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I love college football. Anyone who knows me, probably knows what I'm doing about this time on a Saturday. And while I hail from the SEC, went to Georgia and have always loved "old man style" football, I've also lived in Southern California and now in Minneapolis where I've gotten to enjoy Pac 12 and Big 10 football. Doing work at Big 12 and Big East schools has also led to me attending many a game in many a stadium. I've also always loved watching teams that just plain suck or teams that no one has ever heard of. They have more heart than an entire division of NFL teams combined. In short, I'll watch pretty much any football, any time.
In my travels, I've come across many a team who have names that just make me wonder what in tarnation they were thinkin'. So I've compiled a list on this beautiful college football Saturday. Here goes:
- Demon Deacons of Wake Forest: A guy in a top had rides onto the field on a motorcycle. I know, it sounds like Stan Lee in the 60's, right. But Wake Forest is a Baptist college, so after being called the Baptists, or Old Gold and Black for a few decades, in 1923 a few people started calling them the Demon Deacons due to a fighting spirit of sorts. Given that a bunch of Baptist old timers took awhile to come around to such a name, in 1941 the Demon Deacon became the official mascot, originally being picked by one of the fraternities on campus.
- Georgetown Hoyas comes from "What Rocks" in Greek, Hoya Saxa!. Now, running around chanting Greek isn't probably what most people think of a ruckus college crowd these days, but this name goes all the way back to 1893! Their mascot is a bulldog, so I've always had a soft spot for 'em.
- Stormy Petrels is a name I don't know that I'd of heard if I weren't from Georgia. This is the name of of the Oglethorpe University team and comes from a seabird. It came by the way of a college president in 1915 and supposedly dates all the way back to James Oglethorpe, the founder of the Georgia colony.
- Boll Weevils are the number one enemy of cotton. And if you've ever opened up some flour filled with these little devils then you might get totally squeezy seeing an 8 foot tall one roaming the sidelines of the University of Arkansas at Monticello. A great name for a team in 1920, when they got the name. The women's teams are known as the Cotton Blossoms. Makes you wonder what exactly what the big industry is in that area…
- Hokies is the name of the team out of Virginia Tech. They're not having a great season, but they have been pretty darn good ever since a guy named Michael Vick went there. The name means nothing, except for to millions of college football fans.
- Tar Heels is the name of the North Carolina team. I've been unable to ascertain where the name originated, but Walt Whitman did call North Carolinians tarboilers, so I'll go with people that were unlucky enough to step in tar. The Hokies and the Tar Heels are both in the ACC.
- Anteaters of University of California Irvine. This name isn't over 100 years old, but it is closing in on 50 years old. The name was chosen by students, soon after the school was founded, in 1965.
- Ichabods of Washburn University in Kansas are named after college a headless horseman. Actually, they aren't. The name hails from the founder of the school, Ichabod Washburn. But don't tell the guys on the other side of the lines that!
- Wonder Boys of Arkansas Tech were named in 1919. Guess things were different back then… These days, just think the guy who plays Iron Man also played a Wonder Boy.
- Horned Frogs is the name of a team that I've always liked, Texas Christian University (TCU). Now, there are a lot of awesome things you can do with the name of this team, but to keep it PG I've always just called them the Horned Toads.
- Trolls is the name of the Trinity Christian College team, in Illinois. Irony is that they're not very Christian beasts. Named in '59, they were already out of all the good names by the time he got to town…
- Cornhuskers is the name of the teams at the University of Nebraska. I have loved watching them over the years and they're probably one of the biggest names on this list. The reason I put them on here is that if you think about it, people who husk corn is a weird thing to name a team after… Of course, to continue picking on the Big Ten, so are Buckeyes and Golden Gophers. Then again, you'd expect funny names for teams in a conference where they haven't learned to count past 10 (there are 12 teams in the Big 10).
- Hoosiers are the University of Indiana and a term in fact used to refer to those from Indiana. To continue picking on the Big 10, this term also has no real known origin but dates back to the 1830s before football was awesome. So there ya' go. It's funny, many of these names sound weird if you've never heard them but if you watch sports they just seem second nature, like they belong…
- Billikins is the name given to teams of St Louis University. Billikins are elven charm dolls. Now, if you're Tigg from Sons of Anarchy and you see one of these, you might just run off the field screaming. So if you play football against big burly bikers then hey, great name!
- Cobbers is the name of the team at Concordia University. Apparently corn is somehow linked to football.
- Fighting Artichokes is the name of the Scottsdale Community College team. 'Cause nothing strikes fear into carnivorous football players more than the thought of having to eat a thistle!
- Aggies is the name of the Texas A&M team (that just beat the #1 'Bama Crimson Tide tonight). This isn't actually a weird name once you wonder and realize it's short for Agriculture, the A in the name. The Aggies are part of the Big 12, by the way. A conference that doesn't have 12 teams. TCU is also in the Big 12 now, although it's their 3rd conference in as many years…
- Jumbos of Tufts University are not named after 300 pound lineman. Instead, they're named after an elephant donated by Barnum after it died and got stuffed by taxidermists. I guess not everyone can name their team the Crimson Tide and then have a picture of an elephant, right… Anyway, I put this on the list 'cause it makes me think of the movie Dumbo. That's all…
- Geoducks (geo is pronounced gooey) is the name of the Evergreen State College (Washington) teams. I now know that a Geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world. Their mascot dresses as a mollusks which must be terrifying for opposing teams that have shellfish allergies. "Go, Geoducks, go, Through the mud and the sand, Let's go. Siphon high, squirt it out, Swivel all about, Let it all hang out."
