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The most prevalent mode of transmission is by sexual contact; infection by other means is possible, but its occurrence depends upon an open wound or lesion to permit invasion of the organisms. A person with syphilitic sores has an increased chance of contracting AIDS from an infected partner. An infected mother can transmit the disease to her fetus; 25% of such pregnancies end in stillbirth or death of the infant, and another 40% to 70% will result in a baby with congenital syphilis, which, if untreated, can progress to late-stage syphilis and cause serious damage to the brain and other organs.
The development of syphilis occurs in four stages. The primary stage is the appearance of a painless chancre at the site of infection (often internal) about 10 days to 3 months after contact. There are no other symptoms, and the chancre disappears with or without treatment.
The secondary stage usually begins 3 to 6 weeks after the chancre with a rash over all or part of the body. Active bacteria are present in the sores of the rash. Headache, fever, fatigue, sore throat, patchy hair loss, and enlarged lymph nodes may be present. The signs of the secondary stage will disappear with or without treatment, but may reappear over the next 1 to 2 years.
Untreated syphilis then goes into a noncontagious latent period. Some people will have no more symptoms, but about one third will progress to tertiary syphilis, with widespread damage to the heart, brain, eyes, nervous system, bones, and joints. Late syphilis can result in mental illness, blindness, severe damage to the heart and aorta, and death.
Neurosyphilis, infection of the nervous system, frequently occurs in the early stages in untreated patients. There may be no symptoms, mild headache, or severe consequences such as seizures and stroke. Its treatment and course are complicated by concomitant HIV infection.
Diagnosis is made by symptoms, blood tests (required by many states before issuing marriage licenses), and microscopic identification of the bacterium. Until the advent of penicillin in the 1940s, treatment for syphilis was with mercury, arsenic, and bismuth. Penicillin is the antibiotic of choice for all stages of syphilis treatment, but penicillin-resistant organisms have complicated treatment of the disease. Even late-stage syphilis can be cured, but damage that has already occurred cannot be reversed. Despite available treatment, the incidence of syphilis in the United States was on the rise until 1990. Since then it has declined sharply, from 20 to just 2.1 cases per 100,000 people from 1990 to 2000. Federal health experts have attributed the decline to prevention efforts, including those intended to curtail the spread of AIDS. Since 2000, however, the number of syphilis cases has risen.
See also Ehrlich, Paul.
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum pallidum. The route of transmission of syphilis is almost always through sexual contact, although there are examples of congenital syphilis via transmission from mother to child in utero.
The signs and symptoms of syphilis are numerous; before the advent of serological testing, precise diagnosis was very difficult. In fact, the disease was dubbed the "Great Imitator" because it was often confused with other diseases, particularly in its tertiary stage.
Syphilis can generally be treated with antibiotics, including penicillin. The oldest and still most effective method is an intramuscular injection of benzathine penicillin. If left untreated, syphilis can damage the heart, aorta, brain, eyes, and bones. In some cases these effects can be fatal. In 1998, the complete genetic sequence of T. pallidum was published, which may aid understanding of the pathogenesis of syphilis.
Until that time, as Fracastoro notes, syphilis had been called the "French disease" in Italy and Germany, and the "Italian disease" in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the "Spanish disease", the Russians called it the "Polish disease", the Turks called it the "Christian disease" or "Frank disease" (frengi) and the Tahitians called it the "British disease". These 'national' names are due to the disease often being present among invading armies or sea crews, due to the high incidence of unprotected sexual contact with prostitutes. It was also called "Great pox" in the 16th century to distinguish it from smallpox. In its early stages, the Great pox produced a rash similar to smallpox (also known as variola). However, the name is misleading, as smallpox was a far more deadly disease. The terms " Lues" (or Lues venerea, Latin for "venereal plague") and "Cupid's disease" have also been used to refer to syphilis. In Scotland, Syphilis was referred to as the Grandgore. The ulcers suffered by British soldiers in Portugal were termed "The Black Lion".
The pre-Columbian theory holds that syphilis symptoms are described by Hippocrates in Classical Greece in its venereal/tertiary form. There are other suspected syphilis findings for pre-contact Europe, including at a 13–14th century Augustinian friary in the northeastern English port of Kingston upon Hull. This city's maritime history is thought to have been a key factor in the transmission of syphilis. Carbon dated skeletons of monks who lived in the friary showed bone lesions typical of venereal syphilis. Skeletons in pre-Columbus Pompeii and Metaponto in Italy demonstrating signs of congenital syphilis have also been found, although the interpretation of the evidence has been disputed.
The Columbian Exchange theory holds that syphilis was a New World disease brought back by Columbus and Martin Alonzo Pinzon. Supporters of the Columbian theory find syphilis lesions on pre-contact Native Americans and cite documentary evidence linking crewmen of Columbus's voyages to the Naples outbreak of 1494. A recent study of the genes of venereal syphilis and related bacteria has supported this theory, by locating an intermediate disease between yaws and syphilis in Guyana, South America.
Historian Alfred Crosby suggests both theories are correct in a combination theory. Crosby's argument is built on the similarities of the species of bacteria which cause yaws and syphilis. The bacterium that causes syphilis belongs to the same phylogenetic family as the bacteria which cause yaws and several other diseases. Despite a tradition of assigning yaws's homeland to sub-Saharan Africa, Crosby notes that there is no unequivocal evidence of any related disease being present in pre-Columbian Europe, Africa, or Asia, while there is indisputable evidence of syphilis' presence in the pre-Columbian Americas. Conceding this point, Crosby writes, "It is not impossible that the organisms causing treponematosis arrived from America in the 1490s...and evolved into both venereal and non-venereal syphilis and yaws."
However, Crosby considers it somewhat more likely that a highly contagious ancestral species of bacteria moved with early human ancestors across the land bridge of the Bering Straits many thousands of years ago without dying out in the original source population. He hypothesizes that "the differing ecological conditions produced different types of treponematosis and, in time, closely related but different diseases." Thus, a weak, non-syphilitic bacteria survived in the Old World to eventually give rise to yaws or bejel, while a New World version evolved into the milder pinta and the more aggressive syphilis.
