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Nov 30, 2007
This weekend: Central European FLL finals
For those who still are undecided what to do at the weekend next ensuing, a trip to the beautiful Black Forest in Germany might be even more worthwhile than it is anyway: at Triberg the Central European FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Finals for the actual Power Puzzle competition will take place on Saturday, the 1st of December. There, the best teams from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will compete against each other and determine the attendees for the FLL World Finals at Atlanta, Georgia (USA) in April.
As a special service, Education Highway from Austria will present the event as a Live Stream in the web.
I'll be there also and bring back some nice images and videos.
The NXT Receives an Award from the Japanese Government
This award seems like high praise, given Japan's excellence in the field of robotics. There will be a grand-prize winner announced on December 20th. More details here and here.
Guy Fawkes robot
However, lately there has been development of more specialised and autonomous EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) robots that do risky operations that human beings don't need to risk their lives for. I always wanted to design a robot that did something that is too risky for humans – and thus potentially save lives.
So early this month when we had Guy Fawkes night, I decided to use a robot based on my MINDSTORMS NXT to light our fireworks. There has been a lot of concern lately about fireworks maiming and injuring the person igniting it and a few cases of fatalities. So I thought it would be a good idea.
This autonomous NXT robot will light multiple fireworks in a sequence - while the family sits back and watch the display! The robot is incredibly simple - It uses a MINDSTORMS NXT, two light sensors (one for navigation and other to detect a lighted fuse) and an Ultrasonic detector (to detect the top of the fireworks (and hence the height of the fireworks fuse wire) so it can adjust the torch arm height depending on the position of the fuse. It uses three motors - two for motion and the third for the torch arm elevator. For the wheel base we used a simple motor driven wheels + casters based on JennToo designed by fellow NXT Step contributor, Brian Davis, but with a few modifications.
Warning: Working with fireworks is dangerous. Please exercise extreme caution.
The "Green Weenie" NXT
Over the Thanksgiving holidays, my family wanted to build an NXT that bore no resemblance to anything, something that was just plain weird. The result: the "Green Weenie" NXT.
The little bugger is surprisingly agile and can turn on a dime, IF it's on a carpeted surface.
Has anyone else built something that bears no resemblance to any machine, humanoid, animal or anything else? If you have, send us a link so we can see it.
Nov 28, 2007
HiTechnic Prototyping Boards available
Digitizing Super 8 film with the NXT
Harri Kaimio uses an NXT-powered, reel-to-reel gizmo to digitize his old Super 8 movie films. Here's an excerpt from Harri's description:
"The LEGO part has two main functions: it must pull the film from the scanner so that the next unscanned piece of film gets ready, and it must rotate the film reel onto which the scanned film goes. We used 2 Mindstorms servo motors, one for each task.
The film is pressed between 2 soft Lego wheels that are rotated by one of the motors. We placed some guides on both sides of the wheels to ensure that the film moves straight (luckily, some Lego parts have exactly 8mm holes in them!)
The film reel is rotated with the other servo."
More details of Harri's project plus a sample of his digitized film is found here.
Girls Gone Geek nominates NXT as "Ultimate Holiday Gadget Gifts for Women and Girls"
The hosts of Girls Gone Geek, a weekly half-hour audio podcast on technology with a female point of view, have named the 2007 Ultimate Holiday Gadget Gifts for Women and Girls; in the Penny Pinchers category (which means 250 $ and below - so you still are complaining on the price of a NXT kit? ;-) ) , you will find the NXT kit as one amongst five gadgets (including indispensable things like a calories burner watch, a Mickey Mouse mp3 player and an Espresso Machine):
"The Lego Mindstorm NXT robot kit is a great gift for aspiring engineers or robot fanatics. It is well worth the $250 price tag because it can be built in an infinite number of forms and is definitely NOT a toy that is used for a month and then gets stuffed away to collect dust."So if you still are undecided what to buy your wife or/and your daughter(s) for Christmas - we have it from female authorities now that the NXT is the ultimate replacement for boring perfumes or dolls.
Missing the point...
...but you also find out that 100 hours of research and assembly work is unafordable.
(yes, that's their mis-spelling this time, not mine - I love Leopard). "100 hours"?!? What are they building, a general-purpose Turing machine? I've watched a 10-year-old build some of the stock models in 30 minutes, including programming.
So somebody tell me - should I be upset at this, or just sad that perhaps there's actually a market for such a misdirected market demand? I'd be curious if anyone has bought one of these, or knows someone who has. Perhaps I just have a very unusual viewpoint - that the reason you get something like the NXT is so you can do it yourself, and learn something, If I want a coffee-table display, there are plenty of inflexible slick-looking options.
Brian Davis
Nov 27, 2007
Update for Chris Anderson UAV
Nov 24, 2007
Lego NXT + wiimote with MSRS tutorial
It's time to post the first tutorial on this blog: controlling a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot (but the code would also work for any other differential drive robot supported by MSRS, including the BASIC Stamp-based BOE-bot from Parallax, the iRobot Create, etc.) with a Nintendo wiimote (if you're not yet an expert: the WII controller) using Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) 1.5. I wrote an introduction to this in my first post, and the time has come to write a tutorial about it! I'm also going to introduce you to writing services with Microsoft Robotics Studio.
look at the movie all the way at the end of the tutorial.
Nov 23, 2007
Why is my robot not perfect? (part 2)
There were a few different points of view with the theory so what better way to proceed than some real live tests.
Test Setup:
NXT robot, 2 wheels on a smoothish table.
2 white lines, 500mm apart
Program was written to wait 2 seconds then drive forward 1024 degrees. (the 2 seconds allowed the robot to settle and let me get my hand out of the way before it started driving)
1st test
75% power 1024 degrees, unloaded. I ran this 3 times and it was spot on in every case.