- Fighting Camels is the name of the Campbell University team. But the name of the school or team isn't why they are on this list as much as the name of the mascot. Here he is:
- Scrotie is the unofficial mascot of the Rhode Island School of Design. This isn't a team name. But they have the hockey team called the Nads and the basketball team named the Balls. I'll let you google image the mascot yourself and spare you the imagery here…
- Fighting Pickles is the name of the North Carolina School of the Arts teams. It's an art school… But you'd be surprised how similarly their pickle looks like Scrotie above!
- Dirtbags is just an awesome name. And very Long Beach in some ways. There's not much more to say about California State University-Long Beach.
- Banana Slugs is my second most favorite name weird name around. If you've ever been to Santa Cruz, you probably understand why marijuana was legalized in California. If so, then this name makes sense; otherwise, not-so-much. Trivia: in 1985, the administration wanted to name the team the sea lions. The students, high though they may be, ended up winning out and the Banana Slugs it was!
- Ragin' Cajuns is probably my favorite of these. Louisiana-Lafayette is Cajun country and the name of this team dates back to the 1970s, although they've been playing football since 1901.
Runner ups, dropping out of the top 25 for one reason or another: Black Flies, Pomona Sagehens (The Huns was an awesome name), Gorlocks (named from Gore and Lockwood, two streets that intersect, their mascot is actually a cheetah/buffalo/St Bernard mix that would make Napoleon Dynamite totally jealous), the NYU Violets, the University of New England Nor'easters, Chaparrals, Chanticleers, Lemmings, Poets, Squirrels, Thundering Herd (I'm guessing the only Buffalo in Huntington West Virginia is the Buffalo Wild Wings on 4th), Ladies and Gents, University of Delaware Blue Hens, Student Princes, the Hustlin' Quakers of Earlham College, Sooners (I picked on the Big 12 too much already), Tulsa's Golden Hurricane, the Zips, the Lutes (no really, another Christian school, too), Shockers (whoever thought up WuShock was certainly struck by lightning), Terrapins (ya, nothing says we average 8 days for a 40 yard dash like the Terps), the Boilermakers (I picked on the Big 10 too much already), the Green Terror, the Keelhaulers, the Gamecocks (the baseball caps they sell at the campus store just say COCKS), the Bridges (I guess it is Brooklyn after all), the Fighting Koalas, the South Dakota School of Mines HardRockers (didn't they beat Minnesota a couple of years ago along with everyone else in the Dakotas?!?!), the Lord Jeffs (srsly?), the Okras (okra scares the crap out of me) and of course, any team with a Swallow for a mascot (college, pro, etc).
Note: I've tried to leave out any teams named after Native American tribes.
Now that I've probably managed to offend pretty much every sports fan, I'll tell you that I love these names. I didn't call this article the "25 Dumbest Names for College Teams" or the "25 Stupidest Names in College Sports." There's a reason for that. I love all these teams. And honestly, it would seem somewhat trite for most of these teams to be called the Bulldogs, the Falcons, the Braves, the Hawks, the Thrashers, the Georgia Southern Eagles, the Valdosta State Blazers or the Mercer Bears. But if you've had a name for decades then you kinda' stick with it, trite, silly or awesome. Now, let's go get some Fighting Pickles tats!


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Six-Legged Walker with UNIQUE Turning Mechanism
Nice "Nine Inch Nails" soundtrack, too.
7 comments:
- Robolab 2.9 said...
Is it just me, or is this post blank?
- Oct 31, 2008, 1:42:00 PM
- Rick Rhodes said...
I hadn't finished the post when I hit the "publish" button by mistake.
It's up now, though.
- Oct 31, 2008, 1:47:00 PM
- Dino_Martino said...
why do you use blue friction pegs for gearing I.S.O. yellow ones?
- Oct 31, 2008, 5:11:00 PM
- Rick Rhodes said...
I didn't build the model, so I don't know why the builder used blue pegs.
I've heard that LEGO has made frictionless pegs in different colors. So, maybe these blue pegs are frictionless after all.
Can anyone confirm this?
- Nov 1, 2008, 12:44:00 AM
- megamindstorm101 said...
If im not mistaken I belive that is similar to the turning mechanism in M.P.S's "Slug" the only difference is that the one in the slug is hidden more. But still very unique and it walks. It is very difficult to create a walking model (I tried before and I failed...badly)
- Nov 1, 2008, 8:49:00 AM
- Jonathan Daudelin said...
A look at Peeron seems to indicate that both blue and black can be non-friction... personally I've only seen blue, black and white as friction and tan and grey as non-friction.
- Nov 1, 2008, 12:41:00 PM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
megamindstorm, you are right - the only difference to the Slug's turning mechanism is that I used a four-armed cross there and located it more centralized (making it more hidden, as you correctly stated).
The six-legged walker at hand is nonetheless a very good model.
- Nov 3, 2008, 2:30:00 AM


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Europeen Space Agency's Rosetta Project simulated with LEGO®
ESA's Rosetta mission will rendezvous with comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. In November of that year, Rosetta's Philae lander will touchdown on the comet and thoroughly investigate its composition.
ESA Space Scientist Detlef Koschny build a LEGO model of Rosetta mission in order to visualize the complicated orbital choreography used in this space mission.
He then goes on and demonstrates the prototype of the Philae lander he made with his son's LEGO Mindstorms.
Then with help from Steven Canvin from the LEGO Mindstorms Team and other players, a full fledge prototype was built... Here is a fantastic video showing off this prototype:
The feedback from the engineering students on the prototype will be used by ESA, the German Aerospace Center DLR, Europlanet, Lightcurvefilms and LEGO to finalize the Education Kit and adapt it to the needs of European curricula.[2]
Read the full article here.
