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August 22, 2001 12:10PM
2001 Southern National Disc Golf Championships
Schedule of Events:
Players Meetings –
9:00AM - All Am players meet at the Chickasaw Course (not Chickasabogue)
9:00AM - All Pro players meet at Municipal Park (Langan Park)
10:00AM - Tee-off for all divisions
Lunch will be 1.5 hours and tee-off for the next round will begin 1.5 hours after the last group has turned in their cards. Get to your next course as quick as possible (after food arrangements) and check with course TD for tee-off time.
Evening – There will be a BBQ after the 2nd round at the Chickasabogue Sports Field. Locals will bring food and out of towners can make a donation if they wish.
There will be a driving contest and a putting contest (also at Chickasabogue) beginning 30 minutes after the last group has turned in their cards. These events will last approx. 1.5 hours. (These events are free to enter, so don't miss out)
Putting contest rules – 8 stations with two putts at each station. 1 point for every make and 0 points for every miss for a perfect score of 16. Highest total wins.
Driving contest rules – 3 discs for 3 throws, longest drive wins
Putting contest rules – "Texas Style"
Driving contest rules – 5 discs for 5 throws, longest drive wins.
9:00AM – Tee-off for all divisions (Please remember 9:00)
Lunch will be 1.5 hours and tee-off for the next round will begin 1.5 hours after the last group has turned in their cards. Get to your next course as quick as possible (after food arrangements) and check with course TD for tee-off time.
FINALS – The final six holes will be at Chickasaw after the fourth round. Only the top 4 pros plus ties will be in the finals. The final six holes will be skins.
Awards – The awards ceremony will be immediately after the final six holes at Chickasaw.
There will be hotdogs for sale at the Chickasaw course in between rounds. If you don't want to stop on your way to this course you can eat there.
Parking at Chickasaw course – Please use school parking lot at Chickasaw when course parking lot is full. Do not use the main building front parking lot due to a wedding. Look for signs and directions to alternate parking.
Restrooms – If using main building restroom at Chickasaw please be courteous to the wedding attendees. There are portalets at the other courses. They are not in convenient locations so make arrangements before the round if possible.
If you are lost or need assistance please feel free to call Jim O. at 209-4392.
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thanks for all you do. When I get there, a chilled Bud is what I have for you. 2na
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Thanks Mike for given this info ahead of time.
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For most people, the "birther" conspiracy—centered on the belief that Barack Obama wasn't a natural-born American citizen—ended when the president released his long-form birth certificate to the public last April. Birther claims were always bogus, but the release of the birth certificate was supposed to nail the coffin shut.
For a while, it did. According to YouGov's Adam Berinsky, the proportion of Americans who said that Obama was born in the United States rose from 55 percent before April 2011 to 67 percent afterward. Likewise, for Republicans—the group most likely to believe the conspiracy—the number who said Obama was born a citizen increased from 30 percent to 47 percent. Still low, but a real improvement.
Recently, Berinsky polled the question again, focusing on Republicans to see if their attitudes have changed in the ten months since the president released his birth certificate. Far from getting better, Republicans have actually doubled-down on the belief that Obama is foreign born:
Berinksy points to the durability of rumors in the face of lasting information as the culprit. As he writes, "Rumors tend to be sticky and merely repeating a rumor—even in the context of debunking that mistruth—increases its power." Likewise, political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler have found that corrections often fail to reduce misperceptions among the target ideological group and that corrections can even backfire and strengthen false beliefs.
In addition to both factors, I wouldn't be surprised if election-year rhetoric plays into it as well. Up until recently, the GOP hopefuls have struggled to distinguish themselves, and some candidates—like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich—have centered their attacks on the assumed "foreignness" of President Obama. The slogan "Believe in America," for example, doesn't actually make sense unless you assume that the president isn't American enough to lead the country. And claims that Obama is a "Saul Alinsky radical" who "apologizes for America" and wants to adopt "European socialism" are nods to the myth that Obama is foreign-born (and thus, untrustworthy).
