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December 6th, 2012 12:53 PM #36Senior Member
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A girls name could be anything - they won't have the pressure to pick a "regnal" name, only a "royal" one. I doubt the Queen will let them use their own name as the first name - she's known to be a modest person. Personaly I would love Cecily - utterly English, traditional, and it's a family name, too (that of The Queen's grandmother and Prince Philips's sister). I just hope they don't use Isabella - it's the same name as Elizabeth and it would cause problems with the numbering (Isabella is written "Elisabeth" in Latin; and the Queen is Isabel II in many countries).
I'm convinced a boy will be George. I'd love John - Prince Jack - but I doubt they would be allowed to use it.
They won't use Arthur, Albert, Henry, James, Edward, Charles, Philip, William, Spencer, Anne, Alexandra, Beatrice, Louise, Catherine, or Diana as first names: they're either taken by close family members or are "forbidden" for regnal names. I wish people realised that a Queen Diana would be a slap on the face of the Queen and Prince Philip - and William isn't that close to the Spencers (and Spencer isn't seen as a "proper Christian name", really).
One think I would love to see was a nice Welsh / Cornish / Scottish name included. I loved how the little Danish royal twins have Faroesan middle names.
I think we could have the kid be known publically as a nickname name - like Harry and Kate. I could see a Princess Mary known as Princess May (like The Queen's late grandmother), or a even a Prince William Jr. known as Liam.Arabella, Thibault, Sophia, Alfred, Eleanor, Rémi, Charlotte, Achille, Olivia, Clement, Elizabeth, Frederick, Maud, Benedict, Adèle.
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December 6th, 2012 02:40 PM #40
Taking in consideration that the little Prince or Princess, though not in the same generation as them, probably will reign at the same time as a lot of today's heirs of heirs (whereas he or she will be the heir of the heir of the heir), to avoid confusion (that goes for girls names in particular, seeing as Prince Christian of Denmark currently is the only boy heir in that generation) they might avoid names like Elizabeth (Princess Elisabeth of Belgium), Catherine or Amelia (Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands), Eleanor (Infanta Leonor of Spain) or Christian (the before-mentioned Prince Christian of Denmark).Zelia • XXI • Film and royalty connoisseur • I have a blog and one about royalsExporting old Danish names as well as Greenlandic names and sibling names
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December 19th, 2012 07:11 PM #42
As I posted in the other thread...
Diana would not be allowed as the throne has to approve the baby's name (since she may one day be queen) and Queen Elizabeth didn't like Princess Diana.
I think William would still want to honour his mother, so my suggestion is Frances (Diana's MN).
My pick is…
Victoria Catherine Elizabeth Frances
For a boy:
I think Philip (after Wills Grandfather) is a likely contender and Arthur (Wills second name). Most likely Charles after his father and though it's unlikely, I think Spencer after his mother (her madien name) is a great option.
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December 27th, 2012 09:57 PM #44
I'm guessing if it's a girl that they would go with Diana. If not up front, then at least in the middle. For all those saying that Queen Elizabeth wouldn't allow that, I think she learned her lesson from interfering in Prince Charles's life and isn't so controlling with William and Harry. William lived with his wife before marriage and there was no public statement of Kate's virginity prior to marriage (unlike Diana), so obviously she's not holding William to the same standards as she did Charles (or bossing him around as much, however you choose to look at it). Also, Prince William is pretty devoted to his mother and if Queen Elizabeth didn't let him name his own daughter after her, he'd probably just abdicate (because honestly, it's not like the royals are going to leave him penniless or anything) and if that happens, the next in line is Harry (good ol' Nazi imitating, pot smoking, naked partying, possibly illegitimate Harry) and somehow, I doubt Queen Elizabeth would be in favor of that.
In all honestly, I'm hoping that they name the baby something absolutely modern and trendy (like Jayden), just because I would find that extremely entertaining.


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VICKERSTOWN became the first team to win the Paul Wilson Memorial Trophy three times as their reserves won a dramatic penalty shootout against Haverigg United at Rakesmoor.
On an excellent looking pitch, Vickerstown started brightly and opened the scoring after just three minutes when Paul Johnson headed in from a corner.
Haverigg were playing up the hill and against the slight breeze and took a while to settle down after the early setback.
Vickerstown had the ball in the net again after 25 minutes but it was ruled out for a foul. However five minutes later they did go 2-0 up when Andy Butler's cross to the far post was headed in by Mark Treen.
The nearest Haverigg came were a couple of scuffed efforts that didn't trouble Mark Jones in Vickerstown's goal.
Vickerstown had looked comfortable but just after the hour the game exploded into life. A Steven Robinson corner was flicked past his own keeper by Steve Brennan to make it 2-1, and two minutes later tempers flared which resulted in Mark Johnson being sent off for raising his hands to an opponent.
Despite having the extra man, Haverigg were unable to carve out any clear cut chances until the 92nd minute when a corner was cleared to the edge of the box and Haverigg skipper Ricky Jeynes hit a superb shot that dipped under the crossbar to level the scores.
