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A star who turned into a black hole somewhere between the release of, oh, The Wedding Planner and Sahara (or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Two for the Money really, where to draw the line), Matthew McConaughey is better known of late for shooting tequila with Oprah and runnin' around the sidelines of University of Texas football games like a cheerleader short of a pom-pom. The onetime Vanity Fair cover boy, touted as the New Paul Newman the way singer-songwriters are hyped as the New Bob Dylan, has morphed not into a movie star but a celebrity punch line, and even then his fame has been obscured by one too many bong hits and paycheck gigs that land on Blockbuster shelves the Tuesday after a Friday release date. And while he may seem utterly charming and perfectly harmless the guy has all but become the all-right-all-right-all-right Wooderson character he played in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, in which McConaughey pined for high school girls who stayed the same age his presence in a movie doesn't exactly elicit anything resembling a vote of confidence.
But at long last he has chosen the perfect vehicle to highlight his slacker radiance: Failure to Launch, in which he plays the aptly named Tripp, a 35-year-old yacht salesman who still lives with his mommy (Oscar-winner Kathy Bates) and daddy (Super Bowl-winner Terry Bradshaw, literally showing his ass three freaking times). And not only does he still live in his old upstairs room, but Mom dotes on him like a newborn: She washes and folds all his clothes, makes him extravagant diner-quality breakfasts, and keeps the pantry stocked with all his junk-food faves. Tripp even uses the folks to break up with girls he feels are getting too attached: He brings them home for a night of foolin' around, then waits for Dad to barge in before springing the news he still lives at home. Works every time.
Or it does until he brings home Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker), who doesn't blanch at the sad news that her boyfriend's stuck in the groove that became a rut some 15 years ago. But that's only because Tripp's folks have hired Paula to woo their boy and lure him out of the nest; she's a paid girlfriend . . . fine, a whore, who eventually sleeps with Tripp, for his parents' dough, just to keep him from finding out she's not who he thinks she is.
Failure to Launch
Rated PG-13.
It goes without saying that this is all played for light-headed laughs; Failure to Launch, directed by Shanghai Noon's Tom Dey, has all the gravitas of a midseason-replacement sitcom. One can actually imagine the scenario in which this becomes a series: Each week, Paula collects a paycheck by dating a loser some comic-collecting fanboy, some D&D dork who still lives in his folks' basement and mooches off the kindness of kin.
But beneath the sitcom sheen lies a darker movie about extremely broken people who use convenient, pitiful excuses to keep from growing up and moving on. Tripp and Paula and Paula's roommate Kit (played by the dour, deadpan Zooey Deschanel), who would prefer to kill a mockingbird outside her bedroom window than engage in a meaningful relationship are all so damaged, they would need years of therapy were this an indie film and not some Hollywood hack work by the guy who made Showtime and a writer whose sitcom credits include stints on Grace Under Fire and Becker, ugh.
It would have been fascinating to see this same premise handled with a straight face; presumably it would have been crushed beneath the weight of despair these people schlep around with them like backpacks filled with boulders. The movie glosses over the reasons they've become stunted indeed, the explanations breeze by so quickly, they become a blur the movie's never interested in focusing on but doesn't diminish their ache either. You laugh at them, but also have sympathy for them; these people need each other, at the very least, because no one else in the world would ever get them.
McConaughey comes by his callowness easily; he's Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in one ripped, baked body, and he's built his career on playing guys in over their pretty little heads. Parker has the harder job here: If Tripp's allowed to stumble through the movie, grinnin' his way through a freeloadin' life, Paula's forced to justify her rather sordid existence, to Kit and finally Tripp and his friends. She ought to be unlikable her entire life's built on leading on men and dumping them, so she can cash their folks' paycheck but Parker invests Paula with enough humor and poise to keep her from being unredeemable. Paula's merely a Carrie Bradshaw who ditched the lib-lit career path for something more profitable: screwing for cash, which is how everyone in Hollywood makes a living, one way or another.
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Forgive me for keeping this writeup short but this was a can-miss episode of Idol with not much else to offer other than the elimination news. I personally find Daughtry and Bon Jovi pretty boring (yes, even when I was in college and it was 2 AM and "Living on a Prayer" came on at the bar), and it was disappointing that Fantasia, after her messily wonderful appearance last season that left Simon's mouth hanging open, seemed to pull herself together and deliver a boring classy and staid performance.
Even the Ford music video left me without much to say, good or bad, except that I guess I'm happy that World Party made it onto Idol: if only it were one of their songs I liked more, like "Ship of Fools" (which I think would make a great Idol song) instead of "Put the Message in a Box."
The episode featured bland filler that frankly made it hard for me to pay close attention to the show. A flashback to other idols heading to their hometowns to visit before the top 3 do so themselves. The judges and Chris Daughtry giving advice to the contestants. Ryan Seacrest asking hardhitting questions of Bon Jovi like "How do you keep doing this year after year?"
Even having the contestants' family onstage did little to increase the intensity of the episode, although it all seemed kind of moot anyway when Ryan announced that Lee would be going home to Chicago and I couldn't tell at first if that meant he was eliminated or he was in the top 3. It turned out to be the latter: your top three contestants are Lee, Casey and Crystal. Big Mike is heading home. He seemed to take the news in stride but his wife cried (that's what wives do though.) I would have liked his farewell video package a lot more if it didn't prominently feature one of the most annoying moments of the season, Kara's fake crying and subsequent "Look at me I'm crying" talk.
Next week, uh, Perez Hilton will be making an appearance? I know all AV Club readers are huge fans of his so get your Microsoft Paint ready.
--I liked that Lee wants to go home and have a conversation with his parents without cameras around.
--I'm still trying to figure out the name of the shape of Chris Daughtry's sideburns. They look like some sort of musical notation, but not from any song I'd want to dance do.
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2010 graduate Mattson made the most of his time at IWP
Mike Mattson, IWP Class of 2010 and one of the first graduates in the M.A. in Strategic Intelligence Studies program, had the privilege of studying with Professors Dr. David Thomas, Brian Kelley, Gene Poteat, Kenneth deGraffenreid and other legends from within the US government.
During those courses, Mike developed an interest in counterintelligence (CI), particularly the subject of successful penetrations (moles) of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) by various services including Soviet Intelligence (KGB/SVR and GRU) during and after the Cold War.
While attending Professor Thomas' Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society course, Mike decided to develop a paper based on open source research, focusing on the well documented possibility of the existence of a "fourth mole," or a spy yet to be caught within the IC. The term "fourth mole" not only refers to the possible existence of another spy, but more specifically a person who was active during the same time as three of our most infamous traitors of the Cold War: Aldridge Ames (CIA), Edward Lee Howard (CIA), and Robert Hanssen (FBI).