As the election heats up, and this rhetoric becomes more intense, I wouldn't be surprised if the proportion of Republican birthers increases from its current high.
Mon, 2012-02-06 20:05
Now I understand where the expression"blind hatred' comes from. Or less dramatically, "There are none so blind as he who will not see." It would seem that at this year's Republlican Party Convention, mandatory dress will consist of white robe and hood covering the head. ,
Mon, 2012-02-06 21:00
Tue, 2012-02-07 15:41
Lets see if I have this straight. Obama's parents were both registered students at the University of Hawaii, a given. His mom gets pregnant so the parents travel to Kenya so that she can give birth in a 3rd world medical facility. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me.
Tue, 2012-02-07 21:36
The issue is not whether it makes sense, as greenhi notes. Nor is racism an issue of consideration: they probably know that it is racist. They just don't care.
The birther strategy is to keep repeating this nonsense so that a sliver of suspicion will always linger among those who disagree with Obama's policies. That sliver of suspicion will help justify other perceived grievances against Obama.
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Wed, 2012-02-08 02:59
My understanding of the term "birther" is that it is a pejorative term used by qu-ers to address heterosexuals. Hence, one must assume the pejorative connotation transitions conveniently for qu-ers libs and other libs when addressing an issue which clear- thinking Americans ( which tend to be conservative by nature ) tend to take somewhat seriously.
As a matter of record there is no name, signature or record of anyone associated with Obama's alleged birth in Hawaiii, at a time and date during which that particular named hospital had yet to exist, yet the document provided from the Nairobi hospital, where Obama has stated he was born, provides the name, title, date and signature of ten individuals involved with the birth in some manner. Hang it up.
Wed, 2012-02-08 12:28
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Article by R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences
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1. Back in 1961 people of color were called 'Negroes.' So how can the Obama 'birth certificate' state he is 'African-American' when the term wasn't even used at that time?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in " Kenya , East Africa ". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the " British East Africa Protectorate".
3. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital ". This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
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The Plot Thickens
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose
Social Security number (SSN) is being used by President Obama:
Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the
United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama's
current SSN) on or about March 1977.
Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut . Because of that,
his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few
reserved for Connecticut residents.
Obama never lived or worked in that state! Therefore, there is no
reason on earth for his SSN to start with the digits 042. None
Now comes the best
part! Ludwig spent the final months of his life in
Hawaii, where he died.
Conveniently, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked
part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and
therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig's
death, and because he never received Social Security benefits there
were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not
a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or became a
citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro simply scoured
the probate records until she found someone who died who was not
receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwigs
Connecticut SSN for Obama.
Just wait until Trump gets past the birth certificate and onto
the issue of Barry O's use of a stolen SSN. You will see leftist heads
exploding, because they will have no way of defending Obama.
Although many Americans do not understand the meaning of the term "natural born" there are few who do not understand that if you are using
someone else's SSN it is a clear indication of fraud.
Wed, 2012-02-08 18:45
If you honestly believed any of this nonsense, don't you think billionaires like the Koch brothers or Ruppert Murdock , or politicans competing with Obama like John McCain or Hilary Clinton, or even loudmouth Donald Trump, would hire the finest Lawyers in America to go after him? Sorry, friend, but you will in a world on nonsense and gibberish. Everything you said here has been proven false over and over again.
Wed, 2012-02-08 15:31
There was a video linked on WND in 2010 reporting on Hawaiian officials' refusal to sign Obama's "authorization for candidacy", according to the provisions of the U.S.Constitution. They had no trouble signing Kerry's, or Gore's --- but they refused to sign Obama's. The video recounted that Pelosi wrote a SPECIAL authorization, "duly authorized by the DEMOCRAT NATIONAL COMMITTEE" which they signed. Hawaiian officials obviously knew he wasn't born there, and were afraid of being prosecuted in the future.
A news article in late October 2008 on WND quotes Obama's grandmother, "He was born in Mombassa, Kenya; I was there!" Grandma died a couple weeks later.