All video presented here are from the ESA YouTube channel
[1] Rosetta: Mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko [Hardcover]
[2] www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMN40NO7EG_index_0
Posted by: Marc-Andre Bazergui (bazmarc) at 2:22 PM
Labels: DLR, ESA, Europlanet, Lightcurve Films, Maarten Roos, Philae lander, Rosetta Mission
6 comments:
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
Three most interesting videos, with the third one being simple brilliant!
This is education on its best.
Congrats to Steven and the involved team for producing such a gem (wasn't there blog contributor Martyn showing up at the beginning?).
- Oct 4, 2010, 2:16:00 AM
- Robotica said...
That is right, the model was build by three MINDSTORMS Experts:
Gerrit, Eric and Martyn,(me)
I'm looking forward to the last movie, that is where we explain how we build the model.
- Oct 4, 2010, 7:29:00 AM
- Matthias Paul Scholz said...
> I'm looking forward to the last movie
So do I. :)
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- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Good Stuff, Folks. Chris
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- Marc-Andre Bazergui (bazmarc) said...
No wonder that guy looked like you Martyn!!!
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Polls are open across Iowa after the electoral buildup that started long before and grew in intensity after the state's January caucuses. The polls were scheduled to open at 7 a.m. Tuesday and remain open until 9 p.m.
It's a high-stakes election for many candidates, including the two at the top of their party's tickets: President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and Republican Mitt Romney.
Iowans also are deciding who will represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives, which party will control the state Senate and whether to retain an Iowa Supreme Court justice who supported gay marriage.
Election Official: 68,000 Absentees Not Submitted
A spokesman for the Iowa secretary of state's office says about 670,000 people voted early, but roughly 68,000 absentee ballots requested by voters hadn't been turned in by Monday night.
Spokesman Chad Olsen says the number of absentee ballots not submitted sounds like a big number, but the percentage not returned is typical of past elections. Olsen calls it "nothing new."
He says Iowa was setting a record for early voting, with up to 45 percent of people voting outside the normal polling place.
People with absentee ballots could mail them up until Monday. Such ballots won't be counted if mailed today, but they can drop off ballots off in person.
Minor Problems Reported
Balky machines that threatened to disrupt voting at a Dubuque church have been repaired.
The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald reports that the machines broke down soon after the Dubuque County polling station opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday at St. Columbkille Catholic Church.
Voters who couldn't wait for the repairs filled out their ballots by hand and gave them to poll workers.
The newspaper says the repairs were completed and the machines were back in operation by around 7:45 a.m.
Spokesman Chad Olsen for the Iowa Secretary of State's Office also reported that Story County had problems with electronic poll books that are used to check in voters. He says poll workers reverted to paper copies, so voting delays were minimized.
The county auditor says a few voters in Pottawattamie County on Iowa's western border are upset about being late for work after problems at voting precincts.
Marilyn Jo Drake says glitches happened Tuesday morning at about 10 of the 40 precincts, causing a wait in at least two locations.
Drake says delays of 15 to 20 minutes caused "a little bit of anger in a couple of precincts.
She blamed the problem on identification labels that allow voters to confirm their information without having to handprint it on rosters. Some of the labels got put into the wrong "port" of the voting machines.
Drake says "we had some workers panic" but fixed the problem as quickly as they could.
The problem didn't affect counting of ballots.
The Race for the White House
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney now yield center stage to voters Tuesday for an Election Day choice that will frame the contours of government and the nation for years to come.
After a grinding presidential campaign that packed suspense to the finish, Americans head into polling places in sleepy hollows, bustling cities and superstorm-ravaged beach towns deeply divided. All sides are awaiting, in particular, a verdict from the nine battleground states whose votes will determine which man can piece together the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.
Obama has more options for getting there. So Romney decided to make a late dash to Cleveland and Pittsburgh on Tuesday while running mate Paul Ryan threw in stops in Cleveland and Richmond, Va. Obama opted to make a dozen radio and satellite TV interviews from his hometown of Chicago to keep his closing arguments fresh in voters' minds.
Both sides cast the Election Day choice as one with far-reaching repercussions for a nation still recovering from the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression and at odds over how big a role government should play in solving the country's problems.
If past elections are any guide, a small but significant percentage of voters won't decide which presidential candidate they're voting for until Tuesday. Four percent of voters reported making up their minds on Election Day in 2008, and the figure was 5 percent four years earlier, according to exit polls.
By contrast, Election Day came early for more than a third of Americans, who chose to cast ballots days or even weeks in advance.
An estimated 46 million ballots, or 35 percent of the 133 million expected to be cast, were projected to be early ballots, according to Michael McDonald, an early voting expert at George Mason University who tallies voting statistics for the United States Elections Project. None of those ballots were being counted until Tuesday.
Obama's final campaign rally, Monday night in Des Moines, Iowa, was filled with nostalgia. A single tear streamed down Obama's face during his remarks, though it was hard to tell whether it was from emotion or the bitter cold.
Team Obama's closing lineup included Bruce Springsteen, rapper Jay-Z, singers Mariah Carey, Ricky Martin and John Mellencamp, the NBA's Derek Fisher and actors Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Rock. Springsteen, who hitched a ride aboard Air Force One for part of the day, even composed an anthem for the president, rhyming "Obama" with "pajamas."
Obama, making his last run for office at the still-young age of 51, was tickled to have Springsteen along as his traveling campaign, telling the crowd in Madison, "I get to fly around with him on the last day that I will ever campaign so that's not a bad way to end things."
Team Romney's closing events offered a slimmer celebrity quotient, including Kid Rock and country rock performers The Marshall Tucker Band. But the GOP nominee didn't seem to mind.