One of the major strengths of IWP, our professor/practitioner faculty, proved invaluable to Mattson as he developed his thesis. "As a Master's candidate at that time, my regular interactions with IWP's faculty facilitated access to primary sources (current and former IC experts) for interviews and unique perspectives. As an IWP student, it is an advantage that such contacts and assistance remain very much in force during school and after graduation through participation in the IWP alumni program," of which Mattson is currently the Secretary helping facilitate networking within the greater IWP community.
Professor Brian Kelley was next to read the paper and agreed that Mattson's open source collection had really provided some interesting perspectives. Kelley himself was interviewed for his unique insights and was able to direct Mike to key individuals such as one of the CIA's most senior officers Milt Bearden (now retired), whom Mattson interviewed.
Mattson was then introduced to Dr. David Charney who was previously appointed by CIA to supervise the psychiatric assessment of a number of US traitors/spies including Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for over two decades. As a result of these and other interviews, Mike was able to complete successfully his class paper. Subsequently, he continued to expand the data over the next year, and as a member of the AFIO (Association of Former Intelligence Officers) he was able to submit his work for publication in the AFIO quarterly journal, The Intelligencer: Mattson: A Counterintelligence Cold Case File, Intelligencer
"Clearly a young man with significant talent"
Elizabeth Bancroft, Executive Director of AFIO, observes of the article: "...one of the finest student papers we've published. It generated a lot of interest and fascinated many of our seasoned pros who have read extensively on mole theories."
Of Mike, she comments,
He is an impressive example of the caliber of IWP students. A paper of this quality and depth, and the guidance he received in the research and writing, underscores the benefits of the one-to-one contact IWP students receive from these special professors. Kelley, Thomas, Poteat, and Lenczowski are four examples of professionals coming back to instruct the next generation of intel officers. "Armchair intelligence" professors cannot easily bring the authenticity and "I was there" nuances students need to hear and follow.
One of his professors at IWP, Brian Kelley, has observed that Mike is "Clearly a young man with significant talent... He is the kind of person you want to have working for you."
Giving back while leading the way
Mattson is currently working as a contractor for Invertix Corporation which specializes in communication mission systems, enterprise information architecture, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) for public and private sector clients. Mike asserts that the knowledge he gained at IWP has been highly applicable in his work. He explains,
The school provided unique insights, as well as help in understanding the 'culture' that you can't learn from a textbook. IWP helps you understand the marketplace, its components, and how they connect. This definitely gave me a leg up when I was in the in the job market.
Mike advises IWP students to take full advantage of their time spent and connections made at IWP. He recommends:
When networking or applying for a job, highlight the work you did at IWP, including the unique courses you took and the papers you wrote. During my past interviews, I explained that I had been able to take courses with individuals who are legends in their field, and that these were the people who had taught me the core principals and fundamentals of intelligence and national security. Even though I didn't have as much on-the-job experience, this type of information sets you apart from others entering the job market from other grad programs. It shows that you already "get it."
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DEA Launders Money for Mexican Drug CartelsPosted on Dec 4, 2011
To what length should governments enable crime in order to catch criminals? That's the ethical issue raised by a New York Times article that reports DEA agents have laundered millions of dollars in drug proceeds to battle Mexican cartels. More than 40,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006. The U.S. runs numerous undercover laundering operations with and against Mexican cartels, which means it shares culpability for violence and lost lives. "We tried to make sure there was always close supervision of these operations so that we were accomplishing our objectives, and agents weren't laundering money for the sake of laundering money," said a former senior agency official who now works for a private contracting firm involved in the stings. As the drug markets expand to Africa, Europe and the Middle East, both the amount of money trading hands and the body count are likely to swell. —ARK Taboola Below Article
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London's Kensington cultural quarter welcomes a new neighbor: The Design Museum will move into a new space down the road from the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Serpentine Gallery in 2014. London architect John Pawson is behind the interior renovation of the Grade 2–listed former Commonwealth Institute building, which was designed by Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall architects (now RMJM) and opened in 1962. OMA is overseeing the exterior renovation of the landmark, which has lain empty for a decade, and is also responsible for the design of nearby residential development. Arup is serving as the structural engineer, and West 8 is in charge of landscape design.
The $125 million renovation will allow the Design Museum to raise its visitor numbers to 500,000 per year, double the number that visit the museum's current facility in London's South Bank neighborhood. Galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions in the new space will clock in at triple the size of the museum's existing gallery space, allowing for expanded displays of the museum's more than 2000-object permanent collection. Also included in the plans are a library and education spaces.
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Happy Halloween everyone! hope you have a great day! stay safe if you are going T or T! megan up and out - they get to wear PJ bottoms today at school dentist appt for me bank PO p/u mom - go to costco (her car is still in the shop) go to our NEW HOBBY LOBBY!!!! try to upload my memory card onto photobucket, need to get this done p/u megan no dance tonight! think we are going T or T at my mom's neighborhood if it stops raining tonight!
I'm working. There are a lot of people in the Northeast without power, I'm so glad to not be one of them! My boss's neighborhood looks like a war zone, I guess. They have gone to their son's house in New Hampshire, because although they don't have power, they do have a generator. I'm planning on leaving early to get home and get Morgan ready for TorT tonight. I need to spray her hair pink Hope everyone has a great day!
Hope everyone has a great day!!! I'm finishing up the last loads of laundry Completing the scrapbook challenge LO doing my own personal pages take photos for swap thread use of swap elements (took photos a while ago but can't find them on my computer! LOL I'll find them as soon as I take these photos!) cut DHS letters to adhere tomorrow..
Fighting a big ol' migraine here. Must do: Get my wipers fixed. The clip broke when DS15 was cleaning off my car. That was a challenge!! They have no internet so they couldn't do an invoice. I love my parts guy, he gave me the wipers, and even put them on my car. He'll call me when they get internet back up. Mail swaps x 2 - waiting for the PO to reopen at 2. gather papers for paper doll swap and DHS swap get kids return clothes to Childrens place Stop and Bob's and get veggies before he closes for winter dinner homework bed Should do's: Clean kitchen Clean bathroom finish laundry Don't wanna do's: Clean my room fold laundry Trick or Treat - Probably won't because the kids are sick, 1 stayed home.