Both sides had progressed to the final with penalty shootout victories in earlier rounds but on this occasion it was Vickerstown who held their nerve, scoring all four of their penalties.
Haverigg hit the post and were denied by a brilliant save by Mark Jones, which earned him the man of the match award.
That one save effectively won the game although all of the Vickerstown midfield had worked tirelessly for 90 minutes, with Aaron Read and Josh Gay both putting in good performances.
Haverigg were left to reflect on being runners-up in two finals this season and are keen to go one better next season.
As usual the final was a great event to celebrate Paul Wilson's life with Alan and Barbara providing wonderful hospitality after the game as well as a kit for the winners, footballs for the finalists, two match balls and a watch for the man of the match.
The presentation of the awards also included a cheque for £500 being presented to the Alice's Escapes charity.
Vickerstown: Mark Jones, Danny Fawcett, Phil Athersmith, Steve Brennan, Paul Johnson, Josh Gay, Mark Treen, Aaron Read, Andy Butler, Mark Johnson, Tom Dawes. Subs: Jon Moore, Jack Mitchell, Paul Miller.
Haverigg United: Craig Robinson, Howard Falconer, Steven Robinson, Stuart Jeynes, Paul Barker, Drew Postlethwaite, Anthony Foster, Ricky Jeynes, John Chmiel, Andy Walker, Luke Chmiel. Subs: Ian Taylor, Brian Eaton, Stuart Rigge, Chris McQuire.
Referee: Jimmy McLeish, Assistants: Dave Cowperthwaite and Chris Banks. Fourth official: Darren Gardner.
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having watched last sat final with a neutral view,these were two evenly matched teams, vickerstown dominated 1st half haverigg the 2nd.three of the goals were defensive mistakes.haveriggs last min equilizer was one of the best goals seen at rakesmoor this year.as for mom wrighty was right vickerstown keeper won them the cup with his pen save just as if a striker would get it by scoring the winning goal.as for gloating and sour grapes both teams stayed well into the night enjoying alans fantastic hospitality.well done both teams
i am proud of my lads and we will be back next year. Just remember lads its a three year plan we have but just remmeber next final the cup comes home with us.. Congrats Vickerstown
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The Devil in some ways has been more subject to interpretation than Jesus. Sometimes he's an abstraction who's more chaos than evil, sometimes he's a seducer and con man, sometimes he's a fallen angel pitted against a God to whom he's equal, or close to it. In a 20th century of holocaust and annihilation, the Devil of mass popular culture has taken on frightening dimensions as the incarnation of the damned and irredeemable—the face we've given to whatever absolute we can still name at the other end of the moral spectrum from good. The paradox is that the more absolute something is, the more subjective, which is to say that the Devil remains in the eye of the beholder or, as the case may be, the producer of a miniseries on the History Channel. Pressed to confer a satanic title on a figure in American history, I might go with, say, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate war criminal who traded slaves and started the Ku Klux Klan, while you might opt for the president of the United States who crossed the tarmac from Air Force One a couple of days ago to shake the hand of the Israeli prime minister.
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Christians have a love-hate relationship with Satan. They would be nowhere without him, and the more God-fearing that one is, the more useful the Devil becomes, until a point is reached when the Devil becomes more useful than God. That is the point where part of the American body politic has been for the past four years, as demonstrated by the disarray at the Conservative Political Action Conference last weekend and, on more than a few occasions, in Congress where association with Obama is so all-encompassingly dreadful that some will reverse positions they've held for years, even opposing bills with their own names on them, to avoid the sulfuric whiff of presidential support. The Republican Party is no longer a congregation held together by principles, even the wrong ones, but a cult of personality, albeit the other party's personality that they abhor. It took Christianity 2,000 years to come up with a Devil that it could not just believe in but give its heart to; and as some would have it, the face of that Devil is now also the face of America, or the America anyway that has spent 200 years transcending its most profound sins having to do with slavery and race. When a church's devil comes to mean more than its god (whether that church is political or spiritual), its animating spirit metastasizes and dies, the quest no longer about transcendence but only deliverance.
Fri, 2013-03-22 09:37
Hopefully this doesn't come across as pedantic, but Muhammad does not "embody" God for Muslims the way Jesus does for Christians, and while he's believed to have founded Islam, or at least the movement that led to Islam, it was not founded "in his name" as Christianity was in Christ's name.
Fri, 2013-03-22 18:58
Not only dose Obama look like the Devil, he also acts like him and his number also adds up to that of the Beast.!!!....
Obama is 44th president of the United States of America and the word "Beast" is mentioned in its singular form 44 times in the book of Revelations. ......
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666" Revelation 13:16-18
Barack Obama Born 4 August 1961 the 216th day of the year. 216 = 6x6x6.......
.A=6 B=12 C=18 D=24 E=36 etc. BARACK = 216 = 6X6X6.............
Barack: = 2+1+18+1+3+11=36
Hussein= 8+21+19+19+5+9+14=95
Obama = 15+2+1+13+1=32
Add these three totals 36+95+32=163
Multiply by the Beast: = 1 63 x 666 = 108,558
Split and Add: = 108 + 558 = 666.