After a warm welcome at a rally in Fairfax, Va., Romney, 65, told cheering supporters: "I'm looking around to see if we have the Beatles here or something to have brought you. But it looks like you came just for the campaign and I appreciate it."
The forecast for Election Day promised dry weather for much of the country, with rain expected in two battlegrounds, Florida and Wisconsin. But the closing days of the campaign played out against ongoing recovery efforts after Superstorm Sandy. Election officials in New York and New Jersey were scrambling to marshal generators, move voting locations, shuttle storm victims to polling places and take other steps to ensure everyone who wanted to vote could do so.
Obama, who voted 12 days early, was sure to observe his Election Day ritual of playing pickup basketball with friends and close advisers. The one time he skipped the tradition, he lost the New Hampshire primary in 2008.
"We won't make that mistake again," said senior adviser Robert Gibbs.
Romney was voting at a community center near his home in Belmont, Mass., before his sprint to Ohio and Pennsylvania. His campaign released a gauzy 5-minute Election Day web video called "The Moment" replaying key events from the campaign, with Romney assuring voters, "The future is better than the past."
Iowa's Four Congressional Races
In a bid to become the state's first female U.S. House member, former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack moved to Ames to try to unseat outspoken Republican Rep. Steve King in the reconfigured 4th District.
Nine-term Republican Rep. Tom Latham also relocated, settling in the Des Moines suburb of Clive to run against eight-term Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell a bitter race that's likely to end one of their long-running political careers.
Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack moved 20 miles south to Iowa City to run in a new district that includes Davenport, where he faced an upset bid from corporate lawyer John Archer. And Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley of Waterloo again tried to fight off Ben Lange, the same small-town lawyer who nearly defeated him in 2010.
While Republicans were favorites to retain their House majority, Iowa's races were seen as a bellwether for Democrats' gains or losses.
The 4th District race in mostly rural northwestern Iowa looks to be one of the tightest races this year, pitting Vilsack, wife of U.S. Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, against the outspoken King.
Elected to Congress in 2002, King has endeared himself to conservatives for being quick to defend their causes on the House floor and national television. But in the process, he has made many remarks on everything from President Barack Obama to illegal immigrants that have been criticized as insensitive, inaccurate or outrageous.
King, 63, had never faced a serious challenge in the heavily Republican area, but the post-census addition of Ames made the district less conservative.
Vilsack, a 62-year-old former teacher and journalist from Mount Pleasant, moved to Ames last year and cast herself as a moderate who would focus on improving the economies of small towns. In one radio debate, she called King a bully and "an embarrassment to the people of Iowa."
King tried to use his bluntness to his advantage, painting himself as a "straight-talker." His campaign was boosted by Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, who recorded radio ads calling him "a unique and colorful public servant" and a leading opponent of Obama's health care law.
The intense King-Vilsack race didn't quite match the nastiness that surfaced between Latham and Boswell in the 3rd Congressional district, which stretches from Des Moines to southwest Iowa.
Boswell accused Latham of an "insider deal" because the Latham family's bank accepted a $2.4 million loan from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, the bank bailout that Latham voted against in 2008. Latham denied any involvement in the bank's decision, and noted that Boswell voted for the bailout.
Boswell, 78, went on the defensive after Des Moines liberal activist Ed Fallon claimed that Boswell, through intermediaries, offered him an $80,000 per-year job in his office if he wouldn't run in a 2008 Democratic primary. Boswell denied the allegation and sued Fallon, accusing him of defamation.
Latham, 64, said the personal attacks made the race "a different campaign than most that I've been a part of."
In the 2nd Congressional district that covers southeastern Iowa, an attack ad aired by three-term representative Loebsack, 59, shook up an otherwise predictable race. The ad accused Archer, a John Deere attorney, of being involved in the company's decision to ship jobs to Mexico in the 1990s but that was before Archer worked there. Archer, 40, accused Loebsack of unfairly criticizing John Deere, one of the region's biggest employers.
In northeastern Iowa, Braley was trying to hold off challenger Lange, a 33-year-old Independence lawyer, who was just 4,200 votes short of upsetting Braley in 2010.
Braley, 55, promoted himself as a champion of veterans and the middle class who's working to improve the economy. Lange attacked Braley for voting for the health care law, which he claimed included a $716 billion cut to Medicare that is "endangering Iowa seniors."
Judicial Retention Vote
Voters were deciding Tuesday whether to keep Justice David Wiggins on the Iowa Supreme Court or throw him out of office for joining the landmark 2009 decision that legalized gay marriage.
Social conservatives angered by that ruling were hoping to oust Wiggins. In an unprecedented campaign two years ago, they helped defeat three of his colleagues.
Liberal groups and trial lawyers were trying to keep Wiggins on the bench. State Supreme Court justices must face voters the first year after they are appointed and then every eight years. Justices must receive a simple majority vote to stay in office.
The vote on Wiggins' retention is considered a barometer for the country's changing views on gay marriage and a flashpoint in the debate over the role of courts in American life.
Wiggins joined six colleagues in unanimously declaring a state law banning gay marriage violated the equal-protection clause of Iowa's constitution, making Iowa the first Midwestern state to legalize gay marriage. Thousands of gay couples have wed in the state.
The backlash from conservatives, both in Iowa and nationwide, was fierce. Groups such as the National Organization for Marriage spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaign against Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and Justices David Baker and Michael Streit in 2010, and about 55 percent of Iowa voters agreed to remove them from office.
Conservatives ran a similar campaign this year calling for Wiggins' ouster during his retention vote, and the Iowa Republican Party also joined the effort.