Happy Halloween!! Mondays!!! I have been to work and PO to mail pages swap. Julia decided not to trick or treat this year and didn't want to carve a pumpkin. My baby is growing up way to fast. I think she misses having her brother around to do some of these things with her. She doesn't even want to pass out candy with me. I need to pick her up from school in a bit and I am hoping she will want to go pick up a pumpkin and carve it, so not ready to have her be past it all in one year. DS gave it up in stages, so I am totally unprepared for this. Have a great day! Cassey
Just home from taking Rachel to the doctor (again). They did blood tests, our doc thinks she may have mono poor thing she feels miserable!!! Cassey ~ maybe you and Julia could watch a movie together. That is our family tradition for Halloween, we start with "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and then usually watch something else too. Hope everyone in the NE is staying warm! Have a great rest of the day
Cheryl, poor Rachel mono is not fun and takes a looong time to recover from. Hope she is feeling better soon. Julia has decided she now wants to go trick or treating with a few friends. UGH!!! We are pulling together a costume and DH will drive her to her friends. Well at least she is not all grown up on me. Cassey
Cheryl, I hope Rachel feels better soon. Mono is so draining for teenagers. Cassey, I remember when my "baby" no longer wanted to carve pumpkins, I was crushed. Now DH and I do them ourselves. My Monday to do: Feed cats check to see if work has power and is open. NOPE. I am a SAHM today. walk dawg turn off generator for a bit stop at DD take MomE to her house to clean out frig and freezer. Her neighborhood looks horrible. trees and wires down all over. restart generator Poor DD had a seizure do a load of laundry check school closures for tomorrow read
Oh Cheryl, I read that earlier in the day, but forgot to mention it. When will they know if she has mono? Hope she's feeling better on a few days of meds.
Jennifer--they did blood tests so we hope to get the results some time on Tuesday. Thankfully the prednisone brought the swelling down in her throat so at least she can breathe and swallow more easily now.
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Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13 and 14. Reno's Rancho San Rafael Park hosted some of the biggest names in rhythm and blues including R&B legends Gladys Knight and Etta James, as well as Robert Cray, Bobby Womack, Blind Boys of Alabama, Eddie Cotton, John Mayall, Bobby Rush, Clarence Carter and Sista Monica.
The president of the board of directors of the Reno-Tahoe Blues Fest, Charles McNeeley, says this line up brings together more Grammy award winning blues artists than almost any other venue in the United States.
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June/July 2002 | Volume 53, Issue 3
"Rat!" screamed the tabloid headlines when John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," was hauled out of a prison basement in Afghanistan and into the public limelight. Media commentators had a field day projecting their obsessions onto Mr. Lindh. The conservative critic Shelby Steele attributed his defection to "a certain cultural liberalism" to be found in California, and one right-wing pundit called for his execution "in order to physically intimidate liberals." The New York Times pointedly contrasted Lindh's childhood with that of John Spann, the young CIA agent killed in Afghanistan and raised in Georgia.
This is silly, of course, implying as it does that geographical location in the United States can be weighed in terms of virtue or vice. To associate character with birthplace is to denigrate the personal heroism Spann displayed in laying down his life for his country, and it turns out that Lindh spent half his childhood in Maryland. In any case, his Internet rants against rock music and Western cultural decadence were hardly indicative of Marin County.
John Lindh's fate is in the hands of the court, and the furor surrounding his case has died down, at least for the moment. Yet we should keep in mind just how absurd it is to determine who a "real" American is by place of birth. In another time, in another conflict, this sort of politically driven opportunism came close to jeopardizing our entire war effort and may have cost us the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of American soldiers. It also led one American not only to fight for the other side but to form a whole battalion of fellow deserters to join him, and he is still remembered in some quarters as a hero for doing so.
The Mexican War has nearly vanished from our collective consciousness now but it was a critical event in the building of the American nation. The war added 529,000 square miles to the physical territory of the United States and divided the nation along fault lines that presaged the Civil War. No war in our history would witness more brilliant feats of American arms; no war would provoke such wholesale dissent, desertion, and even treason.
The military history of the war reads like a boys' adventure novel, full of epic marches over gruesome terrain, followed by astonishing victories against overwhelming odds. The tiny American Regular Army and thousands of volunteer militiamen fought with unsurpassed valor, under the brilliant leadership of Gens. Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor and a veritable "dream team" of Civil War legends to be.
At the same time, as Robert Ryal Miller relates in his book Shamrock and Sword , many Americans viewed the whole conflict as an ill-concealed effort by President Polk and his fellow Southerners to slap thousands of new miles of slave territory onto the map. This was, after all, the war that led Henry David Thoreau to write his essay Civil Disobedience , and a congressional freshman from Illinois named Abraham Lincoln to claim it had been started by "the sheerest deception."
A more serious dissension grew in the ranks. Out of nearly 41,000 Regular soldiers who served in Mexico, no fewer than 5,331, or nearly 13 percent, deserted, a figure that had never been approached in the U.S. armed forces. What was going on? There were, of course, the usual privations of Army life: bad food, poor shelter, boredom, disease. But two additional factors loomed large: religion and ethnicity.
A substantial number of the American forces and of the deserters were immigrants born in Germany or, especially, Ireland. According to Peter F. Stevens, in his meticulously researched history The Rogue's March: John Riley and the St. Patrick's Battalion , out of some 5,000 "Irishmen" in the ranks, nearly 1,000 went over the hill, along with 445 Germans and 457 men born in other European countries.
Many of the Irish could barely have considered themselves Americans, having walked straight off the "coffin ships" from their famine-ravaged homeland and into the Army. They also walked straight into the rising nativist, anti-immigrant tide of the late 1840s. Citing numerous letters, memoirs, and court-martial records, Stevens shows that the deserters were bitterly resentful over what they saw as a double standard of military justice. European-born troops were routinely cursed as "foreigners" by nativist, "American" officers. They were also whipped, beaten, branded, chained, and subjected to such evocatively named punishments as "riding the horse," the "barrel top," and the "buck-and-gag" for the smallest infractions or mistakes in drill. Feelings between some of the officers and men deteriorated to where officers were attacked. Braxton Bragg, then a brilliant but particularly harsh commander of artillery, survived two separate attempts by his men to kill him by rolling a lit shell into his tent as he slept.
Hundreds of soldiers began to desert even before war was officially declared, diving into the Rio Grande and swimming over to the Mexican army in Matamoros. They were lured by a series of clever propaganda pamphlets that promised them better pay, higher ranks, acres of land, and the chance for American Catholic troops not to fight an unjust war against their fellow believers.


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X Marks the Spot: Build a Robot to Protect Your Treasures
You have secret treasure that you need to keep safe from thieves. How do you keep guard 24 hours a day without skipping school and the rest of your important activities? You build a guard robot and have it do the hard work! You can build a guard robot using a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® set and the instructions in this project to guide your efforts. And do not worry: your secret is safe with your robot.Objective
To build and program a robot to guard a territory.
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Treasure means different things to different people. Some people treasure their rare Pokémon cards. Other people treasure stamps, books, or jewelry. Different people find value in different things, but one thing we all agree on is that we should guard whatever items we treasure. Which of your possessions do you treasure and how do you keep them safe from a sibling or other treasure seekers? Maybe you put your things in a lockbox and then bury it in the backyard. That could work, but your treasure would stay safe only as long as you physically guard the location to prevent others from digging it up. Is there a way to guard your treasure 24 hours a day, even when you are not there? Yes: you could build a guard robot to do the job. Your guard robot could sound an alarm and give any treasure seekers a little push to warn them away if they come within the area of the treasure.