Going further than Crosby in arguing for worldwide incidence of syphilis prior to Columbus, Douglas Owsley, the famed physical anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution, has written that many medieval European cases of leprosy, colloquially called "lepra," were actually cases of syphilis. Although folklore claimed that syphilis was unknown in Europe until the return of the diseased sailors of the Columbian voyages, Owsley noted that a Chinese medical case recorded in 2637 B.C.E. seems to be describing a case of syphilis, and that a European writer who recorded an outbreak of "lepra" in 1303 C.E. is "clearly describing syphilis".
While working at the Rockefeller University (then called the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) in 1913, Hideyo Noguchi, a Japanese scientist, demonstrated the presence of the spirochete Treponema pallidum in the brain of a progressive paralysis patient, proving that Treponema pallidum was the cause of the disease. Prior to Noguchi's discovery, syphilis had been a burden to humanity in many lands, sometimes misdiagnosed and often misattributed to political enemies.
Some famous historical personages, including Franz Schubert, Charles VIII of France, Hernando Cortez of Spain, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Ivan the Terrible, have been alleged to have had syphilis. Guy de Maupassant and possibly Friedrich Nietzsche are thought to have been driven insane and ultimately killed by the disease. Al Capone contracted syphilis as a young man. By the time he was incarcerated at Alcatraz, it reached its third stage, neurosyphilis, leaving him confused and disoriented. Syphilis led to the death of artist Edouard Manet and artist Paul Gauguin is also said to have suffered from syphilis. Composers who succumbed to syphilis include Hugo Wolf, Frederick Delius, Scott Joplin, Gaetano Donizetti, and possibly Franz Schubert and Niccolò Paganini. The insanity caused by late-stage syphilis was once one of the more common forms of dementia; this was known as the general paresis of the insane. One suspected example is the insanity of noted composer Robert Schumann, although the precise cause of his death is still disputed by scholars.
The Russian author Leo Tolstoy suffered from syphilis during his youth, which was treated using arsenic treatment.
A recent article in the European Journal of Neurology (June 2004) hypothesized that the founder of communism in Russia, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, died of neurosyphilis.
Karen Blixen, the author of Out of Africa, contracted syphilis from her husband while living in Africa. He had contracted the disease from an African woman with whom he had been unfaithful. After having undergone treatment in Denmark, she returned to Africa. Blixen was unable to have children.
The first well-recorded European outbreak of what is now known as syphilis occurred in 1494 when it broke out among French troops besieging Naples. The French may have caught it via Spanish mercenaries serving King Charles of France in that siege. From this centre, the disease swept across Europe. As Jared Diamond describes it, "when syphilis was first definitely recorded in Europe in 1495, its pustules often covered the body from the head to the knees, caused flesh to fall from people's faces, and led to death within a few months." In addition, the disease was more frequently fatal than it is today. Diamond concludes that "by 1546, the disease had evolved into the disease with the symptoms so well known to us today." The epidemiology of this first syphilis epidemic shows that the disease was either new or a mutated form of an earlier disease.
Primary syphilis is typically acquired via direct sexual contact with the infectious lesions of a person with syphilis. Approximately 10-90 days after the initial exposure (average 21 days), a skin lesion appears at the point of contact, which is usually the genitalia, but can be anywhere on the body. This lesion, called a chancre, is a firm, painless skin ulceration localized at the point of initial exposure to the spirochete, often on the penis, vagina or rectum. Rarely, there may be multiple lesions present although typically only one lesion is seen. The lesion may persist for 4 to 6 weeks and usually heals spontaneously. Local lymph node swelling can occur. During the initial incubation period, individuals are otherwise asymptomatic. As a result, many patients do not seek medical care immediately.
Syphilis can not be contracted through toilet seats, daily activities, hot tubs, or sharing eating utensils or clothing.
Tertiary syphilis usually occurs 1-10 years after the initial infection, though in some cases it can take up to 50 years. This stage is characterized by the formation of gummas which are soft, tumor-like balls of inflammation known as granulomas. The granulomas are chronic and represent an inability of the immune system to completely clear the organism. They may appear almost anywhere in the body including in the skeleton. The gummas produce a chronic inflammatory state in the body with mass-effects upon the local anatomy. Other characteristics of untreated tertiary syphilis include neuropathic joint disease, which is a degeneration of joint surfaces resulting from loss of sensation and fine position sense (proprioception). The more severe manifestations include neurosyphilis and cardiovascular syphilis. In a study of untreated syphilis, 10% of patients developed cardiovascular syphilis, 16% had gumma formation, and 7% had neurosyphilis.
Neurological complications at this stage can be diverse. In some patients, manifestations include generalized paresis of the insane which results in personality changes, changes in emotional affect, hyperactive reflexes, and Argyll-Robertson pupil. This is a diagnostic sign in which the small and irregular pupils constrict in response to focusing the eyes, but not to light. Tabes dorsalis, also known as locomotor ataxia, a disorder of the spinal cord, often results in a characteristic shuffling gait. See below for more information about neurosyphilis.
Cardiovascular complications include syphilitic aortitis, aortic aneurysm, aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva, and aortic regurgitation. Syphilis infects the ascending aorta causing dilation and aortic regurgitation. This can be heard with a stethoscope as a heart murmur. The course can be insidious, and heart failure may be the presenting sign after years of disease. The infection can also occur in the coronary arteries and cause narrowing of the vessels. Syphilitic aortitis can cause de Musset's sign, a bobbing of the head that de Musset first noted in Parisian prostitutes.
Neurosyphilis is now most common in patients with HIV infection. Reports of neurosyphilis in HIV-infected persons are similar to cases reported before the HIV pandemic. The precise extent and significance of neurologic involvement in HIV-infected patients with syphilis, reflected by either laboratory or clinical criteria, have not been well characterized. Furthermore, the alteration of host immunosuppression by antiretroviral therapy in recent years has further complicated such characterization.
Approximately 35% to 40% of persons with secondary syphilis have asymptomatic central nervous system (CNS) involvement, as demonstrated by any of these on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) examination:
There are four clinical types of neurosyphilis:
The late forms of neurosyphilis (tabes dorsalis and general paresis) are seen much less frequently since the advent of antibiotics. The most common manifestations today are asymptomatic or symptomatic meningitis. Acute syphilitic meningitis usually occurs within the first year of infection; 10% of cases are diagnosed at the time of the secondary rash. Patients present with headache, meningeal irritation, and cranial nerve abnormalities, especially the optic nerve, facial nerve, and the vestibulocochlear nerve. Rarely, it affects the spine instead of the brain, causing focal muscle weakness or sensory loss.