Wiggins may benefit from increasing support for gay marriage in Iowa and a more organized pro-retention effort from groups such as the Iowa State Bar Association, which was urging voters to keep politics out of the judicial branch.
Another factor in Wiggins' retention campaign was that he received a satisfactory but relatively poor performance review from attorneys. A Bar Association survey found that 63 percent of lawyers believed he should be retained, far lower than the other three newly appointed justices on the ballot, and gave him middling marks for his temperament and demeanor.
Wiggins was appointed in 2003 by Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack. If he is not retained for another eight-year term, Republican Gov. Terry Branstad will appoint a replacement next year from a slate of finalists chosen by a judicial nominating commission.
Wiggins honored Iowa's long tradition in which justices do not raise money or actively campaign. "I want to keep my job, believe me, but I will not jeopardize the integrity of the Iowa Supreme Court in the process," he wrote in The Des Moines Register.
The three remaining justices who joined the 2009 ruling will face voters in future elections.
Battle for Control of the Iowa Senate
If Iowa Republicans pick up just two state Senate seats in Tuesday's election, they would have nearly complete control of state government for the first time in nearly 16 years, giving them the ability to push ahead with an ambitious agenda of tax cuts, education changes and restrictions on gay marriage and abortion.
The risk of Democrats losing their tenuous hold on the Iowa Senate has raised the stakes of legislative races in an election year where presidential politics have largely dominated the political landscape in this battleground state.
Democrats currently hold 26 seats in the 50-member Senate. Republicans won a 20-seat majority in the House in 2010, and most think it is unlikely Democrats can gain a majority in the 100-member chamber in this election. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad isn't up for re-election until 2014.
GOP leaders said if they gain control of both chambers for the first time since 1997, they will pass legislation dealing with hot-button social issues, but mostly emphasize jobs and the economy.
Iowans Ready to See Ads Come to An End
Politicians and activists agree: There is lots of interest in the election, but many Iowa voters will be relieved when the campaigns are history.
The campaign ads started months before the state's January 2012 presidential caucus, and never stopped.
"People talk all the time about how they basically mute their TV or shut it off," said Republican Rep. Tom Latham, who is locked in a heated campaign for Iowa's 3rd Congressional District with Democratic incumbent Leonard Boswell.
Campaign volunteers have experienced voter fatigue, too.
"People are going to be glad when we forget their names and forget where their houses are," said Caroline Koppes, an Obama campaign volunteer in Dubuque. "They're tired of it."
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Her home base might be Los Angeles, but Lisa Curry still has a phone number that begins with the area code 850.
"There are a lot of people out here who still have phone numbers with their home area codes," Curry said. "You get a sense of where people are from, where their roots are."
Curry's are planted firmly in Port St. Joe, a 2002 graduate of Port St. Joe High School, the daughter of prominent local physicians Tom and Betty Curry.
When a request for qualifications and bids for a documentary about the saving and relocation of the Cape San Blas Lighthouse came along, Curry and her fiancé Clayton Long saw an opportunity.
"(Port St. Joe) is a place I love and a place I have always loved," Curry said by phone from the Los Angeles apartment she and Long, who will wed in Port St. Joe next year, share.
"We feel lucky and very fortunate to be able to do this documentary."
The documentary is being funded by a $125,000 BP grant won by the city of Port St. Joe.
And beyond her roots in Gulf County, Curry, along with Long, brought plenty of expertise to the project.
After graduating from Princeton, Curry did her graduate work at the University of Southern California's School of Fine Arts, one of the most prestigious schools for the arts, particularly filmmaking, in the country.
She spent three years in what she called a "trade school" kind of setting that was effectively three years of work in a variety of specialties, from film editing to post production.
Long spent two years doing much the same tasks across town at UCLA.
"We have specialized training," Curry said. "You learn your craft by doing your craft."
Curry has spent most of her time since in television. For the past three years she has been a writers' assistant on the hit show "The Office" which recently ended a highly-honored nine-year run on NBC.
Long was drawn to documentary films.
"I have always loved documentaries," Long said. "The stories that can be pulled from a documentary can sometimes, well, be better than any fiction."
The two spent a recent week in the area to begin work on the film, starting with interviewing a host of people about the lighthouse project and the history of the lighthouse.
The documentary form, Long and Curry said, differs from the making a typical movie.
In a typical movie, script is king. The script is "story-boarded" to demonstrate in advance what shots will comprise the movie.
There is no script for a documentary.
"The way a documentary works, you have a framework for what you think the film will be about," Curry said.
Long added, "You find the stories through the interviews."
Curry jumped back in, "You look for the common threads. Where is the heart of the movie?"
The two were aware they were jumping feet first into a bit of a controversy as various stakeholders within the city and county continue to make their cases for the relocation of the lighthouse to the city or to another location on Cape San Blas.
They had read about the controversies and part of their pitch in seeking the award to do the documentary was the relative detachment they had from California.
"It is our job to illustrate what people care about," Curry said. "We were clear from the beginning that we saw ourselves as the objective party.
"The important takeaway for us is that people really care. It is more important to the story when the people really care about the subject."
Long added, "It really makes our job easier."
Curry said, "It is not our job to tell a story; it's our job to find the story."
That story, they agreed, would begin to take shape in the hours of interviews they conducted over the course of the week; a week that Curry and Long agreed underscored the kind of people that call Port St. Joe home.
"It was just such a pleasure," Curry said. "People were so gracious and accommodating. We feel lucky."
Now, with 20 hours of film already in the can, the task becomes what to keep, what to edit out and to identify the key threads to that story.
"We are feeling good about where we are," Long said.
Curry said they will watch all the ram footage, mark the parts they like.
"Editing is where the movie comes together," Curry said.