But what is a robot, how do you build one, and is it easy to build? A robot is mechanical device that has been programmed to carry out a series of actions. Generally, a robot is created to help humans do tasks, both complicated and simple. For example, robots aid in medical procedures, collect data from the deepest oceans to the surfaces of other planets, and help us build things. In this robotics engineering project, you will build a small guard robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS®. Several different companies make robotic platforms that you can use to build a robot. For this project, the Procedure is written using the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® platform because it is easy to get started with and learn to use and put together, and there are online forums where you can get help if you need it. However, if you have access to another robotics platform you can take the general ideas in the Procedure and adapt them to that platform. You will build a guard robot and write a computer program to make it to do exactly what you need it to do. The instructions in the following procedure will help guide you. You can even decorate your guard robot as an animal to help divert an intruder's attention.
Because everybody's treasure location is different, you will build a model guard robot and program it to defend a territory that has a 70 centimeter (cm) radius circle from an intruder. Your robot will detect the intruder and then "push" it out of its circular territory. Ready to get started? Great! Begin with the procedure and start forming your own robotic security team.
Terms and Concepts
- Radius
- Pivot
- Sensor
- Microprocessor
- Flowchart
- LOOP block
- WAIT block
- MOVE block
- ROTATION sensor
- Data wire
- MATH block
- STOP block
- What is a robot?
- What are some ways that robots can be used?
- Are there jobs or tasks that are easier or safer for a robot to do than a human being? Why?"
The following reference is the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® website. It has ideas for robot designs, help forums, and a software tutorial that you can watch.
- The LEGO® Group. (2012). LEGO® MINDSTORMS®®. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx
These tutorials provide an overview of the NXT programming software that you will use to communicate with and direct your robot.
- Yocum, D. (2007). NXT Tutorial. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.ortop.org/NXT_Tutorial/
- Cardwell, C. (2008, May 4). LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT: A Brief Introduction and Tutorial Part 1. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vqZQMF0A4
- Cardwell, C. (2008, April 30). LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT: A Brief Introduction and Tutorial Part 2. Retrieved July 5, 2012, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzRRulYvVdY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
The following two sources are manuals that describe how to write programs with NXT software.
- Kelly, James F. LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT-G Programming Guide. New York: Apress, 2010.
- Griffin, Terry. The Art of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT-G Programming. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2010.
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Materials and Equipment
This project idea was written using the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit. This project can be done with the EV3 kit, because the building system and sensors are very similar between the two kits. However, the programming environment differs between the two kits. To do this project with EV3 you should still follow the general procedure in this project idea, but you may need to consult additional resources for help programming your robot.
For more information about the NXT and EV3 systems, and compatibility between the two, see Comparing EV3 with NXT and LEGO Mindstorms Frequently Asked Questions.
- LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 kit, available at toy stores or online vendors like Amazon.com, or a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 kit.
- Polyethylene pipe, 4 inches in diameter x 6 inches long. Available at hardware stores.
- ABS DWV cap, 4 inches in diameter. Available at www.homedepot.com SKU # 145668
- PVC pipe cement. Available at www.homedepot.com SKU # 798304
- NXT programming manual of your choice. Two are listed in the Bibliography.
- Computer for programming your robot. Make sure that you have permission from the computer's owner to load the LEGO® Mindstorms® software.
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This project idea was written using the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit. This project can be done with the EV3 kit, because the building system and sensors are very similar between the two kits. However, the programming environment differs between the two kits. To do this project with EV3 you should still follow the general procedure in this project idea, but you may need to consult additional resources for help programming your robot.
For more information about the NXT and EV3 systems, and compatibility between the two, see Comparing EV3 with NXT and LEGO Mindstorms Frequently Asked Questions.
Designing the Guard Robot
- In this project, you will create a guard robot that monitors a space or territory defined by a circle with a radius of 70 centimeters (cm). The guard robot will need to scan the territory continuously and monitor when an intruder enters. When the robot detects an intruder, it must move to block or "push" away the intruder, then return to its original location and continue scanning.
- Start by organizing the specific details of the project. These details are called the design criteria. Having a good set of design criteria will help you focus your efforts. The following is a set of questions to help you think about your design criteria. Note that it is not a complete list. You can either use this list of questions to develop your design requirements, or you can develop your design criteria based on your own ideas.
- What should the robot look like? Should it be big and heavy in order to easily nudge an intruder or light so that it can quickly move to the intruder's location? Should it be tall or low to the ground? Tall objects tend to be unstable and topple over when they move quickly. Your robot should be no more than 6 - 7 inches tall.
- How will the robot turn? In order to scan the 70 cm territory, the guard robot needs to easily turn or pivot about a point. You will find the parts in your robot kit that will enable you to make a pivot with two wheels. The pivot should be strong enough to carry the weight of the robot.
- How will the robot move? In addition to the pivot, you will probably need to use at least two more wheels to move the robot. These additional wheels should be placed behind the pivot and should each use a motor. Your design will have at least two motors.
- Will the robot be working on a carpeted floor or on a wood floor? How will this affect the pivot?
- What kind of tires will you use in your robot? Tires with smooth tread move better on certain types of surfaces like hardwood flooring.
- How will the robot "sense" the presence of an intruder? It will need a sensor. Because your robot must detect objects or intruders, the best sensor to use is an ultrasonic sensor. Ultrasonic sensors can measure distances and "see" where objects are. Where on the robot should the sensor be placed in order to see an intruder accurately? If it is placed too high, it may not detect smaller intruders. If it the sensor is placed too low, it may get in the way of the robot or the cables.
- Do you want the guard robot to make a noise or play music when it senses an intruder?
- What will the robot use to push out the intruder? Will it have pincers or large shovels? Or will it scare away the intruder with a loud alarm?
Building the Guard Robot
- Once you have created a set of design criteria, it is time to build the guard robot. Your kit comes with an NXT brick. The NXT brick is the "brains" of your robot. It has a microprocessor that you program to give the robot its instructions. The NXT brick will be the center of your design and you will build off of it. Hint: Build the structure of the robot first and then find a way to attach it to the NXT brick. This will give you a sturdier robot.
- Open the kit and familiarize yourself with the parts. There are three motors, axles, beams, connectors, and the NXT brick that you will use to build the robot. Use the connectors to attach beams to each other and other parts to beams. Use the axles to connect wheels to each other and to the motors.
- You will use at least four wheel and tire assemblies to build your robot. Two wheel and tire assemblies will go into building the pivot and supporting the front of the robot. An example of a pivot is shown in Figure 1 below. The pivot enables the robot to move in a circle and also support the weight of the robot.
Figure 1. This figure shows some parts from the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® set that you can use to assemble a pivot. A pivot will enable the robot to move smoothly in a circle.
- The second two-wheel and tire assemblies will attach the motors onto the structure of the robot and provide power for the robot to move. 'Figure 2 below shows a motor and a wheel and tire assembly put together.
Figure 2. This image shows how to attach a wheel and tire assembly to a motor, which you can do by simply pushing an axle through both pieces to connect the two.