Last years US Budget was created on a 216 page document. 216 = 6x6x6.
From all the above compiling evidence we can now take it for granted that Barack Obama is set to be Satan incarnate from the Book of Revelations.
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Fri, 2013-03-22 20:21
@fasteddie9318 Nice catch, and thanks for that.
@runtodahills Please keep talking. If you're kidding, I'd like to commend you on the great piece of satire, and if you're serious, I'd really like for you to keep talking so Americans can continue to see just how unhinged some people are.
The recent Satan talk got me thinking about my friend who writes the blog Satan Wrote the Bible and I have a take on his most recent post today that follows this train of thought a little further, into the fundamentalists' inability to understand parable and allegory.
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"It took Christianity 2,000 years to come up with a Devil that it could not just believe in but give its heart to; and as some would have it, the face of that Devil is now also the face of America, or the America anyway that has spent 200 years transcending its most profound sins having to do with slavery and race."
It took me three or four times through that sentence to get an idea of what you were trying to say. The first half is OK. The second half is pretentious, lazy rot. The semicolon (like most semicolons) is unnecessary. Separate sentences are always clearer. The 2,000-200 parallel attempt is clumsy and comes across as a reach. And using words like "transcending" and "profound" sounds like you're trying to impress 15-year-olds. By the way, can someone fix "resemblence" in the subhed? Typos happen to everyone, I know, but this piece has been up long enough for it to have been corrected by now.
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Remember the favorite phase, "Do No Evil". Well there has been a lot of articles lately about how Google is trying to close out/limited Microsoft and other companies out of web services like Google Maps only working on webkit and not supporting DOC files on Google Doc. I know there are many more I can bring up but I don't feel searching about it now. Microsoft was more open in the 90s with other companies to make sure they can use software on their OS and but Google seem to not like this. Any thoughts about this?
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Microsoft wasn't even that bad in the 90s. I think it was just a lot of negative press and public perception. I just remember they were knocked for bundling a browser with their Operating System. Lol. All Operating Systems come with a browser now.
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I first saw the film at the 1970 world premier at the Criterion Theate in Manhattan. I felt then and I still feel now that the Kurosawa version of Tora! Tora! Tora! would have been a different film in many ways. Most likely, it would have been a better film with more humanized tragic components woven into the Japanese sequences. This feeling is based on my understanding of Kurosawa's mindset and aspirations concerning the Pearl Harbor epic film.
What was probably most compromised was the opening scene which Kurosawa thought very important. The entrance of the tragic protagonist, Admiral Yamamoto, the C-in-C of the Japanese Imperial Navy's Combined Fleet. He arrived at his flagship the Nagato on September 1, 1939. That was the day when World War II began in Europe. In this opening scene, Kurosawa was about to describe beautifully a sense of destiny surrounding Admiral Yamamoto who was soon to be the architect of Pearl Harbor attack. For years Yamamoto had risked assassination dangers and tried boldly to prevent a disastrous war with the United States.
After Fox expelled Kurosawa from the studio, Elmo Williams — with the approval by Darryl Zanuck — revised Kurosawa's final shooting screenplay although they tried to keep the basic storylines. They deleted a dozen scenes, and shortened or rewrote more than 30 scenes. Those changes seriously affected many of Kurosawa's 'pet scenes'. Most regrettably lost was this opening scene. Kurosawa's idea was cheapened almost beyond recognition. I resent it.
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When 20th Century Fox planned its blockbuster portrayal of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, it looked to Akira Kurosawa – a man whose mastery of the cinema led to his nickname "the Emperor" – to direct the Japanese sequences. Yet a matter of three weeks after he began shooting the film in December 1968, Kurosawa was summarily dismissed and expelled from the studio. The tabloids trumpeted scandal: Kurosawa had himself gone mad; his associates had betrayed him; Hollywood was engaged in a conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the truth behind the downfall and humiliation of one of cinema's greatest perfectionists is revealed in All the Emperor's Men. Journalist Hiroshi Tasogawa probes the most sensitive questions about Kurosawa's thwarted ambition and the demons that drove him. His is a tale of a great clash of personalities, of differences in the ways of making movies, and ultimately of a clash between Japanese and American cultures.


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Dec 21, 2007
Holiday Fun: The Bristlebot
No more money to spend on NXTs? Build a Bristlebot.
Posted by: Rick Rhodes at 4:40 AM
5 comments:
wow, thats amazing. and it is faster than all my walkers :(
- Dec 21, 2007, 8:06:00 AM
- Parmaia said...
Incredibly simple, incredibly fast, incredibly it works! jejeje
Very nice project
- Dec 21, 2007, 1:12:00 PM
- Thebuilder94 said...
are the rubber bristles required?
- Dec 21, 2007, 2:41:00 PM
Now, if we can get one that will floss, too . . .
- Dec 21, 2007, 7:39:00 PM
The rubber bristles are not needed, but the bristles should slant instead of straight down.
I've built one and it works GREAT! It's amazing how fast it goes. My bristles are straight so I have to keep them bent. I also have to solder some wires onto my pager motor. Right now I have the battery just standing vertical between the motor contacts and it throughs the bot off balance.