Long noted there is less of a time pressure, as the lighthouse move – which they will return to town to film – remains weeks away and the deadline for the film is still in the distance.
The will also receive input from several friends with extensive experience in making documentary films who live near them.
The sense of pride, of community, crackled through the phone line as Curry spoke.
Long, whose family used to vacation at Gulf Shores, AL, has now been to Port St. Joe three times and was nearly as glowing.
"My impressions have been very positive," Long said. "The people, the town, the beaches, the clear waters, it is like a more charming version of Gulf Shores."
Curry and Long will be back in town as filming dictates, including taking in the upcoming Centennial Celebration.


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Dreaming about the killer sales at Performance Bicycles.
There's so much to see with these little legs its exhausting.
Ahhhhh, the taste of fresh rubber in the morning
After a long afternoon of memorization of things to chase, he sleeps.
if only i could reach the pedals
Too chubby to chase the bikes now, so I'll just dream about it.
hmnnn, Shimano or Ultegra!! ; and what wheelset do I want?^^^^^^zzzzz^^^^hrrrmnff
I'm about TIRED of all this Bike Crap, I've had enough !!!
Those tires taste better than the fake bones from Pet Mart. Hopes he gets my treats from Performance tires dept from now on….
Doggone great sale!
Now if they only had a bike i could ride Doggiestyle!
All bikes? I've searched high and low and can't find a 62mm seat tube and 300 mm top tube setup.
What? No Oscar Meyer Weiner bike? What kinda shop is this?
He's sleeping because your bikes are always on sale. ;)


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Kill Them All? Learn to Live With Them? There are no easy answers when "invasive" plants move into our forests, meadows, and backyards. But first we need to know what questions to ask.
On a sunny October morning, at the edge of a gravel road just off U.S. Route 7 in Charlotte, Vermont, I watched the Green Reaper approach. He rode in the passenger seat of a maroon Ford F-250 pickup; as he passed, he flashed a broad smile and motioned for me to follow.
The bed of the truck, I knew, carried the tools of his trade: Glyphosate. Imazapyr. Triclopyr. And, so that he might kill as quickly and effectively as possible, back-mounted sprayers with coiled loops of tubing through which his chemicals would run.
I followed as the truck rolled slowly down the road. It stopped briefly by a small pond, so that the Reaper and his driver could admire a flock of ducks basking in the atypically warm weather. The truck started moving again, then veered left into a private driveway. It pulled onto the grass and parked, and the Green Reaper emerged, smiling again, hand extended, bushy eyebrows raised in friendly greeting. In other words, ready to kill.
It wasn't the first time I'd met the man, whose real name is Markus Bradley and who, I should state in the interest of full disclosure, was raised in the same rural Vermont town as I. Along with Markus's twin brother, we'd been childhood friends, though we'd fallen out of regular contact as we'd entered adulthood. But I'd kept close enough tabs to know that Markus had married, had three children, and settled in Vershire, Vermont, where he was a partner in a forestry consulting business called Redstart and maintained a keen interest in the sport of ice hockey.
So it was Markus I'd called when it was time to update our forest management plan under the state's current-use act. And it was Markus who'd spent three hours walking our 30-acre woodlot with me, moving quietly and quickly through the understory, showing me where a bear had marked a maple with its ample claws and admiring the handful of red oak growing on our land. "Don't usually see these so far north," Markus had said. "It's real nice to see."
But there was something else that Markus had pointed out that day, something that in only a few short years has utterly redefined the nature of both his career in forest management and his relationship to the New England landscape: invasive plant species. Indeed, we hadn't gone more than 100 feet into the woods behind my home before Markus discovered the first specimen, a bush (a.k.a. shrub) honeysuckle: in my case, one belonging to the Lonicera genus, not the low Diervilla honeysuckle that's native to New England. We sidled up to the verdant plant, with its numerous, spindly stalks, and Markus gathered a cluster of small, oval leaves in his hand. He looked at me with intent. "Once you get tuned into what this plant looks like," he said, as he gave the handful of foliage a shake for emphasis, "you'll be horrified, because it's everywhere. And once you know, your innocence is over."
It is said that ignorance is bliss, which may be true, but if so, that doesn't account for the fact that once an ignorance is exposed, it often seems as if the only relief is to expose it further. That's what Markus promised he could do for me, although he warned me that I should be careful of how much I let myself know. "I had one woman tell me I ruined her walks in the woods," he told me, and he looked as though he actually felt bad about it.
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I recently heard that all UNL administrative units are going to have to change their web pages to conform to the UNL template. In searching for information about the UNL template, I discovered that "accessibility" is one of the criteria for the template. This makes me wonder how "accessibility" is defined.
My daughter is legally blind, but she is able to read by holding her head close to the reading material. She is also colorblind. As a high school senior, she has been looking at a lot of college web sites. She finds the UNL web site to be one of the worst for her to use.
The fonts used on the UNL web site are very small. Yes, she can make them bigger on her computer, but that also makes everything else bigger, which changes the layout and makes the page hard to navigate. The links, which are important, are smaller than the press releases, which are relatively less important. For a visually-impaired person, it is difficult just to locate the menus, much less to use them, because the eyes are naturally drawn to the press releases that appear in a larger font.
The biggest problem is the lack of contrast in the color scheme. Some of the menu items are light gray on dark gray or dark gray on light gray. When my daughter looks at these, she cannot tell that there are any words written there. If they had been red on light grey, for example, they would have been readable. As they are, she has to have someone else control the computer when she navigates the UNL site. The UNL web site is not accessible for her.