- When building the robot, keep in mind that you must balance the weight of the robot over its entire body. If one end is heavier than the other, the robot could flip over. Figure 3 below shows a simple guard robot. ('This is just an example; you should build a robot that you enjoy putting together and that you think will guard your treasure.)
- When you attach the ultrasonic sensor, remember the height of the objects you will be attempting to detect. If you place the sensor too high, it won't be able to detect intruders shorter than the sensor. If your sensor is too low, it may impede the motion of the robot. Remember to connect the sensor to the sensor port on the NXT brick.
Figure 3. This is an example of a guard robot. Notice the placement of the sensor. Where will you place the sensor, the wheels, the brick, and other important parts on your robot?
- While Figure 3 above shows an example of one type of robot, you should take this opportunity to use your imagination to build a cool robot. For example, make your robot look like an animal or insect. Add pincers, or other extensions, to the body. Just make sure that your robot is stable, is not too tall, and can move smoothly in a circle.
Installing the MINDSTORMS® NXT-G Software
- In order to tell the guard robot what to do, you will have to write a program that your robot can understand. You will write the program using the NXT-G software, a graphical-based, drag and drop programming environment. To do this you need to install the NXT-G software on your computer. The software is on a compact disc included with the kit.
- Be sure that you have permission from whoever owns the computer to install the software on the computer.
- Insert the compact disc in the computer's CD-ROM. Instructions for installation will then pop up on the screen.
- If you install the software on an Apple or Mac computer, you may find that you don't see the MINDSTORMS® NXT icon. If this occurs, then call the MINDSTORMS® help line and they will guide you through changing the files for proper installation.
- When you finish installing the software, drag a MINDSTORMS® NXT shortcut icon to your desktop.
- The NXT language is easy to learn and use. But if this is your first time, then read through the manuals listed in the Bibliography to learn about the different blocks and about the programming environment.
- Click on the MINDSTORMS® NXT icon. You will see a screen like the one shown in Figure 4 below. To learn more about the NXT, click on the Getting Started Guide tutorial and the Software Overview tutorial. After going through the tutorials, pick one of the robots on the Robo Center (located on the right of the screen) and duplicate the design using your Mindstorms® parts.
Figure 4. This is the screen that you see when you open NXT 2.0.
- Have your manual with you while you are playing with the MINDSTORMS® NXT-G software. Read through the first few chapters to learn about the different types of programming blocks (common, complete, and custom). Notice that each block has a configuration panel where you control how the block works. Some blocks have data hubs through which you can pass and share information.
Develop the Program Flow Chart
- Keeping your design criteria in mind, make a flow chart to plan out what the computer program needs to do. A flow chart is a diagram of boxes, where each box represents a step in the computer program to make the guard robot perform a specific task. The sequence listed below is one of many ways to think about approaching the problem. Writing down on a piece of paper of what you want your robot and program to do will keep you focused and thinking of any potential problems that may crop up.
- The guard robot needs to perform a set of actions when monitoring its territory. First press the orange button on the brick when you are ready to start the guard robot. Then, pause for 10 seconds so that you can get out of the way and not be mistaken for the intruder. This is the WAIT portion of the program.
- After waiting, the guard robot needs to scan the 70 cm radius circular area for a predetermined amount of time. You can scan the area forever or for just a few minutes. This is the SCANNING portion of the program.
- If, during a scan, the guard robot encounters an intruder, it needs to stop and calculate the location of the intruder. This is the CALCULATION portion of the program.
- Then, in the PUSH OUT portion of the program, the guard robot needs to quickly go to the intruder's location, nudge the intruder out of its territory, and then come back to its original location.
- The guard robot should repeat steps b through d over and over again until you no longer need its help and can switch it off.
- Figure 5 below is an example program flow chart. This flow chart gives more detail to the steps detailed above.
Figure 5. Program flow chart. This is one of many ways to program a guard robot.
Creating the Guard Robot's Program
- Keep your manual with you while you are creating the MINDSTORMS® NXT program. Read through the first few chapters to learn about the different types of programming blocks (common, complete, and custom). Notice that each block has a configuration panel where you control how the block works. Some blocks have data hubs through which you can pass and share information.
- Start a new NXT-G program on your computer. Name your program in the Create New Program section and then click on the "Go" button.
- Go back to the diagram or flow chart that you wrote in step 3 of the previous section. Now fill out the diagram with NXT programming blocks.
- The first step is to make the robot wait until you push the orange button. This is the WAIT portion of the flow chart plan. The robot continually checks to see if you have pushed the orange button. When you instruct the robot (or any computer) to do something over and over again, you use a loop or, in this case, a LOOP block. In the LOOP panel, set the control to "sensor" and the sensor to "NXT Buttons." This tells the robot to look at the sensors and specifically at the NXT buttons. Then choose the button you want to push. Finally, set the action to "Pressed." Figure 6 below shows what a LOOP block looks like.
Figure 6. LOOP block with configuration panel.
- Choose a WAIT block and set the time to wait to ten seconds.
- Now your robot has to continually scan a 70 cm radius area for a set time. This is the SCANNING portion of the flow chart plan. Remember that when you ask your robot to do something over and over again, you will use a LOOP block. Design your loop in its configuration panel to operate for the set time you choose. In the control section of the configuration panel, you can choose the scan to last "Forever" or set it to "Time" and then set the desired scan time in the "Until" section. Add the actions that you want your robot to perform in the LOOP block.
- The robot should move in a circle in order to scan the territory completely. Pick a MOVE block and place it inside the LOOP block. Because you want it to move in a circular fashion, set the steering to either one motor or the other. Now, experiment with the power setting. You want the robot to scan and move as fast as possible but not so fast that the robot becomes unstable and tips over. Figure 7 below shows a MOVE block.
Figure 7. This figure shows a MOVE block with its data hub and configuration panel. Notice that the data hub has eight data plugs and that the steering control is in the configuration panel.
- As the robot scans, it has to keep checking for intruders. This means that you will need a LOOP block within the larger LOOP block. This second LOOP block will continually check for intruders; it is embedded within the first LOOP block. Once the robot detects an intruder, the program will exit the embedded loop and proceed to the next steps. Set the control in the embedded LOOP block's configuration panel to "sensors" and the sensor to "ultrasonic." The ultrasonic sensor detects obstacles. Set the sensor to detect obstacles within 70 cm. Once the ultrasonic sensor LOOP block senses an intruder within 70 cm, the program will exit the loop. Use a MOVE block and stop the robot.
- Once an intruder has been detected, what does the robot do? This is the CALCULATION portion of the flow chart plan. Once your robot has detected an intruder or treasure seeker, it has to push it out of its territory and sound an alarm. But in order to push it out, the robot must calculate the intruder's location. A simple way to calculate the intruder's location is to average the location of the starting edge of the intruder and the ending edge of the intruder. That will give the center location of the intruder.