Meningovascular syphilis occurs a few months to 10 years (average, 7 years) after the primary syphilis infection. Meningovascular syphilis can be associated with prodromal symptoms lasting weeks to months before focal deficits are identifiable. Prodromal symptoms include unilateral numbness, paresthesias, upper or lower extremity weakness, headache, vertigo, insomnia, and psychiatric abnormalities such as personality changes. The focal deficits initially are intermittent or progress slowly over a few days. However, it can also present as an infectious arteritis and cause an ischemic stroke, an outcome more commonly seen in younger patients. Angiography may be able to demonstrate areas of narrowing in the blood vessels or total occlusion.
General paresis, otherwise known as general paresis of the insane, is a severe manifestation of neurosyphilis. It is a chronic dementia which ultimately results in death in as little as 2-3 years. Patients generally have progressive personality changes, memory loss, and poor judgment. More rarely, they can have psychosis, depression, or mania. Imaging of the brain usually shows atrophy.
Present-day syphilis screening tests, such as the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) tests are cheap and fast but not completely specific, as many other conditions can cause a positive result. These tests are routinely used to screen blood donors. Notably, the spirochete that causes syphilis does not survive the conditions used to store blood and the number of transfusion transmitted cases of syphilis is minuscule, but the test is used to identify donors that might have contracted HIV from high risk sexual activity. The requirement to test for syphilis has been challenged due to the vast improvements in HIV testing. False positives on the rapid tests can be seen in viral infections (Epstein-Barr, hepatitis, varicella, measles), lymphoma, tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas Disease, endocarditis, connective tissue disease, pregnancy, intravenous drug abuse, or contamination. As a result, these two screening tests should always be followed up by a more specific treponemal test. Tests based on monoclonal antibodies and immunofluorescence, including Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay (TPHA) and Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody Absorption (FTA-ABS) are more specific and more expensive. Unfortunately, false positives can still occur in related treponomal infections such as yaws and pinta. Tests based on enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays are also used to confirm the results of simpler screening tests for syphilis.
Neurosyphilis is diagnosed by finding high numbers of leukocytes in the CSF or abnormally high protein concentration in the setting of syphilis infection. In addition, CSF should be tested with the VDRL test although some advocate using the FTA-ABS test to improve sensitivity. There is anecdotal evidence that the incidence of neurosyphilis is higher in HIV patients, and some have recommended that all HIV-positive patients with syphilis should have a lumbar puncture to look for asymptomatic neurosyphilis.
Individuals sexually exposed to a person with primary, secondary, or early latent syphilis within 90 days preceding the diagnosis should be assumed to be infected and treated for syphilis, even if they are currently seronegative. If the exposure was more than 90 days before the diagnosis, presumptive treatment is recommended if serologic testing is not immediately available or if follow-up is uncertain. Patients with syphilis of unknown duration and nontreponemal serologic titers ≥1:32 may be considered as having early syphilis for purposes of partner notification and presumptive treatment of sex partners. Long-term sex partners of patients with late syphilis should be evaluated clinically and serologically and treated appropriately. All patients with syphilis should be tested for HIV. Patient education is important as well.
As the disease became better understood, more effective treatments were found. The first antibiotic to be used for treating disease was the arsenic-containing drug Salvarsan, developed in 1908 by Sahachiro Hata while working in the laboratory of Nobel prize winner Paul Ehrlich. This was later modified into Neosalvarsan. Unfortunately, these drugs were not 100% effective, especially in late disease. It had been observed that some who develop high fevers could be cured of syphilis. Thus, for a brief time malaria was used as treatment for tertiary syphilis because it produced prolonged and high fevers. This was considered an acceptable risk because the malaria could later be treated with quinine which was available at that time. This discovery was championed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who won the 1927 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in this area. Malaria as a treatment for syphilis was usually reserved for late disease, especially neurosyphilis, and then followed by either Salvarsan or Neosalvarsan as adjuvant therapy. These treatments were finally rendered obsolete by the discovery of penicillin, and its widespread manufacture after World War II allowed syphilis to be effectively and reliably cured.
Non-pregnant individuals who have severe allergic reactions to penicillin (e.g., anaphylaxis) may be effectively treated with oral tetracycline or doxycycline although data to support this is limited. Ceftriaxone may be considered as an alternative therapy, although the optimal dose is not yet defined. However, cross-reactions in penicillin-allergic patients with cephalosporins such as ceftriaxone are possible. Azithromycin was suggested as an alternative. However, there have been reports of treatment failure due to resistance in some areas. If compliance and follow-up cannot be ensured, the CDC recommends desensitization with penicillin followed by penicillin treatment. All pregnant women with syphilis should be desensitized and treated with penicillin. Follow-up includes clinical evaluation at 1 to 2 weeks followed by clinical and serologic evaluation at 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 months after treatment.
Azithromycin has been used to treat syphilis in the past because of easy once-only dosing. However, in one study in San Francisco, azithromycin-resistance rates in syphilis, which were 0% in 2000, were 56% by 2004.
HIV-infected patients with early syphilis may have a higher risk of neurological complications and a higher rate of treatment failure with currently recommended regimens. The magnitude of these risks, however, although not precisely defined, is probably small. Skin testing or desensitization is recommended in latent syphilis and neurosyphilis in other patients with HIV infection.
The study began in 1932 using a group of 600 black sharecroppers. Of these 600, 399 of the men had the disease and 201 were uninfected control patients. The PHS stated at first that treatment was supposed to be a part of the study, but they were unable to produce any useful data. It was then discovered that the PHS had decided to leave the men untreated and follow the course of the disease to these men's eventual deaths. They thought they were receiving experimental treatment for "bad blood" in exchange for free meals and a $50 death benefit. However, the study was designed to measure the progression of untreated syphilis and to determine whether syphilis caused cardiovascular damage more often than neurological damage, and to determine if the natural course of the disease was different in black men versus white men. By 1947 penicillin had become the standard treatment of syphilis. The men were never advised that they had syphilis, nor were they offered a treatment including Salvarsan or the other arsenical drugs that were in use at the beginning of the study.
The original study was meant to last six to nine months, but continued for 40 years, ending in 1972, long after forty wives and nineteen children had been infected, and many of the men had died of syphilis. Twenty-eight men died directly from syphilis, and one hundred from other complications, during the study. The study ended because of a story printed in the Washington Star. A class-action lawsuit was then filed against the federal government for the study. This lawsuit was settled out of court and the living subjects and their descendants were awarded a total of ten million dollars. After the settlement was awarded, the government passed the National Research Act, which required the government to review and approve all medical studies involving human subjects.