My mom thought that if it was bigger and more powerful, it could clean the bottom of a shower or tub. That sounds like it might work.
- Dec 23, 2007, 1:39:00 AM
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New Term, New Truthers, Same Obama
If I had to pick my favorite political ad of the last few years, a strong contender would be the one from 2010 Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, in which she looked into the camera and said sweetly, "I'm not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you." The combination of a hilarious lack of subtlety with a kind of sad earnestness made it unforgettable. And it's the message that almost every politician tries to offer at one point or another (the "I'm you" part, not the part about not being a witch). They all want us to think they're us, or at least enough like us for us to trust them.
So when the White House released a photo over the weekend of President Obama shooting skeet, the smoke of freedom issuing forth from the barrel of his gun, you could almost hear him saying, "I'm not an effete socialist gun-hater. I'm you." If "you" happen to be one of the minority of Americans who own guns, that is. Even at this late date, Obama and his aides can't resist the urge, when confronted with a controversial policy debate, to send the message of cultural affinity to the people who—let's be honest—he is most unlike.
We should give the White House some credit, though. This came about because in an interview with The New Republic, Obama was asked whether he had ever fired a gun, and he responded that he shoots skeet "all the time" at Camp David, prompting conservatives to begin demanding photographic evidence. His aides knew that a photo of Obama shooting skeet wasn't going to convince anybody of anything, and in fact would just spur the President's most deranged opponents to make fools of themselves. Which is why White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer tweeted the photo "For all the 'skeeters,'" and senior advisor David Plouffe did the same, writing, "Attn skeet birthers. Make our day - let the photoshop conspiracies begin!" Lo and behold, a bevy of conservatives obliged with fine-grained analyses of why the photo was faked or staged, making it clear that their opposition to President Obama is rational and policy-based, and they are absolutely not a bunch of crazy people.
And to Obama's credit, in the interview that started the discussion about skeet shooting, he displayed what we actually ought to seek from politicians: an effort to understand people's differing perspectives and the things that are important to them. "Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," he said. "And if you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were ten, and you went out and spent the day with him and your uncles, and that became part of your family's traditions, you can see why you'd be pretty protective of that."
That's true, and the gun owners Obama is referring to are, according to opinion polls, supportive of the kinds of measures he's proposing, like universal background checks and limits on certain military-style guns and large-capacity ammunition clips. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but be reminded of the controversy from the 2008 campaign, when Obama was recorded saying people in small towns "cling to guns or religion" (you may have forgotten it, but people on the right haven't, I assure you). A supporter had asked him how to convince people in economically depressed small towns in places like Pennsylvania who are hostile toward Democrats to change their minds, and his answer was actually an attempt to explain to the questioner where those people might be coming from. What he was saying was that they felt let down by politicians who promised them again and again that they could improve their economic circumstances, and so they turned to cultural issues—and more particularly, resentments—to define their political identity and determine their votes. He ended by saying that even if you can't convince very many of them, it's important to try. It may have been phrased inartfully (to use Mitt Romney's formulation), but it was an attempt to understand and bridge personal divides, even if it became exactly the opposite. He couldn't say "I'm you" to those small-town white voters, but he was trying to say, "I get you."
Let's not forget too that part of what made Barack Obama so much more appealing than the average Democratic candidate to so many liberals in 2008 is that, in fact, he is them. Multi-racial, hailing from a big city, educated, sophisticated and urbane, Obama looked to many liberals like the kind of person they might encounter in their daily lives, maybe even the kind of person they imagine themselves to be. Much as liberals have derided the efforts of politicians from both parties to create cultural affinity—from George W. Bush, son of Kennebunkport, pretending to be a down-home reg'lar fella, to John Kerry, well, hunting—their cultural connection with Obama was thrilling to them. But liberals don't get that same thrill from him anymore, for the simple reason that he's been president for four years, and those feelings of affinity from 2008 have been overwhelmed by the feelings they have about everything that has happened since, both good and bad.
And that's true of the rest of the country too. Americans may not follow politics very closely, and they may not know very much about policy, but in 2013, if there's one thing they have a pretty good idea about, it's their feelings on one Barack Hussein Obama. After a first term full of consequential policy changes and significant real-world developments, substance has inevitably become far more important than style. The ones who find him alien and threatening wouldn't have their minds changed by a thousand photos, no matter what they seemed to communicate. Obama surely knows that. But maybe someday, a Republican candidate will stage a photo-op to convince voters that despite all appearances, he's just like college professors or Brooklyn hipsters. Instead of the "heartland" voters being pandered to, it'll be the coastal urban dwellers. "I'm you," he'll say. And just as they do now, voters will respond, "Yeah, right."
Tue, 2013-02-05 09:37
Mr. Waldman really should do his homework before he commits himself to paper. "Truthers" are the urban idiots who believe that Bush/Cheney instrumented 9/11; "birthers" are the rural idiots who believe that Obama isn't a citizen. His mistake is understandable: a Gallup poll found that more Democrats are Truthers than Republicans are Birthers.
