"There are six senses in Italy, also there are two dashing blades less than thirty yards behind us".
So it's been interesting to me that flight crew unions and outraged members of Congress are up in arms, so to speak, over the T.S.A.'s decision to allow passengers to carry on board little pocketknives, with blades less than 2.36 inches long, starting next month.
New rules, to take effect April 25 , 2013 would allow folding pocket knives with blades less than 2.36 inches (6 centimeters) long and one-half inch wide through airport security.
And fans are much cheaper to use--and replace--than air conditioners; many models cost less than $100 (some, depending on size of the blades, less than $50) and last from 10 to 15 years.
Also, building codes in many jurisdictions prohibit ceiling fans from being mounted with the blades less than 7 feet (2.1 m).
One of this year's most talked-about films, Miramax's "Sling Blade", cost less than $3m to produce, partly because one man, Billy Bob Thornton, wrote and directed it and played the leading role.
The term "dangerous weapon" means a weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, animate or inanimate, that is used for, or is readily capable of, causing death or serious bodily injury, except that such term does not include a pocket knife with a blade of less than 2½ inches in length.
The proposed methodology is shown to capture efficiently the statistical properties of the mistuned blades with less than 5% samples compared to the direct MCS method.