The artist Jan van der Straet, also known as Johannes Stradanus or simply Stradanus, painted a scene of a wealthy man receiving treatment of syphilis with the tropical wood guaiacum sometime around 1580. The title of the work is "Preparation and Use of Guayaco for Treating Syphilis." That the artist chose to include this image in a series of works celebrating the New World indicates how important a "cure" (however ineffective) for syphilis was to the European elite at that time. The richly colored and detailed work depicts four servants preparing the concoction while a physician looks on, hiding something behind his back while the hapless patient drinks.
The Norwegian, Edvard Munch painted "The sins of the father", a portrayal of a horrified woman with her baby, covered in a rash and with a deformed face lying on a cloth across her knees. This was to portray congenital syphilis, presumably common at the time.
There are references to syphilis in William Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure, particularly in a number of early passages spoken by the character Lucio. For example, Lucio says "[...] thy bones are hollow"; this is a reference to the brittleness of bones engendered by the use of mercury which was then widely used to treat syphilis.
In Shakespeare's play Othello, the clown at the beginning of Act III makes jest of Cassio, who is leading a musician troupe for Othello, by asking him if he had just arrived from Naples and playing with his nose. (Alluding to the reputation of Naples of being a likely place to contract syphilis, which eats away at the bridge of the nose.)
It has been suggested that the main character in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" may have been infected with neurosyphilis, due to his strange obsessions and apparent insanity.
Francisco de Quevedo puns in his Buscón about a nose entre Roma y Francia meaning both "between Rome and France" and "between dull and eaten by the French illness".
Jonathan Swift's poetry mentions syphilis as a condition of prostitution which reaches the highest ranks of society. See, for example, "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed" and "The Progress of Beauty".
William Hogarth's works frequently show his subject's infection with syphilis. Two examples are A Harlot's Progress and Marriage à-la-mode. In both instances it is used to indicate the moral profligacy of the infected.
Some critics have argued that the character of Edward Rochester's first wife, Bertha, in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, suffers from the advanced stages of syphilitic infection, general paresis of the insane, and point to corroborative evidence within the text to substantiate this view.
The novel Candide by Voltaire describes Candide's mentor and teacher, Pangloss, as having contracted syphilis from a maidservant he slept with; the syphilis has ravaged and deformed his body. Pangloss explains to Candide that syphilis is 'necessary in the best of worlds' because the line of infection - which he explains - leads back to Christopher Columbus. If Columbus had not sailed to America and brought back syphilis, Pangloss states, the Europeans would not have been able to enjoy 'New World wonders' such as chocolate. (One of the purposes of the novel was to satirize Leibniz's philosophy as Pangloss's disingenuous rose-tinted viewpoint.) Pangloss eventually loses an eye and an ear to the syphilis before he is cured.
Also, in Charles Dickens' novel Tale of Two Cities, references are made that allude to the main character, Sydney Carton, having syphilis.
In Eça de Queiroz's novel written in 1870, "The Mystery of the Sintra Road", some of the characters have syphilis, and it plays an important role in the plot of a recent movie adaptation.
Henrik Ibsen's once-controversial play Ghosts has a young man who is suffering from a mysterious unnamed disease. Though it is never named, the events of the play make it plain that this is syphilis, an inheritance from his dissolute father. However, the young man's mother remains unaffected - this is because it is possible for a woman to carry syphillis and transmit it to her child in the womb without exhibiting any noticeable symptoms. Dr. Rank in Ibsen's play A Doll's House also has inherited syphilis.
Thomas Disch in his novel Camp Concentration describe a fictional strain of syphilis that enhances intelligence but is lethal.
In Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus, the Faust character, Adrian Leverkühn, acquires his genius for musical composition from the neurological effects of syphilis.
In Dick Francis' novel, Bonecrack the character Enso Rivera is suffering from megalomania caused by syphilis.
Neal Stephenson's trilogy The Baroque Cycle has multiple characters and historical figures who have syphilis, most notably James II of England and Jack Shaftoe; the latter is cured of the disease by running a high fever.
In Leonard Cohen's second novel Beautiful Losers, the character F. is described in detail as having the terminal stages of syphilis.
In Christina Garcia's novel "Dreaming in Cuban," Felica contracts syphilis from her unfaithful husband. The syphilis and her family history lead Felica down a path towards insanity.
In Ken Follett's novel "A Dangerous Fortune," the wealthy Edward Pilaster contracts syphilis from his frequency of using brothels. When Edward's cohort Micky Miranda finds out, it looks as though his diabolical plans may have a snag.
In Joshilyn Jackson's novel "Between, Georgia", the protagonist Nonny Frett suffers from syphilis from a cheating husband she can't seem to rid herself of.


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Residents living in close proximity to the Sand Land facility on Millstone Road in Noyac have been complaining for years that the sand and gravel processing site emits acrimonious noises, saying that the sounds that come from machines go beyond the bounds of what the site is zoned for.
However, according to John Tintle, who owns Wainscott Sand and Gravel Corporation, which runs the facility, these reports may not be accurate.
"The other day, I was 20 feet away from a pick-up truck and about 1,500 feet away from the crusher… I could hear the pick-up trick over the crusher," Tintle recalled.
In fact, at last week's Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) meeting on January 19, Tintle pushed to take this a step further, adding an official assessment of the noise situation to the public record.
"A noise study's never been done," he said. "I would like to conduct one."
This newest bit of evidence which is proposed to be added to the case involving the ongoing feud between Sand Land Corp. and those living near the site is expected to take months to complete, although the ZBA has tentatively scheduled to revisit the issue at its meeting on March 15.
The Southampton ZBA is tasked with addressing a formal appeal made by Noyac residents Joseph Phair, Margot Gilman and Amelia Doggwiler against a decision made by the Southampton Town Building Inspector, Michael Benincasa, last summer. Benincasa ruled in July that Sand Land is "pre-existing nonconforming" and thus is legally allowed to operate a sand mine complete with processing capabilities, and the storage and sale of mulch created from trees, brush, stumps and leaves processed onsite.
According to Zachary Murdoch, who is representing the plaintiffs, the Sand Land facility is currently engaged in activities that violate zoning code.