2nd test
50% power 1024 degrees, unloaded. I wanted to try and eliminate slippage with the surface of the table. If there was slippage at high power, it would be less at low power. Again all 3 runs were spot on.
3rd test
75% power 1023 degrees fully loaded. I found a nice heavy book to place over the top (2.2kg). The wheel does deform by a noticeable amount.
This time when I ran it, the robot came consistantly 30mm short. Vary the power and get the same result, 30mm short.
So if there is no slippage with the table, and changing of the wheel diameter does not affect the distance the only thing left is slippage between the wheel and the tyre.
I got some whiteout and marked both the hub and the tire and ran the experiment again. Turns out there is a small amount of slippage, although not enough to account for all the error.
I think it's a combination of hub/tyre slippage and slightly deformed wheel diameter. The rubber is soft enough to compress itself slightly changing the diameter.
What do you think? Post in the comments.
Damien Kee
Nov 22, 2007
What kind of NXT book would YOU like to see?
There's a lot of NXT-related books out there already and more are to be expected.
Some of them are targeted particularly at NXT beginners (like The Mayan Adventure, the Zoo! book or the NXT Orange Book), some to more advanced users (as The Da Vinci Inventions Book or Extreme NXT), some are collections of NXT robots of different complexity and how to build and program them (The Idea Book, Creating Cool MINDSTORMS Robots and the Inventor's Guide, for instance), and finally some are dedicated to a particular aspect of the NXT universe (e.g. the NXT-G Programming Guide, NXT Power Programming or Maximum Lego NXT) - feel free to correct me if I'm wrong with these classifications.
Yet, if you could wish for a NXT book written particularly for you - how would that very book look like? What topics should it deal with? Which kind of robots (if any) would you like to see in there? How should it be organized?
FLL Mission Overview Part 11 - Oil Barrels
Also, we would like to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving, and everybody travelling do so safely!
Jonathan's Comments: Note that no Barrels will be taken away if none are in Base. By the way, Base includes the Parking Lot only if you move the Barrels there by hand - if the robot moves the Barrels to the Parking Lot, they aren't considered to be in Base (and therefore the robot may touch them, but not the drivers).
Nov 20, 2007
NXT Classroom ready to roll
"to provide the NXT community with a place where beginners could learn simple programming, keep up with NXT news, post tutorials and run their own courses." ?Ross, the maintainer of the site, has announced that the site is ready for use now:
"The site features:Go for it!
I just thought everyone would like an update, the site is stable and ready for full use. Thanks for all the offers of help, I hope everyone enjoys the site over the coming years."
- A customizable joomla install that allows registered users to submit content
- Fireboard forums - fast and integrated with the site
- Chatrooms - big enough to allow teachers to have guests in chats with students (max 40, can be raised)
- RSS feed from the NXT Step blog
- A moodle install where registered users can run their own course with their school students or a general course for the community
- An events calendar for people who like FLL competitions
NXT SUMO competition
We want to hear from our readers - are you going to participate? Any strategy or special plans you care to share? Going it alone or maybe with a friend? Let us know...
Spin Those NXT Deals!
Folks, the season for extreme sales are almost upon us. The clogged stores, parking lots, gas stations, and roads...who needs the stress? Lucky for us, the Internet is free from those problems and allows us to shop from the safety of home.
This is my plan. Save some bucks, the stess, and the possibility of following my Wife to every store in town...by using the trusty old WWW to find the gifts I might need for myself...I mean for my family and friends.
So, there are some earlybird sales and things happening. Here is one (since I deleted the RIS sale link):
- MicroCenter Online is offering the NXT 8527 at $199.99 (+5.99 Shipping) USD Here
Several other online stores (such as, Amazon) are offering Free Shipping to save you some bucks and there will indeed be more (possibility better) offerings before this year rolls out. If you spot a good one post it here or drop one of us an email.
Version 1.1 of ROBOTC released
-ROBOTC is now VISTA compatible.
-ROBOTC now supports NXT to NXT Bluetooth communication, along with improved Bluetooth speed and reliability over other NXT software packages.
Nov 16, 2007
"Someone has the dam from table 2A; please return it for the next round"
The Berthoud Recorder has published an online article on an FLL event that was held on last Saturday in Berthoud, Colorado. It was the first time an FLL competition was performed there, and according to the article the hosts were quite surprised on the tremendeous repercussion it found in the area (not an uncommon experience when it comes to FLL): no less than thirty-four teams took part.
There was also "a team-building exercise that had the students walking to the Little Thompson Observatory where volunteers explained the workings of the observatory". Nice idea!
On a sidenote: there's an announcement on the page that
"If this article receives more than 100 hits on any given day between now and next Wednesday we will include a link to the slide-show"of pictures of the event - guess we will achieve that, won't we?
Addendum: Obviously, we did. :-) View the slideshow the site's web admins have put online now.
Addendum 2: There's been another online article of an FLL event in Colorado this weekend - this time in Ft. Collins.
Nov 14, 2007
NXT "Sokoban" Solver
"Sokoban" is a puzzle in which the player pushes pieces around a maze and tries to put them in designated locations.
It takes this NXT about six minutes to solve the puzzle. More details are here. Toward the end of the linked report, there is a download link to a more detailed report, outlining the NXC and Java source code used to solve the puzzle.
Nov 13, 2007
What is a "Real" programming language? Or a "best" one?
While I consider RobotC indeed a tool quite well adapted to NXT programmers' needs, I rather disagree with some arguments of his (and left an according comment).
What do you think about his opinions on that subject? It's an interesting discussion that has been led many times already in the past (and will no doubt go on in the future) with a lot of aspects involved.
Leave comments there!
Tribot Sumo and others...