Tue, 2013-02-05 11:59
Since I have been sure that 9/11 was an inside job from the day it happened, and that Obama's real father was Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis, I am both a birther and a truther. So according to keller, I am both a left-wing idiot and a right-wing idiot. Since one cannot be a left-winger and a right-winger at the same time, I am not an idiot. Then anyone who thinks I'm an idiot must be an idiot. An idiot is someone who thinks they are smart for parroting what they are taught by the cultural authorities. These authorities print and hand out fake paper dollars to those that flack for them. Since the author has a job as a flack, he must be brilliant by this definition. What about the truth, does it matter to these people? They might say there is no such thing as truth, just opinion. But if it's just opinion, you logically can't label somebody a truther or a birther or an idiot just because you have a different opinion from them. Labeling others derisively is a sign of intellectual laziness. Just regurgitating what "everyone who is not an idiot knows" is vapid and undermines the opinion of the abuser of others with other ideas. My ideas are my own. I have two doctorates. What about Waldman and keller?
Tue, 2013-02-05 15:15
I agree that it's foolish to question the truth of Obama's skeet shooting.
The appropriate response to the Presidential skeet shooting is not, "Really?" - the appropriate response is "So what?"
What did it contribute to the discussion of gun laws other than PR and misdirection?
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Nov 24, 2006
Acceleration in the community…
Why bother? Two reasons: first, this is something I've wanted to do, and points out another really fun use for the NXT – teaching science. Imagine taking this to "physics day" at a theme park, and recording the accelerations on a roller coaster or some other thrill ride. "Mission Space" at Disney? "Demon Drop" at Cedar Point? Or just playing on the local playground? There are some wonderful possibilities here (I know, for instance, what the acceleration profile looks like for my car now).
Secondly, this is another good example of the community making all this possible. To get that graph, I had to use a sensor (to get the data) and extra-long cable (to allow for movement) from HiTechnic, a custom NXT-G block (to get the data out of the sensor) built by Steve Hassenplug, using the beta-version of the LabVIEW toolkit (to allow building and integrating such custom solutions), and of course the NXT brick from LEGO. I had the idea (and have for a while), but implementing that idea took contributions from at least four different directions.
OK, teachers, researchers, and amateur scientists… what will you datalog? Anybody want to email me some interesting data?
Brian Davis
7 comments:
- Rob Torok said...
Cool! That's looks like a lot of fun... I think my young boys and I will have some fun at the playground next door when ours arrives...
Could you please provide some more details (including some examples, such as the accelerometer one) of the programs you've used to do datalogging with the NXT.
Datalogging with the RCX was something that I came to a bit late with the RCX - and to be honest, never really got it into my teaching like I should've. When my new school year starts in Feb I'd like to be doing datalogging from the get go...
- Nov 24, 2006, 7:25:00 PM
- Drew Stevenson said...
Hmm... Could this be used for navigation by referencing the accelerations. (I think there are some GPS nav systems that use accelerometers to make a best guess at course and speed when they are not getting a GPS signal. I think they have a rotation acceleration too but the Compass should suffice as lng as your not rolling in 3D. (as in my Orbital Explorer described at NXTasy).
Any ideas on how to use these logs and a compass to give a working system for the Bot to self reference (instead of just log).
Could You post your program?
- Nov 25, 2006, 3:38:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
Well, I tossed a sample datalogging program up on NXTblog: look for the "DLog" project (or search for keyword "datalog"), and please let me know if it downloads and installs/works OK, and then I'll expand once I've heard it's availible.
The program I posted is easy to modify, but it's not the one I got the acceleration data with; that uses a custom block I can't release yet, as well as a beta acceleration sensor that's not (yet!) availible.
As to using this for navigation, you generally need a much higher precision to do "inertial navigation"... in fact, generally inertial measurement units need far more exacting (and expensive) sensors. But I've not tried it yet. As to "using" the data in a program, that's the great thing about the NXT file system: unlike on the RCX where the datalog was unavalible to the running program, a NXT-G program can read and write those files; they are essentially a very slow but large array of variables.
Brian Davis
- Nov 25, 2006, 5:09:00 AM
- Rob Torok said...
Okay Brian, I give up, I can't find your DLog project... gimme another hint please... (-:
For a start, what is NXTblog?
Also, what is the LabVIEW toolkit and how does it relaite (if at all) to NXT-G and/or Robolab?
- Nov 26, 2006, 8:18:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
That's because it's up on LEGO "NXTlog", which I misspelled in such as a way as to cause confusion. My bad. Go to:
and seach for "DLog" or "datalog" and it should pop up. The LabVIEW Toolkit is a way of writing your own blocks for NXT-G (among other things); it is being beta tested now, but the announcement was way back:
(if that's too mangled, Google for "LabVIEW Toolkit NXT" and the announcment from NI will likely be the top hit).
Brian Davis
(who REALLY needs to watch his spelling better... sorry)
- Nov 26, 2006, 11:04:00 PM
- Will George said...
Why bother? Geee to make me feel dumb? I would never have thought of that!
GREAT POST... Amazing
AND.. Any more info?