"What was determined 'pre-existing nonconforming' did not occur until 15 years after the upzoning," Murdoch said.
The issue is centered in part on the town code, which was adopted in 1957. The plaintiffs argue that the Sand Land Corporation did not exist in its current form (i.e. processing mulch) prior to 1957, which would prohibit it from being "pre-existing, nonconforming."
Lawyer David Eagan, who is representing David Tintle of Sand Land Corp., on the other hand, contends that the business did in fact exist prior to the adoption of the town code in 1957 and is thus doing nothing illegal.
In fact, Eagan further argues that because zoning laws changed again in 1972 — effectively creating a residential district in that area — there is even more evidence to bolster his position that Sand Land, in its current state, is "pre-existing nonconforming."
"I think the very broad, broad definition of 'mining activities' and what was going on on the site… is a very key piece of evidence in our favor," Eagan stated last week.
Last Thursday, Tintle said he would personally finance such a noise study, and at the request of Zoning Board member Keith Tuthill, he said the study would include assessments of the noise generated on the site from several different locations, even taking into account different wind directions.
"The other thing I'll do for you," Tintle added, "I'll have them break it down by machine."
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Award-winning author, clarinetist and former Austin music critic to speak at St. Edward's University
McCutchan is the author of Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute, The Muse That Sings: Composers Speak About the Creative Process, and a wide range of published work in newspapers, magazines and literary journals. A visiting associate professor of writing and music at the University of Wyoming,...
February 13, 2002
Award-winning author, clarinetist and former Austin music critic to speak at St. Edward's University
AUSTIN - Ann McCutchan, award-winning author, clarinetist and former Austin music critic, will speak at St. Edward's University on Thurs., Feb. 21, at 8 p.m. in the Jones Auditorium of the Ragsdale Center on campus. St. Edward's University is an independent Catholic liberal arts university of 4,...
January 24, 2002
St. Edward's University is pleased to present Claude Rie: March Series, an exhibition featuring 30 black and white photographs of barn swallows in flight. The exhibition will be on display Feb. 1 – 24 in the Fine Arts Center Gallery on campus. Rie's photographs have been included in many...
January 22, 2002
Brother John Paige, dean of the School of Education at St. Edward's University in Austin, was elected to the board of directors of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). His election was announced at SEDL headquarters in Austin following the regular fall meeting of the board...
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SLU Orthopaedic Surgeon Leads the Way for Next Generation
ST. LOUIS -- As an educator, Lisa Cannada, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Saint Louis University, is committed to helping future physicians learn to navigate the world of medicine. As a part of that mission, she is an avid proponent of offering support to women, who continue to choose surgery residencies in growing numbers.
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This year she is serving as president of the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society, a 600 member support and networking group for women orthopaedic surgeons. The group was founded to help women thrive in an orthopaedic surgery career. In addition to supporting practicing surgeons, the society offers mentorship programs for medical students, residents and fellows, matching up participants with a mentor in their area of interest or sub-specialty.
Under Cannada's guidance, the society is offering its first program for leadership training for women in orthopaedic surgery. Cannada also co-edited the society's Guide for Women in Orthopaedic Surgery, a handbook of advice for students as they go through their medical training.
"It's so important to have a role model to offer good advice as you begin your career," said Cannada. "Being a mentor is something I'm committed to, here at SLU and through my role at the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society."
Cannada recently also was named to Becker's Orthopaedic and Spine's list of "70 Female Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon Leaders to Know."
In addition to patient care and education, Cannada's work includes research. At SLU, she is the principle investigator for a Department of Defense-funded consortium that works to improve treatment for wounded service members and civilians. Cannada is leading a study examining bone grafts.
Established in 1836, Saint Louis University School of Medicine has the distinction of awarding the first medical degree west of the Mississippi River. The school educates physicians and biomedical scientists, conducts medical research, and provides health care on a local, national and international level. Research at the school seeks new cures and treatments in five key areas: cancer, liver disease, heart/lung disease, aging and brain disease, and infectious disease.


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Members of the 2004 BarbieSM Fan Club received this doll as part of their membership. Designed by Katiana Jimenez, Hollywood Divine™ Barbie® doll wears a black taffeta and pleated chiffon gown with silvery accents. Funky accessories include a black evening bag and heels, silvery wire-wrap necklace with rhinestone, and matching earrings.
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Asleep At Heaven's Gate
Clay and Quinn's lives hang in the balance.
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Asleep At Heaven's Gate
Clay and Quinn's lives hang in the balance.
I Can't See You, But I Know You're There
Clay and Quinn fight to live. Brooke receives more bad news.
The Space in Between
Nathan struggles to make a decision about his career.
We All Fall Down
Brooke faces a moral dilemma.
Nobody Taught Us To Quit
Chase (STEPHEN COLETTI) discovers a secret about Alex.
Not Afraid
Halloween nears. Brooke and Julian get a surprise visitor.
Luck Be A Lady
Nathan feels like he's in over his head.
Mouthful of Diamonds
Nathan's career moves forward. TONY GONZALEZ cameos.
Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace
The gang gathers for Thanksgiving with friends and family.
Lists, Plans
Haley sets up a show at Tric with recording artist KID CUDI.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
A storm hits Tree Hill, putting everyone's life in danger.
The Drinks We Drank Last Night
The girls try to recall their night. DAVE NAVARRO appears.
The Other Half of Me
Brooke and Julian's wedding day is finally here.
Holding Out For A Hero
Every town needs a hero.
Valentine's Day Is Over
The couples of Tree Hill celebrate Valentine's Day.
I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
Brooke and Julian pursue adoption. LEVEN RAMBIN guest stars.
The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get
Nathan and Haley prepare for their new arrival.
Quiet Little Voices
The gang gathers as Haley and Nathan's new baby is born.
Where Not To Look For Freedom
Nathan tries to expose Professor Kellerman (PETER RIEGERT).
The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
Quinn gets an offer to shoot in Puerto Rico.
Flightless Bird, American Mouth
The girls head to Puerto Rico.
This Is My House, This Is My Home
Season finale: Brooke and Haley prepare to re-open the cafe
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King Scholars Attend Second Annual Legacy Retreat
Approximately 40 first-year Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars at Saint Louis University participated in the second annual King Scholar Legacy Retreat in Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 9 and 10.