Once we had five brand spankin' new Tribots, we immediately reprogrammed them for sumo, and did slight modifications to them, adding front attachments or modifying the back caster, but that was about it. "Semi-stock" Tribot sumo was actually a very good time - some had wicked-looking front weapons, some tried to flipped the opponent, and some actively looked for targets. But of course, we didn't stop with Tribots. How about Tribot vs. Alpha Rex? Or Tribot vs. a Bulldozer? Or other odd match-ups? Well, here's a video, showing the results of some fun (if chaotic and always unpredictable) NXT-based sumo:
Steve Hassenplug will be putting some more up about this event on his website here over time. Perhaps some of you will be inspired by this to enter the NXTlog Sumo event as well. I certainly am...
Brian "Cameraman" Davis
Nov 12, 2007
Bulldozer Sumo
Brian Davis
FLL Mission Overview Part 10 - Personal Vehicle Choice
Nov 11, 2007
"Snout": The Alligator NXT
From the book, "LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT ZOO", a collection of nine, kid-friendly robots to be published by No Starch Press in early 2008.
Nov 10, 2007
Lemon: comparing LEGO(R) models and checking against the NXT kit
Remember the beta release of a Model Differ application I posted about some days ago?
Finally, the first productional of it is available now, called Lemon 1.0.
It features
- comparing LEGO(R) models laid down in LDRAW (.ldr) or LEGO Digital Designer (.lxf) format
- comparing such models against the NXT Retail Kit
- listing parts contained in each model only
- listing parts commonly contained in both models
- easy one-click installation and running using Java Web Start (the only thing you need is a Java 5 (or above) runtime on your computer - might already come pre-installed on your operating system)
- supported on all platforms Java 5 is available for (in particular Windows XP, Mac OSX, Linux)
Nov 9, 2007
New NXT Book
The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide by David J. Perdue is now available. The book contains:
- An examination of the pieces in the NXT set and the roles they play in construction
- Practical building techniques, like how to build sturdy structures and work with gears
- Programming tips for NXT-G (and a bit about several unofficial NXT programming languages)
- A strategy (called the MINDSTORMS method) for creating your own robots
- Step-by-step instructions for building, programming, and testing six sample robots (all of which can be built using only the parts found in one NXT set).
Additional details can be found at http://www.nxtguide.davidjperdue.com/.
Mac OS 10.5 - the return of "CBS"?
For now, if you do have this possible problem, just make sure you have access to a version of NXT-G running under something other than Leopard. After all, the rest of it seems to work wonderfully. Now, I've got to go see if I can verify this and brake my NXT...
Update, 9 Nov 2007 - I've verified this on my system. Under Leopard, the FW download process stalls out while preparing the NXT. I could take this newly-bricked NXT to a second Mac with OS 10.4, and repeat the process to restore the NXT to full functionality with the 1.05 FW, so as long as you have a back-up, this is not a critical problem. But if your only computer is a Mac running Leopard, it appears you can not update the FW currently.
Brian "Leopard bytes NXT" Davis
Nov 8, 2007
Why is my robot not perfect?
I run workshops with students all the time, and one of the first activities I do, is make them get their robot to drive forward 500mm. For the younger kids it's mainly trial and error, for the older kids I get them to calculate circumference and mathematically work it out.
But I was finding that the theory wasn't quite matching up to real life. I have in the past explained that every robot is subtly different. (this also helps to stop kids running to another computer and stealing other students values)
So I sat down and worked through the math to have a look at why my students were getting what I considered fairly different numbers for the same 500mm.
(warning, basic maths ahead)
If we take the diameter of the NXT wheels as 56mm (as written on the side) we get a circumference of:
c = pi * d
c = 3.14 * 56
c = 175.84
To go 500mm, we divide 500 by the circumference
x = 500 / 175.84
x = 2.8435 rotations
x = 1024 degrees
But I was finding that some kids needed more than this. Let look and see what happens when our wheel diameter shrinks by 1mm due to either a hot days softening the rubber or a heavy robot, both conditions which will cause the rubber tyre to sag, and hence a smaller diameter. Both conditions are entirely plausable and could infact result in more than 1mm deflection.
c = pi * d
c = 3.14 * 55
c = 172.7
x = 500 / 172.7
x = 2.8952 rotations
x = 1042 degrees
So there you go, 1mm difference in the wheels results in 18 degree difference across 500mm.
The discrepancy is even more pronounced when you are trying to rotate your robot on the spot.
Just something to keep in mind :)
Damien Kee
I may be wrong with this. Check out the comments and put in your 2 cents worth
New Vernier video
On the left side menu, click on the "NXT Robot Movies" link and you can view a whole bunch of other movies using the NXT and Vernier sensors.
NXT-G blocks are also available on this site as well as more information about the NXT adapter.
New product from LEGO Education
Sao Paolo, BRAZIL (NOVEMBER 7, 2007) – LEGO Education, The LEGO Group's educational division, today begins testing of creative curriculum solutions in three schools in Brazil to establish the best technology platform for bringing 21st Century skills to students ages seven and older in underserved and developing countries.
LEGO Education will provide selected classrooms with concept products that foster the hands-on, minds-on creative play for which the LEGO® brand is universally known. The company is building on 10 years of research, product development and success as a consumer robotics pioneer with LEGO MINDSTORMS®, harnessing technology to bridge the physical and virtual play worlds to provide advanced teaching methods that integrate science, math, engineering, language, social skills, and more. LEGO Education's goal is to provide cost-effective, high-impact, versatile tools that foster creative exploration and learning for those schools and students who need it most to prepare for the future. In developing these solutions the company is once again collaborating closely with MIT Media Lab and Professor Mitchel Resnick.
"A global discussion is taking place right now about how to address the educational needs of children to best prepare them for the future and Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child program has spotlighted much needed attention to the curriculum gaps in developing countries specifically," says Jens Maibom, vice president, LEGO Education. "Our experience in both the consumer toy market and the educational environment uniquely prepares us to take a lead along with Negroponte and others in establishing affordable classroom solutions that challenge and inspire today's children, the builders of tomorrow, to successfully meet the ever-changing demands of today's global workforce. We are confident that the results of the curriculum test in Brazil will help us establish the best platform to meet this objective."
