Scoring a back-kick is worthless…

 Scoring a back kick is worthless...

RoboCup 2010 - The Final (copyright by Reuters)

Long time claimed, but impossible to demonstrate. With these words could have been described the goal scored by CHITA team to CMU (Carnagie Mellon).

Long story made short. During last RoboCup, in the match won by CMU, our team scored a goal from our half-field by using back-kick. The video is unavailable, inexplicably the CMU guy claimed: “I did not record that…”.

We believed that the proof of our moment of glory was gone forever, buried just in our memory.
But we believe in Internet! And, finally we have the proof!

“I’ve never seen back-kick scoring like this in real soccer,” he said after one of his robots found the net with a spectacular back-heel against a team from Carnegie Mellon University of the United States.

Read the complete article for discover the identity of the one!

(btw the source is reliable, is nevertheless the “Reuters“)

Happy Birthday!!!

udhr Happy Birthday!!!

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

60 years after its first read, it’s still too young.

60 years were not enough to change people minds.

Human Rights are still denied in many country, and a lot of work has to be done.

But we are human, and we believe in Hope.

Happy Birthday, dear UDHR!

Because of the color of the wheat fields

So the little prince tamed the fox.
And when the hour of his departure drew near…

“Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry.”

“It is your own fault,” said the little prince.
“I never wished you any sort of harm;
but you wanted me to tame you. . .”

“Yes that is so”, said the fox.

“But now you are going to cry!”
said the little prince.

“Yes that is so” said the fox.

“Then it has done you no good at all!”

“It has done me good,” said the fox,
“because of the color of the wheat fields.”

Where the light is

One night a neighbor of Mullah Nasrudin was walking home and found
Mullah squatting on the ground beside a lamppost evidently looking
for something.

“What’s the matter mullah?” asked the concerned neighbor.

“I have lost my keys” replied mullah

“Oh! Here let me help you.” and the kindly neighbor got down on his
knees and started searching for Mullah’s keys as well.

After some time spent looking the neighbor straightened up and quite
puzzled asked “are you sure you dropped your key’s here?”

“Oh, I didn’t drop them here.” replied Mullah.

“Where did you drop them ?!?” exclaimed the now bewildered neighbor.

“Over there” and Mullah pointed to the front of his house that was in darkness.

“So why are you looking for them here ??!!??” exclaimed the now
exasperated neighbor.

“Because the light is over here.” replied Mullah.