Wed, 2012-02-08 19:48
Hi, Silverfox! Please cite the specific points that you think I'm ludicrous for believing. I clearly saw myself on the "jpeg of obama's birth certificate" the father's ethnicity is "African" (I wanted to edit the post but couldn't). NO document in 1961 EVER listed ethnicity as "African" --- it would have said "Negro".
No one has ever come forward claiming association with Barry during most of his college years. All college records have been SEALED; we have no theses, no grades, no paper trail of his past at all.
The "Left" has somehow successfully closed all discussions with nothing less than RIDICULE --- labeling everyone who validly questions Obama's history as "rednecks/dullards/conspiracy-nuts/BIRTHERS". It is not wrong nor unintelligent to ask questions. Indeed, the difference between "ignorant" and "intelligent" is largely the number of questions asked.
I came to this site via WND, an article entitled "The Birthers are Back". World Net Daily did host that video revealing Hawaii's refusal to sign Obama's "authorization for candidacy", until the words "authorized by provisions of the U. S. Constitution" were removed. I clicked on the link (wanted to include it here), but it no longer works. The citation of Obama's Grandmother ("He was born in Mombassa") is well documented.
Rather than sell me a cheap bridge, why don't you investigate the facts yourself --- and convince us with your findings? Obama is really an unknown; flat broke before he ran for Congress, now he's anything but --- and no one knows who he is. There is a report on his "world tour" with his college Pakistani room-mates, stopping in highly suspicious middle-eastern countries.
Whatever one wants to call "conspiracy" or not, the fact is Obama was endorsed by Hamas, Chavez, both Castros, Abidenejad (sp?), and every other despot & terror organization (reportedly also by Al-Qeida).
Why is this not a problem? I hope and pray it BECOMES a problem for American voters, before this November. A lot of us are severely terrified about the future of our very country. Fifteen trillion debt! When China's debt (last I looked) was negative 4.5 trillion (4½ trillion in cash sitting around!). If you counted to one billion, one per second, it would take you nearly thirty years! But we're talking five THOUSAND billion! The growth of our national debt has been increasing, even during the lie of "Clinton Balancing the Budget".
We are facing the end of America --- and the people are beginning to realize it. Some in office, notably Obama, are doing exactly the right things to end the country. We want it to stop.
Thu, 2012-02-09 20:13
The term Negro applies to American's of African decent. To immigrants from African the correct description is African. And obviously you did not know but nationality or race is whatever the parents report themselves as. If you have an honest interest in President Obama's history, there is a comprehensive biography starting with his grandparents, entitled "The Bridge". And your assumption that tens of thousands of people engaged in a massive fraud, including people who hate his guts and would have gained tremendously if he were disqualified. Grandmas telephone conversation with an unqual;ified translator is nonsense and she reiterated that he was not born in Kenya but was born in Hawaii. But if it made you run out and buy Corsi
's book, you contributed to his personal wealth. Bashing Obama is big business and there are a few million suckers who will throw their hard earned money to read and hear what they want to read and hear. You haven't explained how two dirt poor students living with his mom's family managed to raise the several thousands of dollars needed to travel to Kenya and back , in an age before Boeing 747's and real cheap air fare. Nor have you explained how the local Hawaii newspapers published his birth announcement based on reports issued by the hospital of his birth. Don't suppose anyone has a time machine to travel back to 1961 to infiltrate the hospital and issed the phoney birth report? f
Mon, 2012-02-20 01:07
On the White House website: "In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President's campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President's birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on the internet." I ask, "what date is stamped on this document?"
Wed, 2012-02-08 21:09
snopes.com is filled with information that discredits these "comments" you've listed. Using WND as a credible source is, well, questionable to say it kindly.
Wrong SSAN: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/ssn.asp
Birth Certificate: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/kenyacert.asp
More Bith Certificate: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
College Years: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
There are many articles on President Obama - most labeled false. However, I doubt that anyone that considers Joseph Farah and WorldNetDaily an authoritative source will be convinced by Snopes - or any other rational site.