The mission of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Program is to provide educational, social and services experiences that develop each King Scholars' potential to advocate for social justice on campus and in the larger community.
The retreat focused on leadership development, addressing social justice issues and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. The weekend began with team-building experiences, allowing the scholars to interact in small discussion groups.
Scholars had the opportunity to listen to a lecture given by Katrina Thompson, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and African-American studies, about the life and legacy of King.
The presentation focused on King's development as a scholar and activist during the American civil rights movement, as well as his personal history and commitment to the service of his community.
"Look around you," Thompson told the scholars. "All of you are here because of what Dr. King has done in his life. You are the legacy of Dr. King."
Following the discussion, scholars and retreat staff set out to see the sights of Memphis' famous Beale Street and eat at one of the local soul food restaurants.
The next day, Thompson led the scholars in a social justice leadership exercise in which four groups each chose a social justice issue to address and developed a plan for addressing that issue. The scholars were encouraged to consider financial and other factors that will affect how they are able to address their chosen social issue. Each group had the opportunity to present and answer questions about their plan.
The scholars then toured the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the Lorraine Motel where King was assassinated in 1968. The tour covered nearly 400 years of African-American history, beginning with the first Africans to come to the United States and culminating in the Poor People's Campaign, with which King was involved during the last few years of his life.
Throughout the year, freshmen scholarship recipients will participate in monthly gatherings, cultural programs and service opportunities.
The King Scholarship committee urged students to spend the remainder of their time at SLU focusing on servant leadership, inclusiveness and engagement with the St. Louis community.
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Dorothy Jean Hall, 67, of Blytheville, died Sunday, March 18, 2012, at her home.
Born in Longview to Author Mancil and Mary Presley Odom, she was a member of North Tenth Street Baptist Church and a former employee of ACCO.
Dorothy loved her children and grandchildren, and loved to cook and feed her family. She enjoyed watching hummingbirds and going to the senior citizens' center.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Ralph Hall.
She is survived by her children, Teresa Williamson of Ackerman, Charles Hall and wife Sherry of Sturgis and Randy Hall and wife Nancy of Gosnell, Ark; brothers and sisters, Jerry Odom, Betty Brown, Gwen Ray and Debbie Odom, all of Bradley, William Odom of Ackerman, Author M. Odom of Eupora, Paul Odom, Hilbert Bush, Stellla Sanders and Charlotte Anderson, all of Starkville, Cornelia Robuck of Kosciusko and Vickie Lyle of Mendenhall; grandchildren, Brittany Bramme, Robert Williamson, Samuel Williamson, Allison, Hillary, Jessie Hall, Steven Victory and Keri McDaniel; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 2012, at Friendship Baptist Church in Sturgis with Rev. Tim Buchanan officiating.
Burial will follow in Craig Springs Cemetery in Sturgis.
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, November 17, 12 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000) -- Tulsa, Oklahoma. Television: Fox Sports Network. Home Record: UCF 4-1, Tulsa 5-0. Away Record: UCF 4-1, Tulsa 3-2. Neutral Record: UCF 0-0, Tulsa 0-0. Conference Record: UCF 6-0, Tulsa 6-0. Series Record: Tulsa leads, 3-2.
GAME NOTES: In what is very likely a preview of this season's Conference USA Championship game, the UCF Knights and Tulsa Golden Hurricane collide at H.A. Chapman Stadium.
Both sides enter with identical 8-2 overall records with perfect 6-0 marks in conference play. A UCF win would clinch the East Division title for the Knights and give them homefield advantage for the Conference USA Championship game. Tulsa will clinch the West Division with a win, but not necessarily home field advantage for the title game.
This will be just the sixth meeting in the all-time series between these schools. Tulsa owns a 3-2 series lead. These teams have squared off in the C- USA Championship on two separate occasions. The Golden Hurricane earned a 44-27 victory in 2005 and the Knights took home the 2007 title with a 44-25 win.
The Knights enter on a six-game winning streak. They weathered a Texas-El Paso rally effort to defeat the Miners, 31-24, in the Lone Star State their last time out. Coach George O'Leary and his team have not lost since Sept. 29, when they were beat 21-16 at home by Missouri. UCF's only other lost came to Urban Meyer and Ohio State in Columbus.
Tulsa wisely scheduled a late season, non-conference matchup at Arkansas to kick off November. Although the Golden Hurricane had their seven-game winning streak snapped in their 19-15 loss to the Razorbacks, the defeat motivated the team to a 41-7 rout of Houston last week. Coach Bill Blankenship has compiled a 16-7 overall record in just under two seasons in Tulsa. The Golden Hurricane have taken down 17 of their last 18 C-USA rivals, with the only loss coming to the Chase Keenum and the No. 7 Houston Cougars in 2011.
The Knights have built an identity as a defensive-minded team. O'Leary's style of coaching requires UCF to have a solid rushing attack, a game managing quarterback, and control of field position.
Blake Bortles is an ideal QB for the Knights' system. In his first year as a full-time starter, he has amassed 2,199 yards, 17 touchdowns, and seven interceptions on 185-of-280 efficiency. He was mistake free versus UTEP with 214 yards and a touchdown through the air in addition to his two rushing scores.
UCF has a trio of effective wideouts in J.J. Worton, Rannell Hall, and Quincy McDuffie. Worton leads with 35 catches for 507 yards. Jeff Godfrey started at quarterback last season before moving to wideout in the spring. He has tallied three-straight games with multiple catches and made a touchdown grab twice during that span. Godfrey's quarterback experience makes him a valuable asset.
McDuffie made a big time impact on special teams by returning two kickoffs back to the house to power the rout of Marshall. No other player had returned two kickoffs for a touchdown in the same game in C-USA history.
The Knights' rushing attack features one of the most consistent rushers in the conference in Latavius Murray. The senior tailback has surpassed the century mark in four straight contests and scored 10 total TDs during that time.
Storm Johnson is second on the team with 452 yards and four TDs on 103 attempts, but he has only rushed the ball 11 times total in his past four games.
While O'Leary's offense is serviceable, his defense is the defining element of the team. The Knights lead the C-USA in total defense and scoring defense with averages of 343.9 allowed yards and 21.2 allowed points per contest. Ohio State is the only team to score 30 or more points in regulation versus the Knights this season and they held their opponent to 17 points in three straight games before allowing the Miners to produce 24 last week.