- To find the location of the intruder, use the rotation sensor in the motors.
- Drag and drop a ROTATION sensor block. This block uses the sensor located in the motors. Reset the rotation sensor of one of your motors. This sets the rotation sensor to zero at the starting edge of the intruder. Now you need to find the ending edge of the intruder and then you will know how wide the intruder is.
- Use a MOVE block and scan just past the intruder (set the duration in the MOVE block's configuration panel to "rotation" and experiment to get the right number).
- Once the robot has completely passed the intruder, use another MOVE block and restart the scan, but in the opposite direction. To do this, switch the steering from one motor to the other in the MOVE block's configuration panel; simply slide the steering cursor from one motor to the other.
- Now start scanning for the intruder that the robot found earlier. Use an ultrasonic sensor LOOP block, just as you did in step e.
- Once the LOOP senses the intruder, stop the robot with a MOVE block right after the ultrasonic LOOP block.
- Now, take a rotation sensor reading from the same motor that you reset in step i. Using a data wire, send the reading to a MATH block. A data wire passes information between blocks and allows the blocks to process the information. You use a data wire to connect data plugs in the data hubs between two blocks. A MATH block is used to perform mathematical operations on data that it receives through data wires and data plugs.
- Because you reset the rotation sensor at the starting edge of the intruder and you have the position of the ending edge of the intruder, you know how wide it is.
- Send the data wire from the rotation sensor to the A data plug in the data hub of the MATH block and then divide A by two. Remember that "A" is the width of the intruder and dividing A by two gives the center location of the intruder.
- Send the center location data, from the MATH block's results plug, to the MOVE block's duration data plug using a data wire. The duration data plug is denoted by a circular arrow in the MOVE block's data hub. The robot will reposition itself directly in front of the obstacle.
- Now that the robot knows the intruder's location, use a MOVE block to "push" the intruder. This is the PUSH OUT portion of the flow chart plan. Set the steering arrow in the MOVE block's configuration panel to right between the two motors so that the robot will move straight ahead. You will have to experiment in order to set the correct number of rotations that will "push" the intruder out of the scanned area.
- Put in another MOVE block that brings the robot back to its original location. Simply change the direction in the motor block and keep the number of rotations identical to the MOVE block just prior to this action. Remember to keep the steering in between the two motors so that the robot moves straight.
- Once your program is complete, save it and then download it to the robot using the special cable that comes with the kit. Now test the computer program and the robot.
- The first step is to make the robot wait until you push the orange button. This is the WAIT portion of the flow chart plan. The robot continually checks to see if you have pushed the orange button. When you instruct the robot (or any computer) to do something over and over again, you use a loop or, in this case, a LOOP block. In the LOOP panel, set the control to "sensor" and the sensor to "NXT Buttons." This tells the robot to look at the sensors and specifically at the NXT buttons. Then choose the button you want to push. Finally, set the action to "Pressed." Figure 6 below shows what a LOOP block looks like.
Testing the Guard Robot and Program
- Build a model intruder. For this project, glue the 6-inch pipe and the cap together with the cement. Let it dry completely.
- Once the model intruder is dry, find a good test location. There shouldn't be a lot of foot traffic at the test location or obstacles that are within 70 cm of your test location.
- Turn on the robot and start the program. First, try the program without an intruder in the area. Once you are confident that your robot scans the area properly, test the robot with the intruder in the area.
- If your robot doesn't scan properly or to your liking, you will have to troubleshoot the robot's body and/or the program.
- During testing you may find that the robot's body doesn't work as well as you thought it would. For example, you may need to strengthen the pivot or other parts of the body. Change the position of the NXT brick to provide strength and stability to the robot. Testing gives you the opportunity to try different ideas.
- To troubleshoot the program you will have to closely look at each step the robot takes, pretending to be the robot yourself. One block that can help you step through the program is the STOP block. Insert a STOP between steps to make sure that each step is working properly. Once you are sure that a step is working properly, you can remove the STOP block and use it on the next step that you want to investigate.
- Troubleshoot the MOVE blocks and make sure that the power setting is at the right level and that the steering is set properly.
- Place an intruder outside the 70 cm radius and watch what happens. Bring the intruder closer and closer until the robot detects it. Does the robot respond to the 70 cm criteria?
- If your robot doesn't scan properly or to your liking, you will have to troubleshoot the robot's body and/or the program.
- Test the robot several times to make sure that it will "push out" an intruder each time it encounters one.
- Once your robot and program are working, give a demonstration to your friends and family to show how you can keep intruders out of your room and away from your treasures.
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- Could your guard robot monitor a semicircular rather than a circular territory? Modify the scanning portion of your program to monitor a semicircle.
- Build an additional intruder and test if your robot can distinguish intruders that are close together. See how closely you can place the intruders and still have the robot "push" them out individually.
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A Chicago-area family is reliving their daughter's fatal car crash after receiving a letter from OfficeMax addressed to the girl's father and "Daughter Killed in Car Crash."
Mike Seay's 17-year-old daughter, Ashley, was killed along with a friend in April when the teens' SUV left the road and hit a tree.
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"Why would they have that type of information? Why would they need that?" Seay said. "What purpose does it serve anybody to know that?"
He said he contacted an OfficeMax representative, whose manager said "it was impossible, that this can't be happening."
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Believe Beyond Seeing represents Debra Martin's first-hand encounters with the afterlife as a medium. This book not only relays the story of how she developed her abilities as a medium, but also details various accounts with loved ones and spirits and their re-connection. If you have ever lost loved ones and wondered about their well-being, then this book is a must-read. It provides a glimpse into higher spiritual realms via a medium who can see, hear, and feel things most of us do not. Quite simply, you may not view life, or death, the same after reading this book.
On Friday morning, October 1, 2004, I had butterflies in my stomach. I was giving a reading to a family who had lost their daughter. I was not told her age or how she died. I was given only her name–Odessa. This family sought from me a sense of peace, and I wanted to prove to them that their daughter was still very much alive.
Julie Beischel, Ph.D. referred Odessa's family to me. Dr. Beischel is the Assistant Director of VERITAS, a research program of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory in the psychology department at the University of Arizona. VERITAS Director Gary Schwartz, Ph.D. and Dr. Beischel study mediums, like myself, to test the hypothesis that the consciousness (or identity) of a person survives physical death.1
As part of her research, Dr. Beischel joined Odessa's mother, father, and maternal grandparents at my home that Friday morning.
"I want you to know your daughter Odessa is here," I said as I led them into my home office. I handed Odessa's mother, Anita, a gray, white-tipped feather about four inches long. "When I looked to see if you had arrived, I noticed this feather outside of my front door. I have never before seen a feather at my doorstep, and I knew Odessa had placed it there–a little sign to me that the reading would go well and that I should not worry. Birds are very special to Odessa." Odessa's mother and grandmother exchanged glances with guarded curiosity.