Concept testing runs through the end of 2007, with additional development and product launch to a number of developing countries scheduled late 2008. Lars Nyengaard, Director of Innovation, LEGO Education is the lead for the project.
This new classroom concept further supports The LEGO Group's recent announcement of its membership in the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group that has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills like creativity and innovation into education. The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century. In his role as leader of LEGO Education Jens Maibom represents The LEGO Group, the only toy manufacturer on the Board, to champion the company's commitment to preparing children for the future through creative play and learning activities.
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About The LEGO Group
The LEGO Group (www.LEGO.com) is a privately held, family-owned company, based in Billund, Denmark. It was founded in 1932 and today the group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of play materials for children, employing approximately 4,500 people globally. The LEGO Group is committed to the development of children's creative and imaginative abilities through its products, which can be purchased in more than 130 countries.
LEGO, MINDSTORMS and their respective logos are trademarks of the LEGO Group. © 2007 The LEGO Group.
Brian Davis
NXT Robots built for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
During the summer, four members of Virginai FLL Team 668: Super-Nanobot-Extremes had an outreach opportunity to work on the set of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", on location in Pennsauken NJ. They were tasked with building NXT Retail Kit robots to be displayed in a child's bedroom during the revealing of the house to the family. During a four hour period, the kids managed to build two models and complete a third model that had arrived at the set partially built. All three robots were programmed by the children and in working order before the day was out.
I recently received word from the show's producer who said the robots that the kids made were a huge hit and "read" well on camera! There were two on the desk between the computers, and one in the back on the silver cubed nightstand.
The show will be aired nationally this Sunday November 11th on ABC ( check your local listings)
Included below are some pictures that were taken during the shows taping back in August.
David Levy
Nov 7, 2007
Comparing LDRAW models and checking against the NXT Retail Kit
As someone who is running simply a large trunk with LEGO parts where a new NXT kit gets emptied out to for further building I have found it hard in the past to answer frequent questions like
"Can this model of your's been built with a single retail kit?"- figuring out the answer to that was somewhat troublesome and required a lot of comparing to the according parts inventory at Peeron.
Hence I finally implemented a Java application that may come in handy: Model Differ (working title).
It allows for comparison of two models that are laid down in LDRAW format and lists the parts that are mutually not contained (honoring also the number of occurrences of a particular part). For convenience, it's possible also to check a model directly against the NXT Retail Kit.
If you are into CADing your models with LDRAW, have a look - the only thing you need is a Java Runtime (version 5 or above). And some LDRAW model, of course.
Nov 5, 2007
FLL Mission Overview Part 9 - Coal Mining
Objective: Get the Rail Car to roll down the track. Only when the car has touched the stoppers at the end, is the team allowed to retrive the cart by hand to Base.
Point Worth: 10 points
Mission Location: South (bottom) East (right) side of the mat.
Estimated Difficulty Level: 4/10
Time Length Rating: Medium
Unique Challenge Aspects: This mission in itself is not difficult. Bump the trigger, cause the car to roll down the tracks, and then pick it up. Then why the relatively high ratings for difficulty and time? The trigger is in the corner of the table. To achieve the presicion required to bump the trigger, the robot is going running a rather slow speed, so we have rated this mission a medium time length rating. Also, to get into the corner, bump the the trigger, and get out of there without getting tangled is why we have rated the difficulty 4 out of 10.
This mission is also rather unique, due to the unusual use of human hands. This was once done before, in Ocean Odyssey, when you were required to bump the pipeline. But in this case, the human hand cannot be shaky or hasty, or they may cause the car to spill all the coal! Which is a good question... "What happens to the coal that is spilled in the case the human hand splls it in an attempt to retrive the car?"
Finally, this mission is required in order to fully complete the Power Plant Supply. Another interesting aspect is in that somehow, either by human hand or by robot, the red coal must be sorted through the black coal, in which the black coal must be sent to the Power Plant Supply. When sorting, it has to be relatively quick in order to save time, not waste time sorting.
What appears to be a simple mission actually turns out quite complex...
LEGO Shop@Home - The NXT Step Idea Book
The NXT Idea Book really is a nice way to expand your NXT experience. Enjoy!
Nov 3, 2007
What Happened to ILENN?
The ILENN home page is now full of scripting errors and seems to carry no news whatsoever. Does anyone know what happened to it?
I emailed someone named "Kelly" at ILENN but received no response. Any solution to the mystery would be appreciated. Their web site is here.
Nov 2, 2007
WIRED Living Home
PBS and WIRED magazine's new TV show covers UAV
Check out the video here.


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Heat olive oil in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add onion and chilies; cook until onion is translucent, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Add chili powder and cumin; stir 30 seconds. Add beans and lime juice. Cook until heat through, stirring and mashing beans slightly with spoon, about 4 minutes. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.)
Make chicken:
Heat oil in heavy large skillet over high heat. Add chicken and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir until almost cooked through, about 3 minutes. Add chili powder and cumin and stir until cooked through, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat.
Make Salad:
Combine first 3 ingredients in large bowl.
Add oil to depth of 1/4 inch to heavy medium skillet. Heat over medium-high heat until just beginning to smoke. Add tortilla and cook until crisp, abut 30 seconds per side. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with remaining tortillas.
Add 1/4 cup olive oil to salad; toss Season with salt and pepper. Add 1 tablespoon lime juice; toss. Rewarm beans over medium-low heat, stirring and thinning slightly with water. Place 1 tortilla on each plate. Spread with beans. Sprinkle with cheese. Top with salad, then chicken, salsa and cilantro.


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By Carolyn Sloan
Due to concerns regarding condition in which animals are being kept, municipal clerk Jacquie Farrow-Lawrence and animal control officer Ron Sabean opened up the doors of the Annapolis County Pound to reporters from the Spectator and the Chronicle Herald for a special tour of the facility.