I guess it all depends on what you want. If you want to define "accessibility" narrowly as "suitable for software that turns content into speech," then I suppose the UNL web site is accessible, although I suspect it is still difficult to find the needles of the menu in the haystack of total content. This may be satisfactory in a legal sense, but it is not satisfactory in a moral sense. If you define "accessibility" more broadly as "readable to the largest number of people using the greatest variety of tools," then the UNL template leaves a lot to be desired.
It is bad enough that the main web site has this problem. Forcing academic units to make their web sites less accessible than they currently are so that they conform to the UNL standard is wrong, and I will urge my academic unit not to comply.


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Interfacing Android with LEGO NXT: Compass
14 comments:
- Webstorms said...
Amazing! What did you program it in?
- Sep 20, 2011, 7:15:00 AM
- Robolab 2.9 said...
Hi Webstorms!
I used Eclipse, in combination with the Android SDK for the phone code, and Lejos NXJ for the robot code. NXT-G for the robot and the AppInventor are other easier alternatives that could be possible.
- Sep 20, 2011, 11:05:00 AM
- Webstorms said...
Great! Are you thinking of sharing your code? :D
- Sep 23, 2011, 6:52:00 PM
- Robolab 2.9 said...
That'd be no problem - I'd have to set up a website though. I could email it to you if you want - it's just two small Eclipse projects.
- Sep 24, 2011, 2:15:00 PM
- Webstorms said...
Thanks Richard! That would be great! My email address is email@example.com
- Sep 26, 2011, 7:32:00 PM
- rubberpoach said...
Wow! Thats great!
Would you mind sending me the code too? :D
My email address is firstname.lastname@example.com
- Oct 11, 2011, 7:45:00 PM
- YagamiXXI said...
Hi, I used BricxCC to program the robot. I have problems with the program in Eclipse. Could you share your code with me please? My mail is firstname.lastname@example.com, thankyou so much
- Oct 16, 2011, 4:44:00 PM
- Adam said...
would it possible for you to also send me the code you've used to link your nxt brick and android phone together? my email is "firstname.lastname@example.com" this would help me begin learning robotic development using android sensors muchly!
- Nov 14, 2011, 9:25:00 PM
- klaus said...
please send me the code.
- Jan 8, 2012, 9:00:00 PM
- fotoNU.dk said...
Please send me the code too.
- Jan 18, 2012, 6:48:00 PM
- Thomas Verelst said...
I'm creating a project like this but I'm struggling with the Android app. Could you share your code? That'd be really helpful. My email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Feb 22, 2012, 10:19:00 PM
- malu said...
i am trying to develop android program in eclipse. and i am new to android could you send me the code plz.. email@example.com
- Nov 10, 2012, 5:02:00 PM
- malu said...
i am trying to develop android program in eclipse. and i am new to android coul yopu send me the code plz.. email@example.com
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By CARL SMITH
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors will renew discussions on a countywide comprehensive plan and could also make an appointment to a four-person board representing local interests in a new tri-county economic development group at its 5:30 p.m. meeting today at the county courthouse.
Discussions on the comprehensive plan renew today following an October presentation by Mike Slaughter, of the Oxford-based planning firm Slaughter and Associates. In 2009, the board reached a $275,000 agreement with the Golden Triangle Planning and Development to develop such a plan, but GTPDD Executive Director Rudy Johnson told supervisors in May that software issues involving recent geographic information system (GIS) mapping delayed the initiative.
Last year, GTPDD GIS workers concluded countywide survey which inventoried every Oktibbeha County road, structure and landmark in preparation for developing a new 911 addressing system. Information taken from that survey was to be used toward developing a comprehensive plan.
In May, Johnson told the board once proper software is in place, planners from the Central Mississippi Development District would travel to the county and begin developing the initial comprehensive plan.
Once adopted, a comprehensive plan could provide supervisors with a detailed direction about how to manage development as Oktibbeha County continues to experience growth. Land-use and permit-requiring provisions could be developed depending on how extensive and detailed representatives desire the new document.
Slaughter told the board in October his agency could handle developing such a plan within a year at a cost of $35,000. The board took Slaughter's presentation under advisement, and supervisors said they would speak to Johnson before taking any action.
Board President Orlando Trainer said he wishes to encourage the board to take action on Slaughter's proposal so the county can push ahead with its pending comprehensive plan. A future plan, he said, does not have to go as far as setting severe land-use limits and will be dictated by what public input the county receives during the development process.
"We need to take action on this because questions about this whole thing have been lingering since discussion first started in 2007," Trainer said. "We need a plan of action on everything we do in the county. I think the process will give us the opportunity to have public input and to shape a clear road map for Oktibbeha County."
In other business, supervisors could make an appointment to the four-person board which will represent Oktibbeha County's interests with the Golden Triangle LINK development agency. Although Trainer said he has asked each board member to suggest a nominee today, he would not reveal his nominee's identity because he had yet to contact that person Friday.
Once the entire four-person county board is set, two of those members will serve on the tri-county group's executive advisory board. Positions are not compensated by the county.
"It's vital to have the right person sit on this board and represent Oktibbeha County, and they've also got to understand the importance of their service," Trainer said. "We want to select a person who has ideas to help Oktibbeha County and who will help make good decisions."


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PANAMA CITY — The first on-court celebration was about 19 seconds premature.
Chipola's Kristine Brance buried a 3-pointer with six-tenths of a second left, and the short-handed Lady Indians escaped the Billy Harrison Field House with a 75-72 win over Gulf Coast in a Panhandle Conference women's basketball game Saturday night.
Competing with just seven players, Chipola improved to 18-2 overall and 3-1 in the Panhandle. GC fell to 18-2 and 3-1. The game was a matchup of two teams ranked in the Top 10 nationally: Gulf Coast is rated fifth, Chipola ninth.