Senior defensive backs A.J. Bouye and Kemal Ishmael are playmakers for UCF. Both have two interceptions and Ishmael is leading the team with 83 total stops.
Tulsa has one of the most prolific scoring offenses in the country, ranking 24th with 37.2 ppg. It has been held under 20 points on just one occasion this season and surpassed the 40-point mark in five games.
The Golden Hurricane have found success behind a lethal rushing attack (244.6 ypg, 5.1 ypc). Ja'Terian Douglas (808 yards, six TDs) and Trey Watts (645 yards, three TDs) have both shown off tremendous vision and athletic ability while combining to serve as the offense's engine. Alex Singleton (132 carries, 572 yards) may not have as high a yards per carry average as Douglas or Watts, but his 18 rushing touchdowns give him the 10th most points in the nation.
With a run-first offense, Cody Green is purely a game manager. Although his 10 touchdowns-to-seven-interceptions ratio is not great considering his role, he is 11-2 in his career as a starter, which includes his 4-0 record at Nebraska.
Five players have at least 233 receiving yards, led by Keyarris Garrett (45 receptions, 558 yards, five TDs).
The Tulsa defensive unit is ranked right behind UCF in the C-USA rankings in both scoring defense (23.1 ppg) and total defense (373.1 ypg). The unit has made big plays in the backfield consistently with 85 tackles for loss, 39 sacks and 13 fumble recoveries.
DeAundre Brown has been one of the best linebackers in the country, filling up the stat sheet with 103 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, eight sacks, and an interception. Senior DL Jared St. John is right behind Brown with seven sacks and Dexter McCoil has recorded a team-best four interceptions.
This is the most important game of the Conference USA regular so far. Something has got to give when these two undefeated rivals crash into each other. Since both teams have identical playing styles, this one will come down to turnovers and field position. The Golden Hurricane hold the edge due to their overwhelming homefield advantage.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Tulsa 21, UCF 17
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Swimming athlete and coach blogs
If you have ever wanted to know more about some of Great Britain's top swimmers then this section is for you. Read on for more details.
In this section you will find a range of blogs from some of Great Britiain's top swimming athletes and coaches.
Athletes will keep you informed on training in the run up to major competitions as well as offering insight into their lives inbetween events.
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November is the ideal month to take stock of your garden. This is because the ground still retains plenty of warmth, allowing new plants to settle quickly and develop roots before winter. Planting in autumn gives new plants a head start of almost an entire growing season.
Pruning is an important way of improving the growth and flowering of trees and shrubs.
In November there is still so much to enjoy in the garden! We see evergreen leaves, trees and shrubs with their beautiful coloured berries, trees with a special bark – what excitement in the November garden!
In this month when it is damp outside you can still enjoy flower bulbs and plants indoors. So by the end of November the first flower bulbs (that were forced in October) can be moved into the lounge.
Your kitchen garden in November can still look beautiful with lovely winter colours! You can still harvest and enjoy the last of your homegrown produce.
We have listed a few gardening tips which will help you in the garden this month.
Outdoor grape vines enter their dormant period this month, so you can begin with the maintenance pruning, also called winter pruning, in January. This is not only necessary to maintain the shape of the plant, it also ensures a good yield (fruitwood pruning).
'Flower bulb 'is actually a collective name for plants under the ground that grow from a bulb, corm or Rhizome. The month of November is a great time to plant flower bulbs. Flower bulbs that bloom in the spring bring your garden or patio to life with their beautiful colours. We are happy to supply you with a number of tips and suggestions for planting flower bulbs.
Autumn is the time to plant up your spring flowering bulbs so that you can look forward to a bright and cheerful garden in the spring – just what you need after a dull and cold winter. If the soil temperature drops it's time to get planting.
First of all, we would like to clear up a widespread misunderstanding: Bulbs are not Tubers!
A bulb is in fact a complete plant, lying all curled up, waiting to unfold. If you cut a bulb in half, an onion for instance, you can see inside the bulb a miniature form of the plant that will grow - and these are the future stalks, leaves and flowers. A Tuber is not a complete plant but an accumulation of nutrients with buds on the outside, like the potato.


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Relief Fragment of a Woman from Tomb of Neferu
When complete, the scene to which this fragment belonged showed a long procession of female offering bearers. One figure carries a tall basket and the other brings a tray.
In each case the contents are obscured by a cloth, but similar scenes indicate that these gifts were offerings of food. The Egyptians believed that food and drink were required to ensure the deceased's continued existence in the afterlife.
- Culture: Egyptian
- Medium: Limestone, painted
- Place Excavated: Tomb of Queen Neferu, Thebes (Deir el Bahri), Egypt
- Dates: ca. 2008-1957 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: second part of XI Dynasty
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dimensions: 9 1/16 x 12 1/2 in. (23 x 31.7 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 53.178
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Egyptian. Relief Fragment of a Woman from Tomb of Neferu, ca. 2008-1957 B.C.E. Limestone, painted, 9 1/16 x 12 1/2 in. (23 x 31.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 53.178. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Fragment of painted limestone relief. In sunk relief, a woman, preserved head to waist, bearing on her right shoulder a large tray, with single, unidentified object possibly a sack, which she supports with both hands. Long lappet wig painted black. White dress commencing under breasts. Eye painted white and black. Condition: Edge chipped. Paint worn.
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If u were on death row..?
Hello!! I would love to get to know all you Korn fans better so I thought of something crazy/cool to ask you guys:
If you were on death row what would your last meal be and why. Also, what ONE Korn song would you like to be hearing as potassium and other chemicals are rapidly pushed into your veins, and why??
Can't wait to here from you all! I'll give my answer shortly i'm still contemplating...
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Re: If u were on death row..?
Samosas and Mac and cheese (the baked kind) and patron margarita. I would go out to 4u or dirty
Re: If u were on death row..?
Hah, I thought this thread was dead. It was a fun prompt.
Re: If u were on death row..?
I'll indulge in the necroposting.
Grilled chicken breast with fries and a tomato and cheese salad.
Song would be No One's There.
If I had a say in it I'd have my final breaths during the last chorus when the choir vocals kick in.
Stop reading my signature.
I mean it
RE: If u were on death row..?
I know it's no longer done, but I would want firing squad rather than lethal injection.
I wouldn't want a KoRn song. I'd probably listen to some classical music.
As for the meal...hmmm...a tuna salad would be good. But who can eat when they know that they're going to die very soon?