Both newspapers had received emails from a county resident, expressing concerns about the public not being allowed inside the pound. The citizen also had heard reports that the facility was extremely filthy and poorly lit from a woman who claimed to have snuck inside while at the facility to adopt a dog.
So on April 23, Farrow-Lawrence and Sabean met up with Herald reporter Gordon Delaney and myself at the municipal pound, located just outside of Bridgetown, to allow us to see the inside of the facility for ourselves.
Before going inside, the municipal clerk reviewed the process by which dogs and cats are held at the facility and adopted out. She explained that while they are not mandated to keep animals for more than three days, if animals are not adopted within this period of time, Sabean will liaison with the Companion Animal Protection Society to transfer them into one of the society's foster homes. "Ron does a lot of finding new placements on his own [as well]," noted Farrow-Lawrence. "He placed 100 dogs last year."
She also explained that people who adopt an unneutered animal directly from the pound pay an adoption fee that is refundable upon proof that the dog or cat has undergone the operation within 60 days.
Going inside the building, there were five cat cages in one area, a series of older dog kennels further back in the building, as well as newer dog cages with outdoor runs that were added to the side of the facility three years ago. The concrete floors appeared clean, as did the cages for the dogs and cats, which were equipped with blankets, litter boxes, and ample supplies of food and water.
Farrow-Lawrence pointed to the drainage canals along the floor, which catch the waste from the cages as they are washed out. Although it is a small facility, she emphasized that the pound is only intended to house animals for brief periods of time. "This is a short term facility," Farrow-Lawrence explained. "The old kennels are used from time to time when we have over capacity. This past year, we haven't run into that problem."
Most importantly, since the public outcry in 2004, when an article in The Spectator revealed that dogs at the pound were being put to death with a gun shot in the head, animals that need to be put down due to disease or a vicious temper have been taken to the veterinarian to be euthanized humanely. "We no longer shoot dogs," said Sabean. "My rifle that I use…[it's now] four years since its been fired."
Dogs and cats are only euthanized if they are diseased or, because of their disposition, are unable to become companion animals, added Farrow-Lawrence. They may also be euthanized if CAPS cannot take them in, although this year, they have not had to put down any animals for this reason.
There is no regular inspection of the municipal pound. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) does not perform inspections of the municipal pound unless there is a complaint. While there are often members of the public who call wanting to see inside the pound or take the dogs out for a walk, all public access is prohibited due to issues of liability. If someone where to fall, get bitten by an animal, or even catch some illness, she said, the municipality would be responsible. "The pound is not a public facility," Farrow-Lawrence explained. "It's not because we're hiding anything particularly because we don't want to provide access. "It only takes the one incident and we got big problems."


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Could you live in a shipping container? More architects and developers are repurposing sea containers into homes. But don't worry; it's not as small as it sounds.
WASHINGTON — In Travis Price's dream world, he would build a floating village — "just like Sausalito" — over Washington's waterfront. Only his floating village would be constructed out of repurposed shipping containers.
Price, a D.C. architect, also imagines mobile shipping container apartments, stacked in steel frame buildings.
"And then when you move from Chicago to Mississippi, there's another 10-story. And you rise up [your condo] on an exterior elevator, plug in and you bring your home with you," Price says.
"What's to stop us from having that kind of flexibility? We're a mobile society, we just haven't caught up with ourselves yet when it comes to buildings."
Price isn't asking people to live in small, dark, enclosed colored boxes that slide up and down gray, industrial buildings. Rather, he envisions homeowners and developers repurposing materials that are overabundant, and finding ways for them to fit into a home's design — like shipping containers.
"There are over 700,000 sea containers sitting foul, going nowhere in the U.S. Remember, we imported all the stuff. All of your iPhones came in those containers, but we're not sending anything back," he says.
"Not everything is handcrafted by a chisel and a hammer anymore, so when you start to use these very clever pieces of modern genius, you come up with why Henry Ford gave us all cars, to move us forward."
In his eyes, D.C. is already moving forward. Price is the architect behind an apartment project that is generating a lot of buzz in the Northeast neighborhood of Brookland. It's a four-story, 24- occupant development, made from 18 repurposed shipping containers, plus a basement.
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The Face of Quilting
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that non-quilters can't help but generalizing about who quilters are.
I think I've read one article too many that puts quilters exclusively in the "50 plus" or in the "retirement home" and maybe, just maybe, had one too many people mention that I'm too young to be a quilter, or, another favorite, that quilting is "a dying art."
Not in my world, bucko.
My mother quilts, her mother quilted, my dad's mother quilts. My great-grandmothers quilted. I have friends, young and young-at-heart, from every demographic and from different geographical locations around the world that all identify themselves as quilters.
So why the pigeon-holing? Does the non-quilty world really think that only one type of person is a quilter and that quilting is really, truly dying?
My name is Jennifer.
I am 38 years old and I am a quilter.
I have been sewing and crafting my entire life. I learned to use a needle and thread when I was a child. Craftiness of all kinds carried over into my adulthood, and by my late twenties, I was quilting.
I would like to challenge you, my quilting friends, to show your face.
We are all ages and come from all socio-economic groups, religious backgrounds and political demographics. We live in all countries of the world and we are connected by quilting. It brings us together and gives us common ground. These are our faces.
Take this message, We Are The Face of Quilting, and write about being a quilter. Share it on your blog. Add your photo to our flickr group and tell the world: I am a quilter.
Grab this to share on your blog:

Use it anywhere you share your quilting story. I've set comments for this post to allow trackbacks and pingbacks, which simply means that if you link to this post, it will show up in the comments. It's a great way to meet new quilting friends.
