of the ultra light bikes back in the day had 29er wheels? Disc brakes? How many of them lasted half a season or a full season? And yeah, you can make a flex stay, there are a few out there (Scott being one of them and over in the tech rumors a few were mentioned fairly recently as well). ![]()
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![]() ![]() They are regarded as full-fledged characters, although they are fillers. In fact, there are 3 of these characters, here are their codes:Īs for the three above characters, initially they are placeholders for overlapping Korean characters. So, the most useful thing is an invisible space, aka an "empty string". All that remains is to send empty messages like these: Blank Character Copy Paste It is extremely difficult to create a large empty text now (although it is still possible), but the invisible emojis and the empty set sign that broke many fonts are also fixed now. There are services like, which allow you to change the text, but they do not turn it upside down, but pick up similar letters in other languages. In addition to &nsbp, social networks and messengers have cut all control and special characters – you can not turn the text upside down or display it backwards if it is not initially provided by the language. Now you can't do this – the site processes the data output correctly, and such an inscription no longer breaks the string: Earlier (in 2012), a trick was popular in “Vkontakte” – it was possible to insert a newline control character into the status, and the status was divided into 2 lines. To begin with, we will inform you of the sad news: even these encoding bugs are gradually being fixed. You may have already guessed how the invisible area as a full–fledged sign can be used - to insert a space where it is not provided. The point is that the sign should be special and should be displayed as a very small whitespace, but the encoding perceives it as a full–fledged character (like a letter or a number) and displays it as a large space. ![]() The most interesting group of bugs for us is the invisible character. It's all about the bugs of Unicode: some special (control and whitespace) characters do not behave as intended. That's enough background – now it's time to find out where the invisible character comes from. A universal UTF encoding was invented for Unicode to make it easier for designers to draw fonts (yes, for each separate encoding, designers need to draw a separate font). At the moment about 100,000 characters have been added to Unicode – so, another 90% of cells are available. Unicode can contain more than 1,000,000 characters. Since it was terribly inconvenient because of localization into several languages, a new character table, Unicode, was invented and standardized. ![]() If we take the encoding that was common in the CIS at that time, then there will be an instruction in it: "To get the letter "г" use 8x3 in ASCII" if we take the encoding that was used in Germany at that time, then it will be written: "To get the letter "β" use 8x3". They are needed in order to read characters "correctly". Encodings appeared because of regional standards. There is also an encoding – a set of instructions for decrypting this table. The table itself is like a reference information. This list is called the character code table, and the first code table is recognized was ASCII: We also give unique numbers to capital letters, signs (dot, comma, question mark and so on), whitespace and numbers – a list looms a unique identifier which is assigned to each possible character. To work with these letters without any problems, we have come up with a very simple scheme – we take the letters in order and give them unique numbers: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3 and so on. This is not convenient for people, because we are still more used to letters that are formed into words, sentences, paragraphs, and so on. Any computer at the hardware level understands 2 characters: 0 and 1. Let's start the explanation with tables of characters and encodings. If you want a more detailed answer, below we will tell you where the invisible text comes from, how to get and use it, why you should not use it in the code and what other characters there are. You can copy it from the brackets and use: "ㅤㅤㅤ". Where is the magic here? If you want a short answer – they insert the "broken" character u+3164. At the same time, you could see that other people literally send you an empty space, and they succeed. If you have ever tried to send an empty message in Telegram, then you most likely found out that neither the space sign nor the newline sign (Alt + Enter) are sent - the input field is simply cleared. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (In the 1831 edition, the more popular version and the one used in this Outline, the Frankensteins adopt Elizabeth from another family). Petersburgh (Russia) Plans to go where no man has gone before Not afraid of: Ice/storms it should be summer-like at N. The Preface also reveals Shelleys aim in writing the. Monday, FebruFrankenstein notes Chapters 1 - 5 Frankenstein The Letters through Chapter Two Letters of Robert Walton to Margaret Saville Letter One: December St. Frankenstein was the only one of the stories to be completed. One rainy night, Shelley and her friends challenged each other to write ghost stories. Shelley spent the summer of 1816 near Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the novel takes place. Robinson, one of the worlds preeminent authorities on the textwith annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The Preface explains the origin of the novel. Some key differences exist between the editions, namely that in the first edition, Elizabeth is Alphonse's niece and, therefore, Victor's cousin. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscriptmeticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. She revised the novel and published it under her real name in 1831. Shelley published the first edition of Frankenstein anonymously, perhaps due to her concern that such a grim and violent tale would not be well received by her audience if they knew her gender. Walton has made plans to sail to the North Pole, believing it to be a place of 'eternal light,' warmth, and beauty that surpasses all others. Petersburg, Russia, sometime in the 18th century. Frankenstein is a frame tale the novel opens with four letters addressed from Robert. ' I had begun my adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades. This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley. Everything you need for every book you read. Detailed Summary Frankenstein opens with Robert Walton's four letters to his sister Margaret Saville, the first of which is dated December 11th from St. Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony let him feel the despair that now torments me. She began writing the story that became Frankenstein the next morning. Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Frankenstein can help. The blue lake and snow-clad mountainsthey never change and I think our placid home and our. A few nights later, she had a dream in which she envisioned "the pale student of unhallowed arts" kneeling beside his creation-the monster. ' Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us. ![]() On a stormy night in June of 1816, Mary Shelley, her husband, and a few other companions, including the Romantic poet Lord Byron, decided to try to write their own ghost stories, but Shelley couldn't come up with any ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Below, we discuss some keystone tools and their functionalities.ġ. If you can’t find a specific tool, you can always click the three dots at the bottom of the toolbar or click and hold on tool icons to display an expanded list of tools. The default toolbar contains most of the tools you’ll likely use when creating figures. Illustrator comes pre-equipped with a massive library of tools that enable you to draw just about anything that comes to mind. The workspace will initially be empty (we included an example figure to help highlight some features and tools) and will provide a blank canvas for your imagination to run free! (Note: if you accidentally delete your toolbar, you can always recover it by going to Window > Workspace > Reset Essentials). Selecting an artboard takes you to where the drawing magic happens: the Illustrator workspace. You can always start a new document and reselect from preset artboards by navigating to File > New. Other units are also available just use the dropdown menu under “Preset Details” when selecting your artboard size. For example, you can create custom preset artboards for PowerPoint slides (widescreen slides are 960px by 540px) or A4 paper (594 by 846px), so that you are always ready to make figures for a presentation or manuscript! Illustrator uses pixels (px) as the default unit of measurement for the artboard – for reference, 1px = 1/72 of an inch. You can see additional preset artboards by selecting “More Presets” – this will also give you the chance to create your own custom artboard. ![]() An Illustrator artboard is essentially a blank canvas in the shape and size of your choice. This opening page will display recent figures you’ve worked on in Illustrator, which should be empty for first-time users, and allow you to select the type of artboard 3 you want to work with. Opening the Illustrator application after installation will welcome you with the screen below. To get started, you will need to sign into the Adobe website using your MIT credentials, then download and install Illustrator.
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