I also noticed that Anita was pregnant. I said, "I hear from Odessa that you're having a little girl." Anita smiled and replied, "Yes, you're right."
The family sat on the sofa and chair in my office while I sat on the floor facing them. To start, I briefly explained how I conducted my sessions. Prior to a reading, I sit quietly with the spirit and take notes on the images, words, and feelings the spirit gives me. I explained that in addition to offering this precedent information, the spirit also communicates with me during the reading itself. I pointed out, however, that the spirit's information has no meaning to me. I was merely a messenger. I then handed the family two-and-half pages of typed notes that I had taken from Odessa and told them that they would have to determine the significance of Odessa's words, a bit like putting puzzle pieces together.
We began with the notes' first paragraph. The image was a car wreck on a slippery road, an accident that happened quickly, without time to correct. I said to them, "Odessa conveyed to me lots of sadness, even from herself, and her puzzlement at the loss of control. Odessa gave me the image of her own hand on her forehead."
The family did not comment. I moved onto a paragraph about "lemon trees," words Odessa said were from a conversation the family had that day in the car. "She has been in the car with you the entire time," I said.
At this point, Anita laid her typed sheets on the coffee table and sat back on the sofa. "This is not my daughter," she stated with a swallowed sob. "Odessa is not here today."
I was stunned. In my heart, I knew these were Odessa's words.
As featured on the A&E documentary Mediums: We See Dead People, Debra Martin is a Laboratory Research Medium with the VERITAS Research Program through the University of Arizona, located in Tucson, Arizona. In addition, she has achieved recognition as a Certified Medium by the Forever Family Foundation, Inc. based in Oceanside, New York. Debra resides in Phoenix,Arizona with her husband and four children. Please visit her website at www.goldenmiracles.com.
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June 5, 2011
Walkerville at midday.
Here's how the tent city protest looked at about 1 p.m. today. (Meade shot the video. I edited.)
We were up at the Capitol Square riding bikes, as many Madison streets were closed for the "Ride the Drive" event.
(I'm not too enthusiastic about "Ride the Drive," by the way. Clearing out all the car traffic makes an occasion, which attracts attention and gets a big crowd of people biking at the same time. But it sends the message that the cars are a big nuisance, so I don't think it really encourages people to bike on other days, and it may even discourage them. It did work to get children out biking on the streets, but I don't think it's especially safe or enjoyable to bike with children. Unlike cars, children tend not to proceed in a straight line.)
32 comments:
- America's Politico said...
I attended a K-street dinner with many Democratic consultants. The word is that because of newly elected bad GOP governors, the voters will go for Obama/Biden. In sum, no matter what, GOP will help GOP to lose.
What an irony? Obama/Biden will be in WH till Jan. 2017 because of the help by GOP governors, like Scott Walker. - 6/5/11, 9:46 PM
- Presidioned said...
They must be really hurting to afford those $300+ tents from REI. I bet there are plenty of $200 down sleeping bags too!
- tfmaguire42 said...
"Walkerville" huh? Do these people know anything about the Hoovervilles I assume they are trying to draw comparisons to?
For instance, they were created out of necessity not desire for publicity. And the tents weren't purchased from adventure stores.
These are frivolous people pretending to be serious. - 6/5/11, 9:51 PM
- YoungHegelian said...
Blue clenched fist with a star, huh?
Not a little bit commie looking to you, kinda something the old Black Panthers would produce if they mated with North Korean Smurfs.
I especially like the unicorn with the jet pack, because nothing shows being grounded in proletarian consciousness like a unicorn with a jet pack. - 6/5/11, 10:04 PM
- PWS said...
Good grief, the contrarian meme extends to something as benign as a bike ride.
- Joanna said...
I try not think about the Hooverville comparison. I find their hubris to be vulgar at best. Not to mention that Playing Poor is an incredible insult to those who are actually struggling.
My weirdo college had a tradition wherein once a year, about twenty students would do a... protest? event? public demonstration? and Play at being Homeless.
It's the late 90s. Imagine twenty upper middle-class, white, teenagers raised in the bible belt. These were the type who thought I was a raging feminazi bitch who would spit on them if I passed by, because I suggest outlandish ideas like calling ourselves "women" instead of "girls". (Note: the spitting part -- not hyperbole.)
Now imagine them putting together forts out of cardboard and duct tape in the main lawn of campus. They would giggle as they decorated their forts with newspapers for curtains. They slept outside for one night, to make some sort of statement about homelessness that was only ever publicized in our college newspaper. In the morning, they threw away their "homes", ate breakfast in the cafeteria, and felt good about having Done Something for The Cause.
Vulgar. A sham. A mockery.
But at least they were doing it for homelessness and not aping the homeless in attempts to, oh, lower their tuition. Or whatever it is that the protesters want. - 6/5/11, 10:15 PM
- GMay said...
I can at least respect these socialists for having the guts to embrace and accept the label, no matter how full of fail their philosphy is.
- foxtrot said...
America's Politico says:
"I attended a K-street dinner with many Democratic consultants. The word is that because of newly elected bad GOP governors, the voters will go for Obama/Biden. In sum, no matter what, GOP will help GOP to lose.
What an irony? Obama/Biden will be in WH till Jan. 2017 because of the help by GOP governors, like Scott Walker."
I'm going to pull the BS card on this one. Looks like the liberals, as was the case with Floppenburg, are declaring victory way too early.
But then again, with ACORN and gangsters like "Chicago Rahm" on their side, they might as well start tallying up the votes already. - 6/5/11, 10:50 PM
- Joanna said...
What an irony? Obama/Biden will be in WH till Jan. 2017 because of the help by GOP governors, like Scott Walker.
How does Prosser's victory affect the equation for WI? Hmm? - 6/5/11, 10:58 PM
- Karl said...
Blame Jerry Garcia for being a drug addicted, cigarette smoking, red meat eating diabetic fat fuck.
These folks with little to do all summer used to be known as Jerry's Kids. They followed the circus for as far as the gas money would hold out.
Never stayed long enough in one place to piss anyone off.
Now they have this. - 6/5/11, 11:08 PM
- bagoh20 said...
I suggest they do something useful like donate that nice equipment to some homeless people. You know, the poor, the downtrodden, the ones who have fallen through the cracks, the ones the liberals tell us they care about more.
What's that? You can't give it away. You are planning on using it for a backpacking vacation in British Columbia during your paid vacation later this year.
Well, maybe after that, unless you need it for a protest camp-out later, in the middle of town, outside the Starbucks, again. - 6/5/11, 11:10 PM
- bagoh20 said...
Which one is the real Che's tent?
- Expat(ish) said...
"I don't think it's especially safe or enjoyable to bike with children"
Cool. How'd that work for you?
- sonicfrog said...
This is why so many protests fail utterly. There is no heart in this. these people are obviously not out on the streets because they lost everything, as was the case with the Hoovervilles , and those who are really in dire straits. If I were a homeless person as a result of these hard times, I would camp my stinky unshowered self right in the middle of this forgery, and show them what being on the streets is really like!