The Lady Indians led 72-69 before GC's Rose Rosario rattled home a 3-pointer with 19 seconds on the clock. Rosario's teammates stormed the court to celebrate the game-tying shot as Chipola coach Greg Franklin called timeout, drawing the ire of their coach, Vernette Skeete.
"I went ballistic," GC coach Vernette Skeete said of her team's ill-timed display of exuberance. "I just got done telling them, 'I lost you guys for 20 seconds. ... Never again will we be in a situation where I've lost you and I can't coach you.'"
Those seconds proved crucial. Skeete said she would have preferred a different defensive strategy in the game's waning seconds, but she didn't have enough time in the huddle during a Chipola timeout to draw it up.
With time winding down on the clock, Jade Givens drove into the lane and found a wide-open Brance lurking on the perimeter. Brance's shot banked in cleanly for the three-point lead, leading to a more appropriately timed celebration. GC did not get off an attempt before the final horn.
"We didn't execute," Skeete said of the final defensive stand. "I wanted to blitz (Givens) at halfcourt. We knew what to look for. We thought it would be a drive and kick."
Chipola led by as many as 12 points in the second half, and the Lady Indians held a 63-52 lead with 8:15 remaining following Lashonda Littleton's 10-foot jumper.
The Lady Commodores trimmed their deficit to three at 65-62 and 67-64, but Chipola expanded its lead to seven with layups from Rayven Brooks and Littleton, the latter of which came after offensive rebounds twice extended the Lady Indians' possession.
Brooks scored a team-high 17 points for Chipola. Givens and Brance each added 13, and Littleton had 12.
Tamara Taylor led all scorers with 23 points for GC before fouling out with 34 seconds left in the game. Taylor scored 16 of her points before halftime despite picking up her second foul midway through the half.
Jessica Morton added 17 points for the Lady Commodores, who trailed 36-35 at halftime.
CHIPOLA (75) — Crawford 4 1-2 9, T. Brooks 2 2-3 6, R. Brooks 6 5-6 17, Givens 4 4-5 13, Bell 2 0-0 5, Brance 5 0-0 13, Littleton 5 2-2 12. Totals 28 14-18 75.
GULF COAST (72) — Rosier 3 0-0 8, Sterling 2 0-2 6, Morton 8 0-0 17, Brimfield 2 0-0 4, Rosario 2 2-2 8, Braxton 2 1-2 6,
Halftime: Chipola 36, Gulf Coast 35. Three-point goals: Chip 5 (Brance 3, Bell, Givens), GC 12 (Taylor 4, Rosier 2, Sterling 2, Rosario 2, Morton, Braxton). Total fouls: Chip 14, GC 17. Fouled out: Taylor.


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SANTA ROSA BEACH — The secrets to creating less expensive but healthy gardens in Northwest Florida are but a single walk away these days.
Since the end of June, locals and tourists have been able to tour the Native Plant Demonstration Garden at the South Walton campus of Northwest Florida State College to see what can be accomplished with local flora and a little ingenuity.
The garden, which was created with the help of volunteers and donations, joins a paved nature trail and wildflower field established previously.
"It's the very beginning stages," said Julie Terrell, the director of the South Walton campus. " … It's going to be used for teaching. It's going to be used for community education … as well as the aesthetics we provide because of it."
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The idea for the garden and trail came from conversations between Walton County Master Gardener Mary Lutz and Terrell, who also oversees the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance, which also played a key role in the project.
Long- and short-term goals were set, and efforts began about two years ago when they worked with local children to spread wildflower seeds.
"We threw the seeds down and hoped for the best," said Len Ross, president of the Walton County Master Gardener chapter. "It's more successful than I ever thought it could be."
Next, they created a half-mile nature walk complete with a brochure and signs to educate people about what they might see.
"We've had a lot of support and enthusiasm," Lutz said. "It's been a really fun, exciting kind of project."
Thousands of people have walked the trail, which is handicap accessible, and Terrell said they hope to work with Walton County to expand it in the future.
The most time-consuming job was building the garden.
"People were willing to help us, but it just took awhile for things to fall into place," said Sarah Schindele, a program coordinator with the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance who oversaw the work.
In addition to finding donors and coordinating deliveries, they built the garden on a hill with a slight erosion issue. But with the help of many people, including a landscape architect, they developed a garden with more than 60 native plants nurtured by composted soil and protected with recycled wood chips.
Instead of traditional irrigation methods, they also set up six rain barrels with hose attachments to provide water.
Upkeep should be minimal.
"It will require volunteer labor and that's about it," Schindele said.
In the coming months and years, the college will use the garden for hands-on experience in both credit and non-credit courses to teach about native plants, composting and alternative types of mulch and weed prevention.
Until then, they hope people will explore the garden and the nature path.
"Be inspired by nature and learn about it," Lutz said.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Katie Tammen at 850-315-4440 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KatieTnwfdn.


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During the weekend of December 5 through 7, as ABC Family debuts Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on television, the channel will also reveal several never-before-seen clips, behind-the-scenes footage and cast/crew interviews of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Over three days the channel will intersperse interviews with Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Michael Gambon. They will also give an overview of the film. The footage will show "love running rampant through Hogwarts, a look into Tom Riddle's past and an introduction of Hogwarts' new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Horace Slughorn."
Goblet will feature deleted scenes as part of the broadcast.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 7:30 pm ET.
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9 pm: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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A juvenile male polar bear leans on a tundra buggy operated by Great White Bear Tours, 04 November 1999, near Churchill, Manitoba. A report by Ian Sterling with the Canadian Wildlife Service links a decline in the weight of adult polar bears in the western Hudson Bay area to global warming.
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