What will I get from this? Nothing other than the satisfaction of seeing your faces and the affirmation that what I believe is true: quilter's faces are like quilts themselves. They come in all colors, styles and sizes. They are from all over the world and they are timeless.
November 8, 2011 11:36
Easy for you to say, my dear. You are still a very pretty woman… I'm 63 and I'm not going to show my face to the world. It's not pretty anymore, and I don't even like to look at it…. I won't put others through that.
I've gotten old enough, that I don't care what "they" say. There are lots of quilters out there, and they don't just make quilts. They make quilts for other people, for charity and good causes. The ignoramous who wrote that article, didn't do much research. You should give him your blog address, and then he can look at each of your followers addresses and their favorite blogs, and theirs until he can't remember his own name! (I am assuming that it was a man writing the article. Shame on me.) I'm always amazed at the numbers that have quilting blogs…. just think of the hordes that don't have a blog, but do quilt. We do keep quilt stores in business, and Jo Ann's, Thousands of Bolts, Hancocks of Paduca, etc. Who does all that fabric buying? Quilters!
My daughter used to make fun of me and my "faaaabric", until I told her the sewing was good therapy. Now, happily, she is a quilter as well. (That started when she was 36.) There are alot of potential quilters out there… they just don't know they are quilters yet. My daugher didn't know how to sew when she took it up. The first seams she made were handsewn and made like the overcast seams you'd find on a T-shirt. She learned…. and now she has a sewing machine! I'd venture to say that there will always be quilters! So don't be upset or worry.
November 8, 2011 11:44
I love this so much! I'm heading over to write about it on my blog, too. Great!
Webb Julia permalinkNovember 9, 2011 05:45
I'll say it again, You are an amazing lady! This is a wonderful idea, and I'm proud to join this group of quilters. I've only been quilting about five years, but there were a lot of quilters in my family. I've proud to carry on the tradition!
November 10, 2011 10:27
Hi Jennifer, I am taking your challenge and have written a post on my blog today about the Face of Quilters.
November 10, 2011 11:49
So glad I found your post! I will posting the Face of Quilters on my blog!
Amber permalinkNovember 12, 2011 00:01
I have written and posted…you will find it tomorrow when you read LJ…
but in the meantime….
Celine permalinkJune 9, 2012 10:56
I'm a new quilter from Laval, QC. I have now time for that and I promote quilting to my friends, children and parents. My blog is: http://accroquilt.blogspot.ca/ (french only). Happy quilting everyone! Céline (accroquilt)
September 27, 2012 09:21
Great post, I used to feel a lot like that too. I was 37 when I made my first quilt and have been hooked for the last 21 years! My son got my old Pfaff when I bought the new one, he wanted it to make alterations but to my surprise he made me a lovely wallhanging as a thank you for the wonderful machine. He was about 32 at that time! So yes we come in all shapes and sizes and ages. Real beauty is in your spirit, I don't worry a lot about my aging face! So will join your flickr group and add a photo. Keep on stitchin!


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Hi All.
I'm wondering whether anyone has some leads for supplies, particularly fire bricks in the Newcastle/Hunter region?
For such an industrial city I reckon there must be something out there but as of yet I've drawn a blank.
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To answer my own question for anyone else in the area - Broadmeadow Brickyard @ $3 each
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For what it's worth I had a totally unsatisfactory experience with the above mentioned on a building job which wasted a lot of my time and money (PM me if you care for details).
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Good to hear you still about. Even tho it's been years thanks for the idea to build an insulated door from hebel. I've been using one now for 4 years. Oven still working well I hope
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Clemency, a one act opera of about an hour's duration by Scottish composer James MacMillan, was co-commissioned by the Boston Lyric Opera and a handfull of companies in the UK. The U.S. premiere was in Boston last Wednesday night. The plot springs off the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar in the Old Testament. As Sarah hasn't borne any children, she suggests Abraham have sex with the servant Hagar to produce a child that Sarah can then take from her to be Abraham's heir. The child is Ishmael. Three angels arrive, are entertained at Abraham's place and reveal that, Sarah (who in 99 years old) will bear a child. The child is Issac. Sarah doesn't want Ishmael around as a rival to her own son as heir, so Hagar and Ishmael are driven away into the desert.
All this cruelty and dishonesty is apparently just fine with Jehovah/Yahweh/G*d. The angels turn out to be on their way to smite Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham pleads for clemency for the cities should as few as five virtuous people be found there -- clemency he somehow isn't able to show to Hagar whom he has exploited sexually and then thrown out.
The opera was preceded by a performance of what is apparently Franz Schubert's earliest surviving song, Hagar's Lament, in which she wanders the desert desperate for water for her dying son. An angel (they seem to be everywhere) leads her to a well and her child is saved. The opera begins as soon as the song (actually a fifteen minute mini-drama) ends, joined to Clemency without any pause. I wonder if this is the way it was premiered in England. Hagar and her story cast a shadow on Abraham and Sarah for me. If the song was not part of MacMillan's plan, then Abraham's pleas for clemency would have had a lot more moral weight, at least for me.
I first encountered Mr. MacMillan's music via CDs of his full length opera The Sacrifice, a strongly dramatic piece with a fine score that I liked very much. I also liked the score of Clemency (which is being recorded live during the Boston run for commercial release). Aside from the Hagar, who was dramatic but rather strenuous vocally with wild top notes, the singing was superb. The three angels, sing in unison and were superb (two of them will appear in our company's performances of Benjamin Britten's The Prodigal Son in April). Christine Abraham was eloquent as Sarah and David Kravitz, who will sing Governor Winthrop next January in the opera for which Fritz and I have just finished the libretto, was tremendous -- thrilling -- as Abraham. The chamber orchestra sounded great as conducted by David Angus in MacMillan's compelling music.
A bonus for me was that the composer turned out to be sitting directly across the aisle from me. When the performance ended, I got to have a short but very pleasant chat with him, mentioning my regard for The Sacrifice. He was extremely nice and I hope we hear more of his music on this side of the Atlantic soon.