Wed, 2012-02-08 22:24
Hi, "Dbtexas". The "snopes" link you provided on "ssn", lists obama's ssn as beginning with "045" --- it's still CONNECTICUT. How did a HAWAIIAN citizen get a CONNECTICUT number?
RE "birth certificate" --- wrong, I'm talking about the RELEASED US certificate. It lists father's ethnicity as "African" -- NO document in 1961 EVER said "African", it would have said "Negro"!!! The number also does not fit with other certificates issued at that time.
RE "college years" --- no other politician has spent so much time and money sealing records (at least two million!); and no other politician has been ALLOWED to do so. The obvious question is "why"? Doing a search on "Sohale Siddiqi" (Obama's college room-mate in New York, from the last Snopes entry), there is an EXTENSIVE Pakistani connection (see link below). This connection to our "Head-of-State" is frightening to many people; not the least because of Pakistan's support of Al-Qaeda and the overt protection of Osama Ben Ladin.
Snopes also has come under scrutiny as not being impartial.
There are too many unknowns and shadow-connections in Obama's past to simply dismiss them with a scoffing "You stupid birthers". Such ridicule is a blatant attempt to disarm those who only want the truth. If there's nothing to hide, why conceal it --- and with so much effort?
Wed, 2012-02-08 23:11
This seems to be the video I was looking for earlier --- Hawaii refused to certify Barak Obama as "authorized by provisions of the United States Constitution"; instead, Pelosi had him sign a certification "authorizing Obama by the Democrat National Committee".
What does Hawaii know that has been hidden from us?
Thu, 2012-02-09 20:16
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Sat, 2012-02-11 20:10
A few years ago I asked the State of Illinois for a copy of my birth certificate. I received instead a "Certificate of Birth". At least Obama has a certificate of LIVE birth. Imagine my shock to find out that I was actually born a dead Kenyan!!
My parents never breathed a word to me. I will never forgive them.
Sat, 2012-02-11 23:32
To Gadgeteer,
I, too, was born in Hawaii, My certificate of Live Birth also states that I was born in Kapiolani Maternity and Gyn hospital, and I was born years before president Obama was born there. If you will go back and read the source you cited on Kapiolani hospital more carefully, you will see that 1978 is year the maternity hospital combined with the children's hospital to become Kapiolani Women and Children's Hospital.
Thu, 2012-02-16 22:38
Hi, mlkirkpatrick. Will you tell me something? Do the first three numbers of your ssn conform to "Hawaii" area allocation, 575-576?
(see table at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.htm)
I have not confirmed that obama's ssn is as listed on Snopes
According to the Snopes entry, obama's ssn begins with 042 --- which is consistent with Connecticut. Assuming that IS obama's real ssn, why do you think it begins with 042? If as a Hawaii resident yours begins with 575-576, can you explain the difference?
I came to this website via World Net Daily, an article linking here "The Birthers are Back" (disparaging those labeled "birthers") --- on WND site is this article corroborrating the whole number, stating that "obama is not using a valid ssn". The reasons listed could include:
1.False Identity
2.Noncitizen Not in Status
3.Multiple SSNs with Different Identities
4.Scrambled Earnings with New SSN Assigned
5.SSN Obtained Using Fraudulent Documentation
6.SSN Assignment Based on Harassment/Abuse/Life Endangerment
7.Fictitious Identity
8.Fraud – OIG Investigated
9.Fraud SSN Misuse
Exactly what do you (and all other readers) think is occurring?
Thu, 2012-02-16 22:41
Oops, I meant to link the WND article, dated September 12, Two Thousand Eleven:
So --- what's really happening? Is this actually obama's real SSN, is it fake, why does it have a Connecticut prefix, and why isn't this making waves in the media?
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Imagine being confined to a bed for days on end. You cannot venture outside, you lack the freedom to really move about, and you're stuck in a room that's made to look generic and bland. As if that wasn't bad enough, you're here because you're sick—and you're only a kid.