- Martin L. Shoemaker said...
A theme song for this protest... Common People
Sing along with the common people.
Sing along, and it might just get you thru.
Laugh along with the common people.
Laugh along, even though they're laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
'Cause you think that poor is cool.
Like a dog lying in a corner,
They'll bite you and never warn you.
Look out.
They'll tear your insides out
'Cause everybody hates a tourist.
'Cause Everybody hates a tourist,
Especially one who thinks
It's all such a laugh. - 6/6/11, 12:24 AM
- Joanna said...
I suggest they do something useful like donate that nice equipment to some homeless people.
Actually... I know you were snarking, but it got me thinking.
Walkerville is a joke, and the longer those tents stay up while the protesters do nothing of value, the worse they will look.
It would be amazing if they pooled their talents to offer services to the community for donation. (Massage therapists, face painting, guitar lesson, tutoring, etc.)
Then, instead of giving the money to charity or keeping it to fund Dem shenanigans, they give the money directly to Walker/govt. A gesture to show that they will do whatever they can to help the economic problems (besides sacrificing collective bargaining).
That'd be a mighty strong statement, and the press would eat it up.
Lucky for us, they are content playing house and singing 60s music. - 6/6/11, 12:42 AM
- James said...
Does Madison have "blue" laws that don't allow businesses to open on Sundays?
If I were the owner of Tabby & Jacks I'd be really pissed at those clowns hanging out in front of my store. Oh well, they'll just have to take it for the cause. - 6/6/11, 1:00 AM
- edutcher said...
Hegelian has a good point, although my impression was the fist logo reminds me of the "Yes, We Can" neo-Commie "artwork" combined with the Keep On Truckin' posters of the 70s.
Joanna said...
My weirdo college had a tradition wherein once a year, about twenty students would do a... protest? event? public demonstration? and Play at being Homeless.
Not even close. The women's college situated in the town where I grew up has a tradition (still observed for all I know) where the graduating seniors and female faculty run nude across the campus on the last day of Finals. - 6/6/11, 5:43 AM
- daveso said...
at least they're not supporting a bunch of thugs trying to take away everything the American worker has gained in pay and benefits over the last 100 years.
You all should be ashamed of supporting a government that is ruining the American dream for the majority.
Even Sweden considers the US a third world country. Just look up articles about IKEA in Virginia...in Swedish newspaper. - 6/6/11, 5:53 AM
- Michael Haz said...
An interesting video would be someone politely asking the tent dwellers which unions represent the workers who made the tents.
Ditto the cell phones they use. And their blue jeans, underpants and tee shirts. And the Subaru it all arrived in.
And the weed, was it grown, harvested, transported and retailed by union weed-workers?
I'd start counter-intel rumors, like the one about the Koch Bros actually controlling most of the weed business in the mid-west and funneling the profits into Rebublican politicians' campaign funds.
Of course that's not a rumor. How do you think all the money the Repubs need for the re-call campaigns is being raised.
Here, I'm having a mark-down sale on nickelbags...it's nearly July already. - 6/6/11, 6:16 AM
- Roger J. said...
edutcher--damn--they didnt let us do that at USMA :)
- ThreeSheets said...
I attended a K-street dinner with many Democratic consultants. The word is that because of newly elected bad GOP governors, the voters will go for Obama/Biden. In sum, no matter what, GOP will help GOP to lose.
What a coincidence. I was at a dinner with Republican consultants. The word is that because of the horrible jobs outlook, Obamacare, high gas prices and crappy housing market, the voters will for the GOP. In sum, no matter what, GOP will win.
And after the election, we can both go back to dinner and those same consultants can tell us why they were wrong (again and again). - 6/6/11, 7:04 AM
- LarsPorsena said...
"Michael Haz said...
An interesting video would be someone politely asking the tent dwellers which unions represent the workers who made the tents.
Ditto the cell phones they use. And their blue jeans, underpants and tee shirts. And the Subaru it all arrived in..."
- MadisonMan said...
As a bike commuter, I really do not like Ride the Drive. If you want to ride on the street -- it's the legal thing to do, you know -- man up and do it.
I don't mind kids riding in the street at all. I am extra careful around them, of course, if I'm in the car, because they are unpredictable. But in general I find them better road-sharers than the commuter in a hurry to get home to their house in Fitchburg. - 6/6/11, 8:27 AM
- k*thy said...
I'm a bike commuter, too, but I enjoy this event. One station offered to fine-tune the fit of my helmet, got my brakes adjusted and had a chance to test ride some of the newer bikes on the market. The kids don't bother me - it's a family event- the parents and co-riders seemed to give everyone a lot of slack.
- giffthill said...
Shorts are for warm weather. Bikes are for kids. Priorities!
- Calypso Facto said...
"Ditto the cell phones they use. And their blue jeans, underpants and tee shirts. And the Subaru it all arrived in."
There's a guy who frequents Crema Cafe in Monona who has a "Support Union Jobs: Recall Walker" on the back of his....wait for it....TOYOTA pickup. Obviously, when it's his own money at stake, he votes for non-union workmanship/value.
RogerJ: Thank GOD the gray trou at USMA don't show any more than allowed by regulation!
wv: curesses. Massage therapy? - 6/6/11, 9:47 AM
- betty said...
I'm a very practical sort of person so I'm wondering, where are their bathroom facilities?? Where do they put their garbage?? How do they remain bathed? Do they cook out on grills??? Can you enlighten me please??
I'm thinking that the residents of Madison will soon tire of these squatters. - 6/6/11, 10:27 AM
- Carol_Herman said...
If you were at a campgrounds ... so few tents would mean it was a pretty empty place.
Oh, and oddly enough, nobody had up "Goodbye Kloppy" signs. I thought they were all her fans, and all. But not even a card to sign. How come? - 6/6/11, 11:39 AM
- Carol_Herman said...
To America's Politico. I see what's gonna come up in November 2012, right here, from my front porch.
I see a ONE NATION sign just like my old UNITED WE STAND sign, that I saved way back from 1992.
I see an Independent run. And, if Sarah Palin wants to add money to her attempt, all she has to do is name Donald Trump as her veep.
Best flying machine out there. Just like Trump's new 757. With a big T on it's tail.
Oh, and by the time November 2012 rolls around, Palin may be calling Arizona "home #1." Will "home #2" remains on the lake out at Wasilla.
The MSM will go nuts trying to follow "teamwork." And, the American people. The GOP? You gotta be kidding me. - 6/6/11, 11:43 AM
- Phil 3:14 said...
All of this pressure at the "star" on the fist will cause carpal tunnel syndrome,
ironically making it more difficult to clench the fist.
And as we've seen there will be a widespread numbness to the whole thing.
Cuts must be made. - 6/6/11, 12:26 PM
- John Lynch said...