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Just read your comment on PoApBo on Franco Zeffirelli. I know you'll just think I'm trying to turn your head, but there really is nothing like the style and substance of your remarks!
By the way, did you take the top photo (the others are splendid, of course)? It's the best I've seen of him - he usually looks so serious, as he did in the pics I took after his Southbank lecture.
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MARSHALL, Jeffrey S., Geological Sciences Dept., Cal Poly Pomona Univ., Pomona, CA, 91768, USA
LAFROMBOISE, Eli J., Geological Sciences Dept., California State Univ., Northridge, CA, 91330, USA
GARDNER, Thomas W., Geosciences Dept., Trinity Univ., San Antonio, TX, 78212, USA
PROTTI, J. Marino, OVSICORI, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
The Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica deforms in response to rapid NE subduction of the Cocos plate at the Middle America Trench (9-10 cm/yr). This emergent outer fore arc peninsula lies 60-80 km inboard of the trench, and directly above a locked segment of the seismogenic zone. The Nicoya segment is a high-potential seismic gap, with a slip deficit of >5 m since the last major earthquake (M7.7, 1950). That event produced widespread damage and up to 1.0 m of coseismic uplift at the coast. Net Quaternary deformation on the Nicoya Peninsula is recorded by emergent marine terraces along the coast, and by uplifted alluvial fill within interior valleys. Recent field mapping, surveying, and isotopic dating provide new constraints on deformation patterns and upper-plate faulting. Local uplift anomalies reveal upper plate faults that may accommodate a significant fraction of fore arc deformation (shortening and/or lateral sliver transport).
Recent fieldwork along the Morote Valley, within the Nicoya Peninsula's interior, reveals geomorphic evidence of active deformation along the NW-striking Morote fault (e.g., uplifted and incised alluvial fill, irregular drainage networks, active stream piracy, and abrupt mountain front facets). Uplifted Pleistocene alluvium with a deep red soil horizon (La Mansion surface) is incised 5-40 m by local stream networks. At one site, uplifted fluvial gravels overlie a gray paleosol formed on fine-grain wetland deposits, 10 m above local base level. In some areas, the surface gradient of the paleo-valley floor is opposite that of modern incised streams, indicating capture and drainage reversal.
The Morote fault forms a prominent NW-trending lineament oriented sub-parallel to the subduction zone. Preliminary seismicity data (OVSICORI) indicate recent earthquake activity along this trend. A composite focal mechanism shows dextral slip for the NW-striking nodal plane (Hansen et al, 2006), consistent with NW escape of a forearc sliver. The Morote fault underlies several large towns and may represent a significant seismic hazard. Ongoing field studies aim to establish better constraints on fault kinematics and deformation rates along this trend.
At the Nicoya Peninsula's southern tip (Cabo Blanco), a prominent uplifted marine erosion surface (Cobano surface) encompasses at least three distinct Pleistocene terraces at 30-220 m elevation. Preliminary OSL dating yields terrace ages consistent with OIS 3-5 sea level high stands (30-120 ka), indicating net uplift at 1.0-2.0 m/k.y. A NW-striking thrust fault (Delicias fault) offsets the upper terrace by 40 m, thrusting Cretaceous basalt over Pleistocene terrace deposits. Radiocarbon ages for adjacent Holocene terraces (Cabuya surface) indicate recent uplift at 1.5-3.5 m/k.y.
Recent mapping and surveying, along the peninsula's southern coastline (Puerto Carrillo to Playa Camaronal) reveals a set of marine terraces (Camaronal surface) and associated fluvial straths (Río Ora) at 20-35 m elevation. Preliminary correlations with dated Cobano terraces, and with a global sea level curve, suggest terrace formation between 80-215 ka (OIS 5-7) and net uplift rates of 0.2-0.3 m/k.y.
Along the northern Nicoya coast (Tamarindo to Nosara), a 3 km wide wave-cut surface (Iguanazul surface) includes three treads with paleo-shorelines at 10-45 m elevation. Age correlations (as above) suggest terrace formation between 80-215 ka (OIS 5-7) and net uplift rates of 0.1-0.2 m/k.y. Radiocarbon ages for Holocene beachrock horizons are consistent with recent uplift at <0.5 m/k.y. Apparent terrace offset across the Río Andamojo (10 m, SE side up) suggests Quaternary slip along a local fault.


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A veteran of state government, Mickey Dale (Mike) Beebe was inaugurated as Arkansas's forty-fifth governor on January 9, 2007.
Mike Beebe was born in Amagon (Jackson County) on December 28, 1946. During his youth, Beebe lived in several different states before returning to Arkansas. In 1964, he graduated from Newport High School. Beebe, who never knew his biological father, was raised by his working mother, a waitress; her life became a centerpiece in his populist campaign for governor in 2006.
After graduation from high school, Beebe earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Arkansas State University (ASU) in 1968. He then went on to earn a law degree at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1972. Upon admission to the bar, Beebe began practicing law at the Lightle, Tedder, and Hannah law firm (now Lightle, Beebe, Raney, Bell and Simpson) in Searcy (White County). In 1982, Beebe was named the state's outstanding trial lawyer.
That same year, Beebe began his political career with a race for the state Senate. After the incumbent senator from the newly redrawn district unexpectedly dropped out of the race, Beebe was left without a primary or general election opponent. He in fact never faced an opponent in a twenty-year Senate career in which he became known as one of the most effective legislators based on his pragmatic deal-making ability. During his last session in the state senate, Beebe was elected president pro tempore of the body.