- Nov 27, 2006, 2:33:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
"I would never have thought of that...". This is a variation on one of the things I commonly hear at LEGO conventions and other get-togethers. Maybe you *wouldn't* have thought of it... but I'm certain that there's something else that you'll think of, that my reation will be exactly the same: "wow, I never would have thought of that..." It's one of the wonderful things about a flexible tool like LEGO in a diverse community: synergy.
So now thake what I've suggested, and take it to places that will make me say "wow, I never would have thought of that...". :-).
As to any more info, well,... what do you want to know?
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Summary of RIF puzzles...
A comment today from a reader asked for a summary of all the RIF puzzles found so far. I'll post them here, along with solutions (in white text so you'll have to highlight the answers to read them). Please keep in mind that these are the puzzles that I'm aware of - there might be more. If I've missed one, please let me know. (By the way, I emailed Poe and asked if I could post these solutions - the only one I'm not allowed to provide right now is the last puzzle I discuss below.)
The first puzzle found is in the upper-right corner of the large grey rectangle. Move the mouse over the area until you trigger it. The puzzles is:
If you use a ROT13 encoder/decoder (http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php) to convert the code, it changes to (drag your mouse to select the text below to see it:
So apparently some new info will be released tomorrow (August 25, 2006)
The next puzzle found wasn't a puzzle, but was a hidden link. Highlight the line below for its location.
Move the mouse around inside the letter P in the word September until the point changes to a hand. That's the hidden link.
The next puzzle was a little more difficult to solve. This one is a little trickier to find and solve. Highlight the line below for directions to find it:
The puzzle is located on the right side of the large grey rectangle. You have to move the mouse around carefully, but when you hit the trigger you'll see two columns of text pop up and the words "Yes and No" and "On and Off".
Highlight the line below for the instructions on solving the puzzle:
I'm not going to paste the long column of text here, but to solve it simply start with the first letter, F (in FAIL) and then skip every other letter: So FAIL ROSE would be FIRS (skip the A, L, O, and E.) Keep doing this as you read down the column of words. The message spells instructions to email the RIF. If you sent an email before August 20 to the RIF you received
an email from Poe with a special message and a reward that has yet to be announced... (I'm very curious... has anyone who solved it heard what the reward is?)
The next puzzle I encountered (not sure if this one came before the next one) was a hidden message embedded in the PDF file that Poe sent to nxtasy.org. Highlight the line below for instructions on finding the message:
In the first "story" on the PDF (about the missing scientist) there are letters in the story that are bolded. They are fairly easy to find and this one wasn't that hard to solve. Read the bold letters in order for a website to visit.
The next puzzle (which may have appeared before the PDF one above, not sure) was a word jumble found in the lower-right corner of the large grey rectangle. It's been unjumbled now, but if you figured it out, it spelled out sudoku.html. If you go to www.rifagent.com/sudoku.html it took you to the next puzzle.
The last puzzle I'm aware of is the actual Sudoku puzzle. I was not given permission to provide the solution for it, but basically just solve the sudoku puzzle. They kindly gave a link to a wiki article that gives the rules if you are unfamiliar with it... and if you're not good at it, find somebody (it's worth it!)
That's it... if I've missed one, please add a comment.
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You missed one!
Agent #13 posted a comment yesterday that had a clue. Read it carefully.
- Aug 25, 2006, 1:02:00 AM
Yes, Len's right. There's a clue in this comment:
Yes, we have puzzles. But does lightning ever strike the same place twice?
Agent 13
It's not too tough.
- Aug 25, 2006, 1:35:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Okay, I understand now.
I didn't get permission to share the answer for this one, but it's not hard to find...
- Aug 25, 2006, 2:27:00 AM
If you get tired
- Aug 25, 2006, 2:33:00 AM
Duh...the linked to wikipedia article links to a solver....
funny that I haven't ever encountered this puzzle before
- Aug 25, 2006, 5:16:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
I imagine they meant for the sudoku to be solved without a solver... takes the fun away to use it, but some people just don't like sudoku, I guess...
I'd say that one wasn't easy... somewhere between easy and tricky, but definitely not hard.
- Aug 25, 2006, 5:23:00 AM
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- Aug 25, 2006, 8:03:00 AM
PD: for the sudoku puzzle, you do not need to fill it all, just analyse possible values for some of the 3*3 squares and you will get the answer, it is not hard.
- Aug 25, 2006, 8:11:00 AM
When you guys talk about the lightning twice thing, are you talking about when the window turns red and into a link?
- Aug 25, 2006, 1:45:00 PM
- Andy said...
You miss one!
When you drag your miuse to the first puzzle ,
may be 2 or 3 second , there's a light on the house and later , the window on the house will turn red , then you click on it , but it just wrote :
"It will be post on August 30
I'm not sure if it was a clue , but it might can help you .
- Aug 25, 2006, 1:48:00 PM
Andy, that's what Len and I were talking about in the first two comments.
- Aug 25, 2006, 2:36:00 PM
- Drew Stevenson said...