"You know, younger kids who are in hospitals, they worry," said Ben Snow, a seventh grader at Pierson Middle School. Though he doesn't know from first-hand experience, he and his older brother Max, a sophomore, take this image to heart. Last year, they founded the Hamptons chapter of a non-profit organization called Game Knights, which collects pre-owned DVDs, video games and electronic devices to donate to local hospitals to give to children when they're sick. "These video game consoles distract you so you won't really think about your condition," Ben continued.
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Admiring their friends' work and eager to help make a difference, Max and Ben decided last spring to take up the mantle and form Game Knights Hamptons. Centered here in Sag Harbor, the boys said they already have about 10 members and are set to make their first donation to the children's wing of the Stony Brook Medical Center next Thursday, November 10.
"I knew something was missing from our school," Max said. "We collect food and toys around the holidays, but besides that [Pierson] doesn't have a real organized charity."
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"I don't think you would find a person that would denounce a charity that benefits sick people; [the administrators] were happy about it," Max said. "But that doesn't mean that right then and there it was accepted and automatically mainstream." When asked how much time the boys spent trying to get the program to where it is now—poised to make its first drop-off—Max stared straight ahead and with a straight face he didn't pause or hesitate before replying: "Oodles."
After discussions with administrators, and after giving a presentation to a collection of middle schoolers and their parents, Max and Ben were ultimately allowed to set-up a drop-box inside the school where students can now donate unwanted DVDs and video games. (There is also a drop-box at the .)
Their donation next week will include roughly 40 DVDs and video games, along with 10 brand new, portable DVD players and an Xbox 360, which were given to the group by the father of one of Game Knight's founding members. Plus, with proceeds from a bake sale the boys held at Pierson last year, in addition to money donated by two Sag Harbor parents, the Game Knights Hamptons has purchased a new iPad II to add to the mix.
"This is an amazing donation because it's our first endeavor," said Gay Snow, the boys' mother. She has helped the boys organize the charity and will drive them to the hospital next Thursday to deliver their gift.
It's somewhat ironic, she continued, because neither Max nor Ben actually play video games. "They're very addictive in nature," she confirmed. In fact, the Snow household has been "unplugged" for at least two years' running, Gay noted. "They're ok every once in a while," she continued. "But, in this instance, when you're in a setting when you're convalescing, they're actually therapeutic."


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Technological advances emerging in stride with rising concern over an aggressively expanding cable industry are leading the telcos back to their future. Like it or not, local exchange carriers are once again confronting the fact that the ability to offer video entertainment services is vital to holding onto their core residential voice and dial-up data market.
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High-speed data-over-cable. Telephony. Digital video and interactive TV. These are the new buzzwords of the '90s as cable network operators rush to take advantage of their high-bandwidth networks by deploying new, feature rich services in their drive to derive more revenues from their customers. The hardware side of the house, which has had problems keeping up with it all, is nearing the point ...
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So, I was so excited about the movie that I bought the special edition UK version (with the teeth!) even though I live in the US and the only thing I could watch it on was my computer (stupid DVD regions ). I really enjoyed the movie version and think they handled it really well. Unfortunately, after watching the Making Of feature and hearing Teatime say he based his reading on one of Johnny Depp's roles, I could never watch it in the same way.
As for the book, it was one of the first I read. I always thought it made so much sense for Death to be the Hogfather, since so much of the tradition was tied to death. Hogswatch (and every winter solstice holiday) was always about the fear of death, and ensuring life for another year. I think it actually ties in well to Pyramids, where the belief that the pharoah makes the sun rise doesn't ensure that a ball of fire keeps going around the disc, but it does make sure that the "sun rises".
I've always found Pratchett's explorations of how belief influences us and the world around us, and how we use belief to shape the outside world, to be one of his greatest strengths as a writer, and one of the best things about the Disc.
I especially like the tie between the old and new traditions and how easy it is for us to forget or ignore the past. We never really understand how important these traditions were for our ancestors and how they shaped the way we currently see the world. It made me appreciate how nice it is to live in a world where we don't worry that the sun will never rise again. But perhaps we've lost something by distancing ourselves so much for those roots.