In 2002, Beebe was elected the state's fifty-first attorney general, again without opposition. In the summer of 2005, Beebe announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2006. Although Beebe faced no opposition in the Democratic primary, he did finally face opposition in the general election from Republican Asa Hutchinson (former congressman and Department of Homeland Security deputy secretary), Green Party candidate Jim Lendall (a former Democratic state representative), and independent candidate Rod Bryan. Beebe raised and spent more money than any candidate for any political race in the state before him (over $6.5 million). His campaign emphasized a mixture of progressivism on economic issues (strong support for reducing the state's sales tax on groceries, for raising the state's minimum wage, for universal access to pre-kindergarten educational opportunities, and for maintenance of the state educational standards) and traditionalism on cultural issues (strong support for private property rights and gun ownership rights). On November 7, 2006, Beebe was elected with an overwhelming majority of the vote. Beebe received 55.6 percent of the vote, holding Hutchinson to only 40.7 percent; each of the two other candidates received approximately two percent of the vote. Beebe's victory also had great geographical reach; he lost only fifteen of the state's seventy-five counties. In 2010, Beebe was reelected with 64.18 percent of the vote against Republican Jim Keet, who took only 33.82 percent.
Beebe and his second wife, Ginger, have three adult children.
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Barnes, Steve. "The Long Goodbye: Gov. Mike Beebe." Arkansas Money & Politics (March/April 2014): 32–37.
Duffy, Joan. "Long Time Coming." Arkansas Times. January 18, 2007, pp. 12–13, 16–17, 20–21.
Smith, Doug. "Moving On Up." Arkansas Times. June 12, 2008, pp. 10–13, 15. Online at http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/moving-on-up/Content?oid=866592 (accessed December 6, 2011).
Wolfe, Ron. "Mike Beebe." Arkansas Democrat Gazette. January 7, 2007, p. 1D, 6D.
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Update on Westside WildfiresCommissioner of Public Lands Advises Caution
OLYMPIA – The first weekend in May is not usually a busy time for fire suppression forces in southwest Washington, but this past weekend saw an unusually high number of wildfires due to dry east winds across this area. To date, 11 wildfires covering approximately 264 acres were reported statewide, with 9 already successfully contained by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) wildfire suppression team.
DNR firefighting crews continue working to contain the Dog Mountain Wildfire and the C-Line Wildfire, the largest and most challenging wildfires started this weekend. All of the wildfires reported this weekend are under investigation.
"As the state's wildfire suppression agency, DNR has been preparing for months for the beginning of wildfire season, so we were able to quickly, safely, and effectively respond to the unexpectedly high number of wildfires this weekend," said Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark, who administers DNR. "Under the dry and windy conditions prevailing across much of the state, we advise all Washingtonians to exercise caution with any activities that could start wildfires, such as starting campfires or burning debris."
Dog Mountain Fire – Lewis CountyThe Dog Mountain Wildfire was reported in the early afternoon of May 4, 2013. It has burned approximately 100 acres within a 170-acre area of forestland near the eastern end of Riffe Lake in Lewis County. It is 50 percent contained, and approximately 80 people continue to be assigned to it, under a Type 3 organization lead by Incident Commander Charley Burns. The fire is burning in a recently logged area and 8-year-old forest plantation owned by the Port Blakely Tree Farms.
Bulldozers, fire engines, and water-dropping helicopters are employed in the task of extinguishing this fire that was initially fanned and spread by dry east winds. Steep terrain increases the challenge of reaching pockets of burning material.
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C-Line Fire – Grays Harbor and Thurston counties in Capitol ForestThe C-Line Wildfire was reported in the early morning May 5, 2013. Approximately 8 miles northwest of Littlerock, the fire has burned 60 acres on state trust lands that contain logging slash and 20-year-old trees. It is currently 6 percent contained, with the goal of reaching 50 percent containment by this evening.
There are approximately 80 people working under a Type 4 management organization to suppress this fire today. The Incident Commander is Kent Stanford. Engines, two helicopters, heavy equipment, and hand crews are on the scene.
The cause of this fire is under investigation. No homes or structures are threatened. Some Capitol State Forest recreation trails and roads in the vicinity of the C-line and C-4000 Roads are closed due to the proximity of the fire and firefighting traffic in the area.
Other Fires successfully containedSeveral other wildfires received attention over the weekend:
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Many injuries common to all mines, mine locations and commodities can be identified and their most prominent attributes highlighted through ranked lists by frequency. In the absence of more detailed, cause-specific incidence rates, such rankings can reveal general trends of mine injuries and classify them by nature, accident type and class. Most frequently injured miners by age group, activity, and job title can provide valuable indicators not only of hazards and the problems that contribute to them, but also potential solutions. From the point of view of the miner, training, task and mine design, job hazard analysis, personal protective equipment and a variety of related measures can provide prevention for each such group of injuries on a one-by-one basis. For more systematic and long-term preventive results, research is often valuable in identifying solutions common to large groups of injuries. In particular, the patterns highlighted above provide a focal point for research, mine planning and safety and health and the continued reduction of risk for U.S. miners. In addition, groups of injuries with common causes provide useful baselines for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions. A general engineering control that facilitates safe operation of a mining machine, for example, can be evaluated using a pre- and post-intervention design. Such controls can then be evaluated using MSHA surveillance data, without developing costly reporting systems. Further work is planned to investigate those groups of injuries displaying the largest differences between underground and surface.
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Robert Downey Jr. turned inspirational speaker at the Kids' Choice Awards, Pharrell set another fashion trend, David Blaine lost his head during a slime-induced illusion, One Direction and Jennifer Lawrence cleaned up, and the green goo bath finally caught up with Mark Wahlberg – thanks to some unlikely slimers.
Nickelodeon's 27th annual awards show was among its more entertaining, opening with a sprawling and colorful Todrick Hall-choreographed performance and closing with Wahlberg's eventual sliming Saturday night in Los Angeles. Along the way, One Direction won two awards, producer Dan Schneider won the show's first lifetime achievement award, and Robert Downey Jr. got real after winning best male buttkicker.
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