Having not acted on the "limited time" offer puzzle when I solved the email one in a laid back fashion... I now want to warn people about some need not be classified material:
The solution to the suduko (my 2nd one ever!) led to a page whose secrets are going to get enven better by Sept 15... SO please dont wait (like I did)....
Wishing I'd emailed - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Aug 26, 2006, 3:26:00 AM
So tell me Drew, how would you know the "secrets are going to get even better"? A little tell there? A clue to the mysterious Mr Poe?
Can you tell me how many possible Sudoku puzzles have 28 digits defined. Is the analysis algebraic or combinatoric? Or both? Permutation groups?
- Aug 26, 2006, 9:21:00 AM
Yes, I caught that as well. Maybe Mr. Drew has a secret identity? It doesn't matter. I wouldn't want to know. This is fun and I hope we adults don't ruin it for the youngsters.
- Aug 26, 2006, 9:36:00 AM
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- Aug 26, 2006, 10:18:00 AM
When I typed the solution.html, It said that google couldn't find the site. did this expire?
- Aug 26, 2006, 10:51:00 AM
- Tony Naggs said...
You have to tell the web browser which site to look for the page on.
So solution.html will look on your local machine {PC, Mac, mobile phone, etc ...}
Instead try www.rifagent.com/solution.html
- Aug 27, 2006, 7:18:00 AM


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New events added to 2018 Winter OlympicsDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal29 days ago
Four events will premier at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that snowboard big air, mixed doubles curling, mass start long-track speed skating, and an alpine skiing team event will make their debut.
It will be the first time that there are 100 medal events at a Winter Olympics, according to NBC. The total is now 102. The alpine skiing team event and mixed doubles curling bring the co-ed event total to seven.
The IOC also voted to remove snowboard parallel slalom, which was competed for the first time at the Sochi Olympics.
Big air snowboarding will bring a lot of tricks to the Olympics, with snowboarders completing tricks similar to those in slopestyle. While only men compete in snowboarding big air at the X Games, it has been approved for men and women to compete in Pyeongchang.
Phelps has worst performance since 2000, calls it 'garbage'Danielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal1 mth ago
Michael Phelps turned in his worst performance since the 2000 Olympics over the weekend. He placed third, seventh, ninth, ninth, and 11th in his five events at a Pro Swim Series stop in Charlotte, North Carolina.
According to NBC, it was the first time Phelps has not placed first or second in any events at a single meet since the 2000 Olympics. Failing to make the final heats in the 100m free or 200m individual medley, he told media at the event that he missed swimming against his usual rivals.
"What I want most is to be racing the competition I need to be racing," Phelps said. "Not taking away anything from the B heat, but I want to race Ryan [Lochte] and those guys."
Phelps said he was frustrated, that he felt like his legs weren't connected to his upper body, his dolphin kicks were "horrendous," his freestyle stroke was "pretty garbage" and that he had to reassess "a bunch of stuff."
Mao Asada announces comebackDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal1 mth ago
After a year off from competition, three-time world champion Mao Asada announced Monday morning that she's coming back to the sport.
''As time passed, I realized that I missed competing and wanted the sense of fulfillment again,'' she said. ''I'm practicing every day to get back into competitive form again.''
The Japanese skater captured silver in Vancouver in 2010. She finished sixth in Sochi.
Asada would have been the heavy favorite in 2006. Only 15 years old at the time, though, she missed the Olympic age cut-off by less than a month. By 2010 there was no stopping South Korea's Kim Yuna, who won in Vancouver by a margin of more than 20 points.
Despite the final score, Asada remains the only woman to land three triple-axels in a single competition.At the 2014 World Championships, she set a new world record for ladies' short program score.
Asada, 24, said she hasn't yet thought about the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Prepare to cringe: Bryan Clay uses javelin skills in new wayDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal1 mth ago
When your dad's an Olympic gold medalist, nothing is typical. Not even the simple act of pulling out a loose tooth.
Former decathlete Bryan Clay, who gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, made sure daughter Ellie will never forget losing her tooth. He tied one end of a string to a javelin, the other to her tooth. The rest is fairily self explanatory.
If you're squemish, maybe don't watch this video. Ellie looks slightly terrified at first, but then she smiles and say "bye" to the tooth.
The best part is that Ellie didn't even seem to feel it. After her dad tossed it, her mom asks if it came out.
"It did!" she says, seeming just as surprised as everyone else as she touches her finger to the gap where her tooth used to be.
Like everything posted online, the video drew some criticism.
There's controversy over how @bryanclay pulling his daughters tooth with a javelin? He didn't force her! She was ok with it! Stop trippin!
Sydney's iconic harbor rings from 2000 Games sell for $17,000Jay Busbee at Fourth-Place Medal1 mth ago
So here's a one-of-a-kind Olympic collectible: the gargantuan Olympic rings that hung from the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia during the 2000 Games have just sold for about $17,000.
Measuring, when assembled, 229 feet by 131 feet and weighing about 55 tons, the rings had been languishing in 40 pieces in a warehouse near Sydney for the last 15 years. The warehouse's new owner found the rings, abandoned and apparently forgotten, once he bought the property.