But judging by this DEADMAN EATING there are people who can eat a lot before dying. If the injection didn't kill them the calories would! Some of these guys eat a lot of friend food.
RE: If u were on death row..?
To hell with the last meal! Give me a blast from the past (meth), banging it right up my arm, and then.......................let me unleash all my wildness upon a gorgeous man who loves sex about much as I do (he will be my meal-Sweet Mountain Honey, the tasting of UMMMM) , playing out all my twisted fantasy's. Why? I like to die with a wide smile and spent out.
I really do not have any particular song I would choose of KoRn, I feel I would play as many as I could-expressing myself in all ways, as I take out my wildness out one last time, before I exit the world into hell. I am not going to heaven. I feel that is the cruelest place. Why? So you can look down on all your loved ones watch them suffer as they play the game of life. Wow what paradise! No thanks, I would rather go to hell, I think I can accomplish a lot more.
"Real women drive Hummers, and this owns her own." I love you Kashmir!
RE: If u were on death row..?
Last meal hmmm, you know I think I'd go for like a tradtional Sunday roast, its just comfy, home food.
Last song probably Dirty, its not my favourite song but its always stood out of me, it probably sounds weird but everytime I listen to it I feel a tiny bit emotional, kinda like empowered, I have no idea why.
Great thread btw (:
RE: If u were on death row..?
Thanks xMinna! LOL Felix, a firing squad! Hahahhaa...Hey but what if they shot u everywhere but the vital organs/arteries....couldn't u imagine the pain and agony! Well I'm sure its not much worse than feeling like your suffocating in paralyzed silence with lethal injection.
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Jun 4, 2008
Clap back robot
It's written in NXC and full source can be see here
Damien Kee
12 comments:
- Hunter Chiou said...
Thank you for sharing the NXC code.
But I think there must be something missing in your program, in the "while ((CurrentTick()-t0) < 5000)",there is no statement for increasing value of "i".
Am I wrong? Thank you for your code.
- Jun 5, 2008, 1:23:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
whoops, thanks for that. I pulled out some debugging lines (like displaying the number of claps etc to the screen) and it must have gone with them.
Have fixed up.
- Jun 5, 2008, 7:18:00 AM
- Hunter Chiou said...
I will introduce your bot in my blog(In traditional Chinese)
I will try to build mine with NXT-G.
Thanks for your code again!
- Jun 5, 2008, 10:48:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
I'll be very interested to see how you implement the arrays. Keep us updated.
- Jun 5, 2008, 10:54:00 AM
- David Levy said...
I created a NXT-G version of this that you can [download here]
The Array Block came from
It could use some my-block refactoring and I'm sure other improvements.
- Jun 5, 2008, 12:19:00 PM
- Chris Bracken said...
Nice activity Damo, and nice NXT-G adaption David, thanks
- Jun 6, 2008, 12:35:00 AM
- David Levy said...
I noticed that with the NXT-G version, I had to be very careful not to clap my hands too fast. It looks like from Damien's video that NXC may be more responsive in that respect ( or perhaps I inadvertently coded in the latency myself).
By the way. I just refactored my version of taps with Myblocks.
You can download the zip file here
- Jun 6, 2008, 1:56:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
I noticed that you rotate the motor for 25 degrees then wait for 0.1 seconds. How do you determine exactly how long that action takes?
I rotate for 0.075 seconds down and then 0.075 seconds up which gives me a predictable 0.15 seconds for the complete movement.
I love the NXT-G implementation and am amazed that it can handle it, but I think this is a good example of showing how different languages are suited to different projects. I wouldn't want to try and 'teach' that NXT-G example to a classroom. :)
- Jun 6, 2008, 7:08:00 AM
- David Levy said...
I'm not familiar with NXC but the text was very easy to read.
However I did trip up on
OnFwd(OUT_A, 100);
I thought the 100 was some sort of rotational count and the wait was there just to pause before pulling the drumstick back up.
A a result I guessed at the 25 degrees with wait for 0.1 seconds.
There is probably also a discrepancy between my robot and yours ( i.e. the distance the drumstick needs to travel before tapping the drum).
"I wouldn't want to try and 'teach' that NXT-G example to a classroom"
That's something I think about all the time. I'm currently working with 4th and 5th graders who need to start learning how to datalog.
click here for to see details. They are staring to use text concatenation techniques, defining variables, and files, and lots of wiring to boot.. So should they learn a text based language at this point.. I don't know.
I'm a text based programmer all the way however I do believe that any debate on text -vs- graphics ( or for that matter, any debate on programming languages ) is usually biased because the preference usually is based on what the person is more familiar with.
Also before making assertions about where the graphical paradigm falls short, consider what is currently being done today with Labview.
- Jun 6, 2008, 7:42:00 AM
- Damien Kee said...
"OnFwd(OUT_A, 100);
This means turn Output A on 100% power for 75 milliseconds.
It really is a difficult topic and I think there will never be an answer that suits everyone. I absolutely love NXT-G. It has made my job as a trainer so much easier. I'm really impressed that you are managing to use the datahubs and wiring with your students and can't wait to see the results they come up with. *for this particular project*, I think the array implementation in NXT-G is just a little too messy.
I know all too well the power of Labview (flashbacks to final year engineering degree) and don't dispute for a second a graphical languages power.
I'm going to go the cheats way out and paraphrase Brian Davis "the right tool for the right job" :)
- Jun 6, 2008, 10:03:00 AM
- Hunter Chiou said...
Hi! damo:
I finished my NXT-G program.
You can download from:
Because you just use one dimension array, so I can use file access to store the time stamp, just like what I used in my "NXT Simon game".
It is hard to find out the proper way to make motor work correctly.
NXT-G is more slow responsive than NXC, I hope NI can improve NXT-G ASAP.
Also Thanks for David's program.
(BTW My hands are painful !*_*)
- Jun 6, 2008, 12:34:00 PM
- David Levy said...
Yes using a file does seem to work since all you really need to do is read the array sequentially.
I found the array block on Hassenplug's site ( hassenray?)
I'm not sure about the internals but the interface is very easy. This is the first time I used it and was not planning to show the this program or the array to the kids. They do have a simple wiring example screenshot that they uploaded to the Files section of the hale-teams google group ( see link in my prior thread)
I think I may introduce them to NXC to see if they can pick it up.
- Jun 6, 2008, 1:23:00 PM


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