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Jul 30, 2006
Unpacking the NXT Education kit
My inventory has been on www.peeron.com for a few days, and bought a grey baseplate today so I should be submitting photos of new parts soon.
There are quite a few differences from the shop NXT kit, amongst the most striking is the absence of the corner pieces the MUP (esp. Steve Hassenplug) fought for. (Ref the Wired article from February.) This has some impact on what can be built!
The instruction book (& software) only has one model - the Multibot (aka Tribot), in a base version and 7 alternate add-on assemblies; sensors in various positions, a light and the golf/hockey arm. (But not the grabber.)
[Note the light uses a converter cable to the older Technic/Mindstorms NXT connectors, and must be connected to one of the three motor ports.]
At this point I have not seen the retail kit, but I believe there are also instructions for the Alpha Rex, Spike and a Robo Arm. One reason is doubtless so that the Multibot can be re-used by classes without a lot of initial assembly time. Perhaps also these models use pieces not in the Educational kit?
The NXT Education software is not supplied in the kit, but as two parts (1) a set of 2 CD-ROMs, (software & some documentation) and (2) a site/class licence to allow use with any number of NXT kits. Similar to the arrangement for the RoboLab educational software used with the RCX.
The software requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Mac OS X, as with retail version of the NXT. Somewhat dissappointing as I only have one XP machine, and the only related functionality that the software appears able to use is the Windows XP Bluetooth stack.
My JVC mini-notebook (MP XP3210) has a screen too small to meet the software's requirement, and a small & full 20Gb hard drive. So I connected up an external monitor and an external hard drive to install on to. Software installed okay, but put up a message about untested Bluetooth drivers being present.
Not that helpful as I did not have Bluetooth dongle installed but I have previously installed drivers for at least three different Bluetooth dongles! Which one was it complaining about?
- Ttfn, Tony
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Some guy did a quick review and short video of his NXT kit here:
Lego Mindstorms NXT review with video . I saw it on slashdot and the video is funny.
- Jul 30, 2006, 9:29:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Hey, Tony.
I can NOT believe you didn't get the corner pieces (also called the Hassenpins). These are, by far, one of my most used connecting pieces... I run out of them constantly.
I agree that the Multibot's purpose is most likely to allow quicker build times and to provide a base for curriculum designers to use as a common point to start.
Is the one sensor that uses the converter cable a legacy RCX sensor? Double-edged sword - proves a legacy can work with NXT, but... it's a legacy - older hardware.
- Jul 30, 2006, 11:22:00 PM
- Tony Naggs said...
Hi Jim
First I have a favour to ask, could you add a link on the NXT Step front page to Jürgen Stuber's Lego NXT pages please?
Amazing huh? Certainly they will be one factor for FLL teams deciding to go for Education kit when they register, rather than going to Target or equivalent to get a store kit.
The inventory I put on Peeron has an option to view pictures:
The only parts supplied with the NXT that you use the converter cable for are the Lego lamps.
I have old RCX rotation and temperature sensors which I tried with converter cable and the Try Me view on the NXT brick. The old sensors are still on sale through Lego Education distribution channels.
(Probably still in Lego stores too, but the only Lego store I have used closed in June.)
Ttfn, Tony
- Jul 31, 2006, 12:39:00 AM
- Tony Naggs said...
I hope my previous post was not too garbled - I was rushing to go out.
The NXT Education kit does have some attractions; more pieces with studs make assembly easier for younger users, some small baseplates and a choice of wheel sizes.
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I did a search to see if this had been posted before, but didn't find anything (So sorry if it was). The forum's requirement that a word have more than two letters makes searching for "HP" rather difficult. lol
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What this doesn't answer though is, wouldn't HP have done due diligence prior to a purchase of that size (Or any purchase for that matter)?
It sounds like HP's own accounting and acquisitions department is at fault here. What a mess.


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