He listed the rings on ebay and attracted 17 bids, topping out at $17,000. The winning buyer "was having a bit of a chuckle and wasn't too sure what he was going to do,"said Bernard Maas, owner of the warehouse. This sounds like it could be the mother of all "what the heck, let's see what happens" ebay bids. Those rings would look great stacked around someone's house, right?
Australia is considering another bid for the Summer Games in 2028, with Queensland a possible hosting destination.
Report: IOC strips U.S. relay team of 2012 silver medalDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal1 mth ago
The entire U.S. men's 4x100m relay team is being stripped of its 2012 Olympic silver medal, the Associated Press reports.
Team member Tyson Gay, who ran the third leg of the relay, failed drug tests in the summer of 2013. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency later said Gay first used a prohibited substance on July 15, 2012, less than three weeks before the start of the London Games.
All of Gay's results from London were disqualified, as well as those from other events, and he was suspended until July 2014. Gay holds the record for the fastest 100m by an American, clocking in at 9.69 records. He competed in the Beijing Olympics but did not win an invididual medal, his performance hampered by a hamstring injury.
Gay turned in his silver medal for the relay to the U.S. Olympic Committee last year. Now, Trell Kimmons, Justin Gatlin, Ryan Bailey, Jeff Demps (the former NFL running back), and Doc Patton will have to do the same. Six medals were awarded because Demps and Patton ran in a preliminary heat.
Nastia Liukin named Indy 500 Grand MarshalDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal2 mths ago
Keeping track of 2008 Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Nastia Liukin is turning into an Olympic sport all its own.
Indy 500 officials have announced that Liukin will be the grand marshal at this year's race, scheduled for May 24.
The five-time medalist is also currently in the final six on "Dancing with the Stars," and finishing up her junior year at New York University. Oh, and she's an NBC Olympics analyst. Does she ever sleep?
At the Indy 500, Liukin will be part of the Snake Pit Ball on May 23. On race day, she'll kick things off with a parade loop around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval and be introduced to the crowd.
"I have very fond memories of competing and performing in Indianapolis, and I will actually be back again in August for the P&G Gymnastics Championships," Liukin told the Indianapolis Star "I'm really honored to be the Grand Marshal for this year's Indianapolis 500. It will be so exciting to witness 'The Greatest Spectacle in Racing' - I can't wait!"
Charlie White and Tanith Belbin tie the knotDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal2 mths ago
With their ice dance partners looking on, Olympic medalists Charlie White and Tanith Belbin tied the knot on Saturday night.
Had a wonderful time capturing the great moments from @TanithJLB and @CharlieaWhite wedding this past Saturday. pic.twitter.com/7am3io1D6a
White and partner Meryl Davis captured the gold medal in 2014 and silver in 2010. They were the first Americans to win gold in Olympic ice dancing. Belbin captured silver with partner Ben Agosto in 2006, at the time the first American pair to medal in 30 years.
Both couples trained in Detroit, Michigan. They knew each other for more than a decade before White, 27, and Belbin, 30, started dating in 2009.
"She was the most beautiful girl at the rink," White told People. "I think probably every guy had a crush on her."
They married in front of about 130 family and friends, with Davis and fellow former ice dancer Lauren Fenft in the bridal party.
Phelps will likely head to new training facility soonDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal2 mths ago
Michael Phelps' long-time coach, Bob Bowman, just accepted the job as head coach of the Arizona State swimming team, Swimming World reports.
It's exciting news for the ASU swimmers, considering Bowman is the man who helped prep Phelps for his 22 Olympic-medal-winning performances, including 18 golds.
It also means Phelps will most likely be moving to Tempe, Ariz., to train for the Rio Olympics, just as he moved to Michigan to train while Bowman was the head coach at Michigan State between the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
For the majority of their partnership, Bowman has coached Phelps and others, including five-time Olympic medalist Allison Schmitt near, Phelps' hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
Phelps has continued to train with Bowman throughout the swimmer's six-month suspension from USA Swimming. He was suspended in October for violating the organization's code of conduct for being pulled over while driving under the influence. At the time, he agreed to enter a six-week treatment program.
Still a year out, Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross are ready for RioDanielle Elliot at Fourth-Place Medal2 mths ago
Kerri Walsh Jennings is ready to win Olympic gold in 2016. More than a year out, she's already talking about it as a done deal, confident that she and her partner will stand at the top of the podium in Brazil.
"When I started pre-season training this year, the hunger, it's fully back," Walsh Jennings told Yahoo Sports over lunch on Wednesday. "We want to be the best, without hesitation. We want everyone to know that we're the best."
It's easy to understand such confidence from a woman who's claimed the last three Olympic gold medals in women's beach volleyball, a sport that has only awarded five gold medals overall since being added in 1996. What's strange is seeing her say it while sitting next to someone other than longtime partner Misty May-Treanor.
In 2016, for the first time, Walsh Jennings will pursue gold with a different partner, April Ross.
Ross is one of the women Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor defeated in the gold-medal match in London. She and former partner Jen Kessy had plenty of success of their own, yet Ross hardly has the name recognition of Walsh Jennings or May-Treanor among casual Olympics fans. Few female athletes do.